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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
EXTENSION OF SOCIAL SECURITY

ORGANIZED labor should back up vigorously
- the Presidents recommendation for an exten-
sion of Social Security, both the old age pensions
and unemployment insurance, to domestic serv-
ants, agricultural workers, employees of charit-
able and educational institutions and the self-em-
poyed as far as old age pensions concerned
In addition, some increase in the rates for un-
employment insurance and old age assistance
should be enacted to take effect beginning short
time after the is over.
Social Security payments are in their economic
effect a form Of compulsory savings. The unem-
pOyment insurance part of our Social Security
legislation has all the advantages of making
greater purchasing power available when it is
needed for the individual and the nation that a
system OF compulsory saving has. For it will come
into effect when men are laid off from jobs
after the war is over The tax for old age insur-
ancc likewise would reduce purchasing power of
more people somewhat now and make it available
for more people over an extended period of time
after the war.
1t will help the workers if unemployment in
surance is placed on Federal basis since that
would prevent loss Of benefits due to the migra-
ton Of workers across state lines, and prevent
special strains certain states where unempoy-
ment was greater in proportion to the normal
working population.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
VICHY AND NAZI POLICE
HUNT FRENCH WORKERS

New York City ULNS). - Word
from France to headquarters of the
International Transport Workers Fed
GRAFTON in England says that twice as
many French workers We're deported
during the first two weeks of the
complete occupation of France by Ger
man forces than during the 20 pre-
ceding weeks.
This is mainly due to the fact that
Nichy police and Gestapo agents now
work closely together under German
orders in rounding up workers and
herding them to Germany. Formerly
the French police did the work alone,
and from the German viewpoint not
very efficiently.
German authorities complain in the
same breath that the French railroad
workers are causing many difficulties.
Shunting work in railroad yards and
stations is said to be much too slow.
Similar charges are voiced against
Czech and Danish railwaymen, the
latter being accused of deliberate neg
lect and responsibility for increa sing
Shunting and other railway accidents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
A MANPOWER SUGGESTION

EMERGENCY conditions have brought back
- older workers. set up training plans, employed
women at work formerly considered exclusively
mans, relaxed age restrictions SO that younger
persons could be employed. Still shortages in some
skills and in war production centers have de-
veloped.
There are two principles that we can follow
in manpower. We can consider manpower only as
a problem in numbers or we can make numbers
of secondary Importance and set about the prob
lem of getting persons available to cooperate for
capacity production. Workers can be simply ma
chine operators who carry out orders or they can
be human dynamos. The loyalty of free persons
is the strongest human force.
The method which seeks cooperation assures
more under any circumstances emergency or
normal-because it releases resourcefulness. In
principle it is as old as human work relations.
Efficiency and workmanship are promoted by
cooperation. new spirit is
born of participating in responsibility for efficient
production that S truly professional. longtime
operation of union-management committees
makes it possible for the work staff as well as
management to understand and solve production
problems.
Labor wants to contribute to this struggle in
defense of democracy. We realize that many of
us can be more useful in production than in other
places of service. We watch fellow workers go
away to the adventures of war and foreign serv-
ice. Though we know the risks and the dangers,
lit is hard to remain content with service on the
work 'front.' we ask Jhat at least our SplflCS De
refreshed by cutivating in industrial mobilization
the spirit of industrial adventure and daring that
will enable us to share in the battle for democracy
that our enlisted citizens carry on.
We ask that through our unions we be per-
mitted to help solve the problems of manpower
administratively as well as to help mobilize the
skills and experiences of workers in factories
$50 that workers may be able tt get out more pro-
ducton under less favorable circumstances. We
don't want to be driven or regimated but we want
the privilege of giving.
This is the scientific as we'll as the democratic
way of meeting scarcity of workers. AS free work
ers win this war; RECOMMENDATION will
shackle our minds and hands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
WliOLEl!EARTEp SUPPORT OF
UNIONS is GIVEN CDVO PLAN

New York. - Pledging the whole
hearted support of organized labor to
the Block Service Organization of the
Civilian Defense Volunteer Office, the
executive heads of the Greater New
York Industrial Union Council, CLIO,
and the Central Trades and Labor
Council AFL., issued joint state
ment urging union members to become
Block Service Leaders.
The CDNO Block Service Plan, in
seeking to bring directly into every
home the lessons and needs of partici-
patton by civilians in every wartime
activity, is in complete harmony with
the aims and obiectives of the unions,
according 10 the Joint statement. 1t
was signed by Joseph Curran, presi-
|dent, and Saul Mills, executive secre-
of the CLIO. organiza-
|tion, and Thomas Murtha, president,
and james c, Quinn, secretary, of the
AFL. group.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
ENLARGED GOVERNMENT HOUSING
PROGRAM

RETTER HOUSES and transportation facilities
- in the areas where industries are booming
will help to increase substantially the standard
of living Of many workers. Labor should de-
mand therefore a greatly enlarged program for
building houses through the Federal Housing Ad-
ADMINISTRATION, and by loans from the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation to Local Housing All-
liberties in the war industry areas supplemented
year much of our expanding war production has
had to be preceded by building the plants first
That is now largely completed, and some of the
materials put into the new plants during the past
year should be diverted to new houses in the war
areas this coming year. Such housing of course
|Wll also tend to relieve the strain on transporta-
tion facilities including such critically short
materials gasoline and rubber
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
ACTION TO PROTECT LITTLE BUSINESS

/ iABORS PROGRAM OF protecting the little
- business man and of developing diversifcaton
of industries in the postwar period finds ready
response among Congressman. Labor's concern
is to translate talk on the part of many Congress
sional committees into tangible action.
Action has just developed on the steel front
where little business has been pushed close to the
wall during the last 40 years North Carolina be-
gan advertising in leading periodicals of it's fac
tory sites and iron ore resources for sponge iron
producers. The state of Washington renewed its
campaign for local steel producing facilities
These states and many states lying between
are aware that entrenched iron and steel interests
will continue to fight development of small steel
producing units AS Fortune Magazine says, they
know that introduction of the sponge iron pro
cess might be enormously disruptive to the great
concentration of modern steel technology delicate
ly balanced on the Mesaba ore"
Low-cost Steel abundantly available to local
manufacturers, opens up new opportunities for
the United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
MORE PROMPT AND ALL INCLUSIVE
RATIONING

I ABOR SHOULD demand more prompt and all
:" inclusive ratoning as means of preventing
imitation. Rationng should be instituted before
shortages develop, as the government officials
foresee that they will develop because of the
steady enchOachment made our available pro-
ductive power by the all devouring demands of
the armed forces Of ourselves and of our allies
Instead Of warning people months ahead that GER
tain commodities will be short and then nstitut-
ing rationng after people with sufficient money
or with friends in the business have had time to
buy up stocks and hoard everything likely to be
short; (and that means nearly every necessity
Tationing Of all neceSSaries should be introduced
as quickly as administrative machinery can be
set up.
To some extent the administration has been
slow to ration more widely because of lack of
political demand for rationing, and fear that the
public would resent deprivation and in conse-
quence react favorably to peace offensive by the
Nazs which would leave them in control of most
Of their conquests until they ready to strike
another time. Labor suffers most from shortages
of necessalics since workers an average lack
the means to buy on black market or in compe-
tition with the wealthy in unregulated markets
without rigid price ceilings Labor therefore
should furnish the necessary political backing ano
proddng to make the administration act more
promptly and vigorously to extend the rationin9
system to al necessities.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
SEATTLE AIRCRAFT WORKERS
TO ASK FOR HIRING-IN RAISE

Seattle, Wash. ULNS). - The dis
trict council of the AFL Aeronautical
Mechanics Union has adopted a reso-
luton pledging Boeing aircraft work
ers here to fight for universal hiring
in wage of 95 cents an hour in the
West Coast airplane industry.
Officers of the union, in passing the
resolution, charged that Paul r.. Por-
ter, War Labor Board representative,
and others working with him in effect
were ''Sabotaging the war effort" by
recommending lower wages for Cali
fornia aircraft plant workers.
The union leaders declared that the
wage program inevitably would result
in the shutdown of Northwest plants
after the war is over.
IF the California wage is lower
plants there will have an unfair ad-
vantage in the postwar period" union
leaders said
The hiring-in wage here has been
6212 cents an hour.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
LABOR ALSO DISSENTS

PRESIDENT KOUSEV ELI told the 18th Con-
gress in his opening message that he had been
advised not to speak of a better America and free
dom from want after the war at this time and that
1T was a grave error for him to do so.
81 dissent the President said emphaticay
Labor, it is perfectly safe to say, also dissents
as does the great mass of the American people
While it is true that winning of the war as speed
lily as possible is the first business before the
nation, it is always in order to speak and work for
a better America, in war or peace. Planning and
woking now for a better America and better
world, IN which government will provide assul-
ance against all economic hazards, is an essential
part of enduring peace. This is now generally
recognized throughout the nation and Congress
will do well to keep it in mind.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
O1r0m tho RuiIWay ClcrlD

tF rom Ia" Hallway tIcrk)
THE ACTION Of the War Labor Board in ap-
proving the principle Of equal pay for women
has met enthusiastic approval from labor bodies
and has been hailed generally as great step for
ward for women who toll.
The boards decision gave employers the right
to raise the wages OF women up to mems wages
for work OF comparable quality and quantity
without prior board approval such as is required
IN other wage cases.
This should serve to remind our own women
members how fortunate they have been in having
progressive labor union to look after THEN
interests.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Clerks has always
demanded, and has always obtained equal pay fol
women employees The principle of equal pay has
been part OF agreements with every company We
do business With
1t didn't take war to remind this organiza
ton that women should have the same pay as mer
for doing The same kind Of work. The brotherhood
has been writing agreements embodying that
principle for years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21

III 1NION WORKERS Should support more fully
- the Federal agencies which are attempting to
plan our post war economic activity so as to get
full employment and higher standard of living
and the greatest possible security for ALL The
anti-New Dealers in Congress have been able to
hamper very effectively the Federal agencies
which are making such plans by the simple de-
vice of denying them funds. They do not want
government planning because they want to 90
back to complete capitalist control of industry
with as little regulation of the power of profit
seekers in the interest of workers and consumers
las it is politically possible for them to get away
with.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
w H A 7 N EX T?

A telegraph transmitter utilizing
electricity from the atmosphere
rather than from power lines has
been invented by Arturo Gilpercz.
Cuban telegraph operator. 1t is
reported that demonstrations held
before Cuban government officials
proved that the transmitter is sue
cessful over short distances, but it
is not known whether it can be
used over a long circuit
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
BUY AUTO FOR RED CROSS

Portland, Ore. Transfers Local 962,
Carpenters Local 2067, Laborers Local
400, and Electrical Workers Local
$50, all AFL presented the Medford,
station wagon equipped with apparatus
and stretchers for emergency duty.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
NIL ILKMAIDS STAGING COMEBACK

San Francisco.-Nlilkma a dairy
tradition years ago, are definitely on
their way back, says Sam II. Greene,
California Dairy Council manager
The war, he explains, has practically
drained the industry of men mixers.
The modern milkmaid will utilize
milking machines, after preliminary
training in their use.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
! COMMENT ON WORLD
: EVENTS

| Evidence that all is not we'll within
Maitland continues to pile up. Most
significant is the news of labor unrest
and sabotage.
Secret information to the Interna-
tional Transport Workers Federation
reveals that rapidly growing difficult
ties in Germany and German-occupied
Europe and increasing signs of labor
resistance are forcing the Gestapo to
take precautionary measures against
anticipated labor troubles. The nature
of these police measures is being kept
| secret
The transport workers organization
says that among recent occurrences
that are openly conceded by the Ger
man authorities are:
All North Sea ports report that
ships pumps are made unusable by
clogging and fouling them with fish
scales Drinking water tanks and other
equipment aboard many ships, docked
or under repairs in Baltic shipyards,
have been found damaged "by un-
known hands," Merchant ships in
French Atlantic and Mediterranean
Seaports have been found unseawOrthy
and severely damaged below the water
line, either from the inside or by the
use of magnetic explosives from the
outside.
Workers at the BlOhm-Voss Ship
yards at Hamburg, Germany, struck
against the announced cutting down of
extra food rations and forced restOra-
ton of the full rations. At mass
meeting addressed by German Labor
Front leaders, the latter were pelted
with screws and other instruments.
General disorder prevailed and 80
strikers were arrested.
Illegal literature is widely distrib-
uted and the routine and work speed
in shipyards and industrial plants has
been upset by mysterious errors and
"dislocatiOn" of work orders.
| X X X
Sane voices are being raised in Italy,
says the labor division of Citizens for
Victory, giving the following sum
mary of recent news of Italian unrest
"RobertO Farinacci's notorious paper
Regime Fascista has been raving mad
against Italian church leaders for dar-
ing to reflect the rising peace desire
of the people of Italy. This raucous
rag Of Cremona recently ranted against
priests trying to destroy the fighting
spirit of the Italians 1t charged one
priest with having said: The (Roman)
Catholic people of Italy have no
enemies. We are brothers, and this
applies to all of us-Americans, Rus
slams, .Frenchmen and Englishmen
Such is our conviction and no power
on earth will make us change our
| SmOke.)
Before a congregation of more than
25,OOO, in the presence of Pope Plus
and twenty Cardinals Cardinal Salotti
preached Il significant sermon in St
Peters. He bluntly asked whether it
is good to continue this war, to con,
tinue sending so many men to theil
deaths, to continue the destruction OF
what human labor has yielded This
was followed by Milan's Archbishop
Cardinal Schuster, publicly stressing
that an Axis victory was by no means
sure. These sentiments are even more
widespread and stronger in the ranks
of Italy's lower clergy.
Labor in the factories has been
growing more reStive and is assuming
leadership of the mounting discomfort
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
ACCIDENTS TAKE BIG TOLL

Albany, \. I.-Prelimnary reports
of los fatal industrial accidents were
received by the State Department of
Labor during November 4 total of 96
male and II female workers were
killed while at work in various New
York State industries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MR.. MODESTUS

Where do we go from here
When we have gone over the top?
"better 'oles"?
Are we just going back home, and
wait for the next time?
Not if we know our income taxes, we
don't.
1t sounds too much like: Put me off
at Buffalo,
Buffalo being the next junction
point, up the main line
Anyhow, the old Buffalo is not there
any more
SO tell us, what is there now, way
up beyond where Buffalo used to be
Where's the time table? We used to
have schedules
Until we were hit by that bunch of
wild cat sections, running deuces
wild
Powered by superheated, highpower-
ed, triple-speed Moguls-
Loaded with wrecking tools and high
explosives.
Is it just this train, we are talking
about?
Or is it just this single car that
we're riding in?
Do the baggage and mail cars cut
any figure in this?
Then, if and when we get some
where, when do we eat?
What do we eat? And who runs the
commissary?
Is this outfit going to travel on foot
We hear about flying box cars; is
that pipe dream?
If we ever get back to earth, Il lot
Of questions will be reshufled-
Could we be heading for China or
home of Bengal tigers
We could land from trains of fly
ing Pullmans, dining car service
Plus what have you for calling
cards on Hiro-Hito and Hitler
You go different kinds of places to.
morrow A. NJ
When you travel by Stratosphere
Unlimited
And that amt so very far from
wrong.
What made you think you are 60
ing anywhere from here?
We had that hallucination IA quarter
of il century ago
Fact is: We just can't get away
from here
Same old planet, Mother Earth
same solar system, swinging round
Same four seasons; same crops, eX.
cept as we improve, or bungle, 'em;
Same old Human Nature; more
alike than we are different
Same procession of change, change
CHANGE!
At last, even China is changing
again; and India
X X X
Changes don't wait for some radicals
to come along
Eggs hatch; seeds sprout; water
freezes, then thaws-
ALMOST like they always did; but
not quite
Those changes, little ones, accumu
late and pile up
Then the pile tips over; river beds
shift; floods crash through
Suddenly, we've gone from where we
We're, along with other folks anG
things
And what looked like potential land
slide, is just Il peaceful meadow.
< + x
You can't plug up NeSuvius-
Nor rub out the Himalaya noun
tains-
1t is hard to realize that we an(
| they
Are all parts of the one mighty
stream of time
But it helps your peace of mind, t,
get in the shadow of that Rock.
There are going to be Il lot of sud
den jolts--
Naturally, some of these will leav.
bruises in some spots
SO, when you ask, where do We
| so from hereT
DO you mean, ''where will we bt
% years from tonight?"
Or, "where are we going fishing to
morrow"
-. -.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
LABOR PAPER GOES TABLOID

Galesburg, Ill QLNS).-The Gales
burg Labor News is now appearing as
an SPACE tabloid, instead of four
standard size pages as heretofore. New
will be added soon, the paper an
nounces. William II. Moon is editor
of the Labor News, which was for
years edited by Thomas II. Downie.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
THE
CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little Hatchef
We Tell the Truth about Man,
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes Flippantly and
Sometimes Recklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21
w l S D o M

Any man may make a mistake,
but none but fool will continue
i'm it.-CiCerO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21

PresidentJames M Duffy O. Box 6, East Liverpool Ohio
PresidenE Whealey, National
Bank Building
PesdentFank Blvd, Huntington
Calf.
Mills Liverpool
Ohio
PresidenChaes thinner. Ohio Avenue Trenton
New
PresidenGeoge Nwbon, Mrose Trenton
Presiden-Geoge Monroe Liver
Ohio.
Seventh Vice PedenChares Virginia Avenue
Sebring, Ohio.
Eighth Vice PresdentJoshua Chadwick. Grant Street. Newell West
Virginia
D. McGiivray p o. Box East Liver
Ohio.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21

Buy War Bonds and fight initiation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-21

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
DALE, JAMES TURNER
E. h. WHEATIEY VIM E. YOUNG EDWARD SEYFIERT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10

is all about a group Of train pas
sengers who arc forced to spend
the night IN a little deserted rail
road station what happens 10
them eh, We should tell you
and spoil the whole thing.
Fred {. Blrchard. collection
manager OF the home office Of
The Standard Accident Insurance
Co. recently celebrated his 30th
annIverSary with that organIZa ton.
He was presented with a wrist
atch by tho employees AZ A
urprlSe gathering The other day
Councilman Bill Roget had a
levcland baseball scout over at
tho house the other night. The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10

-
mans got a job TO do, it's got
TO be done good" Johnny VIII
explain seriously. =.
You see, there were a lot OF
paper boys who preceded Johnny
in the forts history. For years
now. they've been coming and go
inc. But it looks as If Johnny VIII
stick until he IS old enough TO he
a soldier himself He took the loh
in December and. through some OF
the deepest SHOWS. he could be
seen carrying on" Al one time,
the snow was above his waist.
Keep it up, Johnny.
Mrs. Lee Ewell, wife Of we'll
known former h tel manager
dropped into town the other day
from her cabin in the woods in
the Upper Peninsula She says
that her cat, Duffy, scornS
canned salmon and will eat moth
ing but strictly fresh fish.
So Mr.. and Mrs. have 10 repair
10 the trout stream in front OF
their home and catch the cats
supper. of COURSE wf1ife they ART
At il, they catch few for them
selves. Duffy, the cat, while the
fishing is going on, hops from one
side of the stream 10 the other
via a log, 10 be on tap when the
first fish is caught
PEOPLE YOU KNOW would
like 10 taRs This time 10 Congratu-
late MIR. and MrS. Thomas w.
Bookmyer on their 60th wedding
anniversary. 10 be celebrated with
a family dinne- Sunday.
Ghost Train is the name Of
the play soon TO be presented by
the LIB students of Cooley High
School II will be the first mystery
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-10
eopIe
You Know
He's Got a Mans job
And Does It He's q
By WILLIAM FLEMING

THE LITTLE MAN THAT'S
ALWAYS THERE: lie is only Q
years old, but he takes his job
out at Fl. Wayne as seriously as
the foreman in the warehouse or