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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08

weapons in the arsenal of democracy,
but an established and accepted part
of the American industrial scene.
Since the Bureau is not charged with
the administration of any laws, its
influence has been that Of a fact-find-
ing and reporting agency. consulting
and advising on adjustments OF the
women worker. Main fields of its inter-
est include employment opportunities,
health and safety standards and ade-
guate pay. The Bureau makes studies
of women's wages and hours, their
working conditions, their legal status,
which are used by government author
tiles, private organizations, and trade
unions in obtaining the passage OF
remedial legislation and obtaining con-
tracts under collective bargaining.
On July s, 1918, as result of Con-
greSsional action, the Woman in In
duStry Service was established within
the Department of Labor. To head this
unit, Secretary of Labor William b.
Wilson appointed Mary van kleeck, on
leave from the Russell Sage FOunda-
ton for war work in Washington. At
this time Miss van kleeck was chief
of the women's branch of the Indus
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Union Members Attend
Summer School Course

New York City ULNS).-Ninety-one
members of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union from 30
cities in II states, ranging from Hous-
ton in the South to Minneapolis in the
North, and from Cincinnati in the East
to Kansas City in the West, are at
tending the University of Wisconsin
for an ILGWU Institute arranged for
the sixth year by the Summer School
for Workers at Madison.
An intensive program of study in
cludes public speaking, parliamentary
law, labor history, officers qualifica-
ton courses and time-and-mOtiOn study
classes. For the first time, foreladies
are included in the student body which
in the main is composed Of union
officers, business agents and union ac-
twists who will thus utilize their vaca-
ton period for obtaining refresher
courses and keeping abreast Of the cur
rent trends in the industry.
On July s Il conference will be run
jointly by the School for Workers and
the Wisconsin State Federation of
Labor to deal with labor and public
opinion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Newspaper Ads Drow
Workers To War Plant

Harrisburg, Pa. ULNS). "A large
aircraft industryS problem in procur-
ing adequate personnel is being aided
by newspaper advertising dramatizing
the workers wartime efforts.
Now employing over 5000 persons,
Fleetwings. Inc. n division of Kaiser
Cargo. Inc. recently faced the prob
lem of obtaining workers from out
side its comparatively small home
community of Bristol, Bucks County.
Help from nearby farming areas
could not be obtained in great num-
bers because agricultural workers
were urgently needed.
FleetwingS then turned TO Philadel-
phia. 20 miles away, to get much
needed workers. despite transportation
difficulties
Advertising in newspaper classified
sections proved To he the key to the
situation. Before long, according TO
Paul f. Bklen, Fleetwings public re-
lationS director. there were long lines
of applicants responding to our ap-
pealS.'
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Manufacturers Of
Bakery Products
Draw Stiff Fine
Violate Antitrust Law Fines
OF $5l. $50 Imposed By
Court

Washington. u. c. GLNS).-Attor-
ney General Francis Biddle announces
that in the L. S. District Court al
Boston. Mass, . associations. Is com
panies and 81 individuals engaged in
manufacturing breaa and bakery
products in New England and New
York entered pleas of mono contenderc
to an Indictment charging them with
violation of the Sherman antitrust act
by price fixing and market stabiliza-
ton.
Fines totaling $51,95O were imposed
by the court.
The indictment, returned on May
2S, 1912. charged the defendants with
price-tiXing. on bread and other bakery
products manufactured and sold III
New England and the State of New
York. The indictment alleged that tn,
total annual production of bread by
bakeries in the Seven-State area
amounted to 2,:340,00n.OO0 pounds. with
an approximate value of $1S5OOO,OOO
that the total value of the bread and
conspiracy amounted to Approximately
$9O,OOO,0OO annually and directly in
volved approximately 13,0OO,OOO con
SllmerS, and that the cooperative plaI
was carried out through the New
England Bakers Association.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Laundry Workers
Decreed Essential
VINO Extends Preferential
Treatment Excepting Only
Occupdtiondl Deferment

Washington. The War Manpower
Commission extended to the country 5
iaundries last week the same preferen-
tial treatment in the ALLEGATION of man
power as is given to essential war i'll
dustries.
LaundrieS classified as locally
needed" by regional directors of tn"
VINO will be supplied with workers
by the United States Employment
Service, will be projected from labor
piracy and will have their existing
labor force stabilized, except that
there will be no occupational defer
ment under the Selective Service Act.
They will receive this aid only if they
discontinue luxury services to their
patrons.
TO be classified as locally needed
they must meet standards agreed upon
by the War Labor Boards Office of
Civilian Requirements and the WMC.
These standards are designed to enable
the laundrieS to give adequate essen
tial service to more people than they
are now doing with their available
labor force and To put maintenance
services on q "rock-bottOm, tirSt-thngs-
first basis"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08

has with American Federation of La
Dor unions.
CIO officials have asserted that
these contracts were entered into when
the Kaiser yards had only Il few hun
dred employees and that they do not
represent the sentiment of the many
more thousands now at work in the
yards
Kaiser executives have unoflicially
expressed the view that an NLRB
order for an election would disrupt
production in the yards
1t was reported that Senate con-
ferees had agreed on the House modi-
ficatiOn so as to require posting of a
thirty-day notice of labOrmanagement
agreements.
The House action, it was reported
at the offices of the NLIiB, would in
validate many cases before the board
which were ready to go to the courts.
In these cases the board had held that
the controls were made collusively be-
tween employers and employees.
One was said to be the ten-year-old
dispute between the International
Ladies' Garment Workers, AF'L, and
the Donnelly Garment Workers EN-
plOyees Association.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Urges Umpires
:Sift Labor Rows
Statement Stresses Adjust
ing Grievances Without
Reference To Bourd

WashingtOn.-The War Labor Board
urged employers and employees to i'm
pement the labor-industry no-strike,
nO-lOckOut agreement by creating ma
chinery for the prompt handling of
grievances that may arise under col
lective bargaining contracts
In n statement issued by Chairman
William II. Davis and adopted unani-
mously by the board, it was empha-
sized that "all labor disputes, including
grievances, must be settled by peace
full MEANS" preferably within the
plants and without reference to the
board.
The method suggested for keeping
grievances away from the labor board
and the the adjudication of these dis
putes was the setting up of an arbi-
traitor, impartial chairman or umpire
whose word would be final.
Chairman Davis and his associates
explained at a press conference that
the re-aSSertiOn of the n0-Strike agree
ment by spokesmen for the American
Federation Of Labor and the Congress
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Woll Hits Reds For
Libeling U.S.Lob
Will Not Permit Communists
To Use War As Weapon
For Labor Destruction,

New York City.-A complete refuta-
ton of the falsehoods regarding the
American labor movement and Amer
lean labor leaders sent out from Nos
COW by the Russian Communists was
made by Matthew Woll vice president
of the American Federation OF Labor
and president of the Labor League
For Human Rights, in a letter to the
New York Times denouncing as wholly
false recent Moscow diatribe pub
liShed in that paper.
In your issue of June 49," Mr.
VOL said, you carry dispatch from
Moscow quoting Soviet publication
purporting to speak for the Russian
workers in which | am characterized
as 'reactionary' labor leader who Is
misleading workers into 'unpatriOtic,
anti-war strikes | am charged In the
dispatch by the alleged organ of the
Russian workers (read of the Russian
Communist Party with 'inciting
strikes and generally favoring isola-
tiOniSm.'
Il need not contradict the libelOuS
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
InfIu+ion Is Suid
Forcing Disaster
On Family Life
Survey Reveals Many Work
ers Facing Serious FL
nunciul Difficulties

New York GLNS).-A large section
of the nations population is faced with
actual disaster" from the rising tide
of imitation, according to a report Of
a survey of consumers in all parts Of
the country and at different income
levels made public by Consumers
Union at Il meeting of the organization
in the New School for Social Re-
search.
The survey, based on an analysis of
10000 queStionnaireS, disclosed that 80
per cent of the middle and upper in
come families answering the question
naires had received increased incomes
since the outbreak of the war. Among
low-income families, however, only 2S
per cent had obtained rises.
"A majority of the questionnaireS,"
the report said. "were received from
families having incomes over $1,000
Il year, and the replies Indicate that
many of these families are having
serious financial difficulties. But the
returns from families with incomes
UiltltI lllS ltNtl give SlllhHlS
that Il large section of the population
is faced with actual disaster from the
rising tide of imitation. Only 2S per
cent of the families now earning under
81 800 Il year reported increased in
come since the beginning of the war.
"To meet the SkyrOcketing prices of
food and other necessities, per cent
of the families below 81 800 state that
they are borrowing, Is per cent are
drawing on savings, 30 per cent are
saving less than they did, 50 per cent
are buying less. 6S per cent are cut
ting down on amuSementS, trips, etc,
and 81 per cent are buying more care
fully than they did formerly"
About half of those replying to the
quest iOnnaire We're teachers, engineers
and other professional persons; IA
quarter We're workers in industry and
transportation and per cent were
farmers. A high percentage in all
groups said they We're cutting down
on amuSementS and trips, the range
being 40 per cent for the group with
incomes of more than $4,000 to II per
cent for the 81, ,5OO-$2 900 groups.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
AN EDITORIAL
NEW FACES IN 1914

Labor has been forbidden by law from striking, but
other population aided abtted by Congress-
to be immune
Congress- itself, is strike against the Commander-n
Chief of the nation and against the workers and
the country.
Throughout the length and breadth of the nd farmers
rancher producers and distributors strike against the
people of America refusing to market their produce the hope
of forcing higher prices.
These strikes not denounced in newspaper headlines
and editorials In fact the to be encouraging them
What's it all about? The is politics.
The forces of reaction in the saddle They galopng
headong toward 1914 They willing risk wreckng
they thereby dscredt the Administration and
gain political control in the coming elections.
That is the only logical explanation for the antics
Capitol HOr the mpetuOus Overlder of the Presidents
of the Connay Smith Bill and for the nsensae against
food price subsidies.
We wish to the members of Congress that politics
dangerous in wartime that it is game in which every
worker and in the and-barrng the poll
deal himself hand So far Congress concerned
tons placed labor and failure protect against
prOfteerS have only result-new faces in 1914.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
CHILD CARE BILL PASSED
Senate Sends Measure Providing
S20.000. 900 Yearly To House
For Approval

Washington, II. {. - The Senate
Friday passed the War Child Care
Bill by voice and sent it 10 the house.
The bill authorizes the appropriation
of S2O,OOO.OOO a year for the next TWO
years. rather than for the duration of
the war. as was recommended by the
Senate Education and Labor Commit
tee. To provide care for The children
of working mothers in war areas. Fed
eral grants must be matched by States
or local funds.
The program would he administered
by State and local authorities under
the supervision of the Children :
Bureau and the Office of Education.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
La Toilette Renews
Labor MeusurePleu
Report On Alleged Viold-
tons OF Union Rights
On West Coast

Washington. - Senator La Toilette,
of Wisconsin. warned that labor was
in danger of losing the place it had
won and renewed his plea for legiS-
laton to outlaw Oppressive labor
practiceS.'
The war emergency has brought
new backing for anti-labor movements,
he declared, and certain groups in
Congress seem To be in a mood to
legiSlate concerning labor"
His appeal came aS he and Senator
Ebert -. Thomas. Democrat, of Utah,
submitted report on the final in
vestigationS of their Civil Liberties
Committee into alleged vialtionS of
free speech and right of labor on the
West Coast. dealing primarily with
employers associations and collective
bargaining in California.
Mr.. La Toilette renewed the appeal
for passage of the labor practices
measure which he and Senator Thomas
have introduced during the last two
terms. This is designed To provide
criminal penalties for employers or
their agents found guilty of labor
espionage, professional Strike-breaking,
anti-union vigilantSm and other prac-
ticeS.
The section of the report submitted
dealt with identification and deScrip-
ton of organizations allegedly active
in opposing unioniSm in California
from 1899 through 1899. IT cited six
organizations as having expended in
excess of S3.OOU,OOO over tive-yeal
period. They We're the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Los
Angeles and Southern CalifornlanS,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Group Insurance Plan Coins
Momentum In Ldughlin Shops;
Necessary MdjoritY Seen Near
Charges oDTWi+h
An+i-Labor Policy
Cruel And Cdllous Disre.
gard For Ldbor's Rights,
Union Head States

New York City ULNS).-The office
of Defense Transportation has dis
played definite anti-labor policy
and has demonstrated "cruel and
callOuS disregard for laborS rights,
President Thomas A. Murray of the
New York State Federation of Labor
charged in a telegram to James f.
Byrnes, director of the Office of Wal
Mobilization.
Murray urged ByrneS to correct "the
sight, Judgment and coordination now
existing in the federal agencies whose
obligation it is to carry the war eff
fort on eifectively.'
Unless immediate, effective coordi-
nation and cooperation between the
various federal agencies is effected
this country will be plunged into such
Il state of chaos as will completely
destroy civilian morale and cripple the
war effort" Murray declared
Charging that each agency "con-
siders that it is a law unto itself
Murray concentrated his fire on the
ODT, asserting that its advisers were
representatives of management whose
orders are issued without any concern
for labor's interest.
Citing the recent ODT order for cur
tailment of bus consumption of gaso
line by 20 per cent, Murray said that
while labor recognized the need of say
ing gasoline it objected 40 the methods
used.
without consultation with the
War Labor Board" Murray charged
"it (the ODT) placed orders in the
hands of employers to make the reduc
ton in such manner as the respective
employers saw fit
The result, he asserted, has beer
that employers have devised plans &c
curtail labor costs and create layOtlS
Murray cited the bus situation in
two New York city boroughs as typi
cal of the issues involved. He pointed
out that operators were laying off men
establishing split shifts and utilizing
labor cost saving devices, while at the
same time retaining bus lines that
bring the greatest revenue
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
WOMEN HELP CLEAN STREETS

Baltimore, Md. - Women laborers
are being recruited here by the City
Service Commission for work as street
cleaners. The city requires laborers
to register and pass medical eXami-
nation. Women employees in this group
are required to pass the same physical
standards as are required of men for
the job.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Labor To Seek
EdrlY Repeal Of
Non-Strike Act
Seek Cledr-Cut lnterpretd-
ton OF Statute From A.
torneY General

Washington. ID. e. ILNS).-Organ-
ized labor will comply with the pro-
visions of the newly enacted Connally-
Smith antiStrike law. but will try 10
make it imperative by IL renewed ef-
fort to enforce lis nO-Strike pledge, and
then drive for its early repeal.
AFL President William Green and
CIO President Philip Murray reveal
ed labor bitterness at the quick action
Of Congress in passing the measure
over the President veto Friday in
letters 10 President Roosevelt but both
officials reafiirmed their organization ;
no-strike pledges.
However, labor members We're eX-
pected to press for early Qualification
of the statute by the Attorney General.
\ clearcut Interpretation of the three
following questions will be demanded :
1.-The bill forbids WLB members
10 sit on cases in which they have q
direct interest. Does it mean that AFI
members cannot consider AFL cases.
or was 4 narrower construction -
that members should not consider
cases involving their own international
unon-intended?
Does the measure outlaw VILE
maintenance of membership orders by
implication?
3-The measure requires employee
representatives to file strike notices
when production is threatened. but
does not restrict this authority to au-
thoriZe collective bargaining repre-
SentativeS. Some labor officials feel
that the measure will promote wild
cat strikes and raids if no reStric-
tions are placed on the filing of strike
notices under the law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
War Materials Are Being
Produced At Record
Breaking Speed
SEEK HOUSING PROJECT
Officers For Coming Term
Are Installed At Meeting
Wednesday, Evening

New Castle. Pain an article re-
Gently published in one of the popular
ma magaZines, New Castle was called the
ghost town. Times have really changed
since then, We are now clasSed as one
of the busiest and best towns in West
ern Pennsylvania.
With the erection of S26,OOO,OOO
National Engineering works and the
heretofore idle mills now turning out
materials of war at a record breaking
pace, our chief problem now is hOus-
ing facilities for the hundreds Of fam
lilies working in these plants.
An effort has been made to secure
q housing project to take care OF these
people, but 50 far we have not been
successful With homes at a premium
the real estate agents are having Il
field day and 90 out of their way to
block any attempts to persuade the
authorities in Washington for relief.
At the last meeting of Trades and
Labor assembly 1t was decided to APP
peal TO the Manufacturers Association
for their help in this matter, but so
far nothing has developed.
Our interest as pOtters in this queS-
tiOn would be to see the erection OF
homes which would use our products
as well as give employment to the
building tradesmen of our city.
Work has been very good, but with
everything going at such fast pace
the firm has appealed to the union for
their help in solving the breakage
problem which has really got beyond
their control. Our officers have prom
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
President Adds To C.F.E.P.
Industry TO Aid Reverend
Francis j. Haas

Washington. - President Roosevelt
named last week six members of the
Committee on Fair Employment Prac-
tice, of which the Right Rev. Francis
j. Haas is chairman.
The members are as follows:
Representing Labor j John Rrophy,
CIO; Milton L. Webster. international
vice president, brotherhood of Sleep
ing Car POrterS, and Boris ShiShkin
AFL.
Representing Industry - Miss Sara
Southall supervisor of employment
and Service. international Harvester
Company; Z. b. Young, publisher, Nor
folk (Na.) Journal and Guide, and
Samuel Zemurray, president United
ErIIit Compnuy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-07-08
Committee Reports Three
Hundred New Signatures
Secured In Drive
CARRY ON FIGHT
New Ldbor-Sdving Ma.
chimes Add To Worries
OF Workers

Local Union No. 124 met in regular
session Tuesday evening with Presi-
dent Clair Armstrong presiding.
Brother Roy Thompson gave re-
port on the work done by the commit
tee on group insurance. We We're
gratified to hear that three hundred
new signatures were secured but dis
appointed that the goal is so far away,
sad commentary that so many of
our members cannot see the benefits
to be derived from the Brotherhood
plan. Too many of our people still
think that the old and the large must
of necessity be the better insurance,
while an examination of the facts and
the provisions of the two policies will
show the exact opposite to be the case.
The fact that this insurance can be
carried for the balance of your life,
even should you leave the pottery is
the most valuable provision of this
policy. Most of us seem to think we
are never going to grow old and loose
our earning power, but we will and
the amount of protection we could get
from any other company would cost
five to ten times as much, which the
majority of us could not pay. Let us
all put our shoulder to the wheel and
boost and talk insurance until we put
this campaign over. 1t can be done
and 1t must. e. -.s@ ~..~zsa =
President Armstrong cited the rise
in living costs which even the WLB
admits has gone beyond the Little
Steel" formula. A readjustment of
wages is in order, as some of the
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

Mickey and Rose Mcclure, Gel
Central Ave.
Mrs. Pearl Butler, 1881 Bryant
Ave. N.
Marie Woodland and Family, 349
N. Avon st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Strawder,
2S13 Chicago Ave.
Pvt. Donald Mcclure and Mother,
2813 Chicago Ave.
Staff Sgt. and Mrs. Nathaniel B.
Clark, 3641 Fourth Ave. S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burl Grigsby, 814
Aldrich Ave. N.
Vesta MOsley, 428 N. Colfax.
Royal Johnson, sos Floyd B. Oh
son Highway.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Stem
mons, 2201 5th Ave. So.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

Naomi KimbrOugh, 722 w. Cen
trail Ave.
Juanita Hampton, 232 Rondo Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Combs, 2435
Fourth Ave. S.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. HOuser, 1457
Albany.
Louise Ellis and Family, 1905 Oh
son Memorial Highway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Philips,
1921 Fourth Ave. S.
Mrs. Bernice Morris, 1919 Fifth
Ave. s.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Jackson,
37O8 Fourth Ave. S.
Mrs. Zephyr Turner, 2721 Port
land Ave.
Vera Johnson and Family, 1882
Clinton Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. X. Knight, $50
Fuller Avenue.
Mr.. Arthur V. Hall, 727 Rondo
Avenue.
Miss Ethel Smith, 9O5 Marion St.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Boyd,
1888 Fourth Ave. So.
Miss Emma Simmons, 734 st.
Anthony Ave.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-08-13

Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Kelley, 1929
4th Ave. So.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Wright,
2201 5th Ave. So.
Mrs. Betty Marshall Sessions,
1850 4th Ave. So.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Gardner,
1923 7th st. So.
Miss Emma L. HOrris, 1921 18th
Ave. So.
Mrs. Francis PEBBLES and Mrs.
Marion PEBBLES Bethel, 1921 18th
Ave. So.