The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-18

| lufIllSl lHeIll ~ you.
| do not know to which Committee
of the House this resolution will be
referred for handling, but shall follow
it up and let you know what develops
With best wishes, | am
Sincerely yours,
Earl II. Lewis
The following resolution was intro
duced by Congressman Lewis:
18th Congress
lst Session
IL. j. KeS.
| In the House of Representatives
| February ...., 1913
| Mr. Lewis of Ohio introduced the
| following Joint Resolution which was
referred to the Committee on
A JOINT RESOLUTION
Directing the War Relocation Au.
thority to cease and desist from the
establishment and operation, ut relo-
cation centers where enemy aliens, in
Guiding persons Of japanese blood, are
nterned, of plants for the manufac-
ture of pottery.
RESOLVED, by the Senate and
| House of Representatives Of the United
| States of America, in Congress as.
| Sembled, that the War Relocation Au-
| thorty of the United States be, and
| is hereby directed to cease and deSiSt
from the establishment and operation
of all plants for the manufacture OF
pottery ware at or in connection with
all relocation centers where enemy
aliens, including persons of japanese
blood, are interned
Speech of Congressman Earl II. Lewis
on the Floor of the House of
Representatives
February g. 1943
Mr.. Speaker, | wish to call the at
,, tenton of the members of this House
to an activity of the War Relocation
Authority which has charge of the re-
location centers of all people of Jap
anese blood who were removed from
the critical defense areas of the coun-
! try, notably on the Pacific Coast, to
points i'm the interior of the country.
Thousands of these Japanese are dis
! tributed i'm ten internmcnt camps or re-
! location centers located throughout the
west.
In one of these camps, the one To-
Gated ut Hart Mountain, Wyoming, the
War Relocation Authority is in pro-
cess of constructing buildings and in
stalling therein modern kiln and shop
equipment for the making of pottery
ware by the Japanese internees.
In my District there are tens of
thousands of people engaged in manu-
featuring pottery. For thousands of
them ii is the only occupation and skill!
that they have ever learned. Vast sums
of money are invested in plant equip
ment. This industry Is one that, I'm the
| most favorable times, has not been
able to compete in the markets Of the
manufactured by the cheap labor Of
japan. Japanese pottery has constant
| ~ underSold our cheapest pottery
made in the United States here in our
own American markets. In my pre-
volls term In Congress, | introduced
the pottery industry; and | shall, dur
| ing this present session of Congress,
| reintroduce those measures and per
| hapS additional measures for the pro
lection of the American market for
pottery against the importation of
Ia
And Now, Mr.. Speaker, find that
our own people In the War Relocation
| Authority are setting up modern pot
;eries at Hart Mountain, Wyoming,
and perhaps at other japanese intern
ment camps, in which ii is proposed
to teach Japanese to make pottery by
! American methods and American
equipment, returning to Japan and
/ adding their skill and knowledge of
American methods to the already
existing japanese pottery industry and
/ further adding to our troubles in the
: postwar period by the skiils and train
ing which they have acquired while
prisoners in American internment
camps.
Mr. Speaker, consider this policy
of the War Relocation Authority the
most stupid and ruinous activity
imaginable. When will we ever learn
in this country that we should keel
American markets for the products OF
American working people whether /!
be pottery or any other product? Wher
| will wa upJarStnpl that tho fra ipip ma
of our foreign competitors In Ameri
can methods of manufacture and pro
duction cannot help but be ruinous tC
our own people.
Mr.. Speaker, In the name of the Ma
tional Brotherhood Of Operative Pot
ters, thousands Of whom | have the
honor to represent In this Congress,