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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
ABSENTEEISM

Unions HAVE a direct responsibility for the
" winning of the war Unions are the channels
through which individual workers informed
of programs and their significance, so that they
can plan and give cooperation. Through their
unions workers formulate policies and group sent-
ment. AS labor policies are determined nationally,
labor representatives participating in these dec-
sons can advise the millions organized in affiliated
unions and suggest the best way to make decisions
operative. Thus whole national group falls into
step.
The important problem with which unions are
occupied is mobilization of manpoWer The first
steps are to set up locally the machinery of repre-
sentation and appeal. The complement of respon-
morale, so that workers in essential jobs and occu-
pations are on the job when physically able and
take care to keep themselves fit.
Loss of production due to absenteeism is caus-
ing considerable concern Absenteeism is a point
responsibility of employers workers and govern
ment New war industries, lacking sufficient able
management personnel and with difficulties in
maintaining an even flow Of materials, have
breaks in production that give excuse for absen-
teesm Inadequate ventilation and poor work
facilities produce illness Inadequate safety pre-
cautions result in preVentable accidents. Trans
portaion breakdowns keep workers away from
their Jobs.
Union officials should discuss with manage
ment the elimination OF such conditions, so that
such absenteeiSm as can be prevented is pre-
vented. AT the same time, union officials must
warn the very small number of members who alb
sent themselves from work simply because they
are not in the mood for toll that day that the
union and the nation both look to them to be on
the Job. 1t must be emphasized however, that
there is very little absence from work for which
there is not some very good reason, a fact which
labor'S enemies conveniently ignore.
1t has been the experience of all countries that
long hours Increase abSenteCiSm because Of phyS-
cal exhaustion, illness and lack of time to attend
to necessary personal business.
Guard against excessive hours particularly
where women are concerned. Many leave work to
90 home to perform additional duties, and if hours
outside OF work are not enough to take care of
home needs, women will feel they must take time
of from work.
Let every American Federation of Labor union
do its part 50 that all workers will feel it a duty
to be regularly on the job, ready to work. as their
part IN Americas effort. Our fellow workers
in our armies are now on the offensive. This means
they need more ammunition. TO produce that
ammunition workers must be on the job here
on the home front day in and day out
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
LABOR ON RATION BOARDS

DRlCE ADMINISTRATORS PrentisS Brown has
ordered that representative of organized la
Dor be added to all ration boards, even if it means
charging the boards.
This is done, he says, because organized labor
is soidly behind price control rent CONTROL and
and labor unions are prepared to make
their support effective.
The American Federation of Labor and local
unions have been insisting that without labor
on these boards the work of the
boards could not be fair and impartial Working
people are the majority of our population, and
they should have voice in determining dstribll-
ton of all rationed commodities.
And here's the "catch" in the proposition
None of the members of ration boards are COM
pensated for their work Only a very small per-
centage of employees of these boards are paid
anything. 1t is labor in the interest of your COM
munlty, in the interest of the members of organ
lied labor, in the interest of winning the war, and
provides an opportunity to slap Jap.
Union officials and members of organized labor
have never yet shirked duty be it civic or other
wise. They expect to be paid for using their sks
commercially, but they will give their time to any
worthy cause. And this is worthy cause.
The OPA administrator has ordered each dis
trict director to see that labor man is added to
his ration boards. 1t is an opportunity for every
official of every labor union to prove that we can
Go our part If you are not called, do the calling
yourself.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
DRAFTING LABOR
TO CURE "absenteeism" the Austin,

TO CURE 'absenteeism' the Austin-Wadsworth
bill proposes to draft labor and send working
men here and there at the discretion of some
official.
Apparently all that is needed to produce war
materials is supply, or an over-supply, of labor
No consideration is given provision of materials,
housing, sanitation, food, transportation. All we
hear about is the absence of labor, which govern
ment officials including the Labor Department,
testify is at minimum
The Manpower Commission is supporting the
-kilgore-Pepper bill, which gives the COM
mission authority to assemble manpower and
materials where it can best serve the nation and
has for its purpose something more than sub
DUNG workingmen.
There have been too many instances and re-
Gently, Of workmen being laid off, of workmen
being boarded, of families near defense produc-
ton factories having insufficient food, shelter and
transportation to lead us to believe that mere
drafting labor will solve the problem.
Overall planning is needed, and this involves
what we understand by manpower. Men are use
less without materials and sustenance, and the
Austin-WadsWorth bill is therefore futile.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
GOOD GIFT FOR SOLDIERS

Louisville, Ky.-Playing cards, which
make an acceptable gift for many men
in the armed services, are offered for
coupons packed with Raleigh union
made cigarettes, the Brown and Will
hanson Tobacco Corporation premium
department points out The cards are
of Congress quality, gilt-edged with
smart new fancy backs. Bicycle pi-
nochle decks (bicycle backs only can
also be obtained if desired. The cards
are offered in single decks and set Of
two decks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25

Despite earlier belief Labor officials that the Legislature wou
II dacally o
o
il
Il
:
Phil Hannah Legislative of the Ohio Fedora
of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
"CITY FARMERS" GIVEN HELP

Chicago. -"City farmers of many
communities are offered use of land
and water free by their municipalities
to stimulate the growing of extra food.
Atlanta has turned over 225 acres of
city-owned land Sacramento will pro-
vide free water for non-cOmmercial
vegetable gardens up to 1000 square
feet, and San FranciscO's public util-
tiles commission has been asked to re-
duce water rates to aid Victory gar
Municipal Association.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25

Springfield, O. ULNS). - Represen-
tatives of local labor industry, agri-
culture, the city school system, nearby
colleges, and professional groups will
serve as speakers on various phases of
the war effort. The assignment of
speakers to meetings and other occa-
sionS will be made by the Placement
Committee of the Victory Speakers
Bureau of the Defense Council. There
will be 100 volunteer speakers and a
special speakers training school.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
w H AT MEX T?

In a search for new foods to boil
ster skinny diets, gardener in
Holland has developed vegetable
called the "wObbie," which is cross
between carrot and beet-rOOt, the
Dutch Nazi organ NatiOnale Dag
blad reports. 1t adds that the Vege-
table is carrOt-shaped beetrOot con-
tanning three times as much vitamin
Z as either the carrot or the beet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
w S D O M

There is a principle which is a bar
against all information, which is
proof against all arguments, and
which cannot fail to keep man i'm
everlasting ignorance. That prin-
Ciple is condemnation before investi-
gatiOn.-Herbert Spencer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
News From Ohio Federation Of Labor
CALL ISSUED FOR STATEWIDE LECIsI ALTON CONFERENCE

OhioA call a A. f.
o o
be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Neil House. Columbus beginning
= (slowime)
Genera is
a all FOf
goups matte
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25
CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little Hatct'ef
We Tell the Truth About Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Some times FIippantty ana
Sometimes Recklessly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manuacurers.A G. DALE. FRED SUTTERIN JAMES TURNEF
Operatives E. L. WHEATLEY WIN. YOUNG. EDWARD SEYF1ER1
Evening star., 1943-10-24

" HE murder of Verne Lockman really
proved favorite theory of his.
As a big time writer of murder mys-
teries he naturally had theories about the
subject, and the trick of dramatizing those
ideas. TO set up premeditated murder in
mystery story" he was fond of saying, the
author must bridge moat. He must provide
his murderer with Motivation - the most
common ones being hatred, revenge, ambi-
ton, love, lust, money, security, and inheri-
tance The murderer must have, or make, an
Opportunity He must devise an Alibi to
protect himself And he must have Talent of
a kind to perpetrate successfully the greatest
of all crimes against man and God. Motive,
Opportunity, Alibi, Talent: M-O-A-T."
Mark Tilton, moving swiftly and silently
through the near midnight darkness toward
the little summer house where his uncle was
revising a manuscript, had all four of the
required elements.
His motive was simple. He was in jam.
and desperately needed two thousand dollars.
Nicco had given him until the first of the
month to take up those o US: if they
weren't taken up by then, Nicco would 60 to
Verne Lockman with them; and if Nicco did
that, Mark would no longer be Verne Lock-
mans sole heir He had his uncle's own word
for that.
This is the last time l shall pay your
gambling debts, Mark" he'd said that spring.
You've bled me of over five thousand dollars
in the last two years; if this occurs again
shall leave everything have to several very
worthy charities in which I'm interested. Is
that perfectly clear?"
AND Mark had a wonderful opportunity
Just at this moment There was no moon, and
the house - THE House That Murder
Built" Verne called it, although actually it
was just remodeled farmhouse - was dark.
The little summer house which Verne called
his workshop was at one corner of triangle
made by the house, the summer house, and
the little artificial lake where Mark had been
fishing. 1t was his uncle who had volunteered
the information that the bass struck best
after dark, and had suggested that Mark
try it.
There was dim light in the summer house;
lust enough to make family glowing bars of
Evening star., 1943-10-24

Now, Mark Tilton opened the door quietly.
"It's me, Unc," he said cheerfully. The
bass aren't hitting right now, and thought
maybe could tinker with that fan"
why thanks. Mark" said Verne, looking
up from the pile of loose manuscript spread
Evening star., 1943-10-24

out on his desk. That was very thoughtful
of you. Did you bring tools?"
mo, Unc; thought you'd have something
around. A screwdriver, anyway"
Look in that cigar box on the bench;
there may be one there"
Evening star., 1943-10-24

the sharply tilted Venetian blinds. 1t was
midsummer, and out in the country - the
place was nearly mile from the road, more
than eight miles from town - there were
millions of annoying insects that somehow
managed to get through the screens. There
was even a shutter on the screen door which
faced the lake.
He'd better listen to reason" Mark kept
thinking over and over again, ''or III have
to do it. Nicco isn't fooling. Unc will have to
listen to reason this time. -"
He did not have an alibi; he had something
much better; plan which would make an
alib utterly unnecessary. No one needed an
alibi for an accident - and the funny thing
about that was that Lorraine, of all people,
had really given him the idea.
LORRAINE KIMBALL was Verne's secretary; a
blonde, frigid-beauty type who wrote letter
every night to her JIG. boy friend in the Navy,
and got up on her high horse if anyone made
even the mildest pass at her. Mark knew;
he'd tried it.
Just that afternoon, Verne had complained
about the big ventilating fan in the cupola
of the summer house. 'I'll have to work to-
night if I'm to get those revisions completed
in time, and I'm afraid it's going to be hot
And that confounded fan isn't working WE'LL
it operates perfectly for a short time, then
starts to overhead and slows down. l think
I'll have to disconnect it and take it into
town for overhauling."
BE careful, if you do" Lorraine had
pleaded. "It's 50 easy to have dangerous
accident, working with electrical equipment"
Evening star., 1943-10-24

professor, probably. But Lorraine's remark
had given Mark the idea.
What she had said was right: amateurs
who monkeyed with electrical apparatus often
did get shock, or worse And an unexpected
shock could.
Evening star., 1943-10-24

l assure you my
motto shall be Ca
yendo TITUS! - safe
through caution "
the old fool had
quoted. He was for
ever singing Latin
phrases around; a
hangover from his
old days as a college
professor, probably.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
$72 Billions Asked for Army
Lewis Believed Angling
For 1914 Political Spot
In Coming Back To AFL

Washington. May 2O.-(hFJ-
john J.. Lewis. return TO the
doorstep of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor stunned all but
few insiders i'm labor 'circlcS
today and left them CROPPING for
an explanation. &c.
The rnpr"dICrubir president al the
United Mime Workers. Wli6 dcficd
the NFl. in 1893. and WAS suspend
cd Tor organizing the rival Go. for
mdlly pctltIum"d III behalf oi the
miners Tor rCadmIssI"u. An AL
statement yesterday said The dpplicr-
tI"n wa, "wcIcuurd'' and WI. be
InG considered IN an orderly and
sympathetic way"
Lewis withheld comment ~ his
New York hotel today, but his
friends said ms action was - Id"nCc
Of hi desire for unified labor
movement. Critics doubted If that
told the whole story. Many nchrvC
Inc made the jump because ne had
no other pluC" To- SO, while sill
seeking the top spot III the Amer
lean labor movement.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Still More
Cuts in Gas
Are limited
Ickcs Says Bans May
Be Extended to Middle
West; Pipe Line Brok-
Ell by Flood

Washington. May 2O.-(NrD Sec
Rotary lCkCS said today further IC-
duC'i"u, III use 0f gasoline for drlV-
Ing viii have To be made "bCiurc The
prc."u, crisis Is over despite tCi'n-
POSITION OF the pleasure driving ban
III most of the cast al noon.
New restrictions may have To be
imposed on driving i'll the Middle
Wet. Is well al the east. because
We might temporarily have To bring
IN more supplies from the middle
west Go the CaSO, using the shorter
hdUl. the interior secretary told a
pre-. conference in his CapaCIty as
petroleum administrator.
lCkC# declined To- discuss the form
nt It" Indicated restrictions posi-
bly, further reduction in ration Cuu-
pom allowances aud perhaps extern
Slom "i the pleasure driving ban 81
The middle wcSt--bCCauSC. nc in
sisted, that is the province of In"
OiiIcc of Price Administration.
lCkCS reiterated what I've beer
saying Tor year and Il hall-thCrc
ought to bc no nun-cSScutial driving
and there IS lot of it," He added
mat II nun-CsSCntial driving hac
Continued on Page EighD
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Four American Planes
Lost in Dogfights
Over Sicily and Sar-
DINA; Assault Goes on

Allied Headquarters IN North
Africa, May 20-(AP)--Allied
fighting planes and bombcrs. in
mighty smashes at Axis ccnters,
destroyed 73 planes yesterday
in the greatest blow they have
inflicted since the collapse of the
German ground forces in North
Africa, it was announced today.
Twenty-Five planes were shot
down in fierce dogfights off ST.
city and Sardinia, in an area
where the German and Italian
air forces have concentrated
hundreds of aircraft in an at
tempt to stem the great and con-
tinuing Allied onslaught, and at
least IA others were DESTROYED
on the ground.
For the first time since the fall
of Tunisia, enemy aircraft rose
in large numbers TO challenge
Allied domination of the skies
over Sardinia and Sicily and
their squadrOns were ripped to
pieces in what official sources de-
scribed as several long and
grueling dogfights."
Fifty Axis fighters jumped United
States Flying FOrtrcsscS, which bomb
ed the airficld near Trapabiam. ST.
city, and more than 80 fighters at
tackled United States MaraudcrS and
War Hawks when the Americans
tNO II t,tS ii
and the harbor of Cagliari in south
crn Sardinia.
Four American planes were
lost in these operations.
Thirty-seven of the Axis
planes destroyed on The ground
were on the Milo field. AZ MiIas
air field in central Sardinia,
Mitchells scored direct hits on
at least six grounded planes
and at VillacidrO. where appr0xi-
mately fifty planes were parked.
hits were seen all over the di-
spersal area and several cXplO-
SiOns were observed in fuel
dumps.
(Thc dispatch did not bring out
where the forty-iourth grounded
plane, but presumably il was one OF
those at Villacibro, % miles north
west Of CaGliari.)
The biggest fight of the day oc-
Cured between the Sicilian coast and
the Egadi islands, when fifty enemy
fighters attacked FortrcSsCs which
had just bombed Milo field.
The fortress GunncrS shot down
ten and P-38 LightninGS which were
cscorting, damaged three more in
spectacular running battle which
continued twenty minutes. with the
opposing forces flying at heights
ranging from sea level 10 2i.OO0 feet.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Pacific War
Council Is
Being Held

-, washington, May 2O--(AP)-Un-
u',c,.'Scorlng Prime Minister Church
~ announcements 10 Congress that
nII,ain would fight Japan 10 the end
una help reduce her munitions cen
wrS and cities TO ashes. President
nn""Scvelt called "a meeting of the
aClilc war council today. and invit-
I" ~. S,nurchill 10 attend.
,o Inc council. whose members repre-.
IL al INC nations actively engaged
r ~ unc Pacific war operations. meets
IIu,nr'y at the White House.
Later in the day. the prime min
son was set 70 meet all the repre-
I'll ''uVcs IN Washington Of the Bri-
cb;o, "oininions. as well as his own
'n,C'S of staff
Kinan'me Minister w. l.. Mackenzie
v,,.GS ol Canada was among those in
wv" 10 the war council meeting.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20

When Lewis lost control of the
Go ana left it last year. he viz
tually burned his bridge. behind
him. He tried a third movement un-
der the banner of district fifty. a
catch-all unit of the UNIV. The re-
suits were less Than SpCctHCtllar.
AS the leader oi II single union
the United Mine WORKS. h.I Inilr-
rncc in politics has its limitations.
by rcJ0Inlne II federation of unions.
whose membership soon may accrc-
gate 7,OOO.D0n, h" could be .ccl:lu.
il potent alliance in political conn
ellis, perhaps starting with the 1911
presidential campaign.
What effect the miners rc-aiiIlia-
ton with the AFE would have up-
ON the Go is speculative. The re-
$pcCiivC membership claims make
the ClD numerically inferior n"w.
The miners, who have been indie
pendent since last October. would
add 5On.00O Ia The 6.225. 900 members
who now pay pcrcapIta ta% to tine
ALL.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
May Try To
Bomb Axis
Out of War

Washington. May 20--(NP)-Thc
possibility that Allied military lead
crS arc trying To Shattcr Axis Eu-
rope so completely by aerial bonn
bardmcnt alone that the lung-thrcSl-
cncd invasion may amount To- little
NOR" than an occupation of pr0Stral-
cd enemy countries. was read into
Prime Minister Churchill's speech to-
day by some competent observers
here.
A furry of speculation was stir
rcd by two remarks made by Church.
i'll who omitted any direct reference
Ia the long-diSCussCd invasion. He
said:
1. Ii was worth trying TO br;r.
about collapse in Germany ard
Italy by air power alone. and
2. The Allies must do everything
sensible and practicable" To- diver,
Axis strength from thu Russian from.
rOpinion X divided" Churchill
said. "aS tO whether the use of air
power could by itself bring about
a collapse in Germany or Italy. The
experiment is well worth trying. -
long as other mcanS arc not cxclud.
cd"
While informed persons agreed
that this seemed 10 bodc an even
greater scale Of bombinEs than any
thing yet seen. they were SkcpiicII
Of any deduction that invasion w
ground troops would be withheld o.
even delayed.
More likely, they suggested, thr
Allied high command knows that
the problems of invasion will IN
enormously simplificd by calculate [
destruction beforehand, and MAJ
hope that ground forces when ;h"y
do invade the continent, will find 4
demoraliZed foe.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Reds in Kubun Smash
Fierce Maxi Assault

Moscow. May 90 (AP) -
New German counter attacks In
the Kuban valley. fed by fresh
reserves of men and tanks, have
been smashed by Rcd army ar
tiIlcry and planes, the Russians
announced today. with heavy
losses inflicted on tho Nazis a.
they made their second unsuc-
ccSSful effort in two days 40
cross a river in tho Kuban delta.
There was constant air and land
action all along the Russian German
front from the karClian isihmu.,
north of Lcningrad. where the Firms
were reported Ia have manned their
forward lines with more heavy guns,
TO tho arc northeast of NovorosSiSK,
where the Germans still held their
positions in that Black Sea port.
The ficrccst fighting. the Russians
said authOritativelv, was i'm the
Kuban sector, on the Donets river
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Berlin Again
Feels Bombs
OF the Raj
All Planes Return
from Devastating
Raid; Germans Drive
from English Coast

London, May 20 - (AP) -
Far-ranging and speedy Mos
quito bombers of. the Royal Air
Force carried the continuing AL
lied offensive to Berlin itself
again last night, the British an
bounced today.
The RAF raid on Berlin con-
stituted the third attack on the
capital of the Reich within a
week, and came only few
hours after American flying
FortrcsScs had smashed into
Germany to blast submarine
and Ship-building yards at Kiel
and Flcnsburg.
Results of the British overnight
raid were not announced immediate
~. an air ministry communiquc say
ing merely that targets in Berlin
Continued on Page Threc)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-05-20
Increase Is
Sought For
Mere Planes
500 Billion Navy Bill
Waiting Final APP
proval; Army Budget
Tipped Six Billions

Washington. May 20-iAP)
president Roosevelt asked
Congress today to make avail
able nearly SD ,O0O, 100000 for
the Army in the fiscal year
starting July |, boosting his
january budget figures by more
than six billion dollars.
White TI"u." Secretary Stephen
Fairly cXp,aucd that the increase
is accounted lur by projected OK
ranSiOn ut tine ulrCraft program.
The Army expects to get. he
said, LIE 100000 pounds of
planes in the next year, exclu-
Sivc of the weight of engines and
motors. compared with 9lI,OOO.-
0G0 pounds in tho current fiscal
period.
The total. Early said. will cX-
coed the combined production of
all other nations.
a 500 .0rO. 0D0.O0O naval bill is
awaiting lloGs" passage today.
Tho President. in Il letter To Speak
or Rayburu. transmitted a request
for War Department appropriations
totaling $50 TO $40. 500. He asked
also that SI".i72.9l3.2OO of unobli-
gated balances ui current appropria-
tons for the Army be made available
again in TIM coming fiscal year. The
total of the two items is ST. .898. 49g..
700.