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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
ELECTRICIANS ANNOUNCE
NEW LIBERAIIZED PENSIONS

New York City (LNS(. - Nearly
POO veterans of labor all of them re-
tired members of the International
brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
Local 3, We're luncheon guests of the
Joint Pension Committee of the New
York electrical industry at the Hotel
AstOr here at which the committees
liberaliZed pension plan was made
public.
The committee is composed of mem
bers of Local ) and members of sew
eral electrical contractors associations
and administers a pension fund for
over-age and disable workers in the
electrical industry in New York City
In January, 1910, under the leader
ship of Harry Van Arsdale, Jr, the
local union, together with officers of
the contractors associations, initiated
plan whereby electrical workers on
reaching 60 were to receive a monthly
pension of $40. This pension was to
precede the pension granted by the
[. b. T.. w. which starts at IS. This
year, Local 3's pension plan was fur
ther liberalized, in that the monthly
pension was raised from $40 to $50 and
disabled workers were included as
eligible.
The luncheon was arranged for the
purpose of acquainting the old-timerS
of the increased benefits which are to
accrue to them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

AN INVESTIGATION Of deep interest to all
relatives and friends Of men in the Army and
Navy has been begun by the Senate War lnvesti-
eating Committee. The committee is studying
causes Of all Army and Navy plane accidents since
the start Of the defense program.
Last July, International Labor News Service
asked why 50 many soldiers were being killed in
airplanc crashes and declared it was high time
the people demanded an answer to the question.
1t was pointed out that Army heads said the
loss Of life was only normal or less than normal,
for army in training. "'Ihe nation has only
their word for it," lLNS said. "Why should there
not be a searching investigation to get at the
truth"
An investigation has been long overdue and
it is good news that it is under way. The Senate
committee is not out to get" anybody, it seeks
we can tell, based previous information sup
piled by the Army and Navy, the percentages of
accidents is relatively low but we want to see that
every step is taken to reduce them to a minimum
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
LABOR MEN ON l.. ). BOARD
INVESTIGATING CONDITIONS
In BOLIVIAN TIN MINES

Washington, d. G. (ILNS).-A joint
United States Bolivian Commission to
living conditions in Bolivian mining
areas is now at work in that country.
The commission includes representa-
tivcs of several important labor organ
ibations, among them Robert j. Watt,
for the American Federation of La
Dor; Martin kync, for the Congress
of Industrial Organizations, and David
b. Blelloch, of the Labor Conditions
Section of the International Labor
Office. The American group was invited
|by the Bolivian government to coop
crate with the Bolivian investigating
commission following recent strikes in
the tin mines. The United States dele
cation is headed by Calvert Marguder,
Federal Circuit Court Judge.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
RADIO ARTISTS NEGOTIATE
NEW PACT BOOSTING PAY
MINIMUMS 10 PER CENT

Chicago (ILNS) - A new agree
formers on network sustaining pro
grams has been negotiated by the
American Federation of Radio Artists,
AFL.
Network radio stations and the
larger Independent stations are also
affected. Approximately 1000 AFRA
members in Chicago, New York City,
Los Angeles, and San Francisco, in.
Guiding actors, singers, announcerS,
and sound effects men, both regularly
employed, and free lance, are involved.
Union members in Washington, ID. G.
have contracts with five out of six
stations.
Under the agreement, salary mini
NUNS will be raised 10 per cent Staff
performers paid more than the mini
mum will receive an increase based on
10 per cent of the minimum. Terms
of the contract provide that salary
negotiations may be reopcned if the
cost of living rises.
The contract will now be submitted
to the National War Labor Board. The
union is asking that the increases be
made retroactive TO last Dec. l.
The agreement retains the union
shop provided for in previous con-
tracts, and is for one year. Represent
ing the union in the contract negotia-
tions were Emily Holt, executive
secretary, and George Heller, assOci-
ate executive secretary and treasurer,
of AFRA; Henry Jaife, attorney for
the union, and Ray Jones, executive
secretary of the Chicago local
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
SCRAP PAYS FOR DEFENSE

Denver, Colo. - Larimer County,
Colo, and cities and towns in the
county financed all 1942 civilian de-
tense costs through sale of scrap and
other salvaged materials. Trucks
owned by the city, county and federal
governments collected Approximately
400 tons of scrap, loading and sorting
of which cost 81 ton. Approximately
S3,7To received from sale of the sal
Naged material at around $40 Il ton
paid for equipment for civilian defense
medical units and IA central control
room, and other costs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

LIVERY MEETING of workers that considers
IL the wage question hears repeated stories OF
restessness among the workers because OF the
restrictions against wage increases. The Little
Steel Formula was bitterly attacked by several
union leaders, AFL and CO. at the recent War
time Problems Conference of the American Labor
League An educational gathering of the United
Automobile Workers Union, CIO, was obliged to-
cause the local representatives demanded guidance
on the subject from the national leaders of the
union.
The Little Steel Formula provides for an ad-
Justment OF Is per cent to permit workers to meet
the rise in living costs between January l94l and
May 1912. With some special exceptions, it has
been applied by the War Labor Board to mean
that wages are frozen at that point The cost of
living has risen, by the most conservative esti-
mate, by another Z per cent since May of 1912
In industrial areas where the black market is
operating rampantly, the cost of living is GER
1912 freezing date Yet the War Labor Board
persists in applying Is per cent yardstick to
wages, while 80 per cent would be nearer the
facts of the situation. OPA Administrator Brown
also warns us to expect not less than another 8
per cent rise this year-a figure most observers
believe to be ridiculousy conservative.
Labor accepted the establishment of the War
Labor Board as necessary part of it's pledge to
avoid strikes and other conflicts that might inter-
fere with war production. Labor originally ac-
cepted the Boards Little Steel Yardstick for
wages because President Roosevelt demanded a
program that the people expected Congress to
fulfll-a program that included freezing of prices
What has happened is that the War Labor
Board has attempted to carry out in full it's share
of many y-sided program, while the other parts
of the same program were not applied. Two other
important parts of the program price ceilings and
fair taxation, have been sabotaged in Congress.
The War Labor Board has been a useful
agency. 1t is the only Federal agency in which
Labor receives it's full and deserved share of par
ticipation. 1t can play an increasingly important
part in eliminating strife and improving morale,
providing THAT a basic change is made in the
Boards approach. (We mean here a change of
attitude by the public and employer members, Of
course, since the Labor members have been de-
manding view for some time.)
The changes that labor insists upon prim-
arily these two: Q) that the Board give up
handling every separate case individually, and
deal with wage scales on an industry basis wher-
ever possible. This is the only way out of being
swamped by an expected 10000 to $4,000 cases
this year. (2) the May 1912 wage freeze must be
dropped, and wages related to the actual cost-of-
living g-situatlon.
Organized Labor wants to see the War Labor
Board continue in existence. But if it is to sur
vive, it must stop operation as in vacuum and
meet the actual problem of workers living and
morale. Otherwise the consequences may be dis
aStrOuS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
COOKING MADE VISIBLE

Louisville, Ky. - Republic cooking
ware, offered for coupons packed with
union-made Raleigh cigarettes, has
clear PyreX covers for all pieces so
the contents can be- seen while cook
ing. This de luxe enamel ware is triple
coated, white with red trim, and lis
Il joy to USE says the premium de
partment of the Brown and William
son Tobacco Corporation. 1t is offered
in two units, the first consisting of .
pieces and the second of 3.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
THE LITTLE MAN WHO ISN'T THERE

IF YOU READ anything these days you KNOW
what an uproar is being made about "ab-
senteesm.' It's word some Congressman,
coIumnists and other anti-labOr speakers are
pOpulariZing.
Seems some workers on defense projects are
not on the job every minute, and it is just about
to cause us to lose the war. The fact that labor
is OutprOducing all Axis countries, that defense
workers have stepped up production to a point
undreamed Of seems to be nothing in their
favor. They lose time, for various reasons -
illness, exhaustion, and i'm recently at
Camp Springs, Md. because a contractor laid
off every painter on the jGb-but they lose time
from the job, and that gives our ll-Wishers the
excuse to damn workers to the skies.
Labor officials and members of labor unions
are working with management to eliminate un
necessary absences from the job. Much has been
accomplished, and much more will be accom-
plished, because this war must be won, and it
will be won with guns, tanks, planes, and mun-
tons manufactured by American working men
and women.
But to get back to this absenteeism. Prob
ably more noise is made in Congress about it
than anywhere else in the country. A newspaper
reporter made survey the other day when
important legSlatOn---Or at least it seemed i'm
pOrtant because it involved a war appropriation
of several billion d0lIarS-waS before Congress.
All Senators were present except 81 and all
Representatives were in their places except 32S.
Now, we have little doubt that each one of
these abSenteeS can furnish a good reason why
he was not present, but we can't forget that the
Senate sergeant ut arms who was sent out i'm
the last session Of Congress to bring i'm some
absentees was fred off the job few weeks ago.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
WHITE UNDIES' OUT FOR ARMY

Philadelphia,-S Snowy white under
wear for the Army will no longer be
issued, after present stocks are eX-
hausted, it will be olive drab instead.
Major Gen. c. l.. COrbin, acting quar-
termaster general, explains: Nothing
makes a better target for enemy planes
than white wash line
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
I 4 ! &4444
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Dutch workers are getting at least
partial revenge for brutal conquest of
Holland by the Nazis. They are play
ing leading part in slowing down
and greatly hampering German war
production.
This is admitted in blunt editorial
in the Dutch Nazi labor" paper Ar
beid, which describes the Dutch work
ers in Germany "as the worst of all
nationalities there" and accuses work
ers as well as Dutch factory managers
and foremen as instrumental ''in de-
laying work and general production"
Workers, the papers says, are "de-
liberately misplacing tools and prec-
ious raw materials difficult to obtain"
Managers are also accused "Of pay
ing full wages to allegedly sick work
ers and thus encouraging abSenteeism
and dislocating production
Similar resistance and sabotage
exists in the Netherlands But since
conditions are SO general and the Ger
mans hardly in a position to proceed
against all workers and Jail them, the
Dutch Quislings are at loss what to
do. Radical Nazi elements, among
them the Dutch Nazi labor front under
Woundenberg, demand that "slack,
negligent and uncooperative workers"
be classified with Poles and Bolshe-
viks and treated accordingly.
X x X
Women are getting well deserved
praises for their services in Allied Ma
tons war production.
In observance of International
Woman's Day March s, Soviet news
papers, praising 1.-The heroic efforts
Soviet women are making in this war;
cited Maria UkOtOve, a factory worker,
who turned out enough cartridges for
an entire Red Army division.
The newspapers, according to a Mos
cow radio broadcast picked up by FEC
monitors, also described VOlga
steamer manned entirely by girls.
They are making a good job it it,
too"
"There are plenty of women man
aging factories and mills and num-
Der who have, since the war began,
proved themselves to be first rate or
ganizers, industrial executives and
technologists," declared Pravda, Rus
sian newspaper.
At the same time, the British Broad
casting Corporation, in a Dutch-lan-
guage program directed to Europe,
said Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her
message of greeting to the Soviet
women, had said: "The American
women are, like Russian women, tax
ing part in all kinds of war produc-
ton. They are determined not only to
help win the war, but to do it as
quickly as possible"
BBC said women of 10 nationalities
had met in London to commemorate
those women who have given their
lives in honor of freedom" Messages
from Mrs. Roosevelt and Madame
Chang Kai-Shek We're read.
X X X
Here's piece of wisdom from John
Marchbank, vice president of the In
ternational Transport Workers Fed
Grafton:
''Much, if not all of the world of
tomorrow depends on the cooperation
of organized labor and the influence
it will be able to exercise around the
peace conference table in the interest
of all peoples and all nations"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

Has anyone suggested that when the
Lady from Connecticut broke forth IN
the House about ''globaloney" she was
indulging in what may we'll be famous
as Luce thinking?
Perhaps a lady with that name has
not too much business indulging IN
wise cracks
There has been a lot of loose think
ing and loose talking in the House and
La Luce seems to add just one more
to the bunch that would rather coin
phrase than solidify the nation.
Loose talk, Luce TALKS it to be all
the same thing, a slice off the old
tripe, so to speak?
We shall see what we shall see
and hear what we shall hear-as time
passes.
That being done, let's get ON with
this absenteeism business.
Congress got itself into stew about
that Eddie Rickenbacker jumped
from raft into the fire on the same
issue
TO the fast stepping critics it seems
all so simple. The doggoned working
men and women just won't work!
That's all there is to it
But is it? No, by golly, it isn't.
There are ever so many causes for
absence from work. The war itself has
produced a number of the causes. Two
and three-shift operation also creates
absenteeism.
And if the men from the South Paci-
tic We're back home in the shops there
still would be absenteeism.
Bad housing, of which we have
plenty, makes for absenteeism. Over
work and bad food make for absentee
ism. Many other things contribute.
X X X
1t could be that Westbrook Pegler
and Eddie Rickenbacker make for alb
senteeism. Who knows how many men
got so mad at their talk that they are
MT fit for precision work? Could be.
A number of studies have been made
to find out what are the main causes
of abSenteeiSm.
These studies reveal the fact that
Eddie Rickenbacker, who is an eX-
pert pilot, is getting his feet wet in
the wrong puddle when he goes in for
the social sciences and for economies
The manner and persistence of Rick
enbacEer in going after the unions
justifjes to some degree the suspicion
that maybe here is a presidential as
pirant trying out his wings on the
reactionary fringe.
Stranger things have been.
If these things have any one point
stronger than another it is that the
unions need to get going, all together,
with one whale of a big and we'll
planned public relations program.
1t mustn't be just Il campaign of
seeking to explain away the dirty cor
ners of unionism. Better wash them
out than seek to cover them up.
But the larger good of unionism and
its solid, patriotic achievements need
talking about in the right way and in
the right places.
1t isn't any two by four job. The
war situation calls for an erroneous
job-big in conception, in plan and in
detail.
All of organized labor needs to join
in this telling of a tremendous story.
Big voices are on the other side Only
bigneSS will serve to down the libelS
and slanders and just plain stupidity.
Loose talk and Luce talk can be
| counteracted, but not by wishing -
CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
WI A T NJ EX T?

An electrOnic measuring device
that will distinguish between 2.OOO,-
600 cOlOrs for use i'm CamOuflage
Standardization is a new product of
General Electric. Another one is an
instrument that will tell an aviator
how much danger there is from
lightning in a nearby thunder cloud.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
WOMEN POLICE IN BRAZIL

Rio de Janeiro. - Because Il large
number of policemen throughout the
state of Para have joined Brazil S
armed forces, women are being re-
cruited for traffic and other police
services. Para is the most northern
state at the eastern bulge" of Brazil.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

In the past, labor has helped put safety laws
in the statute books of many states, but more can
be done in that field, by improving the quality of
existing laws, or by bringing about their adoption
and enforcement in regions where no such laws
now e.liSt.-I NJ Ornburn.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
w IS D o M

Ideas go booming through the
world louder than cannon. Thoughts
are mightier than armies.-W. NJ.
Paxton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18
CHERRY Tree

Where With Our Little Hatchef
We Tell the Truth about Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes FIippantiy ana
Sometimes Reck!essly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE ,,n
G. FRED SUTTEPLIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives E. L. W1iEATLEY VIM. YOUNG. EDWARD SEYF1ERT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-18

WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
curers-. M. WELLS
Operaiye JOHN MeGLLLyRAY. LOUIS PESIOCK. F. HAYNES
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-03-26
Vpliui marceuega uremena

Oh casu nase razprave S "Prosveto" ozirom ma
osvobodlne boje Slovenij in osta Jugoslaviji, je
Prosvetin urednik naglasa udi to obzalovana vedno
posedico partizanskh bojev prot osscu ker potem
osisce neusmjeno mascuje mad nedoznmi ljudmi V
svojem komentaru resolcio drustva Lunder Adame,
st. % sNPJ katero drustvo e proestralo prot tozadev
nemu psanju 'Prosvetinega" urednika, pa ugotav]ja
urednik tudi sledece: "Kolikor partizan aktivn
bojih osscen, vrse bro delo-kajti vsak udarec,
XII ga dobe nacifasisti cd kogar koli, je dober in
potreben udarec, it'd
Ali je "Prosvetin" mednik pozabil, da nj Sc dogo
emu, ko je zgraza mad temi "dobrmi in potrebnmi
udarci nacfasste ker rad eh udarcev pe nedolzne
zrtve? Torej ka maj 81 mslno njegovi logki in ME
govih argumentih? Zakaj e te udarce-zaradi nhovih
posledic- pred mesecem dni obsoja in zigosal
danes pa pravi da partizani kolikor suzo komu-
nisticni propaganda vrse zadajanjem ten dobrh in
potrebnih udarcev-dobro delo...
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-03-26
'Pravda'' naglasa
ZahtevO sveta pO
drugi 'front.'
Cas- ne caka, pravi Pravda,
kvotirajoc izjave strokov-
njakov in angleskih ter
ameriskih novin.

MOSKVA, "a. marca. - Rus
XII casopis "Pravda' objavlja
pod naslovom "Cas ne caka, y
dolg sumaricen pregled inozem-
skega casopisja ter navajo IL
iave nekaterih vodilnih angles
kin in ameriskih listov glede po-
trebe druge fronte.
"Nemci 81 obupno prizadeva-
jo," pravi 'Prayda" , "da bi Sc
izmotali liz kocljivega polozaja,
v katerega so zabredli. Angles
ko in amerisko casopisje pou-
darja, da Sc ne SINE dati Mem
Gem nobene prilike, da bi 81 O.
pomogli cd udarcev, XII jim jih
je zadala rdeca armada.
Naglasajoc, da so priceli
Nemci v Ukrajini svojo kon-
traofenzivo pomocjo svezih
divizij, XII so jih pripeljali ma
rusko fronto z evropskega "a
pada, pravi Pravda, da je to
dejstvo sredisce zanimanja sve-
tovnega casopisja.~
Casopis kvotira majorja G.
Fielding Eliota, ameriskega vo-
jaskega strokovnjaka, XII tudi
naglasa v New York Herald
Tribune in v drugem casopisju
potrebo druge fronte v Evropi
preden bodo vsi potencijalni po.
mocniki zaveznikov deportiranj
v Nemcijo, pri cemer poudarjs
Eliot nasilno mobilizacijo fran,
coskih delavcev.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-03-26
Ruske cete
prodirajo dalje
proti Smoljensku
v okolici Belgoroda in Har-
kova odbijajo Rusi vse
nemske napade.

Il Moskve porocajo danes, da
So ruske cete zavzele neko ma
daljno silno utrjeno postojanko
in vec krajev v svojem prodira-
nju proti Smoljensku, docim so
druge ruske armade onemogoci-
lie prizadevanja Nemcev, da bi
slednji vzhodno cd Harkova
prebili rusko obrambno crto.
Ena ruska kolona, XII prodira
proti Smoljensku, ja prodrla Y
blizino Duhovseine, kateri kra.
Sc nahaja % mill severnovzhod'
no cd Smoljenska, docim ope.
rira druga kolona blizini Do
rogobuza, XII lezi so mill who'd,
no cd te velike nemske baze.
v Belgorod-C -Cugujev okraju
in pod Harkovom so Sc vsi ma
cijski napadi izjalovili.
Dale proti jugu, v Kubansk
pokrajini, kjer Sc je blato toll
ko osusilo, da so operacije O.
mogocene, so priceli Rusi zope1
prodirati protf Kercu in Novo
rosisku.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-03-26
Priznanje cetrti
brigadi crnogor-
skin partizanov
Poveljnik Tito izraza pri-
znanje a. brigadi in ME.
nemu 2. bataljonu "a hra.
brost " boju.

MOSKVA, "a. oktobra - Ra-
dio Svobodna Jugoslavija poro-
ca, da je vrhovni poveljnik O.
svobodilne armade "Tito" oseb-
no odlikoval neko crnogorsko
partizansko brigade "a memo
izredno hrabrost v bojih z osi-
Seem.
"Dne 2. maja je cetrta crno-
gorska brigada v zadnjem tre-
nutku prestregla nemsko kolo-
no, XII 81 je prizadevala predre-
ii nase vrste pri Veliki Guvni
S cemer hi bill spravljeni v maj.
vecjo nevarnost nasi ranjenci
XII so Sc nahajali tam," je reee-
no v Titovem povelju.
"V celodnevnem srditem DO.
ju je drugi battalion te brigade
ne samo ustavil sovraznika
temvec ga popolnoma potolkel
in razprsil.
"Za to izredno hrabrost iz'
rekam cetrti brigadi, zlasti ME
nemu 2. bataljonu mojo prisrc
no in iskreno zahvalo.
"Prav tako izrekam svojt
priznanje in zahvalo poveljnikl
drugega bataljona cetrte briga
de Nikolaju Strugarju (po ime
nu sodec, je to Slovenec. Ured
nistvo), XII Sc je izkazal izredn'
hrabrega in gospodarja polo
zaja. Maj nam ii mozje sluzij'
v zgled v nasih bodocih trdil
bojih "a osvoboditev domovine
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-03-26
V petih dneh Sc
mora nabrati po
$SO,OOO ma dan
Do vceraj je bilo nabrano "a
Rdeci kriz 81, $50, ,762;
celotna kvota znasa ST.
100000.

v petih dneh kampanje RIDE
cega kriza, morajo nabiralci ma.
brati po $4,000 ma dan, a ko
Sc maj doseze do konca meseca
doloeeno vsoto, XII znasa 81, ,780-
900.
Vceraj je bio nabranega $51-
13O, h kateri vsoti so prispevali
usuzbenci in delavci Cleveland
Graphite Bronze Co., $685.
los.
Usluzbenci in delavci Fisher
Body tovarne so prispevali ST.
243.25; Steel and Tubes divizi-
ia Republic Steel korporacije je
prispevala $1,1OO.25.
Vsota, XII so jo prispevali u
sluzbenci Graphite Bronze Co.
je dvakrat vecja kakor je bila
prvotno dolocena.
Ceskoslovaski sivalni krozek
slovaske luteranske cerkve i
prispeval v sklad Rdecega kriza
$3.50.