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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Check In Five Key Cities
Reveals Brutal Facts
Of Wartime Living
509o RAISE IN z YEARS
Women Afraid To Report
Violations For Fear Store
keepers Refuse Trade

Newark, n. j. (FP).-The twin
sides sent food costs rOcketing up
AMM over the last two years for
workers i'm the New Jersey war in
Jdustry area. In 1913 alone food prices
rose 27R.
This startling picture of initiation
the New Jersey Industrial Union
Council in five key cities-Paterson,
Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton and
Camden. Housewives carefully listed
what they actually had to spend To
feed their families for Il week, re-
vealing some brutal facts of wartime
living.
Because food was so high--taking
far more than the traditional E of
the workers paycheck - housewives
had cut deeper and deeper into money
earmarEed for other necessities. Cloth
ing suffered especially One mother
said she could not have managed ut
all If the winter hadn't been mild
enough for the children to go to school
in worn out, OutgrOwn clothes.
All families skimped in varying de-
grees of foods considered essential in
balanced diet: fresh fruits, vege-
tables, meat. AS many rs 10R hit the
danger line, eating below the standard
set by depression subsistence diets.
This Is why:
During the war prices OF fresh fruits
and vegetables rose S3N In New
Jersey markets Apples were 1O9M
higher than in January 1942. Onions
increased 1869. potatoes S3%, cab
bage 45%--definitely black market
I,rices. Macaroni and rice were up
$3.50, fish% 40, dried fruits and
vegetables 77%s. Per pound costs of
meat We're down II 9s since last year,
but the women said they had to buy
a third more to make up for the fat
and bone in the cuts sold now.
Because of lack of time and trans
pOrtatiOn, most of the women were
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Lively Meeting Is
Held By L. u. IL
Diqmun. Green And Ldn-
ming Will Attend Next
Meeting Of LII So

Heated discussion followed a report
made at our meeting Tuesday evening
when it was reported that district
plant representative had informed its
employees that they were in violation
of the wage and hour law when they
paid over the scale price for any
article.
To our way of thinking this is in
direct violation of the agreement be-
tween the n Il. of O. T. and the
U.S.P.A. Various technicalitieS arise
from time to time as TO the correct
Interpretation of any clause in the
agreement. and when the firm and its
employees cannot agree then it is re-
ferred to the Standing Committee.
A dispute between the iiggermen and
the tiniSherS at T. s. K II. was thor
oughly discussed and committee ap-
pointed to attend the next meeting of
Local Union 53 and try to reach an
agreement. Guy Digman, George Ian
ming and Clarence Green were named
on the committee.
With election time drawing near,
once again we urge all labor to regis
ter and turn out at the polls on elec-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06

'Inadr Tor modification of the formula,
il will refer the matter back I" the
NWLR with the recommendation that
the Board 20 into the matter further
and hear the arguments of Govern
ment and business SpokeSmen. Then. if
the full Board decides labor has
proved its case, il can recommend ac-
tion 10 the President.
Despite this cumbersome and pro-
lOnged procedure, leaders of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor welcomed The
opportunity to challenge the Little
Steel formula aS the first ray of hope
of obtaining realistic wage adjust
mentS for American workers 10 make
UP for increased living costs.
Decision of the NWLR To authorize
public hea ring on the AFL petition
for modification of the Little Steel"
formula came only after long fight
against Go obstruction.
The CIO. hoping To gain exclusive
credit for breaking the formula, lit
sisted that the fate of the formula
should rest entirely upon the outcome
Industry.
This narrow policy would have pre-
vented Labor generally, and the AFI4
In particular, from submitting evidence
of wage injustices in other industries
and would have dangerously weakened
labor'S fight against the formula.
Notwithstanding these obvious facts,
CIO President Murray put on a char
acteriStic "cry-baby" act and com
planned that the AFL members of the
NWLB were trying 10 prevent the
Steel panel from considering modifica-
tiOn of the formula.
Watt Explains
Robert J. Watt. AF'L board men,
Der, promptly retorted that Federation
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06

Washington, d. c. The War De
partment rejected organized labor's
request that it take the responsibility
of keeping American troops accurately
and fully informed of labOr's record in
war production ON the home front.
Announcement Of this decision was
cOuched in such misleading and OBJ
jectionable language that the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the CIO
promptly issued joint protest. Their
declaration follows
"The statement issued by the War
1 Department regarding organized Ia
, ,bOr's requests that servicemen be sup
:. piled with more and straighter news
about labor's record on the home front
is full of evasions and half-truths.
"The American Federation of Labor
and the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizatiOns strongly resent the impli-
cation in the War Department state
ment that labor asked the Army to
police all American publications or to
withhold from soldiers publications
which they want to read
mo such request was made, direct
ly or indirectly On the contrary we
asked only that servicemen be kept
more fully and accurately Informed
than at present. Organized labor be-
lieves the full story should be told to
the troops. We are convinced that they
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
w. II. Hebenstreit
Will Assist Study Of
Mdnpower Problem
President Of Royal Chino
Named On Specidl Com
nnittee For Canton Area

w. II. HebenSteit, president of the
Royal China Company ut Sebring. will
serve as Il member of a special SiX-
man committee of labor and manage
ment named to study the War Man
power Commission program in the
Canton area.
fected at a meeting Wednesday after
noon at Canton when labor delegates
OF the Area War Manpower Commits
sion agreed to resume their participa-
tion in the manpower stabilization pro-
gram here.
In joint announcement, ]. w. Rein
hardt, area WMC director, and the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Local Union No. l24
Will Hold Fish FRY
After Next Meeting
Committee Promises Pro.
grun Of Entertainment To
Add To Evenings Fun
INSTRUCT COMMITTEES
Delegates To Convention
Will Be Elected At Meet
ing On April l8

1t is coming the time of year when
our thoughts are turning to vacations
and we begin to make our plans in
hope that the War Labor Board will
grant us Il twO-weel paid vacation as
they have done i'm other industries.
While our case has been before the
WLB for some time, many of us are
beginning to lose patieisef and do moi
take into consideration that there are
many other grievances involved. be-
sides the vacation plan, that also must
be taken into consideration. Our Ma
tional Officials are doing all they can
in our behalf and | am sure when the
WLB finally rules in our case, we will
be amply rewarded for the delay.
Don't forget the "Fish Fry" follow
ing our next regular meeting. The com
mittee has prepared for Il large crowd
and has promised several novelty fea-
lures in addition to the feed, that will
assure everyone a fine evening of en-
tertainment.
President Armstrong instructed all
SHop tlatt III tHS litulV
when an apprentice is put on, it is the
duty of the shop committee of said
trade to report it to the local. This
must be done the first meeting after
they start.
Election of delegates for the coming
convention will be held at our meeting
on Tuesday, April IS. We mention this
fact now in order that everyone can
make plans to attend and help in
selecting those you think best qualified
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Sebring May Lead
Nation In Drive
Per Capita Average In
Paralysis Campaign May
Produce New Record

Sebring. Ohio. - Already nationally
known as Il pottery center, SebrinS
may soon gain nationwide recognition
from quite different angle, that of
being the heaviest per capita contrib,l-
tor To the Infantile Paralysis Cam
paign in the country.
J. NJ. BadertScher, chairman of the
polio drive in Sebring, has just re.
ceived a letter from John f. Cantwell
of Youngstown. Mahoning County
chairman. pointing out the possibility
Of Sebrng setting Il national record.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Spdulding China
Pinrnen Celebrate
Champions Of Sebring Lea
que Honored At Dinner
Lost Wednesday Evening

Sebring, Ohio. Members of the
Spaudling China Company bowling
team, which won the Sebring League
day evening, with chicken supper at
McGraw's Lunch.
Personnel of the team included
Frank Cristy, Francis Allen, Seth
Sharpnack, Wally McGraw and Joe
Taylor
George Stanford, manager of the
Spaulding China Company, and an en-
thusiastic hacker of the team, also
attended the supper get-tOgether.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
Union Survey Shows Workers
In New Jersey Are Forced To
Skimp On F Food And Clothing
Court Rules Strikers
Entitled To Benefits

Chicago (FP). - Striking union em-
plOyees are entitled to unemployment
compensation for time lost during the
dispute, Judge Michael Feinberg of the
state circuit court ruled here.
This is the first time Il decision has
been handed down on this issue in
illinois, FeinberS directed the payment
of $43.2OO in back wages to 12O mem
bers of International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union (AFL) for time lost
when they were on strike against
TObinPicken & Co, apron manufac-
turerS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
NEW COMMUNITY CIVIC CENTER

Michigan. - The city of ManiStee,
has acquired an abandoned theater
building which is being converted into
a community civic center. The building
includes an auditorium with seating
capacity of 1000, Il recreation ROOM
several parlOrS, Il soda bar and an
armory for state troops, the Ameri-
can Municipal Association reports.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
NIB. OfO.P RepresentedAt
Hearing In Washington On
Little Steel Wage Formula
President Duffy Among Labor Representatives Who Will
Present Evidence Showing Workers Suffering
Injustice With Wage Freezing Formula

President James NJ Duffy left Headquarters early this week
for Washington where he will the public hearings before
War Labor Board panel labor demands that the Little
STEEP formula be realistically modified
The Brotherhood chean aided by other labor representa-
tves will evidence showing that American workers
suffering needless because operation
this wage-freezing formula.
If the three-man panel composed of a labor industry and
public decides that face
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-06
LEAVES FOR EMPLOYEES

Portland. Ore-City employees who
want to 90 To college will be granted
leaves of absence if they have worked
for the city substantial period of
time. Though this may cause tenn
porary descriptions in city services, the
council believes in the long run such
leaves will provide the city with better
trained emploVppS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

of crude oil measure of energy ana power undreamed of few years ago. And the story of coal, another basic natural resource, is equally astonishing. Today one pound of coal will make enough cleo tricity to light one fifty-watt electric bulb for twenty hours; or enough steam to haul 1000 pounds of freight 1.2 miles; or enough warmth to heat family home for p minutes during the winter; or enough coke to produce steel for 4.8 fifty-calibre machine gun bullets Does this sound like waste?
 The truth is that the competitive enter prise system as it has evolved in this country under our representative form of government, is the thriftieSt user of nat ural resources the world has ever seen = and the greatest. This thrift is not the result of any particular altruiSm on the part of industry. It is the direct result of competition It is the result of the de- mands of millions of independent con- sumers with the power to make or break any industry by mere withdrawal Of patronage In other words, if the coal industry had failed to keep up with the developments of it's competitors in the fuel business, it would have soon found itself without customers. It must make coal more efficient if it is to live. The above figures show that it has succeeded -niraculously.
 Yes, competition is the great conserver and private industry operating in free competitive system will of sheer necessity never waste the natural wealth of America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
We Must Not Fail

Someday the war is going to end. Some day millions of American men will come home from across the seas, and again the danger will be faced that the people of a war weary United States will wash their hands of international problems. If they Succumb to that danger, they will prob ably never have another grace period in which to muddle through prepared ness program" such as they have had in the last two wars.
 Now, before the war IS over, before the danger of weary reaction sets in, is the time to help create an effective peace organization and to help lay the ground work for dissolving archaic trade barriers.
 The late Wendell Willkie spoke from the heart when he said: ''I was soldier in the last war, and after that war was over l saw our bright dreams disappear, our stirring slogans become the jests of the cynical, and all because the fighting peo- pies did not arrive at any common post war purposes while they fought. It must be our resolve to see that this does not happen again
 'While they fight, the people of the world must come to common under standing of what they fight for and what they hope for. Millions have already died in this war and many thousands more will go before it is over. Unless BritonS and Canadians, and Russians and Chinese and Americans and all our fighting Allies, in the common cooperation of war, find the inStrumentalitie and the methods of CO., operative effort after the war, we, the people, have failed our time and our gen. eration."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
The Big Question

Eric Johnston, President of the Cham Der of Commerce of the United States, says: "When the war ends we shall have to go into reverse. We shall have to shift from war economy to peace economy. We must learn to sell again as well as to produce. Private initiative will have to take the place of government direction and planning"
 Millions of retail distributors will agree with MT. Johnston heartily. They will have to do the selling of the products that our factories will be prepared to pour out in flood. They will play major role in striking the final balance between costs and prices that will start the wheels of peacetime industry turning and will keep them turning.
 This country has the most efficient dis tribution system ever devised. There is little question but that it can do an Al sales job, providing retailers are allowed to go ahead in their customary manner. They are used to running their own bus inesses in competitive market. Tradi- tionally, merchandising is game in which the merchant serving his custom CTS best enjoys the greatest success.
 The big question now is, Are we going to allow the distribution industry to get back to normal methods of operation as quickly as possible when the war ends, or are we, under one pretense or another, going to continue wartime controls to the point where distributors are hampered in carrying out the most important sales job in history?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
Selected Poem
SILVER MORNING

(Cosette Middleton in The Christian Science
 Monitor) The seet came down with its srystal thunder, Where the wind had trampled the dark leaves
 under,
 And the moonless hours wheeled in the riot Of singing storm-then the dawn lay quiet Tn sudden trance like shining token; The frozen grasses were brittle mad broken, Naples were sheathed to their desperate roots And their boughs were weighted with silver fruits; Stumps were petaled with lichens Of ice: A world grown strange to squirrels and mice. The fingerprints of the frost were placed On rail and on post and on tail poles laced With beaded loops and shaggy fringes, And gates swung to on complaining hinges The sudden peak of boys clear whistle Scattered the rabbits like smoky thistle Into the grove and thicket and hollow Where lacy tumbleweed remnants would follow, And the sun found prisms and rainbows strewn Where day crawled forth from its bright cocoon, And time unraveled its silvery skein Spun by the magic of wintry rain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

next chairman, replacing Herbert Brownell. Upon this choice de- pends how the Republican party will be steered during the next three years. They will also consider a million-dollar pubi1<- ity budget. Two President Jack Frye explains that he gave Col. Elliott Roosevelt only one plane, not three for his wedding party. The other two were rented by the press associations to cover the wedding story. Frye says he has known Elliott a long time, admired what he did il1 the war, and so turned over a 4-englne Lockheed 12, about eight years old, which he used for obServa- tion purposes and for trying out various gadgets. The plane, he says, was not pulled out of serv- ice. One of the first jobs new Assistant Secretary Archibald MacLeish will do for the state department is to make a movie. Violating all the traditions of the Staid and dignified old depart ment, Poet MacLeish will himself write the script, plan the action and speak the commentary for a one-reel film explaining the prob lens of foreign policy. Secretary Stettinius will be the featured player. OWI will make the picture for showing in this country. .. Next month flannel-mouthed Con- gressman Clare Hoffman of Mich igan will have the larger office he has long -craved-by grace of the voters of New York's 26th district. Hoffman takes over Ham Fishs office. a spacious corner suite in the new House office building. ... Fish's recent blast against Tom Dewey was not mere spite. Fish plans to run for governor of New York himself, is giving wide circu- lation to reprints of his speech against Dewey. Fish lost the seniority of A years continuous service when he was licked last month, can't abide the thought of starting all over again as a fresh- man congressman.
 Copyright. 1944, by the Bell
 Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
BosToN's BOOK BAN

The City of Boston appears to be in the throes Of another book ban ming orgy, in which agents of the Watch and Ward Society act as sleuths with even more than their usual cunning. These sly fellows enter e book shop accompanied by police detective, the latter trying desperately to look literary for the ncnce. Then, with forces properly deployed, the Watch and Ward man steps up to the counter, addresses the innocent clerk (who looks not at all like a criminaO and calls for the forbidden volume. Like as not the clerk has never read the book, bu tthat doesn't make any difference to the protector of public morals. and with an understandable cry of triumph the limb of the law springs forward to make the arrest.
 Silly, isn't 1t? If such childish shenanigans contributed to the mor- al well-bei ngof Bo on, they might be justified. But what these illogi- cal zealots overlook is the fact that mature individuals who wish to pur- chase serious books are not affected one way or another by ths use of words or the description of situa- tions with which they are already familiar. If the Watch and Ward Society would spend even a frac- tion of its time money and energy in watching for and warding of the real contributing factors to delin- quency and immortality, they would be serving their community in a much more constructive way.
 As 1t is now these busybodies are merely cinder in the eyes of de- cent, intelligent, literate persons who wish to select their own reading ma terial. Incidentally, by the wide pulp licity given books that are banned in Boston, these Watch and Ward CTS actually increase the number of person who will read 8 banned book, thus accomplishing the oppo- site of what they set out to do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS SiIvery Scala Disease

Young man in our office sent for your pamphlet, began taking A and D as you suggested and obtained fine results-his skin is now almost entirely normal He had never ex- perienced any material improve. ment from medical treatment. Now
 there is another case of psoriasis in young woman who has just started to work here. Won't you please send the pamphlet to her, tool inclose stamped envelops directed to her. (E. o. Jo
 Answer-I am glad to send the pamphlet on psoriasis to any reader who provides stamped pre-address- ed envelope and mentions it-''The Silvery Scale Disease" Do not send clipping in lieu of your own re- quest. Frankly I don't know wheth- CT vitamin A alone, vitamin D alone. or both combined, would be most effective against psoriasis. I wish some of our readers who have the trouble try 1t out. by taking only A. as directed in the pamphlet, for several months: then, if not much improved, taking only D for several months! finally, if not much better. taking both together for sev- eral months.
 Running Ear
 Can infection from chronic run ming ear be the cause of arthritis. The running ear dates back 3S years. to an attack Of acute in fiammation and punctured drum an ear specialist said later that 1t was nlastoiditis. (Mrs. L. T0
 Answer-Yes. Send stamped en- velope bearing your address, for pamphlet or Chronic Running Ear.
 Control Crossed
 Is it true that the left side of brain controls right side of body and vice versa? And that the arr tery to the left side of the brain being larger than the artery to the right side accounts for a person being right-handed? Would X-ray examination determine an infants predisposition to right or left hand- edness? (Mrs. K. A. H0
 Answer-Brain centres for control of hands. arms, feet, legs, are on opposite side. but relative size of arteries does not determine hand edness. x-ray examination could give no information. Approximately { out of each 100 persons is na- turally left-handed, and there is nothing We can or, I think, should try to do about it.
 Copyright 1914. John F. Dille, Co.,