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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
ANTI-UNION WORK BILL PUT
ON CALIFORNIA BALLOT

Sacramento, Calf (FP).-California
labor-AFL, CIO and railroad brother
hoods-girded for battle as the anti
union right-to-work bill sponsored by
the notorious Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association squeezed onto the
November ballot with the bare mini
mum of signatures required.
The bill, which would outlaw the
closed shop and other vital clauses in
union contracts, qualified with 1S0,449
signatures, just over the 17S,764 mar
gin needed Reactionary employers
connected with the NINA spent hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to get
the bill on the ballot over the opposi-
ton of not only organized labor but
of the California Chamber of Com
merce, Veterans of Foreign Wars and
other groups in the state. Labor
spokesmen say all unions will fight to
the last ditch to keep the measure
from passing in the election.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
WLB ORDERS DON'T HOLD IN
ALABAMA, STATE ANNOUNCES

Montgomery, Ala. (FP).-War La,
Dor Board orders don't apply in Ala
bama unless Alabama wants them to-
the state department of labor an
nounced.
State Labor Director w. Emmett
Brooks informed the WLB Alabama
will not permit the Ingalls, Iron Works
of Birmingham to fire men for failure
to maintain union membership, as the
company was ordered to do by the
federal agency.
Alabama's infamous Bradford labor
control act, promoted by the Christian
American Association, forbids such
firings he said, and the Presidents
wartime powers, exercised through
WLB, can't supersede the state law.
In defiance of the Bradford law 400
locals affiliated with the Alabama
Federation of Labor refused to file
union financial statements last winter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
MEETING TALKS UNION BUSTING
INSTEAD OF POSTWAR JOBS

Wichita, Kans. (FP). - A meeting
called by the National Association of
Manufacturers to consider means of
solving postwar unemployment prob
lens" couldn't keep its mind on its
agenda here, and after IA few passes
at the subject degenerated into IL dis
cussion of the urgent need for Il law
to check labor unions.
NAM speakers led Il 112 hour discus
sion of how good unions are but how
unfortunate it is that they breed
racketeers." Agreeing that something
should be done about these unions, the
assemblage Of six ministers, five law
yers, two physicians and 36 business
men, most of the latter from the east,
adjourned for two weeks. The job
question could wait.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
CuRRING HIT.RuN DRIVERS

TT DOESN'T pay to leave The scene Of a traffic
accident in Cleveland. Chief reason-the police
department has an efficient hit-and-run accident
squad which, in 1913, apprehended 65 per cent of
the drivers who lied the scenes of accidents OF
the 1856 hit-and-run accidents that occurred in
1913, 2ll were solved this was a marked im-
over the 1912 record, which showed
only 93 solutions Of 413 accidents. 1t was because
Of the 1912 record that the 'hit-slip" unit as it
is calied-was formed to bring ht-and-run drivers
TO Justice.
II every city in the country followed Cleve-
and's example, there would be fewer hit-and-run
accidents and safety on our streets and highways
would be promoted
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Introduction of forced child labor is
the latest Japanese scheme to exploit
the people of the conquered Dutch
Indies.
The smOOthness with which, accord
ing to Japanese broadcasts, the
peoples sacrificial service system" is
functiOning on Java, bears witness to
the iron-fsted tyranny practiced on
80 million defenseless Indonesians by
ruthless invader. The ''sacrificial
service system" is the japanese desig-
nation for the newly established Labor
Association ("Djawa HOko Kai') in
which all male and female inhabitants
the war effort.
With separate branch offices for
states, provinces, villages and wards
distributed all through the island, Jap
anese bayonets had but little trouble
to regiment the entire population for
it's war aims
The success of this organization has
led the invaders to extend the "Sacri-
fetal service system" to Indonesian
children over 10 years of age. Accord
ing to an enemy broadcast from
Batavia, the military authorities have
drawn up plans for a Student Mobil
ization of several millions of students
throughout Java and to enlist their
active participation in various indus
tries, construction works, and so
FORTH"
This mobilization" the broadcast con
tinued will include all pupils above
the fourth year of the elementary
schools, and also those in secondary
schools, universities and technical
schools. Under the supervision of the
governors of the various prefectures
the plan will be carried out sys-
lily.
"The program calls for the chill
dren's services for land improvement,
increased food production, cleaning OF
blacksmithing, making of
wooden boxes, care of military cloth
ing, construction of defense works,
etc. The pupils thus mo-
bilized will number well over mil
lion"
A revealing light on the difference
between the attitude taken by French
employers and organized workers to-
ward Nazi rulers is given by the
American Federati0nist in Labor
The French Committee of National
the Federationists says, |
has authorized the French trade |
lni0n movement to conduct purgeS in |
he Vichy-dominated unions without |
state interference. This power has been |
given to the labor movement, it is eX-
planned, because trade unionists have |
been playing leading roles in the re-
sistance movement.
For the employer organizations,
however, the Committee of National |
liberation has appointed Purge Com
missioner the reason for this differ |
as supplied by Adrien
TiXier, the committees Labor Minis |
er: No employers organizations have
AIKEN part in the resistance movement,
md the majority of employers in large
betrayed the nation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
BIEMILLER LEAVES WPB POST

Washington, ID. &. (ILNS).
j. Biemiler, special assistant to Joseph
ID. Keenan,, War Production Board vice
chairman for Labor Production, has
resigned to run for Congress from the
9Th District, Wisconsin, on the Demo
cratic ticket.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
TO RAISE POSTWAR FUND

Los Angeles. - Southern California
AFL unions were called upon by the
Joint Council of Transfers to raise
a million dollar postwar peace and
prosperity fund to assure full employ
ment and high national income.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
LITTLE LUTHER

terrible the
MI. DilvottL who Il soft spots n his
IA o
o 81 o
There again Mr. Dworth
al
wouldn't
don't muzze Republicans their Lately
there's epidemic
themselves 1t painful
Whatever
=" said Little Luther things like Mrs
ended by biting who
Mrs lovely
narrowing circumstances Mr. Diwoth asserted galany.
thn continued Governor Dewey who
hand couple days later when FDIi announced he'd run
finally Little Luther
and
anN's bunch of old meanes the law i
action assessment to the Little Scorpions Club Can put the bite
n buckf'
"They
Rectnr
getting their kind
They buy they get second mortgage
GAMBLER LEAVES $4,000 TAXI-headine
Must have thought it hat check stand
Labor will don't watch
ODE A
(Which might written the
They shoot allies n droves
oh they
o at e side
boomin'
Slivs and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
CITY-CO. RECREATION PARK

Atlanta, Ga. (ILNS).-Marietta and
Cobb county, Ga, will construct a 40
acre recreation park costing $250000.
A one story auditorium gymnasium
will cost 100000 of this amount.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20

President NJ Duffy p O. Box East Liverpool Ohio
National
Building, s
PredentFank Hull Pacific Blvd, Huntington
Park,
Vice PdentJanes Saven, Mills East Liverpool
Ohio
ew
Nowbon Avenue
Jersey.
Turner. Fourth East Liver
Ohio.
Presdent-Chas Jordan 176 East Virginia Avenue
Sebring Ohio
Eighth Chadwick Street. Newell West
McGlvray, East Liver
poole
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
by JOHN PAINE, Federated Press

Little Luther's pa is sad;
He thinks Roosevelts very bad.
"All he does is win the war,
Refuses to let prices soar,
keeps the bad boys in their place,
ENDS the strife 'tWiXt race and race
9TH never vote for such Il guy;
'IIe took the pie right from the sky"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
CHERRY TREE

Where With Our Little Hatchet
We Tell the Truth About
Many Things, Sometimes Pro-
fOundly, Sometimes Flippantly
and Sometimes RecklessIy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20
FACING THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL

addressed
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candidate, you
of n o ssn ee m @ wt "y Ssys 't
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Confidence in % the @ future s OF % our % democracy o''fS
These things take from regardless the
ed Ssan you during political cmpasn @ a's "F Will doubtless De
now SPIRIT they
AND FRANK POLICY
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3 @ se Of % r Allies SG S s' %sE ~o % % y yvs "Fs % net 3 s F @ n %
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service W the Eos nan WI" needs M sa Ths G too
WHERE TO GET OFF
people you have put Into office direct mobilization and economic
dgard for they
we also % .1s psd r"n m that r its "ne" boz time ala %
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a and natio labor
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FI possible Kick These
the New
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-07-20

GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
M j.. A.
Operatives. LOUIS PIESLOCk, f. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
1tiS E + WIIFaIy JoN = B4TD4fJF T VIM OWES
CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
X. KOOS B. M. WALKER, w. A. BEIZ
CLARK, II. r. HAISLOP. CHARLES
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE - = =
DIETZ MARGARET PARKER, RAY
BROOKES, w. A. BETZ
Operatives. JAMES SLAVEN, HUGO MILLER ROLAND HORTON
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
Thanksgiving l944---Bedchheud To A
New World

w rockets devastating Washington Bomb Broadway Detroit
Pittsburgh Los Angeles Seattle ard other industrial wrecked
starvation ootng and disease stalking the land Hate and
the heart of the nation like a
These
of the the worlds today still
life will be thanking God their families
Thanksgiving 1914 probably
reality of what they fighting for
Sound home M living fair play and faith Gods protection
which the fathers first Thanksgiving
these qualities essential to the life of democracy that being
without like SHE'LL and
thoughtful
ruthless battling
control they wonder find dynamic deoogy that
will the world the the ideas Of and
Moral restores standards and creates the qualities that
strengthen democracy and make it function.
AMERICAS DEOLOGY
national labor leader this You can't
vest pocket like package chewing The must
here first hearts, industries and institutions before other
The world will
live it, believe demonstrate American democracy with
their
controlled world will
Thanksgiving Graded ideology neither
the Right Left straight ahead where moral standards and
teamwork replace selfish materasm and dictatorship the basis for home
and international relations
the with the
the life
democracy the marching fighting conquerng theological world force
You begin today home union plant office and farm The
live will be the deciding factor Then Thanksgiving 1914 will be
he beachhead to the world.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
Scrap The Little Steel Formula!
The following article is taken statement
hishkin the Town Hall Meeting radio forum:
By BORIS SHISHKIN

!
;, By sHISHKIN
:, Economist For The lean Federation of Labor
e books of w @ we e @ Steel formula should be se
First because the Little Steel formula
should rae the msasue
suffered from what p may be be eai
hey PRODUCTION iess Of @ s p d hav
Right I crucial mportane to increase war production d
s s % sa s in ws i sens s G s 5sss s s5
They there manpower shortage
foundry far low mnpower problem wage
shops As h Gen bs9 ey has % said St s yS 5 u
workers. pay Ssses' does not
to b the heat the & CRIME b and md the strain he has put his job
tSss ] ] r f, 5
is that policy? what the Little
Second the sad formula should pped
based January ls proper Of
@ Vas os @ war % nput Tags d Se
by management
what the this SAID January
aSs Ss se@
'1ss 2S f sHsee s s
@ The % Vise e % agy 0f q6 a1 %
the s "Ss Sa Hs s esase ss e
today % ] t M LIT % w9S s g am a5a so 20 because an even n
Ss ssss bsttsr % d # his t % ssoSs %
s Pfs sar % p low ss1 d a % Sas T6a @
% o S % adjustment d5ns an hGa is s % eu " b is ps s
intent @ Of the & formula ~ is the
anything they hit p' WORKER
% 1s s
ers whose
replaced crpplng
pymnt transition AS overtime
5 %f anS ssFse h d oa 5S% shS @ &
support high employment high standard Of living
the sake Of full employment after the the Little Steel
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
SWEDISH UNION HONORS
MOVEMENTS PIONEERS

Stockholm QLNS). - The Swedish
Cooperative Union recently unveiled
granite monument near Stockholm
in honor of the cooperative move
ment and it's pioneers in the A Nordic
countries. The unveiling took place
in the presence of delegations from
the cooperative societies of Sweden,
Norway, Denmark and Finland.
At the ceremony it was emphasized
that the Swedish Cooperative Union
is ready to participate in the gigan-
tic task of international reconstruc-
tion, which will have to be taken up
after the war, and further to extend
and strengthen the collaboration Of
the cooperative organizations in the
Nordic countries. A feature of the
program was the arrival of the So
called Rochdale relay couriers, named
after the town in England where the
cooperative movement had its birth.
Carrying banners and starting at
Malmo, in southern Sweden, as well
as at Laisvall, in northernmost Lap
land, the $50 participants in bicycle
relay race covered total distance of
almost 5,100 miles and passed through
800 communities.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
MANPOWER SHORTAGE AGAIN

SLOWING of vital war production due to lack OF
- manpower keeps cropping up, in one field OF
another Latest is in the mems garment industry,
where manpower shortage is delaying delivery OF
5 100000 of the new Army field jackets, used in
combat
Deliveries are reported to be about so per cent
behind schedule. Spokesman of the industry say
the armed forces have taken about 25 per cent OF
the needle workers. Other workers have gone into
the higher pay women's garment trades. Another
retarding factor is that the jacket is new model
and technical difficulties have retarded produc-
ton.
Shortage of labor, however is the biggest fac
tor in holding up delivery of Jackets pointing
back to the American Federation of Labor warn
ing of March, 1913, against taking too many skill
ed workers to build excessively large Army and
Navy forces. The soundness of the warning has
been proved in number of industries, "again and
again and again. to quote President Roosevelt in
his recent political speeches.
Further proof of the soundness of the warm
ing will undoubtedly be given in future months. In
view of this why is it not time for reconsidera-
lion of the numerical relation between the armed
forces and the home front production army?
Brass hat opposition will of course develop to
this but the people, who do the fighting, the pro-
lucing and the paying in war, should have big
say in the matter
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE

In
War Chests drawing Once
aunchy
civilian Allies abroad needed wei
Federation of Labor amply borne their share of responsibility
But the campaign the month devoted to the concentrated effort
whole abors contribution
work abos role in the National War Funds activities
the
Human Rights and other accredited on all War Fund levels
local Chest committees In what is after all the real work
where is most desperately needed
labors tion i motor accepted-i is sought
isolation
Much disappeared the three three
activities all kinds
of
purchaeshav
behalf
relief welfare drives.
the American Federation of Labor
in
forged bonds merely maintained
al WELL
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
SOCIAL SECURITY VS.. BUREAUCRACY

! THE Wagner Murray Dinge BILL broadenin
social security to provide not only old-ag
pensions and unemployment benefits but ais
disqualification and medical attention, is arousin
some right powerful opposition.
i Though supported by the American Fedora
tion OF Labor, with the conviction that such lay
/ will be of immeaSurable benefit to wage Garner
and to the nation, the first gun was fired agains
lit by physicians, in the belief that it would de
lprve members of the medical profession of som
Of their prerogatves The American Medica
Association has not openly opposed it but physi
clans have been organized and solicited for fund:
to defeat this bill
AS matter of fact, and this had been proved
in other countries, where such plan has been II
operation for years, members of the profession
really benefit by it's operation, because it provides
many of them with incomes not otherwise avail
able. And it also provides wage earners with
medical attention before they get sick
The latest = and perhaps the most potent -
Opposition from administrators of the present law
in the various states. They also have organized q
lobby against the bill. They see, pretend to see
in the liberalization provisions of the bill, the
possibility of loss Of some of their prestige And
so they want none of it.
These state administrators are now holding
Jobs created by the operation of the present social
security law, which was instigated, conceived, and
enacted largely through the efforts of organized
labor. They owe their present jobs and their live
lihood to the insstence of organized labor that
security to some extent be provided by federal
law They themselves, like unfortunate workers,
are benefciares of the law
But now, having received the benefits OF the
social security law, they are attempting to die
tate to the makers of the law just how it shall
operate They favor the we-known status-quo
they want no change; they now tell their bene-
factors how it shall be done.
1t is up to organized labor to do something
about this. The Wagner -Murray-D -Dingell bill was
and written after experience with the
present law. All workers everywhere have the
right to receive benefits of federal law, regardless
Of the ability Of their particular state to ad-
minister it.
Social security is bigger than organized labor;
it is bigger than the medical association; it is
bigger than the jobholders who are now admins
Lering it. But labor must wake up because the|
tail is commencing to wag the dog.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
SIXTH WAR LOAN DRIVE

AS WE MOVE closer to victory, it wouldn't be
"A surprising if you were saying to yourself
"What's the big idea of asking for all this addl-
tional money now? Isn't the almost over?'
No sir. it is not, Not by a long shot. Of course
for many months you've heard mostly about
the war with Germany, where greatest ef-
fort is concentrated That's why many people
have the idea that the wars practically over.
But make no mistake about it-nothing could
be farther from the truth The Japanese war is
a tremendous undertaking, and victory will come
high. Well have to fight every inch OF the way.
Did you ever stop to think how much money
it costs to maintain the Ii to IL million men and
women in our army and navy? Whether the men
are actually fighting or not, they must be led,
housed transported from one training center or
battle area to another cared for in hundred and
one different ways. That all cost money and Will
continue to until the last man demobized is back
in civilian clothes.
In addition, millions of dollars will be required
for mustering-out pay for various benefits and
services voted by Congress to help the boys get
started in civilian life.
These are reasons enough why patriotic
Americans will want to buy heavily during the
Sixth War Loan. But here are still more-tlf were
to win the peace as well as the war; the cost of
living must be kept down and the purchasing
power of money preserved reckless imitation
that would necessarily be followed by the catas-
trophe of deflation - with it's unemployment,
bankruptcies, misery and heartache - must be
prevented at all cost.
Let's make no mistake-a dangerous period
lies ahead The American people have nothing to
fear however, if they show in the future the same
common sense they have shown in the past, and
continue to put every penny over rock-bottom
expenses into the purchase of more and more War
Bonds.
Want another important reason? Yourself i
There isn't better or safe investment in the
world today than War Bonds In helping your
country you are also helping yourself! Never inI
our entire history has it been so necessary toI
save as right now Well need money, individual
ly, for education repairs requirements, retire
ment-and we'll need a lot of it.
AS you can see there many reasons, inn
portant reasons, why Government must haveI
the financial support of everyone and have it for
many months to come.
Let all Americans do thier part-for their own
sake, for their countrys.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
A GOOD MAN QUITS

John K. STEELMAN'S resignation as director
Of conciliation in the Labor Department is a
definite loss. When he took over the concation
service 10 years ago it was little more than a
featherbed for labor politicians But Mr.. Steel
man brought into the service men who had both
talent and desire to make peace on the industrial
front
In recent years we have read a lot in the news
papers about the strikes that came off. But be-
cause it was less dramatic we haven't read as
much about the employer-eemployee disputes
which were settled without strikes. And thou
sands of those peaceful meetings-of-mind which
kept industrial wheels turning were made pos
sibe thru the understanding intervention of Mr..
Steelmans peacemakers.
We hope the President finds successor of
comparable cabre
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-23
STRONG UNIONS A NECESSITY

MARION /. Van Valkenburgh, Yonkers n. Y
- clubwoman, recently made an effective argu-
ment for a strong labor movement, in addressing
the American Women's Association.
"A strong, united and democratic labor move
ment means increased buying power for the
masses as well as progressive social legislation
and a front line defense against totatarianism "
Mrs Van Vakenburgh said
Union members and their families" she add
ed, represent one-third the total population of
this country, and by keeping up their demand for
goods they assist the rest of the national COM
munity III preserving its own income"