The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-11-09
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

Last week this column discussed
the question of "hard" or "soft" peace
| for Germany, reaching the conclusion
that the whole tissue" is phony and
that the only question is peace that
will stick, in which Germany will be
given an opportunity to take her
place in the family of nations and
help in the rehabilitation and better
ment of the world.
In connection with the division over
"hard" or "soft" peace, Americans
will be interested in seeing the latest
March of Time film, "What To Do
With Germany" In it they will dis
cover that statesmen, too, differ on
the best method of dealing with the
Germans after the war.
Sumner Welles, former Under
Secretary of State, whose book, "The
Time for Decision" has been publish
ed recently, would divide Germany
into 3 states, but insists that peace,
while realistic, should not be bar
barously severe or vengeful. Britain's
Lord Vansittart, for years Perma-
nent Under Secretary at the Foreign
Office, says that the disease is ma
tional and the cure must be national.
Others who speak in the film, like
foreign relations expert John Foster
Dulles and columnist Walter Win
chell, round out picture of what is
being proposed today as permanent
cure for German militarism and
aggression.
Dramatic and significant aspect of
the American labor struggle in some
of it's greatest years are portrayed
from the human side in Bread Upon
The Waters a book by Rose Pesotta,
which Dodd, Mead Co., will publish
in late November.
From 1888 to 1914, Miss Pesotta
was the only woman vice president of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, now 3O5,000 strong.
AS a general organizer she led cam
paigns and strikes in various cities
across the land and in Canada and
Puerto Rico.
Notable phases of her story deal
with police lawlessness; thousands of
Puerto Rican needle workers starving
under bureaucratic rule; Seattle en-
ployers as vigilantes; sadly exploited
Mexican and Dust Bowl women in
Los Angeles; women breaking fac
tory windows to save Flint sit
downers from tear gas; opposition to
descriptive foreigners" (organizers
from the U. S. in Montreal failure
Of the Mohawk Valley back-to-work |
formula in Cleveland; appalling con-
1itions in San Francisco Chinese un-
1erground garment shops; mountain
men with hair-trigger tempers on the
l. mile picket line in Akron, and
outside agitators" striving to main
tain peace; years when the ILGWU
was torn by internal war.
There are memories, too, of the
authors childhood in Tsarist Russia;
If the Black Hundreds; of peasants
BURNING landlords estates; of an
girl joining Waistmakers'
local 20 soon after arrival in Amer
ca; of marching on May Day past
he scene of the Tiangle Waist Co.,
ire, in which 146 girls died behind
ocked doors or jumping from high
windows; of pioneering for workers
,ducation.
After Pearl Harbor, Miss Pesotta
rave up organizing and returned to
work at a sewing machine, and now
makes WAC uniforms in a New York
lress factory. She has long believed
hat labor union officials should go
'ack into industry at intervals to keep
n touch with rank -and-file problems.
1t the 1914 ILGWU convention, she
eclined a nomination for a fourth
erm on the general executive board.
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