The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-31
Highlights Of Past Years
Labor News Presented
(Contirued From PAGE One)

voted unanimously to keep Negro mem-
bers in auxiliary lodges
CIO President Philip Murray in
vited industry and government repre-
sentatives to join with the CIO in
working out program for full util-
ization of manpower as an alternative
to labor draft.
AFL President William Green urged
defeat of the Austin-Wadswort ma
tional service bill in testimony before
the senate military affairs committee.
Chairman Sidney Hillman of the
CIO Political Action Committee chal-
lenged the right of the Dies committee
to investigate it and announced that he
had refused to submit the PAC's books
to Dies agents.
The administration billion dollar
subsidy program was saved when the
house upheld President 9 ROosevelt's
veto of the Commodity Credit Corp.
anti-subsidy bill.
MARCH
The 2 billion tax BILL hit by Presi-
dent Roosevelt as relief not for the
needy but for the greedy" became law.
as congress voted to override the
Presidents veto. Independent unions
represented by such leaders as Secre-
tary Matthew Smith of the Mechanics
Educational Society of America and
Donald +. Cameron of the Associated
Unions of America revived the Con
federated Unions of America and
authorized wartime strikes in a Gin
cinnati convention.
The case for general increases in the
west coast aircraft industry was
argued by the International Associa-
ton of Machinists (AFD and the
United Auto Workers (CIO) in a joint
hearing before a special panel of the
National War Labor Board at Los
Angeles.
President William Green directed
AFL bodies not to collaborate with
dual, rebel, rival movements" in the
formation of political policies.
Legislation aimed at multiplying the
wage-hour law was Sneaked through
by labor's enemies in six states last
year, Wage-Hour Administrator l..
Metcalfe Walling charged
The L. S. supreme court upheld the
principle of portal-to-portal pay in Il
decision involving members of Inter
national Union of Mine Mill & Smelter
Workers (CIO).
The L. S. supreme court outlawed
the Texas Democratic white primary
system.
Famous Hollywood movie stars act
ed as volunteer registrars in the Off
cal registration drive in Los Angeles
indorsed by all branches of organized
labor. go Tnq i9fs1 81
The AFL opened its about attack on
the Little Steel formula before a spe
cal National War Labor Board panel.
A postwar plan to transform the
wartime alliance of the United Nations
into an organization for peace and to
make American private enterprise
yield abundance for the people was
presented by he AFL.
The AFL reported a deadlock in
negotiations for the return of the
United Mine Workers to the AFL.
A Federated Press survey in mid
April showed the rollcall of organized
labOrs support for reelection of FDR
spanned the continent and reached into
every branch of organized labor.
L. S. troops took over Montgomery
Wards huge mail order house and
retail chain store in Chicago after
Board Chairman 5. L. Avery ignored
WLB order to bargain with CIO
union.
MAY
Labor campaigning helped Senator
Lister Hill of Alabama and Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida win the
Democratic primaries.
AFL shipyard workers shattered the
all-time world record for launching a
ships hull, any size, at the Concrete
Ship Constructors yard in National
City, Calf.