The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-06-22
(C0ntinued From Paoe One)

| here in the hail. but we, the officers OF
| the Union Label Trades DEPARTMENT,
have a problem, a real problem. 1t Is
time to begin thinking what we are
going to do about it.
| First of all we have more Union
Label contracts in effect with manu-
| facturers than ever before in the his
| tory of the American Federation OF
| Labor, but there are less Union Label
articles on the shelves than ever be-
| fore. You wonder, of course, why that
! iS These manufacturers in consumer
| goods industries are, working almost
| exclusively on war work and selling TO
| the government agencies They are not
required to attach a Union Label; so
you have great industries throughout
| the United States that have Union
! Label agreements with the, various or
ganizations affiliated with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, but the
manufacturer cannot fill the retailers
needs, so many of the new members
coming into the American Federation
of Labor hear you and l talk about
the Union Label, the Union Shop Card
and Union services, but when they go
to buy something, they cannot find
merchandise with the Label attached
upon the shelves of the retailers. He
makes that demand two or three times
and then forgets about asking for
Labeled merchandise. He just gets dis
couraged, / guess. =
1t was called to my attention the
other day, that five merchants in the
City of Elizabeth, Tennessee, wanted
to stock a line of Union Label over
allS. They contacted all the Union
Label overall manufacturers and each
manufactures had to report back that
the government is taking all of his
supplies and he was unable to fill any
of their orders. SO in addition to that
problem we are facing, we shall have
u 100000 men and women who will be
released from the armed forces and
our war industries. That means when
the shooting stops, 21,000,0O0 workers
will have to find jobs in the industries
serving our peacetime requirements.
There will be 11,000,000 men and
women, now in uniform, plus the 10,-
100000 men and women now employed
in war plants, who are going to have
to find jobs.
There are approximately 100000
women in all types of employment to-
day in the United States but there are
only 100000 women in munitions
Industries and only 10000 in our
armed forces. There are a great many
things that women can do as well as
men and great many things at which
they excel. Many of these women will
desire to continue working when they
are discharged from war industries
and the armed forces.
We have no quarrel with the women
in industry, not SO long as they de-
mand equal pay for equal services per
formed but the big problem with these
women workers-especially those who
have gone into industry for the first
time-is to teach them the meaning of
the Union Label; to educate them to
take their Union-earned money to the
market place and insist upon Union
Label merchandise and Union services.
SO you can readily understand that we
have big task ahead of us.
Here are some of the things people
will want when peace comes and
would buy right now:
4,S00O00 cooking stoves, 2,5000O0
heating stoves, 7,250,O00 bed springs, |
100000 hot water heaters, $4,000
hot water tanks, 100000 furnaces,
1872, 900 oil buriers, 100000 bicycles,
100000 washington machines, 3,25O,-
900 sewing machines
Now that is only a partial shopping |
list. There are thousands more items
that consumers are going to buy as
soon as the shooting is over. Our job is
to educate them so that they will buy
uniOn-made articles.
We must educate the women folks.
Some men take the attitude that ii
doesn't matter what their wives do
with the union-earned money they take
home. That is the wrong attitude. 1t
is your business to educate the women
members of your household to buy
only Union Label merchandise and
After all, women spend most
of the money in America today They
take your union-earned dollars out and
spend many of them for non-unioD
goods and services. We are told that
over $3.50 out of every dollar passes