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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
State Body Elects
Weston, President

Seattle (FP). = Campaigning for
unity in the AFL, Ed Weston was
elected president of the Washington
State Federation of Labor, defeating
almost 2 to l James A. Taylor, who
held the post for II years.
Weston, who is president OF the
Pacific Coast Metal Trades Council,
got 24,895 votes to 13,047 for Taylor
in the runoff election. In the regular
election last June there were three
candidates in the race and none re-
ceived clear majority, although Wes-
ton received the most votes.
Election returns also placed two
new members on the state executive
board. They are w. w. Hooper, head
of the Spokane Building & Construc-
tion Trades Council, and Emmett Hig
gins of the Hotel & Restaurant En-
ployes International Alliance in Yaki-
ma. A third new vice president, E.
w. Holbrook, was elected to the board
in June.
A fight was shaping up over when
the new officers would assume their
duties. Despite a constitutional pro-
vision which says that the president
shall serve two years or until his sue
cessor has been elected, Taylor refus-
ed to step down until Dec. /.
Weston, whose campaign stressed
the need for a democratic administra-
ton and closer ties with the rank-and
file, demanded that he be allowed to
take office Immediately. One of Wes-
toms main campaign pledges was to
get large unions like the teamsters
and building service workers back into
the federation, which they stayed out
of because of opposition to Taylor.
According to Weston, 30@6 of the
states AFL unions are not in the fed
Grafton.
Opposition to Taylor stemmed from
his support of COP candidates in the
elections last year when the majority
of unions were backing Roosevelt can
didates and his campaigning against
legislation generally supported by la
bor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22

New York (FP. - The way the
American press willingly fell for an
expensive propaganda stunt cooked up
by the National Association OF Manu-
facturers to blame labor for reconver-
sion delays was told in the Nov. ~
issue of In Fact, weekly newsletter.
In the month of October the NAM
hired an airplane-the first civilian
hiring since the war-and took ~
leading newspapermen on 3l-day
trip to 20 industrial cities and 5O
plants, plying them with liquor and
big business propaganda, In Fact
said.
Only few of the newspapers which
carried stories on the trip mentioned
that it was financed and sponsored by
the NAM. In Fact reported:
"NAM in addition to supplying the
free trip and free booze also bought
articles from several of America S
leading journalists. One of the artlc-
les mentions numerous drinking par
ties (paid for by the NAM and writ
ten off income tax as entertainment
with this humorous addition: I'VE
ought to be paid time and one half
rates for such parties One newsman
was quoted saying about this booz-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Release Ships To
Bring CTS Home

New York (FP).-Reporting initial
success in the unions campaign to
speed the return of GIs stranded over
seas, President Joseph Curran of the
National Maritime Union reported
that the War Shipping Administration
had removed nine Liberty ships from
the James river anchorage for repair
and use as troop carriers.
"This action, involving vessels laid
up months ago, is start in the right
direction" Curran said. at proves the
correctness of the position taken by
the NMU that no ships should be laid
up while a single Gil abroad awaits
Transportation home"
Thousands of letters and kilograms
have been received backing the unions
pledge not to provide crews after
Dec. to vessels other than troop
ships unless the government allocates
increased shipping facilities to troop
transport service.
Most of the communications are
from wives and parents of servicemen
and from stranded GIs overseas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Free NAM Junket Provided
Reporters With Propaganda

ing: If l last another three weeks
I'm going to give my body to
science
Throughout the trip the journalists
supplied not only their own news
papers, but many more belonging to
press syndicates and services, with
"the propaganda Of big business, bias
ed against labor and government con-
trols," In Fact said. Employers were
better if labor did not strike or
threaten to strike. No mention was
made of the fact that strikes are be-
ing provoked by refusal of employers
to grant a living wage.
A typical propaganda piece was
headlined Newsmen Find Production
Languishing From Strikes And Idle
ness. Written by Morley Cassidy of
the Philadelphia Enquirer, it was re-
printed by the NAM News Oct. 27
as proof that the trip was paying
off.
MANS propaganda clipsheet, Indus
trial Press Service, Oct. 20 carried a
part of the report of Joseph Garret-
son of the Cincinnati Enquirer which
alleged that $50 many war workers
seem to prefer unemployment compen-
sation to jobs" The NAM clipsheet
also carried half column story about
the conclusions of Russell Porter of
the New York Times predicting rapid
reconversion "unless the present
waves of strikes and labor disputes
broadens into widespread and pro-
longed interruption of production"
"The amount of space the New
York Times gave Porter on his NAM
propaganda equalled-at advertising
rates-the cost of the whole NAM
junket," In Fact observed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Ugly Threat By
Southern Firms

Tampa, Fla. (FP).-An ugly threat
that call industry will be shut down
here like it is in New Orleans" unless
the workers agree to drastic wage cuts
was issued by President Albert Ha-
worth Of the Tampa Builders En-
change, local affiliate of the Associ-
-ated General Contractors of, America.
The threat was made TO represent
tatives of the AFL Building Trades
Council at meeting Of some so con-
tractors chaired by Haworth at the
Tampa Chamber of Commerce. Ha-
worth was referring, by implication,
to the lockout of AFL shipyard work
ers i'm New Orleans by wealthy ship
builder Andrew j. Higgins.
With the open backing of local fl
nancia interests and the tacit sup
port of the local IT, S. Employment
Service, the employers are also dang
ling two other threats before the
workers:
1. Importation of outside, nonunion
labor. 81 talked to a man from out of
the state the other day." Haworth
boasted. "He told me if we send some
body up to the Carolinas to get them,
we could get all the masons we want
ed"
2. Employment of jobless returning
force down union wage scales. Ha-
worth and other contractors at the
veterans at substandard wages to
meeting used the employers present
technique of ptting veterans against
unionists by accusing the unions of
bottling up employment and saying
that "all these boys coming back will
be glad to get jobs in the building
trades"
Joseph Dalton, representing the
combined banking interests of the city,
spoke favoring wage cuts to decrease
the overhead" to borrowers financing
purchases Of their homes,
The three AFL representatives pre-
sent agreed to serve on committee
appointed by Haworth to discuss
Stabilized wage ceiling" Business
Agent II. T. Richey of the council
pointed out to the meeting that Tam
pa was already one of the worst low
wage centers of the south.
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Seek Solution
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Brothers Ansell, Watson and Zim-
norman met with Mr.. Aitken recently
regarding gifts for the service men.
He explained that due to so many
being discharged and those who are
still in the service being transferred
to other units, it was difficult job to
keep track of them. The committee
admitted the difficulty of proceeding
as in the past and the matter was re-
ferred to the local who voted to hold
shop meeting to see what should be
done with the money collected.
Albert Marzluft and James Long
bine are back from the service. Ken
meth Mapps, also newcomer from the
service was initiated and welcomed in :
to the ranks.
Bro. Charles Wood who recently
started at the Standard has quit and
Berl Schuman, a returned veteran,
son of Claude Shuman of Warrington
started in his place.
Bro. Harry Bates, one of the old
timers we regret to report was taken
to st. Francis Hospital with heart
attack; Jack Huston, pension mem
ber, is very ill in Philadelphia Hos
pital, and Robert Young recently re-
leased from the hospital, is reported
doing well.
An optical company has offered
free examination to all employees of
the Trenton Potteries Company. We
urge every member to take advantage
of this offer.
1t seems one of our members got the
cart before the horse when he an
nounced that the customary social
would be held following our next
meeting. Since there are five Fridays
in this month, the funfest will not
be held until our first meeting in
December.-O. c. as.
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Fine Record

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were instrumental in settling the
strike which has been in progress
since Oct. llth According to terms
Of the agreement, a general increase
Of SH percent was granted. The union
sought a II per cent increase for
male employees and 10 per cent for
female workers.
Bro. Dever Haught who has been
in the armed forces for the past four
years returned to civilian life last
week. Bro. Taught has the honor Of
being the first man to be drafted from
Local No. 6. He received his basic
training overseas. We welcome Sgt.
Taught back.-O. &. 6.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Postwar Living
BY SUSAN ALEXANDER
Federated Press
To The Highest Bidder


OPA held a novel kind of auction
recently in the public square of Jack
son, Tenn Bidders came from all
parts of the state to vie for the scarce
articles being auctioned off-a 1916
Ford, 100-pound bag of sugar and a
50-pound keg of lard.
Anxious bidders in the crowd push
ed close to the auctioneer's stand,
frantically trying to outshout each
other. At the end, the lard was sold
for SIS, the sugar brought $35 and the
Ford $4,000. Novel aspect of the auc-
tion came when an OPA spokesman
stepped forward and told the crowd
that the sales were illegal. The auction
was hoax-a demonstration to prove
that the law of supply and demand
makes price control an absolute neces-
sity.
Without price control, miniature
auction scenes would be staged every
day in front of counters, in butcher
shops, groceries and department
stores throughout the country-only
the housewife would really have to
pay fantastic prices because there
would be no OPA agent to assure her
it was all a hoax.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Consumers Fight Back

OPA's auction demonstration OF
what brings on initiation was part of
its Price Control for Prosperity Week.
Throughout the month of November
unions, schools, churches, women's
clubs, farm groups, welfare organiza-
tions and veteran groups will be TAX
ing part in Price Control for Prosper
ity Weeks in cities and counties all
over the nation.
During the chosen week each organ
ization will engage in an intensive edu-
cational program to get the facts
about initiation to its members. Climax
of the week will be mass community
rally to demonstrate for holding the
line on prices in foods, consumer dur
abes, clothes, rents and building ma
terials.
Make sure that your union joins the
anti-inflation program. For details get
in touch with the information panel OF
your local price control board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Interesting Facts
About Thanksgiving

But for the untiring efforts of one
woman, it is possible that there would
be no national celebration of Thanks
giving each year. That woman, the
mother of Thanksgiving as we now
celebrate it, was Mrs. Sarah j. Hale.
As far back as 1927 Mrs. Hale was
urging the annual observance of a
uniform day throughout the country
for the expression of thanks for the
blessings of the year
For SO years Mrs. Hale wrote edi-
torials and letters in an effort to
create public sentiment in favor of a
national celebration. In 1863, her eff
forts were finally awarded when
President Lincoln issued the first
national Thanksgiving Proclamation,
setting apart the last Thursday in No
vember as the day to be observed.
In 1889, President George Washing
ton had ordered day of thanksgiv-
ing for the adoption of the Constitu-
ton.
And in 1915, President Madison had
set day to give thanks for peace,
but to Mrs. Hale and President Lin
coin goes the credit for Thanksgiving
Day as we have celebrated it for
years.
In recent years, President Roose-
welt, at the request of business organ
izations, moved the celebration up one
week to permit more time for Christ
mas shopping.
President Truman has followed the
precedent Of his predecessor, and has
proclaimed Thursday, November 22 as
Thanksgiving, instead of November
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low these P0llSh Jews TO engage III
employment and even continue their
professional studies where necessary.
Zimmerman's intervention has also
halted the previously ordered re-
patriation of the several thousand
Hungarian, Rumanian, and Carpa-
THAN Jewish refugees who are now
in Sweden. Due to his efforts, these
Jews will be allowed, for the present,
to remain there
The American Federation of Labor
representative, Irving Brown, who is
whole hearted support to the Jewish
Labor Committees activities on be-
half of the Jewish victims of Nazism.
Zimmerman has gone to the Sean
dinavian countries to receive personal
expressions of gratitude for the as
sistance rendered by JIG during the
German occupation, and to observe at
first hand what that aid has meant
to the democratic labor movement.
During the course of his stay in
Stockholm, he conferred with Prime
Minister Hansen, American Minister
Johnson, and the heads of the most
important labor unions and repre-
sentatives of the employers organi-
cations.
To Visit England France
Zimmerman visited a number of
refugee internment camps, convey
ing to the inmates a message of hope
and encouragement from the organ
lied workers of the United States.
Upon the termination of his mis-
sion in the Scandinavian countries,
he will go to England and France to
confer with the spokesmen of their
respective labor organizations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22

The International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers has brought to a
victorious finale prolonged efforts
to organize the FL Paso Electric
Company. The reinstatement of union
men fired by the company and pay
ment to them of back pay amounting
to 100000 have been ordered by the
National Labor Relations Board.
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Social Redl
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call meeting to reshuffle the team
after the trimming his team took last
week. How about it Ralph?
What's this we hear about a GER
tain brother eating so many eggs
and gaining so much weight, he had
to purchase a new mackinaw.-O. C..
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Labor Mons Intercession
Hdlts Forced Repatriation
Of Thousands Of Refugees

New York CityQINS)As result of the ntersession OF
Charles Zimmerman vce-chaman of the Jewish Labor Com
mttee who visiting Sweden and the other
the invitation of their trade union federatonS the
agreed not to force 5000 Posewish
internee who had back from the German concentration
camps their homeland, cable received by
Adoph Held, national chairman of the committee
AFL Representative Helps
of the Swedish also consented to al
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NOTICE MOULDMAKERS

:. Every member of Local Union
X No. % is urgently requested to
< be present at special meeting
X called for Tuesday evening, Nov.
). 27. Final action on pending
< resolution now before the local
\ will be taken. =.
4 BY Order of President.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22
Postwar Market

While industry is busy fighting
labor's demands for wage increases
and holding up reconversion, there's a
huge section of the American popula-
ton which could provide a good mar
ket for many goods and services-the
farmers.
Did you know, for example, that in
L. S. farm homes
$500 have no modern bathroom.
$3.50 have no mechanical refrigera-
tor
82eo have no running water.
1871 have only outside privies.
75eo have no telephone.
67ae have no electricity.
66t use kerosene or gasoline lamps
.40et have no radio.
OF course, the farmers won't be able
to buy these things unless they can
sell their products to the people in
the cities, and the workers won't be
able to buy the farmers products un-
less they have steady jobs. But if the
electrical industry, to take just one
case, would stop its sitdown strike
and begin manufacturing radios and
the workers would have
jobs. The farmers, in turn, would get
paid for their products and then they
could afford to buy what the work
ers produce.
It's a lesson in economics that al
most everyone can understand-every
one but some manufacturers and in
who never got past the
stage.
If there were more sugar this year,
there would be more honey for the
table, too. Because of the shortage of
sugar, beekeepers are expected to
leave in the hives more honey than
usual to feed the bees this winter
There'll be more honey then last year
but not quite as big share as usual
Of the honey the bees have stored in
their 5,406,000 colonies.
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Supreme Court
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fC0nHHnPd from rage OHfJ
A three judge u. S. district court
in Florida upheld the closed shop ban
and the AFL brought the case directly
to the Supreme Court, which has
limited arguments to the jurisdiction
of the federal court. A similar test
instituted by the ClO has also been
dismissed by the same district court
and is pending before the Supreme
Court.
The NLRB has ruled in several
cases that state laws must bow before
the weight of the Wagner labor rela-
tions act. One Of these NLRB decisions
came in a Florida case instituted un-
der the constitutional amendment. In
it the NLRB upheld maintenance of
membership clauses signed by three
AFL unions in paper mill.
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Kronelbein Heuds

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in that city and active in the Ohio la
Dor movement before his appointment
as international organizer. Hughlett
lives in Waukesha, Wis, where he
was an official of the Brewery Work
ers Union and of the AFL central
body Besides serving as member
of the general executive board of the
international organizer since July,
1915.
The office of the organization is at
2347-51 Vine Street, Cincinnati.
The Associated TaXicab Operators
of Chicago have voted to affiliate
with the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters.
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NOTICE TO UNION "a

J: Local Union No. "a has very
!. important business to transact
: at their meeting on Friday eve-
\ ming, November 23rd. Every
+ Member is urged to be present.
+ BY Order of President.
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Bakery owners of Fresno, Calf,
have agreed to pay bonus of three
per cent to all journeymen bakers on
their wages for 1915.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-22

Local 10, international Typographi-
cal Union, has signed contracts with
the Courier-J Journal and Times of
Ky.
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The of the Swedish government also consented to al
The Nome nugget., 1945-04-30
CHIEF OF STAFF
 VISITS NOME BASE

Brig. Gen. Isiah Davies, Chief of Staff of the l1th Air Force wis. tied It. Col. Richard H. Hackford, Commanding Officer, Nome Army Air Base this week accompanied by Col. D. M. Young, M C., Capt. Paul Shirley. Capt. J. C. Barr. 1st It. John B. Gawford, It. George E. Thelen, USNR, Ralph w. An derson, Chief, GAS.
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Monday, April 30, 1945
RUMORS OR OFFICIAL?

As a rule, where there is smoke, there must be some fire. Either the Ger mans surrendered, or they didn't.
 But, nonetheleSS, we should be extremely eau tious of rumors, under the guise of authenticity, with official confirmation ex- pected momentarily.
 Without any relaxation, let us take the end of the war in Germany in stride, and continue on with the job of beating the Jap.
 One day wasted in cele- bration may cost Us many lives neednessly lost be- cause of needed supplies.
 Prophecies have been made regarding the war in Germany. Many say the war will not end with sur render, but will continue in underground and guer- rilla warfare.
 In spite of all the arm- chair predictions, official military leaders expect the complete collapse of Nazi Germany in the matter of a few days.
 It will then be necessary to destroy the fears and fanaticisms built up by a generation of strict train ing. The responsibility rests with the victorious, peace-loving nations of the world.
 Systems must be de- .ViSed.
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THE GESTAPO IN AMERICA

(New York Times)
 Facts belatedly m a d e public by the Army au- thorities and reported for this newspaper by Russell Porter indicate that fanati- cal Nazi agents created a reign of terror in some German prisoner camps in this country between Sep- tember, 1943, and April, 1914. Six prisoners who proved "disloyal" to the
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our people live on farms now. China still has the good old days" if you like hat kind. Eighty per cent of her people arc farm CTS. even yet. ..-.... b. .
 If an American farmers hired man earned 50 cen's a day in 1920 he had to be a good one The farmer was not to blame. In order to pay better wages he had to get better prices for what his hired man produced, or manage some way for the worker to produce more. Even then both develop ments had begun. The blow and the reaper improved farm income and farm wages also.
 Supply and Demand
 Using improved machinery one workman could do the work three had done with crude tools, so two out of three farm hands quit the farm. Some of them went to work at transportation, taking farm products to cities where there were quick markets. Others got jobs in factories making desirable things to sell to the farmers who by this time, had quite little money to spend.
 The two farm workers out of three who left the farm did not quit using farm products. Wher- ever they worked they bought and consumed farm produce, also made more profitable work for people in transportation. This is a simple outline of the growth ot American prosperity, and it is 8 rough sketch, of what must take place in Chira. starior af'er The
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war, if China is to prosper
 A Unification Plan

High-broW students of political economy talk about social, poli- tical and economic unification of China" Those are 35-cents words, trying to say that China is all broken up and needs to be made one. Nothing that is broken can be welded again until the pieces are brought close togethre. Chi na's dismembered parts need to be brought together close; close in time; close in spirit.
 China already has everything needed to live well: meat animals and grain, timber and fiber, coal and oil, iron and copper. China has supply and demand also-45O million people anxious to earn more and live better. One trouble is, there are 36O million farmers when l2 million with good tools would be enough. There is much other work to do: ore to mine, timber to cut, roads to build.
 Hidden Treasures
 Roads will bring the Empires far-flung segments near in time. Business dealings will create mu- tual confidence and make China's remote tribes close in spirit. There is money in the Orient-most of it hidden, but it's there. More. much more, will come from other lands as soon as investors learn of the empires rich resources and great markets. Only fear of rob- bery and fraud can keep it away These fears can be removed bv s'ro'g centr"l government, able