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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
A. F. of L. Says Free Labor Can Fill War Need:
Gives Official
Recognition To
Employees Unions

Hartford, Conn. QLNS).-Hartfort
is the latest city to officially recog
nize unions of municipal employees.
By vote of 19 to l., the city council
adopted an ordinance permitting mu-
j nicipal workers to join unions, but
barring strikes. Several months OF
public hearings and executive sessions
of the ordinance committee preceded
adoption of the ordinance.
The Hartford street commission
voted last March to recognize the
street employees union (AFL), and
the new statute placed the action on
the official municipal basis and ex-
tended the recognition to unions in
the fire, police and education depart
mentS.
Hartford's action came a few days
before the Baltimore circuit court, in
a decision involving a labor contract
between the city public works depart
ment and Local No. 80 (AFL), recog-
nized the right of municipal en-
ployees to organize and deal collec-
IlVely.
The new Hartford ordinance direct
ed all departmental administrative
heads to establish in their depart
ments effective machinery whereby
grievances, complaints, problems or
suggestions" may be presented by the
organization.
AFL Union Drive Begun
The ordinance prohibits discrimina-
tion against any employee who joins
the union, and authorizes the mayor
to intervene in dispute between the
union and any department of the city
if he deems it desirable or necessary
in the interest of the city.
A campaign TO organize Hartford's
8 3,0CO city employees into an AFL unit
was launched recently, and street de-
partment employees asked a per
cent wage increase, but action on the
request was postponed by the city
council pending results of wage
study.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

Buy War Bonds and fight imitation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Senator Mead Opposes
WOrk-Or-Fight Bill

Washington, d. c. ULNS). -
Senator James M. Mead of New
York, long a staunch friend of
labor in Congress, says he does not
regard work : or fight legislation
necessary now. He expressed his
views in announcing the Senate
War Investigating Comm t e,
which he heads, is starting hear
ings on the manpower problem.
Senator Mead, whose committee
has made periodic studies of man
power since the war began, an
nounced that representative of
the War Manpower Commission,
War Production Board and War
Department will be called to justi-
fly the need for the proposed job
control plan.
Mead said the May-Bailey bill
in the House is national service in
another form" and predicted it
would take long time to get it
through and into operation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

Kindness is becoming at any age.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Says Army Keeps


seph Lieg, "a discharged veteran of
this war and a vice commander Of a
Washington American Legion post,
LANCER said.
81 insist" LANCER declared, "that
the bombers and other airplanes
which are being built for our flyers
shall not be flying coffins. | join with
an overwhelming majority of Sena-
tors in insisting that when our young
heroes go into the air they shall have
planes which have been honestly
built, honestly inspected and are
safe.
81 submit that the overwhelming
amount Of evidence shows that ex-
actly the contrary has occurred"
LANCER said that inspections made
by the army and navy are perfume
tory, and recalled an instance where
the navy had passed plane which
called for ll6 bolts in a wing, but
from which 90 had been omitted.
This plane crashed and killed six
young airmen. A grand jury which
investigated declared the accident
would not have happened had the
plane been properly inspected, LANCER
said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
OHIO LABOR WATCHES
NEW LEGISLATURE

The second and third weeks of tht
96th General Assembly was devoted
primarily to Governor Lausche's mes
sage; routine organiZational work OF
the various Senate and House com.
mittees, and the confirmation of the
governors appointees.
In analyzing the governors mes.
sage, your Legislative Agent believes
the following recommendation to be
of interest to the entire Labor Move
ment:
1-Setting aside from the surplus
100000 for emergency purposes,
not to be spent except upon subse-
quent legislative appropriation.
2-Retention Of the present state
tax structure and re-enactment of the
cigaret, liquid fuel and utility excise
taxes that otherwise expire this
spring.
appropriation Of $2S, COO for
a Welfare Department building pro-
gram, to provide new state hospitals
and institutions.
4-Granting of authority to munich
palities to condemn land for slum-
clearing purposes.
appropriation of add i t i o n a |
funds for reasonably increasing" old
age pensions.
-Recodification of the Workmen's
Compensation Laws.
8-Protection of the rights of labor
and specifically Of the advances in
Workmen's Compensation and I'm
employment Compensation.
9-Defeat of the pending bill to
give state employees a retroactive
pay increase for the period from July
| to December 81, 1914.
A Vicious Anti-LabOr Bill
Thus far there have been l06 bills
introduced in both houses-70 in the
House and 36 in the Senate. Of this
total, 80 of these bills affect members
of Organized Labor in varying de-
grees. House Bill No. sc, introduced
by Representative Jack Easton (R),
Lake County, is an extremely vicious
and far-reaching anti-labor measure.
The fill in full, follows:
"A Bill Relating To Public Utility
Employees In Wartime And To
Declare An Emergency"
"Section L. Whoever being an en-
ployee of public utility and engages
in strike during World War ii shall
be fined not less than five hundred
dollars and imprisoned in the work
house not less than six months for
the first offense and fined not less
than five thousand dollars and i'm
prisoned in the state pententiary for
three years for each additional of
Tense. The term public utility shall
the same meaning as pro-
vided in Section l4l5 of the General
Code.
Section 2. This act is hereby de-
,lared to be an emergency measure
necessary to the preservation Of the
public peace, health and safety. The
reason for such necessity lies in the
fact that it is in the best interest of
4 successful prosecution of the war.
Therefore, this act shall go into eff
'ect Immediately"
WOrkmen's Compensation
During the past two weeks numer-
'us conferences have been held with
'ther labor groups, as well as en-
'loyer organizations, concerning pro-
POSED amendments to the Workmen's |
Law. The results of the
Onference indicate very strongly that |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

| in the Postwar Period.
Wider COverage Suggested
Each state, the council said, should
consider whether effective administra-
tion will permit extending coverage
to employees of small business or
concerns-those employing less than
a or 8 workers, as the case may be
from state to state-and will permit
the amending of state laws to supple
ment any action Congress may take
with respect to the extension of the
federal unemployment tax act to
small employers.
Consideration should be given, also,
by the states to the coverage of major
groups in agricultural processing in
dustries and to maritime workers, the
council said.
The council pointed out that 81 of
the 48 states have reduced their wait
ing periods for unemployment COM
pensation to one week and that a sub
stantial number have raised benefit
payments by as much as $5 since the
start of the war.
A maximum weekly benefit of 500
or more is now provided in states
California, Illinois, Maryland, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin,
Wyoming and Connecticut; maximum
weekly benefits of SIS are provided
by 21 states, with IA states having
$18 as their maximum weekly pay
ments.
Reserves Steadily Grow
In most states the length of time
for which benefits are paid varies in
accordance with the individual work
ers' past employment and earnings
record, the report shows, and some
states pay benefits for a uniform
number of weeks to any worker who
qualities. Only states now limit any
years benefits to less than 16 weeks; |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Workmen's Compensation

During the past two weeks numer-
Gus conferences have been held with
other labor groups, as well as en-
ployer organizations, concerning pro-
posed amendments to the Workmens
Compensation Law. The results of the
conference indicate very strongly that
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

of the 20, II provide maximum DUR
alton of 20 weeks or more.
The operation of unemployment tax
laws in all AZ states during the last
several years has resulted in the ac-
cumulation of an unemployment trust
fund in the federal treasury to the
credit of the states which totals ap-
proximately $6,0OO,0O0,O00, the coun-
Gil said, and unemployment benefits
are financed from these steadily ac-
cumulating reserves. They are paid
as earned rights of workers covered
by the law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Health Committee
(Conffnned From Pa0r On>j

If we are to Judge by stories in the
local newspapers, it looks like there
will be no convention this year. 1t is
the writer's opinion that if conditions
are as bad in Atlantic City this year
as they were in 1914, we will be
better off to stay at home, at least
we can find place to eat and sleep.
Have you made your contribution
to the March of Dimes or the Free
Trade Union Fund? If not, do so at
once. Both should have the support
of every laboring man and woman in
the country.-O.C. 30.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

Vial Cd biiC i'hiity ihNdooio WYNN
have a "demoralizing effect" on the
labor market. Adjustment of wages,
not work-or-fight legislation, is the
solution of the manpower problem
and the proposed bill would reduce
war output, he declared.
'The Army and Navy cut produc-
tion last fall when the war picture
looked rosy" Hines said. "Then the
German breakthrough proved their
estimated wrong, so they are seeking
this psychological time to impose
forced labor on the country. The
Army and Navy want control of the
whole thing. They are not competent
to do the job"
Sees Bills Defeat
Predicting defeat of the bill when
the public "comes to a full realization
of what the bill would do" Hines as
serted the measure would virtually
wipe out the War Manpower Commits
sion and put the Selective Service in
charge.
at is not 4-F bill or a work-or-
defeat measure. It's a limited ma
tional service bill covering all men
from Is to 45," he said
Present manpower disloc o n S,
Hines told the committee, have de-
veloped from exaggerated estimates
of labor requirements which have
sent workers scurrying to jobs that
did not exist, from calls for large
numbers of men at times when cut
backs and lay-offs were imminent and |
from freezing" of "sub-standard"
wages in critical manufacture where
increases and improved working con-
ditions would solve the problems.
Little Actual Labor Shortage
Another factor, he continued, was
the conclusion reached in many high |
quarters few months ago that "the
war is in the bag and it's all over"
accompanied by offers to war plant
workers Of permanent jobs.
Yet in Ia leading war industries
where production lags have set in,
Hines said, these have been due to
actual manpower shortages in only |
one, the foundry industry, where, he
pointed out, the wage was "frozen" at
a sub-standard level. I'm the other 13,
he added, the causes Of sub-schedule
output were changes in design, step
ped up programs and lack of facili
ties.
The AFL spokesman said that War
Pattersons estimate
that 100000 new war workers will be
needed in the first half Of l945 is dis
puted by the Administrations own
agency, the VINO, which,
he said, estimates a need of 100000.
Cites Official Bungling
This can readily be met, he con
tended, from an increased labor pool
of $4,000, including 100000 to be re-
leased by production cutbacks, $50, 200
service men to be discharged, and
10000 on-military youths and young
men who will come of working age.
The equivalent of another 00,C00
will be achieved in the next 6
he added, by increased pro-
iuctivity per man through technical ,
+;
Declaring the Administration has
been guilty of chaotic
planning, Hines cited in
stances in which the VINO called for
recruitment of thousands of workers {
or war plants, only to discover be- :
atedly that these same plants were
aging off employees as result Of {
'educed orders from the Army and [
Navy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
Council Asks Unemployment
Benefits Be Raised To
$40 Muximum For rs Weeks
81 STATES REDUCED WAITING PERIODS

Chicago QLNS) = The Council of State Government has
that the "A state legislatures meeting this
their unemployment compensation laws to bring benefit
ments up to maximum Of $40 week for maximum of 26
weeks.
Such action would sustain adequate standard of living for
workers and their families through reasonable period OF
conversion and minimize the deaOnay effects of unempoy
ment the council said report UNEMPLOYMENT Compensation
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25
MdY-BdileY Bill Is Threat
To Morale And Production
Hines Tells Congress
MILITARY AFTER MANPOWER CONTROL
FEDERATION SPOKESMAN DECLARES

Washington, d. c. QLNS-ln slashng attack on the May
Bailey bill for total mobilization of from 18 to 45 in military
productive the American Federation of Labor branded
the undemOcrac to the
nations production program
Lewis G. Hines, AFL legislative representative voiced the
fedratons views nearly and half hours of vigorously
worded testimony before the House Military Affairs Committee
Hines charged that the Army and Navy trying to get
and the nations and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-25

Does anybody know of a courteous
way of bring to an abrupt conclusion
an overextended conversation with a
hOra2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Price Regulations On
 Used Cars Effective
Buyers Assured of Greater Protection, Goodwill
 Under OPA Supervisory Rules; Less Evasion

If you should buy used car to- morrow or any day thereafter, you'll find yourself in much stronger po- sition of self-protection against overcharges and guarantees lacking good will, the State OPA disclosed today.
 March 1, the agency reminded, is the day on which the revised price regulations covering the sales of used cars go into effect and it's expected they will eliminate what is described as "a number of evaSive practices followed by certain deal CTS in Connecticut more interested in dodging their responsibilities in wartime than in cooperating with their Government"
 Heading the list of changes in the used car regulation is re-defini- tion of the warranty clause which has too often become a bonus loop hole for dealers" the OPA asserted.
 Originally, and dealer authorized to give warranty with used car was permitted to charge 25 per cent more than the so-called "as is" price or $100, whichever was greater. To entitle himself to this extra assess ment, however, the dealer was sup posed to put the car in good work ing order
 The warranty backed the per- formance of the car for 30 days or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Edwin Watson Laid To Rest

Washington, Feb. 28-(UP)-The body of Maj. Gen. Edwin M. Wat sen, President Roosevelt's veteran military aide who died aboard the cruiser bringing the presidential party home from the Crimea, will be laid to rest in Arlington National cemetery at noon today (EWT).
 It. D. A. Brady, the cruiser chap lain who pronounced the last rites fer Watson aboard ship, will con- duct the committal services.
 A memorial Mass will be said at St. Matthews Cathedral at 9 o'clock Thursday morning.
 Announcement of the funeral ar- engagements came from the White House. WatsonS death of cerebral hemorrhage eight days ago was re- vealed cnly yesterday.
 A dispatch from nited Press Cor respondent Merriman Smith, who is with the presidential party, report CT MT. Roosevelt's great sorrow at the death of the man who had serv- ed as his military aide and secretary since 1883.
 T shall miss him almost more than can express" MT. Roosevelt said in a statement. There was never cloud between us in all these years. He helped me greatly"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28

1000 miles, depending on which came first, and if the car broke down before then the dealer was obliged to foot half the repair bill.
 A nationwide survey, recently completed by OPA, revealed that "too high a percentage of used car dealers" considered the warranty price as bonus and often issued the warranty without actually putt ting a car in good operating condi- ton.
 Since refusal of dealer to pay half the repair costs was not viola tion of OPA regulations under the superseded policy, a buyers only chance to obtain satisfaction was from civil suit, and mine times out of ten" the agency discovered, he preferred to forget the matter and pay the bill himself.
 Under the revised regulation, how ever, refusal of dealer to make restitution for half teh repair cost in cases where the car breaks down before the warranty period runs out is Federal offense, the OPA ex- plained
 Furthermore, only dealers with proper equipment to make repairs or with bona flde contracts with nearby repairers will be authorized by OPA to sell used cars with a warranty. All others will be con- fined to sales under "as is" ceilings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
AUTOISTS ASKED
 TO JOIN CLEANUP
Remove Winters AcCumu- latiOn From Markers
 Urges Commissioner

Motor Vehicle Commissioner John T. Mccarthy requests that the owners and operators of passenger cars and commercial vehicles start a premature Spring cleanup cam paign this year by cleaning their number plates so that the plates may be read from a reasonable dis tance. As a result of bad weather conditions, many cars and trucks on the road today have number plates so covered with mud and dirt that they cannot be distin- guished from even a few feet away; whereas, they should be legible, even at night, at a distance of fifty feet. While you are cleaning the plates, give the reflectors and tail lights a wipe and wash off the out side of the headlamp lenses. A little dirt on the headlamp lenses greatly reduces night visibility, thereby increasing the habards of night driving.
 Why not do this now before you are issued a warning by the police who will soon be making checkup on unregistered vehicles?
 RTIV WAp RONnC ANn CTAMpC
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Giles Backs Free Press

Cairo, Feb. 28-(UP) Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Giles, commander of U. s. forces in the Middle East, said today that freedom of speech and a free press are necessary to maintain peace in teh postwar world.
 Giles was commenting on the worldwide tour of the freedom of the press committee of the Ameri- can Society of Newspaper Editors.
 The three members of the com- mittee are expected to leave tomor- row for Moscow. They are Wilbur Forrest of the New York Herald Tribune, Ralph McGill of the At lanta Constitution, and Dean Carl Alderman of the Columbia School of Journalism.
 Forrest and McGill have com- pleted a tour of the Middle-East. Alderman was hospitaliZed here al- though he hopes to resume the journey with the other members to- morrow.
 Giles said the members talked with government authorities, jour- nalists, editors, publishers and lead. CTS in other fields of endeavor, tell ing all the importance of the great principles of free speech and free press as conceived in the United States"
 "Theirs has been journey of friendliness and interest in the views of others, a journey for dis cussion and exchange of ideas" Giles added
 Free and untrammelled communi- cations, as proposed by the com- mittee, will be sorely needed after the war, he said.
 "The postwar world, with ita many problems requiring maxi mum understanding of the other man and his problems, can benefit nightly by a free and rapid ex- change, using all technical means on which alone mutual understand. Ing and forbearance can be exer- cised," Giles said.
 We of the U. 8. A. F. I. M. E have been proud to have these Americans with us. In wishing them Godspeed we hope that continued success will grace their unselfisll efforts in the cause of greater un' derstanding among the peoples"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28
Communist Leyte Hero
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, Feb. 2s. (UP)-H-s-S S-S-S-S-Tl Communists. Congress and I are looking for some. Guys with whiskers. Ana maybe bombs.
 We haven't found any, at least not the U. s. Army, but we're still looking and the war department hasn't heard Its last from us.
 The assistant secretary of war, John J. McCloy, a grayish-looking man with fringe of Silvery hair and double breasted suit of the same shade, said the army did have . communist once.
 "He was in the South Pacific" McCloy testified before the house military affairs subcommittee, 'and he made such a record in battle that he was commissioned 8 captain on the field. Later on, at Leyte, he was killed"
 McCloy went on to say the army didn't bar communists, as such, but only gents who believed in over throwing the government by force. He said he thought 1t was something of shame that congress had to start Its investigation. Rep. R. Ewing Thomson of Texas, the chairman, asked him why. That started 1t.
 McCloy said if draft dodgers got the idea that the army barred com- muriStS, they'd all be communists.
 And 1t is little difficult as 1t is," he said, ito tell who is a communist and who is not, particularly since the American communist party was dissolved two years ago"
 He's absolutely right. The hearing room was jampacked with army officers, plus one seaman first class and one WAVE (pretty). l looked 'em in the eye and Idon't think any of 'em were communists. At least they weren't carrying any sus- picious-looking bundles that ticked.
 McCloy said If the committee wanted details it could question the armys Major General Clayton L. Bissell, assistant chief of staff in charge of army intelligence. have got to report that Major General Bissell didn't look like he'd stepped from the pages of E. Phillips Op- penheim. He was a glamorous in- ternational detective.
 He was a solid-looking man in horn-rimmed eyeglasses. He said the army had received numerous re- ports about alleged Communists in the ranks. Some of these tattle-tales came from those who were jealous, or those who were vicious. Some, he said, seemed to have a basis of fact. Since Pearl Harbor, he added. the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-28

Army has investigated 2,500 alleged Communists in uniform.
 "And how many" asked Chairman Thomson, eventually were court martialed and discharged?"
 Two" replied General Bissell.
 He said that his military hawk shaws now number about 5000. They have had more trouble with. gents who want Hitler, Hirohito and coE1- pany, to win, he said, than they have with alleged Communists.
 The committee wondered aloud whether RusSias entrance into the war had changed the army's policy. The general said he hadn't noticed It. Then he had his picture taken.
 More later this week. If any Com munists are around, congress and I will find 'em. With or without whiSkerS.