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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29
Wage Policy
fConfinued From Pace One)


week and are forced to borrow to
make ends meet. And his figures
showed that the average surplus for
all manufacturing workers after pay
ing bare living expenses was the
magnificent sum of $2.39 a week.
Prices Up, Wages Lag
"That's where wages are frozen
now-frozen by the Sterilization Act,
frozen by Executive Orders and
frozen by the War Labor Boards Lit
tie Steel formula.
"Curiously enough, the Little Steel
formula was not meant to freeze
wages. No, no! 1t was officially set
up to keep wages in balance with ris-
ing living costs. 1t provided that
since prices had gone up Is percent
from January, 1941 to May, 1912,
wage rates should go up Is percent,
too.
"Well, that was almost years ago
and prices have skyrocketed since =
but not wages. Hourly rates of pay
are still at the level called for by
May, 1912 living costs. More than a
year ago the American Federation OF
Labor petitioned the War Labor
Board to recognize this fact and act
accordingly. The board hemmed and
hawed and stalled until 3 weeks ago
when the public members made pub
lie a report that while the cost of liv-
ing has gone up 80 percent since the
war, adjusted hourly rates of pay had
gone up 30 percent too.
Disastrous Consequences Seen
"The joker in that report is the lit
tie word adjusted" The original
standard of the Little Steel formula
was straight-time hourly rates of
pay. In order to avoid relaxing the
formula, the public members adjust
ed" the standard. That change in the
measuring rod constituted deception
and injustice of the worst kind.
"Unless that injustice is i'm
mediately corrected, the status of
American workers will grow pro-
gressively more unbearable in the
months to come. Unrest and dissatis-
faction will mount. But the full dis
astrous consequences to our entire
country will not be felt until the war
ends. Then the effect of restricting
the purchasing power of the great
masses of wage earners will hit in
dustry hard and hit the farmers just
as severely.
"When industry and agriculture
lose their present big customer-the
government-and then have to de-
pend upon customers with empty
pockets, dangerous depression is
bound to result.
"That is why the AFL appeals di-
rectly to industry and to agriculture
to support labor's clearly justified
case for realistic upward revision of
the Little Steel formula"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29
$500 LOCAL CHAIRMEN
FOR CLOTHING DRIVE

New York City (ILNS).-Henry j
Kaiser, national chairman of the
United National Clothing Collection
for Overseas War Relief, which has
been endorsed by all organized labor,
has announced that towns and cities
with population of 64,000,000 had
been organized for the drive to begin
in April.
One thousand additional local chair
men have accepted appointments, in
creasing the number of active local
campaign leaders to 5000. The drive
will seek public contribution of 150,-
100000 pounds of used clothing, shoes
and bedding for the relief of destitute
persons in war ravaged lands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29
The Engineering
Asnects Of Aluminium
ProphyIaxis
The 11th of a series of articles
dealing with the efficiency of me-
tallic aluminium as a preventive for
silicosis in humans.
By A. w. JACOB

tallic aluminium as preventive Tor
silicosis in humans.
By A. w. JACOB
Powder Used In PrOphylactic
Treatment
The finest commercial aluminium
powder procurable was dispersed and
sampled. It was found that the sus-
pended material consisted mostly OF
flakes, OBS to 0.50 micron in thick
ness but ranging up to 80 microns IN
diameter. AS most authorities are
agreed that only particles less than
approximately 10 microns in diameter
can be engulfed and moved by the
dust cells of the lung, it was obvious
that this powder was unsuitable for
aluminium prophylaxis.
By this time, the Porcupine clinic
for the treatment of human silicosis
was in operation. The powder being
administered was produced in much
the same way as that employed by
Denny ct al in their animal expert
ments. A notable difference, however
was the use of a 12-liter bottle to re-
move agglomerates from the powder
to be inhaled by the patients. This
settled powder was removed from
time to time and it's characteristics
when redispersed by compressed air
were studied by thermal precipitatoi
sampling.
1t was found that, after dispersal
over 80 per cent of the particles, OF
aggregates, had a maximum dimen'
sion of one micron or less and that
over 99.5 per cent were less thar
five microns in diameter. These re-
suits were particularly gratifying be-
cause here was powder suitable fol
the dispersal in aluminium prophy'
laxis whose effectiveness in aluminium
therapy had been proved by recent
results in the Porcupine clinic.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29

News Review.
Violation of the minimum wage
provisions of the wage and hour law
is not thing of the past, Walllng
emphasized, showing that in the year
ending last June 80, more than hall
a million workers were deprived OF
more than 1917 million dollars by dis
honest employers.
Huge Sum Withheld
Recalling that the law was passed
in 1888 and that by now 1T provides
for minimum of 40 cents an hour
and time and half overtime after 4O
hours a week for about 21,OOO,0O0
workers, Walling said:
sTn the 61z years that the act has
been in force we have obtained for
workers nearly $80,000,O0O in wages
illegally withheld from them and the
workers themselves have collected
more in addition through negotiation
or private agreement or private suits
for double penalties provided for un-
der the act.
"Now 100 or 200 million dollars or
more is not small amount even In
those times, especially when you stop
to think that the act has operated
chiefly to protect and help the poor
est-paid workers, the unorganized and
those weakest in economic bargaining
power. They are the ones who have
had the most benefit from the law.
Last Years Figures Cited
"a good many people just assume
that all this took place in the past.
They assume that with the labor
shortage today employers all pay just
as much as they are allowed to pay
under the Wage Sterilization Laws
and a good many people seem to
think that violations of the Accent
minimum wage and the time and one
half overtime of the federal wage
hour law no longer exist
"This is not the fact. Quite the
contrary is true. AS wartime econ
omy our inspection services have been
curtailed, but i'm the last fiscal year
ended June 30, we found more than
18 and a half million dollars in
illegally withheld wages was due to
$4,000 workers in 20,600 establish
ments. That amount was more than
81 100000 greater than the restitu-
tion in the year previous when many
more inspections were made.
"On the average, more than one
fourth more restitution was found
due in each establishment inspected
than in the year before. OF course
this does not mean that all of busi-
ness or the greatest majority of it,
even, is in violation of the law. We
inspect fewer than 10 percent of af-
fected establishments in any given
year and naturally we concentrate
our enforcement on the sore spots.
"But the most surprising thing in
our experience is the way some em-
ployers even in these days go right
on paying less than the minimum
wage Of 40 cents and sometimes even
less than 30 cents up until recently.
OF all the establishments where pay
ment of back wages was required by
us last year, failure to pay the min
imum wage was involved in fourth
to one-third of them. Restitution of
such minimum wages was found due
more than 100000 workers, about
one-fifth Of all those whom our in
spectors found to be underpaid under
the law"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29
Employers Still Withhold
Millions Of Dollars Due
Workers Under Federal Low
URGE VIGOROUS, ADEQUATE ENFORCEMENT

Washington, D. c. QLNS the generally high scale
hiseling employers still deprvng workers
Of millions of dollars and hour
law r. Metcae Wang of the law, told the nation
in an address over WTOP and Columbia Broadcastng System
network.
Administrator Wang head of the Wage and Hour and Pub
lie Contracts the u Department of Labor spoke
Albert Dennis the 556h broadcast of the Labor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29
Threat To Living


as well as individual members who
have not as yet made their contribu
tion to the fund, are asked to do 81
at once and mail their checks to Head
quarters Immediately.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29

Maybe the fellow who said original
ly that people are just like sheep
meant that somebody shears both
regularly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29

Union is strength, but where the
elements composing it are both weak,
their combination may be weak also.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29

No man has failed until he has
made his last attempt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-03-29

Preserve your union. Buy Defense
Bonds for victory.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
Tricks All Right;
Old Ones Still Effective

WITH THE MARINES.-In addi-
ton to new tricks which are being
introduced into Pacific fighting by
the enemy, the old ones are still to
be found, and sometimes found eff
fective, according to "The Leather
neck"
On Saipan, while fighting was TAX
ing place for Fourth of July HILL"
the Japs used one of their oldest
tricks with a measure of success.
Dressed in marine uniforms, firing
marine rifles, and speaking perfect
English, Jap snipers were able to
kill four and wound 10 of Jul men
before their ruse was discovered and
they were wiped out.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
The News
ofLAUREL
'un am nRau mn observation-disclosures uNaI

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lumsdon had
as guests from Rapelje Friday Mr..
and Mrs. A. A. Edwards and daugh-
ter and son, Virginia and Hugh.
Mrs. Annie Pool of Billings was
a guest Sunday at the home of her
brother-in-law and sister, Nh. and
Mrs. August Metzger.
Easter dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. M. Olafson were Mr.. and
Mrs. Dick Vandenberg and family
of Park City, Mr.. and Mrs. Reid
Harris and Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne
Willis and sons, Keith and Wayne,
Jr.
Jacob Krug, private first class,
Who had spent a furlough here re-
urned last week to Mather Field,
Sacramento, Calf.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
L.S.HANSON
Scientific Swedish Massage
81 First Avenue
Phone 81 Laurel, Montana

of many of our Laurel servicemen
and women is a comfort to me.
For my part / don't care. as long
as some one can keep Montana
among the leading line and have
had some part, however big or
small, in making our big country
a nice place, I'll be satisfied.
L have just came back from q
rough time in the air and a D
is a good sort of relaxiation-so
keep EN- coming. Thanks a mil.
lion.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04

brought their grandson, Larry
Adams home after a three weeks
visit with them.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Sands were
Thursday from Park City of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G.. Adams and
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
Letters From
Our Boys
and Girls

U. S. Marine Recruiting Station,
Butte, Mont.
Marine Private First Class KEEP
Ter Stankey has been granted a fur
Tough following service aboard a
fast navy carrier. He is the son
of E. H. Stankey of Laurel.
A Comm anti-aircraft gunner, he
took part in all of the Third and
Fifth fleet operations since Dec. %,
1913, including strikes against Tok-
yo last February.
He also participated in the bat
ties of Leyte Gulf, and experienced
many Jap aerial attacks.
Donald c.. Slater, TN PC, South
Pacific, March %:
Just a belated note of thanks for
sending the Outlook. 1 also would
like to express my appreciation to
those who are contributing money
to this cause. We in the service
really appreciate it a lot. 1t helps
a lot to read what those at home
are doing. Also / can keep track
VI ID lOI VI my lIlSIruS III IHc SCI
vice through the Letters Column.
It's always the first thing l read.
My address has changed. I have
received an advancement in rate
from TN &c to TN &c, as of De-
cember l.. Rates are pretty hard
to get in the navy now and l cor
slider myself pretty lucky.
1 enjoy my work very much.
T~orpedoes are really a complicated
and interesting thing to work on.
/ have often wondered if there are
any others from Laurel in this rate.
1 haven't heard of any. Taps
sounded quite some time ago so 1
guess I had better close.
S/Sgt. Wayne Tufte, France,
March 10:
1 looked in the newspapers piled
in the mail room and pulled three
Laurel Outlooks from it.
What a pleasant surprise! Wasn't
exactly expecting it. Of course let
tiers have given the news, but not
the way a good paper can do it.
/ don't know many people in Lau-
rel, since l haven't been there long.
But hearing off the splendid records
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04

Public relations branch. Camp
Wolters, Tex:
Pvt. Anthony Martinez Munoz. Is.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Munoz of
route 1, Laurel, Mont, has arrived
at this infantry replacement train
ing center to begin basic training
as an infantryman. He has been
assigned to a battalion stressine
rifle training.
Pvt. Robert Mathews Schmidt. 10.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Casper Schmidt
OF route l, Laurel, has also arrived
here for basic training as an in
fantryman.
Mrs. w. L. Orndorff has received
a letter this week from her SON..
Orndorff who is with the
army engineers in Germany. He
wrote that the country reminded
him of the foothills of Montana and
is densely covered with pine forests.
The few buildings left intact showed
the country was further advanced
than other foreign countries he had
been through.
He said the day was beautiful.
clear and warm. The sky full of
planes made the day even nicer.
but the incest thing in the world
to the boys owe there, the writer
SAID, would be to see the statue of
The letter was dated March ID.
Nh. and Mrs. H. j. Cook have a
letter from their son Forrest. who
is in the Philippines, which is dated
March 26. He speaks of being very
busy and mentions the temperature.
Snow and ice mentioned by his par
in their letters "drives one
he said.
A paragraph reads: Speaking of
teeth, | have some monkeys teeth
not in my head either. VIII
them around my neck when
get my sarong and club, and that
won't be long" (Sarong is a Malay
word denoting the chief article of
dress worn by both sexes in the
Malay archipelago, Ceylon and some
parts of India. A sarong is a long
strip of cloth, cotton or silk, sewej
together at the ends and worn as
4 petticoat, tucked around the waist.
.Editor.) '"In connection with
'eeth, l had a filling put in the
,ther day. The engineer corps was
a bomb crater on an air.
'ield, and that reminded me to have
ny teeth checked.
IAN owl as big as a turkey flies
Up and perches in a tree by the
'olley ball court every night. He
watches us play; then flies away.
10 doubt to tell his children that
people are the craziest monkeys. We
bought of charging him admission,
'ut he probably has only Jap in
-asion money and that's no good"
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
Tuesday, April 10.

Tuesday, April 10.
Women of the Moose will meet
at the L. L. club at s with a number
of out of town1 guests in attend
ance.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
CALENDAR
Ooming Events :.
Friday, April 6.

Friday, April 6.
The four circles of the Woman's
Society of Christian Service will
meet in the afternoon at the home
OF the following members:
Loyalty-With Mrs. C. w. Laird
at 2 o'clock.
Opportunity-At the home of Mrs.
David Bits at 200.
Valid-At Mrs. Russell Barr's at
200.
Energetic-At 2:30 with Mrs. ].
W. Long.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
Sunday, April s.

Sunday, April s.
Episcopal communion services will
be held at Our Savior's Lutheran
church at A p. m.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-04
Friday, April 6.

rrIudy, April b.
st. AIMS Episcopal Guild will
meet at 1880 at the home of Mrs.
Edward Boyd.
Saturday, April Z.
The Montana Transport Auxiliary
will meet at the Commercial club
in Billings at l p. m. for dessert
luncheon. A card party will follow
the meeting.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1945-07-01
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