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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

day, February l, from 9 a. m. to { p. m; on Thursday, February IS, from l:30 D. m. to 4:30 p. m.; on Thursday February 9, from 1:30 p. m. to 4:30 D. m.
 The board will meet for the pur- pose of transacting any and all proper business to come before the board Members of the board are Lucius w. Snydee, chairman, and Mrs Margaret A. Barry.
 Officiate at Funeral
 Rev. Myles P. Calvin, pastor of St. Johns church and Rev. Gerald Catcher, assistant pastor, officiated as deacon and sub-deacon at the solemn high Mass of requiem cele- brated at St. Mary Magdalen's church, Oakville, Tuesday morning for James J. Hogan of Oakville.
 A military funeral was held for MT Hogan who was a member Of the Connecticut State Guard.
 To Sponsor Dance
 The Princeton Knitting Mills, Inc, will sponsor the weekly dance for Servicemen and war workers at the Central Y M. C. A. on February 5.
 New Rental Books
 I.-nTal books recently added to the shelves at the WatertoWn library have been announced as follows:
 The BolinvarS by Bayliss; Rope of Sand by Bonnamy; Buffalo Coat by Brink; Brainstorm by Brown; Deep River by Buckmaster; Love and Admiration by Cooper; Frost in April by Dern; Lusty Wind for Car olina by Fletcher; Epitaph for Lem mings by Harvester pSeud; Time or the Singing of Birds by Hill; Ann Ann Star: Nurse by Humphries: Affair of the Dead Stranger by Knight; Blood Upon the Snow by Lawrence; Great Black Kanba by Little.
 Also: Panic By McCloy; Carl by Melancon; Glittering Hill by Mur- phy; Crab Apple Jelly by OConnor' No Gifts from Chance by Pedler: Terhoven File by Pick: Blaze Allen by Ross; The Wanderer by Schach- ner; Inherit the Earth by Shedd Chedworth by Sheriff; On the Dan ger Line by Simenon; Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, Unleash the Dogs of War by Stieff; Yankee Stranger by Thane.
 New Blood Volunteers
 Additional blood donnors for Wa tertowns blood donor day, which vii lbe held at Christ Episcopal church, Wednesday, January 3lst. have been announced as follows:
 Carolyn Shaw, Herbert Shaw. Julian Schwabacker, Sarah O'Neil, Mrs. Francis Lynn. Mrs. Jennie Cedarholm, Seymour Smith, Mrs. Minnabell s. Smith, Churchill Saccio. Manuel DePonte, Rolf Meyerhardt, Mrs. Helene Agnes. Bernard Kuntzwieler, A. J. Bisbee, Mrs. Irving Nichols, Mrs. Peter Beveridge. Mrs Leon Smith, John S. Roden, Herbert Schatzki, Allen Whittlesey, William Starr, Petron- celia Majauskas, Mrs. F. w. Mason, Foster Woods Annette Lemay. John Collins, Francis Dunn, Erlo Soderberg, Leo Greenwood, Thomas Campbell, Herman Stoughton, George Oren, Mrs. A. Koslosky. Sylvia Minor, Alta Odenn, Ger viz h?eoUacmfWy
 trude Huber, Mrs. Margaret John son, Phillip Mitchell. Adam Lizaus- kas, Alice Sullivan, Virginia Bran- don, l. H. Wilson. Grace Shaw, Anne Reinhold, Mrs. Mary Camp bell, David Hayl, Mrs. Glenn, Dus- tin, Franklin Cawley, Alice Duncan. Lena DiNunzio, Mrs. c. Shons.
 Those who wish to register aa blood donors are asked to call tho Red Cross office (tel. HID of tha Princeton Knitting Mills. Inc, Tel. Q000D.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

Exams at Litchfield High school began today and will continue through Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24
High School Cast To Present Operetta, The Condole
TERRY Correspondent: Ryan, N W. Main sTeL sSSs Bristol Div
Commendation Given
 Private Tichanski
Local Youth Assisted in Construction of Emergency
 Airbases; Polish Club Elects Officers

Pfc. Alexander Tichanski, Son of Mrs. Sadie Tichanski of "A North Riverside avenue. IS a member of the Fist Bomber Command who took up the unfamiliar task of air base construction i'll addition to their regular duties which have re- ceived a special commendation from Brig. Gen. H. s. Hansell, Jr., com manding general of the B-29 or ganization. Pvt. Tichanski has two brothers in the service, Paul in New Guinea and John. who is serving in Europe.
 Home from France
 Pfc. Harry Klepach, who recent ly returned from over years duty ir Europe is spending 2l-day fur tough at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. John Klepach of Har- wniton avenue.
 Volunteer Workers Needed
 Volunteer workers are asked to assist members of the Welcome Home Committee in the collection of scrap paper Sunday morning with all volunteers being asked to meet at the Eagle Lock scales on Agney avenue at 8:30. The entire proceeds of the sale of paped will be turned over to the Welcome Home committee fund.
 Wounded Twice
 S-Sgt. Stanley J. Grodecki, who was wounded twice in this war, is member of the 35Oth Infantry Devil" division which took Mt. Regiment, unit of the 88th Blue Battaglia ill Italy and held 1t for seven days of almost continuous German counter attacks. He is the son of Mrs. Frances 1sbrecht ot Beach avenue.
 Card Party
 Leo XIII Council, Knights of Columbus will hold stag forty five card party in their rooms In the Austin House, Thursday night with prizes to be awarded to members of the winning team.
 COmmitte Named
 Alfred Fowler, Tyler Stewart and Lester J. Pratt comprise the committee in charge of the program to be presented at Thursday nights meeting of the Plymouth Commun- ity Club.
 Home on FurlOugh
 Corp Stanley KochansM, who was wounded twice within an hour, shortly after the invasion of France and who was confined to a hospi- tai in England for several months before being sent to the Stark hos- pital in Charleston, S. C., for fur ther treatment is spending a fur tough at his home with his par ents, MT. and Mrs. Edmund Ko- chanski of 20 Beach avenue. Corp KochanSki who has been in thG service three years was first slight ly wounded in the arm and while returning to the rear of the line received injuries to his leg tron shrapnel which caused him to bt hospitalized.
 Board of Tax Review The Board of Tax Review com- prised of Harry B. Taylor, Walter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

St. Angelo with whom she makes her home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

MT. and Mrs Martin Beccia, IF Golden Hill street, announce the birth of son, David born in St. Mary's Hospital Saturday, January 18th
 MT. Beccia is employed by the War Department of the United States Government as field engineer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24
To Sponsor Dance

To Sponsor Dance
 The Princeton Knitting Mills, Inc, will sponsor the weekly dance for Servicemen and war workers at the Central Y. M. c. A. on February 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

The regular meeting of Circle B of Ladies Aid Society will not be held today as planned The meet ing is held at the Y. M. c. A. for Red Cross sewing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

Troop No, 2 of Girl Scouts VIII meet Thursday afternoon at 3;03 o'clock and Boy Scouts, Troop 2, will be held the same evening at 7:3O o'clock
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

4 solemn high Mass for the late Mrs, Catherine ostr0ski, ol Culver street was celebrated yesterday morning at st, HedwIg's church at s o'clock with Rev John WanRt As the celebranl, Mrs Ostroskl, the wife of John OstroskI, died c months ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

The Methodist Youth Fellowship win meet tomorrow evening Rt ' o'clock At the church,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

Mrs, William Farley and daughter Barbara, are moving from their home ln40 ThomRitOn avenue MT Farley la R motor mnehlnlstS mate, first class on active duty with the Navy,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-24

The Seth Thomas F0remen's as' socIation will meet thls evening a 8 D, m, in the cuhrOomS ioloWmH ( dinner tn the cafeteria Rt B'SO D, n Arthur nuholS, training supervisor at the Aooyll Mlg Go, Waterbury win he the speaker MT, pnhoh topic vii be Supervisory TTalningr sound movies oI New England anf India will be shown,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Decent Wage
Benefit All
The People

! Washington (FP). = Union-bustine
industrialists and labor hating column
lists, editorial writer's and radio rod
ents had one OF their favorite themes
shot full of holes by President Tru-
mans radio address on wages.
The President in his speech repeat
edly upheld labor's contention that its
fight for decent wages is fought for
the welfare of the entire nation, and
not for the benefit of union members
alone Said the President of the United
States:
what happens to wages is impor-
tant to all of us-even to those of US
who do not work for wages.
at is important to business, for ex-
ample, not only because wages repre-
sent an essential item in the cost of
producing goods, but because people
cannot buy the products of industry
unless they earn enough wages gen.
orally.
What happens to wages is also inn
portant to the farmer The income he
earns depends a great deal on the
wages and purchasing power of the
workers in our factories and shops and
stores. They are the customers of the
farmer and cannot buy farm products
unless they earn enough wages.
"The fact is that all of us are
deeply concerned with wages, because
all of us are concerned with the we'll
being of all parts of our economic sys-
TEN.
"We must all recognize that legis-
lation which will help sustain the
purchasing power of labor until recon-
version is completed, benefits not lab
or alone but all of us-business,
agriculture, white collar workers and
every member of our economic society.
1T has been estimated that, unless
checked, the annual wage and salary
bill of private industry will shrink by
over twenty billions of dollars. That
is not going to do anybody any good
labor, business, agriculture, or the
general public.
"The corner grocer is going to feel
it, as well as the department store,
the railroads, the theaters, and the
gas stations-and all the farmers of |
he nation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Seeks Test Of
'Anfi-Lubor Law

Topeka, Kans. (FP). - Three new
cases have been filed by State Attor-
ney General A. B. Mitchell in an eff
fort to test the constitutionality of the
labor regulatory act passed by the
1943 Kansas legislature.
Portions of the law were knocked
out by 3-judge federal district court
but the remainder of the law was not
touched. Union attorneys have appeal
ed this decision to the u S. supreme
court.
One suit filed by Mitchell is direct
ed against C. G. Hamilton, business
agent for the Kansas City, Mo-, Build
ing and Construction Trades Council,
who is charged with neglecting to OBJ
tain a license to operate as a union
representative, as is provided by the
law.
The other suits charge the council
and Perrin d. McElroy, council secre-
tary, with entering into a closed shop
contract without first obtaining ma
jority approval of the union member
ship involved.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
u:Rese,oQA
PROFITS SHOW
WAGE DEMANDS
COULD BE PAID

Philadelphia (FP). = twenty-five
hundred workers on strike at three
American Tobacco Co., plants knew
just what President Truman meant
when he bluntly told industry it coulc
afford substantial wage increases be-
cause of the repeal of the excess pro
fits tax, among other reasons.
The strikers at the Philadelphia
Charleston, S. c., and Trenton, N. j..
plants are demanding an increase OF
25c hourly, which is less than 1919 OF
the average annual excess profits
taxes paid by the company to the gov
ernment during 1941-44, and which il
will no longer have to pay.
Representative of the Food Tobacco
and Agricultural Workers locals main
tain that on the basis of a 40-hour
week for SO weeks, the 25c hourly in
crease would mean an annual increase
in wages of $1,300,O00. In the years
1941-44, the American Tobacco Co.
one of the wealthies corporations in
America, paid an average Of $685.
945 annually in excess profits taxes.
An if those figures don't prove the
company's ability to pay wage in
creases without upping the price OF
cigarets, the strikers can cite further
evidence. AS a result of an accounting
action instituted by group of stock
holders in the company in the latter
part of l941, $1,S11 $50 is recoverable
from six top officers for overpayments
under the management profit sharing
plan. A 25c raise for $500 workers
would be $500,000 less than this over
payment.
In 1943 the company's three top of
ficers earned $522,005. A 25c hourly
raise for the workers would be less
than twice as much as three officers
got in 1943.
In wire to the company the three
striking locals said: "In view of Presi-
dent Truman's statement, we call on
you to meet our joint committee i'm
mediately to negotiate wage increase
and other demands" No reply has yet
been received from the company.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Comment On World Events

Allied occupation policy in Germany
is coming in for increasingly hostile
criticism. Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin of Great Britain recently made
it clear that the British are Mortified
by the specter of German misery and
starvation now and this winter and
admitted it would have been better if
Germany had not been zoned.
Plenty of other people were of the
same way of thinking as Bevin when
the decision to divide Germany among
the American, British, Russian and
French forces was first announced and
was hailed by SO many OF our deep
thinkers as decision inspired by
Heaven.
Dorothy Thompson has blasted the
whole German occupation policy in her
syndicated column and thousands of
her readers undoubtedly endorse what
she said.
Nor is the most representative body
of American organized workersvthe
American Federation of Labor-satis-
fled with the occupation policy. The
AFL asserts constructive policy is
needed for Germany, thereby of course
saying the present policy is not con-
structive.
Elimination of Nazi power and in
fluence from the life Of the German
people cannot be accomplished by an
army of occupation alone, the AFL
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Buffalo Scribe

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members of Local 80 will be found who
do not have silicosis, but are in need
of this treatment. The employees of
the McNicol pottery are entitled to
this consideration, if only from hu-
manitarian standpoint, not to mention
the benefit it would be to the firm i'm
more efficiency and better morale
among the workmen.
We would like to hear from other
locals throughout the trade of the
progress being made regarding health
programs in their localities. While
some localities are handling this pro-
gram i'm very efficient manner, it
seems others are content to sit by
and let the matter die A line in the
Herald, as to what your local is do
ing about it would be appreciated, and
would serve to stir up an interest in
matter that should be Of vital con-
Germ to all exposed to silica dust.
An invitation has been extended the
officials of the Buffalo Federation of
Labor to visit our plant and inspect
the equipment for the aluminium treat
ment, with the hope that an interest
can be aroused among the foundry
workers and others exposed to the
silica dust hazard.
Dorothy Donovan and Gladys Rice
who attended the recent meeting of
the Chinaware Standing Committee i'm
East Liverpool are still talking about
their visit to the pool
Osborn Snyder, turner, has left to
accept employment at the Scammell
China plant in Trenton. We regret his
leaving but wish his success in his
new surroundings.-O. c. 76.
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Wage Boosts
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tive Order 9651, sets forth three
classes of cases in which wage in
creases may be granted even though
price ceiling increases may result
"They are all situations where wage
increases are necessary, irrespective
of price increases" Truman said
"They will not cause many price in
creases."
Truman also devoted a substantial
portion of his radio speech to urging
upon industry and labor alike more
"real collective bargaining" and the
use of "good sense" 'reasonableness"
and "give-and- d-take" between the two
parties.
81 am convinced" he said, "that
we must get away as quickly as pos
sible from government controls and
that we must get back to the free op-
Grafton of our competitive system.
Where wages are concerned, this
means that we must get back to free
and fair collective bargaining"
But, he added, decisions reached in
collective bargaining must be kept
within the limits laid down by the
wage-price policy of the government"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Embarrassing Moments:
Their Alibi Blew Up

Denver (FP).--The city's transfer
companies told members of Local IT.
international Brotherhood of Team
sters (AFL), they could not grant pay
raises ordered retroactively by the
trucking commission Of the War Labor
Board because "the directive had not
arrived"
The alibi was offered on the second
day Of strike of $50 teamsters here
and in Pueblo, just about as the direc-
tive arrived in the city. "Well, it's
here and now it's their move," Secre-
tary Ray Keigley of Local II an
nounced.
The next day the men were still out
and the managements had still failed
to come up with new alibi guaran-
Iced to last longer than "a hours.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Green Urges IAN
70 Remuin In AFL

New York (FP) Stating that 81
consider the International Association
Of Machinists member of the AFL,
AFL President William Green Oct. 81
urged delegates Of the IAM's 2lst
convention here to see that "your or
ganization is placed in good financial
standing with the AFL without de-
lay" To do otherwise, he said, might
cause raiding and other difficulties we
cannot foresee."
The lam, he said, had not paid per-
capita since last November but he
believes payment "has merely been
postponed" He urged the union to
stay within the AFL land fight cour-
ageously until you win" disputes with
other AFL unions.
lam President Harvey Brown, in
response, praised Green's aid and sym
pathy in IAM's jrisdictional disputes
but charged the AFL executive council
had tiled the hands" Of Green more
than seven years ago, after an AFL
convention had unanimously upheld
IAM's jurisdictional claims.
lam has no desire to quit the AFL,
it is "AFL minded" and would be will
ing to carry on its fight within the
AFL "if it is permitted" Brown said.
But he added: "No one will regret it
more than me if in the near future
something is not done to permit that
freedom of action which will let US go
into a fight without our weapons
spiked An l8-man committee to
study the dispute reported it's recon-
mendations would be delayed until late
in the convention.
Green in his address also roundly
denounced the CIO for raiding the
AFL and for dividing the labor move
ment," and predicted the early return
TO AFL of the United Mine Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
UE Asks Repeal OF
Smith-COnnally Act

Washington (FP).-An immediate
repeal of the Smith Connally act was
requested by Neil Brant, Washington
Representative of the United Electri-
cal Radio d Machine Workers in let
ter to Secretary of Labor Lewis
Schwellenbach
Mentioning the important duties of
the NLRB i'm conducting strike votes,
Brant said, "added burden of admins
tering the Smith -Connally act makes
it well night impossible for the NLRB
to hold prompt hearings and elections
on representation petitions.
"The end result of of the Smith
Connally act, therefore is to negate
the detectives of the Wagner act. |
think you will agree that the Smith
Connally act, war measure, must
not take precedence over the Wagner
act"
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points out, urging that the German
labor movement must be encouraged,
AZ German unionists can take leader
ship in rebuilding democracy.
Yet very often," the AFL charges
IN It's monthly survey, "the American
Military Government has refused to
authorize union organization or to
heed the suggestions of union anti
Nazi committees. The general
policy, OF the American Military Gov
eminent has been to permit union or
ganlzatlon with reluctance, and all too
often to refuse permission and sup
press meetings. This policy has stifled
the reblrth of democracy and prevent
ed the elimination of Nazis."
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Shop Committees

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to sign should report next meeting
and then attend regularly for the next
six months.
Brothers Clair Armstrong and Nor
man Whippler are attending the
State Federation meeting in Wheeling
They will make their report at our
next meeting.
Local 124 mourns the passing of the
late Sister Mary Butler Pennybaker
%. c. 124.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-11-08
Industry Cold TO
Trumon Mandate

4NCW IOIh \EI - W. Iilc ldDOT gen
orally welcomed President Truman's
Endorsement of substantial wage in
creases as strong bolster to its
wage campaign, industrial leaders felt
sour to the Presidents proposal, ac-
cording to the Wall Street Journal.
The financial paper, which admit
tedly is carefully attuned to the pulse
of big business, reported much agita-
tion in employers circles at the Presi-
dents declaration that general wage
increases can be granted with prices
staying where they are now.
A hasty survey by the paper called
forth comments ranging from at can't
be done" to "We've done all we could"
There was one cautious "Well, maybe
so" from an oil refiner, and a quail
fled Endorsement from maker of
cameras.
A. w. Robertson, chairman of the
board of Westinghouse Electric Co.,
which turned down unions demand
for a So daily wage increase the day
before the President spoke, said flat
ly: 'If the national government orders
an increase in wages, there will be
no escape but to increase the prices
of manufactured products"
President Frederick C. Crawford of
Thompson Products Inc, board
member of the National Association
of Manufacturers and reactionary
brain truster, didn't like the Presi-
dents speech at all. "He didn't say
anything" Crawford said. "He exag-
gerated the problem and enlarged the
difficulties, and the situation is worse
today than it was yesterday"
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cation between employer and worker
and to inspire and intensity their joint
responsibility"
Specific Recommendations
Specifically, the Labor Committee
recommends that labor and manage
ment recognize the interests of "a
third party, the consumer" in their
negotiations and consider the effects
of their bargaining on the economic
system as a whole; that both sides
make greater use of economists, en-
gineers and impartial fact-finding
techniques and that arrangements
and unions together explore the pos
sibilities of market-wide collective
bargaining.
Price Factor Important
AS opposed to rigid price and wage
structures, the funds committee rec
ommends that "when management
and union get together to make bar
gain, they should keep in the front of
their minds that their arrangements
will influence the price of the product
which must be sold to third party,
the consumer. He doesn't sit down to
approve the price; but he may reject
it later when he does his own kind Of
bargaining He may refuse to buy,
or perhaps won't buy as much as he
would otherwise if the price were
more favorable compared to other
claims on his income"
Common Good Must Be Served
Because of such considerations the
committee says, "both management
and union must be aware of the dan
ger of pricing themselves and their
product out of the market
Summing up it's impressions of this
phase of collective bargaining, the
committee says, "Hence, over and
above the primary prerequisites of
successful collective bargaining, to
date, namely the recognition that
arrangements and unions are mutual
ly indispensable and functionally
equal, must come this new recognition
that to serve themselves best they
must serve the common prosperity
most"
AS a concrete measure the commit
tee recommends "that managerients
and unions together explore the ad-
vantages arising from a wider apph-
cation of market-wide collective bar
gaining" Commenting on its own
proposal, the committee says, "To be
sure this technique is not without in
furious potentioalities. 1t might well
excessive and rigid prices.