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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
By ALLAN L. FLETCHER

New York (FP) - There seems
to be a slight difference of opin-
ion between the men who work on
commercial newspapers and the
men who own them as to whether
the press is biased in it's handling
! of the news.
While publishers generally con-
tend the press is free, definitions
of that freedom are often reveal
ing. In the January issue of the
magazine This Month, author Jules
Archer in an article titled The New
York Times, High Priest Of All
The News That's Fit To Print,
gives us an idea of what one in
fluential publisher thinks consti-
tutes freedom Of the press.
Archer says Times publisher
Arthur Hays Sulzburger put It
this way: Freedom of the press
means your freedom to circulate a
handbill if vie, in our freedom, re-
fuse to print that which you would
have us say"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Phone Workers
To Demand S72
Weekly Raise

Washington (FP) - President
Joseph Beirne of the National Fed
Grafton of Telephone Workers an
nounced his union would demand a
Sl2 weekly across-the- board raise
for the industry in negotiations by
40 member affiliates of NFTW.
The announcement came after a
statistical staff had worked out
wage demand details and other
issues, planned in general in a
November meeting of NFTW lead
ers in Denver, Colo. The raise,
Beirne said, was designed to meet
$4.60 weekly wage disadvantage
I-in telephone compared to other in
dustries, and a S740 increase in
living costs, based on bureau of
labor statistics figures.
Asked whether the industry
could afford the raise, Beirne
pointed out that the Bell System
alone, employer of 80 per cent of
U. S. telephone workers, paid
1915 excess profits tax of 147.9
billion dollars, with net revenue
before taxes of 656.9 million dol
lars.
Beirne said latest figures show
the average wage in the telephone
industry to be S44.10 week, COM
pared to a national average of
$45.41 for all manufacturing in
dustries. About 60 per cent of the
telephone workers are women.
Negotiations for the raise for
323,C00 workers in the industry
will start at the local level. NFTW
member unions are scheduled to
make their demands on their re-
spective companies by Feb. /, and
allow the full month for bargain
ing. After that, they have agreed
to grant full power to a 49-member
policy committee which will direct
a negotiating group of seven in
final bargaining.
No strike will be called before
April 7, Beime said, adding 1--WE
hope satisfactory agreement can
be reached in time to avert a ma
tionwide tieup."
Bargaining issues other than
wages include the union shop and
dues checkoff; cutting the time re-
quired for advancement to top rate
in any job from eight to five
years; limiting the wage levels for
the same job within a company to
four; and improvement in pension
plans and vacation clauses.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Family Of Three
Pinched On SIS
Weekly Tokehome

Pittsburgh (FP) - Charlie e S
(Chuck) Lamb, an electrical in
spector at the Union Switch and
Signal Co. in Swissville, Pa,
thinks he's a lucky man today be-
cause his brother-in-law owns the
3-family apartment house in which
the Lamb family lives.
Because of this "inside track" "
Lamb pays only $35 month for
his rent and that includes all utili-
ties.
But even then, Lamb said, 1--WE
have had to cut down on about
everything we need"
Lamb lives in suburban East
Liberty, Pa, with his wife, Minnia,
and a 3 year old son, Edward.
With a take-home of about $45
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Armour, Third Of
Bio Four Packers,
Siuns With UPW

Chicago (FP)-Armour & Co,
became the third of the Big Four
packers to sign a new contract
with the United Packinghouse
Workers, granting $4,000 employ
ees in % plants wage increases
ranging from 71a to % cents on
hour.
The increases are retroactive to
Nov. l and the contract permits
wage reopening on April /, 1947,
and once in the contract year 1947-
48.
Signing of the contract virtual
ly assured peaceful relations with
the leaders of the meat packing
industry. Similar agreements have
been reached with Cudahy and
Wilson and union leaders are
awaiting ratification by the locals
of an agreement with Swift.
Included in the new Armour con-
tract is a narrowing down of wage
differentials between northern and
southern packinghouse workers.
Thirteen plants in the Armour
chain are to receive geographical
adjustments varying from 2h
cents an hour in the midwest to
1914 cents at Armour's Fort
Worth, Tex, plant.
Other gains include: (1) state
ment of policy recognizing "the
and desirability of a
guaranteed annual wage with both
the union and company making in
studies of its practica-
bility, (2) an improved vacation
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Is u. S. Press Free? Owners Say Yes
But Men Who Write News Say No

Sulzburger, who freely admits he
achieved his right to this great
freedom by marrying the boss's
daughter, says further that "if you
want freedom Of equal dimensions
to the Times, you are free to
marry a publishers daughter"
A group of experienced CORES
pondents, writing in a forum in
Frontpage, organ of the News
paper Guild of New York are in
hearty agreement that the press
exercises its freedom primarily to
distort news to satisfy its own
ends.
Guild member Richard w. john
ston, who reported China for the
United Press and Time magazine
and now is on Times foreign news
staff in New York, declares that
"perversion of the news to the
aims and viewpoints of publishers
or special groups isn't a new thing,
but it certainly is a growing rather
than a receding menace"
(Tnrn to Page FiVe)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Employers Use
Court Decision
For Unionbusfing

New York (FP)-Evidence of a
nationwide drive by employers to
convert a recent court decision into
unionbusting weapon has been
revealed here.
Basis for the new anti-union
campaign is a decision by the Sth
circuit court of appeals in st.
Louis in October granting socalled
free speech to employees under the
Wagner act in case involving
Montgomery Ward & Co. 1t held
that an employer has the right to
call a meeting and speak out on
any issue without facing charges
of violating the Wagner act.
Admission that the employers
would use this as a go-ahead sig
nal for anti-union propaganda be-
fore elections came from a spokes-
man for the National Retail Dry
Goods Association. In a telephone
conversation with a representative
of Local 65, Wholesale & Ware
house Workers Union, the employ
er spokesmen said the decision had
served "to clarity management's
right to talk to employees without
being guilty of unfair labor prac-
tees. Heretofore management has
been afraid to exercise this right,
due to fear of being charged with
coercion and intimidation"
He also expressed satisfaction
at what he called the "liberaliza-
tion in the viewpoint of the NLRB"
and gave particular credit to Ger
aid Reilly, former board member
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Trade Referendum In January
Local 18 Calls
Special Meeting
For Next Friday

Local Union No. Is, dippers, has
called a special meeting for Fri
day evening, Jan. 3, in their regu-
lar meeting hall at headquarters.
Business of vital Importance to be
cleared up before the slate is
marked clean for the new year
must be taken care of and officials
Of the local wish for full atten-
dance.
A delegate to the coming wage
conference with the manufacturers
will also be elected at this meet
ing, adding further proof to the
doubling Thomases of the neces-
sity of their presence on January
3rd.
We wish to take this means of
extending belated greetings of the
season to the members Of the Ex-
ecutive Board, the members Of the
Herald and office staffs at head
quarters, and to the trade in gen
eral.-O. c. Is.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Beo+s Rap In
Confempf Case

Washington (FP) Joseph
Kamp, wartime sedition trial de-
fendant, escaped conviction in fed
eral court Dec. 18 when a divided
jury could not reach a verdict on
charges that Kamp was in con-
tempt of Congress.
Kamp was charged with con-
tempt after he refused to tell a
House committee in 1914 who had
paid for scurrilous anti-labor and
anti Roosevelt campaign phamph-
lets he wrote as head of the Con-
stitutional Educational League,
Inc. Ramps lawyer argued that
his actions were educational, rath-
er than political.
Government prosecuting attor-
neys announced they would prob
ably seek an early retrial.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Lobor's Pro-veferon Policies Block
Efforts To Split Unions. Veterans

Veterans organizations that are
attempting to incite anti-labor
sentiment among their members
might do well to take a look at
some of these special union pro-
visions for veterans:
UNION FEES AND DUES: Al
most so per cent of AFL affiliates
have completely waived initiation
fees for incoming veterans while
Is per cent have cut fees. Only 15
per cent maintain their normal fee.
During the war more than 80 per
cent of the AFL Internationals
maintained servicemen's member
ship without any payment of dues.
JOB RIGHTS: The AFL led in
the fight to incorporate in the
selective service act. the principles
of retained seniority and job rights
for all union members while in
the service. It was sustained by
the u. S. supreme court in it op-
position to superseniority which
would have smashed organized
labor's carefully built seniority
system protecting all workers.
VACATION ELIGIBILIT Y:
AFL and CIO unions have fought
for the most liberal application of
vacation clauses for veterans in
union agreements. In practically
all contracts military service is
counted as "time employed" in de-
termining vacation time.
JOB ASSIGNMENTS, PAY
AND PROMOTIONS: Both AFL
and CIO contracts have special
clasues protecting promotion rights
of the veteran, stating that he will
be employed under the same con-
ditions as those to which he would
have been entitled had he remain
ed on the job. These contracts fire.
quently provide that if job for
merly held by a veteran is dis
continued, he will have a prefer
entail status when new openings
become available.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26

Enter Coast
Store Strike

Oakland, Calf. (FP)-A 3-mar
panel of the U. S. Cancellation
Service has entered the dispute be-
tween the Retail Merchants AS
sociation and the Retail Clerks In
ternational Association, and will
call a series Of meetings in an ef-
fort to settle the walkout that
brought about Oakland's general
AFL strike.
Meanwhile Kahn's and Hastings
stores, focal points of the contro-
versy, have applied for a court
order enjoining the union from
having more than two pickets at
each store, stationed at least 10
feet apart. Pending conciliation,
the two stores plan to stay open.
The Oakland AFL called gen.
eral strike after police broke pick
etlines at the stores to permit
strikebreakers to drive in truck
loads of scab merchandise. The
2R-day general shutdown won
from the city management a
pledge not to use police for fur
ther strikebreaking.
President Charles w. Real of the
California Federation of Labor, in
accepting the offer of federal con-
ciliation, said he believed negotia-
tions have failed because the real
cause of the general walkout, the
Los Angeles strikebreakers, had
not been removed when negotia-
tions started. At my request, these
strikebreakers have been removed
from the area"
James F. Galliano, the unions
attorney, said: "No progress can
be made until the employers agree
to reced from the full open shop.
The union is prepared to make
some adjustments on the union
shop but the employers have re-
fused to make immediate conces-
sions."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Lawyers Guild Asks
Break With Franco

Washington (FP) = A call fol
the United States to terminate
all diplomatic and commercial re-
lations with Franco Spain" was
made by the National Lawyers
Guild Dec. 8 in a statement by its
executive board.
The guild called for discontinu-
ance of the policy of strengthening
Franco by "sale Of military and
other supplies" and asked recogni-
ton of the Republican Govern
ment-in-exile.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
ITU Seeks Chainwide
Contract With Gannett

Rochester, N. Y. (FP)-A mas
ter contract to cover all news
papers in the Frank E. Gannett
chain which have agreements with
the International Typographical
Union was proposed by the union
as its strike against Gannett's two
daily newspapers in this city ap-
preached the 1-month mark.
ITU Vice President + II m e r
Brown said the union is seeking to
establish similar working condi-
tions on the Gannett newspapers
in New York, Illinois and Connecti-
cut.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Union Portal Claims
Exceed 800 Million.
IndustIyFriightened

New York (LPA) = Heavy industry has become so
frightened at the prospect of organized labor winning several
million dollars in suits for retroactive portao-porta pay
under the WageHour Act that many firms consider
ing much greater resistance to demands than they
had originally planned
Attorneys for companies affiliated with the National
Association of Manufacturers admitted week that they
expect the number of legal already amounting
than $500 0O0-o SNOWFALL during coming months
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
CONVENTION TO BE HELD

Cincinnati, O. (ILNS)-The 1947
convention of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employees international
Alliance and Bartenders' Interna-
tional League, will be held in Mil
waukee beginning April 4, the
unions general executive board
has decided.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Vote Will Decide
Increasing Death
Insurance Benefits

Ballots mailed from headquarters this week to all
union secretaries for the referendum the trade
be taken January, determine the trade sentiment
creasng death benefits of the Brotherhood to
$4,000.
Various locals throughout the trade have sponsored
utions from time time for increasing insurance benefits
and subject the floor for discussion several
conventions.
Tie sentiment Enthusiastically has been for substantial
expansion of insurance benefits but there has been wide
variance requirements for increased amounts In the
convention year the matter again became of the main
following discussion submit
asking for referendum of the trade
to determine the and for all.
February TO-
official ballot which members
express choice change constitution
ballots
immed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26

when the trade is be taken the ballot shall be open
meeting for month"; and the members shall have
the recording their
during the month Every member shall from the roll
the shall sealed and counted until all have
been recorded on the last meeting night"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
s A MPLE B BALLOT 7

instructions delegates in the 1916 Convention and
authority Board under section 66 the following amendment
National Constitution is submitted for the
bers approval disproyal:
Fifteen years membership with four years
tinuous good standing S4C0OO 1-
Twenty years active membership with four
tinuous good standing 10000
payable death will effective March 1t,
a. amended will read follows:
continuous good standing 5000
Two years continuous good standing 10000
Three continuous good standing 10000
continuous good standing 10000
active membership with years
tinuous good standing
Fifteen years active membership with four years
tinuous good standing g----- 10000
Twenty active membership with four years
tinuous good standing 10000
IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT
OPPOSED TO THE AMENDMENT
Evening star., 1946-11-27

, The duchess, whose title puts her
one rung below the royal family
in Britain's titled hierarchy, was
born Jessie Snlithers and appeared
in musical comedy under the name
of Denise Orme. Before marrying
the duke early this year, she had
been married to the late Lord
Churston and to Theodore William
Vessel.
She is the mother of Princess
Ali Khan, Baroness Eburyn, Coun-
tess -Cadogan and the present Lord
ChurSton
The Board of Trade, which
brought the action, claimed that
Mrs. Lyle purchased gowns with
coupons which later proved to be
forgeries.
On tracing back the coupons, the
prosecuting solicitor said, it was
found that Mrs. Lyle got them from
her mother, the duchess. The prose-
'cVtor added that the duchess got
the coupons from Greenhouse, who
got them from Beaumont. The
pub employe said he got them from
a Soldier named Perry, who had
more than he wanted"
The duchess Gid not say which
of her girls was anticipating twins.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
By the Associated Press

BY the AsSoeiofed fress
DIES MONIES, Nov. T.-Twe
teen-age youths were in custody to-
day charged with robbery OF Car
isle 1owa) bank in which a woman
employe was shot and $4,527.90 taken
last Saturday.
Percy WHY II, FBI agent, an
nounced at Fort Worth. Tex, last
night the arrest of Joe Doyle Ban
ming. 10, in connection with the rob-
berry, only a few hours after FBl
agents here revealed the arrest OF
Jay Earl Willis, II.
Both youths have admitted the
robbery. the FBI said Officers re-
ported recovery of a total OF $3,-
738. so from the two, an airmail pack
age containing $2,l10 being inter
cepted at Fort Worth yesterday.
The youths lived in Des MONIES
Willis had been living with a sister
and Banning had been rooming
there.
MIR. Wyly said Banning was ar
rested by city detectives and FBl
agents as he alighted from a taxlcah
In front of his mothers home.
Each has been charged with bank
robbery under a Federal statute
which carries maximum penalty
of Is. years.
Willis entered the Army at the
age of IA at nearby Camp Dodge in
December, 1943. by falsifying his
age. After he had served about two
months his real age was discovered
and he was honorably discharged
In October, 1914, he went to Santa
Fe, N. Mex, and enlisted in the
Navy. He was given another hon.
Evening star., 1946-11-27

orable discharge after five months
when his true age was discovered.
Willis, whose parents are dead,
admitted, the FBI said, that he was
the bandit who fired three machine
gun shots as the robbers entered
the bank. One of the shots struck
Florence Hinrichs, 10, a bookkeeper.
She is recovering in Des Moines
hospital.
The youth qualified as machine
gun expert in the Army.
The FBI said $1,628.50 had been
recovered at Willis home, along
with all the guns used and two
stolen from the bank.
The guns used were stolen from
the arsenal at Fort Des Moines last
November 2, the FBI added.
The FBI said the young men had
used a car rented in Des Moines,
and it was through it they were
apprehended.
In Fort Worth, Banning said ne
was given an honorable discharge
from the Army paratroops when he
enlisted under age.
He then enlisted in the Navy and
served in the Pacific as gunner 8
mate, third class. He was honor
ably discharged in August OF this
year under the point system, and
since then worked in steel mill at
Des Moines.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
ST. Paul PTA Asks
Emergency Action on
Teachers Strike
BY the Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 27.-The
st. Paul Council of Parents and
Teachers today called for emergency
City Council action to reopen n
grade and high schools which have
been strikebound since Monday and
picketed by their 1000 teachers,
seeking higher salaries.
The p. T.-A.' S entry into the strike
picture came as Gov. Edward j.
Thye summoned the Minnesota
legislative delegation from Ramsey
County, which includes st. Paul, to
meet with the eight-member strike
negotiating committee today. The
committee ended two days Of de-
liberation last night without reach
ing an accord and the teachers were
ordered back to their picket lines
today.
Mrs. Fred L. Paul. P. TIA. presi-
dent, sent city officials letter in
which the council proposed:
Immediate court action seeking to
have Federal and State aid NOM es
excluded from the $50 per capita
limitation placed on yearly munich
pal expenditures by the city char
ter and,
Updating Federal census figures,
q move the group estimated would
show a $4,000 population gain since
the 1910 Federal count, thus auto
matically permitting an additional
$1,500,000 yearly outlay within the
$50 limit.
Calling of the legislators indicated
today's negotiations would hinge on
possible State laws to relieve the
civic financial situation arising from
the charter provision, although no
committee member would comment.
The Minnesota Legislature convenes
January Z.
In Minneapolis. classes were being
held as usual while teachers there
continued to ponder settlement
offer.
The Minneapolis settlement offer
proposes an ultimate 81 800 top sal
ary as against the present $4,000.
In ST. Paul, the strikers are asking
for a $2,400-S5,000 annual salary
range instead of the current $780,
$4,000 yearly schedule.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
(. Bartlett Hayward Dies
Al Rehoboth Beach Home
BY the Assoeiated Press

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del, Nov
17-E. Bartlett Hayward, former
president of the Bartlett Hayward
Co., now a division of the Koppers
Co., died Monday at his Rehoboth
Beach home and will be buried in
Baltimore today.
Mr.. Hayward was born in Balti-
more in November, 1882, and was
graduated in 1906 from Harvard
University.
He then became associated with
the Hayward Co., eventually becom-
ing president. When Howard Bruce
was elected company president, Mr.
Hayward became chairman OF the
board, holding that post until his
retirement shortly after the end
of World War I.
Surviving are his widow, the
former Gladys Mason Of Baltimore
and two sisters.
Mr.. Hayward lived in Rehobotf
Beach the last seven years.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
By the Assosiofsd Press

LONDON, Nov. 27.-The 60-year-
old Duchess of Leinster, thrice
married former musical comedy
star and the mother of a countess,
princess, a baroness and a lord,
drew $42 fine in Magistrate S
Court yesterday on charges of at
tempted clothing ration violations.
She was accused together with
her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Lydia
Lyle, and a pub employe and a
truck driver of trying to get around
|ratloring rules through the use of
forged coupons.
The duchess told the magistrate:
zone of my girls was shortly to
have twins and I was very hard
put to it to try to find enough
things for her. My daughter asked
Iif I could give her coupons. Dur
ing the war I lost all 1 possessed
through enemy action, and I had to
work for my living with a result
all my coupons were going to my
girls.
The magistrate fined Mrs. Lyle
$40. William Beaumont, an en-
playe of the public house, Prince
of Wales, was fined $40. and the
truck driver, Robert Greenhouse,
was fined $40.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
Monkey Eats Rotion Book

MADRID, Spain-Marcelino Boto,
a city employe, expects to meet with
skepticism when he applies for a
new ration book. His was eaten by
his pet monkey.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
Mrs. Emily A. George
Rites Planned Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Emily A.
George, IA, who died Sunday at
Hillandale, Md, will be held at 2
pm. today at the Takoma Funeral
Home. Burial will be in Fort Lin
coin Cemetery.
Mrs George was the wife of the
late Henry George. A native of
Brooklyn, N. Y, she came to Ia
koma Park with her husband about
80 years ago.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs Annie l.. Degering, Hillandale,
and Mrs Marie E. Walker, WASH
ington, and five grandchildren.
Evening star., 1946-11-27
Union Meets to Discuss
RoyoI Typewriter Strike
BY the Associoied Press

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Nov, 27.-A
general membership meeting o1
Local 265, United Electrical, Radio
and Machine Workers of America
CIO, was scheduled today to dis
cuss the strike against the Royal
Typewriter Co., which started OIL
cially at midnight, a union spokes-
man said.
approximately $500 OF the COM
pany's 5000 employees are members
OF the local, which is demanding
a general increase of 10 per cent
for all workers. The company has
stated it cannot pay the increase.