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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
QUOTATIONS

The end of all scientific instruments and
the atomic bomb will be destruction unless
we can control them IN the heart. 1t can't be
done by force. which is a lesson we learned
in the last 10 years. We can compel NOBODY
to be good.
Rev. Dr.. Harold A. Cockburn OF Dumfrles,
Scotland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03

they gazed with startled amaze
ment at these new intruders into
their sylvan retreats, little know
ing that they were the forerunners
of far more formidable persecu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-03
Stories OF The old Plantations,
Cape Fear Riuer Region
From Manuscript by
DIR. JOHN HAMPDEN HILL

Presented the Honorable Gsoas 9Y HSnyy DR. 1.s HILL in RI ass oa Te in h pass" ae e S Te@a of '"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
War Crimes TrioIs Far From
Complete. Jackson Tells Trumon

parts were at lower levels and
have been less conspicuous"
Jackson said his deputy, Brig.
Gen. Telford Taylor, "has assem-
bled staff and prepared a pro-
gram of prosecutions against rep
resentatives of all the important
segments of the Third Reich in
cluding a considerable number of
industrialists and financiers, lead
ing cabinet ministers, top SIS and
police officials and militarists."
He said they were making a
careful analysis of the Nuremberg
decision "to determine any effects
of the acquital of Schacht and Won
Papen upon this plan of prosecu-
tion of industrialists and financi-
ers who are clearly subject to
prosecution on such specific
charges as the use of slave labor"
Expressing satisfaction in the
precedent of international judg-
ment of war criminals, Jackson
contended, however, that in his
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|Eighf-Yeor-Old
Minimum Wage
Is Out Of Dufe

New York, N. Y.-A substantial
increase in the minimum wage
provision of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Actin line with the original
intent of the Congress and with
present economic conditions
stands out as the most important
proposal to amend this basic wage
and hour law, which went into eff
feet eight years ago on October
"a.
This is emphasized by L. Met
calfe Walling, Administrator of
the Wage and Hour and Public
Contracts Divisions, U. S. Depart
ment of Labor, in a statement
marking the anniversary of the
law.
although only eight years old,
the Wage and Hour Law already
has been accepted by labor and in
dustry alike as a kind of economic
charter for the low-paid workers
of America" Mr.. Walling stated.
However, as was so clearly shown
in testimony from all sources
during the last session of the Con-
gress, the 40 cents per hour mini
mum wage provision under the law
is pitifully inadequate today; the
minimum wage must be increased
to at least IS cents an hour"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Pickefs Trail
Defverymen

San Diego, Calf. (FP) - Ar
enraged attempt by the owner OF
an unfair" dry cleaning estab-
lishment to prevent pickets from
following his drivers right to the
customers doorstep fell flat here
Robert Montgomery, president
Of the San Diego Dry Cleaners
Association and owner of the
American Cleaners, one of the
city's largest businesses of its
kind, had demanded that pickets
who followed his drivers to inform
customers of the company's "un-
fair" listing be arrested as ''nuis-
ances."
His stand was fully supported
by Councilman G. c. Crary, him.
self a laundry owner. However, the
council was sobered by the advice
from City Attorney Jean F. Du-
Paul that the state and u. S.
supreme courts had ruled picketing
"a manifestation of free speech" +"
giving local authorities little or no
leeway in clamping restrictions on
peaceful picketing.
Secretary Treasurer AL Pitts of
Local 424, International Brother
hood Of Teamsters commented that
the picketing tactic was "legiti-
mate and peaceful means Of re-
questing public support"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Shdrpened
Anti-Lubor
Cd1npdign
Workers W.rned
20 Be On Guard

Chicago (FP) = Visioning an
other stiff fight ahead against
anti-labor legislation on both ma
\tional and state fronts, the AFL
: convention here Oct. II called on
workers to acquaint themselves
with all such measures and "exert
ourselves to bring about their de-
feat"
After reviewing recent battles
against repressive laws, the reso-
lutions committee reported that it
is "most apprehensive Of recent
tendency on the part of state
courts to reestablish the evil of
government by injunction.
"The Norris La Guardia act was
passed to remove that evil and de-
prive the federal courts of juris-
diction to issue injunctions in labor
disputes. However, many states
have not enacted similar laws and
a number of courts in many states
have issued oldtime injunctions
prohibiting workers from striking,
peaceful picketing, boycotting and
from engaging in any other peace
full economic pressure.
"Your committee is alarmed and
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Note To Jergens
Journal: Strike
Enters 9th Month

Burbank, Calf. (FP) = Waite
Winchell, the man who knows tn
inside story of everything and tell
all to millions of radio listerner:
via the Jergens Journal, is keeping
it dead secret.
But members of the Information
al Brotherhood of Teamsters who
have been on strike for eight
months at the local plant of his
sponsors are letting the country
know that the world famed "liber-
al" commentator is being backed
by a company which could give
even S. l.. Avery a few lessons in
unionbusting.
The workers, members of Gen
eral Warehousemen's Local 598
have been fighting for six years
for union recognition and wage in
creases. After the company had
three times refused to abide by
War Labor Board decisions order
ing it to bargain with the. union
of its 100 Burbank employees, the
men walked out in disgust on Feb.
Is.
The company's answer was to
continue it's unionbusting, law
breaking tactics by sending a let
ter to every worker telling him he
was fired. There has been no pro-
duction at the Burbank plant since
then and though the company has
shipped its products Including the
lotion which gives us WinchelPs
"lotions of love") from outside
plants, very few Los Angeles
drugstores are carrying the scab
product.
The fight for a union at Jergens
began in 1910 when the workers
organized a union of their own but
were denied collective bargaining
rights by management. In 1912
they were given a federal charter
by the AFL and won an NLRB
election hands down. But manage
ment still refused to bargain.
The Jergens workers appealed to
the WLB and won a decision
ordering the company to pay in
creases and bargain. Management
the decision and the
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Washington (FP)-The night of
Oct. Is, as II top Nazi war con-
spirators went to death in Nuern-
berg, American Prosecutor Robert
H. Jackson warned President Tru-
man that the work of Furnishing
war criminals was far from COM
plete.
although my personal under
taking is at an end," Jackson re-
ported in resigning his commission
as prosecutor, "any report would
be incomplete and misleading
which failed to take account of the
general war crimes work that re-
mains undone and the heavy bur-
den that falls to successors in this
work.
"a very large number of Ger
mans who have participated in the
crimes remains unpunished. There
are many industrialists, militar-
lists, politicians, diplomats and
police officials whose guilt does
not differ from those who have
been convicted except that their
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24

New York (FP) - Even before
meat began reappearing on long
empty counters throughout the U.
S. Oct. Is, butchers were posting
notices of price increases ranging
from 25 per cent to 100 per cent.
Although President Truman's
decontrol order was not expected
to end the overall shortage of
meat obtained from cold storage
and black market dealers. Former
OPA ceilings were left in the saw
dust as many butchers demanded,
and got, flat "dollar-a-pound for
everything you see."
In Chicago, cattle, hog and
sheep prices staged the greatest l.
day advances in the meat indus
try's history, but receipts were be-
low those Of a week ago, both
locally and nationally.
Top grade hogs jumped in one
day from $16.25 to $27.50 a hum
dred pounds, an all-time record.
Cattle prices reached $28.75 a hum
dred pounds, short of the all-time
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Prices Zoom To High Level As
DeconfroI Shorpens InfIotion

record set last August during the
price control holiday, but $3.50
over the former ceiling of s20.25.
Lambs also scored an all-time
high, going up 81 to S25.
Receipts at the IL leading mar
kets in the u. S. were $4,000 cat
tie, compared with 41,l00 the week
before. Agriculture Department
reports showed that the week be-
fore Truman yielded to demands
of the big meat packers, meat pro-
duction had gone up 20 per cent.
Truman's action, according to
Agriculture Department experts,
would mean a little more meat
now but smaller overall supply
during the next few months.
By the time a steady flow of
meat comes into retail markets,
prices will probably level off to at
least 35 per cent more than the
OPA ceilings, observers predicted.
Lifting OF meat controls was ex-
pected to open the floodgates of
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Soys Macarthur
Wars Against
japanese Unions

New York (FP)-Gen. Douglas
Macarthur is warning against
Japan's fast-growing unions in an
attempt to swing Japan to the
right and strengthen the hold of
the Zaibatsu financial interests,
Amerasia charges in it's October
issue.
Although Japanese labor has
moved at remarkable pace with a
total union membership of almost
three million, "quasi-slave labor
conditions continue to exist in
Japan under the nose of the occu-
patton forces" says the magazine
article, Ersatz Democracy for
Japan. "The boss system, child
labor, and other vicious practices
are still not abolished.
"The reason for this is that al
though our directives commit US to
a policy favoring independent ac-
tion on the part of the people, in
the past few months whenever the
people have taken steps to advance
their own interests under the
terms of the Potsdam declaration,
we have not only obstructed these
attempts, but actually intervened
in a spirit hostile to that declara-
tion."
Intervention on labor issues by
the Supreme Command Allied
Powers "has always occurred when
labor attempted either to express
itself politically or when it's ac-
tions appeared to embarrass the
Yoshida cabinet and Zaibatsu in
terests," it saws:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Labor Must Have
Freedom, Warren
Tells Federation

Chicago-Without labor's. free.
dom to write it's own contracts
Ehere can be little democracy and
mo labor movement in the United
States. This was the message
given the delegates to the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor Conven-
tion by Edgar L. Warren, Director
of the u. S. Cancellation Service,
U. S. Department of Labor.
With praise for the cooperation
Commissioners of Cancellation
are receiving from the AFL and
it's affiliated unions, Mr.. Warren
declared: "Few people are in a
position to know better than l,
what heroic efforts your officers
have made to maintain industrial
peace during the most trouble
some period in our economic his
>tory."
81 am glad" he said, "that you
are putting your full reliance on a
policy of free collective bargain
ing. Today ! am pledging to you
the full cooperation of our Serv-
ice to strengthen the freedom to
bargain. l ask you to remember
that the Cancellation Service ex-
lists solely for the purpose of as
sisting both employers and unions
TO reach agreements without long
and costly strikes. We have no law
to enforce, no authority to dictate
the terms Of any settlement. Our
services are voluntary.
Certainly, during the next year,
the most important decisions for
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Union Lubel
Show Opens
On Tuesday
POtters To Have
Feature Display

The vanguard of potters to mar
the pottery exhibit at the Union
Label Exhibition in st. Louis will
leave East Liverpool this week enc
to have everything in readiness foI
the opening of the show on Tues
day, Oct. 20.
President James M. Duffy, third
vice president of the Union Label
Trades Department Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, sponsors
of the show, said this week
Booth space has been sold to ca
pacity and is being rapidly allo-
Gated to qualified union manufac-
turers and merchandisers. who take
great pride in displaying the
Union Label on their products"
Practically all manufacturers of
ceramic products, employing mem
bers of the National Brotherhood
Of Operative Potters under work
ing agreement with the organiza-
ton, will display their ware at the
show. This in addition to the op-
portunity enabling visitors at the
show to witness the actual pro-
cessing of ware from the first
stages to the finished product,
tends to be one of the leading feat
ure displays at the Exhibition.
The salute to America on the
first day of the Exhibition-Tues-
day, October 29-will be broad
cast from st. Louis over the net
work of the National Broadcasting
Company, from 1900 (noon) to
1890, est. The speakers will be
Governor Phil M. Donnelly of Mis-
souri,; Mayor A. P. Kaufman of
st. Louis; President William Green
of the A. F. of L.; Secretary
Treasurer George Meany of the
A. F. of L., and Director of the
Exhibition, /. M. Ornburn.
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Cfficiuls At
L. u. s Purty
In Wheeling
Honor Veterans
For War Service

Wheeling, w. Va.-One of the
most successful social affairs in
the past several years took place
in the Trades and Labor Assembly
Hall following our regular month
ly meeting on Monday evening
Oct. 21st. AS special guests, the
members of Local Union No.
welcomed President James M.
Duffy, Secretary-Treasurer Chas.
Jordon and Vice Presidents Geo.
(Cotton) Turner and Jane s
Slaven. Our national executives all
spoke briefly and President Duffy
summed up his address expressing
the Trades sincere thanks to the
potters who served in the armed
forces during Uncle Sans great
est emergency.
Some three hundred were pres
! ent and danced to the melodies of
Harry PAGES orchestra, which fur
nished the music from $3.50 until
IL. Plenty of refreshments and
lunch were obtained for the affair
by the able committee headed by
Brother Louis Mountford.
In a spirit of cooperation, the
Warwick China Co., here in Wheel
ing donated finely decorated So
piece dinner set, and was won by
Mary Giovinazzo.
We wish to express our thanks
to the firm for it's contribution,
also to the committee on arrange
ments. These brothers and sisters
certainly worked diligently that
the rank and file of our member
ship might enjoy a fine evening.
Local 6's 0. c. is taking this
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DendndsEnd
Of OfWdge And
Price Control
Ask Fair Wage For
Services Rendered
BY TRAVIS X. HEDRICK

Chicago (FP) - wheeling init
action on the heels of President
Truman's announcement lifting
price control on meats, the AFI
convention called for removal o1
all controls but those on rents anc
demanded dissolution of the Wage
Sterilization Board as it prepared
for an all-out wage drive.
President John P. Frey of the
Metal Trades Department read the
report Of the resolutions commit
tee, of which he is secretary, in
which the body called on the AFL
ito take immediate and positive
steps toward terminating the ma
tional Wage Sterilization Board"
This section, along with the others,
was adopted unanimously by the
$50 delegates.
Coupled with these demands, the
report hoisted the signals for an
immediate wage drive, calling high
wages "the distinctively American
policy" and warning that "indus-
tries and business undertakings
which cannot pay high wages are
enterprises self-convicted of ineffi-
cheney and waste. Business enter
prises that can pay high wages
and do not are either shortsighted
as to future prosperity or else un-
willing to shoulder the full costs
Of maximum prosperity"
After fair rates Of pay have
been determined by management
and labor, sustained progress re
quires that wage increases be paid
out Of increased output" the re-
port said.
AFL unions, it declared, must
exercise good judgment and dis
cretion to secure our gains at the
least cost to ourselves and the
community. Our unions must be
far-sighted and insis-
tent upon wage rates that compen-
safe for services given.
"The wage earners Of the U. S.
are production partners in our
great and prosperous industries
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Local Union 124
Fovors Renewal
OF School Lew

Local Union 124 at their meeting
Tuesday evening endorsed the re-
newal of the 2-mill operating
school levy and urged all members
to see that their immediate fami-
lies support the measure at the
polls on Nov. 5th.
Bros. Claire Armstrong and
Harold West, delegates to the re-
cent West Virginia State Fedora
tion of Labor convention, made a
very good report of the activities
of the state body and what they
have accomplished during the past
year. Bro. Armstrong was honor
ed at the state meeting by being
chosen district vice president, and
will head a campaign drive in the
tri-state district to have all locals
affiliate with the state group,
whose portion of membership are
employed in the state of West Vir-
ginia.
With the social season at hand
the entertainment committee is
ready to start the ball rolling and
would Ike to have the opinion. Of
the membership as to just what
kind of entertainment they would
like. If you have a suggestion to
offer, come to our next meeting
and discuss it with the committee.
Members holding withdrawal
cards and returning to the trade
must deposit same within thirty
days or the card becomes null and
void and the holder of such card
shall be declared suspended.
President Armstrong urged
every member to give generously
to the fund now being raised to
aid our fellow workers in Man
w. Va. Their fight is our
fight, and it behooves each and
every one of US to support them
one hundred per cent.-O. C. 124,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
AMVETS Urge Raise
In Job Training Pay

Washington (FP) = Following
the lead of the American Legion
in protesting the hastily-enacted
5000 monthly income ceiling on
veterans training on the job un-
der the CT bill of Rights, AMVETS
National Commander Jack Hardy
Oct. 3 said the limit is inadequate
and inequitable."
Hardy said the AMVETS "hope
the next Congress will take the
remedial action Of allowing the
Veterans Administration to fix APP
propriate ceilings, as determined
by the economic factors in various
parts Of the country.
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whereby sufficient funds may be
raised for an overall membership
campaign.
Previous to this action George
Googe, AFL's southern organiza-
ton director, disclosed that the
AFL had gained nearly 100000
members in the southern states
campaign. President VILLA m
Green expressed the hope that the
AFL would come to its 1947 or
1948 convention with 10 million
members. The AFL now claims
more than 7 million members.
The pledge of the AFL to obtain
six hour work day and five day
work week was embodied in a res
olution that was adopted. 1t point
ed out that one of the main objects
of every trade union organization
is to obtain shorter working hours
as chronological improvements
cause "less and less" workers to be
needed.
Just before the convention ended
the delegates went on record as
"condemning the typrannical, des-
potic government" of Marshall
Tito's regime in Yugoslavia. A
resolution adopted by the delegates
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Peaceful Period
Threatened Says
Scribe From rs

Trenton, n. J.-All has been
very quiet on the Trenton Pottery
front for quite some time but
it looks as though we are going to
be awakened for while at least
Every once in a while some
small group has a grievance SO
they appear at the Local and put
over a motion for their benefit.
Should the motion not meet the
approval of some of the rest of
US who are not present, we i'm
mediately blame the Local, forget
ting we are to blame for being
absent and not presenting and
maintaining the other side of the
question.
This procedure may cause seri-
Gus trouble some day and we
would not be surprised to hear of
other locals having similar trouble.
The noise that awoke US this time
relates to the conveyor system of
casting sanitary. We now have
three of these outfits, two for
tanks and one for lavatories. On
October IA night shift was
started. Previous to starting, these
men came to the Local and asked
that they rotate with the day crew
and after much discussion that
was decided on in spite of a mo-
ton to lay it over for one week,
call a special meeting and get
more representative opinion.
We believe the majority feel
that rotation is the only fair way,
but some of the day crew thought
they were having something pull
ed over on them and others claim
they were promised when taking
conveyor jobs they would not be
asked to work night shifts.
One thing that all have agreed
upon is that the present offer of
five cents an hour extra is not
enough to compensate for all the
inconvenience of working nights.
The Conference Committee will
take this up with the firm and we
sincerely hope something will be
done about it.
At present the rotation is to
take place every four weeks as it
was suggested. This would give
the men a chance to get accustom-
ed to sleeping during the day,
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AFL Votes
Boost In Per
Capita Tdx
Smaller Unions
Oppose Measure

Chicago (FP)-After a steady
parade of AFL executive council
members had beaten down a vocal
opposition, the 65th convention
Oct. is adopted report OF its
law committee increasing per
capita taxes to help carry on a
broadened program of organiza-
ton.
Charges from delegates of the
smaller unions that the councils
recommendation favored the larger
AFL affiliates by granting them
lower per capita tax after 2OO,-
900 members resounded through
the convention hall.
The council proposed changing
the present per capita tax Of liz
cents per member per month up
to 100000 members, l cent over
300, 900 and 35l5 cents per member
for federal labor unions and local
unions to 2 cents per member per
month up to 100000, ~ cents per
member over that, and 80 centS
per member for federal labor
unions and local unions.
Chairman David Dubinsky Of the
law committee offered the execu-
tive councils report and was inn
mediately followed by delegate
James Killen of the Pulp Sulphite
& Paper Mill Workers, who offer
ed minority report.
Killen's report was an amend
ment to make the differential come
into operation at 100000 members
rather than 100000. "Basically we
believe there should be no differ
entail whatever" he said amid
vigorous applause. He charged
that the original vote in the law
committee was IL to in favor of
his position but that overnight the
members switched to vote II to 2
for the council.
Delegate Peter G. Noll of United
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