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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
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BY Federated Press

Milwaukee, Wis.-Police arrest
ed '16 pickets Dec. a to bring to
well over $50 the total arrests in
the violent and bloody 7-month
struggle of Allis-Chalmers work
ers for decent wages and working
conditions.
Oakland, Calif.-The 2-day gen
eral strike that almost complete
ly shut down Oakland and several
neighboring cities ended when
City Manager John f. Hassler
yielded to a union demand that
police not be used to break picket
lines.
Washington Commenting on
the federal court finding of the
United Mine Workers and UNIV
President John l.. Lewis, AFL
President William Green warned
American labor will never accept
court injunctions, punishment and
penalties, force and involuntary
servitude."
Jackson, Miss.-The Senate COM
paign investigating committee
heard evidence from dozens of
Negroes that beatings were used
to keep them from voting in the
Mississippi Democratic primary
election which saw Sen. Theodore
Bilbo renominated to the Senate.
Philadelphia-Shocked by reve-
lations of police brutality, a jury
found Ia union men not guilty of
charges of rioting, melting to riot,
and unlawful assembly during the
General Electric strike last Feb
ruary.
Atlanta, Ga.-The AFL has won
about 25O,000 new members in it's
current southern organizing drive,
Southern Director George l.. Googe
told a meeting of the AFL south
ern organizing policy board.
Philadelphia-The United Mine
Workers catch-all District so
moved in on the waterfront here
by signing closed shop contracts
with five steamship companies.
The contracts cover 1,5C0 masters,
chief engineers and deck officers.
Washington Vigorous opposi-
tion to emasculation of the Wag-
ner act and a call for repeal of the
Smith, Connolly act were highlight
resolutions passed at the Labor
Departments 18th national confer
ence on labor legislation, attended
by 200 representatives of all
branches of organized labor and
state labor commissioners.
Philadelphia - Picketing major
news stands has helped striking
members of the American News
paper Guild here and i'm Camden,
N. j. to slash the circulation Of j.
David Stern's Record and Courier
Post 25 to 35 per cent.
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around our nation, or if we do,
someone will kick hole in it.
The world moves toward one-a
ness. 1t moves toward universal
implementation.
Russia and/ or the United
States nobody talks about any
other nations-may build wall,
but the wall won't stand.
We turn our minds backward
when we seek deliberately to plaF
isolationism.
There is a certain kind of vic
Gus reason to arming to the teet,
with all Of the astounding weapos
now in existance, and protection
against aggression. But that in
itself, is an admission that isiola-
tionism is dead.
There may be certain kind of
sense to it--maybe even logicEbut
it is the wrong way.
Our hope lies in putting every
thing we have into, not only bid
for peace and international coop
Grafton, but in taking off on r. coats
and working like blazes for it,.
Another war wouldn't -have such
places as Okinawa ahds Guam in
the headlines. 1t would have Phil
adelphia and Detroit and San
Francisco and Washington in the
headlines. @ F
Those who talk of isolationism
are talking for another war and
for those headlines.
Maybe it wasn't Shakespeare
who said "shut up, you foop, but
he might have.-CMW. 4
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third quarter of 1916 has reached
173 billion dollars, highest in U. S
history.
Wason is evidently never dis.
turbed by the existance of facts
On Nov. ID at Atlantic City he
said to a meeting of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards
that the real estate business was
"an industry oppressed for four
years, denied the right to living,
denied relief such as has been
granted to other segments Of the
economy.
Real estate biggies listening to
Wason's speech laughed up their
well-tailored sleeves as they ap-
plauded his remarks. They knew
that with apartments and CONNER
cial establishments 100 per cent
rented, with the costs for painting
and repairs materially reduced
Landlords are now permitted to
paint every three or four years in
stead of the previous 1E or two
years., with under-the-table bon
uses for renting apartments or
commercial establishments, land
lords were making more money
than they had ever made. And Real
Estate Board profit figures bear
that out-OPA figures reveal that
landlords are making 249 per cent
msse than in 1889.
American newspapers to be
charitable--have their blind spots.
On Oct. %, the New York World
Telegram wrote editorially: "It
took brave man to vote his con-
victions in Bulgaria yesterday. The
contrast between Sundays Bulgar-
ian elections and those i'm our 48
states next week is too significant
to be missed"
We don't know about the cleo
tions in Bulgaria, but we do know
the World Telegram is dispensing
baloney about our own elections.
We do know that it takes brave
Negro to "vote his convictions
if he can even get near the polls
in our southern states.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
Police Jail Is
In Picket Line

Milwaukee, Wis. (FP) - Police
arrested l6 more pickets here to
bring to well over $50 the total
arrests in the violent and bloody
7-month struggle of Alis-Chalmers
workers for decent wages and
working conditions.
The new arrests came as an
estimated $1,000 members of this
community conducted their second
mass demonstration in 10 days be-
fore the Allis-Chalmers gates in
nearby West Allis in fulfillment
Of their pledge to give continuing
support to the strike until it ends.
Scores were injured in the 3H-
hour demonstration and one pick
ct was so badly mauled by police
that he required disqualification.
By hating work at noon, locals
Of the United Auto Workers at the
Seaman Body plaut in Milwaukee
and the Nash plant in Kenosha
provided the largest mass support
for their brother unionists on the
disclaimers lines. Dozens of
other unions in the county and
state were also represented.
The atmosphere bristled with
tension throughout the demonstra-
tion because Of the presence of
more than LOCO law enforcement
officers, including police, deputies,
plainclothesmen and a large corps
of specially deputized goons con
cealed in company buildings and
brought out during the skirmishes
as reserves.
District Attorney William j. Nc
Cauley said here he would investi-
gate charges of leaders that police
were seizing innocent
pickets from the lines and sub
jecting them to questioning and
brutal treatment on company prop
erty.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
Rail Chiefs Hit
Government + Role
In Mine Dispute

Washington (FP)-Terming the
use of injunction and oppression
of the miners "reprehensible and
repugnant to a free people," the
Railway Labor Executives Asso-
citation Dec. assailed the attitude
of the government in dealing with
the United Mine Workers.
There rested on the govern
ment," the RLEA statement said,
"the duty and responsibility to
deal fairly and equitably with the
complaints and requests Of the
mine workers for an adjustment of
their hours of work, wages and
conditions of employment. Certain
ly government dedicated to the
principles of fairness and equality
for all could do no less.
"The lack of imagination and
craftsmanship in dealing with the
the problem clearly demonstrates
a total failure properly to appreci-
ate the national interest and the
fundamental responsibilities Of
government"
The association, made up of rep
resentatives of rs AFL and unaf-
filiated real unions, called for a
presidential commission to settle
the miners complaints with its
recommendations binding on all
parties, an immediate return to
work in the mines, and dismissal
of the government contempt case
against the UNIV and it's presi-
dent, John L. Lewis.
President A. F. Whitney Of the
Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men, not member of the RLEA,
commented: 81 am grieved to learn
that men who struggle for liv-
ing under the ground mining coal
should be required to pay
fine merely because they have
asked for succor in democratic
country" He also expressed regret
at hearing Of the $4,000 fine inn
posed on Lewis who, Whitney said,
''was merely acting to assist his
membership"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
Personal Mention

C. 0. Bortner, clayshop foreman
at the w. S. George pottery in
East Palestine, is up and around
again following a three-week ill
ness. He resumed his duties at the
shop this week.
William Vile, president of Local
Union 81, East Palestine, was an
East Liverpool visitor last week.
Firemen were called to the Ster-
ling China plant in Wellsville last
week when fire was detected in
the straw shed. The fire was ex-
tinguished before the arrival of
the fire laddies.
Many potters from Sebring,
Salem, East Palestine and sur
rounding districts were in East
Liverpool last Saturday to witness
the Christmas parade staged by
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
of this city.
Sam Burford of Green County,
Va. honorary member Of the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters was an East Liverpool
visitor last week, stopping in at
headquarters.
George Newton Of Trenton, N.
j., fifth vice president of the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters, has returned to his bench
at the Scammell China Company
following a recent illness.
The Kingwood Novelty Pottery
Company of East Palestine, en-
ploying approximately 100 potters
which suspended operations last
week because of the freight en-
barge, following the coal stoppage,
will not resume production until
after Christmas, officials of the
firm announced this week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
By MIRIAM KOLKIN

New York (FP)-The New York
Times carried a real man bites-dog
story Dec. 5. The National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers, it report
ed, was going to stop being reac-
tionary.
After conducting its own inves-
tigation, Federated Press can re-
port that the millennium is NOT
here and the NAM is NOT going
to stop carrying the ball for re-
action. 1t is only going to conceal
the ball a little more cleverly than
in former years.
According to the Times, Bit
ter behind the scenes battle ragged
in the NAM board of directors
meeting, with the spokesmen for
certain automobile and steel in
terests losing out in their demand
that the NAM advocate repeal of
the Wagner act and an allout fight
against unions.
Pressure of the forthcoming
wage increase drives i'm the auto
and steel industries undoubtedly
was responsible for this reported
split, but it is also undoubtedly a
split on tactics and does not in
volve any sudden change of heart
by the NAM.
Actually, the NAM is out to
capture public opinion for its SIDE
before the 1913 elections and it
realizes this will require a little
more liberal window-dressing than
usual.
The dilemma of big business,
which now finds itself again in the
seat of government, but can only
gibber about government controls
and power-mad unions to explain
the coming economic bust, was
clearly expressed by Holcombe
Parks, the MANS vice president
in charge of public relations.
Justly or not" he said, "the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
Dixie Operators
Want Finish
Fiqhf With Lewis

Washington (FP) - Furt h r
proof that the bituminous coal
operators want a finish fight with
the United Mine Workers in the
federal governments struggle with
the union came Dec 3 with the an
nounced resignation Of President
Edward r. Burke of the Southern
Coal Producers Association.
Burke, former reactionary SEN
ator from Nebraska and long a
key fighter in the owners strug-
gle against the UNIV, was under
attack for proposing a resumption
Of negotiations in order to get
back into the coal production.
At the same time the associa-
tion announced it would make no
effort to negotiate a contract with
the UNIV until the operation of
the mines is resumed G. e. the
UNIV ignore its mo contract, no
work policy.)
me ISSUE DeIWeel tnc govern
ment Mr.. John L. Lewis is
whether or not Mr.. Lewis will re-
tract his attempted abrogation of
the Krug- Lewis agreement and put
the mines back in operation. When
the operations of the mines is re-
sumed, then the question of order
ly negotiation of a collective bar
gaining agreement will become an
appropriate one"
The statement issued. without
Burke present, came after Lewis
had been found in contempt of the
federal court here.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
THE CHERRY TREE

So, we hear talk that isolation
ism is going to gain a bit of
strength in our nations capital.
Isn't that funny? Isn't that
crazy?
1t is to be doubted that there
will be any great isolationist
strength, but we have not yet
learned to forecast the future with
accuracy, nor tell for sure what
will be the percentage of insanity
in the future.
There are those who still think
we can lock ourselves up within
our own borders and let the rest of
the world go round us.
Nice childish idea, isn't it?
Every isolationist ought to
spend few hours talking with
B-29 pilot--and even the B-29 is
already dwarfed by ships that fly
to any point on the globe and back
again after dropping 'pay load"
at its destination.
And, too, there is the guided
missile that goes all alone to its
destination, there to do it's damage.
Isolation died with long range
super-flying and with the atomic
bomb.
And try as we might to isolate
ourselves. the rest of the world
won't let US do it.
There was a poet who wrotes,
backward, turn backward, oh,
time in they flight. Make me a boy
again, just for tonight"
But actually yesterday is gone
yesterday and its ways-and it
won't come back.
AS some of these columns have
said, the speed of programs is ac-
celerated constantly. What once
took hundred years to happen
may happen now in year.
For almost 1000 years the hu-
man race reaped its grain with
cycle and bound and threshed it by
hand.
The atomic bomb scientists
worked just two years and then
Nagasaki went blooey.
Many adults can remember the
first Model T-the "tin Lizzie.
compare it with the sleek cars to-
day, with their beauty and THEIR
POWER.
Our Revolutionary War was
fought largely with flint locks and
most schoolboys of today wouldn't |
know one of the old guns if they |
saw it.
Ten years ago people would |
gasp in awe at an electric eye at
work.
Remember the first airplane
flight across the English Channel
1t was an astounding thing at the
time and most people didn't think
it proved anything.
The stuff Of isolationism is
washed out. The conditions that
made it possible to have the high
tariff of McKinley's day have van
lshed. We cannot build a wall |
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True Union Spirit



upon the mercy of the court by adj
mitting that he had not been duly
Informed Of his duties. The fine
was suspended when evidence sub
staniated his claim. Steps will be
taken to officially inform all mem
bers in the future.
Due to our next meeting falling
on the eve of Christmas, the regul-
arly scheduled meeting for that
week has been postponed. Members
are requested to make note of
this change.
Official notification from head
quarters informed US the benefi-
Charles of the late Bro. John Dim
merling had received his insurance
check for the amount of $200.00.
The auditing committee com
posed of Bros. John Weber and
Louis Rodell made their report as
finding the funds of the local sol
vent. They were extended a vote
OF thanks for their services.
A technical point involving the
presentation of withdrawal card
for admittance into the union
found many taking the floor to ex-
press their opinion. The issue was
finally settled in conformity with
the laws of the organization.
Due to the short notice regard
ing the wage conference to be held
next month, the election Of dele
gates to the parley will be held at
a special meeting called for Sat
urday evening, Dec. IA in our regu-
lar meeting hall at headquarters.
This was brought about when
many expressed their opinion that
a full attendance should be on
hand to pick those best qualified
for the job.
Our sincere sympathy is extend
ed Bro. Harry Podewels in the re-
cent death Of his father. The mem
bers went in body TO the funeral
home to view the remains.-O. c.
~,
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Potter Killed

(Continned From Page One)
lon spent most of his life in East
Palestine. He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and the
Eagles Lodge in East Palestine,
and Local Union So, National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters.
Surviving are his wife, Pearl,
decorator employed at Edwin M.
Knowles; a brother, Evan Dillon
of Rochester, N. Y, and a half
brother, William Lewis of Green
vile, Pa.
Funeral services will be held at
1:3O p. m. Friday at the home in
East Palestine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
NAM Covers It's Fdnqs---
But Unsheuthes It's Claws

American people are expecting
miracles to happen after Jan. 3.
They will be looking to business
and a Congress admittedly less
disposed to badger business, to
pull rabbit after rabbit out Of their
economic and legislative hats"
The nearest thing to rabbit the
NAM can produce is Senator
Joseph Ball, whose pondercus
Foundations, used to sheath the
antilabor knife, typify the public
interest" approach the NAM is
adopting. (When I asked an NAM
public relations man why no rep
resentatives of labor had been in
vited to address this meeting, as
in former years, he replied in
shocked tones: "Why, we have los
of labor speakers. We have the
foremost authority on labor affairs
in the country" He was referring
to Ball, of course.)
The 1000 NAM delegates, whom
Ball addressed at their Dec. 5
luncheon, were quick to scent all
the unionbusting implications in
his speech. They had cheered lust
lily at the morning session when
Senator Harry f. Byrd said Of
the the coal walkout: "Crush this
great national strike and we will
have no others" They gave Ball an
even greater reception when he
outlined some of the Substantial
changes" he predicted the 8Oth
Congress would make in labor leg
islation.
Ball would not repeal the Wag-
ner act. He would merely amend
it. Amend it to make all NLRB
decisions subject to court review,
amend it to give employers the
right to petition for elections at
any time they chose, amend it to
prohibit jurisdictional strikes,
amend it to permit employers to
discharge workers who are on
strike and request new election.
This last proposal brought the
Nantes to their feet, yelling ap-
proval. In addition Ball proposed
outlawing secondary boycotts,
maintenance of membership, union
and closed shops; regulation of in
dustry wide bargaining and other
methods of restoring to manage
ment equal rights" with unions.
Employers, he insisted to great APP
plause, should take the initiative
in dealing with Communist or
racketeering" union leadership.
Balls proposals paralleled in
many instances the industrial re-
lations program the NAM dele
gates were expected to adopt. Fur
ther evidence that the NAM hasn't
changed came in the election of
President Gwylim Price of West
inghouse Electric Co. as one Of its
three new directors-at-large. 1t
was Price who led a protracted
struggle to break the United Elec-
trical Radio q Machine Workers
strike last winter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
IT'S A LIE!
BY MARY SOLOW, Federated Press


Hey Mac! You get a raise last
| winter? Well-you're the guy that
caused initiation. You're the guy
who broke the price-line dikes
Who says so? The editorial writ
ers, the bigshot columnists, the
radio commentators and big busi-
ness all have you tabled as the
boy who gummed up the works of
price control.
If you've swallowed their hok-
um, you're a sucker and here's
why. Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures explode completely the
notion that American workers re-
ceive whopping big wage increases
last winter which forced manufact-
urers to raise prices.
Only 25.6 per cent of all workers
in manufacturing industries re-
ceived increases of 1872 cents or
more, 1876 per cent were enriched
by boosts ranging from 5 to 9
cents and 21.3 per cent actually
received a big, fat NOTHING.
And this big lie, that wage in
creases forced prices up, is expos
ed still further by what's going on
today. When hides were decontrol-
ed, hide prices doubled. There was
no question of wage increase for
workers. The manufacturers were
just out for more dough.
When President Truman lifted
price controls everything began
going up. The price Of autos,
radios, electrical appliances-name
your product-all went up. They
went up not because workers were
receiving wage boosts but because
employers were following time
honored business practices of
gouging as much from the con-
Gunner as possible.
Remember the squak made by
the steel companies when the steel
workers We're asking for a wage
increase? The steel firms forced
the government to give them
$5-a-ton boost on the price of steel,
when the steelworkers got their
raise.
The third quarter report Of u.
S. Steel, recently published, shows
up the phony claim for a steel
price rise. For the whole year of
1945, Big SteePs cost for labor,
per ton, (this includes salaries,
social-security tax and pensions)
was $45.40. In the third quarter Of
1916 the labor costs had DROP
PED to $44.30 per ton. Obviously
the So boost was not needed to
cover increased labor costs but
rather to fill the already overstuff-
ed pockets of the steel barons.
This fellow Robert X. Wason,
president of the National Associa-
ion of Manufacturers, shouldn't |
De allowed to run loose the way he !
ioes. On Oct. II in Philadelphia he |
old the Associated Press: "Dur-
ng the past l5 years American in
iustry has been prevented from
goods"
Before you shed your tears for
his picture of an American in
iustrial world shackled hand and
'oot, take look at the facts. A
hart in the st. Louis Globe Demo
rat (Republican paper) published
IN Nov. l5 reveals that the annual
output for CIVILIAN
ise in l941 was LOG billion dollars
While the production figure for the
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Donated $88 Million For.
General Motors Profits

Detroit (FP) General Motors
continues to pay dividends to the
duPonts and other stockholders in
1916 because of huge rebates to
the corporation from federal tax
payers, it is admitted in Chairman
Alfred P. Sloan's third quarter re-
port.
"The first nine months of 1896"
writes Sloan, resulted in an oper-
ating loss Of $74,422,630, before a
credit of $88,435, 900 for U. S. in
come and excess profit taxes"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-12
Blame Both u. S. And
Russia For DisharmOny

Denver (FP)-Three out Of four
Americans - "a per cent - think
both the Soviet Union and the u.
S. are at fault in the misunder-
standing between the two coun-
tries, according to survey by the
University of Denver's National
Opinion Research Center.
Seventeen per cent think the
blame for u. S.-USSR disagree
ments can be placed on one coun-
try or the other and per cent are
undecided on the question. Two
other questions asked in the same
survey indicate the American peo-
Pile do not want war with Russia
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Wage Conference
(Confinued From PAGE One)

Following the wage increase
granted the potters in March, the
manufacturers were granted a Z
per cent increase in ware prices.
A previous adjustment Of a
straight per cent was granted
in May, 1912. Prices were frozen
during the war under the stabiliza-
tion program, but freed when the
OPA was dismantled.
This will mark the first time a
wage conference has been held in
Washington. Previous conferences
of late years were held in Atlantic
City, Cleveland and New York.
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