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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Lumber Workers
Sued BY Roiirood
For Half Million

Eureka, Calf. (FP)-The North
western Pacific Railroad filed suit in
Superior Court here for an injunction
against the Lumber & Sawmill Work
ers' Union (AFL) and for damages
at the rate of 81 million year since
January /.
The suit is an outgrowth of a
strike against redwood mills in
Northern California. The union
placed picket lines across NWP
tracks to prevent shipments to and
from the Pacific Lumber Co. and
trainmen refused to cross the lines.
While the railroad denied it was
involved in the redwood dispute
LSWU officials declared they believe
the NWP is acting in collusion with
redwood companies. The railroad is
a subsidiary of Southern Pacific.
Among the defendants, besides the
LSWU, are the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters & Joiners, the Red
wood District Council of Lumber q
Sawmill Workers and three union of
fcials-Robert Beattie, w. G. Grau
man and w. w. Bland.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Comment On World Events

American Federation of Labor
members are greatly concerned over
support of the United Service Organi-
cations (USO) and foreign relief ap-
Ipeals in Community Chest campaigns
to. be conducted this fall, the Labor
League for Human Rights says.
Matthew Woll, president of the
labor league, voices this concern in a
letter to all AFL central bodies,
pointing out the need for giving sup
port to volunteer foreign relief agen-
cies, and for maintenance of the
'USO.
Woll calls upon Community Chests
to embrace the appeals of the USO
and foreign relief agencies formerly
within the National War Fund. This
consolidation of appeals, which has
proven satisfactory, will enable union
members to make one contribution
for all causes, thus eliminating null
tiple campaigns and gifts.
If local Community Chests do not
include USO and foreign appeals in
their drives, VOL urges AFL mem
bers to support separate campaigns
of the USO and foreign relief agen-
cies associated with the National War
Fund as generously as possible.
In his letter to central bodies, Woll
makes a convincing case for consoli-
dated appeals. He urges central
bodies to support inclusion in Com
munity Chests of USO and foreign
appeals, asking this support on the
following grounds:
"1-We owe it to the members of
our armed forces and to the starv-
ing, suffering people of the United
Nations.
Owe owe it to our members, and
to all contributors, to have one cam
paign for all voluntary contributions
for home front, national defense and
foreign relief. Separate campaigns
create confusion, annoy the contribu
tor and less is collected.
"3-Labor will be living up to its
traditions by extending a hand be-
yond the immediate community and
supporting the USO and the National
War Funds foreign relief agencies in
this years Chest Campaign Urge
your Community Chest to give labor,
and all contributors, an opportunity
to support these agencies and help
them finish their war time job in one
single campaign"
Woll goes on to emphasize that if
local Chests do not include the USO
and foreign relief agencies, these
agencies will be forced to make sepa-
rate campaigns "You are, therefore,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05

These local political action commit
tees will be created and operate under
the following structure, Washburn
pointed out:
Local political action committees
will be headed by the local union
executive board with shop stewards
constituting the plant section of the
political action committee.
Cities will be divided into blocks,
zones or wards and groups over these
sections will constitute residential
sections of the political action COM
mittees. Each member of the resi-
Dental section of the UAW-AFL po-
litical action committee will see that
every citizen in his block, zone or
ward, who is eligible to vote registers
and actually votes. This residential
section of the political action COM
mittee will also sponsor and call COM
munity political meetings with the
local executive board securing and
furnishing speakers for all such po-
litical gatherings.
City-wide UAW-AFL political ac-
tion committees are being formed in
cities where two or more UAW-AFL
locals exist to coordinate the work of
the residential political action COM
mittees. In addition regional and
statewide political action groups are
to be organized.
Duties of the local union political
action organizations was explained by
Washburn. Every union members
duty is to register, vote, solicit votes
and campaign for labor-endorsed can
didates for every elective office in
cluding school boards, township, city
and county, as well as state and ma
tional offices.
Candidates to Be interviewed
Local unions will sponsor and sup
port worthy members of organized
labor for elective office, whenever and
wherever a bonafde labor candidate
can be elected.
Political action committees will I'M
terview and investigate the candi-
dates for all offices and make recon-
mendations to the membership for
endorsement. Names of all candidates
endorsed by the union will be printed
for circulation to the entire member
ship to use at the polls and for other
distribution.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Catholic Action
Urges Additional
Gains For Labor

Washington, d. C.-Looking back
with gratitude and satisfaction
over the gains made by organized
labor in the last so years, the Social
Action Department of the National
Catholic Welfare Conference, in a
special Labor Day message, called for
an unremitting campaign for new
benefits for the American worker.
At the same time it sharply con-
demned efforts through legislation to
weaken or destroy the gains regis
tered by labor through long years Of
struggle for basic rights.
"At least for the immediate fu-
ture," the statement said, labor, to-
gether with all other fair-minded
groups in America, must be extraor-
dinarily vigilant to prevent the enact
ment Of vengeful anti-labor legisla-
ton on both the Federal and State
levels. 1t would indeed be tragic were
the legislative gains of recent years
to be weakened or emasculated in a
fit of postwar hysteria."
The statement called upon both
labor and management alike to fulfill
their obligations to each other for
the common good.
Pointing out that legislation alone
"cannot and will not get to the heart
of the difficulty" confronting labor
and management, it did, nevertheless,
urge immediate enactment of the fol-
lowing four-point legislative pro-
gram:
/. Extension Of the coverage and
enlargement of the benefits of mini
mum wage legislation on both the
Federal and the State levels.
2. Extension of the coverage and
the benefits of social security legis-
lation.
3. Extension of effective price con-
troll legislation until the danger of in
flation has subsidized.
A. Provision of adequate housing in
cooperation with private interests.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Senator Taylor
(Confinned From PAGE One)

"Does a sipnilar logic prevent suit
against less highly placed individ-
uals? Or would the little fellow who
took government property to satisfy
his family's needs feel the full weight
of the federal governments power?'
Taylor told the Interstate Com
merce Commission that the 25 per
cent increase in western freight rates
which the railroads are now asking
is unjustified because of their enor-
NOUS war profits. He said he would
take part in an appeal to the courts
if the new rate is granted.
Taylor said the antitrust division
of the Justice Department has charg-
ed that rates in the west are already
pegged at artificially high levels be-
cause of illegal agreements, combi-
nations and conspiracies in restraint
of trade.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05

urged to make the best possible ar
that will help the unions
to support them in single drive" he
tells the central bodies.
Mr.. VOLTS advice is timely and
soundly based and it is to be hoped
will bring widespread inclusion of
USO and world relief appeals in
Community Chest campaigns. Con-
solidated appeals in recent years have
proved effective in aiding domestic
and worldwide welfare and relief ac-
tivities and can prove equally effec
tive this year. Labor throughout the
nation can forward the cause of con-
solidated appeals by promptly getting
behind the plan and strongly urging
every community to adopt it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Improvement In
Womer's WORKING
Conditions Nofed

Washington, d. C.-Working con-
ditions for women throughout the ma
ton are being improved steadily, the
Women's Bureau of the Labor De-
partment reported after survey, but
at the same time pointed out that 1t
found shortcomings in State laws
which should be corrected now that
the war is ended.
No state is now without some legis-
lation regulating women's employ
ment, the report stated, and history
has established that these laws, based
originally on "altruistic principles" I"
have come to be respected for practi-
cal and economic reasons.
Studies and experiments carried
on for the most part during and since
the first World War;" the report
said, "have demonstrated that rea-
sonable hour schedule and desirable
working conditions are sound from a
business or financial point of view,
l. e., they are "a good business propo-
siti0n.'"
However, in the view of the Wom-
ems Bureau, laws in many of the
states are not comprehensive enough.
1t recommended for all women work
ers basic 40-hour week with over
time beyond that to a maximum of As
hours in a week.
1t recommended also the following:
A maximum S-hour day, one day of
rest in every seven consecutive days,
minimum 30tnlinute lunch period
where food is available on the prem
ises and longer period elsewhere,
and rest period of at least 10 min
utes in each four-hour or halliday
work period without extension of
daily work hours.
Establishment of legal hour stand
ards which would allow time not
merely for recovery from fatigue but
for mental and spiritual growth
would be highly beneficial to workers
themselves and to society as
whole" it said.
The report stated that only about a
third of the state hour laws limit
hours of women in some occupations
to eight day. No state law sets
maximum workday shorter than eight
hours and only three states have
legal maximum hour work week of
less than AZ hours for manufacturing
plants in peacetime.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05

(Confinued From Page OneJ

fL0HHHufd FROM rage CHeJ
sentatives in negotiations with the
firm were Horace +. Moore, Eliza M
Bell, Frances F. Ward and Clyde M
Ashburn.
Mr.. Fred Grant, ST., president OF
the company and his son, Fred, Jr.
expressed satisfaction in signing an
agreement with the Brotherhood and
voiced their opinions in carrying out
the policies of the organization to
maintain standards to safeguard the
health and welfare of their en-
ployees.
The new local is the first branch OF
organized labor in Jonesboro, and
lays the foundation for the establish
ment Of collective bargaining agree
ments for employees in other indus
tries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Atom Plants
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ttV"HHHea ffVN HVt NVe1
in the initial vote.
Meanwhile, leaders of the Team
sters' southern drive reported further
notable gains in scattered sections.
In Chattanooga, Tenn, the Team
sters negotiated an agreement cover
ing the city's street and sewage work
ers and providing wage increases
ranging from 10 TO Is cents an hour,
improved working conditions and holi-
day overtime. Approximately 100
workers are affected.
Teamsters in Arkansas reported
gains over the entire state, both in
signing of new contracts containing
wage increases and in the winning of
NLRB elections.
In Tampa, Fla, they signed new
contract with the National Biscuit
Co., carrying substantial pay raise,
six holidays with pay and paid vaca-
tions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Education Week
To Be Observed By
Garment Workers

New York City ULNS).-An "Edu
cation Week." Sept. 3 to 10, marks
the Both anniversary of the Educa
tional Department of the lnterna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers
Union. The department was launched
as a trade union adult educational
agency in September, 1916, by the
unions national convention which
met in Philadelphia the year before.
1t was the first experiment of its
kind by labor union.
In the 80 years of its existence, the
ILGWU's educational office has pro-
NOTED a variety of educational, rec
reational and cultural programs,
among these evening classes in trade
unionism, qualification courses, sum-
mer schools for workers, weekend
Institutes combining study and play,
and, recently, fellowships for the
Harvard Trade Union Courses. All
types of art, music, craft and dance
courses have been sponsored by the
department, in addition to indoor and
outdoor sports.
The Educational Departments plans
include an Intercultural Workshop to
be conducted by DR.. Rachael Dubois,
lecturer at the New School of So
cial Research; training courses for
prospective candidates for union of
fees; science lectures by Dorothy
Lieberman, and lecture series at the
ILGWU Center at the Textile High
School on West 18th street, New York
City.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05

"There's a horrible smell around
here" Mr.. Dilworth remarked.
"It's probably that egg the Price
Decontrol Board laid," Little Luther
said. "What decision"
eyes, it was too bad about the
packers getting stuck again with
price control, wasn't it?" asked Mr..
Dilworth. "But at least they left
dairy products uncontrolled"
"And a lot of kids won't be able to
get the milk they need, as a result" )"
said his son.
"Let them drink water" Mr.. Dill
worth suggested.
"If you weren't so flat chested,
said Little Luther, "Td think you
were Marie Antoinette."
Lets not bring sex into it, my
boy" said his father. 81 haven't told
you about the birds and the bees yet,
you know"
"What about them?" Little Luther
demanded. "Have they learned to re-
produce by atomic fission or some
thing?"
mo, son, but there's very impor-
tant difference between the birds and
the bees that Pm sure you've noticed,
even though you may not have
thought about it, What do birds
eat 2"
"Mostly worms, guess, Pop"
Exactly" agreed Mr.. Dilworth.
"And bees eat honey. ] don't think
need to ask whether you'd prefer
worms or honey"
1'd prefer little milk, if it didn't
cost so much" said Little Luther.
Lets not mention milk any more" F"
Mr.. Dilworth demanded. every time
| hear the word, want to shoot. 1t
reminds me of Henry Wallace. Now
you've got me all upset. What was |
talking about?
"Birds and bees and worms and
honey" said Little Luther.
"Ah, yes" said Mr.. Dilworth "And
what do birds do all the time p
Don't answer me: you might say the
wrong thing. They dance and sing
and frolic all the time"
"And eat worms" his son reminded
him.
"Precisely," said Mr.. Dlworth.
"And what do the bees do, the busy
little bees? Now don't tell me, I'll
tell you. They keep busy, of course.
When the queen bee says, Get
honey. They don't whistle and sing.
They don't strike or ask what's in 1T
for them They just do as the queen
tells them and go out and gather
honey. And the queen graciously lets
them eat some of it. Now :"
"Now," said Little Luther, 81 know
what smells so bad. It's the bees"
"Nonsense, my boy. But | want you
always to remember what I've told
you, and to promise that as you go
through life, you'll always be busy
little bee"
"I'd rather be a busy little bee"
said Little Luther, "than a hypocrlti-
cal big b like you. Ouch!"
Veterans are joining unions as fast
as they get jobs.
They probably appreciate union
grievance machinery after seeing
army Lichfield camps in operation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Dennand Peace

(Confinued From Page OneJ
broadcast from Chicago, President A.
F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen attacked President
Truman, Congress and business for
their stand on labor issues.
In Arlington cemetery, Camden,
N. j., 200 AFL representatives gath
cred at the grave of Peter J. Mcclure,
founder of Labor Day, in tradi-
tional ceremony. Labor Day fetes
throughout the nation harked back to
pre-war size and spirit. Among the
largest marches were those held in
San Francisco, Los Angeles and De-
troit. More than 10000 turned out in
the auto capital for what police esti-
mated to be the biggest parade there
since 1887
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
BIS Economist Writes
OF LabOr's Part lin OPA

Washington, ID. C.--John l.. Afros,
an economist in the Labor Depart
ment's Bureau of Labor Statistics, is
the author of an S,000-word article
in the current issue of the "Ameri-
can Political Science Review" on the
subject of labor participation in the
OPA.
The article embraces an account
of the origin, structure, functions
and achievements of the OPA policy
Office, National Labor Policy Com
mittee, local labor advisory groups,
labor members on local war price and
rationing boards and labor liaison
officers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
Revived 0PA


lCOHHHNed FT0m Pd0e OneJ
livestock prices should be increased
81 per hundredweight above the June
30 point.
Meanwhile, OPA removed ceilings
on canned and frozen soups, explain
ing this was required by the new
Control Act because current and
future supplies appear adequate to
meet needs of domestic consumers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
AL Automobile Workers
Are Launching Big Drive
To Mobilize Workers Votes

Chicago NLNS) )-Lester Washbun, international president
of the AFUnted Workers of America has outlined plans
his local political action committees into the field
Forthcoming and national elections abors
tica power and support every relative friend and neghbo
be mobzed the fullest extent he said in message to
the majority of the American people, the
Local political action committees of the UAWAFL through
out the indicated being set to organize
the eunion's full pOentialitieS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
BUS DRIVERS WIN PAY RAISES

New York (FP)-Drivers and mann
tenance employees of the New York
City Omnibus Corp. received pay in
creases of 16c an hour retroactive to
March / under an arbitration award
won by Local 100, Transport Work
ers' Union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-05
WORK SHIRTS COST MORE

Washington, d. C.-An increase of
2 to 3 cents in the retail price of
work shirts was authorized by the
OPA.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27
k|NIIINdlINZ

continued but certain business lead
ers are using considerable pressure
to get it killed by arguing that it
is interfering with the production
of the goods the people want.
Chester Bowles, director of eco
nomic sterilization and the admins
tration's most vehement supporter
of a strong OPA, maintains that
OPA has halted imitation, that slight
price rises that have been permit
ted are not initiation, but there will
be dangerous initiation if OPA is
dropped.
eff the changes in the price
control law now being consider
ed by congress finally become
law" said Mr., BOwles, "the in
creaSes which have distressed all
of us in the last few months will
be drop in the bucket COM
pared to the deluge which will
strike the American consumer"
Mr.. Bowles said that responsible
statistiCians estimate that the cost of
living would be increased by rs per
cent within the next nine months
if the curbs on OPA, as passed by
the house, become law.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27

Washington, D. c. (NWNS)-In-
creased friction between congress
and the administration is indicated
by President Truman's reliance on
his veto powers to try to force legis-
lation he wants and to stop measures
he opposes.
His first use of the veto power
on important legislation was his
veto of the Case labor control
bill. In VetOing this measure he
issued a statement criticiZing the
bill as being one which would
encourage rather than discourage
labor unrest. At the same time
he made mild plea for passage
of the bill he had recommended
to give him the right to draft in
to the armed forces those who
strike against the government.
Just what the President is really
after in labor legislation is a little
uncertain, for he, like everyone else
here, is fairly certain by this time
that his draft measure will never
pass congress in the form he recon-
mended. By vetoing the Case bill,
therefore, he may have effectively
stopped the enactment of any labor
legislation. If bill does go through
now, before congress closes for the
summer, 1t will probably be hodge
podge combination of the Truman
and Case bills which will irritate
labor but which will not do much
toward curbing strikes.
The second use of his veto
power came in the form of
threat in which the President,
in a letter to Senator Wagner,
said that he would veto the OPA
extension measure if it was pass
ed by the senate in the emascu-
lated form in which it went
through the house. Soon after
that letter was published the
senate did pass the house meas
ure, with slight revisiOns, and
with the expectation that it prob
ably would be changed consider
ably in conferences between
house and senate committees.
The OPA obviously is fighting for
its life. Indications are that the
majority of the public wants OPA
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27
ONCE OVER LIGHTLY
,Bv MILDRED scHOEN
LABOR GETS GREEN LIGHT
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

So the lids off folks, thanks to the
Congress of the United States and
the complete indifference of the ton
gue-in-cheek-G Government of tn e
past number of years.
Labor has the green light and since
the unions are now-and have long
benin the class of vested inter
ests", they can be depended upon to
take this country for the most unin-
hibited buggy ride down the road to
economic suicide we've seen yet.
You and 1 are going to pay the
bills for this roller-coaster heyday.
If you've got any bonds or savings
left. better tuck them safely away
for a worse depression than the last
one. It won't come tomorrow, or
next day or perhaps next year. But
it's coming, sure as shootin'. Even
if we should, within the next two
years, put into office a government
that was once more an instrument
of the people, doubt that the havoc
recently wrought could be prevented
from reaching a dizzy peak of dis
aster.
And so to cheerier speculations,
like for instance, why a representa-
tive of Charm Magazine is included
among correspondents enroute to
the festivities on and about Bikini
Ato11
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27
SCRAMBLED EGGS WITH
TOMATOES
(SprVpS d.

Melt in small skillet over a
slow fire, tablespoon of butter
or substitute, add and cook covered
for 5 minutes, l teaspoon of scraped
onion, ! cup of strained tomatoes,
"a teaspoon of salt, rs teaspoon of
pepper, IL teaspoon of brown sugar.
Cool these ingredients slightly and
add 4 beaten eggs. Cook over low
fire. Break them into large curds
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27
World Population Increased

Despite war, famine and disaster,
the worlds population is estimated
to have increased 2OO,0OO,0O0, or
about 10 per cent in 10 years. A
population expert concludes that if
this rate of gain were to hold, about
IS new earths will need to be dis
covered or created every century
to keep people free from want.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27

group of people
W ere gathered
tensely in our
Twin G room,
waiting to hear
t h e President
address a joint
session of Con-
gress on the rail-
road strike.
The little man
w a S fighting
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-06-27
Can For Relief

Mennonites ear Maugansville
have begun their contribution to
European relief by canning over
$500 cans of peas for shipment
abroad. Over 200 farmers and their
wives are participating in the move
ment.