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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
GEORGE REED

George Reed, 62, former East Liv-
erpool potter, died Sept. 6 in his home
at Richmond, Calf, following short
illness.
Mr.. Reed spent most of his life in
East Liverpool, going to California
about rs years ago, where he contin-
ued as potter.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Marie
Reed; one daughter, Dorothy Reed; a
sister, Mrs. Ruby Boettner of New
Brighton, Pa, and several nephews
and nieces in East Liverpool.
Burial was in California.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
WYdtt Sees Labor Shortage
As Next Housing Bottleneck

Washington (FP)-The construc.
tion labor shortage may soon be the
key bottleneck in the veterans emer-
gency housing program of building
material shortage, Housing Expediter
Wilson Wyatt said Sept A in discuss
ing his August progress report.
Despite the fact that $1,000 work.
ers are now employed on the site in
home building, almost five times the
figure year ago, the need is for still
more construction workers, especially
apprentices, Wyatt said.
Asked whether the recent cut in on
the-job training pay under the CT bill
Of rights could be countered by some
action by housing authorities, Wyatt
said the National Housing Agency
which he heads has no power other
than to urge young workers on a
local scale to enter the building
trades. "We have also asked the
unions to increase the apprentice
wage scale," he said.
Wyatt said bricklayers and carpen-
ters are most frequently needed. AL
most one-third of the nations $1,000
apprentices at the end of July were
carpenters, and another 15 per cent
were electricians.
The report said housing construc-
tion had passed the halfway mark to-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12

ward the 1916 goal of 100000 uni
starts. Two-thirds Of the dwelling
units started were new permanent
houses and apartments, and the re-
nainder were conversions, temporary
unites and trailers. The figures at the
end of July, Wyatt said, were higher
chan the yearly totals of 1929.
Alltime high wear was 1925, sever
years after World War |, with 937 .00(
homes started. Wyatt's 1916 goal is
almost 80 per cent higher, the first
year following World War III.
The Wagner -Ellender Taft housing
bill, Wyatt said, is must for per-
manent housing progress. "The soon
er it is passed, the BETTER" he added
When asked whether he would sup
port proposals from several quarters
urging Pres. Truman to call special
session to act on the bill, Wyatt said
he would.
Opposition to the bill, he added,
was centered in a penny-pinching at
titude of certain interests toward it's
public housing provisions. Many far
sighted builders support the bill, he
said, telling of group interested in
immediate construction of big apart
ment developments in New York,
Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia
if the bill became law. No bill, no
buildings, they told him.
One reason for the slowness in
opening material bottlenecks, Wyatt
said, was that Congress only allow
ed the premium payment program to
start in June. Gypsum, pig iron and
brick construction are three items
Wyatt said could have been speeded
earlier by more decisive congressional
action.
Congress is also responsible, by
passing the inflationary new price
control act, for the rise in cost of the
average house. "The price circum-
stances under the bill are bad," said
Wyatt, promising to announce later
the exact effect the bill had on house
prices. He said FILA is exerting as
much downward pressure on house
prices as possible.
Peak demand for housing has not
yet been reached, Wyatt said, but will
grow through the fall and winter.
That is why the emergency program
was planned for two years, he said.
Biggest recent improvements, he
feels, stem from agreement with
Civilian Production Administration
giving home construction bigger cut
of materials than non-residential
"The job is tough as hell, but we
are confident" said Wyatt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Mead Committee
Submits Report

Washington (FP)-The Mead COM
mittee investigating the national war
effort had led newspaper readers to
expect big things, but when its latest
report was released Sept. l it con-
sisted mainly of recommendations for
streamlined warfare.
The scandalous deals involving
paper industrial empires, conniving
members of Congress-, dancing gener-
ais and defective motar shells were
not included. Nor was there promise
in the report Of future investigation
of outrageous profits by bigtime
profiteers at the expense Of millions
of war band purchasers.
Committee conclusions and recon-
mendations called for "a highly
trained armed force, equipped with
the most modern weapons" and "a
workable plan for the immediate
mobilization Of war industries" Aside
from stockpiling strategic war mater
ials, the report said, the government
must now work out and set into
operation a feasible program for the
acquisition or use Of strategic over
seas bases"
Undermining the value of spies, the
report called for establishment of
superior intelligence organization 1t
also called for intensive study Of per
sonnel matters in the army and navy
to insure advancement of best quail
fled men over deadwood with longer
seniority in service.
The report commend the Doolittle
board which recommended changes in
the caste system, but said it had not
been allowed enough latitude in its
investigation of personnel relation
ships.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Truck Drivers

$500 in l941.
Possibility of half the 12,0C0 strik-
ers being back at work the following
week was seen by Local S07 President
John +. Strong who said that mem
bership meeting Sept. 8 would prob
ably give unanimous approval to a
compromise proposal of an 1872 cent
hourly wage increase made by Mayor
William O. Dwyer. About 50 per cent
of the employers would sign contracts
on that basis, Strong said, and 5000
or COCO of the union members would
return to work. O'Dwyer's proposal
was accepted by union leaders, who
had demanded 80 per cent, but were
rejected by the truck operators as
sociations. Highest employers count
er-offer was a q per cent raise.
As the truck tieup spread into CEN
trial and northern New Jersey where
teamsters struck in sympathy,
O'Dwyer held an emergency meeting
with union and employer representa-
tives at police headquarters the morn
ing of Sept. g To discuss means Of
getting food supplies into the city
Trucks were moving some drugs and
perishable foods but the big food
Gains were completely cut off from
shipments. Local S07 officials invited
O'Dwyer to address special meeting
Of A 4 and Bohack drivers, but
Williams subsequently told Federated
Press that the drivers said they would
not attend such a meeting.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
'Chuirless UN
Can BlumeCo.
Mot Strikers

Chicago (FP)-The United Nations
assembly, sceduled to meet in New
York in September, won't sit on any
rose or blue plush chairs unless the
Kroehler Co. of Naperville, ILL.,, comes
to terms with it's striking workers.
The men, members of the Upholst-
ers International Union (AFL), re-
jected a suggestion by their presi.
dent, Sal B. Hoffman, who flew here
recently from Philadelphia, that some
of the men go back to work for the
specific purpose of finishing the 1858
chairs the company is making for
UN.
The men said the company was try
ing to make a goat of the union"
after it had failed to meet it's contract
delivery date. The chairs were origi-
nally scheduled for delivery Aug. l
and the company received an extern
sion to Aug. H. The men did not walk
out until Aug. 10.
When the stoppage began, Kroehler
officials promptly took advantage of
it "to shift to the union the blame for
failure to deliver the chairs" union
spokesman Lee Baker said
After hearing the details, Hoffman
declared his support of the locals
position.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
On Growing Up
BY RUTH TAYLOR
By The Hon. Henry A. Wallace
Secretary of Commerce

Miss Taylor has asked me what
think is the greatest need of the
country today. | replied Our greatest
need is to grow up"
She then asked "What do you
mean by growing up?"
Wherefore this short statement on
maturity.
A mature person is one who can
carry responsibility not merely today
or tomorrow, nor next week nor next
month, but month after month and
year after year But along with this
sense of everlasting responsibility
must go a sense Of forebearance, of
tolerance.
My father in speaking of certain
farm leaders used to say, "They are
the good old wheel horses. in other
words they carried responsibility year
after year.
They knew the common objective.
Nobody needed to tell them what to
do. When young they had early learn
ed what field ought to be ploughed
and when. They carried this response
bility straight through the season and
so as young men they came to be
looked upon as mature people and
after they became farm owners the
community placed responsibility on
them.
Today as regional, group and ma
tional conflicts multiply, we discover
it is not sufficient merely to carry
responsibility year after year, but it
is also essential to catch the other
fellows point of view.
A great German mathematician had
carved on his tombstone the simple
saying Gone must turn things
around" The capacity to look at the
problem from the other mans point
of view is perhaps the most needed
quality in the world today.
Tolerance need not make us wishy-
washy. AS matter Of fact any per-
son who is used to carry responsible
ity year after year, will never be
wishy -washy.
All of this means merely that we
Ileeu HOW WluSSpIcdd cuuCdJlOIdl
program in certain character funda-
character fundamen-
tails which will cause us to become
mature in an indiviual, in a group and
in at national sense.
After every great war there is a
tendency to revert to
childish habits. "A certain amount of
this kind of thing may be forgiveable
in the first few months after great
war. In its extreme form it is found
IN the excesses of the peacetime cele-
bration of the Day of Armistice. 1t is
time now to put away these excesses
which are characteristic of childhood.
This education cannot come too
soon if we are to save those American
values which we want most today as
Ne confront the possibility of the big
sest boom and the most serious bust
his nation has ever seen.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Refuse To Make
Cars For Export

Detroit (FP)-The dismissal of
four autoworkers4 who refused to
work on cars destined for overseas
shipment caused al shutdown of the
Nash Kelvinator Corp. plants at Ken
osha and Milwaukee Aug. 49,
Some $4,000 workers were laid off
when Local rs, United Auto Workers,
protested that the union should have
been consulted before the men were
discharged.
Nash-Kelvinator Vice Pres. r. A.
DeVlieg said the four were dismissed
when a group of workers refused to
finish assemblies of right-hand- drive
cars for shipment to foreign markets.
He said they objected because they
wanted more vehicles made available
to Nash employees.
The UAW recently obtained an
agreement under which certain
number of Nash cars would be allo-
Gated for purchase by Nash workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Cont Live On
Peonufs,' Win
Public Support

New York (FP)-"But we CAM
LIVE on peanuts" they chanted as
they wound around Bloomingdale's
one of this city's larger department
stores. And the passersby stopped
gaped and applauded.
1t was part of the novel campaign
to win public support of their demand
for $50 minimum weekly wage that
the 3,100 Bloomingdale members of
Local 3, Retail Wholesale & Dept.
Store Union are conducting here.
During their lunch hour Aug. 28
the workers carried bags of peanuts
into their line of march, eating them
as they walked. At the same time
they chanted:
Today we are marching and mum
chin
We hope you'll excuse US for
crunchin'
For the low pay
That we get today
We have to eat peanuts for lunch
con.
We can't eat promise or praises,
Nor live on the wages he pays us.
Our lives are hard
So please sign a card
And tell him we need decent
raises. i8D M
The unions public campaign was
begun Aug. 22 after more than six
months of negotiations with the man
agement failed to yield satisfactory
replies to their demands for $4 gen.
eral increase, IL per cent cost-of-
living increase and establishment of
the $50 weekly minimum. Ten thou
sand postcards from the public al
ready show the wide response their
appeal has won.
Another of the smart shows the
union has put on during lunch hours
and the employees free time present
ed workers bound in chains trying to
hold down baskets Of food that were
being pulled into the air by balloons
representing the rising cost of living.
Leaflets, soundtrucks and other
demonstrations also are being used in
the city-wide campaign.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
Last-Minute Settlement
Saves Tomato Soup

Washington (FP)-A possible seri-
Gus dent in the national tomato soup
supply was averted early Aug. l3 as
the Food Tobacco Agricultural a. AL
lied Workers got together on contract
terms with the Campbell Soup Co.
minutes before the strike deadline.
Achieved through the Labor De-
partment Cancellation Service, the
settlement provides the present con
tract remains in effect, the company
will give assurance not to conduct
ant-union activity, and recruiting of
migratory workers will be negotiated
later
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12

form of clothes, with the price jump
ing with each mile of travel. Fruit,
milk, meat and cereal are all i'm
ported from other states, with heavy
tribute to the railroads.
The money barons who own the
railroads have used their hold on
manufacturing and banking to the
;ame end of making the rest of the
country into Colonial appendages".
interest rates in the south and west
average twice the rates in the north.
'The south particularly needs cap
tai because is has little of it's own"
ne pointed out. Therefore is must
borrow large percentage of the cap
tal for its crops and its industry
from the north, which is where the
money is. On every borrowed dollar
the south and west must pay as much
as 100 per cent more than does the
north -. but they have. half the in
come of the north with which to do
lit"
Control of patents is another device
| by which huge corporations keep
small independent industry under
their thumb. Mezerick recites the
case of the young engineers who set
out to manufacture milk bottles in
Santa Anna, Tex. They did all right
1 till the Hartford patent pool, which
controls TIT vital glassmaking pat
ents but produces no glass, heard of
them. t4
Today, in the vacant lot where their
factory Stood, is sign erected by the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers, T'm Glad Pm an American, and
listing among the reasons, Free En-
terprize and Opportunity.
Where. all these devices fail to
work, eastern capital still has in re
serve it's control of congress and key
administration posts, and its own mo-
nopoly economic power. 1t used both
of these in its bitter campaign to pre-
vent independent industrialist Henry
Kaiser erecting in Fontana, Calf, the
only steel mill west of the Missis-
sippi.
Because of the pressure of war
needs Kaiser was finally successful,
but now U. S. Steel has opened its
own plant in California with the
avowed intention of driving Kaiser
out of the market.
This hold of monopoly capital on
the rest of the country not only beats
down the standard of living in the af-
fected areas, Mezerick asserted, but is
also directly responsible for lowered
standards, anti-l bor
drives, racial tensions and other So
cial evils.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
VETERAN INDUSTRY
EMPLOYMENT JUMPS

Washington (FP)-About 100000
veterans of World War ii were EN-
ployed in manufacturing in May
1916, almost double the number in
December, 1916, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics announced recently.
Accounting for 17.2 per cent of all
employees in manufacturing, war vet
Grams in May made up over 20 per
cent of the total employment in iron
and steel, non-electrical machinery,
auto, chemicals, and products of pc
troleum and coal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
South And West COLONEL Appendoges'
To Northern Finance, Author Charles

New York (FP) - An army pol
during the war turned up the start
ling fact that 35 per cent of the white
southerners in the army want M
more of their home states. Not fal
behind them were soldiers from west
ern mountain states.
The reason behind this dissatisfac
tion is no mere wanderlust, but {
fundamental result of the grip north
ern financiers have on those areas
thus throttling any hope of real in
dividual or community progress, says
A. G. Mezerick in his new book Re-
volt Of The South And West (Duell
Sloan and Pearce).
Pointing out that the bulk of big
capital is located in the northern and
eastern states, Mezerick shows how
through the use of devices like dis
criminatory freight and interest
rates, patent monopolies and corpor-
ate control of northern capital has
been able to hold the rest of the coun-
try in virtual bondage The scant in
dustrial development that exists in
two-thirds of the nation is firmly in
the grip of the big northeastern mo-
nopolies.
For example, the simple device,
fostered by the House of Morgan and
other railroad barons, of charging
higher freight rates an manufactured
goods shipped from the south and
west than those from the north and
east, has made it almost impossible
for these underdeveloped areas to
foster their own industry.
Cotton in the bale has gone north
and south at the same rate" Meze-
rick declared. "Finish that cotton in
the south, and the rates jump 10 per
cent. Make it into oilcloth, and the
rates skyrocket 81 per cent, yet cot
ton grows in the south, where there
is always surplus of labor. On all
finished products the north has been
favored by an average of 81 per cent
added to every thing the south tried
to make and ship The southwest
and the west have faced the same
situation and it has cost them dearly
in lack of development"
One of the most immediate results
is that it costs more to live in Alaba-
ma than it does in the north, despite
the fact that there's less money to
live on. Raw Alabama cotton has to
be shipped to the north, manufacture
ed, then shipped back again in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
YONKERS TO REDUCE
FIREMEN'S HOURS

Yonkers, n. Y. QLNS)-City Man
ager Robert C. Montgomery has an
nounced that Yonkers will adopt ar
ll-squad working system for it's 2C9
firemen in 1947, which means thei,
work week will be cut from 72 to 81
hours.
Montgomery, who promised the
concession to the firemen at dinner
marking the golden jubilee of the
Yonkers fire department, said that
the system would be installed in one
firehouse at a time until all 12 COM
panies obtain the shorter work week.
Firemen have been striving for years
for the chanpe
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GEORGE c. wEINGARTNER

GEORGE {. WElNGARTNER
| George C. Weingartner, 67, retired
potter and lifetime resident of East
Liverpool, died Sept. 6 in his home
321 Church Alley, following a long
| Illness.
A son of John and Barbara Bowers
Weingartner, he was born in East
Liverpool. He was employed last as
a warehouseman at the Taylor, Smith
& Taylor Co. in Chester, being forced
to resign about two years ago by fail
ing eyesight. He was affiliated with
Local Union No. Sc, National Brother
hood of Operative Potters.
He was members of ST. Aloysius
Catholic Church, the Eagles and the
Moose lodges.
Mr.. Weingartner leaves his widow,
Mrs. Bernice Weingartner at. home
two sons, George r. Weingartner at
home, and Edward C. Weingartner of
East Liverpool; three daughters, Mrs.
Beatrice Lunger, Mrs. Marie Brown
and Mrs. Dorothy Groubert, all Of
East Liverpool; two sisters, Mrs.
Mary Doherty of East Liverpool, and
Mrs. Margaret Burger of Westphalia,
Kas., and a grandchild.
Requiem high mass was held Mon
day in St. Aloysius Catholic Church
with burial being made in Columbiana
County Memorial Park.
X X X
MISS OLIVE M. RUMBERGER
Miss Olive Margaret Rumberger,
332 East Ninth street, a decorator at
Plant No. 8 of the Homer Laughhn
China Co., died Monday in the Cleve-
land Clinic, where she had been a pa
tient for the past three weeks.
Miss Rumberger was born in Clyde,
Kas., and spent virtually her life
time in East Liverpool. She was a
of Local Union 124, National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters and
attended the First Methodist Church.
She leaves two brother, P. C. Rum
berger of Cuyahoga Falls, and
Charles Rumberger of East Liverpool,
and three sisters, Miss Ora Rum
berger and Miss Ruth Rumberger of
East Liverpool, and Mrs. Robert Hut
Gibson of Akron.
Services were held Thursday after
noon from the Martin Funeral by
Rev. Stanley Mullen, pastor of the
First Methodist Church. Burial was
n Spring Grove Cemetery.
X * X
HARRY TAMS
Funeral services for Harry Tams,
'etired potter who died Sept. in
he Wheeling Hospital, following a
ong illness, were held Monday after
loon from the late home in Lawrence
lille, near Chester.
Mr.. Tams who was n years of age.
etired from the potteries about IL
,ears ago. He was among the first
esidents of Lawrenceville when it
vas plated about 464 years ago.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary L.
'ams; two daughters, Mrs. May
of Lawrenceville, and Mrs.
Russell of Wellsville; a son,
wilson Tams, also of Lawrenceville;
wo sisters, Mrs. Minnie Farley and
lrs. Mary Enochs of Trenton, N. j.,
nd 16, grandchildren and IA great
X X X
GEORGE REED
George Reed, 62, former East Liv-
rpool potter, died Sept. 6 in his home
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-09-12
LOW FAMILY INCOMES RIFE

New York City (ILNS).-A Twen-
tieth Century Fund report says that
prior to the war one third of our fam
lilies had family income under 81 900
a year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

ONE MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
 When Elmer Ripley, Notre Dame coach, got a letter from four wounded Marines asking how they could buy tickets to last Satur-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12

WARREN STAPLETON ARRIVES
 WaI1el. 0Japleton, Washington, D. C., arrived here yesterday. He is registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-12
GIANTS LOOKING FOR pAY-CFF ON
 MIzE THIS YEAR
Survey Shows Ball Pay checks Reaching Lofty
 Heights in '46
By Joe Reichler

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.-Big John Mize, who cost the New York Giants S5o,0oJ in addition to three players back in 1941, but joined the Navy after playing only one year with his new club, is about ready to pay dividends to President Horace Stonsham
 One of the first arrivals at the Miami, Fla, spring training camp, Mize declared he was in the best shape in his life Already pared down 10 his normal playing weight of POS pounes, the former Cardinal gave an indication yesterday of what he may mean to the Giants this season by larruping for 400 feet the first ball served him.
 Other pre-war Giants among the squad of 5l already in camp in- clude pitcher Hal Schumacher and infielder Dick Bartell, stars of the 1886 and '37 pennant winning clubs, outtielder Babe Young and second baseman Nick Witek. Mize, Witek, Bartell. and Billy Rigney, likely locking shortstop for whom the Giants paid $25.0o0 two years ago. although still in the Navy at the time, comprised the regular" in field in yesterdays first practice session.