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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Building Trodes
Poet Provides
General Increase

New York-(FP). - First general
wage increase for building trades
workers in this area since 1889 was
granted in 5-year master agreement
signed by the New York Building &
Construction Trades Council and the
New York Building Trades Employ
ers Assn.
Retroactive to Jan. /, the contract
provides wage increases averaging
slightly less than 1870 and ranging up
to 25c hourly for a maximum of 15O,-
900 workers in the $50 locals affili-
ated with the AFL body. 1t also pro-
vides for six paid holidays. Issue of
employers contribution of 3%s of pay
rolls to a welfare fund remains un-
settled pending OPA investigation of
whether it would require a price in
crease.
Included in the contract are no
strike, no-lockout clause and provi-
sion for arbitration of disputes arising
under the contract. The agreement
came after 20 months of negotiations
between the council and employers.
Settlement was snagged when the
Dept. of Labor's Wage Adjustment
Board revised downward wage
agreement reached between the two
groups but labor and employer pro-
tests forced a partial reversal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Labor, Veteran
Groups Oppose
USES Transfer

Washington-(FP ).-Spokesmen for
veteran and labor groups testified
Feb. Is against transfer of the U. S.
Employment Service functions out of
federal hands. HR 4437 providing for
the dismemberment of USES into 81
agencies has already passed the House
and is being considered by the Senate
committee and Education and Labor.
AFL Pres. William Green said: "The
measure :. is completely unacceptable
to the AFL as it splits up an essential
ly federal governmental function into
fifty-one state and territorial agencies
without any adequate provisions for
the uniformity of operation pro-
cedures, and without any adequate
standards to protect the interests of
workers seeking employment"
Nelson H. Cruikshank, AFL direc-
tor of social insurance activities, who
accompanied Green, said that state
employment and compensation boards
could work together by sending a
skilled man to job with low wage
rates, and then cut off his unemploy-
ment compensation If he refused to
take it. "The heart of this question is
that state agencies want to control
the labor market. If they can force
people into unsuitable employment
then they can reduce the employers
tax rates." he said.
A veteran viewpoint was expressed
by Charles G. Bolte, of the American
Veterans Committee. He said the main
problem Of the returning serviceman
was finding suitable employment. "By
attacking the national unemployment
problem on the limited basis of state
boundaries, the veteran would be de-
MED those employment opportunities
which lie beyond the boundaries of the
state in which he resides" said Bolte.
He also said that state political ma
chimes would especially like to con-
troll employment service jobs with the
1916 congressional elections in the of
fling.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Telephone Strike
Recommended To NFTW

Memphis-(FP). - A recommends
tion for national telephone strike
was delivered to the convention of the
Natl. Federation of Telephone Work
ers (unaffiliated) Feb. Is by its execu-
tive board.
Presidents Of local unions affiliated
with NFTW are attending the conven-
tion here and went into executive ses-
sion Immediately to consider the pro-
posed strike.
AS the NFTW deliberated, reports
from Philadelphia said that long line
employees of the American Telephone
d Telegraph Co., there had walked
out on strike, partially stopping inter-
city communications. Bell Telephone
Co., employees, whose service come of
the toll lines from Philadelphia were
not Immediately involved.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
s. &LtI554haazza

"If you Slip on the Ice and Break
your Neck, Blame 1t on the UN-
REASONABLE DEMANDS Of the
Errand Boys & Daddy's Little Help
ers' Union" said the big sign Mr..
Dilworth planted on stake on his
front lawn.
''There, guess that will fix your
wagon with all those soft-headed,
sympathetic neighbors," said Mr.. Dill
worth.
at may fix my wagon" said Little
Luther. leaning on his own picket
sign, "but it still won't fix your side
walk" His sign read: "My Old Mans
Scrooge-He Won't Raise My AL
lowance to Maintain Ny Standard Of
Living"
"I'll tell you what, Luther" said his
father. "I'll give you quarter If
you'll go to the movies this after
noon."
$50 you can get some little scab
to come in and do my chores while
Pm gomez" demanded his son. Moth
ing doing. This picketline goes on till
you give in"
you're not making cent this way,
you know, my boy"
That's true, Pop, but on the other
hand Pm not imperiling my immortal
soul by scabbing on the neighbors'
kids, who have already settled with
their reasonable parents for the new,
higher allowance scale"
''If you were in the house, Luther,
I'd wash your mouth out with soap
every time you used that nasty word, y
Mr.. Dilworth announced.
"Nasty word?" asked Little Luther.
"Scab, | mean," said Mr.. Dilworth.
"Scab's nasty word, all right" "
Little Luther admitted, "but it's mas
tier to be it than to say it. Why
don't you run in and bury your nose
in Snow White or the National Geo
graphic if you don't like ugly words.
You'll find life very raw on the picket
line"
"Son," said Mr. Dilworth, Il see
you're set in your ways of error. What
do you say we arbitrate? We can just
step back in the woodshed and there
"Nuts on that said his son. NO
woodshed arbitration. know that
arbitrator too well, I've taken beat
ing that way too often. We arbitrate
out here in the daylight, or-not at
ALL"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21

If Union Label "stock" does not go
up-your wages will come down!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
WIN WAGE BOOSTS

San Diego, Calif-(FP.-Wage in
creases of 10c hourly for almost LOCO
workers in three major tuna canneries
and 1870 boost in piecework rates
were won by the Cannery Workers
& Fishermen's Union (AFL). New
minimum scales will be 95c an hour
for women and $1.07 for men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
IT'S A
Great System!
By JOHN PAINE. Federated Press

Now that Honest Harold's gone,
will they call Truman's new nominee
Pious Pauley?
Or the Old Oil-Smudge-On
The State Dept, in righteous indig-
nation, denounces the Argentine as
unfit to stay in the UNO.
The State Dept, could save itself
a lot of trouble if it wouldn't keep in
vitfng those stumble-bums to parties.
= X
An indignant reader scrawled let
ter to the newspaper PM protesting
its frequent criticisms of the pro-fas-
cist New York Daily News, which he
described as "a fine newspaper"
A P. S. to the letter noted: "Please
excuse the crayon, but they do not
allow us to have sharp objects in
here"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Arthur Jones, President
OF Local Union No. Is

Coshocton, Ohio,-The following are
the new officers Of Local Union No.
%: President, Arthur Jones; vice
president, Thomas Stull; treasurer and
recording secretary, ID. |. Scott; fl
nancial secretary, Margaret +. Hold
.er; statistician, Arthur Weaver; in
spector, Henry jennings; guard, Frank
Malnwaring, Jr.; trustees, Violet Fur
nlval, Donald Harsha and Russell
Dayis.-O. G. rs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Labor Gets Permits For
3 FM Radio Stations

Washington-(FP). - The Federal
Communications Commission Feb. IA
gave a green light to three labor
unions to begin construction of FM
broadcasting stations. Authority to
start work went to the United Auto
Workers for a Detroit station, to the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers for
station in Rochester, N. T., and to the
Init. Ladies Garment Workers for a
Chattanooga, Tenn, station.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21
Nye Says He'll Try For
Senate Seat Again

Washington-(FP).- Former Sen.
Gerald P. Nye OR, n. d. who was
eliminated by his isolationist and
America First past, announced Feb
IA that he would be a candidate for
the Senate in the fall election. Nye
who opposed the foreign policy of the
Roosevelt administration was defeat
ed in 1914 after almost 20 years of
service.
The North Dakotan said he would
let the people of his district deter
mine whether he would run against
Sen William LANCER or Sen. Milton
r. Young, both Republicans. Young is
filling the unexpired term of the late
Sen. John Moses %, N. d. and this
seat will be open for election on June
26
Rep. Gerald w. Lands Or, Ind }
also announced he would run for re-
election to the House. Lands, a mem
Der of the House un-American COM
mittee, has an anti-labor record.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-21

OUT FOR BLOOD - Murdered
pickets mean little to Pres. George F.
McNear of Toledo Peoria & Western
Railroad (above), fanatical labor
hater with long union-busting rec
ord. Two men were killed and three
wounded when his hired thugs fired
from armored freight into crowd of
unarmed strikers picketing railroad
crossing near Gridley, Ill.-(Federat-
ed Pictures).
ELECTED TO CITY OFFICES
Concord, n. H-GLNS).-In the
municipal elections here, Charles C..
Davie, member Of the Printing Press
mems and Assistants union, won the
mayoralty. Basil d. French, business
representative Of Local 633 Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, was
elected alderman.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02
LIBEPlAh PRESIDENT GETS
FRENCH CITATION

MONROVIA, Jan. 2 (ANP)-|
President w. V. S. Tubman has
been awarded the French medal of
grand commander of the Legion of
Honor by the French government.
The award was conferred "by the
chief of the government of the
French republic as token of per-
sonal esteem for your excellency
and to create tie of friendship
between our two countries" the en-
tation read.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02
Senator Bi|bo Has Field Day In
The Senate Blasting Mrs. Roosevelt

Judge HASTE, and the Negro intel
ligentisia, led by DR.. Debose (pre-
sumably DR.. DuBois) who is the
chief investigator and officer of the
NAACP, of which Mr.. Roosevelt
is now commissioner, or trustee,
an institution which is committed
to the program of social equality
between the white and black races,
and miscegenation and intermar-
riage of the races"
Bilbo continued with an account
of Mrs. Roosevelt's recent appear
ance at Howard university and
claims she was asked if she believed
in whites and Negroes intermarry-
ing.
He then asked if the senators
wanted to know who was response
BILE for the FEPC. He claimed it
was sponsored by the NAACP and
the Negro inteligentisia Of the
country in their dream and plan
and schemes to force by law, the
integration Of the Negro into the
white social life and contacts Of the
white American people.
II am more alarmed over the race
question in the United States," con-
tinued Bilbo, 'than over the atom
ic bomb. / am not blind, | see. |
know what is taking place. There
are states in the American union
which permit, by law of the state,
Negroes and whites to intermarry
and today there are more than 600
marriages year between Negroes
and whites"
He then said that the United
States would eventually turn into
a race of yellow mongrels neither
white nor black"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02
RAISE $450,ooo IN NEGRO
HOSPITAL DRIVE

MEMPHIS, Jan. 2 (ANP)-Only
$4,000 remains to be raised in the
S500,000 drive here for a new Negro
hospital, according to report by
the Rev. Arthur w. Womack, pas
tor of Collins Chapel CME church
and head Of the Negro section Of
the campaign.
While the colored citizens here
were to raise only $25, 700, Rev. Wo-
mack said they had contributed
500, ,28O to the hospital project, with
expectation that it may exceed the
100000 mark within a few days.
The whites, originally agreeing to
raise 125,000, have also exceeded
their quota. They have raised $780,
900. The 100000 CME church SUBJ
scription now brings the total up to
more than $450,000.
v" ccc-M
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02
MASSACHUSETTS URGED
TO ENACT FEpC Law

BOSTON, Jan. 2 (ANP)-A
state FEPC law was recommended
for Massachusetts by Henry G..
Turner, chairman of the N. Y.
Commission Against Discrimina-
ton.
At public statehouse hearing,
he said the "very passage" of the
Ives-Quinn measure in New York
state has brought results in COM
pliance and large employers set up
programs of compliance as soon as
the Ives-Quinn law became eff
fective." He told Gov. Maurice ].
Tobin's committee that state
FEPC law is needed.
In no case did his commission
have to resort to hearings, Turner
said. Of the 141 complaints from
individuals on which his commits
sion took jurisdiction, 40 were
based on creed, 63 on color and 38
on national origin. The Massachu-
sets FEPC law should have the
right to subpoena witnesses, Tur-
ner suggested.
Turner's recommendation was
backed by Edward Lawson, former
federal regional FEPC director.
Legislation in Massachusetts is ab-
solutely necessary now that there
To- no government agency to help
ing p'.ity group, he said. The Bos-
with tfEPC office has been closed.
Grams. story of how six well-quali-
uo'. gro PH.Ds. in chemistry
ple'' ,srred from work in northern
.,es Jersey chemical plants that
.ieeire "crying" for qualified help
s.'as told by Harold A. Lett, as
slant administrator of the New
'-sey FEPC agency. The enact
INT of the federal FEPC solved
n.ir problem.
10Th George F. Schuyler, Pitts
ergh Courier columnist, and
Henry Lee Moon, assistant chair
man of the CIO-PAC, agreed that
the New Jersey FEPC law is bet
ter than the New York law during
a discussion over radio station
WLIB recently.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02

WI Hell OoIl. DllUO SpOke Ill LIE
senate on the FEPC bill, only part
of his voluminous remarks were
printed in the white press. They
carried only his statements on the
number of Negroes employed by
the government in Washington.
Mr.. Bilbo did not make any men
tion of the overwhelming employ
ment Of whites by the government
in his own state and the other
southern states where Negroes do
not have an opportunity to partici-
pate in county, municipal, state or
government jobs.
However in his TRADE Mr.. Bilbo
lashed out at Mrs. Roosevelt as fol
lows:
II voted against the confirmation
of Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday, and ]
shall give some of the reasons" He
was referring to his lone vote
against the confirmation Of the
Roosevelt widow as U. S. repre-
sentative to the United Nations or.
ganization. He continued:
'"The most disgraceful thing thai
has been done in the District o1
Columbia, great southern city, 9
city south of the Mason and Dix.
on line, the capital of a white ma
ton, was when this damnablt
FEPC was started. A campaign
was Immediately put on in every
department in Washington to dt
what? Give Negroes jobs? But, tt
integrate the Negro into the socia
affairs and social contacts of thu
white boys and girls who were
working in the departments il
Washington. The order came dow1
from the White House to go to tht
departments and rip out the par
titions which had been there fol
100 years, and make the white me1
and boys and girls sit side by side
at the same tables with the Ne
groes in the departments.
3.It was said, Go tear out tn,
partitions between the toilets ant
wash stands which had been Sc
aside and dedicated for the use o.
colored men and women employed
on these jobs and force the whit,
boys and girls to wash in the same
basins and use the same toilets il
the departments of Washington il
a city in every part of which il
segregation observed between tn,
two races, the black and the white
which are so widely divergent il
every respect.
"The white people, forced to this
affiliation and association all upo1
the theory Of the craziest, widest
most unreasonable illogical theor.
advanced by Philip Randolph
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1946-01-02
Aid Sought In Removal OfPoliceman

UNION SPRINGS, Ala., Jan.
(ANP)-The federal government
may be called upon to remove
white killer cop from among Negro
citizens of this small cotton town.
Bullets from his blazing gun have
already killed two of their number
and third, war veteran, lies dan
gerously wounded, with one eye
shot out.
The white policeman, charged
with the wanton shootings and
ruthless murders, is Dewey Brad
ley, assigned to the police depart
ment here shortly before VI Day.
Although allegedly suspended from
the police force, he still is permitted
to prowl local streets to terrorize
Negro citizens.
Feeling that state, county and
city officials are Indifferent to the
welfare of Negro citizens, the reign
of anti-Negro terror here has been
brought to the attention of the u. S.
Department of Justice through the
Southern Negro Youth congress,
said Kenneth G. Kennedy.
Bradley'ss victims were listed as.
Edgar Thomas, a 65-year-old store
keeper, murdered; Kesse Hytower,
an employe of the Seaboard rail
road, murdered, and Ed Day Gary,
World War Ii veteran, eye shot out.
The Rev. j. L. Pinkney, business
man and local pastor, was ordered
to leave town because he witnessed
the Thomas Staying.
Thomas first clashed with Brad
ley on Oct. 7, when the policeman
overheard him discussing the Ne
gro question in his store. He came
in, beat him unmercifully, then ar
rested him on a disorderly conduct
charge. Thomas was soon released
by pressure from his white friends
but Bradley returned with two pis-
tolls and a sawed-off shot gun and
killed him.
Hytower was slain on the streets
/ here. Rradley demanded hic knifo
and Hytower gave it to him, then
the policeman proceeded to beat him
SO brutally that even white by
ISLANDERS protested. The white Off
Ger shot the railroad worker
through the heart after he said:
II gave my knife like you told me.
How come you beat me?"
| Gary had the misfortune to en-
counter Bradley and another Off
Ger few weeks ago when he was
taking his aged father home. The ex-
serviceman's father was torn out of
his arms and arrested on phony
charge of drunkenness. When Gary
went to his car, Bradley followed.
| "Get out of that car" the police
man commanded.
/ Bradley fired before the war vet
eran could obey his order. Blood
lguShed from his head and he was
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-10-05
WEST END BAPTIST

Rev. Z. M. Powell, pastor.
Sunday:
10 Il. m. Sunday school.
II a: IN. Morning worship. Topic:
The Greatest Victory Ever Won"
6:3O y. IN. E. T. u.
Monday:
7:3O p. m. Nelson Philathca class,
with Miss Jessie Bell Hamlet.
Wednesday:
T:30 p. m. Rosa Fleming Phila-
thea class al the church.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-10-05
Oct. 6-.i2 Employ
Handicapped Week
Proclaims Mayor

WHEREAS. Vic;cry in World War
Il ccSt us more than 2.0"a,GO0 caa-
ualticS and
WHEREAS, thcr" arc MANY mil
IONS pf handicapped person: in The
Ohitea States. many u: w:om by
their Efforts We're q. great aid in
manufacturing munitions or provid-
ing essential service for the war
.ffo-t, and
WHEREAS, all of these persons in
rludinG disabled veterans OF WorIG
Mar ! and II deserve %clr-sucror,ins
ioos in which they can make uscru'
contributions to our cormunit,,
state ard nation
NOW. THEREFORE, /, Henry r.
Powell, Mayor Of the CITY of Hend-
Crson, N. c.. do Sc; aside the wcay.
pl OCTOBER 9th TO October II as EN-
10y THE PHYSICALLY HANDI-
CAPPED WEEK, and | call upon all
local officials. all LEGAL EMPLOYERS
all local civic organizations and nj
cElzeaS tC assist in every way DOS
slblc. 10 the end that il shall n,
brought 10 the attention of all mem
oers OF Our community that dis;,olcc
veterans and other handicapped ci.
llians are fully capable and are per
:ormins efficiently. safely and re-
iiGoly in thousands of different oc-
cupatiCnS.
AND | FURTHER URGE ALL
EMPLOYERS to place all their jos
orders with the United States En-
ploymrnt Service so that disabled
veterans and other handicaapcr
workers may be given an opportulni,,
10 prove their value in productive
and sclf-respecting jobs.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. | have
hercunto set my hand and causct
the seal OF the City OF Henderson
20 oc affixed.
HENRY r. POWELL. Mayor
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-10-05
JAS. T. PENDERGRASS
DIES AT VICKSBORC

James Thomas Pendergrass. 50
died at his home in the Vicksocr,
community. Gl the vancc- Warren
county line, at as u. m. Friday after
being in failing health about three
years and seriously i'll ten DAYS.
Mr.. Pendcrgrass was 4 native OF
Warren county, and was corn De-
Gender is, 1876, in the Vicksboro
community and had lived there all
OF his life, engaging IN farming.
Funeral services will he held al
Shocco Methodist church Sunda,
afternoon at three o'clock, in charge
of the pastor. Rev. l.. c. Brothers.
assisted by Rev. T. w. Lee. a former
pastor, and burial will be i'm the
family cemetery at VickScoro. Mr.
Pendergrass had been q member of
Shocco church many years.
Surviving are the widow. Mrs
May Thompson Pendergrass: five
daughters, Mrs. J. M. Robertson,
Mrs. w. E. Peoples, Mrs. f. r. Hicks.
Mrs. G.. w. Elmore apd Mrs. +. r.
kittrcll, and two sons. W. II. and
E. j. Pendergrass, all of the Vicks-
boro community; three sisters. Mrs
r. NJ. Abbott, Mrs. T. r. Thompson
and Mrs. w. Fl. Robertson. ali o!
Vance county: and SO grandchildren
and l8 great grandchildren.
Mr. Pcndergrass WAS the son of
jaTes Thomas and Sallic Nucklcs
Thomas. both of whom have lonz
been dead.
Pallbearers were announced Is fol.
lows: Active. James Elmorc. Willard
Moore. William Peoples. Edgar
Robertson. Howard Robertson. Har.
ris Robertson. Med Robertson and
Junius Robertson: honorary. S. L.
Falkner. Sol Fleming, c. j. Fleming
w. f. Turner. Willis II. Blacknall
Scion Switzerland, d. p. Ayscuc, J.
l.. Switzerland, Robert p. Fleming.
f. T. Thompson, II. e. Stainback
DR.. a. p. Newcomb, f. l.. Bridgcrs
Hal Sanford. w. II. Stewart. J. E
Mosely, Asa p. Paschall, w. j. Ays.
cue. Hampton Ball. Tom Parham.
j. M. Stewart. Grandchildren will
serve as flower girls.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-10-05
SOUTH HENDERSON BAPTIST.

Sunday school, g:45 n. m.
Preaching IL Il. m. Sermon sub
Ject. Spiritual Heart Trouble"
Baptist Training Union 6:l5 y. IN.
Evening worship 7:30 p. m. Ser
mon subject. The UplGtcd Christ"
Revival services begin at Sunday
nights service and continue through
the coming week, with preaching
each evening at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. j.
a. Brock will be the visiting min
lister and will preach.