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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
IT'S A LIE!
BY MARY sOLOw, Federated Press

When bigger and better lies are
made, business will make 'em and
the newspapers will tell 'em. Big
gest lies Of the year spread by
business spokesmen and played up
By most newspapers were the
statements that "OPA strangled
production" and "OPA made it
impossible to produce at profit" "
The FACTS, as reported by Re
conversion Director John X. Steel
man recently, show that private
Industrial production for the past
year was at an all-time peacetime
high Of l78 billion dollars. The an
nual profit take after taxes was II
billion dollars, the all-time profit
high in war or peace.
Business and its newspaper
echoes plus tory congressman put
this over on the American people
in order to destroy the OPA and
pave the way for still more exor-
bitant profits.
Big companies invest money
regularly in slick, full-page maga-
zine advertisements which attempt
to put over reactionary points Of
view. One such advertiser in War
ner Swasey Machine Tools Co,
which wrote in a full-page ad in
Newsweek Sept. 9: Industry man
ayers who supply the brains to
keep all business going are cut
back and back in profit The
wonder is that American industry
and those who own and manage
keep on hoping and working"
A ray Of hope for those selfless,
self-sacrificing businessmen who
keep on hoping and working" and
spending fabulous sums Of money
for full-page advertisements can
be found in the recently announced
annual profit figure Of II billion
dollars, highest in the history Of
the L. S.
On Oct. s, Americas ambassador
to China, DR.. John Leighton
Stuart, referred to the present
leader of China as the thoroughly
worthy successor" to DR.. Sun Vat
sen.
That probably made the great
Chinese democratic leader flip
over in his grave. Even Time
magazine, which favors Chang
Kai-shek's Kuomintang against
Chinese communists, reported on
June 10 that 9. hardly anybody
in China seems to retain any faith
in the ability Of the present gov
eminent to run the nation wisely,
well or honestly.
Economically, China is deca-
dent, living by an incestuous eco
nomy in which public officials
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
Oil Workers Ask
Csc Hourly Raise

Galveston, Tex. (FP) - Oil
workers will demand a pay raise
of 25 cents an hour in immediate
negotiations with the industry, the
Oil Workers International Union
decided here Oct. %.
Meeting in Galveston, a 24-man
policy committee created by the
unions recent convention author
lied local unions to begin negotia-
tions Nov. l for the So daily in
crease. Wage conferences with oil
companies will also be arranged
on district basis and the major
companies will be asked to meet
with the union on national level.
The policy committee declared
that as a result of rising living
costs oil workers real wages have
declined $8.44 a week in recent
months. At the same time oil in
dustry profits stand at an all-time
high, 127 per cent above prewar
levels, while prices are "A per cent
higher than prewar and hourly
earnings are only 81 per cent high
er.
"We regard a 25 cents hourly
increase modest effort to achieve
balance between the income of oil
workers and skyrocketing prices"
said OWIU President o. A.
knight.
The union also emphasized it's
goal of full production to meet the
critical postwar needs of the ma
ton. Spokesman pointed out that
oil workers have made full produc
ton possible in the oil industry
while other segments of manage
ment, like the meat industry, were
throttling production.
Such efforts at curbing produc-
ton, they said, were "a conspiracy
Of the management of certain in
dustries and reactionary congress
sional leaders to throttle price con-
troll and attack the living stand
ards of American workers"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
Son Diego
Bosses Pull
sly System

San Diego, Calf. FP) - San
Diego employers have hit upon
what they consider a neat device
to avoid bargaining with unions.
It's know as the "5l per cent or
else" system.
Associations Of Employers have
sprung up all over town. AS soon
as a union claims membership of a
majority Of employees in one com
pany, the now-familiar refrain is
voiced by the association to which
the firm belongs:
"We're operating as a multiple
employer unit and you'll have to
organize 81 per cent of the entire
industry before any of our men,
bers deals with YOU"
This has been the technique in
the laundry and dry cleaning, the
retail bakery and the department
store fields.
But unions aren't being deceived
ny SuCH ldCllCS. ilc iiioSt pOWcI
ful members Of the laundry and
dry cleaning industry, for example,
are being picketed by two unions,
Local 259, Laundry Workers Inter
national Union, and Local 424, In
ternational Brotherhood to Team
sters.
An NLRB hearing has been de-
manded by Local 102, Building
Service Employees international
Union, in an. attempt to gain col
lective bargaining rights at one of
the city's largest department
stores. And picketing has been
threatened at major retail
bakery.
Union officials claim that when
they can show a majority in any
single enterprise, they have the
right to ask for collective bargain
ing representation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
Comment On World Events

Every member of organized
labor in the United States should
be familiar with a special report
on Communism made by the Com
mittee on Resolutions to the recent
65th annual convention of the AFL
at Chicago. The report, which the
convention approved, is much too
long to quote in this column. But
the salient thought was expressed
in the concluding paragraphs. Here
they are:
Throughout the history of the
American Federation of Labor it
has opposed every effort by the
state to encroach upon labor's con-
stitutional rights; its right to vol
untary association; its right to
formulate these policies for its
welfare which were of its own
choosing. If we are to have free
enterprise there must must be free
labor, and there cannot be either
unless as Americans we maintain
our free institutions. Whenever
the state has interfered with
labor's basic rights, labor has
aroused its membership, won pub
lie support, and through this
secured, not only necessary RENE
dial legislation, but legislation
which more clearly defined labor's
right, including the declaration
that labor could not be looked up
on by the state or by employers
as a commodity or an article of
commerce.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07

sanction, if they are not leaders
in, all depraving business practices
Of the day."
Time also quotes "an ardently
anti-communsit American lawyer
in Shanghi" who says: "The gov
ernment is not a government. 1t
is a dirty, venal lot of officials
trying to get what they can while
the getting is good"
All this under the worthy sue
cessor" to Sun Yat-sen.
The big business promoters Of
free enterprise school don't want
the American people to learn the
extent Of monopoly control in this
country. So they constantly pro-
claim that business is "owned" by
vast numbers of L. S. citizens.
Latest attempt comes from the
National City Bank, which declares
in recent report that 9. mill
4ICiio VI PCOPit bItCNtis VI
through savings accounts, insur-
ance policies or trust funds own
American corporate enterprises.
This is big-time baloney, The
Senate report, Economic Concen-
tration & World War II, points out
(and don't skip over these figures)
that only 75,000 people own one
half Of all corporate stock in this
country. Sixty-one thousand peo-
pie receive one-half of all cor
porate dividends. Three family
groups - dupont, Mellon, Rookie
feller-have shareholdings valued
at $1,400, 100000 which directly or
indirectly give them control over
Is Of the 200 largest u. S. nom
financial corporations Eight
groups of bankers control 1C6 of
the 250 largest corporations.
Hey, you, the guy with the three
shares of General Motors stock,
You can go up to GINS board of
directors and tell them that as an
owner you want to pay the auto
workers higher wage.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
MIA Figures
(Continned From Page OneJ

units.
Of the rental units, 36 per cent
have been calculated at renting
for $50 monthly or less. An army
survey at separation centers show
ed more than half the veterans
estimated they would be unable to
pay over $50 monthly for housing.
yet in August the under $50 rental
units were only 1879 per cent of
the total, and in September fur
ther drop to 1873 per cent was re.
corded.
Likewise, on houses for sale, the
original figure talked about in vet
Grams emergency housing program
plans was for a median house of
around $4,000. To date, however,
the proportion had dropped to 3O.1
per cent.
At the other end of the scale,
rentals of over $40 monthly rep
resent on 20 per cent Of the rental
housing started to date, but for
September the high-priced apart
ments made up 33 per cent of the
total. High-priced new houses, sell
ing for more than $500, have
risen slightly in proportion to the
total in recent months, represent
ing 34.8 per cent of new houses in
September.
With price controls on housing
materials under attack, and real
estate and landlord pressure
groups crying for an end to rent
control, the MIA statistics present
a moderate picture of the initiation
ary trend in housing that would
follow giving a free hand to hous-
ing interests to make hay from
the veteran. He can't do without
a place to live, and they know it.
There can be no loyalty by any
citizen to our nations form of gov
ernment and it's institutions of
freedom, if they give their first
allegiance to the Communist dicta-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
Wage-HOur Head
Urges IS Cent Minimum

Chicago (FP) = Branding the
present minimum wage as "pitiful-
ly low" Wage-Ho Administrator
L. Metcalfe Walling told the AFL
convention here Oct. 10 that it
must be increased to 65 cents an
hour.
Walling called for extension of
benefits to 31a million more work
ers, broadening child labor cover
age and bringing benefits to sea-
men. He also demanded that pres
ent exemptions for the agriculture
processing and fish handling in
dustries be wiped out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
SfeeIWorkers
To Demand
Wage Increase

Philadelphia (FP) - Blaming
"the worst initiation in our coun-
try's history" on "the lust and
greed of American business"
President Philip Murray served
notice here that he would seek
"healthy" wage increases for 900,-
900 steelworkers when contract
talks open Jan. /.
"The workers need the money"
he declared, "and the day is rapid
ly nearing when our people will
not have enough money in their
pocketbooks to get the bare neces-
sites of life.
American industry is making
plenty of money and can well af-
ford to give healthy wage increas-
es now without increasing the
price of commodities. This nation
need not have any depression. If
industry, through collective bar
gaining, stabilizes purchasing
power by putting higher pay in
the workers en7elope, there's no
need for any depression"
Although federal statistics
showed that industry could afford
wage increases without hosting
prices to any inflationary or un-
reasonable levels" he pointed out,
strange as it may seem, when
the steelworkers received their
1879 cents boost, at a cost of 140
million dollars to the steel indus
try, the industry was allowed to
raise prices netting 262 million
dollars"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07

torship and the policies emanating
from the Kremlin.
Americans, through the appli-
cation of free institutions under a
written constitution and govern
ment by law through the peoples
chosen representatives, have ad-
vanced socially, educationally and
materially to a greater extent than
any modern nation. Wage eaners
through their trade unions have
won the right to discuss every
problem with their employer, and
work out mutually acceptable un-
derstandings.
While there remains much to be
done in the interest of American
wage earners, while they have not
achieved the full standard of liv-
ing to which they are entitled, the
fast remains that in no country in
the world at the present time is
labor better situated than in the
United States, and nowhere else
does labor enjoy the same degree
Of industrial democracy.
Communism at present is the
most dynamic, reactionary force in
our country. If Communism should
control, then every social, econom-
ic and political right which Ameri-
cans have won since the Revolu-
tionary War would be destroyed.
y
American workers will not sur
render the advantages they have
gained, or the opportunities in the
future, for government under
which the workers must listen first
for their masters voice before
they dare to speak.
Your committee recommends
that this convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor reaffirm
its vigorous and unyielding opposi-
ton to the establishment in our
country of any form Of dictator
ship, and that it further carry on,
a constant and widespread educa-
ton, so that the Vaccinations, the
methods, and the purposes of Com
munists in carrying on subversive
activities will be exposed and de-
feated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07
Hawaii Surplus Sale Bonanza
For Well u. S. Dealers

Washington (FP)-Buyers from
the Continental U. S. with plenty
of time and travel money are get
ting in on a good thing in Hawaii,
an Interior Department release
said Oct. 9, by Making the trip to
snap up surplus military vehicles
for II. s. resale.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-11-07

We are hopeful that the day will
come when the scientists will dis
cover some unknown vitamins
lurking in the condiments, thereby
encouraging dietitians to serve
food that tastes fit to eat.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
SEPIA PLAYERS SCORE
DRAMATIC SUCCESS
By n. j. Pinkett

The SEPIA PLAYERS, Friday
and Saturday nights of last week
presented THE WHOLE TOWNS
TALKING the first in a series Of
plays, to be presented; at the Ur-
ban League.
The play was a fine comedy Of
love and humor and emotions
which they inspire.
The play was in three acts; the
scene, the living room in the home
of Henry and Harriet Simmons
and their daughter Ethel. Court
was. paid to the daughter by two
admirers. one a man of the world
and the other a country lad Of
homely virtues.
Villa Gordon who played the
stellar role of Mrs. Harriet Sim
mons, portrayed the character
with splendid artistry, worthy Of
the truly excellent actresses of
the American stage. Lawrence
the country boy who loved his
Ethel, performed like a veteran
of the stage. And Geneva Burney
who played the role of Ethel Sim
mons, the daughter and the sought
was as charming and pure as a
maiden could be. Edward CroOms
as Henry Simmons, was a very
good "old man. who was always
| getting into trouble with his very
clever wife. Robert Myers as Don
J aid Swift. the imam of the world,
, enacted his role superbly, but lost
in the race of love for the favor
of Ethel. And Wave Madison as
Lefty Lythe, almost ruined Chest
err Binney's affair with Ethel.
Harvey Carter, as Roger Shields,
Lottie Wright as Lila Wilson, Do
ris Newland as Sally Otis, Ger
aldine McKim as Annie the Maid,
Jennie Robinson as Sadie Bloom
and Harold Whiteside, the Taxi
Driver, played well their parts.
Nearly so years ago, Fred F.
Schrader, the Dramatic Critic Of
the Washington Post remarked
| that the colored race is great
est resovoir of dramatic talent
and if afforded opportunity, will
become the leaders in dramatic
art''.
The excellent acting Friday and
Saturday night by THE SEPIA
PLAYERS, indicated that pro-
| phesy. In spite of difficulties, the
| production staff did an essential
job most capably. Lee Aitchison
| directed the play.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

One day I was sitting in on a
conference to plan out a most i'm
portant booklet. It had been de-
cided that the best thing to do was
to make the text as simple as pos
sible, so one person started to
blue pencil the text and cut out
all superfluous phrases. There
was an expert present, but he
kept silent until the discussion as
what to omit was going strong,
Then he said in an objective sort
of drawl. You know simplicity
is not brevity."
The more you think about that
line-the more it strikes you.
Simplicity in writing is not ir
cutting down-it is in stating
clearly exactly what you are try
ing to say. Simplicity in dress isn't
in brevity-it is in not having any
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

peace among men, they stir up
discord between Christians and
Jews. In the name of Christianity
which is identified with truth.
they deal in falsehoods. many of
which they have taken whole
grained from the Nazis, the enc
mics of Christianity.
All of this is done in the name
of Christianity whose purpose is
to reconcile man to God and man
to man. To proclaim hatred in the
name of hatred is bad enough. But
to preach hatred in the name of
Jesus Christ is blasphemy. In
short, this generation, which has
seen hatred all but destroy civil
ization in Europe, is also seeing
the same kind of hatred attempt
the same thing in American
the name of a good and noble
word, in the name of Christianity.
This is the totalitarian way of
covering bestiality with the cloak
of religion.
And against it true Christians
will set themselves like flint.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
THE COMMON
DEFENSE
BY Rev. William C. Kernon

BAD USE OF A GOOD WORD
Latest reports of un-American
activities show that one method
subversive groups employ is to
lay claim to a respectable word
in the name of which they mali
ciously c~ontrive to undermine AM
erican democratic principles.
The Nazis, of course, used a
number of such words-among
them, strangely enough, the words
positive Christianity. The people
were taught that they were fight
ing for the things represented by
these words. They we're taught
that they were fighting for civil
ization, for the Fatherland, for
Christianity. But, the upshot was
that people were prosecuted
condemned to lives of misery in
concentration camps-murdered
Priests were stoned. Religious
schools were closed and the right
to educate children was taken
from parents and from the Church
Democracy was destroyed. men
deraded, and brutal dictatorship
established.
In America there are those who
even after the war is over, follow
this pattern, They too, have seiz-
ed upon and claimed a good word
in whose name they attack demo-
cracy and the rights Of American
citizens. They have seized upon
the word Christian. In the name of
Christianity, whose aim is to Gre
ate a brotherhood Of all men, they
spread race hatred. In the name
OF Christianity, which proclaims
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
SAN ANTONIO GIANTS
TOUR IOWA

The San Antonio Giants, play
ing out of Omaha, engaged teams
in Adele, TT. Dodge, Ames and
Rockwell City in six games last
weeks winning four and losing
two. The addition of Williams at
Bird base has made the infield one
Of the best in the country. The
infield is made up of Cooper, 1st
base; Murphy, End base; Sanders
short stop and the f~leet-footed
Williams at third.
The Giants will journey to Chi
cago the End Week in July to take
on some of the best teams around
the Windy City
King in center field with Chop
house Writer'S in right and the re-
liable Green Beverly covering the
left field are OK in any park.
Ism Cobb was visited at the
Calhoun hotel by Suitcase Mason,
one time player on his team and
a great ballplayer who Is living in
Omaha. Six additional players
have been added to Giants line
up. ,nt III
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

trimming that doesn't serve a pur
pose or that means something.
Simplicity in talking is not in
speaing only in headline phrases.
1t is in having something to say,
saying it in the most lucid pos
sible language and in sticking to
the subject.
Simplicity in living is just the
same. 1t is not so much in omit
ting things from life, but in doing
the things that are real. In con-
~centrating on the worthwhile, not
the tawdry, in living WITH a pun
pose and BY a principle.
The men and women who oh.
serve that kind of simplicity are
the ones who get things done. Be
cause their minds are unclutterec
by non-essentials, they are able tt
think a problem through and ther
find the solution. They r The
people who have time to be kind
Out of the ordered neatness Of
their days, they have saved hour:
in which to help others. The big
| gest men I know are the ones who
have time to listen. It's the little
people who r 'too busy"
Simplicity is a gift within the
reach of any one. 1t is possible
to so order your Ives that you viii
have time to include all things
you want to do. Just do the most
important thing first. Once you
do this all the rest falls into line
You are not haunted by the things
you have left undone. The unim-
portant things disappear of their
own accord. You are always uI
to date. It's a simple rule Of liv-
ing-and it really works. Why
not trV it?
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
WALTER WINCHELL, EDDIE
DUCHIN, EDWARD EVERETT
HORTON ATTEND KING
COLE PARTY

NEW YORK CITY-(Calvin's
News Service)-What was termed
as an all out affair to officially
welcome Nat King Cole and his
trio to New York was given at
the Hotel Savoy-Plaza this week
in their beautiful Mandarin Suite.
The occasion won it's Importance
for two reasons. Firstly, Negroes
have never given an affair at the
Savoy-Plaza. Secondly, never has
there been such an array of all
classes Of people together to pay
tribute to any one musical group.
Among the stars and celebrities
who greeted Nat Cole and the
boys were Walter Winchell, famed
newspaper columnist, MI. and Mrs
Noble Sissle, Richmond Barthe,
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Kirk, Harold
and Fayard Nicholas, Mrs. Frs
kline Hawkins, Anne Brown, Rex
Ingraham and Maurice Rocco.
Just in from California on the
Constellation, Edward Everette
Horton arrived in time to meet
the Trio. He joins the Kraft Mu-
sic Hall air show this week on
which the King Cole Trio are ap-
pearing for the summer.
The most dramatic moment of
the party was when Eddie Duchin
star of the Kraft show, made a
simple and genuine toast to the
Trio at which time the 200 guests
drank champagne.
The cocktail reception was de-
finitely unique. There were pro-
ducers, actors, singers, artists,
lawyers, doctors, radio executives,
booking agents, cafe owners, band
leaders. teleyision men, disc jock
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
Dean William J. Faulkner

Dean William j. Faulkner of
Fisk University, who will rece-
i've the honorary degree of Doc
tor of Divinity from the Theolog-
ical Seminary of the University
of Chicago at its commencement
exercises, June 18th, according to
an announcement from DR.. Arth-
ur Cushman McGiffert, president
of the Seminary. Ddan Of the
Memorial Chapel at Fisk Rev.
Faulkner is a well known lect-
urer to college groups through
out the country. A native of S.
Carolina, he was educated at the
University of Chicago, Springfield
(Mass.) YMCA Callege, and the
University of Pennsylvania.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

eys and song writer's. The offici-
ais of the Kraft Music Hall, the
Zanzibar, General Amusement,
Paramount Pictures and Metro
Goldwyn Mayer were on hand as
well as the complete press repre-
sentation Of New York City. News
paper photographers, as well as
those from Look Magazine and
Harper's Bazaar were getting a
few shots of the crowd in action.
Members of the Fourth Estate
were well represented. Editors Of
Harper's Bazaar, Look, Life, Cor
onet, Magazine Digest, Pic, Down.
beat, Metronone, Bandleaders and
Tune In, were all present as well
as the major Negro publications.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

Safety Patrol.
Mays 81 fatalities brought the
years total to 103 an increase of
81 percent over last years SO.
The apparent causes of deaths
which occurred in May were speeu
careless driving, and right-of-way
violations.
Therefore, Captain Sanders re-
ported, it may be brought to the
attention of the public that they
must take an active part, not only
as groups but as individuals, tc
cut down this needless wave OF
slaughter on Nebraska streets
and highways.