The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-08-29

late President Roosevelt was formed
at conference in Washington of 700
delegates from 27 states.
Sweeping aside the warnings of
the people and administration, the
House passed an OPA extension bill
loaded down with near-dozen infia-
tionary amendments.
The joint wartime agreement under
which Labor's League for Human
Rights and Community Services Com
mittee raised funds for the American
Red Cross was terminated under
pressure from anti-union top Red
Cross leaders.
Plans for an all-out drive to or
ganize the South were announced by
AFL President William Green.
MAY
Slogans of peace food and security
marked the first postwar celebration
of May Day as millions of workers
marched and demonstrated in cities
throughout the world.
The CIO started "holy crusade"
to organize a million workers in a
dozen southern states.
One of the nations longest post
war strikes ended successfully after
| lis days when Westinghouse Electric
Co. settled along the lines of the gem
eral wage pattern with United Elec-
trical Radio & Machine Workers.
Labor's drive to change the politi-
cal climate of the South got off to q
good start in the Florida and Ala
bama primaries where liberal candi-
dates backed by the forces of organ
lied labor won nominations for con-
gressional seats held by anti-labor-
| ties.
The United Steelworkers adopted a
statement of policy declaring it would
"engage in no purges, no witch
hunts" and would not seek to inter-
fere with the "free and democratic
right of each member to harbor such
views as he chooses in his private
life as citizen"
President Truman broke the ma
ton wide rail strike and went before
Congress to ask for the most drastic
anti-labor legislation ever proposed
in the U. S.
In to decision the U. S. Su-
preme Court ruled that the super
seniority theory was a false interpre-
tation of the 1910 draft law.
The government seized the nations
coal mines and went into direct nego-
tiations with the United Mine Work
ers. Demand for health and welfare
fund was granted.
Joint labor rallies were held.
throughout the nation to protest
President Truman's slave labor bill.
Seeking an immediate test of the
Lea Act, the government filed GRIM
inal information against President
James C. Petrillo of American Fed
Grafton of Musicians, charging him
with coercive practices affecting radio
broadcasting.
Responding to pressure from or
ganized labor, President Truman
vetoed the Case bill.
The seven-union Committee for
Maritime Unity with nationwide
support won a victorious settlement
on the eve of a scheduled maritime
strike which President Truman had
threatened to break with the armed
forces.
A 150-day strike by 5000 mine and
smelter workers of the Utah Copper
Co. at Bingham, Utah, was settled
with an 181Ac hourly increase
Rather than permit an infationary
OPA extension bill to hold out a
false promise of price control, Presi-
dent Truman vetoed the bill.
Within 48 hours after the death Of
OPA, prices on Wall Street and mid
western cattle and grain exchanges
rose to new peaks. Buyers strikes
swept the nation.
After three weeks of soaring
prices, Congress passed an imitation
ridden price control bill which Presi-
dent Truman signed reluctantly"
A Commerce Department report
showed corporation profits after
taxes in the first quarter of 1916 were
close to those of the best war years.
AFL President William Green and
Southern Representative Geo. Googe
to the War Department
over army interference with unioni-
zation of 10000 A-bonb workers at
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Clothing Workers and
leader in many labor activities, died
Of heart attack at the age of SO.
Two Negro couples were lynched in
Monroe, Ca, shortly after Eugene
Talmadge won the gubernatorial
on a white supremacy
platform.
AUGUST
Congress adjourned with one of the
worst do-pothing records in its his
ory.
An OPA Decontrol Board consist
ng entirely of men with big busi-
Iess viewpoint was named by Presi-
lent Truman to act as a sort of Su-