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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Foreign Union Heads
Gets AFL Food Packages

Chicago (FP)-A national cam
paign among AFL affiliates to
raise funds to feed the officers and
leaders of the "free trade unions
of germany and Austria" was an
nounced before the federation's
65th convention by Second Vice
President Matthew Woll.
Woll said food packages costing
$40 each were being sent each
month to 500 European labor
leaders picked by the AFL and the
executive council had appropriated
$4,000 for the purpose. These
packages are already enroute, he
said. Other donations of $4,000
each have come from the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union, the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks and the United Mine Work
ers.
"We hope that every affiliate
will. make a contribution and are
soliciting the aid of every state
federation and central body to help
build up free trade union move
ment in Europe" Woll said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
'CoOl-Off' Period Strike
Upheld In u. S. Court

Philadelphia (ILNS) Workers
who quit their jobs last year dur
ing the 30-day "cooling-off" period
effective before a strike could be
called under the Smith Conally
War Disputes Act did not violate
the law, Federal Judge Harry f.
Kalodner decided here.
Any such restraints by law
would be violation Of an individ-
ual's constitutional rights, the
Judge ruled in dismissing a $4,000
damage suit filed by the France
Packing Co. against 3 former en-
ployees.
The company charged the men,
all members of the International
Association of Machinists, caused
an "illegal" strike of about so en-
ployees last Oct. 81 after the union
had filed notice of intent to strike
under the Smith Conally Act.
The defendants contended that
there had been no strike, and that
the men. instead, had quit their
Jobs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Job Merge Adjustments

Washington (FP)-The United
Steelworkers and the u. S. Steel
Corp. have reached agreement on
principals and procedures to be
followed in setting up plant stand
ard hourly wage scales and elimi-
mating intra-plant wage rate in
equities, it was announced Oct. Z.
Steel mill jobs have been reduc-
ed by joint union-corporation
study into 30 job classes, into
which the present $4,000 jobs will
be adjusted. The adjustments,
union spokesman have estimated,
will bring about $40 million to
steel plant workers. They will be
retroactive to Jan. 1914.
Incentive plans for individual
workers will be reviewed after the
standard wage scales are estab-
lished in the plants, which will
probably be by years end. Princi-
pal USA contracts expire in Feb
rIarv
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24

completely the economic life OF
the nation, whereupon the great
minds of the revolution" will take
over and put US all in our places
But he who is a believer in the
democratic life cannot go along
with the revolutionist.
We do not settle our political
differences by battle We do not
get into a fight to see which party
shall govern. We vote the matter
out and we abide by the vote.
And our political differences can
and often do mean as much to our
homes and to our dinner tables, as
do our wage differences.
Not too long ago miners were
being shot for wanting to join the
union. That has been stopped.
That, too, is now arranged by
peaceful voting. The result is ac-
cepted.
1t begins to leek like a confess
sion of inadequacy to state that
we cannot find better way than
the strike of settling most grie-
vances.
The lockout has been almost
completely abolished. The yellow
dog contract is no more. The
blacklist is dead. The labor injunc-
ton is dead.
The strike remains about the
only rule of force for which we
have up to now failed to find a
peaceable substitute.
The world is struggling for a
way to end war through the
United Nations. 1t would be a
great thing if at the same time a
way to avert strikes could be
found. Surely the prevention of
strikes, the use of other methods,
is no more forbidding task than
the finding of war to end war.
Maybe it can't be done. But it
would be a good idea to make the
to make it in desper-
ate seriousness, preserving the
right, but curbing the practice
CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
UN TO ACT SOON ON
lilo RECOGNITION,
WATT TELLS AFL

Chicago (FP)-Action on the
International Labor Organizations
request for recognition by the
United Nations is expected when
the general assembly meets in
New York Oct. "a, AFL Interna-
tional Representative Robert j.
Watt told the AFL convention
here.
Watt, who attended the recent
ILO conference in Montreal as u.
S. labor delegate, said az nations
were represented and a new con-
stitution making the lilo an Gin
dependent specialized international
agency" was adopted.
Slapping at the CIO, Watt noted
that in all the work at Montreal
1--WE failed to expose any of the
rusty bottoms that the head Of a
rival organization said are run
ming the ILO."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Guild Claims
Senator Tuft
Aiding Ndzis

Washington (FP)-Sen. Robert
A. Taft is attacking the Nuern-
berg trials of Nazi leaders FUSED
legal arguments as camouflage to
hide his immortality" according to
spckesmen fro 5000 American
lawyers here Oct. 8.
California Attorney General
Robert w. Kenney, president OF
the National Lawyers Guild, and
MIG Executive Secretary Martin
Pepper accused Taft of speaking
for the cartelists who are exerting
every conceivable form of pressure
to prevent the prosecution and
punishment as war criminals Of
the German industrialists and fl
nanciers who participated in the
Nazi plans for world conquest and
mass murder"
Both Kenney and Pepper had
observed the Nuremberg trials in
process and said the American Bar
Association and MIG observers
were convinced the Nazis were
prosecuted "for crimes firmly es-
tablished in international law as
well as the laws of all civilized
nations" Taft had claimed it was
unfair to try the Nazis under laws
drawn up after the offenses were
committed -socalled ex post facto
laws.
"There is only one adequate
answer to Sen. Taft" said Kenney
and Pepper. president Truman
must announce that we shall seek
immediate agreement with the ma
tions comprising the international
Military Tribunal upon list Of
defendants among the leading Ger
man industrialists and financiers
to be indicted and tried before
joint military tribunal similar to
the Nuremberg court.
Furthermore, all the remaining
German industrialists who com
mitted war crimes should be pros
ecuted as quickly as possible be-
fore the military courts of the sew
eral occupying powers in whatever
zone they may be found.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
SOME NERVE!

New York (FP)-It takes
more than a "a per cent in
crease in the cost of living since
June 80 to satisfy the profits
minded National Association of
Manufacturers.
Complained the NAM News
Sept. %: "OPA is doing only
what the law specifically states
it has to do. where there is a
question of doubt, OPA resolves
it on the side of controls. In
other words, OPA does not
raise prices or decontrol items
unless it is plain it is COM
PEELED to- by existing law"
There is no hope, the NAM
paper added, chat OPA will
change its attitude so long as
Paul Porter continues as OPA
administrator, unless pressure
is brought by the President
himself. Apparently, Mr.. Porter
and his principal suborinates
are completely dominated by
the left-wing groups which
favor controls"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
THE CHERRY TREE

The right to strike must be pre-
served al all hazards and against
all corners.
But the development of machin-
cry that will make most strikes
unnecessary is highly important
perhaps critically important.
Most courts will protect you if
you shoot a guy who interlopes
into your home to the extent of
breaking it up, but it is lot bet
ter if your home so runs itself
that it is proof against such break
age.
Intelligent individuals who get
into brawls admit, by doing so,
that their ability to reason has
failed them.
1t is high time for both labor
and management to give a lot of
thought to the development of
something in the nature of legis-
lative methods of preventing most
strikes.
All strikes end some time. Most
of them should end before they
start.
Now time was when strikes were
no more than battles that some
union won or lost. They didn't af-
feet the future of the whole Struc-
ture.
But today there is a compelling
reason for looking seriously about
to find a way to make strikes un-
necessary. That reason is found in
the rising tide of public resent
ment against broad stoppages of
production. 1t is found in the
growing threat of legislation too
chipping to contemplate happily.
Time was when most strikes af-
fected one plant only. Now strike
in a nut and bolt plant, or a ball
bearing plant, or in any one of
dozens of relatively small plants
may stop one or more industries
of magnitude.
The old time IWW would have
revelled in the present possibili-
ties. He dreamed of pulling ont
one or two men-key men-to stop
a plant, leaving the others on the
payroll, but idle. He dreamed
ahead Of his time. But he forgot,
too, that the life of a nation must
go on, that it can stand only so
much interference and still live.
The complexity of life has in
creased amazingly in the last de-
cade, even in the last five years.
There is web of interdependence.
This new and amazing complex
ity means that when one cog
breaks down whole machine
stops and the machine gets bigger
and bigger each year.
1t is possible that the out and
out revolutioinist hopes for the
crippling strike to grow so large
and last so long that it will wreck
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Metal Trades Act To End
JurisdictiOnal Disputes

Chicago (ILNS) = The Metai
Ira des Department, American
Federation Of Labor, in annual
convention, adopted negotiating
procedures designed to end w4
stoppages caused by jurisdictio
disputes mong its affiliated
unions.
The procedure, unanimously ap-
proved, would provide for immedl-
ate conferences between local rep
resentatives of unions involved IN
a jurisdictional disagreement.
Failure of local leaders to agree
after "a hours would result auto
matically in reference of the dis
pute to international presidents OF
the unions involved. If the dis
agreement persisted after SO
hours, a referee chosen by interna-
tional representatives would make
a binding decision, resolving the
local dispute.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
New Jersey
Buns Klun

Trenton, N. J. (FP)-Ku Kluy
Klaners in New Jersey will have tC
put their bedsheets away in moth
balls.
Outlawing of the terrorist or
ganization was ordered here Oct
10 by Supreme Court Justice A
Dayton Oliphant after testimony
from State Attorney General Wal
ter ID. Van Ripper that the KKK's
objectives were Improper" and
that it had been linked with the
German-American Bund.
The action was served on a for
mer representative of the khan,
William |. Morgan of West Long
Branch, but neither he nor any one
else identified with the khan con-
tested it. The klan received a state
charter i'm 1923.
Van Ripper, who started proceed
ings in August, testified to meet
ing Of New Jersey klan and bund
members at Camp Nordland on
Aug. 18, 1910.
He also charged that "the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of
New Jersey is an unlawful organ
ization, destructive Of the rights
and liberties of the people and
does operate in violation of the
constitution and laws of the u. s.
and of the state of New Jersey,
and does advocate the arousing of
racial and religious prejudices,
fomenting disorder and encourag
ing riots and unlawful assemblies
in contempt of the state"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
L. A. GuiIdsmen Back
Herald-EXpress Strike

Los Angeles (FP)-At one of
the largest meetings ever held by
local newsmen, members of the
Los Angeles Newspaper Guild
voted to assess themselves days
pay per week for the duration of
the Herald Express strike.
The fund, estimated at about
$1,000 weekly, will swell the strike
funds already donated by the ma
tional union and newsmen through
out the country. The $50 strikers
fighting for a living wage unani-
mously rejected a recent Hearst
offer of l2A per cent boost as
an "insult."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Future Of Wage
Control In Doubt

Washington (FP)-Officia |
Washington was thrown into con-
fusion over continuation of wage
controls Oct. 10 when President
Truman said he has not decided
what the administration would do
about the resignation of Wage
Sterilization Board representatives
for industry A. Colman Barrett
and Earl N. Cannon.
The two industry members on
the six-man board has sent letters
of resignation the previous day,
explaining they were no longer in
favor of retaining control over
wages and indicated their views
were shared by industry members
of WSB's II regional boards.
Barrett and Cannon had offered
their designations in July, Presi-
dent Truman recalled to his press
conference, but the two had been
persuaded to stay on. WSB Chair
man w. Willard Wirtz meanwhile
said he received the news with
regret" but added it "did not in
any way suspend, modify or eff
feet the provisions of the Stabili-
zation act, the executive orders or
regulations relating to wage stabi-
lization and the jurisdiction and
functions of the board"
In Chicago, AFL President Will
liam Green hailed the designations
as a sign of the end to wage con-
troll by the government, but in
Washington there was no indica-
tion from either AFL representa-
tive Robert Watt or the CLOS Carl
Shipley, WSB labor members, of
their course of action.
Green had called upon both in
dustry and public members of
WSB to resign in disgrace in Sep
tember after they had disapproved
wage raises for AFL maritime
workers arrived at through collec-
tive bargaining.
Observers here see three possi-
BILE courses open to Truman: %
Try to carry on the wage con-
troll program under a three-part
board of labor, industry and pub
lie members; (2) Name an all-pub-
lie member board; (3) Junk the
wage control program.
If he chooses the latter course,
it is forseen that any meaningful
price controls would not stand
much chance of survival, for all in
creased labor costs to industry
under the present zombie price
control law could be added to the
selling price of goods. Industry
spokesmen are by no means op-
posed to such a plan, as the resig-
nations indicate.
Excessive cheerfulness is fire.
uuantlv very ohnoYiOuS
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24

Excessive cheerfulness is fire.
quently very obnoxious.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
Demands End
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and we offer industries the price
less cooperation of the nations
tool makers and tool users who
have the know-how, that is, the
production skill and who know how
to get the most out of the mater
ials of production.
Our wage rates must increase
proportionately as the productive
power we control enables us to in
crease the output" the convention
was told.
The report also called for devel-
opment of "union-management CO.
operation plans, with joint respon-
sibility for improving production
and reducing waste"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
AFL Votes
(Conrinned From Paer OneJ


Auto Workers moved to amend the
minority report to make the per
catipa tax flat 2 cents per MEM
Der for all affiliates regardless of
size. His action by President
George @. Lynch of the Pattern
Makers League and President
Hugo Ernest of the Hotel & Res
taurant Employees International
Alliance and President James M.
Duffy of the Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters. Duffy said he would
welcome an investigation of the
organizations in the AFL to find
out who wasn't playing fair on
per capita payments"
Evening star., 1946-07-10

AlIoW three Ueeks for i'm
printed orders to be filled.
Sorry. no c, 0. D, or phone
orders. Your choice Of block
or script lettering, in blue or
mulberry.
Evening star., 1946-07-10
so sheets
40 envelopes
all imprinted with your

Boxed and beautiful :. here's the stationery you've
been voting for long time! Of prewor weight, in
choice of posteI coors each sheet and each envel
ope is imprinted with your name and address. And
we're the first in Washington to have it . SO alert
ore we to your demands.
Stationery, Street Floor The Hecht Co.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
Precinct work will
decide future success

1t seems to me that the state
ments on the elections by the pro-
gressives lacks the real idea that
the elections are won by the vote
in the precincts.
The man responsible or captain
must be assured he can work
without fear in Chicago or in
Meridian, Miss. He must have
money to put over the idea he is
to sponsor.
believe Prof. McDougall is
right in what he said, but it is
not enough. We need to show
how to get over to the people in
the precincts, the progressive
Idea or we will continue to fail
and be divided.
I believe the PAC has the
HBowhew.
mr. xu
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
Star readers give their views
on outlook for progressives

Regarding the subject, What
next for Progressives?," may i
point out the position taken by
the Chicago Action Council which
is a progressive businessmen's
organization.
1t is our opinion that all liberal
and progressive groups must lose
their Identity Political groups
like CIO-PAC = NCPAC = and
ICC; Businessmen groups like
Chicago Action Council and New
Council of American Business
Religious groups like the Protes-
tant, and Anti Discrimination
groups like NAACP - Southern
Conference For Human Welfare
and the American Jewish Con-
gress must become one.
That this group cannot be ruled
from the top by few like Phil
hip Murray or Harold 1ckes, but
must be built on a broad demo-
cratic basis with leadership COM
ing from the capable, as well as
the well known, and such groups
as the Independent Voters of
Illinois must recognize that re-
fusal to cooperate means defeat.
We are well aware of the SPLEEN.
did work done by WI in IA, but
we also know why they went
down to defeat in '46. Fence sit
ting is dangerous business, and
we hope that in the process of
picking themselves up, WI will
arise with a newly-formed pro-
gressive coalition.
BORY STEINBERG
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23


population with organized labor
as its center has grown until it
has become the natural majority
without which neither the Demo
Gratis or Republicans dare reckon.
Labor is in politics and it is 10
win.
There should be no more talk
of delay or any defeatism. A
mass party can and will be built.
Let the CLIO, AFL, Brotherhoods
and all who are natural allies get
together Immediately We all
have common aspirations and
common needs.
HARRY SHEPARD
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
Join the discussion

Last week the Star quizzed leading Chicago progress
sves the next steps necessary win the country
to Roosevelt policy.
This week readers have already begun to respond
Because this question vital for the future welfare of
all of who hate war; depression insecurity and oppres
sion want to hear from the widest possible representa-
ton.
We urge Star readers to give us their views on the
problem.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
Scope of Iobor makes
3rd por+y possible
To the Editor:

PUBLIC expression lately has
been literally sprinkled with
dose of anti-third party chaff.
Some writers have recalled the
transitory nature of third party
movements in the us.
Confused and backward ele-
ments will be taken in by this
defeatist propaganda. The ma
jority,- however, are not to be
satisfied with the formula that
the traditional bi-party system is
something immutable. Most his
torians of the Populists, the Bull
Moose Rebellion, and the more
recent La Toilette progressive
movement fail to point out the
real reasons for the short lives
of those parties.
Tt would be pertinent to point
point out the principal factor in
volved in their failures: none of
them had a base rooted in inn
portant problems of the mass of
the people.
CONDITIONS are alter e d.
There is a new alignment of
forces since the days of those i'll
starred third party episodes. I'm
like any previous venture, the
Third Independent Party based
on organized labor does not have
to start with an isolated nucleus
in Illinois, Pennsylvania, or Calf
ornia with the hope of spreading.
Organized labor is already a
national institution with bases in
the principal centers of all sec
tons of the country.
In recent years, the industrial
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
THE FACT is that the Democratic m;

THE FACT is that the Democratic machine by
itself can not elect mayor. And Chicago have
a victorious antiRoot candidate only if the all the prog
Tessve forces unite behind an acceptable choice.
Chicagoans are highly critical of Kelly and his ad-
minisraton There homeless, who know that Kelly
has fallen down on his housing promises
There the parents who deeply concerned
with the corrupt school system in which their children
vctimized There the Negro people, imprisoned
in covenant-waled ghetto There the workers who
have been errorzed and beaten by Kelys Capt Barnes
and his strike-breaking police There many others
who want and desperately need progressive mayor to
whom Kellys name is anatkema
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23

WE DON'T know much about Mr. Root In fact, the
COP considers im~a good candidate exactly because he
has been such nobody His political past is free
from strong commitments that he can make the most
dernagoge kind of campaign
But this much do know. Russell w. Root the
mayOralty aspirant, is plastic clay figurine. The
sculptor is Col Mccormick. And among reactiOnary
Republican politicians in the United States. Col Nc
COrmck is of the most sinister.
Knowing this much about Root is to know that he
be defeated And the major slogan of the Chicago
mayoraIy election campaign is already Indicated Keep
Mccormick out of City Hall.'
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23

THE DANGER however, lies in the selection of
weak opposition candidate "a.
BY weak candidate who would not
be able to rally the enthusiastic support of the full coal
Hen of Chcagos progressive voters.
Surely Mayor Kelly would be among the weakest.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23

THE guarantee against weak and Intellectual alter
native to the Mccormick Green choice is the broadcast
possible discussion and agreement progressive can
didate Under circumstances he be hand picked in
the closed party councils = in the way that Root
hand picked
The choosing of such candidate must begin now
and in the remaining weeks before the mayoralty pr-
mary. Remember that the deadine for nominations in
the primary is January 16.
In these discussion, labor must have the ciearest
and strongest voice. Unified labor support be de-
eisive in eIecting Chcagos next mayor.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-11-23
The Spring Elections

The Hoover revival movement be set back
its heels just suddenly it brought into being
on November s. 3 1s
That be done in the series of local elections that
will come between and the crucial 1913 presidential
struggle One of the most critical of these contests will
in Chicago with the spring Mayoralty and alder
manic elections.
Unfortunately, reaction has already taken the mi
tiative The Mccormick Green crowd has made its selec
ton of safe candidate. The victory SMILE of Russell
w. Root is already beamng from the pages of every
Chicago newspaper.