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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

Tracy lace was ozark ana grim
'That's just why I'd like to
have Lyn Frazier's neck be-
tween my bare hands for about
two minutes" he said grimly.
They'll talk their heads off
but about you! You are the
Tilted one-oh people will feel
he's cad and a 'bounder' and
all that, but of course, they are
going to wonder why he threw
you over at the last moment"
mot when your engagement to
her is announced in the morn
ing" said Sarah placidly.
Tracy looked as though she
had kicked him hard and with
out warning. He looked at Sa-
rah, startled. my engagement
to Ann?" he repeated, and was
still.
''Well, naturally" Sarah an
swered, as though resenting his
stupidity in having to have that
explained. what better could
we do to offset any-unpleasant
repercussions from Lyn's be-
havior?"
There was little taut moment,
and then Tracy said very quietly,
"1-can't ask Ann to marry me,
Mrs. Clayton"
Sarah had picked up her stick
preparatory to rising to her feet,
but now she put it down once
more and looked straight at Ira
cy; while Ann sat very still, her
hands locked tightly together, a
little sick and dizzy with the re-
action from the breathless, costa
tic moment when her heart had
shrleked to her that with LISA
gone, she and Tracy were free to
belong to each other.
Sop said Sarah after a mo-
ment, and now there was ice in
her voice and in her eyes. 81
think you had better explain
that, young man. First you say
that you cannot ask Ann to mar
ry you because you are under
obligations to LISA! And now
that Lyn Frazier has taken those
obligations off your shoulders sc
neatly, you still maintain that
you are not free? Are you try.
ing to say, young man, that you
don't want to marry ANN"
Tracy said sharply, II want tc
more than anything else in the
world-but what can I offer q
girl brought up as Ann has been?
I'm the fellow from the other
side of the tracks. I can't even
remember my parents-I am not
even absolutely sure they were
married. The thought never
seemed of any terrific inpor-
lance, until lately. 1 made my
way the best I could-sort Of
smuggling it out. I sold newspa-
pers, slept in doorways-got
what little education I could by
reading the papers I hadn't been
able to sell. It was all right
I'm not complaining. It's not q
bad way to grow up-but it GER
talnly doesn't train a fellow to
make fit husband for a girl
brought up as Ann has been!"
"Oh," said Sarah scoffingly
with little gesture of dismissal
IF that's all that's botherine
you"
Its not all, but it's important
and you know it," Tracy cut in
grimly. ''I'd-shame and humili-
ate her a thousand times a day
I-don't even feel sure I'd know
which fork to use at the dinner
table of one of her society
friends"
stuff and nonsense, mani
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

with shame, tear stains on mel
flushed face, her eyes hurt and
angry and shamed.
''Sarah-you-you're being
perfectly outrageous!" she walled
What right have you Toto
NEEDLE in something that-that
doesn't = actually concern your
you're quite mistaken, my
DEAR" Sarah told her pleasantly
''It concerns me a great deal, as
you shall presently see. And it
seemed about time someone
with a little common sense took
hand in matters"
Ann faced Tracy, her head
high. 'I'm-more ashamed than
I've ever been in my life" she
told him TREMENDOUSLY. "I-cant
think what makes Sarah behave
like this-she-she never-did
such a thing before-I mean
she's-never tried to NEEDLE be-
FORE"
"It's all right, sweet" said
Tracy gently. 'Please don't feel
badly-sne has a perfect right to
ask my intentions"
Saran said dryiy, 'That's very
kind of you, Mr.. Driscoll-and il
you'll both sit down and listen
I'll explain why I have-er-
meddled-and I think you may
even be grateful"
give heard enoughw said Ann
hotly and moved towards the
door.
"Ann!" Sarah's voice was moi
loud nor was it sharp, but there
was authority in it that Ann, ir
the infrequent occasions it hao
been used to her in all her life
had never been able to deny.
''Sit down, Ann" said Sarah, ir
that quiet, authoritative voice.
Ann made little helpless ges-
ture, and looked at Tracy.
''I-might as we'll" she said
huskily, and dropped down once
more on the pouffe.
Sarah turned to the table be.
side her, took from it a book anC
from the book a folded piece Of
paper.
There was telegram for you
this afternoon, my DEAR" she sale
to Ann, and then to Tracy she ex.
plained politely. ''This far from
town, kilograms are telephoneC
out, and it happened that I an
swered the telephone, and took
this one down. I-deliberately
kept it from Ann until now, fol-
reasons believe you will agree
with me, were good"
She adjusted her reading glass
es, unfolded the paper and sale
briskly, 1T was sent from a little
town just across the state line
Having made her explanation
she unfolded the paper and read
almost without expression, ''Miss
Ann Clayton, Howard Ferry
Road, Midland City. Wanted you
to have the news as your first
scoop. Lyn Frazier and I were
married here this afternoon
Honey-mocs1ing until his new jot
begins. Remember me to Tracy
Love and kisses"
She folded the paper, took of
her reading glasses and finished
quietly. "The telegram is sign
ed, LISA Marven Frazier"
Ann sat perfectly still, wide
eyed, staring at her grandmother
And Sarah said automatically, as
though Ann had been a child, her
tone one of gentle rebuke, Mouth
is open, darling.''
''Lissa-and Lyn!" said Ann, as
| though putting the names to-
gether like that helped her to
realize what had happened
''Lissa-and Lyn! But-but-I
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

Hybrid corn is expected tor
provide a $3,OOO,OoO-a-year seed
business in North Carolina by
1850.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

S. c., last Thursday, it was learn
ed here this week.
Blevins wears the Victory,
Asiatic-Pacific and American
ribbons.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. o. Blevins, of Crumpler.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18
Gather Blevins
Given Discharge

Gather E. Blevins, coxswain,
after IL months in the U. S. Ma
wy, was honorably discharged
from the U. S. Navy Personnel
Separation Center at Charleston.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-04-18

Give to the Cancer Control
Fund today!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
By BETTY GOLDSTEIN

New York-(FP).-If the big cor
porations were planning to use strike
breakers in their drive to bust the
unions, Pearl Bergoff, onetime king of
scabherders, would probably know
about it, So went to see him.
The Bergoff | talked to in his COM
Portable apartment in quiet, respec-
table hotel on the upper west side
must be close to 70. His hair is getting
thin and his sugary, boastful wheeze
might be that of any old man living
on memories-if the twitch of his leg
and at the side of his mouth and the
huge crucifix hanging over his bed
didn't betray signs of guilt.
For 35 years when boss saw his
workers ready to strike for the right
to join a union and fight for better
wages, he's pick up the phone and call
Pearl Bergoff. Within a few hours
Bergoff would have rounded up his
captains and lieutenants-men with
criminal records of murder, arson,
rape, theft, drug addicts, eliminates
Of insane asylums.
Herder into day coaches, the doors
bolted, shades drawn, the scabs would
be shipped across state lines to the
scene of the strike, accompanied by
the required amount Of teargas, hand
grenades, Winchester rifles and ma
chineguns. Bergoff's men always trav-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Disastrous Fire
Claims Life Of
Newell Chemist

Orton Bleininger, 35, pottery cham
list, and son of DIR. A. V. Bleininger
research director for the Homer
Laughlin China Company, was burned
to death when he was trapped by g
fire which destroyed the home of his
parents in Newell last week.
The fire was discovered at an early
morning hour by an unidentified per.
son who Immediately summoned the
Newell volunteer fire department
When firemen arrived a few minutes
later, the entire house, two-story
frame structure, was enveloped in
flames.
Firemen were unable to determine
the cause of the fire but it was be-
lieved to have started from a lighted
cigarette or match. The body was dis
covered on the floor in the living
room, and it is believed the victim
may have been awakened by the fire
and was overcome by smoke before
he could reach door.
Mr.. Bleininger was occupying the
house alone while his parents were
spending the winter in St. Petersburg,
Fla. $40.
Mr.. Bleininger was graduate of the
East Liverpool High School, and Ohio
University at Athens. He was in SER
vice for about three and half years,
serving in the chemical warfare di-
vision in the Pacific. Discharged last
November, he returned to Newell to
resume his work in the Homer Laugh
lin laboratory.
Firemen estimated the damage at
about $4,000, which does not include
the library of valuable books and
records of DR.. Bleininger's which were
destroyed in the fire.
In addition to his father he is sur
vived by his step-mother, and one
sister, Mrs. Vivian Crawford.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
y. S.--AusfroIion Teamwork Is Seen
Key To Really Democratic Pacific

San Pedro, Calf. - ULNS).-A
crowded meeting of the San Pedro
and Wilmington Central Labor Coun-
Gil was treated to an inspiring outline
of the rise of the Australian labor
movement, when Flying Officer Cor
don Wise, RAAF, was the principal
speaker here, on the invitation of
Council President o. T. Satire.
Flying Officer Wise is-a member of
the Australian Labor Party and the
Western Australian Government EN-
ployees' Union, and son of the Labor
Premier of the Province of Western
Australia.
For the last 2h years he has been
plotting 3O-ton flying boats in the
European theater, and took part in
the I'D" Day invasion. While in Eng
land he had several interviews with
top British labor figures, including
Prime Minister Attlee, Foreign Min
lister Ernest Beven many of the cabi-
net, and also with Winston Churchill.
World Idealogy Held Needed
Coming specially to America to at
tend the World Conference Of Moral
Rearmament at Mackinac Island,
Michigan, Flying Officer Wise con-
1erred along with 200 representa-
tives OF labor, management, govern
ment and education from 20 nations.
Authorized by the Austrian Minis
Ter OF Air to work and train in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07

program of MIRA, he is in southern
California with a force of 180 MIRA
workers from 16 countries.
After describing with conviction
and color the growth of the Austria
lian trade unions and their affiliation
with the Labor Party as a political
power, Wise went on to point out the
vital need for labor in its present po-
sition in governments to think III
terms of whole peoples rather than
mere pressure groups or factions.
at is felt, both in my country and
in Britain" he declared, "That labor
must now have a big idea, world
idealogy, philosophy for the whole
nation and not just a section. We
need an idealogy that unites all men
of goodwill of every group, to match
the selfish materialistic forces OF the
extreme right and the extreme left,
who foment division in order to bene-
tit themselves.
"ln the field Of wages, hours, and
working conditions, labor in Australia
has made striking advances. Yet de-
spite our theoretically perfect, COM
pulsory industrial arbitration, guar
anteed basic wage for all workers,
child endownents, nationalized bank
ing, and so on, we still have nation
wide strikes and divisions within the
ranks of labor itself.
(TnrH to Page FiVe)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Arfwure Workers
Form LocuI At
Pelham, New York

The National Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters adds another new local
to the official directory this week
Local Union No. 213, Pelham, New
York.
The new unit comprises employees
of the Senegal Pottery Institute at
Pelham, New York, manufacturers OF
a high grade of artware. Preliminary
arrangements for organizing the new
local. were conducted through the
eastern office of the Brotherhood un-
der, the supervision of First Vice
President Wheatley, and aided by Or
ganizer James Solon.
Chartering of the new local is the
aftermath of an extensive campaign
being waged by the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters to organize
all employees in the ceramic industry.
Elmer Tynkody is president of the
local, and C. w. Brownell of l Addi-
son Street, Larchmont, New York, sec
retary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
New Spirit Shown
Bv Members OF
Local Union 66

Crooksville, Ohio.-Loeal Union No.
sc seems to have taken on new, life
since the first of the year. The at
tendance at the meetings has been
exceptionally good and everything
seems to point to a real progressive
local for 1916.
Lewis Wilson, Richard Brooks and
Homer Lewis have been named as an
auditing committee to go over the
books and make their report at the
next meeting.
The health committee is on the job
and already getting results. They face
big task in eliminating health haz-
ards on the shop and requests the CO.
operation Of the members to success
fully complete the job. We owe it to
ourselves to assist the committee in
any way we can.
CASTOR Price who has been laid up
with illness for the past two months
will soon be back on the jiggering line.
Emmett Reed, kilnplacer, has enter
ed the White Cross Hospital for an
operation.
Our sympathy is extended to the
family of Douglas DeLong who died
recently. Mr.. DeLong was member
of the office staff at the Crooksville
China Co. for the past rs years, and
was held in high esteem by the men,
bers of Local Union 66.-O. C. 66
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Anti-Lubor
Cuse Bill
Before House

Washington-(FP).- A ruthless, de
termined bloc of Democratic and Re
publican conservatives forced tn.
House to take the Case anti-labor bill
Jan. 81 by a vote of 25S-l14 over tho
repeated warning of the liberal mem.
bers that they were opening the way
for a return of government by injunc-
tion and the yellow-dog contract.
The Case bin CHR 5262) becomes
substitute for the Norton measure
HR 1908 that the labor committee
had amended to retain only the fact
finding provisions Of Pres. Truman
proposal to solve u. S. labor-manage-
ment difficulties. The rules COMMITTEES
permitted the Case bill to reach the
floor before it had been printed or read
by anyone except its sponsors, and
without any thought of hearings.
A total of 152 Republicans and LOG
Democrats voted for the rule to take
up the Case bill. They were opposed
by 81 Democrats, Is Republicans, and
a lone member each of the American
Labor and Progressive parties.
Andrew j. Biemiller Cd, Wis.,
warned the House that the Case bill
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
lHenfhorn Heads
1LocuI Union 746
At Paden City

Paden City, w. Va.-Local Union
146 held their last meeting on Jan. "a
at which time officers for the new
term were elected. A fair attendance
was on hand, but not near what should
have been for such important busi-
ness.
Beryl Henthorn was elected presi-
det; Harry Boyer, vice president; Zada
Lewis, recording secretary; Berl Fet-
ty, financial and defense secretary;
Cecil L. Haythorne, treasurer; trus-
tees, Robert Kidder Roy Adams and
Don Morrow.
The new officers assumed their
posts Immediately and promised to
carry out their duties to the best of
their ability. They likewise asked the
cooperation of the membership in this
respect
We are sorry to see Brother Arthur
Pittman leave our midst. Due to i'll
health, his physician recommends he
leave the Ohio valley. He has been
chairman of the shop committe for
the past five years, and his record
in that capacity left little to be de-
sired.
We are proud to be the father of
the 10 per cent Payroll Deduction
Plan featured in connection with the
war effort. From Jan. 1, 1912 to Dec.
81, 1945, our total payroll deductions
amounted to 12,848.91.-O. C. lac.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
List Personnel
Of Committees
At Evansville

Evansville, Ind.-Local Union No.
mourns the death of three of our
members who passed away in the last
two months: William Corns, John Gen
try and Carl Mayer The latter was
completing his fiftieth year as an en-
ployee of the Crown Pottery Inc. Bros.
Corns and Gentry retired from the
trade several years ago.
The newly elected officers served
for the first time at our last meeting
Frank Miller, president; Henry Sch
nautz, vice president; Beatrice Brink
er, recording secretary; Arthur Huff
fine, treasurer.
President Miller appointed the fol-
lowing to serve on the shop commit
tee: John Bejagg, Henry Schnautz,
Norman Cellow, Trease Montgomery;
Hiram Feagley, Annabell Cleary, Bet
ty Schnautz, Charles Burch, Lee
Compton, John Barger and Fred Pate.
Trease Montgomery heads the en-
tertainment committee, and Alfred
Barmaster, James Oakley and Ed
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Kiln Will Soon
Be In Operation
At Erwin Plant

Erwin, Tenn.-Just word about
the city of beautiful sunshine. The
snow has disappeared from the streets
and once again we settle down to our
usual routine. With the hunting sea-
son over, the potters are now plan
ming for the fishing season. l sup
pose that usual stories of how the
big ones got away will soon be the
subject of discussion.
Work has been started on the new
kiln and should be completed in a
short time. The new addition to the
plant is under construction but short
age/of the necessary materials is slow
ing up the job. We will be glad when
it is completed for it will mean full
time employment for all potters here,
as well as providing jobs for many
more.
We note with interest that the ma
jority of strikes over the country
seem to be in plants whose employees
are affiliated with the C. l. 0. We
think the majority of these could
have been averted if they had the
same kind of collective bargaining as
the pottery industry. We should feel
proud of the executives of the Bro
therhood who have carried us through
these trying times without too much
loss of time, due to strikes or lock-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Pledges Drive TO
Speed Urgently
Needed HOUSING

Miami - ULNS). = A CONCERTED
drive to meet the critical housing
shortage" was pledged here by the
American Federation of Labor execu.
tive council on behalf of its central
labor bodies, building and construc.
ton trade councils and other affiliates
to industry, federal, state and Local
agencies seeking to cope with the
problem.
The council declared that the hous-
ing emergency is the out growth OF
25 years Of failure to build an ade-
quate supply of moderate priced
dwellings and blamed shortage of
building materials rather than scar
city of labor as the greatest barrier
to immediate housing construction.
In a special statement on housing,
the council pointed to series of ap-
prentice training programs as one of
the answers to potential labor short
ages. Twelve thousand contractors in
800 communities have joined in the
training programs.
Continued Rent Control Asked
The programs are designed with
special attention for their utility to
returning veterans and to displaced
war workers. The council said that all
instruction under AFL auspices con-
forms to standards set by the appren-
tice training of the Labor Department.
And the public can count on IAN ample
supply of building trades mechanics
and laborers in all clasisfications of
skill in every community. to build the
volume of housing construction ur-
gently. required under the existing
conditions"
"Wage earners and veterans must
be protected against further increases
in the cost of living due to inflated
cost of shelter" the council held. "Con-
of effective rent control un-
til the supply of rental dwellings is
adequate is a vital necessity to all
workers and to the whole nation.
1.-THE postwar housing emergency
was aggravated but not created by
the war. 1t is the outgrowth of a
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Committee To
Rule On Dispute
At Cambridge

Cambridge, Ohio.-Secretary-T Treas
urer Charles Jordan was recent Wis
itor in Cambridge and headed COM
mittee from Local Union 122 in c
meeting with officials of the firm.
The dispute centered around the de.
cal girls and the printers cutters but
no agreement was reached and the
case was referred to the Standing
Committee for settlement.
Aluminium therapy treatments will
soon be available for employees of
the firm. The necessary steps to be
taken before these treatments can be
given are well underway and should
be completed in a short time.
Don Kerr, wareboy in the decorat-
ing shop before he enlisted with Uncle
Sam for duty in Europe, has been dis
charged and returned to his former
job this week. Welcome back Don!
Walter Noakes, jiggerman, is back
on the job following recent opera
tion.
A complaint regarding a dust con-
dition in the clay shop was turned
over to the Health Committee. We
hope the day will soon be at hand
when certain individuals will realize
the hazardous conditions brought
about through carelessness. = o. c.
1872,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Sfrikebreoking Doys Are Over For
Pearl Bergoff. King Of Scobherders

eled with orders to spare nc violence
against strikers.
One of the bloodiest strikes in his
tory was at McKees Rock in Pitts
burgh, where Bergoff's men killed or
wounded more than 100 steel strikers
in a single day and where his finks,
herded into a stockade for 55 days,
finally mutinied and joined the strik-
ers. On job for Rockefeller's Stand
ard Oil in Bayonne, N. j., Bergoff's
men shot from the roof of the plant
into the tenements across the street
and into crowds of unarmed men, wo-
men and children below.
In the New York transit strik/s of
1916 and 1880 scores of citizens We're
ground beneath the wheels of trolleys
driven by Bergoff's finks. 1t was
Bergoff who supplied the thugs for
Remington Rand's vicious Mohawk
Valley understanding formula. The
number of his victims has never been
fully counted.
But today, the old man mourned.
my business is 90Ho thing of the
past. The days of the strikebreaker
are over. Temporarily I've retired
but who knows, in five, 10 years, may
be things will be different" He boast
ed that two of the largest corpora
tions in the world, on strike now, cana
to me for help-in an advisory capa-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-02-07
Worlds Largest Laundry
Signs Union Contract

Los Angeles-(FP).-More than a
thousand laundry workers in the
worlds largest single unit plant will
receive wage increases and consider
ably bettered working conditions as
the result of contract signed here
between the Peerless Laundry and
Intl. Bro. of Teamsters and Laundry
Workers Intl. Union (both AFL).
Completion of negotiations between
management and theu Mons represent
ed many months of intensive organi-
rational work by Laundry Drivers
Local 928 and Laundry Workers Local
252 comparatively. The plant employs
more than 800 inside workers and
200 driver statesmen and office en-
ployes.