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Evening star., 1946-07-09

There is one former concomitant
OF a heavyweight championship
fight that is missed by the more
mature f1stic fans. That Is the in
variable editorial by the late Arthur
Brisbane explaining how any gorilla,
or even a robust orang-utan, could
have licked both contestants at the
same time.
Evening star., 1946-07-09

Housewives are urged to hold the
line against nflation-Which is all
right If they can get substitutes to
hold their places in meat, butter and
nylon lines.
Evening star., 1946-07-09

1t is said that many new cars will
have much larger windshields. This
should be a big help in the next
world war, in providing enough
space for windshield stickers,
Evening star., 1946-07-09

in consequence of its virtual demo-
tion from the ranks Of the Big
Five"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
CALLING - &lH
STRAIGHT
BY ED HUGHES, Federated Press
Ely -DUROCHER DEAL CAPS CUTTHROAT SCRAMBLING
BY BASEBALL BOSSES

BASEBALL BOSSES
Dodger Pexy Branch Hickey and Leo Durochr put phony
dealings and swift knife play of baseball hgeps received another
public airing
what they boiled horsetrade They bar holds Their idea
Of solid citizen the who get to the wndppe ustes with
word worth vucanzed nickel and they proud of it.
have known baseball bgwig who'd give truthful
of well paid ball player Durocher signing empty for
mai unless consider dull publicity Lpy Leo and Hickey fixed
announced Stipend is fiat for is47 On past
you probably shave off at least $25,000
Two of kind usually good hand 1t Didn't work that for
SELF MacPha Yankee headman According Larry made
him secret offer to the Yank They had several meetings
and long distance calls Leo MacPhal calls him liar claims he
contacted The other around Who
Neither them They both baseball 1t is all business
Leo quietly to
him. He sitting pretty then Leo wanted hreeear contract
with Hickey If he didn't the Yank job he could club
budgeon job sfrewd Mr. Hickey three
ply plot common in basebal! whodun-its
Whatever the motive MacPha let the tabby of the conaner
suddenly proclaimed Bucky Harris his This stripped Leo of
force Hickey into giving him what he ghfu termed
the security of contract He licked You have
quickly avoid the quckand of basebals
Funny part Hickey, notorous tough trader
dirty work MacPha equally mercless dealer
baseball grabbed Charley Dren almost indispensable Dodger
coach right Rceys usually
do each other All under the
definition of smart dealing Given the chance is only
himself for being outsmare He has the class distinction
bitterness toward the Coach Dresser though claiming Charley jumped
Usualy-though when top strictly
for the front office They absorb the pey and hypoc the
Durocher laid on plenty thick when things were Strengthened OUT
figure just signed
Mr. Hickey has been like father and the
Dodgers the of my life"
Thanks for the year contract father And if happens hit
the division let's Hickey
those stepfathers of Horatio Alger.
He could though the standings of the clubs don't read right
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
FIGHT FOR HEALTH

ter industrial plans sponsored by
management. These company plans
are of course distasteful to union
members, since one of their main
functions is to combat unionism
Nevertheless, there is nothing
really wrong with the idea, pro-
viding the program is union-spon-
sored and union-controlled.
Most of these union attempts
during the war failed, however.
Shortages of doctors and equip
ment, opposition of vested inter-
ests in the organized medical pro-
fession, restrictive legislation and
ineXperience Of unions in this field
of organization all contributed to
these failures.
Group insurance, on the other
hand, was relatively easy goal
to attain. First of all, it had the
blessing of the War Labor Board.
Second, the commercial insurance
companies helped to sell employ
ers on the idea, since it also meant
increased profits for them. Third,
the average union member could
see the tangible benefits which he
could enjoy under such a plan
Cash disability benefits (socalled
health and accident coverage), for
example, serve a double purpose
They can be used to pay not only
medical bills but also ordinary
household expenses, which still
have to be met whether the head
of the family is working or not.
Protection against surgical eXpen-
ses and hospital charges, even with
exclusions and restric-
tions is better than nothing. With
out it long, drawnout illness is
likely to saddle the worker with
heavy debts.
In addition to obtaining these
concrete benefits for union mem
bers, the group insurance move
ment was major accomplishment
by organized labor in one other
way. 1t definitely established the
idea that employers are response
BILE for workers health-not only
while at work, but off the job as
well. Nevertheless, group health
insurance plans have some serious
shortcomings, which will be de-
scribed in next weeks article.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19

country perfectly beautiful
thing to see. 1t is the famous Eei-
man Marcus store. 1t has DOZENS
of other things, all remarkable!
Dallas is surrounded by oceans
Of oil and natural gas and that is
why it could be compIacent about
the coal strike. 1t was interested,
but it didn't have the same inter-
est as those cities whose wheels
turn because Of coal.
Dallas has fine homes and
houses-but it has an acute hous-
ing shortage, just the same. 1t is
interesting to find large numbers
of old houses given a new front
treatment an turned into offices.
If any city beats it housing short
age, Dallas expects to be among
the first.
Night life isn't one of the out
standing factors of Dallas, nor of
any other Texas city, as far as |
know. One reason is that there are
no bars or cocktail lounges. Liquor
is sold only at retail in bottles. So
night clubs don't seem to take
root.
But Dallas has a. good time and
it seems to like most things pretty
much as they are. Next week |
may tell you about International
House in New Orleans.-CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
Sfufe Conferees
Ask 75c Minimum
Woge STANDARD

Washington (FP) - Immediate
raising of the legal minimum wage
to rs cents an hour with an esca-
lator clause that would provide for
an appropriate higher rate was the
high point Of unanimously car
ried resolution Dec. a at the Labor
Department conference on labor
legislation.
There was no dissension among
the 200 delegates, representing all
arms of organized labor and state
secretaries of labor, many of them
appointees of Republican govern
ors, that the federal wage-hour
law should be overhauled at once.
Gwen in this period Of general
prosperity and high employment" I"
the resolution said, "there are still
many thousands of workers who
labor under sub-standard condi-
tions and at low wages. 1t is there
fore still necessary for appropriate
agencies of government to fix a
minimum wage"
The conference also recommend
ed a uniform 5-year statute of
limitations applicable to the wage
hour act, so that workers would
have sufficient time to make
claims against employer-violators.
The resolution also supported
the principle of equal pay for
jobs of comparable skill, and called
for legislation making one day Of
rest in seven mandatory.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
GIN Will Make
Same Old Al Car
At Huge Profit

Detroit (FP) - General Motors
Corps announcement that 194S
cars will be no different from the
present ones due to unsettled
labor conditions" was seen in
United Auto Workers quarters as
smokescreen for what the unions
research department stigmatized
as "superprofits in addition to the
fully adequate normal profits"
Director James Wishhart Of the
JAW department adds that the
recent 500 per car increase in
GIN units-rushed through as soon
as OPA controls blew up-repre-
sents "clear superfrofit Of S222,-
100000" on an estimated 2,225,000
production by GIN in the II months
since the raise was announced.
"The 500 per raise is equivalent
to raise Of 80 cents per man
hour per car, figuring 200 man
hours needed on each car" Wis
hart said. The ordinary profit Of
GIN per car is $50 to $50, he said,
and the 500 is just so much super
profit on top of that.
In some speculative circles it is
believed that GIN rushed to raise
prices in order to keep the depart
ment Of justice off its neck. When
corporation in an industry ac-
counts for more than so per cent
of total production it is in danger
of antitrust attention from Uncle
Sam, it is asserted. In 1941 GIN
produced AL per cent Of total auto
production. In the first 9 months
of 1916 it produced only 31.8 per-
cent, because of the JAW strike,
but in October, according to the
JAW research department, GM
produced 41.9 per cent and in the
last two weeks Of November 47.2
per cent Of total production. That
is mighty close to the antitrust
danger line. Price boosts would
tend to keep the per cent below
so and at the same time roll in
more profits per car, at least dur
ing the sellers market.
"The 500 per car increase in car
selling prices took place." the
JAW research department says,
without an increase of one cent
in GM wage rates and at a time
when the company was admittedly
making substantial profits on its
production"
A substantial saving in cost per
unit will now be made by GM
through abandoning new models
for '48 cars, sticking to the present
designs which are essentially the
Al car with a little chrome ginger
bread here and there and a few
shifts of trim and padgets.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19

Dallas takes itself seriously, as
why not. 1t has one of the very
finest department stores in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
LoborG GroupNix
Industry Jimcrow

Washington (FP) - Jimcrow
practices in the U. S. Employment
Service meet with overwhelming
disapproval of the nations state
labor commissioners and labor
leaders, but return of USES to
state control means it will con-
tinue to flourish where governors
permit.
That was made clear Dec. 3 at
the Labor Department conference
on labor legislation after spirited
debate on the discrimination is
sue.
After the committee on unem-
ployment compensation and USES
had recommended that state refer
raj standards provide no discrim-
ination because Of sex, creed or
color, Ben Huiet, Georgia labor
commissioner, moved deletion of
the paragraph.
'It wouldn't work in Georgia"
he said, "and it would not work in
Louisiana or Arkansas"
Huiet was Immediately assailed
by speakers from many other
states, including labor speakers
from Virginia, Missouri, Alabama
and Kentucky. "When those Negro
soldiers from the south were fight
ing the enemy a year or more
ago." said one southern labor dele
gate, "those bullets didn't do any
discriminating"
r. A. Duvall, of the Kentucky
Federation of Labor, said that 1--WE
Of the labor movement must make
equal justice work, not just say it
can't work" Edward Weyler, also
from the Kentucky AFL, reminded
delegates that the AFL policy in
its southern organizing drive was
''for equal industrial and economic
opportunity from all Americans.
And that's the policy of Georgia,
Arkansas and Louisiana labor as
well.
The Georgian's motion was de-
feated with a shout - but the
states still run the employment
services as they see fit, delegates
were reminded.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
New Pamphlet
On Wagner Act

Washington (FP) - A new
pamphlet issued by the NLRB, en-
titled "A Guide to the National
Labor Relations Act" including
official Interpretation of the scope
Of the law, the thinking of the
NLRB and information on how to
use it's functions has just been re-
leased.
Written by NLRB Information
Director Louis G. Silverberg, the
5S-page booklet is listed as Bulle-
tin No. 81 by the Department of
Labor's division of labor stand
ards.
Business agents, organizers and
local union officers and committee
chairmen may obtain copies by
writing to the NLRB in Washing
ton.
Great stress is laid on informal
procedures for settlement of cases.
1t is pointed out that more than
76 per cent of the NLRB repre-
sentation cases in the first 10
years were handled informally.
Graphic charts and illustrations
are included in the pamphlet along
with the text of the law and a
list of all NLRB offices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
Boys Town POIuation
To Be Increased LOCO

Boys Town, Nebr.-At cost of
some $6,000,000, the unique com
munity of Boys Town, near
Omaha, is rushing through new
construction and equipment to take
care of it's overcrowded population.
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Edward j.
Flanagan, founder and director of
this 30-year-old enterprise, has
found that he must lower the mini
mum age at which he will accept
boys for his home from ~ to 6.
Population displace m n t s
brought on by war production
made it necessary to consider new
factors. The boys who form 85 per
cent of the "citizens of Boys Town
became homeless between the ages
of II and 16.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
COMPENSATION GRANTED

New York (FP) - Domestic
workers here will be granted
workmen's compensation for the
first time under New York state
law that goes into effect Jan. l.
The law covers domestic workers
employed in cities Of 10000 or
more population and who are en-
ployed for minimum Of 48 hours
week by the same employer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
THE CHERRY TREE

This column is written In Dallis,
Texas.
This city is supremely confident
Of its future. So is the surrounding
area.
have been seeing a lot of Texas
Houston, Beaumont, San Antonio
and other places, including a whale
Of lot Of "wide open spaces.
If Texas has something apart
from the rest of the country, so,
too, Texas cities have a lot apart
from each other.
There isn't much similarity, for
example, between Dallas and San
Antonio; and if you go to FL Paso,
that also has something definitely
its own.
Texas is a lot of territory and
Dallas is a lot Of city.
Outside Of Dallas, there are a lot
Of cities in this country, each with
something of its own and many Of
them with lot to praise to get
a yearning for.
But this time it happens to be
Dallas.
Dallas isn't worrying about re-
conversion because reconversion
came just about as fast as con-
version. The industrial backing in
Dallas is almost fantastic, for the
size of the place. And that indus
trial part of the city is blazing
away making things which it
knows it can sell.
If there is rehession (polite
name for depression) Dallas be-
lieves it didn't fly so high and so
won't have as far to drop.
/ don't know much about prices
in the far west, nor in the middle
west typified by Chicago. But l do
know that prices generally in
Dallas are below those Of the east.
| don't know why, but that's the
way it seems from looking around
and paying for things here and
there. 1t feels pretty good, too.
Dallas people are confident lot.
They did a whale Of a job in the
war, but they aren't resting on
any laurels. They are out to do a
whale Of a job IN what we call
peace, which isn't too sure yet.
Dallas takes itself seriously, as
why not. 1t has one of the very
finest department stores in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
THE TRUTH ABOUT GROUP
HEALTH INSURANCE
First of a series of a articles)

(F1rSt or a series OF arClcleS)
With all the arguments going
on about health and welfare
clauses in union contracts, and
security for wage earners from the
cradle to the grave, it's about time
we got the low-down on these inn
Hportant questions.
y The greatest remaining source
of insecurity facing American
working people today is sickness
not related to the job. Against all
other catastrophes which threat
en- workers and their families-un-
employment, dependent old age,
death Of the bread-winner and in
dustrial disability the govern
ment has been persuaded to pro-
vide some meausres of protection,
in the form of our social security
and workmen's compensation laws.
When non-occupational sickness
strikes, on the contrary, the great
majority of people who work for
a living have about as much pro-
lection as they do against the
atomic bomb. Earning power is
promptly interrupted at the worst
possible time, when there are
heavy medical expenses to be met.
Because intelligent trade union
lists have always known that their
health is their only capital, they
have been interested for long
time in obtaining security against
sickness. 1t is only within recent
years, however, that its achieve
ment has been recognized as a
legitimate demand in collective
bargaining. The war had lot to
do with it.
AS everyone remembers, prices
were rising steadily while employ
-ers were accumulating profits
which more than justified substan-
tial wage increases. In the face Of
this combination of circumstances,
the governments wage stabiliza-
tion policy made increases impossi-
BILE. What could have been more
natural than for negotiating COM
mittees to present health and well
fare demands, to be financed en-
tirely or in largest part by man.
agement?
In the emergency situation
which existed, it was also under
standable that the great majority
of agreements signed during that
period were group insurance
agreements. There is no denying
that this approach was the quick
est and most direct method of get
7lng needed protection. M a ~
honest and able union leaders un-
derstood that group insurance was
not the final answer by any means,
as we shall see in the next three
articles in this series. Still, it was
the most convenient, and in macy
areas, the only way in which gains
in the field of social security could
be achieved.
Some unions ATTEMPTED to set up
more more ambitious medical care
programs, with their own profes-
sional personnel and facilities,
along the lines of some of the bet
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
WHUTTA PAL!

Washington (FP)-Speaking off
the cuff just before lambasting
the United Mine Workers with a
3.5 million dollar fine, Justice T..
Alan Goldsborough uttered these
burning words:
81 cannot say whether labor has
a greater friend in this country
than | am or not, but cannot con-
ceive of it, because | have been
that friend ever since the first mo-
ment of my conscious thought and
opportunity to see things as they
WERE"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19

Dallas people are a confident lot.
They did a whale Of a job in the
war, but they aren't resting on
any laurels. They are out to do a
whale of a job IN what we call
peace, which isn't too sure yet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19

SOIlo oCC HI lsONAN
feller's offer of an 81a million dol
lar site in New York City, which
the United Nations has accepted, a
move to corner the market in
peace.
A report prepared for the ClO
says industry can give labor 20
per cent pay increase without
speedup and without raising prices
and still keep net profits twice
as high as in 1868. The study
brought a noticeable GOODNESS from
spokesmen for industry. who were
dreaming of a green-back Christ
mas.
In its new role as. liberal pr
ganization the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers is now pre-
pared to look at both sides Of a
wage demand-and still say no.
Senator Tom Conally. and Sir
Hartley Shawcross, American and
British delegates to the United
Nations, worked very closely to-
gether. SO closely in fact that
sometimes Sir Hartley's words
came out with a southern accent.
The COP has changed its mind
about ending the governments
wartime powers. It's still not con-
vinced that bayonets can't mine
coal.
General Meters has a new union
busting fund of 100 million, which
its friends in Wall Street hurriedly
helped GIN to raise. Last year
government tax rebates provided
GIN with it's strike fund. Now the
poor billion-dollar corporation has
to pass the hat around, peddling
preferred stock. Who says a de-
preston isn't around the Detroit
corner?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
NMU VOTES TO STRIKE

Detroit (FP) - Carferry men,
bers of the National Maritime
Union employed by the Pere Mar
quette, the Grand Trunk, and the
Wabash-Ann Arbor railroads voted
793 to 19 for a strike if their de-
mands for a 48-hour week and bet
ter conditions are not met.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-19
UPHOLSTERERS GET RAISE

San Francisco, Calif.-Members
of the Upholsterers international
Union, representing 700 workers in
Is plants here, were granted wage
increases from $1.20 to SLAB an
hour for journeymen and women.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-01
WILMINGTON WILL
LOSE U. S. OFFICE
District Attorney Manning
To Move To Capital
BY June |

The home Office of the United
States attorney. Eastern district
of North Carolina, will be moved
from Wilmington to Raleigh by
June l. Col. John Hall Manning
district attorney, disclosed yester-
day.
"The offices of the clerk of the
Eastern district, the U. S. marshal,
and the probation officer are 10.
Gated in Raleigh" Colonel Man
ming explained, land it is believed
that the business of the government
can be more efficiently and ex-
peditiously handled if the attorneys
office is also stationed there"
The Wilmington offices, estab-
lished here in 1926, will be retained
for use of routine work and for
the regular terms of Federal
court, Colonel Manning said.
Whether any of the Wilmington
personnel will be transferred to
Raleigh has not yet been decided.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-01

For
Parade Today
Decorated Floats, Army
Troops, Bands Will Take
Part In March
QUEEN WILL LEAD
On Eve OF Festivities,
Mayor Predicts Best
Festival In History

= WALLACE, April 80. - This
Southeastern North Carolina mar
ket town of $500 population finish
ed preparation Tuesday night
for the greatest of its six annual
Strawberry Festivals with over U.s.
600 persons expected for the kick
off of the Today celebration at
IL a. m. Wednesday.
A two-mile parade, composed of
Is floats from this section of the
state, high school bands from
Wilmington, Oxford and New Bern
and troops from Fort Bragg will
officially open the Festival which
is reigned over by Miss Charlotte
Wilmington, VINO was selec-
ted by Kay Kyser, famous band
leader, as Strawberry Queen.
Troops To Parade
Troops in the parade will be
of the 82nd Airborne
division, 30th Field Artillery and
the band of the 53rd division;
A spectacular denomination Of
paratroop operations by members
Of the famed airborne division viii
also be a feature of the opening
day.
Biggest, Best
Commenting on the Festival, the
first to be held since the outbreak
of the war, Mayor Aubrey J. Har-
rell, Wallace, predicted that 'This
will be the biggest annual event
we have ever had
Senator Clyde Hoey and Rep
sentative Graham Barden will
re in attendance and more than
90 mayors of North Carolina cities
invited by Mayor Harrell to attend
he festivities. .'.
Barbecue To Top
Following the parade an open-air
See $4,000 en- Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-01
Possibilities
Of State Port
enormous
Leaders In Development
Guests OF Col. Gillette
On River Trip
CUSTOMS MAY RISE
Chatham Mills AT Elkin
Would Have Raw Ma
terial Shipped By Boat

A port of Wilmington in
the future into which will
come millions of pounds of
wool from Australia, sugar
from Cuba and the Philip
pines, tobacco from the Mid
die East, as well as the gaso-
line from Gulf ports was envision-
ed yesterday as leaders in the
development of State ports made
an inspection trip up and down the
Cape Fear river.
The leaders interested in the de-
velopment of the State ports were
the guests Of Col. George Gillette,
district engineer Of the U. S. Army,
aboard the Kitty Hawk. The group
inspected the Cape Fear ena the
Northeast branch.
Wool From Australia
A prediction that 81, 500, 900 in
customs would accrue to the fed
eral government in the State from
wool shipped here from Australia
was made. Major part OF this
shipment would be consigned to
the Chatham mills In Elkin, It was
learned. Prior to the war, Chat
ham had purchased wool through
See POSSIBILITIES on Page Three