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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26

Washington (FP) - The Bilbo
Earrings recessed late Dec. 10
after the Senate war investigating
! committee had spent almost two
weeks hearing charges and coun-
ter charges of corruption, scandal
and lying from a score of witnes-
ses laying bare the political rec
ord of Senator Theodore "the
4 Man" Bilbo.
Hundreds of interested specta-
tors who day after day crowded the
Senate caucus room to see the
squat, weazened-faced cigar-suck-
ing Bilbo face his accusers, time
and again were sent into roars of
laughter by unashamed admission
of open corruption and conniving
by men from Mississippi who were
in the know.
But through the humor and
stage effects of the widely pub
licized hearings emerged feeling
on the part of spectators, newsmen
and readers of the daily press that
Bilbo is on the skids. The evidence
against him is too damaging to
allow the Senate to seat him in
January and keep its own dignity
Senator Homer Ferguson took
the lead in questioning witnesses
and no doubt realized that he was
carrying the ball for the Republi-
can party if it is to open the 80th
Congress with a triumph-unseat-
ing the Bilbo who has been allowed
to disgrace his state and the ma
pn through IL years of Demo
latic majority.
Senator James Mead, committee
chairman leaving the Senate in two
weeks for private life, also seemed
to want to appear firm with the
polltax demagogue, ruling on the
last day against Bilbo's plea to
be allowed to make 41-page har.
angue to the committee and the
press without interruption.
Called specifically to probe
charges that Bilbo had improperly
and Illegally used his office as
senator to favor war contractor
friends, the hearings brought out
several interesting angles:
High ranking army officers
testified that Bilbo's contractor
friends, though not the most quail
fled, had been awarded contracts
for building several installments
Army Air Base and Key Field, ano
that Bilbo had turned on the heat
to get them.
2.-Bilbo had taken in during
the war years at least $4,000 ir
gifts, including cash, automobiles
houses, and improvements on his
Popularville estate.
3.-Bilbo had raised over $780,,
900 in socalled loans, much of il
from Mississippi war contractors
4.-Bilbo claimed the gifts tt
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
CLOSED SHOP RULE
LIMITED BY COURT

Washington (FP) = the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals at Seattle
Wash. has upheld a NLRB deci-
sion limiting a unions right to
have a worker dismissed under a
closed shop contract.
When the NLRB order reinstat-
ing the workers was refused by
the Portland (Ore.) Lumber Mills
at the request of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters, the NLRB sought
enforcement in the courts.
The individual involved was
Ward Wilmarth, member of the
AFL union, who appeared as an
observer for the international
Woodworkers at an NLRB election
the CIO lost.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Vet Spokesman Hits End
Of Building Controls

New York (FP) President
Truman's lifting of building con-
trolls and rent ceilings on new
housing leaves four million home
less veterans families in the U. S.
out in the cold, veterans spokes-
men charged here.
Hitting Truman's new housing
as a return to business as usual" /"
Housing Chairman Franklin ID.
Roosevelt Jr. Of the American Vet
erans Committee warned: "The
building industry will now have a
field-day constructing high cost
homes for the wealthy, night clubs,
theaters and juke boxes.
Homes for veterans will still
rent or sell at prices far beyond
what they can pay. The removal
Of ceilings and controls over homes
for veterans means literally that
there will be no roofs over the
heads Of the men who fought and
won the greatest war in history.
"Only emergency measures will
break the housing bottleneck in
America" Roosevelt said, pledging
a renewed AVG fight to maintain
rent controls without change and
to obtain speedy passage of the
Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill.
An AVG spokesman pointed out
that in addition to the four mil
lion people throughout the coun-
try in emergency need of hous-
ing, another seven million are liv-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Is U. s. Press
(Contirued From Page On<J


~~ Citing his experiences in China,
Johnston said: 'Time after time
have seen correspondents of Amer
lean newspapers file widely differ
ing stories about the same incid-
ent to their respective employers.
tailored to fit the prejudices and
biases they know exist The
American reader is not presented
with facts and invited to draw a
conclusion, but often has his facts
distorted and his conclusions pre-
shaped"
Another guildsman, Leon Svir-
sky, associate editor of Time, de-
clares that upon close analysis it
is clear that Russia and U. S. or
ganized labor come out as the chief
targets of journalistic carelessness
and outright inaccuracy. Most of
the stories which give clear proof
of garbling of the facts are in
these two fields of reporting"
Peter DuBerg, staff member of
the New York Daily Mirror, cited
William Randolph Hearst's wide
use of articles written by high
Nazis before the war as an exam
pie of the way millions of readers
knew it."
The Hitler gang is dead now,
DuBerg said, but the would-be
Hitlers are still around, snickering
at US for soft-headed suckers, u.s.
.g our infantile conception of a
be press for the death or enslave-
ment of the survivors"
Victor Weingarten, associate
editor of In Fact, points out that
"long before Winston ChurchilPs
rhetoric produced an iron curtain
=. the nations newspapers had
perfected more subtle velvet cur
tain which smothered important
news without which it is imposs-
ible to form intelligent opinion"
Citing the increasing trend to-
ward monopoly ownership of the
nations press, Weingarten said
that of the 1,749 daily newspapers
in the country today, it is difficult
to name l per cent-17 papers
which accurately report the activi-
- of organized labor or liberal
ganizations, or are as much con-
cerned with the threat Of fascism
as they are with menace" of COM
munism.
Press chains today control more
than 40 per cent of all daily news
paper circulation, so per cent of all
Sunday circulation, and two Of the
three major wire services, he said.
Former Mirror correspondent
George Marion said: ITO me the
entire commercial press represents
=. the principle of keeping the
public mind saturated with pro-
Big Business PHILOSOPHERS and the
day-to-day propaganda of Big
Business"
In the face Of this striking un-
animity among experienced cor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
It's ZSs
Great NGA).
'51's'" >@a

THOSE experts who see perman-
ent prosperity just around the cor
ner can't be Truman's friends
sounds like Herbie Hoover's get
ting ready to run again after being
fired by 22,821,857 voters back in
1882.
After a roll of Life Savers
climbed up to 6 cents in many
stores, normalcy was restored by
the A & P in Detroit at cents a
roll-first break since Pearl Har-
Dor.
HOPEFUL HILARY is our fav-
orite union member. He's waiting
for some union to pass resolution
resenting the outside interference
of the bosses in the unions busi-
ness.
Xmas comes but one a year,
And when it does, it brings good
cheer,
Last year | quaffed hot Tom and
Jerrys,
Now Pm down to water beer.
Wall Street reports that the
year 1916 suffered from shortages
of everything but profits.
It's generally agreed that Mas
ter Meader brought back some
highly colored stories about moral
ity in Germany.
CYNICAL CELIA says the only
thing that's on the up-and-up now
adays is the cost of living.
Anyhow, Tabby got a beautiful
Xmas present wrapped in glass
quarter pint of cream.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26

ing in substandard dwellings.
Truman's new policy will put the
prices of homes further than ever
out Of the reach Of these people,
he said. While official government
figures show that the average vet
eran can afford to pay $43-a-
month rent, the Truman announce
ment broke through the present
$50 rent ceiling to permit even
higher rents so long as the "aver-
age" is $50.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Appeals Court UphoIds Foremen
Riqhf In United Mine Workers

Washington (FP) = Organized
labor won another round Dec. 16
in the battle for full union rights
for supervisory workers, when the
U. S. Court of Appeals here up
held a lower court ruling that
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. could
not enjoin the federal government
from recognizing a union of fore
men in captive coal mines.
The 3-man court was unanimous
in denying the steel company's ap-
peal, based on the argument that
the Clerical Technical & Supervis-
ory Employees of District SO,
United Mine Workers should not
be allowed to represent certain
mine foremen and fire bosses. J &
l. lawyers claimed that in haz-
ardous industry the supervisors re-
sponsible for enforcing safety
should not be in the same union
with the rank and file miners.
The court referred to an earlier
NLRB ruling which said: "The
numerous safety regulations pre-
scribed in the pennsylvania
mining code are primarily.for the
protection of the mine personnel
working underground and not for
the protection of company prop
erty. We fail to see, therefore, why
supervisors represented by an af-
filiate of the union that is the col
lective bargaining agent of the
rank and file miners, should be
less solicitous of the safety of the
miners who are also fellow union
members than non-unionized or in
dependently represented foremen
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
FEE GRABBERS WIN
IN UNIV CASE

Washington (FP)-Win, lose or
draw, the United Mine Workers
will drop $4,000 into the pockets
of Uncle Sans fee grabbers be-
cause of the federal court fine in
the contempt case.
Court regulations provide a fee
of per cent be taken as a "hand-
ling charge" on all fines when
securities or cash are used for
bond. UNIV President John L..
Lewis, fined $4,000 for which he
posted a cash bond of that sum,
will find his dough amounts to
only $1,000 if he gets it back.
~ a.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
EMPLOYEES HOLD ELECTION

Boston (FP)-Employees of the
Union News Co. in three Boston
railway terminals voted 1S4 to 154
for representation by the United
Office & Professional Workers as
their bargaining agent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-26
Demand the Union Label.

respondents, a recent session Of
the American Press Institute
brought from assembled newspaper
editors the opinion that union lead
ers are making "unWarranted gen
eralizations" about news distortion
and suppression in an effort to
break down the public's trust in
newspapers.
etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqj
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12
TAYLOR ASKS INQUIRY
into EXCESSIVE RAIL
FREIGHT CHARGES

sen. Glen. Taylor Cd. dad has his
teeth sunk deeply into the pants of
some L. S. Treasury robbers and is
asking why the Bureau Of the Budget.
traditional Treasury %watchdogs isn't
N the job.
Taylor announced recently that he
was asking the Mead committee to
discover what railroad men, If any, are
responsible for Budget Bureau policies
with respect to railroad freight rates.
At the same time he made public an
exchange Of letters with Budget Direc-
tor james Webb. in which he said he
was shocked by the extreme solicit
ludc with which you webb are han
ding the railroad corporations
Taylor had earlier demanded that
the bureau act against roads which
oyercharged the government for
freight carrying during the war. thru
connivance of executives in uniform
assigned to duty as freight rate eX-
perts.
Wartime net profits OF Glass ! rail
roads during the war years lail-i5
totaled 1890 million-a 1000 gain
over the years 1936-i0.
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

was ". Now whose turn was ii 10
laushg Friday September 6, sixteen
Women were brought in ana fined
SO each saturday, Il.
\ motto" posted inside the quartz
street fire han. stated i change in
shifts and the beds for the II O'Clock
SHIFT men were moved ont Signs read.
Inc Sleeping while on duty forbid.
den were posted. Four men who had
been picked by the Police Committee
TO 80 TO the convention were told not
to leave the city.
Pete Soda voted aye"
John Haegerty. ll23 T. Second
Street. is a member Of the clerks
Union and working as d clerk for
sinners Furniture store on East Park
Just a short time ago. he was quite
active in the Clerks Union 10 get Il
raise And above all people in the
world. a partner Of Pete Soda III the
fifth ward, he voted NO.
Phil Doheriy ~. South Idaho. Is a
plumber by trade. and a man behind
any labor effort he led the fight from
start 70 finish He is VOL liked ana
respected by all of Butte. that Il PEG.
pie who believe right is right. ana
wrong is no mans right. voted aye.
Frank Moran. I'LL W Mercury
truck driver for the Independent
Laundry voted in favor "Wednesday
night. September ( OF the firemen and
policemen. The future will find Moran
one more to oppose his Honor.
lleinie Strasser. % Casey street
baggage clerk for the Northern Paci
nc railroad station. and member 81
the Brothers Of Railroad Workers
voted no.
Thomas K. Morgan. 20as GAYLORD
street. city bus driver. voted aye Al
the time Of the dead lock he was on q
vacation and on his return he stood
N favor Of the fireman and policeman
John LindquiSt. 81 ". Gold street
rope man for the \. G. VI. Co. and VII,
is a member Of the Iron Workers Uni
on and who for years was called
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

uSt "a.
Judge Brown handed down his deci-
sion in the case OF l.. Metcalfe Wall
ling. administrator of the wage and
hour division Of the L. s. department
of labor, VS.. Anaconda Copper Mining
Company. Walling had contcnded that
the ACM was IN violation of the Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1888. % L. S
G. \, sec. 2ol Et Seq. for having re-
tossed to pay l2a employees at It's Wood
worth lpowcll cooniyl logging canp
iur approximately 30 minutes time
per day spent in going 10 and from the
camp TO The scene Of logging opera.
lions. The plaintiff asked. and re-
ceiyed an injunction from Judge
Brown to restrain the defendant COM
pany from continuing this practice
Judge Brown. in arriving at his de-
cision, used as ~precedents the rulings.
of the United States supreme court in
sustaining lower federal court findings
in the famous collar to collar cases
in the coal mining industry. Of TWO
years ago.
In reply to the ACM's contention
that travelling from a camp 10 the
scene Of operations was the same as
travelling from a workers home TO
work. Judge Brown drew a very de-
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12
COUNCIL VOTE ON PAY INCREASE FOR
CITY employees IS reviewed

This is rather a late report or the
even famous Is hour Is minute dead
lock held in the City Hall. Monday
night at 80. August II. But in view
of a quick change Of sentiment of
Aldermen. it was hoped that a quite
different outcome would result
The names Of the aldermen and
how they voted are as follows.
William Curran. 5lf North Main
street. first vote and first no"
against the increase in wages. He
works for sullivan at the Northwest
ern Supply
Dewey Mcclellan, 3l6 East Broad
way. is a member Of the Miners Union
and works at the Travonia mine His
was the first aye for increase.
Emmett Kelly. lois Waukesha
Street. a salesman for westinghouse
voted aye.
John McCartan. COZ Caledonia
street. miner at Leonard Mine, mem
her Of Miners Onion, voted aye.
Walter Kinard. 30 North Atlantic
street in business for himself on East
Broadway, voted aye.
Neal Leary ilG East Mercury
Street. employed in the a G VI assay
office. voted no.
Frank Doherty, IL West Granite
raised in Dublin Gulch. and well IN
dersianding the need Of teamwork
voted aye.
W. b. Renouard, 72Si2 ". Granite.
in the research department OF AC.M
Co. voted no. He had his name in
Miners Voice.
Pete Soda 1917 +. FIRST. works in
2 fruit wholesale house. has always
been a valuable mar in the Council
always Zoo" for Veterans and
Labor, and told the Mayor Wednesday
night September 4. Unless you find
means to increase the wages OF these
80 firemen and 80 policemen. your
graft will stop" Ignored and laughed
at, Pete sat down. Thursday. Septem
Der 5. the day following the meeting
at. 4 O'Clock in the afternoon. the raid
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

.'5,otn. electric ranges y percent To
-. 1000. electric ranges n percent 10
-, 900 and further increases in r..
frigcrators and vacuum cleaners.
Output Of G.o0o.ooo tons OF steel
insuts was the highest Of this year.
With operations at 80 percent Of ca.
paciIy. but July shipments of finished
steel products would not exceed June.
Small said. because Of the regular July
vacation period, the usual hot weather
slump and the freight car shortage.
Hosiery production reached the
highest point since VI day. Mr.. Small
reported. 1GS.o 100000 pairs in the sec
ond quarter. Nylons accounted for co
percent at the quarters end. Silk
stocking production increased 81 per-
cen III June Yer May.
The report said that while building
increasing. the step-ups had been
growing smaller each month. dropping
from . II percent increase in June
owe May to $ percent last month over
June.
However. with Civilian Production
Administration limitations on non-re-
sidential construction. home building
has taken a . percent larger slice out
Of total. the report stated. Shortage
OF rolling stock was reported as hold
ing up movement of some materials
in July.
Improvements were reported in ship
ments Of builder hardware and cast
iron c%onvector radiation during July.
Shoe Production Decreases
other items on the deficit side Of
Mr. Smalls report included shoe pro-
duction. - percent below June levels
and the second successive monthly
decrease.
Cotton broad woven goods dropped
slightly to Il weekly average Of III
9oo.ooo yards. as compared with a
June average Of lS2.5oo.o0o yards.
On the other hand mems suit pro.
duction reached an annual rate in
June of 23.600.0 00. with weekly out
put Of woolens setting an all-timc rec
ord of l2.lo0,o0o yards.
The report showed production OF
IS 600 600 to 1|5.U00.o0n mems shirts
during the second quarter. including
about %25.ooo.ooo dress and business
and io.00o,0o sports shirts.
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

Worst Depression Likely, Is
Fear of Wall Street
Traders
Terrific Unemployment COMING Within Next
Goods Bcgin- piIine | j In Narrhou-c~

New York-tFP)-Whilc the stock market spun into its
sharpest noscdivc in Is years September 3, Wall Street experts
told Federated Press that the market break was only a preview
Of a bust that will make the 1929 crash look like peanuts.
Spectators dropped an estimated 81 billion during the day
which saw 1900 900 shares change hands and the ticker tape
fall behind several times. Dupont led the slump with a H.
point drop, with Allied Chemical and the big liquor outfits,
schenley and Hiram Walker. not far behind as they lost 10 and
lOl points respectively. Big steel was hard hit too, as Beth
lehem fell off 63s and u. S. Steel lost 5.
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

The expansion OF factory and com
mereial activity vas hiehlighted by
reports showing that the entire in
crease Of 1.i0o.0oo workers over June
was in noniarming Jobs.
Despite this full employment"
600 WORKERS.. O00. 900 women and q
900. 900 men-havc withdrawn from
the labor force in the single year since
VI day. The term labor force covers
those in the armed services as well as
those in civilian employment.
The gross national product-the
value Of the country's productive eff
fort. III 1889 dollars-hit Il $50 900
June quarter. a II percent increase
over 1871. the CPA director said.
"A somewhat larger increase is now
indicated for the third quarter. which
may bring gross national product to
within ) percent Of the all-time peak
Of Sl42.O00. 600. 900 the report pre-
dicted.
The peak was the second quarter
of last year, the period Of about arms
production climaxed by Germany's
surrender.
Generally Bright Production
Picture
July gains Of Sc percent over June
IN The output Of automobiles and 5S
percent in trucks were hiehlights Of
what SNAIL called the generally
hriahl picture Of consumer goods ship
mcnts. Passenger ears reached the
22uoou mark. while $4,000 trucks were
produced
He reported that production Of sew
ing machines jumped 30 percent to
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12
Federal Court Judge Decides Travel Time
Must Be Paid By Logging Industry
Judge Brown Rules Against ACMI In Precedent Setting Decision For
Timber Industry: Company In \ collation. of Fair Labor Laws

Travel time from logging camps to the scene Of logging
operations must be paid for at overtime rates when such time is
not included in the 4O-hour work week prescribed by the Fed
eral Fair Labor Standards act for Interstate Commerce. Judge
R. Lewis Brown ruled in federal district court in Helena. Aug
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12
So Million Employ9~' New
Record For American
Manufacturing
Factorir, Now Are In Sight of Full Production
Although More Than 100000 Workers
Have Withdrawn From Labor Pool

Washington, D. c. Civilian goods are streaming out of
Americas industrial plants at a rate closely approaching the
wartime peak and civilian employment has reached the un.
precedented total of So, 1OO 900.
These facts were disclosed in a report by Civilian Production
Administrator John D. Small, who declared that producers of
basic materials have reached their virtual capacity. Factories
now are "within sight" of full production of finished goods,
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12

line Of d~cmarcatioM. He pointed
out that when an eriploye had to live
III Il camp il was imlsrsinle foi linn 10
maintain The usual conception Of a
home since the camps were not so
outflltcd 10 permit wives and families
to be with their husbands. ana carry
on the ordinary pursuits Of liNiNa and
Maintaining Il home. He further held.
in reply 10 tho defendants contention
that rimf PIT in 81 travelling to and
from the seene of operations was not
productive time that an emrloye
could be At work ever though his
service at the particular moment was
not directly productive !" and that
such travel time was necessary ii the
company was 70 carry on its opera.
tons. since without workers il would
be impossible FOR the company to con.
duct lis business
The m,il Of III, decision follows
plaintiff Walling is entitled to
an injunction a~elinst the defendant
restraining aud ,niaininr it from viola
iions Of The provisions Of Tho Fair
Labor standard tet. through failure
to include within fle 10 hours Of each
work week Tho faao spent by its an
rloyes al work iu riding from camps
10 Their place ~ work and returning
.fhercfrQm. ana VI ling To compensate
-. . 80.
Montana labor news., 1946-09-12
SERvILE SIX Defeat
WAGE BOOSTS

Members of the Butte
city council Wednesday
evening voted against
granting the modest wage
increases requested by the
city's policemen and fire.
men.
The following six alder
men in the face of sky
rocketing living costs,
voted favorably on con-
tinuing the present ex-
tremely inadequate sal
aries, as is: Aldermen
Strasser, Leary, Curran,
Haggerty, Lindquist and
Renauard.