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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Jiqqermen Refuin
Digman As Head
OfLocuI No. II

Although it has been nearly two
weeks since our anniversary cele-
bration, the memory still fingers
on as evidenced at Local Union No.
II Tuesday evening when many
took the floor to express keen sat
isfaction in the manner in which
everything was carried out, and
to extend words of praise to the
committee for a job we'll done.
To President Duffy and men,
bers of the executive board who
were with us on the occasion, T. j.
Duffy and Will T. Blake, guest
speakers, and to those who sent
kilograms Of congratulations, Will
liam Campbell of Local Union 1903,
Erwin, Tenn, and James (Cam)
Price, who received silver plaque
as a charter member of the local,
we take this means of extending
our sincere thanks.
Routine matters were quickly
disposed of in the customary man.
ner and officers for the new term
were installed. The slate includes
Guy Digman, president; Louis Ro-
dell, vice president; John Weber,
recording secretary; Francis Cub
berly, financial secretary; Ernest
Terrence, statistician; John Full
mer, inspector; Harry Podewels,
guard; Carl Pearson, trustee. With
the exception Of Rodell and Full
mer who replaces Robert McCor-
mack and George Lanning, the rest
are hold overs and signifies the
confidence placed in them in carry
ing out the duties of their respec-
tive offices, by members of the
local.
Bro. George Lanning was not
candidate for reelection as he
pinchhits for Harry Podewels
when the latter is working nights.
The local found it necessary to
levy a fine on certain member
who ignored summons to appear
before the Standing Committee.
This is a serious offense and we
hope it may serve as a warning
to future violators.
A cash donation for the benefit
of members of Local No. II, Man
w. Va, will be taken up
this week and members are urged
to be generous for this worthy
cause.
John Weber and Louis Rodell |
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Decorators Will
Elect Officers
At Next Meeting

"The time is not far off when
we will be making resolutions for
the new year," remarked a liner
at our meeting Tuesday evening.
81 sincerely hope a MUST on every
liners list will be, firm and de-
termined effort to secure a salts
factory agreement on the lining
machines"
We hope this can be accomplish
ed in the near future for as time
drags along the situation becomes
more serious and tends to develop
into a serious matter. We feel our
national officials have been going
all out in their efforts in our be-
half, but the results to date leaves
the matter in the category of "un-
finished business"
Nomination for officers for the
coming term were opened at our
last meeting and will remain open
until our next meeting on Dec. 10
at which time the election will be
held. 1t is our duty as well as a
privilege to aid in selecting those
you wish to handle the affairs of
the local, so my advice to every
member is exercise your rights as
a true union member of organized
labor, willing to do your part in
promoting the interests of your
trade.
Third Vice President James
Slaven gave the 'highlights' of the
recent trouble at the Scio Pottery
Co. and the tactics the officials of
that firm will revert to in denying
their employees the right to join
the ranks of organized labor. We
feel the decision handed down by
the National Labor Relations
Board in penalizing the firm for
their infraction of the laws of the
land is not the end of this case,
and, before the final curtain is
rung down, Mr.. Reese and his
Will be more than will
ing to abide by the rules and regu-
lations as laid down in the Wagner
Act.
Rumor has it several are con-
templating accepting jobs in an
unorganized art shop in this vicin-
ity. My advice to those contem-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05

Mr.. William j. Frey, who was
connected with the Bowers Com
pany as operating manager, is re-
tanned with the new company as
general manager and assistant
treasurer. This gentleman is well
known throughout the pottery in
dustry, having previously been
connected with the Warwick China
Company, Wheeling, W. Va, as
superintendent; The Jackson Wit
rified China Company, Fall 5
Creek, Pa, as general manager
and the Carr China Company of
Grafton, w. Va.
Mr.. Winifred Clark RAIDER will
continue as plant superintendent,
the position he held with the for
mer concern. Mr.. RAIDER has spent
many years in the pottery business
and will be able to meet his re-
sponsibilities most acceptably.
The plant expects to get into
production the second week of
December. The plans calls for ex-
pansion with more than doubling
the number of production workers
formerly employed at the plant.
The Bowers Pottery was organ
ized by the late Senator George
w. Bowers in 1904 and continuous
ly operated under his supervision
until his death. For the past three
years his daughter, Miss Frances
Bowers was the chief executive
and did a most creditable job until
the strike which began last jan
uary.
Cause of the strike was refusal
of the company to be party to a
written agreement with the union
wages, work regulations
and shop conditions agreed be-
tween the two parties. A case was
made before the National Labor
Relations Board to compel COM
pliance with federal regulations to
reduce to writing all matters in
agreement pertaining to wages
and working conditions. At this
stage the 1Sk cent proposal be-
came the basis for continuing the
strike when the company refused
to consider any part of this wage
proposal. They also injected an
other issue, that of claiming ex-
to union membership of a
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Teachers Strike Backed By Students;
Ball Wants Law to Let Bosses Fight Back
Congress
Must Revise
Wdgner Act
FavOrs Legal Curbs
On Wagner Act

Washington (FP)-A blue prin
of Republican plans for anti-labol
legislation in the 80th Congress.
was laid out before the member
ship of the National Press Clul
Nov. 27 by Senator Joseph Ball.
Ball, who at al will become hi.
states senior senator on Jan. 3
was at the speakers table sur,
rounded by some of the nations
top level reactionaries who cheer
ed his message at frequent inter.
walls as did most of the newspaper
men.
On one side sat President Will
liam X. Jackson of the U. S. Cham
ber Of Commerce, and on the other
Chairman Carroll Reece of the
COP National Committee. Other
nearby included Gerard Reilly,
former member of the NLRB, Sen
ator William F. Knowland and
Senator Bourke Hickenlooper.
Mild voiced and almost boyish in
manner, Ball presented program
filled with dynamite. He called for
rewriting the Wagner Labor Rela-
tions act, outlawing the closed
shop, mediation or arbitration with
compulsion in the final step, snd
guarantees of new powers fer enl-
ployers. y
Over a period of about 20 years,
Ball said, "we've built up the
power of unions and decreased the
power Of employers. Unions today
have far greater bargaining power
than employers. The employer
takes an enormous risk in in
itiating a back to work move
ment he might be forced to
reinstate some strikers.
you've got to free the employ
er at some stage. Give the employ
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05

, ments concerning the ILGWU and
it's officers"
The suspended members appeal
ed from the decision of Local 10. to
the grievance and appeal commit
tee of the ILGWU general execu-
tive board, which upheld the Local
10 decision.
In denying the request for an in
junction, Justice McNalily said:
"The moving papers fail to estab-
lish that any serious question of
irreparable injury is involved.
There are no evidentiary facts
which show that the plaintiffs have
been deprived of employment by
reason of their suspension from
membership privileges. The plain
tiffs, as far as the papers indicate,
were accorded their full rights in
the disciplinary proceedings; and
where hearings of this nature are
conducted regularly in accordance
with the constitutions and bylaws,
this court is without power to re-
try the issues"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Good Neighb0r Policy Di-
rect Slap At Pottery
Industry

Wheeling, w. Va. Sometime
before Christmas 1916, if the U
S. Military Government authori-
ties are successful, there will be .
display of German and japanese
glassware, ceramics and chinaware
in New York City. These manu-
factured products will be brought
to our shores by army transports,
with no duties being paid. An
agency of the American govern
ment, the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, through the U. S.
Commercial Co., will put them on
diplay and sale in this country.
Naturally the prices quoted on this
merchandise will be far below the
prices asked for similar American
products.
Does this make sense to the
average American glassworker or
the potter? Are the pottery and
glass manufacturers and their
workers to be penalized in this
manner in order to put the Japa-
nese and German governments
back on their feet? Shall we scrap
both industries and permit the
German and Japanese nations to
take over our business here in the
richest market in the world?
Reciprocal trade agreements and
tariff-cutting policies must go. The
new Congress coming in in Janu-
airy should be informed by every
worker in pottery and glass that
we do not intend to tolerate these
conditions without doing every
thing in our power to eliminate
them.
We were told before World War
ii by the head of our State De-
partment in Washington, Cordell
Hull, that free trade with the rest
of the world would help promote
peace among all nations-so we
traded the best steel we possessed
to Japan for flimsy materials, cot
ton goods, cts. Result-It has been
said, probably some of that Ameri-
can steel hit our men at Pearl Har-
Dor on that Sunday morning, Dec.
7, 1941.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05

railroads and commercial banks OF
New York city This group
comprises the most CHASTITY and
threatening concentration of eco
nomic power in the history OF
mankind"
Associated with Hartman in the
cabinet, Whitney said, are: "Sec-
retary of Navy James V. Forrest
al, head Of the Wall st. bank, Dill
lon, Read & Co., prewar bankers
for German and japanese indus
try; Secretary Of War Robert P.
Patterson, longtime attorney for
the New York money ring; Sec
retary of the Treasury John W..
Snyder, hopeful and active candi-
date to head one of the large
banks of these moneyed interests;
Secretary of Interior j. A. Krug,
who is marking time in his govern
ment post while trying to make up
his mind which of several large
corporations he will allow to favor
him with an executive position"
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Credit-And Union
Begins At Home

Boston (FP) = The people who
look up your credit have started TO
do something about their own.
More than 100 members of Local
3, United Office & Professional
Workers have threatened to strike
against the Credit Burean of
Greater Boston, own by the 13
largest Boston department stores.
The credit reporters and investi-
gators demand a $40 weekly pay
raise. Present pay is as low as $22
for women and $50 for experienced
men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
77GrudeAnd
High Schools
Close Doors
Strike Has Broad
Support OF Labor

st. Paul, MINI (FP)-The larg
est strike in the history of Ameri
can teachers began here Nov. 25
as some LOO teachers affiliated
with the American Federation OF
Teachers began pacing picketlines
in near-Zero weather.
The strike over wage demands
closed n grade and high schools
and gave some 10000 school chill
dren a holiday. Some turned up
anyway, saying they wanted to
watch their teachers, and in some
cases their parents, picket.
An 11th hour agreement in near
by Minneapolis averted an even
larger strike by 2,400 public school
teachers which had been scheduled
to begin at dawn. Union negotia-
tors and city officials agreed on
terms, to be submitted to the men,
bership of AFT Local 238 for ap-
proval, which included:
Payment in December of a $3.50
cost-of-living bonus to each teach
er; a $40 monthly raise beginning
Jan. / and revision of the wage
scale by January 1948 to increase
the maximum pay of teachers with
bachelor degrees to $4,000 a year
($l, 600 overs ties present wage);
and the pledge Of the school board
to support a concrete program,
satisfactory to the teachers, to fl
nance the new wage scale.
The Minneapolis teachers had
been seeking a boost to $4,000
year.
The st. Paul teachers are seek
ing $50 monthly raises retroactive
to last September, and additional
$50 monthly raise effective Jan. /,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Machinists Sue City
For Prevailing Wage

San Francisco (FP)-The ques-
tion of whether San Francisco
municipal workers should receive
wages and conditions prevailing in
private industry has been thrown
into the courts here with the filing
of suit against the San Francisco
civil service commission by the
Automotive Machinists Union.
The suit charges that the city
refuses to pay machinists for eight
holidays a year or to pay a diff
ferential for swing and midnight
shifts, as is customary in private
industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
Oak Ridge Gets
Central Labor Union

Oak Ridge, Tenn. (FP)-A Cen
tral Labor Union composed by 13
AFL locals in this home of atomic
energy development has been char
tered by President William Green.
"The new CLU represents some
1000 project workers and its goal
is complete unionization of Oak
RIDGE" said Kenneth l.. Scott,
AFL coordinator for the Knoxville
area.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05
New Owners Take
Over And Plant Will
Operate Next Week
WILL BE FIRST SANITARY POTTERY
IN UNITED STATES MANUFACTURING
EXCLUSIVE UNION LABELED PRODUCTS

1t is with the greatest of pleasure that we inform
the trade that the strike at the Bowers Pottery has
been brought to close by the effectuation of
tract with the Warrington Pottery Company, new
firm which, through deal with the George Bowers
family, has acquired all of the plant holdings The
new company is headed by Donald P. Lollemant as
president, whose immediate connection was Labor
Relations Advisor with the United States Employ
ment Service
During the Mr. Lolemant acted in the capacity
with the War Manpower Board through the recommendation
of President William Green of the American Federation of
Labor He also Labor Relations Consutan of the Nassau
Contractors Association of Long Island I'm
medatey to and during the early stages OF the recent
world Mr. Loleman charge of Labor Relations
the Andrew Weston Construction Co. of n Y This
built of the key plants that produced vital
necessities running into many millions of dollars without
loss of time due to strikes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-12-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Munette Drowning Suicide
 Body of Father Of Two Children
 Found in Pond

Wolcott, June i7-Homer T. Mu- nette, g, of 55 Cypress Street, was suicide by drowning yesterday in the Jacklin Rod and Gun Club Pond atop Southington Mountain.
 Munette is the father of two sons, Donald 6, and William 3. His body was discovered floating near the south shore of the pond shortly be- fore 6 A. M. Sunday by Policemen Roberts and Culver and State Policeman George Panciera who were conducting search by row. boat.
 Wolcott police were alerted Sat- urday night by Bristol authorities who reported that Munette had not been seen by his family since Fri- day noon. His automobile, with a jacket In the front seat, was found Saturday night parked on Willis Street, across from the Kacklin Rod and Gun Club. Policemen Roberts and Culver searched the woods and shores of the pond throughout the night, not being able to survey the pond itself until daylight.
 Munette, an employee Of the Wallace Barnes Company, was re- ported to have been under a physi- clans care for several months.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
SoIons Clash On Merger Bill

Washington, June 17 - (UP) = President Truman's compromise program for merging the armed forces touched off another clash today between Congressional par- tisans of the Army and Navy.
 Senate supporters Of the Army pressed for passage Of the Presi- dents program at his session of Congress. But Sen. Edward V. Robertson, (R.-Wyo), said he and other members of the Naval Af- fairs Committee would demand livery. very, thorough" hearings.
 This probably would stall Con- gressional action before the re- cess. The Senate Naval Committee blocked the earlier merger program by holding It's own hearings on the unihcatlon proposals worked out by the Senate Military Committee.
 Pr0-Navy Congressman objected most vigorously to MT. Truman'S inslstance that all the armed for- ces be represented by 6 single cab- inet member. The Navy sees Itself losing prestige and influence If t does not have It's own Secretary of the Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
 Given Pupils
 Prospect School
 Awords Certificates

Prospect. June i7.-TWenty- two pupils were recipbients Of diplomas at commencement exercises of the Community School Thursday night in the Congregational Church, It is the second class to complete eight years of elementary training In the new school.
 Invocation was delivered by the Rev. Daryl Williams, pastor of the Congregational Church. Al- phonse Beauregard delivered the address Of welcome. The principal address was delivered by Raymond A. Lumley, supervisor of the Bureau of Youth Services of the State De- partment of Education in Hartford.
 Diplomas were presented by Dr. John H. Thorp, school superinten- dent. Others taking part in the Luca DiCecco and Eve Rozum.
 The graduates were: Alphonse Beauregard. Gladys Britain. Rob- ert c. Cipriano, Kenneth H. Cleary, Lavina A. Cocchiola. Harry P. Coughlan, James Crandoll, Irving W. Davis, Patricia Doran. Luca DiCecco, Charles l.. Finke. Janet Graham, Ann E. Kinsella, Kathleen Kinsella, Basil P. Kinney, Roy T. Merriman, Mary L. Raudis, Eve s. Salvatore. Alfred R. Strumf. Thomas E. Sullivan and John Voegeli.
 The valedictorians were Alphonse Beauregard and Eve Rozum. The Glee Club were under the direction of Mrs. Regina Lee, principal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Catholic Schools Zn Commencement

The Waterbury Catholic High School and St. Mary's Parochial School held graduation exercises Sunday at the Church of the 1m- maculate Conception, the Rev. Francis M. O'Shea, pastor, present. ing diplomas to l60 graduates of the Catholic High School, last night, and to 47 graduates from St. Mary'S School in the afternoon.
 The Rev. John J. Manning, c. s. Sp., spoke to the graduates of the Catholic High School, urging them to adopt spirit of truth in all mat ters The exercises closed with Ben- ediction of the Blessed Sacrament, and the graduates recited the Act of Conservation.
 The Rev. Thomas P. Dignam ad- dressed St. Mary's graduates urging obedience at home, to their com. munity and state. The exercises closed with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
 Commencement exercises were held for 5A graduates of St. Ann's School last night, the Rev. Ubald Laurion presenting diplomas and prizes He also preached the sermon in French, and presided at Benedic. ton of the Blessed Sacrament.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
WATERVILLE Correspondent: Mrs. Gertrude Lane; Telephone 3-6511.

Waterville, June l7--Arnama Post, 5964, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will meet tonight at 8 at Reeds Recrea- ton Hall. Commander Hubert Pond will preside.
 Normand Holroyd, of Troy, N. r., presided as class president at the first reunion of the Sprague School, class of 1918, at Chase Country Club Saturday night.
 Sixteen members answered pres ent" when Prin. Mary E. Congdon, an honored guest, called the roll of the original 43-student class.
 Mrs. Louise K. Spain, seventh grade teacher at Sprague and teach- CT of the class of 1918 was also an honored guest.
 The reunion was the result of more than five years of planning by the classmates.
 Chairman of the committee who planned the event was Miss Helen M. White, assisted by Mrs. Gene vieve Watkins Jensen, Clarence s. White, George Grenier and Ed ward Seery.
 The class voted to make the re- union an annual affair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
Police ExecutiUeS Attend Obsequies.
 Local, State Departments Represented At Funeral of Mrs. Mary C. Lyons.
 Of Thnnaafon
Of Thomaston

Thomaston. June l7-The state and Waterbury Police Department and funeral directors were repre- sented at the funeral this morning of Mrs. Mary c. Lyons, wife of Will liam H. Lyons of 30 Bristol Street. Mrs. Lyons was a sister of Deputy Superintendent Daniel J. Carson of Waterbury. The funeral was held from the home, 30 Bristol Street, at g o'clock to St. Thomas Church at 10, where a solemn high Mass of requiem was celebrated by the Rev. Augustine Hennessy of Mystic, assisted by the Rev. James Wilson of Middletown. deacon; the Rev. Alphonse Fiedorczyk, subdeacon; and the Rev. John J, McGrath, master of ceremonies. The music was in charge of Agnes Boyce, or- ganist, St. Thomas Church quartet singing the Mass. The singers in- cluded Miss Cecilia Kowskowski, Harry Lynch, Mrs. Edna Wright and Miss Jennie Pogozinski.
 The burial was in the family plot in St. Thomas Cemetery, commit tai prayers by Father Hennessy, as- sisted by Father McGrath, Father Fiedorczyk and Father Wilson.
 The honorary bearers included John Fitzmaurice of Waterbury, representing Mayor John s. Mona gan; Commissioners William Ban- non, William Black and Wendell Cross; and Superintendent of Pol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-17
iFst Union
 avn Service Sunday 60 PaFlshss Attend; Rev. David Gaines
 Speaker, June 23

The Rev. Alan M. Fairbank, pas tor of the Bunker Hill Congrega- tional Church, was the guest speak CT at the first of a series of union lawn services of local Protestant churches at St. Johns Episcopal Church yesterday. The musical por- ton of the program was given by the Bunker Hill Choir.
 Churches participating in the union service series are Bunker Hill, South, First and Second Con- gregational, First Baptist, First and West Side Hill Methodist, Christ Chapel, Mill Plain Union and St. Johns Episcopal.
 The schedule of services through July is: June B, the Rev. David P. Gaines; June 30, the Rev. M. Webb Wright: July 2 the Rev. Dr. John Snavely; July IA, the Rev. Bruce Whittemore; July 2l, the Rev. Samuel A. Budde., and July 2S, the Rev. Seward Hiltner, summer preacher at the First Congrega- tional Church.
 The Rev. Bruce Wood, Yale Di- vinity School, preached at South Congregational Church yesterday in the absence of the Rev M. Webb Wright, pastor, who is attending meeting of the General Council of Congregational Churches in Grin nell. Iowa.
 Eldon Rohs, Naugatuck, conduct ed services at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church while the Rev. E. Einar Kron, pastor, attended a synod convention in Duluth, Minn.
 Children's Day services were con- ducted yesterday at First Baptist, First Methodist, St. Paul's Metho- dist, Advent Christian and First Congregational Churches, Programs featured presentation of Bibles and awards dramatizations by Sum day School children and 5aptisims