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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Wuue-Hour Administrator
Asks Congress For Power
To Avert Portdl Pay Suits

istrator Walling pointed to wide
spread misunderstanding as to the
decision of the Supreme Court in
the Mt. Clemens case and said:
"There seems to be a misconcep-
tion that the Court held in the Mt.
Clemens Pottery case that all time
spent on the employers premises
was working time under the Fair
Labor Standards Act. Actually, the
Court, on the facts in this case,
merely decided that the minimum
necessary walking time to the
work place from the time clock,
including the time required for
necessary make-ready activities,
was working time, and sent back
to the District Court to determine
in detail whether, the amount of
time spent by the employees was
so trivial as to be ignored under a
de minimum rule, and, if not, to
determine how much was due the
employees. As the Court put it, No
claim is here made, though, as to
the time spent in waiting to punch
the slime clocks and we need not
explore that aspect of the situa-
ton. But the time necessarily
spent by the employees in walking
to work on the employers prem
ises, following the punching of the
time clocks, was working time
within the scope of Sec. 7 (a).'"
Mr.. Walling added that the
Wage and Hour and Public Con-
tracts Divisions cannot issue a
definite guide to employers on
their method of computing working
time until the courts have clarified
what aspects of travel time are
compensate and have determined
the amount of time which is so
trivial that it can be ignored under
the de minimis rule laid down by
the Supreme court.
The Administrator indicated that
the question of "make- ready" ac-
tivities is in different category.
The Divisions have always held
that preparatory work required by
the employer or by the nature of
the work was working time under
the Act, and should be counted as
such. This view was sustained by
the Supreme Court. The vast ma
jority of employers have followed
this Interpretation and only i'm
relatively few cases are there prob
lens of retroactive pay on this
account.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Commission


sist from misrepresenting their
clothing in advertising including
use of the words Slightly used"
or ain excellent condition." when in
fact their customers are bamboozl-
ed because their goods are in less
than perfect wearable condition
and the use in many cases was ex-
cessive.
Further spurring honesty, these
companies actually agreed not to
claim goods were made of silk
when in fact they had only a
slight connection with the lowly
silk worm. The agreement said the
firm would call rayon by its right
name-''in type equally conspici-
Gus" indicating its "predominance
by weight, beginning with the lar
gest single constituent"
Even poultrymen get protection
from Uncle Sans ETC. The Nor
folk Hatchery of Norfolk, Neb.
agreed not to claim its baby chicks
were "U. s. Certified" when in
fact they were not actually sired
by males officially banded by fed
eral authorities and registered as
such, which busts up another
racket.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Senator Joseph
Ball Hos Union
Busting TriIogy

Washington (FP) Senat or
Joseph Ball completed his union
busting trilogy with the introduc-
tion of S.133 to force labor unions
to negotiate with employers on a
strickly local basis.
Under the Ball proposal collec-
tive bargaining would be restricted
to the local "'labor market area"
and international unions would be
forbidden to set up minimum wage
or working standards for local
union contracts.
Ball would also bar employers
from delegating authority to nego-
tiate with their workers to other
employers or employers associa-
tions.
Earlier bills by Ball would out
law collective bargaining agree
ments containing the closed shop
or union shop clause (S.105) and
attempt passage of a revised Case
bill $3.50.
The latest Ball effort would
make it an unlawful labor practice
under the Wagner act for union
"to act as representative 80. of
any employees of an employer, if
such labor organization also acts
as the representative for the pur-
poses of collective bargaining Of
employees of any other employer en-
gagged in the same. industry or ac-
tivity, unless the principal places
of employment of the employees of
such employer are located in the
same labor market area"
Labor market area is defined in
the bill as "a single metropolitan
or other geographical area within
which employees reside" and that
it shall not ''include any places
by a distance of more
than 100 miles,"
NationaF and international
unions would be forbidden from US
ing express or implied threat of
force" to "coerce or compel or
attempt to compel constituent
unit of the labor organization to
or seek to include in any
collective bargaining agreement
{. any particular terms or provi-
sions relating to wages, hours or
other conditions; or to enter into
any contract with a constituent
unit by agreeing to include in a
contract any particular terms"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Washington, d. C. A strong
plea for a billion-dollar education
al appropriation was sounded by
the American Federation fo Labor
as the 80th session Of Congress
opened it's deliberations, and the
appeal was accompanied by call
by the AFL's National Committee
on Education upon the States for
legislation assuring every teacher
of a minimum starting salary of
$4,000 year.
As this action was being taken
announcement was made in AL
bany, N. Y, that a bill granting
substantial cost-of-living increases
to all of the States $4,000 public
school teachers was being prepared
for early introduction in the new
legislature, and the Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey and legislative leaders
are in virtual accord on the form
the measure should take. In gen.
eral, it would provide for a salary
jump of $500 annually, effective
Immediately.
Matthew Woll, Vice President of
the AFL, announcing the program
drafted by the Federation's Com
mittee on Education, of which he
is chairman, emphasized that the
billion-dollar plan is virtually
necessary to assure children of
chance to obtain "a sound Ameri-
can education" He added:
with thousands of classes to-
day deprived of teachers, and an
even greater shortage threatening,
every State should Immediately en-
act legislation which would assure
every teacher a minimum entrance
salary of $4,000 and assure them
an opportunity to earn a maximum
salary comparable to that earned
in other professions.
"We realize full we'll that in
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Hurrimun's S Views
On Monopoly
Are Challenged

Washington (FP) - An inquiry
to determine whether Commerce
Secretary w. Averell Hartman is
working monopoly's side of the
street in the governments anti
trust suit against western and
southern railroads was demanded
by President James G.. Patton of
the National Farmers Union.
Patton charged that Hartman
was a member of at least two di-
rector's committees which are de-
PENDANTS in the federal suit filed in
Nebraska charging that western
railroads have violated the anti
trust laws in fixing rates and
standard Of service.
The suits by the federal govern
ment and the state of Georgia are
now pending in the U. S. supreme
court, based on allegation that
eastern financial interests are con-
trolling rates of western and
southern roads to the detriment
of the south and west.
The NFU leader quoted state
ment of Harriman's concerning the
work of the the eastern railroad
interests defending their control
and stating that "if this is a con
spiracy, then the railroads of the
country need bigger and better
conspiracies."
Patton asked that when the Sen
ate Interstate and foreign COM
merce committee investigates Har-
riman's qualifications for confir-
nation as secretary of commerce,
it look "into Mr.. Harriman's pres
ent views on monopoly practices"
He protested confirmation if it
is shown that Hartman has sac
quired governmental influence and
authority affecting the future of
the west parallel to the private fl
nancial influence and authority he
previously welded as a railroad
executive"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Unionisfs Fight
Sabotage Chorge

Philadelphia (FP) Arrested
during the hysteria drummed up
against two railroad brotherhoods
when they struck last May, two
union brakemen went on trial here
Jan. 8.
The brakemen, John A. Marko,
AZ, and Ralph C. Groom, 81 denied
charges that they had attempted
to sabotage a train near the Broad
st. Station of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
On the stand before Federal
Judge James p. McGranery they
gave a detailed account of their
activities during the day of their
arerst. They told of their coming
to work on May %, quitting when
the strike was called, visiting
strike headquarters, having a
couple of beers and going to the
movies.
Their story refuted the testi-
mony of two railroad detectives
who said the two strikers had been
sighted near the scene where iron
tie-plates had been found in track
switches. The railroad dicks, sup
ported on the stand by the circum-
stantial theorizing of a lineup Of
FBl agents and city detectives
said they had pursued Marko and
Groom to 10Th and Cuthbert SITS.
in making the arrest.
The location is in the vicinity of
both the movie and the strike
headquarters mentioned in the de-
fendant's testimony.
Two private detectives, called as
witnesses by the defense, said they
had gone over the route of the
pursuit and found it would have
been impossible for the railroad
detectives to keep the two strikers
in sight during the chase. The rail
road operatives had earlier said
under oath that once sighted, the
arrested men had never been out of
vision.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

New York, n. Y.-Retroactive
pay suits similar to those current
ly filed by workers for portal-to
portal pay would be averted if
Congress follows the recommended
tion made this week by l.. Metcalfe
Walling, Administrator of the Fair
Labor Standards Act. In deliver
ing his annual report for the fiscal
year 1916, the Wage-Hour Admin
istrator repeated his 1914 and 1945
proposals for two measures, one
granting to him the power, sub
ject to court review, to issue
authoritative definitions of gen.
eral terms used in the Act, sec
ond setting up reasonable sta
tute of limitations.
The first would protect employ
ers who comply with his defini-
tions from liability for the period
such ruling are in effect. The
proposed statute of limitations, ap-
plying to employee suits for back
wages and damages, is urgently
needed, according to the Admins
traitor, because varying S t e
standards give competitive advan-
tages to violators in States with
lowered statutes of limitations and
penalize many workers in the col
lection of wages due.
Commenting on portal-to-portal
problems at the same time he is
sued his annual report, Admin
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Public Investment
(Continued From Pare OneJ

tCOUuUuS0 rVOW rage OuEJ
large extent on the methods by
which it is financed, and explained
the implications of a policy of
deficit financing in appropriate
cases. However, it added, the fl
nancial barriers to the execution
of a policy of timing public invest
ment are much easier to overcome
than the technical barriers.
The study found that the post
war planning of governments
shows enormous improvement"
over the principles and practices of
the interwar period, and pointed
out that many governments have
endorsed the policy of using public
funds to offset lack of private
employment.
1t includes survey of plans so
far made in many countries to set
up the necessary planning mach
inery and to establish shelf" of
projects which can be accelerated
if necessary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Pay Hike Halls
Newspaper Strike

Rochester, N. Y. qLNS)-Local
Is, International Typographical
Union, has voted approval by 141
to 81 of the terms Of new con-
tract offered by the management
of the Gannett newspapers to end
the newspaper strike here, which
had gone into it's ninth week.
The settlement gives the printers
an increase of SIG weekly, bring
ing their scale to STA for day work
and $79 for night work. 1t also pro-
vides retroactive pay of 5000 for
day workers and $214 for night
men. The scale will go into effect
when the men return to work and
the new contract will continue for
one year from that date, said Ber-
tram w. Kelly, president of the
local.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

education. That is evidently the
purpose of Brotherhood Week.
One thing that can be done and
that ought to be done by every
person is little job Of self-ana-
lysis. Every person can ask him.
self how much of prejudice there
is in him and why it is there. He
can try to find out what actual
Justification there is in fact and
how much of it is tradition, family
and community teaching and just
plain hokum. This he can do.
Brotherhood, in the sense of
Brotherhood Week, doesn't mean
a complete and immediate coming
of social equality, which does not
actually exist in any case. There is
no such thing anywhere today,
among persons who, supposedly,
are social equals.
The basic reason for this is that
every person is free to select those
to whom he wishes to extend
friendship socially and from whom
he cares to accept it.
Joe Doakes doesn't mingle So
cially with John Doe because may
be Mrs. Doe said that Mrs. Doakes
had a dirty kitchen. Social equality
is myth in the first place and,
in the second place it has nothing
to do with what is meant by the
term brotherhood, or by the dec
laration that "all men are created
equal"
What Brotherhood is trying val
iantly to kill is that racial super
iority dogma that was the back
bone of Hitler's rise and the key
stvae in the arch of his brutal
policies. ts
Cannot Americans see to what
deadly destinations racial super
iority dogma drives them?
1t is astounding that we harbor
among us so much of the very
thing we condemn so vigorously
and fought SO costly a war to end!
But we have it. There are little
Hitlers all over the place.
President Truman said: "Broth-
rhood-believe it, live it, support
it."gp
That is right. Believe it and live
it dynamically, so that the force
of the drive of enlightenment may
drive out the devil of hate, per-
secution and oppression forever in
this nation. Let us live as if we
fully accepted the declaration that
"all men (actually) are created
equal"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Yeor End Finds
Work Stoppoges
AT Low For 1946

Washington, D. C. = In con-
trast to the situation which pre-
vailed year ago, the close of 1916
found only about $50 work stop
pages, practically all of which
were local in character and small
in size, involving only a total of
approximately $4,000 workers. In
issuing year-end report on
labor management controversies,
Secretary of Labor l.. B. Schwel-
lenbach pointed out that work
stoppages at years end were at
the lowest point since VI Day.
Not only was the number of
strikes less than at any previous
postwar period, but workers in
volved and idleness were also well
below the early months of 1916
when reconversion problems re-
suited in widespread labor-indus-
try controversies.
The number of new strikes de-
clined from $50 in October to 80
in November and when the final
figures for December are in the
number is expected to be less than
half the October count. Decem-
Der will probably reflect the low
est strike activity for the entire
year, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statictis.
Aat the end of the year Concili-
ators were mediating Ill stop
pages involving only $4,000 work
ers whereas a year ago they were
involved in 145 strikes covering
307, 900 employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
First Anti-LabOr Bill

Washington (FP) = The doubt
full honor Of having introduced the
first anti-labor bill in the House
for the S0th Congress went to Rep
resentative John Rankin with his
measure to permit war veterans to
work in closed shops plants with
out joining a union.
Rankin's meausre is HR 5, and
went to the committee on veterans
affairs
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
OPPOSES APPOINTMENT

Athens, Ga. (FP)-Appointment
of Abit Nix to teach labor law at
the University; of Georgia brought
a formal complaint from Kenneth
Deuty, state director of the Textile
Workers Union. Nix is secretary
of the corporation which operates
the Athens Manufacturing Co.,
where TWUA strike is now in
its 18th month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Organization


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cation, legal assistance, hiring
halls for migratory workers and
increased per capita payments.
Speakers addressing the conven-
tion included Senator George
Aiken, AFL Organization Director
Frank Fenton, President Anthony
Valente of the United Textile
Workers and Vice President
Charles Zimmerman Of the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Let the name of great man be
mentioned, and the first thing that
pops into the noodle Of everybody
is the one, if any, discreditable
incident of his career.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Try making your own mustard
a little dry mustard and a little
milk well spooned in small cock
tail glass or egg cup.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Local Union 122
(Confisued From PAGE OreJ

every member the need and inn
portance of attending local meet
ings. 1t is your duty to yourself
and the organization TO put in your
appearance and take part in the
locals functioning. II is not enough
that we have officers-they need
help. The more support they re-
ceive in the way of information
and discussion, the better the
meetings.-O. c. 122.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Demand the Union Label.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
PROCEEDS. WASHER RATTLE. TO GO FOR RESPIRATOR
 FOR USE OF TOWN

Wangell Emblem Club wished 10 make il known this week that tne proceeds on the sale of tickets on the Easy washing machine which they are railing. will go toward the purchase of a respirator for the town and the respirator will be turned over to the local Fire De partment. It is hoped by the Em- blem Club that with the respirator lives. which in case of accident would be otherwise lost, can be saved. The washing machine is valued at S200.00
 At their dance, November l. costumes will be in or der and prizes will be given for Che best masquerade.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
ALASKA WATER RATES
 UNDER FIRE AT RATE
 HEARINGS IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE - Alaska shipping rates were under fire from han dozen sides this week as the U. s.. Maritime Commission continued hearings on continuation of the 35 per cent freight rate increase granted last spring.
 Opening round of the heauns Monday was devoted to il discus sion of financial statemeute ana tariffs of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, and Northland Transportation Co. with introduction of volumH- ous files covering the firms oper- atious.
 A third major line operating 10 the serritofy Alaska Transporta- ton Co.. will also enter its files of operation
 The 55 per cent increase was granted last spring when the gov ernmeut returned it's wartime oD- eration of Alaska shipping to private companies It will expire ueNJ June 30. unless extended
 Numerous opponents to the rate --As- -A7-'aA aA A AEbeIA A4H AAAA4A1 AAE course Of the hearings. including the Alaska Development Board. At torney General Ralph River, wao is appearing for the Territorial Government Board. Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce. Alaska Miners Association California Con gress Of Industrial Organizations. Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and the Seattle Traffic Association.
 Attorney Stephan Of Alaska Transportation said records or summertime peak operations are that Army ofIeias would not diYulge the amount of goods they will move to Alaska this winter but that the Maritime Commission might get this infor nation direct from the Army.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
PERIsCOPE

Continued From Page Ouel ldollar-a-year ships. hull nsur- ance. siA per cent guarantee on iu- yesyment. ete.J which the Commls- sion had granted the three maIur companies last spring and had been denied. after. believe il or not, the Maritime Commission hau referred the request to the three companies which had previously been granted the special privilege Alaska Steam, Northland and A. aska Transportation.
 This week in Seattle hearings We're being held before the same |. s Maritime Commission on the question of whether freight rate increases granted che companies last spring should be continued
 $ 4 a
 As winter approached and cord weather would soon begin Co hut outside work. Bireh-Johnsou-Lytlc. Army contractors. announced us laying off of approximately 5000 men from projects at Anchorage. Fairbanks Mile 2G. Nome and other points. some 2.500 would Ds kept on 7he jobs during the winter on inside work Present workers would be given preference in the spring when activities resumad. BJL spokesmen said. According u Territorial employment officials. winter weather was not the only answer. They reported. it was also a matter of staying within budget estimates. with winter the logrcaI time to cut expenses.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
poRcAs THANKS poNERs

The Dofcas Benevolent Soelety ol Naukz Island this week express ,u thanks To all those who so gen crously responded 10 their plea for clothing for Euope's needy famil- ies some time ago. Campbell Bros, and the Mildred Pierce Shoppe gathered che clothing for them and it was sent ao the Doreas Society for cleaning and meuding Re spouse To the plea Was gratifying and many articles have been ship ped overseas
 The Dorcas Society stated it still would have good use for any further clothing turned in.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31

better last week at the local school. Several students, Manuel Loftus, James Kezer. John Ever sen, Donald Richneld. Chad Wy att, Ethan Petticrew, Marion Goodrich and Albert Roaming, also Mr. Fabricius, got one or more ducks and Mr Fabrieius got a deer
 $
 Mayor 0. D Diemart this week received a request from the dir eetor Of the |. s. Coast and Geo detie Survey in Washington, D. C., for a report on the earthquake which shook Wrangell last week.
 B
 Andrew Johnson of Lake Bay. who has been in the States sever al weeks, returned north on tne Aleutian Tuesday.
 
 A daughter was born Sunday. October 30 to AIr. and Mrs. ". R. Neville in Juneau.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
GOING TO FLORIDA

- Mr and Mrs George Sumption are leaving the first of the week for the south to be gone until spring From Seattle they will go to Chicago where they will pur- chase a car and drive to Columbus, Ohio, where they will be guests oter the Thanksgiving and Christ mas holidays of the Rev Ben Judd sHd family. The Key. Judd and Mrs. Judd were here three years
 sa when Mir Judd was pastor of
 #s loca1 Presbterian church.
 htnr Ghristias the Sumpttons e.l ga on to Florida to spend the winter and will visit a short time
 Sumptions older daugh- .a lives in Jaokscnyille.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
20 YEARS AGO

 tThe Sentinel, Nov 8. I927) Hunting took a turn for the|
The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-10-31
25 YEARS AGO

lThe Sentinel, Nov. 2, I922) J. c Calvin arrived on the s.. Spokane Tuesday from New York.
  The Forest Service is working for establishment of pulp and pa per mills in Southeast Alaska
  The Civic Club went on recor8 Saturday in favor of legislation giving women the right to serve as jurors.
 # George H. Barnes will be a southbound passenger on the Spok- ane
 B $ The Republican Club of Wrau- gell is sonsoring ". D. Grant as Reresentatiye To the Territorial Legislature in a quarter age ad in The Sentinel