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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
Voice Protest Agdinst Anti
Ldbor Bills. Bookbinders
Urge All Union Workers

Washington, d. c. OLNS). =
Good labor relations cannot be
legislated, the International Book
binder, official journal of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Book
binders emphasizes in strongly
urging all trade unionists to voice
their opposition to antilabor legis-
lation in Congress and state legis-
latures.
The Bookbinder, J. B. Prewitt,
editor says:
Punitive labor legislation is no
solution to labor disputes; it can
not help and will definitely retard
recovery. This is statement of
fact agreed upon by the majority
Of our 100 labor bills, containing
specific proposals, which are be-
ing considered in lengthy hearings
before the Senate Committee on
Labor here in Washington and as
many more measures which have
been introduced throughout the
country at current sessions of
state legislatures.
"These bills, if made into laws,
will not only destroy the function
ing Of the trade unions, but as
class legislation they will victimize
management and other segments
Of the public. Because of their par
tisan nature, such laws will ad-
versely effect all classes and will
produce chaos in labor-manage-
ment relation.
Act Now, Labor Urged
"Organized labor must give inn
tanodiato hnnd 70 H. 4L.4
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

NINE DEATH TOLL HEAVY
Mine disasters have claimed an
average Of five victims daily in
the 80 years from 1906 to 1915.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
Union Contracts Last Yedr
Covered 100000, Jump
Of 4.500. 900 Since l94l

garments, glass and glassware.
leather tanning, meat packing,
newspaper printing and publishing,
non-ferrous metals and products
rayon yarn, rubber, ship building,
basic steel and sugar refining.
Others Strongly UniOnized
1t listed these II nonmanufactur-
ing industries as in a similar ad-
vanced stage of unionization:
Actors and musicians, airline
pilots and mechanics, local bus and
street car workers, coal mining,
construction, longshoring, ship
ping, metal mining, motion-picture
production, railroads, telegraph
and local and intercity trucking.
The department reported that
the least organized industries in
cluded agriculture, beauty shops,
clerical and professional fields, re-
tail and wholesale trade.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
|conodion Poper
| Mills Grant
Wage Increase

Montreal QLNS). Eleven
paper mills in Ontario and Quebec
provinces have made an agreement
raising wages with A of the lead
ing international unions whose
members are employed in the pulp
and papermaking industries, j. A.
D'Aoust, vice president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Paper
makers, announced here.
The agreement provides for an
hourly wage increase of IA cents,
effective May /, and the under
standing that "every possible ef-
fort will be put forth to secure
maximum production in all depart
ments and that no additional re-
quests be made for rate increases
as a result of production increases
during this period"
The following companies signed:
Alliance Paper Mill, Ltd; Canadian
Vegetable Parchment Co., Ltd; E..
B. Eddy Co.; Garden City Paper
Mills Co., Ltd; Inter-Lake Tissue
Mills Co., Ltd; ROLAND Paper Co.,
Ltd; Brantford Felt G. Paper Co.,
Ltd; Don Valley Paper Co., Ltd;
Gair Co., Ltd; Howard Smith Paper
Mills, Ltd; Provincial Paper, Ltd.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

Washington, d. c. QLNS). =
Organized labor has continued it's
wartime growth since the end of
hostilities, despite efforts to halt
or destroy it, U. S. Department of
Labor figures show.
At the end of last year, 14,S00,-
coo workers were covered by union
contracts, a total 100000 higher
than when the war ended. Workers
covered by union contracts totaled
10,300,000 in 1941 at the beginning
of the national emergency. Thus
the gain at the close of 1916 was
4,5OO,O0O over the 1941 figure.
aa1Wage and salary workers now
represented by organized labor
comprise 48 per cent of the 31,O00,-
600 persons employed in fields
<where unions are active. The Labor
Department listed "a fields in
(which 80 to 100 per cent of the in
dustry has been unionized.
Closed, Union Shops Soar
Nearly 70 percent of the manu-
featuring wage earners and 35 per
cent of communicating en-
ployes are represented by unions.
Workers covered by closed and
union shop contracts an insti-
tuition which many foes of labor in
Congress are seeking to abolish by
law - increased last year from g.
100000 in 1945 to 100000. The
War Labor Boards wartime substi-
tute for the closed shop main
tenance of membership - covered
an additional 100000 workers.
The department said Al per cent
of the workers covered by contract
had some sort of a dues checkoff.
The department listed 22 manu-
featuring industries where so to
100 per cent of the workers were
under union contract, as follows:
Agricultural equipment, aircraft
and parts, aluminium, automobiles
and parts, breweries, carpets and
rugs, cement, clocks and watches,
mems clothing, women's clothing
electrical machinery, furs and fur
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
100000 TEACHERS. QUIT

Six hundred thousand teachers
have quit the nations classrooms
in the last seven years for better
paying jobs, the American Fedora
tion of Teachers (AFL) estimates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
SAN FRANCISCO AIR GROUP
WINS PAY BOOST FIGHT

San Francisco, Calif.-The two
independent radio stations of this
city, KYA and KSFO, are back on
the air after three-day strike by
the American Federation of Radio
Artists CA F IL. A compromise
settlement was won providing an
18-month contract, retroactive to
last January l and guaranteeing
no discrimination against strikers.
The new agreement provides
wage scales for announcers rang
ing from $67.50 to $77.50 a week,
with further $3.50 weekly raise
on October /. Former salaries
were from $55 to $50.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
Comment On World Events

The world we build today will be
he heritage of tomorrow. What
kind of a world will it be? What
ever kind it is, it will be the world
in which our children live and
work and it is worthy of our high
est endeavors.
Most vital task of rehabilitation
in war-ravaged lands, along with
the rebuilding of leveled towns and
villages, is the rebuilding and re-
shaping of the lives of the people,
and especially the children, into
patterns of normalcy and hope.
The sacrifice in lives to free the
world from tyranny has been great
and the cost of victory dear, yet
victory cannot be said to have been
won while children starve. And let
it not be forgotten that among the
children of today are the leaders of
tomorrow. Deprived of healthy
childhood, living in cold and want
and fear, can they develop into
well-balanced, emotionally stable,
constructive world citizens of the
years ahead?
Today these children are in grave
need of help. They need the food
that we can and must send, and
the warm clothing and the shoes.
And, no less important, they need
the spirit of good will these things
will symbolic. For there are
wounds of the spirit which only a
great spiritual compassion can
heal. Only the warmth of univer-
Ssl love put into action can Danish
fear and restore confidence and
hope to the lives of these child vic
Tins of war.
We are all world builders. Our
goal is the establishment of a
world wherein dwells peace,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
Rail Labor Sforf
Negotiations For
2O-Cenf PoyHike

The movement of II rail unions
for a 2O-cent an hour wage in
crease for over million "non-
operating" employees on Iron
Horse" entered the collective bar
gaining stage this week.
Negotiations got under way on
individual carriers, in response to
a request from the unions that
conferences on the wage proposal
be held as quickly as possible and
IN no case later than April 25.
That's the date on which the pay
boost would be made effective, un-
der the notices served by the
unions.
The bargaining conferences were
conducted by committees of the
various unions and the manage
ments. These committees formally
presented their case on why the
employees are entitled to the pay
lncrease-now.
Nationwide Bargaining Next
By the end of next week, union
chiefs anticipate these conferences
will have wound up on all of the
nations major railroads.
While the response of the indi-
vidual arrangements is not yet
generally known, it is expected
that their answer to the 2O-cent
demand will be unfavorable.
In fact, anticipating that reply,
the unions have asked each rail
road to participate in the forma-
tion of Carriers National Con-
ference Committee which would,
as in past movements, engage in
bargaining on a nationwide basis
with a corresponding Employees
National Conference Committee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

"Organized labor must give inn
heed to the threat which
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

now exists to the very principle of
the Bill of Rights. We cannot too
strongly urge every member Of the
International Brotherhood of Book.
binders to act, individually and COLI
lectively as part of his or her To-
cal union, to contact your legisla-
tive representatives elected to pro-
tect the rights of all classes. Make
them acquainted with your opposi-
tion to all antilabor bills now
pending before both Houses and
before state and municipal law.
making bodies.
Punitive labor legislation is no
solution"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01
Sharp Conflict
In Discussing
IAnfi-Lubor Bill

Washington, d. C.-Sharp con-
flict over the possible merits and
dangers of the newly drafted
House anti-labor bill marked the
latest nationwide discussion by
business, labor, farm and legisla-
tive spokesmen on the America
United" program, broadcast over
the facilities of the National
Broadcasting System.
A minority member of the House
Labor Committee, which drafted
the punitive, omnibus measure,
Rep. Lesinski, of Michigan, de-
clared:
at is quite fair and accurate to
say that this bin has been design
ed to permit crippling, if not to-
tai destruction, off the labor move
ment, and at the same time to
guarantee that if the labor move
ment survives at all it is to survive
solely as labor front, controlled,
operated and regulated by the
Government in the interest of en-
ployers."
In this position Mr.. Lesinski was
supported by Boris Shishkin,
American Federation of Labor
economist, who charged that the
proposed legislation would outlaw
most unions and place the others
completely under Federal control.
'This BILL" Mr.. Shishkin de-
clared, ''goes far beyond any
known precedent in any field in
peacetime Federal Intervention. 1t
extends Federal control into the
very heart of collective bargain
ing. 1t allows Federal authority
to cut across the binding fibre of
private contracts. 1t thrusts Fed
eral jurisdiction into the area now
reserved to State and local juris-
diction. 1t writes a detailed script
for collective bargaining negotia-
tions, every step of which must
represent Government ukase, and
if anybody departs from those
steps, he is in violation of the
law and he is outlawed. 1t regi-
ments the active workers and en-
ployers, 1t subjects organizations
to all-embracing Government con-
troll"
Granting that the rights of the
public should predominate in con-
sideration of any legislation, Mr..
Shishkin observed:
"And yet today the public is
subjected to the worst Fleeing we
have ever known because of the
runaway prices. All of the labor
disputes during the last year and
half have been due to that
squeeze to which we are subjected,
now worse than at any time be-
fore. We have a situation in
which we must deal with the
causes of our present difficulties.
The Government is derelict in fail
ing to deal with them, and Con-
gress is not moving finger to
protect the general public"
Milton Smith, assistant counsel
of the u. S. Chamber Of Com
merce, and Fred Bailey, of the
National Grange, took issue with
the positions of Rep. Lesinski and
Mr.. Shishkin. Mr.. Smith said the
pending legislation Sc e m s on
some points to be directly in line
with the Chamber position but on
other points does not deal as ef-
fectively as that group would de-
sire with regard to certain prob
lens. Mr.. Bailey said his farm
group believed labor legislation
passed in the last ten or twelve
years was lopsided and that the
farmers believed the time had
come to strike balance.
Declaring that the House bill de-
prives labor of gains won over a
long period of years of struggle,
Rep. Lesinski asserted his belief |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

that workers SHOULD be permitted
the right to raise living standards
and to see that everybody is paid
a living wage" Such efforts, he
said, would be gravely jeopardized,
if not wiped out, by the pending
legislation. He added:
Business has a right to or
ganize and labor should have the
same right, the same projections.
This bill in its entirety gives no
protection to any type of labor. It
would drive labor leaders under
ground and would be real bid
for communistic views" he added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-01

The u. S. Cancellation Service
settled 1898 out of 2,573 labor dis
putes in the II western states. in
1916.
The Valley settler., 1947-09-18
A FRIEnDLy LETTER
Dear Grange rs----

Here's friendly letter just to let you know our membership drive was a great suc- cess. The Mart ins" were the winners. Tho were the 'TEart ins"? We'll, you just watch for the Changers with that big smile on their faces and then you vii know. The reason for the smile is because the mtart ins" are looking forward with great anticipation to big dinner which will be given them by the losers, the WicCoys". The final outcome of the drive will be presented at our next meet ing.
 in say! Here's something e1 SC. (This is no secret. Some of those Mccoys are the best cooks. They love to cook, In fact it has been rumored that some of them would rather cook and serve a dinner than to be on the membersh ip drive; which only goes to prove to us that there are place for us all. No one can take your place. Its there for you. Come and f i'll it.
 Oh yes! I. almost forgot this. SoIe of you may not know that +Tasilla has rec entity organized a Grange Of their own. Are we gl ad? Sure are. Te have planned to help them celebrate with a Pot Luck Party and good ente rta airment. So fill your cars, trucks, jeeps and etc., with good people ana gOOQ 1OOQ ana De OH to GI10 "dSALLo Conn1n ity Hall on Tue sday evening at eight o'clock on October seventh and join in the fun with the Tasi11a folks.
 Our hearts were deeply saddened at our last meet ing when we dropped the Charter for two of our dear members, Sister laude Crow and Brother 'Dale Sandvik. Their work here is finished, but memories finger on. This again makes us realize that some of us may not have long ives in which to make our selves useful--not only to our Grange; but for the betternent of our people, our hone s and our conTnuni t1 es' Let's begin today, right now, to live the best most useful lives--tonorroW may pc too late.
 ne don't only want moo 2 paid up" mem- hers in our Grange, but He want '1oo%
 genuin Grangers," in 1t.
 Our harvest is ne ar1y over now and it's t. inc to begin our work again. This IS
 your Grange. It needs you "one and all" for there s a lot of work to be done.
 Let's pull ogethe-; being big enough to over1 9 ok al l pe-7ty aanoyanc es and strive
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30
BY HARTMAN w. NICHOL

United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, May 20 -W.H-Biack-
stone, The Great, said tonight that
a little magic sprinkled over the
troubled world could prevent
World War III.
The fluffy = haired, 62-year-old
man OF magic wasn't talking
about pulling rabbits out OF hats
O: saving pretty women in half.
He's ben playing tricks for 49
years and doing a lot of heavy
thinking, too. He thinks it would
be a good trick to prevent a spell
OF atomic thunder which would
wreck the world" Besides it
would solve the big problem which
is in the hair Of the leaders Of
the United Nations.
"Magic," he said, "overcomes
Illustration. 1t doesn't have to be
sleight : of : hand. It's nothing but
pure psychology applied in the
right place. If the leaders CT the
world would turn their talents to
a little more magic-or psyckolc-
gy - there wouldn't be so much
hurt and misery"
The big shots won't like it. but
Blackstone said that "politicians
ere nothing more than maglcians,
anyhow"
They put people under a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30
Today And Tomorrow
Nv WALTER

plan. Unless the plan is ii truth
European, it will not work. Ar
IAmerican plan for Europe could
mot work. Any suggestion that we
were imposing u plan would
Icause more trouble than money
could ever cure. So we must wait
until London and Paris begin to
move, and get ready to meet us
half way: They with plans and
agreements for the recovery Of
Europe so that it cease to be so
abnormally dependent on North
America; We with the working
capital out of American public
funds for the first phase Of the
plan until normal foreign invest
|ment becomes feasible.
In the first phase, the operation
on our side would have many re-
semblances to lend-lease. That is
to say, We would be exporting
goods, not against dollars, but
against contributions to the Sc
curity of this country and its vital
interest in peace.
Under wartime lend-lease we
got in return for our material con-
tribution the victorious resistance
of our allies. Though we gave a
lot, they gave all they had. Lend
lease was successful not only be-
cause of what we gave but because
of what they did.
The same principle will hold if
lend-lease in a new form is to be
established now.
Copyright, 1947, New York Tribune
Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30

While there is wide and lnc-eas
ing recognition that large esonoml'
measures will have to be taken u
avert a collapse in Europe,
cannot be SAID too often or to-
insistently that it is not possible
to plan them, Or put them lnto e.
feet. from Washing.on lone.
For the que-tion is by no mean:
only whether Congress and the
people will be willing 10 appro
pirate large sums. 1t is also
whether the leading countries O.
Europe. beginning with Britain
and France, can and will make
Europe capable of receiving anc
using large sums effectively.
There is, it seems to me, a dis
position in Europe 10 assume thai
all depends on whether Congress
will provide the money. But the
fact is that Congress IS likely &c
provide the money only II, When'
and because the European coun-
tries have themselves come TO-
eether to take convincing meas
llres to help themselves. Then our
people will feel that they are IN
vesting in the future, and not
merely handing out doles, that
they are providing working capital
for a reorganized European econ
omy and not merely paying the
bills of bankrupt governments.
There is also a disturbing tend
ency here to assume that a Euro
pean plan of recovery can be made
in America. Mr.. S~taEsen's other
wise excellent speech seemed to me
to reflect much too strongly the
notion that with immense funds
to dispense, we would be paying
the piper and could on the whole
caal the tune. We shall do far bet
ter to tell our European friends
and allies at the outset that we
wish to help them if they will
agree or a common plan of reccv-
cry; that we can help them sub
stantially only if they do agree;
that the fact they they agree to
collaborate will be infinitely more
important than that their agree
ment meet exactly specifications
which we might wish them to
meet; in short, that a plan which
unites the leading countries OF
Europe will find sympathy and
practical support here.
The planning in the Stale De-
partment cannot be carried to its
conclusion until Europe, vita
Britain and France taking the IN
itiative and the leadership, begins
to plan ard to negotiate for its
W recovery. Such a European
plan will show a dollar deficit over
a period of years. Our people can
be persuaded to meet that dollar
deficit if the European plan shows
how and when the need for Amer
lean grants-in-aid will no longer
exist.
We can, in other words, make
plans here to underwrise a Euro
pean plan that most of the coun-
tries Of the Continent have agreed
TO and are bound by. But we can
not make plans here for European
recovery and then offer 10 buy Eu-
ropean acceptance of ar American
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30

today. Peaceful, that is, until about
lis this afternoon.
Six or seven ladies were work
.ng in the office and We're going
about their tasks when one heard
a soft, moaning noise overhead,
She looked up just in time to see
the ceiling at the other end OF the
large office begin to sag.
She let out a shrek, which was
heard throughout the courthouse
and everyone in the agriculture
office gazed ceilingward with start
led chances. Without hesitation
everyone fled.
They managed to get out Of the
room just in the nick of time, but
only by lodging falling plaster ano
cracking electric wires.
Something had given way in the
ceiling and the entire material
covering a space of about is feet
by so feet crashed to the floor. All
working in the office at the time
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30
Letter Box
Continued from Page Four

is considered South Carolina
Leach ave-, and south of that is
known as Carolina Beach I'd.
All this confusion on one straight
road and yet for months the city
has had markers planted at in
t~ersections with South Front st.
printed on them. There is also a
Carolina ave-, and a North Caro-
Ina ave-, in Sunset Park to COM
pete with a Carolina ave. in Caro-
Ina Heights and no move has been
made to correct this. Q
Just one more thing. A check
with residents of Carolina Beach
ro. inside the city limits will re-
veal this road is nothing short of
a speedway and especially at night
from say 9 p. m. on into the early
morning hours. This is probably
brought on due to visitors riding
back and forth to Carolina Beach
and since there are 20 curbs and
this stretch resembles an open
highway they lust hit the accelera-
tor and let it go.
l realize there are a consider
able number of speeders arrested
or this stretch. but there are still
entirely too many unpunished Of
Tenders.
! think we people of this area
deserve better than this, and it
is up to the city government to en-
tighten us as to whether they have
any intention Of giving is what
was promised when we were taken
in.
BERT W. BLAKE
Wilmington, N. c.
Nav 90 1Qd7
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30

Rourk, tearing UP the garden OF
the Yott's and the location of a
fence that was built between the
two properties. Rourk charged the
Volts with disorderly conduct.
L. T. Stephens brought into cour,
on a charge of non-support lodged
by his wife, pleaded guilty. The
husband, VINO said he only this
week had obtained employment,
agreed to pay his wife $40 weekly.
The court continued the case unit.
Saturday to see that the promise
is carried out.
cream Bellamy, Negroes, drew a
60-day suspended sentence on a
charge of possession of non-tax.
paid liquor. ABC officers testified
that they raided her nome May Ii
and as they came up to the house.
she ran from the front porch into
the kitchen, grabbed a jar contain.
ing liquor, dumped it into a Stop
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-30
Superintendent Says
Community Hospital
Blood Bank Is Empty

The Community hospital has moi
a "single drop of blood or plasma
for t~ransfusions, Margaret Green,
superintendent, said yesterday.
Katherin Bennette. county well
fare worker said, IF I had a
Negro patient come in urgently in
need Of TRANSMISSION, he or she
would be out of luck"
The hospital issued a plea for
blood donors two weeks ago ard
the superintendent said that no do
nations have been received.
She said the hospital cannot pay
for blood because of the large
number of charity patients ad-
mitted and therefore must rely on
persons willing to give their blood.