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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Senofe Defeats Trumon's Proposal
For Reorganization Of Labor Dept.

Washington, d. C.-The Senate
killed President Truman's plan to
reorganize the Labor Department,
ignoring Democratic Leader Alben
w. Barkley's warning that the act
ion would leave the Secretary of
Labor little to do but collect stats
tics.
Mr.. Truman had proposed that
the United States Employment
Service be placed permanently in
the department and that the
Wage e-Hou Administration be
made subject to control of the
Labor Secretary.
But, by vote of AZ to 40, the
Senate agreed to a House-approv-
ed resolution rejecting this pro-
posal. After the first roll call, the
vote was tied, Al to al, but Senator
George w. Malone (R., New.
switched to defeat the plan.
AS result of the Senate action
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Times Wars On Labor, But
Look What Its Writer'S Say

The New York "Times" is one of
the most reactionary newspapers
in the nation, but occasionally one
of it's writer's succeeds in making
conspicuous presentation of the
truth.
A good example occurred in a
Sunday issue of the "Times." C. F..
Hughes, who does column known
as "The Merchants Point of View"
for the financial pages, recalled
the fact that just year ago the
drive to wreck price control was at
its height.
The National Association of
Manufacturers, he pointed out, led
the drive-which brought about
the eventual death of the 0. p. A."
But the N. A. NJ, he said, promised
that "once this agency was remov-
ed, competition would soon take
care Of the price problem"
Has that promise been fulfilled? ?
The answer, said Hughes, "is scar
cely subject to theory" since the
figures speak fon themselves.
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports that for the week ended
June IA wholesale prices are 80
per cent above year ago."
Hughes declared. Farm products
are 274 per cent higher, foods 45-3
per cent higher, and manufactured
products, 1873 per cent higher"
How does the N. A. M. propose
to gloss that over? Perhaps, said
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
MiIgrom Resigns
As Secretary

New York City QLNS).-Morris
Milgram, national secretary of the
Workers Defense League since
1941, has resigned after 10 years
of active service, the Rev. Donald
Harrington, national chairman of
the league announced here. Row
land Watts, labor attorney and as
sociate secretary for the last year,
has been appointed acting national
secretary. Bert Seidman, labor
economist, is the new assistant ma
tional secretary.
In accepting Migrants resigna-
tion the leagues national executive
board paid him high tribute for his
devoted service to the organization
and his untiring efforts in behalf of
workers rights.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
THE CHERRY TREE

One of our leading scientists de-
clares seriously that this nation
possesses enough atom bombs to
blow up every big city in the
world.
These bombs are to the Bikini
bombs or the Nagasaki bomb as an
ostrich egg is to a hens egg-or
maybe bigger.
They are terrific.
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
there is a situation that is down
right dangerous.
1t is just about as dangerous to
us as it is to the rest of the world.
This summer we are to send a
scientific expedition back to Bikini
to see just what long range dam
age was done. When that expedi-
tion gets through we shall know
more than we know now about the
extent of the danger of atom
bombs.
One thing the scientists think
they may find is new forms of life,
produced by what they call muta-
tion. Mutation isn't evolution. 1t is
complete and immediate change.
Maybe we shall get reports of
some frightful forms of mutation.
=
But whatever may be found in
that direction, we know that the
effects of atomic explosions last
for a long time after. Nagasaki
and Hiroshima proved that.
Now this nation alone cannot
prevent another war, except by
continuous surrender, up to and in
cluding final collapse. That we will
not do, of course.
So, whether we are to have an
other war depends upon others, as
well as upon US.
1t might be well, once in while,
to contemplate the aftermath of
another war.
1t might be well, too, for the
peoples of other nations-and their
bosses-to contemplate likewise.
Not two cities, but many, would
be blown off the map by atom
bombs. The devastation would be
awesome-and complete.
The resulting economic loss,
added to human loss, would be
staggering.
1t is not possible to form an esti-
mate of volume. Just call it stagg-
ering.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Delegates
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ion 90, Perth Amboy, N. j., admin
istered the oath of obligation to
President Duffy and other national
officials. Bro. Church is former
member of the Executive Board.
Mr.. Rudolph N. Marginot, repre-
sentative of the Union Label
Trades Department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor addressed
the delegates at the afternoon ses-
sion on the closing day. Mr.. Marg-
mot declared that free collective
bargaining is an essential part of
our economic system and added:
without it, free enterprise will
disappear and democracy itself
might be supplanted by some sys-
TEN which it is fearful to contem-
plate. The speaker lauded the Ma
tional Brotherhood Of Operative
Potters and their officers for their
excellent leadership in guiding the
organization in a form of collective
bargaining with their employers,
which is second to none i'm the
ranks of labor units affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
He outlined plans for the Union
Label show to be held in Mil
waukee in l948, stating the show
will be bigger and better than ever
ad hoped the NIB. of O.P. will
again feature "A display showing
the skill required in producing
pottery.
He prefaced his remarks by
showing a film taken by Fox
Movietone and shown throughout
the theaters of the country. Add
ing "A personal touch to the
"movie" two of the delegates in
"Abe" Edwards Of
Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio and
Harold Williams of Local Union
124, East Liverpool, were seen on
the screen displaying the skill of
their respective trades.
Proceedings of the convention are
now being compiled at Headquart-
ers and will be printed in book
form and presented to the trade
at an early date.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Guns For Bio
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the way from meeting together at
frequent Intervals" to the old
"basing point" system long used
by the steel industry.
Efforts Prove Futile
For about rs years, the +. r. c..
has been trying to stop "basing
point" price-fxing practices in the
steel, corn products, and other in
dustries, but without any real sue
cess.
Under the scheme, it doesn't
make any difference where the
article is made, the consumer must
pay freight from a certain point.
For example: Sugar bought in a
Colorado City, perhaps only half
mile from sugar factory, was
loaded with a freight charge from
San Francisco to Denver-half
way across the continent - al
though, as a matter of fact, the
sugar never touched a freight car.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
The Liberal
Union Mon

The liberal union man works
hard to get more money and better
conditions for the workers. He
does everything he can to make
the business more prosperous, for
he knows that the more it prospers
the more money he will have the
right to ask for. He works as hard
as he can and does the best job he
can, and he expect the employer, in
the same spirit, to pay him all he
can afford to pay him. He thinks it
would be good to have some extra
private income in old age so as not
to have to depend entirely on a
government or company pension.
He thinks labor unions should have
justice, not special privileges from
government.
He doesn't think that all union
men should be in one political
party, for he knows that it's the
two-party system that has made
America great and kept her free.
He doesn't want Communism or
Socialism.
Thus the liberal union man is
very much like the liberal business
man. Let the liberal businessman
and the liberal labor union man
get together in "A firm and friend
ly understanding. When they do,
they will render the reactionary
businessmen and the trouble-mak-
ing labor men harmless. For the
reactionaries and trouble-m makers
are really only small minority of
us.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

The world is far from healed
from the last war. Really, healing
has hardly begun.
The United States is spending
billions to help start the healing.
Not for years will there be a
truly normal world.
If the next war comes within the
next five years, as so many predict,
we shall have to add the far great
er consequences of that war to
those of the last war.
The results looks like more than
the world can stand.
Our burden now is almost the
limit of possibilities, if we are to
maintain approximately our stand
ards of living.
After the next war, then, We
shall have no standard of living,
granted that we win.
The burden of shattering loss
over the world will be more than
any nation can bear.
y
A long time ago-back before
World War IL thought many
times about writing a story show
ing how man slowly unlocked one
secret after another-the chain of
secrets about how the universe is
put together and what makes it
work. Finally, the last secret was
discovered and in the same instant
all was destroyed!
But mental laziness crept in and
the story never got done. Anyhow,
as far as the story is concerned,
there would have been no one left
to write it and, Of course, no one
left to read it. But it wouldn't have
been too far fetched. Not when we
are told that we have enough atom
bombs in storage to blow up all the
big cities Of the world.
1t might be well if we could turn
backward and if we could then stop
before we started to unlock the
awesome secrets of catastrophe
destruction-at least until we de-
veloped enough civilization to
cease thinking in terms of destruc-
ton.
But maybe everything will be
started on a new track by finding
at Bikini "A mutated pair with the
heads of men, the bodies of
animals and the digestive apparat-
US of earth worms !-CMW.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

the Labor Department, already
stripped of the United States Con-
ciliation Service by the Taft-Hart-
ley Labor Law, loses control of
USES to the Social Security
Board.
Rejection of the plan also
freezes with the Wage-Hour ad-
ministrator authority to issue
rules and regulations under the
Wage-Hour Law. The plan would
have transferred administrative
functions of the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act to Secretary of Labor
Lewis b. Schwellenbach.
Administration of the Wage
Hour Law remains under the
Labor Department "for housekeep-
ing purposes" but the administrat-
or, not Schwellenbach, will con-
tinue to have responsibility for its
operation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
EdgorL. Warren
Resigns Post

Washington, ID. C. (LNS).-
Edgar l.. Warren, director of the
u. S. Cancellation Service, resign
ed July /, his resignation to take
effect when his successor assumes
office as head Of the new Federal
Mediation and Cancellation Service
under the Taft-Hartley labor bill,
but in any event not later than
Aug. Il.
Accepting the resignation, Sec
retary of Labor Schwellenbach
said that the Cancellation Service,
under Warren's leadership, "con-
tributed in large measure to the
improvement Of industrial relat-
ions in our country" during the re-
conversion period.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Green Answers
edAffuckO On
Labor Program

Labor policies promulgated in
Japan by General Douglas Mac
Arthur were the center of a con-
troversy this week.
At conference of the Commun-
ist-dominated "World Federation
of Trade Unions" in Japan, dele
gates aired charges that Mac
Arthur's policies were "anti-labor"
and that pre-war Capitalists" and
generals" were back in the saddle
This stirred the Indignation of
President William Green of the
A. f. of l.. and he issued a formal
statement backing up Macarthur.
eighteen months ago, there
were no labor unions in Japan"
Green pointed out. To-day more
than 100000 members have been
organized by japanese unions and
collective bargaining is rapidly ex-
panding This growth has been en-
couraged by General Macarthur
and the labor division created by
him."
That division, Green pointed out,
is headed by veteran American
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S. Killen,
former official of the Pulp, Sui
phite and Paper Mill Workers
and the only elements objecting to
the MacArthur-Killen policies have
been "a sprinkling of Communists
in one wing of the japanese labor
movement"
The w. F. T. u. allegations,
Green added, were intended "for
the sole purpose of encouraging
Communist disruption in Japan"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
The New Rent
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family or n purchasers family
wished to move into a dwelling, the
tenant could be evicted. Now, evic-
tion is possible only if the landlord
or the buyer himself wishes to take
immediate personal upancy.
The eviction controls of the act
will be enforced by the local courts.
A. Local advisory boards of re-
preventative citizens in each COM
munity are being appointed on the
recommendation of the various
state governors. They will aid in
considering rent adjustments and
will make recommendations con-
corning decontrol action and other
connected with the admin
istration of the law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Hughes, by citing Increased pro-
duction."
Output has risen, Hughes con-
ceded, but that hasn't reduced
prices. Business nature being
what it is, production expanded
but prices did not come down as
long as there was plenty of con-
suming power" he pointed out.
In other words, while profiteer-
ing is feasible, business operators
are determined to charge all the
traffic will bear-and then some.
Profits ZOOm
What has this price gouging
done to profits? On that point, too
another financial writer for the
"Times"-C. NJ. Reckert-made
some Illuminating disclosures in
the Sunday issue.
He got together the official
earnings statements of 228 big
manufacturing firms and reported
that their profits for the first
quarter of 1947 "rose 305 per cent
over the same quarter of 1916.
High production, high prices, plus
lower taxes, yielded this bonanza
for business, he said.
Nevertheless, in the face of evil
dence i'm it's own columns that bus
mess is profiteering as never be-
fore, the "Times" continues to
clamor for legislative shackles for
the nations labor unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Seek To


(C0nhnned from rage OnsJ
ferent viewpoints on political or
public issues.
I'm such broadcasts, the sta
ton must announce the speaker,
how the time was made available
and, if paid for, by whom.
3-Force broadcasters to dis
close the source of their news.
4-Require detailed reports to
the Federal Communications Com
mission on finances and programs.
OF course, there is a great deal
more to the White bill, but these
are the provisions against which
the industry has leveled its artil-
lery.
Overplay Freedom of Speech
The propagandists say this
means the end of freedom of
Speech" and they insist that radio
be as free from regulations as
newspapers.
Radio is endeavoring to line up
the press, motion pictures and
books and magazine publishers as
allies, and will probably succeed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Conference
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such an affidavit"
Under the Taft-Hartley Act the
sworn statements are a prerequis-
ite to NLRB enforcement of the
legal projections which the Wag-
ner Act gives unions, such as the
requirement that employers bar
gain with them.
Mandamus Writs Planned
If noncOmplying union files an
application with NLRB and NLRB
refuses to take the case, Padway
said, the AFL will petition for a
writ of mandamus to require the
board to consider the case.
He predicted that 80 percent of
AFL unions will be advised by
their lawyers not to file such affi-
davits, even though he said there
are few Communist officers in
AFL unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
STILL TINE FOR GARDENS

Washington, ID. c. ULNS).-
Home gardeners who have delayed
planting because of adverse wea-
ther conditions were urged by Paul
C.. Stark, director of the National
Garden Program, to proceed with
their plans as soon as possible.
There is still time to plant most
vegetables, and successive plant
ings can be made throughout the
summer, he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
WHAT NEXT?

The Army rs experimenting with
a mummy-shaped, innatable mat
tress that can be carried in "A KNAPP
sack and protect a soldier when he
is sleeping on snow or cold ground.
1t weighs only 56 ounces and is
made of lightweight nylon cloth
coated with butyl synthetic rubber.
The hollowed-out shape protects
the sleeper from rolling out on the
ground.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Business Crooks
(Confinaed From Pace One1

by the Treasury was Robert Gould,
"A Cincinnati liquor dealer, who was
compelled to pay $2,500,G00 in de
frauded taxes on black market
liquor profits. He also will serve a
term in Jail.
Some idea Of Gould's profits may
be CLEANED from the fact that
when arrested he was able to put
up as security $4,000,000 in gov
ernment bonds.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
No. ~

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the clothes away.
The management has started on
a $500,0O0 improvement project
which is expected to be finished
the later part of the summer. This
includes new sanding machines,
automatic burners, dipping spray
machine, automatic jigger and new
decorating shop. After these new
improvements are completed a
general cleanup will be made. A
clean shop is a healthy shop, SO
everybody do his share to help
keep the plant the healthiest in
the trade.
Brother Glenn Flynn passed out
cigars recently when he joined the
ranks of the married men and Bro
ther Perry passed them out when
he became proud papa.-O. C. 90
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Evaded Profits Tax

Finally, the Federal government
sued the Aerodynamic Research
Corporation, a mysterious war
born outfit, for 1924 1922 in excess
profits on war contracts. The Trea-
sury had already placed tax liens
of more than two millions against
the concern.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Protection is not just a word. In
order to safeguard Union Labor
standards we must actually pat
ronize only union firms.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

| expect my friends to tell me
about their conquests and good
fortune. But once is enough; repe-
titution bores me or makes me en-
vious, and furthermore | like to
boast, too.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Cooperation is not merely "talk'
1t requires action and the best
way to get it is to patronize only
firms that display the Union
Label, Shop Card, or Button!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

With all the BIB Brain people
in the world is there any
wonder things are in a mess?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

After receiving something free
. few are willing to pay any
thing in return.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Anti-labor Members of Congress
may come and go-but the Union
Label cause will go on forever!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Demand the Union Label.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-10-01
DANISH SCIENCE
DURING THE WAR
By DR.. Erik Tetens Nielsen

| isolation was almost total, an al
most insufferable Sitting, feel
ing of being put in a corner and
just left.
The fact that increasing num-
bers of scientists were forced to
leave the country also interrupted
much SEMITIC work. The energy
thus liberated was often placed
at the service of the resistance
movement.
A not inconsiderable part of
Danish science was more directly
affected by the occupation; in
some cases this meant increased
activity, but in m o st cases it
meant less.
In the first category were a
number of technical sciences which
had to find substitutes for articles
we were prevented from obtaining
from abroad. A typical achieve
ment of Danish research in this
respect was the production OF
Danish penicillin.
The restrictions were felt by a
large number of other sciences
with close foreign associations,
such as meteorology, the investi-
cation of the sea, and many others.
Henmark's transition from a So
ciety governed by truth and JUS
tice, law and order, to a scene of
violence and lies. lawlessness and
terrorism, was felt as a disaster,
not least for Danish legal science.
Direct German attacks n
Danish scientific institutions oc-
Cured only in few odd cases,
the best known being that on the
Institute for Theoretical Physics.
where, under h e leadership o f
Professor Niels Bohr, work was
done which became the corner
stone of the Investigations into
atomic energy. The German en-
roachments caused Professor Bohr
to leave the country, and, via
Sweden and Britain, he joined the
circle of scientists in America
who were seeking the way, which
they subsequently found, to the
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-10-01
Continued from Page u

In the University Easements arms
were stored or printing presses
installed. Colleges were organized
as field hospitals, and laboratories
became clearing houses for the
shipment of refugees to Sweden.
All this Slapped the inside of the
scientific work so only the shell,
the daily routine, remained, while
the intellectual energy was in
creasingly transferred to the work
of resistance. Added to this were
other factors. The shortage of in
struments and materials became
ever more acute. But worse than
this was the feeling of isolation.
For a small country lik Den
mark international scientific in
tercourse is of the utmost import
ance. It has always been the case
with Danish science that some
branches have looked south for
associations, w lille others have
mainly looked west.
After 1888. when It became
ever clearer that the NaZis were
alien, even hostile. to free re-
search, and a large number of the
leading spirits of German science
migrated to Britain and America,
the compass, n a n increasing
number of cases, swung west in
the direction of t h emigrant
scientists, and the attraction of
Germany declining corresponding
ly. The clumsy and officious Ger
man wooing of Danish culture
carried on at the same time as
they plundered the country pro-
duced in most a complete break
with the science of the invaders.
We were almost wholly cut off
from the free world; the few
crumbs which reached Is vi a
Sweden merely stimulated our ap-
petite. The science of free coun-
tries we could not re a ch; the
poor remains of science with the
invaders we could not touch. Our
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1947-10-01
Gestapo Planned
StockhoIm Coup

OSLO.-According to the Swe-
dish daily Acknowledgment" Nor
wegian criminal police have I'M
covered evidence that the Nazis
planned to seize the Norwegian
legation in Stockholm by force
during the fall of 1910. The some
what sensational disclosure relates
that Is Gestapo were to stage
the attack, and were the Norwe-
gians to have called upon the
Swedish police for assistance, the
German Minister in Stockholm
had orders to protest to the Swe-
dish authorities.
At an Oslo meeting on Septem-
Der II, 1910. the account contin-
ues, a group of leading Germans
headed by Rikskommissar Terbo-
We was informed that Won Ribben-
trop had determined to secure the
Norwegian legation in Stockholm
and the documents to be found
there. Any explanation as to why
the plan was never put into action
was not disclosed in the article.