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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
l5c Hourly Wage Increase
Granted By Eljer Company

Ford City, Pa.-On May 10th g
new contract was negotiated be-
tween the Eljer Company and Lo-
cal 102, N. B. o. P. that provides
for a flat lie per hour increase
to all employees, and in addition
there was Sc per hour granted to
Kiln firemen; 10c per hour to Kiln
hustlers; &c per hour to mainten-
ance men; SC per hour to kiln car
builders, and four boiler firemen;
&c per hour to the glaze maker.
The company further agreed to
pay a 2h9o bonus on each en-
ployee's earnings annually. This
payment is to cover straight time
pay for the six recognized holidays
if they are not worked. Payment TO
be made each year between Decem-
Der 1st, and January 1st. In case
of termination of employment, en-
ployees will be paid the 2h% of
their earnings to The termination
date. The entire wage increase
granted amounts to 16Ae per hour.
Mr.. Raymond Cranes President;
Radford Crane, Assistant to PAsi-
dent; Robert Crane, General Super
intendent represented the Eljer
Company. Welty Vensel, President
Local 102; George Claypool; Will
liam H. Hailes and Vice President
Wheatley represented the Union
in attaining the new agreement.
The conferences were held in the
new office buildings of the Eljer
Company which is the latest in
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
AFL Teumsfers
Score Lubor's
Split In Ranks

Indianapolis (LPA)-While labor
is divided against itself, big busi-
ness is united in its fight against
labor, the Intl Brotherhood of
Teamsters-AFL pointed out last
week
"This campaign didn't start sud-
denly" said an editorial in the
Teamsters' Journal, IBT monthly.
at has been going on for 10 years.
1t began in 1887 and it continued
quietly and effectively thru the sue
ceeding years while organized la
Dor, oblivious to the danger, ex-
panded it's efforts in bitter internal
strife"
The AFL is spending 81, 100000
for its advertising campaign
against the Taft Hartley bill in ITO
daily papers, the editorial said:
"This NAM alone is carrying on a
similar campaign in 2S7 daily
newspapers. 1t is spending prob
ably around $4,OOO,OOO for this
phase of its activities. But besides
that it is sending propaganda to
$500 weekly newspapers and to
broadcasters for 839 radio stations.
Regular broadcasts are carried on
113 radio stations.
"After 10 years of this work d. . :.
it is not surprising that business
finally passed the labor bills in
which it has invested countless mil
lions of dollars. The same money
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26

Fearnings for employees who have
25 years service. This year this
third week will effect approximate
ly % men.
Special adjustments aside from
the general increases were granted
on four casted bowls to the Hust-
lers and the Mouldmakers. The
Company assured the Union Com
mittee that the remaining holidays
which are now paid double time
and include nine Canadian holidays,
will be granted straight time pay
if loafed, next year. The Union is
confident that the third week of
vacation with pay for 25 years
service can also be increased next
year by reducing the required
service to Is years.
The new agreement was obtained
by discussions of both parties in
the same manner that has resulted
in improved relationships each year
with the management, which is a
subsidiary of the Crane Company.
Arthur Burgner, General Manager
of the Canadian plant, and George
Toepfer, Superintendent represent
ed the management in the negotia-
tions. E. L. Wheatley, First Vice
President, Frank Daneau, Business
Agent, Donat Ginier, President of
Local 78 and Alex Leblanc repre-
sented the Union during the con-
ferences. The present contract ex-
pires June goth and the new rates
of pay will effect 205 employees
on that date.
The Sanitary pottery business is
very good in st. Johns presumably
due to the building boom that is
also prevalent throughout the Do
minion. The Company during April
of this year broke ground for a
new addition to the pottery which
will be 460 feet in length by leo
feet in width, totaling 26,000
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Canadian P0tteries
Company and Local
78 Negotiate Pact

st. Johns, Que.-Negotiatons during the 18th, 18th
and 18th have resulted in supplement to the contract
at ST. Johns Quebec between the Canadian Potteres Com
pany Ltd. and Local 78, N. B. o. p
The contract will provide for general increase that is
estimated approximately 22c per hour to be graduated
from 7c to zoe hour The contract also provides
for holiday pay for three holidays not worked in the year,
and third week of vacation with pay based average
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
Members of Board
Meet In Session
AT Atlantic CitV

Bro erhood officials left Wednesday for Atlantic City
where reeday meeting of the Executive Board will take
place to the opening of the fiftythd annual
tion ued for Monday, July l, in the spacious and
breeze pit auditorium of the Atlantic City convention hail.
tn Getting of the officials is extremely important to
the ton since this will be undoubtedly the largest
in attenu.-lce and many important resolutions
considered This calls for plans whereby face and speedy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-26
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 21

Due to the date of our next reg
ular meeting Thursday July 3rd,
and many members are plan
ming q week -end holiday over July
4th, the meeting scheduled for July
3rd has been postponed until July
II. Officers for the next six months
will be elected at this meeting and
every member is urged to be pres
ent.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Omaha Guide and
Businessmen Urge
,"Back to School"

Thet Mid City Community and
businessmen join the Omaha Guild
in encmouraging our boys and
girls in the Mid-City area to join
now the Back To School Move
ment by preparing your school
wardrobe, purchasing your school
supplies, etc from your favorite
merchant.
These citizens, businessme n
and the Guide believes that better
living, healthy, strudy, bodies, and
sounder minds can only come
through better education for all
boys and girls. They believe that
a progressive city depends upon
for its future growth upon pro
gressive minds trained in our
cities school systems. They hope
that what assistant and encour-
agement that they can give will
be a stimulus to your boys and
girls to continue their education.
Summer jobs where they can
should be changed to part-time
jobs, for if you have certain aims
in life that cannot be achieved no
other way then through education
join the Back To School Move
ment Today. In the long-run it
will pay off in great dividends.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
INCREASE IN FEES AT
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY (MO.)

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.-The
rising costs Of operation at Lin.
coin university (Mo.) has result.
ed in a slight increase in fees.
Effective Sept. /, incidental fees
will be $3.50 per semester. pay
able at the time of registration;
room and board are on a cash
in-advance basis, with meal tic
kets being available in the $50
and SIS denominations. Meals. al,
SO purchasahle for cash in the
University cafeteria, will b well
balanced and priced in keeping
with prevailing market condi-
tons.
The office of the business man.
ager announced recently the pol
icy on student accounts to the
effect that mo student will be
permitted to reenter school. nor
Will any transcripts Be- released
until all past due accounts are
liquidated."
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
AIesedIy Tortured By Oh!
Man After Promise of Job
As ABaby Sitter In Home

MERIDIAN, MISS. - NAACP
officials in this city were attemp-
ting to arouse sufficient public
opinion to guarantee the prose.
cution of a well-to-do Whit oil
dealer who allegedly raped and
tortured a Negro girl lured by
promises Of a job Is baby sitter.
Probpects Of any action against
the rapist appeared slim, al
though it was learned that he
had been asked to post a five
hundred dollar bond.
Ruby Aztec Pigford, from her
bed in a local hospital, told
NAACP members that James Lee
Perry, a salesman for the Fowler
Butane Gas Company of Meri-
dian, had beaten her unmerci-
fully, until she lost conscio,%i
ness, raped her and dragged her
bound body behind his car when
her frightened refusal to accom-
pany him into a roadhouse in
furiated him. After dragging her
behind his car along a dirt road
he carried her back to her home
unconscious.
Perry, who would ordinarily be
described as a clean-cut Mississi-
ppi businessman, allegedly APP
peared at the Pigford home to-
sell the girls mother some gas
When Mrs. Pigford's mother as
sured him that she had no need
for gas, Perry allegedly asked
whether she had a daughter who
wanted to work. He was intro
duced to Mrs. Pigford whom he
offered 20 cents an hour to take
caer of his children. She agreed
to keep his children that night
while he and his wife attended a
rodeo. The alleged rape occurred
on the way to Perry's home
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

ly received an appointment as
secretary to the Comptroller Of
Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.
Miss Goodlett was born and
reared in the city of Omaha at
tending the public schools grad
uating from Central High school
in 1913 going on to the Univer-
sity of Omaha where she entered
the College of Business Admins
tration. There she received her
degree of Bachelor of Science
June 1947 in Business with a
Major in Education.
She is a member of the Moriah
Baptist Church. She holds q
membership in the Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority the retiring Basi-
leus, president for the past three
years of the Alphea Omega Club.
member of the University of
Omaha Cosmopolitan Club, w. A.
A., and the independents.
Miss Florintine v. Goodlett will
leave our city to take over her
new post on Sunday August 81.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

for boys and girls in the South's
Negro schools, DR.. Lawrence said
and Negro students may also
compete for the other awards
which are granted to seniors in
those states which DO not have
a dual system of education.
Through training and expert
ence in the field of education
particularly fit DR.. Lawrence for
wo rkwith this Scholarship Board
Son of a pastor Of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in
Newark, New Jersey, he was born
in 1912 in Patterson and later
moved with his family to Bloom
field, where his parents still make
their home. He was one of the
first two Negro boys to be gradu-
atd from the New Jersey State
Teachers College, and for eight
years he taught in tn public
school system Of Princeton, New
Jersey.
The war did not interrupt his
teaching, for almost Immediately
after his enlistment as a private
in the army, DR.. Lawrence be-
came an instructor Of military
science and tactics. Even a de-
fective fuse on a land-mine, which
sent him to the hospital with q
badly wounded hand, could not
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The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Omahan to Serve AS Secretary
to Comptroller At lhe Widely
known Educational Institution
Retired
Sergeant Isaac
Bailey Passes

Sargant Isaac Bailey 2818 Pratt
st., died Saturday morning at the
Veterans Hospital at Knoxville,
Iowa..
Sergeant Bailey enlisted in the
regular army in 1883 and served
with valor and courage until hon.
orably discharged in 1907.
He served in the Indiana up
rising in the sos and with Col
Roosevelt at San Juan Hill in
the Spanish American War. He
was with Gen. Pershing in the
Mexican War.
Sergeant Bailey received many
honorable concentrations from
high ranking officers among
whom were Gen. Pershing, Gen.
Duncan, Gen. Smith, and Others.
He was active in lodges and
civic affairs for many years be-
ing a member of the Masons,
The Elks, and several other or
CARNATIONS. He served as a War
den in the st. Phillips Episcopal
church.
He leaves a wife Mrs. Madge
Bailey and a son Robert Bailey
of Akron, Ohio. Myers Funeral
Directors in charge of burial.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Three Factors May Ease
Impact of Lou Prices

BERKELEY. CALF. - Three
special conditions, especially fav-
orable to California, ay protect
California farmers somewhat
from the impact of falling farm
prices and land values which
seems certain in the next few
years, believes DR.. James II. Tin
ley. farm economist in the Univer-
sity of California College of Agri.
culture.
First hopeful signs is that Cal
ifornia grows many speciality
crops whose demand has increas.
ed greatly with the wartime rise
in consumer buying power. This
demand will contiue strong while
purchasing power remains high
The rapid increase in popula.
ton in California, which is con.
tinuing may be an even more
important influence, FINLEY thinks
More than $500, 900 more persons
live in California now than in
1910, almost a 40 per cent in
crease. More people mean more
demand for farm crops which in
turn means lower transportation
costs and higher returns to far.
mers.
Third factor bolstering farm
land and crop values in Califor.
mia is the prospect of higher aver.
age yields per acre.
Despite these favorable signs
FINLEY warns, =" the spectacular
jump in farm land values should
cause considerable concern tt
everyone. The real danger from
high-priced land comes wher
farms change, and its buyer who
is the real risk-taker then.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
LACK OF DORMiToRY SPACE
TO REDUCE STUDENT
ENROLMENT AT LINCOLN

JEFFERSON CITY. MO.-With
the date July II for room reser-
vations at Lincoln university
(Mo.) six weeks past, applications
are still being received by the
registrars office. AS for the
past year, it is obvious that many
who desire to enter the institution
will not be permitted to do SO
because of the lack of housing
facilities. Those persons for whom
no room space is available on the
campus will not be permitted to
register unless arrangements have
bene made to live in approved
residence quarters in the city. 1t
is anticipated that the number
of veterans will be about the same
as last year, even though the ratio
of this group to the entire stud
ent body will probably be smaller
due to the influx of many younger
students. An adjustment in avail
able housing facilities will affect
the ratio between male and female
students on the campus resulting
in a greater d~ifferential in favor
of males.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

his duties there on september /.
Chosen because of his specia-
liked knowledge of the problems
of Negro education, DR.. Lawrence
will have charge Of that part OF
the Pepsi Cola scholarship pro-
gram which is directly concerned
with discovering Negro students
of unusual ability. He will also
act as a consultant on ell rela-
tons of the Scholarship Board
with Negro high school principals,
colleges, and Negro students who
receive the Pepsi Cola Scholar
ships and College Entrance A
wards.
These Pepsi Cola scholarship
awards are financed by the Pepsi
Cola Company as a part of its
public service program, and they
are administered by the Pepsi
Cola Scholarship Board. This
Board is composed of a group of
distinguished educators, including
Mordecaf w. Johnson, president Of
Howard University; and it year
ly awards 119 Four-Yea College
Scholarships and $50 fifty-dollar
College Entrance Awards to boys
and girls Of exceptional promise
In the nations high schools. At
least 18 Of these Scholarships and
IS Of the College Entrance A.
wards are set aside specifically
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Labor Day
BY n. w. Smith

Labor Day should be one Of
the outstanding holidays Of this
year, and we as citizens should
at all time show ourselves CRATE
full to labor for it's contribution.
We should encourage the men an
women that produce electrical
power for the home, the business,
and the hotels. Streetcars, buses,
railway trains, airplanes, etc. all
have been improved by men who
labor. These laborers do much to
provide the public with the essen
tial items that make the wheels
of progress continue to 60 around.
Let us all Join with the labor
group in a very common serse
celebration on their day, for this
day has been set asida by the
U. S. Congress. Give honor where
honor is due.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
II Earning Issued,
to Watch For
School Children

Mr.. Dwight Ravens, President
Of the Nebraska State Safety
Council and Captain Sanders of
the State Safety Patrol today
issued a join warning to motor
lists to be on the lookout for child
rem going back to school,
They pointed out that last year
during the month of September,
four youngsters twelve years Of
age, four youngsters fifteen years
Of age, and one sixteen years Of
age were all killed in traffic &C
cidents.
To emphasize the Importance Of
watching these youngsters as
| they first start back to school,
was brought out clearly by the
fact that although there were
| nine children killed in September
last year, none were killed in
October and none were killed in
November. Therefore, it appears
that the motorists forget that
the children are starting back to
school in September and the
youngsters, in their excitement
also forget about the motorists.
Mr.. Ravens and Captain Sand.
/ ers are requesting motorists to
Be on the alert SO that we will
not have a repetition Of last Sept.
ember's catastrophes.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

Crack Jim Grow
Train Target
Suit

NEW YORK,-The requirement
by the Suothern Railway Com
pany that Negro coach passeng-
ers be segregated on the Souther-
ner, crack train from New York
City to New Orleans. is unreason-
able and should be set aside by
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission according to a brief filed
by the National Association for
the Advancement CT Colored
People with the ICC today in a
suit on behalf Of Vashti Brown,
Lillian Falls, and Muriel Hol-
combe against the railroad.
The brief was filed in support
Of exceptions to a report of an
examiner Of the ICC ard was pre-
.,ared by Attorneys Spoteswood w
Robinson, III, Thurgood Marshall
and Robert l.. Carter. The ex-
aminer's report had found that
the accommodations furnished to
Negro passengers were "substan-
tally equal' to those provided
for white passengers and that a
regulation requiring segregation
is reasonable. The brief took the
position that the railroad is with
out authority to adopt such a re-
gulation basing much of its argu-
ment upon the logic of the Irene
Morgan decision where the Sup
rene Court struck down a Virgin
ia law requiring segregation Of
interstate bus passengers because
1T seems clear to US that seating
arrangements for the different
races in interstate motor travel
require a single, uniform rule to
promote and protect national ira
vel"
The brief also pointed out that
any such regulation is unfeason-
able since it is based upon a sup
posed necessity to maintain the
safety Of passengers and to a.
void conflict among passengers.
Yet. pullman cars are operated
by the Southern Railway Corn
pany throughout the South with
out any segregation and their
successful operation without
clashes among the passengers
proves conclusively that such seq,
regation is not Necessary in the
coaches. It is pointed out that
in some cases, the same train
will carry segregated coaches and
unsegregated pullman cars.
Finally, the brief points out the
dirty, uncomfortable nature of the
cars set aside for Negro use as
compared with the modern, clean
and shining cars for the whites
After listing all the many diff.
ferences between the two types
of accommodations. the brief says
that except for an absolute re.
fusal to transport Negro passen.
| gers, it is hard to see how accom-
modations could be more unequal
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
JOHNNY MERCER REPEATS
AS GUEST WITH KING COLT
TRIO ON SAT-, AUG. 80

Song-writing and song-sing
Johnny Mercer will pay a repeat
visit to king Cole Trio Time''
on Saturday (Aug. 3O) at 3:4j
pm. over w. 0. w. Johnny will
respond with n of his famous
numbers after requesting the
Trio to sing and play Ooh Kick
e%roonie,' a medley Of Don't Tell
Me" and Il Miss You So, and
finally, Naughty Angelina"
Famous as the author of such
all-time .favorites as "Atchinson,
Topeka and Santa Fe,' Accent,
uate the Positiver and Tang
crime" Mercer is currently repre-
senteded on best selling records
as Tallahassee, Cecilia" and
the forthcoming Sugar Blues.
Johnny now mixes big business
with songwriting, being presiden+
of one of the largest record com.
panies.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Vets Worried
About Finances

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.-The
average veteran on the Los An
geles campus of the University
Of California is as worried about
the high cost Of living as the
average housewife.
In a recent survey conducted
by the Associated Students a
mong 2,273 servicemen and IS
service women, the average sin
gle veteran reported living ex-
penses of sos a month. while
the average married veteran re.
ported $170 a month. This repre-.
sents q wide gap between the
$65 subsidy for single vets and
$50 for married vets allowed un.
der the @. I. Bill of Rights.
To meet such expense, 43 per-
cent said that they were cash.
ing in their War Bonds, 81 per
cent were drawing from other
savings, 20 per cent were bor-
rowing from parents Or friends,
40 per cent we're using the earn.
ings Of wife or husband.
The volume Of borrowing from
student loan funds administered
by the Dean Of Undergraduates
office is more than three times
the pre-war volume. The siza Of
the loans has increased also. In
1889 it averaged $45.11; today it
averages s1O3.73.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN

AS Of August 25th, 1947 Mr.. Biz
Poindexter is no longer an en-.
ployee of the Omaha Guide Pub
fishing Company. Any person or
persons doing business with him
] n the name Of the Omaha Guide
after the above date does it at
their own risk. His relationships
with the Omaha Guide as a re-
preventative has been discontinue
ed on the above date and he has
been duly notified.
Mason M. Devereaux Jr
General Manager Acting
Editor
Omaha Guide Pub. Co
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Meat Packing Industry

The start Of commercial meat
packing in North America can be
traced to l64l when a s~quare-rigged
ship sailed from Boston harbor with
a cargo which a handful Of New
England colonists hoped could be
sold to West Indies plantation own
ers. Capt. John Pynchon. Spring
field, Mass, and a few farmer neigh
bors had consigned hogsheads Of
beef and pork, packed in salt. to
England's colonies.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Urban League Exec.
To Nall Conference

Mr.. Leo Bohanon, Executive
Secretary and Mr.. Marion Taylor
Industrial Secretary of the Omaha
Urban League left Thursday to
attend the National Urban Lea
que Conference at Camp Atwster
near Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Conference will be held from
August 81 to September 4.
The Urban League will be Civ
The Urban League will be
open during the absence of the
Two Executives who will be back
IN their offices on September s.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
RADIO STATION kBON TO
OCCUPY NEW STUDIOS

On Wednesday, August 81, the
Inland Broadcasting Company
and Radio Station K-B-O-N will
move their offices and studios
from the present location in the
American Legion Building, 2027
Dodge, to 676 Saunders Kennedy
Building, 18th and Douglas.
The new location, consisting of
over 20 offices, studios, and con-
troll rooms, will occupy the West
portion of the sixth floor.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
Eye QlrI,s Worth

70 tempt potential husbands
many maidens in the Orient, D
cially In Asia Minor. build up nice
ooWrles by weaving rugs. With
their earnings they buy perforated
gold coins, which they wear as
necklaces around their necks SO
that a young village buck. at a
glance. a evaluate a girls worth.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30
ANNOUCEM EMIT

Ritualistic Service for Bro.
Isaac Bailey deceased, HOO p. m.
Wednesday night, at Meyer Funer-
al Home. Assemble at Hall at
1000 p. m.
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

VIII Assume California Post in
September. Calls Scholarship Pro-
gram IAN Example of American
ism at Its Best"
Paul F. Lawrence, who is now
receiving the degree Of Doctor of
Education from Stanford Univer-
sity. has just been appointed to
Che staff Of the Pepsi-C Cola
Scholarship Board in Palo Alto,
California, and he viii assume
The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

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The Omaha guide., 1947-08-30

Crimson clover was introduced
into the United~states from Italy in