davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1947-10-08

has overbought. The financial as
poets of home buying, therefore, are
especially important under present
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Metdl Trddes Hold Portal
Pay Suits Violate Principle
Bdsic To Sound Bargaining

"To now inject the question of
back pay, for 'portal-to-porta'
time, would be an admission that
when the wage agreements were
signed by union representatives,
they had been insincere during the
negotiations, and had held mental
reservations which they were un-
willing to discuss with employ
ers while seated at the confer
ence table.
"There is nothing to prevent the
discussion of 'portal-to-portaP pay
when existing agreements with
employers were negotiated, and
the inclusion of this form of pay
ment in the new agreements. But
as to existing agreements with
employers, many of them entered
into with the same corporation for
generation or more, the execu-
tive COUNSEL definitely recommends
that existing collective bargaining
agreements must not be dishonor-
ed by now entering into legal suits
to secure a form of wages which
were not provided for when the
existing agreement was negoti-
ated."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
SchweIIenbuch
Will Cooperate
On Labor Bills

Washington (FP)-Secretary of
Labor Lewis Schwellenbach told a
press conference that his attitude
toward the 80th Congress and its
record collection Of bills affecting
organized labor twill be one of at
tempted cooperation" He will test
ify before committees when asked,
he said.
Schwelenbach said he is study
ing the many pieces of legislation
now in congressional hoppers, most
of which are attempts to hog-tie
and hamper unions in organization
and negotiation with employers.
The fact that bill is written
by Republican "will not prejudice
me-" he said, adding that he will
feel free to criticize legislative
proposals, both as to detectives
and to means for reaching them.
"But | am not just going to say
mo- to everything" he said.
Schwellenbach said he opposed
laws setting up boards to handle
industrial disputes and that such
laws "would hamper industrial
peace. "You can't have board and
have real collective bargaining"
he said, expressing preference
for the voluntary use of panels Of
experts in the industries where
disputes exist. He recently set up
such a panel of 26 outstanding
labor relations men.
The U. S. conciliation service in
1916, he said, averted strikes in
90.3 per cent of the disputes in
which it took a hand.
OF proposals to amend the Wag-
ner act, he spoke for careful
committee investigation Of the way
it works, saying: at would be a
serious mistake to chip off this or
that part of the Wagner act"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
FIGHT FOR HEALTH

equipment, X-ray apparatus, mic
roscopes and surgical instruments,
were also destroyed or stolen. AS
a result health facilities have been
put under a severe strain. There
are not enough sanitariums for
tuberculosis patients, and many ac-
tive, infectious cases are therefore
left at home, exposing their fami-
lies to the danger of catching the
disease.
UNRRA, Red Cross, American
Society of Russian Relief and other
agencies have sent some medical
supplies. But their programs never
came near filling the need, and
they are now practically at an
end.
A matter for positive worry for
US is the fact that our government
has sopposed the continuation of
UNRRA, is opposing the formation
of a'new UN emergency food re-
lief agency to replace it, and is
talking of giving aid mainly to
Italy, Austria and Greece = the
first two, former enemy countries.
Fiorcfio LaGuardia, who recently
resigned as Director General of
UNRRA, has accused the govern
ment of using relief as political
weapon-against prolabor, demo-
cratic and left wing trends in Eu-
rope.
This in another example of our
reckless foreign policy, which ap-
pears to be trying to embroil US
in an atomic war with Russia. 1t
is up to organized labor, and work
ing people in general, to let the
President, the State Department
and Congress know they do not
like it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
FiIibusfer Rule
forget Of Bills

Washington (FP)-That favor
ite tactic Of the real life Claghorn
in the u. S. Senate, the filibuster,
may be on its way out.
Two bills to bar the use of long
windy speeches and unlimited de-
bate to defeat measures desired
by a Senate majority are before
committees, one by Senator Will
liam f. Knowland and the other
by Senator Wayne Morse.
Both measures would amend the
Senate's rules. Knowland would
enable the Senate to limit debate
by a simple majority vote, instead
of two thirds of those present.
Morse's bill would bar unlimited
debate on amending the Senate
Journal device long favored by
polltax southerners in filibusters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Meuf Workers Hit
PorfoI Pay Suits

Chicago QLNS)-The Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen has directed local unions
not to file portal-to-portal pay
suits. A letter signed by Earl W..
Emerson, president and Patrick r..
German, secretary-treasurer, said:
"Our organization should not
now besmirch it's fine record of
fair dealing and fair play by filing
numerous damage suits against
employers over the portal-to-portal
pay question, especially when
neither side could anticipate these
issues when collective bargaining
agreements were consummated in
good faith"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Lucky Actress
Kisses Nofhinq
But Big Sfars

She kissed Clark Gable in
"Honky Tonk."
And now Cleo Morgan, dimpled
sister of Lucille Ball, gets another
''break" in "Two Smart People"
when she kisses John Kodiak, lead
ing man in the M-G-M thriller-ro-
nance coming to the Ceramic
screen.
It's the first time the two CLAM
orous sisters appear in a movie to-
gether.
The scene takes place in color
ful Mardi Gras sequence of the
picture. Miss Ball, wearing an
Irene-designed lace and sequin-
studded princess costume, and Ho-
diak, dressed as a pirate make
their way through the merry-mak-
ing throng, entangled with gay
streamers and showered with con-
fetti.
| Midgets dance in the street. Fat
men dressed as babies cavort
hilariously. Merriment reigns. Out
fof the surging mob comes a scan
tily-clad Cleopatra-Lucille Balls
sister.
In the Bacchanalian revelry, the
gay crowd capture whomever is
nearest at hand to embrace and
kiss. Miss Ball starts to kiss Ho-
diak, but her sister, the bewitching
Cleopatra, throws herself into Ho-
diak's arms and kisses him instead.
The scene in which the two sis
ters vie for Hodiak's attention will
be a surprise to Miss Morgan's
husband when he sees it in Ger
many, she said.
Hes first lieutenant in the
Tooth Infantry Division" Miss
Balls sister explained.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Sterilization
(Continutd From Pao. OnsJ

ate in their production. We need a
clearer understanding of the fact
that farm income and the welfare
Of farmers are inseparably linked
with earnings and real incomes Of
city workers.
"There is general agreement
that steps to improve efficiency
and increase the flow of goods in
short supply is vital alike to the
success of the new price controls
and to the advancement of wages
and living standards"
Turning to the question of labor
disputes, the Secretary warned
against the dangers of punitive
legislation enacted in haste and
without comprehensive study, and
pointed out that industrial strife is
actually symptom of basic eco
nomic maladjustments."
Tnsecurity is a primary cause
of industrial unrest" he declared.
"In a period Of reconversion, with
rising prices, scarcity of commodi-
ties and the consequent threat to
workers living standards, peaceful
adjustments are much more diff
cult to attain. Hence the problem
of labor management disputes
could not be solved by legislation
limited to the establishment OF
techniques for the expeditions
settlements Of such disputes"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Washington, d. c. (1LNS)-The
executive council of the AFL
Metal Trades Department has de-
clared its opposition to portal-to-
portal suits for back wages, basing
its stand on the principle that the
integrity of collective bargaining
agreements must be upheld.
Announcing the councils deci-
sion, President John P. Frey of
the department said the council
had been governed by zone basic
consideration-its faith and loyalty
to collective bargaining with en-
ployers."
President Frey emphasized that
unless negotiated agreements "can
be depended upon by both parties,
collective bargaining can not be
successfully continued" He point
ed out that international unions
comprising the Metal Trades De-
partment have practiced collective
bargaining with employers from
the beginning and added:
"When these agreements had
been negotiated and signed, they
specifically expressed what the
employers were willing to pay in
the field of wages, and what trade
unionists were willing to accept
for the period covered by these
agreements"
"In the application of all terms
and provisions of agreements dur
ing their life, the question of each
party's good faith and integrity is
involved" Frey continued. with
out this good faith an integrity,
collective bargaining would be of
little, if any, value to either labor
or management.
"When an agreement was enter
ed into, the employer knows what
his labor costs will be, as far as
wages are concerned, for the
period of the agreement. Trade
unionists under the agreement
pledge themselves not to introduce
new questions Of wages during the
life of the agreement, unless 1T
specifically contains a provision
for the reopening of the agreement
for this purpose during the period
of its existence.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Mochinis+s

Brown asserted.

value" Brown asserted.
'1f there is any question about
the strain Of such paltry sum
for this all-important matter, how
can the cancellation Of the one and
one-half billion dollars in luxury
taxes recently announced by .proc-
lamaticn, be justified" he asked.
"These luxury taxes are the wine,
women and song taxes -" he
added. "The National Labor Kela-
tions Board has been significant
factor in reducing strife in labor
management relations despite the
reckless claims to the contrary .
and as long as Congress provides
statutory machinery for the order
" processing of any Of labor's
problems, Congress has moral
Responsibility and duty TO pro-
vide to keep the machinery going
:" he declared.
Figures cited by Brown reveal
ell that the board started the fiscal
year ending June 30, l947, with a
backlog of 1905 cases and in the
Subsequent 5 months, with the ex-
ception Of one month, steadily fell
behind In its work, because of i'm
sufficient funds. As result it had,
by the end Of November, 1916, a
backlog of 5,277 cases instead of
the 1906 it started with, or an i'm
crease Of 672 cases.
The original $4, 4,746, 900 asked for
by the board was cut to $4,O69, SOC
or $677 400 less than il needed and
every indication points out that be
cause of this slash the board with
a current backlog of more thar
5000 cases will end up at the enc
of the fiscal year with some 5000
cases in the rear, Brown said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Ball Bill Would
Kill Closed Shop

Washington (FP) - True to his
threat, Senator Joseph Ball intro
duced a bill to ban the closed shop
in U. S. industry under pain of a
$4,000 fine, a year in Jail or both.
Balls bill would make unlawful
all forms of closed shop contracts,
including both union shop and
maintenance of union membership
contracts. He would continue the
ban on the "yellow dog contract"
outlawed since 1882.
The ban on the closed shop
would be effective 80 days after
passage Of the bill.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Unions Urged To
Write Contracts
In PIoin English

New York (FP) = Union con-
tracts should be written in plain
English, and not in legalistic
hocus-pocus, DR.. Rudolf Flesch
urged here in an article in Union
Contracts Service report publish
ed by Prentice-Hall Inc.
Flesch, who teaches at New
York University and is an author
ity on "readibility," said that after
reading half a dozen union con-
tracts, picked at random, he was
staggered by their complexity."
"After years in government
service" he said, 81 was used to
legal jargon; but this was even
worse. 1t was union-contract-spec-
ialist jargon, twice removed from
normal plain American. Many of
the contracts were printed as pock-
et-sized booklets for workers to
take home and read. l felt sorry
for those who did: they must have
had an awful time before they
gave up"
Among the simpler sentences,
Flesch cited as a typical example:
"Such grievance shall be submitted
to such impartial. umpire in writ
ing and he shall promptly afford
to the Employee or Employees con-
concerned, the Union and the Com
pany, a reasonable opportunity to
present evidence and to be heard
in support of their respective
positions with regard to such
grievance"
In plain English, he suggested,
this could be written: "The next
step is to write the umpire a letter
about it. The umpire has to look
into the matter right away. He has
to give everyone a chance to tell
his side of the story and to prove
it."
AS general rules, Flesch recon-
mended that no sentence exceed 20
words, that whereases and other
legal terms be excluded, that the
simpler Of two words be used
wherever there is a choice (like
job instead of position) and that
abstract rules be illustrated with
two or three examples.
Reduction of contracts to sim
plest terms, he said, will insure
that everyone will understand
them and will eliminate much fric-
tion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

ANTONI LOZZI

Antonio Lozzi, 54, slipmaker at
the Harker Pottery Co. in Chester,
died Monday in the City Hospital,
where he had been patient for
two weeks.
Mr.. Lozzi was born in Italy and
resided in this city until recently
when he made his home with his
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Lozzi, 538 Main Street,
Wellsville.
He was a member of Local
Union 21, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and the Moose
Lodge of East Liverpool.
!. He leaves his widow, son,
Donoto Lozzi, and a daughter,
Jennie Lozzi, brother, Ben Loozi
and sister, Mrs. Angelina Preori,
all in Italy.
81 Funeral services were h e d
Thursday from the Immaculate
Conception Catholic Church in
Wellsville. Burial was in st. Eliza
beth's Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Contracts
In 81 States
End Highest
Residential Building
Shows Sharp Jump

New York City (ILNS)-Invest-
ment commitments for residential
construction reached an all-time
high in the 81 states east of the
Rocky Mountains during 1947, it
was reported by F. w. Dodge Cor
poration, a fact-finding organiza-
tion for the construction industry.
The total valuation of contracts
awarded for residential .construc-
tion last year in the 81 states was
$3,142, 100000 which compares
with $2,7S8,31s,O0O for 1923, the
last previous record breaking year.
On the basis of floor area. of
residential building called for in
contracts awarded, however, 1916
stood forth, higher residential
floor area totals being shown for
1928 with 56S,3S2,0OO square feet,
1925 with $50 9,499, ,OOO, and 1926
with 521,O62,000 The total floor
area called for in last years resi-
Dental contracts was 5f6,256, 900,
thus reflecting current higher
building costs, the Dodge Corpora
tion said.
Government restrictions on non
residential construction, and heavy
engineering works were instrument
tai in holding the total volume of
this classification of projects to a
valuation of 81 ,347, 100000 to bring
the years value of all building and
construction contracts to $7,4S9,- :
722,000, the second highest total on
record. Construction contracts to-
tailed $8,255,061 600 in the 81 east
ern states in 1912, setting an all
time record for all classifications
of construction.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

The great influenza epidemic
killed millions of people following
World War |. Typhus fever swept
over eastern Europe. tuberculosis
and starvation took huge toll.
Are the four horsemen, famine,
pestilence, disease and death,
stalking the world after this war
also?
Enough time has passed for us
to see that things are better, at
least in Europe. There have been
epidemics but they have been more
restricted in scope and have been
checked earlier. There still is star
walton and malnutrition but they
have not been so widespread and
have been coun e ra t e d more
promptly.
Part of the credit for the better
record goes to the public health
movement, for advances in the pre-
vention and threatment of disease
made since World War |. Much
of it goes to UNRRA, the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration. This agency has
shipped food, clothing, agricultural
and other supplies to the devastat-
ed countries, and has furnished
trained personnel for control of
tuberculosis, malaria and venereal
disease.
But the danger period is not
over. Practically all the major
disease rates are higher than the
prewar levels and the threat of
severe epidemics still exists. AS
long as this is true, the United
States is not safe from their eff
fects.
Food and shelter are still very
scarce. Supplies of clothing and
fuel are also dangerously low. 1t
takes a far longer time to restore
war-wrecked country than we in
the u. S. can imagine.
An American doctor who just
returned from six months in Bye
lorussia, one of the devasted areas
in eastern Europe, stated at a
medical meeting that the winter
and spring of l947 will be very
dangerous ones for the people in
this and other eastern European
areas. Byelorussia is one of the
westernmost republics of the
Soviet Union, with a population of
ten million. 1t was occupied for
three years by the Nazis.
Now, he reports, the food supply
is lacking in milk, meat and other
protein foods, fats, fresh fruits
and other necessities. UNRRA is
the major source of these foods
available in the area. But
UNRRA's program is coming to an
end, and the current UNRRA food
will all have been consumed soon.
Until the next harvest things
will be very difficult. Even then
agricultural yields will still be far
below those of prewar years so the
food emergency will not be over.
tuberculosis, which is related to
food and housing shortages, is
severe in this area.
About rs per cent of the hos
pital buildings in Byelorussa were
demolished by the Nazis. An
estimated 80 per cent of medical
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Urges Bargaining
(Confinued From PAGE OneJ

for portal pay. The resolution de-
clared that the only ones entitled
to the portal pay were the miners,
who "were sustained in their
claim by the highest court in the
land" The resolution also declared
that such a demand by others ''is
not morally justified, because it
was not agreed to in the contracts
signed by these unions of the ClO
and their employers"
Meanwhile, Walter Mason, a leg
islative representative Of the AFL
appearing before the Senate sub
committee weighing this issue,
vigorously opposed bills for
changes in the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act.
He discussed particularly the
Wiley and Capehart measures. En-
actment Of such proposals, he de-
clared, would "place the American
workers back several generations
to the time when they were paid
by the day, regardless Of the num-
ber Of hours worked"
The Federation, he emphasized,
had pioneered for nearly a half
century for the Fair Labor Stand
ards Act. He said
at has offered to millions of un-
fortunate victims an opportunity
to rise to industrial citizenship, or,
in other words, a chance, through
unionization, to attain collective
bargaining with their employers
and thus achieve industrial eman-
cipation.
We are proud Of this achieve
ment, but feel that we should be
considering today legislation that
would provide a substantial in
crease in the minimum wage stand
ards and to strengthen the law by
broadening the scope of it's cover
age to include millions of workers
still excluded from its benefits,
who now are working under condi-
tions detrimental to the mainten-
ance of the minimum standard of
living necessary for their health,
efficiency and general well being,
rather than legislation that will
weaken the act itself"
The Federation, Mr.. Mason said,
as he analyzed both the Wiley and
Capehart bills in detail, is strongly
opposed to both measures, because
it sees in them a serious threat to
gains registered by labor over a
long period of years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Threaten Strike
Aquinsf Trust Co.

New York (FP) - Twelve hun
dred employees at 10 offices of
the Title Guarantee & Trust Co.
here are holding work stoppages
and have voted almost unanimous
ly for strike action.
Members of the Financial En-
ployees Guild, United Office &
Professional Workers, accused the
company of bad faith and attempts
at unionbusting by its conduct dur
ing contract renewal negotiations
and mediation.
Negotiations for a renewal of
the contract opened Dec. 3 with
the union asking a $3.50 general
salary increase, 35-hour week,
union shop, company-financed hos
pitalization and group life insur-
ance, a pension plan, weekly pay
days and numerous classification
changes.
The company made only made
quate salary proposals, refused all
other union demands and turned
down union offers of arbitration.
We never confess our faults ex-
cept through vanity.-La Roche
forcauld
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
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(Confinned From PAGE One)
tions settled peacefully to 5000
strikes. is not good enough when
the stoppages include such big
strikes as coal and steel or such
long strikes as maritime and Gen.
eral Motors"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Dinner-D Dance
(CoSfisped From Pao. OneJ

C. Small, Cliff Rawlings, Roy
Rossell and Clarence Wright.
With these fine committees we
are sure the officers will have the
well deserved aid which they are
entitled.-O. &. 81.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

We're saving evtrythflg now,
except broken shoe laces.
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We never confess our faults ex-
cept through vanity.-La Roche
foucauld.