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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Don't Take Blame For High Prices.
UAW-AEL Chief Tells Workers

Milwaukee GLNS). - Warning
labor not to allow itself to be made
"a sort of sacrifical scapegoat OF
the altar of the inordinately high
profits of industry" Lester Wash
burn, international president of the
AFL United Auto Workers, told
workers to 'reject categorically
any thought that perhaps other
workers in other industries are
really making the wonderful high
wages we hear so much about but
never see."
Points to u. S. Statistics
He asked workers and public
alike to remember that the most
recent government statistics on the
average weekly wage for all work
ers placed the amount, before any
deductions, at only $48.86 week.
"When under present inflated
prices you start to reduce even this
figure by one-third to one-half of
it's effectiveness in purchasing
power, as we all know is the case,
you begin to see what the workers
wage position really is" Washburn
commented.
He also pointed out tnat the pre-
liminary Bureau of Labor Stats
tics figure put the average weekly
earnings of workers in the auto
mobile industry at only $54.33.
"Under present price conditions
can anyone doubt that these are
not the high wages some skillful
propaganda machine would have
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Cheaper Food Not Coming This
Year. Congressional Report Finds

Washington, ID. C. ILNS).-
Cheaper food is not coming in the
near future, the Joint Committee
on the Economic Report believes.
The committees report to Con-
gress finds that continued heavy
consumer demands plus probable
crop losses from adverse weather
conditions will keep prices high for
the rest of 1947.
3 Major Factors Found
Food costs have jumped 30 per-
cent since June, 1916, and this in
crease accounts for 70 percent OF
the increase in the overall price
index for goods and services, the
committee says.
The committees study attributes
prevailing high food costs to 3
major factors:
1. The average American is eat
ing more both qualitatively and
quantitatively than he did in 1886
80. The average per capita diet is
over 3,400 calories a day, an in
crease of 6 percent over the pre-
war period.
2. The average American work
er is paying high prices for food
because, with greater income, he
can afford to spend more. His de-
mand competes with that of mill
ions of other consumers.
3. Despite the tremendous in
crease in food production in recent
years, an amount now greatly in
excess of domestic needs, vast
quantities are being shipped
abroad for United States occupa-
tional forces, foreign relief, and
commercial export.
"The per capita outlay for all
goods and services last year was
$906," the committees report says.
"Of this sum the average expendi-
ture for food was $273, or 30 per-
cent of the total. The average an
nual per capita food expenditure
in l935-39 was only $ll8.
Per Capita Consumption Up
"The higher amount actually
spent in l946-47 reflects increas-
ed per capita consumption as well
as shifts toward higher priced
foods, especially wheat. The aver
age individual consumption of
meat rose to 152 pounds as com
pared to l26 pounds in the l935-39
period. This year the average per-
son will eat $50 to l55 pounds of
meat"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Orchestra Group
Signs Agreement

Philadelphia QLNS).-The Phil
adelphia Orchestra Association has
signed an agreement with Local
II, American Federation of Music
ians, to cover the 1947-48 concert
season.
The orchestra was granted Il 80
week season, to be followed by an
extended tour of the United States
and Canada during May and June
next year. Minimum salaries were
unchanged over last seasons figure
of $110 a week but slight in
crease i'm broadcasting fees was
granted the musicians.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

us believe ?" he asked.
AS for workers i'm some indus
tries making such great dea
more than workers in other indus.
tries, Washburn said that "tht
facts just don't bear out the hear
say"
Using the same Bureau of Labor
Statistics figures for 13 industries,
Washburn said that the averages
show there is only $7.2S weekly
wage spread from the lowest to
the highest with by far the largest
percentage right around the mid
die.
Cites Record Profits
Washburn said that all workers
have a public responsibility to let
everyone know just what is the
true status of wages in industry,
and to refuse as individuals and as
a group to take the blame for high
prices, particularly when publish
ed reports indicate that so many
corporations by their own admiss-
ions are showing the highest pro-
fits in their history.
Labor doesn't necessarily re-
sent high profits" Washburn said,
"but in all fairness labor should
not allow itself to take the blame
because skillful propaganda is be-
ing used to give the impression
that wages are responsible for
high prices and not high profits.
Let the blame be placed squarely
where it belongs"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
ARTIE BATES

Funeral services were conduct
ed July at Salem, w. Va, for
Artie Bates, SO, Chester potter who
died in a Wheeling hospital where
he had been a patient four weeks.
Born Oct. %, 1898, at Center
Point, w. Va, II son of Benjamin
and Phoebe Lyons Bates, Mr..
Bates located in Lawrenceville,
back of Chester, about ~ years
ago, moving from Salem, w. Va.
He last was employed at the Tay-
lor, Smith & Taylor pottery.
Survivors include his wife,
Pearl; a son, Edwin, and twin
daughters, Mary Lou and Ellen
Sue, all of Lawrenceville; two
daughters by a previous marriage,
Mrs. Merle Conley and Mrs. Zella
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
OBITUARIES
REUBEN SMOYER

Sebring, Ohio Reuben Ellis
Smoyer, 63, of 112 East Kentucky
Avenue, a retired potter, died July
7 at home of heart attack. He
had been i'll since last December.
Mr.. Smoyer was born February
z, 1884 in Medina County and was
a member of Local Union l78, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters. Besides his wife he is sur
vived by his mother, Mrs. Ellis
Smoyer Of Barberton.
He also leaves a brother, Will
lam Smoyer, also Of Barberton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

A total of 82 out Of every 1000
veterans working in manufactur-
ing industries quit their jobs last
August, compared with GA non
veteran workers, according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, u. S.
Department of Labor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
ON THE
LABOR FRONT
Lewis Miners Win
A Great Victory

Just about the biggest labor
news of the week occurred late
Wednesday just before Labor went
to press. President John L. Lewis
of the United Mine Workers reach
ed tentative agreement-by col
lective bargaining with major
Northern soft. coal operators and
with steel firms owning Captive
mines"
The pact covered over so per
cent of the nations soft coal pro-
duction, but other operators who
did not go along at once were ex-
pected to "get on the bandwagon
shortly"
Terms were not Immediately an
nounced, but it was reported that
major gain included a reduction
of the work day from nine to eight
hours, with no cut in pay, plus an
additional 15-cent an hour blanket
increase, which would make the
total hourly raise equivalent to 35
cents an hour. Many other gains
were included in the agreement.
1t must still be reduced to writ
ing and submitted to the parties
for ratification. Lewis summoned
the 25O-man policy committee of
his union into Washington for a
meeting Saturday to vote on the
contract.
The announcement appeared to
make it certain that the coal dig
gers would return to the pits when
their present Today vacation ends
on July with perhaps the great
est gains they have ever won.
Hartley's Tactics Assailed
What threatened to "rock the
boat" for while, was tough talk
by Congressman Fred A. Hartley,
Jr. (Rep. N. J.). His Taft-Hartley
bill turned out to be a fizzle inso-
far as the coal dispute was con-
cerned, and as result he announc-
ed that his House Labor Commit
tee had drafted a new law with
teeth in it,"
This measure, he said, would
outlaw industry-wide bargaining
and "monopolistic strikes" and
thus place the full power of the
on the side Of the op-
orators in a move to smash stop
page in the mines.
"If Hartley keeps up such tao
tics, chances of a quick settlement
may go glimmering," U. M. w.
spokesman said earlier. Every
time'he opens his mouth, the hard
boiled elements among the oper-
ators become more unyielding."
Hartley failed in his disruptive
effort, however, when the union
settled with the leading operators.
The latter got their mines back
July 1 after l3 months of opera
ton by Uncle Sam, and if the new
agreement goes through they'll
have the miners with which to OPP
crate.
Prices Far Outstrip Wages
Can the coal industry afford to
be liberal with the unions de-
mand? Much light was shed on
that question in a report just pub |
ished by the Russell Sage Foun- |
1ation, an agency financed by Big
Business endowments.
Entitled "The Miners Case and
he Public Interest,"" the report re-
sealed: Q) that productivity of |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Now is the time to show organ
lied labor's strength by purchas-
ing only Union-made goods and us
ing only Union services.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Unless they purchase Union
Label goods and use Union SER
vices, job security for union mem
bers cannot be assured.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

No wine tastes just right to
everybody unless the price is
known TO be very high.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
Ford Pension Plan
Business Ethics"

ican miners produce far more than
their comrades anywhere in the
world, and (3) that in the eight
year period mentioned above the
operators boosted the price of coal
at the mines by two and a half
times the increase in labor costs.
Clearly, then, the owners have
plenty of financial "fat" out of
which to deal fairly with the min
ers.
Old-Age Pension Plan
A unique development on the in
dustrial front this week was an
agreement reached between the
United Automobile Workers and
the Ford Motor Company for crea-
tion of an old-age pension plan, the
first of it's kind in the auto indus
| try.
The union accepted about half
the increase it has obtained in
other motor plants-7 cents an
hour-but it's leaders said the COM
pany agreed to divert the remand
er, plus the equivalent of another
6 cents an hour, into a pension
fund.
Workers will contribute an addi-
tional 2k to per cent of their
paychecks to help finance the pen
siOns.
Richard T. Leonard, U. A. w.
vice president, made some extreme
claims as to the victory" the un-
ion had won. He told newsmen the
company would put in as much as
$500, 100000 and that workers
would eventually be able to retire
at half pay.
But an analysis showed that the
pension agreement had been draft
ed only in generalities; that actual
benefits remain to be worked out;
that the pensions will be less than
proclaimed, and that the 2OO,OOO,-
900 figure is the aggregate of what
the company will put in over 10
to 20 year period. Clearly, Leonard
was trying to convince members
he had not made a bad bargain.
milking" by Business
Labor leaders have often con-
tended that no business keeps as
careful control of funds as do
trade unions.
A dramatic example of how bus
mess moguls play free and easy
with the treasures of their con-
Germs came to light at hearing by
the Interstate Commerce Commiss-
ion into the affairs Of the Wash
ington, Virginia & Maryland Coach
Company, an interurban bus line
running out Of the nations capital.
The head of the firm was reveal
ed to have charged as operating
such items as liquor
parties, food bills, clothing, and a
host of other personal living ex-
penditures.
Still worst, he billed the firm
$554, 900 over a 10-year period as
rental" on a terminal he had
bought personally for only $780,
900.
Imagine how WestbrOok Pegler
would have screamed if a union
official were to dip into a labor
treasury in that
manner!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Miss Ida Belle Mclaughlin. 81,
formerly of Chester, died Monday
at 9:20 p. m. in the home of her
sister, Mrs. ID. II. Linger, of near
McConnelsville, O. Death was due
to a heart attack.
Miss Mclaughlin, pottery
worker, lived in Chester until
about three years ago when she
went to McConnelsville to reside
with her sister She was a member
of the Chester Church of the Naz-
arene and Of Local Union 124, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters.
She leaves her mother, Mrs.
Sarah Chambers of Chester, and
another sister, Mrs. Gertrude
Rhodes, also of Chester.
Services were held Thursday at
2 p. m. in the Arner Home for
Funerals by Rev. L. +. Lucky, pas
tor of the Chester Church Of the
Nazarene. Burial was in the Col
umbiana County Memorial Park.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

A house-to- house campaign for
the Union Label cause will offset
the anti-unionists' outlaws!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Ash, both of Lawrenceville, three
brothers, Goss Bates of Manning
ton, w. Va, Harrison Bates of
Salem, w. Va, and Clyde Bates Of
Painesville, o.; three sisters, Mrs.
Leora Freeman Of Center Point,
Mrs. Rosa Helmick of Salem, w.
Va, and Mrs. Myrtle James of
Playsville, w. Va, and two gran
children.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10
PAY RAISE FOR WORKERS

Philadelphia (ILNS).-A wage
increase of 10 cents an hour has
been granted in contracts signed
by the Iron League of Philadelphia
and about $500 members of the
International AS ociati ion of
Bridge, Structural and Ornament
al Iron Workers employed in 76
plants.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Subscribe to your local official
labor publication. 1t is fighting
your fight!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Don't fool yourseif-what your
wife doesn't know her best friend
will tell her.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

There were 673 railroad workers
killed and 38,3l3 injured in 1916.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-10

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
Evening star., 1947-01-10

only to produce a sterile and hybrid
citizenry at the very heart Of the
Government" he said.
His proposed constitutional amend
ment would enable Congress to
grant representation to the District
in Congress and in the electoral
college.
In addition to. these, the colored
New Yorker has introduced bills TO
prohibit racial segregation in the
armed forces of the United States,
prohibit segregation of interstate
passengers for reasons Of race or
color and to extent naturalization
to certain natives and inhabitants
of the Virgin Islands. He also is
sponsoring an antilynching measure.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Gain Foreseen in D. {.
| Recreation Facilities

Bettersrecreation facilities for the
District were foreseen by four ex-
perts in the field, who participated
In panel discussion sponsored by
the Recreation Workers Association
at the YWCA last night.
The experts reported on the prog
ress which has been made all over
| the country since similar meeting,
on a national scale, was held at the
White House in December, 1914, at
the invitation of Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt.
Chairman of the panel was DR..
Edwin B. Henderson, head of the
Division of Health and Physical
Education in Washington colored
Eschools. He first introduced Miss
Dorothea Sullivan, from the School
lof Social Service at Catholic Uni
Evening star., 1947-01-10

Iversity, who has charge of training
professional recreation workers.
Charles Brightbill, associate di-
rector for the Recreation Division OF
the Federal Security Agency, re-
ported on the Nation wide trend to-
ward community and State taxa
tion to support recreation programs.
G. OFT Romney, dean of the
School of Physical Education at the
University of West Virginia, said
there is definite trend toward
interpreting recreation as a form
of social engineering for combating
delinquency"
Also on the panel was Mark
cCloskey, director of the Division
Eof Community Education for New
York City.
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Powell Asks All in Nation
To URGE Suffrage in D. {.

Representative Powell, Democrat
of New York has issued a call on all
citizens of the United States to
urge their Senators and Representa-
tives to vote for adoption of his
resolution to grant national repre-
sentation to District residents.
He contended any original reason
for withholding the franchise from
District residents is no longer ten
able.
Continuance of this deprivation
serves no useful purpose and tends
Evening star., 1947-01-10
Six Get Deuth in Poland

WARSAW, Jan. 10 tP.-Military
tribunals in three Polish districts
yesterday sentenced six men to
death and thirteen others to long
prison terms for underground ac-
| tivifieS
Evening star., 1947-01-10

Juniors, to is; Misses, TO to 20; Woens, SO to A
Halt si1es 35a to 451 Not Every Style in Every sizs
Evening star., 1947-10-02

of history, which pretends to be, has
no validity" the new defense chief
said. Men of the jungles threw
rocks at each other long before there
were either industrialists or business
managers. '''
American business does not want
war and neither does American labor.
American business has supported its
Government, as has American labor.
in wars which were forced upon us
Evening star., 1947-10-02
den in a palatial home near Ellicott

den in a palatial home near Ellicott
City.
When the FBI entered the case
agents recovered 81 of the Is weap-
ons-which the Venezuelan En-
bassy charged were destined for
the South American country-in
the basement of mansion Quilt On
a 400-acre estate owned by Eisen-
hart. The guns were of a type
used on Navy combat planes.
Purpose of the gun running, the
Venezuelan Embassy said, was to
aid a group Of Venezuelan exiles.
Eisenhart Owns Airline.
The FBI said Eisenhart was pres
emily the owner of Pan American
Transport, Inc. Fuego was identified
by the Government as pilot and
mechanic for Eisenhart and the
man who took the guns from Bush
Field and transported them to an
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Former Mayor Kelly
Hos Operation on Leg
By the Associofed Press

CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-Edward j.
Kelly, Mayor of Chicago for IA
years until his retirement last
spring. was reported in good con-
dition' in Passavant Hospital to-
day after undergoing an operation
for removal OF a bone abscess en-
his right leg.
The operation was performed by
DR.. Paul B. Magnuson Of Wash
ington, personal friend of the IL
year-old Democratic political leader.
DR.. James X. Stack, his attend
ing physician, said Mr.. Kelly might
be in the hospital two or three
weeks.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
ca ~ THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. c.


guns from Bush Field, Augusta, last
April 13. They are:
Karl John Eisenhart, SO, of ELI
colt City, Md, owner of a charter
airline and former employe of the
United States Board of Economic
Warfare, stationed in Venezuela and
Colombia.
Edward Browder, jr., Amarillo,
Tex; j. Meredith Russell, "a, of Bal
timore, and Manuel L. Fuego, no ad-
dress available.
All Plead Not Guilty.
p All pleaded not guilty.
The case began when the guns
were spirited out of Bush Field
in a former Navy bomber and hid
Evening star., 1947-10-02
ForrestaI Answers Russia
On War Mongers' Charge
BY the As. -ioted Press

BY the As. -ioted Press
NEW YORK. Oct. 2.-Secretary of
Defense Forrestal last night termed
pure nonsense" the MARKHAM thesis
that "the form of private ownership
we know as business capitalism is
provocative of war"
Secretary Forrestal. in addressing
the Army Ordnance Association, did
not refer directly to the recent war
mongering" charges made by Andrei
Y. Vishinsky, Russian U. N. dele
gate, but he told the $500 business
men at the dinner: Because this
thesis has been reasserted during the
past three weeks, should like to
examine It,"
This theory, as an Interpretation
Evening star., 1947-10-02

other field where they were loaded
on the plane.
Russell, a former Army pilot, was
listed among Eisenhart's pilots and
accused of flying the guns to Balti-
more from Augusta and then truck
ing them to the hideaway.
The FBI said Browder identified
himself in a statement to them as
the son of the secretary-treasurer OF
the Sante Fe Railroad and as a
bachelor of science graduate in
aeronautical engineering from the
University of Texas.
Browder. the FBI said, was pilot
for Eisenhart. It did not define
Browder's part in the plot.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
-Four Indicted in Theft,
Transporter Weapons
Headed for Venezuela
BY the Associoted,P Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. Oct. "A Fed
eral grand jury indicted four men
yesterday in an aerial gun-running
plot involving stolen Navy machine
guns repeatedly destined for Vene-
Zuela.
The four were indicted for con-
spiracy il tive theft of 25 ne cine
Evening star., 1947-10-02

by the madness and fanaticism of
totalitarian leaders"
Gen. George c. Kenney, COM
mander of Strategic Air Forces. told
the ordnance men that virtually all
materiel of World War II would be
outmoded if another war broke out.
He suggested that makers of air.
plane propellers learn a new trade
in such an event, since I'VE probably
won't use them on our new combat
aircraft"
Evening star., 1947-10-02
Cotton Was Ornament Firsi

Cotton was first grown in China
for ornamental purposes, but was
put to practical use about 1900 AID.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-28

WANDER of the State of F,o,,,.
Commander FRIEDMAN ;s oS
Orized to organize branch divisian'
throughout the State of Florida'
to establish Department Hoo
quarters in Miami Beach: to ~
filiate the Association with -.
Miami Beach Council, as well ..
with the Dade County UNTTr~
VETERANS ASSOCIATION. ans
to serve as authorized spokesmou
for the Allied Veterans Polit,o.,
Association in the Department :,
Florida.
SAMUEL SLOVENIAN, Nat.
ional President, who, for the mao.
thirty years has wintered in Flor
ida, and who, in the past Years
campaigned throughout Florida in
behalf of DAVID SCHULTZ n,
Governor, and for F. D. ROoSE.
WELT, for President, and who also
took prominent part in the cam.
paign for the United States Sen.
ate conducted by Claude E. Pen.
per-will vigorously campaign a.
gainst the proposed WHITE PR.
MARY BILL and against those
senators or representatives who
vote for the proposed WHITE
PRIMARY BILL. To use the
words of that great Democratic
President, WOODROW WILSON:
'"ThOse representatives who will
betray the citizens of this State
will be marked, labeled and re.
membered when they seek re.
election!"
(Signed)
Samuel w. Silverman,
National President
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-03-28
u. S. Warned
Against FoSciSn1
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"NiemOelIer, Admiral Donetz
told me, actually begged for a
captaincy in the submarine fleet
and refused to don a uniform only
because he was offered a seaman's
rating instead"
The author of the recently pub
lished "22 Cells in Nuremberg"
which describes the personalities
of the Nazi criminals, said his ex-
perience had convinced him that
fascism was a mental disorder
comparable, to cancer and could be
recognized through scientific tech
niques in the same manner as
physical ailments.
Among the special techniques
which DR.. Kelley suggests for
use by the State Department or
immigration officials are:
"a sociological examination
which would consist of an objec-
tive history of the individuals
actual deeds. The psychiatric