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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

The board, in a three day meet
ing here last week explained that
under the Truman order, en-
ployees may be fired which is
"tantamount to treason" without
enjoying even the democratic
rights of defense accorded the
common criminal.
Calling upon all organiza-
lions of government employees
10 expose Executive Order 1895.
the union declared that IAN
aroused people can safeguard
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
PMA TO hold
Labor Day Reilly

BENLD, Ill.-The annual Labor
Day celebration of the Progressive
Miners of America will take place
in Benld, Illinois in an all-day
affair which will include a parade
and a speaking program.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

Luxe Brewery plane Cbut> be
sure to mention their name in
print, and buy a few hundred
pounds of dry ice. Then fly up,
up, up, and dump your ice in
a cloud, mix well, and open
your umbrella.
OF COURSE. homemade rain
is still in the experimental
stage. You might just possibly
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

late ourselves" he said, "but we
are going to unite with our friends,
the liberals of this nation, against
the reactionaries and use our COM
bined votes to defeat. them"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
All AL TO stop work
for 40 election doY

GREEN BAY, Ws-FP9-A nationwide work soppage will be
AFI election day. 1913 record turnout
it's 71k million polls
an
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30

Mrs Della Williams, chairman
of the tenants league, organized
with the help of the National
Negro Congress, told the Star her
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
Public workers union
blasts FBI blacklist

The current loyalty Investigation into the lives thoughts
employees denounced this week by threy
executive Public
at the Hotel Stevens
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-08-30
Tenants picket landlord
in nine months bottle

Organized Michigan have fought
last November their landlords
them right out of their apartments picket
building owned by their landlord Friday.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

Love is paramount, but money
helps after the honeymoon.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
UIU-AFL Settles
5 Strikes After
Denhum Reversal

Philadelphia (LPA) - Reversal
of NLRB General Counsel Robert
Denham on the question of filing
anti-Communist affidavits resulted
in the quick settlement of several
strikes by the Upholsterers' lnt'l
Union-AFL.
After the Board ruled that top
AFL and CIO officials did not
have to sign before affiliates could
use NLRB facilities, the UIU
counted five walkouts won, four
within few days.
First of the strikes caused by
Denham's edict was settled at Au-
rcra, Ind, when employees of the
indianapolis Chair Co., won wage
increases after voting for UIU by
124 to 20 in an election conducted
by the Indiana Division of Labor.
Previously, when the union was un-
able to obtain an NLRB election,
the employer refused to recognize
the union through an impartial
count of membership cards.
In the first NLRB election in
eastern Pennsylvania since Den
ham was reversed, a UIU local
won by two to one and negotiations
for a contract began Immediately
with Hanover Craftsmen, Inc, Of
Hanover, Pa.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
HUGE TEXTILE PROFITS
HIGH PRICES, DEPRESS
WAGES, OFFICIAL SAYS

than that base period - used for
both OPA and the Treasury Dept
by 235s%."
Wages have increased but they
are still far below needs, Douty
continued, nor can they explain the
price increases. "Wages have gone
up 147%t from 1889 to 1947. Prof
its have gone up over 2000%o for
the same period" The pay neces-
sary "to maintain the normal liv-
ing standard for a wage Garner" in
Atlanta in 1947 amounts to $3.50,
said the official. "For textile work
ers translated into annual earnings
amount to $2037."
Prices have risen "but only the
profit picture explains their pres
ent level" Douty maintained. "If
you make allowances for the per-
centage increases of both labor and
materials, you can find no justifi-
cation for the present price level.
According to the Census of Manu-
facturers for 1889, wages account
ed for 27% of production costs,
raw materials 1870, miscellaneous
218o and profits 4%. Today it is
estimated that profits are running
at 16a6. Reduce that profit percen-
tage and you reduce prices"
Turning to possible solutions of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

Atlanta (LPA)- A devastating
attack on profiteering in the tex
tile industry as cause of high
clothing prices and substandard
wage scales was presented to a
Congressional subcommittee on
prices here last week by Kenneth
Douty, Georgia director of the
Textile Workers Union.
Carefully documenting price, pro-
fit and wage figures, Douty charg-
ed There are many factors con-
tributing to high prices in cloth
ing, but a basic one is that the
textile industry has preferred to
take tremendous profits at the ex-
pense of the consuming public and
the workers in the industry who
continue to receive substandard
wages"
Recalling that the industry was
leader in the fight to kill OPA,
Douty said, "The reason is obvious:
profits for this year are estimated
at $764 100000, an increase of 343o
over 1916 and of over 5000 over
1945 after taxes. When we COM
pare estimated profits for 1947
with the so-called normal period of
1936-1939, you get into unbeliev-
able but true figures. Profits for
1947 after taxes will be greater
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
Truman Receives
Civil RIGHTS PIan

Washington (LPA) = President
Truman's Commission on Civil
Rights is expected this week to
make public the first complete
termination of the missing links in
the projections afforded to Ameri-
can citizens under the Constitution.
The report is understood to cover
the whole field of racial and relig-
ious discrimination, as well as civil
rights in general.
Among the members of the COM
mission are James Carey, CIO sec
retary-treasurer, and Boris Shish-
kin, AFL economist.
Attention was focused on the
problem of race discrimination in
the U. S. when the Natl Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Color
ed People presented to the United
Nations last week lengthy listing
of 'the treatment which the United
States has visited upon us for three
centuries" The NAACP petition
asserts that "If the UN today face
contradictions and Illustrations in
their great effort to build the in
ter-nation, no small cause of this is
that democracy on earth is too Of
ten falsifying it's own foundation
principles, and for that reason can
not honestly build or cooperate in
a just world state"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
Study Of No+ion's
Total industrial
Capacity Planned

Washington-(LPA)- A limited
investigation by a special Senate
Small Business subcommittee into
the nations steel shortage may be
supplemented by more compre-
hensive study by the Presidents
Council of Economic Advisers.
Predictions by union and gov
ernment economists that the steel
scarcity" will inevitably lead to
industry's program of planned
mass unemployment and depression
have aroused the Presidents top
advisers to the need for an inves-
tigation of the nations total in
dustrial capacity, it was reported.
The huge backlog of domestic and
foreign needs together with anti
cipated future demands will be ex-
amined.
Steel production for the-first nine
months of this year was only So
behind 1916 total production but
still greatly behind pending and
expected orders. Layoffs were still
occurring in plants throughout the
country because of the steel short
age.
Last week 10000 Chrysler work
ers in Detroit and another $500
Willys-Oyerland employees in Tole-
do were laid off because of the
steel shortage. Similar reports came
from other cities. The United Auto
asked President Tru-
man to call an immediate confer
ence of union and corporation lead
ers in the steel and auto industries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
Solidarity Aids
Shipyord Strike

Baltimore (LPA)-Striking Ship
yard workers here swear that they
have an example of AFL-CIO solid
arity that should be held up to the
entire nation.
The Industrial Union of Marine
& Shipbuilding Workers started the
fourth month of their strike against
the Bethlehem Steel shipyards here
on Oct. &c. During their long strug-
gle their picket lines have been re-
inforced every day by members of
the Seafearers Int1 Union-AFL.
Now the SIU-at Baltimore port
membership meeting - has voted
that no STU man should ship out
without having first spent time on
an IUMSW. picket line.
The SIU's vote was hardly neces-
sary except as a concrete express
sion of solidarity, according to III
MSW leaders. Last week a quick
survey of 10 IUMSW picket lines
at six in the morning showed doz-
ems of the familiar white caps of
STU members with their own pla-
cards pledging STU help to see the
fight thru to finish. "But the
white caps have been on the line
from the very beginning of the
STRIKE" said IUMSW Natl Repre-
sentative Jack Gerson.
: In addition to the STU men,
members of the Sailors Union of
the Pacific -AFL, have joined the
IUMSW picketlines whenever their
ships have come into this port.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
Workers DepIefe Sovings Accounts
As Scoring Prices Plague Nation

Washington, d. c. ULNS). -
Present economic trends apparent
ly Tabor capital, while inflationary
price rises are forcing workers to
exhaust their savings accounts and
go into debt, Albert N. Dennis
said in his Labor News Review pro-
gram on WTOP, of the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
Presenting review of economic
conditions, a regular feature of the
weekly program, Dennis said that
"inflationary prices, quite unreas-
enable in many instances, according
to responsible economists, continue
to plague the people of the United
States"
Corporate Profits Up
The current trend of the econo-
my, he continued, "seems to favor
capital, largely along the line of
the old slokan: Them what has,
gitsv According to the U. S. De-
partment of Commerce, corpora
tion returns now publicly available
indicate that the level of corporate
profits in the first months of
this year. was higher than last
year, jumping from ~ billion dol
lars in the fourth quarter of last
year to 90 billions in the first
quarter and back to 27h billions
in the second quarter of this year.
Those figures are before taxes
"Net profits jumped from 16
billion dollars in the fourth quar-
ter of last year to- 171z billions, in
the first quarter, then down to
16h billions in the second quarter
of this year. Publicly reported cash
dividend payments for last month,
gained over 20 per cent
in comparison with the same month
of last year, totaling for the one
month, $3.50 100000
meanwhile, reports indicate
that, due to high prices and less
income from overtime pay, thous-
ands of wage earners have depleted
their savings accounts and many
have gone into debt. While basic
wage rates have advanced an aver
age of Is per cent during the past
year and a half, prices Of COM
modities which wage earners must
buy have kept considerably ahead
Of advancing wages.
"The latest report of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, for the
week ending October II, shows |
another average increase Of |
S/10ths of one per cent in the |
prices of commodities in primary |
markets, for the one week. Farm
prices went up ID per cent and
'ood prices advanced an even 10
Der cent for the week. The Bu-
'eau's Index is now 25.4 per cent
higher than for the comparable
period Of last year.
Huge National Income
"fhe Department of Commerce
indicates that total national in
.ome for the current year may |
each the staggering figure of
;220, ,000, 100000. The previous high
vas last year, when the total
cached $165, 900, 100000. Initiation
lry prices, of course, account for
,oodly portion of the increases"
In ending this economic review,
Dennis noted that despite all talk
f possible tapering off, industrial |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
OBITUARIES
MRS. MARY ANN DORNAN

|
Mrs. Mary Ann Dornan, GA, died
Oct. 25 in her home, 258 Ridgeway
Ave-, following a several weeks i'll
ness.
Mrs. Dornan resided in East Liv-
erpool for the past 60 years, COM
ing here from Bradford, Pa, when
a child. She was employed as a
finisher at Plant 6 of the Homer
Laughlin China Co., and affiliated
with Local Union SO, National Bro
therhood of Operative Potters. She
was a member Of the First Church
of Christ.
Mrs. Dornan leaves a daughter,
Mrs. Estus Canavan of East Liver
pool, and three sisters, Mrs. C. H.
Excel and Mrs. John Call, both of
Hammondsville, and Mrs. Harry
Nostrand of New York.
Services were held by Rev. ID.
Park Chapman, pastor of the First
Church of Christ. Burial was in
Columbiana County Memorial Park.
X X X
MONTE f. HAGAN
Sebring, Ohio-Monte E. Hagan,
72, resident of Sebring for the
past as years, died Oct. 26 in the
Alliance City Hospital, following
an eight weeks illness of compli-
cations.
A kiln placer by trade, Mr.. Ha-
gan was last employed at the Lii
moges China Co., and affiliated
with Local Union No. SO, Nation
al Brotherhood of Operative Pot
ters. He was a member of the
United Presbyterian Church at
Parker's Landing and the Salem
Aerie of the Fraternal Order Of
Eagles.
His only immediate survivor is
his wife, Mrs. Anne Hagan.
Services were held from the Par
ker's Landing United Presbyter-
ian Church. Burial was made in
Perryville, Pa.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

the problem, Douty said, "Some of
the things we need to do seem OBJ
vious. We need an evcess profits
tax. Instead of cutting needed gov
ernmental services, we should raise
taxes on those who can afford to
pay, to maintain them. We should
cut taxes in the lower income brac-
kets only. We need to reinstitute
price ceilings on necessities. We
need rent controls continued. We
need measures that will insure in
creased purchasing power: Con-
gress should pass the Csc mini
mum bill, but make it 75c instead
of the lower figure"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

Fs ps Poin-rhs psnssroiins hsos
Of lnfro-rsd 10 often prescribed
70 relieve inflammation or mvsev-
lor pain.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
Rail Unions PIon
Political Action

Washington (LPA)-The nations
Railroad Brotherhoods intend to go
into the political field more vigor-
ously than in many years. That was
made clear last week by Executive
Secretary A. E. Lyon of the Rail-
way Labor Executives Association,
composed of presidents of 20 rail
unions.
Political action, Lyon said, will
be major subject of discussion
at a regular meeting of the asso-
citation to be held here on Nov. IL.
Lyon declared the union chieftains
would probably re-examine the
unions past policies and methods
to determine what changes are
necessary to be even more effective
in the political field"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
AIRCRAFT PLANT UPS PAY

Fortworth, Texas-ULNS)--The
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Cor
poration has granted a $1,0O0,000
annual wage increase to the 12,-
600 employees at it's Ft. Worth Di-
vision the manager announced. The
pay increase is provided for in con-
tracts negotiated separately with
the International Association of
Machinists, Aeronautical District
Lodge 776, and the Federated In
dependent Texas Union, Aircraft
Local 900.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30
OKEY G.. POUNDS

Okey G. Pounds, 61, kilndraw-
er employed at the Hall China Co.,
died Oct. 28 in his home, 1869 AM
brose Ave-, following a weeks ill
ness.
Mr.. Pounds was born in Meigs
county. He made his home in East
Liverpool for the past Al years. He
was a member of Local Union No.
IL, National Brotherhood of Oper-
ative Potters.
Mr.. Pounds leaves his widow,
Mrs. Florence Payton Pounds; q
son, Howard M. Pounds, and n
daughter, Doris |. Pounds, all at
home; a brother, Earl Pounds of
East Liverpool, and four sisters,
Mrs. Emma Wolfe, Miss Ola Pounds
and Mrs. Erma Mays of East Liv-
erpool, and Mrs. Mary Colwell of
Wellsville.
Services were held by w. H.
Moon of the International Bible
Students Association. Burial was
in Spring Grove Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

production continues at very high
levels in all major lines, with some
new records being set"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-30

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
Evening star., 1947-04-06
Twelve Men In A Box

Too often courtroom tricksters
and reluctant jurors make a
joke out of justice. Here's
what might be done about it
nNE of these mornings you may find in
~ your nnailbox an envelope containing
little slip of paper inscribed as follows: 'You
are hereby summoned to act as trial juror
If you resemble 80 per cent of your fellow
Americans you'll serve and like it. Anyhow,
you'll serve The other 20 per cent will see the
alderman, the sheriff, the district leader or the
judge and beat the rap - until next time.
At the end of your two weeks service you
may feel as strongly as did after mine. For
with talk of crime waves growing throughout
the country, the American jury system is once
more a subject of controversy Its critics
point to mistrials caused by disagreements to
long delays and heavy costs, to truth sub
merged by foods of courtroom oratory, and -
most important of all - to the loss of judicial
dignity and growing public contempt for the
processes of the law.
Two Remedies
HE not too savory methods used by both
sides in criminal trials dismay some who have
faith in the American system of justice. The
remedy? One extreme view proposes to replace
lawyers and juries in criminal cases with
scientifically trained and impartial boards of
experts to examine the facts.
A kindred but more conservative suggestion
is that an experienced criminal court Judge
can try cases alone without the assistance"
of a jury. All that is necessary is sufficient
number of competent, politics-free judges
Evening star., 1947-04-06

Why is the jury system open to attack!
What are its weaknesses? Conditions vary
from state to state but judging from my
own experience one problem is the abuse of
the ''peremptory challenge" Many prospec-
tive jurors have been bewildered and resent
full when, after casual question or two, they
have been summarily excused. The lawyer
doesn't want them on the jury II and he
doesn't have to say why. The lawyer is
allowed limited number of these challenges
and he also has, in every criminal case, an
unlimited number of challenges for cause"
Rejected talesmen often ask, What kind
of people do lawyers want on a jury?" The
question is as hard to answer as it would be to
give reason for ones likes and dislikes.
Many lawyers still use the old but effective
trick of getting as many different races and
creeds on the jury as possible. They work on
the theory that the divergent types and
personalities won't be able to agree on
anything. Some automatically challenge
elderly folk on the ground that they may be
cynical and bitter. They like to see bright, in
genuous and inexperienced faces in the Jury
box. Accountants, engineers and such exact
professions often get short shrift from the de-
fense, while writers, poets and similar vision
aries are as welcome as the flowers in May.
Despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
most lawyers are convinced that various
nationalities react differently in the jury
box They are always on the lookout for men,
bers of so-called sentimental or emotional
races on whom they hope piteous appeals will
work powerfully.
Women jurors are the targets of group
well-known at the Bar - the charmers. They
are usually romantic in appearance, small
mustached with smiles as toothy as leading
Evening star., 1947-04-06
BY RALPH BASS
illustrated BY Gregory d. -4lessio

Juveniles. They are often terrific with women
jurors - but they seldom do as we'll with
the men.
You will find members of the bar who are
convinced that the selection of the jury is the
most important part of the case and that it is
usually won then and there.
There are always thin-skinned talesmen
who, having been challenged, seek out the
lawyers during intermission to find out why.
One resourceful counsellor has stock answer.
He tells the injured party that he was sure he
had met him before and, as an ethical law
yer, he didn't want to have an acquaintance
on the jury
By-play in the Corridors
IF YOU frequent criminal courthouses you
will witness some peculiar by-play in the
corridors. Milling around are the talesmen
from whose number juries are to be chosen.
Scattered among them like raisins in a pud-
ding may be seen assistant district attorneys
and defense counsel hard at work being good
fellows, laying the basis for cordiality which
may prove profitable later.
There is one little lawyer practicing in
New York criminal courts who is practically
unbeatable because of his gifts as a comedian.
A Jimmy Savo type, he has the courtroom
screaming with laughter. The unfortunate
prosecutor complains bitterly as he sees his
case going out the window, but there isn't
thing he can do. Eventually the grateful jury,
exhausted with belly laughs, acquits,
Svengal had nothing on some of the mod
ern courtroom practitioners. These are the
glittering eyed, heavy -browed characters who
get their verdicts by main strength of per
sonality. When they lean over the rail and fix
their eye on the juror they have sized up as
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1947-07-05

ton, Del, held at the Walnut st
Christian Association. Mr.. and
Mrs. Darlington were wed at
Maiden, June 26, 1922, by the
groom's father, the late Rev. s..
M. Darlington. Two young peo-
pie of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church were wed on Thursday
evening by Rev. E. Lawson-Miss
Constance Barron and Mr.. Jo-
seph Davis. The reception fol-
lowed at the Maiden Club. Mr..
and Mrs. Davis will reside in
Lynn. Mr.. Guthrie Hodges, Mrs.
Gretta Gibson and daughter,
jeanne, with Mrs. Ruth E. Day,
and the Misses Shirley Hodges
and Virginia Carter, are at Oak
Bluffs for the summer. The
summer schedule for the church
starts on Sunday, July 6, with
no evening service until Sep
TENDER. The Lords Supper will
conclude the morning service.
The Sunday School will be in
charge of Deacon Arthur Rid
ley for the summer. The an
nual picnic of the churches of
the Mystic Union will be at
Salem willows on July IT in
conjunction with the churches
of Boston.