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(OOnL1TueQ ITOm age OHCJ
 FIVE YEARS AGO IN THE UN- ION TIMES: A.F.L. in New Haven enrolls thousands of skilled crafts men for volunteer work in case of city-wide emergency. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sends thanks to New Haven Central Labor Council for their pledged support. William Green, president ALL, presents joint plan on behalf of organized labor to Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins. OFFICERS OF N. H. Gen. tral Labor Council hold formal con- ference to consider means of end- ing police interference in organiz- ing. A.F.L. teachers in Detroit win $2OO.OO yearly increase.
 Returned veterans have shared equally in the general wage in- creases obtained by civilian work CTS during the war period, accord ing to a preliminary survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. s. Department of Labor. Veterans who were surveyed by the Bureau aver aged $46.75 week or $l.O5 an hour for an average workweek of somewhat over A hours, a gain of about $O.5O a week and 20 cents an hour over the earnings of the
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AS WE SEE IT

same men in their first last pre- service jobs.
 The NY. Journal of Commerce reports that ''An electrical 'gripe- meter is among the latest experi- ments to be used by management as a means of measuring workers attitudes and nipping grievances in the bud." That verifies our long, standing suspicion that the average industrialist's conception of griev- ance machinery is something that looks like a cyclOtrOn hooked up with lO-ton power hammer.
 THE BufaIo (N. Y.) Courier Express carried an item about a man killing himself at 194 Minne- sota Avenue. The BufaIO EUening Ne,Os the same afternoon had cIas- sified ad:
 ''FOR RENT-MinnesOta, l04- cOzy, front room, private home, re- fined gentleman
 AFL Pres. William Green con- fined himself to one sentence: "I am not surprised at the result of the electiOn."
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we'll. He was a handsome finely built young fellow out of the West Virginia hills. Mild hammered and boyish. It seemed a shame to ex. pose his body and brain to the mer- ciless leather traffic of CauIifower. He had been Overpublicized too. His manager persuaded Gen. Persh. ing to foolishly announce that Mar. ton was ''the real champion of the world." Not Jack Dempsey, under. stand.
 recall Martins first appearance in N. Y. gym. The city-bewildered youth started to punch the bag but dis covered he DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO KEEP IT MOVING!I He was that crude. Martin was a courageous fellow, knockout hitter, but he was . slow thinker. He never acquired box ing polish or ring savvy. Within three years he was taking cruel whippings after showing promise.
 POLICEMAN NOW
 Martin was much the worse for wear when he tottered from his last ring. He spent time in a hospital be- fore recovering from the punishing nightmare of being Pershing's "real heavyweight champion of the world. , Last I heard of him he was a police man back in the old home town.
 Uncle Sam's armed services don'i m k heavyweight champions They're too busy with other prob lems. Nearest approach was Jack Sharkey who boxed a bit in the navy, got his discharge to learn the art of ear embroidery in the pro
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AFL Typos Win
 Work-Week Cut

INDIANAPOLIS (LPA)-New wage scales for members of the Int 1 Typographical Union-AFL on Detroit newspapers bring compositors' day rates to $88.50 for 371a hours; $89.5 SC for 361z hours on night shift, and $9Z for 33-and-three-quarters hours or the lobster shift with new day rate of $692O weekly, and an in crease of 30.5c per hour. Hours were sliced from 40 to 371a in Wilmington with new day rate of $75, amounting to 37.5c pay hike or $15 week. Al Madison, the work week was pulled down from 40 to 371a hours with $4 weekly raise.
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fessional pit. Jack Dempsey and the old sailor heavyweight Tom Shar- key were his idols. Hence his ring name Jack Sharkey. His real mon- icker was John COccOskey, a Lithu- anian-American tag.
 Barrel-chested Tom Sharkey did come near the title though. Some think he whipped Jim Jeffries, then champ, in their terrific 25-rounder. But the third guy said no.
 TOday's CIs aren't hankering for another war, either with leather or flying hardware. They aren't fur nishing any mealtickets for the He- Can't-Hurt-Us guys nor any strike breakers for the labor wars. Smart clearheaded young men.
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Armed Forces Never Produced A Ring Champ
By ED HUGHES FEDERATED PRESS

Around caulfiOwer haunts speculative fight gers feel that the shOrtchanged them. The HeCan HurUs guys understand why the armed services didn't produce budding heavyweight champion The is simple:
 The armed services have probably wespecialy in wartime.
 Yet the ppedeam has persisted since World War that battle training gladators for the ring well for the battlefield
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Teanster Win 2O% Raise From IVA

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. = CPD ' IVA, which helped the farmers ol the Tennessee valley to better stand ard of living, has now agreed to wage increases averaging more than 209o for members of the Intl. Bro. of Team sters.
 The increases, negotiated at the TWAS 18th annual wage conference here, cover truck drivers, helpers warehousemen, chauffeurs, garage at tendants, truck foremen and dispatch CTS employed by the authority. Team sters' hourly rates will range from 95c to SIPS.
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TOOK DEEP DRAW

TOOK DEEP DRAW
 Gene Tunney revived this myth a few months before Pearl Harbor. Said the next champ ''is now in training in our armed forces" He took a deep draw on the pipe too, predicting the phantom clouter would not only dethrone Louis but become an ''even greater cham pion" than Joe. However, this for midable warrior is still to be heard from.
 It is true that a certain number of young men who never tossed leather before learn the fundamentals in serv- ice life. The routine of camp life toughens them physically too. But muscular young men are a dime a dozen in this country and the knowl- edge of boxing they pick up in camp life is strictly kindergarten stuff. It's after the service career that the young gladiator attends classes in the Uni versity of Caulifower. Tunney him self is an example of that.
 BOB MARTIN
 Gene had fought professionally be- fore he joined the Marines in the first war. He won the AEF 1ight-heavy title, beating Bob Martin, who later won the service heavyweight 1aurels. Pugilistically Tunney was as green as new dollar bill when he left the service. Tunney struggled to the top the finty way. He took his ups and downs for eight years before p1astering Dempsey.
 I remember Bob Martin very
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BAKERY WORKERS

PHILADELPHIA (FP)-Loca1 6, Bakery & Comic tionery Workers International Union (AFL), has filed suit against 51 bakeries here for $1O million back portal-to-porta1 pay for its 5000 members.
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Mention The Union Times when shopping, and help labor's own paper grow.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
AFL Chief
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he outlined as follows:
"We intend to fight to protect
the rights of our members by
negotiating new contracts with
employers which will shield labor
from at least some of the disas-
trous effects of the new law. The
new contract negotiated by the
stood now. If we remain divided we
will suffer more. If we become
solidly united, we can defeat our
common enemies. For this reason
the Executive Council Of the Am
erican Federation of Labor ex-
pressed, not only a willingness to
meet, but sincere desire to meet
with the representatives of the
CIO for the purpose of bringing
about an agreement providing for
organizational unity but until such
meeting is held and organization
al unity established, no good pur-
pose would be served by merely
in order to achieve the
purpose you outlined in the third
paragraph of your letter Of July
End"
Green concluded; 81 extend to
you and your associates in behalf
of the Executive Council of the
of the AFL an invitation to meet
with representatives of the AFL
at some convenient date within the
immediate future for the purpose
Of making real and vital the de-
claration unanimously adopted by
the representative Of the CIO and
the AFL on May End, to end divis-
ion, discord and disunity within the
ranks of labor and establish labor
solidarity and organizational UNI
ity."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
1uff's Pal
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ner- -Dingell health insur-
ance bill, DR.. Shearon's behavior
has been suck that Sen. James
Murray 3D., Mont.) has stated
publicly that she is personally
obnoxious" to him. DR.. Shearon
originally was on the Labor Com
mittee payroll, as their health ex-
pert, but after she Stacked" hear
ings against the health insurance
bill, and sent out a schedule of wit
nesses to American Medical Assn
officials before the committee had
even met on the subject, she was
fired by the committee, and hired
personally by Sen. Robert A. Taft
(R., Ohio.). She still takes a seat
on the committee platform along
with Senators and Committee and
Senatorial assistants during public
hearings, and provides Sen. Don
nell with much of the material he
uses in cross-questioning witnesses.
Some supporters of health insur-
ance have been kept "on the
stand" for as long as four or five
hours at a stretch by DonnelPs
questioning.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Another PostWdr Dream
Wrecked By Profiteers

purpose of feeding the hungry, and
that's something we just have to
do.
| agree that we have to help feed
the people in Europe who can't yet
supply themselves with enough
food. But this plan wasn't thought
up for the purpose of feeding peo-
pie; it's purpose is to feed the kitty
in the treasures of the packing
corporations. If feeding people is
what is wanted, there are ways of
doing it that won't make suckers
out of American housewives and
taxpayers.
/ have "a feeling that a lot of
European countries are going to be
just as worried about this plan as
| am. 1t will remind them Of the
days before the war when Ameri-
can industries dumped many boat
loads of goods on their shores.
These, too, were goods that Ameri-
cans couldn't afford to buy. The
stuff was shipped to Europe, and
sold at very low prices. 1t drove
the home7produced product off its
own market. 1t brought unemploy-
ment to European countries, be-
cause European workers couldn't
compete with goods that were be-
ing practically given away.
At the same time, American peo-
pie were going without these
goods. And, through the high
prices we were charged for what
we were able to buy, Americans
were paying for the goods they
didn't get.
There is nothing in the packers
plan to make it anything but a
subsidized plan for dumping goods
into Europe. If it goes through
just as it is now, it will serve
notice that our talk about promot-
ing trade is just lot of that ma
larky that you feed people while
you pick their pockets. 1t will help
to show that America just isn't to
be trusted where profits for a big
industry are involved.
The packers plan doesn't have
to be approved by Congress. The
Agriculture Dept can go ahead
and adopt the plan if it wants to
without getting Congressional ap-
proval. But it might help to edu-
cate your Congressman if you ask
ed him to look into the matter, and
to insist that foreign feeding can
be done on a basis that makes
sense for everybody, instead of
just dollars for few.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
TRUMAN VETO
KILLS g. q. P.'S
TAX PROGRAM

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman last week vetoed the Re-
publican Party's second relieve
the-rich" tax bill, and even the
most optimistic COP leader saw no
chance of the veto being overrid-
en-.
Truman vetoed the first tax bill
on June II, after it was assailed by
both AFL and CIO leaders. The
new bill was changed only to the
extent of shifting the effective date
from July l to next Jan. 1. Repub-
lican diehards were hopeful, how
ever, that they could override the
veto. House COP Floor Leader
Charles Halleck Ind }, said, well
vote to override the minute the
message reading has been complet-
ed in the House," However, in view
of the fact that the House sustain
ed the first veto and the new bill
was passed by the Senate by too
small vote to sustain veto,
Democratic leaders expressed con-
fidence that the measure would be
killed for this session.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Strike Figures
Tumble By25oo

Washington LPA) - Strik G
losses for the first six months OF
this year dropped about 25%o in
comparison with the time lost dur
ing the same period in 1916, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics report
ed last week.
Approximately 22O0 strikes were
recorded by BIS in the first six
months. These strikes, said BIS,
Involved about 100000 workers
and accounted for time-loss of
between 20 and 2l,0C0,C00 man
days. By contrast, during the first
half of 1916 when labor-manage-
ment controversies reached their
postwar peak, almost 100000
workers were directly involved in
work stoppages. and idleness
amounted to nearly $4,000, 600
man-days."
There were only 13 strikes from
January to June involving 10000
or more workers, the report said.
Largest of these was the lengthy
telephone workers strike in April
and May, and the strike of the coal
miners in late June. In the same
period of 1916, l8 large strikes in
volving 10000 or more workers
We're recorded.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
New Sfofe Laws
Against Lobor
In Pa. And Ohio

Chicago (LPA)-The march OF
state anti-labor laws continued
across the nation as governors in
Pennsylvania and Ohio signed leg
islation opposed by organized lab
or.
In Pennsylvania, Gov. James H.
Duff signed legislation outlawing
jurisdictional strikes and second
airy boycotts.
In Ohio, where "little Hartley
Bill" was killed by veto, the gov
ernor signed a law which will ex-
tend hours of work for Ohio women
from eight to nine day, permit a
12-day work-week without a day
off, and children to be worked until
late evening hours.
Gov. Kim Sigler, of Michigan,
had previously signed into law a
bill forbidding strikes by school
teachers, city employees and trans
portation workers.
Gov. Earl Warren, of California,
frequently mentioned as Presi-
Dental possibility, signed a social
ed "jurisdictional strike bill" even
though a delegation of AFL lead
ers visited him to point out how
the law "would do untold injury to
the labor movement in California" T"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Comment On World Events

Badon; Walter Damrosh; Israel
Feinberg, vice president of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union, and recently an ALL
delegate to Germany; Harry Eml
erson Fosdick; Professor William
E. Hooking of Harvard; James
Loeb, Jr., executive secretary Of
Americans for Democratic Action;
Victor G. Reuther of the United
Automobile Workers, CIO; Nor
man Thomas, and Dorothy Thomp-
son.
A two-day conference of fisher
men was held recently in Hull,
England, sponsored by the Inter
national Transport Workers Fed
Grafton to discuss the preparation
of an International Fishermen's
Charter. Countries represented at
the conference were Belgium, Bri-
tain, Finland, France, Holland,
Norway and Palestine. Denmark,
Iceland and the U. S. submitted in
formation but were unable to at
tend.
The conference discussed earn
ings and allowances, hours and
manning, holidays and days off,
catering and accommodation, social
insurance, etc. A drafting commit.
tee of 3.members was appointed to
draw up text of the internation-
al charter revised in the light of
the views expressed, for submiss-
ion to a further conference.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Shishkin Hits
Housing Bills

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Banking & Currency Committee
might well reject two measures
providing for disposal of wartime
permanent and temporary public
housing, as unworthy of even SER
ious consideration by the Senate, .
AFL Housing Committee Secre-
tary Boris Shishkin told the Sen
ate Banking and Currency Com
mittee last week.
One measure, sponsored by land
lords friend Rep. Jesse Wolcott
(R., Mich.) has already passed the
House. 1t would require all per-
manent war housing to be trans
ferred to the Federal Works Ad-
ministrator from the Federal Pub
lie Housing Agency, and would
require FILA to sell for cash the
100000 family dwelling units in
volved not later than Dec. 81, 194S.
The other, S-1459, is sponsored
by Senators Harry Cain (R.,
Wash.) and Richard b. Russell d.,
Gal. 1t would go far beyond the
Wolcott bill, which it duplicates in
certin respects. Shishkin charged
that the intent of the bill is "to
kill low rent housing and slum
clearance"
Both have the ardent support of
the real-estate lobby, and would,
according to the AFL, "serve only
to further aggravate the present
critical housing shortage"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
LABOR IGNORED
ON FORCED
WAR TRAINING

Washington (LPA)-After only
one week of hearings, a subcom-
mittee of the House Armed Serv-
ices Committee last week approved
and sent to the full committee an
SO-page bill providing for compul-
sorry military training as proposed
by the Presidents Commission on
Universal Military Training.
No labor spokesman were heard
on the bill, sponsored by Rep.
Harry L. Towe (R., N. J.). In pre-
vious hearings, the C1O was heard
in opposition to UNIT. The Rail
road Trainmen, Int'l Association of
Machinists, Farmers Union, and
Natl Education Association are
lust a few of those who applied
and were not granted time to test
ify in opposition.
Considerable ppositlon has
arisen to the sudden attempt of the
subcommittee chairman, Walter
Andrews (R., N. Y.) to rush the
bill thru, but favorable vote is
expected from a majority of the
33-man Armed Services Commit
tee. 1t is doubtful whether the bill
will reach the House floor, but
favorable report next week, Con-
gressmen agree, will place Univer-
sal Military Training high on the
priority list for action next Jan
uary when Congress reconvenes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

The u. S. government has final
ly recognized that German indus
try must be restored so that it can
produce a fair standard of living
for the people of Germany and aid
in the reconstruction of Europe
and the world.
The new directive of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff of the Military
Government of Germany declares
for creation of a strong economic
basis for German democracy, in
creasing the powers of elected Ger
man authorities and other steps
which the American Federation of
Labor has long advocated.
"a major step toward the estab-
lishment of sound and construc-
tive policy for Germany and
Europe" is the comment made by
Maurice j. Goldbloom, executive
secretary of the American Associa-
ton for a Democratic Germany, in
statement on the directive.
Declaring that the directive
showed clear understanding of
the role Germany must play in the
Marshall Plan, Goldbloom singled
out for praise the directive's en-
phasis on the creation of a sound
economic basis for German demo-
cracy, the assurance that the I'm
tied States would not block social
ization democratically decided on,
the increased powers given to
elected German authorities, and
the relaxation of present restric-
tions on civil liberties.
"The assurance that it is not
American policy to block the Soc
ialization of German industry, in
cases where this is the democratic
ally determined will of the German
people, will serve to contradict re-
cent rumors which have played in
to the hands of those who have ac-
eused the United States of at
tempting to impose it's economic
system on the rest of the world"
Goldbloom said.
He expressed the hope that as a
result of the full implementation
and liberal Interpretation of the
directive, "the resources of Ger
many and the abilities of the Ger
man people will be utilized for re-
construction, not only of Germany,
but of Europe"
DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr is chair
man Of the Association for a Dem
ocratic Germany and former Dean
Christian Gauss of Princeton is
honorary chairman. Other officers
and members of the executive and
national committees include Alfred
M. Bingham, former chief of the
Manpower Division of the Military
Government of Wuerttemberg-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Wisconsin Labor
Teaches Bosses
ALegoI Lesson

Madison, Wis. LPA)-Recently
a group of workers in the Kenosha,
Wis, plant of the American Brass
Co. got together and sued the corp
oration to recover money that had
been deducted from their wages in
violation of the law of the state of
Wisconsin. This money had been
deducted to cover alleged spoilage
by the employees of material used
on their jobs.
Instead of letting the suits come
up in court, the ABC settled the
cases for the amounts claimed by
the workers and also agreed to pay
the lawyers fees that the workers
had incurred. The amount paid to
the group Of 120 men was around
$1,000.
The employers of the state, real
izing that many of them were also
liable for similar suits because the
practice of making these illegal
deductions was widespread, inn
mediately introduced a new bill in
the Wisconsin legislature which
would outlaw the suits to recover
these deductions. Also, the new bill
would have made workers liable
for accidents to the machines at
which they worked, and for loss of
their tools thru theft The decision
as to whether the deduction should
be made would, under this bill,
have been up to the employer or to
the foreman.
On the first reading of the bill,
it passed by a vote of AZ to Al. A
motion TO reconsider the bill was
made and passed. Labor represent
atives from all over the state NOV
ed in to point out to their legisla-
tors why the law was unfair and
what would happen if it were
adopted. The AFL and the CIO
state organizations worked togeth-
er, with the help of some of the
larger locals, to get the point over
to the legislators. On the new vote,
the bill was defeated by margin
of seven votes.
The bill, at its last reading, was
opposed by farmers as we'll as city
workers because of the unusual
powers it would have given dairies
in deducting for spoiled milk.
Organized labor in Wisconsin is
jubilant about its victory, even
though realizing that it must con-
tipue to be on guard against the
re-introduction of the bill i'm some
disguised form.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
SHIP OFFICERS
WIN PAY RAISE

Mobile, Ala. (ILNS).-A S per
cent wage increase has been wor
by the Masters, Mates and Pilots
of America, AFL, in negotiations
with Atlantic and Gulf steamship
operators, Capt. E. w. Higgen-
botham, national president of the
union announced here.
Capt. Higgenbotham said the in
crease would be retroactive to June
16 and would be made an addition
to the existing contract, which ex-
pires Sept. SO.
Another new provision, he said,
is that the deck officers will re-
ceive overtime pay for work at sea
on nine standing holidays, except
where the holidays fall on Sunday.
Previously they received overtime
pay only for land duty on holidays.
Capt. Higgenbotham said the
agreement for the pay rise was
reached in New York at confer
ence between Capt. w. c. Ash, ma
tional vice-president of the union,
and Frank J. Taylor, president OF
the American Merchant Marine In
stitute, who signed for the Al
steamship lines in the institute.
The union president said confer
ences were under way with Pacific
Coast operators for wage in
creaseS.
He said masters now received
$616 monthly base pay, first offic-
ers (non-watch) 1896 monthly and
second officers 1916 monthly.