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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Ford Provokes
Union Foremen
To Pull Strike

Detroit (LPA)-The first major
test of strength between the auto
industry and it's unionized foremen
came last week as $500 members
of the Independent Foremen's
Assn of America walked out at
Ford Motor Co., after five months
of futile negotiations.
Both Ford and FAA announced
cancellation of the contract on
May 9, but the walkout was post
poned. Ford literally provoked the
FAA into striking by declaring
thru its vice-president in charge of
labor relations, John Bugas, that
"a strike of your relatively small
group at this time can accomplish
nothing in this situation 4"
Far more provoking, however,
was the company's refusal to do
anything about the unions demands
for: IA dues checkoff; 2-Exclu-
sive bargaining for all foremen; 8
Making seniority paramount in
questions of promotions and lay
off. AS the strike began, U. S.
conciliators were unsuccessful in
attempting to bring Ford and FAA
together in negotiations.
FAA President Robert Keys de-
clared his union could not accept
a vague promise instead of the
specific provisions we've been
fighting for" The FAA was not
striking for wage increases but its
demands were centered on ques-
tions of rights" The FAA sought,
for example, to limit the company's
right to reclassify foremen and the
right to continue to accept general
foremen.
Members of the United Auto
Workers-CIO, which continued to
bargain with Ford for a new con-
tract and a 23hc an hour wage
hike, remained at their jobs but
with the understanding that they
would not take over the positions
of the striking foremen. AFL truck
drivers, supplying Ford with parts,
refused to violate the picket lines.
Twenty-nine FAA chapters had
been previously certified by the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Mountford To
Local No. 6
Brotherhood Officials
Present AT Meeting

Wheeling, w. Va.-Highlighting
our regular meeting this month,
Pres. James Duffy together with
Sec.-Treas. Chas Jordan and Vice
Pres. Cotton Turner and Jim
Slaven paid the local a visit. Many
things pertaining to the trade were
cleared up by the National officials
for which the members of Local 6
are grateful. We take this means
to extend the invitation to men,
bers Of our Executive Board to at
tend our sessions at any time.
During the business meeting sew
eral matters of Importance were
taken up. Brother "Ted" Mountford
was elected as our delegate to the
National Convention with Brother
Geo. Friedrich being the alternate.
Both men have been very active
in Local affairs and either can be
counted upon to work for improve
ment in the trade.
The picnic is uppermost in the
minds of many of our members
and plans are going forward at a
rapid pace to make it as easy as
possible for those wishing to at
tend the June 14th affair. At this
writing, the local will charter two
buses, as some sixty members and
their friends have signed up for
seats. Yours truly has been asked
to make it known publicly all those
still undecided must have their
names listed with Brother Geo.
Grimm not later than June 1st. We
must know by then how many will
require transportation in order that
busses might be secured.
There are very meager number
of the picnic tickets still in the
hands of the committee and if you
are one of those who have not
made your purchase, do so at once.
AS in past years a Buick sedan is
the main prize.
A shortage of Glost Saggers is
up full production here in
which means that most
are temporarily on
four day per week schedule. The
40 hour week will probably go
back in effect after the vacation
period in July.-O. C. 6:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Riqht OfForemon
7oJoin Rank And
File Unions OK'd

Washington (LPA) = The right
of foremen and supervisory en-
ployes to be represented by a
rank file union moved a long
step toward final validation last
week when the u. S. Supreme
Court refused to hear an appeal
by the Jones & Laughlin Steel
Corp. from an Appeals Court de-
cision.
In effect, the Supreme Courts
decision was to uphold the Coal
Mine Administrations right to rec
ognize foreman's union affiliated
with the United Mine Workers
AFL. The government in taking
over the soft coal mines last year
recognized the UNIV as the bar
gaining agent for mine foremen.
Still pending, however, is the or.
iginal NLRB order holding that
supervisory employees may be rep
resented by a production union.
This case, now in the Third Cir
cult Court of Appeals in Philadel-
phia, may not reach the Supreme
Court before next fall.
In two other decisions the high
tribunal ruled that plant guards
may be represented by rank-and-
file unions. Jones & Laughlin and
the United Steelworkers-CIO were
involved in one case, and E. c.
Atkins & Co., Indianapolis, and
the independent Int'l Association
of Machinists in the other. The
NLRB had ordered-as early as
May 1943 in the J & l. case-the
companies to recognize the two
unions. On appeal the lower courts
held that the guards should not
be represented by the production
union. Last week the Supreme
Court ruled that the original NLRB
order should be obeyed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Union Democracy
Exceeds Industry
-SchWeIIenbuch

Shawnee on Delaware, Pa.
(LPA)-Democracy is probably a
much greater reality in American
trade unions than in industrial
corporations or even in municipal
elections, Labor Secretary Schwel-
lenbach told the Natl Textile Sem
mar here last week.
81 would like to remind you that
the rank and file of union members
are much closer to union affairs
than are the electors of most
Cities" Schwellenbach told his in
dustry audience. "Union members
have much more direct interest
and a more direct voice in the way
their unions are run than most citi-
zens have in the affairs of their
city-where the latter are allowed
to vote.
"As for the conduct of corporate
affairs-well, the average stock
holder in a big concern votes by
proxy, when he votes at ALL" Sch
wellenbach pointed out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
TimeChdnge
For Meetings
Of Locdl l24
Elect Officers At
Meeting On June 3

Starting with our first meeting
in June, Local Union 124 will only
meet on the first and third Tues
days during the summer months of
June, July, August and September.
This is our usual procedure and
proved very popular during the
hot weather.
All shop committees made their
usual report for the month, not
one absentee among the group. We
hope our attendance record will al
way be as fine as our recent meet
ings.
A fine attendance was on hand
at our last meeting to hear the re-
port of the special conference held
last week at headquarters. The de-
cal girls in East Liverpool are
strictly opposed to the figuring of
base price as offered by the man.
ufacturers.
At our next meeting on June 8,
nomination for local officers for
the next six months will be held.
Election will be held the follow
ing meeting on June 10 and it is
the duty of all members of the
local to be present and exercise
their privilege with the ballot.
With June IA only a few weeks
away, let's start planning now to
be on hand at Idora Park on that
date for our annual picnic. Who
knows-one of our decorators may
even ride home in a new Buick
o. G.. 124.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Sanitary VS.. Chinaware
In Diamond Classic

When the "Play Ball" signal
is given at the nineteenth an
nual picnic of the Brotherhood,
the two teams battling for the
mythical championship of the
pottery industry will be from
the sanitary and chinaware
branches of the industry.
Boasting one of the best rec
ords of any team to play in
the diamond classic at the re-
union, the Metuchen "nine"
carrying the colors of the Rich
mond Radiator Company is
rated as one of the best hit
ting and fielding clubs in the
state of New Jersey.
Boosting a record that is
unblemished to date, the Ster-
ling China team Of Wellsville,
representing the chinaware
branch of the industry not only
promises to take the scalp of
their opponents, but proudly
proclaim the results will show
the firm not only manufactur-
ers a high grade of dinner
ware, but sponsors ball team
worthy of the honor to play
under the Sterling China
colors.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
BedfaSt From Stroke

Ben Franklin, Sr., caster, who
was last employed at the Hall
China Co., previous to suffering
a stroke in October, 1941, is still
confined to his bed at his home,
1928 Odgen street, relatives inform
ed this office Monday.
Mr.. Franklin, is the father of Ben
Franklin, Jr., caster at the Hall
China Co., and Dale w. Franklin,
of the Pioneer Pottery Co. A
daughter, Mrs. Thurman Mosser,
resides in Newell.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Big Sum Spent In Drive To
Defect Heulth Insurance

New York City (ILNS).-The
Committee for the Nations Health
says that more than 100000 was
spent in the last 5 months of 1916
to defeat the enactment of National
Health Insurance, according to the
records of registration under the
Lobbying Act. This act requires
that individuals and organizations
in the business of exerting influ-
ence on Congress be required to
register their quarterly expendi-
lures.
For the period August-Decem-
ber, 1916, the National Physicians
Committee, propaganda arm of or
ganized medicine in its function
of opposing the National Health In
surance Bill, reported spending
$780, GOO or at the rate OF approxi-
nlately three-quarters of million
dollars for the year.
In the same period, the Commit
tee for the Nations Health, tic
key national organization leading
the fight for the enactment of this
essential health bill spent $25, 1916.
This year with the fight on
health legislation waxing hotter by
the moment, the National Physi-
clans committee, which draws it's
funds from entrenched organized
medicine and the big drug and
pharmaceutical firms, can be ex-
pected to spend as much or more
than previously, it is charged.
The Committee for the Nations
Health, 1870 Broadway, New York
10, N. Y, depending on labor and
liberal forces for contributions, is
now appealing to all pro-health in
surance groups for financial sup
port. The success of this fund-rais-
ing campaign will determine the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Rail Unions DENY
'Quickie Strike
Push Wage Drive

Washington (LPA) - Railroad
brotherhoOds are going all out in
their drives for wage increases and
changes in working rules, but
there's no danger of a "quickie"
strike on the roads.
That was the official assurance
given by leaders of the Brother
hoods after some newspapers car
ried scare stories to the effect that
a strike by operating" unions on
the railroads was imminent.
President Alvanley Johnston, of
the Locomotive Engineers, Presi-
dent A. F. Whitney of the Train
men, and Assistant President c.
j. Goff of the Locomotive Fire
men & Enginemen, made it clear
that the organizations will adhere
to machinery Of the Railway Labor
Act and "there will be no strike"
Two different movements are be-
ing pressed by the rail unions,
Seventeen organizations, repre-
senting over 100000 "non-operat-
ing" employes-that is, those out
side of the train, engine and yard
service-are demanding a Ocean
hour increase.
Five others, representing 100000
in the train, engine and yard serv-
ice, are at present concentrating
on demands for changes in work
ing rules to eliminate many long
standing abuses. Committees of
the five started conferences in
Cleveland this week to map the fl
nal program. Ultimately, it may
include demands for pay raises al
so.
The demands of the II "non-
operating" unions are about to
reach the stage of industry-wide
collective bargaining conferences.
The bulk of the railroads have
agreed to such negotiations.
Meanwhile, the "non-ops" de-
nounced string of ads run by the
railroads in the newspapers all
over the country, which sought to
whip up public sentiment against
a raise for railroad workers. G. E.
Leighty, chairman of the joint |
negotiating committee of the mon
ops, denounced the ads as "mis-
leading" and as painting a false
picture of the workers demands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
STU Wins First
4O-Hour Week On
The Great Lakes

Detroit (LPA) = The first 40
hour week contract ever signed by
any maritime union on the Great
Lakes was won last week when the
Seafarers Int'l UniOn-AFL conclud-
ed an agreement with the Great
Lakes sandboat operators.
The basic monthly wage scale
remained the same, but the 16
hours of weekend overtime on Sat-
urday and Sunday will be paid for
at the rate of 81 per hour. This
means that the monthly scale,
which ranges from high of 1921
to low of $171 for various rat
ings, will be augmented by about
$40 monthly overtime.
Under the new contract, month
ly take-home pay will range from
$3.50 to $24O. In addition to this,
all penalty overtime as specified
in the contract will be paid for at
the rate of $125 an hour.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Congress Calls
Steel Firms In
Monopoly Probe

Washington (LPA) - The ma
tion's four largest steel companies
were summoned to Washington last
week to testify on legislation de-
signed to plug the loopholes in the
anti-monopoly laws. U. S. Steel,
Bethlehem, Inland and Jones &
Laughlin were the firms whose
practices Senate subcommittee
wished to learn about.
The anti-monopoly bill, intro
duced in the Senate by Sen. Joseph
O'Mahoney d., Wyo.) and in the
House by Rep. Estes Kefauver ID,
TENN would prohibit monopolis-
tic mergers engineered by the ac-
QUESTION of assets. The Sherman
Antitrust Act now bans only the
acquisition by one firm of rivals
stock. Kefauver's bill got push
forward when it was approved by
Judiciary subcommittee.
Meanwhile new storm warnings
against the rust of American in
dustry toward monopoly were sent
up in New York by Wendell Berge,
former chief of the Justice Depart
ment's antitrust division.
Domination of economic life by
the concentration of private eco
nomic power inevitably leads to
complete control of the economy by
the government" said Berge in an
address to the New Council of
Business. "This country
cannot risk a repetition of the
normalcy and false prosperity
which followed World War l."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29

IN ie Dy congress toward reallZa-
ii, of "some of the goals"
- But we must not rest until we
ye achieved all of our objec-
~l1ves," he asserted.
Asks 5-POint Program
The President added that until
he 18th insurance is provided by
Congress 1--WE shall be wasting our
nost precious national resource
a 4 shall be prepetuating unneces-
So y misery and human suffering"
lie said the total program, de-
S med to make the opportunity for
g health available to all, regard
les. residence, race or economic
status, nust include:
1. Ade>. late public health serv-
ices, including an expanded ma
ternal and child health program.
2. Additional medical research
and medical education.
3. More hospitals and more doc
tors-in all areas of the country
where they are needed.
a. Insurance against the cost of
medical care.
5. Protection against loss of
earnings during illness.
Truman told Congress that of
the basic risks to the security Of
working people and their families
the nation had provided some pros.
lection against 3-unemployment,
shsa9e md death. -
Sees "MajOr Missing Element"
Protection against the fourth
-sickness-is the major missing
element in our national social in
france program" he added.
The social insurance system, the
President declared, should include
comprehensive disability insurance
to protect the people against loss
of earnings due to illness or dis
ability not connected with their
work.
Truman pointed out that under
the program he has proposed pa
tients twill be as free to select
their own doctors as they are to-
day." and that doctors and hospi-
tails will be free to participate or
not.
He added that the plan should
provide for administration through
state and local agencies, subject
only to reasonable national stan
dards.
Says Doctors Concentrated
(TUrm to PaaP TxDsj
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Westchester Unions
Hit Taft Labor Bill

White Plains, N. Y. QLNS). =
Members of ITS Westchester Coun-
ty labor unions, meeting here, de-
nounced the Taft union control bill
as an anti-labor measure that
would lead to industrial chaos"
American Federation of Labor,
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tons and independent unions were
represented. About $500 ,unionists
attended
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29

paid-up dues prizes of 500, 100
piece Warwick dinner set, three
53-piece sets, and five prizes of
a years paid-up dues. You must
have your book with you. If you
think you can also take prize
for the oldest couple, one of whom
is an active member, sign your
name again.
From eleven O'Clock in the morn
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Potters 18th Annual Picnic Just Two Weeks AWay
SKIS CONGRESS
\OTELONC RANGE
health PROGRAM

Washington, D. C. QLNS) Immediate development of
nat ona health and disability insurance programs long ad
vos tied BY the American Federation of Labor urged
by President Truman in special message to Congress.
The President declared that national health
the heart of comprehensive health which should
be inaugurated as Crucial to national welfare"
Truman's message reviewed the long range national
health program which he recommended Nov. 49, 945
in he pleased that important advances have been
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29

Buses will again carry happy
loads to the park. The committee
has been unable to announce a
schedule or prices from the vari-
Gus cities, but will probably be
able to settle this at their next
meeting.
Don't forget to walk up to the
special booth to register for the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29
Plans All Set As Picnic Time
Draws Closer And Closer

Here comes Only weeks the day of the
bee will hold forth dora busy midway friends stand
ing each other for the first time years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-29

taurant and paVO Tree cOee ana CREAM and iUI saer
items that to make the potters annual outing the smooth
running successes that they
Since has been five since our last outing the
union this will undoubtedly be the best attended with
between twenty-five thousand potters and their friends
pected crowd the popular Youngstown park they arrive
from the pottery in the east midwest and south
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19

many not officially committed to
it, believe that this movement has
the future of American Jewry in
it's hands.
There are other concrete rea-
sons for encouragement. I was
shown the blueprints of dozen
and more projected synagogue
buildings. They are magnificent.
In Houston, Texas, two Conserva-
tive congregations have combined
into one called Beth Yeshurun,
with a membership of 1,100 fam
lilies. The new synagogue edifice
for this congregation is to rise
on a twelve-acre stretch of land
in the finest section of the fast
growing city. In the Jewish COM
munity at the other end of my
journey-Vancouver, British Co
lumbia in the past six or seven
years has virtually doubled its
Jewish population.
One of the suburbs of the rap
idly expanding city of Los An
geles, the section called West
chester, is a new development for
lower-m -middle-class home owners.
The Jews who live there are pro-
fessionals, small business men and
white collar workers. In their de-
sire "to provide for their own
house also" they decided to build
a synagogue. They could not af-
ford to engage architects, etc., so
they decided to follow the old
American tradition of building
their house of worship with their
own hands. They pooled their tai
ents and energies and they are
now the designers, the bricklayers
and the carpenters for their own
edifce. The most remarkable
thing about these men is that they
are all young, most of them vet
erans of World War II.
When I asked these young
American Jews why they were
giving top priority to congrega-
tional life, one of them replied:
"I have come to feel that the
synagogue is the gateway to Jew
ish living" Another said: "The
Community Center is o. K. But
it is altogether secular and will
not, because it can not, save my
children for Judaism"
And a third declared: Fighting
anti-Semitism is necessary. How
ever, I have become convinced
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19

stroyed by the Romans, and set
tied at the ancient port of Graga-
not, in the year AID. 70. Within
three centuries they established
a kingdom and lived peacefully
with their Hindu neighbors, some
of them intermarrying with In
dians, whose descendants are call
ed "black Jews" In the 18th CEN
tury the colony was almost ex-
terminated by the Moors and fled
twenty miles south to present day
Cochin. In the late 10th century
they barely managed to survive
persecution by the Portuguese, but
with the advent of the Dutch and
later the English it flourished
again in the 18th century.
Today, according to S. Koder,
leader of the community, there
are only 10 families, comprising
go persons concentrated in Syna-
gogue Street. More than 25 per-
cent are more than so years-old
and most of the young people left
are planning to go to Bombay and
Calcutta.
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19
1900 YEAR-OLD INDIAN
JEWISH COMMUNITY
FACING EXTINCTION

NEW YORK (JPS)-One of the
oldest Jewish settlements outside
of Palestine, the famous colony of
white Jews" in Cochin, on the
west coast of India, which for al
most 10 centuries survived war,
and persecution by va
rious races, faces extinction with
in the next ten or fifteen years
due to natural decline, the New
York Herald Tribune reports in a
dispatch from Cochin.
According to legend, the Trl-
bune says, 10000 Jews sailed in a
fleet from Palestine after the sec
ond Temple of Jerusalem was de-
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19

all the facts, out of the apparent
maze of confusion and conflicting
interests. He presents end inter
prets happenings in relationship
to human beings on the basis of
mutual responsibility and mutual
respect for each other and all
others.
Agronsky is young man, out
of college in 1896 and actually
the youngest Washington news an
alyst. He was Palestine corre-
spondent for the Palestine Post
and Christian Science Monitor;
reporter overseas in Spain during
the turbulent days when the
Spanish Loyalists sought to sur
vive; in Cairo when Rommel was
hammering; at Singapore when
the Japs attacked.
Since 1943 he's been Washing
ton correspondent with ABC. On
your first listening you'll be con-
vinced of his sincerity and COM
petence.
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19

When one has the pleasant ex-
perience of listening to a COM
petent, concise, well-balanced re-
port of national and international
news, he has the responsibility to
pass that information on to others.
Martin Agronsky, heard over
KOPO daily at 7:15 a. m. Ga wee
bit early we admit), is such a
person. The listener feels here is
such a person who tries to get
The Arizona post., 1947-09-19

that even though we Jews may
never destroy anti-Semitism, we
can do lot to prevent anti-Sem-
itism from destroying us. Our
synagogues can provide us and
our children with the necessary
armor of self-respect, self-confi-
dence and self-knowledge to pre-
vent the poisoned arrows of anti
Semitism from piercing our own
souls"