davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-23
Red Cross Pledges
Aid ToFood Saving

Full support of President
Truman's Food committee pro-
gram for conservation of food in
order to help alleviate European
starvation was pledged by Chair
man Thomas r. Orell, for the
Wilmington chapter of the Am
erican Red Cross, yesterday.
Oreu said that he had received
a telegram from the Atlanta
regional Red Cross office asking
for cooperation and requesting
that Wilmington "offer maxi
mum chapter facilities for stim-
ulation of-further community
participation as one of the agen-
cies cooperating"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Workmen's Compensation Amended
In rs Sfofes To Raise All Benefits

Chicago ILNS) - At least 25
states this year amended work
mems compensation laws to in
crease disability and death bene-
fits for millions of employees, the
Council of State Governments says.
Nevada completely revamped it's
compensation law, making it COM
pulsory instead of elective. All en-
ployers having or more employees
are covered. Forty-seven states
have workmen's compensation
laws, 81 Of which now require par
ticipation of most employers ex-
cept those in agriculture and some
white collar work.
Occupational Ills Covered
Five states this year for the first
time enacted laws providing COM
pensation for workers disabled by
occupational diseases. These states
are Iowa, Nevada, South Dako-
ia, Tennessee and Texas. Thirty
eight states now protect workmen
in this manner against time lost
because of diseases acquired in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
LABOR EDITOR FAILS.
Indictment REFUSED
ON CLOSED SHOP LAW

lawed in IA states: Arizona, Della
ware, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, N. Caro-
lima, N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Tennes-
see, Texas and Virginia. In New
Mexico bill proposing a constitu-
tional amendment banning the clos
ed shop was passed and will be
submitted to the popular vote at
the next election.
Picketing and other strike acti-
vities were restricted or regulated
in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware,
Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, Miss
ouri, N. Dakota, Pennsylvania, s..
Dakota, Texas and Utah. In Della
ware, N. Dakota and Utah, picket
ing is legal only if the majority of
employees have voted in favor of a
strike. A strike is illegal unless ap-
proved by a majority vote in Del
aware, Missouri, N. Dakota, Ore
gon and Utah.
Secondary boycotts were pro-
hibited by California, Delaware,
Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,
N. Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Texas and Utah. Laws regulating
or prohibiting jurisdictional strikes
were enacted in California, Mass
achusetts, Michigan, Missouri and
Pennsylvania. Ten states regulat-
ed disputes in public utilities.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Food Price Rise
Unchecked: Meat
Shortage On Way

Washington (LPA)-Food prices
are at an all-time high, and still
climbing. There will be shortage
of meat-and more high prices
next winter. Great Britain has
stopped all food buying in the us.
because of soaring prices.
With this grim prospect, Mr.. and
Mrs. Average Consumer have little
cause for cheer. The Gallup Poll
last week asked: $50 you think
that prices in general will be high
er, lower, or about the same six
months from now?" To this ques-
ton, 418o answered higher" and
3O46 answered "the same" while
only 208o said slower" and $40
had no opinion. This is in sharp
contrast to April of this year, when
Congress was still in session, and
469o Of those polled predicted low
er prices; then, only 22fo foresaw
higher prices.
Retail food prices advanced 1.4%
between mid-June and mid-July,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported last week, reaching a new
peak for the second successive
month. Preliminary figures indicate
an even sharper increase continu-
ing into mid-September. On July
Is, the family food bill was 16h
above year ago, and 1867 above
August 1889, the last month before
war broke out in Europe.
The American Meat Institute,
meeting in Chicago last week, ap-
peared to be contradicting it's own
propaganda about prices. On al
most the same day, the AMI
bought ads in daily papers predict
ing "MOre meat is on the way >.
perhaps 1870 more this fall and
winter" and AMI Chairman John
Krey predicted drop in meat pro-
duction because of the corn crop
failures. The AMI's chairman and
the AMI's ad agree, however, that
it was all the fault of the house.
(Turn TO Page Tsv0)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
COP SENATOR
HITS CONTROL
OF OIL D GUARD

Washington LPA) = "Inner
circle" control of Congress by the
Republican "Old Guard" was con-
demned last week by Republican
Senator who warned that the COP
may suffer defeat in the 1948 cleo
tions if this domination continues.
Freshman Senator Raymond E.
Baldwin declared in a magazine
article that eff we act in the inter-
est only of a minority of rock-rib-
bed Republicans we shall again
quickly become a minority party.
If we are to remain the majority
party, we must act effectively in
the interests of the people"
The Old Guard, said Baldwin,
"gravely hindered" the Republican
program in the last session. Far
from being certain a COP election
triumph in 1948 may hinge on the
independent voters of at least 20
"switch states" including New
York, Pennsylvania, California,
Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts,
and Missouri, he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11

line of duty.
All 5 new laws cover silicosis,
major occupational diseases of min
ers, as well as providing benefits
for sufferers of numerous other
diseases. New York broadened it's
compensation to silicosis victims so
that the state assumes financial
responsibility for benefits paid
after the 260 weeks of disability.
This years legislatures in at
least Is states increased other
compensation benefits in some
way. Colorado, Montana, New Mex
leo, North Carolina, Oregon and
Texas generally increased both
death and disability benefits. Della
ware provided for payment of COM
pensation during the entire period
of disability instead of limiting it
to 500 weeks.
Kansas and Washington increas-
ed the maximum death and disabil-
ity benefits provided by employers.
Vermont increased maximum bene-
Turn to Page Tso0)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Pocking Of Rent
Boards Provokes
Nuf'I Profe IS

Washington (LPA) A double
barrelled prediction made last
week by Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R.,
Mich.) may get.him in trouble with
irate homeseekers and tenants in a
couple of months.
Almost in the same breath, VOL
colt told reporters that: 1-if the
housing shortage is not licked by
March 81, 1948, rent controls will
probably be continued, but 2-if we
keep up the present momentum of
building, we may say that the hous-
ing shortage is reasonably licked
by them.
Acute dissatisfaction with the
makeup of local rent control
boards, which have the deciding
voice under the present COP YER
sion of rent control, was expressed
nationwide last week. Landlords
and real estate brokers made up
the majority of board after board,
nominated by states governors.
Organized labor was occasionally
recognized by one-man or woman
minority place; tenants in general
were in minority.
Housing Expeditor Frank Cree
don, responding to storm of cri-
ticism as each community discover
ed it had been saddled with
"high-rent" board, agreed to re-
view all nominations to see that
each board represents cross sec
tion of the citizens of the commun-
ity or area, especially of landlords
and tenants"
81 would not consider as repre-
sentative any board consisting pre-
dominantly of tenants or land
lords" Creedon asserted. "Both
groups should be adequately repre-
sented, but neither group should
dominate the board.
"In addition to landlord and ten
ant representation, each board
should have members representing
the public at large or public-inter-
est groups"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11

Chicago (LPA) - A Tennessee
grand jury has refused for the
third time to indict Editor Tom
Cuthbert, of the Labor World,
Chattanooga AFL paper, for vio-
lation Of the states new anti-clos-
ed shop law.
Cuthbert deliberately signed a
closed shop agreement with the
IntI Typographical Union-AFL in
an attempt to challenge the consti-
tutionality of the statute. Three
times the grand jury returned a
no-true bill.
In Texas, Secretary Fl. w. Acre
man, Of the Texas State Fedora
tion of Labor, announced that the
AFL will make legal challenges Of
all of the states nine new anti
labor laws which went into effect
last week. They include: 1-Ban ON
the closed shop; 2-Ban on second
airy strikes and boycotts; 3-Subject
unions to civil and criminal anti
trust laws; 4-Written consent be-
fore a dues checkoff; elimination
of the number of pickets; 6-and a
ban on strikes by public employees.
In Washington, the Labor Dept
released revised study of labor
laws passed by state legislatures
this year. The closed shop or other
forms of union security was out
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Offici al S Back
Further Help To
Western Europe

Washington (LPA) = AFL and
CIO officials last week joined with
other members of the Natl Plann-
ing Associations Committee on
International Policy in warning
that western European countries
will "fall prey to Communism and
dictatorship" unless US. assistance
keeps them from sinking into ever
deepening economic distress.
A statement entitled "America's
Vital Interest in European Recov-
ery," which urged support of the
Marshall plan, was released by the
Committee whose members include
Michael Ross, CIO director of in
ternational affairs, and Solomon
Barkin Of the Textile Workers I'm
Vice-chaimen of the NPA
are Marion Hedges, research dir
ector of the Int'l Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers-AFL, and Clin-
ton Golden, former assistant to
CIO President Philip Murray.
If the western European coun-
tries should fall into Communist
hands "such catastrophe devel-
opment would plunge the world
into economic and political turmoil
and would threaten the well-being
Of our people and the integrity of
our institutions" said the state
ment.
In answer to the argument that
further us. aid would strengthen
Socialist government thruout west
Turn to Page Tsv0)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11

Washington, D. C. QLNS)-In
statement released through the
AFL Union Label Trades Depart
ment, John P. Burke, president of
the International Brotherhood of
Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers, says:
"By promoting a drive for the
purchase of union-made goods, let
us start counter-offensive against
the Congressman and Senators who
are trying to enact antiunion shop
legislation. If the more than seven
million members of the American
Federation of Labor, their families
and their friends would make
solemn resolve to buy union-made
goods only-and stick to this re-
solve-we could laugh at the eff
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Buy Union Urged To Coun+erocf
Drive To Pass AnfiIdbor legislation

forts of some of our Senators and
Congressman who pass antiunion
legislation. Here is a weapon that
labor has in its hands that cannot
be outlawed, even if all the Sena-
tors had the same kind of arc
haic mind as Senator Ball.
"The reason why union men
should spend their union wages for
union-made goods is too obvious
for argument. 1t is consumers who
furnish the markets for the pro-
ducts of American industry. When
we spend our union wages we
should spend it for products made
by union men and women. Not a
single dollar earned in a union shop
should be spent for the purchase
of products made in non-union
Shops"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
SpecioI Congress
Session In Fall
Seen More Likely

Washington-(LPA)-A special
session of Congress = repeatedly
urged by labor and liberal leaders
became a more distinct possibil-
ity last week when it was learned
that Secretary of State George
Marshall may ask the President to
summon the lawmakers in advance
of the scheduled session on Jan. 2.
The growing European crisis and
the pressing need for. more effec-
tive aid to stave off impending eco
nomic bankruptcy in the distressed
countries requires the swiftest
Congressional action, according to
labor and government officials.
The proposal drew immediate
fire, however, from Congressional
Republicans who contended there
was no emergency. Rep. George
Bender (R., Ohio) contended that
Truman is moving from one inter-
national crisis to another in order
to establish himself as leader
who should not be abandoned in the
MIDST of virtual state of war"
Sen. Albert Hawkes. (R., N. J.) de-
clared that 81 know of nothing
that Congress by being in session
could solve any more promptly
than they can by awaiting event
ualities. The wisest help we can
give to the world is the help that
comes from letting the world know
that each nation must
stand on its own feet and take care
of itself"
AFL Secretary-treasurer George
Meany and CIO Secretary-Treas-
urer James Carey, each of whom
is serving on three subcommittee
Of a special non-partisan citizens
on the Marsall plan, will
present labor's viewpoint on AM
arica's ability to produce the goods
needed for European rehabilitation.
The subcommittee reports will
form part of a comprehensive an
alysis to be drafted by former Sen.
Robert LaFollette Jr. prog, Wis.,
'or presentation to Truman by Oct.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Lobor-Hofing Ads
Again Stink Up
Dolly Newspapers

New York-(LPA)-The labor
hating Committee For Constitution
al Government, backed by reaction
ary publisher Frank Gannett, last
week started a new series of full
page anti-labor newspaper ads at
tacking unions for resisting the
Taft Hartley law.
Headlined "Unions Defy Your
Government. How Long Will You
Stand For This? The ads appeal
ed to union-baiting employers in
such language as the following:
"Tf ough they collect dues from
only about 22T6 of the nations
workers, monopolistic unions now
constitute a super-government.
They will be even stronger than the
American people themselves-un-
less you, the people, stop them
and keep them within the bounds
of law"
The Committee frequently brand
ed as a near fascist outfit by labor
leaders, maintained that "a few
hundred top union bosses control a
larger income than all our churches
combined-$425 millions annually
in regular union dues. plus
a previously estimated 5000 mil
lion in special assessments (now
being greatly increased for strike
fundsO, and the services of 100000
shop stewards whose wages of 5000
million are paid by industry.
"The army of this invisible law
defying super-government has de-
clared a war of determination
against the representatives you
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Sfufe And Local
Units To Testify
On Living Costs

Washington LPA) = The CIO
has called upon its local and state
industrial union councils to organ
ize consumers testimony in more
than 20 cities where hearings on
current high price levels will be
1n0nducted by subcommittee of the
A pint Congressional Committee on
the Economic Report.
In letter and two memos, sent
from headquarters this week, local
officials were urged to ask for time
to be heard. Chairman Emil Rieve
of the Full Employment Committee
sent the letter, and Councils Dir
ector John Brophy added his sug
gestion that the hearings will pro-
vide an Opportunity for drawing
the attention of the community as
whole to the very serious problem
of rising prices"
Stanley Ruttenberg, assistant
director of research, sent out a
sample questionable for collecting
facts on the consumer problems"
IF workers, along with the Rieve
/ ter and the Brophy memo.
Seven major factors as they ap-
pear in each community will be
stressed in the testimony: the eff
feet of price increases on individ-
ual savings; the effect Of rising
food prices on families abilities to
buy other consumer goods, such as
clothing, electrical appliances, fur
nishings, etc.; the degree of pro-
fiteering by local merchants or
manufacturers; the relationship
between wages and prices; COM
parison of retail food prices while
OPA was in operation with present
prices; and recent increases in
rent levels.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
ClurksburQ
Local Stunds
BY Shedrer
Case Is Referred To
Discharge Committee

Clarksburg, w. Va. Warm
weather was no obstacle to men,
bers of Local Union SO last Monday
evening, and the attendance was
the best we have had during the
summer months.
Vieing with the weather was
the discussion pertaining to the
discharge case of Bro. Chas. Shear
er. The local as a whole feels this
is one case where discrimination
was shown and voiced their opin-
ions in no uncertain terms. We do
not intend to sit idly by and see
such practices enforced here in
Clarksburg. The case has been re-
ferred to the discharge committee.
Bro. Dave Bevan made a report
of the wage conference in Pitts
burgh, and needless to say, we were
all very happy with the wage in
crease and other adjustments made
in the contract. While we do not
expect the 6 cents to meet the
ever increasing cost of food prices,
every little bit helps and tends to
help satisfy the call of the inner
man.
A very lengthy shop commit
tee report in which several griev-
ances reaching the danger point
were very ably handled and salts
faction accorded all parties con-
cerned, were approved by the local.
Due to the reports of Bro. Bev-
an and the shop committee, con-
suming the major portion of time
the local was in session, discussion
for the adoption of family group
insurance was held over until our
next meeting. AS this matter will
effect every member of the local,
a full attendance is anticipated at
our next meeting.
Misfortune again has overtaken
Bro. Benny Leroy and he is a pa
tient in the local hospital. Reports
state he is in a very serious con-
dition. Our earnest wish for a
speedy recovery.
Bro. Frank DeMundo is all smiles
these days and reports there is
nothing like married life. o. X.
Frank, but remember in a few
months bowling season will be on
hand and you will have to have
the little lady's permission for an
Turn TO Page Tsco)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Price Inquiry Takes
Fright At Unionists
Probers Chance
rlons Overnight
As L cb orAcfS

Fresno, Calif.-(LPA) - When
AFL spokesman announced last
week that they could show where
the responsibility for high food
prices rests, the Congressional sub
committee probing labor ere
straints" in the food production and
distribution industries changed its
plans overnight.
Instead of holding hearings in
this important fruit and vegetable
processing center, the Congression-
al subcommittee headed by Rep.
Wint Smith (R., Kans.) decided to
Htour the rich agricultural San Joa-
Vhin valley = under the wing of
Bob Schmeiser, state head of Asso-
ciated Farmers, an outfit that is
to the factory farmers" in Cali
fornia what the Natl Association
of Real Estate Boards is to the
landlord.
Officials of three Fresno unions
Teamsters, Butcher Workmen
and Farm Labor, all AFL-stood
by with facts and figures to show
union practices had done nothing
to raise farm costs in the valley.
They were all set to prove the
shoe was actually on the other
foot.
Smiths committee indicated the
kind of job it was planning to do
in San Francisco where an un-
scheduled hearing completely ig-
nored unionists but listened pat
iently to big industrial farmers.
Two union officials were ready
to give the subcommittee testi-
mony on the Associated Farmers
which, according to Business Man.
ager Harry Macdonald, of Teams
tiers Local All, preferred incompe-
tent non-unionists thereby endan-
gering public safety by turning
unskilled drivers loose on the high
ways Despite wage freeze
voted by the butchers m this area,
most meat prices have risen 2O9o
since last May, Macdonald said.
"The local packers tell us that
Neither the retailers nor the whole
SAlers are making a dime extra out
of this increase" Macdonald de-
clared. "They lay the price increase
directly at the door of the cattle
men, and have told us the cattle
mems claim of feed cost increases
is just so much hogwash. AS a
matter Of fact, the San Joaquin
valley cattle are fed on Gods
green grassland not grain fed at
all.
II have the facts on one such
transaction. have the name of
one cattleman who bought 1000
head Of cattle, range fed them for
3 days-without paying one dime
for grain-and then sold them at
a prof of $4,000. He sold 100
for $40 profit each and 900 for $14
each in profit. All this was added
to the cost met by consumers, and
(Turn TO Page TeOO)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
Civil Liberties
Put On Defensive
During Past Year

New York-UPA)-Invasion Of
labor's rights thru the Taft-Hart-
ley Law and anti-labor state leg
islation were among the reasons
cited last week by the American
Civil Liberties Union for drawing
a pessimistic picture of the state
of the nations civil liberties.
The ACLU, which has the sup
port of all sections Of organized
labor, declared in its annual re-
port, THE optimism expressed by
the Union for some years in the
annual reviews must today give
way to considerable measure of
apparently justified scepticism cons
cerning the immediate future of
our democratic liberties as instru-
ments of progress"
The report emphasized that
Congress in one sweeping act
aimed at organized labor's econo-
mic and political power put many
of it's hard-won rights of over
decade in a legal straight jacket.
The administration in a move TO
anticipate and forestall Congress
sional action frightened unreason-
ably the machinery for ridding the
federal service of any employees
suspected of Communist sympa-
thies. No major bill extending civil
liberties passed the Congress.
"In the states measures aimed
at the rights of the trade unions
were widely adopted. In the south
lynchings increased, reflecting
growing racial tension born of
Negro advance. In almost all fields
of expression, liberal and minority
forces were thrown back on the de-
fensive."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-11
F. T. C. Says "CysteX"
Won't Cure Your Ills

Advertising claims made for
"Cystex," a patent medicine, are
false and misleading" the Feder-
al Trade Commission charged this
week.
1t is not true, the commission de-
clared, that Cystex will cure prac-
tically anything that ails you-in-
cluding "getting up nights, back
ache, dizziness, swollen ankles,
rheumatic pains, feeling old and
rundown, and circles under the
eyes"
Those claims sound absurd, yet
newspapers and magazines publish
Cystex advertising.