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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07

E. A. Rice made a business trip
to Kalispell Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. King and
Marilyn of Spokane spent Sunday
visiting Mrs. H. J. McDougall.
Miss Mary Rogers of Seattle is
visiting at the c. Swimley home
for a couple of weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed King and daugh-
ter, Marilyn of Spokane, visited over
the weekend in Libby with Mrs.
Kings mother, Mrs. H. J. McDougal.
Mrs. Duane Daugharty and Miss
Ida Daugharty were Kalispen visit
ors Saturday, making the trip by
plane.
D o. Mount, manager of the Mon
tana State Employment Service,
will be at the Public Welfare of
flee in Eureka, Wednesday, Aug. ID.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Dale Woods of
Hopson visited Sunday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Haschke.
Mrs. HaschlSe accompanied them to
Great Falls where she will visit
her sister and several friends.
Pershing Gooselaw left Saturday,
going to Missoula where he visited
over the weekend with Earl Lovick;
going from MisSoula to Great Falls
to attend the fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hampton re-
turned Sunday from Eureka, where
they have spent the past several
weeks during the illness and follow
ing the death of Mrs. Lampton's
mother, Mrs. A. M. Frost, who pas
sed away July %.
Regular meeting Local 1862, Lib
by Moose Hall, August 18th at p.
m.-Allen Goodgame. Secy.
Visitors at the R. S. Fields. S. A.
Rasmussen, and F. L. DeRosia
homes this week are Mr. and Mrs.
c. B. Prichard and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellsworth Stark and son, Richard
Lee. of Bartlesville, Okla. Mrs.
Prichard was called home Wednes-
day morning, by the serious illness
of her sister but expects to return
to finish her visit as soon as pos
sible. Mrs. Prichard is a sister
of Mrs Fields, Mrs. Rasmussen and
Mrs. DeRosia and Mrs Stark is their
niece.
Omitted from the wedding story
of Violet Martin and Delmer Mich
ener was the fact that Mrs. Mich
ener is the niece of j. W. Baker,
Mrs. Fred johnson and Mrs. c. A.
Polette and the granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. ]. A. Baker, all of this
city Mr.. and Mrs. Orlan Welch
are the mother and step-father of
the bride
and Sawmill Workers
Union No. 1881 meets the End and
4th Tuesday of each month.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07
LIBBYITEMS

Miss Terry Sullivan of Rockford,
Wash, and Miss Jessie Butler of
Spokane spent the weekend in Lib
by where they visited Miss Florence
Fennessy. Miss Sullivan and Miss
Butler are roommates of Miss Fen
messy at Marylhurst college in Spo-
kane.
Mrs. ]. Ostrup and Mrs. w. T.
Shaw of Picture Butte, Alberta
stopped in Libby Thursday enroute
home from Vancouver, B. c., where
they attended Royal Purple Con-
vention. They visited for few
days at the homes of Mrs. Chas.
Krebs, a sister of Mrs. Shaw; Mrs.
Maud Nelson, who is Mrs. Ostrup's
mother, and Mrs. Joe Pondelick, a
sister
Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Yaple; Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Felix of Billings and three
children; Mrs. Mabel Felix of Kalis-
pell, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Ramsey of Kalispell picnicked and
visited at the Stan Young home on
Flathead Lake last Sunday. Mrs.
VIM. Felix is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Yaple, and Mrs. Mabel Felix
is a mother of William Felix and
Mrs. Ramsey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler and child
rem, Garth, Haren and Judy Anne
were guests over the weekend at
the Gordon Daugharty home. Mrs.
Wheeler and Mrs. Daugharty are
sisters. The Wheelers live in Pc
shastin, Wash. Another sister, Miss
Judy Wilson of the u. S. Navy is
also a guest at the Daugharty home.
Visitors at the E. J. Driear home
from Monday until Thursday were
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hurgert and daugh-
ter, Barbara, from Nampa, Ida. Mrs
Hurgert is Mrs. Driear's aunt and
this is the first time in Is years
that they have seen each other The
Driears, Hurgerts and Mrs. Geo.
Driear spent Tuesday at their cabin
on East Fisher. Mr.. and Mrs. Hur-
CERT were very much impressed
with the Libby vicinity.
Sgt. and Mrs. McCorkle of Havre,
accompanied by Mrs. Hazel Nemetz
of Lehman, drove over to Libby
last Saturday. The Sergeant and
his wife returned Monday but Mrs.
Nemetz remained over till Tuesday
afternoon. returning by rail. Mrs.
Nemetz, who is the former Miss
Hazel Kennedy is a former resident
of Libby, her father at one time
owning The Western News. Mrs.
Nemetz owns the building and has
other holdings in and near Libby.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07
PLAN CHURCH PICNIC
SUNDAY AT LAKE

The Catholic Church in Libby is
planning to hold a parrish picnic
next Sunday noon. The gathering
will be held at Schoolhouse Lake
where a full afternoon of interesting
events is planned.
Two buses will leave the church
not later than 11:30 according to
the Rev. FIR. O'Malley, who added
that all members of the parrish
who do not have their own means
of transportation, will be taken 10
the picnic in the buses.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07

Miss Dorothy Hammelman Of
Deer Park, Wis, left for home Mon.
day after visiting over a month at
the home of her uncle and aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold OFT.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07

Frank Marston of Summet is
spending the month with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Clark, Sr.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Geringer were
business visitors Saturday in Kalis-
pen.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1947-08-07

Regular meeting Local 1862, Lib
by Moose Hall, August 18th at 3 p
m.-Allen Goodgame, Secy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
nGWU To Sign 'No-Sfrike' Confrocf
If Employers Agree TO Union Shop

it's union shop contracts, except
where employers raised a question
as to the unions continued
strength.
Although other unions have an
nounced thay they will refuse to
file certifications that none of their
officers are Communists, Mr.. Du-
binsky said his organizations would
not hesitate to make such certifi-
cations wherever they might be
necessary.
81 consider this provision of the
Taft-Hartley law stupid and inef-
fective, as well as unconstitutional,
but we have always prided our
selves on the fact we have cleaned
out the Communists and we will
leave it to others to challenge this
feature of the law" the ILGWU
head said.
He advised the local unions to
continue demanding inclusion in
agreements of demands for union
ization of employees hired by con-
tractors and a prohibition on hand
ling of "struck work." He said he
did not believe either of these
clauses came within the Taft-Hart-
ley laws ban on secondary boy
colts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Toronto Cleaning Firm
Signs First AFL Contract

Toronto, Canada. The AFL or
ganizing committee here reported
progress in its campaign to organ
ize workers in the costume jewelry,
refrigeration, cleaning and dyeing,
and department industries.
Notable success was achieved in
the cleaning and dyeing industry
when the largest plant in Canada,
Langley's, Ltd, signed a favorable
contract with the AFL and became
the first unionized plant in Toronto.
The contract provides for a 40
hour work week; to 20 cents an
hour more pay for hourlya paid
workers and a 20 percent increase
in piece work rates; time and a half
for overtime; irrevocable check-off
Of dues; seniority rights and job
protection.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Construction Pay
Up 49h-Prices 59eo

Washington (LPA) - Union
workers in the building trades are
working just as long hours, but
earning more money than they did
a year ago. Wages are up an aver
age of 25c an hour in the basic
pay scale of nearly 100000 union
workers i'm seven principal con-
struction classifications.
According to the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics, plumbers and plas-
terers won the highest increase,
1872, between July 1, 1916 and
July /, 1947. Others were: brick
layers-15.2b; carpenters-15.4%
electricians - 1862; painters -
11.69d; and building laborers =
1891.
Over the eight year period be-
tween July 1889 and 1947, wages
in the building trades rose 1870,
compared to the st-of-living rise
of 500. During the same time
prices of building materials at
wholesale rose 96%--thus disprov-
ing claims that building employees
have caused the disastrous rise in
the prices of newly built homes.
nnr,opA tho ITpinn / ahal
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
CHAOS AHEAD If NLRB
MSDOOR ON UNIONS
FAILING TO REGISTER

: Washington (LPA)-Reports in
big business publications and
statements by industry spokesmen
that unions which failed to file
Taft Hartley registration state
ments would be denied any status
whatsoever before the new NLRB
were exploded here last week.
"We could provoke the beginn-
ings of the damndest industrial
chaos you ever saw" said one
NLRB official, "if we adopted
policy absolutely shutting out all
unions that failed to file registra-
tion statements or the anti-com-
munist affidavits. For example,
here's union that's had good con-
tractual relations with an employ
er for 10 years. 1t fails to register,
and another union which has filed
with NLRB demands representa-
tion election. What do you think
would happen if we refused to per-
nit the old established union to in
tervene, or to appear on the bal
lot 2"
NLRB policymakers, who have
not yet clarified such issues, are
expected to permit a non-filing
union to- intervene. A major ques-
tion, however, is whether such a
union may appear on an election
ballot. If non-filing union wins an
election it may not, under the Taft
Hartley law, be certified as collec-
tive bargaining agent, but labor
lawyers contend that an election
victory for an established union
would be a large inducement to an
employer to continue the old con-
tract or negotiate new one. The
New York Journal of Commerce
speculated that one defense for
non-fling unions might be for
them to order their members to
the polls to vote for "no-union."
Labor lawyers see this as remote
possibility, however
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Big B usine SIS
Shoots Some Old
Imperiolisf Oil

New York (LPA) - The u. S.
Chamber of Commerce doesn't want
the United Nations to "meddle" in
the rich and tempting oil fields of
the Middle East, which are rapidly
becoming the center of gravity for
the worlds petroleum industry.
This was made clear last week
when President Earl O. Shreve of
the U. S. Chamber Of Commerce
sent letter to Secretary of State
Marshall.
The u. S. oil imperialists, the
letter made it evident, want the
U. S. to oppose a plan presented
by the Int'l Cooperative Alliance
to the Economic & Social Council
of the UN, now in session.
The co-ops propose that Middle
East oil reserves be placed under
U. N. supervision, because, they
maintain, experience has proved
that international rivalry over raw
material resources, either on the
part of predatory private monopo-
lists or on the part of imperialistic
governments, or both, lead to an
unbalance in economic affairs, in
evitable conflicts and the leopard
izing of peace, such as we have
witnessed recently, for example, in
the struggle for control of oil re-
sources in the Middle East"
The Chamber of Commerce,
which numbers among it's members
the U. S. agencies of international
monopoly oil interests, objects that
the coop plan would violate the
Anglo American oil agreement
which chalks out u. S. rights to
foreign oil holdings, and further
would restrict "free enterprise of
its nationals in foreign explora-
tion, production, transportation, re-
filming and marketing of petroleum
and its products"
U. S. cooperatives in conjunction
with Swedish and other co-ops have
been active in recent years in pro-
duction and marketing of petroleum
on a non-profit basis.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Trunun Ok's
Union Lubel
Show Exhibit
Pleased With LIN
Cooperative Plan

the United States, Honorable Harry
S. Truman, in which he approved
of the Union-Industries Show, to
be held May, 194S, in Milwaukee,
and in which he also endorsed the
principle of the Union Label, was
received this week by l. M. Orn-
burn, Secretary-Treasurer of the
Union Label Trades Department,
American Federation of Labor.
The Union-mdustries Show is
sponsored by the Union Label
Trades Department and Mr.. Orn-
burn is Director of the Exhibition.
The message follows:
"THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
August a, 1947
"Dear Mr.. Ornburn:
at gives me pleasure to learn
that previous Union-lndustries
Shows have been so successful that
your department now contemplates
sponsoring them on an annual
basis. Real benefits accrue to all
the people when labor and manage
ment join hands to display the
products which they have jointly
produced under decent working
conditions. | have every confidence
that the 1948 Union-lndustries
Show in Milwaukee will be an OUT
standing success.
"The list of industries that are
cooperating with your endeavor is
an impressive one. This is further
evidence of the ability of labor
and management to work together.
The union label which the products
of those industries bear enables
consumers to do their part toward
encouraging continuation of en-
lightened, friendly relations be-
tween labor and management.
"Very sincerely yours,
HARRY S. TRUMAN
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Workers Free To
Aid Nom Govt.
Strike Activity

Washington (LPA)-U. S. gov
ernment employees are not prohib-
tied from striking against private
employers despite the Taft-Hart-
ley law, Civil Service Commission
er Arthur S. Flemming last week
advised President Dan Tracy, of
the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL.
Tracy had asked for an interpre-
tation of the Taft-Hartley provi-
sion making it illegal for a gov
ernment employe "to participate in
any strike" He pointed out that
many union members work for
both the government and private
employers and federal workers
might wish to engage in strike ac-
tivity against private employer
outside of government time.
Flemming's Qualification said, at
is true, as you state, that liberal
Interpretation of Section 305 would
mean that no federal employe
could participate in any strike,
even if such strike were against a
private employer. However, it is
also true, as you state, that the
Conference Report makes it clear
that Section 305 was intended to
forbid participation on the part of
government employees in strikes
against the government.
Accordingly" Flemming con-
cluded, 1it is the Commissions un-
derstanding that government en-
ploye would not by Section 305 be
prohibited from participating in a
strike against a private employer"
The IBEW's nearly 100000 mem
bers were also told last week by
President Dan Tracy that at is in
cumbent upon US to comply with
the Taft Hartley Act as law of
the land while we fight thru
legal means to secure its repeal
and to have its unconstitutional
provisions declared invalid by the
courts"
Tracy declared that the 1BEW
will Exhaust every legal recourse
at our command in contesting the
validity of the Act thru the courts,
take every possible step within our
legal power to secure its repeal,
and seek to bring about reorgan-
ization of the membership of Con-
gress, by exercising our voting
rights at the ballot box, to the
end that the inalienable rights of
the free American citizens who con-
stitute the ranks of labor shall once
again be given true and full recog-
nition."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Good Turnout
Continued From Page One)

less to say with the present high
cost of living, the extra dollars are
welcome indeed.
Sometime ago the management
promised a weekly payday but we
are still patiently waiting. We are
informed that same will be put in
effect whenever the necessary
equipment and supplies can be pro-
cured.
For several months past the
casting shop floors have been vac
uum-cleaned after each shift, also
the Railways. 1t seems incredible
the amount of dust collected that
would otherwise be left underfoot
by the old method of floor scrape-
ing.
Thanks to Local Union as for
the invitation to their picnic on
Aug. %. cannot say at this time
whether any of our members are
planning to attend. Some time ago
President Robert Gresch appointed
"A chairman to arrange picnic for
Local Union SO, but to my know
ledge no plans have been made to
date. Get on the BALI, Walt.
Bro. Joe Booth is now working
at the Warrington pottery in West
Virginia.
Joe Gabrylewicz was present at
our last meeting and took several
pictures for the next issue of Uni
versal Chatter. Here's hoping they
are suitable to print as the evening
was hot and all were dressed ac-
cordingly.-O.C. so
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

New York City-The AFL's IN
lternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union announced it's willing
ness under the Taft-Hartley law
to sign contracts containing "no-
strike" clauses provided that en-
ployers meet certain conditions.
David Dubinsky, ILGWU presi-
dent, advised local union officials
to continue signing "no-strike"
agreements where employers
agreed to maintain the union shop
and to resolve all disputes through
arbitration.
He said the union intended to
protect itself against damage, suits
by specifying in all agreements
that arbitration machinery would
be used to adjust all charges of
violation of the agreement, instead
of recourse to the courts.
The union will undertake, Mr..
Dubinsky declared, to get its MEM
bers back on the job within "a
hours if an illegal strike occurs.
Where the members are defiant,
the arbitrator will have the right
to declare their jobs vacant. If he
decides that the union is at fault
or has been derelict in getting the
workers to return, he may declare
the contract terminated.
AS a further measure Of protec-
ton for itself against charges of
contract violation, the union plans
to specify the individual local Off
GERS with responsibility to act for
it, Mr.. Dubinsky disclosed. He
emphasized that the unions accep-
tance of no-strike provisions would
be confined to plants in which it
retained the union shop.
the union president said.
eff our right to the union shop
is denied, then we cannot under
take responsibility for the contin-
uity of production in the plant"
On the basis of advice from the
unions lawyers, he expressed GER
tainty that the Hartley law
would necessitate no changes in
the existing form of union shop
held by the ILGWU.
He said also he did not believe
new elections would be necessary
to prove the unions right to renew
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
O. .W.L.U. Pushes
a Union Brother
For Congressman

Kansas City (LPA) - The 18th
annual convention of the Oil Work
ers Int'l Union last week threw
the full weight of the unions men,
bership-largest in OWIU history
behind the campaign to elect one
of it's members to Congress from
Texas this week.
With President o. A. Knight
making the first contribution, each
of the conventions 400 delegates
gave $5 to the campaign fund of
Mayor j. c. Trahan, of Texas City,
Tex. Trahan, a former secretary of
the Texas City local of the OWIU,
is a candidate for Congress in a
special election on Aug. %.
In announcing the $4,000 contri-
button, Knight said, "Id rather be
challenged helping an honest and
respected member of this union be-
come a, Congressman than on any
other violation of the Taft Hartley
Act"
A gain Of approximately 5000
members in the past year has
brought the total membership TO
more than $4,000, Secretary-treas-
urer T. M. Mccormick reported.
Total assets are $212,514.
A proposal to boycott the NLRB
under the Hartley law was re-
ferred to the executive committee.
delicate problems are involved as
to what our own policy should be
in this respect" Knight said. "We
are not in a position as yet to de-
eide"
Asst Labor Secretary John Glib
son assailed the new anti-labor law
and said that collective bargain
ing, as we have known it up to
now, gave labor and management a
wide range of freedom of choice in
reaching agreements. The Taft
Hartley law, establishes an entire
ly new pattern in which freedom
of choice is limited and the rul-
ings of a third party-the govern
ment-become deciding factor.
Thus instead of being built on a
foundation of trust and mutual un-
derstanding, labor relations may
become embroiled in a maze of
regulations and legal bickering."
Turning to the Taft Hartley pro-
visions governing so-called nation
al emergencies, Gibson said, al am
frankly apprehensive that, under
these procedures, the board of
inquiry and federal courts become,
in effect, labor courts. | fear that
there is mailed fist of compul-
sion hidden in set of procedures
calling for inquiries, injunctions,
elections on final offers, and Con-
gressional action. Maybe this is
not compulsory arbitration spelled
out in so many words, but it comes
awfully close to being the same
thing"
No one ever deliberately set out
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Strike Muy
(COHfinned From Page One)

Hall, there is no question that the
STU will take advantage of the
clause IN its contract - the only
one of its kind in the marine in
dustry-allowing negotiation Of the
wage question. If the west coast
shipowners aim to beat the SUP
against the wall, they had better
figure on us going into action, too"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21
Riofous One-Doy
Strike Ends In
Union Victory

Clinton, Mich. (LPA)-A tlrbu-
lent 17-day strike, which saw flag
rant strikebreaking meet with fly
ing squads Of union pickets from
other cities, ended here last week
with the surrender of the Clinton
Machine Co.
After management provoked
rioting, the calling out of state po-
lice and the alerting of the national
guard, the company finally decided
it could not continue operations
when a "back -to-work movement"
failed dismally.
The United Auto Workers which
struck the plant on July 20 for a
wage raise, was offered a l0c-an-
hour hike although the company
had previously refused to go above
&c. Contrary to some newspaper
reports no question of Taft-proof
contract was involved.
A token picket line remained at
the plant and company president
Don Thomas was forced to eat his
own words as he agreed not to at
tempt to resume, operations until
the local ratified the new agree
ment
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

Thomas had previously led fly
ing wedge of strikebreakers tnru
the picket lines and into the plant
where they were forced to stay for
two nights. Meanwhile the picket
lines were greatly reinforced by
hundreds of additional UAW mem
bers who rushed from Detroit, To-
leda and other cities in a manner
reminiscent Of 1867 when the
union faced the same type Of man
agement tactics.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

Buy Union-made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

The Union Label is a perpetual
strike and nobody is called out!
or so it seems at the time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

How long can Labor Unionists
expect to receive Union-made
wages if they do not buy Union
made goods?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

No one ever deliberately set out
to make a mess of his life. {.
Somewhere he lost the way.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-21

Demand the Union Label.