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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
'EIectronic Brain
Faster Than Mans

Mathematicians had better start
negotiating a "job protection
agreement" with their employers.
A new "electronic brain" machine,
invented by the National Bureau
of Standards, will do their work
many times faster than the most
highly-trained human being could.
Each of the machines will cost
about 100000, bureau spokes-
man said, "but it can solve in 10
minutes a problem which would
take a skilled mathematician three
years, even if he worked day and
night"
"Ordinary computations" are
performed by the machine in less
time than it takes a man to Snatch
his hand from hot stove"
This "electronic brain" is more
complicated application of the in
visible force, called an "electronic
eye" which opens door when you
it.
The new machines will be used
for complex calculations i'm atomic
research and other sciences.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
NY Council Okoys
Eviction Control

New York OPA)-Real estate
interests have lost out in their
fight to prevent passage of SER
les of bills establishing controls
over rents and evictions and penal
izing violations of these laws in
New York City.
The City Council, by votes of 16
to three, approved the measures
last week. The Board of Estimate
must still vote on the bills, and
they will require Mayor O'Dwyer's
signature before they become law.
Viewed as stop-gap measures to
protect tenants from unreasonable
evictions and rent hikes during the
next six months until the state
rent control law goes into effect,
the bills will make EVICTION of ten
ants much more difficult, will auth
orize the City Rent Commission to
prosecute violations of municipal
rent laws, provide penalties up to
80 days and $500 fines for viola
tions, and make violations of the
federal rent control law criminal
offenses.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
National Conference
On Labor Situation

New York City (ILNS). = The
American Management Association
announced a 2-day national confer
ence of industrial relations execul
tives Oct. 2 and 3 in New York to
appraise the current labor situa-
ton, changes in labor-management
relations in the light of recent leg
islation and to exchange exper-
ience with problems of employe
communication, wages and train
ing.
More than 1900 executives rep
resentingl virtually every type of
U. S. business will attend, Alvin
E. Dodd, ANA president announc-
ed. Participating in the discuss
ions will be representatives of in
dustry, government and labor.
In addition to experience with
application of the Taft-Hartley act,
the 6 sessions of the meeting will
examine employe opinions of bus
mess, collective bargaining, case
stories and criticisms of methods
of company communication with
economic factors pre-
sently influencing wage scales, and
similar subjects.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Praise For Laws
President Of 7O3

Erwin, Tenn-Members of LocaI
Union No. 103 met in regular ses-
sion last Tuesday in the ClinchfielC
Y.M.C.A., with all officers in then
chairs.
This O.C. will say in all due re.
spect to the officers, that it was
one Of the incest union meetings in
many year. President Burnie
Laws does not waste any time. He
is business from TOO on until
everything is taken care of. | be-
lieve Brother Laws should be given
praise for the good work he is do
ing.
Sixty new members have been
taken into the local at the last
three meetings, with several rein
statements being paid and few
withdrawal cards turned in.
The shop committee, headed by
"Genia" Sammy Upton, made Il
very nice report. Sam is on his toes
at all times and does not let any
thing slip by him. Sometimes the
members cannot see his way, but
he has the rules to go by and he
plays no favorites.
Little Louis Morse, who has been
in the Erwin Hospital for four
weeks, is slightly improved. 1t is
hoped by all his shop mates that
he will be back at his bench telling
fish stories in the near future.
The weather here for the past
four or five weeks has been terri
BILE. 1t rains once in awhile, but
gets hotter afterwards. Erwin you
have nothing on us here in the
north-same story.)
We are still on full time at the
pottery and it looks good for quite
sometime yet.
The annual Southern Potteries
picnic was held Labor Day at
Knoxville, Tenn. Will let you peo-
pie know the details later.
Raymond Harvey, clay shop
foreman, who has been in the hos
pital, has returned to work
Kelly Banner, glost kilnman, is
building a new home. Didn't know
he could use the pick and shovel
O.C. lO3
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Back Wage Claims Status
Clarified BY Labor Dept.

Washington, d. C.-The Depart
ment of Labor issued a clarifica-
tion concerning the effect Of the
two-year Federal statute of limit
ations provision of the Portal-tO-
Portal Act upon claims for back
wages arising under the Fair La
Dor Standards Act.
According to the announcement,
permissible claims under the Por-
tal-to- Portal Act which rose before
May ID, 1947, shall be. governed by
the prevailing state statute of linn
itations, provided suit is started on
or before September IL. Suits filed
after that date will be governed by
the shorter of either the state
statute or the acts two-year sta
tute of limitations.
All employe claims arising on or
after May ID, l947, are governed
by the new two-year Federal sta
tute Of limitations, the statement
said. State statutes, whether long
er or shorter than the Federal linn
itation period, have no bearing on
such claims, according to the Labor
Department.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Liberties Union Hits
Communist Gag Bills

New York City QLNS) Bills
to gag and outlaw the Communist
party before the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee were at
tackled as "un-American and a
threat to civil liberties by the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union i'm a
statement released through its
counsel, Arthur Garfield Hays.
The union stressed that opposi-
tion to the proposed legislation
stemmed from its obligation "to
defend democracy by opposing all
violations of the Bill of Rights
from any source whatever" and
not from any endorsement of Com
munism. 1t characterized the bills
to suppress the Communist party
as "undemocratic and Intellectual"
for the following reasons:
G) Loose definitions of "Com-
munism," "subversion" and "dis-
loyalty" invite the suppression Of
sincere liberal thought.
(2) u. S. Supreme Court decis-
ions clearly support the right to
advocate peacefully changes in the
government.
(3) Suppression of Communism
would be "a desertion of democratic
principles in favor Of totalitarian
policy.
(4) To outlaw the Communist
party in name only would be futile
since it could easily change it's
name and escape intended controls.
"To curb the right to speak and
to meet freely" the union warned,
"is to incur the dangers inherent
in underground political move
ments. History makes it clear that
suppression fosters rather than
discourages the very subversive
conspiracies against which these
current proposals are aimed"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
AFL Upheld In
Connery Case

San Francisco (LPA)-The Nat
Labor Relations Board last week
turned down CIO charge of un-
fair labor practices against Ensher
Alexander & Barsoom Inc, opera
tors of fruit and vegetable pro-
cessing plant at Isleton, Calf.
The CIO charged that a contract
between the Int'l Brotherhood of
Teamsters-AFL and the California
State Council of Cannery Unions,
also AFL, was signed at a time
that the CIO had petitioned for a
representation election. The AFL
unions had represented workers at
Isleton for ten years previously.
The NLRB, in dismissing the case,
rejected the recommendations of
the Boards trial examiner. Board
member John Houston dissented.
The decision was handed down by
the Board operating under the
Wagner Act, previous to the eff
fective date of the Taft-Hartley
law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
July New Home Building
Eclipses 2O-Year Record

Washington, ID. C.-Private con,
tractors started $4,000 new homes
in July, breaking records of 2(
years standing, according to re.
port of the Bureau Of Labor Stats.
tics.
The number approached the all
time high of 1925, the bureau said
although comparable monthly fig
ures for that year were not given
1t exceeded the June total by 28,-
00O and the July, 1916, number by
17,4C0.
In the first seven months of 1947
there was an increase in home
building of $4,000 units. So far this
year GOO homes have been
started.
The bureau estimated that 65,-
700 new permanent homes were
completed in July, an increase of
200 over June.
July expenditures for new homes
amounted to $421 100000, an in
crease of $33,00O,OOOO over June
and 65,000,000 over July, 1916.
In the first seven months of 1947
nearly two and half billion doll
ars was spent to build new houses,
compared with little more than
one and half billion dollars dur
ing the same period of 1946.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Court Action
On Old Cases
Is Predicted

Washington (LPA)-The ques.
tion of whether or not unions thai
refuse to file the "non-Communist'
affidavits with the Natl Labor
Relations Board will be able to
maintain their rights in cases de.
cided before the aft-Hartley law
went into effect Aug. % was still
open last week.
"Test case" may be the NLRE
decision handed down Aug. 21
ordering the reinstatement Of eight
employees of the Geraldine Novelty
Co. in Gloversville, N. Y. The eight
were members of the Fur and
Leather Workers-CIO, whose in
ternational president, Ben Gold, is
an avowed Communist. There are
two questions which have not been
answered by NLRB officials: u
Can this union, which is unable to
file the required non-Communist
affidavits, ask the NLRB to go into
court to enforce the NLRB's Aug
ust 21 order that the company re-
instate the eight CIO workers with
back pay? q Can the NLRB pro-
coed against the Ladies Handbag,
Luggage & Novelty Workers-AFL,
which expelled the CIO members
from the AFL union because of
their dual loyalties, thus precipit-
ating the firing of the workers
under a closed shop contract :?
Under the TIL law, a union can
not expel members working under
a union shop agreement except for
non-payment of dues.
Hundreds of cases less complex
but equally perplexing, will have
to be reviewed by the new five-man
NLRB in the weeks ahead.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Maternity Benefits
In Union Contracts
Lift Economic Load

Washington (LPA)-In the first
study made by a federal agency of
maternity benefits available to wo-
men workers under union-manage-
ment health insurance plans, the
Women's Bureau of the Labor
Dept has found that these benefits
lift some part of the economic
load from their shoulders"
Studying eight plans which COW
cred 10000 eligible workers, Jen-
ME Mohr of the Women's Bureau
research staff found that "many
plans exclude maternity cases from
coverage, although clearly the wo-
man worker who is an expectant
mother faces problems, both of in
come maintenance and of medical
care, just as surely as does the i'll
or injured worker"
"Even when maternity benefits
are provided" the report finds,
"they usually are governed by
special regulations not applicable
to other benefits" Longer waiting
periods before workers are eligible
for benefits, and cash benefits paid
for shorter time, and sometimes
limited services or special fee,
distinguish benefits for maternity
cases from illness or injury bene-
fits.
Women workers in many indi-
vidual cases, the study indicated,
do not know the benefits to which
they are entitled, and did not claim
hospital and surgical benefits which
were available under the union
management health contracts.
Copies Of the report, Women's
Bureau Bulletin 2l4, are available
on request from the Labor Dept.
Washington 25, ID. c.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Stock Exchange
Broge Of Profits

New York (LPA)-It's no red
hot radical publication which last
week reported that the steel and
iron industry had a 155.3% jump
in profits for the first six months
of this year compared with the
same months in 1916.
1t was the magazine Exchange,
publication of the New York Stock
Exchange, which reported the en-
ormous boost in steel profits.
There were other fabulous rises
in profits figures for whole indus
tries, too. The machinery and
metals industries showed a 148.3%
rise in profits; petroleum compan-
les report an increase of 72.4%.
Automotive companies, which last
year lost money, this year showed
profits of $2O3,507,OOO.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. has
already made public it's prediction
that it's profits for the last half of
1947 are expected to be at least as
high as in January to June, when
they made almost $25,000,0O0.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Test Law ASKING
$500 License Of
Union Organizers

Atlanta, Ga. (LPA)-In a test
of Cuthbert, Ga. town ordinance,
CIO state director Charles H. Gill
man last week was fined $25 and
sentenced to 10 days in the city's
stockade for refusing to take out a
$500 license" giving him per-
mission to engage in the business"
of soliciting union memberships.
The anti-labOr ordinance test
was quickly carried to the Super
ior Court, and Gilman was releas-
ed on $500 appearance bond. The
test case took place when the CIO
official solicited memberships in
the Int'l Woodworkers of America
ClO from group of workers in
Cuthbert.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04

were to be placed upon perman-
ent basis, public demand for repeal
of this law would grow, in the
opinion of Federation leaders. An
additional advantage would be to
create more favorable public opin-
ion for organized labor and greater
good will for the AFL.
Besides these matters, the FIX
ecutive Councils report will review
the whole course of economic, leg
islative and political events during
the year and recommend clear-cut
policies and programs to be follow
ed by the AFL during the coming
year, if the convention votes APP
proyal of them,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Muchinisfs Kick
As NLRB Rules
Threufen Drive

Washington (LPA) = An addi-
tional protest about the way the
Taft Hartley law is being used to
hinder legitimate union activities
was filed this week with NLRB
General Counsel Robert Denham
by President Harvey w. Brown of
the Int'l Association of Machinists-
unaffiliated.
The lam head objected sharply
to Denham's rulings regarding fill
ing of "non-C Communist" afhdavits
by all local and international Of
ficers of union before the NLRB
will process any case, plus his
time-limit of 20 days after which
pending cases will be dropped if
all affidavits are not in.
"a major labor union has little
chance to qualify in less than a
month or so of diligent effort" !"
Brown wrote to Denham. He point
ed out that, of the 5000 or more
pending cases, more than 400 cases
involve the lam. With 13,O28 local
and international officials required
to file affidavits, the lam may
risk serious setback in their cur
rent organizing drive.
Denham promised to "extend the
time" for filing ''to encourage COM
pliance," but Brown insisted in
reply that "Probably the first six
weeks, it will be almost exclusive
ly an agency for handling manage
ment cases. The employers have
to do nothing to qualify under the
act to use the NLRB machinery"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Krupp And Furben Officials
War Criminals, us Charges

| Washington (LPA) - The lead
ing figures in the great Krupp
arms combine, and the heads OF
l. G. Farben, Germany's chemical
cartel, have been placed on trial as
war criminals before an all-Amer-
ican court in Nuremberg.
Most awesome name on the list
is that of Alfred Krupp Won Boh-
len und Halbech, who, the evidence
discloses, had done good job of
keeping up the family business un-
der the Nazis.
Along with IL other officials of
the arms trust, this scion of a
family which has sold death for
1873 years is charged with active
participation in the Nazi party,
contributing to the campaign funds
of Hitler during his rise to power,
ihstigating German rearmament in
violation of the treaty of Versail-
les and exploiting slave labor dur
ing the war.
Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, chief
American prosecutor, revealed that
under Hitler Krupp expanded it's
already huge trust to include IT'S
domestic companies and foreign
subsidiaries. By 1889 Krupp en-
ployed $4,000 workers, as against
only $4,000 in 1882, before Hitler
came to power. a3s
The Krupp web extended far be-
yond the borders of the Reich even
before Hitler's legions occupied
Europe. Krupp was leading figure
in the international steel cartel,
which he used to restrict produc-
tion of strategic materials outside
of Germany. In America his sub
sidiary was known as the Nirosta
Company, and as late as 1889 AL
fred Krupp was demanding that it
keep him informed of contracts let
by the United States Government.
In his correspondence with foreign
business leaders Krupp frequently
acted as a Nazi propagandist, as
we'll as collector of industrial
intelligence.
There are 21 key members of
the hierarchy of l. G. Farben al
ready on trial. Occupying the same
chairs from which Goering, Rib
bentrop, Himmler, Goebbels and
their cohorts among the official
Nazi party leadership faced the
International Tribunal, the chem
ical magnates have heard them
selves charged with actively par
ticipating in the establishment of
the Hitler regime, assisting the
preparation of it's war plans, inter-
fering with the production of war
materials abroad while stock-pil-
ing them in Germany, using slave
labor, doing spy work for the Third
Reich, and countless other high
crimes against mankind.
While the defendants, pleading
requested delay in the
proceedings, Gen. Taylor asked
that it continue uninterrupted, re-
the Court that Hhler's
political lieutenants had also tried |
to divert their judges by such de-
laying tactics.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
AL Council Ready For
Eventful Chicago Session

Chicago. One of the most
eventful Executive Council meet
ings in the history of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is sched-
uled to open here Sept. 8. Many
vital problems of immediate and
long-range concern to the labor
movement will come up for consid-
Grafton at this meeting.
First, the Executive Council
must decide how to meet the i'm
mediate impact of the Taft Hart
ley Act. Secondly, it will draft a
long-range program for combat
ing and repeating this obnoxious
law for submission to the AFL's
national convention in October.
With the National Labor Relat-
ions Board threatening to throw
out all 5000 pending cases before
it unless its new regulations under
the Taft Hartley Act are complied
with before a 20-day deadline, the
Executive Council will weigh the
advisability of compliance or re-
sistance.
The board will not handle cases
Of any union which has not regist-
cred with the Department of Labor
and filed financial statement.
Furthermore, it will not recognize
any union or handle its cases un-
less all union officers, national and
local, including the top officials of
the American Federation of Labor,
sign affdavits attesting they are
not Communists.
While there is not the slightest
suspicion of a red tinge among the
membership of the Executive
Council, fundamental principle is
involved in the filing of such aff-
davits which makes the decision
whether to comply a weighty one.
The only alternative would be to
boycott the services of the NLRB
altogether.
From the long-range viewpoint,
the Executive Council will be ask
ed to prepare recommendations to
the national convention calling for
an enlarged program of political
activity with the objective of de-
feating the supporters of the Taft
Hartley Act in the 1948 elections
and bringing about the prompt re-
peal of the law.
This involves a direct challenge
of one of the key provisions Of the
Taft Hartley Act which specifically
forbids political expenditures by
labor unions.
Furthermore, the xecutive
Council will be called upon to con-
slider the advisability of setting up
a permanent public relations pro-
gram for the AFL.
The special educational campaign
against the Taft Hartley Act, fin
anced by voluntary assessments
upon affiliated unions, was credited
recently by the Gallup Poll with
having swung the majority Of the
American people against the Taft
Hartley Act. If such a campaign
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Hold Onfo Those
Terminal Bonds

Washington (LPA)-Hold onto
those terminal leave bonds, even
though veterans Of World War ii
can cash them at their neighbor-
hood bank beginning Sept. |, the
AFL Veterans Committee advised
last week.
The bonds will continue to bear
interest at the rate of 2H% for
their full five years and the AFL
advised veterans to hold their
bonds, if possible, to maturity.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
FLYING BOXCAR

Here is competitor for Rail-
way Express: Curtiss Wright, air.
plane builders, have designed a
freight plane twice the size of a
railroad boxcar. They say it will
carry l6 tons of freight, from coast
to coast, at 300 miles an hour and,
that the rates will be about the
present rail express charges.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
IBEW is BARGAINING AGENT

Elgin, Ill. - The International
Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers.
Local B-1031, received certifcation
from the National Labor Relations
Board to act as collective bargain
ing agent for nearly 700 employees
in the production and maintenance
department in a plant here owned
by the Majestic Radio and Televis-
ion Corporation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-09-04
Even Wall Street
Rag Can't Stand
HorfIey's Antics

Hardly day goes by but Con-
gressman Fred A. Hartley (Rep.,
N. j. brandishes a threat against
employers and unions who try to
settle their differences without re-
sorting to the intricacies of the
Taft-Hartley law.
Last week, as reported in Labor,
he talked darkly about an investi-
cation of the practice. This week,
he gave further speeches along the
same line, probably at fancy fee.
He announced he would drag" the
offending" employers and union
leaders into Washington for ques-
tiOning.
His TRADES have been too much
for even some of the country's con-
servative papers.
The "Wall Street Journal,
mouthpiece of finance and industry,
gave Hartley the most severe
spanking he has received up to
date.
Hartley's Claims Riddled
In front page article, the paper
pointed out that the agreements
which annoyed Hartley are "mutu-
ally acceptable comprises" where
by unions assume full responsible
ity for acts authorized by them
and employers agree not to seek
damages for acts Of individual en-
ployes "which are beyond union
control"
Then in bold face type, it raped
Hartley's contention that such
agreements violate the new law
and his threat to call in the parties
to Washington to explain"
"This is idle talk" the paper de-
clared. at cannot have been the
intent of Congress to punish men
or organizations for acts they
neither authorized nor instigated,
much less those which they have
in good faith attempted to prevent.
Can't Compel Use of Law
at is inconceivable that the
courts would find illegal the give
and-take efforts of employers and
unions to maintain peace in indus
try.
'Not even the Taft-Hartley law ,
can compel an employer to resort |
to the legal remedies open to him
If he thinks he sees a more pacific
way of protecting his interests"
Another indictment of Hartley
came from the Washington "Post,"
owned by multi-millionaire bank
er.
abusive language and threats |
of this kind are calculated to stiff !
Ell opposition to the law by streng-
thening the conviction of labor
leaders that it was framed with
the deliberate intention of under
mining unions," the paper stated. |,