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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
DENHAM MEETS FIRST
TIL COURT SETBACK

Chattanooga, Tenn. OPA) =
NLRB General Counsel Robert
Denham received his first major
setback in the courts last week
when u. S. District Court Justice
Leslie r. Darr rejected an NLRB
request here for an Injunction
against the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters.
The court found that the unions
alleged violations occurred the day
before the Taft-Hartley law went
into effect and that they did not
have continuing efefct" nor in
dicate that future violations would
happen, as the NLRB contended. On
Aug. 81, the day before the law be-
came effective, (AFL carpenters
here refused to work with nom
union employees of a speciality store
when the latter arrived at a house
to install floor covering. This re-
fusal constituted ii secondary boy
colt, according to the NLRB, and
the Continuing effect" was sup
posedly in the unions failure to
withdraw instructions to its MEM
bers not to work with non-union
men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
$40 BILLION PROFIT
SPREE HUGE
WARTIME SURPLUS

Washington (LPA)-Charges by
Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney 3D., Wyo.)
that corporate profits are running
"at a rate of $40 billion a year
twice as much as they were at the
height of the war" found strong
support last week in the first of
series of join reports made by
the Securities e. Exchange Com
mission and the Federal Trade
Commission.
Dealing with manufacturing cor
porations alone, the report found
that the net income of these firms
for the first three months of 1947
was S2.7 billion. At this rate the
years net profits would amount to
sos billion at least. The net prof
its of banking, brokerage and other
types of corporate business would
bring the total net profits to more
than $40 billion it was estimated.
The joint report found that the
highest profit rates were recorded
on textile mill products followed
by paper and allied products. Twen-
ty-one major industry groups were
covered and about $4,000 manu-
featuring concerns.
Individual corporate profit re-
ports showed net gains ranging
up to $50 per cent. AT the same
time hundreds of the most profit
able firms are suing for tax re-
bates and litigating their wartime
cost-plus contracts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
GLAAOR

"Dobla-Vida" meaning double
life is the name Of the newest dress
creations inspired by designer in
Cali, Columbia, S. A., but they are
to be found in some Of the smart
est dress shops in the United
States as well as in Latin America.
Edith Durrett Sellares, who Gre
ates these intriging designs owns
her own shop, La Mariposa, in
Cali.
The double-life name comes from
the conversion of a ballet length
cocktail or dinner dress into floor
length formal by the addition of
an extra ruffle, tier, or flounce of
matching or contrasting fabric.
For the woman who gets very
little wear from formal evening
gown, yet needs one Of two floor
length dresses in her wardrobe
each year, these double-life dresses
are the perfect answer to her prob
lem. The basic dresses, in short
versions, are not too dressy for
after five occasions. The extra
length is attached to the bottom
of a crinoline half slip which is
fastened around the waist, under
the short dress. Sometimes the half
slip has a hoop near the bottom to
hold it out.
The idea is so sound that it is
sure to catch on in this country
with other designers.
However, the most outstanding
thing about Edith Rurrett Sellares
custom-made creations are the ex-
quisite fabrics and superb work
manship and originality of design.
Her lucious color combinations are
making her famous. In her new
collection she is using magnificent
Italian and French brocades and
pure silks. All of her creative de-
signs have their own special names.
For instance, her "Miss Colum-
bia" is an ankle length dress of
heavy black satin broadly striped
in deep bright blue, and for even
ing wear circular rumba flounces
of black satin show below it.
Wentworth" is a ballet-length
dress of silk faille in black with
a scalloped hem-line and a match
ing bertha type collar lined in
plaid metallic taffeta. Each seal
lop is accented by a tiny plaid bow.
For formal wear the black taffeta
crinoline half slip is deeply flounced
in knife-pleated plaid.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
ATTACK ON 40-HOUR.
WEEK EXPECTED N
NEW WAGE HOUR LAW

Washington LPA) - Hearings
on the wage and hour law before
a House Labor Subcommittee are
now entering their final week, with
summing up testimony" to be pre-
sented by Wage & Hour Admins
traitor William McComb and Labor
Secretary Lewis 3. Schwellenbach.
Attempts to erase or to alter the
overtime and 4O-hour week pro-
visions in the law are expected
from subcommittee members when
they begin drafting amendments.
Industry spokesmen have been es-
pecially vehement in denouncing
these requirements.
While Labor and civic groups
hope that liberal Congressman
Madden 3D., Ind) and Klein 3D.,
N. Y.) will press for 75c mini
mum wage in place of the present
4Oc, the majority is expected to
vote for 60c or 65c minimum with
an escape clause" lowering the
wage floor if there is a depression
and the cost of living drops.
Solomon Barkin, who appeared
as the summing-up witness for the
CIO, told the Congressman that
there have been four groups op-
posing the wage and hour law.
"There were those" he said, "who
were completely opposed to the
minimum wage legislation; those
who masked their opposition by
proposing that present rates be
maintained; those who proposed in
creases in minimum rates, such as
60 and 65c, which would have insig-
nificant effects on our general
wage schedules; and finally those
who sought to emasculate the law
by proposing one or another ex-
emption from its provisions"
The 40-hour week is an establish
ed practice in American industry,
Barkin warned, and to eliminate
the 40-hour and time-and-a-hal
for overtime would "do much to
disrupt present arrangements and
create wholesale labor disturbances.
They would destroy many thous-
ands of labor agreements now in
effect in hundreds of industries"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
Nofion's S Rent
Continued From Page One)

in tohse last few days prior to the
enactment of the present act"
The Int'l Association of Machin-
lists, in its weekly publication,
urged that to combat the rising
number of evictions, "The housing
Expediter must have police power
to follow up and see that landlords
are really doing what they said
they would do with their property
when they forced the tenant to
move. Penalties must be provided
against landlords found to be vio-
lating the law"
The most frequent abuse, the
lam reports, is the landlords claim
that he wants the property for his
own occupancy, although he has no
idea of moving in at all. The pres
ent federal rent control act strips
the Housing Expediter of all auth
ority in enforcing the eviction pro-
visions of the law and leaves it
entirely up to the state courts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
NLRb NOW CANCELS
ORDERED
BEFORE AUGUST z

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
last week extended its campaign
to coerce non-complying unions into
signing the Taft-Hartley anti
Communist affidavits by cancelling
five elections which it had ordered
before the law became effective
Aug. %.
Four CIO unions and one AFL
organization were the first to be
effected by the ruling as the Board
declared that the new law prevents
it from even investigating any
question concerning representation
raised by a labor group until the
union has fulfilled the filing and
registration requirements of the
act.
The cancelled elections were
sought by the United Shoe Work
ers-CIO, Int'l Fur & Leather Work
ers-CIO, United Steelworkers-CIO,
United Packinghouse Workers-CIO
and the United Mine Workers-AFL.
In a second action the Board dis
missed five more petitions for coll
lective bargaining elections by nom
complying unions. They were:
United Furniture Workers-CIO;
United Steelworkers-CIO; Mine,
Mill G. Smelter Workers-CIO;
United Office & Professional Work
United Packinghouse
Workers-CIO; and United Mine
Workers
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
Shipyord Strike
End S With 72c
Hike For $4,000

Washington LPA) = The ma
tion's oldest major strike ended
here last week when $4,000 mem
bers of the Industrial Union of Ma
rine & Shipbuilding Workers Won
12c an hour pay increase.
Returning to work after 13S days
on picket lines which tied up eight
Atlantic Coast shipyards of Beth
lehem Steel, the union found its
strike leaders laid off, supposed
ly for slack of work" at the Fore
River and East Boston shipyards,
while in Baltimore it confronted
an NLRB petition by a phony in
dependent union for a collective
bargaining election designed to
GUST the IUMSW.
The long drawn out strike,
which started on June 26 and orig
inally involved 67CC0 workers, con
tinued strong despite repeated
strikebreaking attempts and police
provocations. The new master con-
tract, reached after two weeks Of
constant negotiations, was ratified
by Bethlehem locals at Baltimore
and Sparrows Point, Nd, Quincy
and East Boston, Mass, Brooklyn
and Staten Island, n. Y, and Ho-
boken, n. J. Of major importance
to the union was the fact that in
centive workers will get an addi-
tional 12c hourly for every hour
worked.
Still on strike were 900 IUMSW
members at the Patapsco Scrap
Yard, near Baltimore, where Beth
lehem ship scrapping operations
are carried on.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
2|VD PETR|LLO TRIAL
SLATED FOR DEC. IS

Chicago (LPA)-President James
c. Petrillo, of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians-AFL, last
week pleaded not guilty to charge
of violating the Lea Act and trial
was set for Dec. 10.
The AIM head appeared before
I. S. District Court Justice Wal
ter j. LaBuy, who last December
dismissed the same case on the
grounds that the Lea C"Anti-Petril-
lo') Act was unconstitutional. The
Supreme Court overruled LaBuy.
Petrillo was indicted on charges
that he called strike against radio
station WAAF in this city on May
2S, 1916, in an effort to persuade
the station to hire more musicians
than the company claimed it need
ed. In asking for an early trial
Petrillo's lawyer declared, "This
case has been batting around too
long. Petrillo saved the music cul-
ture of the nation. Without him,
the country would be platter-hap-
py." In New York, meanwhile, two
Taft-Hartley charges were filed
against the AFL by the radio pro-
gram Information Please" Charg-
ing violation of the anti-feather-
bedding and secondary paycott pro-
visions of the law, the complaint
said that the AIM was demanding
payment equal to the compensation
of 300 musicians. The demand was
made after the program changed
from single national sponsor to
individual sponsors on each of the
300 stations carrying the quiz
show.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
lobor Sfoppoges
In 9-M onfh Low

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) II
About 200 work stoppages began
in September, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, L. S. Department Of La
Dor reported here. This was a to-
tai lower than for any month
since December 1916, when 16S
stoppages were recorded.
approximately $4,000 workers
were involved in the stoppages
which began in September, the low
est number since last February
Idleness in plants directly involved
In labor-management controversies
was estimated at 100000 man
days or less than for any month
since last March.
Including stoppages which con-
tinued from preceding months,
about 400 disputes, involving a to-
tai of $4,000 workers, were in eff
feet during September. The largest
of these continued to be the coast
shipyard CIO strike affecting some
10000 to 10000 workers.
The general level of strike ac-
tivity in the first 8 months of
1947 was considerably lower than
for the same period of 1916. Ap-
proximately 1000 stoppages were
recorded from January through
of this year as against
almost 1000 in the similar 9-month
period of 1916. The reduction in
time lost due to work stoppage was
even more marked, totalling ap-
proximately 29,6C0,000 man-days
for the first 9 months of 1947 as
against 100000 man-days in the
ca.,oa rax,od Of 1Qfe
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
WDl Urges Repeat
OF s TIL Clauses

New York LPA)-The Workers
Defense League last week urged
the Presidents Committee on Civil
Rights to recommend repeal of at
least six sections of the Taft Hart
ley law because 'labor's civil rights
have been unjustifiably curtailed.
"The provision banning union
political activity is definitely vio
lation of the right of free speech,
press and assembly" said Carl
Rachlin, chairman Of the WDL
legal committee to aid unions un-
der the anti-labor law. Insofar as
the boycott provisions of the law
may be construed to ban picketing
in support of the strikes covered
by those provisions there is vio-
lation of free speech.
"The section of the law on coer-
cison," said WDL, ''is so worded
that there is danger it might be
applied against any organizer or
union member who is persistent in
attempting to persuade workers to
join union. Also the section re-
quiring union officers to sign non
Communist affidavits in order to
use the NLRB's facilities violates
the right of a person to belong to
a legal political party. The WDL
stands firm for this right, even
though it is free from Communist
influence and has no sympathy
with the Communist Party"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
BEGIN Solicitation
(C0nfinued From Page One)

Gated in advantageous positions
soon as possible and named a COM
mittee to began solicitation of
memberships Immediately. Sam
Lockhart, Frank Dales, James Moss
and Homer Cunningham were en-
powered to enroll members with
the fee being $45.50.
!. Harold West, William Ashbaugh,
John Viewer, Willard Garner and
Francis Cubberly were named to
pick a location for the store and
make their report at the next meet
ing which will be held on Dec. 9Th.
Willard Garner was named tenn
porary secretary-treasurer of the
organization.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
tn Law
(Continued From Page One)

with unions failing to file the affi-
davts shave retreated somewhat
from this position" according to
the paper. Other employers are
not only recognizing the non-com-
plying unions, but are granting
bootleg clauses involving the union
shop and various forms of union
security"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
GOVERNM MENT WORKERS
TO RECEIVE BACK PAY

Washington, d. C.-Government
workers who failed to receive auto
matte in-grade promotions because
of official error - numbering be-
tween $1,000 and 1O,C0O-will re-
ceive from 500 to $50 each in
back pay, under terms of ruling
made by the Civil Service Commits
sion.
All employees whose promotions
were overlooked by error of their
agency officials after July II, 1916,
are included in the ruling.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27

the postwar republic into three
warning camps. Labor's cleanup
the majority of the rank and file
are not behind the Communist top
leadership-must be done by the
unions themselves, not by retired
generals and power-hungry poll
ticians whose interest in union de-
mocracy is in direct proportion to
their desire to climb to the top over
the bent backs of the workers of
France.
ERP European Recovery Pro-
gram), badly named successor to
the Marshall plan, has produced
much heat but little light, so far.
There have been a number of COM
plicated reports, but not enough
information for the man on the
street who has no idea of the sur
prise in store for him.
These facts must be borne in
mind. The government asks S597,-
100000 for emergency aid to Eu-
rope. This alone costs the Ameri-
can taxpayer-and there are 40,-
00,000-an average of $14.92. If
the total aid program comes to
,OOO,0O0,O00, Secretary Mar
shalls rock-bottom estimate, the
cost rises to S4C0 per head. Should
the program run to $20,000,000,-
0O0, as it probably will, each tax
payer is expected to shell out to
the tune of 500 bucks.
This writer, in common with
most fellow citizens, is not opposed
to help for the suffering peoples
of Europe and elsewhere. That help
is as much a humanitarian duty as
it is a long range insurance against
worldwide economic deterioration,
likely to affect our welfare and
imperil our progress.
Yet this is only part of the story.
We must understand the extent of
our commitments and the burden
that fate and circumstances are
again placing on our shoulders. As
long as the decision is ours, we
must make sure that the sacrifices
of the American people serve pro-
ductive and truly peaceful pur-
poses. Above all, we must see that
the flow of American goods and
dollars does not feed an interna-
tional WPA, capable of simultan-
and strengthening the
eously weakening our domestic
forces that may one day turn
against US.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
Members Of
Continued From Page One)

along the line of march and will
broadcast the entire parade pro-
gram. If weather conditions are
ideal, some 100000 are expected
to view the spectacle.-O. c. 6.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27

"$'ll have to have a raise, sir"
said the bookkeeper. "There are
three companies after me"
"What three ?" demanded his
boss.
Light, telephone and water,"
was the reply.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27
HAVE YOU HEARD?

Legislative action this year in
Maryland, North Carolina and
South Dakota brought to 80 the
number Of states where women may
now sit as jurors. In 10 states
jury duty for women is compulsory,
and in Is states women selected
may refuse to serve on the basis
Of sex.
However, in 13 states, and Canal
Zone, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, wo-
men still are not permitted to serve
as jurors.
That a medium-grey or buff
paint with dark pigment in it
will last considerably longer than
white paint Of the same kind. A
fact well worth remembering when
about to paint outside surfaces.
This is because the dark pig
ments absorb the actinic rays Of
light which are destructive to the
oil binder Of the paint. Without
the protection Of dark pigments the
suns rays decompose the oil so
that the white paint becomes dry
and chalky and eventually the par
ticles dust off or are washed off.
Even little pigment adds to the
life of paint.
However, white paint used in the
interior of a house suffers much
less from this deterioration because
exposure to actinic rays is slight.
The estimated cost to operate an
electric blanket is about one cent
per night.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27

The estimated cost to operate an
electric blanket is about one cent
per night.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-11-27

same period of 1916.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-17
Freedom, A Necessity

Representatives of nations where there
people enjoy no privileges Of personal
liberty have often remarked that the
American system Of individual freedom
is luxury only a rich nation may afford.
This is a flimsy excuse for the brutalities
of dictatorship But would we be 50 diff
ferent from these other nations which are
tobogganing back into the dark ages, II
we were hard pressed by economic chaos?
Not if we are to listen to some of our most
notable, self-styled liberals who claim with
fearful urgency that should another de-
preston descend upon America, she TOO
would abandon the luxury" of freedom.
Some of them would even jump the gun
by setting up planned state noW-fiXng
prices, rigging supply and demand to art-
fetal standards, controlling production and
in effect, establishing government as a
spurious God.
When this country was founded, the
going was tough. Freedom was the first
goal of life 1t was not achieved easily. The
privilege of going to the church of ones
choice was not considered a luxury, nor
were ownership of property and the right
of assembly and free speech. These things
were as vital as air. To infer, no matter how
indirectly, that they have become luXuries
at time when millions of people over the
whole world are looking to the United
States to keep alight the torch Of ciViIiza-
ton, is ineXcusable.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-17
Improving Dairy Herds

Ashe county is the leading dairy county
in North Carolina; but what is more it has
possibilities of becoming one Of the lead
ers in the nation, provided its people want
to make it so. To increase the quantity
and quality of the milk supply farmers
must first improve their herds. Pastures,
feeding and other facts enter in, but the
herd is basic. Many dairy farmers have
fine herds, others have made start, but
there are still many others who should
The purebred-registered Guernsey cat
tie auction sale on Friday offers wonder
full opportunity to farmers to secure some
animals from some of the better herds in
North Carolina We urge all farmers in
terested in dairying to attend this sale at
the State test farm.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-17
A Tobacco Market

With a little extra effort on the part
of all interested citizens, it now appears
likely that Ashe county farmers will have
a tobacco market in West Jefferson when
the season opens this fall.
A conservative estimate on the part OF
the county agent places the county's crop
at one and one-half million pounds, this
wear. The market here would also be stra-
logically located for some adjoining count
les; so from all indications there will be
a sufficient amount of tobacco grown
within this area to supply the market.
AS pointed out by farmers and other
agricultural and business leaders, this is
the year to start the market. Building re-
strictions have been removed and the
necessary warehouse can be constructed.
The government flooring, of forty dollars
per hundred, should take care Of the lower
grades of tobacco and the better grades will
take care of themselves, operators point
out.
According to the group of interested
citizens, who met last Friday, to work out
preliminary plans, around S67,OOOOO will
be required for the building, equipment
and location Around S40000.00 Of this has
already been pledged. A tentative plan Of
operations on a $3.50 basis has already been
agreed upon and all indications now are
that the market can be put into operation
here, this fall.
This is an opportunity long looked for
ward to by many and in order to make
success of the event, every interested in
dividual should support the project, if it
is to be put across.
The establishment of market here
would mean much to the business houses
and to the town in general The West JET
ferson Merchants Association is working
on the project and asks the support Of the
members and all others in making it
success.