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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
LABOR DAYS MARK LABOR s
LONG FIGHT
By Federated Press

long fight against oppression hghghd by the issues
has raised Labor Day since the national holiday established
period the rapid develop
mn of the trusts William Jennings Bryan was one
raised the for boycott Labor Day 1901 workers dem
onsated support Of strike against Morgans steel trust
IT, Steel and in 1903 parade pacards decad The trusts tights
let's fight the trusts by not using their goods" ~
19o9l5As the trusts the violence against labor
Gompe told Labor Day demonstraon "The juncons
issued against wormen issued against other citizens It
Of wrongdng 1910 paade carried the slogan Puocracy steals
our soap, then then calls us the great unwashed 49,.
ed IT, participation 1915 AfL Morrison
declared tabor the wolf mtarism concealed behind the
the children the historic
strike John D. Rockfeers Colorado Fuel Labor
Day 1917 most of labor swing to support the which the u s.
End the brought quick renewal of the onslaught
against labor Labor Day 1922 the union movement threatening
general strike rallied opposition to Atty Gen Harry
Injunction striking railroad sopmen Charged Sam
Gompers paugher Exercising dreamed Of the
1925 9sO-The socaled brought union mli
slump union membership thought the millennium had
1880 1885 But the end with crash bringing with bewd
demands for unemployment relief jobs security The advent of the
New Deal brought the NRA and section N and abo resentment
F p ee pa S o
court action vaor of NR collective bargaining agreements
labor upsurge shapened the split on craft vs. in
ed by John Lewis On Labor Day 1887 Green hailed the u
courts decision unfolding the Wagner establishing abors
sidown strikes had million members its first
1910 Days the of the decade found labor dvd
those fighting the held
position But Labor Day 1912 nine months after u entry
victory and mourning The Franklin d. Roosevelt
dead
Green Labor Day e46 when declared he fascism
America have determined to smash trade unions"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
BATTLE LINE

'NHE WORLD Is ON THE threshold of a Industrial
Revolution The first was based mans discovery that
machines could him. But he called to
the machines and became their slave Where that happened
the revolution sou-desroying It's end economic
breakdown and the atom bomb
In the Industrial Revolution people import
ant than things Men regain their freedom This revolution
sourestorng 1t releases the full creatveness of all
gagged in industry 1t sets free to give their best and will
build the world that everyone is looking for.
There is bigger choice in industry than between free
enterprise and state control The real batene between
those who treat people to material end and those
to whom the material and spiritual needs of people the
first 1t is between those who fight for their
way whatever the cost to Others and those who fight for the
right way, whatever the cost to themselves.
The first Industrial Revolution was made possible by
science human skill and finance. The second only
by change-change in the human heart 1t may call for
much change the heart of the Capitalist the heart of
the Communist 1t puts much responsibility in the hands
of the business and labor leaders in the hands
statesmen and military leaders.
The forgotten factor in industry is that God has plan
plan based not the limitation of the status quo
arrangement of manpower and materials. 1t depends
not present machine power atomic energy but
the energy released when freed from greed
1t not only the visible tangible of money and
materials but also the mighty of the human heart
and spirit.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
Consumer A Fall Guy With
Congress Help
BY BEN DOR UPA Columnist)

hundred thousand other
unreasonable At least that's the
eddng and usual they have sold the
Now Congress them action and you'll all be
able to buy
least impression you get reading
what has happened
the after the controls lifted expect
those shiny
eador belevehese STORIES won't be
hard to get they have been till
even harder.
refigeators washing machines
fill the
stalment selling won't do thing speed production
The only to get of these things produce them No
production them Can anybody
waiting be sod that
the installment conditions are to tough?
But let's call this
what really he refusal by and people buy stuff
prices 1907 higher than there any
people just simply can't afford to the prices the
that they see today
payments things they already
long the retail credit people complaining that bills
being paid 80 days they used to be- People taking
But Congress possible people load up with
goods Congress making
spend years today Why So the prices
doing it, that all the
liable to have for good many months ahead.
be friend Don't buy it unless
And if possibly cash Don't the who
another 15 30 75
don't have the it from
don't officers to tell
will trouble keep yourself of the of
and of their colleagues the fancy
boys it's really choice of trouble you the trou
troube the trouble
insalment load The load will bigger than it
has helped to
ing to bring about the day when prices do
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
LABOR DAY---65 YEARS AFTER

This year. anniversary Day. strongest
most democratic trade union movement in the world finds itself faced
for the first time with the of legislation that did
much to destroy in Germany Italy and Japan
Mcclure who believed ferventy in the destiny of free
their honor would the forefront today
against Hartley labor law.
Mcclure union leader time when labor had reached its low
ebb would be graed today of his dreams
of the
would be appalled, ALSO how abo
rewarded with legislation
repressive anything he knew his day.
1882, while labor the middle of fight for the
recognition that MCGUIRE president
holiday of the ountry toer The
City approved plan accepted
suggestion that the date be midway between Independence and
Thanksgiving Days.
On Sept Day celebrated
with bands and banners Broadway Union
finally Elm Park concerts and speeches. This and
years and the that followed
brotherhood of rih English jewish German and Italian work.
The Day spread swiftly
Philadelphia westward later the Federation of
and Labor Unions Chicago and asked Congress declare the
until 1894-1O years later-that Congress took action
spreading the dea of recruiting,
and organizing for political action In Illinois, Colorado, and other
they resulted strikes because employers would the
years Mcclure made his address
Labor Day ong Oregon state to make
Labor holiday Colorado York,
Massachusetts passed similar within the
months The first Monday September became legal bell
There only unions when
for the first Labor Day in year after the American Federation
organized the remnants of the Knights of Labor
94 tremendous labor than 100000 stro
will observe the day he founded
1906, the poverty
He had lifetime fighting for his fellow
eght-hour union recognition
bargaining
Labor Day speaker at ST. Louis
T there's closed shop in heaven Peter Mcclure organized it,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
THOSE HIGH PRICES

TF OPA IS PROMPTLY discontinued production of goods
will rise rapidly and through free competition prices will
quickly adjust themselves to levels that will
ing to pay
That's what the National Association of Manufacturers
said more than IA months ago.
Our guess is that the NAM would like to forget about
that statement-forget that it issued.
But the people won't forget. They remember every time
they buy groceries, clothing appliances. They
be and they become and they ask themselves, when
is it going to end?" *.
Let's get thing straight: The NAM and its spokes-
in Congress either didn't know what they talking
about they deliberately misled the public
So they must be condemned for bad judgment for y
ing.
Now, let's take look at recent developments.
Congressional committee decided to go out through
the country to look into the high prices situation
Attorney General Tom Clark ordered the Justice Depart
crack down those engaged in conspiracies to
maintain increase present prices in the food clothing and
housing fields"
The CIO, through its full Employment Committee, has
sounded another warning that the nation is headed for
bust and will suffer great depression before
long unless something specific done about the price su
ton.
It's very embarrassing situation, because those who
lacked up prices failing their efforts to convince the
public that the unions were manning the jack handle.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
Lobor Urged To Employ Common
Sense

BY JOHN p FREY, President AFL Department
of
the world We apparently farther from world
than when the armed fighting ceased, two years
political planning under Dictatorship and democratic
maintained by free peoples The results of this conflict will definitely
affect the workers country will determine whether
institutions and trade unonsm continue the they
enjoyed
Communn directly concerned
by nftraton ympa
local and national officers by having Communist inspired
utons adopted by union meetings. and by having its propaganda
ried by the labor press.
SO far the Federation of Labor concerned
Communist efforts dismal failure
Labors problems increased dmn
ished since VI Day. rapid unJusfd the
living, affects with
a danger to the nations economic soundness
The Hartley will collective
and has placed in unrndy employers hands powerful with
which attack trade has provided for the wide
spread use of the labor injunction
efforts welfare,
the solution of which will require utmost capacity think
ing and united action
1t is the first union
compsh their the Amercansm loyalty
and farsightedness of American trade unonss
Labor Day tell with the
Act will That will largely
and the administration of the law by the National Rea
to the constiutonaliy of its provisions 3
While trade union confidence, and determination
the protection of rights before
will be than
which has guided the
past BY maintaining and making practical
conn look the future without
assured that trade unionism will
watchword be- courage and common -
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
THE GREAT MANDATE'

FEW WEEKS AGO group of senator's and congressman
"A gaoping around Washington talking about the
Great Mandate they had received from the people last No
vember.
i The public they said not only wanted but demanded
stringent curbs organized labor.
There doubt about it, they said The unions had
been throwing their weight around too much and the public
was fed up.
Yes sir they had mandate called for something
just like the Taft-Eartley Act
Now the shifts to the who made Galupng
pay-Dr George Gallup of the public opinion poll.
He put his opinion probers to work. and they up
with unusual Statements
Four of each 10 persons poed said they had never
heard of the Taft Hartley Act.
majority of those who claimed they familiar with
the Act said they opposed it.
DR.. Galups comment was, Labor leaders were out
standngy successful in their efforts to persuade the public
that the Taft Hartley Act is dangerous and harmful piece
of legislation"
All Of which makes believe that the Great Mandate"
fgment of political imagination.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
LABOR DAY-1947

ABOR DAY, 1947, FINDS organized labor movement
- confronted with of it's greatest challenges The
Taft Hartley Bill passed the Presidents veto has
brought face to face with crisis We must study
how best public recognition OF the neques and
contradictions the Act and thus bring about it's eventual
repeal drastic amendment.
This legislation points up never before how important
is continuing program of workers education if the Ameri
labor to meet the demands made 1t for
understanding labors underlying theories and policies and
put them practice for the best good of ALL Labor
learn also that it has responsibility to acquan the
general public with those theories and policies that
dersandng and wider sympathy with organized labor
develop which will eventually make impossible such biased
legislation the Taft-I1artley Act
The American labor movement is and always has
been fundamentally sound but it needs education and
education for its leadership and general membership If well
informed labor will think nteigeny, act nelgently, and
nteigenty Only thus will labor up to it's
herent capabilities and the glorious contributions of it's pOn
which this Day honors Only thus labor convince
those outside it's ranks that is responsible part of the
American community.
On this Labor Day let firmly resolve to educate
selves this end and thus help to achieve harmonious and
peaceful industrial relations and insure the preservation
and extension of true democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
SOUTHERN EDUCATION
I IKE THE WEATHER, everyone in the North wit

IKE THE WEATHER. everyone in the North with at least
- grain of social consciousness walls about conditions
in the deep South Yet nothing done towards improve
simply because of the Southerners steadast refusal
to allow socalled "Damyankee' interference
If the Southerner solve his own problem well and
good He has plenty of them Raising the standard of living
in Southern states should be the first order of business
the agenda and should this be realized of the other
important problems would work themselves out.
With higher standard of living, minimum wages now
standing below the 40cent hour level, clear
educational program would evolve. Education in the South
is at standst today and the of Alabama over 900
have been forced to leave their jobs because sub
standard pay scales
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
IT SHOULD WORK BOTH WAYS

NOW THAT LABOR UNION officials under the Taft Hart
~ ley Act must register to the effect that they Com
munists and file reports with the United States Department
of Labor why wouldn't it be good idea little farther
and require that everyone do the same thing.
Can't you just some OF our congressman and Sena
sweating wondering how to make out of those
about four feet long and what he should put under this
heading in order hold out just little the nfor
nation he files
And wouldn't it look funny when the newspapers in the
United States had to file the thing They would then be
a lot of talking about freedom of Speech etc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
STRIKE BREAKER

TRADE UNIONSTS WILL SHED tears at the passing
of Pearl Bergof sestyed liking of the strike breakers
Older trade unOnsS may not be surprised to learn that
Bergo estimated his fortune at $4,000 00O-ade
of his professional against labor For the younger
bers, who benefit from the bitter battles their elders
won, it may be we'll to review the facts
In Bergos heyday, in the 1920s and early 3Os labor
disputes frequently marked by shooting and clubbing
Bergo of the responsible with his private army
of nks and missionaries recruited from the degs of the big
cities His armed strike breakers defended company pro-
perty maued pckets provoked trouble day
any employer who would hire them 81 Saf fh@ 81
The of Pearl Bergoff and all it implies remains
dshonored wherever wokngmen gather We trust his
tactics will be revived under the Taft Hartley Act
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
FIRST LABOR DAY BILL ADopTED IN lss7

Day legal holiday
designated Labor
legislature adopted the idea only five first pro
MCGUIRE Six amended its law to
set first Monday in September. " =
before all the followed
making Labor Day day Of tribute workers throughout the land
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-08-28
NEW LABOR RELATIONS PATTERN

The Taft Hartley bill establishes an entirely pattern which
the deciding factor Thus instead of being built
embrold regulations
w. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Labor.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-01-31
DaytOna Beach
400 Jewish Community Leaders Study Needs
Of Jews At Miami Beach Conference

The South Florida Conference
preceded the official launching in
Jewish communities throughout
the state of local campaigns on
behalf of the $17O,OOO,OOO United
Jewish Appeal which makes avail
able the funds for the Joint Dis
tributiOn Committee, the United
Palestine Appeal and the United
Service for New Americans, the
three agencies conducting world
wide programs for the restoration
and reconstruction of Jewish life
everywhere.
Among the many prominent ma
tiOnal and international figures
who addressed the all-day confer
ence was Leon Retter, Secretary
General of the Central Committee
Of the Liberated Jews of Germany,
representing the 10000 Jewish
DPS in the American zone of &C.
cupation of Germany, who recent
ly arrived in the United States
with special message to Ameri-
can Jews from the Jewish DPS of
Europe.
A former school teacher in his
home town of CZernOWitZ, Ru-
mania, Retter organized an anti
Nazi underground movement which
was credited with the rescue of
thousands of Rumanian Jews from
Nazi concentration camps and
death centers. Three times the
youthful Jewish leader-he is only
24-was captured by the GestapO
and sentenced to be shot but he
managed to escape each time.
Sixty-nine members of his family
were murdered by the NaZiS. His
wife, who fought as a partisan at
the age of II, lost her entire faxl-
lily in the first days of the war.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-01-31

The need for immediate large
scale assistance to EurOpe's L.
100000 homeless Jews whose
plight has wOrsened in recent
months as result of the begging
down of intergOvernmental relief
machinery was studied by more
than 400 Jewish community lead
ers at the South Florida Confer
ence of the $17O,OOO,OOO United
Jewish Appeal which was held on
Sunday, January 10Th, at the Latin
Quarter, Palm Island, Miami
Beach.
Against a background of in
creasing needs and decreasing in
tergovernmental assistance, Flor
ida's Jewish leaders considered
steps to provide through the Unit
ed Jewish Appeal for overseas re-
lief and rehabilitation, for the up
building of the Jewish homeland in
Palestine to facilitate the maxi
mum absorption of Europe's home
less Jews, and for refugee aid to
Jewish immigrants reaching the
United States.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-01-31

Mr.. Ben Aronin, distinguished
Jewish author and Communal
leader, has been appointed Pro-
gram Consultart Of the United
Synagogue, it was announced by
Rabbi Albert l. Gordon, Executive
Director, recently.
Author of "The Lost Tribe
"The Moor's Cold, Cavern Of
Destiny" and numerous other
books, plays, pageants, and oper-
ettas for stage and radio, Mr.. Ar
onin will provide program mater
ial for the four hundred Conserva-
tive Congregations affiliated with
the United Synagogue and will
serve as consultant to program
committee chairmen of individual
congregations.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29
More Millions Will Be Asked For Greek Aid

WASHINGTON, (P) - Several members of Congress predicted Saturday that Russia will increase pressure on Greece by extending official recognition of a new Gin dependent Communist" regime in the northern part of the Mediter- ranean nation.
 Some said the result may be a call for more American millions to shore up Greek resistance to Com munism. Rep. Nixon R.-CalifD guessed that the administration might ask as much as S400, 100000. This would be in addition to the $300,000,000 Greek share of the $400,000,000 Congress appropriat- ed last spring to stiffen resistance against Soviet encroachment in Greece and Turkey.
 Rep Teague D.-TexD one of those who thinks Russian recogni- ton of the new state" will be the next move dictated by Moscow, told a reporter the situation would never have developed if "the Greek army had made decent eff fort to clear up that guerrilla sit uation."
 Rep. Jonkman R.-MichD, a member of the House foreign af- fairs committee, said the an nouncement of a new Communist state ''has been cooking for some time and Russian recognition is the next logical step."
 Rep. Bloom D.-N. YD, who was foreign affairs chairman when the Democrats ran Congress, said the developments do not mean that American efforts to beat back Communism in Greece have failed.
 "If it were not for our pro- gram" he said, "the Communists would have been all over Greece today. If they once get in, it's al- most impossible to get them out. It's better to spend a dollar to keep them out than $500 to get them out"
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29
U. s. Helicopter Crashes In Naples

NAPLES, Italy (P)-Three U. s. navy men were killed when a heli- copter from the aircraft carrier Midway lost its rotor and fell into a scrap iron pile in the port of Ma ples today.
 Two were listed as naval off cers Robert Lamm and Jack Pe- ter. Their addresses and the name of the third victim were not avail able.
 Witnesses said the helicopter took off from the carrier, anchored in Naples harbor, few minutes before the crash. The accident oc- cured a few hundred yards from the "Friendship Train" food ship Exiria.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29
Bridges Predicts
 Strike

SAN FRANCISCO (P)-Refusal of CIO longshoremen to handle cargo bound for countries where workers are struggling against "reactionary employers 1 n d = lords and governments" was de- clared quite likely" Saturday by Harry Bridges, head of the long shoremen's and warehousemen's union.
 He said his union expected de- mands from overseas workers that they refuse to load arms and other materials for nations such as France, Italy and Greece.
 In 1888 and 1899 the longshore- men refused to load scrap iron for Japan until ordered to do so by Wayne Morse, present Republican Senator from Oregon who was wa terfront arbitrator for the west coast.
 Bridges said four union mem bers were being sent to Europe for "some first hand, real lowdown
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29
Philippines Mops Up Following
 TyphOOn Disaster

MANILA, (P)-The toll of dead and missing-including 32 of the 61 persons who were aboard the sunk motorship Kina-stood at 49 Saturday night as the Philippines mopped up after its worst Decem- Der typhoon in three decades.
 Twenty of those aboard the Kina, Danish ship which sank in Samar Sea after grounding during the typhoon Christmas night, were reported safe. There was no word of the other 32, who attempted to ride out the storm in lifeboats and on pieces of wreckage.
 Press reports listed II killed at Laguna, where an entire family was blown into Laguna Bay with their house; five in Manila and one in Cavite.
 There was no word of casualties
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29

JUNEAU, (P)-Attorney gener- al Ralph Rivers said Saturday he had filed a protest with the civil aeronautics board in Washington, D. C., against a proposed amend ment to aviation regulations seek ing to place charter air cargo planes between the United States and Alaska on regular schedules.
 Rivers said he favors allowing cargo planes to carry passengers, thus increasing the Territory's passenger service which now IS limited to regularly established lines.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29

LOS ANGELES, (P) - Actress Yvette Taylor, 23, has demanded S75,OOO damages from band leader Desi Arnaz, claiming he struck her over the head with a portable microphone while she was seated at a Hollywood nightclub table De- cember 28, 1946.
 Miss Taylor filed suit in super for court Friday against Arnaz and H. D. Hoven, proprietor of the nightclub, asserting that she suf- fered a cerebral concussion and that since then she has been sub- ject to headaches, fainting spells and traumatic psychosis.
The Nome nugget., 1947-12-29
NEWS IN BRIEF

JUNEAU, (P)-Harry bland of Juneau, former supervising depu- ty of the Territorial department of taxation, filed today as sandi- date in next April's primaries for the Democratic nomination for Territorial auditor. The only other aspirant who has filed for the of- flee is Albert Goetz of Douglas, a Republican.