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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
PASSING OF RENT CONTROL

TT WON'T BE LONG NOW. Rent controls homeland
the landlords are happy The propaganda of the real
estate and apartment house lobby paying off, Renters who
want to for Is increases get extend
ed leases Working people in the low wage brackets, how
ever will be unable to do this They will hang long
possible and then take it on the chin.
Remember when the OPA went out of the window? The
big fellows told and the echoed and reechOed the
chant that prices would not up; that OPA controls
taken off there would be plenty of everything
able prices Yes, that's what they said And what happen
ed? Prices scared scarcties developed many lines The
cost of living is still rising, in fact
The thing will happen when rent controls end
There not enough houses and apartments to meet the de-
mand Not enough housing has provided So
will go up-way up!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17

MEDIUM SIZED NEEDLE TRADES shops restaurants and
A small aundres the safest places work in the met
ropotan area the Greater New York Safety Council report
ed recently.
Heavy machine shops, forging and stamping industries,
construction, freight handling and waehousing and public
utilities showed the highest accident frequency the council
said
Ben H. Self chairman of the councils interpant acci
dent reduction contest announced the standings based on
verified accident reports for April and May by 531 industrial
plants, employing 10000 workers. The compilation showed
reduction of accident frequency from 179 osttme acci
dents 100000 man hours in April to frequency OF
1914.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
LAGGING PURCHASING POWER
WHEN WORKERS, PRODUCTION GOES up

WIEN WORKERS PRODUCTION GOES up while their
buying power goes down, industry finds it's markets
dropping away first in product then in another the AF
monthly survey points out This process it has been
going for several months and has reached large
enough proportions to show in government indexes.
Food and clothing cost much that workers, whose
needs only partly satisfied have had to give up buying the
things they hoped have and these cuts buying extend
wide range of products from steaks to washing
hines from clothing to automobiles from furniture to
homes.
The shortage in buying power caused by high prices is
nationwide in its effect and reaches throughout industry
Besides cutting factory production it has influenced many
plants reduce their plans for expansion, thus eliminating
jobs and reducing possible producing capacity High
of building materials has kept thousands from building
the they hoped and has checked
housing for rent The official forecast of 100000
eliminating thousands of jobs and deprvng 100000 families
of the homes they need
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
UNITED NATIONS AND THE OIL MOGULs

WE ALL KNOW THE UNITED Nations Organization was
set up to preserve world peace. It's sponsors told it
could handle any international problem and should have suf
fcent armed force to put down any revolt against it's auth
ory.
But according to the Associated Press, representatives
Of this country and Great Britain speaking at Lake Success
delightfully."- cool spot in New York state insist that the
United Nations is not big enough to administer the rich oil
resources in the Middle East"
Only the oil putocras of Britain and the United States
do that job 1t hundreds of millions of dollars
profits for them.
1t may another World War for Britain and the
United States. The oil mogus worrying that
Plain people fight wars, but their representatives not
capable of administering the rich oil of the Near
East"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
A MISSOURI FARM BOYS ANSWER

THIS STORY IS VOUCHED FOR by Evelyn Peyton Gordon,
who writes unusually clever column for Washing
ton newspaper:
On the Glorious Fourth President Truman made a speech
Monticello home of Thomas jefferson Lady Nancy Astor
was there She born in Vrginaone of the Langhone
sisters She married Astor who sacrificed his American
citizenship in order TO acquire a British title.
Lady Nancy has sharp tongue Addressing the Presi-
dent of the United States she sad Your Missouri twang
Yankee for me- And the President replied And your
accent is too British for me-
Not bad for farm boy from the Middle West! ~
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
NEWS and VIEWS
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT (An ILNs Feature,


Next the Swedish FsdsraGn M G Unions
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eve agreements principally national The
entrenched unions which
degree democracy public
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sf "e S' s SsS
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and political action their pS
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of half of
behp for stable Social Democratic and
and action conformity with the creed of labor
opposition could would do different Certainly could
During the second world coalition
Per Hanson statesman understanding
this fully all
basca labor which Sweden and
oftentimes dangerous path Of neutrality
Present government Erlander
looking manhe former university proesorwh sharp mind
policies with the Soviet Union All cabinet
Democrats such Moeler
of Social Affairs of the grand old of Swedish
outstanding authority Labor
histroncs proud truttng of the public
intelligent hard working and above all intensely
ALL might gratitude welcomed
exchange labor visitor
all the help and anyone could possibly ask fo
of the national labor federation Axel
dark haired tall his early ffties
this physical resemblance. ~
cautious words.
and intuition pleasant though sometimes mbar
problems through
the medium of a foreign language.
dignity enhanced by his additional posts
of the all powerful Democratic Labor
council
leaders members of parliament
unnm numerically speaking little representa-
was Considering abos responsibility power,
of doing things has often been called the middle
of of
addition that
of wh many speak and SO few reilly possess.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

IT WAS SOMEWHAT OF shock to the Labor press when
the big daily newspapers, which have so often roared
their defiance of those who would with the freedom
of the press and the Bill of Rights remained comfortably
silent about the threat to free speech contained in the Taft
Hartley Act Here and there few dales spoke out but not
many
If it possible for this Congress to take away the free
dom of the labor newspapers is also possible for future
Congress to nulfy the Bill of Rights entirely and force the
daes to submit to the theft of what liberties they have left
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-17
Bonunzu!

yet in but the magazine Business Week"
profits for the year doub
eCy the highest ever
In the estimated that
profits will reach annual of more than doars-
the
cent above the previous peacetime high set in 1929.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

Mrs. Fannie Ross who has been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leo Maness,
returned to her home in Cleveland
Friday.
-.-s... Bdrg
Mrs. r. W. Gulledge and Miss
Lucille Waugh were Jackson visitors
Saturday.
MI. and Mrs. Henry Mullen visited
in Jackson Saturday.
...i...s
Robert Swittenburg, of Jackson,
enjoyed the weekend with his moth
er, Mrs. Effie ~Swittenberg.
..~......
Mr.. /. R. King visited his mother at
Brownsville, Tennessee, last week
end.
*.%..*.s
Mrs. C. A. Glover, Miss Mary Eliza
beth Glover, Mrs. E. w. Rainwater,
and Miss Necie Gwin shopped in
Jackson Tuesday.
*.*t.*.s
Mrs. u. u. Ash ana Mrs. L. "A.
Lail were Jackson visitors Wednes-
day.
*.*t-s.*
Mrs Norman Weathersby and Mrs.
Morgan Clack enjoyed an outing in
Memphis last week.
*~.*i.s.*
Mrs. L. P. johnson, Mrs. Robert
Gwin and Mrs. Morgan Clack were
Greenwood visitors Friday.
*t*i&+*
Mr.. T. A. Lail was in Memphis
Monday on business.
*'Hj.*t*
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Fritz, of Win
nsboro, Louisiana, visited their uncle,
Mr.. o. A. Fritz last week.
*.*f*.*
Mrs. A.. P. Burchman, of West
Point, spent the weekend with Mrs.
Herman Griffith.
...s.-.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Applebaum, of
Yazoo Citv, were Sunday guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Schur.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Clubs
Personals
Mr.. And Mrs. j. R. Watson
Entertain With Luncheon

MI. and Mrs, j. R. Watson enter
tanned at their home on Pine Street
Sunday with a buffet luncheon.
The room were attractively de-
corated with Christmas decorations.
In the dining room the table was
laid with a handsome hand crochet
ed cloth and centered with a Christ
mas arrangement and burning tapers
on either end of the beautifully APP
pointed table.
The guests were: Mrs. j. A.
Sharpe, mir. and Mrs. j. G. Street,
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Erwin and dau-
ghter, Ann, and Mr.. and Mrs. Eli
Chatoney and son, Henry Arthur. all
of Jackson.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11

Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Wilson had as
their guests Sunday his mother, Mrs.
T. E. Wilson, of Clinton, and his
brothers, DR.. and Mrs. T. E. Wilson
Jr, and family, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lewis Wilson and family, all of
Jackson.
Mrs. Leo Maness and Nancy and
Mrs. Kelly Criscoe and Glennis at
tended the Band Festival in Green
wood Friday.
...s...
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Weathersby,
Mr. and Mrs. William Moses and Mr..
w. E. Strider attended the Hazel
! hurst-P ascagoula game in Jackson,
Friday night.
Mr.. Hal Gillian. county registrar,
was in Jackson Tuesday for the
meeting of the various county re-
gistrars.
'''s'"
Mrs. Norman Weathershv, Mrs.
Morgan Clack, Mrs. Cass Povall and
Mrs. Max Scobey shopped in Mem
phis Thursday.
...s...
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Gilliland and
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wilson were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. B. G.
| Hamilton, in Greenwood, Friday
night.
-..s...
Mrs. Lester Barr and Mrs. ]. H.
| Beall were guests in the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. McCafferty in Kosciu-
sko Tuesday.
..s.'.
Mrs. L. B. Gilliland and Mrs. j.. H.
Beall were guests of Mrs. Breck
| Cabell at a bridge luncheon, held at
the Colonial Country Club in Jack
son Wednesday.
...s...
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Fritz, of Albu-
uuerque, New Mexico. were recent
guests of her uncle, Mr.. o. A. Fritz,
and Mrs. Fritz.
...s...
MT. II. d. 1lliildIiu cl3 u Ay1SA'
Texas, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Gilliland last week.
~ *.s.rsas
Mr.. Bonnie Barton, Of Inverness
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ear
Barton.
, Mrs. Steve Sessher, of Pasadena
Texas, visited her uncle, Mr.. Q. A
Fritz, last week.
...s...
Mrs. Issac Barton ST., spent las
weekend with relatives in Yves
Point. Mr.. and Mrs. Issac Barton
Jr., went over Sunday and accom-
panied her home.
*t*i.*.*
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Thomas, o
Crystal Springs, and Mr.. and Mrs
Charlie Campbell, of Bonneville
were recent guests in the home o.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. Fritz. Mr. Camp
J bell is a brother of Mrs. Fritz.
."-s.''
Mrs. A. Flowers spent Sunday will
her son, Mr.. Earl Flowers and fam
lily in Ruleville.
...s''-
Friends will be sorry to hear thai
MIR. Robert Tate, of Greenville, /:
quite ill at the Baptist Hospital, II
Jackson. MI. Tate is a former Hol
mes county a
ss's''t
Mrs. J. r. Watson and Miss Addie
Vic Bailey spent Thanksgiving witt
MIR. and Mrs. Walter McPae in Jack
SON., Tennessee. Miss Bailey stopped
over in Memphis on the return trlt
for a visit with her sister, Mrs. LII
liam McNeer.
...s.'.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Mcclellan spen,
Sunday with her parents, MI. ano
Me- 7 TT at horseshoe.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Mrs. H. L. Nichols Jr.
Wednesday Club Hostess

Mrs. H. l.. Nichols Jr, entertained
the Wednesday Bridge Club at her
home near Tchula.
Mrs. Stanley Walker was winner of
high score, Mrs. A. P. Carroll second
and Mrs. Austin Gibson won at
bingo.
During the social hour the hostess
served coffee and cake.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-12-11
Society
Charles Flonery Pickens
Arrives December 18th

Mr.. and Mrs. John Pickens are the
proud parents of a on, Charles
Flanery, born December 4th. The
young man tipped the scales at 8
pounds.
Mrs. j. W. Downs of Lexington is
the maternal grandmother.
The union times., 1947-08-02
LITTLE LUTHER

Ihe TfEartley fair said MT. Dwort6, 'a both employees and employers
 "Do tell!" said Little Luther.
 "An right, "Take shop What could be fairer union than the shOp?" M that abortion of union shop in the I'll law think of things bete Little Luther sad union hop closed shop"
 "Be that may his father continued rst the Taftey unions the NRB election and the proved the majority workers then the union get 3O of the workers petition for the union hOp
 Congressmen don't much attention petitions signed by workers" Little Luther pointed
 Of MT. Dworth ow much do workers tribute their funds But NRB will atenon If all will hold another poll If majority of the workers for the union shop - Including the ' asked Little Luther. "ncluding EVERYBODY," MI. DIworth.
 Then the union shop asked Little Luther eagerly Don't be fOOh said Mr. Dworh "I the right ask the boss will he PLEASE the union shOp.'
 That's being fair the unon?" Little Luther queied "Yes, indeed,' said Mr. DiIworh
 Letting PLEASE?" demanded Little Luther. 'Precisely,' said his father.
 "Then tell hs," the the fair the ployers.'
 "Why lets the say NO" MT DiIworth explained. "WihOu a petiOn?" asked Luther
 "Withou a doubt" said Mr. Dilworth
The union times., 1947-08-02
Truman Doesn' t
  .Profiteer Curb
Green Says Speculation In Jobs And Homes Threat
 ems Nation

Washington (LPA) = While com mending President Truman's short term recommendations sent to Con- gress with his midyear economic re- port, AFL President William Green last week warned that "they don't gc far enough"
 ''VigorOus steps are needed Green said, ''to drive from Amer ica's postwar markets the uncon' scionable profiteers whose specu lation with American homes and American workers jobs is threaten ing the future stability of our ma tion.''
 Calling for a ''peace production drive," the AFL head said it should be ''backed by courageous and wig liant public policy designed to re- duce the cost of living and to safe. guard the integrity of incomes productively earned"
 "The crucial point brought out ir the report" Green pointed out, lis that in 1947 the per capita real income of consumers has continued to decline because wage income has fallen behind rising prices. This unbalance between the buying power of consumers and expanding production, if allowed tc persist, is bound to place the future stability of our whole economy in grave jeopardy
The union times., 1947-08-02
Had Enough" Teamsters Say

Los Angeles (LPA) : Last year, tie COP asked Had enough?"
 Last week, members of the Int1 Brotherhood of Teamsters at two warehouses here decided that tile an swer is "Yes."
 The Taft Hartley law passage, and the action of Gov. Warren in signing a bill strenuously opposed by the State Federation of Labor, led workers at the Westinghouse Electric warehouse and the Atlantic & Pacific Exporting Co. to go in groups that included every single union member to the Teamsters Building to register to vote in next years elections.
The union times., 1947-08-02
Hearing Airs
 Housing Needs
 Of New Haven
Expect Favorable Action By Aldermen On Three
 Resolutions

A public hearing on three resO' Iutions which would be a begin ming in embarking the City of New Haven on partial effort to solve the serious housing shortage which exists in the Elm City was held by special committee of the Board O1 Aldermen Wednesday.
 The resolutions were presented by the New Haven Citizens Housing Council, which the New Haven Cen tral Labor Council was Instruments in inaugurating. The resolutions would certify the need for housing, so that New Haven may obtain its share ol the $15,000,000 in guaranteed housing bonds made available by the last ses- sion of the General Assembly; would authorize the City to lend the Housing Authority funds to construct project until the Housing Authority sells its bonds; and calls upon Mayor Celen- tano to do all in his power to hell solve the housing shortage.
 Atty. Louis Feinmark, president oi the Citizens Housing Council, ex- plained in detail the need for more housing in New Haven; listed the req sons why private enterprise could not build loW-rert and moderate-rent pro- jects at a profit; and declared that housing was community responsi- bility, as much as fire and police pro- tection.
 Other speakers were Vincent J. McCOvern, president of the New Haven Central Labor Council Saul Kreas, president of the New Haven Building Trades Council Nathan Sherman, editor of The Union Times; Allan A. TwichelI. representing Progressive Citizens of America; Harold V. Feinmark, Fire Fighters Union, and represen. tatives of the American Legion. American Veterans Commmittee League of Women Voters; and New Haven Veterans Council. Al. derman Harrison Turnbull was chairman of the special aldermaniC committee, which is scheduled to report to the Board of Aldermen on Aug. 4.
 All spakers expressed the hope that the housing needs of the city, as out lined by the Citizens Housing Council would not be permitted to become a political football. There was no op- position to the petitions, and the gen eral feeling was that if by chance the aldermanic committee did not approve the resolutions, the burden was on the committee to present its own solution to New Haven's housing problems.
The union times., 1947-08-02
As We See 1t
 by THE STAFF

STATE BUILDING TRADES ex. ecutive board holds monthly meet ing at New Haven Labor Temple on Wednesday, Aug. 6, at 10 AM. Many problems facing the build ing trades unions these days, and board members are NOT cancelling summer meetings, as Congress has done.
 Congress has been very reluc- tant to appropriate money for the State Dept.'s ''Voice of Freedom radio program to get the US. pulp licity abroad. Why should we spend money when our kind of freedom is getting all kinds of free public ity wherever the Taft-Hartley act is mentioned?
 ''LESS THAN A PENNY A DAY =. That is what the meat packing industry earns, after all expenses, for providing meat for an average American family of four." That's what advertisements placed in US. papers by the American Meat In stitute claimed. And here's why they're tossing out that kind of propaganda.
 From 1936 to 1889 Swift, one of the Big Four, averaged $6.9 mill lion a year in profits after taxes. From l94O to 1945 it averaged $l5.2 million and in l946 it net ted $I6.3 million.
 Wilson, another big outfit, hauled in an average of $6.3 mill lion from l936 to 1889 and an average of $I2.l million from 194O to l945. But in 1946 it raked in a startling $3O.2 million-a 228% increase over the previous year. Profits for other big packers followed the same pattern.
 The American Meat Institute, a propaganda outfit for the meat packers, is talking about pennies to cover up millions.
 Some Hearst newspapers are re- writing history. Last week the New York Daily Mirror said editorially {: ''This country went into war orig inally to save Great Britain.'' Overlooked by the Mirror was the fact that Japan had a hand i'm sending us to war by sinking a sub- stantial portion of the US. fleet at a place called Pearl Harbor on Dec. z, 1941.
 Of $5, ,356, ,OOO, 900 spent on new construction in the first half of l947 only $l,883, 100000 went in- to new homes.
 Things seem to have changed very little for the common people since 1789, when Ben Franklin wrote that ''in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.' Ex. cept that death has become more horrible, and SO have the taxes. Inti each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary
 Continued on Page Four)
The union times., 1947-08-02
349's Outing On August 9

New Haven Local 349, New Haven Journeymen Plumbers and Appren- tices will hold their twelfth annual outing at Beechwood Park North Ha- ven, on Saturday, Aug. 9, Train or shine"
 There will be soft-ball games, races, horseshoe pitching, etc. In the morn ing there will be served such delica- cies as clam chowder, sandwiches, clans s-on-half-she1l, beer, and soda for those who want it. A ful1-course chicken dinner will be served at P M.
 Those wanting transportation are requested to call Stan Griesing at 5-50S6 or 6-7782 not later than We'd nesday, Aug. 6, as buses are being arranged for.
 The outing committee consists oi Stan Griesing, Roy Raffi1e, Abe Gold stein, and Jim Carr.
The union times., 1947-08-02
New London  .C Cele b "a
500 Attend 10th Anniver. sary Banquet At Ocean
 Beach Park

Some five hundred people attended the 10th anniversary banquet of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 30, at Ocean Reach park Saturday.
 Charles Johnson, eastern representa- tive of the national organization, was the principal speaker at the banquet, at the recreation hall. Following din ner, union members and guests were entertained by vaudeville and dancing.
 Other banquet speakers were Mayor Fred Benvenuti, Joseph M. Rourke, secretary-treasurer of the Connecticut Federation of Labor; William J. Su11i- van, general representative of the Car penters' union; Robert J. Sullivan, president of the New London Con- tractors association, and the Rev. John J. Finn of St. Mary's church.
The union times., 1947-08-02
Living Costs At Au-Tirne High

Washington-(FP)-Latest reports show living costs were at a new all time high in mid June after a short 2-month pause in the consumers price index as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
 In preliminary survey released, BIS said the latest index, covering living essentials used by moderate-in- come families in large cities, rose to 1a. With a base of 100 at average 1935-39 prices, the index had reached 15o.3 in March but declined slightly since that time. The June mark is 1870 higher than it was one year ago.
 Retail food prices, now 90.56 above prewar figures, were brought up dur ing the month by 6.43o jump in the cost of meat, BIS said.