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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
More Production Is Urged
For Millions OF Migrdats

Washington, ID. C.-More pro-
lection for Americas forgotten
people Of 1877" the millions Of
people who roam from section TO
section for seasonal employment,
was strongly urged by the Federal
inter-Agency Committee on Mi
grant Labor.
The recommendation was con-
tained in formal report asking
for new Federal, State and local
laws and for more community un-
derstanding Of the problems of mi
grants.
Legislation to protect American
migrants included:
!. Stronger State child-Iabor
laws, enforcement Of State laws
requiring school attendance, and
extension Of the child-labor pro-
visions Of the Federal Wage Hour
Act to children working on farms
which produce for interstate ship
ment.
2. Extension of minimum wage
rates to all workers, including farm
workers, by changing the Federal
Wage-Hour Act and passing State
laws.
3. State laws for licensing and
regulating labor camps, and con-
tinuation Of Federally sponsored
labor camps,
A. State and Federal laws to Ii
cense and regulate private employ
ment agencies, including labor con-
tractors.
5. Giving the Interstate Com
merce Commission and State
agencies the power to regulate
private transportation of workers.
6. Extending State workmen's
compensation laws to cover mi
grant workers.
7. Broadening the Social Security
Act to give more benefits to mi
grants.
s. Removal by States Of all resi-
dence requirements for health, edu-
cation, welfare and recreational
services.
9. Federal grants to States to
help them provide better housing,
health, education and welfare
services for migrants.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
Lorge Sum Spent
In Campaign
Against Labor

Washington (LPA) - A sensa-
tional charge made by Sen. George
d. Aiken (R., Vt.) that foes of la
Dor have spent S100,0O0,0OO in a
propaganda campaign against
unions has so far brought no de-
nial from employers organizations.
Aiken made that charge in a
speech on the Senate floor He
named the Natl Association of
Manufacturer and the Committee
for Constitutional Government, op-
Grated by Frank Gannett, chain
newspaper publisher, as the main
spenders in the anti-labor drive.
81 should not be surprised if
the total amount spent in this cam
paign would amount to at least
$1O0,0O0,000," he said.
The Vermont Senator pointed out
that the NAM expended about ST.
100000 on a single months adver-
tising splurge in newspapers all
over the country.
Millions have been spent, also,
he said, on chain letter campaigns,
radio commentators and on a bat
terry of speakers who have been ad-
dressing service clubs throughout
the country.
Also, he characterized the propa-
ganda of the Committee for Con-
stitutional Government as "abso-
lutely vicious" and charged that
much of it is of a Fascist nature,
designed to poison the minds of
our people against the working
classes of America"
81 do not see why the Columbi
ans were prosecuted in Georgia, if
this group goes free" he said.
"If such activities are carried far
enough the final result will be the
destruction of democracy in Ameri-
ca.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
NEGRO VETERANS PAY
REFLECTS EMPLOYMENT
DISCRIMINATION

Washington, d. C. (ILNS).-The
National Council for a Permanent
Fair Employment Practices Com
mittee charged that the extent of
discrimination in employment was
.rindicated by the fact that the aver
lbp,,s.e rbpoo.e weekly income of white veter-
Hns ranged from 80 percent to 7S
percent above the income of Negro
veterans in twenty-silx American
communities, twenty-five of them
in the South.
Elmer w. Henderson, executive
secretary of the council, made this
point in letter to the Presidents
Committee on Civil Rrights. He
transmitted a comparison of in
comes of white and Negro veterans
made by the American Federation
of Labor's Research and Informa-
tion Department and compiled
from a veterans housing survey
made between July, 1916, and Jan
uary, 1947, by the Burau of the
Census and the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
30fh Anniversary
For Dept. Librory

| Washington, D. C. ILNS)-The
u. S. Labor Department library
has just celebrated its Both ami
versary and Miss Laura Thomp-
son her Both anniversary as libra
rian. The story of the beginning
the growth and the success of the
library is also a story of Miss
Thompson's work in making col
lection of material which is believ-
ed the finest of it's kind in any
country.
The library started in 1917, but
its origin dates to 1884 when the
Bureau of Labor, then in the De
partment of Interior, was directed
to collect information upon the
subject of labor, its relation to
capital, its hours of labor, and
earnings of laboring men and wo-
men, and the means of promoting
their material, social, intellectual
and moral prosperity"
Many Students Aided
The collection that resulted was
transferred to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics in 1913, the time at which
the Labor Department was estab-
lished. In 1912 the Children's Bu-
reau library was started with Miss
Thompson as librarian. This collec-
tion was composed of child well
fare material and eventually be-
came the most complete and larg-
est IN the country. The BIS collec-
H tion and the Children's Bureau col
lection were merged in 1917, at the
start of World War /. Under Miss
Thompson's leadership, the library
met the new demands for service
from the war-emergency services.
Between World War | and II
many famous people from many
lands passed through the doors of
the Labor Department library.
Users of its resources include stu
dents from Harvard, University of
California, Brookings Institute,
Cornell University, University of
Chicago, Princeton University, Co.
lumbia, Vassar, Smith, and John
Hopkins University.
The late Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, was among the visitors.
Many unions have worked on their
briefs, sitting in study rooms in
the library, and using the vast and
valuable collection. SO have leading
writers on labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05

Sen. Carl Hatch ID, N. NJ. Sen.
Alben Barley ID, Ky.) warned
that tenants who were barely able
to make ends meet would be hard
est hit. The vote on the amendment,
proposed by Sen. Albert w. Hawkes.
(R., n. j. and sponsored by the
Natl Association of Real Estate
Boards, was 48 to 26.
2-Require 5% of the presently
controlled rental areas to be de-
controlled each month, on a motion
by Sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy (R.,
Wis.,. There are now about GOO
such areas.
3-What rent control is left, is
extended only to Feb. 20, 1948.
In addition, there will be no con-
trolls on rental rates for newly con-
structed dwellings; state rent con-
troll bills will be allowed to sup
plant federal controls wherever
they are so designated; local ad-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
TRUMAN COMMITTEE TOLD
TO ROOT OUT PREF UDiCE

Washington (LPA)-The Presi-
dents Committee on Civil Rights,
holding another in a series Of open
hearings on strengthening demo-
cratic rights in the U. S., last week
was urged to strongly recommend
passage of the Ives-Chavez bill,
the Natl Act Against Discrimina-
tion in Employment.
Executive Secretary Elmer Hen
derson, of the Natl Council for a
Permanent FEPC, told the Com
mission that Passage of this bill
is the first and major step to be
taken toward ending race prejudice.
We can't remove prejudice by law,
but it will eventually die if we re-
move its manifestations"
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
Federated Press
Communist Belt
Teomsfers Say

Santa Barbara, Cal. (LPA)-The
11th Western Conference Of Team
sters-AFL, representing Int'l Bro
therhood Of Teamster unions in IL
western states, last week unani-
mously adopted a resolution charg-
ing Federated Press, daily press
service for labor papers, with fol-
lowing the Communist Party line,
and recommended that all Teams
ter publications cancel the service.
The resolution, offered by the
Public Relations, Publicity & Pro-
motion Division, read as follows:
Investigation conducted by
members Of this committee has re-
vealed tina. the Communist party
line is being forcefully advocated
by Federated Press, labor news
service patronized by hundreds of
AFL publications, including the In
ternational Teamster. Thru person
al contact with writer's for FEEDER
ated Press, letters protesting its
slanted reporting and stories and
reports from members of the labor
press, this committee is convinced
that Federated Press is a trans
mission belt for Communist pro-
paganda and the ultimate promo
tion Of totalitarianism like that in
force in Soviet Russia today.
"In the opinion of labor press
editors on the committee, Federat-
ed Press has consistently opposed
Teamster and AFL policy when the
latter clashed with the Communist
Party line. 1t has consistently op-
posed American foreign policy
when it clashes with the party line.
1t has gone to considerable ex-
pense to obtain special features
and picture coverage that some
times had nothing to do with or
ganized labor in most instances
closely jibed with Communist aims.
"The special subcommittee
learned that Federated Press has
recently increased its yearly bud
get from $4,000 to $4,000 and
that only part of this was obtain
able from subscriptions and sales
of its service. 1t is the feeling in
AFL circles that Federated Press
is receiving subsidies from sources
interested in promoting policies in
imical to the Teamsters and the
AFL.
"No danger to the American la
Dor movement is very obvious.
Hundreds of AFL labor papers are
knowingly or unknowingly carry
ing colored labor news that is con-
trary to AFL policy and is propa-
eating Communism FTP reporting
of the cannery and beer disputes
was highly colored and slanted
against the Teamsters.
"The committee is firmly con-
vinced that Federated Press is not
a trustworthy source of informa-
tion for AFL publications and rec
ommends: "1-That all Teamster
papers Immediately cancel FEEDER
ated Press; 2-That the Western
Conference refer this matter to the
proper committee of the Int1 Bro
therhood of Teamsters national
convention in San Francisco; g.
That all other AFL federations and
central labor bodies be notified of
this action; THAT all Teamster
publications obtain trial service
of Labor Press Associates and if
possible subscribe to it; 5-That
the AFL executive council be petit
toned to establish a nationwide,
self-paying news service for the
American labor press; and 6-That
this entire matter be also referred
to the chairman of the Western
Conference of Teamsters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05

visory councils to administer the
rent controls machinery will be set
up.
When the Senate bill goes into
conference, it is feared that these
supposedly more reasonable" rent
control provisions will merely be
inserted into the House-approved
Wolcott bill, which has in addition
provisions for completely junking
controls over building materials,
and all effective priorities for vet
erans desiring to purchase new
homes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
CLOSED SHOP UPHELD

Birmingham, Ala.-Organized la
Dor won a smashing victory here
when the Alabama Supreme Court
tossed out drastic strikebreaking
injunction and held that the closed
shop is still legal in this State.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05
ELECTRICIANS GET RAISE

st. Louis, Mo.-Approximately
1000 members of Local B-1256 of
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers (AFL), employ
ed at the General Gable Corp, here,
have been awarded a wage increase
of liz cents an hour across the
board, retroactive to April 13.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-06-05

You're really at home on the
job when you've emptied and re-
arranged every drawer in your new
desk.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Homemakers 10 Study
LEGISLATION in CONGRESS

A countrywide program to dis
seminate information on legislation
pending in Congress has been
launched by the Prince Georges
County Homemakers' Clubs, with
study groups" slated monthly.
At meeting in the YWCA Ken
dali House, GA E street NV, con-
Quoted by Mrs. A. F. Coulombe,
president, representatives of the II
clubs decided to hold the study
sessions separate, from the regular
meetings. The first study group
will be called within month" by
Mrs. Coulombe and Miss Ethel M
Regan, county home demonstration
agent.
Action came after the report OF
a committee recently appointed to
study means of obtaining accurate
information on bills. The commit
tee includes Mrs. Theresa Smith
Mrs. w. F. Mulligan, and Mrs. Ray
Hurley.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Navy Probes Blast
Injuring a Workers

Navy officials today were investi-
eating the blast at the new Naval
Ordnance Laboratory at White Oak
Md, yesterday which blew off the
right hand of one man and injured
three other workers.
Leo Gowen, a chemical engineer
of 1882 Shepherd street, Landover
Hills, Md, who lost his hand, also
is being treated for injuries to his
eyes and for face burns at the
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda
His condition, however, was re-
ported to be good. 49,.
Minor burns were sustained by
Marshall Gilberson, 5501 Temple
Hills, Rd., Temple Hills, Md; Har-
old r. Joiner, 57O3 Thirty-sixth
avenue, Hyattsville, and w. K
Smith, 908 Beverly drive, Alex
andria.
The Navy explained that the ac-
cident was caused by a premature
explosion of powder which was
being mixed in laboratory.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Bulletins Outline Issues
In Harrington Dispute

Issues In the threatened strike Of
service employees at darlington to-
day were outlined to the residents
through bulletins distributed by
each side.
A message distributed by the serv-
ice employees said that If they are
forced to strike "by the manage
ment's stubborn refusal to meet with
us and its antiunion activities, we
trust that you will place the respon-
sibility on the management where
it properly belongs"
In q bulletin distributed by De-
tense Homes Corp, operators of
Harrington, residents were informed
that the housing development has
been sold with tentative transfer
date Of October 10. r.
"It is stipulated in the contract OF
sale that the present owners or its
management are prohibited from
entering into any contract Of any
nature 60 days prior to that date
=" the operators bulletin reads.
It stated further than an official OF
the union had been notified OF this
provision.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Bratcher's S Plea for Writ
Charges False Testimony

Everett M. "Washie" Bratcher
former orchestra leader now serv-
ing a four-year sentence at the
Lewisburg Pa) Federal Penitentiary
for violation of the Selective Service
Act, has petitioned for his release on
the grounds that a witness testi-
mony at his trial was false"
Federal Judge Frederick v. Foil
mer, at Lewisburg, set October 20 as
the date for hearing on Bratcher's
petition for writ of habeas corpus.
Bratcher was convicted by jury at
Alexandria on December II, 1914
Bratcher charged that Robert
Chambers, laboratory expert for
the Federal Bureau of Investigation
testified "he has taken tests which
proved conclusively" that Bratcher
had taken benzedrene to evade in
duction" into the armed forces.
The petition further charged that
Mr.. Chambers, testifying in another
case on September IL of this year
said there was no true test in exist
ence which would reveal the use ot
benzedrene," the Associated Press
reported.
II was therefore unlawfully COM
mitted on false testimony and an
entitled to my release" the petit
tion SAYS,
Evening star., 1947-10-01
State 10 Raise Realty
Tax Rate 1.13Cents in
'48, Board Reminded

A tax rate increase of little
over l cent per 500 assessed valua-
ton on real estate is in store for
Maryland residents on State tax
bills next year.
This was disclosed yesterday by
the Maryland State controllers Of
flee in Annapolis in letter to the
Prince Georges County commission
ers, reminding them of 1.13-cent
addition on 1947-48 tax bills over
the current lp-cent per 500 assess
ment.
The controllers Office reported
the increase on the present regular
rate Is the result of passage Of two
acts by the Maryland General AS
sembly earlier this year, authorizing
additions to the tax rate to cover
financing of two bond issues.
The major part of the increase
110 cents per 500 valuation, will
60 towards repayment of bonds OBJ
tanned through the general con-
struction loan of 1947-a means OF
obtaining funds for construction OF
State Office buildings. The remain
der of the addition, .03 of cent will
be used towards the armory loan OF
1947-a measure approved to obtain
funds for construction of a new
State armory In Charles County.
According. to Prince Georges
County'S State Senator L. Harold
Sothoron, the 10 cents per $10C
valuation will continue to be used
for retirement of other bond issues
throughout the State. The total
State tax rate next year, to be added
on county tax bills, will be 11:13
cents on each 500.
Speculation in political circles
was that the State tax would be
abolished with creation this year OF
the 2-cent sales tax program.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Silver Spring Moose Name
Pa|eoIogos Acting Head

P. G. Paleologos has been elected
acting governor of the newly organ
lied Silver Spring Lodge of Moose,
to serve until the lodge is instituted
later this fall.
The lodge will meet at $3.50 pm
Monday at the CiSsel Saxon An1eri-
can Legion Home, Silver Spring, to
hear Robert Erwin of Baltimore,
Moose regional director.
Other officers of the lodge, which
has launched a campaign for $50
members by January 81, include
Lucia Heron, junior governor;
Charles B. Smith, prelate; Fred A.
Rogers, past governor, and A. B.
Schreiber, treasurer.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Fairfax PTA 10 Hear
Residents Opinions
On Building Program

Residents of Fairfax County will
be afforded an opportunity Satur-
day to tell the County School Board
how large building program they
believe it required to meet cur
rent and future needs. The citizens
will express their views at the an
nual workshop of the Fairfax
County Federation of Parent
Teacher Associations, at Fairfax
Elementary School.
The aI-day session will hear an
address on THE Crisis in American
Education" by Dr. Don Patterson,
assistant director of the Division OF
Elementary Education, United States
Office of Education.
Other subjects to be discussed at
group meetings, which will be held
from Ito 5 pm, include What Is
a Good Elementary SCHOOL," What
Is a Good Secondary Schoel?" and
Public Relations: The School and
the Community"
In addition to the discussion
groups, there Will be three art eX-
hibits, one of children's paintings
from the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts, Richmond; one on modern
French painting from the Univers-
ity of Virginia Extension Division
and a diorama from the Valentine
Museum, Richmond.
A recreation display, of which
Mrs. John Myer of Dunn Loring
will be in charge, will include work
from the Fairfax County Recrea
ton Association, the Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Falls
Church Teen Theater, All Clubs
Camp Fire Girls, schools, churches
and homes.
The workshop has been arranged
under the direction of Mrs. Mark
Regan, president of the County
Federation of PTAs.
Evening star., 1947-10-01
| Alexandra Chest Drive
| Names Vice Chairrnen

Marvin L. Wilson, Alexandra
Community Chest campaign chair
man, has named three vice chair
men for the 1948 drive to begin No.
vember IL. Alexandria's goal dur.
ing the two-week drive this yeal
is $58, 900.
The three are Mrs. Albert A
Miller, D. C. Book and Denton
Boogher.
Mrs. Miller also is chairman o1
the Alexandria Chapter, American
Red Cross. Mr.. Book is executive
secretary of the Alexandria Cham
ber of Commerce. Mr. Boogher is 8
recent appointee to the area rent
control advisory board. He also il
member of the executive commit.
tee of the Council of Social Agencies
Evening star., 1947-10-01
Poll Being Prepared
In darlington on
School Construction

A poll of darlington residents to
determine whether they want an
addition to the elementary school
in the south section of the housing
development or a second school con-
structed on the north side was
being prepared today by the Fair
lington Association, civic group.
The poll was suggested last night
by an association delegation which
appeared Nbefore the Arlington
School Board to inquire into a pro-
posal to add eight rooms to the
present school. The School Board
opened bids Friday, and must act
on them by October Is or they will
be withdrawn automatically and
new ones submitted,
Mrs. Mildred Young, civic group
spokesman, told the board the pres
ent school already is large enough
by standards of Federal Govern
nnent experts. She said a school
should be built in North Fairling-
ton, so children there would not
have to go the long distance to the
present school,
Group Held Not Representative.
The board asked If the residents
would rather have the addition built
now or wait longer for new school
and Mrs. Young suggested poll.
The board agreed to defer action
until a poll is taken but asked that
the results be available within three
weeks.
Mrs. Rufus Jasper, president of
the darlington Parent-Teacher
Association, said she did not feel
the delegation from the darlington
Association was representative of
the development since only 65 out Of
approximately 10000 residents at
tended the meeting at which the
delegation was named. She said
she felt the sentiment of the major
ity of residents should be obtained.
At the meeting in question, O.
Glenn Stahl, candidate for the
School Board in the November elec-
ton, charged the proposed addition
had been approved by the board
despite the fact county voters last
May approved a bond issue calling
for 14-room school in North Fair
lingten. His charge, which resulted
in appointment Of the delegation
which appeared last night, was not
mentioned before the School Board,
however.
Residents Feel Left Out"
A darlington resident, who re-
quested that his name not be used,
said residents of North darlington,
which is separated from South Fair
lington by the Shirley highway. fire.
quently feel left out"
He pointed out there are no stores,
theaters or schools in North Fair
lngton. ....
Members of the civic delegation
were Robert Reynolds, Mrs. Milton
Chase and Mrs. Young. In addi-
ton, E. L. Butler and A. w. Tenney,
president and vice president, respec-
lively, were present. Mrs. Jasper
was accompanied by Harold Sand
bank, vice president Of the PTA.