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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Labor Conference
(Cnnfinued Erntu Pnne OncA

United Mine Workers just recent
| ly is an outstanding example Of
how this objective can be success
fully won.
Court Fights Planned
Secondly, we are going to fight
in the courts to have this law helC
unconstitutional. We have been as
sured by legal counsel that many
sections of the law are direct in.
vasions of the constitutional rights
of the organized workers of the
nation. We will take up that chal-
lenge and we will carry it all the
way to the highest court of the
land.
FINALLY, we are going to unite
our combined strength and re-
sources in the greatest political
battle ever waged by organized
labor in America battle that
will be fought relentlessly until
every member of Congress who
voted for this monstrous legisla-
tion is defeated"
Green charged that the forces of
reaction are now in the saddle in
Congress and many of the state
legislatures and that a policy is
being pursued (which brazenly at
tempts to stop the clock of pro-
gress and seeks to enhance the in
terests of entrenched power and
special privilege at the expense of
the common welfare"
Must Educate Public
"We must make the American
people as a whole see this ugly
policy in its true light and its
naked truth" he added and asked:
as America going to stand for a
national policy and program which
ignores human rights and human
needs?
"Are the American people going
to submit tamely while the social
justice legislation for which they
gave their mandate is torn down
and destroyed?
"Are the workers of our country
going to let themselves be pushed
back to sweatshop conditions by
repressive legislation ?"
Has Faith in People
81 know your answer" the AFL
chief added. 81 know the answer of
the 100000 members of our or
ganization, united today as never
before. And | know what the
answer of the American people as
a whole will be once their eyes are
opened and once they realize the
and the bitterness of the
false propaganda which the react
ionary politicians have used to de-
lude them"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Editor Tells
(COntinned From Page One)

United Hatters, Cap & Millinery
Workers-AFL.
The article points out that al
though there are "more Commun-
lists to the square foot of working
space" in the lofts where the ma
tion's clothing is sewn, than in all
other industrial plants and centers,
the apparel trade unions have con-
tanned and stymied the party liners
more effectively than such organ
izations as the electrical or auto
mobile workers unions. The gar
ment workers licked the Commun-
lists not by superior cunning or
novel subterfuge, Rich states, but
by tactics which are available to
all other unions. The prime objec-
tive must be to organize the maj
ority of the union membership, he
says, so as to defeat the Commun-
list strategy of infiltration and
domination by a minority of party
liners, fellow travellers and fellow
wanderers.
The Post article lists in detail
the measures by which the major
ity in the apparel trades unions
was mobilized to combat the Com
munists. 1t tells of the committees
which exist in the unions for the
special purpose of rallying the
membership son critical issues.
Communist attempts to divide the
members on racial and religious
issues are also cited as are the
measures taken to counter these
attacks. The article stresses in
particular the campaign strategy
by which the Communists were de-
feated in this years elections for
office in the Int'l Ladies Garment
Workers-AFL where the Commun-
lists are most strongly concentrat-
ed. AS a result of this strategy,
more than 10000 members parti-
cipated in the balloting, and of
these less than $4,000 voted the
Communist tickets. In New York
where the Communists are most
strongly entrenched, not a single
candidate sponsored or endorsed
by the Communists was elected to
office.
The Post article concludes with
a statement from ILGW President
David Dubinsky, to the effect that
what his organization has done
any organization could do. "Amer-
leans who cherish their liberties"
he says, 'and have been dismayed
by the Communists skill in infil-
tration, confusion and division,
need not despair. What our mem
bers have done, others can do.
Communism can win only by the
default of soft and lazy demo-
cracy."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Argentine lilo Delegate
Says We Foster Nazism

Washington (LPA)-British and
U. S. workers delegates to the
Int'l Labor Conference in Geneva
Switzerland, last week asked for a
vote of censure of the Argentine
workers delegate, who had alleg-
ed in an open lilo session that
Nazism was fostered by English
speaking peoples, and that "the
hope of mankind is in the Latin
American bloc, which poured out
it's blood on the battlefelds of
Europe to save the world from
Fascism."
British workers delegate Sir
Joseph Hallsworth asked Argen-
tine workers delegate Antonio
Valerga to retract, and u. S. work
ers' delegate Robert j. Watt of the
AFL asked for vote of censure.
Valerga apologized for any insults
on the ground he was unused to
the niceties of diplomatic langu-
age, but declined to change his
original statement.
Hallsworth in his speech said
that Valerga's heated remarks
came with bad grace from a dele
gate representing what the Briton
called a fascist state, and pointed
out that English-speaking coun-
tries had both given enough blood
in the fight for freedom, and suff-
cred enough since the war in the
fight for peace activities not
shared by Argentina.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
After-SchOOl Jobs Fewer,
New York Children Find

New York City QLNS).-Child-
rem in this city who work after
school hours are finding it harder
to get jobs, report by the Board
of Education's Bureau of Attend
ance indicates.
Walter E. O'Leary, director of
the bureau, said that as compared
with 1944-45, the number of work
permits issued to school children
this year has fallen by approx
mately so percent. The current
figure, he said, is the lowest since
1941-42.
An aggregate of 132,545 full and
part-time work certificates were
issued for the 10 months from
September, 1916, ito June 80, 1947.
An additional 10000 will prob
ably be issued in July and August,
it was said. These figures compare
with 210,291 permits issued in
1945-46, and 3O5,942 issued during
the record year of 1944-45.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Labor Candidate
Continued From Page One)

Edward A. Garmatz to the Con-
gressional seat vacated by Mayor
D'Alessandro. The CIO-AFL vic
tory gave Garmatz, a Democrat
and member of the Intl Brother
hood of Electrical Workers-AFL
since 1919, a total vote of 12,179,
more than the combined votes of
both his opponents.
CIO President Philip Murray
made a deliberate test case of the
Taft Hartley law by asking Balti-
more CIO members to vote for
Garmatz. President Walter Reuth-
er of the United Auto Workers
CIO, also defed the law by advis-
ing UAW members in Baltimore,
thru the UAW paper, the Auto
Worker, to vote for Garmatz.
Union literature distributed by
both AFL and CIO unions before
the election could be used by the
Justice Dept as evidence for a test
of the Taft Hartley law, it was ad-
mitted by government officials.
The Garmatz victory cheered
Gael Sullivan, director of the DEM
ocratic Natl Committee, who saw
the vote as an omen for next years
Presidential and Congressional
election. Sullivan, who had pre-
viously said that the Democratic
Party would make an election issue
of the Taft-Hartley law, pointed
out that Garmatz's Republican op-
ponent got only 1870 of the vote
to trail an Independent candidate.
Said Sullivan, despite the fact
that the Republican organization
poured money into the district in
a desperate effort to win they were
showed under"
There was no indication whether
the Justice Dept would take action
against either the AFL or CIO for
their efforts on behalf of Garmatz.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Congress Lifts Lid
For New PrOfiteers

Washington LPA)-The gates
to postwar profiteering were open
ed wider last week when the House
of Representatives approved legis-
lation repeating the profit limita-
tion imposed by the Vinson-Tram-
nell Act Of 1884.
The law limited profits on mill
tary airplanes to 12% and on Navy
ship construction to 1917. Also re-
pealed by the House bill would be
the requirement that a fixed per-
centage of plane and ship construc-
tion be handled in government
owned plants. Excuse offered by
the House Armed Services Com
mittee was that repeal of the
limitation would really prove econ
omical because industry has made
the maximum allowable profit the
s.r
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Union Registration
Office Established

Washington (LPA) Establish
ment of a new office for the Regis
tration of Labor Organizations
was announced last week by Labor
Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach
The new office was set up under
the Taft Hartley law which re-
quires the annual filing of financial
and organizational reports by un-
ions.
A registration form will shortly
be made available to unions which
decide to register under the act.
However, many CIO and AFL un-
ions have already decided against
doing business with the new Natl
Relations Board. The law requires
that the enlarged NLRB shall re-
fuse to act on questions involving
representation, union shop election
petitions, and unfair labor prac-
tices charges by unions unless
"such labor organization and any
national or international labor or
ganization of which such labor or
ganization is an affiliate or consti-
tuent unit" shall have filed with
the Labor Dept copies of its con-
stitution and bylaws.
In addition, the union report
must include statements on the
salary and allowances of the prin-
cipal officers, the manner in which
union officers and agents are
selected, the amount of dues and
initiation fees, and a detailed
statement on receipts and expendi-
lures.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

US. There is price that all must
help to pay.
Well, Congress gave us the Taft
Hartley law. That was all-import-
ant. That was to block the working
people. What, if anything, was
good in that law, could have been
given little more time.
Floods do not wait. And when
they come, their cost is inevitable.
Their toll is as sure as the follow
ing of night by day.
Flood prevention means soil saw
ed-priceless soil. 1t can mean
power for the homes of people. 1t
can mean fertilizer for the soil that
remains. And it can mean, as it has
meant in the Tennessee Valley, in
valuable means for the national
defense.
If in some trumped-up fashion,
it slices away bit from some pri-
vate interest, let there be compen-
sation for that-and here and
there let the nation as a whole
say, "well, what of it 2"
Our great wealth will not last
forever-our soil, our iron, our
copper-many things of essential
value.
Let US begin as a nation, to
know how to save-and above all,
let US be about the job.
Ships that go down to sea gen.
orally come back. Soil that goes
down to sea stays there.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
SCHOOL FUNDS RESTORED

Washington (LPA) = The Sen
ate Appropriations Committee has
voted to restore to the Agriculture
Dept funds for this year the full
$75,0O0,0O0 originally proposed for
federal aid to school lunch pro-
grams. The House voted $45,0O0,-
600; the two figures must now be
reconciled in the event the full
Senate approves, and both Houses
of Congress must vote on the COM
promise measure.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Airlines Accused

Washington (LPA) = President
Truman's Air Safety Board was
told by two spokesman for the Air
line Pilots Ass'n-AFL that eff our
builders and designers of aircraft
would stop trying to live up to the
Sunday newspaper supplements
description of speed, luxury and
load-carrying characteristics and
concentrate on safety, it is entirely
probably we would have a pretty
good transportation system in
few years." The AFL union men
charged the airlines with trying to
''make airplanes fit runways that
are too small, with weights that
are too large and against variable
factors that are too potent and un
stable to count on"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
COP BETRAYS
PROMISE ON
MINIMUM PAY

Washington (LPA) = Thorough
ly satisfied with the wrecking jot
they have done on the Wagner Act
members of the House Labor Com
mittee last week decided that, in
stead of throwing labor "conso-
lation prize" in the form of a Coz
legal minimum wage, they'd study
the whole question of drastically
revising the Fair Labor Standards
Act.
The Subcommittee on Hours &
Wages of the House Labor Com
mittee backed down on COP lead
ership's promises that the 60c min
imum bill would be passed in this
session, when they were faced with
strong filibustering tactics by the
worst reactionary wing of their
COP brethron, teamed with the
southern Democrats.
Chairman Samuel Mcconnell (R.,
Pa.) announced that the subcom-
mittee's hearings were recessed in
definitely. Other subcommittee
members made it clear that they
would work for complete reopen
ing of all provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act - including
the floor of 40c on wages, the linn
itation on hours worked the re-
strictions on child labor, and the
types of workers covered.
These anti-labor members, who
have ambitions to do to the Fair
Labor Standards Act what the full
committee did to the Wagner Act,
include several mem who frankly
want to repeal the measure entire
ly. Rep. Ralph w. Gwim (R., N.
W and Rep. Max Schwabe (R.,
Mo- have both put forward this
extreme view.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
AFL Wants Int'l Standards

Lake Success, n. Y. (LPA)-
The Economic & Social Council of
the United Nations, which meets
here July 10, will have before it a
request from the AFL that it pro-
mote international agreements set
ting social conditions for migrant
workers, many of them from DIP
camps, who are being sent to ma
tions needing manpower to do re-
construction work. The formal pro-
posal was made by AFL Vice-pre-
sidents David Dubinsky and Matt
hew Woll, and AFL UN Represent
ative Toni Sender.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

The flood waters rise and wash
away the substance of the land.
The flood waters tear and rip
and gouge. Here and there they
destroy life, as well as land.
Peanut politicians in Washing
ton wrangle, some of them jockey
ing for position in the presidential
sweepstakes.
Like the flood waters, peanut
politicians also are a menace.
Some do not comprehend. Some
do not dare. Some will not act be-
cause, stricken with little jealous
les, they do not get something that
they want.
The food waters come and they
come again. They take away the
soil upon which food should grow.
They take away life itself-and
the bread Of life.
This year the penalty is unusual
ly high and many are asking,
"How much longer must we suffer
this needless loss ?"
Of all the floods we have had
this year, we have heard of none in
the Tennessee Valley
We know that flood control, or
let US say food prevention, is pos
sible.
Not only that, but flood preven-
ton is profitable.
Great areas of our country have
been swept to sea, never to be re-
covered, because Of the erosion
caused by floods. Raging water is
a powerful force. 1t tears away
soil as man tears paper. And the
ripped up soil is carried down to
the sea. We have not learned how
to plant corn or SOW wheat in the
sea,
Our great loss cannot be recov-
cred. An asset Of our nation is
lost.
Mans stupidity, procrastination
and peanut politics must carry the
blame heavy, depressing, ex-
pensive load of blame.
How long must our land go tear
ing down to the sea in mud laden
streams, as the cost of uncontroll-
ed floods?
The gentlemen Of Congress
would do well to answer that!
True statesmen WOULD answer,
by action.
Some work can be done by cities
and what cities can do is we'll illus
trated Dy what Dayton, Ohio, has
done. G Galveston, Texas, has
wrought a mighty work against
the. anger of the sea.
But the whole flood prevention
job is not a job for cities, or for
states, because the burden is too
heavy and the territory is too
large, covering many states and
state borders.
The whole job is a job for the
nation. The soil wealth to be pre-
served is a part Of the wealth of
the nation.
As our agriculture area is dimin-
ished, so is our national wealth
diminished.
When there is not enough wheat,
for example, that is not one farm
er's loss, or the loss of one city or
one state. That is the loss of all of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
REPAIR LOANS CONTINUED

Washington, u. C. ILNS).-
Repair loans under Title | of the
National Housing Act will be con-
tinued for 2 more years with the
signing of Senate Bill No. 1890 by
President Truman. New contracts
and regulations have gone forward
to approved lending institutions.
They contain no major changes in
established procedure.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
ILG Man Halls British Labor

London (LPA)-American labor
might well view the coming into
power of the British labor move
ment as pattern and guide" the
Natl Union of Tailors & Garment
Workers was told at it's annual
convention last week by Isadore
Nagler, vice-president of the Int'l
Ladies Garment Workers Union
AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Hillman Services July 30

New York (LPA) = Memorial
services for Sidney Hillman, who
died a year ago this month, will be
held in Carnegie Hall on July 80,
it was announced last week by the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
The memorial fund set up to con-
tinue the late ACW presidents
ideals now stands at 100000. The
goal is $1,0O0,C00.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Ask AntilabOr Pastors Removal

Rockingham, N. C. UPA) =
Members of the Pentacostal Holi-
ness Church, most of them employ
ed at the Safe Cotton Mill here,
ohave asked for removal of the pre-
lent pastor because che has used
the facilities of his church, and the
power, prestige and influence be-
slowed upon him for the good of
mankind, in such way as % be-
come a partisan of management
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
HPA To Recognize
Labor Press 'BeSts'

Newark LPA)-The Int'l Labor
Press Association has invited all of
its affiliates and the papers of AFL
unions to participate in a contest
to select outstanding accomplish
ments in labor journalism during
the year 1946-47.
ILPA will give awards to mon
thly and weekly labor papers, and
to the papers carrying the best
cartoons, features and editorials.
Editors whose papers are eligible
for awards may obtain details
from ILPA's Secretary, Lewis M.
Hermann, 22-13th Ave-, Newark,
N. j.
The ILPA's 36th annual conven-
tion will be held in San Francisco
on October A.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
1t Cost SO A Life

Springfield, Ill. (LPA) - The
Centralia Coal Co. was fined $1,000
<w-the maximum allowed under the
4 fw-for "wilful negligence" in
: connection with the mine explosion
last March which cost III miners
lives, by Judge in the Washing
ton county circuit here. The Cen
tralia Coal Co. pleaded no contest.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Court Orders Arbitration

New York (LPA)-The United
Electrical Radio & Machine Work
ers last week was granted a petit
tion by Supreme Court Justice F.
C. Benvenga requiring the Federal
Telephone & Radio Corp. to arbi-
trate layoffs and other disputes
with the union. The UE contends
that 1000 workers at two n. j.
plants were fired only a few days
after II shop stewards were dis
missed by the company last May.
Federal is a subsidiary of Int'l
Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
Only Czechs Don't Strike

Montreal (LPA)-The number
of strikes caused by industrial dis
putes in 1916 was greater than
that in 1945 in the U. S., Canada,
Argentina, Iceland and Switzer-
land, according to nine-nation
survey made public last week by
-,he Int'l Labor Office. Czechoslo-
DVakia> reported no strikes or lock-
outs in 1916. Britain, Finland and
New Zealand had fewer strikes in
1916 than in the previous year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
AFL Business Reps Organize

AFL BUSINESS Reps Organize
st. Louis (LPA-Two enthusi-
astic sessions attended by most of
the AFL officers and business rep
resentatives in this area, have
planned drive to register all AFL
members and persuade them to
vote. st. Louis is now represented
in Congress by Senators Ken and
Donnell (both Republican, and
Reps. Bakewell and Ploeser (both
Republicans all of whom voted to
override President Truman's veto
of the Taft-Hartley bill. Sole ex-
ception is Rep. Karsten (D.) who
opposed overriding.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Advertisements that ask "Do
you need cash 2" and "Could you
use more money!" are downright
impertinent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Let the name of a great man be
mentioned, and the first thing that
pops into the noodle of everybody
is the one, if any, discreditable
incident of his career.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Union Label-conscious consum-
ers have declared "priorities" on
Union Label goods and Union
services.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
IN THE LABOR LIMELIGHT

resigned last week to accept the
post of general counsel of the Int!
Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers- -AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Everybody wants to see, read,
and hear vulgar stuff but nobody
wants to sponsor it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Leaves Labor Dept For IBEW
Washington (LPA) - Lewis
Sherman, special assistant to Lab
or Sec'y Lewis B. Schwellenbach,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-07-24

Ask for Union Labeled merchan
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