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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
PIons Mapped BY
A. F. L. To Fight
Anfi-Lobor Bills

Washington (FP)-AFL Presi-
dent William Green lashed out at
the Ball bill to outlaw union shop
contracts as rs legislative repre-
sentatives Of AFL unions and four
Independent railroad brotherhoods
met here to plan joint efforts to
fight antilabor legislation in the
seth Congress.
The group decided to coordinate
their efforts on Capitol Hill, and
to call on union members and
locals across the country to join
in the political struggle to protect
labor's rights.
Green, addressing the group,
said Senator Joseph Ball, COP
wheel in the Senate labor commit
tee, "is acting as the agent for
big corporate interests who are
out to destroy the trade union
movement.
Some of our unions have had
union shop agreements with en-
ployers for more than so years.
They have established collective
bargaining on a firm basis and
reached the highest level of union
management cooperation. Senator
Balls bill would cut the founda-
tions out from under them. 1t
would disrupt relations between
fair employers and unions. 1t
would destroy freedom Of contract.
"Let Congress remember that
loyal trade union members with a
tradition Of union shop policy will
refuse to work beside freeriders
and strikebreakers.
Senator Balls bill strips the
mask of hypocrisy from the pro-
ponents Of restrictive legislation.
In the name of industrial peace,
they are now coming forward with
proposals which would wreck
labor-management relations per-
manently."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Comment On World Events

The recent German elections
were primarily a contest between
Western democracy on the one side
and Eastern Democracy" on the
other, and resulted in an over
whelming victory for the Western
oriented parties, says the current
issue of Facts About Occupied Ger
many, published by the American
Association for a Democratic Ger
many, 8 East 41st Street, New
York City.
Analyzing the results of all Ger
man elections since the overthrow
Of Hitler, the publication states
"The recent elections, whether for
county or city councils or for State
assemblies, were highly political
contests between well established
parties which had come to rep
resent different political and eco
nomic programs and = possibly
even more important, conflicting
ideologies.
"All German parties profess to
be democratic, and all their pro-
grammatic statements declare that
democracy is the only possible
basis for postwar Germany. But it
is precisely in their concepts of
democracy that the parties are
most sharply divided.
"The Liberal (or Free) Dem
ocrats come closest to the 10Th
century concept of political dem
ocracy based on unrestricted free
enterprise. The Social Democrats
believe that, in present-day Ger
many, democracy in the political
sphere can only be achieved on the
basis Of a socialist economy. Their
concept Of democratic Socialism
more or less. resembles that of the
British Labor Party. The Christian
Democratic Union stands some
HlCIC DSLWtci lliE LlDEGdI anu Do
cial Democrats. But despite
their difference Of philosophy and
program, all 8 parties are defin-
itely Western in their ideology and
therefore in sharp conflict with
the Communist party-or in the
Russian zone with the Communist
dominated Socialist Unity Party
which Identifies democracy with
the political and economic system
of the Soviet Union.
"The struggle among these three
concepts-liberal capitalism, dem
ocratic socialism, and anti-dem-
ocratic communism-is today the
basic conflict in Europe. In Ger
many it is sharpened by several
factors. All Of German society has
been uprooted and must be reor-
ganized on new lines. This is an
immediate problem Of the utmost
But as yet the new par
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Prepare New FEPC Law
Draft For SOth Congress

Washington (FP)-The pledges
for fair employment practices leg
islation made by both major poll
tical parties are being taken SER
iously by the National Council for
a permanent FEPC, as that group
announced it was drafting a new
FEPC bill for consideration by the
18th Congress.
- Arrangements are now being
made for discussing the proposed
bill with members of both parties
in both houses of Congress-" said
Rev. Allan Knight Chalmers and
A. Philip Randolph, co-chairmen
of the council. at is hoped that a
bill along the lines worked out by
the councils legal committee may
be introduced early in January.
Early hearing and enactment will
be sought to meet nationwide
need for standards or fair employ
ment."
Passage of FEPC legislation,
they said, "is overdue if we are to
validate our war aims, the commit
of the United Nations Char
- and subsequent discussions in
-meetings Of the UN. We must be-
gin to practice on Main Street
what we have preached at Lake
Success"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Truman Hailed
As Republican

Boston, Mass.-A lead editorial
in the arch-Republican, antilabor
Boston Herald has hailed Presi-
dent Truman after his State of the
nion message to Congress, as
Dur Republican President"
The tory paper, owned by the
First National Bank of Boston and
the power trust, praised the mess
age because of "its conciliatory, al
most COP Tone"
Because it called for antilabor
legislation, pleaded econ ON y,
promised a budget surplus at the
workers expense and pleaded for
keeping up our military strength,
the Herald said that "the Presi-
dents message might have been
written by any of the Republican
middle-of -the-roaders in his hear
ing"
'1s the President playing poll
tics in mapping course so close
to the COP heart ?" the Herald
asked. Opinions differ, but there
is a strong conviction-that he is
now being the kind of a Presi-
dent he always wanted to be-"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Re-
.Iltless opposition to the flood on
q ytilabor bills now being introduc-
ed in Congress was expressed at the
Joint Legislative Conference of the
American Federation of Labor and
the Railroad Brotherhoods held at
AFL headquarters here.
The conference was attended by
more than 70 legislative represen-
tatives of AFL unions and the
Independent brotherhoods.
A feature of the meeting was a
slashing attack on the Ball bill by
AFL President William Green, who
declared it would provoke indus
trial "discord and strife"
1t was agreed that the efforts of
the organizations represented at
the meeting be coordinated in a
united campaign to combat and de-
feat dangerous, restrictive legisla-
tion. This campaign, it was en-
phasized, must be supplemented by
the support of union members
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
DeMiIIe Loses
Anfi-Union Fiqhf

Los Angeles (FP) = Movie pro-
ducer Cecil B. DeMille's anti-union
crusade ran into another legal set
back when the Los Angeles district
court of appeals sustained a lower
court ruling that a union has a
right to pass assessments on it's
members.
The suit was brought by DeMille
against his union, the American
Federation of Radio Artists, after
it voted a 81 assessment to fight
a right state constitutional
amendment which DeMille and
California employer groups were
backing.
DeMille was barred from his
radio program since he was no
longer a union member in good
standing, saw his pet antilabor
measure defeated at the polls and
spent thousands of dollars fight
ing his court case with the score
to date-a big fat zero.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
Standard Oil Sued
For Antitrust Violation

Los Angeles (FP) = An anti
trust suit against Standard Oil OF
California was instituted by the
government here when it sought
an injunction to restrain the COM
pany from illegally compelling
1000 gas station dealers in eight
western states to distribute only
standard products.
The suit charged Standard and
its subsidiary, Standard Stations
Inc, with violating the Sherman
and Clayton antitrust acts by re-
quiring the dealers to sign con-
tracts or enter agreements not to
handle the products of any other
company.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

The Moscow beggar who turned
up with all those rubles proves
that free enterprise is not yet dead
in the Soviet Union.
Trying to get kind word for
labor out of Truman is like trying
to ram butter down a wildcats
throat with redhot awl.
Handsome John Bricker of Ohio
announces he won't run for presi-
dent but will "throw his weight be-
hind Senator Robert Taft" j.
With head start like that, all
Taft needs is about 30,000,000
votes.
Bricker could have done worse.
He could have thrown his weight
in front of Taft.
Returning the Xmas tie the wife
gave us reminds US how much bet
ter they run stores than they do
politics. When somebody gives you
stinker in politics, you're stuck,
brother, and no exchanging him
for something better.
Those little gals in a Detroit
suburb who want to swim in the
school pool unemcumbered, just
like the boys on their days, should
remember that swimsuit workers
will be stripped bare too if nobody
wears suits anymore.
Uncle Sam may protest the
Polish national elections but at
least no Polish district cast its vote
for Bilbo.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
NEW CONTRACT SIGNED

San Francisco (FP) - The Pa
cific Gas & Electric Co. has sign
ed new contract with the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers giving a 6 per cent raise
plus $3.50 weekly to 6,237 employ
ees, retroactive to Dec. /. The same
contract has been offered to the
Utility Workers Union, represent
ing $50 PG&E employees, and is
now under consideration.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
AFL ASKS BILLION
FOR EDUCATION

Washington (FP) Congress
was asked Jan. Z to appropriate l
billion dollars for federal aid to
education by the AFL National
Committee on Education.
Chairman Matthew Woll also
asked the states to pass legislation
Immediately to assure every teach
er minimum starting salary of
$4,000 a year. He added that such
a program is necessary to assure a
"sound American education" to the
nations children.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
AFL Drive Aimed
At Department Stores

Washington (FP)-Reports thai
the Retail Clerks International AS
sociation has launched a national
campaign to organize department
store workers lacked official con-
firmation here Jan. 2, but AFL
Organizational Director Fran k
Fenton said the union is "doing
very we'll"
Peak centers Of activity for the
clerks union appear to be Boston,
Indianapolis, Chicago, the west
coast and Washington. The union
is headed by President James A.
Suffridge and has headquarters at
Lafayette, Ind.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
BILBO MISUsES OFFICE

Washington (FP) = Chairman
Harley Kilgore of the Senate ma
tional defense investigating COM
mittee reported Jan. 2: "The evil
dence presented to this committee
clearly indicates that Senator
Theodore Bilbo improperly used
his high office as U. S. senator for
his personal gain in his dealings
with war contractors"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
PROTESTS AGAINST RENTS

New York (FP) = At its last
regular meeting in 1916 the New
York county organization of the
American Legion, representing
over $50 legion posts, went on
record in an unprecedented action
as strongly protesting the Legion
national leadership's recommends
tion of 10 per cent increase in
rents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23
AFL GRANTS CHARTER

Boston (FP) - The AFL has
given a charter to the 12,000-mem-
ber National Association Of Postal
Supervisors, bringing AFL unions
to 105 and AFL members to seven
million.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-01-23

The Moscow beggar who turned
up with all those rubles proves
that free enterprise is not yet dead
in the Soviet Union.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Ward N. Buckles Dies
Al m; Banker Was
Associated With RFC

Ward M. Buckles, Sc. banker as
sociated with the, Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, died yesterday
at Georgetown University Hospital
after an illness of several months.
Mr.. Buckles had been with the
RFC since 1888 and was loan
examiner with the Defense Supplies
Corporation at the time Of his ILL
ness. He also had been director
of finance for the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration until 1910.
His home was at 1865 Kennedy
street NV.
A native of Brown County, Ill.
he had formerly been a national
bank examiner in Helena, Mont,
Spokane, Wash. and Philadelphia
and had been associated with COM
mercial banks in Buffalo, Mont,
Kalispen. Mont, Yakima, Wash.
and The Dalles, Greg. He was
also the first manager Of the Fed
eral intermediate Credit Bank OF
Spokane and had once been comp
troller of the Farmers National
Grain Corp of Chicago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret 7. Buckles: two sons.
Lawrence c. Buckles, chemical
engineer at Edgewood Arsenal. Md.
and Maj, Galen NJ Buckles, United
States Army, of Arlington Village.
Also surviving are his brother. DR..
Joseph H. Buckles, Thayer, Kans.
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. Tuesday at the S. II. Hines
funeral home, 290l Fourteenth
street. The place of burial has not
been decided.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Miss Louisa Lippitt
Dies; Was Instructor
AT Children S Hospital

Miss Louisa C. Lippitt, II, fol
many years a physiotherapist al
ChiIdren's Hospital, died yesterday
at Winchester tVa.) hospital after
an illness of several months. {
A native of Charles Town, w. Va.
Miss Lippitt studied at Columbis
University and received her nurses
training at Episcopal Hospital In
Philadelphia. In her early life she
served as q hospital official In
Puerto Rico.
She started her career as ply
siotherapist in World War I, when
she served as a reconstruction aide
at an Army hospital in France
After the war she was assistant
professor of physical education al
the University of Wisconsin.
Miss Lippitt came to Children's
Hospital in Washington in 1924
where she was an instructor in the
Nurses Training School for 1c years.
She continued to do clinical work
at the hospital until forced to retire
because of ill health about eight
years ago. She was the author of
two books, Personal Hygiene and
Home Nursing" and Corrective Ex-
ercises."
Surviving are five sisters, Miss
Mary Frances Lippitt, Mrs. Laura L.
Heriot, Mrs. Ida P. Yates, Mrs. Julia
A. Craighill and Miss Minnie H. Lip
pitt, all of Washington, and broth
er, DIR. William Fontaine Lippitt, of
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. (EST) tomorrow at Zion
Episcopal Church, Charles Town, w.
Va. Burial will be in the church
cemetery.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
DR.. Reissig to Speak
At Church Conference

DR.. Frederick Z. Reissig, execu-
tive secretary of the Washington
Federation of Churches. left yes
terday to attend the National Con-
ference of the Association Of Coun-
Gil Secretaries at Lake Geneva, Wis,
starting next Saturday. He will be
one of the presiding officers at the
week long association meeting.
DR.. Reissig was accompanied by
Mrs. Reissig: Miss Marjorie Wilson,
federation secretary; John Halko
department of research and church
planning director of the federation,
and Gilbert Hunter, associate di-
rector of the research and church
planning department.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Fight on House Farm Cuts
Promised by Mcclellan

Senator Mcclellan, Democrat, OF
Arkansas, served notice yesterday
he will fight to have the Senate re-
store cuts the House made in pay
ments to farmers in the Agriculture
Department appropriation bill.
He called the House cuts a breach
of good faith" He said Congress
last year, by directing the Secretary
of Agriculture to plan a $500, ,000, 900
program for 1947, assured the farm
ers the Government would make
available that amount this year.
Nov. after the farmers have
planned their crops accordingly and
carried out the departments con-
practices and otherwise
complied. the Government should
not withdraw half of the funds
promised" the Senator continued.
Senator Mcclellan agreed savings
should be made by trimming ex-
penditures not deemed essential, but
added, I'VE cannot afford to cut the
heart of the program"
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Griffith Terms Sport
Sfronq Foe Of Crime

Athletics is one Of the strongest
deterrents to juvenile delinquency
Clark Griffith, president of the
Washington baseball team, told
meeting of the District Business
and Professional Women's Clubs
yesterday at the Mayfower Hotel.
Mr.. Griffith spoke at symposium
on, aYouth and His Today spon-
sored3 by the public affairs, educa-
ton and vocations, and health and
safety committees of the Women's
Clubs. DR.. Irma Gene Nevins, ma
tional director of accident preven-
ton. American Red Cross. presided. l..
Other speakers on the panel were
DR.. Charl Ormand Williams, of the
National Education Association:
DR.. Katharine Rice of the District
Department of Health; Miss Edith
lockwood of the United States Chill
dren's Bureau and Miss Helen Hoff :
man, housing specialist.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
By John w. Thompson, Jr.

The Commissioners and officials
of the District National Guard were
squared of last night for finish
fight over control of the big $2,700.-
600 Armory at Nineteenth and B
streets Sc.
The city heads are sponsoring a
bill to spell out" the authority they
claim they already have over the
building.
Their bill is In the hands OF the
Budget Bureau where the War De-
partment has already entered the
attack on it.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, COM
mandant of the local guard, said
it strikes at the heart OF the guard
operations here and promised:
viii Fight 1t.
Il will fight it anywhere find it. !"
Crux of the battle. so far as the
Commissioners are concerned, Is
the income that would result from
concessions and the leasing of the
drill hall when not in use by the
guard.
Gen. Cox said the preservation of
military equipment, some of 1t Sc
cret, that would be used by Guard
members, was also at stake.
The Armory could be the city's
largest indoor arena and convention
hall when not in use by the guard.
It was taken over by the Federal
Government in 1943 and used
throughout the war by the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation. 1t
was evacuated by the FBI only
last week.
The Commissioners take the posi-
ton that the armory was built with
city tax dollars and will be main
tanned by tax money to the extent
of about 100000 a year. Hence,
they contend, any income from the
property should 60 into the Federal
Treasury to the credit of the whole
community.
Guard Wants Money.
District lawyers are also doubtful
that the guard has authority to
collect fees and rents.
The guard, on the other hand, Is
interested in taking in the rents and
fees for a revolving fund to be used
for guard purposes.
Gen. Cox said investigation by the
guard had shown no reason why
such collections could not be made
so long as the money was used for
legitimate guard purposes and not
for personal gain of any one con-
cerned.
The money could not be used for
other than guard purposes" he de-
clared, adding he would insist on it
being audited by the District auditor
or the controller general to be Ger
tain expenditures were perfectly
legal.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Probe Of Scoring Meat Prices
Is Launched by Andersen

Representative Andersen, Re-
publican, of Minnesota. has launch
ed an investigation to determine
reasons for skyrocketing meat
prices, it was learned last night.
The legislator said his study Is
aimed at Government buying as
well as all levels of the meat in
dustry in an attempt to get clear
cut explanations for sharp raises
in the cost of beef and some cuts
of lamb and pork.
Mr.. Andersen said he hopes to
present findings Of the investigation
to the House Agriculture Subcom.
mittee he heads within a week. y
He said he has no clear reason
at present for the increases. but
added that the record high market
prices reported last week for beef
on the hoof would indicate these
possibilities:
/. That cattle are not coming to
stockyards for slaughter in large
quantities.
z. That consumer demand lot
meat has increased over the supply.
3. Or that the Government S
alocations for overseas shipments
of meat are keeping prices high.
Steady rises in meat prices
reached a climax early last week,
when retail prices took decisive up
swings. Charges and counter
charges were issued Immediately by
consumers, Government officials
and spokesmen for the meat indus
try.
First blame was put by the in
dustry on overseas shipments, as
spokesmen claimed agents of for
eign countries are buying every
thing in sight and are willing to
pay cents a pound more than
American buyers.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson
threw cold water on the charges,
o,d ,,oipfod IN tho ctroro nppe,,Yy1ar
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Admiral Mills Named
Head of Military Order

Vice Admiral Earle w. Mills, chief
of the Navy Bureau of Ships, has
been elected commander of the Dis
trict Chapter of the Military Order
of the World Wars, it was announced
yesterday.
Col. George E. Ijams, past COM
mander of the order, installed the
new officers, who include:
Maj. Gen. William Dryden, retired
former deputy chief of staff of the
Army, senior vice commander; Maj.
Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe. 1t.
Clarence Arata, Brig, Gen. Merritt
B. Curtis, Col. Joseph I. Greene, 1t.
Comdr. T. Odon Mathews and Lit.
Col. John Lewis Smith. all junior
vice commanders: Brig, Gen. Frank
B Watson, historian; Capt. Allen G..
Gartner judge advocate; Comdr
Charles Leslie Glenn, chaplain, and
Col. Tom F. Whayne, surgeon.
Evening star., 1947-06-15
Columbia Institute
To Give 53OoDipIomus

Grant Stockdale, administrative
assistant to Representative Smath-
ers, Democrat, of Florida, is to be
the principal speaker at graduation
exercises of the Columbia Technical
Institute Tuesday night at the
Statler Hotel.
A total of $50 diplomas and certif-
icates are to be awarded. A large
percentage Of the graduates are war
veterans who have received training
under the CT Bill of Rights.