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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
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after the first war when, within 10
months after the end of hostilities,
all prisoners of war were freed.
With such impetuosity has man.
kind been going backward that
even an organization calling itself
the World Federation of Trade
Unions has proposed the imposi-
tion of forced labor on the Ruhr
coal miners.
"Paradoxical as it may appear,
it is the land which calls itself
Socialist the government which
parades as a workers republic,
that is the worst and biggest slave
center on earth today. 1t is from
Soviet Russia that the tidal wave
of labor enslavement has swept
westward The Irkutsk Pravda
only recently boasted that 5,OOO,-
600 prisoners of war are being
used at penal labor in Siberia.
ain the Kremlin domain there
are millions Of Soviet citizens
doomed to slave labor camps mere
ly because they are suspected or
convicted of disappearing or dis
agreeing with some act or policy
of the ruling group.
"But the Moscow dictatorship
also holds in slavery millions Of
~, Dugc;one b,Ipd rode nf
thousands of these slaves were
rounded up by the Soviet police
and shared by its. spy dragnet in
the capitals of Russia's conquered
and satellite lands.
"Barrack economy anywhere is
a menace to free labor everywhere.
When japanese soldiers are turned
into slave-toilers on the Volga-
Lake Baikal railway for the bene-
fit Of the Russian bureaucracy or
when Papuans and New Guineans
are kept in slavery for wealthy
Australian plantation owners, the
freedom and welfare Of the work
ers in London, New York, Paris,
Brussels, Sydney and Prague are
in mortal danger"
The continuation of "any form
of slavery" according to Chair
man Woll, "is in outright conflict
with the moral and judicial foun-
dations of the verdict reached at
Nuremberg against the Nazi war
criminals"
He specifically pointed out that
the Allied judges had condemned
to death Fritz Sauckel, director of
Nazi forced labor enterprises.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Building Service
Workers Win
Woge Increase

New York City (ILNS).-David
Sullivan, president of Local BIB,
Building Services Employees In
ternational Union, AFL, has an
nounced an increase in wages of
21h cents per hour ($8.60 per
week. for all employees covered
by the Frankenthaler Midtown
Agreement. The wage increase af-
fects elevator operators, porters,
starters, handymen and other
building service workers covered
by the BIB midtown contract and
brings average wages up to ap-
proximately SAP per week.
The increase, retroactive to Feb.
d, resulted from an award of Sid
ney l.. Calm, arbitrator appointed
by Arthur S. Meyer, chairman of
the New York State Board of
Mediation. The raise will directly
affect 5000 of the union member
ship employed in about 700 build
ings in the midtown area. The
arbitration took place in accord
ance with the terms Of an agree
ment between Local BIB and the
Midtown Realty Owners Associa-
ton.
Sullivan announced that nego-
tiations for upward revision of
wages for the remaining $4,000
members employed in apartment
and commercial buildings covered
by the Realty Advisory Board
master agreement, will begin
shortly.
The union was represented in the
arbitration by Victor j. Herwitz
and Aaron Benenson of the firm of
Benenson, Herwitz & Israelson,
union attorneys.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

Chicago QLNS).-Organized la
Dor must undertake in a "sincere
and serious way" the job of MAX
ing democracy serve the needs of
every American, Matthew J. Burns,
veteran president of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood Of Paper Max
ers, told the unions convention.
Burns accused national. leaders
of seeking a negative solution to
the nations problems and said that
labor must find a positive solution.
Labor, itself, must lead the way
toward a more secure economic,
social and political condition." he
declared. Labor must demonstrate
it's capacity for self-government.
Labor must undertake in a sincere
and serious way the task of MAX
ing democracy work and to make
it serve the needs and the spiritual
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Mine Strike Effective In
Nova Scotia. New Brunswick

by the dominion government ac-
complished nothing.
At number of the mines, truck
drivers have joined the miners in
the strike although they do not
hold membership in the UNIV. At
several points, also, company
unions have been abandoned in
favor of joining the UNIV, and the
miners have left work although
their applica ton for acceptance
into the union has not been for
mally ratified. At one of these
small mines, at Mimic, N. B. all of
the 60 employees joined the UNIV
and stopped work simultaneously.
Crews of maintenance men are
in charge at the mines, by ar
rangement between the union and
operators. The agreement calls
for the mines being kept in tiptop
condition and ready for immediate
resumption of coal production once
official word is announced of the
ending of the strike.
Votes of the UNIV locals have
disclosed the members as 100 per
cent behind their district officers.
The operators have had no appli-
cations for work from non-union
workers. The only voice in the Do
minion House of Commons taking
up the cudgels diligently for the
strikers is that of UNIV member
Clarence Gillis, M. p, of Glace
Bay, who started work in the pits
when he was 13
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

Glace Bay, N. S. (ILNS).-Not
even the semblance of picket line
is necessary at the soft coal mines
of Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick provinces, during the current
strike of $4,000 members of Dis
trict 26, United Mine Workers of
America. No attempt has been
made by the mine operators to
either keep the pits functioning or
to reopen them, because of the
solid organization wall facing
them. Particularly, affected is the
Dominion Steel & Coal Corpora
ton, (Dosco) which is the chief
operator. UNIV locals are provid-
ing recreation for the members at
the local halls, including cards,
checkers, dominoes and billiards.
Some of the strikers are produc-
ing coal on their own, individually
and collectively, at a number of
pits on Cape Breton Island and
the mainland. These pits have not
been operated more than hap
hazardly for many years and are
owned by the province of Nova
Scotia but without allotment to
any operator. In pre-war years,
when the UNIV had trouble with
the operators, chiefly Dosco, the
wildcat pits were worked by the
miners, for their own fuel and also
to sell.
Both Dosco and the officers of
the District UNIV say they are
not aware at present of when ne
gotiations will be resumed with a
view to ending the strike. Dosco
insists on assurance of the miners
increasing production substantial
ly in order to qualify for a 81 per
day wage increase offered by the
company. The district officers re-
fuse to accept this stipulation. The
district is asking $1.40 per day in
crease, plus contributions from the
operators for welfare and pension
funds of the union. The district
heads maintain they are combat
ing not only the operators, and
with the accent greatly on Dosco,
but the dominion and provincial
governments. A conciliator named
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Carriers Luunch
Publicity Drive

The railroads have launched an
unusual advertising cam mpai & n
which will be carried on in 10000
daily and weekly newspapers. 1t
is estimated that il will cost them
$3,000,000. The object is "to pre-
sent the railroad industry's views
with respect to matters affecting
transportation"
The first ads dealt with the plea
of the Eastern roads for increased
passenger rates.
Apparently the Association of
American Railroads is not direct
ing the drive. Official sponsors are
the Eastern Railroad Presidents
Conference, Western Association
of Railway Executives and South
eastern Railroad Presidents Con-
ference.
An interesting development is
that the railroads controlled by
Robert X. Young seem to be par
ticipating. This is not surprising,
for Young has not only been in
dulging in a lot of expensive pub
licity on his own account, but has
been advocating that the railroad
spend much more on putting their
case" before the public.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
COP Leadership
BIosfed BY Morse

Senator Wayne Morse (Rep.,
Ore.) this week released a sharp
attack on what he called the "re-
dictionary policies of the G. o. p.
leadership.
The immediate cause of the out
burst was a plea by Chairman b.
Carroll Reece of the Republican
National Committee for better
teamwork among Republicans in
Congress. Similar appeals have
been made periodically by party
chieftains ever since Washington
was laid out.
But, for some reason, Morse was
highly offended by Reece's plea.
Strangely enough, he did not
break with the leaders on pro-
posals to shackle workers, but
mainly on the question of cutting
down appropriations.
Calls Reece ChOrebOy
He said Reece "and the Repub-
lican machine for which he speaks"
would take the country back ITO
the depression-causing economic
policies of the Republican party of
the 1920's."
"As one Republican," he added,
81 deny that the group of Republi-
cans for whom Carroll Reece
serves as choreboy represent the
rank and file views Of registered
Republican voters"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Production Gains
In Aufo Industry

If the automobile industry keeps
up the production clip set last
week, its total output this year
will be virtually at the level of
1929, when an all-time record of
100000 cars and trucks was
made.
Assembly lines are now turning
out better than 100000 cars a
week, Notwithstanding many plants
are not operating at capacity.
The significant fact is that
manufacturers will receive for this
years output about 81, 1,500,000,O0
more than for about the same
number of cars in 1929.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
CIO Oil Workers Head,
81, Dies In Hospital

Denver 0LNS). - Harvey C..
Fremming, president of the Oil
Workers international Union, ClO
fer 13 years, who took promi-
nent part IN organizing the CIO,
died March /, in Fort Logan Vet
erans' Hospital. He was 81.
Fremming was born in Chicago
and made his home in Denver
after 1888. He was serving on the
War Labor Board when he became
i'll in 1913.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
British FdctorY Workers
See Crisis Answered At
sAmericun industrial Drdmd

London ILNS).-4O,000 and women, including
$500 trade and Labor Party officials shop stewards,
foremen and key workers from 40 large factories in the
greater London Area (such Ford General Electric Sic
mems, Woowch Arsenal, Chatham Dockyard ITO Members
of Parliament 65 Mayors and 400 Councillors have been
crowng the Westminster Theaer night after night to
see the American industrial Drama he Forgotten Factor
The Forgotten Factor shows the answer that Britain
desperaely needs and teamwork,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Labor Strife


tI0HHHHsd rom rage OHsJ
be ironed out without too much
difficulty. The Packing plant en-
ploys some 800 people, with both
the CIO and the AFL having MEM
bers in the concern.
The beer handlers situation re-
mains the same at this writing.
The A. f. of l.. truck drivers are
picketing the establishments which
are handling ClO union-made beer
from the breweries in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Don't forget the Red Cross
o. C. 6.
A man who wouldn't walk across
the street to see his best customer
will get out of bed at 2 a. m. to
the telephone.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13
Clothing Cost


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The drop in retail food prices,
however, is expected to be wiped
out soon, as retail markups follow
a rise in wholesale prices-partic-
ularly for hogs, corn and wheat.
Wheat futures on the Chicago
market hit their highest level in
80 years and corn futures their
highest level for 27 years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

Teachers are taking lessons from
the other unions in how to get pay
raises. They find it is as blessed
to learn as to teach - and lot
more profitable.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

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Unions may be missing a chance
to make some money--it turns out
corporations pay as much as $4,000
to have an employee opinion poll
taken in a plant of 800 people.
They could get the same informa-
tion from good union in a half
hour session. But that would be
the easy way, and, after all, per-
sonnel man has to make his job
look tough somehow.
Prize example of the absent
minded professor is DR.. Jules
Backman of New York University
who recently got his name in the
papers by telling an employer
group the cost of living has
reached its peak (and you don't
need to raise pay, boys).
What he forgot was to look at
that days papers and read ac-
counts of pigs selling for the high
est price on record, with $1.25
pork chops due in few weeks.
Scrip s-Howard Economists"
advise that what's needed is not
pay raises but cuts in prices. Will
the newspapers lead the process
sion?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

AS The MANY -We'd-Least-Like-TO-
Be-Alone- With On-A- Raft
The Ladies' Auxiliary has definite
ly chosen Sen. Robert A. Taft
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-03-13

WILLIAM S. HOFFMAN

William S. Holman, honorary
member of the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters, died
March 8 in his home, 100 Grant
street, Newell, following a long
illness. He was "a years of age.
Mr.. Holman came to Newell
about 81 years ago from Wheel
ing. He was a kilnplacer by trade
and employed at the Homer
Laughlin China Company up until
three years ago, when he retired.
He was member of Local
Union No. 8, National Brother
hood of Operative Potters and ST..
Aloysius Catholic Church.
Mr.. Holman leaves his widow,
Mrs. Lottie Holman; sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hill of Port Clinton; a
stepson, Harry Coffman of East
Liverpool, granddaughter and
two nieces.
X X X
EDWARD j. HOLTZMAN
Edward j. "Chubber" Hoffman,
rs, of 500 First avenue, retired
potter, died Tuesday at 7:15 p. m.
at City Hospital following a long
illness.
Mr.. Holtzman, a jiggerman, last
was employed at Plant 8 of the
Homer Laughlin China Co. He re-
tired about eight years ago. He
was member of the st. AIMS
Catholic Mission.
He leaves two sons, Edward M.
Holtzman of East Liverpool and
Harry Hoffman of Antioch, Cal;
a daughter, Mrs. Bernadette Hen
derson of Toronto; a brother, Mil
ton Holtzman of Pittsburgh; five
grandchildren, and two great
grandchildren. His wife died Oct.
29, 1915.
The body was taken to the Daw-
son Funeral Home. Funeral ar
rangements are incomplete.
Evening star., 1947-10-02
ITU in Baltimore Asks
NLRB Hearing Delay
On Bargaining Issue
BY the As.oeiated Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 2.-The In
ternational Typographical Union
has moved to postpone a hearing
set for Monday before National
Labor Relations Board trial exam
iner here on a complaint contend
ing the union had violated the
Taft Hartley law by falling to
bargain collectively, it whs dis
closed last night.
Jacob J. Edelman, counsel for
Baltimore local IL of the ITU, said
he had filed a request with Ross
Madden, regional NLRB director,
to postpone the hearing until No.
vember so that Woodruff Ran
dolph. international president Of
the ITU, could attend.
Randolph to Be on Coast.
Mr.. Randolph will be in San
Francisco for the opening Of the
American Federation of Labor's
national convention on Monday.
Mr.. Madden said no decision has
been made on Mr.. Edelman's re-
quest.
The complaint was filed last week
by the general counsels Office of
the NLRB. The first action of its
kind under the Taft-Hartley law,
it contended the local and inter-
national had engaged in an unfair
labor practice by failing to enter
into collective bargaining with the
Graphic Arts League, an organiza-
ton of Baltimore print shops.
Meanwhile, local and league nego-
tiators prepared to meet Saturday
for another round of discussions on
terms of contract the union offered
to sign.
Legal Issues Involved.
The conference will be on legal
issues involved in the offer. Indus
try spokesmen have said the contract
could not be signed under terms of
the new labor law, while union
forces assert the provisions square
with the act.
Neither side has disclosed specific
terms of the proposed pact.
A discussion of wage clauses ended
in deadlock Tuesday-the last
effective day of the old contract
and I. T. U. men reported for work
in the shops yesterday without a
contract. Charles v. Brannock, Local
IL president, said he did not know
how long the men would continue
working without an agreement.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-09-04
PAGE NINE

things and is made binding upon
said Municipality.
SECTION 2. That for good cause
shown, the foregoing Ordinance
shall be in force and effect from
and after its passage.
SECTION 3. 1t is further order
ed that the City Clerk be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to
cause this ordinance to be published
in accordance with law as soon as
practicable after the passage hereof.
The foregoing ordinance was re-
duced to writing and proposed and
introduced by Alderman w. D. Will
son and was read, considered and
voted upon section by section, and
as a whole; the vote on each and all
of the Sections, and upon the Ordin-
ance as as a whole was taken by
"yea" and may" vote, those
voting "yea being Aldermen Wilson,
Beall Thompson, Johnson, and Eli
son. and those voting may" none,
and was adopted on this the 18th day
of August, 1947.
APPROVED:
Norman Weathersby. Mayor.
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover, Clerk.
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oe thereby affected. but shall have
tuu force and effect.
SECTION 10. This ordinance
shall take effect from and after its
passage; but Grantee shall NOT he
pound hereby if within 30 davs
from and after this date it declines
IN writing to accept this grant. The
foregoing ordinance was reduced ~
writing and proposed and introduced
by Alderman w. D. Wilson, and was
read, considered and voted upon nv
sections and as a whole. he vote
on each and all of the sections. and
upon the ordinance as an entirety
was taken by yea" and 'nay" vote
those voting yea" being as follows.
aldermen Wilson, Beall. Thompson.
johnson, and Ellison, and those vot-
ing may" none: and was adopted
on this the 10Th day of August.
1947.
Norman Weathersby, Mavor.
ATTEST:
c. A.. Glover, Clerk.
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3. Additional street lighting ser-
vice other than as provided herein
requiring the installation of addi-
tional facilities shall be by suppleme-
ntary agreement in writing and ap-
proved by an authorized official of
the Municipality and an authorized
official of the Company.
a. Payments are to be made by
Municipality on or before the 10th
day of each month for service. rem
dered during the preceding month,
and in case of failure to pay on or
before that time, service may be
discontinued by Company without
terminating this contract. or waving
or impairing any of the right accru-
ing to Company hereunder.
S. The Company shall use rea-
sonable diligence to furnish con-
tinuous service hereunder but shall
not be liable to the Municipality, or
its inhabitants for failure to deliver
service hereunder for causes reason
ably beyond its control
6. The term of this Agreement
shall be for five years from and after
the date hereof and shall be auto
matically extended for a period OF
five years from each expiration date
of such time. or any automatic ex-
tension thereof, unless and until Ell
Their party shall notify the other in
writing not less than 100 days nor
more than 800 days prior to any
expiration date of its intention to
terminate this Agreement.
Z. This Agreement is subject to
approval of Company's Vice-Presi-
dent.
Executed in triplicate original on
the day and year first above men,
toned.
MISSISSIPPI POWER &
LIGHT COMPANY
BY Chas c. Taylor
APPROVED:
T. w. Crockett. Vice-Presl-
dent.
| MUNICIPALITY OF LEXINGTON
MISSISSIPPI
BY Norman Weathersby, Mayor
ATTEST:
c. A. Glover, Clerk.
(SEAL)
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SECTION 8. The Grantee will,
not and shall not be required to ex-
tend its street mains and service
pipes In upon or along streets, ave-
nues' highways, bridges, lanes
Alleys, or public grounds or places
wnere distribution of gas has moi
already been established if the re-
venue to be derived from the Gus
TONER or Customers desiring such
extension will not yield an ADEQUATE
return upon the Grantees invest
ment made for the purpose of pro-
vldlng such extension.
SECTION 8. Grantee will paw to
the municipality a sum of money
equal to two per cent (28o) of the
receipts of the Grantee from the
SAFE OF gas service at retail for resi-
Dental and Commercial purposes
sales tax excluded within the cor
porate limits of the municipality
as shown by Grantees billing re-
coros' such payments to be due
quarterly and the annual aggregate
amount of such payments shall not
De less than 500. Provided, however,
the obligation to make said payment
is conditional in that the full am
mount specified shall be paid during
the term of this franchise unless and
except should there be collected by
the municipality from the Grantee
any new taxes of any nature what
soever imposed subsequent to the
date of this franchise, or should
there be an increase in the rates of
any taxes now being collected bv
the municipality Except advalorem
taxes authorized by law, then the
payment herein provided to be made
by the Grantee to the municipality
Will decrease by such amount.
SECTION 10. The sMayor and
Clerk are authorized to execute, up
on the part of the municipality all
requisite contracts with Grantee
which have been approved by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen.
SECTION IL. The Clerk shall
publish this ordinance according to
the requirements of law, as soon as
practicable after the passage hereof,
and Grantee shall pay to said Clerk
any and all costs and expenses of
such publication.
SECTION IL. If n clause or
section of this ordinance is illegal, or
is not embraced within the title
hereof, or is not cognate to the SUBJ
Ject expressed in the title, the re-
naming provisions hereof shall not
be thereby affected, but shall have
full force and effect.
SECTION Is. This ordinance
shall take effect from and after it's
passage. The foregoing ordinance
was reduced to writing and propos-
ed and introduced by Alderman
Beall, and was read, considered and
voted upon by sections and as a
whole; the vote on each and all of
the sections, and upon the ordi-
nance as an entirety, was taken by
yea" and may" vote, those voting
yea" being as follows: Wilson,
beall, Thompson, Johnson, and Eli
son, and those voting may" none
and was adopted on this the 18th
day of August. 1947.
Norman Weathersby. Mayor.
c. A. Glover, Clerk.