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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
.AFL TYPO STRIKERS
OFFERED FULL HELP
BY C|O NEWS GUILD

Washington (LPA) - President
Woodruff Randolph, Of the Int'I
Typographical Union-AFL, charg-
ed here last week that some Of the
nations wealthiest newspaper pub
fishers are conspiring to cripple
the union.
What we're up against" said
Randolph, "is plot by the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Assn
to force us into the wringer of the
Taft Hartley law"
In Chicago the ITU strike
against the city's six daily news
papers entered it's third week and
in Detroit showdown of ITU mail
ers delayed deliveries.
Officials of the American News
paper Guild in Chicago met with
ITU officials and offered them full
cooperation while ANG national
officers gave similar assurances to
Randolph. ANG Executive Vice
president Sam Eubanks declared.
"The labor movement is under
estimating the importance of the
typos fight. If the publishers can
break the ITU or any piece of it,
there isn't a union in the country
that can stand up. And that's what
the publishers expect to do"
Negotiations with the publishers
of Washington's four newspapers
were temporarily stalemated. The
publishers, however, agreed to
make any agreement reached in go
days retroactive to Nov. IL. The
Washington typos are seeking to
boost wages to 800 weekly for day
workers, $95 for second shift work
ers, and 500 for the third shift.
The old contract expired Nov. IL.
Chicago's 1900 TIN strikers, who
have forced the daily papers and
the Chicago Journal of Commerce
to publish photo-engraved editions,
appealed for public support in cam
ceiling subscriptions.
The Chicago Typographical
Union told its members and the
public:
"Any circulation struck paper
has is too much! A substantial dent
has been made in the business of
every one of the plants now being
picketed, but not as big a dent as
those papers deserve.
Remember that the strike is of
the publishers making. They re-
fused to give any increase in wages
unless we would consent to put on
handcuffs which would enable them
to take the increase away from us
whenever they pleased.
"The publishers installed Vari-
typers-in some cases secretly Ito
be used in a sneak attack, in 9TH
er cases ostentatiously las part of
their psychological warfare), but
in all cases from hostile motives"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
$4,000 AN ACRE CROP
CAUSES SHOWDOWN
IN DI G|ORG|O STRIKE

Bakersfield, Calf. UPA)-Farm
Labor Union-AFL members here
were reinforcing their 1912 miles
of continuous shift picket lines, as
the strike of 1000 workers at the
Di Giorgio Farms entered it's 55th
day on Nov. %.
Associated Farms and the Di
Giorgio management face the
choice of settling the unions de-
mand for recognition, or seeing the
strike continue amid increasing vio-
lence as strikebreakers are recruit
ed and brought into the $4,000
acre ranch.
By Dec. /, irrigation of the grape
vines must begin, as well as trim
ming and pruning, or the perma-
pent plants will wither. With the
grapes worth $4,000 an acre, the
Di Giorgio owners cannot afford to
"sit it out" much longer. AFL
unions all up and down the west
coast are mobilizing to prevent re-
cruiting of strikebreaking labor in
their communities.
Meanwhile, the Workmen's Circle
of southern California is providing
a turkey dinner for the 1000 strik-
ers and their families this week,
and the union reported in one week
contributions of $1,000 from the
Int'l Ladies Garment Workers
Union-AFL and $500 from the
Winery Workers Union, whose
members are respecting the farm
laborers' picket lines. Other finan-
cial aid has come from the Team
sters, Sailors Union of the Pacific,
Butcher Workmen, Hotel & Restau-
rant Workers, and Painters, all
AFL. In addition, the Jewish Labor
Committee, Fellowship of Recon-
ciliation, American Friends Service
Committee, and Americans for De-
mocratic Action have sent friendly
observers, food, and money for the
strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
FARM EMPLOYMENT DROPS

Washington, d. c. GLNS) =
About three-quarter million fewer
persons were at work on farms
Nov. ! than a month ago, the Bu-
reau Of Agricultural Economics re-
ported. The October decrease was
somewhat larger than last year and
more than twice as large as in
1945. However, the decline was less
than the 1854 average of about
million persons. There were a
few more people doing farm work
this year Nov. / than a year ago,
mostly hired workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
RUSSIANS SET To WRECK.
MARSHALL PLAN IN WF TIL.

London (LPA)-CIO delegates to
the meeting Of the executive bu-
reau Of the World Federation of
Trade Unions had their hands full
in Paris this week as Russian
WFTU delegates made it clear
that they would fight any Marshall
Plan proposal to the death.
Tipoff to the delegates, Secre-
tary-treasurer James Carey and
Frank Rosenblum, ice-president of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, was a statement in Trud, Sow
let trade union publication, that
Russian delegates to the Paris
WFTU meeting would "try to as
sure that the WFTU should be
transformed into an efficient mill
tant organization of the interna-
tional working class"
A New York Times dispatch
from Moscow reported that V. V.
Kuznetsov, chairman Of the Soviet
Trade Union Council, declared that
WFTU leadership had some weak
nesses and that "The most impor-
tant shortcoming is the presence
in its leadership of old reformist
tendencies which remained as the
heritage of the Amsterdam (the
Second Soclialist) International" !"
The Russian delegates to the Paris
meeting, said Kuznetsov, will now
attempt to make the WFTU "free
from any reformist and conciliation
influences"
A Moscow broadcast to Europe
definitely linked the new Comm
form with the WFTU. The broad
cast, declared "Kuznetsov, the
chairman of the Central Council
(of Soviet unions) said that the
trade unions must help the Com
munist parties in the noble cause
of fighting for the independence of
nations and the interests of work
ing people, against reaction and
fascist oppression. He pointed out
that the WFTU could become a
strong weapon in the hands of
democracy, but unfortunately in
sufficient use had been made of it
up to now."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
AFL Freezes Fund
For Czech Unions

London Irving Brown, the
AFL's European Representative
announced that trade union officials
in the United States ordered "stop
payment" Of American labor funds
to Czechoslovakia trade unions be-
cause they feared the money might
fall into Communist party hands.
An estimated 100000 is on de-
posit in London bank, residue of
a fund raised among American
workers to aid the Czechoslovak
resistance movement during the
war. 1t was to be used to aid post
war restoration of Czech trade
unionism.
Mr.. Brown said union officials
in the United States sent a joint
telegram to the London bank an
nouncing "the funds are not at the
disposal of the gentlemen trying to
get them" He added that 81 think
we have been effective in our eff
forts"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
New Pact Averfs
II onkers Tie-Up

San Francisco (ILNS) = An
agreement between two of the big
gest tank-operators and the West
Coast National Organization Mas
ters, Mates and Pilots of America
AFL, averted a threatened strike
which would have tied up about 70
tankerS.
The agreement, effective Dec. /
for l year, grants preference in
employment for union members and
increases wages, ranging from 5 to
10 per cent. Under the new pay
scale masters of large type T-2)
tankers will receive $656 monthly,
first mates $430, second mates 1912
and third mates 1886.
Omar Hoskins, federal concilia-
tor, announced that the agreement
was signed by the American Pa
cific Steamship Co., and the Pa
cific Tankers, Inc, and the union,
subject to ratification by the union
membership and approval of the U.
S. Maritime Commission. Approval
of the commission is required be-
cause the two companies operate
vessels as agents for the commits
sion.
About 800 employees are affected.
Union contracts with other West
Coast tanker operators in the past
generally have followed the pat
tern of the contract with American
Pacific and Pacific Tankers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
TAFT, BALL REVERSE
THEMSELvES0NNEW
glllLRB APPOINTMENTS

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Bobert
Taft (R., o. reversed himself last
week as the Senate Labor Com
mittee voted to approve the ap-
pointments of former Sen. Abe
Murdock d., Utah) 'and ]. Cope
land Gray as members of the Natl
Labor Relations Board.
The Committee unanimously rec
commended their confirmation along
with the appointment of NLRB
General Counsel Robert Denham.
However, in the last session of Con-
gress the Committee split 10 to
three for confirmation of Murdock
and Gray with Taft one of the three
voting against the two nominees.
Taft said his change of heart
was caused by the fact that both
men-now serving under interim
appointments" have done a good
job up to date" That also was
the opinion of Sen. Joe Ball (R.,
Mimi who originally opposed Muir
dock because he feared that Muir
dock, a former New Deal senator,
could not be in full sympathy with
the purposes of the Taft-Hartley
law.
Three other Truman nominations
were also unanimously approved:
David A. Morse to be Undersecre-
tary of Labor; John Kmetz to be
Assistant Secretary of Labor; and
Cyrus Ching to be director of the
N1)w Federal Mediation & Concilia-
zion Service. Taft said that all six
nominations may come up for con-
firmation during this session if
time can be found.
Another Truman nomination met
tougher shedding when President
John l.. Lewis, of the United Mine
Workers -AFL, reopened his attack
on DR.. James Boyd named as head
of the Bureau of Mines. Lewis op-
position prevented Boyd's confirma-
ton after he was nominated for the
post last March.
Boyd, who has been serving un-
der a Congressional recess appoint
ment, is unqualified for the posi-
ton because of his lack of exper-
ience in the field, the UNIV chief
contended. Boyd was "sold" to
President Truman by Interior Sec
retary Krug because the latter
wanted to get rid'' of DR.. r. R..
Sayers, former head of the Bureau
of Mines. Sayers is now chairman
of the medical board of the UMW's
health and welfare fund.
In addition, Lewis contended in
a letter to the Senate Public Lands
Committee, that Boyd was ineligi-
BILE on grounds of citizenship. Boyd,
a native Australian, claimed
citizenship because of his fathers
naturalization but Lewis expressed
doubt as to whether Boyd was
9 ung enough It the time to claim
XsTzenship automatically under his
.ther's naturalization.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Labor Law Change Asked

New York City (ILNS)-Henry
Mayer, counsel for several tele-
phone unions, charged here that
the "cooling-off" provisions of the
Taft-Hartley law forbade any
change in the status quo on the
part Of unions while leaving en-
ployers free to cut wages or in
titute mas layoffs. In letter to
senator Joseph II. Ball of Mime
ia, chairman of the Joint Com
matee on Labor Management Re-
lations, Mayer noted that the Rail
say Labor Act and the old Smith
Copna'ly Act both guaranteed
main, ace If the status quo by
both sides during cooling off per-
iods. He urged that similar pro-
visions be made in the new labor
law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Local Informed
Continued From Page One)

needs which are met by the money
collected.
Bro. Herbert Myers was granted
la transfer to the Foremen's Loca
208, and Ernest Baker a with
drawal card on leaving for the
Navy.
John Forester, Michael Kocon
Gemo Carrabelli and James Masci-
tell were initiated and THEN
names added to the roll.
Nomination of officers for the
January to June, 1948 term, got
underway and will close at our
next meeting on Dec. IL. Election
will be held the following meeting
on Dec. 10 with polls open from
3 to A p. m. to enable those on the
to IL shift to cast their vote.
Those nominated to date include
For president; j. Cooper, Jr., and
George Smith; vice president, j.
Krecicki, l.. Glover and r. Essor;
financial secretary, E. Watson; re-
cording secretary, l.. Ansell; treas
urer, j. Richards; Inspector, c. VOL
bert and M. Morris; guard, D..
Stewart and w. Singleton; trustee,
l.. Grover; conference committee,
q to.elect), l.. Ansell, A. Kirkham,
X. Hannah and j. Cooper, Jr.
We have very large roll call
OF delegates to the 1913 convention
and hope the interest will be sus-
tanned.
We were glad to see letter
from the 0. C. of Local 40 and
glad to hear they are getting re-
suits from their social activities.
We have not been so fortunate
along those lines so far.
A Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year to all.-O. C. As.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Lively Discussions
(Continued From Page One)

an isolated case us there are other
claims filed against the same firm
with the California Industrial Com
mission.
Mr.. Henry Creeger, present man
ager of the Richmond shop and the
future manager of the Standard
shop which will soon be in opera
tion at Terrence, Calf, has INFORM
ed the brothers that he intends
switching the majority of small
fixtures being made here at fair
prices by some of the older mem
bers in the trade, to the Terrence
plant. We sincerely hope this does
not happen as it would cause a real
hardship by leaving only the heavy,
underpaid fixtures which many of
the older members could not handle
1t is with great interest that
this scribe read of the Trenton
locals troubles with speed kings
who rush at break neck speed to
finish their day and then sit
around the shop. The same situa-
tion no doubt prevails in various
localities and we hope some day
the proper solution can be found
to curb such practice.
AS a parting salute, word has
reached this scribe's ears that with
all these subversive Investigations
going on, Bro. "Red" Bruce wishes
his fellow workers to drop "Red'
from his name, and to be known
as just plain Bruce in the future.
20. c. 49,.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
.STR|KEbREAK|NG FIRM
FREED FROM UNION BY
TOP nj R B DECISIONS

Buffalo, N. Y. (LPA)-Reming-
ton Rand, author of the notorious
"Mohawk Valley formula" for
strikebreaking, will no longer have
to bargain with the union in six of
its plants in New York and one at
Benton Harbor, Mich.
Two decisions by NLRB regional
directors, in this city and Detroit,
dismissed certification elections
sought by the company on the
grounds that the union, the United
Electrical, Radio & Machine Work
ers, have no standing before the
NLRB because it has failed to file
the Taft-Hartley anti-Communist
affidavits.
UE has represented the 10000
workers in the seven plants for
periods ranging up to seven years.
Regional NLRB Director William
J. Isaacson, in his decision here,
declared that the unions failure to
sign the affidavits makes it Gin
eligible for certification as bar
gaining representative of any unit
of employees and likewise in
eligible to invoke any of the pro-
cesses of this Board in protection
of any of it's members. In view OF
this no election which might be
held would be determinative of any
right asserted by the organization
named"
Labor lawyers saw this action as
possible opening wedge to end
the certification of thousands of
unions without elections. Presum-
ablv hundreds of locals of the
United Steelworkers and the United
Mine sW orkers, to take only two ex-
amples,, could be disqualified as
was UEN, because they have failed
20 file affidzyits.
The elections we're asked by the
company in an attempt, according
to UE officials, to she'd itself for
once and for al of the necessity
of dealing with q union. The anti
labor firm received moral support
from NLRB General Counsel ROB-
ert Denham, who id that Il ReF-
ington-Rand signed new contracts
it would 90 so "aG ID own peril.
The company has ndt challenged
the bargaining positiole OF the !
Association of Machi- sts-uilal 81
ated which bold a contI : eoNes''s
$500 workers in the Elm am.
The lam is known to be ii, sseu
in organizing several othet es'-
ington plants in New York.A
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Ten Labor Leaders Study At Harvard
Under Trade Union Fellowship Plan

Cambridge, Mass. 1LNS)-Har-
ward University has announced the
names Of s United States and 2 for
eign trade union representatives
who are studying at Harvard dur
ing 1947-48 under the Trade Union
Fellowship Program.
The Labor Fellows are chosen by
their unions and under a program
financed jointly by the unions and
Harvard University follow a g.
month course Of study which in
cludes such subjects as labor law,
collective bargaining, accounting
and human relations. Weekly and
evening dinners, and seminars with
labor, management and govern
ment leaders are also part of the
program.
Better Understanding Is Aim
Designed to give union leaders a
better understanding of relations
between labor and management, the
program was launched in 1912 un-
der the auspices of the Graduate
School of Business Administration,
Littauer School of Public Admins
tration and the Department of Ec
onomics.
The men are selected on a basis
of general intelligence, capacity for
leadership, and devotion to the la
Dor movement. They are not re-
quired to meet scholastic standards,
and the formal education of men
attending the program has ranged
from grade school to advanced
graduate school training.
Four AFL Fellows
All the men have proven their
ability to serve the labor movement
and have records as local union
officers, shop committeeman, ma
tional representatives of labor edi-
tors. Included in this years class
are representatives of such groups
as trainmen, boilermakers, steel
workers, and garment workers.
The Trade Union Fellows for
1947-48 are:
Walter J. Jones, 35, Balboa, Ca
nal Zone; International Brother
hood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship
Builders and Helpers of America,
AFL; Labor Wage Board member
and first vice president, Canal Zone
Central Labor Union.
William j. McSorley, Jr., %,
Lakewood, Ohio; International AS
sociation of Heat & Frost Insula-
tors and Asbestos Workers, AFL;
formerly union steward.
Thomas M. Holleran, 80, Darby,
Pa, Midvale Steel Company Fed
eral Labor Union No. 1887, AFL;
recording secretary.
Sol Goldberg, 21, Bronx, New
York; international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union Local SO,
AFL; executive member, Local SO
and grievance committee member.
Arthur T. Van Wart, 80, Boston,
Mass; Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen; alternate legislative rep
resentative.
Two Foreign Students
Roy H. Stevens, 33, Worchester,
Mass; United Steel Workers of
America, CIO; field representative.
Leo A. Dirrane, 81, Dorchester,
Mass; United Steel Workers of
Ammerica, CIO; staff representa-
tive.
John J. Moynihan, Jr., 33, Bos-
ton, Mass; National Federation Of
Post Office Motor Vehicle En-
ployes, independent; business
agent, Local 46.
Edward Christensen, 81, Lyngby,
Denmark; Danish Confederation of
Labor; labor editor of Social
Demokraten."
Harry j. Klausen, Al, Oslo, Nor
way; Norwegian Transport Work
ers' Union; secretary-treasurer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
steel MOGULS PLAN
RENEWED FIGHT FOR
PLANNED SCARCITY

New York (LPA)-The nations
steel industry has become frighten.
ed at the results of its scarcity
planning" but not so frightened
that it can't fight any possible gov
ernment controls that the emer.
gency Congress might impose ir
response to President Truman's re.
quest.
The first scare came last week
when the Federal Trade Commits
sion cited the American Iron &
Steel Institute and 101 steel pro-
ducers for conspiracy to fix prices
and to limit production.
The New York Journal Of Com
merce, big business daily, report
ed last week that the industry
which has refused to expand ca
pacity to meet domestic and for
eign needs, is ready to fight any
price or ALLEGATION controls. The
steel industry, according to the
paper, Twill fight domestic or, as
it calls it, political ALLEGATIONS to
the last ditch. 1t also goes without
saying that the arrangements are
opposed to any price control"
Meanwhile the tight steel supply
is hitting more cities and more
industries. New York manufactur-
ers using steel were reported so
desperate that they are now search
ing midwest and southwest mar
kets for flat rolled steel. Previous
ly Chicago manufacturers report
ed that steel alIotments, despite
capacity production had been cut
so per cent in the last 90 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Wage Increase Negotiated
Vy Reading Meat Workers

Reading, Pa. (ILNSl--Harmoni-
Gus negotiations with the 81. and J.
Saylor retail market here have re
suited in new agreement raising
wages and cutting hours TOR mem
bers of Local l95, Meat Cutters and
Butcher WOrkmen Of North Am-
erica. The agreement, Fred Rauser,
president of Local 1876 reports,
brings all men workers "A $3.50 in
crease, retroactive to Oct. /, over
their earning for a 4S-hour week
and cuts the work week to "A
hours.
A $31 weekly minimum is set for
women workers whose hours are
clashed to AZ weekly. With the ex-
ception of bakers, confectionery and
order department employees, the
prescribed hours will be worked on
5-day basis. Business Agents Vim
cent LoCasale and Paul Sable rep
resented Local 1876 in the negotia-
tions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-11
Will Still
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cent of the landlord petitions so
far.
Meanwhile, the federal govern
ment's antitrust suit against the
Washington Real Estate Board and
the Natl Association of Real Es-
tate Boards for trying to fix rates
for brokers continued in court here.
The NAREB denied that it enter
ed into any conspiracy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-21

Louis; Ingrid Bergman. chosen
woman of the year in motion pic
lures for the second consecutive
year, and Mildred Didrikson Ia
harias. veteran sports star, who
scored again in 1916 by carrying
off three titles-the All-Ameri-
can Women's Open, the National
Women's Amateur and the Wom-
ems Trans Mississippi golf cham
pionships.
No one outstanding woman of
the year" was named for 1916,
since the vote of editors was in
conclusive on this point and it
was agreed that no single woman
stood Observation-Disclosures above
all the others in public interest
and achievement during the year.
One of the greatest honors of
the year went to Miss Emily
Greene Balch, of Wellesley, Mass,
who fought for peace through two
wars with the Women's Interna-
tional League for Peace and Free
dom. When notified that she was
co-Winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize in November, she an
nounced that she would give her
$4,000 award to the League. She
had just returned from twelve
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-01-21
SUNDAY LIQUOR BILL
tContinaed from Page One)


except beer and wine shall be
sold. served OF distributed within
the territorial limits of the City
u Key West, Fla, by the pack
age. bottle or container, between
the hours of 6 o'clock am. and Z
o'clock pm. (EST) on Sunday"
President Joseph Sirugo of the
Retail Liquor Dealers Association
and supporters of the ordinance,
contend that the sale of beer, wine
and liquor on Sunday is essential
10 meet the demands of the tour
IS trade and that the prosperity
Of Key West depends on the tour
st trade. Opponents of the meas
urc contend that most of the peo-
pie who come here are church
people and that the city would
make a better impression on tour
ISIS by prohibiting bars and liquor
stores from operating on Sunday.