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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
April Is Cancer
Control Month

Washington, d. C. QLNS).-
Designating April as "Cancer Con-.
troll Month";" President Trum3
called upon every individual an i
organization to cooperate with
medical science in its flight for
the control of this dread malady."
In a formal proclamation, the
President urged governors of the
states and territories also to set
aside April for special considera-
tion of the problem.
81 also invite the medical pro-
fession, the press, the radio, the
motion picture industry, and all
organizations and individuals in
terested in this momentous prob
lem to unite during the month of
April in a program of education
in methods now available for the
control of cancer, as well as pro-
gram of promotion of scientific
research necessary to alleviate
further the suffering caused by
this scourge," said Truman.
He described cancer as zone of
mankind's most insidious enemies"
which takes 177,000 lives in the
United States annually. On the
basis of estimates by the U. S.
Public Health Service Truman
said that 100000 persons now
living will die of cancer unless a
cure is found.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
Hysterio Fails To
Fool Workers

That workers i'm the shops aren't
deceived by the campaign of hys-
terra against organized labor was
demonstrated anew this week in a
report issued by the National La
Dor Relations Board
1t showed that in February, out
of $4,000 votes cast in N. l.. X. b.
elections, 81 per cent were "in fa-
vor of collective bargaining by
some labor organization"
That proportion of votes for
unionism has been rising month
by month, despite the wave of
anti-labor propaganda. In Decem-
ber the figure was ~ per cent; in
January 7S per cent, and in Feb
ruary it rose by another three
points.
The boards chief problem now
IS keeping up with the demand of
norganized workers for a chance
to select their bargaining agency.
In February, the board received
923 petitions for elections, but was
able to hold only 400.
It's backlog of cases awaiting
action-both election petitions and
unfair labor practice charges
against employers-rose by an
other 200 in February to total
of 5,307, a net increase of 81 per
cent over year ago. Lack of
funds and manpower were blamed
for the situation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
Labor Dept. Fund Slash
Seen As Threatening Blow
To u. s. Economic System

Washington, d. c. (LNS)-A penetrating analysis and
outline of facts of the House of Representatives drastic slash
of U. s. Labor Department appropriations, in Chester
Wrights Labor Letter. constitutes soaring Indictment Of
the House drive and its sponsors.
The Labor Letter reveals that the House program, if
approved by the Senate and made law will cripple essential
services of the Labor Department and bring economic dis
tubances and labor unrest hitting worker industry and the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
Unbiased Labor
Study Asked
Bv Auto Workers

Milwaukee QLNS). - Declaring
that the rights of management
still far outweigh those of labor,
the international executive board
of the United Auto Workers, AFL,
headed by International President
Lester Washburn, has sent an open
letter to all Congressional labor
committees asking for an "un-
biased investigation" of the causes
of industrial unrest and prompt
action by Congress to correct
labor's subordinate position" to
an equal footing with "the pre-
negatives of management"
This kind of Congressional ac-
ton is necessary, says the open
letter, which asks for a fair COM
parative analysis of the rights of
industry as over and against the
rights of labor, "to restore a bal
ance in the nations economy"
Employer Holds Trump Cards
Blaming industry's unwillingness
to recognize or concede labor's
status as an equal as the true un-
derlying cause responsible for
struggles between management
and labor, the letter points out
that even in labor's right to col
lective bargaining the weight and
favor of any advantage is strong
ly on the side of management"
employers by claiming and
practicing the fixing of wages
have stymied labor to the extent
that it's only retaliation has been
the filing of a grievance" the let
ter continues.
'If the grievance is ignored and
the company refuses to bargain
further, labor resorts to the
strike, but again here, manage
ment still holds the trump card
and is free to refuse or even to
compromise with labor's demands" "
Management Rights Well Guarded
Singing out the National Labor
Relations Act (Wagner Act) as
the clone example of legislation
that really goes to the core Of
labor's need" the letter draws at
tention to the fact that there "are
hundreds of statutes and regula-
tions protec ing management
rights" The rights of manage
ment to form powerful corpora
tions and associations of their own
"has not been challenged or ques-
toned by labor" the letter con
tinues.
Management has the right Of
beginning, dissolving, or suspend
ing it's enterprises arbitrarily. 1t
has also claimed the right to with
hold goods from the market such
as witnessed i'm the manufacturers
strikes at the close of the war. An
other right claimed and practiced
by management has been that of
price and wage fixing. 1t has long
contended that it is the sole judge |
of what to charge for a product |
and what to pay labor for its share
in making that product possible"
the UAW-AFL executive board
letter further asserts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10

only national machinery we have
for mobilization Of our manpower
resources. The war proved its
value.
"The saving of $4,000,000 is
false. Congress will be forced to
pay the states more money to set
up independently the services pro-
vided uniformly by USES.
Labor market information on
national scale will no longer be
available"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
THE CONTROL OF DIABETES


Diabetes, the condition in which
sugar is found in the urine, is one
of large group of diseases on the
increase. Since the discovery of in
sulin, diabetes isn't so serious as
it used to be, but it's still killing
too many of US. We hear much
about the victories over diseases
like typhoid fever, tuberculosis or
diphtheria, but here is a sickness
that more and more people are
getting every year. What is the
meaning of this and what can be
done about it?
Diabetes is a disease in which
the body is unable to burn COM
pletely the chief end of most of
the foods we eat, which is form
of sugar called glucose. The burn
ing of glucose furnishes the chief
source of human energy. When
this fuel remains unused, it causes
whole chain of reactions in the
body leading, if untreated, to a
piling up of acid products which
may eventually result in death.
Most cases aren't so severe as
to have that result, but that's the
ultimate danger. When this un-
burned glucose fuel in the blood
piles up to a certain level, it spills
over through the kidneys into the
urine. Finding glucose or sugar in
the urine, therefore, is one of the
commonest ways that diabetes is
diagnosed.
1t is believed that blood glucose
is not properly burned and used
by the body cells when there is
not enough production of a sub
stance called insulin by the pan
creas. That's why, when insulin
taken from the pancreas of slaugh-
tered cattle is injected into the
patient with diabetes, it makes up
for the shortage and enables him
to carry on normally until the in
sulin is used up. Proper diet is
equally important in providing the
body a type of food intake which
calls for the smallest quantity of
insulin.
The breakdown of body mechan-
les which leads to diabetes occurs
mostly in the later years of life.
II ic olco ,,aora oorop,a,, -, ,,arcn,,c
who are overweight. The following
are the main reasons why more
people, at least in the United
States, are getting diabetes than
in the past:
First, more people live to reach |
old age because they survive the |
common catching diseases which |
formerly killed off millions of in
fants and children. Second, even |
though there>is a lot of poor nu-
triton and underweight in this
country, the development of our
machine civilization has meant
less active life for many people,
women, SO stoutness
is more common. If inheritance has
anything to do with diabetes, as
many doctors now think, then the
fact that diabetes are living longer
and having more children may also
De reason for the increase.
These conditions connected with
The increase in diabetes gives us
clues as to what to do about it,
Since people are living longer, we
must be more on the lookout for
The conditions, like diabetes, as
'ociated with older years. This
means periodic physical examina,
ions, with routine tests of the
lrine to detect diabetes early. Like
most other diseases, if diabetes is
,aught early it can be treated and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
FLYING COSTS MORE

Travel by air now cost 10 per
'ent more. In granting the in
,rease, the Civil Teronautics ex-
lcted a pledge from the air car
fiers not to again boost the
'ates for 90 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
GREEN TO TESTIFY ON REDS

Washington, ID. c. - Among
those asked to testify before the
House I'm American Activities
Committee on bills to outlaw the
Communist Party, are FBl Direc-
tor J. Edgar Hoover, Attorney
General Tom c. Clark, the Right
Rev. Msgr. Fulton j. Sheen, AFL
President William Green, and
leaders Of the American Legion
and Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10

Recent reports say that the
Russian railroads have intro
duced au o m a t c tracklaying
trains which lay track in about
a third of the time required for
laying it by hand. These trains
are equipped with a cOnveyOr
system, welding machinery and
cranes and permit the laying of
rails automatically and cOntinu-
Ously. Each train is manned by
30 men, who replace no less than
5000 workers, it is said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-04-10
"A Declaration of Principles

PART IFOREWORD

by the Ohio State Federation Legislative
PART I-FoREwORD
movement casgang deeds defng aims Legislation has
loyal patriotic unions.
Therefore capital city today in omber mood
s @ s T 4s s We sts ss ~ % ssp % ns
oes the Plants the sehoorosms mines sshccl
the Offices the mine mines We speak 3 n IN INTERESTS % n Of our @
the who exoed for % war wartime patriotism
were n forefront of every wartime cause
We the great membership of the Ohio State Federation of
pose asn s % % % @ %
ss s@ a"f BY ss"s' "'''"f' Of the "sAs' lobbyists
We are the people who magned every morning every
publications spreading confusion and dstrst about abor in
bnsengs Legislators industry heads s ;,sn. hsadmg
ships almost everything except the fundamentals of
:s: s;:s:; :;'
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We stand and we
OF oPpPss Faseis@ Gsa form 0'
So Executive Board Of the Ohio State Federation Of Labor
the United States and the General Assembly of Oho
PART U-PROPOsALS TO CONGRESS-
For the sake of national harmony in the Of American com
stop a the ho an attacks a bona d u % M con
gress General Assembly the extremely ridica
e na ~ho % %o sa"ee a5 MOST astve
ton % % as to sSasqsfss b asa Legislation" Cease
Stop the assault % the he umsd States Department of Labor
Strengthen collective bargaining assist labor and man
5 5 sns increases to help the
Take sda sctoe stop rising living expenses
% as aS % Sss
Continue controls another until the housing
behind % % end the he housing s
which being built costly for workers to afford
sss sad
By adequate heath
SgS w to oe and % Industry Tighten
e H~ Enact essaton prohps employment
. Rep Repeal sd'IpoiI poll tax a laws. laws
PART II-PRoPOsALs TO THE OHIO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
We labor legislation Cease considera
Raise Ohio unemployment payments and guard fund
Grant adequate pay raises employees to relieve then dire
the aid Schools teachers receive living
Enact an Ohio Fair Labor Standards Act
increase aid to the assd high living
PART V-CONCLUsION
@ i%s ass Tie
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en- and children industry, and aid for the aged'
and the oes our s nso ask
Challenge s Of se% o Ss hs sooSoo
The plan We the officers M and members % Oft Of the Ohio
test the Confusion the evil Intentions would
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e1 the of ae politics. us
s %5A Ss fellow %
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of Ohio, the workers of America
Evening star., 1947-09-07
A Year-Round Show
Poge 10

Of the visitors the Orchid House o the United sto
Botanic bloom
Guest who wish see all the $50 vores c flower must return vous times
otter the 9eotest po'o Of Above WILTON Honse heod orchid
she y sniff o~s Her sister Rose An so odres the eoyo hdds
Chevy Chose Md The vine above Rvs heod the Voo!o from which vono
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The Valley settler., 1947-10-16
EXTEN 5 TON
~ f W 5.
LEATHER POOLING CLASS

! LEATHER POOLING CLASS i 1 Fl even women turned out at the first meet- ing of the new Leathern tool ing class. They will meet again next Wednesday in the Ex- tension office at 10 aem. They will start on Bill folds at that time.
 Te understand that the new leather class bought up all the hammer handles that Darre1 Fr anz had in the Warehouse. At least they tried to --and Darrell was having hard
 time trying to figure out just why there
 should be such run on hammer handles. PARKER LESTER will be in Anchorage this next week and will speak over K.F. ID. on Fedne sday at 1:15 p.m. The subject will: be on Agricul tural Research.
 HRS. FoE1I-HA-SHT is expected in Palmer this hext week some time.
The Valley settler., 1947-10-16
OARREL FRANK ENTERTAlNS

Darrel Frank entertained at his home this last Saturday party or twelve guests. Dancing vas the entartair1ent or the eve- -ing. lunch vas served and most de1i- c zous chicken salad ,nade by Hrs. Joe Dick son, vas enjoyed by all. Chests were:
 Parker Lester, Ethel Lyons, Leonard lioffi il lary Jones, Jean Dickson, Peggy E1fson, ,1r. and Yrs. Joe Dickson, Daryl L1eeks, Allen Miller and Itr. and Hrs. Dale Graham.
The Valley settler., 1947-10-16
WASLLA CHRIS GIVE TIA.

The Girls' 3s-T's, silla Willing Yorker are giving a Tea this Friday October IF, at the home of Mrs. James Pendleton in honor e<' their mothers and the teachers of the Tasi11a School.
 Tea will be served at 4 D.m.
The Valley settler., 1947-10-16

The HoSP ITAL wishes to thank al those who 1eve so kindly donated them ire sh vege- tables and other foods..
The Valley settler., 1947-10-16
CARC or Ti7ANKS

CARL or HAWKS r-e wish to t alle this opportunity to ex- press our sincere apprec fat ion to our many friends for the ir kindness and. sympathy during the illness and death of our be- loved husband and father.
 Mrs. Earl iHecler ald family.
The Valley settler., 1947-10-16
HOSPITAL NOTES

ADl ITTFD: DIS-ISSE l-n. Cecil Ti1 son-Tasi11a L.r. Vii SC Jimmy Ball Gakona Jimmy Ball Einar John son-Glen Allen Ctarlos s ossoau-Mat anus ska I-s. Everett Yohn-Palmer
 C1oriS Crousore-Palmer
 Donna Standardization Donna Rebe
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
BY Howord Fost

Continued from. Page y
a whole forest of them ap-
peared from inside the union
hall, made by committees. The
slogans were simple, direct and
non-violent:
"Reputes Act" swim with
Go" "No Fascism in Am
erica" Republic Steel Shall
Sign Union Contract"
THE signs were handed out,
many of them to boys and girls
who carried them proudly. At
the head of the column that
was forming, two men took
their place with American flags.
The news reporters, who had
come up by car only a short
while before. were hopping
about now, swapping everything.
For some. reason that has never
been analysed, news photog-
raphers and strikers get along
very well, even when the pho
tographers come from McCor-
mick's Chicago Tribune. There
was lot of good-natured give
and take.
When the column began to
march, down the road from
Sans place first, and then
across the prairie. toward the
Republic Steel plant, the. news
photographers moved with it,
some walking, some by car. This
fact later turned into a vital
part Of American labor history.
REPUBLIC Steel stood alb
rupt out of the flat prairie.
Snake like, the line of pickets
crossed the meadowland, sing
ing at first:
Solidarity forever, the un-
ion makes US strong :. y; but
then sound died and. the SUM-
drenched plain turned ominous,
as five hundred blue-coated
policemen took stations between
the strikers and the plant. The
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31

strikers march slowed-but
they came on.
The police ranks closed and
frightened. It brought to mind
how other Americans had faced
the uniformed force of so-called
law and order so long ago on
Lexington Green in l775: but
whereas then the redcoat lea
der had said. "Disperse. you
rebel basfards!" to armed min
ufemen, now il was to unarmed
men and women and children
that a police captain said. You
dirty sons of bitches. this is
as far as you go!"
ABOUT two hundred and
fifty yards from the plant, the
police closed in on the strikers.
BillieS and clubs were out al
ready, prodding, striking night
sticks edging into women's
breasts and groins. 1t was great
fun for the cops who were also
afraid, and they began to jerk
guns out of holsters.
Stand fast! Stand fast!"
the line leaders cried. I'VE
got our rights! We got our
legal rights to pickett"
The cops said, "You got no
rights. You Red bastards, you
got no rights"
EVEN if modern mans a
steelworker, with muscles as
close to iron bands as human
flesh gets, a pistol equalizes
him with a weakling, a fat
bellied cop-and more than
equalizes.
Grenades began to sail now;
tear-gas settled like an ugly
cloud. Children suddenly cried
with panic. and the whole
picketline gave back. men
stumbling. cursing. gasping for
breath.
Here and there, a cop tore
out his pistol and began to fire;
it was pop, pop, pop at first,
like toy favors at some horrible
party, and then, as the strikers
broke under the gunfire and
began to run, the contagion of
killing ran like fire through the
police.
THEY began to shoot in vol
leys. 7. was wonderful sport,
because these pickets were I'M
armed men and women and
children; they could not strike
back or fight back.
The cops squealed with ex-
citeme;st. They ran after flee
ing men and women, pressed
revolvers to their backs, shot
them down and then continued
to shoot as the victims lay on
their faces, retching blood.
When a woman tripped and
fell, four cops gathered above
her, smashing in her flesh and
-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31

1885 the firm was well on the
way over the hump, with a net
profit of $e,106, 488. Wheels
had begun to turn again in Am
erica, and the next years profit
took an enormous jump upward,
a net of $55, solicit in 1886.
Then the graph inclined even
more sharply, and in the first
three months of 1887, the COM
pany recorded a net profit of
$2s, 561, 533.
This was big stsel. Republic,
a light steel industry, was a
part of what was known as
little steel. and while the profits
there were smaller-$4 900, 900
in 1895 and $4,000, 900 in 1886
they were part of the upward
spiral.
IT WAS within this frame
work of hot furnaces and
mounting profits that the CLIO
began to organize And as they
built their industrial unions, the
steel companies built their
armed COON squads.
1t was in 1893 that the CLIO
began to make real progress in
organizing the steel industry,
and by the middle of 1887 half
a million steel workers had
joined the union.
Over $50 union lodges were
formed, and by now most of
the steel manufacturers had
realized that it was most de-
structive kind of insanity to
fight organization. Again, by
June 1887, some 125 companies
had signed union contracts.
Among these firms, which en-
ployed 10000 workers, were
Carnegie-Illinois and several
other subsidiaries Of US. Steel.
BUT the big Independents,
the Little Steel combine, still
held out. Let us name them
as they stood on that Memorial
Day of 1887. There was Tom
Girdler's Republic Steel, en-
ploying $4,000 workers.
There was Bethlehem Steel,
with $4,000 workers. There
was Youngstown Sheet & Tube,
with $4,000. Then there were
the smaller firms = National
Steel, American Rolling Mills
and Inland Steel. Altogether
these firms employed almost
100000 workers and they ac-
counted for almost forty per-
cent of the steel produced in
America.
They were lined up for a
knock-down, drag-out fight;
no quarter given. Tom Girdler
was granted nominal leader
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-05-31
Men Of steel never die

bones and face. Oh, it was great
sport, wonderful sport for gen.
tie, pot-bellied police, who
mostly had to confine their
pleasures to beating up pros
titutes and street peddlers-at
a time when Chicago was
world-infamous as center of
gangsterism, assorted crime and
murder.
AND so it went, on and on,
until ten were dead or dying
and over a hundred wounded.
And the field bleod-stained
field of battle. World War vet
Grams there said that never in
France had they seen anything
as brutal as this.
Now, of course, this brief
account might be passed off
as complete exaggeration, as
one-sided, and so forth-the
same arguments might be used
that are constantly thrown up
whenever it is a case of labor
versus capital or labor versus
the police.
1t might be said, as the Chi
cago Tribune said the next day,
that this was the doing of Reds
who were plotting to take over
the plant, and the police had
only done their duty.
BUT the photographers were
on the spot, and everything
have described here and
good deal more was taken
down with both newsreel and
still cameras.
The stills and the moving
pictures were placed on ex-
hibit during the hearing on Re-
public Steel held by the sub
committee of the Senate Com
mittee on Education and Labor;
and I recommend to the special
attention Of anyone interested
in checking this bit of labor
history Exhibit 1418, Exhibit
1414, Exhibit 1851, and the
morbid chart of gunshot wounds
in the back-known as Elk
hibit 1863.
That, in brief = and most
brief, since the space here is
hmited-is summary of what
happened in Chicago on May
80, 1887. These events, which
came to be known as the Mem
orial Day Massacre, shook the
nation as did few other acts of
anti-labor violence since the
Haymarket Affair Of the 1905.
Later, the Senate Committees
investigation highlighted them,
and brought home to the Am
erican people the full savagery
of the police and the men who
ran Republic Steel. But then
the war washed the memory
out for a time, and to under
stand fully today what hap
pened then in Chicago, certain
other facts must be noted.
= 4
LET us look at the situation
of the steel industry after the
worst part of the depression.
Taking United States Steel
as an example, we find that by
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