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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Senator's Join
Labor Criticism
OF Pepper Scheme

Washington (LPA)-Two Demo-
cratic Senator'S last week joind la
Der editors and publishers Of small
el newspapers in assailing recon-
mendations made by a Senate Sub
csmmittee on Newsprint and Paper
Shortages for relief of the news
print squeeze which has victimized
snail publications for four years.
An interim report by Subcom-
nittee Chairman Homer Capehart
rejected recommendations by labor
aud job printers for return to ra-
toning and proposed instead that
a voluntary industry committee be
formed to relieve hardship cases.
This committee, under Capehart's
plan, would be given protection
sgainst the antitrust laws for a
vear.
/ Senator'S Murray 3D., Mont.)
and Taylor 3D., Idaho) branded the
capehart scheme as ian incredible
addiction of the public power" AS
members themselves of the sub
committee the two liberals wrote a
dissenting report which declared, /,
"If the whole structure which
supplies raw material to the Amer
ican press-newsprint and the ma
terial to be printed on it's to be
exempted from the antitrust laws,
the death knell of the principle
of the free competitive press will
have been sounded, and will even
tually destroy the entire free COM
petitive enterprise system"
Resumption of rationing was
urged again in the testimony of
two New York job printers whose
clients include labor and fraternal
Victor Leavitt told
the subcommittee that his news
print contract was cancelled be-
cause the dealer decided to serve
certain picked companies in the
daily press" Previous testimony
disclosed black market and profi-
teering deals in newsprint which
in some cases hiked prices from
S84 to $3.50 a ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
ENGINEER SCARCITY SEEN
SLOWING ROAD BUILDING

Washington, d. C.-The Nations
postwar construction program will
be retarded and normal improve
ment in technical development will
be restricted, unless new engineers
are attracted to the highway field,
according to the American Road
Builders Associations engineered
rector, Chas. M. Upham.
Highway transport in the United
States or any other country can
only be as efficient as the engi-
neers who are responsible for its
development, he declared.
"Since state highway depart
ment is charged with the respon-
sibility of spending large sums of
the public's tax money, salaries for
engineers should be commensurate
with this responsibility" Mr.. Up
ham continued. 'Low salaries will
not attract ambitious young engi-
neers to the highway field and
without these engineers, millions of
dollars can be wasted. Salaries in
industry are carefully adjusted to
the amount of responsibility car
ried by the individual. Losses caus-
ed by mismanagement are voided
by fixing salaries that obtain maxi
mum efficiency" he added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Industry Wise
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ate, as Senator Taft leaned for
ward attentively:
with this amendment we are
taking one of the most terrific
steps toward the destruction of
proper and necessary union re-
sponsibility even taken in the
United States.
"In doing that we are also open
ing the door to the utter disintegra-
ton of organized labor in this coun-
try-and this fact should be borne
in mind.
"Aimed ostensibly, we are told,
to provide local autonomy for trade
unions, in actual operation and if
effective this amendment could
tear trade unionism apart.
"The removal of the influence of
organized labor in large areas of
our economy might well leave these
areas open to sinister influences
of a type which | leave to the i'm
agination.
"Most of all, the elimination of
trade unionism as an influence in
our society would probably contri-
butte more than anything else to
the destruction of freedom in
America"
Senator Morse, hoarsely second
ing Senator Ives, shouted to the
Senate: .
"If what you are after is to
weaken unions, and make it as diff
ficult as possible in their relations
with their employers, then this
amendment may be recommended
to you. 1t is a very effective weap-
on by indirection."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
N. Y. Musiciuns
Beqin Concerts

New York City (ILNS.).-Local
8O2, biggest of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians, began a large
scale program of free concerts with
concert by a 44-piece symphonic
orchestra at the Bronx Veterans
Hospital. Richard McCann, presi-
dent of the local, announced that
$101, 600, has been provided for the
series, $4,000 coming from the
federation's record and transcript
tion fund, while $4,000 has been
furnished by the local to cover ad-
ministrative costs.
Half of the money will be devot-
ed to supplying music to veterans
in Army and Navy hospitals in the
metropolitan area. Of the remain
ing funds approximately 80 percent
will be used to bring music to
public elementary and high schools
will be used to bring music to
in New York, Nassau and Suffolk
counties, which lie within Local
SO2's jurisdiction, and 20 percent
will be apportioned to old-age
homes and orphan asylums.
The program will include $50
symphony and jazz concerts, be-
sides music presented by small
string ensembles and other groups
of musicians strolling through hos
pital wards where former service
men, now convalescing, may be
confined to their beds.
Local 802's concerts are part of
a nationwide program of free con-
certs recently announced by Presi-
dent James C. Petrillo of the
American Federation of Musicians.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
LUMBER PRICES SOAR
FAR ABOVE PAY RISES

Portland, Ore. - Wage increases
totaling 35 cents an hour since No
vember, 1945, have increased the
production cost Of pine only $5.25
per thousand board feet and fir
$4.66, but quoted lumber price in
creases for the same period amount
to $20.50 and S27.12 per thousand
for pine and fir, according to a
survey by the Lumber and Sawmill
Workers (AFL).
The study, based on a 1910 fir
survey and 1912 pine report, Gin
dicates conclusively that to main
tain industry profits equal to the
1945 level, the price of pine should
have been increased only $1,000 per
thousand and Douglas fir 1892 per
thousand" Executive Secretary
Kenneth Davis of the unions north
western council declared.
Davis declared present profits in
Douglas fir of $29.20 per thousand
proved the industry could increase
wages "more than what seems to be
the national pattern-15c per hour
and still receive 200 percent to
400 percent profit increase over
November, 1941, prices.
"And there is still plenty left in
that 200 percent to AGO percent
profit increase range to take care
of paid holidays, better vacations
and health and welfare funds" he
concluded.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
SOCIALIST co WINS FREEDOM

New York City (ILNS). - The
5-year struggle Of conscientious
objector Herman Berman, a Cali
fornia Socialist, against military
service was at last ended in fed
eral court in Los Angeles when
Judge Ben Harrison set aside his
3H-year prison sentence. The U. S.
Supreme Court has denied Ber-
mans appeal for a rehearing of
his case last January, having pre-
viQjlsly decided that his opposition
to induction was based on social
and humanitarian grounds, not
.by reason Of religious training or
belief" The American Civil Liber-
ties Union sponsored Berman's
case throughout in an attempt to
get a clear Interpretation of the
regulation ing exemption
from war service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Married Women Clause Out

Boston (LPA)-The last restric-
tion against married women work
ers in contracts between the rail
roads and the Railway & Steam
ship Clerks -AFL has been abolish
ed with an arbitrators' decision in
case involving the Boston &
Maine Railroad and the union. The
arbitrator upheld the unions con-
tention that a married women
clause" i'm the contract should be
eliminated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
S1O1,0OO For Free Concerts

New York (LPA)-The Ameri-
can Federation of Musicians Local
S02 last week presented the first of
an extensive series of free con-
certs in Veterans hospitals, pub
lie schools, old age homes, and or
phan asylums in the New York
area. Altogether, $101, 600 is being
devoted by the union from its rec
ord and transcription fund to these
services for men, women and chill
dren who might otherwise never
hear first-class 'live" music.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Sell More; Paid Less

New York (LPA)-Net sales per
worker in department stores rose
from $7208 in 1889 to $l3,400 in
1916, according to the Natl Retail
Dry Goods Association. At the
same time, salespeoples' salaries
rose only slightly, taking 5.9c of
each dollar of sales in 1916 COM
pared with Sic in 1915.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

has additional plants in Paines-
vile, Ohio.
In statement outlining the new
policy, Mr.. Staley pointed out that
the benefits paid to disabled en-
ployes under the provisions of the
Illinois Workmen's Compensation
Act are too low.
Compensation Basis Tipped
Under Illinois law, compensation
pay varies from 60 to 80 percent of
the workers weekly wage, the lat
ter not to exceed $50. Under the
Staley plan, the same percentage
base will be adapted to maximum
wage of $40, or more than double
the amount provided under the law.
the entire cost of the program will
be borne by the company.
Both management and union also
announced conclusion of an agree
ment whereby the firm and its en-
ployes will share the cost of a
broadened program of insurance
covering illness, nonoccupational
accidents, disqualification and med
ical and surgical expenses. Group
life insurance coverage has also
been increased.
Mr.. Staley's statement follows
in part:
MANY employees and employers
have recognized that benefits un-
der the Illinois Workmen's Com
pensation Act are too small, but
have been inclined to wait for the
legislature to modernize the act.
The Staley Co. decided its en-
ployes should not be obliged to
wait.
"The Illinois law requires an
employer to pay an injured en-
ploye for working time lost as
the result of an occupational acci-
dent. the sum to be paid is, in
theory, based on an employees
earnings, but the present law ig-
nores all earnings in excess of $50.
Wage increases have made the $50
figure obsolete.
Maximum Benefits $50 Weekly
"The maximum compensation
provided in the act ranges from
SIS a week for single man up to
$24 for a man with a wife and
three children. The new Staley plan
takes into consideration earnings
up to $40 a week and provides for
benefits Of as much as $56 for an
employe earning the maximum and
who has wife and three children"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Jewelry Workers Elect

Atlantic City LPA) - Meeting
here this week, the Intl Jewelry
Workers Union-AFL will be con-
fronted with choice of two can
didates to succeed the late Leon
Williams, who served as President.
administration" candidates are
Joseph Morris, acting president,
and General Organizer Hyman
Palatnik for the post Of secretary
treasurer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Ledger Must Pay

Philadelphia LPA)-More than
$50 union members who made up
the stat fof the bankrupt Philadel-
phia Ledger in 1912 will receive
severance and vacation pay as pro-
vided in the American Newspaper
Guild-CIO and IntI Typographical
Union-AFL contracts with the fold
ed publication. The U. S. circuit
court here upheld the unions de-
mands, and ordered payment from
the papers funds on the $223, ,528
owed Guildsmen and the $13,29
owed ITU members.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

Portland, Ore. (LPA) - More
than 1000 women members of the
Camery & Food Professors Union
AFL here have voted to join the
nationwide boycott of Jerkens Lo-
tion and Woodbury. Soap as a re-
suit of a strike lasting more than
a year at Jergens' Burbank, Calf,
plant.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
NYC Typos Win 500 Minimum

New York (LPA) - Weekly
minimum rates for newspaper ty-
geographical workers here are now
set at 800, $95, and 800, with wage
increases Of $l6.50, $14.O0, and
$12.50 for lobster, night and day
shifts, it was announced last week
by the Init Typographical Union
AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
Widespread Oil Strikes

Chicago UPA)-Strikes by the
Oil Workers Int' Union at Toledo,
Ohio, Houston and Port Neches,
Tex, and Cabin Greek and Dawes,
w. Va, continued last week while
total of "a new strike notices
were filed with the Labor Dept in
Washington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
New Pldn Of Manufacturers
To Double c Compensation
Benefits Under State Law

New York City ILNS).-A plan providing for accident
benefits twice as high as those paid under the workmens
compensation laws of the State of Illinois, made public
by the New York office of the A E. Stay Manufacturing
Company Decatur, ILL., The Staley plan, accepted by the
union representing the firms workers. believed to be the
first of it's kind in American industrial history.
Death and permanent disability benefits will be raised
in like proportion, it announced by A. E. Staey, Jr.,
president the and sobean processing concern which
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

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Also, the company must stop
printing on its labels the words
"detatch for stock CONTROL" or any
other words Suggesting" that re-
tail dealers remove the labels" be-
fore customers see them.
Apparently Doniger has been
violating the wool labelling law in
lust about every possible way.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
HUGH MCKENZIE

Hugh Mckenzie, So, a jiggerman
at the Sterling China Co., died May
10 at his home, Alb Fifth ST.,
Wellsville. He suffered a heart all
ment Wednesday night.
Mr.. Mckenzie was member of
the National Brotherhood Of Oper-
ative Potters, the Wellsville Eagles
Lodge and the East Liverpool
Church of the Nazarene.
He is survived by his widow;
five daughters, Miss Goldie Nc
Kenzie Of Los Angeles, Mrs. Effie
Standley Of East Liverpool, Mrs.
Lenora Urban Of Sciotoville, o.,
Mrs. Irene Littleton of Wellsville,
and Miss Eileen McKinZie at
home; three sons, Frank Richard
Mckenzie, Jesse John Mckenzie
and Homer Il. Mckenzie, all at
home, and three brothers, Fulton
Mckenzie, Halfway Mckenzie and
Samuel Mckenzie, all of East Liv-
erpoOl.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15
$225,CO To United Jewish Appeal

New York (LPA). - A gift of
1925 600 has been made by the In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union-AFL to the United jew
ish Appeal, it was announced last
week. The funds go to help allevi-
ate the suffering of displaced Jews
in Europe and to aid Jews in Pales-
tine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

OLIVER Nj. ASHBAUGH

Oliver M. Ashbaugh, 70, retired
potter, died suddenly of heart at
tack May 10, in his home, 4O4 West
Fifth street.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

THOMAS P. O'BRIEN

Cambridge, Ohio-Thomas Peter
O'Brien, resident Of Cambridge
since 1918, died May at his home,
817 N. 18th St., following a years
illness.
He was born in Steubenville
July Is, 1874, a son of Thomas
and Agnes O'Brien. He was a
members of st. Benedict's church
here and was employed at Uni
versal Potteries, Inc, until retir-
ing in March of last year. He was
a member of Local Union 122, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
PotterS.
Seven children survive, Frank
Mickey of Coshocton, Joseph
and Eugene of Cambridge Mrs.
Margaret Ahern Of the home, Mrs.
Evelyn Dollison of Ashland, KY,
Mrs. Lucille McMorris Of Los An
geles, Calf, and Mrs., Dorothy
Schwartz of Columbus. Mrs. Nc
Morris will arrive here by plane
Tuesday.
Also surviving are 16 grand
children, one brother and sister,
John and Mrs. Hugh Gallagher of
Toronto, o. His wife, Martha died
10 years ago and two daughters,
Mildred and Catherine, preceded
him in death.
PORT RACY
Port Racy, 55, former East Liv-
erpool potter and World War vet
eran, died May 8 at his home in
Cambridge, following a long illness.
Mr.. Racy, foster son of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Ashbaugh,
spent most of his life in East Liv-
erpool. He resided in Cambridge
for the past IL years, and was en-
ployed in the shipping department
of the Universal Potteries, Inc.
Mr.. Racy served with the rank
of sergeant with Co. B, 135th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, formerly Co.
f, 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
during World War /. He was
member of the Methodist Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Wini-
fred Sarchet Racy at home, and
foster sister, Mrs. G. Arthur
Shone Of East Liverpool.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-05-15

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17

Okla. pulled A sheet OF paper
from his pocket.
"Here's the ditching procedure
in case we wind up in the Pacific
The paper outlined A B29 in
terror. On it were numbers lndl'
eating escape doors and matches
each man would use.
.Nico,s looked at his watch 2:4s
P. NJ, July 81. FIFTEEN minutes te
takeoff time.
Lets CO." he said. "Here's
luck"
The men elimbered aboard
Their casual, careless manner
disappeared.
Tech. Sgt. Theodore c. Hood Of
San Antonio, Tex, let gunner,
pulled earphones over his black,
crew-cut hair, adjusted the mi
crophone at his throat. Engines
whined, caughed and caught the
ship shuddered. Hood, veteran Of
IS missions over Germany, peer
ed through his plastic blister as
Nichols and co-pilot, 1t. william
N. Walding of Mobile, Ala, tested
control surfaces.
"Flaps coming down." Hood
sang out, and moment later:
FLAPS down."
Across from him, Sgt. Richard
M. Way of Faybrook, Conn.,. right
gunner, was checking the right
wing.
In his compartment behind the
pilot and co-pilot, the piercing
dark eyes of Master Sgt. Robert
L. Sinner, engineer of Fort Worth,
roved intently over more than l0C
instruments. With his own set o.
throttles, he revived up each OF the
four engines in turn.
We TAXED out to the runway.
8, 1000 feet with another 1000 feet
clear for emergencies. The ship
carried 1900 gallons of gasoline
bringing the gross weight to a
near-capacity $4,000 pounds.
Brakes clamped on. Sinner
made his final tests, shooting
power to each engine in turn
Master Sgt. Charles W. Higgins
crew chief from Shawne, Okla,
souatted beside him, wordless.
eyes straining on the Instruments
A storm of red dust churned UP
behind the Superfort, envelop ne
A line of japanese peasants al
A fence beside the a~ifield.
Everything OK" Sinner SAID
Now the burden shifted to Nj
chols who never before had taken
off with such A load. Hood had
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17

called him "a born pildt--best
there is"
He showed the four throttles,
the engines roared, brakes came
off and the 20 surged down the
runway.
Zone hundred miles per hour
co-pilot, Walding sang out. cone
hundred ten. ne-hundred twenty
The runway blurred, The tail
was coming up.
"One-hundred thirty" Waldinl
said. The end Of the runway was
in sight. Muscles played aroune
Nichols jaw.
"one- hundred FORTY" Waldins
said. One thousand feet left.
Zone forty-five."
The runway was playing out
Nichols hauled back slowly on the
control stick and the Superfort
struggled into the air.
wheels up" Walding called
triumpahantly.
Red-headed Higgins cleaned hi.
brow with a forearm.
washington, here we come
yelled stocky little bambardier
1t. James Schutt Of Holland. Mich
ut wasn't the gas" engine1
Sinner complained. TT was those
darned souvenirs the boys are
carrying"
The other seven ships Of thu
492nd Bomb Squadron Of the
about us as we banked over Tokyo
Then they faded as each chose it,
own course and altitude.
At 230 miles per hour we throb'
bed out over the Pacific and res
possibility fell to A third man, the
only n among us who would ge'
no sleep.
Navigator Charles F. Duncan o.
Bemis, Tenn. Husky, Blue-eyed
lieutenant. pered down at the
blue water and said:
II guess you boys will be good
to me, now"
II get showed around when we
Fly over land" he explained, "BU1
when we get over the lonesome
water all these boys are buddy
pals"
Duncan studied the charts and
called for A course setting. Nichols
set the course, threw A couple o:
switches and Colonel Honeywell
is the atomatic pilot.
"Ihink I'll get a little sack
time Nichols said.
When you get sack time in 4
2B9, you curl up on the cold meta.
floor or squirm into the TUNE.
that runs from the front end o.
the ship to the back. S%uperforts
are built for fighting, not comfort.
In the compartment behind the
pilot and co-pilot, A big gun tur
ret squeebes almost ali the room
away from engineer, navigator and
radio man. Whenever anyone pass
es from the front to the back OF
the plane, the unhappy navigator
must lift up his charts, pencils
and slide rule. fold his cesk, anc
wedge himself against A corner
The radar equipment heats vi
the back end Of the ship like A
| stove and guns and cameras deny
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-17

They have contacted $40 g h
school seniors in order to select
pupils for part-time apprentice
work who are highly desirable
and useful.
This Learning While Doing"
part time apprenticeship course
above all else bridges the gap
that always has existed between
business and school.
1t is not to provide training for
the masses of the student body
who cannot pass ordinary school
subjects, but is intended only for
those normal boys and girls from
the heart of the student body who
are ambitious and who are not
going to college.
The course is not intended
Or planned for college entrance
credit, but it does carry credit
for graduation from high school.
1t is offered only 10 juniors and
seniors as an elective and carries
three units credit.
1t is an integrated part of the
complete high school course of tn
student who takes its study phase
along with other required courses
in the morning and then switches
TO job training in the afternoon.
The most important factor is
that of student interest. The STU
dents choose the occupation of
their choice while still in school.
In this they benefit from their ex-
periences which aids greatly in
planning their life's work.
The program of the student is
so planned that he is able to leave
school early in order to go to
work. The employer guarantees to
work the student a minimum OF
Is hours per week and pay him