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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Millions For Defense

The and who toll in the composing
and mailing of the United States and Canada have
given ringing to the antunion forces among the
publishers of newspapers and the of commercial
printing plants.
Beginning with the first week in March the union
printers and maers will contribute to the international Ty
biographical Union for the defense of their trade five cent
of each dollar they The per cent assessment will be
and above the regular local dues the normal U per
capita and the ITU pensonmortuaIy assessment of
per cent
This is not tax Imposed" on the ITU membership. 1t
their voluntary act BY their votes cast in the
printing plants where they employed the rank and file
have eagerly seized this opportunity to defend their union
against its enemies
Up till now the members have been paying Y of per
cent for defense purposes The majority favorng the ten
fold increase Of this defense assessment in the ratio
of twoand-ahaf to 1t is bigger ratio than
ceved by elected President Of the United States in
the last 124 years.
I1U members everywhere have been socked by ncreas
ed food prices increased rents increased transportation
rates. increased taxes increased costs generally That they
have voluntarily doubled and trebled another cost
ofving item their union dues eloquent tribute to
their loyalty and the union which commands that loyalty
Such people and such union will never be beaten by
the ANPA-PIA-NLRB axis.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Good Economics. Good Business

Aside from humanitarian reasons it is good economies
and good bushes to provide adequate medical through
out the country, National Planning Association report
shows Labor and management in industry and agriculture
and the consumers of their products suffer from the waste
of dollars and cents we'll from the loss of national
production due to deaths whc might have been postponed
and diseases which might have been prevented their dur
alton shortened.
This conclusion, which organized labor has pointed
out Tor long time is based 2year study by JOINT
Subcommittee Health of the NPA Agriculture, Business
and Labor Committees, in which detailed Investigations
made of important subjects where sufficient data
available to provide ground for conclusions on this
economic effects of adequate medical care.
American medical at its best is excellent" the
subcOmmte says. However, there places where
good medical not available and there many people
who unable to afford it,"
But the subcommittee recognizes, of course, that med
cal in only factor in the whole picture of good
health and productive output "Income housing food,
working conditions-n short the whole standard of living
affects health But experience shows that medical is
important" it points out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
What The Experts Predict

Almost without exception the expert economists in
Washington and New York refuse to take too seriously the
recent turmoil in the stock market and the collapse of wheat
prices This is the way they it, wheat priced too
high out of all reason because spectators were playing
with it, Food prices generally too high But food prices
going to down very much for many months.
The cost of living will continue to go up probably until late
in the summer Then there may be levelng off, but not
depression.
Yes the experts say probably will have between
four and five million unemployed by next Christmas This,
of the big business economists say desirable as
brake the Unions Business will continue good with prices
high for long, long time though there is much un
employment Home building still far behind schedule, and
the Marshall Plan which WILL it is hoped Europe from
the Communists, will keep a measure of prosperity.
Well, that's the way the economists the future
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Fair Treatment AFL Aim

Corporation reports now being made public demonstrate
that l917 tremendously profitable year. the American
Fedeatonist remarks, going to point out that mat
ter OF fact last years profits, in billions of dollars
the biggest in history
1T is true, Of course that total taxes took tidy bite
the Fedeatonist says "bu profits after taxes
theess the biggest The workers who produced the
goods that brought in those lush profits would to be
entitled to something resembling adequate compensation
for their eXerons but with the great rise in living costs
the absence of adequacy is particularly conspicuous
"Ihe unions affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor the magazine says conclusion want Ameri-
industries to operate proaby, but they also want to
get fair treatment for the millions of workers they repre-
sent"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Security

Every working man and woman who pays Social Secur-
y from his pay has with the current failure
Congress adjust old age benefits to the increased cost
of living.
The old age insurance benefits of the Social Security
Act passed by Congress in 1885 with the express
of allowing and to retire at 65 with some
measure of sef-respect and independence
Yet today the average retired worker with wife to
support receives benefit of only 1920 month for the
family 1t is ridiculous to expect them to maintain living
standard of any kind such pitiful amount
Today living costs have more than doubled. Old age
benefits have not been increased cent Congress is re-
sponSibIe for al our laws-incudng Social Security.
committee of Congress is expected to consider the
recommendations of the Social Security Administration for
increasing benefits sometime in the next two months.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Election In ItdlY

(From the New York Tmes)
Italy will cast its national vote, corresponding to our
Congressional elections April Is. Forecasters have been
watching for indications of what the trend will be.
1t remains to be whether they have found the clue IN
the municipal election in Pescara.
Pescara is fishing and industrial city of $4,000 people
the Adratc The Government parties and those of the
Right have slim victory there by about 1000 vote
but the Lefts gains substantial The CommunlStSo
cas bloc increased its vote from 1913 per cent of the
in 1916 to 1876 per cent in the present election The Right
Wing Socialists, entering the lists for the first time
separate party, Jared badly
Events still to come in the next weeks must indicate
whether not this recut marks general trend The de
Casper has been strongly entIenched Its
defeat in the April elections would be disaster for Western
Europe.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Labor Must Take Lead

Intolerance in general is threat to labor intolerance
the part Of labor itself movement toward sefdsruc
ton Labor must diminish the discrepancy between resou
ns and actions against intolerance The mighty organized
will of the free American trade union movement which in
the past has been haessed to countless social and
reforms must again take the eadJohn w Gibson, Asss-
tant Secretary of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-18
Considerute Boss

Workers at Chicago sheet metal plant agree that
their employer is the worlds most considerate One Of
his recent efforts their behalf the installation Of
free refreshment counter where workers may help them
selves any time they feel like it,
The manufactures believes the counter easily pays for
itself increased production and concludes IF they keep
stepping up production they have since put this
freshment stand in, I'll give them anything they want
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
TOO MANY LAWYERS
By OLIVER HOYEM

Employers learning that Hartley wond
erful
is.
The decision of the Relations Board that
brought
awakening Another cherished
ruled The extended
rather than withdrawn Wages include pension and retirement
benefits conditions of employment include and other
irement
Many employers learning their that the TIL law has
troubles challenged the
of union leaders devise tactics beat the law 1t has demon
that
to harness dynamic the labor movement
Few employers filing complaints under the Act
AS have employers joining with unions
seeking of indicator this
trend the following cautiously worded the April II
of Business Week. ably edited weekly widely read by business
employers may day prove that the law
would the public better if amended
would themselves 1000 for the
law just because the unions 1000 against it."
Predictions made by labor proving
Workers the shopess than so out of 5000 cleo
tions failed carry it.
The Board is swamped with the before tit $4,000
behind, years work under the old Wagner Act
SO Chairman Paul M Herzog appealing industry and to labor
the those who
the books orderly collective bargaining and
ant harmony difficult, if not impossible"
short, lawyers!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Some Unions TO
Appear Before
Ball Committee

Washington LPA)-Sen. Joseph
Balls (R., MINI. "watch dog" COM
mittee on the Taft Hartley law
commences its hearings next week.
Avoiding the committees legal re-
sponsibility to study the operation
of the 1947 Act, Ball last month
revealed that the hearings would
be limited to five ideas Of his for
Strengthening" Taft-Hartley.
Next week the NAM and the
Chamber of Commerce will decide
whether or not to stick their necks
out on Balls proposals. The Ma
tional Small Businessmen's Assn
has asked to be heard as have sew
eral smaller trade associations.
National CIO and several of its
unions have announced
that they will give testimony blast
ing the Minnesota Republicans lat
est union-breaking suggestions.
The AFL has not finally deter
mined whether or not it will ap-
pear. But one AFL spokesman told
LPA that he didn't think the AFL
would bother. There's no need for
Identifying this sort of hearing with
our presence" he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Union Plans Drive
For Welfare Fund

Chicago (LPA) = Delegates at
the 18th general convention of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Workmen-AFL here last week vot-
ed to drive for a welfare fund, paid
for by the employers, along the
lines of the United Mine Workers
program.
The 800 delegates, acting for
100000 Amalgamated members,
voted to charge the unions
constitution was changed to pro-
vide for an additional vice
president, and the number of
executive board members. was in
creased to IL. President Earl jim
erson and Secretary-treasurer Pat
rick German were reelected. One
of the new executive board men,
bers is Holford Harris of Chicago,
the first Negro to hold office of
the AFL unions top governing
body.
Delegates adopted a resolution
urging establishment of the Jewish
state in Palestine, and heard adj
dresses by Cardinal Samuel Stritch,
EFL President William Green,
Vice president Matthew Woll, and
Secretary treasurer Victor Olander
of the Illinois Federation of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
q Delegates
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provements.
Now we wonder if they will be
acted upon or if they will be quiet
ly laid to rest in a nice sanitary
morgue. Our Senators say the next
move is up to our Coungressmen.
Our distinguished representative in
Congress says he will give our
views his sincere consideration -
How about yours?-Are you inter-
ested -?
We were glad to hear the good
news from Camden where they were
granted a raise. Ten-cent hourly
raise seems to be the best most in
dustries can gain in spite of the
fact that living costs have gone up
much more than that.
We are also glad to read in the
Herald where are brother sanitar-
ians of New Castle, Pa, were
chosen as one Of the competing
teams for high honors at ldora
Park on June II. Wen be roofing
for you boys Of 1870. c. 45.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Families Living
Doubled Up As
Rents Rise 4O%

Washington (LPA)-New facts
available for the first time now
show how terribly acute the hous-
ing shortage is becoming, AFL
Housing Committee Chairman Bor-
is Shishkin told members of the
House Banking & Currency Com
mittee last week. The AFL spokes-
man testified in favor of the Taft
Ellender- Wagner housing bill, now
the subject of hearings before the
overwhelmingly hostile committee.
Chairman Jesse Wolcott (R.,
Mich.) has scheduled hearings at
least thru the end Of May, and with
Congress planning to adjourn about
June 10 it will take a strong drive
by labor and veterans organiza-
tions to push the measure thru
the House. 1t has already been ap-
proved by the Senate.
Shishkin told the congressman
that April 1947 Census Bureau fig
ures show that 2,712,000 married
couples are living with other fam
ilies-an increase of 100000 in
the number living doubled up"
since the wars end in 1915.
Here is an emergency area"
Shishkin warned. at has to do with
millions of children who are to
come within the next two or three
years, and millions of lives whose
whole future is affected by the
kind of surroundings in which they
live"
Another urgent reason for pass
ing the TEW bill, Shishkin went on,
is the fact that the costs of homes
have scared with sales prices
averaging from $4,000 to $4,000
in most large cities. Most monthly
rents have increased 40 per cent
during the period from 1910 to
1947 in non-rural areas, according
to the Census Bureau figures,
Shishkin added.
He pointed to the unanimous ac-
tion of the Natl Conference on
Family Life, meeting here last
weekend, which urged passage of
the TEW bill as a start toward
solving one of the most urgent of
family problems-finding a decent
home at a reasonable cost, in which
to rear a family. The conference
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Bill Approving
JimcroW Schools
Licked In Senate

Washington (LPA)-A bill which
would have given Congress- appro-
val to southern regional univer-
sities-organized to get around a
Supreme Court ruling that states
must provide higher education fa-
cilities for Negro youths if they
provide them for white students
was rejected by Senate vote of
38 to 81 last week.
Senator Wayne Morse led a
fight to reject the bill, which he
insisted would give Congressional
approval to Jim-Crow education,
and would tend to make racial Sc
gregation a permanent part of the
southern social pattern.
If Congress was required to ap-
prove the compact of several south
ern states to set up regional uni
versities, Morse insisted, then Con-
gress had the right to impose con-
ditions under which the universities
operated. Therefore, he had served
notice early in the debate that if
the bill was not tabled, he would
enter an amendment forbidding
segregation in such regional uni
versities.
The combined votes of the south
erners who feared Morse's amend
ment, plus those who viewed it as
an issue of sanctioning segregation,
were enough to lick the measure
by the one-vote margin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
10000 Poffers
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the children. This action occasion
ed so much favorable comment that
this year the committee has decid-
ed to increase the number to 100
pairs. "When they see them they'll
go wild over them, if we're not
badly mistaken" the committee
men commented.
A ticket permitting each young
ster to share in the drawing will
be handed out at the gates. The
tickets will be different in color
to those used for the dinner set
drawings.
Another feature for the kiddies
on picnic day will be the penny
scramble which has always gone
over in a big way. This event will
take place Immediately following
the baby show and will be held in
the dance pavilion.
Free coffee and cream will again
be available for all those who are
planning a basket picnic lunch. The
committee wishes it understood
that you must furnish your own
container.
The big Buick Special 4-door Sc
dan on display in the Diamond is
winning new friends daily with its
sleek good looks and acknowledged
quality. 1t is a ten-to-one shot you
will not have another opportunity
this year to take home so much
prize for one thin dime.
Unless you have a good look at
this super automobile, you have
missed many tricks in the 1913
styling of luxury transportation.
Don't get your dates mixed and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Union Man Wants
Ed K $500 Bill

Washington (LPA)-Last week
Rep. Arthur Klein 3D., N. W in
troduced a motion into the House
calling for the printing of three
dollar bill, to bear the picture of
Franklin d. Roosevelt on one side,
and a cut of Hyde Park on the
other. The man behind the sugges-
ton is Abe Saunders, longtime
member of the Bookbinders Union
AFL.
Saunders works in the Bureau
of Engraving & Printing, so nat
urally he's interested in the cur
rency problem. For years he fol-
lowed the leadership of FDR, and
when the New Deal died Saunders
got the idea that a new unit of
money should be engraved in his
honor.
But the idea of three dollar
bill didn't catch on with too many
people, at first. Then came the end
of OPA and the upward zoom of
the inflationary spiral. "a dollar
bill doesn't buy anything these
days." Saunders told his friends.
"What we need is three dollar
bill. 1t will buy about what one
dollar did before the war"
Soon Saunders local union en-
dorsed the idea, and then the in
ternational convention of the
Bookbinders union approved it. The
Secretary of the Treasury said the
Dept was willing if there is suf-
ficient public demand for a three
dollar bill.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20

enterprise should step in and meet
the needs"
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., speak
ing for American Veterans Commit
tee, reminded the committee mem
bers that the veterans housing con-
ference which met in Washington
last fall had demonstrated that
veterans have finally united in
support" of the TEW bill which
promises an overall solution to the
housing problems"
Even the good record of the
building industry last year, when
about $4,000 new homes were
erected, was "more than so per
cent short of our minimum needs" F"
FDR Jr. reminded the Congress
men. And, he added, without gov
ernment help the building indus
try cannot afford to build a house
selling for much less than $4,000,
nor a four and-a-half room apart
ment renting for less than $50 a
month"
Omar Ketchum, speaking for
Veterans of Foreign Wars, urged
passage of the TEW bill, with a
reduction in the interest rate al
lowed for government insured
mortgages from 5 per cent to 2h
per cent. This change i'm the SEN
ate-approved bill would bring many
more privately-built homes within
reach of the average excl, Ket-
chum asserted.
The American Legion, which only
two weeks previously had approv-
ed the TEW bill, did not present a
direct endorsement of the measure
in testimony presented by legisla-
tive director John T. Taylor and
housing committee chairman AL
lesandroni. The Legion asked for
passage of the TEW bill plus the
veterans homestead act provisions
which the Legion has previously
backed. Even this proposal anger
ed Wolcott, who challenged the
right Of the Legion to speak for
its members on this question. AL
lesandroni replied that the vote to
endorse his stand was unanimous,
with every state department of
the Legion represented.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
De Mile DumnS
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who has job and any worker who
sees a chance to get job" De-
Mile denied that the intent Of his
proposal was to legalize profession
al strike breaking by thugs but
says: "Just because one group of
workers has the right to strike
that doesn't mean that they can
deny to another group of workers
the right to accept jobs offered to
them"
DeMille SHE'D away from all
questions as to how his proposals
could be written into law. "Mr.
Donald Richberg has offered to dis
cuss this with you later in the
week." he said. Several Congress-
men told him that the enforcement
of existing statelaws would answer
any legitimate points that he has
raised.
The aging cowboys-and
expert said that he is himself a
union man, a committeeman of the
Motion Picture Directors Guild
AFL, which is now endeavoring to
get a $500 a week minimum wage
for its members. But when Rep.
Ray Madden asked him about his
position on the bill to raise the gen
eral minimum wage to 75c an hour,
DeMille had no comment.
"That has nothing to do with
the right to work." he replied,
Nothing that Madden said about
low wages leading to strikes in
which, according to DeMille, the
right to work is denied, could in
terest the director in the theory
that economic conditions, not legal
isms, are the core of labor-manage-
ment relations.
Sen. w. Lee (Pappy) ODaniels
3D., Tex also appeared to "com-
mend Mr.. DeMille in his crusade" "
In a brief statement calling atten-
tion to the fright to work" amend
ment to the Constitution which he
has introduced, O'Daniel claimed
credit for the Taft Hartley law.
The Texas Senator bemoaned the
failure of his Democratic Party
to take his proposals seriously
when he arrived in the Senate, and
said; "Then the Republicans came
in and tied seven or eight of my
bills together and called it the Taft
Hartley Act"
The much heralded newsreel show
of the strike violence which climax
ed the first. production of the De-
Mile Hartley team turned out to
be some old shots of the Holly
wood jurisdictional dispute, plus
last years General Motors strike
and several other disputes in which
there was no violence.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Labor To Have
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ing wrong steps in the field of
labor which might alienate Euro
pean workers pressed by anti-ERP
forces" Morse said. He said fur
ther that such cooperation will
create a healthy atmosphere within
which adequate attention can be
given to all issues which may af-
feet the interests of labor, such
as stabilization of wages and
prices, distribution of food and
clothing, housing, freedom of as
sociation, and participation of la
Dor and management in all pha~es
of the recovery program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20

miss the boat. The picnic is set for
June II at Idora Park and you will
regret it all your life if you are
not there.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
WoIcoff Stalls

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Union Head
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"But contracts or no contracts, we
shall continue to bargain until our
convention the week of June 6 in
Spokane" Then, he added, the 217,-
0G0 workers covered by CWA con-
cracts will, thru their delegates, de-
eide what action to take.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20
Delegates To
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Ohio-James Bennett, John Gill
more, Alice Sewers.
Local Union 141-Oddmen and
Laborers, East Liverpool, O.-John
Miller.
Local Union 166-Refractories,
Sebring, O.-Venon Brunt.
Local Union 178-Artware, Sc
bring, o. Leslie Hawk, George
Court, John Williams, Robert Webb.
Local Union 184 = Chinaware,
Trenton, N. Arthur Devlin.
Local Union 1872 Warehouse
men, Packers and Decorating Kiln
men, Sebring, Ohio-Earl Hardy,
James Conny, Hugh Daley.
Local 201-Chinaware, Hunting
ton Park, Calif.-Joshus Llewllyn,
o. l. Sullivan, Felix Zuvarich.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20

Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-20

brought together more than 100
national civic, social welfare, la
Dor and veterans organizations to
discuss strengthening family life.