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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Oil Workers Vote
W age Demand In
Line With Pattern

Fort Worth (LPA) = The Oil
Workers Union followed what has
come to be the third-round wage
pattern last week when its policy
committee voted to demand a 30c-
an-hour increase in coming nego-
tiations with the petroleum pro-
ducers.
The union based the 30c figure
on the needs of its members in
the present initiation and the abili-
ty of the oil industry to grant such
a raise.
Failure of Congress to enact
price control" the committee stat
ed, "leayes us no other recourse
Our members would have much pre-
ferred to cooperate with Washing
ton in an effort to stabilize oui
economy. But there is not the
slightest indication that Congress
will do anything to help the peo-
pie of this country. Therefore we
must help ourselves.
%. The increase we ask can
easily be granted by the oil indus
try from a thin slice of their pro-
fits, without the slightest increase
in the price of gasoline or fuel oil.
No responsible source within the
industry denies this assertion"
The committee cited profits for
the first nine months of 1947 Of
SO per cent about the same period
for 1916. "The final quarter of
1947," they said, "may be the most
profitable in oil history"
Increased labor productivity,
combined with 100 per cent rise
in the price of crude oil since the
death Of OPA, has brought about a
% per cent drop in labor costs in
relation to the value of the pro-
duets refined.
Two oil companies, Texas and
Shell, have made counter-offers Of
eight cents declaring that a 30
cent increace is out of the question
at this time. Spokesmen for both
companies conceded that "the oil
companies have had extremely
profitable operations in the last
year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
LocoI Union 722

Continued From Pare Onc)
follows: Frank Campbell, Henry
Griffith and Harry Trischer in
Dept. A; John Ellis, Lloyd Laugh
lin and Art Medley in Dept. b;
Marie Adams, Harry Hunt, Joe
Jones, Frank McCulley, George
Aleshier and Clarence Howell in
Dept. C; Health Committee, For
est Wagstaff; Albert Campbell,
Luther Patterson, Lee Woodward
and George Savage; Legislative
Committee, Dales Allison, Frank
Campbell and Dan killinger; So
cial Security Committee, Albert
Van Camp, Dan Killinger and Har-
ny Malpass; Delegates to Central
Labor Union, Frank Campbell,
Dales Allison and Dan Killinger.
President Coffee strongly advis-
ed all present to read our agree
ment thoroughly and become ac-
quainted with every phase of it.
BY doing so, he stated, friction and
can be kept at a mini
mum and the work Of officials and
committees made easier when any
questions arise.-O. c. 122.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Brown Says Lobor
Leeds Fight For
Reel Democracy

Chicago (LPA) = Harvey W.
Brown, president of the Int'l Asso-
citation of Machinists-unaffiliated,
told the American Management
Assn last week that employers who
support the Taft-Hartrley Act are
betraying the cause of democracy
as clearly as did Benedict Arnold
and John Wilkes Booth.
The Machinists' leader startled
representatives of management
who had been lulled by previous
speakers, including NLRB Coun-
sci Robert Denham, with kind
words for the Taft-Hartley law
and its new era of industrial peace.
Brown explained that in the ear
ly days of our country the great
struggle was for political democ-
racy. Today it is for industrial de-
mocracy. He cautioned his listeners
that the cause of industrial democ-
racy itself is not discredited by
the attempt of the Communists to
identify it with the sham democ-
racy of Soviet Russia.
Labor has learned, Brown said,
that industrial peace and prosper
ity is best achieved through free
collective bargaining. Management
spokesman who ignore this lesson
are "the greatest allies of the Com
munist labor-front in America" he
charged.
Brown compared the current sup
port by corporation heads of the
Taft Hartley law with the so-called
American plan" Of post-World
War | years-the attempt to re-
place genuine labor unions with
company unions. The result of this
business drive against labor, he
pointed out, was the destruction of
the workers bargaining power, and
then their purchasing power which
lead to the great crash in 1929.
But this time it won't work,
Brown said. Labor will not again
be pushed down into the valley of
want and darkness. We are too
strong. We are too powerful. We
have learned from history. We are
the forces of the new and real AM
erican plan-industrial democracy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Trumon's Anfi-InfIation Program
Held Needed Despite Price Drops

Washington, ID. c. 0LNS) -
President Truman's 10-point anti
initiation program "is aimed to pre-
vent hard times either by initiation
or deflation," and should be enact
ed regardless of the current price
movements, Secretary of Labor L.
b. Schwellenbach said in a NBC
television interview by Richard
Harkness.
"The program was developed be-
cause we feared the consequence on
people of high-prices-high prices
which would prevent people from
buying products of our farms and
mills" the Secretary said.
Schwellenbach emphasized that
in the grain price drops of 1920
and 1887, retail prices did not fall
generally until 5 or months later.
He also pointed out that while food
makes up almost half of the So
called cost-of living items, rent,
clothing, fuel, furniture, and many
other goods and services are neces-
sites.
He emphasized that there has
been no change in the underlying
demand for steel, coal, oil, autos
and railroad and farm equipment.
Initiation Danger Not Gone
"Unless fear results in wide can
collation. of orders, production can
be maintained at top levels and
mass purchasing power sustained" "
the Secretary remarked. Elements
of initiation still exist in our eco
nomy. We must bring these infla-
tionary factors under control so
that prices will not go into an un-
controlled slump and result in pro-
duction cutbacks and unemploy-
ment."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Red Score Won't
Stop Form Labor
Organizing Drive

Bakersfield (LPA)-An attempt
to use the "red scare" to break the
strike of 100 Natl Farm Labor
Union-AFL members at the Di
Giorgio ranch near here will back
fire, union officials predicted last
week.
Kern County union officials, in
Guiding Secretary Harold Hodson
of the local AFL council, Presi-
dent Ray Conley of the building
trades council, Secretary-treasurer
Robert Pentzer of the Teamsters
Local 81, and Di Giorgio Strike
Committee Chairman James Price,
each wired State Senate Jack B.
Tenney requesting to be subpoe-
naed. "If this is to be a fair and
impartial investigation of the Di
Giorgio situation" Hodson wired
Tenney, "why are the representa-
tives Of the Kern County labor
movement being denied their con-
stitutional rights of representa-
tion?"
Meanwhile, the Tenney commit
tee has heard NFLU President H.
L. Mitchell of Memphis, and west
ern representative Hank Hasiwar
testify. Both are well-known in the
labor movement as opponents of
the Communists. Said Mitchell:
"This red scare on the part Of the
Associated Farmers of California
will backfire. The Associated Far
mers are responsible for the plight
of the agricultural workers in the
central valley and they are using
every means to keep the AFL from
Agricultural organiza-
tion is long overdue. The AFL has
chartered the Natl Farm Labor
Union to do the job. Our people
will not be scared off by trumped-
up charges of Communism"
Picket lines were enlarged last
week after an attack by a mob of
40odd men on five strikers, and
other union members were busy
distribution of more than
100 tons of food and clothes
brought by a AFL auto caravan
earlier this month. Organizing ac-
tivities are spreading out to include
potato-growing center of
Kern County, where NFLU was
signing up members last week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Connecticut Raises Pay

Hartford, Connu. (ILNS)-A 10
per cent cost-of- living increase for
many state employees has been an
nounced by Gov. James l.. McCon-
aughy, who said that the increase
was to be applied to "basic salary"
scales only and did not include pre-
vious temporary compensation ad-
iustments. Nearly all the state l5,-
.00O employees will benefit, except
elected officers whose pay is fixed
by statute and those who receive
more than $7,CC0 year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26

Steam used in modern steam
turbines sometimes travels at 1920
miles an hour.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Building Trades Show
Apprenticeship Gain

Washington, D. C.-The number
of apprentices in the construction
industry at the beginning of the
year increased to 114,3S3, a new
record, the Apprentice Training
Service reported.
This total, which reflects a gain
of 2,151 over December does not,
include complete coverage, the ATS
said.
The electrical trades, which
showed a slight decline on Decem-
ber l from November 1 total, more
than made up for that loss to set
a new mark of 1865 on January
/. A breakdown of the number of
apprentices employed in the other
construction crafts on January 1
follows: Woodworking trades, A.
1916; pipe trades, 1927; trowel
trades, 1876; painting trades,
9.105; sheet metal trades, S,254;
other building trades, 1853.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
sdoru Park

the youngsters as well as the
grownupS.
Aside from the great variety of
amusement features at the park,
fine swimming in one of the finest
swimming pools in the United
States, the committee expects to
put on a great baby show, pen
ny scramble for the kiddies, and
a super athletic program, culmin-
ating with a baseball game be-
tween two Of the best teams in the
pottery industry. There will also
be the usual free dancing with high
grade orchestra music from 2 to a
p. M, and the usual long list of
attractive price for free distribu-
tion among those who hold the
lucky numbers given away at the
gate.
The committee hes scheduled
their next meeting for Saturday
evening, March 6.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Hollywood Dispute
On Jurisdiction
Eyed By Congress

Washington (LPA) - The jum-
bled jurisdictional claims of COM
peting AFL and unaffiliated unions
in the Hollywood motion picture
studies came back into the news
last week when Rep. Carroll Kearns
(R., Pa) chairman of a House La
Dor Subcommittee began a new
investigation into the motion pic
ture industry's settlement with the
|Intl Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employes-AFL.
Kearns said that the industry
IATSE negotiations amounted to a
lockout of members of other unions
including the AFL painters and
carpenters and Intl Association of
Machinists.
Eric Johnston, above-it-all front
man for the movie industry, denied
that management politicing had
anything to do with the snarl It's
all battle for power by union
bosses" he SAID.
IATSE wasn't heard last week,
nor were any Of the AFL leaders
who in 1916 tried to get the Holly
wood situation into some sort of
reasonable trade-union shape. But
the committees counsel read into
the record some of their reports
which indicate what their position
will be.
They will maintain that IATSE
was the ravaged party, not the
raider, and that politically mott
vated-legislators are seeking to un-
do the Federation's attempt to solve
the jurisdictional problem.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26

largest number-18 per cent of the
violating establishments and 26 per
cent of the minors in violation
were in the food and kindred in
dustries, including establishments
canning and packing fresh fruits,
vegetables, and seafood. In this
group were ATT violating establish
ments with 2,499 minors under Is
illegally employed.
Next in order Of number of es-
Establishments violating were the
lumber and basic timber products
industries, printing and publishing
establishments, apparel and other
finished fabric products, and furni-
ture and other finished lumber pro-
ducts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Rent Control
Continued From Page ORe)

troll areas, where the housing short
age is still acute"
In fact, Wagner added, the only
frank thing the subcommittee die
was to remove from the bill's de-
claration of policy the statement
that rent control was intended tc
curb initiation. The bill as drafted
the Senator charged, twill only fur
ther stimulate and accelerate the
inflationary spiral.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Rent Control
Depends On
Sendte Now

! Washington (LPA) - With at
least 30-day extension of the
present rent control law virtually
certain, attention this week centers
on the kind of rent control law fin
ally passed by the Senate. Ten
ants hopes are pinned on a strong
Senate version, since the House is
expected to lean over backwards to
favor landlords.
Sen. Harry Cain Or, ,Wash.) had
his ears pinned back when Repub-
lican Senators Tobey On. H.) and
Flanders (Vt.) joined the solid
Democrat bloc in the Senate Bank
ing Committee to report out a
more workable and somewhat
strengthened rent control bill.
Labor spokesmen are fighting
along with the liberal Republicans
and Democrats for enactment of a
stronger Senate version of the rent
control bill to seal some of the
loopholes remaining after two
lengthy sessions of the Banking
Committee. Gains version, which
would have been worse that no rent
control at all, was taken apart and
put together again, mainly at the
insistence of Sen. John Sparkman
d., Ala.)
AS it stands now, the Senate bill
would:
1-Extend rent control until May
1, 1949.
2-Extend the permission to
landlords and tenants to allow "vol-
untary" increases of Is per cent
thru Dec. 81, 1949, but prevents
any further increases on top of the
Is per cent.
3-Decontrols rented rooms in
private homes but not rooming
houses.
4-Decontrols all dwelling units
renting for $225 or more a month.
5-Allows landlords to evict ten
ants in cases where the property is
no longer to be used for occupancy
where it would be boarded up, or
the dwelling torn down, for in
stance.
6-When a landlord can prove to
the satisfaction of the rent control
administrator he is operating at a
loss, the administrator would be re-
quired to allow rent increase.
Provide punishment up to one
year in Jail and a $1,000 fine on
any wilful violator of the law.
8-Require landlords to give 60
day eviction notice on fairgrounds
except non-payment of rent or
where the tenant is a nuisance" "
Up until the Monday session of
the Banking Committee, Cain had
been confident that this version of
rent control would go thru. Typical
of the Cain version was the fact
that all reference to curbing infla-
tion had been removed from the
laws preamble, and penalties
against both landlord and tenant
violators of the laws terms were
written in. In addition, the bill
would have removed all controls
in areas where / per cent or more
of the dwellings for sale or rent
were vacant (no matter at what
price they were held for sale, or
how fantastic the rents.) Blanket
area Is per cent rent increases
would have have been allowed
where landlord and tenant agreed
to a lease thru 1949.
The House Banking Committee,
also on Monday, voted for a one
month extension of the present law.
Chairman Jesse Wolcott (R., Mich.)
when he was told Of the
Senate Committee action, that his
would be willing to con-
slider the Senate version if it |
reaches the House in time for ac-
ton before the Feb. 20 deadline.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Where would you look
for a lonely farm?

NITY folks used to think farm life was lonely
~ life.
Today, automobiles, telephones, and-above sdl-
electricity, hSve nearly ended loneliness the farm
Electricity usns dark into day, pumps water, milks
cows, grinds feed-does dozens of other chores
brings entertainment and market reports.
Who brought electricity to farms?
The business managed, self-supporting electric
companies began the job 60 years ago. They
did the pioneering :. developed new methods and
equipment learned to meet the problems of
weather and distance and continued TO bring bet
ter and cheaper electric service to more and more
farms.
Today better than nine out of every ten farms in
the territory serve are connected to our electric
lines practically every farmer in the who wants
low cost service now has it,
Farmers our lines make greater use of cleo
trcity than do city people for electricity not only
does many of the womanfoks chores better and
cheaper-it also frees farm manpower for more i'm
portant work and increases farm profits
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-26
Chief OF Savings
Bond For | Labor
Section RetiFes

Washington, D. c. QLNS)-Re.
tirement of Gilbert E. Hyatt, Sr.
of Washington, D. c., as director OF
the Labor Section, U. S. Savings
Bonds Division, is announced by
the Treasury Department. A past
president and former Legislative
representative of the National Fed
Grafton of Post Office Clerks, Hy-
att has been in charge of the Labor
Section since the Savings Bono
promotion staff was organized in
1941. He was 70 last Aug. 81.
Hyatt is nationally known as a
labor writer and editor and spokes-
man of the labor movement. A ma
tive of Minneapolis, he gained his
first labor experience with the Bro
therhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen in the 1905. He
was a founder and the first presi-
dent Of the first Minneapolis local
of the Federation of Post Office
Clerks. During World War |, he
was an arbitrator with the U. S.
Department of Labor. His govern
ment service also includes IL years
with the Post Office and 6 years
with the Treasury Department.
Vernon l.. Clark, natioal director
of the u. S. Savings Bonds DiVi-
sion, also announced the appoint
ment of A. J. (Joe) Dunn of Fair
fax County, Va, to the post of gen
eral information and editorial spec
ialist, assigned to the Labor Sec
ton.
Served In Germany
Dunn recently returned from Ger
many after 2 years with the u. s..
military government there as la
Dor relations consultant in the man
power division. After many years as
international vice-president of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, AFL, Dunn went into
government service in 1886 and be-
came chief of the Field Division of
the Railroad Retirement Board in
Washington. When the Defense
Savings Staff of the Treasury De-
partment was organized in 1941, he
Joined it as head of the railroad
payroll savings section. In his new
post he will work mainly with AFL
unions.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
NEW TUCSON ARTIST
GETS AWARD

Dorothy Abowitz, 3443 E. Cody,
was the artists choice for her pic
ture '"The Wailing Wall'' at the
recent Independent Artists Group
Exhibition, winning first prize.
Mrs. Abowitz was subsequently
interviewed over the radio thru
a script written by Madeline
Schutzbank, another exhibitor.
Il paint so many different
things in different ways. There is
no stamp to my paintings. How
ever, l am mainly portrait
painter" says Mrs. Abowitz, who
speaks casually and simply about
her work.
Attracted by the charm and set
ting of Tucson Mrs. Abowitz came
last November to make her home
here and expects to do a lot of
oils. She will hold Open House
and exhibit about SO of her works
at her home on Saturday and
Sunday, March 6 and z, from 2
to 9 pm. All Tucsonians are in
vited to meet her and to see the
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
McWILLIAMS URGES ACTION
By Josephine ZemSky

''The barometer for judging the
health of community is the ex-
tent to which anti Semitism
thrives in that community" said
Carey McWilliams, whom DR.. Ed
ward Spicer, professor OF anthro-
pology at the University of Ari-
zona, introduced to a representa-
tive audience at the Tucson High
school on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Mr..
McWilliams spoke on "Commun-
ity Action in Race Relations" un-
der the auspices of the Tucson
Inter-Racial Committee.
Commenting on a Roper polre-
ported in Fortune, October 1947
which revealed that 36 per cent of
those polled believed the Jews
controlled the wealth of the U. S.,
Mr.. McWilliams said, ''This is the
same lie Hitler used and he is
hardly dead when we find more
than one-third of our own people
believe it. If we should come into
an era of depression or unemploy-
ment, what use might a dema-
gogue make of this situation. In
1888, it is debatable whether any
greater percentage of the German
people believed this about the
Jews"
In discussing the health of our
own community of Tucson, Mr..
McWilliamS pointed to the dis
oiminatory practices of hotels,
ranches, business establishments
and newspaper advertising.
In answer to a question, Mr..
1cWilliamS urged political action
IN support of any candidate who
would pledge support Of non-dis-
examination. He indicated the
present policy of most legislators
to pay lip service to non-diS-
erimination at home and the Unit
ed Nations Partition Plan abroad
but sabotage such programs by
closing their eyes to segregation
here and imposing an arms en-
barge on the UN-sponsored Pales-
tinian government.
He said the objectives of the 700
inter-racial organizations and 800
Committees and Commissions are
IS years behind the times and
urged unity of action to eliminate
all legal sanction of discrimina-
ton.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
Campus
cDnfidgntiaIS
BY Shirley SaIant

Campus has indeed been in a
whirl. Hollywood has come to us
to film a saga of Tucson. Saw
Hank Beckson, Bobby Brooks,
Mickey Morris and Sunny Powell
among those working as extras
and getting PAID for it. Other
fortunate STARS were Nanny
Beckson, Teddy Fishman, Libby
HirSch and Paul Sully. The mi
grafton of flocks toward the grand
nest, the filming camera, was
even greater the next day. Tucked
away in the crowd of spectators
were Shelley Cherney, Sid Hand
Ter, Ezra Regan, Arnie Serbin,
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
SCHOOL BANS NOVELS
ATTACKING ANTI-SENIITTSM

NEW YORK (WNS)-Two best
sellers dealing with the problem
of anti-Semitism have been barred
from the library of De Witt Clin-
ton High School here.
The novels, Gentlemen's Agree
ment and Focus, which openly and
effectively attack the practice of
anti-Semitic discrimination, were
banned because of alleged i'm
moral passages and passages Of
fensive to the Roman Catholic
Church respectively.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
KILLING HOSTAGES LEGAL

Nurember, Germany (JPS)-A
U. S. military tribunal sentenced
eight former Nazi generals to jail
for war atrocities but ruled by
implication that the slaughter of
hostages and partisan fighters was
legal" because of the primitive"
character of present-day interna-
tional law.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05

FOUND: Two industrious guys
knocking hopefully at the door of
the University Appointment Of
flee. Seems that studies don't keep
Hal Malinsky and Zack Winograd
busy enough ).
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05

exhibit.
Mrs. AboWitz has done serious
painting for 20 years. She has
lived in New York, Woodstock
and Palm Springs.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05
March 5, 194s-THE ARIZONA POST

and jeanette Soloway. All, hope
full of being discovered.
The Arizona post., 1948-03-05

During these days of lively am
bition can be found Joan Litta-
vich, Debby and Mickey Polia-
koff, Anita Sadowsky and Babs
Szerlip, actively going all out for
membership in Pharateres, girls
campus organization that dotes on
social and athletic activities plus
campus and community services.