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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29
PAULSEN PLAT
Bv rHuRsA KIMBRoUGH

Jesse and Betty Lande Wis
tied relatives in Sunnyside one
day last week. @
Donald Wayne, S year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Y. G. Bruce, suf-
fered an unusual and painful ac-
cident last Tuesday. He swal-
lowed nickel, which lodged in
his throat just at the base Of his
neck. He was taken to Kadlec
hospital and given an anestetic
while the coin was forced down
nearer the stomach. He returned
home after a night in the hos
pital and at present writing is
doing very well. -.
Mrs. w, L. Stanley visited her
mother, Mrs. c. w. Powell, in
North Richland Wednesday.
An interesting coincidence oc-
Cured April 81. Harvey Paul
son became the new senior vice
commander of. Thomas Hembree
Post at the installation of v. F.
w. officers, and at the same time
his wife, Nudge" was installed as
vice president of the Auxiliary.
Congratulations to both of them!
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Elliott's
daughter, Ida, spent two days in
the Richland hospital because of
an Assessed throat gland.
Mrs. Ida Hunters little grand
son, Kenneth and Johnny, and
her sister, Mrs. Edna Hunter,
came from Tacoma Thursday for
a few days visit. The boys faith
er, G. w. Hunter, took them
home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Haugsness
have purchased place in the
Highlands, and are going to sell
their present home.
Tom Bergh of Hawn's Court is
doing some remodeling on his
property, the house that is &C.
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Bob
Boren and Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Kelison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Johnson of
Pasco and Mr.. and Mrs. A. A.
Edwards of Kennewick were
Sunday visitors at the Sherrys'.
Earl Hockersmith from Clark
ston, who came Sunday to stay
with his brother Delmar, has
gone to work in Pasco. q. d.
The Couture baby, who has
been very sick, is reported slight
ly improved. 49,. -
Have you heard of the proposed
Bi-County library? There is a
petition being circulated now Zone
is in Sherry's Grocery which Is
the first step in acquiring the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29
Poll Shows Siassen LEADING all COP
Conienders In Popularity With Voters

Political leaders here and in
most of the other states this week
are watching with interest the
rising support being received by
Harold e. Stassen, Minnesota's
former governor, in the race for
the Republican nomination for
president and wondering how far
it will 60 before convention time
in Philadelphia.
|. Upon the heels of Stassen's inn
pressive victories in the Wiscon-
sin and Nebraska primaries, in
which he outdistanced all his OPP
ponents, has come a report Of a
poll by DR.. George Gallup taken
from April 8 to II, which has set
all, political leaders and ordinary
citizens alike, specializing on the
changing trends in the preferences
of voters. The poll shows Stassen
has jumped into first place in the
Gallup poll and now for the first
time is leading all his rivals.
Standings of the various candidates
among voters who class them
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

library.
The petition must be signed by
10 per cent Of the registered vot-
ers of the unincorporated areas
of Benton and Franklin counties
before it can be presented to the
county commissioners. This pre-
sentation must be done by the
third week in July in order to get
the question on the ballot for the
fall elections.
You know, of course, that any
citizen 81 years of age, who has
been resident of the state 1 year,
the county months and the pre-
cinct 80 days is eligible to register.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

include others besides members
Of the church, tickets can be Sc
cured by calling Mrs. Eugene
Hawkins. Mrs. Niche or Mrs.
Reymore.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

A person 10 years OF age is ell
igible TO vote in the state Of Geor-
gia. In all other states the age
requirement is 81 years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

to LaGrande Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. Thomson
and daughter Linda 10 of Rich
land and Mr.. and Mrs. Cleve Coo
ley of Pasco visited in the Dan
Siemens Sr. home Sunday evening.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29

eral chairman of the affair and
arranged the program, while Mrs
John Smith and Mrs. Richard RE
gel comprised the menu commit
tee.
Since the event is planned 70
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1948-04-29


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Evening star., 1948-02-22

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RSKrisP supplies the regulating
minerals and vitamin b. of whole
grain rye Only % calories (per
double-square) =. yet each wafer.
thin slice is satisfying, delicious!
Get package at your grocers.
and start today -. "
Evening star., 1948-02-22

If"teo.fat" is your downfall -.
send for the Ry-Krisp Plan. Learn
the easy way for any overweight
in normal health to regain youth
full slenderness. No need to count
eaIories they're counted for you.
just eat sensibly by choosing deli
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exercise normally :. and enjoy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Green Urges Liberals TO Seize
Initiative In Fishfing Re q zion

Ienactments has already made deep
ana devastating inroads into the
rights of workers to self organiza-
tion and collective bargaining. In
ia few months, the S0th Congress
set the clock back by mere than
two generations, of progress won
through labor's struggle and sac
rifice.
Every single step contained in
the statute leads to only one effect:
Elimination or weakening of the
rights of labor established by the
Wagner Act, the Norris-LaGuardia
Act and other enactments.
every single step of the Taft
Hartley law was prompted by but
a single thought: How to make the
worker more subservient to the en-
lloyer and more dependent upon the
employers whim.
"What the Taft Hartley Act
does is to remove the bulwark of
trade union protection against des-
tructive wage cutting and reduced
standards, which will be pressed
upon workers when competition re-
sumes full sway. The Taft Hartley
law is a slave labor law, because
it throws wide open the gates to
economic oppression which only the
collective action of workers banded
in unions can overcome"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Govt Can't Do Anys
Job As Well As
Private Business

New York (LPA)-Presidential
aspirant Thomas E. Dewey last
week expressed outspoken views on
at least one of the major planks
in liberal and labor platforms.
He sharply attacked proposals
for government Intervention to in
sure medical care for all Ameri-
cans, charging that politicians"
are trying to regulate the husi-
ness of curing sick people to the
dead level of government medioc-
rity."
Apparently ignoring the work of
such agencies as the Natl Cancer
Institute Public Health Service, and
Army and Navy medical setups, he
stated that 81 am profoundly con-
vinced, after 18 years in govern
ment, that it can never do any job
as we'll as private enterprise. The
job of running voluntary hospitals
can best be done by free individuals
and not by those under the construc
tion Of the business of running a
government"
Occasion of the extemporaneous
Dewey remarks was a business
mems dinner run by the N. Y.
Heart Assn.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
RWDSU Signs
TIL Affiduvits

New York (LPA) = President
Samuel Wolchok of the Retail,
Wholesale & Dept Store Union
announced last week that he and
the two other international Off
GERS of the union have signed the
Taft-Hartley non-Communist affi-
davits and that the NLRB has GER
titled the union as being in COM
pliance with the law.
A special referendum of the
unions membership resulted in the
abolition of the jobs of eleven
union vice-presidents, two of whom
had indicated unwillingness to sign
the non-Communist statements. The
vote was $4,000 for abolishing their
posts, 1900 against.
The remaining officers, in addi-
tion to Wolchok, are Executive Sec
retary Martin Kyne and Secretary
Treasurer John V. Cooney.
RWDSU hopes shortly to be
recertified as bargaining agent for
800 employees at the Long Island
warehouse of r. HI. Macy & Co.,
worlds largest department store.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
STU Re eody For
tn Assault On
Unions Rights

New York (LPA)-Atlantic and
Gulf Coast port agents of the
Seafarers Intl Union-AFL conclud-
ed their spring meeting in New
York last week. The conference of
port agents is usually held in
March, but was moved up this year
to permit advance planning to meet
any attacks that shipowners may
be thinking up under the cover of
the Taft Hartley law.
Principal actions of the meeting
levied two $40 assessments on all
union members. The first assess
ment is to build a strike fund for
use if the union is forced into an
all-out fight by employer attempts
to use Taft Hartley to abrogate
the union hiring hall keystone of
union security for seamen.
The second levy will be used to
build union halls in those STU CEN
ters that do not now have union
buildings.
This week STU representatives
will resume collective bargaining
for an increase in seamen's wages.
Union officials say that they will
not settle for less than a full cost
of living increase.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04

Philadelphia-AFL President vii
liam Green declared the time ha.
come for progressive liberals tC
take the initiative in "our strug
gle against reaction"
In a ringing speech before the
convention of Americans for Demo
cratic Action, Mr.. Green denounc.
ed the record of the postwar Con
gress as zone Of failure" in labor
legislation, minimum wages, health
housing, social security, and all 9th
er fields in which labor and pro
gressive liberals have a vital in
| terest.
The AFL leader, who is national
chairman Of Labor's League for Po-
litical Education, welcomed the
ADA "to fight together against re
action, with confidence and with
out compromise"
Fir. Green repudiated the idea
!hat trade UNIONS should attempt y
dictate to their members how to
exercise their lianchise at the polls
Upholding the belief that work II
SHOULD exer:,.e his responsibility
as a citizen through political or
ganization OF his own free and in.
dependent CHOICE" he declared:
"Yet, it is my opinion that cam
paign Of political education and po-
litical appeal, calling upon workers
to support progressive ideas and
progressive candidates, and to lend
support to concerted drive for the
election Of a progressive Congress
and the enactment of progressive
policies, will meet with an over
whelming and enthusiastic response
from the ranks Of laboring men
and women of the nation.
"These are the principles on
which the American Federation Of
Labor unions have founded the La
Dor League for Political Educa-
ton"
Condemning the thirdparty
threat as an "ill-starred, one might
almost say red-starred, political
venture" Mr.. Green said it makes
the need of united action Of free
dom-loving, true progressives all
the more urgent in the battle
against reactionary forces He said:
"The future Of America has been
threatened and the democratic pro
cess has been challenged by the
predatory and vested interests stiff
ling the free dissemination of news
and ideas and gaining powerful con
troll over the 80th Congress. Adject
servility with which this Congress
responded to the pressure Of cor
porate combinations and special in
terest lobbies, by deliberately and
methodically rejecting every pro-
posal to improve human welfare,
every plan to serve the plain peo-
PIE, makes it imperative for all
progressives devoted to democracy
u join hands and work closely to-
gether.
"Reactionary forces in Congress
and in state legislatures have al
ready completed their first cam
paign against organized labor. The
Taft Hartley Act, backed by a for
array of state anti-labor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Teachers Strike
For Pay Increase

Minneapolis LPA)-Classes were
called off last week when more
than 100 public school teachers
members Of the American Fedora
tion of Teachers-AFL, struck for
pay increases.
The school board started the
whole thing when they voted to
shorten the school year by two
weeks in June and two in December
in order to save $1,000,000 on the
budget. The teachers voted a strike
protesting such plan, which would
cut their income and seriously
weaken the city's educational sys-
tenn. They voted at the same time
to ask for wage increases.
School Superintendent Willard
f.. Goslin offered a compromise
measure which would shelve the
plan to cut the current school year,
but offered no change in the pres
ent salary level. Both the mems
and the women's locals of the AFL
rejected the offer.
Pickets have been stationed in
front Of many of the city's "a ele-
mentary, junior high and high
schools which have total enroll
ment Of $4,000. No attempt is being
made to hold classes with the in
structors who are not union mem
bers.
A court order declaring the strike
unlawful has been asked by the
mother of a nine-year-old grade
school pupil. The complaint, direct
ed against the teachers locals and
the Minneapolis Central Labor
Union which is backing the strike,
alleges that the stoppage interferes
with governmental processes and
her right as a taxpayer to have her
child educated by the city.
The school board has turned
down an offer of city funds which
could end the dispute.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
CHESTER c. BRANT

Chester C. Brant, 1143 Ohio Ave
nue., was found dead Feb. 27 at
the plant of the Edwin Nj. Knowles
China Co. in Newell, where he was
employed as a nightwatchman,
Mr.. Brant was found by en-
ployees who noticed him missing
from his customary rounds. He was
discovered at the foot of flight
of steps. Death was attributed to
a heart attack apparently suffered
as he was descending the stairs.
Mr.. Brant was born at Port
Homer, a son of David b. and Lid
die Hunter Brant. He came to East
Liverpool from Wellsville about Al
wears ago. He was a conductor for
the Steubenville, East Liverpool &
Beaver Valley Traction Co. for
many years.
He was affiliated with Local
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
|SdYs Truman Should Quit
And Give PdrtY A Chance

| Washington LPA)- The "Old
Curmudgeon" who President Tru-
man invited to retire when he op-
posed the nomination of specula-
tor Edwin Pauley to the Secretary
of the Navy, told his ex-boss last
week that it was time that he, too,
moved over. Harold L. Ickes,
FDR's Interior Secretary, wrote in
his syndicated column that Harry
Truman can't be reelected, and if
the Democrats are to win they
must find another candidate.
Ickes pointed out that this old
enemy "Boss" Ed Flynn, Demo-
cratic leader in the Bronx, was
thoroughly trounced two weeks ago
by Henry Wallace's candidate, Leo
Isacson. Even the efforts of Mrs.
Franklin d. Roosevelt and New
York's Mayor William O'Dwyer
couldn't elect a candidate pledged
to President Truman's support, the
lex said.
"The real issue in this nominally
Democratic district was Truman"
Ickes wrote. From letters that
have come to me from all parts of
the country ] have been aware Of
the dissatisfaction due to the weak
and vacillating administration of
President Truman. He cannot help
it that he is an accidental Presi-
dent, but he could help making one
accidental decision after another"
at is difficult for the people to
understand" writes the man who
served Roosevelt as Secretary of
the Interior for four terms, "why
SO many high places in the govern
ment that were formerly occupied
by competent Roosevelt appointees
should be manned, almost over
night, with men from Wall Street
and the armed forces"
Harold Ickes concluded: "The re-
suit in this New York district
points a way to Mr.. Truman, and
it is towards the exit. He owes it
to his party, which has done so
much for him, to give it at least
chance next November"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Natl Health Assembly
Set For May / In DC.

Washington UPA)-A national
health assembly, called by Federal
Security Administrator Oscar r.
Ewing, has been scheduled 'for
Washington May l to a.
The assembly has been organiz-
ed in response to President Tru-
mans request that FSA draw up
set of goals for improving the
nations health over the next ten
years.
President William Green of the
AFL and President Philip Murray
of the CIO are on the 24-member
executive committee which will de-
termine the program of the con-
ference, but few other advocates of
far-reaching national health insur-
ance legislation are included in the
organizing body. The American
Medical Assn, which has bitterly
fought health insurance, has a rep
resentative on the 24-member COM
mittee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Pea Threatens To
Defeat Pro-Lahor
Ill. Congressman

Washington (LPA)-Progressive
Citizens of America, the organiza-
tion which nominated Henry Wal
lace for president, is threatening
to campaign against the reelec-
tion of Rep. Melvin Price 3D., Ill.,.
Price, who in 1916 had the support
of every segment of organized la
Dor in his district, is one of the
few members of the 80th Congress
with a consistently pro-labor vot-
ing record.
The 25th Illinois Congressional
District Pea last week charged
that mainly because Of pressure
from the Truman Administration,
and also possibly because he has
been spending too much time in
the hysterical-reactionary atmos-
phere Of Congressional committee
rooms" Price has been retreating
from the "New Deal policies Of
FDR."
No wrong vote" of Prices was
cited in the Pea statement. But
he was accused of "hysterical red
batting" and warned that he must
return to the policies of FDR if
he is not to be confronted with
third party candidate in Noyem-
bcr.
Asked about the Pea declara-
tion to an LPA reporter, Price said
he imagined Pea is upset because
he voted for the Greek Turkish aid
appropriation and because they sus-
pect he will support the Marshall
plan for European recovery. Price
confirmed this suspicion and noted
that in supporting the Marshall
plan he is in the company of lead
ers of all major trade union organ
izations.
Last month Price was principal
speaker at the meeting in Belle
vile, H., which organized the
AFL's LLPE in his district. He said
that he hopes to again have the
support of CIO-PAC in his district
Editorializing on the Pea state
ment, the liberal st. Louis Post
Dispatch said the Pea is follow
ing the "Bolshevik party line" and
links its attack upon Price with
Wallaceite threats from Chicago to
campaign against Maj. Paul Doug
las, outstanding liberal leader who
is running for Senate on the Demo-
cratic ticket against the Chicago
Tribune's favorite son, Republican
Sen. c. Wayland Brooks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
SECRET POLICE
70 QUIT SOON

Jackson, Miss. (LPA)-A three
man Gestapo set up to deal with
the bus strike here last November
is being disbanded by the Missis-
sippi Legislature.
The Mississippi Bureau of In
vestigation, which is the title of
the secret police force, has the pow
er in crimes Of violence to make
arrests without warrants and make
searches and seizures without war
rants.
A bill to repeal the MBI Act is
now making headway in the legis-
lature. Gov. Fielding l.. Wright
said he plans to disband the secret
police, regardless of what action
the legislature takes, and replace
it with a non-secret bureau.
al didn't ask for such a force in
the first place." he declared, "and
/ don't want one now"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
ISAACSON'S SECRETARY
is JOHN McMANUS

New York (LPA)-John T. Nc
Manus, only member of the execu-
tive board of the American News
paper Guild to oppose the recent
board resolution endorsing CIO pol
icy favoring the Marshall plan and
disavowing Henry Wallace's third
party has taken leave of absence
from his job as radio editor of the
New York daily PM. He has been
named secretary to Rep. Leo Isaac
son, Wallaceite victor in the Bronx
special election on the American
Labor ticket.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
oft-Denhdm Dis dgre e
O. Interpretation Of
That Tdft-H drtleY Law

Washington (LPA)-The proud
father of the Taft Hartley law
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio) has
broken into print again in defense
of his child.
In last weeks issue of Golfers
magazine the Republican presiden-
tial candidate patted himself and
his fellow labor-baiters on the back
at some length. And as the report
ers who cover his speeches have
come to expect, he pulled a couple
Of prize boners.
He quoted a few names which he
says the AFL and CIO have called
his child and then wrote: "Of
course they do not specify the par
ticular matters to which they OBJ
ject because if they did their ar
guments could be easily answered
and the union members themselves
would be even more in favor of
the specific provisions Of the act"
The Senator ignored the scores
of cases in court right now, and a
lot more before the NLRB, in which
the unions get very specific about
their objections to his law. Virtual
ly every union paper in this coun-
try has carried a series of articles
in which competent lawyers and
economists have explained exactly
what's wrong with the Taft-Hart-
ley law. Over and above that, many
unions have circulated pamphlets
which almost seem to indicate that
they understand the law far bet
ter than the solons who drafted it.
That the law isn't quite as clear
as its sponsors like to think is re-
vealed by Taft himself in the Col
liers article.
He says: 81 don't think Congress
intended that this provision (the
ban on the closed shop extend to
local building trades unions whose
work is in fact intra-state in char
acter. The status of such unions
ought to be left to the state law"
Here the Ohioan is in direct con-
flict with NLRB General Counsel
Robert Denham, the chief guardian
Of the Taft-Hartley Act, who has
cooked up a scheme for conducting
union security elections among con
struction workers. 1t may be that
the cost of Denham's scheme both
ers the economy-minded Senator as
much as it bothers public-spirited
citizens who don't like the public
funds to be wasted on anti-labor
nonsense.
The interesting question now is
whether or not Golfers will open
its pages for the unions answer
to Taft. Last year when Saturday
Evening Post ran a similar article
by the Senator's law partner it re-
fused to carry labor's answer when
both AFL and CIO spokesmen sent
in manuscripts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Oil Board Proposed

Washington (LPA)-A National
Petroleum Commission with power
to control the industry from oil
well to filling station has been put
in the House hopper by Rep. John
w. Heselton (R., Mass) The bill
would establish an ll-man NPC
similar to the Interstate Commerce
Commission. The commission would
have broad power over the produc-
tion and sale of both oil and natur-
al gas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
FREDERICK WEBB

Frederick Webb 639 st. Clair
Ave-, believed to have been one
of East LiverpooPs oldest work
ing potters, died Feb. "a in City
Hospital, following To-day illness.
His age was not given.
Mr.. Webb, who worked until a
few months ago, learned his trade
in Burslem, Staffordshire, England,
and followed it after he came to
the United States 68 years ago. A
kilnman, he last was employed by
the Hall China Co. He was a
member of Local Union 8, National
brotherhood of Operative Potters,
and of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Later-Day Saints.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Edith
Rohrbaugh Webb; "A daughter, Miss
Minnie Hays of East Liverpool; a
brother, Harry Webb of East Liv-
erpool; two step-daughters, Mrs.
Marie Hazlett of Salineville, and
Mrs. Irene .Cehrs Of East Liver
pool, and four grandchildren.