The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-12-30

painters who spent union money Il
,denounce Taft and his friends.
! AUGUST-One Of the first bi,
boners Of COP nominee Dewey
oh so smooth campaign was hi
denunciation Of "the teachers
lobby" Most people began to won
der why Dewey resented teacher
who want better pay and bettel
schools more than he did the gang.
that licked health and housing leg
islation. Congress adjourned
again having done exactly nothing
about the Presidents program
Union spokesmen DENOUNCED Re
publican acquiescence N south
ern filibuster against an anti-pol
tax bill which took up most Of the
session. Textile Workers Un-
ion-C1O won i5c to 18c pay boosts
for its members in cotton and ray
on industries, bringing total post
VI Day gains to 40c in this once
worst-paid industry. Altho the
board Of the Metropolitan Opera
Assn was ready to give up, the
American Federation Of Musicians
AFL managed to keep one of Am
erica's greatest cultural institu-
tions in business for another sea
son. All labor mourned the
death Of Frank Fenton, AFL lead
er. =. In NY the ITU- -AFL scored
a 50 week pay boost, and "max-
imum union security under the
Taft-Hartley law. Former
Mass. Governor Maurice Tobin was
appointed Labor Secretary, sue
ceeding the late Lewis Schwellen-
bach. :. F.. Labor Dept said that g.
100000 workers are covered by
union health and pension contracts.
'Left-wing" locals Of Retail,
Wholesale & Dept Store Union
CIO, in NY, seeded from the CIO,
when the international unions
leaders insisted that they comply
with the TIL affdavits require
ment to protect bargaining status.
/. Despite an NLRB ruling
against the hiring hall, AFL and
CIO seamen's unions won $3.50
monthly pay increases and hiring
halls pending final court decision.
A court, sticking closely to
TIL denied bargaining rights pro-
lection to the Foremen's Assn of
America. On the anniversary
of the effective date" of the Taft
Hartley law, ailing Robert Den
ham, NLRB general counsel, visit
ed his office to congratulate him
self and his staff on their vigorous
enforcement of the anti-union bill.
. That same week government
agencies noted that profits for the
first half of '48 were double those
for the same period of record AT.
Prices were 80 points above OPA
ceilings, and rs over pre-war. . i
Organized labor was shocked by
the news that the fascist dictator
ship in Spain had burned in oil %
miners who had been trying to
keep some sort of trade union |
structure functioning. An NAM
boast that it has the inside track
in managing Americas defense
program picked up labor's ears
too. CIO came out for Presi-
dent Truman's reelection and PAC |
everywhere mobilized
in support of him and of liberal
congressional candi d a tes. The
AFL's LLPE kept hands-off the
presidential race, but many AFL
leaders joined Railway Clerks
Assn chief George NJ. Harrison in
forming Labor's Committee for
Truman and Barley. New York's
Liberal party voted to support the
president too, as did ADA. JAW
President John Lewis sat out the
contest, but local min
ers unions, with Lewis blessing,
wholeheartedly with
AFL, CIO and other unaffliated
lnions in local electoral fights.
SEPTEMBER-CIO west coast
ongshoremen began 97-day /
strike when employers refused ,
hem a hiring hall contract. The ,
lnion finally won this demand as ,
veil as 15c wage increase, when ,
rational CIO stepped in. . In two
:ases the NLRB denied workers ,
for higher wages the $
light to vote in board elections, if !
hey've been replaced, while grant I
ng the vote to scabs. In a I
lighting Labor Day speech Presi- 5
ent Truman appeared as the guest '
f both AFL and CIO in Detroit. c
gnoring the "pollsters and the +
undits" Truman predicted his re- /
lection. George Harrison of the n
a bor Con1naittaa for T,,,r,ap o,,J