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The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
BISCUIT FIRING IS SET FOR THURSDAY

II there are any members Of the Alaska Potters Club who have
 pieces ready for firing they should contact Mrs. Henry Harmon. Red 472. There will be a biscuit firing before the Arts and Crafts Ex- hibit show on Saturday, and the club will open Thursday evening at o'clock for those desiring to finish any work.
 All members are requested to keep in mind the next business
 meeting to be held Monday, March 8.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
STAN MUSIAL.
 K H0LD0UT

NEW YORK. Marcn 3,-riR- While Stan Musial, slugging St. Louis Cardinal star continues to hold out four players are battling for his first hase job.
 Dick Sisler, who was groomed fol the first base job in l946 only to funk out in favor of Musial, is enc of the four striving for the position at the Cards St. Petersburg, Fla. camp
 The others are rockies Glen Nell son, Mike Natisin and Nippy Jones who finished the l947 season al second base for the Red Birds.
 Notes from the other camps
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
POLICE COURT NEWS

Edward Die, booked as drunk, was fined S20 and sentenced to serve two days in the City Jail today by City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
MOTION DENIED

A government motion to dismiss a suit by Triplette and Dalziel against the LISA. for work done on a Forest Service warehouse was denied by U. s. District Judge George w. Folta.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03

 a EfEAss1 1A F 9aaA
BOWLING

The Tuesday Night League roll ed them on the Elks Alleys last night and Fred Jennings team won the first half, and the teams are now on their way in the sec ond half to see who plays Hen nings for the grand prize.
 Scores made last night follow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
BASkEiBAL.ll.

Final scores of basketball games last night are as follows:
 Oregon 73; Washington State 54 Lewis & Clark 81; Willamette 66. Eastern Oregon 72; Linfield 66. Holy Cross 90; Brown 35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
sITKA VISITORS

Nellie Rowley, Mrs. George Bag ger, and Mrs. A. Thomsen, all of Sitka, are staying at the Gastin- eau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03
A N N o U N c IN G

Holly Hat Shop opens Thursday in new location, next to Sears. Bags and gloves. 826 It
The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-03-03

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, March B. R-Elmer Riddle, a castoff from the Cincinnati Reds, stole the pit ching show as the Pittsburgh Pirates went through their second training day. He impressed Manager Billy Meyer with the fastest ball seen in the Cub camp.
 SARASOTA, Fla, March 3.-R- The question of who will play third and short for Bostons Red Sox still is mystery. Manager Joe Mccarthy had Johnny Pesky and Vern Steph- ems working at short with Bill Hitch cock and Johnny Ostrowski at third yesterday
 BRANDENTON, Fla. March 3-4Rl Boston Brave pitcher Johnny Sain still is holdout at his Pine Bluff, Ark, home despite a reported $25,- eco offer. The rightnanded finger, a 20-game winner last year, is the only major holdout cn the club.
 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, March 3. -lP The New York Yankees may be without the services of right handler Bill Bevens for six weeks.
 Bevens injured his right leg offic- iating a basketball game three weeks ago and Dr. Sidney Gaynor, team physician, diagnosed the trouble as pulled muscle.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
NLRB Rules On
Company Union

Washington (LPA)-Significant
NLRB rulings were handed down
on the company-dominated union
issue for the first time since the
passage of the Taft Hartley Act
this week.
The United Steelworkers charg-
/ ing that the Employees Representa-
tion Committee at the Carpenter
Steel Co. plant in Reading, Pa, is
a company-dominated union, de-
manded that the corporation be
ordered to cease sponsoring it, and
attacking USA.
The board upheld the union con-
tention, but took advantage of the
case to cite the provision of Taft
Hartley which says that in all un-
fair labor practices cases the
board shall apply the same rules
irrespective of whether or not the
labor organization affected is af-
filiated with a labor organization
national in scope"
Under the Wagner Act, the
board pointed out, NLRB ordered
Independent company unions dis
established, but did not do so
when an employer dominated a
local of a national union. Hence
forth the board will.
"But," the decision went on,
when the board finds that an en-
ployer's unfair labor practices were
limited to interference and sup
port and never reached the point
of domination, we shall only order
that recognition be withheld until
certification (thru a board-conduct-
ed collective bargaining agent cleo
tom whether or not the organiza-
tion happens to be affiliated"
This latter doctrine the board
applied last week to the petition of
the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers
against the support of an indie
pendent union by the Hershey
Metal Products Co.
MMSW had charged that the
plants Employees Committee is
company union. The board admit
ed that the company had support
ed it, but found that the independ-
ent has disregarded certain COM
pany requests, and on one occasion
has threatened to strike.
Therefore, the board refused to
issue a disestablishment order, but
told the company it must cease dis
couraging membership in MMSW
and may not bargain with the Em-
ployes Committee until after a
board election.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
New Maven Council
Hits College For
Defense OF Quotas

New Haven OPA) = President
tCharles Seymour of Yale Univer-
sity was called to task last week
for his opposition to a proposed
state law making it illegal for col
leges to refuse admission to stu
dents because of applicants race
or religion.
Yale, like most of the "Ivy Lea
que" colleges, uses a thinly-veiled
quota system for admission of
Negro and Jewish students. Wrote
President Vincent ]. McGovem of
the New Haven Central Labor
Council to the Yale prexy: at is a
cardinal principle of our American
heritage that education is the high
road to democratic citizenship and
that every individual regardless of
race, religion or nationality has
right to equality of educational op-
portunity."
Speaking for the members of the
so AFL unions in this area, Nc
Govern reminded Seymour that
Yale, while it is privately endow-
| ed, receives important financial
aid from the public treasury.
Yale buildings and property
amounting to over 500, 100000 are
not subject to taxation, McGovern
pointed out. "The gifts it receives
from private donors are similarly
tax exempt, thus depriving the
government of large sums of
money which would otherwise
come to it in the form of either in
come or inheritance taxes"
"Yale and other institutions of
higher education" the AFL head
continued, "enjoy these privileges
as institutions devoted to the pub
lie service. 1t follows, therefore,
that a democratic state may pro-
perly inquire whether these insti-
tutions uphold the democratic prin
ciples of equal opportunity for all
citizens.
"It follows, too, that the state
may properly intervene and pro-
hibit practices that run counter to
this principle" McGovern express
ed regret that, in this spirit, the
Yale president did not take the
lead "in the campaign to eliminate
the undemocratic determinations
which bar the way to the realiza-
tion of that ideal in the realm of |
higher education"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01

Washington = AFL President
William Green wholeheartedly en-.
dorsed the forthcoming Security
Loan Drive" which will be launch
ed by the Treasury Department in
April to stimulate the sale of u
S. Savings Bonds.
Speaking at 3-day conference
called by Treasury officials to dis
cuss plans for the drive, Mr.. Green
termed the bonds "the safest in
vestment for any American, and
especially for American workers.
The new campaign to last from
April through June is intended to
supplement the regular savings
program under which workers may
buy U. S. Savings Bonds regularly
by means of payroll deductions.
By following a policy of regular
savings and by purchasing extra
bonds whenever possible, Mr.. Green
said workers can reduce market
pressure for scarce goods and can
contribute their part toward halt
ing initiation" He added:
at is now common knowledge
that the enemies of American de-
mocracy are confidently expecting
an economic collapse in this coun-
try and are counting upon it to
weaken and destroy Americas in
fluence as a force for the mainten-
ance Of peace and freedom in the
international field.
Therefore, it is incumbent upon
all of us to protect and strengthen
the home front in order that AM
erica can remain powerful enough
to halt the aggressive tide of Sow
let expansion and prevent another
war from engulfing our world.
"The records of the Treasury De-
partment show the vast extent of
labor's participation in the War
Bond drives and the huge amounts
which American workers made
available to the government
through the purchases of those
bonds.
l am calling upon the eight mil
lion members Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to show the world
that we can do it again, that we
can and will rally to the support of
our country and that we will back
up American foreign policy with
every dollar we can spare from our
home needs and obligations"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Cafeteria Strike
Ends Without Co.
Having Bargained

Washington (LPA) - The IL
week strike Of Cafeteria and Res
taurant Workers against Govern
ment Services Inc. ended last week
and skeleton crews began cleaning
and stocking the cafeterias which
had been closed during the strike.
Under the settlement, the strik-
ers will be returned 10 the cafetrias
which remained open as vacancies
occur among the requirements hired
by GSI when the strike started. All
those who return TO their jobs will
have full seniority. Federal Works
Administrator Philip B. Fleming
has appointed Division Counsel
Daniel l.. Boland to administer
terms Of the settlement between
GSI and the union. FWA General
Council Alan Johnstone will pass
finally on any appeals from Bo-
lands decisions.
GSI never negotiated with the
union directly and is not bound to
do so under the agreement. The
workers have received a 61hc-an-
hour raise, the same amount origi-
naliy offered by GSI to workers
The company refused to meet with
the union until the officers had
filed non-communist affidavits un-
der the Taft-Hartley Act and while
the local finally complied, the par
ent union United Public Workers
never came through.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01

Uneasy lies the head that ignores
a telephone call late at night.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01

profit and loss to the IVA project.
1--WE cannot measure in dollars and
cents the benefits from electricity
for good lighting, for refrigera-
ton, for water put into kitchens
and bathrooms, and for mechanical
power put at the disposal of farm
ers and industrialists.
"In final analysis IVA is an in
vestment to equalize opportunities
for the citizens Of this region along
with the other citizens of the
United States. To get rid of hook
worm, to provide balanced diets, to
bring mountain peoples into COM
munication with the rest of the
country and to provide transporta-
tion for persons and products, is
an incalculable addition to national
income and national resources.
eve urge that these amendments
be rejected"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Union TO Send
Corovon To Aid
Farm Strikers

Bakersfield, Calf. ULNS)-"To-
days caravan from Northern Cali
fornia has been a decided success,
and tonight, plans were made to
send another caravan to you from
AFL unions in IL western states"
Jack Shelley, president of the Cali
fornia State Federation of Labor
told the 1000 Di Giorgio farm
strikers, their families and their
friends, assembled at the Bakers
field Melody Bowl.
"This is one problem, one move
ment and one fight. The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor will back
you in the Di Giorgio fight until
you win," Shelley added.
Dan Flanagan, Western direc-
tor Of the AFL presented relief
gifts amounting to $4,000 and 165
tons Of food TO the LOO striking
Di Giorgio workers.
The gifts were brought to the
strikers, members of the National
Farm Labor Union and the Team
sters Local 81, in a caravan of
300 cars and trucks from Northern
California AFL unions. The long
line Of cars proceeded through
Bakersfield and out to the 1917
mile Di Giorgio picket line. Hun
dreds Of workers lined the roads in
the little towns Of Lamont, Weed
patch and Arvin to cheer the cara
van. Many cars carried banners
saying, "We have just begun to
fight" The caravan was under the
protection of the State Highway
Patrol.
For 6 months, operations at the
vast industrial Di Giorgio fruit
ranch have been tied up by the
strike of the LOO workers. The
has refused to meet
with the union and has snubbed
state and federal conciliation serv-
ices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Pdckinghouse Workers In
Third Week Of Meut Strike

Chicago OPA) - While the
Presidential fact finding commit
tee wound up its hearings on the
United Packinghouse Workers
strike against the meat industry,
thousands Of union pickets trudged
around plants Of the "Big Four"
and scores Of Independent packers
thruout the country. Their strike
is in its third week now.
! The fact finding panel has until
April l to report to the White
House. If Truman finds that an
emergency exists he may ask for
an injunction to end the strike for
80 days while attempts at settle
ment are made.
To date no disposition to meet
/ the union halfway has been indi-
Gated by the packers. While making
well-nigh irrefutable case for the
unions demand for a 29c-per-hour
wage increase, UPW President
Ralph Helstein, both before and
since the beginning Of the strike
has indicated the unions willing
ness to settle for a 19c raise. Pack
inghouse barons, for their part have
not budged beyond a pre-strike &c
offer. They refused, however, Hell
STEMS suggestion that this misery
{ concession be made effective i'm
mediately and the men stay at work
while the fact finding board made
its studies.
In Chicago, Catholic and Protes-
tant clergymen have told their con-
gregations Of the justice Of the
meat cutters demands. They know
that UPW can't be expected to
keep its men at work while their
average wage is 29c below what
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics has
found IS necessary to support even
one-child family.
The Chicago police commission
er, nonetheless, had nearly third
Of his men watching the pickets
until community pressure forced
him to reduce the strike contingent.
In other parts of the country 10
cal law enforcement agencies have
vented their spleen on the UPW
men, and invoked the full force of
state and local anti-picketing laws.
One Missouri judge granted an
injunction forbidding "mass picket
ing" Of an Armour Company plant.
In New York the union has charged
police with brutality in ousting
pickets who had seated themselves
in the driveway Of a struck plant.
Also in New York Wilson & Co.,
has asked a Taft-Hartley injunc-
tiOn against the union. 1t charged
at the regional NLRB office that
a picket line in front of two small
New Jersey plants, not under con-
tract to UPW, constitutes a secon-
dary boycott.
Consumer resistance to high
prices of meats, since the price
drop of last month has been wip-
ed out, has prevented meat short
ages on the market. Industry off
cials point with pride to this evi-
dence Of their own profiteering in
an attempt to make the strike ap-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Union official
Denied Status
In NLRB Poll

Washington (LPA)-A plan of
an official of a union which has
not complied with the non-Com-
munist affidavit provisions of the
Taft Hartley law to run as an in
dividual in a collective bargaining
agent poll was squashed by the
NLRB last week. Josephine Froeh-
lich, paid representative of the
non-complying Food, Tobacco &
Agricultural Workers sought to
have her own name placed on the
NLRB ballot being run at the re-
quest of Local 857, Int'l Brother
hood Of Teamsters-AFL, at the
Campbell Soup Co., plant in Sac
ramentO, Cal.
Mrs. Froehlich filed her motion
while still a paid employee of Eta
and an official of the local. Later
she resigned, and said that if elect
ed bargaining representative for
the Campbell Soup workers she
would represent them strictly as
an individual, not as an agent of
Eta.
Teamsters Union adherents, how
ever, testified that at an Eta
meeting Mrs. Froehlich said that
her placing her own name on the
ballot was move by Eta to get
around Taft-Hartley, which re-
quires NLRB not to let a non-filing
union appear on a board ballot.
NLRB rules that such action was
illegal, and the IBT only will be on
the bargaining representative bal
lot.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Break Stencil Monopoly

Cleveland UPA) - The trade
mark "Mimeograph" and all the
stencil patents of the A. B. Dick
Co., as well as the secret process
for manufacturing stencils, will be
turned over to the public, Federal
Judge Emerich B. Freed ruled last
week. Freed fined the company on
charges of conspiring to fix prices
and monopolize the stencil-dupli-
eating industry, a violation Of the
Sherman Anti Trust Act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
uTW-AFL Pushes
Organizing Drive,
Political Action

Washington (LPA) - Bringing
trade unionism to the unorganized
and the election of pro-labor Con
gressmen, keynoted the convention
Of the United Textile Workers-AFL
last week.
Officers reports showed the tex
tile union paying per capita on
over $4,000 members. Another 10,
900 workers have signed UTW
cards, hut have not been brought
under collective bargaining cover
age because of the continued OPP
position of many employers to
unionization, and the slowness OF
the Taft Hartleyized NLRB.
The UTW, delegates and offic-
ers said, is driving ahead to i'm
prove the status of these workers
and to bring thousands more
textile workers, from Canada tC
the deep south into the union. The
| 5000 figure shows an increase in
membership of $3.50 since UTW's
last convention two years ago.
Full support was pledged to the
unions Canada division. Present
at the convention were several OF
the over 100 UTW officers and
members from Quebec who have
been jailed for union activity with
in the past year, in the course of
hard-fought strikes against absen-
tee, open-shop employers.
President Anthony Valente, who
was elected for a third term, was
Icheered by the convention when
he tore into Henry Wallace's third
party as a Communist maneuver.
After hearing from Joseph keenan,,
acting director of Labor's League
for Political Education, UTW voted
full support to AFL's political arm.
Delegates generally were pleas
ed with the wage gains they have
won in the woolen, rayon and cot
ton branches. But they noted that
even the most recent increases are
being wiped out by rising living
costs. They voted to continue de-
mands upon government and in
dustry for holding the present
price line, but warned that despite
recognition that continuance OF
the inflationary spiral is damag-
ing to workers, the union will have
no alternative but to press for fur
ther wage adjustments if prices
continue to rise.
Other convention action includ-
ed passage of resolutions support
ing the reciprocal trade agree
ments program, the Marshall plan
for European recovery, the Mis-
souri, Valley Authority and St.
Lawrence waterway projects.
UTW's demand for the repeal Of
Taft Hartley was reiterated, as
was the unions support of improv-
ed minimum wage and fair labor
standards legislation.
The AFL textile workers charg-
ed that TWUA-CIO was engaged
in raiding activities in both Canada
and the south. They also criticized
TWUA for its part as CIO af
filiate in forming the World Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions, which
UTW-AFL says is Communist
dominated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01
Joker Bill Would Deprive
Over Have MillionOf
Social Security Coverdge

~ Washington, ID. G. 1LNS) -
Assailing a "joker" bill before
Congress as "cruel step back
ward" in the field of social secur-
ity, AFL President William Green
asked Chairman Eugene ID. Millikin
of the Senate Finance Committee
for an opportunity to present
testimony against the legislation.
The bill, H. j. Res. 296, introduc-
ed by Representative Bertrand w.
Gearhart of California, has passed
the House and is being considered
by the Senate Finance Committee.
Under the guise of maintaining the
status quo with regard to social
security benefits, it would actually
deprive 100000 to 100000 work
ers of social security protection,
Green said. No opportunity was of
fered labor to present arguments
against the measure when it was
before the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Court Held Workers Covered
President Green said that those
who would be adversely affected
by this measure include life insur-
ance agents, taxicab drivers, own
perpetrators of trucks and busses,
newsboys and newspaper vendors,
industrial home workers operating
on a contract basis and some
mechanics in the building and con-
struction trades who operate on a
semicontract basis.
n A dispute arose between the So
Tcial Security Administration and
the Treasury Department more
than 10 years ago as to whether
these workers were included in
the coverage of the act, Green eX-
planned. In 1947 the Supreme Court
in cases, upheld the Social Sc
curity Administration contention
that such workers are covered un-
der the act. Consequently the
Treasury inserted a notice in the
Federal Register that new regula-
tions covering the contributions Of
these borderline employees and their
employers were to be issued.
The Gearhart bill, Green charged,
attempts to reverse the Supreme
Court decisions by redefining the
term "employe" as interpreted un-
der the Social Security Act This
redefinition, he said, would effec-
lively deny social security protec-
tion to workers in the twilight zone
of employment.
Sees RetrOgressive Step
"At a time when our country
should be taking action to increase
and extend the coverage of the So
cial security laws" Green declared,
enactment of the Gearhart bill
would prove cruel step back
ward"
In his letter to Senator Millikin,
Green added:
"The Social Security Advisory
, Council whose members you ap-
pointed under the provisions Of
Senate Resolution 141 is now en-
gagged in a thorough examination
of the social security program with
special reference to the matter of
coverage. | understand this coun-
Gil plans to present to you within
the very near future its recommen-
dations in an interim report deal
ing with the Old-age and Sur
vivors Insurance portion of the pro-
gram. The Congress will then have
before it a program which will deal
with the particular issue in con-
Structive manner"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01

pear less effective than it has been.
Meanwhile in Baltimore, UPW
is embarking on another strike.
Its 900 members in the American
Sugar Refining plant are walking
out after negotiations for a 24c
pay boost collapsed in face of the
trusts obstinance. The company
has also objected to the unions de-
sire to have the new contract ter
inmate in August when other su-
gar industry negotiations are con-
Quoted. Plant management claims
that anything like industry-wide
bargaining "would endanger our
workers jobs"
UPW has postponed its annual
convention that was to be held in
Boston on April ).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-01

If a man is known to drink once
a week, all his ailments are attri-
buted to that drink.