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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30

resources to help solve the present
"grave electrical power shortage"
and adequate workmen's compen-
sation coverage for electricians and
other working on railroads.
One highlight of the convention
was a speech by President Albert
T. O'Neil of the Buffalo-Niagara
Electric Corp, which operates one
of the largest hydro-electric sys-
TENS in the world.
O'Neil recognized that the Taft
Hartley law is no boon to fair
minded employers. "The thought of
governmental interference in the
field of labor management relations
is abhorrent to me-" he declared.
"The Americanism of your organ
ization has never been questioned,
even by the most rabid critics OF
organized labor"
Early in its convention the IBEW
heard AFL President William
Green, LLPE Director Joseph Kee-
nan and it's own President Daniel
Tracy call for maximum political
effort to replace the Taft-Hartley
80th Congress with one pledged to
protect the workers. The conven--
tion voted to continue its campaign
for the outright repeal of the Taft
Hartley law and the defeat of every
Taft-Hartley Congressman"
President Tracy is a member of
Labor's Committee for Truman and
Barkley.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
Phone InstaIlers
Win Tic Average
Wage Increase

New York (LPA)-After all
night negotiations in which top
level officials and President Stan
ley Bracken of Western Electric
Co. took part, the Assn of Com
imunications Equipment Workers
last week won an average of lie an
hour in pay boosts from the phone
equipment company.
The pay raises range from nine
to 15c an hour in "a" zones and
from eight to lac an hour in "B"
zones. The new contract runs until
Nov. 80, 1850, with a wage reopen
ing possible after Sept. Is, 1949
giving the union the right to strike
if a satisfactory settlement is not
reached.
CIO President Phillip Murray
called on the Western Electric pre-
sident to urge settlement, only a
few hours before the strike dead
line. CIO Vice-president Allan Hay
wood played an active part in the
negotiations, which ended up in an
all-night session after which the
settlement was made public. More
than $4,000 phone installers are af-
fected by the agreement, about
70&o of them in the GA" zone.
The contract is, according to
ACEW President Ernest Weaver,
"the best made by any Bell system
company" Union members, he add
ed, will vote during the next three
weeks to ratify the agreement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
Green DenounceS
(Continued From Pare One)

ers in the Senator's office, the
board instituted injunction con-
tempt proceedings against the ITU
in the federal courts.
Meanwhile, the NLRB was wind
ing up it's case against the union
before Judge Luther M. Swygert in
Indianapolis. Newspaper big-shots
from places as far away as Phila-
delphia and Texas were presented
as government witnesses against
the ITU along with the spokesmen
of the Chicago publishers whose
typographers are still on strike.
ITU President Woodruff Ran
dolph told Judge Swygert that ITU
recognizes that it must accept the
Taft Hartley laws ban on the
closed shop and denied that the un-
ions contract policy called for dis
guised forms of the forbidden type
of union security. He cited the new
contract in the New York printing
industry as an example OF ITU's
desire to bargain in good faith. At
torneys for the New York printers
have called the contract perfectly
legal, Randolph declared.
Later in the week, speaking be-
fore 5000 members of the Trade
Union Council of the Liberal Party
in New York, President George
Harrison of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks-AFL, and chair
man of Labor's Committee for Tru-
man and Barkley, added signifc-
ant item to labor's Indictment of
Taft. The Senator is himself Il
newspaper owner, Harrison pointed
out. Taft's paper is the Cincinnati
Times Star.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
Senofe Hearing
Continued From Page OHe)

turn out twice as much work.
The same day the Textron heaC
testified to this, the Wall st. Jour
nal published a long article point
ing out that "the Textron episode
is just the beginning" of what's
going to happen in the textile in
dustry. Under the heading "Cottor
Textile Plants Renew Southwaro
Trek Interrupted by War" the
Journal said that bigger bills foI
labor in the north probably consti-
tute the most important single item
turning the eyes Of mill men south
ward"
despite organization drives in
the SOUTH the Wall st. paper said,
"only about $3.50 of that areas cot
ton textile mill workers are now
.unionized. Mills in the north are
practically 1909 organized"
There are other attractions in
the south. For instance, electricity
is cheaper there because of the
iva. Little conceded that if New
Hampshire would agree to cut his
electric bills and grant him a 90%
tax cut he might be willing to keep
couple of plants open there de-
spite the higher labor costs.
In asking for the Textron inveSti-
cation, TWUA declared that "the
decision to close the Nashua mill
was not necessitated by poor bust
ness or falling profits. 1t is a re-
suit of financial manipulation and
nothing else"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30

simple, and that introduced more
of the atmosphere and feeling of
baseball and less of mere studio
conceived hamming. My son, for in
stance kept asking me if various
incidents in the picture were true,
and if they had happened in life
the way they did on the screen.
The point can be put this way:
Babe Ruth doesn't have to be IA
miracle worker whose very voice
cures paralyzed children in order
that he be made the subject of an
exciting film. And when he is turn
ed into such a celluoid miracle
worker, we can say that the movie
are synically playing with
the emotions Of the boys and base
ball lovers Of America whom they
pretend to glorify in this film.
This is Hollywood. This is it!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
Culinary Workers Back Truman

Washington, d. c. QLNS).-
Heads of the Hotel and Restaur-
ant Employees and Bartenders In
ternational Union have pledged
support to President Truman in
the presidential campaign. Hugo
Ernst, general president, and Ed
ward S. Miller, international sec
retary-treasurer, of the AFL affil-
late, told the President on a White
House visit that the union was sup
porting him because of his "cour-
ageous attitude" on civil rights
and because of his vetoes of the
Taft Hartley Act and two income
tax reduction bills. The measures
were passed over the veto.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30

this point since 1887, when the See
retary of Labor first set a min
imum wage at 37.5c. Now, she
pointed out that between 70 and
75% of all cotton garment workers
in the US are employed in shops
with union agreements, the great
majority of them with the ACW.
After the current hearings con-
clude, a report is made to Labor
Secretary Maurice Tobin, who can
determine the new minimum wage
at Toe if the facts presented war
rant the change.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
In Relationship
Continued From Page One)

lures in color which are produced
here.
"We are proud of the fine ware
we produce and of the good relat-
ionships which have existed be-
tween Local 7 and the management
of our Plant. They work with us
and we work with them, both striv-
ing to make our job better and our
ware the very finest which can be
produced"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
NOTICE LOCAL POI

All members of Local Union 201,
Huntington Park, Calf, are re-
quested to be present next meet
ing, Oct. 13, to ballot on a request
for a referendum vote of the trade
to repeal the action of the 1913
convention in throwing open our
resources to the disposal of offic-
ials to fight court action without
cost to themselves.
Josiah Llewellyn, president
Orvis Reese,
recording secretary
Theodore E. Dowd,
financial secretary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30

Detroit (LPA)-Thanks to the
Massachusetts state tax laws, the
Ford Motor Co., which has a plant
there, had to file its annual bal
ance sheet last week. Ford's total
assets as of Dec. 81, 1947 are valu-
ed at the astronomical sum of ST.
025, ,733,000. This is the second time
in Ford's history that the company
has been worth more than a billion
dollars.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30

Many women smoke a cigarette
the way they read a newspaper
couple of puffs or a couple of
glances and they're through.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

of their time to consideration Of in
terrfational developments.
That's why the Russians are try
ing to shoot the works now. 1t is
why they saw fit to make the virtu-
ally impossible demand for control
of all traffic-land, air and water
between Berlin and western Ger
many as one of the conditions for
lifting the blockade which has
throttled the German capital since
June.
WHAT is 1T the Russians want so
badly that they are willing to risk
an atomic war to get?
Briefly, they want to get the U. S.
out of Europe, and that means
nothing else but that they want to
control Europe themselves.
The Hremlin, some time ago, re-
jected proposal that Russia and
the western allies stabilize their
military and political positions
roughly along the lines that existed
Immediately after the war.
ACCORDING TO the Russian plan
for domination of Europe, that ar
rangement would be no good be-
cause the Soviets fear the West
would gain and they would lose too
much.
With American help, western Eu-
rope could consolidate and strength
EN- its position and possibly prosper
to the extent that Russia's situation
in the East would be endangered.
Moreover, the Soviet satellites, influ-
enced by'a free and thriving West,
would be difficult to control.
IN THE RUSSIAN mind it fol-
lows, then, that America must be
driven out, the European recovery
program destroyed. and the whole
of Europe reduced to such a state
of disorder and poverty that it would
be unable to resist Russian de-
manGS.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

culations formulae, logarithms and
assorted humorous material which
an electronic engineer toys with, in
stead of reciting limericks to him
self to pass away the time, he sud-
denly thought:
eff only had a television
transmitter with me, and my
folks had set, and if / had
some other planes for relays,
they could get the same televi-
sion programs New York does"
''I suppose long hours of intense
work on military radar had so
crowded my mind with details of
its operation that looked for radar
possibilities, in everything saw"
the young stratovision creator said
afterward. Radio already had
proven it's adaptability and value
for airplane communications and
in navigationah aids, including blind
flying. Turning these facts over
mentally. concluded that Westing-
house already had at hand basic
engineering information which
seemed to justify the ambitious
plan"
He sold the idea to Westinghouse
and Glenn Martin and they went
ahead and backed his extensive. not
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

This is the experimental strat0-
vision statiOn-a modified B-29,
flying at an altitude of $4,000 feet.
request for a commercial license
was turned down by the FEC last
month but they expect require
ments to be altered.
Glenn Martin, whose aircraft
company thought enough of the idea
to work out the developments Of the
aviation end said:
:'Flying the transmitter is
one of the greatest single ad-
vances in the history of televi-
siOn."
talked withs one of the very
earnest young men who are at
tempting to convert the skeptics.
He seemed to have no doubts that
the method equalled any other. In
fact he thought that competitors
would fight it because it was so
good.
The whole thing is young mans
idea. He is c. E. (ChiliO Mobiles,
30-year-old radar expert whose work
in that field was a valuable war
time contribution. He is a Texan
(hence the nickname, I suppose)
and the story is that the idea first
struck him when he was flying a
plane high above his home.
AS he ran over the various fig
ures which were in the. back Of his
mind, the number of miles his home
was from the nearest big city. the
altitude and the various other cal
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
NO ATOMS:
T1UO Unions

Mortally afraid of skulduggery at
the atomic crossroads, .the govern
ment has acted to bar unions whose
officers refuse to take the non-C Com
munist oath from its atom bomb
plants.
SPECIFICALLY, the atomic en-
ergy commission issued an order
telling two CIO unions to keep out
Of atomic installations - the CIO
United Electric Workers and the
CIO United Public Workers.
The action came on the heels of
congressional charges that a net
work of Soviet spy rings tried dur
ing the war to dig up atomic Sc
crets for Moscow,
Also, the atomic energy commits
sion said, other unions from now on
will be recognized officially as quail
flied to work in atom plants only il
they can qualify for certification by
the national labor relations board.
Said David E. Lilienthal, chair.
man of the commission, all atomic
energy facilities must be operated
''in a manner best calculated to as.
sure that those who participate ir
the program are loyal to the United
States.
ACTUALLY, UNION activity ir
all atomic plants, with the excep
ton of the one at Oak Ridge, has
been curtailed sharply since the
atomic bomb project was launched
Nevertheless, a number of unions
have tried to keep active in the
hope that the curbs on union organi
rational work would be eased in the
future.
. A congressional committee hac
heard testimony from a seh-de
scribed former Communist that the
United Electrical Workers was 'the
largest Communist dominated or
ganization in the United States"
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

C. E. Mobiles, originator of the
stratOvision airbOrne televisiOn
system, is shown at the twin videO
mOnitoring boards in the expert
mental stratOvisiOn plane.
to say expensive, experimentation.
1 caught some of the enthusiasm
which I know Chilli must radiate
from the young man who sat across
the table from me explaining the
drawings.
Think of what stratovision would
mean to the readers of your col
u1nn," he said.
1--WE only asked for license for
one station but with more we could
link up the Pacific and Atlantic
coasts so that we could pick up
Hollywood and New York studios
Il don't know why he left out Chi
cago) with only eight planes flying
400 miles apart. By adding six
planes to the system to cover the
Northwest and Southeast we could
serve 78 per cent of the popula-
toni
And once we got the rural
televisers looking, thought,
what a lot of new material
would be put into the telecasts
to say nothing Of the greatly
hwoo rL ok For foloufcinva
sets and advertising which
would be created.
The first stratovision experiments
established the surprising fact that
there were lots of television sets in
areas which could not possibly be
reached ordinarily (by co-axial ca
BILE or microwave). At the first
call for response to the test pro-
grams many letters came from
such areas. Probably amateurs
who had built their own sets, and
perhaps erected their own anten-
nae on some high elevation.
1t would seem that the country
is willing to try the Mobiles expert
ment if it gets the chance.
The Russians, after claiming that
not Marconi but a Russian invented
wireless telegraphy, now are say
ing that the electric bulb, the fash
light, the transformer and electric
welding all started in Russia. Next
thing you know they'll claim an in
vention of the one thing which could
make Ananias turn in his grave.
To get the most fun and enjoy
ment from bicycling, it is well to
know a few simple things about
buying one, says the bicycle in
formation bureau. One thing it
might be well to know is whether
you have enough money to pay for
it.
The biggest microscope can't see
the cold germ but you can hear a
couple of thousand coming in a
SneeZe.
The garden-type apartment is the
latest thing in tenant convenience"
says the Urban Land Institute.
About the only thingaI was ever able
to plant in an apartment was an
electric light bulb but any Wash
ington fat-dweller can raise quite
a herd Of buffalo moths.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
- ANYTHING NEW -
Cooler Crisis

HOTTEST QUESTION of the
month in Washington for a while
was not who will win the elec-
tion?" It was not will we get into
war;"
1t was a question of who ordered
96 cleaning, new 1948 model re-
frigerators installed in the offices
Of every one of the United States
senators.
Government workers were busily
engaged in clamping the refriger-
ators to the office floors Cat an esti-
mated cost of well above 100000
before anybody thought to ask who
had conceived this ingenious
scheme.
THE PROJECT called for mov-
ing refrigerators into the offices of
senators who never before had had
them and putting new ones into
those senatorial sanctums that al
ready were equipped with old ones.
1t was a clear case of higher
standards of living for solons.
Senate appropriations committee
staff-members denied they had ap-
proved any appropriation for sena-
torial refrigerators, said further
more that there was no record of
any such appropriation.
RANKING NEXT to the riddle Of
who put the refrigerators there was
the question of why a senator should
need a refrigerator in the first
place.
Somebody said maybe they were
intended to replace the pigeonhole
as convenient spots to keep legisla-
ton proposed by the President on
ice. +
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
IWHIZ:
Rocket Plane

It wasn't the sort of subject that
Stuart Symington cared to be very
specific about, but the air secretary
did hint in an Air Force association
speech that the US. XII rocket-pow-
cred research plane might have
blasted through the air at a speed
of from $50 to 1000 miles an hour.
SYMINGTON MADE this star
tling semi-disclosure in an off-hand
manner. Enumerating achieve
ments by the air force during the
past year, he made mention Of IAN
airplane flying hundreds of miles
faster than the speed of sound.
which is 760 miles per hour at sea
level"
AS ORIGINALLY designed, the
XII was supposed to reach speed
of 1,107 miles an hour at 10000
feet altitude and 1,700 miles an
hour at 10000 feet.
AS FAR AS is known, only two
XII type planes now are in opera
tion by the government-one by the
air force and the other by the ma
tional advisory committee for aero
nautics.
Five other XII models are on Or
der, and a new and drastically diff
ferent design, the X-4, is awaiting
trial flight.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
MOTIVES:.
Russian

Washington believes the crisis
centering in Berlin will continue at
fever pitch at least until next spring
provided it does not explode into
total war before then. =
1t is a bad outlook, of course,
from the U. S. viewpoint. But for
the Russians the coming six months
loom as a golden opportunity to .ex-
pand their power in Europe and
throughout the world.
THEY WILL be able to do this,
they believe, because American eff
forts and sentiment will be divided
and weakened by the election cam
paign.
Official Soviet attitude is that
American leaders will be so i'm
mersed in domestic affairs that they
will be able to give only fraction
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
EXPORTS:
UD or DoWn?

Predictions by the department. or
agriculture that U. S. grain exports
during the current crop year may
top last years record by nearly
four million tons was expected to
give rise to cabinet tiff over how
much grain should be shipped over
seas.
There are two schools of thought.
Charles F. Brannon, secretary Of
agriculture, favors increasing ex-
ports to prevent possible surpluses
in the U. S. that might lead to an
expensive price support program.
SECRETARY OF Commerce
Charles w. Sawyer, on the other
hand, insists that grain shipments
should be cut. to a minimum in or
der to keep food prices down in this
country. He argues, also, that Eu-
rope would be better off to use its
dollars for industrial machinery
rather than food.
According to the agriculture de-
partment, the worlds big exporting
countries probably will have about
10 per cent more grain to spare this
year than in 1947-48 when exports
topped 34.6 million tons.
THE DEPARTMENT added that
the U. S. ''is again likely to pro-
vide nearly half of the total world
trade"
Last year the United States ex-
ported slightly more than IS million
tons-nearly "A per cent Of all the
grain exported.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

not in high, leaping loops like long
wave radio, their range is limited,
just as human sight is limited. You
can't see nearly as far on level
city street as you can from the top
of a mountain. That parallel isn't
an exact one, but it's good rough
comparison.
So television waves have to travel
on a special cable underneath the
ground (co-axial cable). or else
leap from one high tower to an
other (microwave relay. And the
farthest they can travel is some 35
to so miles. But stratovision waves
come from a transmitter as high
as the plane carrying the transmit
ter can fly. 10000 feet. we'll say.
What about storms? Well the
stratospherites say they miss
most of them at that height, and
anyhow, they can use more than
one equipped plane, so they can
shift the point of transmission
of a program from one to the
other and thus dodge the storm.
They insist that they have al
ready demonstrated that this is
possible, that they can deliver.
l haven't seen any of the recent
tests so I don't know. Naturally
the oldtimers (although the oldest
oldtimers in television are still pref
ty new are skeptical. After a test
held recently in GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
for the benefit of newspaper and ra-
dio folk many were still skeptical.
It was admitted that conditions on
the test day were not ideal by any
means and it was claimed that there
was interference from other stations
which would be eliminated.
Variety magazines correspondent,
a keen observer of radio, said:
Demonstration proved that the
higher the altitude, the clearer and
more extensive the pickup. For all
practical purposes, though, the spe-
cific, physical certainty of the un-
derground co-axial or the thru-the-
air, microwave relay would seem
to have the networking edge for the
time being"
('sBe not the first by whom
the new is tried. .")
The hackers of the new system,
Westinghouse Radio Stations, In
corporated, think differently. Their
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15

These are the three western
ambassadors to Russia who en-
gagged in six weeks of rigorous
but unavailing diplomatic fenc-
ing with Soviet Foreign Minister
v. Nj. MOlOtOv ON the subject of
Germany and the Berlin block
ade. They were able to accom-
pIish nothing and finally left Mos
cow to report to the heads Of their
respective governments. Left to
right are: Yves Chataigneau,
France; Walter Bedell Smith, u.
S., and Frank Roberts, Great
Britain.
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
Bill Collector

Russia, the only nation that has
not closed its lend-lease account
with the U. S., has been asked to
pay UP pronto.
The state department, in new
note, called upon the Soviets to re-
sumo negotiations for settling its
long overdue lend-lease account OF
IL billion dollars,
News of the action was kept Sc
cret for two weeks for fear Of up
setting the delicate Berlin discus
sions. =
Arizona sun., 1948-10-15
BIC LIFT:
To Berlin

Despite the SNUG Russian belief
that Berlin could not be supplied
from the air, the American air lift
to the blockaded German capital
has been specta cularly successful.
DURING THE first 80 days of the
great aerial portage American
transport planes flew more than
200, 1000 tons of food, fuel and medi-
cine into Berlin since the Soviets
clamped on their blockade in mid
June.
Air force headquarters at Wies-
baden said its planes had flown
more than Is million miles, through
good weather and bad, along the
narrow air corridors from the west
ern zone Of Germany to keep the
heart of Berlin's isolated western
sector beating.
IN THE FIRST 80 days 28,846
flights were made, with the air
cargo including 25,608 tons of coal,
68, 142 tons of food and 7,748 tons
of other necessary items.
A typical 24-hour period in the air
lift has about 400 flights carrying
more than 5000 tons Of supplies into
the besieged city.