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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Group Outlines
Plans For Opening
Coop Store Here

Elsewhere in the columns of the
Herald this week appears a coupon
which all those interested in
launching a cooperative store in
this district are asked to fill in and
mail to Frank Dales, Box 752, East
Liverpool.
Through this medium the COM
mittee behind the cooperative
movement seeks to obtain the nee
essary quota of membership to en-
able them to set up plans for the
opening of a Cooperative store in
the very near future.
To do this it is necessary that
they obtain at least 800 members
who will invest $4,000 per share as
the opening gun in the aim to
launching a complete cooperative
food store. The $4,000 may be paid
in cash, or one may start with
$500 plus registration fee of SOC,
then pay $500 each month until
the full amount of $4,000 is paid.
When there are enough members
and capital, a general meeting will
be called and plans formulated for
opening the store. The important
fact about a cooperative store is
that the member customers own it.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Garment Workers Union
Attacks Wallace drty

Miami (LPA)-The liberal hope
for 1913 is not Henry Wallace's
Communist-inspired third party, the
executive board of the Int'l Ladies
Garment Workers Union-AFL, said
last week, but the reuniting of the
millions of trade unionists and 9th
er democratically minded people in
support of progressive candidates.
Applauding the rejection of Wal
lace's bid for the AFL, CIO and
unaffiliated unions, the ILG's lead
ers characterized the Wallace for
eign policy program as "the old
course of appeasement which drag
ged our country into long and
costly war"
President Truman's message to
Congress was welcomed as "a re-
statement of the ideals and policies
of the Roosevelt era. One years ex-
perience with the Old Deal has
been sufficient"
Reasserting its support of the
Marshall plan for European recov-
cry, the board called Wallace's pro-
posal that American aid to admin
istered thru United Nations "a
high sounding method of destroy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Veterans And Unions Plead With
Subcommittee For Rent Control

Washington (LPA)- Spokesman
for the two biggest union fedora
tions and two important veterans
groups last week added their voices
to those urging quick extension
of rent control, with strengthen
ing of the present law.
The Senate Banking subcommit-
tee headed by Sen. Harry Cain (R.,
Wash.) is winding up several weeks
of hearings this week. The bill
then goes to the full committee.
In the House, Rep. Jesse Wolcott
(R., Mich.) has shown no interest
in taking action to extend rent con-
troll after the present law expires
Feb. 20.
Boris Shishkin for the AFL, Dom
aid Montgomery of the United Auto
Workers-CIO and John Edelman
of the Textile Workers-CIO, all
told the Senators of the serious
hardship that even the present law
has caused.
Edelman cited instance after in
stance of textile mill villages in
which, he said, "the worker is less
fearful of losing his job than of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

being put out of his house. And as
a rule he has to move if he quits
his job or is fired. The worker
knows he can generally find work
in another mill. But it is a miracle
if he can find a place to live. The
result is that employers are fire.
quently able to thoroughly ter
rorize and intimidate hundreds of
employees by the threat, open or
implied, that mans family will
be put on the streets if he doesn't
behave"
Newly constructed homes are
renting on the average SO per cent
higher than comparable units which
are under rent control, Shiskin told
the Senators. Rental units decon-
trolled under the present rent con-
troll law are renting on the aver
age at 65 per cent above the aver
age of still-controlled units. Land
lords expenses, despite the claim
of landlord lobbyists to the con-
trary, have risen only moderately
and in some cases are below 1889
the AFL economist insisted.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Workers Ballot
On Third s hiff

Philadelphia (LPA)- The Am
erican Federation of Hosiery Work
ers has submitted to it's member
ship a proposal of its Newark, Del,
local to permit exceptions in spec
ial cases to the 1947 convention ban
against unionized mills operating
third shifts.
An organized hosiery mill in that
city proposed that the union per-
NIT a third shift during the period
in which it will re-equip its plant.
The alternative is the temporary
lay-off of some knitters.
AS submitted to the local the
proposition would permit the
unions executive board to authorize
a temporary third shift when
company has demonstrated to the
board that it is about to embark
on definite plan for rehabilita-
tiion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

ing Europe" Russia is already try
ing to sabotage European recovery,
the garment workers spokesmen
pointed out, and would make Sin
nocuous all action by UN thru its
ell-developed use Of the Veto"
Five pre-Communist officers of
the dressmakers and cloakmakers
point boards in Los Angeles were
threatened with expulsion from
union office unless they comply
with the requirement of filing non
Communist affidavits with the MI
RIB.
A resolution approved by the
board said that officials refusing
to file were acting "in detriment
to the best interests" of the union.
Following the boards session Presi-
dent David Dubinsky said that fail
ure to comply would lead to for
NAL custer proceedings.
Dubinsky pointed out that these
are the only ones among 100 IL
GWU international, joint board,
and local officers who have not
He said that altho the
union is campaigning vigorously
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Five Labor Men
To Advise USES

Washington (LPA)-The five
labor representatives on the newly
reconstructed Federal Advisory
Council for the u. S. Employment
Service are: John Brophy, director
of industrial union councils of the
CIO; Nelson Cruikshank, director
of social insurance activities of the
AFL; President Harry Boyer of the
Penna. State CIO Council; Frank
FentOn, AFL international repre-
sentative; and President James
McDevitt of the Penna. State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The council, appointed by Labor
Secretary Schwellenbach, consists
of 10 public representatives, four
management representatives, five
from labor, and four from the maj
or veterans organizations. 1t is to
advise the USES on national en-
ployment developments and polio
les.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Phone Workers
Ask Union Shop
I'm 1913 Contracts

Washington (LPA)- The Com
munications Workers of America
unaffiliated, will petition for union
shop elections under the Taft-Hart-
ley Act when it opens negotiations
with the companies in the Bell Sys-
tenn early this spring.
The union shop demand will be
one of the few industry-wide de-
mands of the union, whose con-
tracts cover 100000 phone work
ers. Wage demands will be nego-
tiated on contract-to-contract
basis, with an aim to cutting down
as far as possible the area differ
entails which now exist, and some
of the historical inequalities in the
job rates.
The rapid progress of conver-
sion from manual" phone systems
TO dial systems will be the sub
ject of some industry-wide pro-
posals, CWA officials indicate. FL
nal decision will be up to next
weeks meeting of the CWA execu-
tive board, but a preliminary re-
port from a special union commit
tee indicates that the union will
try to set up safeguards if the con-
version to dial phones results in
firing of some operators and other
traffic personnel.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
FrenchtoWn Will
Install Officers
At ext Meeting

Frenchtown, N. J.-Considering the
bad weather which we have been
having in Frenchtown during the
past month, the attendance at our
last session was pretty good. We
notice especially, the old faithfuls
are always on hand, come rain or
shine.
Officers for the year 1948 were
elected and include the following:
President, George w. Everett; vice
president, Emma Wright; recording
secretary, Harmon Wright secret
ary-treasurer, Steve listers; trus-
tee, Marcus Beihn.
These officers will be installed
at our next meeting which falls
'on the third Monday in February
and we would have been informed
that our national officials will be
with us and install the newly cleo
ted officers.
The shop committee gave very
hiICiColih6 lCpOiI WHlCu SllOWCu
that all complaints taken up with
the company at the meeting on
January IA have been settled but
one. Too bad they could not re-
port all grievances settled, but we
are not alarmed as we know both
sides will try to clear up the pend
ing controversy at an early date.
We were glad to read in the Her
aid where the A. F. of l.. is really
getting down to serious business in
plans to defeat our enc
mics at the polls. The potters in
New Jersey certainly have a score
to settle with Mr.. Hartley and you
can bet your last dollar that when
election time rolls around we will
be up in the front line firing all
c. 173.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

industry, but early upward adjust
ments of wages and conditions
through collective bargaining is ex.
pected. For some years national
tribunal has existed in the indus
try for settlement of labor
ment disputes. 1t is somewhat like
the Railway Mediation Board in the
u. S.
Seven regional commissions are
charged with directing the day-to-
day operation of the railways, and
trade unionists are among the
members of all of them.
There are three important unions
in the British systematic MUIR
with 100000 members, the engi-
neer's and firemen's union with TO-
600, and the railway clerks asso-
citation with $1,000.
For thirty years all of these
unions have been demanding that
the industry be nationalized. In
1894, the first year in which any
rail union declared for public own
ership, one corporation head threat
ened to break the union by intro
ducing military modes of organiza-
tion and discipline to the industry.
A strike in 1911 resulted in the then
home secretary, Winston Churchill,
sending troops to the principal rail-
way centers at the request of the
companies-not the local govern
ment officials-in an attempt to
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
AFL Seamen Open
Wage Discussions

New York (LPA)-The Seafar-
ers Int'l Union-AFL last week
opened wage conferences with the
Atlantic and Gulf Shipowners
Assn here. The New York meet
ings follow a series of letters from
the STU to shipping firms stating
the unions desire to take advan-
tabe of contract clause which per-
mits wage negotiations to be ini-
tiated at any time. All but one of
the Associations member firms
has agreed to meet with the union.
Although the union has not made
public its exact demands as yet, it
is expected to ask for a 25 per cent
increase for all seamen employed
by association members. STU will
also ask for Association to bring
the pay differential for all ratings
up to the level attained in its re-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Feast Or Famine
Regarding Turnout
At Union Meetings

The attendance at the last few
meetings Of Local Union 124 re-
minds one of the familiar saying,
it's either a feast or a famine.
Some meetings we have found it
necessary to scour around the
building for extra chairs, while at
other meetings we have barely had
a quorum. We feel the weather
is largely to blame in this respect,
but we must not overlook the fact
that when we begin to lose inter
est in our meetings, then is when
the trouble starts.
We should all keep this fact in
mind and make every effort to do
our part in promoting the interests
of our trades. Now, more than ever,
it is important that we be on our
toes to protect gains made over the
years.
Judging by the way prices are
continually rising, we think it's
time TO reopen our agreement.
Since our last increase, the price
of living has just about doubled.
We are sorry to say conditions
concerning the gas fumes at
Laughlin's still exists. 1t is ter
rible to say the least, that people
must work under these conditions.
We think our national officials
should look into this Immediately
Four new members were obligat-
ed and their names added to the
roll.
At our next meeting on Febru-
ary 10, important business will
be up for transaction. The mat
ter affects all crafts affiliated with |
Local 124 and we would like to
see a good turnout. Remember, it
isn't the union that makes good
but the members that |
make for a good union. Keep this |
little thought in mind and when
next Tuesday rolls around, be on
hand at 1880 p. m. in Room 40.
9. 124.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Polly Boyer Heads
Local u MON 1855
For Coming Term

The members of Local Union 1916
turned out in fine style last We'd
nesday evening to elect officers for
the new term. Following a spirited
contest for all offices, the tally
sheet showed the following results
President, Polly Boyer; vice presi-
dent, Hilda Richmond; recording
secretary, Mary Thepiss; secretary
treasurer, Hazel Hannun.
We feel these members are well
qualified to carry out the duties of
their respective officers and with
the cooperation of the entire mem
bership and shop committees, we
hope for bigger and better things
in months ahead.
A number of complaints were re-
ported from the various shops and
were thoroughly discussed and ord
cred taken up in the proper pro-
cedure as covered i'm the agreement.
Several of our members have
been idle due to the cold spell and
the ban on gas. We hope a break
in the weather is due soon as three
or four days loaf during these
times really hurts.
We see by the Herald where our
national president has returned
from the Labor Conference in Peru.
We hope the conference will bene-
fit the workers in these countries
where the wages are so low. We
should appreciate what benefit it
is to live in country where we
can have collective bargaining, even
though some of our representatives
in Washington are doing their level
best to take this privilege from us.
The members of Local 155 join
with labor in general in a deter
mnied effort to defeat those men,
Ders in Congress who have imposed
the aft-Hartley Bill on US. We
are determined that when election
time rolls around, every member of
l55 will register their protest at
he polls.-O. C. 155.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Unions Have Major Part In
New British RdilwdY Pldn

LONDON (LPA)-On the first day
of the year all major inland trans
port facilities in Great Britain be-
came public property. The Labor
governments plans for the admin
istration of canals and road haul
age have not yet been put into op-
Grafton, but their general outlines
can be deduced from the new or
ganization of the vital railway in
dustry.
Guiding overall policy is the
Transport Commission, chaired by
Sir Cyril Hurcombe, formerly a
top official of the Ministry of
Transport. Other commission men,
bers are the former head of the
4 lsLondon Transit System-first great
Ypublic transportation operation in
England-a former railway presi-
dent, aleader in Britain's cooper
ative movement, and Jack Benstead,
general secretary of the Natl
Union of Railwaymen.
Responsible to the Commission
is the railway executive, one of
whose members is w. P. Allen,
secretary of the Associated Society
of Locomotive Engineers and Fire
men. He will have charge of the
personnel program of the railways
and will represent the executive
in collective bargaining with the
rail unions.
Existing union contracts will be
carried over into the nationalized
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
AFL Printers Win Pay
Boost Without Contract

Seattle. - AFL union printers
here won $13.25 weekly pay in
crease which raises to 800 the pay
scale for day work and to sos for
night labor during a 35-hour week.
Charles T. Hickey, president of
the local ITU affiliate, said 210
workers on Seattle newspapers
would benefit from the wage boost
which is retroactive to January IL.
He announced that no contract
would be signed under terms of
the new agreement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Younger Element
Should Show More
Interest In Trade

Local Union IL met in regular
session on Tuesday evening with
Ernest Terrence presiding an the
absence of President Guy Digman
who was reported on the sick list.
We hope Guy will stage a quick
comeback as he is greatly missed
by his many friends.
Our ranks have thinned out
greatly during the past year, due
to promotions, those who have
answered the call of their Maker,
and others who have left the trade.
The situation tends to become
alarming when you consider it will
not be long before the old timers
have passed on. Unless the young
er element shows deeper interest
in the affairs of their union, it
might not be too far distant when
we lack good leadership.
There is plenty of good material
in our ranks to step in and take
over when our older members pass
on, but the laboring class in gen.
eral likes tc sleep when things are
along smoothly and as soon
as something goes wrong, then they
are all up in arms and it is usual
ly too late to do much about it.
We hope this will not happen in
our case, but the writer feels our
younger members will take this
little hint in the manner in which
it is intended, and from here on in
be more faithful in their attendance
at meetings and be ready to step
N and protect the advances made
1y the trade over the past years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

/. A sweeping congressional in
vestigation into the vast and un-
justified spread between the prices
paid farmers for their products and
the retail prices consumers are
forced to pay for food products.
2. Enactment Of an excess prof
its tax to discourage profiteering.
8. Necessary authority for the
President to impose rationing and
selective price controls on vital
commodities in short supply.
4. Extension of rent control un-
der terms permitting fair returns
to landlords.
The AFL leaders warned that un-
checked initiation will play into the
hands of the enemies Of democracy
who are counting upon economic
collapse in this nation to further
their own aims.
Turning to the wage question,
the council declared that under
existing conditions, wages cannot
be stabilized until prices are con-
trolled and stabilized"
The text of the Executive Coun-
cil's statement on initiation follows:
''The enemies of democracy are
confidently expecting the collapse
of Americas economy and the con-
sequent Illustration of our efforts
to preserve world peace and free
dom. In this hope, they are count
ing upon initiation as their most
powerful ally. They believe our
free enterprise system will destroy
itself through greed and unbridled
profiteering.
Economic developments since
the end of the war clearly tend to
support and confirm this point of
view. There has been an utter fail
ure to keep the cost of living in
check. Food prices, especially, have
scared beyond reason and beyond
justification. The purchasing power
of the dollar has been ravaged by
cancerous initiation. American fam
lies, especially those whose income
IS derived from wages, have been
forced to eat their savings. And
no relief is yet in sight.
"The vast majority of the Ameri-
IAN people cannot endure this cruel
squeeze indefinitely. They
know they are being robbed right
and left every time they buy what
hey need to sustain life. The pub
ic is becoming bitterly aroused by
is victimization. Unless action is
forthcoming promptly to halt the
nflation spree and prevent prices
rom climbing any higher, the Am
.rican voters will deal harshly with
hose they consider responsible for
naction next November.
"Under existing conditions,
wages cannot be stabilized until
,rices are controlled and stabilized.
To-day the free enterprise sys-
EN- is on trial. We, who are COM
nitted to the free American way
f life, dare not let it succumb. Yet
ye know there are powerful forces
n our country who are committing
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Senator Reveals
Motives OF TIN
To Weaken Labor

Washington (LPA)-The March
issue of the magazine Everybody S
Digest will carry an article by
Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Ore.), one
of the most active opponents of
the Hartley law, which says:
at is common knowledge ON
Capital Hill that many of the men
who voted for this bill adlnitaso
that it contains a number of un-
sound provisions which must be
changed. A rather sorry confess
sion to come from supposedly re-
sponsible Legislators engaged in
passing a law which affects the
welfare of countless workers
throughout the nation.
at is also common knowledge
that the Taft-Hartley bill was de-
signed not only to curb certain
abuses but to weaken labor's posi-
ton at the bargaining table. In
other words, this laws faults go
far beyond the enactment of un-
workable provisions. 1t weighs the
economic scales against those mil
lions of Americans who depend on
wages and salaries for their live
lihood."
After an examination of the cum
oersome procedures laid down in
TIL, which require union represent
-atives to spend half their time be-
fore the NLRB and the courts, |
Morse concludes that the sections
If Taft Hartley which hamper po-
itical action by labor are uncon-
'titutional, and that the entire Act
should be repealed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Porcelain Workers
Elect Kurt Hague
President Of 140

We are glad to see where some
of the porcelain locals throughout
the trade have come out of their
shell and are sending in letters to
the Herald. We feel there is much
to be gained in this manner in
keeping other locals of this branch
of the trade informed Of their ac-
tivities in their respective localities.
Local 140 continues to roll along
in their usual manner with Off
GERS for the new term elected at
our last meeting. These include
Kurt Hague, president; Albert
Hays, vice president; Gwendolyn
Daily, financial secretary; Harry
Bailey, treasurer; Lloyd Densmore,
recording secretary; Jesse Dens-
more, inspector; George Wilson,
guard; Bud Jackson, chairman of
shop committee.
Work has slowed up somewhat
since the Louthan Manufacturing
Co., has become a subsidiary of the
Harrison Walker Refractory Com
pany of Pittsburgh. We hope this
will be cleared up and
we can look forward to steady en-
ployment.
We take this means of wishing
our new employer the best of sue
cess and wish them to know the
members of Local 140 are with
them one hundred per cent.
Mr.. Harry Russell our former
employer is in Phoenix, Ariz., for
4 much needed rest.-O. c. 140.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Factory Weekly Earnings
Set Record High Mark

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-The
average factory worker earned
more week last December than in
any previous month in history, the
U. S. Department of Labor report
ed.
Average weekly wages for the
nearly 100000 production work
ers were estimated at $42.51,
gain of $1.20 a week over the Nov
ember average.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
AFL Air Line Pilots
Sign New Agreement

New York City-The AFL's Air
Line Pilots Association and United
Air Lines signed new contract
governing pay and working condi-
tions for the company's 1000 pilots.
The contract provides that a SEN
ior officer flying so hours a month,
half day, half night, in a DC-3 will
receive 5000, and if flying a DC-6
in over-water operations will re-
ceive 81 ,266 a month. The rate for
the same officer on DEG run in
the United States will be $1,186.