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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Taft Hartley Muddle Gets Muddier

Washington IPA) - NLRB
Counsel Denham's partial retraction
last week of his "at your own peril
warning to employees who bargain
with unions which have not regis
tered under the Taft-Hartley law
hasn't cleared the air. These unions
can expect no assistance from the
Board in enforcing their collective
bargaining rights even though Den
ham admits that they have a right
to previously acquired status. The
Board has ruled that established
bargaining units may now be
broken up if craft groups wish to
affiliate with separate bargaining
units. Republican Congressman are
beginning to question the wisdom
of their closed shop ban as it af-
fects established, working labor
management patterns in the build
ing trades.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
S33,2OO Paid Veterans
In Job Rights Cases

Washington, d. C.-Filing of 41C
new cases involving veterans reem-
ployment rights in November
brought to 1881 the total of cases
pending on December l, Robert X.
/ Salyers, Director of the u. S. De-
partment of Labor's Veterans Re-
employment Rights Division an
nounced.
During November 612 cases were
closed, including the payment of
$50, 200 in cash to veterans in lieu
of reinstatement to jobs they held
before entering the armed services,
Salyers said.
The figures, Salyers explained,
do not include requests for assis-
tance made by veterans at local
State Employment Service offices.
"More than three-fourths of the
1881 pending cases and more than
half of the newly initiated cases
filed in November involve veterans
prior to January 1,
1947," Salyers explained. He point
ed out also that rights of veterans
after restoration to 63.7 per cent
of the new cases involved their
jobs, such as vacations, seniority
and other benefits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Seasonal Farm Decline
Causes Employment Drop

Washington, D. C.-Civilian en-
ployment dropped 100000 to 3d.
594 600 in November because of a
seasonal decline in farm work.
The Census Bureau reported the
total was the smallest since last
May.
Nonagricultural employ m n t,
however, rose $4,000 to record Of
50,609,000.
The farm total went down to T.
985,000 in a continuance of the
shrinkage that has taken 2,500,000
off the working rolls since the
peak farming season last June.
Unemployment decreased also,
going down $4,000 to a total Of l.
21,000, the lowest level III well
over a year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
HAVE YOU HEARD?

"Teeth cannot be divorced from
personality, and there often are
striking connections between teeth
and emotional problems was
brought out by DR.. Edward Weiss,
professor Of clinical medicine at
Temple University medical school.
DR.. Weiss thinks that dentists
must pay attention to patients S
emotions and personality problems
as well as his teeth. The human
mouth, he said, is psychologically
very important, being directly or
symbolically related TO the major
human instincts and passions. Many
persons have poor oral hygiene be-
cause they fear pain or fear the
dentist will extract teeth.
"The idea that wearing dentures
is sign of old age is not true only
of women but also of men. 1t is one
of the reasons that many chronic
illnesses can be traced to dental
operation, the fitting Of dentures,
and the failure Of the patient to ad-
just himself to them"
Parents and dentists are urged
to cooperate in persuading children
to regard dental treatment as SEN
sible, necessary and involving a
Of discomfort.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Pressmen Renew
Arbitration Pact

Cincinnati QLNS)-The Inter
national Printing Pressmen's and
Assistants Union of North Ameri-
ca and the American Newspaper
Publishers Association have renew
ed for another 5-year period their
arbitration agreement, first signed
DO years ago.
Revisions in the new agreement
included addition of provisions
speeding up the arbitration pro-
cess and specifying arbitration as
the sole determination of civil lla-
bility, officials said.
In connection with the latter pro-
vision, they pointed out, "parties
executing the international agree
ment agree to waive court suits
and civil actions otherwise legally
possible under the Taft-Hartley
Act"
President George l.. Berry, of
the union, said the contract COM
mitted his organization to "the
of the industry upon a
high plane, characteristic of and
expected in a democracy, of good
will cooperation and the equitable
of the profits created
by those who produce the wealth
and maintenance of peace with the
useage of the instrumentality of
arbitration as the last resort in
that peace"
A statement issued by the AN
PA added that "the autonomous
right to invoke the new arbitration
agreement is left up to the local
union and the newspap-
er publisher. There is no compul-
sorry arbitration"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Typographical Union In Center Of
Labor's Fighf On Taff-HorfIey Law

clashes is arising with the Printing
Industry of America, Inc, the tor
organization of commercial print
shops, which has hired Gerard Rel.
ly, one Of the drafters of the Taft
Hartley Act, as it's counsel.
Contracts covering 10000 ITU
members in commercial printing
plants in 26 cities expired Decem-
Der 81, and unless the owners soon
reach settlement with the union,
strikes in many such plants are ex-
pected.
Units of the Printing Industry of
/ America in st. Louis, New York,
Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh and
other cities have filed unfair labor
practice charges with the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board
against the Typos, thus indicating
that they are getting set for "war"
with the union, rather than peace.
A showdown is coming close also
in Washington. Local 101 in the
capital has asked the international
for permission to take strike vote,
as a result of breakdown in ne
gotiations which have gone on for
months.
The Washington dailies openly
admitted that the Taft Hartley law
and its prohibition of "closed shop"
contracts lies at the bottom of the
stalemate. For example, the Wash
ington Post frankly pointed out
that: "Closed shop provisions of
the Taft-Hartley law lie behind the
decision of the printers to ask for
permission to take a strike vote.
There has also been a wage issue
but that might have been settled if
there has been no closed shop pro-
blem."
That the Washington papers are
preparing to operate without print
ers, and to put photo-engraved edi-
tions as in Chicago, was indicated
when they ran large display ads
asking for electric typewriter op-
orators and other typists, at S35
for a 40-hour week. Typos, whose
places these operators would take,
now earn from SIT to $87. $87 for
a 35-hour week at the current
union scale.
President William Green of the
AFL, meanwhile, announced that
the Federation would give the
Typos a "full measure of support"
because they are fighting for the
preservation of the principals of
freedom, liberty and democracy,
and against the imposition of in
voluntary servitude."
The Taft-Hartley law is ire
sponsible for upsetting the coopera-
tive labor-management relations"
in Chicago and elsewhere, Green
said. "Now strike and strife have
been substituted for cooperation"
he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
72% Feel Initiation Pinch

New York (LPA) = Asked by
Gallup Poll representatives wheth-
er they find it harder, easier, or
about the same, "to make both ends
meet" in 1947 compared with 1916,
72 per cent of the people interview
ed said harder" White collar and
manual workers found initiation hit
hardest, 76 per cent saying "hard-
er," compared with 58 per cent of
farmers, and 70 per cent of the
business and professional people.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
TAFT'S ANTI-INFLATION
PROGRAM RUSHED THRU

Washington (LPA) - The Con-
gress passed and sent to President
Truman, in the last hours of the
specially-called session, the Taft
version Of an anti-inflation pro-
gram.
The COP measure, which omits
any proposals for selective price
control or rationing, would: AL
low the President to make agree
ments with industry, business and
agriculture representatives to hold
down prices by sharing of scarce
goods, regulation of speculation,
holding down inventories, and allo-
cation of box cars. No actual in
dustry-wide price fixing would be
permitted. This will be the pro
cedure until March 1, 1949; the
President thru the Justice Dept
would have to approve any exemp-
tions from antitrust laws requir-
ed by such agreements.
2-The Presidents export con-
troll power is extended until Feb.
28, 1949. 3-Controls over rail
transport are extended until Feb.
28, 1949. "A food conservation
program and a program to promote
food, and livestock feed, produc-
tion in countries that could supply
Europe, will be set up on volun-
tary basis. 5-The President is re-
quested to provide Congress with
a detailed program of how to ra-
tion cost-of-living goods which are
critically short; Congress must act
on such a program, either for or
against, within Is days. 6-The
President gets back the power to
control the amount of grain used
in making of liquor.
No-one, from the liberal Amerl-
cans for Democratic Action to the
extreme right-wing Natl Associa-
tion Of Manufacturers, was salts
fled with the program. The NAM
attributed the program. to Con-
gress' "fear of being burdened with
the political blame for continued
high prices and initiation e. The
Congressional action caused grave
forebodings among members OF
Congress. They reasoned that if
Congress yielded to this measure to
meet an inflationary situation, it
might succumb later to overall
price control and rationing."
Said ADA: at is imperative that
the American people recognize the
bill for what it is. 1t is counter
fiet for genuine anti-inflation leg
islation In the face of a dead
line for adjournment and the gag
rule imposed by the House of Rep
resentatives the real issues were
side-tracked. Congress failed not
only to vote on them but, even to
debate them"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
ILWU HEDGES ON
M ARShALL PLAN
3RD PARTY idea

San Francisco (LPA)-Officials
of the Int'l Longshoremen's &
Warehousemen's Union express
confidence that the unions mem
bership will receive another &c to
&c an hour wage increase early In
February.
The recent arbitration award won
by the union provided for an I'M
mediate &c hike, and for cost OF
living adjustment on Feb. 10, to
be based on whatever increase IN
the consumer price index is shown
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
for the period Sept. Is to Dec. Is.
At a pre-Christmas meeting, IL
WU's executive board reaffirmed
it's policy of noncompliance with
the Communist disclaimer require
ment of the Taft Hartley law. 1t
also issued a policy statement de-
nouncing the Marshall Plan, while
asserting that the union supports
the principles of the resolution on
foreign aid of the 1947 convention,
which national headquarters has in
terpreted as the basis for its sup
port of the European Relief Pro-
gram.
Most important board action
was the passage of resolution en-
dorsing "the growing third party
movement in many sections of the
country" Specifically mentioned
was the American Labor party in
N. Y. State, the recent "progres-
sive" slate in Chicago elections,
and the Independent Progressive
Party organizing committee in Cal
ifornia. 1t also called attention to
"the growing number of Demo
Gratis and others who cry for the
election of Henry Wallace, the last
Democrat of presidential stature
who adheres to the ideals of FDR."
Although this endorsement OF
the Wallace candidacy was coup
led with a denunciation of Presi-
dent Truman and the Democratic
Party leadership, and statement
that "the people must build their
own political union", the ILWU
did not specifically commit itself
to Wallace-headed third ticket.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
WOMEN

When the Third Annual Confer
ence of State Advisors on Women's
Activities of the National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis met in
Atlanta in December they were
joined by national presidents of
leading women's organizations
from all As states.
The General Chairman of the
conference which initiates women's
participation in the 1948 March of
Dimes is Miss Elaine Whitelaw.
The drive in January. is from the
18th to Both and marks the 10th
anniversary of the National Foun-
dation.
DR.. Hart E. Van Ripper, Medical
Director of the National Founda-
tion outlined the progress in the
fight against infantile paralysis
during the past decade and discuss
ed recent significant research for
a polio preventive and emphasized
the need for increased training of
professional personnel to care for
the stricken.
Georgia Warm Springs Founda-
tion now is observing its Goth an
as the first and largest
treatment center exclusively for
polio.
Demonstrations of the latest
techniques of treatment and sur
gerry were presented by the Foun-
1ation directors. Recruiting, train
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Rail Shop Unions
Meeting Jan. 9Th
On Wages, Hours

Chicago (LPA)- Seven unions,
representing nearly 100000 work
ers in railroad shops thfougout the
nation, will meet here Jan. 8 to
discuss next steps with respect to
wage and hours.
The seven are: Railway Carmen,
Machinists, Sheet Metal Workers,
Boilermakers, Electrical Workers,
Blacksmiths, and Firemen & Oilers.
All are affiliated with the AFL
Railway Employees Dept.
Some newspaper stories during
the past week gave the impression
that these unions will soon launch
a drive for a 40-hour week to re-
place the present 48-hour week on
the rails.
However, President Fred n. Aten
of the Department made it clear
that no final decision has been
reached. General chairmen Of the
seven unions on each major rail-
road have been called together
merely to talk over the question,
he said.
On the basis Of the discussions
at this parley, the unions will de-
termine whether to concentrate on
a movement for new pay raises, or
for shorter hours, or both.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Phone Union Mops
Wage d e m a n d S

Washington (LPA)-The Com
munications Workers of Americas
national office has called into
Washington the union chief nego-
tiators from it's 33 divisions for a
discussion of wage demands that
will be presented this spring.
Another widespread phone strike
this spring was feared by union
leaders recalling the bitterness OF
the 1947 negotiations with the Bell
telephone system. The district ne
gotiations with the Bell telephone
system. The district negotiators
win discuss plans during the week
of Jan. 19, and their conference
will be followed by "A meeting of
the national unions bargaining
committee to coordinate demands
the following week.
CWA President JOS. A. Beirne,
pointed out that the Bell system,
which upped its profits $S1 100000
in the past year, is pressing for
new rates that will further increase
its ability to grant wage increases.
In fact, he said "the companies
can absorb wage increases because
of overall savings resulting from
chronological improvements" and
"pay substantial wage increases
to its workers out of these profits
without further demands for price
increases"
He said that telephone wages
have been falling in relation to
those in other industries, despite
the strong position of the COM
panies in the Bell system. Beirne
said he doubts that Congress will
enact effective price controls. The
union, he says, has to push for an
increase even though it may mean
a repetition of the long strike that
hit the industry last spring when
the companies refused to bargain
in good faith with the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Green Calls For A New Congress

Washington (LPA)-AFL Presi-
dent William Green's New Years
message says that the number one
job of American labor in as is
the ousting of "the present stand
pat Congress" and the election of
one more responsive to the needs
of the American people" Green
pointed out that labor's ability to
meet management halfway in in
creasing production is being handi-
capped by the Taft-Hartly law. He
urged support for the AFL's Edu-
cational & Political League, which
will work for housing legislation as
we'll as improved minimum wage
and social security statutes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
In The
Labor Limelight

Typos Face Closed Shop Attack
Chicago (LPA) - Publishers
charges piled up last week against
the Int'l Typographical Union-AFL,
which was being made, in city after
city, the target Of employers at
tacks on the closed shop. A city
wide d; ily newspaper strike threat
ened iL Washington, d. c., and
hearings resume this week in
Washington before an NLRB Trial
Examiner on employers charges
against the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Wage Dollar Worth
Penny Less In Month

Washington (LPA) = Prices of
everything that goes into the La
Dor Dept cost-of-living index went
up between mid-October and mid
November, it was revealed this
week. The consumers price index
is 156 per cent of the 1859 av-
erage, a new all-time high. 1t rose
/ per cent in the one month.
Rents were higher, fuel costs
rose nearly 1h per cent in the
month, and food prices including
those for cereal, bakery products,
dairy products, fats and oils rose
sharply.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

BUTTON TRIM-Just the dress
to make you specially attractive,
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18. Send 25c in coin, your name,
address, pattern number and size
to Federated Press Pattern Serv-
ice, 1850 Ave. of the Americas, New
York 10, n. Y. For an additional
25c you can get the winter issue
of Fashion, So pages of the most
patterns-including a free
printed gift pattern in each book.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Phone Wage Demands Mapped

Washington UPA)- The Com
munications Workers Of America
unaffiliated has called series Of
national meetings of top officials
in mid-January to discuss the
unions wage demands Of the Bell
Telephone system. The union
warns that it is prepared to
strike if necessary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01
Detroit Co-Ops Raise s125, 600

Detroit (LPA)-With strong CIO
and AFL union support, the Motor
City Consumers Cooperative here
has already raised $125,000 in loan
capital to begin setting up Of a
central distribution system for con-
sumer cooperatives in this area.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

Chicago (LPA)-The Int'l Typo
graphical Union-AFL entered the
New Xear this week with more
Abattles on its hands than any 9TH
Ger labor organization in America.
It's strike on the Chicago dailies
entered the fifth week. Stoppages
were under way in over a half
dozen cities. A walkout appeared to
be imminent on the big daily pap
ers of the nations capital.
On top of that, a showdown was
in sight between the union and a
large part of the commercial print
ing industry.
This city took the spotlight in
the fast-widening dispute after a
subcommittee of the House Labor
Committee conducted hearings into
the local strike. Out of that inves-
tigation came some significant dis
closures.
For one thing, President Wood
ruff Randolph of the Typos, major
witness before the committee, made
it clear that the ITU will 40. give
up it's battle to maintain "closed
shop" conditions which have pre-
vailed in the publishing industry
for almost a century.
Randolph stressed that the
unions program for preserving
these conditions has been worked
out so as to comply with the Taft
Hartley act, even though the lTU
regards it as a slavery law" Any
publisher, he argued, can meet the
unions terms without in any way
violating that law.
Strikebound publishers here can
get their men back to work, he said,
lmerely "by giving them fair
wages" The union on it's own, he
added, will then do what it can to
maintain "closed shop" conditions.
Up to now, however, the Chicago
publishers have been trying to COM
pei the union to sign a Taft Hart
ley type of "open shop" contract
before wage increases will be con-
sidered.
"The Taft-Hartley law aids the
employer in tearing the union
apart" Randolph said. "Our only
recourse is to apply our policy, or
not work. We intend to keep on do
ing this. If it is against the law,
it will be only after a U. S. court
has told US so, and not on the word
of a Congressman, or an interpre-
tation by Denham (Robert N. Den
ham, 'czar' of the Taft-Hartley
law.
"We want the closed shop. That's
our life," he added.
Significantly, after the first
days hearings, Rep. Charles j.
Kersten (R., Wis., told newspaper
men that "the information we OBJ
tanned may result in modification
of the union shop provisions of the
Taft-Hartley act, or perhaps legal
izing the closed shop"
Later, Thomas l.. Owens (R.,
ILL.,, also a committee member,
claimed that Kersten was not
speaking for the entire committee
However, Owens, on his own, de-
clared: "When the Taft Hartley
law was being formulated, Con-
gress never had in mind that good
fected"
These comments appeared to in
dicate that even the champions of
the Taft-Hartley Act are worrying
about the chaos that will be caused
if the ban on "closed shop" stays
in effect.
Elsewhere on the Typo battle
front, one of the most serious
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

Editors Of Associated Press
Newspapers voted Princess Eliza
beth Of England the woman of the
year because a royal love story
overshadowed news Of threatened
wars, and current disasters.
Even in a hard-bitten, modern
world, SCARED by catastrophe, the
romance Of a beautiful princess
and her prince topped politics, in
trigue and treason in public inter-
est.
Among other women voted out
standing in their respective fields
for 1947 are four new personali-
ties who zoomed into the news
spotlight for the first time this
year. DR.. Gerty Theresa Cori, joint
winner with her husband, DR.. Fer
dinand Cori, Of this years Nobel
prize for medicine, was voted out
standing woman in the field of sci
ence.
Among women Of radio to win
top prize was Dorothy Shay, the
young singer who suddenly found
herself famous for her hillbilly
song, "Feudin' and Fightin'."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-01

The only woman member Of Con-
gress in the Philippines, Remedies
o. Fortich, is reported to have filed
her first bill. The measure seeks
to restrain a husband from en-
cumbering or alternating the com
munity property without the con-
sent Of his wife.