The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
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Miami, Florida, is the scene Of
the quarterly meeting Of the A. f..
Of l.. Executive Council at the mo-
ment.
In Miami temperatures are rang
ing in the low 70's, which is pretty
nice, while news of northern cold
and snow fills a lot of newspaper
space. Moreover, at Hialeah race
track the bang-tails are doing their
usual stunts, while the pari mutuel
machines have windows that accept
bets of from $2 up. The 81 win
dows are for pikers, of course.
In this pleasant atmosphere the
Executive Council should do good
work, because many minds work
better when temperatures are con-
genial and where heavy winter
clothing can be left hanging in
the closet.
In addition to the climate, there
are various night clubs offering
entertainment that ranges from
the modest joints on up to the
Brook Club, with its swank and
plushy atmosphere and to the al
most as decorus Latin Quarter,
where Martha Raye, the mouth,
holds forth at the moment.
In Broward county, Is miles
north, or bit less, are other clubs,
where one may risk anything from
a five-spot up. 1t isn't bad.
But this has to be said: Custom
arily, winter after winter, the
Council does some of its best work
in its Miami meetings. 1t is no
fault of the Council that these 9TH
er things-races for both horses
and dogs, and swank nighteries-
are in the area. Salubrious climate
does help cerebration. Also, there
is much reason to believe that de-
tachment from the fields Of con-
flict also helps in the production
of detached and consequently bal
anced judgements.
There is every justification for
these meetings and only narrow
ness can lead to criticism. John l..
Lewis used to howl vigorously, eX-
cept when he himself found it ex-
pedient to attend.
But be these things as they may,
it would be fun to write the agenda
for these Council meetings. But
maybe not fun to take the conse-
quences.
One thing on such an agenda
would surely be long pause to
mark the passing of fine old man
Of labor, Walter Hoyt, for some Is
years owner and editor of the Cit
izen, a splendid labor paper, in
Miami.
Walter Hoyt was a gangling
form of a man, long and lean-too
lean for his own good. Through |
ong watching of men he came to
nave an uncanny ability to poke n
finger through pretense and shame
md to find truth and fairness.
When you find a man in the con-
,entious field of labor who has the
affection of the rank
md file of labor and who has at
he same time the respect of en-
,loyers, you are fairly certain to
lave found a man Of character
md ability. Well, such a man was
Walter Hoyt. No smoothie ever got
cry far with him. His paper was
lean and ably produced.
Another thing the Council might
ote and to which it might well di-
ect the attention of it's economists,
5 the diminishing rate of spending
n the Miami area.
The expected lush season" if off l
y quiet bit. Now perhaps this
a phenomenon all by itself, with !
O relation to the rest of the coun- I
ry.
Generally it is said that the big {
honey has been fairly well spent. I
lack marketeers have shot their v
oil. And that is the most frequent
= assigned reason.
But there are others who point I
ut the fact that the last big de- u
ression started in Florida just e
bout an even year ahead of the F.
epression blow that hit the coun- I
~ as a whole. S
1t would be pretty important to o
now whether this Florida let {
own is something all by itself or Z
neither it is another year-in-ad- q
ance flag of warning.
OF course the outstanding issues p
re all on the agenda as is and S
lese are thoughts aside. In the S
amut of issues the biggest and d
ost vitality important of all is the u
king of our attitude toward the Il
ortal conflict between freedom
nd dictatorship - the "cold war" p
etween democracy and the soviets, p
herein the A. F. Of l.. has played p
4 enlightened and wholly patriotic W
lie. Perhaps there may be from h
iami a new and penetrating de- d
aration. Labor issues are no long W
: confined TO wages and hours. tt
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