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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Organized LabOr's Stake I'm
Tax Policy
UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUES

Written by ARTHUR A. ELDER
COnsultant, A. r. Of l.. Committee
on Taxation for tie Workers Ed
ucatiOn Bureau of America.
"How much tax do you estimate
worker pays when he buys a
loaf Of bread ?" reads the question
naire from the "friend of the peo-
Pies" tax league. This harmless
appearing question is followed by
the explanation that much of the
workers income is swallowed up in
hidden taxes and that it Is impor-
tant for him to understand the ma
ture and amount Of these taxes.
Directed to state federations and
labor leaders throughout the coun-
try, such questionnaires and state
ments seem harmless enough and
give the impression that the tax
league is interested in the work
er's welfare. Actually, Of course,
what most readers of the material
do not realize is that the members
Of the board of directors Of the tax
leagus are well-known business
men in the state who were largely
instrumental in putting the gener-
al sales tax, the tax on cigarettes,
and state admissions tax through
the legislature. Just at present,
too, these same gentlemen are
working for enactment Of local pay
roll taxes in several large cities
in the state, where they realize
adoption of new taxes cannot be
avoided.
How The Tax Leagues Work
So the tax leagues executive
secretary finds it quite useful to
get yiu all excited about the seven
teen or tWenty-seven taxes that
are levied on the various ingre-
dients of the loaf Of bread. He
knows full well that you won't do
anything about them. However, his
purpose is accomplished if he
deepens your general opposition to
al taxes; for he is loking forward
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

tional LLPE won't put its stamp
of approval on any candidate un-
less he has the state committees
approval, and on no member Of the
S0th Congress if he voted for the
Taft Hartley law.
By election day each local LLPE
will have its own car pool to take
voters to the polls and its own
corps of baby sitters to be sure the
ladies get there too, if the branches
follow the promptings of "Blue-
print For Victory"
LLPE, the pamphlet promises, is
here to stay. 1t will cooperate with
other liberal, farm and labor
groups" But, the pamphlet warns,
LLPE must be kept Independent
and non-partisan. History is strewn
with the carcasses of labor polite
al bodies that allowed themselves
to be swallowed by some candidate
or non-labor political organization"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Hunt To Make
Senate Race

Cheyenne (LPA)-One of the six
shaky Republican seats in the Sen
ate was given a bad jolt last week
when Gov. Lester C. Hunt of Wyo-
ming won the Democratic nomina-
tion for Senator from that state.
Hunt, who had strong labor back
ing, has a good chance of defeat
ingt the present Republican Sen.
Z. V. Robertson, who voted wrong
on ten out Of sixteen key bills in
the 80th Congress session and was
absent on four others.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Bridgeport Welcomes
All Candidates

Bridgeport, Conn. (LPA)-Soc-
ialist Mayor Jasper McLevy said
last week that Progressive candi-
date Henry Wallace is welcome to
sfart his campaign in Bridgeport.
But, McLevy added, he'd be even
more welcome il he'd accept re-
pealed challenges to debate Social
list candidate Norman Thomas, The
eight-term municipal leader added
that he'd be glad to have President
Truman and COP hopeful Dewey
come to town too-particularly if
they're willing to face Thomas on
the debate platform.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

an inflationary aid-the-rich tax cut.
Present reports are that they're
not satisfied, however, but will
push for further cuts with the con-
yeiiing Of the 81st Congress. And
in the various state legislatures
and before city taxing bodies they
are at work trying to cut down or
eliminate taxes based on abllity-to-
pay. They are continually devising
ways and means of ridding them
selves Of their tax load so that a
larger and larger number Of work
ers, floaters mad recipients of pen
sions" may have the privilege of
sharing it by paying more and
bigger sales taxes, specific excise
taxes, payroll and other nuisance
taxes.
Load Unfairly Distributed
Labor's state in our national,
state, and local tax programs is
tremendous. With a five-billion-dol-
lar carrying charge on our nation
al debt, an enormous defense bud
get, tremendous needs for services
and capital improvement in states,
counties, cities, and school districts,
workers know the tax load will re-
main high. If properly distributed,
high taxes may contribute to con-
tinued high employment and pur-
power. If improperly dis
tributed, they may clad to a de-
cline in purchasing power, de-
creased employment and produc-
ton, and so contribute to eventual
The immediate challenge to La
Dor calls for its establishment Of
committees on taxation in every
central labor body and state fedora
tion in the nation. Such well-in-
formed committees can by contin-
1ous study and activity promote
and increase an understanding Of
tax issues by all members Of or
ganized labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

that the California farm workers
will persist in the purpose to carry
their case to the Supreme Court :. i.
What the workers have asked for,
and We're forced to strike for, is
an opportunity to discuss with their
their desire to live de-
Gently, in the American way. This
has been denied them."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26
Atomic Workers To
Vote On Pay Boost

Oak Ridge (LPA)-The short
est wage negotiations in the his
tory Of Oak Ridge began a month
ago and ended last week when
United Chemical Workers-CIO and
Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp.
agreed on pay boosts of sc to 25c
an hour.
More than 5000 workers will vote
on whether to ratify the agree
ment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

1t is estimated that the European
Relief program will take 25 per
cent Of our steel making capacity.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

L. S. Savings "E" Bonds are ex-
cellent for laying up a reserve
against possible lower farm income.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

Some people are so pig-headed
that they won't take advice even
when they are paying for it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

Steel represents SIS per cent of
L. S. basic processed materials.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-26

Ask for Union Labeled merchan
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Arthur GOLDBERG
OF Chicago Is
New CIO Counsel

Washington LPA)-On March
Is, Arthur j. Goldberg of Chicago
will take over the post of general
counsel for the CIO and the United
Steelworkers of America, Philip
Murray announced last week.
Goldberg, a 39-year-old Chica-
go lawyer is a member of the board
of the Amalgamated Bank and the
Amalgamated Life Insurance Co.,
both operated by the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America.
During the war Goldberg served
as a special assistant to Gen. Viii
liam }. Donovan in the Office of
Strategic Services, and then as a
major in the army. He is a profess
sor of law at John Marshall Law
School in Chicago, and lectures at
the Univ. of Chicago Institute of
Labor Management Relations.
Goldberg will make his headquar-
ters in Washington, and will be
assisted by Frank Donner, who has
been on the legal staff of ClO and
USA under Goldberg's predecessor,
Lee PresSman. Pressman resigned
last month in order to be free to
campaign for Henry Wallace.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Us Steel Threatens
More Price Boosts

on those items to which the cur
rent increases apply, since the final
effect is to further swell the COM
bine's net profits.
To Fairless' contention that
$127,0O0,0C0 represents a profit
rate of only 6 per cent O'Mahoney
replied that this is 6 per cent wat
cred stock, not on the actual capi-
tai invested in US Steel.
! Replying to Fairless' plea that if
US Steel had simply utilized its
total production of semi-finished
steel in it's own operation, as it is
able to do, instead of raising prices,
it would probably drive smaller
firms which do not do their own
initial processing out of business,
/ O'Mahoney pointed out that the
corporation had in 1889 said that it
actually controls these "indepen-
4 dents"
Sen. Ralph Flanders (R., VT
noted that the less publicized in
creases in the price Of structural
and tubular products will bring the
corporation $18,000,000 in earnings
this year, as compared with the
SO, coo it will make by in
creasingAthe charge for semi-fin-
ished steel.
The Committee was also con-
scious Of the boost US Steel had
ordered in the price of numerous
other products in December and
January-including tin plate, nails,
railway car parts, and pipe. All
in all, it appeared that i'm the last
few months the steel industry has
increased its earnings by $l70,-
100000.
Obviously emparrassed by ques-
tions about the industry's refusal,
during the war and since, to en-
bark on an expansion program,
Fairless claimed the Homestead,
Pa, and Geneva, Utah plants which
his company bought from the gov
ernment for less than cost, as evil
dence of it's willingness to expand.
While the head of US Steel was
sweating it out before the Con-
gressional committee, Justice Dept
invC stigators were trying to dig
up evidence to prove that the al
most perfectly coordinated price
boosting action of the major com
panies was the result of collusion.
The Federal Trade Commission
will begin hearings this week on
it's charges filed last August that
this is common practice in the in
dustry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Bill Would Kill
All Housing For
Low Income Group

Washington (LPA) = The only
reason that Sen. Joseph Mccarthy
(R., Wis., has for introducing new
housing Legislation is to separate
and defeat the public housing pro-
visions of the Taft Ellender-Wag
ner general housing BILL This is
the contention of several Congress
sional authorities on the housing
problem.
They attack McCarthy's meas
ure, first because it effectively
postpones any action on homes
for low-income families-homes that
private enterprise by its own ad
mission cannot build today. They
also attack the Mccarthy proposal
that localities or states be requir-
ed to provide from one-third to
one-half of the capital cost of pub
lie housing, a proposal that would
effectively bar any public housing
in most cities or states.
Mccarthy is frank in saying that
he will fight against any public
housing proposal - either in the
Taft Ellender- Wagner bill if it
reaches the Senate floor first, or
in his bill, if public housing
amendment is offered.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Murray Fires Bridges For
Supporting Henry Wallace

Washington (LPA)-CIO Presi
dent Philip Murray last week free
as northern California regional di-
rector Harry Bridges, long lead
er of the pro-Communist forces il
the national CIO.
Murray's action was taken after
Bridges refused to resign the post
and had disregarded Murray's ord
ers to follow national CIO policy in
upholding the Marshall plan fol
European recovery mad opposing
the third party candidacy of Henry
Wallace Bridges retains his post
as president Of the Int'l Longshore-
mems & Warehousemen's Union
and his seat on the CIO Executive
/ Board.
Tim Flynn, a CIO international
representative most recently as
signed to recouping losses of the
United Auto Workers at the Allis
Chalmers plant in West Allis, Wis,
as a result of Communist domina-
ton of the JAW there, will take
Bridges job.
The Bridges firing was announc-
ed the day after Director Of Or
ganization Allan Haywood confer
red with the ILWU head in San
Francisco. In letter sent to
Bridges from Los Angeles, Hay
wood wrote "The position you have
taken does not give encourage
ment to those in our movement who
desire to carry out CIO policies and
declarations. On the contrary this
gives encouragement to those who,
by their failure to carry out these
policies, divide our forces and jeo-
pardize the accomplishment Of our
objectives.
ain conference | suggested that
you resign SO that there will be no
embarrassment to you and less in
jury to our organization. This you
said you would not do. Your posi-
tion leaves me no other alternative
therefore =. you are relieved
Of the position of regional director
for northern California"
Bridges, who was born in Aus
tralia AZ years ago, has several
times beeg charged with being n
Communist; each time the govern
n,ant hoe NOT haop ohIn to nroVa
the charge. He rose to the leader
ship of the Pacific Coast longshore-
men after the 1884 San Francisco
waterfront strike in which he head
ed the rank -and-file committee
which defied the leadership of Int'l
Longshoremen's Association-AFL
President Joseph p. Ryan. When
the ILWU was formed and joined
the CIO in 1887, Bridges became
the new unions first president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
January Factory Sales
Total 4O1,644 Vehicles

Detroit. While falling below
December, motor vehicle factory
sales in January totaled 4O1 ,644
passenger ears, trucks and coaches,
or about 16 percent above the out
put achieved in the opening month
of 1947, George Romney, manag-
ing director of the Automobile
Manufacturers Association, an
nounced.
Passenger car sales accounted
for 305,05S units of the total,
trucks 95,231 and motor coaches
1855 units.
December's output of 469,957
units represented the highest
monthly production since the end
of the war, Mr.. Romney stated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
OBITUARIES
MRS. DORA HARDWICK

Funeral services were held Fri
day from the Martin Funeral Home
for Mrs. Dora Hardwick, honorary
member of the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters who
died March in her home, 525
First Ave-, following a three-week
illness.
Mrs. Hardwick spent most of
her lifetime in East Liverpool. She
came here from Guernsey county,
where she was born.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs.
Edith Herman, with whom she liv-
ed, and six grandchildren and II
great grandchildren. Her husband
died in 1929.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Senate DP Bill
Hypocritieal Says
Citizens Groups

Washington (LPA)-The bill ap
proved by the Senate Judiciary
Committee to admit 100000 of Eu
ropes displaced persons to the U
S. in two years was branded 'hypo'
critical" last week by representa-
tive of the Citizens Committee fol
Displaced Persons. For over a yeal
the Committee, of which AFI
President William Green and CIC
President Philip Murray are men,
bers, has been working for passage
of the Stratton Bill which would
admit 100000 of World War II's
victims over a four-year period.
In addition to banning Commu-
nists and former Nazi supporters
from the quotas, the judiciary
Committee measure requires that
half of all persons admitted under
it's notifications of the regular inn
migration quotas must be experien-
ced farm workers who intend to
continue in agricultural employ
ment Further, it provides 80 pei
cent Of all immigrants must come
from territories annexed by a for
eign power.
This provision means that so
per cent must come from the three
Baltic States taken over by Russia
and from that part of Poland now
incorporated into the Soviet Union.
Backhandedly it gives recognition
to the seizure Of Latvia, Estonia,
and Lithuania which the u. s. gov
ernment has hitherto not recogniZ-
ed.
Each wage-earning head of a
family unit admitted must have
secured before entering the u. S.
the promise of a job, and of quar-
ters, for himself and his family. A.
family is defined as the wage-earn-
er, his wife and children. This mar
row definition ignores the fact that
many displaced families in Europe
today are made up of persons from
several units of large family
groupings. Aged parents are depen-
dent upon their children, aunts up
on nephews, cousins upon each 9TH
er.
By requiring that half of the
wage-earners admitted must be
rural workers the bill almost en-
tirely restricts immigration to
farmers since their wives and chill
dren count against the total to be
admitted.
This requirement taken together
with the preference for Balts and
eastern Poles will result in virtual
denial of entry to homeless Jews,
who constitute 20 per cent of the
persons camps popula-
ton.
Another "joker" is the failure
of the bill to provide a carry-over
clause. Slowness in getting the ma
chinery set up and involved invest
igatory procedures would, if this
bill becames law, result in fewer
than $4,000 persons being admitted
the first year. But the balance
would not be added to the follow
ing years quota.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
GREEN LASHES TIL LAW
AND CONDUCT OF NLRB

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) =
Noting that the Taft Hartley Act
is 6 months old and that "this is
an appropriate time to take stock
of its effects" President William
Green of the American Federation
of Labor declared: "The record to
date bears out every charge made
against this oppressive law by or
ganized labor while it was being
considered by Congress.
Green continues:
"Labor's antagonism to this
measure has been intensified by
the following developments:
81. The National Labor Rela-
tions Board, a government agency
created to protect the rights of la
Dor, has been perverted by the
Taft Hartley Act into a prosecutor
of labor unions.
Old Evil Revived
"2. Injunction suits have been
filed in the courts against an in
creasing number of unions thus
confirming our warnings that the
law would bring about revival of
the injunction evil.
"3. Damage suits against unions
by employers are already reaching
astronomical proportions.
"a. Long-standing, harmonious
labor management relationships,
such as those between the Inter
national Typographical Union and
newspaper publishers, have been
disrupted by the Taft-Hartley Act
and similar disputes threaten to
engulf the nations industry when
present contracts expire.
Organization Hampered -.
"5. Organizing activities have
fallen off 25 per cent in results in
the nation and rs per cent in the
South, due to the aid and comfort
which the law gives union-hating
"To this summarized indictment
| wish to add that organized labor
is completely aware that it cannot
and endure under the Taft
Hartley Act and is more than ever
determined te exert all its powers
and resources to bring about the re-
peal of that abominable legisla-
tion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
First Union FM
Station On Air

Chattanooga, Tenn. (LPA) -
Broadcasting operations are
starting "some time before
March Is" at the first FM sta
tion owned by Unity Broadcast
ing Corp. to go on the air. Sta
tion WVUN here is owned by
UBC, which is sponsored by the
lnt'I Ladies Garment Workers
Union-AFL.
Operating on an eight-hour
broadcasting day, WVUN stu
dios now are located at the
transmitter located on the east
brow of Signal Mountain, fam
Gus landmark just a few miles
from the city. The station ex-
poets to emphasize community
service programs and discussion
of public affairs. A community
advisory committee made up Of
civic leaders is being formed to
aid WVUN, according to South
eastern Regional Director John
S. Martin of the ILGWU.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
RAILROAD STRIKE PUT OFF

Washington, ID. C. (ILNS).-
The National Mediation Board an
nounced here that Feb. rs dead
line for a strike on the Delaware
Lackawanna & Western Railroad
had been put off until March 27
Frank Douglass, chairman Of the
board, said the postponement was
arranged to permit further media
tion of unsettled grievances be-
tween the railroad and the 2
unions involved, the railroad en-
gineers and the locomotive fire
men.
Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
Lef+-Wing Bloc
Has Control Of
Office Workers

New York (LPA)-Over the dis
sent of "right-wing" bloc, which
supported national CIO political ac-
tion policy, administration forces in
the United Office & Professional
Workers carried a resolution "rec-
ommending support" of Henry A.
Wallace to the unions 10000 men,
bers.
The 1eft-wing" administration
followed up its 687 to 131 victory
for Wallace by being reelected to
office by the unions convention
last week with no contest.
Fright wing" delegates failed to
hold their own supporters on mo-
tion to require union officers to
sign the Taft-Hartley non-Commu-
mist affidavits. They lost this vote
720 to 68.
UOPWA's pro- Wallace resolution
differs from those of most other
%eft-wing" internationals in that
it refrains from officially endors-
ing the third party. The resolution
states that the convention delegates
favor Wallace's candidacy and call
upon the locals and individual MEM
bers to examine the political pic
ture.
Reelected to office were: James
H. Durkin, president; John j. Stan
ley, secretary-treasurer; Leon w.
Berney, Joseph H. Levy, and Lewis
Alan Beme, vice presidents. Ad
ministration-backed regional di-
rectors and board members were
also elected without opposition.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-11
US Steel Has A
Convenient Memory

Washington (LPA) - Last
week US Steel bought full
pages in many big city dailies
in AN attempt to alibi its plans
for adding another $28,000,-
900 to its profits at the expense
Of consumers.
The ad mentioned the in
crease in the price of semi-fin-
ished steel, which will net
USS $10,000,000 a year, but
didn't say a word about the
adjustments" in the prices of
structural and tubular steel,
which will cost the public an
other $18,000,000.