davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
NEWS and VIEWS



Announcement of meeting of the
national Metal Workers Federation soil this fall
of sharp differences between that powerful and the World Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions ghged by reports from Germany Ac
cong to these number delegates belonging the
socaed Independent democratic
metal workers conference Berlin thus
within important section of German labor.
The opposition took this step when forced to that
the Communists unwilling enquh union control although
the independents substantial election
districts the capital should recaleds
the Communists and fellow travellers ruled these Districts
which the IL the controlled
of Berlin.
German metal abor's attempt itself of Communist
fuence and minority rule gains added Significance the light of bid
to the metal unions the occupation of Germany
affiliate with the INF An INF Switzerland
extended such invitation and authorized the officers of the fedora
metal labor at which the INF would be represented.
Host to the American gathering Of the INF executive bureau is
the International Machnss
the sole American affiliate the INF However, the
its affates will be watched with by the family
of American labor, particularly its metal constituents.
be hoped that the visit of
cratic Europe strengthens between
labor This would parallel the policy of the International Transport
Workers Federation which
and established direct relations with transport the
American public
The ITF policy has certainly paid handsome dividends All rail
labor
fare unions have affiliated with the F thus giving that
ton strength and worldwide conference which formerly lacked
the INF American metal aborFl, CIO and ndpend
ent-as affiates, so mucfLthe better.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
CONGRESS MAY MURDER SOCIAL SECURITY

6x NARROW H. HEOErSs


people of the social security
The social security law fact American labor has
have universal to social security No has
asked Congress openly cripple the social security
But
Appropriations Committee the
has puatns the administration of the Social Security
Act which effect makes farreang overall policy The Appropra
function of the Committee effect made
impossible for social function efficiently democraca
Millions billions of dollars involved great part of which
has been paid the US Treasury by the people them
Selves owned by the workers. involved too the future welfare and
happiness of millions.
Newspaper headlines Appropriations
Agency Newspapers forgot remark that deep cut had been given
that failed details where
this cut fell most heavily Here is what this does.
1t cuts 94@ of the functions of Commissioner A Amyer head
of Social Security
1t cuts Commissioner Altmeyers staff 66%.
International and research saffs which keep workers informed
of their rights virtually abolished
practically CUTS the regional offices of the Social Security Adj
ministration.
coordination of activities of SSA impossible
builds agency employ
security public assistance, and chidren's bureau.
In short the Appropriations Committee multiplying social
security law under the guise of fiscal policy
The particular leader of this assassination the House
Rep Frank B. Keefe of Oshkosh Wis old with
mysterious he the wreckng the
House other matters besides social security This by
ndrection but VndictveneSs
men politics at its worst 1t is and candesne 1t strikes
at the heart of social legislation
Labor taking interest politics. Labor had better Labor
gaded into this position by the of the Taft Hartley
tack social security The Taft Hartley Act working but the
crppng of social security be effect and made look
works.
Rep new great issue for labor The workers
should and demand the of this legislative
trckster There is still time the murder of social security in
the Senae-if labor will act
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Sounds Good. But

Junior and his Mama sitting in their living
the other night listening to the the radio tell about
the wonderful, wonderful action taken by u S. Steel
The giant corporation the sad had told the Steel
workers go jump into lake. insofar a increase
concerned Instead of raising pay he added IT, s. Steel
going to cut prices.
"Now we're getting somewhere" said Junior, who be-
eved what he read in the NAM ads hs will send initiation
into talspin.
Don't be a complete dope, Junior" his Mama said 81
don't want to be guilty of bettng but this is of too
little and too late"
"How do you figure that DIom?" Junior asked. She re-
piled:
well it's like this The unions put up awful squawk
against killing OPA but it killed and prices started
climbing.
he situation got pretty bad last year and the unions
made another try for price control They said they'd rather
price reductions than wage increases they meant
it.
"he big industries including steel, upped prices some
more That really put the squeeze on the consumers.
early this year the steel industry piled on some new
increases Then the SeewOrkers asked for Increase
they could catch with the increase in the cost of living
gu S. Steel said nothing doing. We're not going to give
you cent We're going TO cut prices instead We're going to
help initiation.
U s. Steel increased its prices about $3.50 millions dur
ing the past year Then they announced they'd cut prices
$25 millions.
"Why Junior, it's just like putting 230 bucks in the
bank drawing out % bucks and telling the bill collector
you're flat
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
That Income Tax Cut

couple of best friends told we'd be extremely
stupid to out flatooedy in opposition to the income
tax reduction which Congress recently put into effect
We told that nobody likes TO pay taxes and that
everybody likes tax reduction With that we readily agree
but
There's another side to the picture and we might well
take look at it while anticipating reduction in the amount
withheld from pay.
The us. piled up a huge debt during the war-and we
think it's good business to retire much of it possible
during the present boom.
Then there's going to be that piece of magic known as
paying for EP and military aid with reduced Federal rev
Y
Furthermore, we're bit suspicious about the whole
thing.
This is April-and the November elections aren't far
away It's politics to reduce taxes just before cleo
if they have to be hked again after the baots
counted.
Rep. Knutson of the House Ways and Means Committee
has announced his group considering the possible mpo-
son of new excise taxes and perhaps federal sales
Maybe we're too skeptica but if the average individual
finds late this early next that his total tax load
hasn't been reduced We're going to say 1--WE told you So
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
MIR. Herzog Is Right

NLRB Chairman Paul NJ Herzog whose agency is snow
ed under by thousands of cases. really said mouhul the
other day.
He deplored the habit of managemenabor disput-
running to the Board the courts to demand nunc
tions against one another.
He said that those who seek sole refuge in the statute
books make orderly collective bargaining and plant harmony
difficult if not impossible.
"In the long rum Government will either lose the conf
gain complete control the people it supposed
to it is forced to adudcate all controversies between
industry and labor"
We of course don't know whether IIerzog intended it
that way, but his statement stngng slap at the TAFT
Harteyites.
1t a slap, too, at employers who every possible
legal techncaty in effort to keep their employees from
enjoying the benefits of unionism
What was it labor said when the TIL Act was being
considered?
1t said the law would tend to destroy collective bargain
ing
1t said administration of the law would create some
thing of a paradise for lawyers.
1t warned against the injunction provisions of the Act
Yes, HerZog said mouthfu-but what he didn't say
is that his troubles have just begun.
Wait until the full effect Of TIL is felt! That probably
will happen when the thousands Of contracts which
signed last year before TIL went into effect up for
newal
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
They Have Not Learned

Down in California lot of employers apparently have
not yet learned how get along peacefully with their work
and the Unions In fact it sometimes that the
CaifOnans interested in fighting Unions than IN
running business and industrial firms Probably they have
not forgotten that only few that they
could fix wages anywhere they pleased because SO many
workers folks who went to California for their health
and had to take what they could get
Just the California Metal Trades association is
Quoting knock down and drag out fight against all Unions
has refused to sign agreements locked hundreds of
workers and is running collection campaign to raise money
for the fight Begging letters going out daily to various
industries crying for cash with which to fight for lower
wages
What encourages the CafOnans to make the fight at
this time? You guessed it, the TaftHartey Act Now they
have legal right to import strkebreakerS that can get
court nunctons by the dozen they will need help before
they through.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Control Of Atomic Energy

Last year bitter fight raging the confirma
ton of David Lentha for the chairmanshp of the Atomic
Energy Commission On this fight and that involved in the
confirmation of the commissioners depended the objective
of the President for civilian control of atomic energy.
year has passed now and we still have civilian control
instead of military control While efforts still being
made to effect gains the part of the military all the evil
dence which impartial observers evauate points to atisac
tory reign of control under civilian auspices.
The necessary military liason functions have been car
Ted out quite satisfactorily and the Commission has made
great progress in the steps toward utilizing atomic
for peacetime uses.
In representative democracy such is always
better to have control of the agencies of government except
ing the armed forces themselves in the hands of civilians
We believe the choice of commissioners has been good and
that the work Of the commission to date has been
dabe The task of Harvesting the atom is in capable hands
Let look forward TO further progress in the peaceme
of nucear energy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Bios

In attacking the education program in which the Army
attempts explain factuay to the nations soldiers the
vanished story of trade unions, to that Rep
Clare Hoffman R Nch) has rendered his country sngu-
larly poor service
AS all trade unonsts know, the Army has never been
"pro labor-often quite the contrary But the Army gen
erals have learned that modern army must be well inform
ed, must know what it is fighting for
And the Army recognizes also that just labor played
a very vital part in the last war; in the future it will be
of even greater Importance.
We think the Armys effort to educate soldiers re-
gardng the basic problems of trade unionSts leaves much
to be desired but entirely sympathetic to its basic
purpose.
And think that Hoffman, and others in Congress like
him. have by this action merely made themselves ridiculous
and again emphasized their anti-labor bias.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Justice

Our legal system is better than most, but there
times when hair splitting egasms interfere with justice
We think that is what has happened in the contempt
proceedings against the United Mine Workers.
The coal diggers happen to have been right In the light
for pension system The coal mine operators had aty re-
fused to agree to anything OF to propose counter plan
The fact that conservative Republican Senator
like Styles Bridges of New Hampshire would award the de-
cision to the coal miners without moments hesitation
should be proof enough for anyone where the right and
wrong of the situation lay.
Senator Bridges decision settled the dispute on its
merits.
But Judge Goldsborough less interested in right
and wrong than in furnishing John Lewis.
We don't remember any stiff fines being assessed
against management decade ago when the NAM was
leading the general defiance of the Wagner Act Do you?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Building Solid Foundation

1t is encouraging to know that workers everywhere
reported by the American Federation of Labor showing
keen interest in the newly established Labos League for
Political Education whose aim is to increase greatly the par
tcpaton in elections by millions of and other
nonprivieged Americans.
The league, which plans to be in business long time
is at work building solid foundation Those law
makers who automatically give the highest priority to the
selfish desires to Big Business will have their srangehold
broken at least if the league successfully carries out It's pro-
gram And" the AFL says, "he league should succeed for
there logical why, in democratic nation Con
gress and legislatures should be dominated by the thinking
of the small minority of financial suzerains
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
a lob For Free Labor

Events in the modern world point out dramatically that
do not live alone that what goes in other parts OF
the world affects lives in North America 1t is trulSm
say that the world is nteldependent but it must be at
times that many in the labor movement do not always real
ize this fact.
We must remember that the welfare of labor is not
dvisibe that labor which is beaten down in other parts
of the world will suffer results which will affect labor in
the free countries Labor in free countries IN addition to
the decent and humanitarian for assistance should
realize their obligations to organized labor and support free
trade union efforts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
'CAVIL-CADE'
BY LES FINNEGAN

gesoeg EFs o m IN r e yu n Sa industries dew Su Te
got editorial perspective What news that Lana Turn
fourth marriage also was case your labor
send message Of you may have missed some Of the
and huge o9steTs 3 flown to HoywqGd from Boston
carried the iced legend q You" Most significant contribution
e @ s pSe eTe %e enbrodefed N with witty Just what the
mGt SstP 6aye % 6H % o@eF S@ f Third ROUND o
and "An End To Price Increases"
Slogans play important in the lives Of American workers
Thousands of gau W2ce For PR Predn slider neeg % Both td the %q
strike they couldn't protest yet longer they worked the
d doue y asyr wsn 5 ' fs Ts os ha
S the ff%%e & Tsf Snf at ha was But the a% %6
he pufed into hi his plant @ he not only the 90 A en @ @
reading Wallace for Foreign Commsar and Down With MooOv;
won election the Diamond Match Co. ciothesPn
powder organized and handlers of racing dogs
The Daily Worker finally got thru its Eedhatehed
dis dishonest" Why? Because the Co doesn't want Stains kiss of
% are an $ thy W a They @ HayfHt r 9es@ O
California other states the Communists
are M2e " @ @ %b & 0vsa Sman % aG fa that
refuses to wait and whether the Communists going to be
postofe left bleeding the floor Three days later he
Sa @ had a % % 9 RGpiRg % e s
police p % announced V S g b c%pan aganst eme G connie
Westinghouse Electric developed Xray eye" that bink
monhe therefore observe the nest wasted
worker assembly line The cruelty of the
proved Thousands of efficiency and
whose pedup systems threw thousands of
unons of work will find themselves thrown out of jobs
and with union
discovered that had completely forgotten
dissolve World War corporation that created
Proof
when legislators finally
daylight for the District of Columbia
the the The bill
importance 296 Republican
sleep day during discussion of President Trumans
ant-infIation program g..
The laws against indecent and obscene literature pretty strong
the the country huge ads
by US Steel General Electric and other boated corporations howl
ncreaes The initiation hold
are! US Steel long hikcd So
higher than the year
Telephone Telegraph will demand increased
will 50 dividend Ford Motor Co., said it will
price of the Mercury by 315 $500 Meat prices
climb 81 for homcowne this month and mems clothes the in
said will be 3 higher this fall The know
that Hitler unbalanced that he crazy enough to admit he
the theory of the big e American ought
stop about the effect Of their children and take
instead that their ddes minds aren't depaved by read
ing business ads.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-05-13
Sample Of Tatt-HurtleYism

Here is a classic example of the working of the Taft
Hartley Act the employees of the Pipe Machinery company
of Cleveland struck for higher few weeks The
company using the privilege granted by the Tatlartey
Act imported strike breakers At long last the NLRB got
around to holding election. Then at-Harteysm struck
home with vengeance. The srkebrea permitted
to vote whether not they wanted Union the Union
strikers were not permitted to vote That's the law!
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
. Deaths
Henry p. Baker

Henry P. Baker, clothing mer-
chant in Plain City for 35 years
died at his home there at 5 a. m
Sunday after an illness of one
year.
He was born in Birmingham, tc
Phillip and Elizabeth (Nuhfer)
Baker, both deceased. His parents
were born in Germany and Toledo
O., respectively.
Mr.. Baker was member of the
Presbyterian Church and the
Masonic lodge in Plain City.
Surviving are his wife, Grace
and one daughter, Mrs. Clyde
Hughes, Portsmouth and grand.
daughter Sue Ann; also a sister
Mrs. Clara Moulton, Geneva Ohio
Funeral services will be held al
2 p. m. Tuesday in the Ferguson
Funeral home, conducted by Rev
F. M. Patterson Interment will be
in Forest Grove cemetery ir
charge of j. D. Ferguson of Plair
City"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13

MIR. Richard L. Merriman, aged
SO, died at his home in Broadway
at 8 a. m. Friday following a heart
attack. He was only i'll two days
Mr.. Merriman, carpenter lived
most of his life around Broadway
He was born March IL, 1895 in Ft.
Wayne, Ind. to Ross and Femmie
(Reading) Merriman.
Surviving beside his father are
four children, r. L. Merriman,
Lansdale, Pa; Marquis Merriman,
Copely, Ohio, and Robert and
Mildred at home, and two grand
children.
Funeral services were held in
the Methodist church in Broadway
at 2 p. m. Sunday, conducted by
Rev. Claude Forsythe. Burial was
in the Broadway cemetery in
charge of Willard Winter, funeral
director of Raymond.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
PAGE THREE

Davis, and attended the Davis re-
union Sunday near Raymond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Moore and
sons spent Thursday evening at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Maunce Bulen.
Mrs. Tenah Ridge returned
home recently, where she spent 3
weeks with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Slayhangh and family of Ashta-
bula Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hon and
family entertained company Sun
day from Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Davis and
granddaughter, Phyllis Clark, at
tended the 9th Davis reunion
Sunday near Raymond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Norris,
Jennie Valeta Grindell and Mr..
and Mrs. Gerald Wheeler and
children attended the Norris re-
union Sunday at the Prospect
Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Ridge had
Sunday dinner guests from Col
umbuS.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
. Valley Road
BY MRS. EFFIE DAVIS

Several from this community at
tended the State Fair at Colum-
bus the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Thompson
called on her father, George Moore
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Davis
and son, Larry, returned from
Oklahoma, where they were visit
ing his brother, Lee Davis, and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Oberdier and
son, of Dayton, were guests sew
eral days at the home of her par
ents MIR. and Mrs. Hugh Ridge
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Watts and
children, of near Westerville,
spent Tuesday at the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. Albert Thompson.
Phillis Clark, of Redwood,
spent Saturday night with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
<dvertisemene

Copyright. 1913. United States Brewer, FOuadaho"
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
. Stringtown
BY MRS. VERA KRAMER

Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmy Ford, OF
Huntington, w. Va; Mrs. Bertha
Holland, of Proctorville, Ohio;
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lease and
Patty, of N. Kenova, and Mrs
Clifford Jackson, of Huntington
w. Va, spent Labor Day week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wood
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Cole and fam
lily spent Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Stroop.
Mrs. Ruth Seaman and children
of Poenix, Arizona, were Thurs.
day evening supper guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Kramer.
Mrs. Vera Kramer spent Fri,
day with Mrs. Fay Polling in Ma
rySville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Alltop, OF
Proctorvile, Ohio, spent few
days with Mr.. and Mrs. F. N. Ry-
an.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cole and
sons, spent Thursday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wood ano
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker and
family, of Houston, Texas, called
on Mrs. Sam Robinson and Flor.
ence and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Kramer Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wood and MI
and Mrs. James Wood and sor
spent Tuesday with relatives in
London.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Kramer
and daughter spent Sunday af.
ternoon with Mrs. Lulu Kramer
in Rushylvania.
Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Robinson
of Fayette, spent a few days last
week with the formers mother
and sister, Mrs. Sam Robinson
and Florence.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13
> Court News
Real Estate Transfers


Robert J. w. and Marie Bishop
to William and Elizabeth Bishop,
AIS acres in Union township, 81.
Mary Sanders to Earl G.. Smith,
lot in Essex, 81.
Flora L. Ogan, by ADM, to
Joseph Grigsby, lot in Redwood,
$4,000.
Lester and c. Perdue to Robert
and June Hickman, lot in Irwin,
81.
Lucille and Delmer Brown to
Richard Nolan, 1880 acres in
Dover, 81.
c. E. and Glenna Shirk to Joel
and Ruth Phipps, 129 acres in
Liberty, 81.
John L. and Pauline M. Bren-
ner to David l.. and Gertrude M
Brenner, 1914 acres in Jerome
81.
Veva Evelyn Sparks to James
L. Sparks, lot in Redwood, 81.
Navy Discharge
The discharge of Max Kenneth
Liggett from the U. S. Navy has
been filed.
Marriage License
Charles Pickering, 81, son oil
Carroll ]. Pickering, Redwood
to RoSella Hawthorne, 81, daugh-
ter of Joe Brown Hawthorne
Redwood. Rev. Nola CarSwells
was expected to Solemnize.
To Sell Real Estate
An order has been issued tc
sell the property on North Main
street, opposite the Post Office
of the Church of Christ. c. A
Hopes, is the attorney.
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1948-09-13

of Marion; Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
Weston, of Moral, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Williams and children, Sus-
an, Vaughn and Gary, of Belle
fontaine, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde
Beckel and son, Clyde, Jr., and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Williams and
children, Judy and Bobby, of near
Prospect, and Mr.. and Mrs. Os-
wald.
w.c.r.u.! CONVENTION n
The all day convention of the
W.TC.U. was held in the Con-
gregational church, Friday.
The meeting was called to order
by the president, Miss Green.
Mrs. Magsig gave the welcome
and Rev. Snyder the devotions.
A program of music and readings
was given with Miss Stimmell,
Mrs. Merriman, Mrs. McCarty
participating. The guest SPEAKER
was Miss Graccio Holder, of Aus
trailia. She warned against the
New Look in advertising.
Officers were elected as fol-
lows President, Miss Green; vice
president, Mrs. Eva Sprague;
treasurer, Miss Eltha Graham;
secretary, Mrs. Letha Davis. Miss
Green was elected to go as a della
gate to the convention in Cincin-
natl in October.
A pot-luck dinner was served
in the basement of the church.
IL IL IL
v. F. w. AUXILIARY
Veterans of Foreign Wars Aux
iliary will hold its regular meet.
ing at 8 p. m. Friday in the "
F. w. hall.