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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Unions Offer Only Hope

The greatest gains of the working people have
through the enactment Of laws They have been by La
Dor Unions Probably they only be maintained by po
cal action the rart of Labor but that another story
We today in Congress effort the part of farm
belt politicians and sooges of the NAM to wipe out the 40
working week We not fooled by the idotic argu
ment5 of congressman who jump when the big fellows pull
the strings We know the reason for this move.
Selfish employers, especially where workers
ganizcd and therefore defenseess do not like pay time
and-onchaf for the sixth day They do not like to pay de-
cent wages They want to reduce that is their real
goal So they going to smash the 40hour working week
Or amend it into futity. That is their aVowed aim
II these selfish interests successful they will reduce
the Of millions OF workers. mostly nOrganized in the
income brackets They will faen their already
bugin2, money bags
But, there is thing they cannot do: they cannot
abolish the 40-hou working week which has been establish
ed in thousands Of Union agreements Any attempt to do
this would precpate worstoppages Of tremendous
What's the lesson to be learned here? It's quite simple.
il that the only hope Of working people lies in strong,
militant weldiscplned and wel-ofcered Labor Unions.
1t is folly to look to the politicians After Organized Labor
firmly established the 40-hour week custom of doing
business in this country may then be covered by law
of sort but until is established by the action of the
Unions law the subject will always be at the whm of
petty politicians and selfish interests. Your only hope you
work for your living is in your Union
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE, 1913
81 MARION H. HFDcrs I

biggest Washington the labor angle
climax than of work by the Natl Commit
the Extension of Labor Education numbering so labor leaders
tons of the nation. Hilda H. Smith is chairman
The @ hearings Are to bring to @ notable per-
ski in Philadelphia wekown ndustrast for employers William
Ruthven University Michigan many
be wneSses % ei strong Pu6 & opinion supports the bill
and Sen Thomas d. Utah SEN Aiken R V is chairman of the
Senate subcommittee holding the hearings
relations the Labor Extension Bill sound
better relations through of facts
r Act enacted by the Congress- The Morrill, Act granted
ernng as are related to aericte and the ecban The be-
Agricultural Extension Service going with present ap
praons of $42OOOOOO year model aid
Somehow the training neglected
Labor now moves to repair this megg after Sc years
be the u S. Department of Labor but tanning all
the states It federal set-up Secretary
administer the assisted by national council OF labor leaders and
educators In each state the will appoint education board
This board will act screening agency to hear
tension from labor unions and colleges The state board will
designate land grant college the principal of board
must match per federal funds After the state board passes
extension is forwarded to the u Secretary
Labor for approval, and recommendation for funds.
year the bill provides appropriation
$O0OO0oO tie second 20O0OOO0 the third $3OOOO
provide workers
what the Agriculture Dept secures for 100000 farmers
buried conflicts which to the surface the hearings
ton precpted by the of the Taft Hartley
EXTENSION Bill product OF united labor movement regarded as
country hundreds of local unions have con-
trbutd to the work of the Natl Committee for the
of Labor Education.
unonist horizon there is only one
blinking star of hope and that is education"
The little red school house has been symbol American
democracy The little school house. STYLE an nerant
school penetrating industry itself reaching the they
with the material to meet their hunges and BILL
if passed. will do
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Would Cut Interest Rute

Like other special interests the bankers 'never sleep"
They always the job, eenaly cSeng away at the
hard-won gains Of the common people
particularly shocking example revealed this week
when Senator Buck of Delaware and Congressman Twyman
of Illinois, introduced bills to cut from to per cent the in
terest paid by Uncle Sam postal savings"
The bankers bitterly fought the post office savings plan
when it proposed long 1t took long hard fight by
William Jennings Bryan and other great baers to put it
In those days, banks paid per cent and
savings accounts Since then they have cut their interest
rate 10 per cent and less AS their rate went down.
their dislike of the per cent paid by Uncle Sam went up
BY cutting the postal savings interest to per cent the
banks hope to Justify their low interest rate dscour
the postal plan and get of the peoples money into
banks TO increase bankers profits.
They not playing for peanuts" The postal plan
has grown to huge proportions, with $31 billion total
ings and million depositors who drew nearly $40 million
in interest last year
Uncle Sans attempt to encourage thrift by giving the
people absolute security for their savings and fair interest
rate has been great BY its good example keeps
the bankers from cutting their savings interest to practical
ly nothing.
The bankers don't like it, but LABOR hopes Congress
will overwhelmingly reject the Buck and Twyman bills If
they come to a vote.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
NLRB Says GIN Pension Offer
In Bad Fuith

Detroit Federal Judge John Bright last granted
temporary order the General Motors Corp
effect unaeraly determined
The granted after NRB general
requested the injunction against GIN
attempting violate its pledge to the union that health benefits
collective
the board citing corporation for unfair labor practices under
the Taft Hartley law.
Walter Reuher president the United filed
all employees describing the plan intended operation
and then refused to discuss it with the union
In the signed with JAW in April 1947, GIN
that the
would topic collective But
21 last year the corporation announced its determination of
unateray evolving plan The protested this
discussion
Analyzing the plan itself Reuther pointed
benefit that been able negotiations
with other employers 1t principally mpoyenanced and exclusive
ly administered by management"
JAW president charged company's purpose
procamng the insurance plan for Feb make mpos
b for the union bargain for plan
discussions Feb. 2S.
the UAW-GM to demand
allocate of
health plan in whose administration the workers would have
controlling
Upon the request issued complaint
order against GM then applied the
sranng the from acting
charges Hearings to begin on Feb 10 week
"A the meantime GIN stymied
The NLRB complaint against GIN charged biggest
firm with
eal to install insurance plan of its its
with attempted interference with collective bargaining.
Commenting ON the board action President Reuher sad
action RR
Hartley Act that its restrictive provisions woedged
emphasized fact that group in
plans subject for collective bargaining
under the law
push through inferior insurance plan the had
but to demand that the NLRB take action"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
why Don't We Get Our Heruld?"

With than ,00C in mailing files, we
expect to have complaints about the members get
ting their Herald but getting than usual the
last few months and very anxious to just where
the trouble lies.
Frequently, secretaries, when writing Members
complaining about not getting their Herald do not give
the and addresses Of the members complaining
Or the individual members writing does not give his local
union number and maybe not even his address,
If get the and addresses and the local union
number, to files and if plates covering
them there If they not will make other plates
Immediately If they there and at the latest address,
take the complaint to the Post Office Department
We have learned that part of the trouble lies in the
handling Of the copies in the Post Office Plates made
the day the received, and the only time lift
plate from the files is when instructed to do by the local
unon when receive notice from the Post Office De-
parment that the Head cannot be delivered for
another such as, Moved" insufficient address," No
zone number" other reasons
The Herald is published only because it gives information
beneficial to the members and glad to the
bers interested enough to complain when they don't receive
it. But can't do anything to sraghten out the trouble
unless receive the necessary information a of N from
you So write usbut remember always give the names
and addresses of those complaining, along with their local
union number
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
NEWS dnd VIEWS
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSELL Gan ILNS Feature)

Is 1913 going to be boom year?
the American look forward continued prosperity?
and business shout enthusiastic Maybe
the bright boys behind the desks right lot of other people have
doubts, amply confirmed by facts
walk through the sections community
drivers walters
sackened off considerably Entertainment
tmeant what it used to be- Night club
lines front heaters have tnned There
bright spots, but they the exception, not the rule.
Everybody talks of the high of living, problems
charge higher but prime materials and other costs
and stocks longer be replaced at the old price Others mainly
small manufacturers tell dead earnest If don't break
from the boys top will have to shut down temporarily out
of business.
just number bankruptcy has
aamngy. working with
California The Screen Actors Guild affiliate
of the A f. of b employment movie actors the
eoo histoiy VI VI
$500 about 600 under contract and thus assured of
The others best they Studios which
used produce 80 pictures before the down to 49,
agencies employment but the
saying has it, figures do not lie but liars figure Men working
registered employed hiding grim
behind a lurd of make believe statistics.
the New York City treated to
spectacle reminiscent of the depression 1000
Mind there actual vacancies Since these
jobs filled by temporary employees Just the 1000 citizens
vered line all night long to be time for the bonanza of street
If this spells full to
eat last summers straw hat As metropolitan reporter remarked:
angh world tickets
boisterou shouting. Waiting all night compete limited
number of jobs did not make for holiday atmosphere.
begins take shape Demand goods which, thanks bdd
greed have priced themselves of the market drying Com
petition without for the neghbor welfare has had the
table result the rich getting richer and the poorer liter
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Economic Advisors Report

Economics is dull stuff The reports of the experts who
study the changing the United States and who try
to point out imminent dangers both to business and to
ernment often tresome reading Here and there how
ever, pungent sentences that strike home.
In the latest report of the Council of Economics Advisors
who tell President Truman what they think is wrong or
right with the economic picture pointed facts For
instance
After considering carefully the need of adequate capital
and the development of for maximum production
the report says production must be balanced to make
sble the passing of goods to people, This
has been goal through double process of enlargng
and lowering prices of massproduced goods
The trouble is says the report that 1--WE must have
much higher consumption in all the lower and middle ranks
The small number of weltodo will not be able to absorb
the possible output of consumers goods.
Then the report continues, business and government
will have to face the problem of adjusting prices to income
It added: MANY industrial prices must come down
rates of profit must subsde gross mbalances in the
wage structure must be rectified'
What's the meaning of all this? First that the incomes
of working people will not permit them to buy ALL most
of the things being produced Unless incomes are IN
creased prices definitely reducedand this lower
profs-a terrific bump is coming. That's the danger
The Bureau of Labor Statistics having surveyed living
COSTS the average city worker must receive 500 to
support his family in health and decency 1t found that
reporting owspendng rates by workers suffering
from too low wages rather than lower need.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
This Is Not "A Pleasing Picture

Is this the kind of democracy boys fought and bed
to establish?
Aboard of Uncle SANS transports, anchored off Ba
tavia Java commission representing the United Nations
has succeeded inducing the representatives of the
ment Of the Netherlands and of the ndoneSan Republic to
sign truce The ndonesians promised measure of
liberty buand this is the most disturbing feature of the
documen-the Dutch retain control of all the natural
sources of the territory affected.
Probably it is the best solution the u N. commissioners
work out at this time but calls attention to ugly
facts Why should the Netherlands little country in North
Europe control the fabulous wealth of thcy populated
islands thousands of miles from the Dutch homeland? Of
course the is that Dutch and British capitalists insist
on retaining the of their tremendous profits.
The Japs chased the Dutch out of Indonesia Some of
the welcomed the invaders because they hated their
old masters
Yankee soldiers and sailors drove out the Japs and the
natives felt that at last real deverance had They
20 be free to conduct their government and to de-
termine their way of life
However, the Dutch came back, armed with American
and British weapons and proceeded to slaughter the natives
The situation became nasty that the United Nations had
intervene and have the results of that nterven
tion.
All through Asia the story will spread and hundreds
of millions Cf yellow will be convinced that the white
talks cf democracy and liberty for all human beings,
but mecessy exploits those who can't stand against his
modern weapons. We ask again.
Is this the kind of democracy boys fought and bed
to establish?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
TAFT-HARTLEY LAW
EXPOSED!


BY J. ALBERT WOLL and HERBERT s. THATCHER
(Member of the law firm of Padway, Wo Thatcher Glenn
and Wilson, serving general counsel for the
tion of Labor
This is the eighth of series of articles be published
AFL weekly News refutatiOn
the Saturday Evening Post which praised Tafartey
to the skies Author of the Post article Mack
partner of Senator Robert A. Taft-enough said
NO. S-THE "SO-CALLED Ia PRIVILEGES" OF THE
TAFT HARTLEY LAW-(Con ontinued)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
SLOW UP!
BY RUTH TAYLOR


Do
mec stumbled puzzled them for long time until
solving the problem of living in these days Of stress and
strain havet that--alow for the stretch.
existence fast there much be done,
taking too o. hours full
and continually haunted by the hands
the hat we justice to anything tackle.
Plan your time that there will be enough stretch
delays
will Do what See to it that whatever do do
don't do the things can't And
to crowdev everything into day.
haste best by going at filling time
Make
up the nonessential not by adding already full
schedule.
time for ivngfor hnkingfor rchargng the batteries
spirit be strong body clear mind
spirit And cannot be these three
Coordinate
ing all times allowing for the stretch.
Do the best and trust in the goodness of Divine Po
the remembering the words of the Prophet Isaiah He
that believeth shall not make haste"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
When Uncle Sam Needed the Money

Hollywood is facing hard times. Expenses being
slaShed right and left The given interesting
First, the British have placed heavy tax American
films and insist that only small part Of the remaining prof
its may be taken out of the country Negotiations in
progress in London to that situation Apparently the
absence of American movies is reducing the of
British heters. Patrons not satisfied with the
austere British pictures They like Yankee thrilers.
But the second explanation of Holywoods is the
most revealing of ALL During the war; when Uncle Sam
needed the money the movie mOgus nduged in all kinds of
they finding it extremely difficult to get rid Of the
necessary expenditures
They not entitled to much sympathy on that score
Anyone who would throw away his money in order to ham
string Uncle Sam in times is mighty poor American.
There lot of them among big business during
the late conflict.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
About The Union Lubel

Some merchants say if they do put Unon-made goods
their shelves that Union people will not buy them That
be just ab but if it be true it is serious ndct
ment OF union and women,
Let's not play the other fellows game He has marked
cards If place chips his table in the end
bound to lose It's gamble when you purchase union pro-
ducts and union services.
Loyal trade unionists do not patronze any firm that
does lot sell nomade goods and employ members Of
ice unions First they insist the Union Label Next they
ask for Unonmade merchandise and if the merchant has
supply of them, union and women usually tell him
where he get them The secretary Of the Central Labor
Union in every city has Union Label Cataogue-)rectory
reference book which all union manufacturers listed
ard will furnish such information.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
City Forests Profitable

Success of municipal forest in Troy Maine has
abed the city to finance rebuilding of schools with profits
from growing and selling trees and interesting develop
ment IN municipal enterprise
The American Public Works Association that the
experience of Troy is typical of increasing number of
cities throughout the nation which have started municipal
forests frequently tax delinquent land
More than 1900 municipal forests in the u S. pro-
tectng city Watersheds providing wldfe conservation
and producing timbeand products for cities
tanned yield basis
The municipal forest idea originated in Europe. An
5000 tract owned by the city of Bee Switzerland
valued So million and yields annual income of $500 900
In this country Seattle has of the largest municipal
forests with S3 900 acres under longrange development
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
49, Escape from Forced Political Contributions


The thirteenth privilege which has eendd workers
the Tfarty Act the privilege of not being able
funds of their union though they desire for the purpose
disseminating information regarding the voting
cations of federal political candidates
The trainers of the Taft Hartley reversing
the philosophy underlying the Wagner have
petuate their order by making difficult
organized labor defeat them the polls
their places legislators equipped with better understanding
and the functions of trade uonim that
The act makes unlawful for labor unions make
Expenditure behalf of against political candidate and the
of this provision explained that intended muz the
far used seek the election of abors
friends and defeat of its enemies.
While that corporations also prohibited from making
restrictions political
pendues by employer associations such local national cham
Further thing prohibit corporation operat
for private profit from making political expenditure, and
other to deny such privilege to labor which are onpo
voluntary associations of working people, Of whose prime
unlike corporations the securing of legislation beneficial to
the working people of this country.
Organized labor primarily responsible for such constructive
child labor minimum and maximum hour
social the
While individuals permitted make political expenditures
obvious that employers able to utilize this
effectively than individual workers whose income
limited the of officers 1t
small contributions of individual employees
that the rights the
dvduas to make contributions have practical meaning
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-03-11

oplaced second. Both Miss Hines
and Mrs. Teller were given first
aid by Sandy Spring VFD and TAX
en- to hospitals.
Two local horses, Smoky owned
and ridden by Nancy Hanna, and
Tiny Mite, owned and ridden by
Jane Blunt, staged neck-and-neck
run in the Gap Hunters race, with
Smoky winning first place. Joe
Richards, 3rd, on his Colonel Tim.
made third place. Jill Hinckley, on
Tiptop, ran her first race in good
style. 7. T. Motifs George parted
with his rider, Peggy Werber, at
the first turn.
Grand Trap, owned by DR..
Thomas Hughes, and ridden by
Frank Warsell, won by a margin
over the Stabler Brothers Happy
Girl, ridden by Stanley Stabler in
the heavyweight race. There were
only two entries in this which turn
ed out to be one of the closest races
in the afternoon.
William F. Carl was chairman
Of arrangements for the races
which are an annual event.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1948-03-11
Local Army Enlistees
Around The Globe With
by Staff Sgt. Ed Brown

With most of his buddies already
wearing Army khaki and hearing
so much about the Army these
days, II year old David 7. Gragg
of 222 West Montgomery Avenue,
Rockville, just couldn't hold off
any longer. He had to know just
why so many of his pals had
Joined the ranks of the Regulars
and so, just to try it out, young
Gragg signed up for the minimum
period-a two year enlistment with
the Army Ground Forces. He left
for Fort Meade Monday to begin
processing.
Headed for Fort Jackson, South
Carolina, after reenlisting last
week at Rockville is Army Ser
geant James A. Miller of Route /,
Germantown. His younger brother,
Lewis, who also signed up last
week left Wednesday for Air
Forces training at Lockland Air
Base, San Anonio, Texas.
Riling the rails towards home
after serving with the Signal
Corps in oriental Japan is Sgt.
Charles w. Upton, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. M. Upton of Hilltop"
Dickerson, Maryland.
Leaving behind the beautiful
weather of Camp Stoneman, Salif-
ornia, Sergeant Charles (Stanley)
Carter, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Carter of Rockville, is now MEM
Der of Operations Skedaddle."
He'll be leaving the Regulars on
the 29th of March after serving
with the 7th Infantry in Korea.
Sgt. Carter enlisted at Rockville
in 1916. "Welcome Home" Stanley!
With the Air Force Weather
Service in sunny California Pfc.
Allen D. Baker of Monrovia, seems
to be holding his own in Meteoro-
logy (Webster states it's the
science of the atmosphere, especi-
ally in reference to weather and
climater Pfc. Baker graduated
from the Meteorology school at
Tinker, Field, Oklahoma and was
recently assigned to the 374 RGN
Squadron (Weather) Fairfield
Suisun Air Base, California.
Stanley B. Glover of Route 8,
Gaithersburg, is now completing
basic at FIT. Ord, California. (oh!
the poor guy-it must be dreadful
warm sun shiny weather-swim-
ming = suntan California here
| come" (I'm only kidding, Major,
so let's forget the transfer).