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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
Campaign Odds And Ends

Humanity comes in odd packages Now that the cleo
ton over people digging up facts which, they
should have given them idea of what would and did hap
Republican sources reported far smaller number OF
absentee ballots sent to COP headquarters than in 1914 and
1916 Democrats the other hand told of much larger
absentee business than before.
Many voters did not bother to vote for presidential
candidate according to analysis by the Ohio Board OF
Elections AS will be recalled the Ohio vote truly
cia WE'LL it that 301 045 Ohoans voted in the
contest for Governor and Congressman than in the pres
Dental race The Democratic victor Frank j. Lausche ran
far ahead the head of his ticket President Truman
check in strong Republican districts also shows that
voters ignored the presidential ballot.
Here are some amusing campaign aspects for which we
are indebted to the Toledo Union Leader:
A group of citizens wrote Washington, ID. c.. editor
they would not vote for Truman because he had failed to
prevent daylight saving time.
The October issue of Kipnger Magazine called the Re
publican candidate undoubtedly better scientific admin
trator than George Washington Thomas Jefferson Andrew
Jackson Abraham Lincoln"
federal employee accomplished soprano, was asked
to sing the Star Spanged Banner at of Mr. rumans
major speeches. The Civil Service Commission decided this
would constitute political actvtywhch meansthe girl
could be fired from her job
Symptomatic of the welluphostered Republican party
The Republican babes charged admission to social
events the basis of their wastnesone cent for
inch of girth. The "take said to be tremendous
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
Polls And Other Nuisunces

Remember the Literary Digest? 1t publication
which conducted nation wide poll presidential elections
boldly declared that Landon would defeat FDR pro-
duced fancy statistics to its predictions but the voters
refused along Landon got of the worst thumpngs
ever given a candidate for the presidency.
Shortly thereafter the Literary Digest folded up and
its name was heard in the land of the living.
Wonder what will happen to Doc Gallup Roper and the
the sta gazer who tried to make think was
going to be Dewey instead of Truman 1t will be interesting
to watch
Among other campaign nuisanceS, Wallace and his reds
and pnkes provided diversion did the socaed Dixie
Gratis Together however, they failed to stop the Democratic
sweep They out of the Democratic party now they
should be kept OUT Let them go their way seeking Their
support in the unac fringe which seems to have provided
them with their strongest backing What pack they are!
Wallace and his ou board; 1hulmond and his washbuck-
ling enemies of the constitution and the civil rights of Am
orleans
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
Slave Act! How True

Labor has often been criticized for labelling the Taft
Hartley act slave labor act but chums the act
headed in that direction Recent NRB rulings and actions
leave for doubt to who the act is against
The latest in many such actions came when NLRB
General Counsel Robert Denham threw up his hands and
admitted that the holding of union shop elections in the
building trades is impossible
There's only one catch to that One of the very few
provisions in the act alleged to give benefit to labor is
the section providing for union shop elections AS Richard
j. Gray president of the Building and Construction Trades
Department of the American Federation of Labor pointed
out "Now find that this (security) does not exist
Building and construction trades unions well unions in
other industries not enter into union shop agreements
though they willing to do authorized Tin electons
by the act Organized labor warned long that many
provisions of the act unwoabe but the experts like
Senator Taft and Representative Fred Hartley knew bet
At this late date the American people the lie
thrown in their faces but meanwhile the rank and file of
labor their security threatened.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
New Rent Controls Needed

Announcement that Housing EXpeder 1ighe f. Woods
will ask the next Congress for strengthening and extension
the control law good for hardpressed renters
Most persons who live in rented quarters would find
rents beyond their reach if it not for the present law
If law should be allowed to expire their position would
be inoerabe AS Woods said the demand for housing in
most places has not been met and long this is true rent
control is necessary.
1t certain that the new Congress will be more
favoraby disposed toward rent control and other progress
sive legislation than the 80th Congress- of maodoous
oy But the reactonary real estate interests will undoubt
edy put up a tremendous fight against strengthening and
extending rent control and the outcome is by
sured The real estate boys will do their best to prevent
legislation and to that the law dies after it's present
pation date March 81 1t will require the best efforts of
labor and of all friends of progress to win the fight for
strengthening and extension. I a.ls xrl kaH
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
Leader Supply Direction

Direction in union affairs must be supplied by leaders
Keeping in mind the basic drive behind unionsm-mproved
conditions for those who workabor leaders resolve petty
internal dssensons and out eXtraneous activities to
direct all effort towards further gains.
In New York state abors leaders have brought to their
work approach unparalleled anywhere else in the nation
They to fine degree of the part organized labor
must play the economy Only last resort do they
the strike weapon to enforce demands For the most part
they endeavor to work for the good of the industry in which
their members are employed knowing that the formula
what is good for labor is good for industry equally real
stc when applied in its OF course there
irresponsible people in labor circles whose motives resolve
only to personal gain but like weeds that in the
best of gardens they usually uprooed and cast aside
when their destructive actions brought to light
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18
In Politics To Stuy

Labor learned many things in the recent political cam
paign and it is in politics to stay the Labor World of
Duluth, Mnn points out "Ihe labor movement the rank
and e has demonstrated that not only willing but able
to get into the fight at the political eve the Labor World
says and goes on to observe:
Labor union members who never knew what a caucus
because they not interested versed
in the ways of grass roots politics and parliamentary law
than any of them dreamed And they find it to their
liking
Ihis is only the start of rebirth and those in the
rank and file of labor in it to stay 1t is wholesome de-
veopment because these boys interested in clean politics.
But let it be said that if brass knuces used against
them politics. they fully capable of retaang in kind
And at the election booth they will say it with ballots
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-18

started aae mmag % o aa Of oF shG
less than % W aH od O OCOO 80 OF eora o s ah
would have given him grand total Of @ emo enough to WIN VIM C0z logic
Dew Dewey y eaa carried these bSse five States States
Try additional iii electoral Isad
oa of "a electoral votes See you with fs"
Wallace the LII Abnsr of American politics. had sad sad time
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line Thsn only to turn racsoio few
da % e & shS 6a Whgon But aga there
Henry told there wasn't ANY chance Of og starting bnn tnpd
here waiting for that!
NAN d beed & H @ Gs % and s s to sad
M 6 ns aS m m gor ncd %agoH
So and magazines # of
DTs @ Ct t sm the Ha @ e easo sRsT Sou
~%ch @ Screamed dewey Defeats Truman huge type
$S sReEs
5 s Tbsa W f2F Dsnsg msFs Dss b?"
% o % @ wan 70 answer that question and that's in the words
obonne for The Daily News washington on
afef JaH 20 %e We dont Gnfr care much
Dewey tooges the election completely sewed that they
started to settle in washington swarms two months 3 before o"r Moy
Washngons office buildings and furnished them lavish
% Ue G h9gs @ pa @ 5sd the ev nt 5
for quiet in front of tall white @
the White House The building that
could have given them national headquarters
Committee its headquarters and
bought the COP bankrupt during
President Roosevelts second term!
How did other their of
them country they could Senator Taft had
his when he shouted
repealed"
Hartley stung the quick at seeing supported Democrat
complained that dewey started
acting the United States too soon" Which
who did like Congress
Bunting of the Natl Association of Manufacturers yeped
msead promises Which
published
promising prices if OPA killed General Motors Pres
F. have deal of
good President Truman has proved him
Which coming who did everything
monkey into the nations macn
Chamber Commerce,
business to be in the for the next
whose organization
opposed building for under $4,000 long there
rent ceilings.
Galups analysis of his poll amounted
decided for Truman Now there's
bright Any schooboy could have told Gallup that it
elected Truman If they hadn't decided
elected The only decided fact that
linn has decided he is undecided.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
DeniiuIs
Continued From First Page

International Law and college fra
ternities and athletic clubs"
He said he had no recollection OF
having ever met Mr.. Chambers, did
not recognize him from newspaper
photographs and had never been in
sympathy with the principles of the
Communist Party.
Mr.. Abt, general counsel for Pres
idential Candidate Henry A. Wal
lace's Progressive Party, declared
that the CLOAK and dagger tales to
which the Thomas Committee is
now giving currency were told to the
FBI as long ago as 1945" The sto-
ries, he added, we're investigated by
a New York grand jury for more
than a year, "all without result"
Red Herring Seen.
TT is evident, therefore," Mr. Abt
declared, that the Thomas Com
mittee has once again disinterred
an old and particularly malodorous
red herring which it is endeavoring
to warm up AL serve as a substi-
tute for price control, public housing
and civil rights legislation, de-
manded by the American people,
and which it is the business of the
Congress to provide"
At San Francisco, Mr.. Pressman,
former general counsel for the WPA
and later for the CIO, said he would
have a statement to make at the
proper time. Mr.. Pressman quit the
CIO to support Mr.. Wallace's Pro-
gressive Party.
In New York, Mr.. Witt said he
had no comment at this time" on
the charges.
Aubrey williams Protests.
From Montgomery, Ala, Former
National Youth Administrator AL
brey Williams accused the House
committee of trying to smear every
liberal in the country"
Mr.. Williams name came into
Evening star., 1948-08-04
By Hermon F. Schoden

Unlike Elizabeth T. Bentley, for
mer Communist spy, the typical
American cannot complete a high
school education without learning
something about our Government
and political beliefs.
This is the opinion of national ed
ucational leaders, based on recent
surveys, showing that the teaching
of American history is compulsory
in every State but one.
Miss Bentley, whose Russian spy
disclosures have shocked the Nation,
gave the House Committee on Un-
American Activities additional cause
for concern by testifying she went
through public school and Vassar
College and obtained a masters de-
gree at Columbia University without
one contact with American history
or civicS.
Questioned by Hebert.
How this could happen to the
average American citizen was es-
pecially alarming to Representa-
tive Hebert, Democrat, of Louisiana,
who questioned Miss Bentley as to
where the fault lies in our educa-
tional system.
What Miss Bentley said was this:
Il think it is the fault that runs
straight through it, because there
are numerous people, like myself,
who have not the slightest compre-
hension of what America is really
like, nor what it means to live in
democratic country under a demo-
cratic system"
The woman who confessed to re-
laying top secrets to the Russian
government during the war ex-
planned that her family had moved
about so frequently she seemed to-
avoid American history and civics
courses"
She said she was graduated from
Vassar in 1880, still unenlightened.
Neither the colleges catalogue for
1926 nor the current one makes
prior knowledge of American history
a requisite to entrance, nor is it
required course on the college cur
riculum.
NEA Points to Studies.
Miss Bentleys somewhat frighten-
ing revelation was met with cool re-
assurance by officials of the Ma
tional Education Association and
the Office of Education.
They had some figures handy
from the still smouldering outburst
Of 1912, when the New York Times
led a campaign to determine just
how much Americanism was being
stuffed into the average student.
The study. contained in the
American History of Schools and
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Jap Communist Urges
Attack on Ashida Cabinet
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Aug. 4. Communist
Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda to-
day called for a counteroffensivs
against foes of labor and the Ashida
cabinet.
Tokuda addressed cheering
throng in his first public appear
ance since an attempt was made
on his life in Kyushu, Southern
japanese island. He was given a
rousing cheer by his youthful fol-
lowers when he shouted: "The AS
hida cabinet has become the puppet
government of foreign capital"
Tokuda boosted the Henry WAL
lace third party platform as peace
movement for the world.
Seated on the platform with To-
kuda was Kazuyoshi Dobashi, head
of the governments Communist
Influenced communications workers.
and Katsumi Kikunami, former
head of Japan's Communist in.
f1uenced Congress of Industrial
Unions.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Bridges Urges Probe
OF Studebaker. Letter

Chairman Bridges of the Senate
Appropriations Committee yester-
day urged a full-scale Senate in
vestigation of charges that the
Office of Education is barred by
censorship from attacking commun-
ism. He also said his committee
will make study of budgeting
practices of the Federal Security
Agency. The Office of Education is
part of the FSA.
Senator Bridges move is an out
growth of a letter by DR.. John w.
Studebaker, former Commissioner
of Education, claiming censorship
was imposed on the education Office
by Oscar Ewing, Federal Security
Administrator.
Senator Ferguson of Michigan
chairman of a Senate expenditures
subcommittee. announced his group
would look into DR.. Studebaker's s
censorship charges in executive ses-
sion. In letter to Senator Fergu-
son, Senator Bridges said that if
DR.. Studebakers charges are true
there has been a breach of trust
tantamount 10 betrayal within the
Federal Security Agency"
Senator Bridges said his commit
tee would study the FSA budget
practices to determine if hidden
transfers of funds within the agency
are weakening the effectiveness OF
the Office Of Education and other
constituent parts, as DR.. Studebak-
er's letter alleges"
Mr.. Ewing, a close friend of
President Truman, has denied DR..
Studebaker's charge of censorship.
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Justice Department
Spent Million in Probe
[0f Red Spy Ring

The Justice Department for some
time has had nearly all the informa-
tion being told in the congressional
investigations of Communist espio-
mage activity but scores of investi-
gators and attorneys were unable to
get the real evidence necessary to
support criminal prosecution, it was
learned today
Attaches of the Departments S
Criminal Division spent nearly a
million dollars in a three-year in
vestigation of the stories related by
Elizabeth T. Bentley and others.
When they were through they found
they lacked sufficient evidence to
bring about indictment of some of
those mentioned by Miss Bentley,
self styled former Communist agent.
The blue ribbon grand jury in
New York heard nearly the identical
stories that have been unfolded in
the double -barreled investigation in
Congress, but in the end handed
down indictments against only the
II top Communists including Party
Chairman William 2. Foster.
Officials pointed out that there is
considerable difference between
"just talk" and the real evidence
needed to support a criminal charge.
BY that they did not mean that
Miss Bentley's stories are untrue,
but that witnesses and evidence
necessary to corroborate the stories
were lacking
In a congressional investigation,
it was pointed out, "just about any
thing goes in the nature of hearsay
or other uncorroborated testimony,
whereas in a criminal trial strict
rules govern the admissibility of
evidence.
Justice officials still are searching
for evidence to prove the stories
now being told at the Capitol, and
still have not ruled out the posi-
bility of getting indictments if suf-
ficient facts can be uncovered. But
whatever chance they had of get
ting the evidence now seems remote
in view of all the publicity attend
ing the congressional probe.
Evening star., 1948-08-04

Communist of long standing and an
agent of the NKVD that he con-
tinued employment with the Gov
ernment.
This was confirmed by Mr.. Rus
sell, reading from the Civil Service
report.
Boarding" Recommended.
Based on the Investigations, Mr..
Russell testified csc investigators
recommended that
l. Silvermaster be declared in
eligible as an economist for the
Board of Economic Warfare.
2. That he be boarded" for three
years or until the end of the emer-
gency, which ever was longer.
3. The Secretary of Agriculture be
advised of findings in the report.
AS a result, Mr.. Russell said, the
Civil Service Commission renowned
Silvermaster's name from all eligi-
bility registers.
Quoting further from the report,
Mr. Russell read:
Possibly some testimony lin the
recordD is unreliable. But granting
that, the overwhelming amount of
testimony indicates beyond doubt
that Silvermaster is and has been
for years a member of the Com
munist Party and very probably a
member of the OGPU." The latter
is the Soviet state police now known
as NKVD.
Questions PrOpOunded by Dozens.
Despite Silvermasters stated in
tention of refusing to answer any
questions, Mr.. STRIPPING and COM
mittee members shot dozens of
questions at the witness. In nearly
every case he replied:
Il refuse to answer this question
on the grounds that any answer I
may make may tend to be. self
discriminating"
Many of the questions were on
whether Silvermaster knew many
persons named by Miss Bentley as
members of the spy ring.
At one point, Mr. Stripping asked
S,lvermaster to turn around and
identify Miss Bentley, seated at a
table a few yards away. Miss
Bentley arose and stared at the
witness, but he said only that he
would refuse to answer on grounds
that it might incriminate him."
Calls Charges False.
AS Miss Bentley looked on, Silver
master labeled Miss Bentley's charges
as false and fantastic"
He said he had been under in
vestigation during almost the entire
IL years of his Government service
and had been cleared by various
agencies. including the chief of the
Secret Service and Secretary of War
Patterson among others"
Because I have never attempted
to conceal my strong advocacy of
Evening star., 1948-08-04

Mr.. Chambers testimony when
Chief Committee Investigator Rob-
ert E. STRIPPING asked the witness If
he had heard Mr.. Williams name
mentioned in Communist circles.
Mr.. Chambers said he had heard
Communists talk of Mr.. Williams
with the highest esteem as a friend
of the Communist Party"
Mr.. Williams, now publisher of
The Southern Farmer, declared "the
whole thing is a disgraceful per-
formance."
II don't know Chambers" he
said. TT is a shameful thing to do
to innocent people who have no op-
portunity to answer back. 1t looks
like they will include every decent
man in America before they are
through. 1t is obvious they are out
10 smear every liberal in the coun-
try. This is obvious because they
asked Chambers If he knew me-"
s. Mr.. Chambers said he took his
Evening star., 1948-08-04
Union Official Faces
Subcommittee Today
On Red InfiItration

The Kersten Subcommittee of the
House Labor Committee today was
to continue its investigation into
Communist infiltration of labor
unions.
The head of a New York union
OF drugstore employees was to be
heard by the subcommittee He
was Unidentified by a subcommittee
investigator as Leon j. Davis, presi-
dent of Local 1899 of the CIO
Retail, Wholesale and Department
Store Employees.
In it's hearing yesterday, two wit
nesses refused to answer what
Chairman Hartley of the full COM
mittee has referred to as the s64
question-whether they are or were
members of the Communist Party.
Subcommittee Chairman Kersten
said that. through their failure, a
basis was laid for citing the wit
nesses for contempt of Congress.
The witnesses were Mrs. Mar
celia Nicholson. first vice president
of Local is of the union, COM
posed of employees of Macy's de-
partment store in New York, and
Mrs. Roberta Felsen, administrator
for the union of it's contract with
Macy's store at Jamaica, l.. I.
Refuses Other Answers.
Mrs. Felsen refused to answer
many questions other than the one
as to whether she was Communist.
She declined to say whether she
had worked for the Tass (Russian)
new agency. She also refused toI
answer questions concerning her
employment between 1912 and the
beginning of 1947.
The question about Tass she
called an outrageous violation" OF
her Constitutional rights.
Mr.. Kersten started the questions
along this line by asking where she
had been employed in April, 1s47
She answered:
It have sat here all day and seen
questions twisted, and I think that
question violates my Constitutional
rights"
When the questioning got down
TO Tass, Mr.. Kersten asked if Tass
was not Soviet news agency. She
replied she thought that was right.
rs there something illegal about
that news agency?" he inquired.
Mrs. Felsen conferred with the
union attorney, Samuel P. Shapiro,
sitting beside her. Then again she
stood on her Constitutional rights.
Mrs. Felsen, blond and blue eyed,
was dressed in black with large
straw hat She was preceded on
the stand by Mrs. Nicholson.
Questioned About Sister-in-law.
Mrs. Nicholson early in her in
terrogation claimed Constitutional
protection against questions. John
o Graham, subcommittee investi-
gator, questioned her about her en-
ployment and then asked about
Nancy Hausman. 1t developed Mrs.
Hausman is the wife of Burl
Nicholson, who is the brother of
Mrs. Micnelson's husband, William
MMichelson, business agent of an
other local of the union.
William Nicholson is one of nine
sunion officials, facing possible con-
tempt action as the result of re-
fusing to answer the question about
Communist membership when the
subcommittee held hearings in New
York in July.
Mr.. Graham asked Mrs. Michel
seen what position Burl Nicholson