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Evening star., 1948-10-01
ssTHE EVENING STAR Washington D. c.


CATION John w. Scott, 1925 Ver-
mont avenue NV, drew a sharp
line between that and patent ad-
vertising.
Addressing a hearing panel which
had P. J. Federico. examiner in
chief, as its chairman, Mr.. Scott
declared advertising by patent
agents and attorneys, stimulates
the inventive genius of the Nation
and stimulation of invention is
sound public policy"
Arguments presented to show that
patent lawyers and agents are not
necessarily legal attorneys and
should pot be governed by the same
ethical rules were criticised by two
members of the Philadelphia Patent
Law Association
Wallace D. Newcomb of the Phila-
delphia group contended strongly
that patent law lis profession and
not an ordinary business" and de-
clared similar rules of ethics should
prevail. His stand was supported
by Joseph Gray Jackson, president
of the Philadelphia Association.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

troll and such measures as more
public power development. On for
eign policy, Mr.. Wallace's announc-
ed line has little in common with
either Republican or Democratic
ideas. He wants to help Europe
through the United Nations-and
more important, he wants to help
any and all countries which need it,
including those within the Soviet
sphere of influence. He believes in
cutting down our armed forces, and
he is a strohg foe of compulsory
military training-an issue in which
he is in general agreement with
Senator Taft, but in complete dis
agreement with Governor Dewey
and the President.
The Wallace campaign will be
aggressive-both on his own part
and that of his supporters. His fol-
lowing is passionately convinced he
is right, and they will make stir
which is disproportionate to their
numbers. This will add color, if
else, to what promises to be
an exceedingly lively campaign.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Following Strike
Vote Teachers Get
Their Pay Checks

Chicago UPA)-Recourse to la
boris only real weapon, the decision
to strike, last week brought Chi
cago's $4,000 school teachers their
pay checks which had been held up
for five weeks by the City Coun-
Gil.
The checks, first on the new 1948
pay schedule, were held up be-
cause the City Council had not yet
taken action on record-breaking
$103,000,000 school board budget
with an accompanying $97,000,0O0
tax levy. The nearly 5000 Chicago
members of the Teachers Union
AFL authorized their executive
board to call strike if the checks
were not released or if the Coun-
Gil refused to approve the new
budget with its increased salary
scale.
City Council members said that
they all favored pay raises for the
teachers but were holding up the
budget to see if it could be trimmed
of some of it's other provisions.
School Board President Charles j..
Whipple urged immediate action by
the Council asserting, "The school
budget is sound, we'll within legal
limits, and meets the minimum
needs of the public schools 1t
is not the responsibility of the
City Council to approve or disap-
prove the budget, but merely to
perform an administrative function
of passing the necessary tax levy
to make the budget effective"
Alderman John j. Duffy, chair
man of the committee, announced
last week that there was practical
ly no chance of the Council taking
immediate action on the school bud
get. After the teachers voted to
strike, however, and showed that
they meant it, the aldermen man.
aged to get down to the business
at hand and passed the required
levy.
Chicago had been in sixth place
major cities in salaries to
high school teachers and in seventh
place in elementry school salar-
les.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Executive Council
Votes Support For
World Labor Group

Miami (LPA)-Steps are being
taken to set up a new Intena-
tional Federation of Trade Unions
to supplant the WFTU, the AL
executive council meeting in Miami
announced last week.
The council expressed confidence
that the new Inter-American Con
federation of Labor (CIAT) which
was formed in Lima a few weeks
ago twill promote wider under
standing and greater good will in
the Western Hemisphere because
of the cooperation and the frater-
nifty of the free labor movements
of the member nations"
Philip Hannah, delegate to the
Lima conference, told the meeting
that CIAT is communicating with
unions in Europe, Asia and Africa
to consider plans for organizing a
world group which would bar mem
bership to the Soviet Union and
its satellites. The AFL expressed
its support of such a project.
Meanwhile, word was received
that the government of Peru has
ruled that the CIAT may not have
its headquarters in Lima, as was
planned. The confederation will pro
baby move its offices to Santiago,
Chile.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Employer Warns Against
Reliance Upon TIL Law

Washington, ID. c.. - Clarence
AFrancis, chairman of the board OF
Ithe General Foods Corporation
warned his fellow industrialists not
to rely upon the Taft-Hartley law
as the way to Industrial peace.
Francis thus joined other promi-
nent business leaders who have a
sufficiently enlightened outlook to
realize that harmonious labor man.
agement relations cannot be legis-
lated. In a recent address inserted
in the Congressional Record he de-
clared:
"You can legislate conditions un-
der which management and labor
can quarrel. You can legislate con-
ditions under which they can main
tain an armed truce. But you can
not legislate harmony into the
\ hearts of men.
y "To attain positive industrial
peace, we need something more
than bylaws and compulsory rules.
We need productive teamwork"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
TIL story,
IAN Foofnofes
Now Available

Washington (LPA)- The Gov
ernment Printing Office last week
put on sale a two-volume "Legisla-
tive History Of the Labor Manage
ment Relations Act Of 1947." 1t is
obtainable for $500 from the office
Of the Superintendent Of Docu-
ments, Washington, d. G.
Prepared by the staff Of NLRB
the two volumes reprint or sum-
Marie the principal documents,
testimony, and draft Legislation
which put together add up to the
Taft-Ha law. The intent Of
I Congress behind the muddled Ian
guage Of the Act is presumably dis
( cenible from a study Of the his
tory.
/ Last week, also, Carl Huhndorff,
4 research director Of the Int1 Asso-
citation of s-unaffiliated,
released report predicting the
complete breakdown Of the TIL
election machinery. 1t is good
postscript to the official history.
Each month, Huhndorff revealed,
I the number Of election cases await
ing action increases. By now there
are well over $500 requests for col
lective bargaining votes on which
the NLRB has taken no action.
Huhndorff charged that Gener-
al Counsel Robert Denham and his
staff are not trying to cut through
the Acts red tape, but are adding
to confusion and delay by sending
back union petitions on minor tech
Inical grounds, or just ignoring pc
titions. The LAM research said:
"Anyone dealing with the board
gets the impression that Mr.. Den
hams staff is actually seeking
| reasons and causes to delay pend
ing elections"
He cited the refusal Of the board
to process Machinist cases pending
early in January on the grounds
that new Communist disclaimers
had not yet been received from the
locals. The board has refused to
accept new cases while the union
collects a new batch of affidavits,
despite assurances from the lam
that every reasonable attempt is
beng made to comply with the Act.
That the inefficiency Of the Nj
RB viii be an increasing source Of
difficulty to all unions is clear.
During 1913 a majority of the
present union shop contracts will
expire, and none can be renewed,
under Taft-Hartley, until special
vote has been conducted by the
board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Rail Union Agrees
To Give Negroes
Promotion Rights

New York (LPA) ~ The an
nouncement from Cleveland last
week that the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Firemen a. Enginemen
was filing a demand with operators
Of southeastern railroads for "com-
plete equality of treatment" for
firemen regardless of race or pre-
vious status was agreed by Presi-
dent A. Philip Randolph of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters-AFL.
Randolph, who is chairman of
the Provisional Committee to Or
ganize Colored Locomotive Fire
men, said that the Brotherhood was
blowing to the inevitable" and
hailed the move as a "much-needed
change in a long-standing dis
criminatory practice" The Provi-
sional Committee has carried thru
the courts several cases of Negro
firemen who were barred from
promotion to the job Of engineer
The courts have ruled in favor of
the Negro firemen in every case.
President David 3. Robertson Of
the Brotherhood has filed a demand
that the southern railroads "re-
quire that every fireman, regard
less Of race or previous status be
permitted to exercise straight SEN
iority; that the distinction between
promotable and nonpromotable men
be abolished, and that opportunity
for promotion be accorded to all
firemen in service in the order of
their seniority"
Robertson's union still bars Ne
groes from membership, and Ran
dolph has indicated that this will
be the next demand of the Negro
workers-the right to belong to the
union that bargains for them with
their employers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Hearings End But
Little Hope Seen
For Health Bills

Washington (LPA)-An attempt
to "smoke out" supporters Of health
insurance in the Federal Security
Agency fizzled out last week, as
a Senate Labor subcommittee end
ed hearings on health measure in
.cluding the Wagner-Murra -Dingell
health insurance bill, and the Taft
"charity" health bill.
Mrs. Marjorie Shearon, was fir
ed from her post as the Labor Com
mittee's officer in charge Of health
and social security bills last fall,
reappeared in her capacity as a
registered lobbyist. She attacked
the health insurance bills, and pur-
sued her previous almost-fanatical
fight against the "House Of Falk"
which she claims is trying to foist
health insurance on an unwilling
people.
Also before the committee was
DR.. /. S. Falk, research chief Of the
Social Security Administration, who
personally supports health insur-
ance. FaIk and Wilbur Cohen, as
sistant chief Of the research staff
at SSA, were quizzed at great
length over the makeup Of mis-
sion to Japan. The mission, sent
at the request Of Gen. Macarthur
and the War Department, turned
out to have been sent against the
wishes Of SSA, much to the disap-
pointment Of Mrs. Shearon and
Sen. Forrest Donnell (R., Mo-, i,
who is subcommittee chairman. Mrs.
Shearon sat at Donnell's elbow
during the quizzing Of the Social
Security officials.
No swift action is expected on
any of the health bills that are
pending before the Senate commit
tee, though later in the session
some action may be taken on a
proposal to consolidate all Of the
health and welfare agencies Of the
federal government in one depart
ment, with cabinet rank.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Senators Propose
75c Minimum WAGE

Washington IPA)-An impress
sive array of Democratic Senators
last week introduced bill to bring
up to date the Fair Labor Stan
dards Act.
Led by Sen. Ebert Thomas 3D.,
Utah), the group hopes to press
for action by the Senate Labor
Committee "to change this law
from a historical landmark to a
living reality" Others who spon-
sor the measure are Senator Cha
vez On. NJ, Green Or. L), Tay-
lor Ida.), Magnusson (Wash.), Nc
Grath OR. H., Murray (Mont),
Myers PA, Pepper (Fla.), and
Wagner (N. ".
The bill would raise the mini
mum wage to 75c an hour from the
present 40c level. "The passage of
years, a war, and resulting infla-
tion have combined to render the
40c minimum completely meaning
less" Thomas asserted. "Those 40c
today will buy barely half as much
food as they did when the law was
passed"
Pointing out that "over half of
our working population is still ex-
cluded from the benefits of the
Act" Thomas has included in the
bill a proposal to broaden the COW
erage of the minimum wage and
overtime provisions by extending
these provisions of workers en-
gagged in any activity affecting in
terstate or foreign commerce.
In addition, another section is
to abolish the exploitation
of children in industry or indus
trialized agriculture, and still an
other part extends the benefits of
the law to workers in industrialized
agriculture.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Shows Congress
How Tough II Is
TO Live On $500

Washington UPA) - Graphic
testimony on how tough it IS to live
with today's prices was presented
to the Senate Banking & Currency
Committee last week BY a man who
works at the Campbell Soup Co.
plant in Camden, n. J,
Speaking from notes on an en-
velope, and leaning heavily on the
details supplied by his wife who
sat with him at the committee
table, Cyrus J. Waud told how ST.
500 year simply can't support a
family Of eight. Two Of the Waud's
six children stood with their par
ents as Waud told how he couldn't
make ends meet. "We are simply
existing" he said. c. w. Fowler,
publicity director of the Food, To-
bacco & Allied Workers, the union
to which Waud belongs, presented
to the committee a petition for
price controls signed by more than
$4,000 union people.
Legislative Representative Russ
Nixon of the United Electrical
Workers endorsed the Taylor bill
for a price roll-back, and attacked
the Democratic-sponsored Barkley
bill for price controls plus wage
where they would cause
price rises on cost of living items.
Nixon said the Administrations
plan 'is based on the false econo-
mic assumption that wages have
been major influence in raising
prices, which no honest economist
would seriously charge"
Hoyt Haddock, speaking for the
Maritime Committee, also support
ed the Taylor bill. In questioning,
Nixon indicated that he consider
ed the bill proposed by Sen. Homer
Capehart (R., Ind.) for a straight
price roll-back as a possible solu-
ton to the problem of initiation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
NAM Asks End To
Bars On Lobbying

Washington (LPA)-Last week
4 the NATL Association of Manufac-
turers filed an action in the District
Court here alleging that the law
requiring registration of lobbyists
constitutes a violation of "funda-
mental civil rights"
Asserting that it is "primarily a
service organization" the nations
most powerful amalgam of reac-
tionary industrialists announced
that while it will condescend to
obey the law, and file the required
data this year, it will challenge the
right of Congress to demand infor-
nation about its activities.
Morris Sayre, NAM president,
said that the Association has ere
latively little interest in lobbying"
He stated that every group has a
right to know what is required of
it by a criminal statute and that
the Lobbying Act of 1916 does not
provide sufficient Qualification Of
its requirements. He called it eva
gue," ''pointless", Irrational, and
an "intolerable burden.
The Act requires a paid lobby
ist to file an identifying statement
before attempting to influence any
legislation.
A second type of statement-due
quarterly in the office of the clerks
of the House and Senate - must
show what bills the lobbyist con-
cerned himself with and how much
moneyJhe has received and spent.
Finally, a third statement is re-
quired of any person who made
money thru lobbying, and it must
show all sources of income over
$500 and all expenditures over
so.
The NAM - Whose interest in
lobbying is relatively little"-has
five full-time people on its Wash
ington staff.
Vice President Walter Chamblin,
Jr. gets $4,000 a year for his
slight interest in legislation and in
the last quarter run up an eX-
pense account of $2591.10.
Other members of the staff re-
cieve salaries og $4,000, $4,000,
$4,000 and $500, plus handsome
expense accounts and the services
Of a force Of stenographers, etc.
All of this interest in legislation
the relatively slight interest,
hat is - arises, of course, from
MANS devotion to "the national
President Sayre claimed.
The Feb. 5 issue of "The Machin-
st'', paper Of the international
Assn of Machinists-unaffiliated,
,harges that NAM is also financing
leonard J. Calhoun and his Unem-
,loyment Benefit Advisers, Inc,
which is spearheading the fight to
,masculate the Federal compensa-
ion system.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Rail Strike Threat
Ended As President
Lists Fact Finders

Cleveland (LPA)- A strike OF
three Railroad Brotherhoods, which
had been set for Monday and which
would have paralyzed the 'lron
Horse" had it materialized, was
called off this week after President
Truman appointed an emergency
| (fact-finding) board under the
Railway Labor Act to hear the dis
pute between the three unions and
the railroads.
Unions involved are the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers,
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen
& Enginemen, and Switchmen's
Union. They refused to accept the
same terms on which two other
Operating" Brotherhoods - the
Trainmen and Conductors-settled
over month ago. The five had
started their pay-rules movement
together, but split later.
That settlement of the two called
for a 15Hc-an-hour wage increase,
plus four revisions in working
rules. The three "holdout" unions
insisted on a larger pay raise, par
ticularly for low-paid yardmen, and
for additional changes in rules.
They fixed a strike date after ne
gotiations and mediation in the dis
pute ended in a deadlock.
The emergency board, which will
now investigate the controversy,
must report its findings within 30
days, unless both sides agree to
an extension of time.
Meanwhile, the three unions de-
nounced advertisements published
in newspapers all over the country
which pictured the three unions as
"jamming the gears" of the indus
try and which contained figures
showing alleged average" earn
ings of the workers involved as
high as Sc, ,126 a year.
President d. B. Robertson of the
Firemen & Enginemen declared
that the advertisements "distort the
facts" and grossly eXaggerate the
true earnings of the men.
"Too many Americans are neigh
bors of working railroad men to be
deceived by such silly fabrications,"
he said.
Other statements carried in the
"ads" We're assailed jointly by the
three unions as "false."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
SteeIworkers Plan
Wage Talks As
Profits Hit High

Pittsburgh (LPA)-It may only
have been coincidence. One day last
week, L. S. Steel Corp, reported
the highest annual profit since
1929; Bethlehem Steel showed earn
ings of more than $51 ,0S8, ,375. That
same day, the United Steelworkers
of America announced that meet
ings would be held Feb. Is and Is
to map out the USA wage increase
demands.
The Steelworkers' wage propo-
sails can be made on April l, when
the contract allows for reopening
of the wage clause of the contract,
which runs until April 80, 1949.
The steel union has already in
dicated that in negotiating it will
use the fat profits rolled up by the
industry, which has been operat-
ing at near-capacity and refusing
to put any large sums into expand
ing plant capacity further. Steel
profits, according to the union,
have risen 204 per cent over 1889,
119 per cent over the average for
war years, and 50 per cent over
1916.
In practically the same breath
as his boast of Bethlehem's high
profits, Chairman Eugene G. Grace
said flatly that "There is no justi-
for a third round of wage
1t could only increase the
inflationary processes and is bound
to bring about higher prices. This
thing is really becoming serious"
No figure has been mentioned by
union leaders as the amount of
their wage boost demand.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Asks Support For
Palestine Labor

Atlanta (LPA)-Joseph Schloss-
berg, secretary-treasurer emeritus
of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, one of the most respected
figures in the history of American
trade unionism, last week called
upon southern labor leaders to sup
port the Palestine Federation Of
Labor.
Speaking at joint AFL-CIO
dinner arranged by the Georgia
Workers Education Service, Sch
lossberg said that rs per cent of
all workers in the Jewish section
of Palestine are members of the
Federation. In addition to securing
decent wage, hour and working con-
ditions for their members the jew
ish unions have established COM
prehensive medical programs, and
are themselves owners of coopera-
lively managed industries. Thru
their bank, the second largest in
Palestine, labor loans funds to eX-
pand the community's production.
Schlossberg credited the Ameri-
can trade union movement with the
passage of the Palestine partition
plan by United Nations. The unions
stiffened the attitude of the AM
erican government, he said.
Reminding the southern unionists
that William Green and Philip Muir
ray are honorary co-chairmen OF
the National Trade Union Commit
tee for Labor Palestine, Schloss-
ber called upon them to form
local councils that would be affili-
ated with it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
petrilIo Extends
Network Contracts

I New York (LPA)-In a joint
statement with representatives OF
the nations big radio networks,
James c. Petrillo, president Of the
American Federation Of Musicians
AFL, announced that contract ne
gotiations for 1913 are proceeding
satisfactorily. Existing contracts
are extending to the end Of March,
thereby lifting the threat Of a
radio musicians strike on Jan. 81.
Reversing the position that he
had taken as recently as two weeks
ago when he appeared before the
House Labor Committee, Petrillo
agreed to duplicate broadcasts
over FM and AN stations owned
by network affiliates.
On March l negotiations will
be resumed with the unions OBJ
jections to the use of live musi-
clans on television broadcasts one
of the pricipal points to be settled.
The networks have announced
that FM duplicate facilities will
be available to advertisers at no
extra cost. This disposes of the
objection of the union that the
broadcasters would make two pro-
fits out of each performers work.
Altho Maj. Edwin H. Armstrong,
inventor of the FM system, hailed
the union-management agreement
as the turning point for the FM
industry" owners of independent
FM stations fear that the decisions
will put them in a bad competitive
position. With star-studded pro-
grams available to big advertisers
at no extra cost over network FM
stations, interest in local FM pro-
grams will decline, they say.
Petrillo also abandoned his de-
mand that the networks "encour-
age" affiliated stations to hire
more musicians. This problem will
be a subject of local negotiations.
The joint statement noted "the
that FM broadcasts
will provide additional employment
to musicians" Dupli-
eating FM-AM broadcasts are ex-
pected to result in higher flat rates
to advertisers that will make pos
sible the hiring of more live musi-
clans.
Several weeks ago the musicians
president said that he expected no
serious trouble in negotiating a
wage increase with broadcasters,
but no final statement on this is
sue is ready now.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

$50 you deceived your husband
did you ?" asked the judge gravely.
con the contrary, your honor, he
deceived me. He said he was going
out of town and he didn't 60"
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| don't suppose anybody ever re-
sisted looking across a hotel court
before retiring, in the expectation
of seeing something interesting, al
though | frankly confess | never
saw anything.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

At a large medical conference,
one ambitious doctor leaned close
to the one beside him and asked;
"Where did DR.. Smith make his
fortune ?" The reply wos brief.
"Stork market"
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SUSPENDED

Evansville, Indy action taken
at the last meeting of Local Union
No. 5, Geneive Wilson and Darrell
Gray were suspended.