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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-08-01
This Week in the Garden

posed to teaching to remove sui
phur and iron before being mixed
with the soil. Even though the
teaching period of a year or two has
seemingly removed their toxic ma
terials, the addition of lime Is also
recommended when mixing with
the garden soil.
DOT, as normally available, Is
injurious to squash, cucumbers and
other vine crops. Some varieties OF
squash are more susceptible than
others. Chemically pure DOT,
however, apparently is not injurious.
One manufacturer is taking ad-
vantage of this fact and is preparing
to put an Aerosol bomb on the mar
ket for garden use. 1t should help
to control the cucumber and squash
beetles and give gardeners a chance
to grow these crops with some de-
gree of success. Cryolite and rote-
none have not been as effective
against these pests, that spread
mosaic and other diseases, as is de-
sired. Consequently, the plants
usually die just as they reach full
production.
Corncob mulch for flowers and
rosebeds is suggested by DR.. Chad
wick OF the Ohio Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station. He suggests
coarsely ground cobs applied in a
layer IL to inches deep. Fer
tilizer high in nitrogen should be
used to feed the bacteria working on
the cobs or they will take nitrogen
from the soil and rob the flowers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Rug Workers Win
IS 1-2e Pay Boost

Washington (LPA)-Workers in
the major carpet and rug factories
in the east last week won a 13hc
an hour wage boost, less than "a
hours before the expiration of their
contracts on May 81. Employers
of more than 10000 workers COW
cred by contracts with the Textile
Workers Union Of America are ex-
pected to sign up within a few
days.
The carpet and rug workers will
receive a general 11Ac wage in
crease, plus &c in fringe benefits.
The new contracts will raise aver
age hourly earnings in the indus
try to $l.37Hc an hour.
Talks continue this week be-
tween spokesmen for the dyers and
finishers who belong to TWUA,
and representatives of more than
300 employers in the New York
Area. The union is demanding a
zoe an hour pay raise, plus inn
proved insurance benefits and es-
tablishment of a pension fund.
Wages now average $1.21Rc an
hour. About $1,000 finishers and
dyers will be affected by the out
come of the wage negotiations for
a contract to replace one expiring
August 20.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
House FindllY Hos Chance
To Vote On Housing Bill

the bill without the public housing
program in.
Proposals that the Veterans
Homestead Bill, originally sponsor
ed by the American Legion, and
since rewritten four times, be at
tached as a rider to the TEW meas
ure were attacked by the unions.
Secretary Leo Goodman of the
CLOS Housing Committee wrote to
Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers (R.,
Mass): "The real estate lobby has
been opposed to aiding the people
who live in the slums. They make
their greatest percentage profit
from those victims of squalor They
the Veterans Homestead
Bill as a means of getting you and
others who were desirouS of
helping the veterans, off on a tan
gent. Housing problems cannot be
solved for one group in this coun-
try, and the veterans know it. All
10 national veterans organizations
have come out in support of the
TEW bill. :. I"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Movie Producers
Held Violating
Antitrust Law

New York (LPA)- Movie pro-
ducers' associations have been char
ged by the Screen Writers Guild
AFL, in a suit filed here, with be-
ing a monopoly in violation of the
federal antitrust law.
Thirty writer's, who make ii
clear that they're not Communists,
have brought suit here, on the basis
of the unanimous action of the pro-
.ducers in approving a resolution
pledging not to employ Commun-
lists as movie writer's. The resolu-
tion adopted by the Motion Picture
Assn Of America, the Society of
Independent Motion Picture Pro
ducers, and individual producers,
grew out of last falls investiga-
tion of screen writer's by the House
Unamerican Committee in Wash
ington. Thirteen Hollywood writer's
refused on the witness stand to
state whether or not they were
CP members, and were cited for
contempt. Their cases are now on
the way to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
Thurman Arnold, attorney for
the Screen Writers in the case, ex-
plains that at is the belief of the
plaintiffs that original and crea-
tive work cannot be done for the
screen under the atmosphere of
fear and subservience created by
this illegal industry-wide combina-
tion."
The Screen Writers Guild had
voted earlier not to take part in
the defense of the 13 alleged Com
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Employers Cries
For 4S-Nour Week
Only Smokesereen

Washington (LPA) = Remem
Der those demands from the bis
industrialists this winter thai
workers must go on regular 48
hour workweek? That was suppos.
ed to be the answer to the neeC
for more production-and an auto
matte end of Notwithstanding tC
the well-publicized industry state.
ments.
1t seems, the AFL has found
that the battle was all fought in
the newspapers. In a report in the
current issue of Labor's Monthly
Survey, the AFL researchers found
that actual efforts to lengthen
work hours are so rare as to be
insignificant"
The AFL polled its organizers
on questions of labor-management
relations, and came up with the
following list of the ingredients
of industrial peace: "(a) Manage
ment is always ready to meet with
union representatives to discuss
any matter of mutual concern. (b)
On both sides: good faith, SINGER
ity, mutual respect, a desire to
understand each others viewpoint,
each knows the other will not take
unfair advantage. (c) Management
always consults with the union be-
fore making any change, however
slight, in a policy affecting work
ers. I'D Rapid handling Of grie-
vances. (e) Union takes response
bility; does not make excessive de
mands. (f) Frequent meetings be-
tween management and union Off
GERS to discuss plant problems
build mutual understanding and CO.
operation"
The AFL's organizers cited 81
companies that are outstanding
for good labor relations of which
27, according to the AFL, furnish
financial reports to unions repre-
sented in their plants, This, the
Survey points out, "shows marked
progress 20 years ago such
sharing of financial information
was almost unknown"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
OBITUARIES


John Brookhart Aumiller, 62, 8
kilnman at the Harker Pottery Co.
died June 6 at his home, 229 Cali
fornia Ave, Chester, following 3
nine-month illness.
Mr.. Aumiller was born in New
England, w. Va, and came to Ches-
ter 35 years ago from Parkers-
burg. He was a member of Local
Union No. 9, National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters and the Ches-
ter Christian Church.
He leaves his widow, Mrs Je-
NINA Aumiller; "A daughter, Mrs.
Olive Custer Of Chester; six sis
ters, Mrs. Emmett Newman Of
Chester, Mrs. T. X. Fox of Mingo,
Mrs. Ephriam Smith of Salem, Mrs.
Melvin Wildman of New York, Mrs.
Lucy Johnson and Mrs. Mary
Lamp of New England, and two
brothers, Harry Aumiller of New
York, and Fred Aumiller of Park
ersburg.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Margin Against
Toff-HortIey Up
In ALL Poll

Washington (LPA)- AS more
and more ballots are counted in
the AFL poll of it's members atti-
tude towards the Taft Hartley law
the margin against the union-bait-
ing act increases. The ten to one
decision of the rank and file of
organized labor against the act re-
vealed in the April count has risen
to Is to one, the AFL announced
last week.
So far 38,817 votes against the
act have been received in AFL
headquarters, as against only 2,107
for it.
Anti-labor commentators, who
didn't take the trouble to find out
how the poll is being conducted
have attacked it as an insufficient
test of labor sentiment. But, as the
AFL points out ballots were not
sent to each member. They have
been printed in AFL papers, whose
readers are asked to clip them and
mail them in. No huge vote was
anticipated, but the AFL is sure
that an adequate sample has been
obtained.
In the one case where ballots
were printed in bulk and distribut-
ed at local union meetings-on the
request of the Int'l Molders and
Foundry Workers Union-the re-
suit was a 5,264 to 76 vote against
Taft Hartley.
The AFL points out too that in
another "poll" on the act, the union
shop authorization ballots conduct
ed by the NLRB, union groups
have in over SO percent of the cleo
tions voiced their confidence in
their organizations. Taft-Hartley's
sponsors claimed, when the law was
being considered in Congress, that
union members would show in these
elections their distrust of trade
union bureaucrats."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
MUSICIANS TO
HEAR MORSE

Asbury Park (LPA) - Sen,
Wayne Morris (R,, Ore.) will be
the principal speaker this week at
the convention of the American
Federation of Musicians AFL,
President James c. Petrillo an
nounced.
Nearly 1000 delegates and union
members from 700 locals are at
tending AIMS 51st annual conven-
tion in Asbury Parks convention
hall. Since its foundation in 1896
the union has held g convention
each year but two-both war years.
The convention is the unions
supreme governing body, hearing
appeals from decisions of the exc
cutive board, outlining policy for
the coming year, and passing on all
constitutional problems, as well as
electing the unions officers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10

tern for industry generally, then
we might as well call the slide-rule
boys back to Washington and re-
establish the bureaucracy of the
National War Labor Board"
The Daily Worker attacked the
agreement for tying wages in any
way to a price index which might
go down.
On the other hand, United Elec-
trical Workers-CIO, now negotiat-
ing with the General Electric Co.,
has asked GE for an increase based
on the GM pattern. The railroad
unions, who took their wage case
to Congress, have praised the GIN
settlement and told Congressman
that they would like something
similar. The Industrial Union of
Marine & Shipbuilding Workers
CIO has also published statement
approving the GIN formula.
Many industry economists pre-
dicted that the cost-of-living pro-
vision would help to bring prices
down, citing the effect that similar
contracts had in Sweden. Commits
sioner Of Labor Statistics Evan
ClaRue and Cyrus Ching. Federal
Mediation & Cancellation director,
expressed hope that the formula
heralded a new era Of industrial
peace.
Many business leaders attacked
the settlement because similar con-
tracts would place them on the
spot two ways: when they ir-
responsibly pushed prices up they
would have to also raise wages; 2
the annual improvement factor cuts
into expanding profits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
GM SETTLEMENT BRINGS
VARIED OPINIONS FROM
LABOR AND INDUSTRY

Washington (LPA - While al
sectors OF industry and labor re
acted to the General Motors wage
settlement, T. A. Johnstone, assis-
tant director of the United Auto
Workers GM Department, last week
told newsmen that the corporation
had succeeded in concealing the
real figures of the settlement from
the press and the public.
The history-making agreement
has two distinct provisions, one re-
lated to the cost of living and the
other an annual improvement fac
tor i'm the GM workers living stan
dards. The corporation admitted
that production increases annually
at least three percent so that the
employees can be given a nine-cent
technology raise during the two
year life of the contract. That's
four and a half cents a year, not
the three cents year that's beer
peddled around as the basic i'm
provement factor.
The fuzzy arithmetic was deliber-
ate, as indicated by GIN executive
Harry Anderson when he said
well have to answer to some i'm
portant people as to how we ar
rived at this" JAWS position was
expressed by Johnstone who point
ed out that though the arithmetic
is incorrect,( { "a principle has been
established and we hope to correct
the arithmetic in 1880"
"The corporation wanted to con-
ceal and did conceal the fact" he
said, that &c had Immediately been
added to the base rates as an inn
prOvement factor and cannot be
Knocked down. When UAW went
into the GIN negotiations their slo-
gan was 25 and 5. They wanted
25c to restore buying power and
5c worth of progress. The progress
was to be in the form Of social Sc
curity. They came out with SC worth
of restored buying power and &c
worth Of progress, taking the pro
gress in the Improvement factor"
In regards to the future pay in
creases that ride on the BIS index,
JAW has started an educational
campaign to show the GM employees
why they will be better off if
prices drop than if they go up and
put worthless pennies in their poe
kets.
The union describes the settle
ment as "a holding operation that
amounts to a victory"
GIN President Charles r.. Viii
son, speaking in Buffalo last week,
made two significant comments or
the agreement. THAT it would
not cause the price of General Mo
tors products to go up and 2-That
GIN did not offer it as a pattern
for American industry but arrived
at it because it suited their needs.
Other reactions were plentiful.
Said John l.. Lewis United Mine
Workers Journal, "This is a def
mite backward move and establishes
a precedent that is damaging to the
entire body OF organized labor. If
the wage settlement is to set pat
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Top Labor Men
For ECA Named

Washington (LPA)-Top labor
representatives in the administra
Jon of the Marshall plan for Euro
pean recovery were named last
week. They are Bert Jewell for the
AFL and Clinton Golden of the
CIO.
Golden and Jewell will both be
advisors to Economic Cooperation
Administrator Paul Hoffman with
offices in Washington.
Bert M. Jewell, an active union
list since 1905, is a member of the
Int'l Brotherhood of Boilermakers
and the Iron Ship Builders Union.
He has been president Of the Rail
way Employees Dept of the AFL,
and most recently he served as
international representative of the
Railway Labor Executive Assn.
In that capacity Jewell partici-
pated in the formation of the Con-
federation of Inter-American Trade
Unions, and is n member Of the
executive committee of the Int'l
Transportworkers Federation, to
which most European transit work
ers are affiliated.
Clinton S. Golden, who has just
completed his term of office as la
Dor advisor to the US mission to
Greece, began his trade union work
in the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers. After serv-
ing in the Int'l Association Of Ma
chinists and the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, Golden became
regional director Of the United
Steelworkers of America-ClO in its
early years, and then assistant to
USA President Philip Murray.
Among his wartime government
jobs was the assistant chairman
ship of the War Manpower Com
Agreement was also reached be-
tween AFL, CIO and Hoffman that
both federations will name advisers
to "roving ambassador" w. Averill
whose offices are in
Paris. Altho the labor nominees for
these jobs have not yet been an
nounced it is expected that the
AFL appointment will go to staff
economist Boris Shishkin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10

Committees usually come to con-
clusions from WEAKNESS and not
from intelligent discussion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Tuber Drops
"Red Rider

Washington (LPA)- The age
of miracles isn't over after all
Rep. John Taber (R., N. W ultra
conservative chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee has ans
wered labor's demands that the
"red rider" be dropped from gov
ernment agencies appropriations
bills. And the House decided that
making a strike against the gov
ernment a felony might not be too
smart either.
Taber said that the provision
which would prevent payment OF
| federal salaries to members OF
unions whose officers have not
signed the Taft Hartley non-Com-
munist affidavits is causing too
much confusion"
A House vote struck the Appro-
priations Committee proviso off the
Interior Dept bill. Then Taber, US
ually most obstinate man, said
that he trusted that House-Senate
conferees would knock his commit
tees handy-work off the money
bills that had gotten thru the
House with the rider attached.
Particularly pleased were the
Int'l Typographical Union-AFL,
and the United Public Workers
CIO, neither of whose officers, for
varying reasons, have signed the
affidavits.
Another ill-considered House ac-
tion was also reversed last week.
Language had been written into
the Interior Dept appropriation
which would have made it felony
to strike against the government.
But some representatives noted
that this would make criminals out
of railway workers or coal miners
who might on some occasion re-
fuse to work after the government
had nominally taken control of the
mines or railroads.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
.HowIey Gives ;
Years For Blue
Gross Success

Chicago OPA)- DR.. Paul R.
Hawley, the man who reorganized
the medical care machinery of the
Veterans Administration and be-
fore that established a reputation
in the Army's medical setup, this
week read the handwriting on the
wall.
Hawley now directs the Blue
Cross-Blue Shield medical and hos
Ipital programs. He told the con-
ventions of three national nurses
associations here that the volun-
tary health care setups like Blue
Cross and Blue Shield have about
three years in which to meet the
needs Of the people of the country.
Otherwise, Hawley warned, the
unions Of the country will move in
and insist on passage by Congress
of national health insurance pro-
gram.
"Spokesmen for influential
groups" Hawley reported to the
nurses, at the time of the Natl
Health Assembly "issued the clear
ultimatum that unless voluntary
prepayment plans met their every
need for medical care, and this in
the very near future, they would
press for legislation for a govern
ment program"
At the Assembly, Nelson Cruik
shank for the AFL and Harry Beck
er for the CIO both discussed the
shortcomings of the doctor-spon-
sored plans like Blue Cross and
Blue Shield, Hawley told the nurses
that "the demands Of the large la
Dor organizations" included: L
complete care including prevention
of illnesses; ILLUMINATION of in
come limits above which doctors
can slap on extra charges; 3-na-
ton wide rates and coverage, to
allow unions to bargain for medical
care plans in their contracts at the
level.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10

Washington (LPA)-Bowing tc
the enormous weight of public pres
sure, spearheaded by the unions OF
the country, the Republican Con-
gressional leadership voted last
week to allow the Taft -Ellender-
Wagner general housing bill to
come to a vote in the House. This
eliminates a year-long fight by
supporters of housing legislation,
and they are putting on a last-min-
ute drive this week to insure its
passage in the House by a large
vote.
The House Republican Policy
Committee finally gave in after
more than 179 members of the
House had signed the discharge
petition circulated by Rep. Helen
Gahagan Douglas d., Calif.). The
addition of dozens of names of
southern Democrats in the last few
days of the week, plus solid bloc
of more than 100 on both the Re-
publican and Democratic side who
signed at the times of veterans
housing conference here last fall,
caused the COP leadership to give
up.
This week, the Housing Banking
Committee is scheduled to report
the bill on Tuesday, with floor de-
bate scheduled for Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, and a final vote
on Saturday, June II. Members of
the committee have told union lob
byists that they have enough votes
to report the bill favorably with
the public housing provision intact.
The real estate and homebuilders'
lobbyists have been fighting to eli
inmate these provisions.
Banking Committee Chairman
Jesse Wolcott (R., Mich.) is expect
ed to battle hard to leave in the
TEW bill only the "gravy train"
mortgage insurance provisions for
the homebuilders, but in whatever
form it reaches the House floor,
supporters of public housing pre-
dict they'll win if public pres
sure continues at its present high
pitch.
The Senate has already passed
the measure, and would act quickly
to appoint a strong set of conferees
if the House should finally approve
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Veterans Rights Upheld
In Federal Service

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-The
Supreme Court has upheld unani-
mously special protection for the
employment rights of veterans dur
ing furloughs of government work
ers. The opinion, written by Justice
Hugo l.. Black, supported Civil Ser
vice Commission regulations requir-
ing dismissal Of a non-veteran car
eer employe before veteran car
ee.' employe, even if the non-vet-
eran had been longer in the posi-
ton.
black held that legislation was
aGopted by Congress in 1914 with
full knowledge" that the "long-
standing retention preferences of
veterans" would be included. He
continued that Earle w. Hilton, a
ncn-veteran at the Charleston, S.
c., Navy Yard, had made "an APP
pealing argument" against the
Congressional policy. "But" justice
Back concluded, sit is a policy
adopted by Congress and our re-
sponsibility is to interpret the act +,
not to overrule the Congressional
policy"
During a postwar reduction of
employees Hilton was
laid off after working II years at
the Charleston Yard. His lawyer
told the supreme tribunal that IS
per cent of the veterans with "ab-
scluto preference" in the yard had
no prior experience and had been
trained by the career Civil Serv-
ice employees whom they displaced.
A baseball game is twice as much
fun if you're seeing it on the COM
nany'c time
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10

A baseball game is twice as much
fun if you're seeing it on the COM
pany's time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
Five Unions Win Pay
Boost At st. Louis Plant

st. Louis QLNS).-An hourly
wage increase of 10 cents for sew
eral hundred workers has been
negotiated by unions at the Am
erican Car & Foundry Co. here.
Unions involved are the lnterna-
tional Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers, International Association
of Machinists, international Broth
erhood Of Blacksmiths, Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen, and lnterna-
tional Brotherhood of Firemen &
Oilers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-10
AFL Union Charters
Puerto Rico Local

Philadelphia a.-Chartering of the
first local in Puerto Rico, compos-
led of island workers, by an AFL
union was announced here by Sal
B. Hoffman,, president of the Up
holsterers' International Union.
The members of the New UIU
Local 423, numbering about 1CO,
are employed at the San Juan plant
of the Simmons Company, worlds
largest manufacturer of mattresses
and bedding. This is the sixth Sim
mons local organized by the UlU.
The UIU was hailed by Serafino
Romualdi, secretary of Information
al Relations of the newly formed
Inter-American Confederation of
Workers, as the first union to
make use of the Latin American
Department of the AFL to contact
workers in Central and South AM
erica.