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Evening star., 1948-11-07
Barley Deserves q Rest
Vice President Elect
Has Worked Hard
At Politics
By Clarke Beech

To Alben w. Barley, the vice
presidency to which he was elected
lasts Tuesday will be like a four
year vacation with pay.
He has been a hard worker in
politics for 43 years. AS Senate
Democratic leader for the past II
years he has laboriously shepherded
the administration programs there.
His power was tremendous until the
Republicans captured the Senate in
1916.
Now he will spend his time chiefly
in gavel-pounding on the Senate
rostrum.- He probably will be in
vited to attend cabinet meetings as
most recent Vice Presidents have
Coolidge, Curtis, Garner, Wallace
and Mr.. Truman.
No Constitutional Power
There is little else Vice President
can do. Like Curtis and Garner, he
is likely to exert strong influence
on his former colleagues in the Sen
ate-but it will be through private
talks off the floor, not in committees.
A Vice President has no constitu-
tional power except to preside over
the Senate and cast vote in case
of tie. He doesn't give orders to
anybody. He doesn't function az
an executive anywhere in the Gov
ernment unless the President assigns
him to some special study or tenn
porary administrative post, such as
Henry A. Wallace held for a couple
Of years under President Roosevelt.
A Vice President, as one recent
incumbent said of the record, is
like man in cataleptic fit-he
sees all that goes on around him,
but he cannot take part in it."
John Adams, our first Vice Presi-
dent, who also had been active and
powerful in politics, took dim view
of his job. Shortly after he had
got settled in his new Office, he
gloomily wrote to his wife:
His Authority and Duties
My country has in its wisdom
contrived for me the most insignifi-
cant Office that ever the invention
of war contrived or his imagination
conceived"
Here's complete list of the Vice
Presidents duties and powers:
/. Presiding over the Senate and
casting votes in case Of a tie. The
average Vice President casts to 3
votes. Only 202 votes have been
cast by Vice Presidents throughout
American history.
2. Appointing a few minor Senate
committees.
8. Attending cabinet meetings.
4. Signing enrolled bills and joint
resolutions of Congress.
5. Serving as q member Of the
Board OF Regents OF the Smithsonian
Institution.
6. Appointing five midshipmen to
the Naval Academy and four Sen
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Young Blood for Party

: In passing it might be mentioned
that there has been some young
blood injected into the party as the
result of the election-people like
Hubert Humphrey, the Minneapolis
Mayor, who defeated Senator Ball,
and Adlai Stevenson, new Governor
Of Illinois-and 1852 calculations will
probably have to take this group
into consideration.
Whether there will be any over
Evening star., 1948-11-07

~NOTISI SSS 11dS @AuVdIIIdXS
In that happy event, the new
Democratic Congress probably would
resemble the early years Of the
Roosevelt New Deal, as far as social
welfare legislation is concerned.
dThere will be one marked differ
Ace between the 1949 Truman New
peA and the start of the Roosevelt
eAa Before Mr.. Roosevelt could
inaugurate the original Social Be-
ueaarity Act and other permanent vel
fare reforms in 1885, he had to con-
Hentrate for q year or more on work.
Evening star., 1948-11-07

(See DOUGLAS, NSe C-5o
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Truman Expects Capitol
Aid From Those He Aided
Looks for Support for His Program From the
Senators and Representatives Who Owe
Their Election to His Stumping
By Joseph A. Fox

Thereu be a White January 20.
Elected in his right and with
part will Its Washington bitter stmpng
the 64yearold Mssouran
will have invoke the Franklin
around him From he's the party,
Evening star., 1948-11-07
Congress May PareDown
Some Campaign Promises
Democrats Still Face Internal Conflict on
/. Civil Rights, Excess Profits Tax and
....... Other Domestic Issues
J. A. O'LeoY

is bound to better
plishnen Democratic Congress than
Republican Egheh Only the most confirmed opmist will
everything promised in his reeswingng campaign
49, Taft.Hartley his
platform promised repeal
Evening star., 1948-03-11

drawings Of Haitian subjects by James A.
Porter. through March.
Connecticut Gallery. 1884 Connecticut
avenue NV. open IL am. to s pm
weekdays. and 2 to pm Sundays: Water
color paintings Of Blue Ridge Mountains
and South Carolina 6eacoast, by Howard
Murry, through March 20.
National Gallery Of Art, Sixth street and
Constitution avenue NV, open 10 Am
to 3 pm. weekdays and 2 to 10 pm
Sundays: Paintings and sculpture com
prisins the Mellon. Kress, Widener and
Dale collections and gifts from other do
nors, for au indefinite period; special ex-
hibit. Art Of France IN Prints and Books. -
Fish and Wildlife Service, under main
lobby In Commerce Department Building
Fourteenth and e streets NV, open 9
am. to 4 pm. daily: Display of animals
and fresh-water fish, for an indefinite
period.
Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Thirty-first
and r streets NV, open 8 am. to 4 Pm
daily: Collection OF Byzantine and related
arts, for an indefinite period.
WHITE Bookshop and Gallery, 1873 Con-
necticut avenue NV, open $50 am. to
pm. weekdays: Recent paints of Edward
Rosenfeld, through March:
FOR SERvICEMEN
Soldiers. Sailors and Marines Club,
ing desks, billiard tables, radio.
Servicemen's Victory Center, 1113 PENN
sylvsni avenue NV; lounge, recreation,
free canteen; open daily, noon to mid
night.
formal dancing, 8 o'clock tonieht, Armed
Services YMCA. 1885 q street NV.
Evening star., 1948-03-11

Citizens Associations were in
structed to vote for the proposed
@anti-subversive" amendments to
the constitution.
The meeting conducted by Jerome
p. Lynch. president. was held in
the Social Oyster Club, 1915 Sara
toga avenue NE.
Evening star., 1948-03-11
\X|X:; \XXE;:i !? 5:

LECTURE.
Seventeenth Century Genre Painting.
Gallery of Art. Seventeenth street and
New York avenue NV, 1880 pm. to-
morrow.
Kappa Alpha Order, Washington alumni,
New York avenue NV, 1890 pm. to-
morrow. Members and guests.
National Committee for Trafhe ssfsty,
Statler Hotel, 1880 pm. tomorrow. Mem
bers and guests.
American Society for Public Admlni-
row. Members and guests.
National Homes Foundation, ststler
Hotel: 1890 Pm. tomorrow. Members
anu s''''' MUSIC.
Air Force Band concert, Interior De-
spf5s9san sPncIaI hxarsi4s sslsek tonight
in DR North HssVdns: Wins chna S"% IN IN
South Wing srteTans seTGqsh Ekais,rs MiHi
street and Constitution avenue NV, open
12 to 1870 pm. Mondays, 10 q m. to 1880
pm: Tuesdays through Fridays, 8 am.
Sundays: Water 'S eoiors BY art artists Of wash h
inEton, for an indefinite period, and Euro
pean master drawings from q private COL
ieCtion, through April II.
Hubie Library, Eighth and K streets
Z; W., open am. to Pm. weekdays;
Street view post cards used 40 years ago
from the Joseph J. Nardone collection, in
the technology division, through March Is;
sion, through March.
Library Of Congress, First and East Cap
itol streets Sc. open 8 am. to 10 pm.
Mondays through Fridays, 8 a m. to pm.
Saturdays, and 2 to 10 pm Sundays.
ORIGINAL Lacock Abbey copy of the Magma
Carta, on loan from the British govern-
ment until December 16; original manu-
oEraphy." for an indefinite period: exhi-
oition depicting ideal Of UNEsCo, through
Pan american Union, Seventeenth street
and Constitution avenue NV, open o
an. to 4:30 pm. weekdays: modern paint
ings from Haiti. through Monday.
Barnet Alden Gallery, I27 Randolph
place NV, open to 10 pm weekdays
and . to 5 p.m SUNDAYS. Paintings and
Evening star., 1948-03-11
Brentwood Citizens Hear
Covenant Case LAWYER

Attorney James A. Crooks last
night told the Brentwood Citizens
Association there Is no sociological
Negro question involved in the cove
nant cases now pending In the SUI
preme Court"
Mr.. Crooks, who argued before
the court for the. legality Of cove
nants, asserted that, although there
Is Negro issue, the question Is en-
tirely legal one.
MIR. Crooks urged the citizens to
help cut down agitation.
The association indorsed in prin-
ciple the Auchincloss home rule bill.
Delegates to the Federation of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Judge Says
.NLRB Above
State Rules

Salt Lake City (LPA)-Federal
Judge Tillman ID. Johnson ruled
last week that the regulations laid
down in the Hartley law give
the NLRB sole right to certify
unions Of workers in interstate
commerce.
The NLRB brought the question
into court in an attempt to prevent
the Utah State Labor Relations
Board from certifying the United
Steelworkers Of America as bar
gaining agent for employees of the
Kaiser Frazer Corp. plant at IRON
ton, Utah. The state board had al
ready conducted an election which
showed USA the choice of the
plants employees. But NLRB Gen
eral Counsel Robert Denham's of
flee insisted that the state auth
critics lacked jurisdiction over the
lease.
NLRB will not permit USA to
appear on its ballots because of
the unions principled objection
to filing the Taft Hartley non
Communist affidavits.
1t seems likely however that the
corporation will recognize the clear
will of its employees and voluntar-
lily recognize USA as their repre-
sentative. Plant Manager f. j. Duff
fly remarked: ave cannot ignore the
fact that the Steelworkers obtained
a clear majority in the election"
Altho insisting upon this supre-
macy over state laws in cases where
unions might benefit from the ac-
tivities of state labor agencies,
Denham has so far failed to carry
his federal priority doctrine into
cases where unions can profit by
it. Most notable example is his re-
fusal to conduct union shop auth
orization polls in the 13 states
which have statutes which, contrary
to Taft Hartley, completely outlaw
union security contracts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Muskrots Divide
Boards Opinion

Washington (LPA)-The Taft
Hartleyized NLRB has some tough
problems to handle. One stickler
the board solved last week resolv-
ed around whether or not muskrats
are wild animals. Three of the
boards members said they are,
while j. Copeland Gray maintain
ed the furry beasts must be classed
with domestic livestock.
This knotty problem was posed
by the refusal of Steinberg & Co.,
a fur trapping outfit in Louisiana
to bargain with the Int'l Fur Work
ers and its attempts to discourage
the organization Of its employees.
The trappers whom Steinberg
employs not only have to catch the
willy beasts, but have to keep up
the muskrats' breeding grounds.
Gray thought that this makes
muskrats legally comparable to or
dinary farm animals.
But the majority OF the board
held that the trappers' principal
job is "to trap and ensnare musk
rats which roam wild in the marsh
lands" Therefore, the trappers are
not agricultural workers-a cate
CORY whose right to organize is not
recognized by federal law.
The NLRB majority noted that
while muskrats are sort of looked
out for by the industry which wants
TO make fur coats out of them, it
doesn't "raise" them as farm ami
mails are "raised." SO, the board
has ordered Steinberg to stop try
ing to prevent the organization of
its employees.
Incidentally, the boards study of
the muskrat runs to 102 pages.
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Who Will Be
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the organization.
This minority group has chosen
the two top officials of our organ
ization as their target this time.
Who will it be next? Perhaps these
same individuals are scanning the
proceedings of the recent conven-
ton endeavoring to find fault with
some action taken by the delegates
In order to level their guns on their
next target. Who knows but within
few months another court IN
junction will be sought on action
taken by the delegates at the l94S
convention.
Is the good name of our organiza-
tion and the character of our chosen
officials going to be made a public
scandal through the daily press!
Are we as members of the Nation
al Brotherhood of Operative Pot
tiers going to sit idly by and see
our national officials be subject to
scorn and ridicule for carrying out
the mandate of the majority OF
which we are a part?
Lo and behold, the day will come
and we hope it is not to far in the
distant future when such acts of
tyranny on the part of any mem
ber of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters will be dealt with
under laws Of our constitution
which will result in expulsion from
the trade.-O. G.. 1874.
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Murray. Lonhom
Win Lubor O. X.

Washington (LPA) -Heartened
by the victory of w. Kerr Scott in
the Democratic run-of primaries in
North Carolina, organized labor
published last week more political
endorsements in southern states.
Kerr, a working farmer, was la
boris choice in the final Democratic
poll for governor. In the initial prl-
mary union voters had succeeded
in retiring" Sen. Willis B. Um-
stead, staunch supporter of Taft
Hartley.
The AFL's LLPE and Railway
Labor's Political League have an
nounced their support of Rep. II. l..
Lanham's reelection campaign In
Georgia. Lanham was the only
Georgia congressman to vote
against Taft Hartley.
Labor is also united in Virginia
behind James H. Hart in his fight
to unseat Sen. A. Willis Robertson,
henchman Of the arch-reactionary
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, longtime boss
of Virginia politics. A colonel in the
army during the war, Hart won
labor's confidence by his investi-
cation of the treatment of migrant
workers in California for the Sen
ate Civil Liberties Committee.
All three labor political leagues
are solidly behind trade unionism's
veteran supporters from Montana,
Sen. James E. Murray and Rep.
mike" Mansfield = both Demo-
Gratis.
In Missouri, the st. Louis Fed
Grafton of Economic and Political
Education local arm of LLPE has
declared for the reelection of Rep.
Frank M. Karsten, CD who oppos-
ed the Taft-Hartley act. 1t has
also endorsed Roy McKittrick,
Democratic candidate for the CUB
ernatoral nomination, Former Rep.
John B. Sullivan is the Leagues
choice in the 18th District Demo-
cratic primaries, and Raymond w.
Karst in the 18th. One Republi-
can, Russell V. Ellinger, running
for Congress in the 18th District
Republican primaries, also has AF'L
support.
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q. BoHots Not
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gladly followed the trend of the
Sanitary Potters. They set the pat
tern for general and china ware.
They were the bulwark of the n.
b. o. p. and | have seen this
changed. They are temporarily let
ting us lead the way and know
that it is not such a radical change
from art ware, to general ware.
If this business slacks off too
much | think it we'll to have these
Brothers and Sisters acquainted
with our organization that they
may know how to maintain their
wages, so as not to force us into
competition with lesser wages.
1t is easy to find fault, for it re-
quires no capitol and very little
brains. Lets support this referen-
dunn, all of us, even you flower pot
potters.
Upon my return found the shop
to be running normal again. Every
one had enjoyed his vacation and
with prospects good to enjoy
steady work until our next vaca-
ton week which will arrive in the
deer season.
met with a committee at the
home of vice president and finan-
cial secretary Brother and Sister
Cough. Ed Thinner and George
Douden were present and did we
have a nice feed. The Auditing
Committee Thinner and Gum
Legs" Poe made a fine report in
which they found the locals fin
ancial condition to be very good
and the books of both secretaries,
efficiently and remarkably well
kept.
Our new officers for the next 6
months are:
Earl Simmons-President.
Everett Gough-Vice President.
Martha Hines-Recording Sec
retary.
Elva Gough-Financial Secre-
tary-Treasurer
Lula Reed-DefenSe Secretary
Pansey Lemon-Guard
Jas. Chester, Jr.-Inspector
Statistician-Donald Poe.
Arthur Hebb-Trustee
George Douden-Trustee
Tally Lisk-Trustee
"Pinky" Moats-Shop Commit
tee
Arthur Hebb-Shop Committee
Blanche Hawkins-Shop Com
mittee
This letter is in compliance with
a request of the Herald manager,
for lot more shop news than he
has been getting.
To all my old friends i met at
the convention and especially to the
new ones, your association was
keenly enjoyed. l had grown a
little stale in organization work,
but | am back on the beam again.
"Tally" Lisk.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Teachers Union
PIons Fight For
Aid TO Schools

Glenwood Springs, Colo. (LPA)
A four-point program to provide
sorely needed federal aid to the
teachers and school systems of the
nation will be prepared for intro
duction in the 81st Congress by the
American Federation of Teachers
AFL. The decision was made at the
31st annual convention Of the AFT
here last week.
Delegates acted after hearing a
report from Selma Borchardt, AFT
vice president and legislative rep
resentative in Washington. She had
proposed that the AFT, along with
the whole AFL, prepare bill to in
clude: Federal aid for salaries
of public school teachers to be ad-
ministered by the public education
al authorities of the state. 2
Federal aid for all children five to
II years of age, to be administered
by such public agency as would be
permitted under state law to ad-
minister such a program for all
children. 3-Federal aid for schol-
arships to enable needy children
and youth by properly designat-
ed putlic agency. Federal aid
to wipe out illiteracy in this coun-
try.
The program goes far beyond
anything which received serious
consideration at the last session
of Congress. Miss Borchardt esti-
mated at least $215 billion was
needed to meet the nations educa-
tional needs.
A new president of the teachers
union, John M. Eklund, was chosen
to replace Joseph +. Lands OF
cleveland. Eklund, who previously
was a national vice president OF
AFT, is a teacher at the Oppor-
tunity School in Denver.
Eklund interpreted the conven-
tion's mandate as one to expand
the AFT "into the smaller towns
and cities, as well as into the rural
area" so that teachers everywhere
should have the chance Of partici-
patton in the type Of cohesive, ag-
gressive program that unlonlsm
makes possible"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Federal Unions
Piun Vigorous
Political Drive

New Workshop stewards and
officers of AFL Federal locals in
metropolitan New York have enlist
ed in the fight to beat the tide of
Congressional reaction.
Convened by William Collins,
AFL regional organizer, shop stew
ards representing So Federal la
Dor locals were assigned election
precincts in which they live and
where they will work right up until
Election Day, November 2.
At the 4-hour meeting July TO-,
Collins informed the assemblage
THAT the New York AFL planned
to set up offices in each Congress
sional district to work under the
direct guidance of borough chair
men of the Central Trades and La
Dor Council section of Labor's
League for Political Education.
AS part Of the drive against anti
labor Congressman, the Westchester
Federation Of Labor, which bord-
ers on New York City, has been
reorganized. It's present head, John
Acropolis of Yonkers and a mem
Der of the Teamsters Union, and
a committee will concentrate it's
| fire on Representative Ralph W..
Gwinn, 9th Congressional District,
who voted for the Taft-Hartley
llaw.
According to Collins, 2 tests will
be made for Congressional candi-
dates
/. Did the nominee vote for the
Taft Hartley law or, if he is a new
candidate, will he support that law?
2. What did the nominee do to
combat the high cost of living, or,
what does he plan to do if elected? ?
Additional issues will be a candi-
ldate's views on broadening Social
Security coverage and raising the
Federal minimum wage.
awe intend to subject candi
dates" said Collins, 'to intensive
scrutiny. The record of the 80th
Congress was one of abject failure
and we intend to do something
about it,"
The shop steward meeting also
heard an address from Thomas A.
Murray, president Of the New York
State Federation Of Labor, on the
statewide plans for political action.
"What we're doing now," said
Collins after Murray's speech, "is
to get down to the nut and bolt
level, which the shop stewards rep
resent. We can talk and we can
write, but the shop stewards will
| do the precinct work. And we'll
win"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Building Trades Unions
Under Tdft-HdrtleY Low

Washington (LPA) - Building
trades unionists thruout the coun-
try this week are studying the de-
cision of an NLRB trial examiner
which holds that most construction
work in the US is covered by the
Taft Hartley law. The decision is
not a surprise in view of the re-
peated statements of NLRB Gen
eral Counsel Robert N. Denham.
The case on which NLRB trial
examiner Earl S. Bellman ruled in
wolves the labor policy of Den
yer, Colo, electrical contractor who
purchases only about $4,000 worth
of material a year in interstate
commerce.
Defendants in the case were the
Denver Building & Construction
Trades Council-AFL, and the Den
yer locals of the Int'l Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters, and
the United Assn of Journeymen
Plumbers.
These labor organizations initi-
ated a boycott against the Gould
& Preisner Co. which buys $55, 5,0OC
worth of goods from outside the
state, but itself works on a pure
ly intra-state basis.
The NLRB official found them
guilty of violating the Taft-Hartley
secondary boycott ban despite a
ruling in the same case by FEEDER
al Judge j. Foster Symes, who re-
fused to issue an injunction be-
cause Of the intra-state character
of the dispute.
The carpenters union was cited
in Bellman's decision, altho only
one member of that union was in
volved in the dispute.
Bellman conceded that only about
$4,000 worth of 'out-of-state goods
were used in the particular non
union electrical work on the build
ing projects out of which the case
arose. But, he said, "neither the i'm
mediate or the ultimate effect upon
commerce of unfair labor practices
can be measured in terms of the
above figures"
The trial examiner aligned him.
self with the unlimited NLRB iur-
isdiction theories of General Coun-
sci Denham. Board Chairman Paul
Herzog has expressed his disagree
meht with Denham's belief that
the board must consider every case
which appears to come under Taft
Hartley. He wishes to limit board
action to cases which substantially
and directly affect interstate COM
'merce.
Pending before the five-man
board now in the Chattanooga car
'penters' case, involving many of
the questions raised by Bellman's
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durable

program if consumers durable
goods are TO be marketed-the in
dustry still has announced no plans
for expanding plant capacity.
Without government price con-
.trols and expanded blast furnace
facilities, steel prices are bound to
rise, the supply of consumers dur
able goods is sure to decline, wheth-
er steel workers get raise or not.
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Vote Will
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flee within ten days after the local
votes. Tally sheets must bear the
signature of the president and sec
retary of the union as well as the
tellers. The return tally sheet must
also carry the seal of the local
union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

anti-labor decision. When the MI
RIB hands down its ruling in the
Chattanooga dispute the precedent
for the final ruling on the Denver
case will be set and the Taft-Hart-l
ley laws application to all con-
struction workers defined.
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ges that American ship owners
have transferred vessels to Pana-
mahlan registry TO escape US wage
standards, labor regulations and
.tavpg
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By purchasing Union made
goods, you can eliminate the unfair
competition of sub-standardwage
industries.