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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
,Bedt Bender
Slogan

Columbus (LPA)-Progress re-
ports on labor's political activities
in Sen. Taft's home state were the
major item of business last week
before 700 delegates to the conven-
ton of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor.
"Beat Bender" is the AFL un-
ions statewide slogan, and the
OSFLi plans to send out 100000
sample ballots to all parts of the
state, as part of its drive to get a
big pro-labor vote. Rep. George
Bender, Republican Congressman
at-large from Ohio, has an anti
labor record of which he is boast
ing loudly in speeches around the
state.
The Ohio AFL plans to take to
the radio 18 times between now
and Nov. 2.
AFL President William Green,
in an address at the opening ses-
sion of the convention said 1--WE
are going to use the power invest
ed in us to correct the wrong done
by the Taft Hartley law. Your vote
in the ballot box counts as much as
the one cast by the most wealthy
man. Fair legislation depends up
on the men we send to Congress.
Our purpose is to vote for our
friends and against our enemies"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
ELPA To M 0ke
AnnUoi Awards

Newark (LPA)-The Int'l Labor
Press of America is getting ready
this week to make its annual
awards for labor press "bests." It's
award committee, headed by Editor
Frank B. Powers of the CONNER
cial Telegraphers Journal, will
make its decision on Sept. 2, and
the winners will be announced at
the ILPA convention in Cincinnati
Nov. 13 and IA.
Already 10S entries have been
received in the contest. First and
second prizes will be awarded to
international union papers, month
ly labor journals, and weekly union
papers on the basis of general edit
orial excellence and good typo
graphy and presswork.
Still another set of awards will
go to the papers submitting the
best single editorial, the most orr
ginal cartoon, the best picture dis
play, the best front page, the most
interesting feature article and the
best special column.
Entries are still coming in to
Frank Powers, 5913 Georgia Ave.
NV, Washington, d. c.
AFL Vice President Matthew
Woll is present of ILPA and Edit
or Lewis Hermann of the New
Jersey Labor Herald is secretary
treasurer. The awards will be pre-
sented by AFL President William
Green.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
Dollar Value of Construction AT Peak;
Record S1,785,o00, 900 Reported In Aug.

Washington,-New monthly dol
lar value peaks were reached in
August for all types of construc-
tion activity, according to the Bur-
eau of Labor Statistics.
The continued summer upswing
in the building industry brought the
August dollar volume to new re-
cord of $1,7S5,000,00, or A percent
above the July level. The BIS re-
port on dollar valuation of con-
struction makes no reference to the
number of buildings under con-
struction.
Employment by construction con-
| tractors reached the 2,125,00 mark
in August, an increase of $4,000
workers over the revised July esti-
mate, and $4,000 above the Aug
ust, 1947, figure. With the approach
of a seasonal peak in construction
activity, the monthly rate of in
crease in employment slackened
somewhat in July and August.
| Nevertheless, construction contrac-
tors have added close to 200,0
employees since May, and over half
million since February. Well over
third of all contract construction
workers employed in August were
engaged in building new nonfarm
housing.
The most important dollar gains
in privately financed construction
during August were for new nom
farm home-building and public
utilities. Expenditures for new
housing increased by $15,000,000
from July to a total of $690,000,000
in August, and accounted for al
most 40 percent of total construc-
tion expenditures. For privately
owned public utilities, August ex-
penditures of $245,000,000 repre-
sented $12,000,0O0 gain over July.
Compared with August, 1947, the
dollar value Of new housing was
38 percent greater this year, while
for public utilities the increase was
Is percent.
Expenditures for commercial
construction edged up in August to
new monthly peak of S129,00Q,-
600. At the same time, the dollar
volume of industrial building in
creased slightly for the second con-
secutive month after a decline ex-
tending over the past year and a
half.
In the first 8 months of 1913,
$11, ,224, 900, ,0000had been spent for
new construction, 35 percent above
the amount spent in the CORES
ponding months of 1947. More than
half the rise this year occurred in
expenditures for new BODYBUILDING,
which, at $4,485, 100000, exceeded
by 55 percent the residential dol
lar volume for the first s months
of 1947.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
ClO Attorney
BIosfs Affucks
On AFL Union

Washington (LPA) - Arthur ].
Goldberg, CIO general counsel, last
week blasted the unionbreaking
campaign against the Int'l Typo
graphical Union-AFL of the Joint
Congressional Committee on Labor
Management Relations. The release
of President Truman's correspon-
dence with NLRB Associate Gener-
al Counsel David Finding "fully
substantiates repeated ch arg e S
made by the CIO that members of
the Committee have used their Of
fee to insure that the anti-labor
Taft Hartley act will be applied
against labor in the most restric-
tive way possible" Goldberg said.
The attorney said that Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft's pressure on NLRB
officials to continue their drive
against the ITU "flouts the demo
cratic principle that government
should be one of laws instead OF
men. 1t is in gross disregard of the
principle Of the separation of pow
ers of the branches of the govern
ment."
Goldberg pointed out that Taft's
conduct is typical of that of the
whole Taft Hartley watchdog
committee Of which he is a mem
Der, and Sen. Joseph Ball (R.,
Minn.) is chairman. The union
lawyer declared that when NLRB
General Counsel Robert Denham
was confirmed in his job by the
Senate, Ball "made the incredible
suggestion that the General Coun-
sci should clear with the Joint
Committee before taking legislative
action"
Last April, when the Typos case
was before the courts the reaction
ary majority of the committee is
sued a report favorable to the en-
ployers' case, Goldberg pointed out.
! VII diOLnCI OC0dolOll II INbdhCh Nii
NLRB trial examiner for not is
suing an anti-ITU ruling speedily
enough.
Goldberg warned that the Joint
Committee is becoming purely a
pressure agency for employers
openly dedicated to making the ad-
ministration Of the ft-Hartley
act even more repressive than is
warranted by the letter of the law.
The NLRB General Counsel was
supposed to be independent, Gold
berg explained. "Instead, his func-
tion is becoming that of messenger
boy for the employer minded maj
ority of the Joint Committee, and
for the powerful pressure groups
which seek to repress every right
of organized labor" the lawyer as
serted.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
AFL Auto Workers Union
Shop Vote Unanimous

Muskegon, Mich. (ILNS).-The
United Automobile Workers of
America, affiliated with the Am
erican Federation of Labor, parti-
cipated in the fifth NLRB union
shop referendum in Muskegon re-
Gently, and its Local GIT maintain
ed the victorious pace of triumphs
by snaring all but two votes. In all
previous referenda conducted
among UAW-AFL local unions in
Muskegon, a total of only 13 mega
tive votes has been cast against
this type of union security.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
Federal Income Tax Held Factor
Leading To Possible Economic Bust

New York.-The recent reduc-
tion in federal income taxes, while
stimulating the nations business
boom, may be one of the contribut-
ing factors now operating to bring
on a future bust.
This was the conclusion reached
by Arthur A. Elder, consultant to
the AFLs Committee on Taxation,
in the second of a series of six
articles written for and distributed
by the Workers Education Bureau
of America on the general topic,
"Organized Labor's Stake in Tax
Policy"
Mr.. Elder declared that at
time when it is vitally necessary
to maintain progressive tax
structure, it was economically un-
wise to reduce federal income tax
revenue by Is percent, especially
when the bulk of the savings went
to taxpayers with large incomes.
He said:
Economics generally recognize
this and point out that during the
'20s similar tax cuts led to an ac-
emulation of idle savings and in
vestment capital that was one OF
the factors that brought on the de-
preston of the early '30s.
"What happened before is hap
pening again. Every move in the
direction of shifting the tax bur
den to payers of excise and sales
taxes by relieving income tax pay
ers is a move toward depression or
bust. Before the recent tax reduc-
tion approximately 70 percent of all
taxes paid-federal, state, and
local-were taxes on income, based
on the ability to pay. Since the re-
duction, the proportion is much
closer to 60 percent. Yet plans are
ready for further cuts in income
taxes at the federal level, and there
is continued emphasis on additional
taxes on consumers at the state
and local levels"
Mr.. Elder asserted that events
since the income tax reduction
took effect refute the arguments
advanced in Congress in support of
the measure which claimed that a
tax cut would increase purchas-
ing power, encourage investment,
and stimulate production. The tax
experts said:
81. Purchasing power has in
creased for some people, but prices
have also increased. They are still
increasing, so that, for lower in
come groups particularly, any pos
sible tax saving has been pore
than wiped out.
"2. How about the much adver-
tised need for new investment? 1t
would be very difficult for any sup
porters Of the tax cuts to prove
that any considerable portion of the
SIS, GOO, 100000 in tax savings has
gone into needed investment. Sta
tistics combine to show that large
scale capital expansion and improve
ment are being financed out of cor
porate reserves or with funds taken
out of high war and postwar earn
ings. In other words, major capital
expansion is now financed internal
ly with little or no demand for the
investment dollars of the man-in-
the-street.
so. Finally, of course, against
the argument that tax reduction
would stimulate production, theI
cold, hard fact looms that total pro-
ducton is remaining practically
constant without any increase from
to month. And it is also gen
orally known that unless and until
there is an increase in the supply
of basic commodities, such as steel II
coal, and oil, production in other
fields cannot increase"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
AFL's RAILWAY DEPT.
ANNOUNCES CHANGE

Chicago.-James M. Burns, sec
retary-treasurer of the AFL's Rail
way Employees Department, re-
signed his position to become vice
president of the Sheet Metal Work
ers International Association.
To succeed Burns, the depart
ment's executive council selected
Michael Fox, who formerly served
as assistant to the president, Fred
N. Aten.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
Machinists To
Vote On Endorsing
President Truman

NIdIiu hdpluS NGI n - Il ne llISl
resolution passed by the 22nd ma
tional convention of the Int'l Asso-
citation of Machinists was one call
ling for repeal of the Taft Hartley
law at the next session of Con-
gress. And to do this, the 900 dele
gates pledged "to bring about the
defeat of those Senators and Repre-
sentatives responsible for the pass
age of the Taft-Hartley act" and
those who support similar anti
labor legislation.
A resolution endorsing President
Truman's campaign for reelection
is pending before the convention,
which meets thru this week.
lam President Harvey w. Brown
has already challenged delegates
to go further than simply working
for a pro-labor Congress. Said
Brown: ''We can be charged with
lacking in sincerity if we do not
pay our respects to the distinguish
ed gentleman in the White House,
who not only vetoed the Taft-Hart-
ley bill but issued a scathing de-
nunciation Of that in his message
to Congress"
There are IL working committees
at this convention, who are expect
ed to bring in detailed reports blue
printing the future of the 650,000-
member-strong union.
"If in the future we find that it
is advisable to again become affili-
ated with the AFL," delegates
voted that the lam would do so as
a new member, rather than by pay
ing the roughly $30o,000 back per-
capita which would be owed if the
international simply re-affiliated.
AFL European representative
Irving Brown, who is also an lam
member, reported that "you have
in the eastern zone of German to-
day the same concentration camps
that were used by Hitler against
his political enemies and today
these camps are being used against
those trade unionists who refuse to
accept dictatorship, whether it is
black or red" u1 M
On the conventions opening day,
President Brown announced the
dramatic step taken when IAN
members who struck the Boeing
AirpIane Co. plant for 10 weeks
voted to return to work on terms
set by the NLRB. The union mem
bers massed at the Boeing gates
that morning at $50, long before
the scabs arrived for work. The
crowd of ex-strikers was so great
by starting time that, according to
the union, almost 8096 of the
stfikebreakers turned around and
left. p
Reason for the vote to return to
work, according to Brown, was the
decision of the AFL executive coun
ell to back up west cost Teamsters
leader Dave Beck in claiming jur-
isdiction over warehouse workers
in the Boeing plant. The lam has
Beck with strikebreaking.
"If there had not been collusion be-
tween the Boeing management and
Beck our strike would have been
won i'm three weeks" the lam head
told delegates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
Labor Station Now $4,000 Watts

Chicago (LPA)-America's first
labor-radio station, VIGIL, last
week increased its power from 10,-
600 to 50,0C0 watts. The station,
established by the Chicago FEEDER
alton of Labor % years ago, when
radio was just beginning, is known
as the "Voice Of Labor"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
Coop Orchestra Announces Season

Chicago OPA) - The Coop
Symphony Orchestra of Chicago
will give three concerts during the
1913 season. The dates are Dec. L,
March Is and May 16. The final
concert in Orchestra Hall will fea-
ture Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
with the chorus of the Amalgamat-
ed Clothing Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23

No abilities, however splendid,
can command success without in
tense labor and persevering appli-
cation.
Pepper, which used to be 46c4la,
pound, is expected to reach $1s.a
pound by winter. ea15o co1l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23

There is no policy like politeness,
since a good manner often succeeds
where the best tongue has failed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23
ALL THEY ASKED WAS AN. even BREAK

Building country easy But there and
women willing their backs safe life, and their
faces toward frontiers All they asked break
Free enterprise another way Of saying an break
Free enterprise the basic American principle of vision and
personal initiative. Just give American break
chance to get ahead = and he ii go from there.
But when government goes into business, i'll competition
with its own citizens the American ideal of break is
destroyed For in business grants itself special
privileges that denied to people in business
Take power systems for example They
pay few any, taxes often money from the T. S. Treasury
little interests make up losses out of the pockets of
the taxpayers.
On the other hand Americas busness-managed power
companies their They pay their full share of
taxes fair interest the money they borrow It's tribute
to American sefreance that tax-paying SetSupporting
companies supply of the amount of electric
power this country depends at the lowest possible cost
There are still frontiers in electric living be opened
And Businessmen do the job better than bureaucrats.
-
71s OHIO POWER col
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-23

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The union times., 1948-01-17
Poll Shoevs Flat Rejection
 Of Taft By Labor Unions

Results of the latest Gallup Poll blasts wide the absurd claim the labor members aroused the Iaartey law and its them individual workers This the public asked indicate pref
  coming presidential
 union all rolled of of thinking individual who fooled by  labor leaders.
 great significance
  majority The voting
  wasv individual labor union members. The apply when the number of who said had If in slightly of repudaon Taft position vOte
 of occupaonal groups a professional group expected groups support IabO uno
The union times., 1948-01-17

Thus the infantile theory that in ternational sports cement friendly relations" is taking its customary Olympian fl o g g Il g Interna- tiona1 Wrangling is already at fever heat over the ancient mutton-bone of contention-professlonalism.
 THE FRENCH AGAIN
 Who started all this disorder? Be- lieve it or not, Napoleon III did, in directly. How SO? In a moment of childish confusion a young French guy, M. Pierre de Coubertain, got the notion of reviving the ancient O1ym- pic Games. Why? His heart strings had been wrung by the humiliation of his country in 1870." That was when his silly emperor, Nap III, hurled the French nation to military suicide against the German armies.
 Pierre yearned to stop all wars. So he took to the woods, studied outdoor life and came up with a device. The gadget, of all things, was international SPORTS. He tdRu1ICU H11IISCA DdCh tO dF1Ss organized clubs ''to cultivate stren- uOus sports which had hitherto been neglected.'' An, youth! Espe- cially simple youth.
 Avoiding padded cells and psycho- pathic wards, Pierre made good. He summoned the top stuffed shirts of the old and new worlds to quaff with him the heady wine of the Olympic Idea. They came and got plastered on it. Weird ideas obsessed 'em, such as The games would create and strengthen bonds of international friendship" The games would purify sport, abolish selfish and underhand methods" Also, they would make the contest, not the victory, the joy of the young"
 This was desperate dealing with mankind. Putting the Messiah in spiked shoes, scaling the discus, pound ing the weary Marathon course over the dusty roads, so to speak. But these were desperate men out to save the world, come hell and high water. They were hard of hearing, too. They could mt hear the Grecian mountain of Olympus, site of the ancient Olympic Games, echoing through the centuries 1:
The union times., 1948-01-17
THEY'RE FRANK

Some openly admitted their real purpose. Opposing a reduction 1n the tax, a Congressman from Wisconsin remarked, "I should regret the reduc- ton for I fly the flag of an intent to destroy the manufacture by taxing it out of existence" The report of the South Dakota Tax Conference (193D states: The use of substitute dairy products such as oleomargarine, limits the use and lowers the market for butter This tax will operate to the benefit of the dairy industry in reducing the amount of such substi- tuteS
 Usually, however, the real reason for the taxes and restrictions was cIOaked in various excuses. Dairy men claimed OleOmargarine was in- feriOr as a food. Others, that the tax was needed as a source of rev. enue. These claims have long been disprOved.
 With the introduction of vitamin A into the product, the merits of margarine as a food can no longer be questioned. As for bringing in revenue, its failure. has been not able. In only three states did this source provide as much as One- tenth of one per cent of their total revenues in 1889.
 The ones t0hO really lose, Of course, are the consumers. The taeeS passed On to the consumers becr most heartily On the IOIUer in- come groups. And it is these people ,UIO prOUide the greatest demand for margarine because Of their in- ability to buy butter at present prices.
 All true believers in E'free" en- terprise should faUOr Gn immediate end to aH tGses and restrictions On OIeOmargGrine so that free cOmpe- titiOn might be restored to the dairy industry.
The union times., 1948-01-17

No! No! A thousand times Nol It's no dice!"
 The mountain continued echoing :: We Greeks were the most en1ighten- ed people of our time, you know. And we just couldn't make the Olympic Games work. They went swell for a spell, were as pure as the marble tenn pies in our land of the gods on the hills and valleys of Olympus. The greatest honors in Greece were be- slowed on O1ympian winners.
 'I guess we overdid it and made pros of our boys. We gave 'em gifts, cash awards, even life pen sions. We cut hole in the city's wall for the returning champions to enter. It meant we had no fur ther fear of attack from enemies with such great guys to protect us. That was silly.
 "Then came the Romans. The games simply didn't cement friendly relations between us. That old Olympic rivalry did it. They claimed our athletes were on payrolls and we knew theirs were on the make for a fast drachma. An awful scandal, brother.
 Then came the big b1owof. In one Olympiad we heck1ed the Romans with padding expense accounts, even to accepting checks. There was a regular riot. The Romans set fire to our heroes training houses, hurled statues around, wrecked the stadium. Then their emperor, Theodosius, put the business to the games for good. Called 'em public nuisance, and I guess he was right.
 'Three centuries later there was an earthquake at Olympus. Centu- ries later, archaeoIogists dug up the carcass of Greek Olympic champ. A sack of gold was strapped to his waist. He left a note pinned on what was once an olive wreath. It said: Who the hell wants this damn thing!'"
 When an interpreter translated the mountains echo, Pierre de Con- pertain called for cementing of friendly relations and revival of the Olympic Games in Greece in 1896. Never since then have there been so many and such terrible wars.
The union times., 1948-01-17
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) ported that 10000 firms were guilty of chiseling on wages under the wage-hour act. These firms had tried to get out of paying SIS mill lion in wages rightfully due their employees.
 Not an editorial, not a coIumnist rent the air with an indignant yawp.
 More than l26,OOO manufactur- ing workers were disabled for one or more days by injuries on the job during the third quarter of l947, the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics reports. Of these 800 died from their injuries and another 5,2OO were known to have sustained per- manent physical impairment.
 BIS figured the working time lost by inj ured persons during the quarter as more than 21a million man-days, representing wage value of more than $2O million. As usual, the frequency of injuries was greatest in sawmills, blaming mills, wooden box plants, plywood mills and iron foundries. They all had more than 40 disabling injuries for every million man-hOurs worked. The average rate for all manufac- turing was 16.6.