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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Fenton, Brown To
Attend ERP ParIey

Washington, D. C.-AFL Presi-
dent William Green announced that
he has directed Frank Fenton and
Irving Brown to represent the
American Federation of Labor at
the international trade union con-
ference in support of the Marshall
Plan on March 9 in London.
Mr.. Fenton, the AFL's Interna-
tional Representative, is enroute for
Europe to attend a meeting of the
governing body of the International
Labor Organization. Mr.. Brown, the
AFL's European Representative, is
in Brussels.
Mr.. Green cabled H. Vincent
Tewson, General Secretary of the
British Trades Union Congress,
that Mr.. Fenton and Mr.. Brown
would attend the London confer
ence. He said that since the meet
ing was called on such short no.
tice it would be impossible for him
self and other top AFL leaders to
make the trip, as was previously
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04

to furnish the music from $3.50
until IL o'clock. In an adjacent
room to the main dance hall, lunch
con and refreshments will be avail
able. The entire expense of the af-
fair will be borne by the local.
However, all members are request
ed to pay up their dues and assess
ments before joining the party.
These functions have always gone
over in a big way and this year
will not be an exception. Special in
vitations are extended to members
of our Executive Board who might
be free that night and also to the
Office force of the Warwick China
Co. The committee asks all men,
bers of No. to keep this particular
evening open and plan to attend.
The date-April 10th. and the place
Trades and Labor Hall, 18th &
Market ST., Wheeling.-O. C. 6.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
TrySe n. Gains
Argum ents On
Your Landlord!

Washington (LPA) Sen. Harry
Cain (R., Wash.) was congratulate
ed when he finished his three-hour
explanation of the Rent Control
Bill of 1948 on the floor of the
Senate last week.
at seems to me-" said Sen. S.
L. Holland d., Fla.) "that the
distinguished Senator made very
good case for the committee bill in
the first two hours Then he
proceeded meticulously to demolish
that case in the last hour of his pre-
sentation."
Cain, an outspoken opponent of
rent control, had the unhappy task
of explaining and steering thru the
Senate a bill with which he had
no sympathy at all. However, he
certainly didn't hide his views. Here
are a few of his comments in the
course of the three hours:
"The fear of wholesale evictions
las been played up out of all pro-
portion. In my opinion - and Ger
tainly | hope | am right-there
would be no wave of evictions with
out rent control"
'There are few forms of coer-
cion an owner can use to compel
a tenant to pay more rental than
he wishes to pay. Unless Americans
are freely willing and able to pay
higher rentals, owners will not be
able to collect them ;. The termi-
nation of rent control would, of
course, mean that some rentals
would rise, but not only to the
point the tenant agrees. Rentals
for many families would not be af-
fected, for others they would be re-
duced."'
81 believe that there is good rea-
son to believe that the original,
fundamental and sound reason for
rent control in America has very
largely ceased to exist"
at is extremely difficult to write
or extend or amend a rent-control
law which is fair to the property
owner and tenants of America,
when the very foundation of any
rent-control law is both unfair and
discriminatory"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Morse Denies TIL
Prevents Strikes

Philadelphia (LPA) Sen
Wayne Morse (R., Ore.) told tn
convention of Americans for Dem
ocratic Action here last week tha
the NAM claim that the Taft Hart
ley anti-labor law has prevented
strikes is pure bunk.
The liberal Republican disavow
ed any intention of boiling his par
| ty, but said that if the COP adopts
an isolationist platform for 194s
he will take "an extended trip to
Europe" Emphasizing that he
spoke without the Michigan Sena-
tors authorization, he told the ADA
delegates that he hopes to shave
the privilege of campaigning for
Senator Vandenburg for president
in November" Vandenburg has so
far discouraged all attempts to put
him in the presidential race.
Three types of employer think
ing, not the Taft-Hartley law, have
kept strikes down during the past
year," Morse said. Thousands of
employers who have experienced
good industrial relations thru col
lective bargaining with unions have
ignored Taft-Hartley. Realizing the
advantages of union cooperation,
they have continued to bargain
rather than trying to weaken labor
thru insistence upon rigid applica-
tion of the union-breaking law to
their industries.
"Other employers realize that in
the present inflationary situation it
is possible for them to pass on
wage raises granted the unions to
consumers-even when they are
making profits that permit them
to absorb wage BOOSTS" the Ore
gonian continued. More interested
in profits than in Taft Hartley they
too have refrained from heckling
unions and forcing them to inter
rupt production. Union claims have
been granted, then double the
amount of the wage boost has been
passed on to consumers in higher
prices, while business associations
continue to attribute high prices
to labor costs.
Finally, Morse pointed to "a
third group of employers who are
following trade association advice
not to get rough now" They are
waiting till a recession sets in, and
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Court Assignment
OF Civil Cases
Postpones Hearing

A court order served on Brother.
hood officials for a hearing on q
petition for a temporary injunction
scheduled to be heard March 5 be.
fore Common Pleas Judge Joel H
Sharp, has been postponed indefi.
nitely, President James NJ. Duffy
announced as we go to press.
The petition which was filed in
Common Pleas Court by five mem.
bers of the Brotherhood, Larry A.
Finlay, Norman Whippler, Shell w
Johnson, Edward Jones and Clyde
H. McDaniels, seek an injunction to
restrain the payment of salary in
creases granted national officials
at the 1914 convention.
The law firm of Brookes and
Lynch along with Attorney r. j.
Duffy of Columbus, legal counsel
for the Ohio State Federation of
Labor and former president of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters will represent Brotherhood
officials in court proceedings.
Two of the five who filed the in
junction proceedings, Larry A. Fin
lay and Norman Whippler, were un-
successful candidates for national
office in the national election in
1947. Mr.. Whippler was defeated
by President Duffy and Mr.. Fin
lay was defeated by E. L. Wheatley
for first vice president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
New Organization
Chief For A.F.L.

Washington, D. C. QLNS) =
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor has
announced appointment of John Jo-
.seph Murphy as the federation's ma
tional director of organization, sue
Iceeding Frank P. Fenton, recently
elevated to the post of AFL inter
national representative.
Murphy, while only as, brings a
long background of experience to
his new job. He served with dis
tinction as New England regional
director of organization since 1898
and carried on several special or
ganization campaigns for the fed
Grafton.
At the age of Ia, Murphy took
his first job and became a mem
Der of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street and Electric Railway
Employees of America in Worces-
ter, Mass. He worked successively
as a water boy, errand boy, regist-
er checker and spare dispatcher.
Then, displaced by the introduction
of one-man operated street cars, he
became an apprentice bricklayer in
1924 with Worcester Local 6 of
the Bricklayers, Masons and Plas-
terers international Union. After
serving his apprenticeship, he work
ed at the trade then was elected to
union office, becoming president of
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
0C Urges Members
Fill Out Coupon
For Coop Store

Local Union 124 held short and
snappy session Tuesday evening de-
spite the poor turnout at our week
ly session. Since nothing of start
ling nature was on the evenings
agenda, perhaps that can attribute
to the small attendance. However,
we must not overlook the impor-
tance of attending meetings regu-
larly whether or not things are run
ming along smoothly. The minute
we become lax is usually the time
something happens and before we
know it,develops into serious mat
ter. Keep this thought in mind and
when next Tuesday rolls around at
tend your local meeting and join
with others in protecting the inter-
ests of your trade.
A letter was received from Red
Cross officials and we made our
usual donation of $500. We urge
all members to support the Red
Cross in this years drive.
As prices continue to rise and
many of us are trying to find So
luton to make ends meet, your o.
C. offers a very good suggestion.
Fill out the coupon which is now
running i'm the Herald for the CO.
operative store and mail it in i'm
The sooner the store is
n operation, the sooner we will
ind our dollars going a little far
her in enabling US to buy the
necessities of life to maintain a
air standard of living.-O. C. 124.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Local Union No. 50
Will Hold Easter
Dance On April IS

Beaver Falls, Pa.-Officers for
the new term were elected at the
last meeting of Local Union 33 and
included the following: Walter
Hamilton, president; William Rose,
vice president; Donald Rupert,
treasurer; Leonard Greco, secre-
tary; Laura Swartz, financial sec
retary; Bradford Townsend, de-
fense secretary; Angelo Lupo,
guard.
Local Union 33 has changed To-
cation Of their headquarters to the
New Central Building hall, located
at 1922 Seventh Ave. Meeting
nights have also been changed to
the second and fourth Monday of
each month. Members are request
ed to make note of this change and
pass the word along.
A resolution committee was ap-
pointed headed by William Rose,
chairman, assisted by Chester Fish
er and Bradford Townsend. Mem
bers are requested to hand in their
resolutions early so that they may
be presented in the proper manner
before the Local. Remember all
resolutions must be in not later
than our last meeting night in
April which falls on the fourth
Monday, setting April 26 as the
dead line.
The entertainment committee an
that plans are moving for
ward for an Easter party and dance
to be held at the Rhythma room
for officials and employees of the
Mayer China The date has been
set for Thursday, April 18th. An
invitation has been extended MEM
bers of the Executive Board and
we hope they can find their way
clear TO attend.
Although it is somewhat three
away from the date Of the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
Strikers Allowed
To Vote By NLRB

Washington (LPA) - For the
first time since the passage Of the
Taft Hartley law strikers will vote
in a collective bargaining repre-
sentation election, the NLRB an
nounced this week.
The Taft-Hartley stinger in the
n b,board's decision is that all scab
workers as well as the rightful en-
ployes of the firm will be permit
ted to vote.
Under the Wagner Act, striking
employees and non-strikers could
vote in collective bargaining cleo
tions, except for persons hired aft
er the union had offered uncondi-
tionally to return to work. But the
Taft-Hartley Act provides. that
strikers "not entitled to reinstate-
ment" may not vote.
The board decision in this case
allows all strikers and all scabs
to vote, and provides for the inn
pounding of challenged ballots until
the board rules on the eligibility
of all contested votes.
The Pipe Machinery Co., strike
began year ago. After a period of
peaceful bargaining with lam
Lodge 1887, the company in antici-
patton of anti-labor legislation re-
fused to discuss the unions late
1916 request for a general wage
raise of 25c an hour. Early in 1947,
it dismissed active unionists who
after due notice to the company,
which did not voice its objection
stayed away from work part of one
day to transact union. business.
When the company refused to re-
hire four of the local union lead
ers the lam struck the plant, which
has continued to operate with a
skeleton, scab, working force. Later
the machinery firm called out
Cleveland mounted police in an at
tempt to break up the lam picket
line. The Independent p. M. Com
pany Union, made up of those still
at work, as well as lam is accord
ed a place on the representation
ballot by the NLRB. !
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
AFL LOngshOremen Win
Recognition AS Agent

New York City-Local 333 of the
United Marine division of the
AFL's international Longshore-
mems Association won recognition
from an employer as bargaining
agent for licensed employees as well
as unlicensed workers on the COM
pany's harbor oil craft.
The agreement reached with the
Reinauer Transportation Co.'s, Inc,
of Staten Island, also gave the
workers a pay raise of 10 cents
an hour, retroactive to January /.
Pay for crewmen heretofore rang
ed from $7.63 to $10.32 day.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-03-04
NOTICE LOCAL UNION NO. 8

Business of special Importance
will be transacted at a special meet
ing called for Friday evening,
March s in our regular meeting
hall at headquarters. All members
are requested to be present.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
Retroactive talk won't
budqe Cot strikers

The labor board election be-
hind which "Cat" is attempting
to dodge any wage concession
was created by a ghost union
the UAW-AFL. Until the wage
demand rose to strike pitch
among "Cat" workers, this ghost
union was without membership
in the plant, which was first
organized by farm equipment in
1888.
LEADERS of Local los have
stressed to their membership the
situation in steel, where a two
year, no-strike contract has re-
suited in Big Steel's refusal to
make any wage concessions
whatsoever.
Where Big Steel is using this
contract to block any wage in
creases, they pointed out, "Cat"
is hiding behind the Taft-Hart-
ley Act. Furthermore, "Cat"
granted a wage increase in 1945,
with an election pending, as the
result of a strike.
Support for the "Cat" strikers
is growing. Local CLIO unions
have pledged 81 per week per
member to "Cat" strikers. State
relief funds have also been made
available to strikers living in
Peoria within 24-48 hours of
proof of need. A strike commit
tee is investigating the situation
over in Pekin, where such relief
has been refused.
SUCH outlying residential
areas have also been made sites
for weekly strike meetings open
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
THE GIANT packers an

notwithstanding retroactive
still equals nothing" is the way
farm equipments Local los dis
missed the Caterpillar Tractor
Co.'s latest attempt at a back
to-work movement, her ID d
through the Peoria journal.
The Journal had voiced the
company proposal for am end to
the three-weeks-old strike in an
editorial headed 'Why Not Go
Back to Work." Its basis was a
company promise that any fu-
ture wage increases negotiated
after a labor board election
would be "retroactive to the date
of return to work."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

number of pickets on each soap
works gate at any one time never
exceeded "seven or eight" But
Judge Reid continued firm in
his intention to tissue some sort
of an order"
Company counsel rejected his
suggestion for company-union
confab that might esu1t in
agreement on picketing. At the
hearings conclusion Judge Reid
enjoined UPWA Local 100 from
ID mass picketing; q ''the use Of
force and violence against any
person" entering the soap works
gates; and - from posting more
than 10 pickets at any one gate.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

nounced in advance of a Wash
ington Cancellation meeting that
they had no intention of grant
ing their workers more than
nine cents an hour.
In Chicago dailies were still
being turned out by varitypists,
while ITU members walked the
picketline. The 100-year-old un-
ion was tangled in legal techni-
calities, enjoined, embattled.
Another element in the pat
tern was the attempt of those
responsible for high prices, the
employers whose companies in
1947 rolled up profits six, eight,
10 times over anything ever
known before, to shift the blame
for initiation to labor and wage
increases.
Tentative cuts in the price Of
producers goods were bally-
hooed by the press-but didn't
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

to the public. Picketlines still
patrol all gates of the sprawling
'tCat" plant, but they are being
reinforced with rowing motor
cades.
Pledges of support and aid
have come from New York and
Iowa state farmers unions. I'm
dergraduate members of the
farmers union at the University
of North Dakota bombarded
Cat" president Louis B. Neu-
miller with 100 postcards pro-
testing his refusal to negotiate.
The struggle to extend this
support continues. Local los is
on the air twice a day over
Peoria's two radio stations. In
a countermove IN d o u b tie dIy
masterminded by ex 90 -FBI
agent Paul Ferrin, the American
Legion is also taking to the air
for a series of broadcasts.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

tention.
Gene Cotton, chief counsel for
the United clearinghouse Work
ers (CIO) demonstrated that the
A rmour superintendent who
signed the petition for an injunc-
ton, had no personal knowledge
of the events he described as JUS
tifying it.
Armour's, whose truck had
rolled over Cicardo, was repre-
sented by a member of Gov.
Green's law firm, Kirkland,
Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis.
Cotton called attention to the
fact company and police wit
nesses had admitted that the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
Lawyers delight

Who has proted from the Taft Hartley Act? Lawyers
as well as corporations The lam has assign
to each of its six vice presidents
10 this staff of attorneys with
washington legal representative
nicaties involved in the law especially filing require
menS has been necessary to assign additional attorneys
the 81 regional offices -.
1T has also been necessary
and office help to take of the records made
these filing requirements
This expense must ultimately be borne by
ship itself and therefore results increased
right OF membership under the law and decrease in the
actual service to the union membership
THE law has caused terrific increase in the unions OPP
Grating overhead"
The five-man board that rules labor aHarey
Act accumulated pending backlog, in the
months of the law, the total number
OF cases filed with the board
Get decision from the TafHartley board? should
live long!
Discussing the plant study reports Hartley
board the minority another instance
unobjectve reporting study Rey-
nods Co. The Reynolds report Messrs Pepper Murray
Lesnsk1 and Kelley, " indicates antiNegro bias
lack of sympathy for the unions point of view"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

SllOW QP III taOlCS 1SllSSIulS IlhO
workers cost of living.
EMPLOYERS were counting
on the Taft-Hartley arsenal of
injunctions, legal tanglefoot, red
tape, delay and "non-Commu-
mist" affidavits.
But there was another ele-
ment in their campaign to ham,
string American unions: they
had to accomplish this operation
before a new Congress, with a
large bloc Of Wallace progress
sives, came into office.
There were increasing indica-
tons that labor leaders them
selves were beginning to realize
that only through militant pick
etline struggle could the Taft
Hartley pattern be shattered.
-
PLEDGES of support from
CLIO affiliates poured in on the
unaffiliated mine workers.
UE's Chicago district, which
had already given generously to
packing, contributed anot h er
$4,000 on the, occasion of a me-
mortal meeting to Santo Cicardo,
Taft-Hartley clearinghouse VIC
tim.
Big Business had flung down
its challenge. Labor was fight
ing for it's life.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
Armour gets court order

The planned accident" which
crushsed the life from packing
house worker Santo Cicardo was
put to further company use last
week as the basis for a court
order limiting pickets at the
gates of Armour soap works
where Cicardo lost his life-to
10 at each gate.
Judge Leonard C. Reid indi-
Gated from the beginning of the
hearing that he intended to en-
join the clearinghouse workers,
no matter what evidence was
presented to show such action
unnecessary. He held to his in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
Cory's TIL tactic
backfires, aids UE

Attempts by the Cory Corp.
2i00 S. Marshall. to use the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers tAFL) and
the Taft-HartleY Act TO break
the six-months- old strike of
the United Electrical Work.
ers tCIO) backfired this week
into victory for the strikers.
In a TIL election. exclud-
ing UEr l8l ballots were cast.
OF these. only II went to the
IBEW. The great majority.
l07 ballots. were challenged
as the votes of strikers. One
ballot was void. two were cast
for mo union"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
New variation on
an old TIL theme

WASHINGTON A new
twist-airned specifically at
the United Public Workers
tCIO) has been given appli-
cation of the Taft-HartleY Act
by Rep. Keefe IT,. Wis.,.
Keefe has hung legislative
rider on a Dept. of Labor ap-
preparations bill that would
ban any payment TO depart
ment employees belonging TO
unions whose officers have
not filed the TIL non Com
munist affidavifs.
Keefe intends to attach
similar riders 10 all future
appropriations bills.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
TongIefoot

The International Association of (unaliateD
union certified chemically pure by test of Section OH
of the TaftHartley Act Noneheles as entangled
in the Act fly who has fallen flypaper.
Before the Act went into action the SGT cases on
file with the labor board433 1874 inyov-
ing unfair labor practices Then they that
Aug 22 947 began to show its teeth
mo Qualifications would be issued
held and elections directed hearings had been held
until the full filing requirements completed"
But then the lam found that Aug 81 it couldn't
comply with the filing requirements
to do The NLRB fresh 1890 1881 and
R7o0 When the lam did receive Them instructions ac-
companed the the these and shin
them out to 81 district lodges lodges
Then the NRB asked your financial affi-
davits The NRB had forms prepared audts
So the lam had to its own, n
structions, and await their return.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01
Red tope

NLRB general counsel Robert N. Denham finally admitted
the lam to the coveted status complying Oct 49,
1947 Some IL 900 local lodge officers
had had to file and noarizaion of Form 1881
of the 1124 local and 81 district lodges had
the business with Form 1880. After that they
prepare and submit Form 44R7O0.
And now the LAMs troubles had only begun
The international officers learned whole
business had to be through again.
local officers lam local officers December but
not sworn in until january hence they barred
ing affidavit Form 1925 Eyes; another new
But this in turn debarred the union taking advantage
of its attested purity
The JAMS 627 pending representation and ISL
eopardzed along with 18 petitions Sc
crity elections AS result the lam notes with great restraint
relations between management became strained
and unsettled"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

warrant, wrecked it and depart
ed. In Kansas City, Kas., the
same police terror was I'M
leaShed.
In Washington federal judge
slapped fines totalling 81, 100000
on the soft coal miners and John
L. Lewis, their president.
Benjamin F. Fairless, presi-
dent of us. Steel, fatty reject
ed any wage rise whatsoever for
steelworkers, who were tied to
a no-strike policy until 1949.
General Electric and Westing-
house gave a flinty "No" to the
wage demands of the United
Electrical Workers.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-05-01

In Sioux City, Iowa, blue uni
formed Storm Troopers beat a
tattoo on the heads of striking
packinghouse workers, smashed
into their union hall without a