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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
TEW HOUSING BILL
GOING THRU SENATE

Taft, Flanders, and Ellender 3D..
La.). While McCarthy's amend
ments were passed by voice vote
ii is anticipated that this week the
TEW bill as amended by Sen. Elan
ders will be passed as a substitute
for McCarthy's version.
Once spectators in the Senate
galleries could figure out the com
'plicated parliamentary tangle, il
was clear that the fight between
Mccarthy on the one hand ano
Taft, Flanders and Ellender on the
other, was over public housing.
Mccarthy offered an amendment
which would have limited public
housing to persons on relief who
are i'll, lame, or otherwise physi-
cally incapacitated. Commented
Taft on the Mccarthy proposal
"My own view is that public hous-
ing should not be used for such
persons. Many of them shoulo
be in institutions rather than in pub
lie housing. / think public housing
should be utilized for the low
est income persons who are regu
larly employed, namely, persons
who are receiving in large cities
for instance, $100 a month, or
which they cannot live. They are
the persons who should be taker
care of in public housing"
Defending the TEW bill prov,
vision that the federal government
help to finance local public hous-
ing developments for 100000 low
income families in the next few
years, Sen. Flanders asserted: 81
am sure that in the last few days
many of the Senator'S have receiv-
ed indications of one sort or anoth-
er that the enactment of the pro.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
Union Gives S169, 1872 To
Charity, Labor Cause

New York City (ILNS)-Mak-
ing public its financial report for
1947, the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union disclosed
that it gave $169,18 to charitable
and labor causes during the year
The international union showed
assets of $12, 905, 5,443 and liabilities
of $3,593,554. The union collected
$4 ,3S3, 1855 in 1947, most of it from
dues and spent $2,764,174. Strike
benefits and expenses totaled only
|$56,376.
Publication of its financial re-
ports was begun by the ILGWll
many years before such publication
became mandatory under the Taft
Hartley Act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
Bartenders Will
Be Tending Polls
On Election Day

st. Louis, Mo. (LPA)-What do
bartenders tend on their day off?
Even though you can't get drink
of your favorite brew on election
day, your favorite bartender will
be at work tending" the polls.
Though no slightly weaving Gus
toners will be steered homeward
by members Of the Bartenders
Union-AFL come election day, their
own self-appointed job will be to
steer willing customers to the near
est polling booth. With the Mis-
souri, law closing bars on election
day, members Of the AFL Barten-
ders Union Local 81 are being or
ganized TO use their day off to sup
port the AFL drive to elect pro-la-
Dor candidates for Congress.
The st. Louis Federation for Eco
nomic & Political Education urged
800 members of the bartenders' To-
cal last week to support the drive
for election of pro-labor candidates
in the August primaries.
Adding a little humor to a SER
ious meeting, Nick NJ Blassie, sec
retary of the FEPE, the st. Louis
branch Of the AFL's Labors League
for Political Education, told mem
hers of the local that as a circulat-
ing member of the "bar" over sew
eral decades, he knew most Of the
bartenders present. He urged all
union members to attend all poll
tical meetings. He predicted that
by letting the professional politi-
clans know how labor feels it will
make them more prone to back lib
eral candidates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
7 aft Bested BY
Union M an In
Network Debufe

Washington UPA)-Sen. Robert
Taft, COP presidential hopeful, is
going to learn soon that he
shouldn't make confident predic-
tions in the presence of Walter
Reuther, president Of the United
Auto Workers.
Last week, in radio debate over
the CHS network, Reuther remind
ed the Senator that when they met
at Senate hearing in February
1947, Taft said that prices were
just about ready to come down.
THAT was in February 1947, more
than year ago." the UAW head
reminded Taft. "Since then prices
have continued to go up more than
10 per cent"
"Price control ended in November
1896" Reuther said. "From Novem-
bre 1916 to January 1948, produc-
tion only increased 2 per cent.
Prices went up II per cent and the
profits of 1900 manufacturing cor
porations, according to the Natl
City Bank, went up 81 per cent
more in 1947 than in 1916"
Nettled by Reuther's argument,
Taft came back with prediction
that he may also live to regret.
Said Taft: 81 believe very strong
ly that competition can be enforced
and that competition is bound to
bring prices down. These profits
will take care of themselves in
time =. | think as a steady diet
the present profits are much too
high but competition will bring
them down."
Taft began to really pound the
table when Reuther compared his
application Of the "socialistic" tag
to everything not to the COP lead
er's liking, with the same use of
the word by Herbert Hoover.
''Everytime someone proposes
something for the little fellow in
the world, whether it is the work
er or the small farmer you get out
socialistic tag" Reuther told
Taft, "but when the RFC gives bill
lions and helps to bail out big cor
porations, subsidies the railroads
and shipping interests, that, of
course, is good American practice"
At one point in the debate, after
Reuther pointed out that since the
death Of price control both the cot
ton goods and the shoe industries
had cut production and raised
prices-despite the Taft predictions
Taft said in an aggrieved voice:
"The point is that everybody is
igetting shoes, everybody is getting
all the shirts they want; they have
more income than enough to buy
them."
Said the union man to Taft: "You
should try living on a workers
family income and feed and clothe
and shoe a lot of kids"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22

Washington (LPA) - Despite
last-minute parliamentary maneu-
vers by Sen. Joseph Mccarthy (R.
tWis.), pitching for the opponents
'of public housing, it is certain that
this week the Taft-Ellender- Wag-
ner bill will pass in the Senate
The long-range housing bill is ac-
tually better than it was when
the Senate first passed it last year,
as a result Of perfectins amend
ments by Sen. Ralph Flanders (R.i
Vt.).
The desperately needed housing
program seemed nearer to actual
enactment, too, as a result of an
intricate parliamentary maneuver
which may force the TEW bill to
the floor of the House, despite the
best efforts of Rep. Jesse Wolcott
(R., Mich). Real estate lobbyists
are almost literally screaming over
the move, which would substitute
for a building-lobby sponsored
mortgage amendment to the Natl
Housing Act, the full TEW bill
including the public housing pro-
vision.
The vehicle which can carry the
TEW bill to the House floor is an
amendment to Title vi of the Natl
Housing Act, extending thru next
March the governments authority
to insure home loans. Actually, in
the form passed by the House, la
Dor spokesmen call the mortgage
insurance play "a slush fund for
the real estate men,"
On the Senate floor Sen. Me-
Carthy took up two whole days
with series of amendments to the
original TEW bill, despite the
strenuous opposition of Senators
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
Railroad M en-
Press Demands,
Reject Report

Washington (LPA)- America s
largest movement for higher wages
and shorter hours was launched
| this week by sixteen unions on
the railroads, representing over a
million incorporating" workers
that is, all rail employees other
than those engaged in direct oper-
alton of trains.
At the same time, three Brother
hoods representing about 100000
operating" workers rejected rec
concentrations made by a Presi-
dental Emergency Fact Finding
Board for settlement of their de-
mands for wage increases and new
working rules. They announced
also they would fix a strike date
Iif the railroads in negotiations don't
agree to better terms by April 27.
In the case of the million "non-
operating" workers, the 16 unions
served notices on the railroads un-
der terms of the Railway Labor
Act, calling for a reduction of the
existing work-week from 40 to 40
hours, without any cut in present
48-hour earnings, and in addition,
a 25c an hour across-the- board
wage increase.
The railroad industry is the only
large industry on which a 48-hour
week still prevails. Under the pro-
posaI of the unions, all time work.
ed on Saturdays, hitherto a
"straight-time" day, would be paid
for at overtime rates of not less
than time and a half. Double-time
rates are demanded for work on
Sundays or holidays.
The 16 unions involved-all but
one, AFL-are Railway Clerks,
Railway Telegraphers, Waymen,
Railway Carmen, Sigpalmen, Yard
masters, Machinists, Electrical
Workers, Boilermakers, Sheet
Metal Workers, Blacksmiths, Fire
men and Oilers, Dining Car En-
ployes, Marine Engineers, Masters,
Mates and Pilots, and the Long
shoremen. The latter three repres-
ent workers employed on carferries
and other marine craft owned by
the railroads.
G. f. Leighty, chairman of the
joint negotiating committee of the
three unions, declared that the
shorter work-week is long over
due, and that in addition, the 25c
raise is essential to cover the sharp
rise in Lying costs which has oc-
Cured since the last pay increase
in 1947.
In the case of the three "operat-
ing" Brotherhoods-the Locomotive
Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen, and Switchmen- the
rejection of the Emergency Board
award was voted at a two-way con-
ference in Cleveland of general
chairmen of the unions from all
major railroads of the nation.
The Brotherhoods called upon the
to enter into new ne
to put the boards recon-
"into an acceptable
form" The unions declared that the
negotiations will not be carried on
beyond April 27-and if they fail,
a strike date will be set.
The boards findings were de-
in a statement issued by
leaders of three Brotherhoods -
Grand Chief Alvanley Johnston of
the Engineers, President D. 3. Rob-
ertson of the Firemen and Engine !
men and President A. j. Glover of
the Switchmen.
On wages, the board had recon-
15Hac an hour increase
the same as other rail unions ac-
cepted last year during their sec
ond round" wage movement. The
three union chiefs, however, con-
tended that the raise fell far short
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
NLRB Denounees
Gen'I Shoe Corp.
As 'knti-Labor'

Washington (LPA-In one of its
strongest opinions since the pas
sage of the Taft-Hartley law, the
NLRB this week voided an election
in which Boot & Shoe Workers had
been defeated because of the Gen
eral Shoe Corporations anti-union
campaign. The board held that even
tho the corporation had not been
guilty of specific unfair labor
practices" it had created an atmos-
phere in which the workers did not
feel that they were free to vote for
the union.
The boards decision was three
to two split. Chairman Herzog and
board member Murdock signed the
majority opinion, while member
Houston agreed but added that the
employer was actually guilty of
'unfair labor practices. Board
members Gray and Reynolds dis
|sented, maintaining that since the
company hadn't violated the law
its coercion should go unnoticed.
Among the tactics employed by
the anti-union firm was the prac-
tice of calling employees into the
office of the president in groups of
20 to 25. The president, Maxey Jar
man, read them what the board
calls "an Incorporate anti-union ad-
dress" Among the points" Jarman
made against trade unionism is
that it permits Negroes and Jews
to work alongside "white" people.
Then the corporation sent its
foremen to visit workers of the
Pulaski, Tenn, plant at their
homes after office hours and urge
them to vote against the union.
General Shoe then appealed to
its employees to vote against the
AFL union "to express your conf
dence in your present manage
ment."
AS the board majority pointed
out: "This case discloses no more
campaign speech by an employer to
a large assemblage of employees.
The employers campaign went so
far beyond the presently accepted
custom of appealing to employees
reasoning faculties that we are
not justified in assuming that the
election results represented the en-
ployes own true wishes.
"Conduct that creates an atmos-
phere which renders improbable a
free choice will sometimes warrant
an election, even
though that conduct may not con-
stitute an unfair labor practice. An
election can serve its true purpose
only if surrounding conditions en-
able employees to register free
and untrampled choice for or
against bargaining representative.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22
WIPED OUT!

Price rises in the first three
months of this year more than
wiped out the dollars the average
American will gain in the entire
year through the new cuts in 1948
income taxes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-04-22

of what the workers were entitled to.
These Operating" employees, the
unions chiefs said, haven't had a
wage boost since May 1916. The
I15Kc increase, they declared, would
amount to only II per cent, and
since living costs have gone up 27
per cent since early 1916, the eff
feet of the award would be to inn
pose a "15 per cent cut in real
wages"
The union chieftains also de-
nounced the boards recommended
tions on changes in working rules
as falling far short of what the
unions sought. These recommended
tions, they said, are contradictory
and unrealistic" and in some in
stances, "take away rights enjoyed
by our members for the past 80
years"
They charged that "the boards
mental acrobatics in leaping over
economic facts have the gymnasium
smell Of RECOMMENDATION found in
little steel formulas and recon
version patterns.l ="
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
Novel Scout Troop Aids Hospital

CARVILLE, LA $3.50 Ranking as
one of the most unusual Scout troops
anywhere in the world, Boy Scout
troop No. SO recently was organized
at the u. S. 1eprosarium here.
Seven patients from 10 to Is years
of age are charter members Of the
troop. The seven represent three
races and four nationalities. One is
italian, two are Louisiana French,
one is Japanese-American and three
are Negroes.
Sponsoring organization is the hos
pitfalls American Legion post No. 1888
while Legion post No. 1856 Of Ham
mond, La. presented new uniforms
for troop members.
Already active in hospital affairs.
members of the new troop direct
visitors about the hospital grounds,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
Sheets Repay War Here's Debt to BeIeians

WINCHESTER, MASS. - Repay
ing a wartime debt, Col. John Han
Ion, Winchester's war hero, has pre-
scented each of "a villagers in Hem
roulle, Belgium, with pair of
bedsheets.
During the critical days of the
Battle of the Bulge in 1914, Colonel
Hanlon had promised the villagers
he would discharge the debt after
they had given their irreplaceable
bedsheets to camouf1age his para
chute infantrymen who had dropped
onto the surrounding snow-covered
fields. Colonel Hanlon credited the
villagers sacrifice with saving the
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
CENTURY OF SERVICE
Railroad Centennial Points Up
Stimulus to Farm Progress

known as prairie jewellers, and not
commuters as now. It took an entire
day to bring farm products 10 miles
to town and return to the fields.
Working hours were longer on
farm in those days, and the settler
who gave up an entire days time
to go to market well might regret
having to spend that much time
away from the source of his ivei-
hood.
Trains were rare enough in the
East, early in 1848, and there were
none around Chicago at all. Conse-
quently when a group of men inter-
ested in building the Galena and Chi
cago Union railroad began to sell
stock, farmers west of the Windy
City viewed the securities as a
worthwhile investment.
Undaunted by Depression.
Money wasn't exactly plentiful 100
years ago. The financial panic that
began in 1887 had stopped construc-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18

The contraption was the
Pioneer" a spiderly loco
motive weighing only 10 tons,
which only a few days before,
on October Is, 1848, had made
it's initial run out of Chicago
over the new Galena and Chi
cago Union railroad.
First Link in Chain.
When Jerome Beecher, a Chicago
leather dealer, who was riding the
new train more or less for excite
ment,"" saw the farmer and his load
Of hides, he Immediately foresaw the
possibilities of business. At the end
Of the line, Beecher bought the hides
: and then persuaded the railroad,
which was not yet open for bust
ness, to haul them into Chicago.
Thus Beecher has the distinction of
being the first person to have freight
hauled into Chicago by the "Pio-
neer," first locomotive to operate
out of Chicago.
The business possibilities
which Beecher fOresaw in the
farm-railrOad link century ago
expanded with amazing rapidity
and today products of millions
of farms flow annually through
Chicago, now the railroad CAPT.
tai of the nation.
One of the railroads which has
provided a major stimulus to agri-
culture in that great midland en-
pire is the Chicago and North West
ern railroad system, successor to
the early-day Galena and Chicago.
The old Pioneer" itself was the
forerunner of a huge fleet Of power
full locomotives which today haul an
almost constant procession of freight
and passenger cars over the North
Westerns vast system.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
Restaurant Owners
Love for Trees Adds
Novelty to Buildings

BARDWELL, KY.-Favorite tour
list attraction in Bardweu is huge
blackberry tree growing through the
floor and out Of the roof Of a local
restaurant.
To curious questioners, Francis
w. Turk, IA, operator Of the restau-
rant, and a tree fancier, explains
that several years ago while driving
through the county he saw sapling
washed out by rains and destined to
die. He took the sapling home and
set it out in the corner Of his front
yard. It had fourished into stable
tree by the time Turk decided to
build restaurant on the site.
Bowling to Turks love for trees,
a contractor built the restaurant
around the tree.
Now the tree trunk is IL inches in
diameter. Patrons hang their hats
on the hackberry's spikes.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18

DIES MONIES, IOWA. - Fashion
Ing wooden toys for free distribu-
ton among children is a full-time
pastime for Arthur Hill, retired 73-
year-old machinist. Hill, who start
ed his project as hobby and de-
veloped it into a non-paying job
when he retired four years ago,
gives the toys to churches, schools
and nurseries, which in turn distrib-
ute them among children.
There's enough grief in the
world" Hill explains, land I feel
I'm doing little bit to bring hap
piness."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18

They brought their grain to the west
ern terminal in such large amounts
that it piled up faster than the "Pio-
neer" could haul it away.
Railroad officials were en-
Unused over their budding enter
prise, for revenue scared to SIS
day! AS more and more farm
ers took advantage of the new
method of taking their products
to market, freight revenue rose
from $463 i'm June of 1849
to 1886 in October of the same
year. In October of 1860 freight
revenue had jumped to q new
peak of $20O,1S3.
Other railroads followed the lead
Of the Galena and laid trackage in
the fertile Midwest, and more farm
ers were attracted by the excellent
transportation facilities. Farms
were staked out closer together and,
as the settler picked tracts along
the railroads, rural communities
sprang up.
Communities Expand.
Today many Of these towns and
cities are more urban than rural,
teeming with manufa curing plants
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18

In observing its centennial this
year, the North Western will stage
special exhibits at so of the major
cities on its route. Highlight of the
displays will be the ancient ''Pio-
neer," which has been removed
from its place of honor in the Chi
cago Museum of Science and Indus
try for the centennial tour.
Saga of Progress.
Today's large, highly-mechanized
farms, which have developed since
the pioneer" made it's initial run
in 1848, would amaze the pioneers
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
Professors Included
Among Poor Drivers

FREMONT, Neb. - College pro-
fessors are among the worst driv-
ers, in the opinion of Ken McCaw,
field representative for Nebraska's
state safety council. McCaw CLASH
fies as the two kinds of poor drivers
"those whose los indicate they
can't read the road signs and others
whose los are about no." College
professors are in the latter group.
he says.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
More of Same Will Cure
Speakers Stage Fright

POCATELLO, dali you're in
clined to shake and freeze when you
speak before an audience, here's
the club for you. It's called the
Scared Speakers club. Clark S. Car
lille, assistant professor of speech at
Idaho State college, who formed the
club for speech students, explains:
Sharing their misery outside class
hours really helps them overcome
the shaky feeling" ..-.---.--.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18

whose products are hauled by the
railroads to all parts of the nation.
But many still maintain their basic
rural characteristics and serve as
railroads for farm products.
Many of these communities are
named after rai1roaders of early
days as tribute to their role in
bringing new life to the Midwest.
So gigantic has the business
of transporting farm products
and manufactured articles be-
come that today $4,000 freight
cars are handled daily on the
7,726 miles of track in the Chi
cagO area alone.
Figures on farm products handled
are staggering. The Chicago and
North Western railway system dur
ing 1947, for instance, hauled 4O,317,-
600 bushels of grain into Chicago,
according to Chicago board of trade
figures.
MUTG GHdU k11UeSs
During the year it was the major
carrier of grain, bringing in Is, 1884,
600 bushels of corn, 1850, 900 bushels
Of oats, $4,000 bushels of barley
and $780, 900 bushels of rye.
Other ''firsts" set during the year
were handling 2,277, 200 cases of
eggs, 40,929, 900 pounds of wool and
1887 tons Of hay. North Western
ran a close second in transportation
Of potatoes, meat, butter, cheese,
lard, hides, lumber and tallow. It
also hauled more livestock than any
other common carrier, bringing in
10,479 cars of animals.
Both agriculture and the railroads
have made marked strides since the
Pioneer" brought it's first load Of
hides to Chicago 100 years ago.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
N Of a number of projected rail-

ton Of a number of projected rail-
roads.
However, some farmers around
Chicago did have cash, enabling
them to pay for their Galena
stock on the installment basis. Those
who were without hard cash but who
had both foresight and good, golden
grain exchanged the product Of their
fields for railroad stock.
They knew their prosperity de-
pended largely on good transporta-
ton facilities which would take their
products to market quickly and bring
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1948-03-18
Well-Schooled Dog
Cant Make Grade

PORTLAND, ME. - Although he
has been going to school seven
years, Blackie, the Burke fanily's
dog, can't get beyond the sixth
grade. He started to school with
Wallace Burke, but when the boy
passed the sixth grade, Blackie
tagged along with Lorraine Burke.
Since Lorraine moved along, Blackie
now goes to fourth grade with Aud
rey Burke.