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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Taft-Hartley Law Held
Aid To Communists

York, Pa.-The aft-Hartley law
actually assists the growth OF
Communist infiltration into Ameri-
can labor unions, according to Jo-
seph NJ. Jacobs, a prominent labor
attorney of Chicago.
Jacobs told an AFL Pennsylvania
rally that mo Communist will be
deferred by an oath Of allegiance
to our government-that is baby
stuff for them"
"But under the Taft-Hartley
Law" his prepared statement said,
mo Communist may be fired out of
a union if he pays his dues-and
many Communists are taking ad-
vantage of that clause and thumb
ing their noses at American labor
leaders who are anxious to pre-
serve the American system of pri-
vate enterprise"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Senate Hearings
On ERP Finished

Washington (LPA)-Senate For
eign Relations Committee hearings
on the European recovery program
ended last week with it's chairman,
Senator Arthur Vandenburg (R.,
Mich.), predicting that the Mar
shall plan will have Congressional
approval by April 1, when interim
aid funds run out.
House of Representatives hear
ings on the aid program are strag-
Cling along until the Senate bill
is prepared. Just where it will
draw the line between concessions
to Republican opponents of $6.8
billion initial appropriation, and
the watering down of the recovery
program to mere relief bill, is
not known.
Support is growing for Brook
ings Institute plan of administra-
ton, which calls for Il government
corporation to operate the program,
but leaving all foreign policy ques-
tions to the State Dep't-a COM
promise between the administra-
ton measure and the business
backed Herter Bill. 1t is feared,
however, that too much emphasis
is put by Brookings on encourage
ment of private American invest
ment in Europe, too little on inter
governmental loans.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Curb Exchange Vote
Won BY AFL Union

NEW YORK CITY QLNS) -
Local 205, United Financial Work
ers, AFL, has won a union shop
election among employees of the
New York Curb Exchange by a
vote Of 178 to IL, the National La
Dor Relations Board announced.
The 178 constitute a majority of
the 235 workers eligible to vote and
gives the union the right to bar
gain for a union shop provision.
John Cole, local vice president
said that the union, which won SIM
liar elections in the Stock Exchange
and Cotton Exchange, had extend
ed its contracts, which were due to
expire Jan. 81, to March l.
Negotiations, he said, would start
at once with the 3 exchanges. The
union is asking a So weekly in
crease for employees getting less
than $40, and SIS for those getting
more than $40. Cole said scales
ranged from $27 to $102.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Caravan Brings
Food To Strikers

Bakersfield, Cal. LPA) - A
Friendship Caravan" from every
central labor council in California
last week brought food, money and
clothes to the striking farm work
ers at the Di Giorgio ranch here.
H. l.. Mitchell, president of the
Natl Farm Labor Union AFL,
called this caravan "the most signi-
ficant demonstration of the unity
Of organized Industrial workers
with agricultural labor ever to oc-
cur in the United States"
Each AFL member in California
gave one can of food or 25c to help
the strikers who have been out
for more than four months. Two
caravans, one from the north and
one from the south, had a rende-
vous at IL noon on Highway 80
outside Of Bakersfield and entered
the town together.
That evening, at the Melody
Bowl, the Kern County Labor Coun-
Gil, the Natl Farm Labor Union
and Local 81 Of the Int'l Brother
hood Of Teamsters welcomed the
NFLU president and many promi-
nent members Of the Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild who paid tri-
butte to the strikers.
The farm workers have been evic-
ted from their homes, arrested and
threatened with all kinds of violence
but have held out in the fight
against the combined anti-labor
forces in the San Joaquin Valley.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
AF'L Packers Win Raise

Chicago LPA) = Rirst wage
raise chalked up by current nego-
tiations in the packing industry was
granted last week to $4,000 work
ers represented by the Amalgamat-
ed Meat Cutters & Butcher Work
men-AFL. Armour and Swift Of
fered 9c-an-hour, retroactive to
Jan. IL, and the offer was accept
ed by the union. The 5000 AFL
workers at the Morell & Co. plant
in Sioux Falls, Iowa, also won a
&c boost.
Secretary Treasurer Patrick Cor
man says the union will seek the
same settlement with Wilson, Cud-
ahy, and the smaller Independents,
10000 of whose workers are rep
resented by the Meat Cutters.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
MORE PAY FOR
BEDDING WORKERS

Newton, Mass. QLNS) Wage
increases Of from 10 to 25 cents
an hour in the starting and end
rates Of various time work classi-
fications were won by bedding
workers employed here by the Rose
Derry Co. They are members Of
Local 421, Upholsterers' Interna-
tional Union, AFL, of Cambridge.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
NlRB Defends tn
From NMU Attack

Washington (LPA)-The NLRB
asked a three-man special Federal
court last week to reject the Natl
Maritime Union challenge to the
constitutionality Of the non-Com-
munist affidavit feature cf the
Taft Hartley Act. Board lawyers
maintained that since the union had
not complied with sections Of and
& of the Act, whose constitutional
ity it does not question, it cannot
raise the issue Of the legitimacy
Of Oh.
Sections Of and 9g are the ones
requiring unions to file financial
statements and other data with the
Labor Dept before board facilities
for bargaining agent elections can
be made available to them. The
mo Communist officers" declara-
ton is required by Oh.
In case, however, the court feels
it necessary to rule on the consti-
tutionality of Oh, the board answ-
cred the charges Of William l..
Standard, NMU counsel.
Standard, in his presentation of
the case, pointed out that the NMU
had gone to great expense in its
organizing drive along the Great
Lakes and its exclusion from board
ballots in effect robbed its mem
bers there of the right to organize
and bargain collectively.
Further, he asserted, the require
ment of filing Communist disclaim-
ers is unconstitutional because it
interferes with the right Of mem
bers Of this party to hold union
office, and is a denial Of civil lib
critics.
Board attorneys replied that un-
ion activities are not directly in
terfered with by section Oh, and
defended the right of Congress to
deny access to the boards facilities
to unions with Communist officials.
1t is not the constitutional rights
of unions that are affected, they
claimed, but only the privileges ac-
corded unions by such legislation as
the Wagner Act, which Congress
is free to amend or repeal.
Referring to the specific ban
against Communist Party members
holding office in unions petitioning
the board, the government attor-
neys said that there is substantial
evidence to support the position of
Congress-that Communists seek to
utilize unions not primarily for
collective bargaining but for the
achievement of political aims.
They cited the exposes of Com
munist activities that have been
made by Joseph Curran, president
of the NMU, and the record Of
the Allis-Chalmers strike in Wis
conSln.
In response to questioning from
one of the judges, the boards rep
resentatives admitted that some
political actions by unions are con-
stitutional, but distinguished be
tween these and the calling of
strikes for political purposes, which
it asserted has been done by Com
munist union leaders.
The courts ruling is not expect
ed for several months.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Taft-Hartley Law Slows
Contract Negotiations

New York - David Sullivan,
president Of Local BIB of the
AFL's Building Service Employees
Union, placed the blame squarely
upon the Taft-Hartley law for
any possible work interruption re-
sulting from the expiration Of con-
tracts with building owners here.
He said:
eve have been struggling with
the 'red-tape' Of the Taft Hartley
law which is causing delay and
confusion. Most of the owners feel
as We do, that in this industry at
least, it serves no purpose except
to interfere with orderly collective
bargaining.
"We are trying to avoid work
stoppage. If any trouble does oc-
cur, it will only be the fault Of
those who have seen fit to disrupt
stabilized labor relations"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
AFL's Office Workers
Win Union Shop Vote

New York City-The AFL's Of
flee Employees International Union
Won another union shop election
in the Wall Street financial dis
trict here.
In an election conducted by the
National Labor Relations Board,
employees of the New York Cotton
Exchange voted IA to 6 in favor
of the union shop.
This represents the second re-
sounding triumph for Local 2O5 of
the Office Employees Union, form
erly known as the United Financial
prior to its affiliation
with the AFL international union.
Recently, the union won a similar
union shop election held among en-
ployes of the New York Stock Ex-
change.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Starts Social Security Dept

Detroit (LPA)-The United Auto
Workers is setting up Social Sc
curity department for the union.
Harry Becker, medical care consul
tant for the Children's Bureau of
the Federal Security Agency and
former president of Group Health
Assn in Washington, will be direc-
tor, effective Feb. 16.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Carpenters Deny
TN Violation

Washington GPA jim double
barrelled attack upon the theories
Of NLRB General Counsel Robert
H. Denham, the AFL carpenters
union last week told the Board
that its locals cannot be held IN
violation of the Taft-Hartley law
because the construction industry
is not in interstate commerce. FUR
thermore, the Int'l Brotherhood OF
Carpenters maintained, union mem
bers cannot constitutionally be
forced to work with non-union men.
The unions case was made IN
brief filed with the NLRB in answ-
er to Denham's charges that the
carpenters Chattanooga, Tenn, 10
cal was guilty Of conducting sec
ondary boycott-an unfair practice
under the Taft-Hartley Act.
In the course Of a dispute with
the Watson Speciality Co., the
union picketed the company's store
and withdrew its members from a
construction job on which Watson
employees were installing its pro-
ducts. An NLRB trial examiner has
asked for a cease and desist order
against the union. Previously, a
federal court had refused to issue
an injunction against the union on
the ground that the action took
place prior to the effective date
Of Taft Hartley.
Besides pointing out that the
construction of buildings is not 1t
self a part of interstate commerce,
the unions brief states that Con
gress may not prevent union men
from selling or not selling their
labor as they please" 1t may not
force union men to accept change
in their traditional liberty to not
work with non-unionists.
Denham argued that the very
act of striking and picketing for
such a case constitutes an lie
gal attempt to "coerce" non-unlon
employees.
Building trades unions, who have
long enjoyed closed shop conditions,
are reported to have engaged IN
conversations with Denham to find
method of conducting union shop
elections under Taft Hartley. The
NLRB procesutor has admitted that
elections among craftsmen on every
construction job is impossible.
A solution may be found in divid-
ing the nation into 600 to 700 areas
in which contractors have habitual-
ly bargained with workers thru a
trade association and conducting
elections among workers in each
craft on an area-wide basis. Even
under such a scheme there would be
problems of wedding out transient
workers from among those build
ing trades workers eligible to vote.
Such program would involve a
heavy expenditure of funds and
clerical labor, but it seems about
the only way in which the TIL
monstrosity can be applied to the
industry.
Should the Chattanooga carpen-
ters establish their contention that
they are not engaged in interstate
commerce the whole muddle will be
avoided.
In California, too, the Amalgama-
ted Meat Cutters-AFL has chal-
lenged an attempt by Denham to
apply Taft Hartley to retail butch
er shops. Supported by the Cali
fornia Federation of Labor the
butchers maintain that interstate
commerce clearly ends before the
retail store, even if the shops in
volved are part of the Atlantic &
Pacific Tea Co., chain.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Medal For Heroic Workers

Pittsburgs (ILNS) - p. Roscoe
Chapman, boiler repairman, has
been awarded a silver metal by the
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
for saving a fellow-worker from
plunging to death from 260foot
smokestack. He was one of 10
persons in 7 states who received
awards for heroism last year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
Anything For A Profit

Washington (LPA)-The Ameri-
can oil industry spent $1,800,00O
last year in a sales campaign which
resulted in more than 100000 pur-
chases of new oil burners. They
sold $4,000 burners in November
alone, the same month that Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey quietly con-
verted its own Bayway, n. J. plant
from oil to coal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12
AFL's Meat Cutters
Hits Membership High

Chicago - The AFL's Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America re-
ported continued growth despite
the active campaigns against labor
waged by private interests.
Patrick L. German, secretary
treasurer of the union, said the
paid-up membership of the organ
ization reached 196,872 at the end
of December, the largest total in
the unions history.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12

We sometimes wonder whether
sponsors listen to their own COM
mercials.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12

$50 you met your wife at a
dance. Wasn't that romantic ?"
"No: embarrassing. / thought
she was home, taking care of the
kids"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12

"See if you can laugh that of" )"
said the fat mans wife as she wired
a button on his vest.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-12

About the only thing | CLEAN
from personal letters is that some
body loves me.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21
Many Teachers Plan Holiday At Home
Continued from page D

Mrs. J. K. Dunlap and Mrs. Mar garet Cope also are planning va- cations right at home. The first two will concentrate on garden ing, while Mrs. Cope will work as secretary to the fair board.
 Miss Mietzi Bleck hopes to combine gardening and art this summer. She is planning to in- struct in some out door art classes, of which she will have more to say within the next few days.
 J. L. Dickson has no definite plans that will take him away from Palmer this summer. James Gray, Jr., also plans to spend most of the summer in or near Palmer. However he has some tentative travel plans for trip to Nome, Pt. Barrow and along the Chain, which he hopes will materialize. He also expects to do further research in prepara- tion for writing his master $ thesis.
 Mrs. Virginia Pine plans to spend the summer at the fishing camp of the Herbert Caulkins at Portland on Cook Inlet.
 Miss Mary Marsh is sailing on the next Aleutian. She plans a cross-continental train trip to New York and a long vacation at home. Miss Jennie Skule also is looking forward to boat trip to Seattle and then a long, idle summer at her home in Minnesota.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21
Intermediate Scouts Change Meeting Day

Beginning at once, members of the Intermediate Girl Scout troop led by Miss MietZi Bleck will switch meeting dates from a weekly session on Wednesday to a meeting on alternate Tuesdays of each month. The Scouts next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 1.
 During the summer months, Intermediate Scouts will meet in the basement of St. Johns Luth- eran Church, rather than in the school, as at present.
 At the June first meeting, Scouts are asked to come pre- pared for outdoor work. They'll need, as the days working equip ment, rakes, hoes, spades, ferti- lizer and topsoil. The Scouts will spend the day, beginning at 10 o'clock that morning, at their project of landscaping the school grounds.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21
Still Other EUents Planned For Colony Day
Continued from Page D


 the station is planning to bring radio equipment to Palmer on Sunday in order to broadcast an hour of the days events. It was decided to ask that the broad cast be made between the hours of 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., if at all possible.
 Valley residents helping to plan details for the Colony Day celebration will meet again next Monday evening at g o'clock in the Palmer Fountain. All who are assisting in the days events are urged to be present, for this is probably the last general meet ing to be held before the two day celebration gets under way.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21
31 Eighth Graders Were Graduated Last Wednesday

Graduates of the eighth grade of Palmer school, 31 in all, re- ceived their diplomas at com mencement exercises held in the Palmer gymnasium at o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Harold Thuma, former superintendent here, gave the commencement address.
 MT. Thuma outlined a five point program for the graduates, which he said would lead to the greatest achievement in life. He told them first to choose ca reer, to train intelligently and completely for that career, to work hard at the chosen job, to select a marriage partner who would share ones ideals, and to observe the practice of thrifty saving all through life.
 The complete commencement program was as follows:
 Invocation by Rev. Kenneth Hughes.
 Violin solo by Mrs. Florence
 Dunlap accompanied by Ger
 aid Davis.
 Presentation of the gradu- ates by Joseph Dickson. grade
 school principal. Acceptance of the class by Carl Smelling. superintendent
 of schools. Mir. Thuma's address. Reading of the class history
 by Bonnie Larsh. Reading of the class prophe-
 sY by Joanna Rich.
 Reading of the class will by
 Doyle Ross. Vocal solo by Florence Carl son. accompanied by Larry Stock.
 Presentation of diplomas to the graduates by Mrs. Don IT,
 win. school board member. Benediction by Reverend
 Hughes.
 Students who were graduated into high school at Thursday s exercises included:
 Jim Caulkins, Larry Cox, Al. Ian Davis, Hurley Diess, Wesley Eckert, Vernon Fridley, G u Klem, Robbie Lacher, E r n | Martin, Jack Onkka, Doyle Ross Jerry Smith, Ronald Rebarchek Miles Rice, Genevieve DeLand Betty Harris, Joyce H c k r Mary Hobson, Margareth King Bonnie Larsh, Dolores Lentz Gloria Lepak, Rita McClafferty Doris Miller, Chariot Nelson, Norma Nelson, Esther Pedersen Margaret Reed, Joanna R c h, Barbara Tirapelli and Viole e Werner.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21
WINS RADIO

Mrs. Ruth Hermon won the alarm clock radio which was given as door prize at last Sat urday's Moose dance held in the Neal Wright hall.
Valley frontiersman., 1948-05-21

Coffsy lnsures Everything HemembeYf -Adv.
Evening star., 1948-05-21
Three Found Guilty
OF Beating Policemen

Three persons, charged with assault
/ in connection with the beating Of
! two policemen in the 800 block o1
Thirteenth street NE. on May l
were found guilty by jury II
Municipal Court yesterday.
They are Caesar Nathaniel Steven.
son, 33, and Mrs. Mamie Lou Jack
son. A, of the 800 block of Thir-
teenth street NE. and ROLAND
Smith, 27, of the TOO block of the
same street. All are colored.
The three were charged with
assaulting Pvts. Harvey C. Womble
and Roy r. Swenk, both of the
ninth precinct, when the officer:
went to a house in the block ano
attempted to place juvenile under
arrest on a disorderly conduct
charge. Before the fight was over
several others had joined in, the
policemen said. Several squads OF
police were summoned.
The jury yesterday acquitted
fourth man charged with the
assault. He is George Edward Wash
ington, %, colored, also of the 300
block of Thirteenth street NE. Two
others have been turned over to the
Juvenile Court.
The case was tried in the court
of Judge Ellen K. Raedy with
Assistant District Attorney Frank
Riefsnyder presenting the case fol-
the Government and Ben Lyndas
representing the defendants. The
three will be sentenced next Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1948-05-21
Police Seize Window Smusher
SELECTING SPORTS Clothes Outfit

A man who was helping himself
to complete sports outfit from the
smashed window of a clothing store
at 1923 Seventh street NV, did not
have time to finish his selection last
night because two policemen came
along before he was through.
The policemen, Pvts. L. r. Harris
and M. T. Feggan, of the second
precinct, arrested the man when
they found him at the window and
charged him with housebreaking. He
was listed as Edward T. Hill, age
and address unknown.
He was scheduled to appear in
Municipal Court today.
In another case, police were puz-
zled as to why customer slugged
Abram Rimson, "a, owner of jew
elry store at 1888 Seventh street
Evening star., 1948-05-21
Merit Medal Awarded
To IS Scientists

The award of the Medal of Merit
to IS scientists and engineers OF the
wartime Office of Scientific Research
and Development was announced by
Defense Secretary Forrestal.
DR.. Vannevar Bush, director of
the Office during the war and now
chairman of the Research and De-
velopment Board and president of
the Carnegie Institution here, was
to present seven of the medals in
the Pentagon today to the following
DR.. Leason Heberling Adams, DR..
John Swain Burlew and DR.. Richard
Brooke Roberts. all of Carnegie In
stitution; DR.. Edward F. Knipling,
Agriculture Department, Bureau Of
Entomology; Roger Sherman War
mar, jr., and Carroll Louis Wilson,
both of the Atomic Energy Commits
sion, and DR.. Alan Tower Waterman,
Office of Naval Research.
In addition, Mr.. Forrestal an
nounced that 387 other persons will
receive the Presidents Certificate of
Evening star., 1948-05-21
D. {. Library Association
Elects Adams President

Officers of the District Library
Association were elected at the
groups annual dinner meeting last
night in Pierce Hall. Sixteenth and
Harvard streets NV.
Elected were Scott Adams of the
Army Medical Library, president;
Mrs. Louise Shepard, Southeast
Branch Public Library, vice presi-
dent; Miss Margaret SCHNEIDER,
Agriculture Department Library,
secretary; Miss Alice Toomey,
Carnegie Endowment for Inter-
national Peace, assistant secretary;
Mason Tolman, George Washington
University Library, treasurer, and
Miss Eunice A. Won Ende, Navy
Department. assistant treasurer.
Evening star., 1948-05-21

NV, with hard object wrapped
in newspaper last night.
There was no argument and ths
man did not attempt to rob the
store after knocking Mr.. Rimson tt
the floor, police said. The mar
came in and asked to see some
rings, Mr.. Rimson told police. After
showing a few he turned his back
and was hit over the head.
Dewey C. Morris, 40, of 1867 Owens
place NE, cab driver, was robbed
of $50 last night by passenger who
held him up with small revolver
at Thirteenth street and Downing
place NE, police reported. The
bandit forced Mr.. Morris out of the
cab and drove away. The vehicle
was recovered later at Sixth street
and Florida avenue NE.
Evening star., 1948-05-21

Merit and 1872 others have been
awarded the War and Navy Depart
ment's Certificate of Appreciation
Their names will be announced later
The other SO scientists and en-
gineers will be awarded their medals
by commanding generals of Army
areas and naval district comman-
dants.
Evening star., 1948-05-21
Nicholas Curson Unopposed

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va, May
21.-With closing Of the period for
fling for the municipal elections
set for May 27, Nicholas Carson is
unopposed for mayor. He will sue
ceed DR.. G. P. Morrison who has
moved his residence beyond the
city limits and was not candidate
for reelection.