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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1948-07-09

Fifteen different vitamins now
are known, and scientists believe
others exist in natural foods.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Favorable Action
On FEPC

Washington (LPA)-Despite the
opposition of Sen. Robert A. Taft
(R., Ohio), to the bill against dis
elimination in employment, in the
form endorsed by both AFL and
CIO, favorable action on the meas
ure is expected from the Senate
Labor Committee this week.
Early last month the sub-com-
mittee which had been taking tes-
timony on the bill completed it's
work. A vast silence has surround
ed FEPC developments on Capitol
Hill ever since.
Senate supporters of the measure
seem sure that they have the votes
to force approval by the full COM
mittee this week, but the long de-
lay since the hearings were com
pleted has disturbed many advo-
Gates of the bill.
Elmer Henderson, executive sec
retary of the National Council for
a Permanent FEPC, commenting
on the inaction of the Senate COM
mittee, said, "After all, what can
you expect of the committee that
wrote the Taft-Hartley anti-labor
law ?"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Donates $4,000 To
Hii!man Memorial

New York (LPA)-A contribu-
tion of $4,000 from Cluett, Pea
body q Co., to the Sidney Hilman
Foundation, the memorial to the
late president of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, last week recall
ed to many ACW members the fact
that, not so long ago, relations be-
tween the union and the company
were far from amicable.
In fact, in 1910 the ACW con-
Quoted a long and hardfought
strike against Cluett, Peabody in
Troy, n. Y. The company, which
makes the famous Arrow shirts,
now has a contract with the ACW
covering workers in its plants in
all parts Of the country.
The gift brings the total in the
Hillman Foundation to 100000,
out Of a million-dollar goal. The
Foundation will provide scholar
ships, awards, and other induce
ments to study of labor-manage-
ment relations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
OBITUARIES
HARRY SIMCOX

Harry Simcox, SO, of Second and
Church Sts., Chester, widely-knowr
district baseball figure, died Feb
8 in City Hospital, following an ex-
tended illness.
A warehousman by trade, he was
employed last at the Hall China
Co., and affiliated with Local
Union sc, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters. He was a vet
eran of World War | and a mem
Der of the Chester American Leg
ion Post.
Born in Wheeling, he spent the
past 80 years in this community.
Mr.. Simcox was prominent in
district leagues and games for the
past 30 years. He was a pitcher
and also played outfielder. The
Oldtimers Club of sports fans held
a benefit game in his honor about
two years ago.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Jessie Simcox; son, Harry Lee
Simcox, a student at Michigan
State College, Lansing; three
brothers, William Simcox of New
ell, and Frank Simcox and Ken
meth Simcox both of Chester, and
A sister, Mrs. II. w. Davis Of Ches-
ter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Commission Asks
Higher Pay For
College Teachers

Washington LPA) - College
professors aren't as different as
some people think they are from
any other white-collar worker. In
fact, President Truman's Commits
sion on Higher Education devotes
a large part Of its report on "Staf-
fling Higher Education" to propos-
ais for improving working con
ditions of college teachers.
To keep present faculty members,
and to recruit enough to meet the
vastly enlarged student bodies ex-
pected in coming years, the Presi-
dents Commission proposes these
steps, which don't look too differ
ent from the successful demands
of unionized grade and high school
teachers in the past year.
1-salary increases such as to
provide income commensurate with
those earned in other fields re-
quiring similar preparations;
2-the establishment, through CO.
operative action of the administra-
tion and other faculty members,
of definite policies regarding sal
aries and promotions;
3-opportunity for participation
in group annuity and insurance pro-
grams to assure personal and pro-
fessional security;
4-better adjustment of the work
load;
5-more adequate provisions for
special services to faculty mem
bers; and
guaranteeing academic free
dom.
"Raising the salaries Of college
teachers depends upon sharply in
creased public and private support
of higher education" the Commits
sion concludes. Members who pre-
pared the report include Mark
Starr, educational director Of the
Int'l Ladies' Garment Workers
AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

New York (LPA) - That some
federal courts, at least, are shy
about issuing injunctions under the
Taft Hartley Act, was made clear
in two decisions handed down in
New York last week.
Judge S. j. Ryan refused to
grant an injunction against Local
| of the Wine & Distillery Workers
Union-AFL when the NLRB alleg-
ed that the union had set up a sec
ondary boycott against Schenley
Distillers Corp. products.
The board charged that the re-
fusal of workers in two firms in
the New York area to handle
Schenley liquor was a secondary
boycott in support of strike in
distillery in Frankfort, Ky. But
the court denied that this was the
case as the Frankfort distillers had
gone back to work in November.
In another case involving a tech
nicians' union affiliated with the
United Office & Professional
Workers, Judge S. H. Rifkind in
throwing out an NLRB injunction
request held that the boycotting
of a firm that is in effect a sub
sidiary of company being struck
does not constitute a secondary
boycott within the meaning of the
/ law.
For five months the union has
maintained a picket line around the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Federal Courts Warn
OF TIL LQW MjunctiOnS

office of Ebasco Services, Inc, an
industrial designing company. Aft
er the Ebasco strike was under
way it extended the picket line to
the offices of the Project Engineer
ing Co.
The court found that "an appre-
ciable percentage" of Projects bust
ness comes from Ebasco, and "to
suggest that Project had no inter-
est in the dispute between Ebasco
and its employees is to look at the
form and remain blind to the sub
stance. 1t was firmly allied to Ebas-
co and it was its conduct as an
ally of Ebasco which directly pro-
voked the unions action"
Labor and corporation lawyers
are debating the extent of discre-
tion allowed the courts in deciding
whether or not to grant an NLRB
injunction request. Some maintain
that the traditional "irreparable in
jury" doctrine applies, and court
should not grant an injunction
against either party in a labor
management dispute unless the al
legged unfair labor practice is SER
iously damaging to the others in
terests. Others maintain that any
violation of Taft Hartley makes in
junction possible. Both of these
cases support the former conten-
ton.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
UAW Investigates
Starvation In The
Upper Brackets

Detroit (LPA).A special com
mittee of the United Auto Work
ers last month looked into the ques-
ton of sending CARE packages to
seven needy families trying to live
on $4,000 to $4,000 a year during
an initiation.
These families, whose plight was
heartbreakingly described in the
January issue of Fortune maga-
zine, have cut expenses to the bone
but every one of them went in the
hole last year.
The findings of the committee
were published in Ammunition, the
UAW magazine. After careful con-
sideration of this weighty prob
lel? it was decided that no appeal
wouio be made at this time.
"They noticed" Ammunition re-
ports, "that all except one family
charged a substantial part of the
cost of entertaining to business ex-
penses.
"Until profits really shoot prices
out of reach of these poor families,
the special auto worker committee
decided these seven families can
round out their diets by eating
some of the baked ham and sliced
turkey they serve their guests
whose cost is charged off to their
companies to the government.
eff the hors d'oeuvres still leave
them hungry, then it will be time
to send them CARE packages.
"Soft music, maestro"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
EDW ARD KRAMER

Trenton, N. J. Edward A.
Kramer, 81, an employee of the
Trenton Potteries for the past "a
years, died in the Donnelly Memor-
ial Hospital, following a short ill
ness. He was affiliated with Local
Union As, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
A life long resident of Trenton,
he was the son of the late Julius
and Wmilia Slosowski Kramer.
Mr.. Kramer was a veteran of
World War | and served overseas
with the 18th Division. He was
a member of the st. Florian Ulany,
st. Stanislaus and st. Kanty So
cieties, the st. Georges Organiza-
tion and the Catholic War Veter-
ans of st. Stanislaus parish.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Joanna Kramer; a daughter, Miss
Joan Kramer; a sister, Mrs. John
Bancroft, and six brothers, Walter,
August, Fred, Stanley, John and
Theodore.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
ALP Finds Lesson
In Capture By CP

New York (LPA)-The man who
wrote the first declaration of prin-
ciples for the American Labor Par
ty has surveyed the spectacle of an
ALP devoid of all except Commu-
mist support, and concludes that
the ALPS demise was "past due"
Writing in the Jan. Feb issue of
Labor & Nation, of which he is edi-
tor, j. b. S. Hardman tells the his
tory of the New York State politi-
cal party, from the time it was
formed in 1886, when, he says, its
most influential leaders were pri-
marily interested in "an organiza-
tion to participate in President
Roosevelt's reelection campaign of
that year" Hardman adds thae his
own interest was in "the setting up
of a full-fledged party"
The Wallace candidacy, and the
apis endorsement of Wallace,
We're used by the Communists to
force the non-Communists out of
the ALP, Hardman states. He be-
lieves, however, that mot the nomi-
nation of Wallace but the campaign
against the Marshall European re-
covery plan is the real issue. The
rush was caused by the fear that,
if not straitjacketed by the Com
the ALP would give sup
port to ERP. And that, of course,
could not be allowed to happen. The
ALP had to be taken over"
In a series of questions, Hard
man asks, "What chances are there
that attempts may be made again
by thoughtful people, anywhere in
the USA, to develop labor par
ty?"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Necessary To Hold
Two Jobs To Meet
High Living Costs

Washington (LPA)-Hearings or
pay raises for Government workers
got off to a flying start last week
as members of the Natl Associa-
tion of Letter Carriers-AFL from
all parts of the country testified
before the Senate Civil Service
Committee.
The testimony followed a legisla-
tive conference of nearly 700 letter
carriers here who voted to ask for
wage boost of not less than $500.
The present salary scale now runs
from a $2100 minimum to a $500
maximum which very few letter
carriers receive.
The delegates also asked for leg
islation to increase retirement pay
ments which now have a $23 maxi
mum on which income taxes have
to be paid. Union President Will
liam C. Doherty told the meeting
that their pay demands have a
good chance of being met.
The letter carriers told a Senate
subcommittee considering the Ives
Chavez Bill for a $1,000 increase in
postal pay that in order to meet
the high cost of living they have
all had to hold down extra jobs as
cab drivers, bartenders, doormen,
or whatever other work they could
get after hours. After their eight
hour work day which starts at 5
a. m. they got off to the other jobs
which supplement their income.
Six wives. of union members told
Senator's William LANCER (R., N.
d., Wennis Chaxez 3D., N. Mex.)
and Ralph f. Flanders (R., VT
some heartfelt stories on how their
living standards have suffered un-
der the current inflationary pres
sures. The women did an excellent
job of relating the trials and tribu,
lations of shopping for a family
these days.
After the postal pay bill is voted
on, the committee will consider pay
hikes for other Government work
ers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
JOSEPH c. HESTER

Joseph C. Hester, 70, died Jan
80 at the Gibbs Nursing Home il
Wellsville, following an illness OF
several months.
He was employed last in the
warehouse of Plant of the Ho-
mer Laughlin China Company. He
was a member of Local Union Sc
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and of st Aloysius Catholic
Church.
Survivors are five brothers, Jer-
ry Hester and Dominic Hester of
East Liverpool, Andrew Hester and
Patrick Hester of Salem, and
Stephen Hester of Minerva.
Services were held from st. Alo-
ysius Church with burial in st.
Aloysius Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Meat Packers Are
Presented With
29e Pay Demand

Chicago (LPA) = The United
Packinghouse Workers will demand
wage increase Of 29c an hour,
President Ralph HeLtein announc-
ed last week. The demand will be
made of all the big meat packers,
and is intended to raise average
hourly wages to the level described
as adequate in the city workers
family budget prepared by the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics.
Translated into weekly and hour
ly earnings for IA 40-hour week and
a full years work, it would require
$1.G5 an hour pay for packinghouse
workers, Helstein pointed out. BY
contrast, hourly earnings for pack
inghouse workers are $1.27; and
common labor rates, which apply to
almost one-third Of the packing
house workers, average $l.O2 an
hour.
The union this week also releas-
eel figures showing that Swifts,
one of the biggest of the packers,
could pay a 25 per cent increase in
wages to its non-salaried work
ers, and still "on the basis of 1947
experience not impose more
than l.6 per cent increase in meat
prices. This could happen even
though productivity fails to in
crease (actually it does) and with
out cutting into existing excessive
profits which, to say the least, are
not sacred"
Negotiations with Armour have
already started, and others are ex-
pected to open very shortly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05
Taft-hartIey Is
Constitutional,
NLRB Tells Court

Washington (LPA)-In brief
filed by General Counsel Robert
N. Denham, the Natl Labor Rela-
tions Board told a Federal District
Court last week that the Taft-Hart-
lev laws non-Communist affidavit
proviso is constitutional.
The Natl Maritime Union had
complained that the refusal of the
board to list non-complying unions
on its bargaining representative
ballots, in accordance with Taft
Hartley, deprived those unions of
their constitutional rights.
In denying the MINUS charges,
the NLRB maintains that Commu-
nists or persons unwilling to file
the disclaimers are not deprived
of any constitutional rights. The
Denham brief says they may serve
as union officers, and employers
are free to bargain with unions
that have not filed.
All that section Oh of Taft-Hart-
ley does, the board contends, is
to deprive unions whose officers
have not filed of the projections
and services of the board.
Denham's brief admits that this
gives complying unions competi-
tive advantage over non-complying
unions, but asserts that this is
not unconstitutional, and that Con-
gress acted reasonably in an at
tempt to hinder Communist activi-
ties in trade unions which may, the
board thinks, involve threats to the
security of the U. S.
Congress believed, the NLRB
stated, that Communists do not re-
gard labor unions as a means of
improving workers bargaining po-
sitions to relation to employers but
as training ground for Communist
political action.
Another section of the boards
brief denies that the courts have
any jurisdiction over board activi-
ties in determining bargaining rep
representatives., and in enforcing
other provisions of the Labor Man
agement Relations Act. The brief
stresses the idea that neither the
Wagner Act nor Taft-Hartley
creates any private rights" which
unions may go to court to protect,
but simply establishes public policy
in labor-management relations
which the NLRB is given sole pow
er of enforcing.
Recently the board has inter-
vened in two cases where federal
courts have assumed jurisdiction to
enforce provisions of the Taft Hart
ley law. In one of these cases the
Textile Workers Union has sought
the aid of the court to secure rec
ognltion of it's bargaining rights
from North Carolina mill. In the
other an employer went to court
rather than to the NLRB for an
order to stop the Amalgamated
Assn Of Street, Electric Railway
& Motor Coach Employes-AFL
from establishing what it terms
secondary boycott within the mean
ing of Taft-Hartley.
NLRB contends that courts
should refuse to hear these cases,
as the board alone has the power
to Judge the issues. Courts, the
board says, should issue injunc-
tions only when it asks for them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

having some knowledge Of ma
chinery. To this end, trade schools
should be established, not only in
the cities, but in the rural counties
to train those who within the next
five or ten years will be trying
to make their way in our industrial
economy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-05

Atlanta (LPA)-Heavy machines
are rumbling down the roads
throughout the south, and they
are finding a ready berth in the
barns of the big landowners, but
not in those of the small. And the
tired. young-old men, those who are
the tenant farmers and the share
croppers of the southern cotton
fields, can 90 nothing but stand at
the doors of their poor shacks and
watch their own doom come into
the fields.
These are the people who in
ever increasing numbers are be-
coming Americas own displaced
persons. These are the people
who, as the machines push them
from the fields, will flood the in
dustrial centers of the south and
of the north. They will be seeking
Jobs, and for none of these jobs
will they be trained. Theirs has
been, for the most part, scanty
education, and their health level is
low; they viii not fit readily into
industry or commerce. Their skills
are those of the one-crop farmer
those Of blowing and planting, of
chopping and picking cotton.
Yes, a new era is opening in the
south. The chronological age is fl
nally catching up with King Cot
ton and those who have the means
only for the old methods are find
ing themselves dispossessed by the
flame-thrower weeder, the cotton
picker. the four-row cultiVator, and
other time and labor saving ma
chimes. 1t is estimated that already
over 100000 people have left
the farms. Some predict that as
many as 100000 or 100000 will
leave before the process Of mechan-
ization has been completed.
The flame-thrower, for example,
can move up and down the rows of
an acre of cotton and within a few
hours can do the work Of at least
20 men at the barest fraction of the
cost of hand labor The cotton pick
er can pick the fields as clean as
any man, and it can do the work
Of 40 men. 1t takes one man 17H
hours to plant an acre and thin
It to a stand; using mechanical
equipment, this can be done in 10
minutes.
This trend, this revolution in the
cotton fields, must continue if cot
ton is to keep its place on the
worlds markets. For cotton must
either come down in price or its
competitors will take over the mar
ket. The threat Of rayon, which
now can be produced at a cost
less than that of cotton, as we'll as
the threat of cheap foreign grown
cotton, Of wood and paper, Of ny
lon and other synthetics is ser
ious one. Cheap production Of cot
ton, which complete mechanization
will insure, is the only answer.
Great strides have already been
made. According to the Natl Cot
ton Council, some type of farm ma
chine was used in the production
Of over % per cent of the l947 cot
ton crop. That means that almost
everyone has some kind of mechan-
ical equipment. On the other hand,
the Council estimates that only
5 per cent Of the l947 crop was
produced entirely by machine. Al
ready two of the largest implement
manufacturers, however, have NOV
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1948-12-31
The 'Neu,' News

It's time for restatement of policy by The Phoenix
Jewish News.
It's time as we say because this is by way OF being
new News-larger in content published twice as often
as before presenting advertising for the first time and
operated now under private management And It's re-
statement of policy because while there's the glossy heen
of nevness on the paper and hope bit more OF Jour-
alistc sophsticaton our policy will remain nfexibly u-
changed.
That policy can be simply puts To serve the Jewlsn
neonle of Phoenix-a of them-in every way possible
Period.
Having helped in the founding OF The News more tnah
wear ago and having nursed the infant tnrough us
cradle days. we the publishers like to think tna curing
the 15-odd months of the papers probatlon we nave
achieved the goal of service In at least mooeSt
II was labor of for then for the paper was Ell
relv non-commercal. Now it's our business. mus NY
the token it's business to serve the pest nteres
of Phoenix Jewry always.
That means giving you all the news IN Wncn you are
nterested-news of what is happening here Wltnm our
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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1948-12-31
The Chanukah Quiz Box

ton was postponed until Nissan
and the original date on the cal
endar was used for the same pur-
pose.
There are other sources which
read different Interpretation in
to the name "Chanukah." They
break the word into two words
lie. "Chanu" and Kah"). The
first half means ''they rested"
while the second half represents
the numerical equivalence of "25."
According to this Interpretation,
the meaning is that the gallant
Maccabees who took up arms
against the oppressors gained their
victory and "rested" from their
heroic struggle on the "25th" day
of the month of Kislev.
Still another source insists that
the five-letter Hebrew word
"Chanukah" is an abbreviation
signifying that we light eight
candles and that the procedure
of lighting them is like that pre-
scribed by the followers of "Hil-
lel."
The Phoenix Jewish news., 1948-12-31
By Rabbi Samuel J. Fox
fcopvrieht. 194s, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

(C0nVT1gnt, $780, JCWAoA
Agency, Incl
QUESTION: What is the mean
ing of "Chanukah?"
ANSW WEIR: Technically, the
word is taken to mean "dedlca-
ton" or inauguration" In this
sense it is implied that the Chan
ukah festival commentaries the
dedication of the altar and puri-
fication of the sanctuary which
had been defiled at the hands OF
the pagan oppressors under the
leadership of Antiochus Epiphanes,
the tryant.
It is interesting to note that
the very formal sanctuary, the
"Mishkan" (tabernacle) which the
Israelites constructed in the des-
ert, was originally to have been
dedicated on the same date as that
which is marked on our current
calendar as "Chanukah" (25th OF
Kislev), according to the Talmud,
since it was actually completed on
that day. Instead, the Inaugural