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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Hedds
OkdY ECA'
Organization

Washington (LPA)- The trade
union leaders who attended the
first session of the public advisory
board of the Economic Cooperation
Administration last week learned
that their representatives in ECA
are satisfied with the framework
of the Marshall plan agency.
All IL of the boards members
present for it's first meeting. AL
Secretary-treasurer George Meany,
CIO Secretary-treasurer James b.
Carey, and Arion E. Lyons, secre-
tary of the Railway Labor Execu-
tives Assn are the union members
of the advisory panel.
ECA Administrator Paul Hoff-
man opened the meeting with as
surances that the representatives of
labor, agriculture and business on
the public board would be given
every opportunity to review ECA's
work and participate in policy de-
cisions. He then introduced repre-
sentatives of each of the divisions
of the office who sketched their
duties as they understand them.
A report prepared by Bert jew
ell and Clinton Golden, the co-chiefs
of the labor division stated that
they are satisfied with the organi-
rational plans for the labor divi-
sion, and with Hoffman's assur-
ances that labor will have real
voice in ECA. One of the big tasks
facing the labor division is secur-
ing trade unionists for jobs with
each of the ECA country missions"
in Europe.
Neither Golden nor Jewell was
present. They are in Oslo, Norway
for meeting of the Init Trans
port Workers Federation, and then
will go to London for conference
of the Trade Union Economic Re-
covery Conference to which the
AFL, CIO and RLEA are affiliated.
Hoffman leaves for Paris this
week. While in Europe he will con-
fer with Golden and Jewell as we'll
as Boris Shiskin and Harry Martin,
top US labor representatives in
ECA's Paris office.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Railroads Can't
Escape tn Law

Washington (LPA) = Last fall
the Int'l Brotherhood of Teamsters-
AFL put a picket near the Missouri
Pacific and Southern Pacific rail
road tracks at Crowley, La. IBT
wanted the organized railway
workers to know that it was hav-
ing trouble gaining recognition
from a number of rice mills in the
vicinity. Last week an NLRB trial
examiner called this a secondary
boycott, and ordered it stopped.
The teamsters based their de-
fense upon the fact that railways
labor relations are governed by a
separate act, and the unions it
sought to influence have never been
under either the Wagner Act or
Taft Hartley.
But trial examiner Frederick B.
Parkes held that "such an interpre-
tation would encourage extension
of disputes to railroads and their
employees" and insisted that Taft
Hartley's secondary boycott ban
covers the railroads too.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Machinists State
Preference For
Democratic Stand

Washington (LPA)-Most of or
ganized labor has waited till the
two major parties concluded their
conventions to define their 1913
attitudes towards the contestinR
groups. The Int'l Association Of
Machinists-unaffiliated last week
was the first major labor union to
react in forceful terms to the con-
vention results.
In an editorial in It's paper The
Machinist, the lam declares:
as one party just as anti-labor
as the other? On the basis Of plat
form promises there is a difference
this year. By endorsing and de-
Tending the Taft Hartley act the
Republican party has made its anti
labor position crystal clear.
by calling for the outright re-
peal Of the Taft-Hartley law, the
Democrats in convention recogniz-
ed that the government must be
between management and
labor if collective bargaining is go
ing to work"
While concluding that the Demo-
cratic party is the preferable Of
the two, the lam makes it clear
that it isn't writing any blank
checks.
The Machinist editorial notes
that at the Philadelphia conven-
tion which promised the repeal of
Taft Hartley there We're at least
1CO Democratic members of Con-
gress who voted to pass it over
President Truman's veto.
lam will not support Taft-Hart-
ley Democrats, any more than it
will Taft Hartley Republicans. 1t
will continue to support the "few
too few-anti-T i-Taft-Hartley Re-
publicans who deserve labor's sup
port, regardless of their party's
mistakes"
The Machinist warns, "no man
can belong to the Taft-Hartley par
ty and count himself friend of la
bor."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
AFL Telegraphers
Expose Wire Firm

Washington LPA) = Charging
wholesale inefficiency on the part
Of the Western Union telegraph
monopoly, the Commercial Telegra-
pliers Union-AFL this week de-
manded that the Federal Trade
Commission investigate the trusts
operations.
The AFL union said in a state
ment filed with ETC that the COM
pany's service has so broken down
that "the future of the industry is
in danger" A shortage of company
employed telephone operators in
such cities as Chicago, Cleveland,
New York and Washington has re-
suited in the public waiting for
from five to 20 minutes to file
kilograms, CTU said. The union is
on record favoring naturalization
of the commercial telegraph mono
poly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Miners Get New
Lease On Life
By Welfare Fund

Washington (LPA)-That health
and welfare fund of the United
Mine Workers, the target of many
an attack by anti-labor columnists
and newspapermen, is paying the
cost of special Pullman car which
last weekend travelled from Clarks-
burg, w. Va, to Oakland, Califor-
MIA, carry 13 members of the UNIV
who have been paralyzed by sever
ing of the spine in mine accidents.
The men will receive special
treatment at the Permanente Hos
pital in Vallejo, Calf, one of the
few hospitals in the nation espec-
tally equipped to treat paraplegics
and to enable them to return to
their families able to walk and
care for themselves once again.
The UNIV eventually plans to
set on the road to recovery total
of 400 mine union members who
are now completely helpless and
without adequate care for their on
the job injuries. DR.. r. r. Sayers,
chairman of the UNIV funds medi-
cal advisory board, says there are
already 100 miners under treatment
paid for by the welfare fund.
A shortage of proper hospital and
re-training facilities in the east
has made it necessary to send the
paraplegic miners on the careful
cross-country trip to
Vallejo. Ten miners are under care
at the Postgraduate Medical School
& Hospital in New York and even
tually at the Institute for Rehabili-
tation & Physical Medicine under
the supervision of DR.. Howard
Rusk, a pioneer in saving the lives
of paraplegics whose paralysis re-
suited from battle injuries.
The program is paid for by the
2Oc-a-ton levy provided for in the
contract with the bituminous oper-
ators, and recently freed from liti-
CATION by the mine owners.
Less spectacular aspects of the
program include paying distress
and death benefits to total of
more than 100000 crippled and in
iured miners and their wives, wild
ows and children. Payment of $1OO-
a-month to old-timers in the mines
is scheduled to begin in the near
future.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
Wallace Renews
Bitter Attacks
On Democrats

New York (LPA)- The approval
that many labor and liberal
spokesman have evidenced for the
Democratic Party's platform was
not echoed in the Wallace for Presi-
dent headquarters last week.
Candidate Henry Wallace himself
spiced up his attacks on President
Truman, charging that he is not
sincere in his support of the civil
rights program.
"He has not used his executive
power to eliminate segregation in
the armed services" Wallace said.
"This he could do in a moment if
he were sincere"
The new party leader repeated
his belief that both "old parties"
are dominated by Wall Street. He
claimed credit for Truman's de-
cision to call a special session of
Congress, and the Democratic par
ty's adoption of a liberal plat
form.
He warned that the special ses-
sion will "do nothing good-and
perhaps much harm-unless we or
ganize and remain on the job"
Wallace decried Truman's ef-
forts to keep foreign policy out of
the election fight. He attacked the
Democratic nominees own record
on housing and price control. 1t was
Truman, Wallace said, who dropped
controls on building materials and
meat prices.
Meanwhile, Wallace supporters
prepared for the new party con-
vention which opens in Philadelphia
this week.
c. p. Howard, Iowa publisher of
a Negro newspaper, and until re-
Gently the leading Negro Republi-
can in the Tall Corn State has been
proposed as convention keynote
speaker.
Altho Wallace's refusal to be
impressed by liberal and labor vic
tories on civil rights and Taft Hart
ley at the Democratic party conven-
ton killed rumors that he might
withdraw from the presidential
race, all was not CHEEKY in the third
party camp.
Upton Sinclair, one-time Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of
california, and still popular with
many of the voters the new party
hopes to pickup in that state, call
ed upon Wallace to get out of the
race. Hailing the Democratic decla-
ration on civil rights, Taft-Hartley
repeal, and Truman's call for a
special session of Congress to tao
kle problems of housing and infla-
ton, Sinclair urged Wallace to ''re-
turn to a rededicated Democratic
party and help save US from an
other Republican regime"
In Albuquerque, New Mexico
Wallaceites split. A number OF
founders of the statewide Wallace
committee refused to go into the
new party. They are afraid it will
be dominated by the Communists.
Some said they would continue to
support Wallace, but wouldn't en-
ter the new party until assured
that it won't become Communist
"front"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
JULY 81 is DEADLINE
FOR GI INSURANCE

Washington-Carl r. Gray, Jr.,
Veterans Administrator, reminded
veterans that July 81 is the last day
on which they may reinstate nation
al service life insurance policies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
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- BY MARY MOORE kS% TIIl
HAVE YOU HEARD?

About shoes with foam rubber
soles? They practically have you
"up in the air.. Sponge rubber
soles have been on sport shoes for
years, but H. w. Rollman Of Way
nesville, n. c., inventor and manu-
facturer Of the new shoes, sand
wiches his foam rubber treads be-
tween leather insoles and outsoles
so the pedestrian gets the same
effect on his feet that cars have
in their tires.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22
GLAMOR

1t isn't to soon to choose that
little black dress which is so inn
portant for many occasions from
now into fall. The indispensable
summer blacks" are fashioned Of
tissue faille, featherweight crepes
and shadowy sheers.
Black lace, back-dipping hens
and drapery give some of these
sheer blacks a definite dressiness
for teas and cocktails, while 9TH
ers are simple in line, but detailed
with fine rows of tucks or fagot-
ting. Some very simple ones have
tiny jeweled buttons, or CLEAN Of
black satin trim. These can be worn
for street, or made dressy for eve
ming by the addition Of jewelry or
fussy accessories.
Necklines of these new blacks
are cody open, and sleeves are fre-
quently cut in one with the should
ar
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

choice to a unitary state in Pales-
tine. Whether the Soviet Union can
build positive sentiment in its fav-
or depends greatly on the clarity
with which the United States and
Great Britain approach the situa-
tion, and on the wisdom both Zion
lists and Arabs are prepared to ap-
ply to permanent settlement OF
their differences"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

and calling for their own meeting
in Birmingham this week where
they will take action to fight for
their own peculiar ideals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

Soon you will see an electric
darning egg. It's made of plastic
and translucent, containing a flash
light battery and bulb that can be
replaced. And the idea is that the
light coming through the egg
makes darning easier, since you can
see every thin spot and break. The
egg is the same size as regulation
darning eggs, has bright red han
die and retails for one dollar.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

To brighten old mason jars and
glasses before using them again
for canning, boil them in a gallon
of water to which one cup Of vine
gar has been added. The same
thing goes for washing windows,
and the cost is less than special
window-washing fluids, and the re-
suit the same.
Use the same solution on your
cut glass or make your glass cOf-
fee perculator shine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

Clothes can do so much to make
or mar a vacation that it pays to
choose a travel wardrobe with great
care. Choose right and you can
travel light, yet be we'll and COM
fortably dressed with the minimum
of washing and ironing.
The mainstay of travel ward
robe usually is a suit, preferably
of dark or mixed colors which do
not show soil easily. Faille is a
good suit fabric because it resists
wrinkles. For hot weather seersuck-
er has the advantage of being cool,
crease resistant, easy to wash and
needing no ironing. The new sheer
one-denier rayOns are cool and can
be ironed dry. The new ginghams
in practical colors designed for
tour suits" also are good choices.
Prints show soil and wrinkle less
than plain colors. Nylon slips do
not wrinkle, dry quickly and need
no pressing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-07-22

10 the early twenties the average
woman's shoe size was a five, but
the National Shoe Manufacturers
Association tactfully says, cts not
that womens' feet are bigger now
adays, but their shoes are.
Yes, they prove that the average
shoe size for women has increased
size and a half in the last few
years, from 6B to 71zB, and they
ought to know.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
SWEDISH LABOR CELEBRATES
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY

Stockholm, (ILNS)The Swedish
Federation Of Labor has just cele-
brated its 50th anniversary, the fes-
tivals eliminating in Stockholm
Aug. rs. Twelve foreign countries
sent 30 delegates, and several
Swedish organizations, including
the Employers Association, were
also represented.
The first Swedish trade unions
were organized in the 1905, but it
was not until 1898 that a national
organization, the Federation of La
Dor, was formed. Today, it has more
than 100000 members, or more
than one-sixth of the Swedish pop
ulation. At the end of the First
World War its membership was
100000, by 1929 it had grown to
over 100000, and in 1912 the first
millionth member was registered.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
Air Force Denies
Boeing Congrats

Washington (LPA) - Attempts
by the Boeing Airplane Co., whose
Seattle plant has been struck by
the Intl Association of Machinists-
unaffiliated, to claim US Air
Force support for its strike break
ing efforts fell flat last week. In
letter to lam President Harvey
Brown, Air Secretary Stuart SYM
ington denied that Air Corps Off
GERS had congratulated Boeing on
its use of scab labor.
The "Boeing News"-a company
sheet-said that General Joseph
T. McNarney and General X. b.
Wolfe, after inspecting the Boe-
ing plant, praised the company on
the way it was utilizing its labor
force, and upon the morale" of
the scabs.
President Brown wrote the Air
Force asking Symington to check
into this matter and let me know
whether or not this story accurate
ly reflects the statement made by
your officers in Seattle"
Symington replied: General Nc
Narney informs me that during his
visit at the Boeing plant he made
no statement complimenting the
company upon it's hiring record
during the past few weeks" | am
that General McNarney
and General Wolfe are officers
whose past experience makes it un-
likely that under the circumstances.
they would issue any such state
ments."
The Air Secretary thanked the
lam chief for bringing this false
company statement to his atten-
tion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
AFL Union Sues
Z m pIoyer For
Contract Breach

Baltimore LPA)-A. breach of
contract suit was filed last week
in federal court by Local 453,
Amalgamated Meat Cutters &
Butcher Workmen-AFL against a
trade association in the seafood
packing industry. The union is ask
ing $750,000 from the employers
who broke off wage negotiations.
Last January the employers act
ing thru the Crisfield Seafood
Assn reopened wage discussions
under the terms of contract with
Local 453. A wage cut was pro-
posed, which the union rejected.
Discussions dragged on until April,
when the employers said that they
intended to unilateral cut wages,
and fire any worker who refused
the reduced rate.
In the first action of its type
in Maryland history, the union is
hauling the employers into court,
demanding restoration of jobs for
its members and damages of $780,
coo.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
Little TIL Law
Bows To Big
Taft-Aartley Law

Detroit (LPA)-Michigan's anti
labor Bonine-Tripp law was ruled
unconstitutional last week in a de
c;sion which was finally handed
down on the Chrysler strike last
May.
Circuit Judge Theodore ]. Rich
ter upheld the position of United
Auto Workers that when a COM
pany is engaged in interstate COM
merce it's employees come under
the jurisdiction of the Taft-Hart-
ley act and not the state law. On
the strength of that argument, UA
w has repeatedly ignored the law,
which calls for a special strike
vote to be conducted by the state
mediation board before any walk
out.
UAW members incolved in well
over 100 strikes were facing prose
cution under the act. Other unions
in Michigan have been plagued by
the Bonine-Tripp law which they
tagged "the little Taft Hartley
Ate. Five business agents of Anal
gamated Clothing Workers will ap-
pear in court this week to plead in
nocent to charges Of violating the
measure.
In the Chrysler decision, Judge
Richter questioned the whole con
cept of making the right to strike
subject to the approval of a ma
jority. at is not inherently reason
able" he said, that the right should
exist with majority approval and
be denied without it." Michigan's
attorney general, Eugene F. Black,
may appeal the case to the state
supreme court.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
|ITU Convention
Seeks Ways To
Defend Members

indianapolis (LPA)-Adoption of
new methods of defense" if neces-
sary, to win battles with newspap-
er publishers was urged here by
President Woodruff Randolph of
the Int'l Typographical Union in
a report prepared for submission
to the TITUS Goth convention, open
ing Aug. Ia in Milwaukee, Wis.
"If we have come to the point
where strikes, of themselves, are
mot a sufficient answer to the un-
fair employer, another answer, sup
Elementary or otherwise must be
found and applied" Randolph de-
clared. Defensive techniques must
evolve as does the industry in
which we work"
Other ITU convention reports re
vealed that during the year ending
May 20, the international spent
nearly $4,300,000 for defense pur-
poses, of which approximately $2,-
500, 900 was spent on the strike
against Chicago dailies.
At present, 5 per cent assess
ment on members is bringing in
over 81 ,0G0,000 month. This has
enabled the union to pay back
money borrowed from other funds
for strike benefits and to provide
full-scale financing of current
strikes, the reports disclosed.
A report by Elmer Brown, 1TU
vice president, contended that the
typos "have nothing to fear from
the highly advertised new process
ses' (of newspaper production) ex-
cept as they may be used as strike
breaking instruments"
He declared the unions position
in that respect will be strengthen
ed when the ITU has succeeded in
organizing the workers in the new
processes an devices.
"When we have corrected this
defect in our organizational set
up" he said, eve can with conf
dence welcome all new processes
and work of development of more
and better printing equipment and
machinery.
"The more and cheaper methods
developed for producing newspop-
ers and magazines, the greater will
be the output" he added. "At pres
ent there is near monopoly in the
newspaper field which can only be
broken when men with small capi-
tai can finance the establishment
of a newspaper or magazine"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12
Hospital Benefits
(ConfiHued From Page OHe)

has (at no additional cost extend
ed the benefits under the disability
and disqualification provision to COW
er employed members regardless OF
age and unemployed members may
continue their disqualification insur-
ance regardless of age Of employ
ment. Previously these benefits
ceased at age, 10.
No change has been made in the
rate of life insurance provision
which may be continued as long
as membership in the N. B. O. T. is
and the group policy re-
mains in force. However, a pro-
nounced reduction in dividend due
to unanticipated increase in the
death rate Of your members has
naturally resulted in a higher net
cost. As you know ZIP members
died during the past year.
Each employer should be notified
of the change in payroll deduction
effective for the month Of Septem-
mer, 1913.
Endorsement changing benefits
follows. This letter with endorse
ment should be attached to each in
sured's certificate of insurance as
evidence of increased coverage.
Very truly yours,
Francis p. White, Gen. Agent,
Hoosier Casualty Company,
Union Labor Life Insurance Co.
FPW: dc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-08-12

ment, groups that refuse to solve
their problems through this just
device and use strikes as smoke
screens to wage political war
against America"
In his address, Meany warned
that "the trade union movement
must be a dynamic movement or
it dies. A feeling of complacency
is dangerous to movement such as
ours. We need eternal vigilance"
Meany urged the delegates not to
permit "anyone to make a politi-
cal football out of the New York
State Federation of Labor. Remem-
Der trade unions are bread and but
ter organizations. One reason for
our existence is to better the con-
dition of those who work for wages.
The issues between major political
parties are fictitious. The secret is
sue is the ms want to stay in and
the outs want to get in"
"What's our answer?" asked
Meany. "Should we tie up the AFL
to a political party? The Demo-
cratic Party? What of that 115
Democrats who put on labor the
cross in the form of the Taft-Hart-
ley law? What about that part Of
the Democratic Party which bases
human values on the color of a
mans skin? Tie up with Wallace
and go along with those who be-
lieve in the barbaric philosophy of
Moscow? Tie up with the Repub-
lican Party because some people
think that the Republican presiden-
tial candidate would repeal the OBJ
noxious sections of the Taft-Hart-
ley law? l haven't heard the Repub-
lican candidate say anything about
the Taft Hartley law"
Mayor O'Dwyer, who got long
ovation from the assemblage, at
tackled the S0th Congress for lis
tening to the real estate lobby and
blocking housing legislation, which
took "a sledge hammer and hit
labor, sowing contempt for labor
by the Taft Hartley law and even
worse contempt by asking for an
other term to do to you God knows
what"
State AFL President Murray de-
clared:
owe shall defeat at the polls
every member Of the 80th Congress
OF party affiliation who
voted for enactment Of the Taft
Hartley law. We have consecrated
to this task and we will
keep at it until complete victory is
ours. We will fill the hall of Con-
gress with Representatives $ who
know, understand and give cenSid-
Grafton to the aim and aspirations
of the American worker"