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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
THE TAFT-HARTLEY ACT

Approximately six months have
passed since the Taft Hartley Act
became effective. While it is too
early to appraise the full impact
SQf the Act on labor-management
certain facts stand out
"duite clearly.
In the first place, it is certain
that labor relations have deterior-
ated, regardless of how strike sta
tistics may be cited as proving any
contrary thesis. A decline in man
days lost due to strikes may or may
not be due to the operation of a
law. Strike statistics cannot be
taken as criterion of the success
of any law in promoting peaceful
labor management relations, par
ticularly on a short-term basis.
Traditionally, intelligent manage
ment and labor have taken the po-
sition that governments role in the
collective bargaining process is to
facilitate negotiation. Certainly
these were the detectives in franz
ing the Norris-La Guardia and the
Wagner Acts.
Why Labor Opposes The Act
Labor's opposition to the Taft
Hartley Act, therefore, grows out
of the conviction that the law en-
bodiaS q nervarSiOn and denial of
collective bargaining rights estab-
lished through legislation after
years of effort.
The Wagner Act placed labor at
a reasonable parity with manage
ment by ensuring that obstacles
and pressures operating to weaken
labor in the bargaining relationship
were removed. 1t strengthened
fAlnions only at the point of recog-
their bargaining rights when
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
Ldbor's Ndtiondl Political
League Swings Into Action

Washington, d. C.-Labor's~ Lea
que for Political Education has
swung into action on four fronts,
it was announced.
Appointment of Joseph D.
Keenan,, as assistant to the execu-
tive officers of the league, was an
nounced by National Chairman Will
liam Green and Secretary-Treasur
er George Meany. Mr.. keenan,, Sec
retary of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, served during the war as
Vice Chairman of the War Produc-
tion Board and later as labor adj
wiser to Gen. Clay in the Ameri-
can-occupied zone of Germany. An
energetic organizer, he will under
take the task of setting up the Am
erican Federation of Labor's poll
tical arm as a powerful force in
the 1948 campaign.
2-Mr. Green and Mr.. Meony is
sued an appeal to all affiliated
unions to begin a concerted drive
among their members for voluntary
contributions of 81 or more to fl
nance the leagues activities.
! 3-National headquarters for the
rleague will be opened on March l
at 1925 H st. N. W., Washington,
ID. c., historic site facing the
White House across Lafayette
Park.
A call was sent out for ma
tional conference on March 10 at
the Washington Hotel of the Presi-
dents of all State Federations of
Labor. The leagues Administrative
Committee, which is scheduled to
meet in Washington on March 8,
will stay over for the conference
with the state representatives. The
purpose of this meeting is to map
perfect teamwork between the lea
gue's national organization and the
State Federations of Labor.
A number of state organizations,
especially those where primary
elections are to be held early, al
ready have started functioning on
the political front, Mr.. Green said.
He disclosed that subcommit-
tee Of the leagues administrative
Committee is now canvassing the
field for candidates for the job of
executive director of ILPE. The
recommendation will be submitted
to the March 8 meeting and it is
likely that choice will be made
and announced at that time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
WOMEN

"Why have only a few of the top
jobs in our world peace organiza-
tion gone to women ?"
That is the question the United
Nations Women's Commission is
asking Secretary General Trygve
Lie. The women also want to know
what the members of his 57-na-
tion family mean to do about Civ
ing the women the vote in the 10
out of the 81 countries which don't
have it.
To date, Miss Mary Smieton, de-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
Farm Pay Rates
Rise In 1947

Washington, d. c. QLNS) =
Farm wage rates rose 7 per cent
in 1947, the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics reported. Farm en-
ployment at 8,129,000 on Jan. 1
was a little less than a year ago,
mainly because of less favorable
weather this year. Wage rates for
farm workers Jan. were about
3 ga times the 1859 average
rate. Nationally, all classes of
rates were from to s per cent
higher than last year at this time.
However, all rates except one
per month without board-declined
seasonally from the Oct. /, 1947,
level.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
4,796,399 New Cars Sold
In 1947 By Auto Makers

Detroit The automotive indus
try turned out 4,796,399 cars,
trucks, and coaches in 1947, the
Automobile Manufacturers-Associa-
tion reported.
The total exceeds 1916 by 55
per cent, and was topped only by
1925 factory sales of 5,358,420
units and 1875 4,80S,974 cars,
trucks and coaches.
Sales for December represented
a 10 per cent increase over the pre-
ceding month and was rs per cent
higher than the previous record
set for the year in October.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
Federal Labor Unions
Win Back Pay Award

Toledo, William F. Sturm,
AFL organizer, reported the sue
cessful conclusion of negotiations
with the Interlake Iron Corporation
providing for awards of back pay
to members of AFL federal labor
unions located here and in Erie, Pa.
AFL members affected by the
agreement received a retroactive
payment of 5 cents per hour for a
32-month period ending September
Is, 1916.
Total payments made by the
company amounted to $124,516 in
Toledo and $55,200 to union men,
bers in Erie.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
Seasonal Factors
Blamed For Drop

z Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Em-
ployment in January dropped S00,-
coo below December, largely as
a result of seasonal factors, the
u. S. Census Bureau said. Unem-
ployment rose 100000 in that per-
iod to total of 100000, reflect
ing, for the most part, layoffs in
seasonal industries.
Employment amounted to about
57,000,0O0 in January. That includ-
ed about 100000 who did not work
at their jobs in the survey week
for various reasons but who were
not looking for work. The estimates
are based on sampling from Jan. A.,
to 10.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
WHAT NEXT?

A robot painter, an automatic
painting machine developed by the
General Electric Co., can clean,
rustproof. paint and dry a variety
of parts in record time, it is re-
ported from Schenectady, N. Y.
Nearly 1900 pieces can be put
through the time-saving machine
in an hour. Parts to be painted are
hung from a conveyor which car
ries them first through a cleaning
process of washing and rinsing
after which they are dried and
sprayed with paint A baking oven
completes the process.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
WHAT'S COOKIN'?

1t is said that approximately 65
per cent of the frozen foods on the
market have. been thawed once or
twice or reached too high tempera-
lures before reaching the consum-
er. This does not make the foods
harmful, but they lose much of the
vitamins and nutritive values.
But the housewife has no way
of knowing how cold the frozen
food packages have been kept. The
Frozen Food Institute has develop
ed a package that would show the
housewife which foods have been
properly kept. 1t is a wrapper con-
tanning a harmless chemical so ar
ranged that red band appears
as a warning signal if the pack
age has been warmer than 5 de-
grees above zero. But the frozen
food packers so far, have not
agreed to ust it.
And there's a swell job for organ
lied women to undertake, because
if they clamor loud enough and
long enough they can achieve re-
suits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
Br0un Guild Award
To Andrews For
Loyalty Stories

New York (LPA)The Haywood
Broun award in memory of the
founder of the American Newspap-
er Guild this year went unanimous
ly to Bert Andrews, head of the
N. Y. Herald-Tribune's Washing
ton bureau.
The judges awarded Andrews
$500 in cash and a Guild citation
for his series which exposed the
State Departments method of dis
missing employees for security rea-
sons without letting them know
the charges, and which resulted in
a reform of the Departments meth
DDS. At the same time they were
unanimous in regretting that they
had only one award to make.
Washington correspondent Rob-
|ert S. Allen commented, "The
Broun award should be preserved
as it is. 1t is unique and distinc-
tive, as was the great, fighting
Guildsman in whose memory it was
established. But, while in no way
detaching from the Broun award,
it seemed to the judges that the
time has come for the ANG to es-
tablish several other awards for
Outstanding performance of duty
in particular fields-editorials, car
toons, special correspondence, over
all excellence of a newspaper, and
even radio"
Speaking for the three judges,
Louis Lyons, curator of the Mel
man Foundation, at Harvard, said,
"We regarded Andrews stories on
the loyalty issue as the most sig
nificant reporting, not merely of
1947 but of several years"
Six other entries were singled out
for honorable mention and for 500
cash awards which the judges took
action on their own to provide. The
six were:
Edward J. Donohoe of the
Scranton Times for his coverage
of milk strike. "The character
of his reporting of the strike over
an eight-day period led to rever-
sal of the editorial attitude of his
own paper, the Scranton Times,
which in turn was evidently stra
tegic factor in settling the strike"
Ralph Andrist and Ralph |
Blacklund of Station WCCO, Min
neapolis, for a series of six pro-
grams called Neither Free nor
Equal" attacking racial discrimina-
ton in the Northwest. at showed
what radio can do when the sta
tion management has CUTS and a
couple of writers have both inte-
gritty and imagination.
3-Herbert Block (Herblock),
Post, for cartoons.
His soaring and superb cartoons
are in the very greatest tradition
of that art"
ALFRED Friendly, Washington
Post, for his coverage of the Lilien-
hal hearings. "His reporting of
he fantastic Senate hearings on
he appointment of David Lilien-
hal as chairman of the Atomic
energy Commission played an inn
oortant part in exposing and de-
eating the sordid and sinister OPP
position to this great public ser
amt"
5-Dillard Stokes, Washington
POST, for his coverage Of the U. S.
supreme Court. Allen said: "His
brilliant reporting and penetrat-
ng analysis of Supreme Court de-
isions is without parallel in Am
rican journalism"
"This years numerous and sup
RIB entries" said Robert Allen, ode
nonstrated conclusively that the
press, and many editors,
ave turned to the American News
aper Guild for the highest and
lost esteemed journalistic recogni-
ion."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19

The world and everything in it
seems to be bossed by fewer peo-
pie every year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19

What's the sense of paying a doc
tor to tell you that what you need
is vacation you can't afford?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19

This is the time of year for a
nice hot oyster stew. To make, sim
mer 2 tblspns each of grated onion,
minced celery, and parsley in 2
tblspns. of butter. Add l tblspn.
flour and brown. Gradually add the
liquor from the oysters and l
pint of clear boullion. Season with
salt and pepper and boil five min
utes. Just before serving add the
oysters and cook until they are
well heated.
Creole Pork Chops: Season with
salt and pepper and dredge in
flour a large pork chop for each
person to be served and brown
quickly in fat. Place in bottom of
II large casserole and cover each
chop with thick slice of Bermuda
onion, thick ring of green pep
per and fill pepper ring with a
tablespoon of washed rice. Add one
or two cans of tomato soup and
bake in a moderate oven. Baste oc-
cassionally and add little water
if necessary.
Fried Apple Rings are good with
this. Put into a frying pan one cup
sugar, one tblspn. butter and
tblspns. water. When sugar is melt
ed add apple rings. Cover and cook
slowly, adding more water as nee
essary. Brown on both sides.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19
GLA NOR

The newest thing in the fashion
industry is photo-print fabric, the
reproduction of photographs on
textiles.
1t has taken ten years to develop
the process, but this year photo
graphic fabrics are moving into
volume production. The public is
enthusiastic about the results and
already to be found on the market
are scarves adorned with life-like
orchids and picture views of the
New York skyline. Neckties for
men with their favorite sport in
delibly photographed on the fabric
are selling for about $3.50. Dress
manufacturers are grabbing up
fabric printed with roses that look
so real you can almost smell them.
"Smilin' Thru" is the name of a
new line of maternity dresses which
come in a wide choice of pastels in
Stehli's kenbury rayon linen
weave. They boast Of a horseshoe
shaped pleated bertha collar and
gracefully full skirt and other pop
ular new style features, and the
dresses, of course, have a waistline
adjustment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-02-19

Fashion critics and designers are
trying to promote the one piece
bathing suit for 194S rather than
the popular two piece suit, but it's
doubtful if it will be generally ac-
cepted in Miami and the Southern
tropical resorts.
The American designers have
certainly gone revolutionary in
their new bathing suits. Some of
the bathing ensembles are almost
as elegent as formal evening gowns.
Chintz, chambray and faille are be-
ing used for fabrics and pleats,
ruffles, bustles and boning are be-
ing generously used to style them.
Some of the most elegant TO be
seen are made of gold or silver
elasticized material which hugs the
figure like your own skin. The ma
providing maximum eX-
posure to the sun or anybody else
who wants to look.
The Overworked term ''new
look" is on its way out and design
ers are now calling it the "now
IooI.v
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
HENRY WALLACE soys: Labor has choice

Truman does not mention the
simple fact that a majority of
his own Democratic Party joined
with a majority of Mr.. Dewey's
Republican Party to pass the
Taft-Hartley law.
But there is even greater by
pocrisy in the Democrats cam
paign pose as friend of labor.
Taft Hartley has set the clock
back for labor almost so years.
But orders for when-and how
the Taft-Hartley law should
be applied have come straight
from the White House - from
President Truman himself.
In the past year and half,
every group of workers in
major industry exercising their
democratic rights to strike were
met with the whip lash of
Truman Injunction. Miners, rail-
road workers, lOngshOremen,
printers, atomic energy workers
and retail cIerks-all have found
their simple trade union de-
mands not only resisted by the
employers but enjoined by the
full power of the federal gov
eminent.
By his use of the injunction,
Mr.. Truman has harmed not only
the men and women of labor
he has done great damage to
the fabric of our democratic life.
He has made the government
with all its power and majesty
the partner of the great cor
porations, just as the Republi-
cans have always wanted it to be.
And because the struggle of
every man and woman who
works for a wage has become
so unequal, as a result of Mr..
Truman, the real wage for ev-
eryone, his ability to buy meat
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
THEDEVIL
FOR WITCH

GU can't the Republicans any than the
Democrats carry forward any crusade for civil rights
That damning highlighted last week by of
the most powerful of Republican spokesman.
speech delivered in St. Petersburg, Florida,
by Robert A. Taft revealed in uncertain
the color and motives of the Republican Party although
doubt what the COP represented
the minds of those who have allowed themselves
be blinded by glitter and rhetoric.
The principle for which they stand has always
murky Senator Taft however, made clear last week
with the views of the South than the planned economy
The speaking on behalf of Thomas A. Dew
He that President Trumans program far
the ideas of Southern Democrats. If this
intended gain for the Republican Party in
Florida and adjacent Southern states there little to
ommend it the judgment and decision of enlightened
Southerners
Earlier. Senator Taft told conference that the
One Party bounded in uncertainty" and the
South must be built up to accepting two major political
parties When he asked what the South could expect
o gain from Republican victor. in November Senator
Taft replied that Souherners could expect freedom of
prise sound and the principles of states rights
This view coming from the highest policy makers Of the
COP indefensible it is nevertheless is warning to
those who place their hopes in Republican victory in
November
Mr.. Truman's incompetence and daily blunders and
hypocrisy have already disqualified him. therefore,
for Dewey Truman would have the effect of swapping
the devil for the witch.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

and milk and housing, has drop
ped faster under Truman than
under any other President-not
excepting Herbert Hoover.
BY these actions, Truman has
forfeited the confidence Of every
American worker. And with
their confidence, h. forfeited
their vote. He lost this election
within three months after he
moved into the White House.
He will live in history as the
worst defeated Democratic can
didate who ever sought the Pres
idency.
Dewey is neither better than
worse. He is just the other side
of the same counterfeit political
coin. He has endorsed the Taft
Hartley Act - and it was his
Senator ives who cast the de-
Gliding vote for it in the Senate.
Ii. New York he has fO, ght labor
and IabOr's effort to organize.
A Republican victory will
mean, as Mr. Hartley has al
ready promised, the end of mini
mum wage laws and the begin
ming of more repression.
At the beginning of the Tru-
man drive against labor and ap-
peasement of big business, Pres
ident Truman said in reply to
those who worried about labor's
vote:
Don't worry about labor -
labor has no place else to 60"
That was true then.
1t is not true now.
Labor HAS someplace else
to go.
1t can 60 Progressive.
1t can vote for the things it
does want, not for the twin evils
of reaction it does not want.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
A toIe thot's never been told about Alvey

liberals. And he's scrupulously
honest = something political
bosses don't like.
The Democratic machine plan
ned to cover up its move against
SABBATH by hypocritically lament
ing that the redistricting of Hi
nois, which was done last year,
made it necessary to dump
SABBATH.
For % terms he had repre-
sented the West Sides 9Th dis
trict. Under the new organiza-
ton of districts, he is in the 18th
district.
1t sounded like clever
scheme, but it failed.
PrOgressives learned of the
plan. They went to Arvey and
warned him that if the Demo-
Gratis gave the heave-hO to
SABBATH, they would run an op-
position candidate. If SABBATH
were the Democratic candidate,
owever, they'd throw all their
weight behind him.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

Arvey and his associates were
licked, and they knew it. They
had only two alternatives: to
dump SABBATH and lose the dis
trict, or to keep him and win it.
Despite their distaste for his
liberalism, they decided that it
would still be better to win with
SABBATH than to lose entirely.
x
CIO Political Action Com
mittee never fails to amaze naive
folks like us. We thought that
CLIO was out to beat congress-
men who voted for the Taft
Hartley law. We were wrong, it
seems. AS evidence, we reprint
without further comment an
item from the New Republic
magazine:
''The CIO-PAC (of Kentucky
pumped for the entire Demo-
cratic slate despite the fact that
Rep. Virgil Chapman, Demo-
cratic senatorial nominee, voted
for the TIL Act"
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

Alvey, decided to dump SABBATH,
who's represented Chicago in
Congress for AZ years. They
didn't like SABBATH because he
always has placed liberalism
above party regularity"
The oldest representative in
the House, both in age (he's 82)
and in length of service, SABBATH
l. the acknowledged elder
statesman of the congressional
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

Business which fought Roose-
welt.
Today the Democratic Party
poses as the champion of labor.
That pose is tribute to the
strength of the Progressive Par
ty, but it should fool few work
erS.
The men and women of labor
do not forget that it was Tru-
man who asked Congress for
such repressive anti-labor laws
in 1945 - that Philip Murray
of the CLIO accused him of yield
ing in "abject cowardice" to the
great corporations.
And in 1916 when Truman
demanded the power to draft
the railroad workers into the
Army, William Green of the
AFL called it slave labor under
fascism," and A. F. Whitney of
the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen said that ''the Presi-
dent, in his fit of anger, hated
loyal American workers more
than the Japs who made the
sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. 4"
In his present campaign, Mr.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
our 1QNN but:
ssRCE
BY PETER WILLIAMS

"ENRY WALLACE was Eat the mercy
Ill of Merchandise Mart elevator OPP
orator last week.
Wallace, who had just finished an NBC
broadcast, stepped into an elevator to de-
part from the Mart. To his surprise, the
elevator operator stopped the lift between
floors.
Turning to the puzzled Presidential
candidate, the operator held out a school
text book. "WiIl you autograph this for
the elevator starters daughter" he
asked. ''She worships you, Mr.. Wallace
* * <
CRIBBED from Local 1910, CLIO United
Steelworkers' Labor Sentinel:
1--WE kept cool with Coolidge.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

YOU can tell it's election time.
L Harry Truman is masquerade
ing as liberal again.
Lately he has taken to de-
nouncing the profit gluttons of
Wall Street.
But these very people he now
attacks are the people he him
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23
We frOze with Hoover.
Truman gave us cold war.
Why not warm up with Wallace?"

OUR book reviewer, Joan Place, Just
returned from a vacation in Colorado Joan
came back with big ring and her intend
ed, Gof Thomson, an AFofLer and vet of
the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They're
looking for place to live. Know any?
K K <
Young Progressives get more weird
requests for service. One Progressive
Party ward called YPA and asked for a
volunteer to climb into the rear end of a
costumer's novelty horse get-up. Horse
was part of the program at the North
side Wallace rally.
< * x
The 42nd Ward Progressives' classes
in group-singing and guitar-playing be-
gin Saturday, Oct. 80, 4 pm, at SIG
Iowa. Carl Hoeckner will conduct. Call
VIII 4-3963 if interested.
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

self appointed to
po S i t i o n S of
great pow e r .
Out of the 125
Truman appoint
ments to high
office, 81 have
come from the
councils of the
military and Big
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

THERE'S a story that's never
] been told about Jack Arvey,
the Democratic boss, and wise
old Rep. Adolph J. SABBATH, who
recently was endorsed by the
Progressives.
1t happened last winter, when
The Illinois standard. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1948-1949, 1948-10-23

the Democratic
high command
was drawing up
its slate of can
didates for the
primary.
T h e w ar d
heelers, led by