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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
CANADIAN LABOR BACKS
APPEAL FOR CHILDREN

New York City (ILNS)-All Ca
madam organized labor will sup
port the United Nations Appeal for
Children, it was announced at UN
headquarters at Lake Success, N.
Y. Preparations for the appeal cam
paign are being made in "A coun-
tries.
In the first action of its kind
the big national labor federations
of Canada have asked more than
one million members to give a days
pay to alleviate hunger and misery
of children throughout the world.
The appeal was made in a joint
statement issued by p. r. Ben
cough, president of the Trades and
Labor Congress of Canada; A. r.
Mosher, president of the Canadian
Congress of Labor and Gerard Pic
ard, president of the Catholic Fed
Grafton of Workers.
The Canadian drive will be
launched in full force in February.
The United States campaign, which
will be conducted as a single APP
peal in cooperation with American
overseas aid agencies, opens at the
same time.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
Unionists Evieted Oil Workers Win
I'm Farm Strike As 3O-Cent Hike After
Judge Denies Stay 296 Day Strike

Toledo (LPA) - A 1O-month
strike Of the Oil Workers Int'l
Union at the Pure Oil Co., refin-
cry here was ended last week
when, in the face of the critical
oil shortage, the Toledo Manage
ment Citizens Committee succeeded
in having the company and union
reach an agreement.
Offers of the Oil Workers to
submit to arbitration had been
turned down repeatedly. More than
a month ago, when the labor-man-
agement committee. was called in,
the union said, "Since the petrol
cum situation is so critical now,
we are willing to let business exc
cutives and outstanding citizens, in
whom we have implicit trust and
confidence settle the strike"
The new contract includes a 30c-
an-hour wage raise, increased over
time and a new procedure for hand
ling grievances. Two other issues
will be submitted to the L-M-C for
and, if necessary, for ar
bitration.
A union representative said that
the new contract was, "as good as,
if not better than, any ever signed
by the oil workers union"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
BENEFITS WOMEN GET
FROM SOCIAL. SECURITY

More than 60 per cent of all per
sons now receiving social security
benefits are women and children
At the present time ,157,283 wo-
men and children are receiving
monthly checks under the Federal
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
program. This includes almost
100000 women who were wage
earners and retired after reaching
age G5.
Women affected by the Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance program
can be divided into four main
groups: (D The wageearning wo-
man; (2) The workingman's wife;
(3) The wage earning married
woman; (4) The workingman's
widow with children.
The Wage Earning Woman
More than 10 million wage
earning women have social secur-
ity accounts and are building up
wage credits under Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance towards re-
tirement incomes for their old age.
Today, many thousands of women
past 65 are receiving retirement
checks each month and will do so
for the rest of their lives.
This is insurance protection of
vital Importance to the working
woman because she generally has
less opportunity than the man to
build up adequate reserves for pro-
lection in old age. Employment
statistics prove that women gen
orally earn less than men. This
means less available out of current
income for savings for rainy day.
The Workingman's Wife
The wife Of IA workingman who
is insured under Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance has certain insur-
ance rights Of her own based on
her husbands account. When he
begins to receive his old-age i'm
surance monthly benefits, she will
receive monthly insurance benefits,
too, when she reaches age 65. If
she is younger than her husband,
she will start getting her checks
when she becomes age 65.
The amount a wife receives, at
age So, is monthly payment equal
to one-half Of the benefit amount
her husband gets. She receives
this payment as long as they both
are living. If the wife outlives
her husband, she can receive a
widows benefit, a monthly pay
nent equal to three-fourths the
her husband had received,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
Defeated Proposal To
Condemn Teacher Strikes

New York City QLNS)-Opposi-
tion from Mark Starr, educational
director of the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union and from
Mrs. Eugene Meyer, journalist and
social worker, defeated a proposal
to condemn teachers strikes at n
meeting Of the Presidents Commits
sion on Higher Education.
This was revealed by Starr in
answer to a letter sent by Rev.
Donald Harrington, national chair
man of the Workers Defense Lea
que to him as we'll as to the other
commissions members urging that
the body uphold the right of teach
ers to strike.
"You may be interested to know
that there was a proposal to con-
denim strikes by teachers" Starr
wrote. ain the consequent argu-
ment, Mrs. Eugene Meyer and |
insisted that teachers who left the
school en- bloc in order to call at
tention to the scandalous underpay-
ment Of teachers were really to
be commended as compared to the
individuals who went out and Sc
cured better jobs at higher salary
without making such a protest. The
resulting compromise was that the
criticism Of strikes was excluded" !"
Answering Rev. Harrington's let
ter on behalf of DR.. George f.
Zook, the commissions chairman,
Francis j. Brown, staff associate
said: "The ommission of reference
to the right of teachers to strike
was deliberate on the part of the
commission. You will note that i'm
stead, volume of the report en-
phasizes the total responsibility of
the community and of the Ameri-
can people to raise salaries to "A
living standard. The role of the vol
untary professional organizations
is also emphasized.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

OPA expired. This was to be
expected. Price control cannot
dam an ever-growing flood of
money initiation. This has been
proved again and again, in coun-
try after country. We must at
tack the root cause of initiation,
the excess money supply"
As a remedy, the AFL declares
the Federal Reserve System must
use its powers "to prevent infla-
ton and to provide no more than
reasonable and normal growth in
the nations money supply"
Voluntary Action Approved
The federation cites with approx
al "two small steps" taken by the
Federal Reserve System to curb
initiation but says this is not enough
and adds:
"a program of adequate action
should be undertaken at once. The
Bankers Association has
the Federal Reserve
action by a program to check infla-
tionary loans; the nations $4,000
banks are cooperating. This kind of
action is basic in a de-
and will be helpful; but
further action by the Federal Re
serve System is essential to reach
the root cause"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

instead of the one-half she was
paid rs a wife.
These monthly payments do not
come automatically. The husband
must apply for his benefits. Simil-
arly, at any time after she is 65,
the wife must apply for her bene-
fits. Even when she becomes a
widow benefits do not come unless
she makes an application for them.
The Wage Earning Married
Woman
A married woman who is wage
Garner earns insurance credits on
her own and may also be insured
in other counts as we'll. If married
to a man who is insured, she would
have insurance rights as his wife
and at age 65 would receive a
monthly benefit equal to one-half
of his. In the event of her hus-
bands death, she has insurance
rights as his widow and at age 65
a monthly benefit equal to three
fourths of his. What wage
earning wife will receive depends
on whether her average wage will
bring her more than a wife's or
widows benefit would come to.
In no case, however, could she re-
ceive double benefits; that is, both
as a retired worker herself and
benefits as a wife or widow-but
she will receive whichever is the
larger amount.
The Widow and Children
The workers widow and children
are protected by his insurance.
In case of death, at any age, if he
has the required insurance credit,
his widow receives monthly insur-
ance benefits until the youngest
child is 18. The children also re-
ceive monthly payments until 18.
If there are no children, the
widow gets a lump-sum payment
at the time of her husbands death
and then can get monthly benefits
when she is 65, unless she re-
The Old-Age and Survivors In
surance program is important to
the family in two ways; protec-
ton to husband and wife upon
reaching old age; protection for
widow and children if the bread
winner dies.
IMPORTANT:-In all cases, ap-
plication must be made before
can be paid.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

Bakersfield (LPA) - Another
page in the shameful history of
human exploitation told in "Grapes
of Wrath" was written last week.
Thirteen strikers and their fami-
lies were evicted from the Di Gior-
gio Corp. ranch in the San Joaquin
valley as their strike entered the
fourth month.
"I'd rather get caught stealing
a COW, or horse, back in Oklaho-
ma than just stand here like this
while the sheriff moves me out on
the county road" one of the Natl
Farm Labor Union-AFL members
said. The II other evicted Strikers
felt the same way. There was a
crowd of pickets and friends watch
ing as the sheriff moved their be-
longings out on the county road
that runs past the 20,000-acre Di
Giorgio ranch here.
Some of the children cried and
there were a few catcalls from the
crowd but there was no trouble.
County Judge Parrish had issued
the order evicting the striking
families and he would not hold it
up while the union appealed the
court decision. Fellow strikers and
union members took the unfortun-
ate families in to live with them,
but their belongings remained on
the side of the road that night.
A union official said that every
effort is being made to find homes
for the evicted strikers but with
many farm workers living in tents
it will be difficult to find anything
suitable for them to live in.
The union won an important vic
tory for itself and for all citizens
Of Kern County this week when
$58,0O0 was Topped off the bail
needed to get four Di Giorgio strik-
ers out of the Kern County Jail
where they were being held on
charge. On Jan. IA
Superior Judge Norman Main re-
iuced the bail on the four Di Gior
gio strikers from $4,000 each to
$500 each. The union bailed the men
Out Immediately.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

llS.
A chart printed in the survey
shows that money supply in the
United States was enormously eX-
panied to finance the war, but that
even after the war it has gone on
increasing at rate out of all pro-
portions to production Of goods.
"Ihat is the main reason why
prices keep rising now, two years
after VI Day." the federation as
sefts.
Balance Held Essential
From 1899 to 1941, the fedora
ton says, pointing to the chart, the
supply of money and the supply
Of goods (production) were increas-
ing at about the same rate. "This
balance between money and goods" F"
it goes on to explain, "is essential
to keep prices staple; in these pre-
war years prices changed relative
ly little. But i'm wartime, the banks
created huge new supplies of
money to finance war production,
and the munitions made with this
money were blown up on battle
fields. So today the total supply
of money is times that of 1889
(up 200 per cent?, while the supply
of goods to be bought with the
money is only II per cent higher.
"When there is an oversupply Of
money in relation to goods, it takes
more money (that is, a higher
price, to buy the same amount of
goods. The economic laws of supply
and demand operate for money just
as they do for anything else.
Easy Money Boosted Prices
"The way this works out is easy
to understand: "If a man has twice
as much money to spend for some
thing he wants badly, the person
who sells it can get higher price
and does.
after reconversion from war
work, business men wanted scarce
raw material badly-cotton, metals,
wheat, etc.--to keep their
plants in operation. Hundreds of
firms We're trying to buy them.
Banks had plenty of money to loan
at low interest rates. Business bor-
rowed Bank loans to business rose
10 percent i'm the II months ending
1947; total private cred
it rose faster than at any time
since 1920. With this easy money
plus their own funds from war
profits, businesses bid higher and
higher for scarce materials, each
trying to get enough for capacity
operation. Prices went up and up. ;"
The federation conclusion is:
"The upward pressure of the
huge money supply has been so
great that prices were breaking
ceilings and black mar
kets were appearing long before
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
Seeks Injunction Agdinst
p rinters In Nationwide
Attack To Cripple Union

Washington D. C. QLNS)-The office of Robert N
Denham general counsel of the National Labor Relations
Board has asked nationwide federal injunction against
the international Typographical Union it's latest
in what union officials charge big scale effort to cripple
the printers organization
On behalf of Denham the regional director Jack Evans
filed petition in Federal Court at Indianapolis asking for
inunctve relief against the union the lawyers call it.
The Injunction would restrain the ITU from many actions
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
Pilot Coop Store
Opened AT Pontiac
With AFL-ClO Aid

Pontiac (LPA)-An overflow raj
ly, followed by motorcade and re-
ception at the new Coop Distribu-
ton Center, sent the new store here
off to a flying start last week.
Both CIO and AFL unions are
active in this "pilot project" which
is expected to set the pace for a
rapid growth of customer-owned
merchandising centers in indus
trial cities over the state. Mayor
Arthur Law of Pontiac, worker
in the Fisher plant and member
of the United Auto Workers, pre-
sided at the rally the night before
the store opened.
Indicative of the widespread in
terest in co-ops was the presence
of 20 delegates from the United
Rubber Workers in Akron who at
tended the rally and stayed over
for the opening of the Coop Dis
tribution Center. Secretary-treasur-
er Charles Lanning of the URW
addressed the rally, along with
former Congressman Jerry Voor-
his, now secretary ofthe Coopera-
tive League of the USA.
The store was packed for the
pre-opening inspection by those
who, despite zero weather, went
in motor procession from the rally
to the new establishment, which
only three weeks ago was a big
auto garage. Now, goods will be
moved directly from trucks to the
floor, and customers will serve
themselves and pay at checking
counters which are buyer-operated.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
WORLD UNEMPLOYMENT
DOWN IN AZ, SAYS ILO

Montreal, Canada = Unemploy-
ment throughout the world during
the latter half of 1947 fell below
the levels of the corresponding
period in 1916, the international
Labor Office reported.
A survey made by the lLO of un-
employment and employment sta
tistics of 2S countries showed that
employment indexes for all indus
try and manufacturing industry
reached higher levels in all coun-
tries except Sweden and Palestine.
The ILO survey showed 16 coun-
tries reporting decreased numbers
of unemployed, with 7 nations re-
porting slight increases in the num-
Der of jobless workers. These 7
are: Italy, Palestine, Hungary, Fin
land, Chile, Puerto Rica and Den
mark.
Demand tha Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29
AFL Says Nation Must
CurtaiI Money Supply
Root Of Rising Prices

Washington, d. C. QLNS)-nflation of money is the
root of todays continuing price rise and the nation
attack this cause" to gain relief the American
Federation of Labor declares its first 1948 monthly labor
survey.
Workers wage demands the result, not the under
living cause of infation the AF says adding that large
increases have been necessary to meet rising
and that Union MEMBERS with above-average pay in
creases keep little ahead of the price RISE but for mil
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

CHARLES L. O'DONNELL

Salineville, Ohio-Charles L. o.
Donnell, SO, died suddenly Jan. "a
in his home on Foundry Hill.
Born Oct. 20, 1884, in Pennsyl-
vania, he was the son of Dennis
and Mary McHugh O'Donnell. He
was employed at the Homer Laugh
lin China Co. in Newell.
He leaves his widow, Alice Viola
Goddard O'Donnell; two sons,
James Eugene O'Donnell of Saline
vile, and Charles E. O'Donnell
Jr. of Minerva, and one brother,
Hugh O'Donnell, also of Salineville.
Services were held from st. Pat
rick's Catholic Church by the pas
tor, Rev. FIR. John |. Higgins. Bur-
ial was in st. Patrick's Cemetery.
x X
ELMER ALLISON
Elmer Allison, potter, baseball
enthusiast and a former member
of the Board of Education of the
Chester Independent School Dis
trict, died Jan. "a in City Hospital
following an 18-month illness. He
was &c.
Mr.. Allison lived at 335 Carolina
Ave-, Chester. He was born in
East Liverpool and spent his life
time in the local community. He
was a decorator at the Edwin M.
Knowles China Co.
For many years Mr.. Allison was
a baseball umpire in district anna
teur leagues. He served two terms
on the Board of Education and
was one of the organizers of the
Chester High School Band. He was
chairman Of the Chester Repub-
lican Club and during the war
served on one of the Hancock
County Ration Boards.
Nj Allison was a past exalted
ruler of East Liverpool Lodge 258,
Elks, vice-president of the Locust
Hill Cemetery Association and a
members of the Chester Boosters
Cub and Local Unuion 1874, Nation
al Brotherhood of Operative Pot
,ers.
He leaves a twin brother, Ellie
Allison, and a niece, Mrs. Thelma
Davis, both of Chester.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

Many a unionist's wife has spent
his union-earned money to assist
those non-union employers who
wrote the Taft-Hartley bill. All
trade unionists' wives should buy
Union-made goods and use Union
services!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

until final settlement by the NLRB
of the unions dispute with the
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, consisting of 800 pub
fishers whose circulation is said to
exceed 80 per cent of the total
daily newspaper circulation in the
country.
Hearing Set For Feb. 9
Judge Luther N. Swygert gave
the union and it's agents until Feb.
II to answer the allegations in the
petition. The hearing date was set
for Feb. 9 in Indianapolis, head
quarters of the national union.
The petition was the first time
that Denham has opened an action
of such broad scope in any case
since the Taft Hartley Act become
fully effective Aug. 22.
Named in the injunction petition
are Woodruff Randolph, ITU presi-
dent; Larry Taylor and Elmer
Brown, vice presidents, and Don
Hurd, secretary-treasurer. The
petition seeks to enjoin them from
making agreements seeking to post
conditions of employment as sub
stitutes for contracts.
Would Ban Strikes
The petition aims also to end all
legged "featherbedding" and specifi-
cally the old standing contract rule
of "bogus" in newspaper publish
ing plants. Under this rule adver-
tising material must be set up al
though matrices have been furnish
ed to the publisher. Then, after
being set up, the type is distribut-
ed.
The alleged attempt of the union
to have publishers hire only union
foremen is sought to be restrained.
The petition asks the court to bar
the union from" restraining or coer-
cling employees in the selection of
their representatives for the pur-
pose of collective bargaining or the
adjustment of grievances"
1t is further sought to restrain
the union from engaging in, ord
ering, calling, advocating or coun
selling strikes, 'slowdowns,' or 9th
er disruption of the operations of
employers, in furtherance of the
acts and conduct enjoined in other
sections of the petition"
Board Seen Cracking Whip"
ITU President Randolph, served
with a notice of the NLRB petition,
issued a blistering statement in
which he declared the injunction
asks that the ITU officers be re-
strained from everything publisher
aides claim we are doing that they
10 not like"
"The National Labor Relations
3oard," the statement continued,
is shown up for what it is under
he. slave-labor Taft-Hartley law,
. Simon Legree. Cracking the whip
or big business in the newspaper 4
'ield, the NLRB asks for an in
based on the imagination |
# those preparing the complaint.
Legal Fight Pledged
after years of legal persecution
Congress adopted the Norris La
iuardia law preventing abuses by !
Injunction. The aft-Hartley law d,
lot only reverses that but gives
authority to stymie all s
Iecent trade union activity with in
worded as such injunc-
ions are, such as 'or by any other
imilar or related acts or conduct"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-01-29

Teacher: "Who can name five
things that contain milk ?"
Small Boy: Butter, cheese, ice
cream and two cows"
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-01-01

OSLO. An encouraging re-
port on the success of Norways
present export drive was recently
presented by Arne Meidell, Chair
man of the Norwegian Export
Council at the groups yearly meet
ing in Oslo. Both in volume and
value, Norway's exports have risen
spectacularly since liberation, and
according to Chairman, Meidell,
there is every reason to expect
still further increases. Exports for
the first half of 1947 which are
estimated at 86O,00O,0O0 kr ($172,-
OOO,OOO) are expected to top the 2
billion kroner mark by years end
($4OO, 0O0,OOO). Net exports for the
base-year 1888 were 100000, 900
Kr. ($156, 900, 0OO), while in terms
of volume present exports are now
1870 of 1889.
Chairman Meidell paid tribute
to both Norwegian capital and la
Dor noting that "In view of the
disturbed working conditions in a
number of countries abroad, we
can be grateful that we have en-
joyed such quiet and stable condi-
tons in Norway" He warned,
however against the possible ear
ly end of the sellers market and
urged exporters to render good
service, fight against restrictions,
and develop and maintain their
markets.
Disapproval was voiced regard
ing any export duty on such goods
as fish, canned goods, and tim
Der products. He also pleaded for
more timber for the wood-proces-
sing industries and called for in
creased aid to existing export en-
terprises.
Fresh and sailed fish exports for
the first half of 1947 were listed
at 1880 of the 1888 rate, while
canned fish exports were 1900
for the same period. Total value
of fish exports for the first six
months was set at 214,OO0,OOO Kr.
($42, 80O,0OO) including 58,OOOOOO
Kr. (S11, 800 ,OO0) in canned fish.
Chemical fertilizer exports for the
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-01-01
Norwegian Export Shows Progress

first half of 1947 were 104% of
the 1888 rate. The value of all
chemicals exported during the pc
riod was 100000 Kr. ($14,0O0,-
OOO) with fertilizer exports set at
100000 Kr. Total volume was
237 900 tons. Paper and cardboard
exports are 1880 of pre-war, in
contrast to pulp and cellulose
which were a mere $3.50. Total
value of timber products exports
for the period was set at 100000
900 Kr. or $4,000 tons. Oils and
fats were 1870 of 1888, or 100000
900 Kr. for the half-year period:
hides, furs and leather were $40
with value of 100000 Kr. and
electro metallurgical exports
reached 1870 of 1888 with 75,0OO,-
900 Kr. for the same period.
The Norwegian Export Council,
established in November 1915, is
receiving over 500 inquiries month
ly and plans a broad program of
on-the-spot market research to de-
termine the needs and tastes of
foreign importers.