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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Examiner Rules
Contractors Not
Covered By TIL

Washington (LPA)-An NLRB
trial examiner this week ruled that
small building contractors are not
covered by the Taft Hartley law.
He said that the "effect of this
business ON interstate commerce is
both remote and slight"
Examiner Horace A. Ruckel
pointed out that altho Congress
when it enacted the Taft Hartley
law was concerned with preventing
jurisdictional strikes in the build
ing trades, did not intend that
the NLRB should take jurisdiction
over every contractor in the con-
struction industry.
At issue was case in which
Walter j. Mentzer, a plastering
contractor, and himself a member
of the Operative Plasterer's Int'l
Association-AFL, entered into a
verbal "closed shop" agreement
with his own local.
McIlLcI uOrS SIOcS dIliludi
business of about $4,000 a year
all in Pittsburgh. Ruckel said that
his business affects interstate COM
merce then so do those of nearly
every corner drug store and neigh
borhood bakery in the country"
He dismissed the complaint
brought by a non-union worker
whom Mentzer had discharged.
The examiners ruling, at least
by inference, disputes the conten-
ton of General Counsel Robert
Denham, who thinks that the "clos-
ed shop" is outlawed thruout the
industry, and who has
devised elaborate plans for NLRB
polls to authorize building trades
unions to bargain for the union
shop.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
NLRB Split On
tn Mandates

Washington (LPA)-If you find
yourself little concerned some
times as to what the Taft-Hart-
ley law means, don't get an in
lferiority complex about it. NLRB
Chairman Paul Herzog and General
Counsel Robert Denham can't
agree on what the law means eth
er.
Last week the NLRB heads ap-
peared before the Joint Labor
Management Relations Committee
to discuss proposed changes in the
Taft Hartley law and explain why
the board is so far behind in it's
work. But the main thing the Con-
gressmen were interested in was
the Herzog-Denham split on the
Question of whether or not the law
requires NLRB to handle labor dis
putes in every little business that
"affects" interstate commerce.
Herzog says no, because to do
so wouldn't "effectuate the policies
of the Act" and besides the board
has enough to do anyway.
Denham, on the other hand,
that the board is obli-
gated to take all cases that even
slightly bear on interstate COM
merce. He believes that the 1947
act was designed to "protect a
web of relations"-union-
union-employer, employ
er-employe and so the board
must take action on all cases with
in its jurisdiction, workload or no
Virtually all of the members of
the Joint Committee agree with
Herzog. In many cases this will
ingness to deemphasize Taft-Hart-
ley stems from the objections of
small, local businessmen as we'll
as unions to having the chaos-pro-
voking law injected into labor
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Delegates To 1948 Convention

The 1948 convention of the Ma.
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters will open in Atlantic City
on Monday, June %. The following
delegates have been chosen to rep
resent their respective Locals al
the convention:
Local Union 4-Casters- East
Liverpool, Drank Dales, Fred
J. Glenn, James B. Moss, Gus H.
Mautz.
Local Union 6 - Chinaware,
Wheeling, w. Va. = George w.
Frederick.
Local Union SANITARY, Tiffin,
O.-Walter Boneham, James B.
Baker, Earl Elchert, Kenneth Nor
rison.
Local Union 9IKilnmen, East
Liverpool, o. - Roy Broadbent,
Laurence Brown, Albert Dray, Ben
Jones.
Local Union 10 Turner's and
Handlers, East Liverpool, O.-Al-
fred Cartwright, Fred McGillivray.
Local Union 12-Jiggermen, East
Liverpool, o. - George Lanning,
William Duke, Ernest Terrence.
Local Union II Kilndrawers,
East Liverpool, o. - Charles Boso,
William ]. Cox.
Local Union 20 = Generalware,
O.-Harry T. Brady,
Charles Spurrier.
Local Union %, Mouldmakers,
East Liverpool, O.-Alfred Ferber.
Local Union "a Chinaware,
Wellsville, O.-Sam Lawton, Will
liam Robinson, Clyde Chrisman,
George Salsberry.
Local Union 25 Packers, East
Liverpool, o. = Erwin Crawford,
William Vaughn.
Local Union 29-Dishmakers,
East Liverpool, o.-Harry Brind-
ey.
{ Local Union 81. Generalware,
East Palestine, O.-Charles Cum
Donald Rafferty,, Russell
Biggins.
Local Union 33 = Chinaware,
Beaver Falls, Pa.-Leonard Greco,
Walter Hamilton, William Rose.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24

Local Union 35 - Chinaware
Trenton, N. FIRED Perdunn.
Local Union AZ Generalware
Salem, O.-P. X. Laughlin, Leona
Walters, John Ehrhart, William
Stark.
Local Union 44-Clay Workers,
Sebring, O.-Michael Conny, J. w.
Hamilton, Grace Foutz, Philip A.
Schroeder, Cecil McDaniels, Ches-
ter A. {Brunt.
Local Union 45-Sanitary, Tren-
ton, N. J.-Joseph Abrams, John
Cooper Jr., John Krecicki, George
Smith.
Local Union 50-Sanitary, Cam
den, N. j. - Robert Gresch, Law
renee Gerwatoski, Stanley Malpas.
Local Union 81 = Generalware,
Canonsburg, Pa.-John Mamrack,
Calvin Bixby, Wallace Green,
Charles Harris.
Local Union 53-Finishers, East
Liverpool, O.-Mattie McGill, Iona
Sproades.
Local Union 59-Kilnmen, Dip
pers, Saggermakers, Sebring, o.
Charles Newton, Thomas Stahl, Ed.
Barrett, Fred Booth, Frank Bueh-
Ter.
Local Union &c - Generalware,
Crooksville, o. - Lewis Wilson,
James Batstone.
Local Union 70-Minerva, Ohio
Abe Edwards, John Rourke, Mar
tha Cole, Sylvanus DeBee.
Local Union 76 - Chinaware,
Buffalo, N. Y.-Dorothy Donovan,
Edward Schuster.
Local Union 77-Sanitary, Man
aington, w. Va.-John Thorn, Rus
sell Fluharty, Hurchel Hibbs.
Local Union 86-Warehousemen,
East Liverpool, o. James Ward,
Laird Christian.
Local Union 94-Warehousewo-
nen, East Liverpool, o. - Grace
Hall. Mary McGown.
Local Union 80 - Chinaware,
Clarksburg, w. Va.-John Fazio,
Frye, David Bevan.
Local Union 102-Sanitary, Ford
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Officers Named
By New Local At
GAINESVILLE, Ohio

GAINESVILLE, Ohio-Although Lo-
cal Union No. 219 has been organ
lied since February 27, we have
had no story concerning their To-
cal.
This Proup is composed Of art
and novelty workers at the Shaw
nee Pottery Company, who was
organized early this year by Or
ganizers Phil Tracey and Joe Muir
ray.
Officers elected are as follows
Virgil Lutgen, president; Emmett
Wilkinson, vice president; Ray
Schilling, financial secretary; Har-
old Hunter, recording secretary;
Russell Murray, Gerald Root and
Dorothy Pendley, trustees; Alfred
Arnold, defense collector. Shop
committee members are Dewey
Lee, mould room; Donald Veyon,
casting department; Harold Will
son, shipping room; Carl MeGee,
kilnshed; Dorothy Pendley, finish
ing department.
At a meeting held April 21 in
the Council Chamber the new con-
tract was read by Mr.. Dunlap and
Mr.. Tracey. Each topic was dis
cussed and fully explained. 1t was
voted on by the members and ac-
cepted. The effective date was
April 29.
We hope this local will become
very active in the organization
0. C. PIG.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Railroad Unions
Wait New Move
Bv Government

Washington (LPA)-Three "op-
Grating" Railroad Brotherhoods -
which carried their prolonged
wage-rules battle to Capitol Hill
last week-awaited a new govern
ment move this week to settle the
dispute.
Earlier, at hearings before a
subcommittee of the Senate Labor
Committee, presidents of the three
unions declared that President Tru-
man is largely to blame for the
deadlock in their controversy.
Truman, they said, directed that
any settlement could not go beyond
the framework of recommendations
made by Presidential Emergency
Board-which the unions had ear
lier rejected as inadequate.
President D. B. Robertson of the
Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men declared. at was made very
clear to US during our meetings
with DR.. Steebnan (presidentisl rs
sistant who tried to conciliate the
dispute) that his mediatory efforts
had been circumscribed by the
President to the extent that any
agreement reached must be within
the confines of the Emergency
Board report"
Grand Chief Alvanley Johnston
of the Locomotive Engineers and
President A. j. Glover of the
Switchmen backed up Robertson's
charges. "a settlement could have
been made except for the attitude
of President Truman" Glover said.
he chargegd that while the Rail-
way Labor Act makes it volun-
tary matter for either side to ac-
cept or reject Emergency Board
findings, Truman was trying to
convert that law into Compulsory
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
]. G. Bongiovanni
Joins Staff OF
Knowles China Co.

The Edwin NJ. Knowles China
Co., announced this week John c.
Bongioyanni Of Sewickley, Pa, has
joined the concern as mechanical
engineer.
Frederick P. Lawrence, presi-
dent, said Mr.. Bongiovanni will
handle design of special mechanic
al production equipment and su-
pervise construction and mainten-
ance throughout the Newell plant.
He is a graduate Of Carnegie
Tech and has an extensive back
ground in the field of mechanical
engineering and design, both in
light and heavy equipment.
He has been associated in ma
jor engineering capacity with such
industrial organizations as the
Aluminium Seal Co., the Aluminium
Company Of America, the United
Engineering & Foundry Co., and
Blaw-Knox, Inc, and also conduct
ed his own mechanical engineering
and design business in which he
served as special consultant to
many industrial concerns.
He replaces Maxon H. King, who
has succeeded the late Walter H.
Emerson at the Homer Laughlin
China Co.
Mr.. Bongiovanni's wife and two
sons will reside in Sewickley until
he can arrange for residence here.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Sterling China Co.
Announces Plans
To Expand Plant

Officials of the Sterling China
Co., at Wellsville have announced
plans for construction of a plant
addition that will be used princi-
pally for decorating shop and
warehouse facilities, along with
some increase in clayshop space.
Plans call for building of brick,
steel and concrete construction.
The major portion will be one
story and part will have two floors.
1t will add 10000 square feet of
floor space.
The addition will be erected on
the 18th st. side of the present
plant. The Potters Lumber Co.
holds the general contract.
Completion is expected in early
September. Because of the nature
of the operations for which the
addition will be used, no appre-
ciable increase in output is expect
ed, the firm said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Local Union 70 Eniovs'
Visit By Pres. Duffy;
Rourke Elected Pres.

Minerva, Ohio-President James
Nj. Duffy visited with Local No. 70
membership at their last regular
meeting. AS usual he gave fine
talk, touching on many subjects
and trade problems. He answered
many questions to everybody's sat
isfaction. His wise counsel is GER
tainly appreciated. We all feel bet
ter for his visit. We trust that he
and other members of the Execu-
tive Board can find time to drop in
on us at anytime, "tain't to fer out
here" and our welcome mat is
always out.
The following officers were elect
ed for the second six months of
1913: John Rourke, president; Mar
tha Cole, vice president; Francis L.
Reed, financial secretary-treasurer;
Abe Edwards, recording secretary;
James Miller inspector; William
Hackathorne, guard; Sylvanus De-
Bee, statistician; Arthur Hines,
trustee, Is months; Leona McMul-
len, defense secretary.
Minerva was we'll represented at
the picnic and everybody had a fine
time. The Picnic Committee did
fine job and rates a vote of thanks.
But to the weather man, we'll it's
best to leave it unSaid.
We are saddened by the deaths
of Sister Maud Peron and Brother
Milton Clay Brothers. Local Union
No. 70 members express their sin
cere sympathy to the bereaved
families in their sorrow.-O. C. 70.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Eier Co. Grants
Zoe Wage Boost

Ford City, Pa.-The Eljer Com
pany granted a ten cent an hour
wage increase to members of Lo-
cal No. 102. Adjustments were
granted on inequities in some
parts of the shop, a modified va
cation clause in the contract was
granted.
The firm has recently installed
a new shower and locker room.
We are very thankful for this ad-
dition and grateful to the firm.
We are sorry to report the death
of our very good friend and broth
er, Bert Axton who was known by
many throughout the trade. He
was II years of age and had been
employed by the Eljer Company
for over 27 years.-O.C. 102.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
UAW Wins Annua.
Wage Guarantee
In First Plant

Detroit (LPA)-The first guar
anteed annual wage contract sign
ed in the auto industry was an
nounced last week by Local 174 of
the United Auto Workers with
Metal Molding Co. The contract
guarantees all workers with 10
years seniority a minimum of SO
weeks of work year.
The guarantee will affect more
than 100 of the 425 workers at the
plant. In addition, the 10-year
group won three weeks paid vaca-
ton, and an across the board pay
boost of 1870 was won by the
UAW.
Meanwhile, charges and counter
charges were exchanged as nego-
tiations by the UAW on behalf of
10000 employees of Ford Motor
Co., entered their second week. The
debate centered around the Taft
Hartley union shop. election for
Ford workers, subject entirely
outside the scope of current bar
gaining.
Ford's current contract grants
the union shop until July 1949 if
the UAW wins the union shop cleo
tion. Under the TIL law, any work
ers not voting are counted as
against the union. Ford first in
sisted the election not be held on
company property. Then, the Ford
officials stalled. "Since the COM
pany finds it so difficult to decide
whether it believes in democratic
elections or not" said UAW Ford
director Ken Bannon, "we have
solved the problem for them by
asking the NLRB to proceed with
the election off company property"
Two more 13c-an-hour wage
boosts were chalked up to the
JAWS list last week. WHY'S Over
land Motors granted a 13c wage in
crease to it's 5000 production work
ers, and Hudson Motor Co., grant
ed 13c an hour to $1,000 UAW
workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Woge Boost For
Members of 7H

Metuchen, N. j. A ten cent gen.
eral increase across the board was
Asecured by Local No. TIA mem
|bership from the Richmond Radi-
ator Company.
Representing the local were
First Vice President E. L. Wheat
ley, Michael Smalley, John Mo-
zolic and John Sommers. Repre-
sentatives for the firm were Plant
Manager H. R. Smith, Mr.. T. Vol
dez and Mr.. T. Clark.
August IA, has been set as the
date for the annual clambake. John
Mozolic was elected chairman, as
sisted by George Bondics, John
Kerstan and Etephen Madger, gen.
eral foreman of the plant.
Many will miss Brother Benito
Palemeri, caster on the loop, who
recently passed away.-O. C. 174.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
Maritime Unions
Will Not Strike
Under Injunction

Washington (LPA) - Temper
ary restraining orders preventing
a strike or lockout in the mari
time industry were issued by fed
eral courts ip New York, San Fran
cisco and Chicago last week after
a Presidential fact-finding boarG
reported that the threat of a ship.
ping tie-up was caused by the
Taft Hartley law,
President Joseph Curran anC
five other officers of the Nat'l
Maritime Union sent kilograms to
all ships directing them to obey
the orders. This was after Paul
Palazzi, of the Communist caucas
in the union, sent kilograms to all
ships in New York port saying,
"The only thing that will stop us
(from striking) is an acceptable
contract"
"That's lie," Curran replied.
"Pallazi had no authority to make
such a statement" The Daily
Worker has called for strike soli-
darity not only among American
seamen but also French, British,
Latin American and other lockers.
In letter to the editor of the Sea-
farer's Log, member of the Sea-
farer's Int'l Union-AFL said that
in the event of an NMU strike,
1--WE shall do as we have always
done in the past, respect their pic
ket lines. That and no more" STU
is holding out for the hiring hall
in it's own coming contracts.
The MINUS officers telegra.. +,
while informing the members of
the Importance of complying with
the law, pointed out that the re-
order "serves the ship
owners who have refused to bar
gain in good faith"
"Our compliance with the re-
straining order," it added, "does
not nullify our strike vote. It's ap-
plication is delayed only until the
union is free to move" 1t urged
the membership to maintain strike
and "show that this
strike breaking order will not be
permitted to interfere with our
union" The courts which issued
the orders will hold hearings this
week to determine whether to is
sue injunction for an 80-day cool
ing off period under the Taft-Hart-
ey Act.
The finding board, appoint
I'd by President Truman under the
provisions section of
he Taft-Hartley Act, explained
hat the threatened strike was not
IN ordinary one but was brought
IN by the insistence of the ship
'wners that the hiring hall is a
'iolation of TIL. "If the status quo
an be continued" said the report,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
|NLRB' S Face
Is Very Red

Washington (LPA) - AS he
most certainly should have, NLRB
Chairman Paul Herzog apologized
last week to the Oil Workers Int'l
Union-CIO for a board decision.
OWIU asked the board to certify
it, rather than any one local, for
a group of travelling oil workers.
The NLRB denied the petition and
in a press release accused OWIU of
fronting" for its Local 1913 which
had not complied with the nom
Communist affidavits section of
Taft Hartley.
A couple of days after the deci-
sion was released it was learned
that the board had itself certified
Local 1913 as bargaining agent for
six groups of workers. Obviously
the local had filed the Communist
disclaimers, and the international
was not fronting for it in the board
case.
llCIZoS IOlu VIC CoiiS Cooioiidi
Joint Committee on Labor Manage
ment Relations that the boards de-
cision in the case of the 81 Lane
Wells Co., employees is "good law"
but that it should not have been
applied to this case. 81 want to
state so that all may know it, that
the OWIU was not fronting for a
non-complying local." Herzog said,
and blamed the error on the heavy
work load of the board, which re-
suited in it's failure to check prop
erly with its own certifications sec
ton.
Despite efforts of pro-union Rep.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-06-24
NOTICE

Local Union No. 81 will not have
their regular meeting of July 2.
Next meeting will be held July 16.
Order of President.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-09-02

4. We stond for the segregation Of the
races ond the roeioi integrity Of each race;
the constitutional right to choose ones os-
societies; to oceept private employment With
out governmental interference, and to eorn
ones living in any lawful woy. We or pose
the elimination Of segregation, the repe1 u Of
miscesenotion statutes, the control Of pr.yote
employment by federal bureouerots called
for by the misnomed civil rights prog son,.
We fcvor home rule, local self-sovernr,ent
and q minimum interference with individual
rights.
5. We oppose ond condemn the action
OF the Democratic convention in sponsoring
q civil rights prosrom eollins for the e imi-
motion Of segregation, socioI equoIity by
federai fiot. regulations Of privcts employ
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-09-02

8. We demond thof there be returned TO
the people. to whom OF right they belong.
those powers needed for the preservation Of
humon rights and the discharge Of our re-
sponsibility as democrats for human vel
fare. We oppose q denioI Of those by political
parties, q barter or sole Of those rights by
o political convention. as we'll as any in
weston or violation Of those rights BY the
federal government.
We coll upon oil Democrats and upon
oil other Ioyoi Americans who ore opposed
TO totoliforionism at home ond obTood to
unite with US in isnominiousIy defeating
Horny S. Trumon and Thomos G. Dewey. and
every other candidate for public office who
would establish q police stote in The United
Stotes Of America.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-09-02

ment.
s. We affirm thot the effeet.ve enforce
ment of such a program would be utterly
destructive of the social. economic and po-
liticol life of the Southern pee Die, and OF
other Localities in which there tioy be diff
f~erenees in roce, creed or notior al origin In
uppreciobIe numbers.
7. We stond for the check end bolonees
provided by the three departments Of our
government. We oppose the usurpotion OF
legislative functions by the executive and
Judicial departments. We unreservedly con-
denim fhe effort to establish nationwide
q police stote in this Republic thst would
destroy the last vestise Of liberty enjoyed BY
. citizen.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-09-02

I. We believe that the Constitution Of the
United Stotes is the greatest cherter Of
humon liberty ever conceived by the mind
Of man.
z. We oppose oil efforts to invode Or de-
stroy the rights vouehsofed BY il to every
citizen Of this republic.
3. We stond for sociol and economic JUS
tiee, which, we believe, con be vouehsofed
to oil citizens only by a strict adherence to
our Constitution ond the avoidance Of any
invasion or destruction Of the constitutional
rights Of the stotes and individuals. We OPP
pose the totoIitoFian. eenfrolixed. bureau
erotic government and the police state eolIed
for by the plotforms adopted by the Demo-
esetis and Republican conventions.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-09-02

Stotss' Rights Democrats are fighting for a FREE AMERICA - fight
ing for your rights TO local self government - the basis Of true de-
mocraeyl
The imposition Of q vicious FEPc will destroy our inherent right to
live and work a. we choose. Under FEPc on employer could not
choose his employees. an employee could not choose his associates.
This tuonnieoI federol bureau would create q police stote in America.
ALL FREEDOM LOVING AMERICANS MUST JOIN NOW IN THE
FIGHT AGAINST THIS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY INDIVIDUAL
LIBERTY! TOMORROW MAY BE TOO LATE!
Your efforts. your energy and your money ore needed. Back up
Governor Thurmond end Governor Wright with oil the resources at
your commend. They are fighting for YOUR individual liberties and
the RIGHT Of YOUR state to monoge its own Internal offoirs!
THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. IT MUST BE PRESERVED!
Arizona sun., 1948-04-02
Easy Method to Build
Poultry or Play House

IN RESPONSE to many who
L have requested information
that would simplify building a
small, general purpose backyard
house, I designed the unit illus
trated herewith.
It can be built 4 feet by feet, feet
by 8 feet, 8 feet by Il feet, or any num-
ber of additional 4-foot length units. To
conserve lumber, its outside sheathing
consists of non-critica1 asbestos and ce.
ment board. available at your local luna.
ber yard.
Patterns are supplied for cutting the
angles Of each piece Of lumber. User
merely cuts lumber according to length
each pattern piece indicates, saws and
assemblies. The platform, back. front and
sides are first built as Individual sections,
then nailed together. Complete list of ma.
terials, step by step Instructions, num-
bered assembly illustrations included.
Send so cents for Pattern No. 81 70
Easi-Built Pattern Co., Dept. w. Pleasant
vile, N. Y.