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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Musicians HuiI
Green's S Coll
To End Leo Act

Cincinnati (ILNS). - James C,
Petrillo and the other delegates of
the American Federation of Mus
icians to the AFL convention here
hailed the demand of AFL Presi-
dent William Green for abolition of
the Lea "anti-Petrillo" act and his
listing of the laws repeal on the
AFL legislative program.
Green told the convention that
Lea Act is "as obnoxious in the
field of radio as the Taft Hartley
Act is in industry generally" The
Lea Act is a law directed at one
man and is almost unique in the
American legislative annals. 1t is a
direct infringement Of the bargain
ing rights the musicians union
in the radio industry, the union
charges.
The musicians president and
delegation were cordially received
by Secretary of Labor Maurice
Tobin in his suite Immediately
after the secretary's address to the
convention at the opening session.
Earlier in the day Petrillo was the
first "big noise" of the convention
when he made a surprise early
morning appearance in front of a
convention hotel leading a 30-piece
band in Happy Days Are Here
Again"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
CONTENTS OF NEW RENT
CONTROL LAW PENDING

Washington (LPA)-Union Of
ficials here look with considerable
skepticism at the proposals of
Housing Expediter Tighe Woods
for Strengthening" the present
rent control law. Woods, in widely
publicized statements, has outlined
how he would like to see the law
drafted to replace the present one
expiring March 81, 1949.
Both the CIO and the Int'l Asso-
citation of Machinists have in the
past demanded Woods removal for
actions favoring landlords and the
real estate lobby. AFL officials
have also had run-ins with Woods.
Their charges were strengthened
last week when Woods made an
unscheduled appearance on the
speakers platform at a dinner in
connection with the convention of
the Natl Association of Real
Estate Boards. He made friendly
speech, in which he explained he
had just stopped in to visit as a
rank-and-file m m ber of the
NAREB.
Woods Strengthening" propos-
ais, as he has announced them to
the press, will go to President
Truman some time around Dec. l.
While on the surface they contain
several points that the unions
fought to have included in the
1948 rent control bill, they leave
the same power in the hands of
local advisory boards as at pre-.
sent, and they would allow further
voluntary" 1870 rent boosts to
landlords in exchange for leases
running thru 1850.
So far, under the 1947 and 1913
versions of rent control, 100000
tenants have had their rents auto
matically boosted 1879 in exchange
for leases. The number this year
has been very small, probably be-
cause landlords were counting on
a Republican-controlled Congress
which would scrap all rent curbs
when the present law expires. At
present, there are 13,700,000 rental
units under control, and a good
many of these-no one is sure how
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
AL Applduds European
Union Leaders Speeches

Cincinnati (LPA)-The largest
and hardest hitting group of fra
ternal delegates ever to address al
American trade union gathering
was cheered by delegates to the
AFL convention last week.
In introducing them, President
William Green reminded the con-
vention that the AFL has, during
and since World War III, contribut-
ed over $160,000,0O0 to the recon
struction of free and democratic
trade union movements in other
lands. Most of this money has gone
to the war-ravished European con.
| tinent.
Green assured the European re-
representatives. that "our interest in
your welfare is not superficial,
and promised that the AFL will
continue to assist them in beating
off Communist attacks.
Markus Schleicher, president OF
the zonal council Of the unions in
the American zone of Germany
described the difficulties which the
German unionists have had to over
come in their struggle to rebuild
the free labor movement which
Hitler destroyed.
He warned against giving Ger
man employers a free hand in the
rebuilding Of the German economy
"The German trade unions whole
heartedly recognize the necessity
for the Marshall plan," Schleicher
declared, but we cannot assume
responsibility for. the success of
the plan unless we are granted re-
sponsible participation in the Ger
man economy and in the execution
of the Marshall plan"
From Berlin itself, Ernst Schar-
Inowski, leader of the UGO-the
democratic union movement of the
beleagred city-said:
at is welcome duty to thank
the American people for that great
democratic action, the airlift."
Scharnowski warned against any
compromise with the Soviets which
might result in the eventual loss of
freedom for the Berliners.
Austrian labor was represented
by Trade Union Federation execu-
tive council member Franz Olah.
Like the German delegates, Olah
expressed the gratitude of his
countrymen for CARE packages
that the AFL has sent to needy
trade unionists.
Answering Communist attacks
upon the Austrian unions because
of their support Of the Marshall
plan, Olah said;
"These observation-disclosures, who
have never been permitted by their
masters to think freely and indie
pendently will not succeed in bring
ing about the slightest change in
our position.
eve know that the Marshall plan
is not a device of American capt.
alists but action by the entire Am
erican people"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Canadian Commies Problem

Cincinnati (LPA)-The problem
of Communist infltration of the
Canadian Trades e. Labor Council
was explored last week by the
AFL's Executive Council and IA
committee of Canadian members
of unions affiliated with the AFL,
Demand for showdown with
CTLC was made by President Geo
rye Harrison of the Railway
Clerks, whose Canadian affiliates
were for some time suspended by
the CTLC for supporting an anti
Communist seamen's union. Repre-
sentation in CTLC is not, as in the
AFL and ClO in the US, based on
intemationals, but on local unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
AEL Cheers tn
Continued From Page One)

taxes, for increased social security
benefits and extension of social in
surance to millions of persons moi
now covered, for a minimum wage
of at least 75c an hour, for streng-
thening the Labor Dept for soil
conservation and support of farm
prices.
81 am sure your voice-the voice
of labor-will be a potent factor in
enacting that program"
Tobin called the union movement
"a greater force for democracy and
the advancement Of human welfare
than ut any time in its history"
collective bargaining made it
possible for the organized wage
Garner to keep his own income, and
that of other workers as well, from
falling hopelessly behind the cost
of living"
In closing, Tobin said:
81 give you my pledge of honor
that | will;
81. Work increasingly to restore
the Department to its rightful and
full strength as the voice of the
wage earners in the government.
"2. Consult the leaders Of organ
lied labor on all major policy is
sues, both legislative and admins
trative.
"3. Continue to develop in the
Department a program to foster
and improve free collective bar
gaining and to protect and advance
the rights and the welfare of the
millions of American men and
women who work for wages"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Denhan, Fights On
Despite Election

Washington (LPA)-Some poll
ticians and government officials
may have "repented" of their anti
union prejudices since Nov. Us cleo
ton returns were published, but
not so Robert N. Denham, indomit-
able general counsel of the NLRB
chief enforcement officer of the
Taft Hartley law.
Denham proclaimed last week
that so long as TIL is on the sta
tute books he'll go on enforcing it
"as if nothing had happened"
81 am still general counsel and |
will be until the law is changed" J"
the 63-year-old official declared.
"Nobody has asked me for my re-
signation yet"
A number of union leaders are
known to have suggested to the
White House that Denham be re-
moved. Under the law as it stands,
however, the old scold has a four
year term of office.
Denham says that he himself has
some ideas about how Taft Hartley
ought to be changed, but he COM
planned, nobody has asked me for
them so far"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Eusfmon Worms
.AFL PorIey Of
Soviet Menace

Cincinnati (LPA)-In a speech
that brought AFL convention dele
gates to their feet several times,
spokesman for the New Leader,
liberal publication, called for a
more forceful US policy toward
Soviet aggression. The speaker was
Max Eastman, the author, who
cheerfully admitted at the opening
of his talk that "in my PALMER
days in the revolutionary Socialist
movement | used to think up new
ways of insulting this organiza-
tion."
Eastman repeatedly a t t a k ke d
what he called the US's bipartisan
no-foreign policy. In its place, he
proposed recognition of these. three
facts about the nature of the Sow
let policy:
l." Stains totalitarian state is
not an approximation to, or some
thing like, or in some respects COM
parable to Hitler's. 1t is the same
thing only more ruthless, more
cold -blooded, more astute, more ex-
treme in its economic policies, more
explicitly committed to world con-
quest, and more dangerous to dem
ocracy and civilized morals"
2-"The heads Of this slave-driv-
ing police state are fanatically de-
termined to seize power thruout
the world and make over all human
society in the image of their state.
3-"There will be no peace in
the world so long as the Stain
regime survives in Moscow"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
SOLIDARITY FOREVER

BlackpooI, England (LPA) - A
delegate to the British Woodwork
ers Union convention last week told
this story. The secretary of a un-
ion branch was out so late one
night on union business that he
stayed over at the home of another
craftsman His suspicious wife
wrote each of the thirty members
of the branch asking if her hus-
band had stayed with him. She en-
closed a stamped postal card with
her query. All thirty members re-
piled. They all said Eyes"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
New Hospital Union
Stands Its Ground

Detroit (BPA)-Picket lines of
the newly-organized Hospital En-
ployes Union-AFh, comprising ser
vice and maintenance staff, held
firm about Harper Hospital last
week despite minor flare-ups,
threats and the absolute refusal by
directors to meet either the union
or an independent body of investi-
gators.
Strikers have made no attempt
to bar from entering Harper's
nurses, internes and physicians who
continue to operate the hospital,
but at a much reduced efficiency.
Union help has been extended in
supply deliveries and emergency
service.
The strike, first of its kind in the
Detroit area, was called over the
hospital heads failure to deal with
the union, which is seeking recogni-
ton, hiring hall for non-profess-
ional employees, and pay increases.
Wages to employees range from $25
to $33 weekly, with some workers
getting as low as 800 per month.
Four pickets have been arrested
and released thus far by police.
Meanwhile, AFL leaders have pro-
tested against "police brutality"
Floyd Loew, AFL organizer for
the new union, terms primitive"
and "obsolete" the attitudes of DR..
II. Dwight Barnett, hospital direc-
tor, and Oscar Webber, president of
the board of trustees, who in public
statements asserted:
"We are opposed to unionization
Of hospitals and will not see this
done at Harper We are taking this
position because unionization would
set a pattern for other hospitals"
Earlier, the two flatly rejected
the suggestions of a fact-finding
committee appointed by Lieut.. Gov.
Eugene c. Keyes to aid in settling
the dispute.
Webber told the committee that
he would not agree to a State La
Dor Mediation Board election and
added that the hospital would not
recognize the results Of such an
election even if it were held.
Discounting claims by DR.. Bar
nett that the hospital is function
ing at almost its usual efficiency,
several pickets commented that
inside things are far from smooth.
A few doctors have already told US
that they're hoping for a quick set
Element" Strikers have been mott
fled by mail that their names have
been taken from the hospital pay
roll.
Sympathetic AFL and CIO locals |
are supporting the strike with con-
No dues have been col
lected from the members in the six
the union has been organ
lied.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Gray Sees Victory
lover Real Estate
Lobby In Congress

Cincinnati (LPA) - America S
housing problem is still just about
as grave now as it was when the
war ended, President Richard j.
Gray of the AFL Building Trades
Department told over 200 delegates
at the departments annual conven-
tion in this city.
"We need from 10 to 15 million
homes just to meet the current
housing shortage" Gray said. "Yet,
this year new permanent dwelling
units put in place will number only
about 950,000," he said. "And a
preponderant portion of the new
houses are still coming on the mar
ket at prices which put them COM
pletely out of the reach of millions
of the moderate and low-income
families in need of housing.
every few of the new houses are
being built for rent. Trailer towns
and tent towns still dot the coun-
try, and millions of families con-
tinue to live in dangerous, sub
standard houses"
The Taft Ellender- Wagner long
range housing bill, while it fell
short of AFL recommendations,
would have gone long way toward
providing needed housing, particu-
larly for those in the lower
brackets, but it was blocked by the
real estate lobby, Gray pointed out.
81 believe we have a good chance
of passing that bill in the coming
year," Gray added. "The Depart
ment will join in the demand that
the 81st Congress, as soon as it
meets, enact a broad, long-term
housing program, including provis-
ions for public housing and slum
clearance"
Gray also cited the fact that in
flationary prices are threatening to
bog down building construction.
"There is an enormous demand for
building of all kinds, private and
public, but whether that demand
will be effective depends in large
part on what happens to prices"
he said.
The Building Trades leader also
denounced as false the propaganda
blaming high construction prices on
workers wages. Wages of building
trades workers, he said, have in
creased less than the cost of living.
In July, Gray explained, average
earnings of building tradesmen on
Federal construction amounted to
only S241, or less than $50 week.
''At that rate, if they worked
every week in the year-which they
do not-they would still not earn
enough to, keep family of four at
a modest but adequate level" he
said.
Gray also delivered slashing
attack on the Taft Hartley Act for
disrupting long established rela-
tions in the building industry More
Taft-Hartley injunctions have been
issued against building trades un-
ions than in any other industry,
he declared.
Also, the act has weakened the
power of the unions to maintain
"union shop" conditions; it has
opened the door to "open shop"
contractors, and it has given a
"green light" to employers to use
low-wage employees outside of the
building industry on construction
jobs, Gray asserted.
Gray also pledged the Building
Trades unions behind a battle to
restore to the Labor Department
all agencies which have been strip
ped from it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

be subject to the
1870 increase.
Two of the Housing Expediter's
proposals will certainly be includ-
ed in labor proposals for a new
law. They would allow the federal
government to sue landlords for
triple damages. where extra charges
have been paid by tenant over
the legal ceiling rent. At present,
only tenants can sue, and in many
cases they're unwilling because
they'll be subject to all sorts of re-
taliations by the landlord even if
they win the triple damages.
The Housing Expediter is also
proposing that controls over evic-
tions be Notwithstanding for
which labor spokesmen fought hard
when the late and unlamented
S0th Congress shot holes in the
law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Wallace Porfy
(COnfinaed From Page One)

Hugh Bryson, president of the
Marine Cooks and Stewards; James
the Progressive meeting included
Durkin, president Of the United
Office and Professional Workers
Joseph Selly, president Of the Food
Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
John Clark, president of the Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers; Charles
Collins, Hotel and Restaurant
Workers; Ewart Gunier, United
Public Workers and Russ Nixon
Legislative director, United Elec-
trical and Machine Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
Labor Aid Urged
Continued From PAGE One)

Continued From Page One)
lnteramerican Confederation of La
Dor addressed the delegates il
Spanish. His remarks We're then
repeated in English translation by
Secretary-treasurer George Meany
Ibanez told of the plight of de
mocratic forces in Peru, where la
Dor and socialist leaders are in
danger of their lives if they come
out of hiding, after a recent revolt
led to an ra-conservative group
coming to power. He urged the
Federation to "send it's expression
of fraternal solidarity" publicly to
the Confederation Of Labor in Peru.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

Nylon Stockings, plentiful in all
stores, are now beginning to show
lower price tags. Only "big-name"
brand cut at retail is Gotham's
Gold Stripe, cut just last week
from $3.50 to $1.95 a pair for Sd
gauge, Is denier stockings. Care
full buyers will find similar lower
prices in the less-familiar names.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

You can give a man a necktie but
you can't make him wear it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25
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Thanksgiving

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-11-25

Demand the Union Label.
Evening star., 1948-08-26

of the II acres Of park surround
ing his hotel. He said no, but he
changed that to yes the next day
when they punctuated the request
with $500.
What followed astounded even
Halle Selassie's major domo. Men
came in with picks and shovels and
dug trenches. Other men, local
Greeks, Syrians and Armenians.
came in dressed in Italian uniforms.
A couple of tanks rumbled in. Then
came detachment of real Ethiopian
soldiers, probably picked up from
the better bistros.
Everybody had rifles, and they
got in the trenches and started
shooting. Fortunately, nothing but
noise came out of the rifles, but
there was smoke and there were
photographers and newsreel men
running around like mad. The cor
respondents had manufactured their
own war.
After that 1t got hotter. The
Ethiopians burned Adds Ababa to
keep 1t from the Italians. Up in
smoke went Mr. Faller's hotel and
night club. Halle Selassie had fled
the city. Mr.. Faller made one come
back attempt by tossing together
all the broken and charred chairs
Evening star., 1948-08-26
AHIee Rejects Plan
For Europe Assembly
BY the Associoted Press

LONDON, Aug. 26. = Winston
Churchill released for publication
yesterday a recent exchange of let
ters in which he proposed and
Prime Minister Attlee rejected Gre
alton of a European assembly at
this time.
Setting forth the Labor Govern
|ment's attitude. Mr., Attlee wrote
the former Prime Minister that
no action could be taken until after
discussion with other nations in the
British commonwealth.
The Attlee letter, dated July 30,
also said
Il think that this is not the
right time for governments to take
this major initiative, when their
hands are so full already with ur-
gent and difficult problems.
Mr.. Churchill, one of the or
sanizers of the movement for a
United States of Europe. had recon-
mended the assembly to Mr.. Attlee.
1t would he said, represent an
important practical step in the ad-
vance towards united Europe, and
would greatly help to create a sense
Of solidarity among the European
Evening star., 1948-08-26

and tables he could find in the city
for makeshift restaurant.
Bailed Out by Swiss.
Soon the Italians arrested him
and held him without food for IL
days, until Swiss authorities bailed
him out. After stopover in Buenos
Aires, he came to this country in
1887 and headed kitchens in several
cities.
During stretch in the Army his
duties included feeding the COM
panding general of training camp.
He was alerted to go overseas three
times, but each time the general.
still hungry. interviewed.
Halle Selassie is back on his
throne. hankering to nibble on some
more of those five-course dinners of
lamb chops, ham steak, roast veal
with sour cream gravy and SQUAD.
But Mr.. Faller isn't going back
just yet. One reason is that he is
interested in the new plan at the
Harrington whereby all employees
share one-half of the net profits
OF the business. The plan was insti-
tuted by r. V. Bryce, the hotel man
ager.
The chef also wants to finish a
second book on his experiences with
the Ethiopian Emperor, and it would
seem he will get that done much
more expeditiously here than over
there.
Mexico now has silver coin
hOarderS
Evening star., 1948-08-26
Former jap Minister
Sentenced to Z Years

bV me NsSotIuFed FTeSS
TOKYO, Aug. 26.-Takeo Yanaka.
former japanese transportation min
lister, was sentenced today to two
years in prison and fined 100000 yen
ts2,592) for running black market
restaurant.
Yanaka's assistant in running an
exclusive place drew a year in prison.
Yanaka was in the Shidehara
cabinet early in 1916, but was
purged as an ultranationalist.
Evening star., 1948-08-26

peoples in the face of the increasing
dangers which beset them"
After the French government
came out publicly in support of the
assembly, Mr.. Churchill again wrote
Mr.. Attlee on August 81 "in the
hopes that events in Europe might
win a more favorable reply,"
Evening star., 1948-08-26

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