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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Typos Plan Big
Celebration OF
Tooth Birthday

New York City QLNS) S).-Initial
activities are under way by New
York Typographical Union No. 6
to celebrate its Tooth anniversary
during the week Of May to IA,
1850.
For the present, Frank Barrett,
president Of Big Six, and his asso-
ciate officers, have created a cover
all committee which is empowered
to work out plans commensurate
with the objective visualized.
The personnel of the committee
and their departments are: Charles
j. Felten, general chairman; VIII
liam Talbot, cochairman; Thomas
Bennett, Oldtimers'; Fred Bechtold,
machinists' branch; Blair Leeds,
finance; Frank A. Manley, bowling
tournaments; William c. McGill,
reception; Louis Rubin, publicity;
Sidney Lerman, ball and entertain
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Higher Minimums
TO Boost Wages
In Two States

Washington, D. c. NLNS). -
Many workers in the important in
dustrial states Of Massachusetts
and New Hampshire will benefit
from laws recently passed in these
states setting a statutory minimum
wage rate, the U. S. Department
Of Labor notes. The Massachusetts
act sets a minimum wage Of 65
cents and the New Hampshire act
a minimum Of so cents.
Both Massachusetts and New
Hampshire already had minimum
wage laws under which boards
were authorized to set wages in
various industries. In Massachu-
sets, this act applied to men,
women and minors; in New Hamp-
shire, to women and minors only.
The new Massachusetts law esta-
blishes minimum wage Of G5
cents an hour unless a lower rate
has been set or may be set under
wage board procedure and approv-
ed by the commissioner of labor
and industries. The act specifically
states, however, that no wage rate
IN effect at the time the new act
was passed may be reduced because
of the passage Of the act. All oc-
cupations are covered by the Mass
achusetts law, with the exception
Of farm and domestic service.
The 1949 New Hampshire act,
applicable to most occupations, sets
a minimum wage of so cents an
hour for men, women and minors,
except that 35 cents an hour may
be paid if authorized by the com
missioner Of labor in the case of
persons with less than 6 months
experience in an occupation or a
person who is physically or ment-
ally handicapped.
The act also directs the commits
sioner Of labor to readjust min
imum wages for women and minors
under wage orders already in ex-
lstence, to make them consistent
with the new act. Employees en-
gagged in household or domestic
labor, farm labor, summer camps
for minors, restaurants, hotels, or
in work as outside statesmen are
exempted from the act. Employees
by the provisions of the
federal wage-hour act are also ex-
empted.
Bills relating to minimum wage
applying to all workers
we're introduced this year by about
lalf Of the states meeting in legis-
ative session, the Labor Depart
nent says. A number Of these
states proposed measures modelled
IN the federal wage-hour act, set
ing a statutory minimum wage,
overtime pay, ard pro-
riding for wage boards.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Govt Will Prove
Bridges Member
Communist Party

San Francisco (LPA)-The gov
|ernment will prove that for many
years Australian-born Harry
Bridges "was an active, energetic,
dues-paying member of the Com
munist Party or the United
States" the Bridges trial jury was
told. The government charges
Bridges perjured himself by deny
ing he was a Communist when he
applied for US citizenship. Bridges
heads the left-wing Init. Long
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union-CIO.
Robert McMillin, the government
attorney, also told the jury the
government will prove Bridges
conspired with j. r. Robertson and
Harry Schmidt because W n
Bridges became a citizen Sept. IT.,
1945, he swore he was not a Com
munist, and the other two support
ed his testimony. The two, also
ILWU officials, are on trial with
Bridges. Mcmillan said Bridges
Joined the Communist Party in
1888 or 1884 as Harry Dorgan."
Vincent Hallinan, defense coun-
sci, said What | am going to show
is that there exists a conspiracy to
swear to a falsehood-namely, that
Bridges is a Communist.
"If there is a conspiracy with
125 witnesses, it is a mighty big
conspiracy" US Judge George B.
Harris commented.
Bridges led the floor-fght for
the Communist-line unions at the
recent CIO convention, and has re-
peatedly changed his policies when
the Communists changed theirs. In
June 1941, after Hitler's armies
invaded the Soviet Union, Bridges
became an allout support
er of the Allied cause, although
during the period of the Soviet
Nazi pact he had been saying that
World War Ii was none of Amer
ica'S business.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
lndustriaIists
Blamed For Smog
By Govt Scientist

Pasadena, Calf. UPA)-Selfisf
industrialists are largely to blame
for the smog that hangs like a pal
over many an American city and
sometimes swoops to kill as it did
in Donora, Pa, a year ago, DR.
Louis McCabe Of the Us Bureau
Of Mines told the first national Air
Pollution Symposium.
Sharing the blame with indus
trial interests who believed that
air pollution control cost too much
are public officials who mis-man-
age the issue and the general pub
lie whose enthusiasm is frequently
misguided. DR.. McCabe said.
He pointed to "some commend
able accomplishments" in ridding
cities of atmospheric pollution, but
he also pointed to cooperative"
programs with the dual detectives
of delay and defeat"
He said, Engineers were assign
ed to write diverting papers on the
minutiae Of the problem, and trade
journals editorialized on the un-
reasonableness of dog cd s..
These tactics haunt the sincere
efforts Of progressive industry to-
day"
The symposium here was spon-
sored by the Stanford Research In
stitute, a unit Of Leland Stanford
University, and the California In
stitute of Technology. Five hund-
red scientists, engineers and pub
lie officials were present.
DR.. McCabe, commenting furth-
er on the selfshness Of many in
declared anti-pollution
measures actually are inexpensive.
He said installation of fume-sup-
equipment normally
amounts to two percent of plant
investment and two percent of op-
Grating costs.
He said that many people have
been taken in by smog folklore"
Too many people have been led to
believe that automobile exhausts
Or seven particles from rubber
heels" are primary causes of smog,
or that unusual weather situations
made smog inevitable, he contend
I'd. He added that some people
even have been persuaded that coal
S never a smog-producing agent
because some cities where coal is
not burned have smog. These peo-
pie are deluded, DR.. McCabe in
sisted.
The Los Angeles area is a good
'lace to talk about smog, since Los
Angeles is one of the "smoggiest"
titles in the country. Local smogs
ire generally attributed to sui
'hurous fumes from the oil refn-
'ries, although a recent study by
he Stanford Research Institute
md the Western Oil & Gas Assn
lbsolved the oil industry. Asked
lis opinion of this study, DIR. Nc
abe said tersely, "No comment"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Big Business Bockers Forced To
Admit They Are Not Perfect
BY DONALD WOODS

Washington LPA)-Eric John
ston, president Of the Motion Pic.
ture Association and the formel
head of the U. S. Chamber Of Com
merce, appeared before the Cellel
monopoly Investigating committed
Nov. l6 az defender Of big bust.
ness, but ended up admitting the
public would suffer no harm if du.
Pont control Of GM were severed.
Johnston also agreed that small
manufacturers often were more ef-
ficient than the big ones-listiDg a
long number of products from
washing machines to toasters in
which the leading producers are
small companies.
The motion picture spokesman
was an engaging and far franker
witness than were Crawford II.
Greenewalt, president of DUPONT,
and Earl Bunting, managing dir
ector of the NAM, the day before.
Both denied there was any need to
do anything about monopoly or
concentration and comp e tie y
whitewashed industry as it stands.
Both Greenewalt and Bunting
tried to tell the committee that any
limitation of big business as to size
would hurt the consumer. Bunting
did admit, however, that small bus
mess was as efficient as big bust
ness.
Both Greenewalt and Bunting
talked as though full competition
prevailed in industry today and de-
MED that even when two or three
companies control an industry there
was any undue concentration. They
both sounded as though they were
talking Of some other world. The
Committee obviously was unim-
pressed-but most of the daily
gave their statements
full play.
Johnston, far more realistic,
showed real concern for continu-
alton of competition in business,
he tried to argue that
price leadership in an industry con-
Stituted competition. When he
started to attack those who want
to break up big industries as SOC
lalists, because such action would
with production, Chair
man Celler (D-NY) asked:
"If DUPONT gives up control of
GM and members of the dupont
family give up control of US Rub
Der, would that deprive the public
If any products ?" Johnston admit
ed it would not. Celler then asked
f breaking up GIN into companies
iealing with autos, frigidaires, etc.,
would hurt the consumer. Johnston
ledged.
He denied the motion picture as
ISOLATION had anything to do with
matters, asserting it was
only with morals and
'thics in the industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24

misfortune. The blocs do tend to
balance the efforts Of those who
have insisted on using the UN as
an instrument of national policy.
The blocs do, in very real sense
as in the instance of the North
Atlantic Treaty-put power behind
the principles of the charter. They
force at least a limited effort at
collective action in support of
peace, and while this is far from
an ideal procedure, it may gradu-
ally lead to wide associations of
sovereign nations under the UN and
eventually to the greater limita-
tions of national sovereignty that
are necessary"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Propose New
Minimum Wage In
Chemical Industry

Washington (LPA) = Minimum
wages in the chemical industry
which haven't changed for the past
ten years, were debated Nov. Is at
a hearing by the wage and hour
division of the Labor Department.
Under the Walsh Healy Act, the
federal government sets a mini
mum wage in each industry and
cannot award government contracts
to any firm paying wages below
the minimum. Present minimums
in the chemical industry, however,
are still 40 and so cents, so far be-
low prevailing wages that the fig
ure doesn't mean a thing.
Industry representatives at the
hearing proposed a new minimum
of IS and 95 cents. Representatives
of the Int'l Chemical Workers
Union-AFL and Gas, Coke &
Chemical Workers-CIO urged at
least $1.20.
The AFL and CIO figure was
based on information from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics show
ing that half the workers in the
industry now receive over $1.20
and half receive under $1.20, put
ting the prevailing minimum at
$1.20. Under the law, the Secre-
tary of Labor is supposed to set
the amount on the basis of what
rates prevail.
District so of United Mine
Workers asked SIPS minimum,
claiming that amount is the low
est paid under any of their con-
tracts.
The unions are carrying on a
fight to have Walsh-Healy mini
NUNS raised in all industries.
Action has already been taken on
soap, steel and some textiles,
bringing the wage below the
unions requests but correcting the
10-year-old figure that
had been on the books. Scientific
instruments, paints and varnishes,
dental equipment and several other
groups are due for revision next
year on appeal from the unions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Members of FTC
Deny Deal For
Monopoly Pricing

; Washington LPA)-Members Of
. the Federal Trade Commission
: have made clear to friends thai
they are not-as reported in trade
journals-about to approve a dea
with the steel industry settling the
long controversy over the use OF
basing point prices to avoid com
petition.
! Trades papers have reported
during the past week that nego-
/ tiations were under way between
officials Of FTC and the steel in
dustry to work out a compromise
settlement of the long battle over
! basing point pricing. The trade
papers have indicated that the
agreement was nearing final ap-
proval by the Commission.
These reports have created wide
concern among labor and liberal
groups which have watched the
long see-saw battle over basing
point pricing systems in Congress
and the courts. They were concern
I ed for fear that deal was being
hatched that would wipe out the
gains won in the Supreme Court
last year after a 10-year battle to
outlaw the price fixing scheme.
This weekend, for instance,
James Patton, president of the Ma
tional Farmers Union, sent pub
lie letter to Chairman Wright Pat
man of the House Small Business
Committee asking an immediate in
vestigation of the reports. Patton
blasted not only the idea of such a
deal with the steel companies, but
the reports that ETC would settle
such an important issue outside the
courts.
Inquiry at ETC disclosed that so
far the negotiations have been
chiefly between subordinate offc-
ials and the steel industry-that
the Commission itself has never
considered the agreement. Mem
bers of the Commission assured in
quirers that if and when such a
deal comes before the Commission
it will be thoroughly scrutinized
and no approval will be given if
there is any question from any
quarter about its advisability.
The steel industry is in little
different position than some of the
others in relation to basing points.
It's case has never been formally |
decided. The industry has ap-
preached the commission for an
agreement that would speed ad-
judication of the case. A proper
settlement reached in this way
might avert unfavorable legisla-
ton in Congress-which came near
to passing very destructive bill
at the last session.
But such settlements in anti
trust cases have sometimes worked
great harm also. Members of the
Federal Trade Commission are
aware of the dangers. With the
commission strengthened by addi-
ton of such liberals as John Car
son and former Senator James
Mead, of New York, the possibility
IF bad deal being worked behind
the scenes is much less than in
former days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
Comment On
World Events

The United Nations may not
have fulfilled the rosy dreams of
its organizers, but by its very ex-
istence during q troubled years it
stands as definite progress towards
the hoped-for goal Of world peace,
James B. Reston points out in The
Reporter magazine of Nov. 22.
In an article titled "The First
Four Years" Reston says that al
though the UN has mot tanned
the combative instincts of man, nor
has it put an end to hunger, strife,
selfishness or war;" it has, never
theless, "confounded the skeptics
just as much as it has disappoint-
ed its enthusiasts" He adds:
"The first modest claim that can
be made for it is that it is still
alive. Man will argue about it.
Whole issues of magazines take up
its problems. Nations still use it,
even after they threaten to get out
of it; quite a number still believe
in it. A second claim that can be
made is that the UN has not only
survived but has been elastic
enough to do good work under the
handicap of a political struggle it
was never intended to face"
\ 4 J.
Reston charges that the omni-
present East-West conflict in the
UN has been one of the deterring
influences to its success. Yet the
world tribunal has been able to
accomplish something concrete de-
spite this conflict, he contends, ad-
ding:
"The failure to achieve substan-
tial agreement among the big
states has, of course, blocked all
efforts at compromise on the use
and control of atomic energy, on
the regulation of conventional arm
and on placing armed
forces at the disposal of the UN
Security Council.
at has also prevented agree
ment on the dispute in Korea, and
to a certain extent, on the one in
Greece. At the same time, how
ever, this lack of agreement has
not prevented the UN from max
ing substantial contributions to-
ward the settlement of the dang
erous disputes in Palestine, Indon-
esia, Iran and Kashmir. Nor has
it kept the UN from playing an
role in the major dis
putes between the biggest states
themselves"
Reston holds that any fair judg-
nent for the UN's first years
must not only consider the disputes
t has settled-but must also in
,lude the disputes it prevented.
"This does not mean that the !
deal some people saw at San
Francisco has been achieved" he
continues. "The device of bloc-vot-
ng was resented at San Francisco,
yet it has become common prac-
ice. The formation of regional
,liques for action on world ques- +.
ions was generally opposed a
years ago. Yet the UN is today
of regional groupings
whose representatives act very
much like the members of political
parties in national parliaments. L
ain the light of the ideal of
world association of nations, all
lsing the UN as an instrument for
settling disputes of general inter- !
,st, these developments are no
loubt regrettable. But it does not
necessarily follow that the forma-
ion of those blocs is an unrelieved
= {
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24
RESOLUTION OF RESPECT

Whereas, Almighty God in His infinite wisdom has seen
fit to take from midst friend and fellow worker
Sister Natana Ross respected and admired for her fellow
ship and character, and
Whereas We the members of Local Union 49, recognize
the loss of this Sister, and shall cherish and respect the
memory her pleasant and evidence of sympathy
and esteem it is hereby further,
Resolved, That extend profound sympathy to
her family copy of this resolution be published in
official journal The Potters Herald spread the
of the Local and copy sent to the bereaved family
Also that charter be draped mourning for period OF
thirty days
CHESTER j. SMITH, Sec
LESTER SMITH
IRA RHODES
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24

The Union Label exemplifies the
humanitarian principles of the Ser
mon on the Mount. So buy gifts on
which it is displayed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24

Always ask for the Union Label
because it is a reminder to the
merchant that you will continue to
demand it until you get it on all
merchandise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24

ment; David Jenkins, banquet;
John A. Flannery, publication and
printing; Vera Rouse Mitchell,
Woman's Auxiliary representative.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-24

Diplomacy: Not letting the other
fellow know that you know he's
wrong.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-10
Mother Kills Her Two Children

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (P) - A 27-year-old mother went berserk Saturday and killed her two chil- dren with a celery knife, police said.
 Under sheriff B. K. McGregor said she told him she couldn't stand the continual crying of the children.
 William Howard Freeman, 28, the husband, said he found his wife Saturday morning sitting in blood-spattered bathtub with the knife in her hand.
 The dead body of their nine month-old baby, Larry was in the tub. In a nearby bedroom was the body of another son, John Carroll, six.
 Mrs. Freeman was held at the Sheriff's office without charge for investigation.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-10
Over Million Idle
 From U. $. Strikes

Continued from Page One) and steel companies back into gov ernment sponsored regulations.
 The CIO-USW served notice on the Aluminium Company of Amer ica that 10000 workers in eight states will strike Oct. 17 unless a satisfactory contract is agreed upon. The union is demanding a wage boost and free pensions and insurance. Alcoa, which provides about half the nations aluminium, said the unions contract demands are indefinite.
 Officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive firemen and engine men met in Chicago to consider possible strike action. The general chairmen will decide whether to athorize a strike vote among the 10000 members.
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-10
Monday. October 10. ls<s
Sherman MintOn
 Becomes Supreme Court Justice

WASHINGTON, IED - Backed by topheavy Senate approval, Judgse Sherman Minton took his oath promptly as a member of the United States Supreme Court.
 The lawmakers approved his appointment by a vote of 48 to Is after batting down a motion to send the nomination back to the judiciary committee.
 Minton, who will be 59 years old October 20, was named by President Truman to succeed the late Justice Wiley B. Rutledge. He takes to the court an eight-year record as a judge of the seventh circuit court of appeals.
 Minton's confirmation came af- te Senator Morse R.-OreD failed on a 45 to 2l vote to send the ap- pointment back to committee with instructions to require testimony from the nominee.
 Senators Ferguson R.-MichO ) an dDonnell R.-Mo0 had sought the chance to ask Minton about the views he expressed on public questions while he was serving as Senator from Indian on the new deals Hey-day from 1885 to 1941. The committee at first ordered MintOn to appear. Ii withdrew that order when MintOn wrote the group that he thought such action raised "a serious question of pro- priety, particularly when I might be required to express my views on highly controversial and liti- gOus issues affecting the court"
 The committee then voted 9 to 2 approval of the nomination.
 Morse told his colleagues they were sowing the seeds of bad pre- cedent by letting a Supreme Court nominee refuse to testify before the judiciary committee. They re- called how the late Senators Borah of Idaho and Lafollette of WiScon- sin had grilled the late chief jus tice Charles Evans Hughes.
 Minton is President Truman's S fourth appointee to the nine-man
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-10
Heart Attack Kills Idaho U. s. Senator
WASHINGTON, CP,-U. s. Sen.

WASHINGTON, (P,-U. s. Sen ator Bert Henry Miller, 70, Idaho Democrat, died of a heart attack at his home here at am. Satur- day.
 Miller was elected to the Senate last November in the sweep that saw the Democrats recapture con- trol of Congress and elect Presi- dent Truman.
 His defeat of Republican Sena- tor C. Dworshak helped to give the Democrats the 54 to 42 edge they held in the Senate at the be- ginning of this session. Since then the margin has been cut to 53 to 43 through the resignation of Sen ator Wagner D.-N. Y) and the appointment of John Foster Dull les, a Republican to succeed him.
 Presumably Miller's death will mean the loss of another seat for his party since Idaho's Gov. C. A. Robins, who will name a success sor, is a Republican. This would
The Nome nugget., 1949-10-10
LOMEN co. COMPLETING WAREHOUSE ADDITION

The Lomen Commercial Go. is this week completing an addition to their lighterage warehouse fa- cilitieS. This new warehouse will add 2400 square feet of unob- structed floor space and will great ly relieve the congestion in the handling of shipments of grocer ies and general cargo. The new addition is west of the other ware house facing the Snak River revet- ment.
 A large portion of the materials used in this new warehouse was salvaged last year from the freight warehouse at the old Hghterage site at the east end of town, near the Northern Light and Power plant. This material has served well the people of Nome for some 40 years and will continue to do so in its new structure and loca- ton.