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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
NLRB Hearings
For $4,000 AT GM
Open In Dayton

Dayton (LPA) = After several
delaying actions by United Elec-
trical Workers had failed, the key
NLRB hearings on bargaining re-
presentation for 10000 electrical
workers in General Motors plants
throughout the country got under
way here Dec. 21.
Int'l Union of Electrical, Radio
& Machine Workers petitioned to
represent GIN workers after five
locals had voted to disaffiliate from
UE and join the new union. UE
tried to block the hearing by court
action and, failing that, appeared
to testify that the bargaining agent
is not in dispute at GIN.
UE Lawyer Martin Kurasch took
the stand that current contracts
with GIN, not due to expire until
April %, 1850, stand in the way of
any NLRB election being held.
IUE wants an election immediate
ly.
Benjamin Sigal, attorney for
IUE, contends that the GIN con-
tracts are new lame duck affairs,
that UE no longer represents the
membership, and therefore action
must be taken to give the workers
representation by the union of
their choice.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Union Best
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ards Act, all labor relations legis-
lation, the social security law, and
state unemployment compensation
laws"
A shocking picture of the con-
ditions under which children of
low-income families live was pre-
sented by Mrs. Jack B. Fahy, of
the American Parents Committee.
Warning that without better fac
ilities for today's children-the
citizens and wage-earners of to-
morrow-we are undermining our
future economy and security" Mrs.
Fahy told the committee that:
Six million children are believed
to have diseased tonsils or ade-
noids, a condition which often leads
to deafness.
Three quarters of the nations
children need dental care.
One third need medical care.
Ten million have poor vision.
One million have hearing defects.
More than half our children go
completely through school without
any checkup on their health.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Puts Dues Ahead
Of Membership In
Union Shop Job

Granite City, I'll. (LPA)-Under
a union shop contract, all a man
has to do is pay dues to the union.
He doesn't actually have to join to
hold his job. Thus ruled the Natl
Labor Relations Board, 80, in a
case involving the Union Starch
& Refining Co. here and Local l
of the Grain Professors Union,
since become Local 153 of the AM
erican Federation of Grain Millers-
AFL.
NLRB Chairman Paul M. Herzog
and members Abe Murdock and j.
Copeland Gray declared initiation
fees and dues, not membership, are
what the Taft Hartley act requires.
at is our duty" they argued, "to
administer the law as written, not
to pass upon the wisdom Of its pro-
visions. James j. Reynolds and
John M. Houston disagreed.
The majority found both the
union and the company had violat-
ed the law in the discharge of three
employees who offered to pay sums
equal to initiation fees plus two
months dues to hold their jobs,
but refused to attend meeting at
which they would be formally adj
mitted into the union or even to fill
application cards. The union de-
manded their dismissal and the
company complied.
When the employees complained
to the NLRB, a trial examiner
could find no violation of the act
by union or company. However,
the "strict constructionist" NLRB
ma ajority felt that the wording Of
the Taft Hartley act and its Con-
gressional history left them no
choice but to reverse the examiner
whether or not we think it wise,
practical or pair"
The board ordered the three EN-
ployes reinstated, making the union
and the company jointly respon-
sible for lost pay.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
HLRB Says Union
Has Right To
Ban Struck Work

Washington, d. C. 1LNS). =
The National Labor Relations
Board has ruled that a union has
a legal right to make and enforce
agreements not to handle "struck
work" or shot cargo"
The board dropped a secondary
boycott charge against a local
union of the International Broth
)erhood of Teamsters. The employ
er, who asserted that he was boy
cotted was Henry V. Rabouin of
Pittsfeld, Mass, operator of a
truck line known as Conway's ex-
press.
The board ruled in the same case
that other union actions did violate
the law. For the first time it held
that a union might not require an
employer to post performance"
bond as condition of collective
bargaining or the settlement of a
strike. 1t found also that the local
union violated the act by threats to
a driver who continued to work for
Rabouin during a strike.
A temporary injunction issued
by Judge Stephen w. Brennan at
Albany, N. Y, Jan. II, 1948, has
stopped these union activities since
that date.
The ruling on "hot cargo" con-
tract provisions was made in dis
missing charges that the union il
legally induced employees of other
concerns to cease handling freight
from Rabouin's trucks. Each of the
3 companies was party to an area
agreement in which the union re-
served the right for it's members
to refuse to handle goods or freight
of any employer involved in labor
dispute.
Accordingly, the unions shop
stewards at each of the compan-
les ceased handling freight from
Rabouin during the 1947 strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
CeHer Committee
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ence proves absence Of competi-
ton. In the latest increase, for ex-
ample, the cost of pensions which
is used as the excuse for the price
increase is only a fraction of the
cost added to prices charged con-
sumers. Yet all the big companies
went up just as high as U. S. Steel.
If the case can be proved against
the steel industry it will give trem-
endous impetus to the movement
already in Congress to do some
thing about bigness in business. 1t
might also lead to prosecution of
the steel industry by the antitrust
division Of the Justice Department.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
hopes of the steel industry for
action by the Federal Trade Com
mission compromising the battle
over the basing point system are
not as bright as some industry
sources have represented. 1t has
been rumored that the Commission
was evenly divided-two to two
on a compromise proposed by the
industry.
Sources inside the Commission
told LPA, however, that The Com
mission has never considered the
proposal, nor even discussed it. No
member Of the Commission has yet
expressed a viewpoint on the issue
which has split even the staff. The
Commission may line up three to
one against the industry proposal
with only Chairman Mason sup
porting the steel companies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Farm Labor
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peatedly refused to bargain.
The board also dropped charges
against Teamsters Local 81, which
too is on strike against Di Giorgio,
but ruled that Local 81 is covered
by the Taft Hartley act because
some of its members work in non
agricultural enterprises. w IN c
Workers Local 45 and Teamsters
Local S48, were found to have en-
gagged in illegal activities in sup
port Of the strike.
Background of the decision re-
fleets no credit on Di Giorgio or
the labor boards general counsel,
Robert n. Denham. Originally the
Farm Union and Local 81 attempt
ed to bring charges of refusal to
bargain against the feudal-
company and to obtain an NLRB
election among 1860 Di Giorgio
workers. The board said it had no
authority to conduct a poll of agri-
cultural workers.
Denham had no such compuc-
tions, however. After the unions
struck, Di Giorgio complained they
were indulging in unfair practices.
Denham obtained an injunction in
the summer Of 1913. The trial ex-
aminer found substantially against
Denham and the case went to the
board.
On appeal from the trial exam
iner's report, a Di Giorgio attorney
in oral argument before the labor
board last Nov. 2l confessed when
asked that his client wanted to
have his cake and eat it too.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Demands Higher
I axes On Profits

Washington (LPA)-Enactment
of an undistributed profits tax on
corporations, together with an ex-
cess profits tax, was proposed to
the Congressional Economic Com
mittee by the CIO as means to
check monopoly and encourage the
public to invest in business enter
prise.
Economist Everett K o w
took sharp issue with statements
by business spokesmen that pros
perity depends on high profits, to
encourage big investments for bus
mess expansion. Lasting prosper
ity, he said, depends first and
foremost on broadened and rising
consumption levels"
Challenging the business view
point, Kassalow suggested that in
vestments in business expansion
during the recent inflationary per-
iod were too high for the good of
the' economy, and it would have
been healthier if they had been
spread out over a longer period
of years.
But he conceded that a steady
flow of capital into business ex-
pansion was desirable and suggest
ed that an undiStributed profits tax
would force corporations to pay out
more of their profits in dividends,
and thus encourage the public to
invest more freely in the stocks of
business enterprises.
Noting that most corporate pro-
fits in recent years have not been
distributed to stockholders, Kass-
allow said if the big companies
"had seen fit to distribute some of
their largesse in 1916 and 1947,
equity would not have been so diff
fcult to get in 1913 and 1949."
Kassalow said many of the pro-
posals offered by business men
to encourage investment in busi-
ness would accentuate the tendency
toward "booms and busts." Labor
economists, he added, were "disap-
pointed" that the hearings so far
have brought no suggestions from
bank or business spokesmen for
methods oflevelling off investments
to eliminate booms and busts.
"We believe" he said, "that
prime need is for a more stable
flow of investment over the whole
length of the (business) cycle,
rather than a search for substan-
TALLY greater sources of capital in
vestment.
"A high consumption framework
might provide a more stable and
successful underpinning for the
economy, than the volatile invest
ment variable has in the past. 1t is
also quite likely that a sustained
full employment environment would
produce higher total levels of in
vestment and greater sustained
rate of growth in the economy
than we have ever known before.
Moreover, it would avoid the sheer
waste involved in the bursts that
typically have followed investment
booms i'm the past"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

phasized that is was far more econ
omical in the long run to spend
more money for rehabilitation of
disabled workers and to provide
jobs for unemployed, than to pay
for continuing direct relief.
Reginald A. Johnson, of the Ma
tional Urban League, testified that
enactment of legislation curbing
discrimination against Negroes in
employment would reduce the num-
Der of Negro families forced into
the low income groups. He also
called for better educational, hous-
ing and health programs for
Negroes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
UPHOLD STATE RENT LAWS

Washington (LPA) - A special
federal court here has refused to
forbid the Federal rent control adj
to allow states to re-
place the national rent control law
with their own controls-or none
at all. A Wisconsin union member
drought the tenants, suit after the
state Legislature substituted
weaker rent law for the federal
controls--a procedure allowed un-
der the federal l949 rent law. Her
lawyers charged the provision was
unconstitutional.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Offers Program
To Aid Families
OF Low Income

Washington (LPA) = Assailing
those who believe prosperity will
"trickle down" to the lower income
families, DR.. Dewey Anderson, a
recognized authority in the field,
warned the Congressional low-in
come committee that positive
program is needed to improve the
lot of the lower population third
because it has become a virtual
"caste" of unskilled workers who
are set apart from the rest of the
people.
DR.. Anderson, director of the
Public Affairs Institute, was testi-
flying as an individual. He propos-
ed four-point legislative program
directed at helping the 100000
families making less than $4,000 a
year,-in addition to the measures
ALREADY proposed by the Fair Deal
Administration. He recommended:
/. An Employment Practi c es
Commission, which would not only
protect working opportunities for
racial minorities, but would handle
the employment problems of older
workers, women, disabled and tech
nologically displaced persons.
2. Creation of a Welfare Review
Board, modelled after the Hoover
Commission, to investigate and APP
praise the adequacy of all welfare
programs.
3. A scholarship program to en-
able low-income students TO get
technical and college training, aim
ed at covering half the enrollments
in colleges within 10 years, plus a
loan program to help other stud
ents. DR.. Anderson said he did not
understand why loans to students
would not be as good an invest
ment as loans to corporations by
the RFC.
4. A substantial liberalization of
the social security law to provide
pensions for aged couples of at
least $lOO month and adjusted
upward as the cost of living rises.
On the basis of his own studies,
Anderson testified that most of the
low income families are dependent
upon unskilled workers the great
majority of whom begin and end
life as unskilled workers and are
"set apart from other workers by
J noticeabIy less schooling" Con-
tending they constitute a terrific
waste Of resources, Anderson said
they include most Of the nations
higher 1.Q's" in intelligence.
"Fully a third of all our people
in the year 1913, a peak of Ameri-
can prosperity" Anderson testified
Had SO little income, such meagre
culture, and so low living stand
ards as to be set apart In effect,
they were a drag upon the rest of
us, unable to pull their full share of
the load, denied many of the good
things Of life which we have, and
a possible threat to our free demo
cratic institutions. They constitute
challenge to our intelligence and
will to understand their problems
and to set in motion those specific
programs which may bring them
up to our standards. For they can
not do this by themselves"
Among Anderson's other propoS-
ais was suggestion for re-estab-
lishment of the Civilian Conserva-
tion Corps. He said there were
million youths between the ages of /
II and 23 who are out of school,
and without jobs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
ANOTHER PACKER SIGNS

Chicago LPA) - The United
PackinshouSe Workers have sign
ed contract with John Morrell for
4OOO workers in Topeka, Kansas
and Ottumwa, Iowa, similar to con
tracts with Armour, Swift, and
Cudahy. Wilson & Co. is now the
only major holdout. Under the
Morrell contract the union gets a
three-day notice of any change in
job or production standards and has
the right to challenge.
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Present Officers
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the holidays | met a friend who
was looking happily at a magnif-
cent display in store window.
"Are you choosing few gifts?
asked. "Oh, no! she said, I'm just
congTatulating myself on the num-
ber of things which can get along
without" The true Christmas
Spirit in the world at this time is
a splendid gift. "What does Christ
mas mean to us? A yard of tinscl
ribbon, "A holly wreath, day or
two at home'--or does il mean. 'On
earth peace, good will toward men?
-O.C. 6
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
sToCKYARDs STRIKE ENDS

st. Louis (LPA)-The 400 stock
handlers who walked out Nov. II
have returned to work under a
settlement granting health insur-
ance and vacation benefits, but no
wage increase. The union is Local
225, AFL Livestock Handlers. The
workers won company-financed in
surance, sick benefits, and three
weeks vacation after Is years
service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

surpusses the State of Ohio in on abvn-
dance ct natvroI resources and we enjoy
the privilege and opportunity of pub
licking in this manner both The nasu-aI
ard developed cssets Of the SIS friendly
fSw'ns we serve.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

Advertisements in fhs series have been run in
Business Week, Fortune, ond in other National
Mugozines ond Newsoopers. This oppeured in
the Oetobs 29 issue of Business Week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

NA/E ARE continuing to direct the aiien-
w iion Of industriuIists TO The odycn-
fuses os loeoi:ns here in Ohio, in series
of noiionaI advertisements, cf which
this is one.
We believe fhot no other location
, 1949-08-30
SPECIAL.

SPECIAL 80.
cipated in the program.
Miss Lois Jordan was in
charge of the project and SUI
pervised the entire program
with the assistance of the Rev.
and Mrs. Guy Waid.
Miss Jordan, a cousin of Mrs.
Waid, came here just four
months ago to help in the
religious work being done by
the seemingly tireless couple.
Unassuming and friendly, Miss
Jordan has won the admira-
ton of all the youth from the
tiniest tots to the grown-up
girls.
Awards were given out in
dicating the amount of credits
won by each. The certificates
carried stars indicating the ac-
complishments Of each child.
The Church was filled to capa
city and overflowed outside.
, 1949-08-30
NOTICE

The attention Of taxpayers
is hereby invited to the fact
that after the close of August
81, 1949, interest at the rate
of so p, a. will be charged on
all arrears of Real Property
Taxes and Nightsoil Removal
Service Fees for the year l948,
in accordance with Section 81
of the Ordinance of Septem-
Der 5, 1896, providing for the
Assessment, Levy and Collect
ion of Taxes upon Real Pro-
perry, and Section 8 of Ordi-
nance of September Is, 1943,
concerning fees for nightsoil
Removal Service.
August !, 1949
Harry E. Taylor
Administrator for ST. Croix
, 1949-08-30
The CLERGY SPEAKS

One of the best known stories
Jesus ever told was about the
Good Samaritan, who, journeying
along the Jerusalem lJerico road
found an injured man, a victim of
robbers; helped him, and arranged
for his are at an inn.
Whilst we all appreciate the Low
ing action of the Samaritan, per-
haps we have not thought much
about the man who took a chance
deciding to traverse alone this
robber infested countryside. Per-
haps the robbers suspected he had
something concealed that would.
interest them; S o they took a
chance also.
The Robbers Road cuts through
every community, even it might
be found in st. Croix, with those
ready to waylay the unWary lone
traveller. Often they don't look
like the william of the movies, but
their aim is to coarsen human ma
ture in the individual, and destroy
the innocency of the young, for
their own advantage and pleasure.
After reading st. Luke 10 Wv 90
81, it seems that saftey is best as
sured in company; prevention is
still better than cure; to prevent
the robbery than to furnish an am
bulance for a ruined soul who has
taken a chance.
Here we are all nominal Chris
tians, members of one or the other
of the Churches, but in many cases
it is only realized when an Incl
dent has taken place. In Christian
fellowship the best things are still
safe.
To parents / would say; think
this over again as regards the
children of your home.
Cyril F. AldersleY
Memorial Moravian Church
st. Thomas
, 1949-08-30
WANTED

The D. Hamilton Jackson
Memorial Committee is in
need of pictures or snapshots
that give a side-view (profile)
of THE late Judge jackson.
These pictures have been re-
quested by Sculptors who are
interested in our project. Will
anyone who has such a picture
or snapshot please contact
c. R. T. Brow, or the Editor
of this Newspaper.
, 1949-08-30
Answers

/. More than 70 per cent.
2. Heat.
3. Canada, with an area of 1884,
1853 square miles.
4. Richard E. Byrd.
S. New Hampshire
, 1949-08-30

JUGO-SLAVIA -.
.Acheson is strongly in favor
of helping Tito fight the block
ade established by Russia
against Jugo-Slavia.
The twenty-five million dol
lars is needed to buy North
American machinery & equip
ment for its copper and zinc
mines.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

ing plans TO solve 1t tor their own
operations by shifts in their crop
programs.
Many eastern Montana pro-
ducers have already found a par
tial answer in corn. This article
by DR.. Helm indicates that the
possibilities of corn. particularly
the new hYbrids. are greater than
have yet been realized.
Here is another in the series of
articles Montana Farmer-Stock-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

MONTANA, OR THE AREA now i'm
eluded within its boundaries, was a corn
country long before the white farmer and
rancher arrived.
Corn was grown on a small scale by
various Indian tribes in the area, and when
the French explorer, Verendrye, visited the
country of the Mandan Indians in North
Dakota in 1888, he found them possessed of
. highly developed corn culture. These
strains and varieties of Indian corn pro-
vided the early settler with a crop already
adapted to the growing conditions of east
ern Montana, and the pioneers were en-
thusiastic in their praise of corn as either
a dryland or an irrigated crop.
In spite of its long crop history and it's
early promise to pioneer farmers, corn has
not yet become a major cultivated crop in
Montana. In 1947, only 166,00 acres of corn
were harvested within the state as COM
pared to 1,347, 900 acres of winter wheat,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

WE'RE BACK TO the surplus problem on small
grain production. Regardless of what govern
ment programs may be developed TO meet the
problem. many Montana grain growers are MAX
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

1t will be seen that winter wheat, spring
wheat and barley have each produced a
larger average gross return per acre on
dryland than has corn over this same pc
Rod of years. But under irrigation, corn has
given a higher average return per acre than
barley.
Now there are three ways in which the
per acre value of corn might be boosted to
make it a competitor of the present major
crops:
/. A change in favor of corn in the rela-
tive cash market value of the crops.
2. An increase in the per acre yield of
corn.
3. An increase in the real per acre value
of corn through more efficient use of it as
a livestock feed.
Greater Yields Possible
We, as a state, can nave little influence
over the market value of shelled corn, but
the possibilities of increasing the yields and
real values per acre are highly promising.
For instance, the $20.26 average value of
corn on irrigated land just listed is based
on an estimated average yield of only "a
bushels an acre for the years 1929 through
1947. This appears to be an extremely low
average yield when compared with the six
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01

man is presenting to aid Montana and Wyoming
farmers and ranchers in maintaining production
income in the face of adjusting price levels.
Watch for the symbol and slogan. Another In
come Builder" marking special articles in this
and issues TO come.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-01
By ERHARDT K. Helm, assistant Agrononsist
Mountains Agricultural Experiment Station

1,959,000 acres of spring wheat and 1900 0
acres of barley.
Comparative Cash Returns
The production of agricultural crops is
competitive business. That means that
cash return per acre is the first factor that
determines which of the adapted crops will
be grown in a region. Here's the way the
per acre returns for the various crops in
Montana averaged for the years 1929 to
1947. inclusive: