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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
AFL Union Named
Bargaining Agent
For Tanker Fleet

New York (LPA) - The Nat
Labor Relations Board has certified
the Seafarers Int'l Union-AFL as
the bargaining agent for unlicens-
ed seamen on the last nine of the
tankers owned and operated by the
Cities Service Oil Co. The certifi-
cation climaxed a three-year drive
by the SIU's~Atlantic & Gulf Dis
trict to obtain recognition from
the bitterly anti-union firm.
The union was forced to win two
bargaining elections After the
first, the AFL seamen were certi-
fed on seven ships, but not on
ships acquired by Cities Service
after the case began. The union
argued the NLRB's ruling was con-
trary to precedent, citing the
boards own decision in the case of
the Isthmian Steamship Co., which
acquired new ships after an cleo
ton was ordered. The STU was
certified for all in the Isthmian
fleet.
However, the union went ahead
and won an election on the remain
ing ships by a nine to one vote,
in the face of all-out anti-union
tactics by Cities Service, including
an attempt to set up a company
union. The NLRB certified the
STU despite company protests
against the election. Getting con-
tract may call for further union
efforts.
On the same day the NLRB's
decision in the Cities Service case
was announced, the SIU's Atlantic
& Gulf District revealed it had de-
that the .50-odd companies
with which it has contracts finance
a welfare plan. The SIU's west
coast district, the Sailors Union
of the Pacific, has just won an en-
ployer-paid plant to care for aged
seamen.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Free World Labor Group Launched
With Adoption of Constitution

London (LPA)-The new Int
Conference of Free Trade Unions
came into formal existence here
Dec. Z when delegates representing
more than as million trade union
lists in SO countries reached the
high point of a Today meeting by
adopting constitution. Repre-
sentatives of both the AFL and the
CIO participate in organizing the
new anti Communist world body.
The constitution calls for coor-
dination of the defense of the
worlds free trade unions against
forces aiming at their destruction,
or at the restriction of their rights,
or at their subjugation, by total
itarian or other anti-labor forms"
In addition, the constitution pro-
vides for establishment of unions
into an organization powerful
enough to promote the interests of
workers throughout the world.
The constitution specifically calls
on the member unions to promote
the growth of union movements in
the worlds undeveloped countries,
to work for worldwide full employ
ment, to encourage unionism in
countries suffering in the wake Of
the war, to protect and expand
free labor, and to eliminate forced
labor.
The only delegates who did not
approve the constitution were those
representing about 100000 work
ers, most of them in Belgian and
French Christian trade unions.
They abstained from voting be-
cause by approving the new consti-
tuition they would have committed
their organizations to withdrawal
from the Christian Labor Inter
national.
The new Confederation is the
non Communist worlds answer to
the Communist-run World Fedora
tion of Trade Unions.
Heading the AFL and CIO dele
cations were AFL president Will
lam Green, and Walter Reuther,
president of the United Auto
Workers -CIO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

assuring the defense of world
democracy and the freedom of ma
tions against any totalitarian ag-
gression.
The executive committee, which
will meet every 6 months, consists
of:
North America-Mr. Green, Mr..
Bengough, Mr.. Murray and Pat
Conroy of the Canadian Congress
of Labor.
Europe - Leon Jouhaux of
France; Eiler Jensen of Denmark;
Paul Finet of Belgium, H. Bockler
of Germany, and Giulio Pastore of
Italy.
Latin America-Bernando Ibanez
of Chile and Francisco Aguirre of
Peru.
West Indies-R. Bradshaw.
Marcus Grant.
Asia and Middle East-E. Kato
of Japan; Deven Sen of India, and
K. Heydayat of Lebanon.
Britain-Arthur Deakin and Vim
cent Tewson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Thomos Gets Jail
Term, $4,000 Fine

Washington LPA) = Rep. ]
Parnell Thomas (R. n. J.) was
sentenced in Federal Court to to
Is months in Jail, and fined $4,000
on charges of taking salary kick
backs from congressional employees
and padding his payroll. Although
when he was indicted he shrieked
persecution" and charged politics
and although he managed to evade
trial for a year, when he finally
got into court he offered no de-
fense. Thomas is former chairman
of the House Un-American Activit-
les Committee.
Before appearing for sentence,
Thomas resigned, and in Trenton,
N. j., Gov. Alfred r. Driscoll an
nounced there would be special
election without delay" to fill the
vacancy. Rep. Thomas wife ann
ounced she would be candidate to
continue her husbands flight on
subversives". Prominently mention
ed for the COP nomination is
Harry C. Harper, Hackensack,
State Labor Commissioner.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Building Trades
To Argue Status
Before The NLRB

Washington (LPA) - The pleas
filed with the Natl Labor Relations
Board for a review of the status
of the AFL building trades under
Taft Hartley will be aired Dec. 10,
the NLRB announced.
The labor board said it will then
hear oral arguments in a dispute
originating in Hanford, Wash, and
hear spokesmen for the AFL's
Building & Construction Trades
Dept. and the Associated General
Contractors discuss the overall
problems created in the industry
by the Taft Hartley measure.
Last month, the AFL submitted
a brief to the .NLRB asking for
some method to determine the
status of the building unions, since
the industry is such that the NLRB
never has been able to conduct
elections. Accordingly, no union
can be certified. In addition, tradi-
tional hiring practices, which re-
semble the hiring hall, have been
under heavy fire under the Taft
Hartley law, the AFL pointed out.
The contractors also submitted a
brief, and both sides asked that
the building trades be exempted
from the hiring provisions of the
law.
The AFL brief cited the Hanford
case, which arose from a charge by
Chester r. Hughes that he was de
MED job on a construction pro-
ject because of a closed shop. The
union involved is Local 370, of the
AFL Operating Engineers.
Neither the AFL nor the Associ-
ated Contractors will argue the
merits of the particular case. They
will leave that to those immediate
ly concerned. In presenting the
general problem they will be join
ed In discussion by DR.. John Dun
lop of Harvard, impartial chair
man of the AFL's Natl Joint
Board for the Settlement of Juris-
dictional Disputes, the Int'l Assn
of Machinists, the Natl Construc-
tors Assn and northern Cali
fornia builders group. The board
has indicated that it will establish
policy through consideration of in
dividual cases.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
SpecuIofor Pressure Forces FAC
To ADOPT Reel World Food PIon

washington (LPA)-It was a
resounding victory for the big spec
ulators when the working party
of the United Nations Food &
Agricultural Organizations Com
mission No. 1" dumped the propos-
al to set up an international pool
of farm commodities.
What's more, most of the opposi-
tion to the plan came from the Am
erican delegates to the FAC con-
ference here. The Americans paid
more attention to the groans of the
/ big operators who thought they
might lose a few fast bucks than
to the leaders of organized labor
and others who wanted to find a
reasonable way to make food avail
able to millions around the world
who seldom get enough to eat.
| In a pussy-footing approach to
the problem, the working party"
proposed that, instead of a COM
modify pool, an international Com
mittee on Commodity Problems be
established. This committee would:
U) disseminate commodity infor-
nation among various countries; /;
(2) consider proposals on how to
get rid of surpluses accumulating
in some countries; and (3) review
information on surpluses with some
idea of suggesting a way to disti-
butte them. Under pressure from
the spectators, this wishy-washy
system was expected to be adopted
in plehary session of the FAC
conference.
By way of contrast, the commod-
ity pool or clearing house would
have had for its prime purpose the
distribution of food, not the review
of information about it. Surpluses
in the "hard money" countries such
as the US would have been made
available at bargain prices or per-
haps in local currency in the "soft
money" countries.
Behind opposition to the clearing
house, many observers saw the
hand of Will Clayton, one-time AS
sistant Secretary of State and part
ner in the huge Anderson Clayton
cotton company. Secretary of Agri-
culture Brannan, as head of the
American delegation, was officially
opposed to the clearing house but
may have been for it personally.
Among US labor leaders who
publicly urged that the clearing
house plan be adopted were Pres
ident William Green of the AFL,
President Philip Murray of the
CIO, President Walter Reuther of
the United Auto -CIO,
President All Hayes of the Int1
Assn of Machinists, President
David Dubinsky of the Iht'l Ladies
Garment Workers-AFL, President
Emil Rieve Of the Textile Workers
Union-CIO and Vice-president Sell
ma Borchardt of the American
Federation of Teachers AFL. Labor
leaders were joined by many lib
eral and church leaders.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
WILL BUILD ISRAELI VILLAGE

New York (LPA)-The Work
mems Circle will cooperate with
the Norwegian Labor Party In
building a village in Israel dedicat-
ed to the memory Of the 28 Jewish
war orphans who died in an air
plane crash near Oslo Nov. 81. The
children were being brought to
Norway for rehabilitation and
training. The Norwegian Labor
Party members will finance the
village through donation of an
hours pay. The Workmen's Circle
will finance two homes and contri-
butte scarce building materials. The
Dutch Labor Party will underwrite
three Of the homes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
House Group May
Consider Security
Checks For Unions

Washington (LPA) = The ques-
ton of whether labor unions should
be subject to security investiga-
tions when they deal with indus
tries that produce war goods may
come before the House Un-Ameri-
can Activities Committee shortly.
A subcommittee headed by Rep.
Morgan M. Moulder Cd, Mo-
seemed to think it was a matter to
brood on after hearings Dec. 5 and
6 on the United Electrical Workers,
recently expelled for doggedly fol-
lowing the Communist Party line.
The committee heard UE Secre-
ary-Treasurer julius Emspak and
Organization Director James j.
Matles refuse to say whether they
were members of the Communist
Party and several of its front or
ganizations. Both hedged on the
question of whether they have ac-
cess to information about atomic
products manufactured by members
of their union.
Oscar Smith, personnel director
for the Atomic Energy Commiss-
on, testified that Acc had banned
UE from atom plants after union
officials had refused to discuss Sc
:urity matters or give the commiss-
ion necessary information. Smith
emphasized that other unions in
the atom industry, notably the
AFL Metal Trades Council and
Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers
have been very cooperative in Sc
curity matters.
Heaping praise On the Acc for
the Every careful" way it has
handled the problem, Rep. Mould
er told Smith, "You should be COM
plimented for the efficient work
you are doing"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
Eisenhower
Continued From Page Onel

not the man for them.
Lowell Mellett, the newspaper
commentator, says Eisenhower
hasn't caught up with what has
been happening in the world or his
own country during lifetime
spent pursuing professional car
eer somewhat outside the common
current" and suggests "lke" do
more studying and less speechmak-
ing.
He might ponder, for instance,
over the recent report that even
today third of the nations fam
lilies have incomes of $1,000 or less.
Or does he think that current soc
ial security benefits come anywhere
near providing for old age? Or
that medical care is anywhere near
adequate
1--WE seek the illusion called Sc
curity,' Eisenhower said in a
speech the other night. eve think
too much of luxuries. We want to
wear fine shirts, have caviar and
champagne when we should be
eating hot dogs and beer"
Eisenhower made that speech
before the Saint Andrews Society
of New York, at the Waldorf AS
toria hotel in New York. An edit
orial in the Daily Spectator, stud
ent newspaper of Columbia univer-
sity, in an attack on the speech,
said:
"We don't know, of course, but
we are willing to bet beer and hot
dogs were not on the menu"
They'd win their bet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
y or ,oss-,93o

Latest predictions were that Paul
Finet Of Belgium would be elected
Confederation president and the j.
HI. Oldenbroek of the Netherlands
would be elected permanent secre-
tary. Finet has presided over the
sessions here, and he chaired the
meetings in Geneva last summer
when preliminary plans for the new
body were drafted. Oldenbroek is
general secretary of the Int'l
Transportworkers Federation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15
New World Union Blasts Russian Type
States, Green Member Executive Board

London. = AFL President VIII
lam Green was chosen a member
of the top executive board of the
new anti Communist International
Confederation of Free Tra d e
Unions.
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
Meany and Irving Brown, AFL
representative in Europe, were
named alternates on the policy
making panel which will govern
the confederation of 48,000,000
workers in SO countries. Percy
Bengough, president of the Cana
ddian Trades and Labor Congress,
was named to the executive board.
AS the new organization formal
ly came into being, AFL Vice Pres
idents George Harrison and David
Dubinsky said that the main Am
erican detectives had been support
ed by the founding conference and
are incorporated in the constitu-
tion.
The confederation pledged to
fight for workers and against total
itarianism everywhere.
One article in the constitution,
which did not mention communism
by name, called for establishment
of world system of collective Sc
curity and urged support within
rNf - mi hIn
tions for measures against total
itarian aggression.
The confederation elected Paul
Finet, of Belgium president, Dutch
Delegate j. H. Oldenbroek of the
International Transport Workers
Federation as its first secretary
general, selected Brussels as head
quarters and named a 19-man ex
ecutive board, including 2 Ameri-
cans.
Green and Murray Elected
President William Green Of the
AFL and President Philip Murray
of the CIO were elected to of the
a North American seats on the ex-
ecutive board. Their alternates are
Mr.. Meany and Mr.. Brown for the
AFL and James B. Carey and
Elmer F. Cope for the CI0.
The constitution pledged the new
confederation to:
/. Coordinate the defense of free
trade unions against any campaign
"aiming at their destruction or at
the restriction of their rights" or
at their subjugation "by totalitar
ian or other antilabor forces"
2. Establish a powerful interna-
tional organization of free trade
unions to promote the interests of
working people throughout the
world and "enhance the dignity of
labor"
3. Assist in developing and fost-
ering growth of trade unions in
economically and socially under
developed countries.
a. Work for full employment
anywhere and aid the economic,
social and cultural interests of
countries suffering the after r-effects
of war.
5. Protect and expand the sys-
tenn Of free labor everywhere and
eliminate forced labor every
where"
6. Work for establishment Of a |
world system Of collective security, |
but, pending its attainment, to fur
ther and support within the u. N.
charter all measures necessary for
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

The average worker is more con-
cerned with what his union-earned
dollar buys in quality Union goods
than he is with the value of the
franc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

No matter what kind of IDEAL
YOU are trying to get-see that a
Union Label is on the deck.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-15

Ask for Union Labeled merchan
disc.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11

A food sale will be held tomor-
row beginning at 10 a. m. by
the W. S. e. S. as the Browning
Mercantile Co. store.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11

Enabling Act
Boon

Approval of bill permitting
county hospitals to admit pat
tents other than indigents was
one OF the locally impo tan t
pieces of Legislation Of the state
assembly at Helena last week.
Its later approval by Governor
bonner assured solution of a
problem concerning the health
welfare of every person of Glac-
Ter County.
Previous status was that the
new Memorial Hospital at Cut
Bank, financed several years ago
by county bond issue and last
year qualifying as beneficiary
of the federal hospital act, could
not have legally admitted patti
ents other than indigents, ac-
cording to an Interpretation by
the state attorney general.
The board of county commiss-
toner's had lately become appre-
hensive, lest the state legisla-
ture would do nothing about it.
Word from Senator Aronson,
however, assured them that all
was well and that the best inter-
ests OF Glacier County would be
provided for.
The new Memorial Hospital
through aid of the federal gov
eminent is to serve as national
model. Being the first to receive
federal funds. under the federal
hospital act, understanding is
that other hospital projects ass
listed under the same conditions,
are to be built throughout the
nation.
The new Memorial Hospital is
to be operated under a contract
with a competent individual or
group, who will assume all ad-
ministrative responsibilities and
will be selected on bid basis.
Being almost completed by
Contractor Stack and with the
enabling act of the legislature as
the go ahead" sign, it's opera
ton will be under way by early
summer.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11
Sundays Game
For Benefit Of
March Of Dimes

A benefit project, with the pro-
ceeds going to the M arch of
Dimes fund to be used in the
battle against infantile paralysis,
is b eng arranged by ROLAND
Harper, manager of the Brown
ing Independents, for S u n d a y
when his quint will play the OIL
mont Independents at the local
high school gym.
The game will follow pre-
limiary set for 2::3O.
Aside from interest in the
game, there should be devotion
towards the March of Dimes pro-
ject.
In the light of the inroads of
infantile paralysis in Montana in
the last several years, tn e r e
should be a good attendace or it's
equivalent in donations.
This will be t h e first health
benefit project in Browning in
several years.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11
Rugged Winter In
Glacial Park Area;
Moisture Increase

The Glacier National Park area
is enduring the most rugged win
ter in his "a years of park service
experience, declares E. N. Flad-
mark, chief ranger, who stopped
off in Browning Monday f or a
visit at the Chief Office, while en-
route to Cut Bank.
Both heavy snowfall and a long
sustained spell of sub-zero tenn
peratures characterize the pres
ent winter, he said. The record
shows moisture a bow normal
during the last several years, a
change from a previous period of
sub-normal moisture.
Noticeable, he said. w ere the
many new flowing springs during
the last two summers as the re-
suit of m e winter snowfalls.
During immediate previous sum-
mers water sources had become
diminished. After all, he pointed
out, an abundance of moisture is
the very life blood of h e park
area.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11
No Opposition To
Hospital Bill No. 8

Senate Bill No. 8, which per-
mits county-owned hospitals to
admit patients other h n indi-
gents its services, went through
b h houses at Helena without
any opposition last week, accord
ing to Senator Aronson of Glacier
County. The bill was introduced
by him.
A companion measure, Bill No.
20, also introduced by him later,
would authorize the county COM
missioners to m a k e three-year
contracts with hospitals or other
institutions for the care of county
indigents. The law at present
limits the contract to one year.
Progress of the bill awaits fur
ther legislative action.
In telephone message to the
Chief Monday evening, Senator
Aronson gave out t h e above in
formation.
He said h a t he anticipated
hard shedding for dominant leg
islation during the balance of the
session. This, he explained, was
because of the puzzle for new
sources of taxation to bear the
o S of legislative proposals.
Again. he said, it was the drama
of dancers having to pay the fid-
dler.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-02-11
Indians Second
In Tournament
Set-up at Shelby

At a coaches and superinten.
dents meeting at Shelby last Sun
day, Mr.. Bergen, Mr.. Fox an d
MIR. Kelly brought home the fol-
lowing news and tournament set
up. The teams were coded in the
following way:
First went to Cut Bank, second
to Browning, third to Oilmont,
fourth to Shelby, fifth to Waller,
sixth to Conrad, seventh to Sun
burst, and eighth to Brady.
The ceding brought for h
means and groans from some of
the assembled coaches, especially
those from Waller, Oilmont and
Sunburst who are finally waking
up to the fact t h a t Shelby and
Cut Bank have b e n for years
putting them where they wanted
them.
AS consequence, these teams
knock each other over each year
and rarely have a chance to come
through. 1t looked as if a real
break in relationship might come
about but things were finally
cooled down. The Browning dele
CATION got a kick out of rubbing
it in and teasing these people for
voting the tourney to Shelby and
Cut Bank every year.
The possibilities for Browning
high school are great. We play
Conrad tn e first night, Shelby
the second, and if we win there,
go into the championship game.
Excitement is running high and
Browning high figures to be in
the running when the m o k e
clears!