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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Keep Political
Leagues Active,
Is Meeting Topic

The Ohio State Federation of
Labor's Educational and Political
League Advisory Committee held
its first post-election meeting in
Columbus Sunday, and charted it's
course for the coming months.
Important detectives are:
stimulate local political lea
que in registration and voting
activities.
2-Lay the groundwork for the
defeat of U. S. Senator Robert A.
Taft.
3-Secure labor law improve
ments through the Ohio Legisla-
ture.
4-Help in the national effort to
repeal the Taft Hartley Law.
Principal speaker was Phil Han
nah, OSFL secretary-treasurer and
Legislative agent of the state or
ganization. Hannah reported that
progress is good for labor legisla-
tion in the present session.
Hannah called attention to the
two Ohio bills in which labor is
particularly interested: The House
bill on workmen's compensation
and the Senate bill on unemploy-
ment compensation.
House Bill 531 would provide a
maximum of $50 weekly payments
and liberal compensation in silico-
sis cases. Senate Bill 142 calls for
maximum of $50 weekly benefits
for workmen with two dependents.
On the national level, Hannah
predicted the "fangs will be cut
from the Taft Hartley Law" and
that great percentage of Pres
ident Truman's program will be
enacted.
Hannah contended that Taft is
a dangerous man for free labor.
He added:
"The whole nation is looking to
Ohio to defeat Taft in 1850"
He said employers all over the
nation will kick in to a war chest
for Taft, and therefore labor must
build now its financial strength for
his defeat.
Michael j. Lyden, of Youngs-
town, president of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, said there is
growing sentiment for Hamah's
candidacy for U. S. senator in
Ohio.
Sundays meeting was attended
by presidents and secretaries of the
"A city central labor bodies (AFL)
and of the state craft organiza-
tions.
Other speakers included Jack
Burns, President of the Cleveland
Federation of Labor; John Breid-
enbach, End Vice President of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor;
James Walsh, of the Union Labor
Trades Department, Washington
John j. Hurst, President, Cincin-
natl Central Labor Council; Otto
Brach, Secretary, Toledo Central
Labor Union; Louis Bengel, Secre-
tary of the Ohio State Conference
of Street & Electric Railway EN-
ployees; James Joyce, member of
the General Assembly and John w.
Jockel, State Secretary of the
Bricklayers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

wages earned that the incentive to
work is not destroyed"
Most fiery speech of the confer
ence was delivered by Stanley Rec
tor, who was paid $4,000 last year
to lobby against any effective fed
eral standards covering the state
unemployment compensation sys-
TENS. His outfit is known as I'm
employment Benefit Advisors Inc.
"The high hopes entertained by
federal strategists on the rosy
dawn of Nov. g." Rector asserted,
led them to think "the time had
finally arrived for federalizing the
program thru a direct frontal as
sault. However, that clear, rosy
post-election sky has become sub
stantially clouded."
Rector discarded all of the Ad-
ministration's proposals for in
creasing coverage and benefits
under the present program as un-
important. He concentrated his fire
on two proposals-one which he
said would wipe out the merit rat
ing provisions under which employ
ers with "good" records of having
few of their employees apply for
jobless benefits, and the other the
proposal that state-by-state stan
dards for granting or rejecting
claims be subject to some form OF
federal control.
"This legislation" Rector told
the businessmen, 'is going to be
hard to beat" He added that ito
bring about this awareness is an
educational project of the first
magnitude, and | am indeed glad
that the Chamber of Commerce of
the US, with its very extensive
educational facilities, has enlisted
itself in the project"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Hosiery Companies
Trying To Wreck
Arbitration Plan

Philadelphia (LPA)-Two hos
iery companies in the Philadelphia
area last week launched court
fights to overturn the long-develop-
ed system of arbitration in the in
dustry, which the American Fed
|eration of Hosiery Workers has
supported as means of elimina-
ting industrial conflicts.
Both companies - the Danita
Hosiery Manufacturing Co. and the
Millville Hosiery Co.-have con-
tracts with AFHW which rule out
the third working shift. In violation
of their contracts the two compan-
les instituted third shifts. When
the AFHW appealed the contract
violations to the impartial arbitra-
tor, as provided in the contracts, it
won both cases.
Now the employers are asking
the courts to sustain their contract
violations, and to overturn the
arbitration machinery, whose de-
cisions they had promised to abide
by.
cit is Of great Importance that
the public at large be made fully
aware of the danger to peaceful
labor relations created by those
firms who refused to put into effect
a decision handed down by the inn
partial arbitrator under the con-
tract" AFHW President Alexander
McKeown pointed out.
"The action" he explained, "is
threat to a labor relations pro-
cedure which in the 20 years of its
existence in the hosiery industry
has not produced a single authoriz-
ed stoppage of the 10000 members
over the country protected by this
contract clause"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Phone Workers Hit
Bell StaIIing With
.14Ouickie" Strikes

Seattle (LPA) - A series OF
auickie demonstration walkouts
throughout Washington and Idaho
this week and last, brought into
sharp focus the wage dispute be-
tween phone workers represented
by the Communications Workers
of America, who are employed by
the Pacific Tel. & Tel. in the area.
The wage dispute involves 5000
workers, only remaining group OF
Bell employees who have not yet
received a third-round pay boost.
The union has demanded an aver
age increase of lie an hour. The
company offer averages only about
Sc and in few cases involved pay
cuts for workers in some towns.
First of series of walkouts
came in Spokane last week where
/ 900 phone workers took part in a
four-hour demonstration meeting,
tying up the towns phone service
one morning. The second walkout
occurred in Yakima two days later,
It involved 200 workers. Workers
voted overwhelmingly to strike
during these demonstration meet
ings.
The union has filed unfair labor
practice charges against the Bell
company following wave of in
i, timidation and coercion which
arose after the walkout.
The company laid off % workers
| in Takoma Tuesday following a
demonstration meeting of the 500
|CWA members in the town. The
union is expanding its unfair labor
practice charge to cover the
Takoma layoff situation.
Meanwhile, the company is
spending time in bargaining ses-
sions trying to fix the "blame" for
the series of walkouts rather than
make an acceptable pay boost offer.
The union says the company offer,
to be acceptable, must include an
average pay hike of lie an hour.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Mop Fight To Stop Trumdn's S
Jobless Benefits Program

Washington (LPA) = Proof of
labor's charge that organized en-
ployer's major interest in unem-
ployment insurance is to "toughen
up" requirements was seen at a
one-day conference held here last
week by the US Chamber of Com
merce.
First speaker before several
hundred industrialists who gather
ed here was John Edelman, Wash
ington representative of the Textile
Workers Union of America, who
cheerfully agreed that he'd been
set up as the whipping boy" and
who predicted that the conference
would center on the "toughening
up" of the unemployment insurance
program.
He termed Industrial manage
ment's view on -jobless benefits one
of seeing to it that fewer people
get benefits in lesser amounts for
shorter duration"
"Will it take another equivalent
of an economic atomic bomb" Edel-
man asked, "to awaken the employ
er groups in this country to the
fact that our free enterprise sys-
TEN will not and cannot survive
unless we speedily and courageous
t ly enact and honestly apply COM
prehensive federal social security
system which fulfills in fact the
promise that the name implies"
Mr.. Edelman explained to the
lindustrialists that labor's primary
goal is to obtain a uniform nation
wide federal system of jobless
benefits, though meanwhile it is
concentrating on getting increased
coverage and benefits and fairer
qualification requirements under
the present federal-state system.
Edelman was followed by the
leading proponents of states-rights
in this field, and a spokesman for
General Motors Corp. who argued
that because Congress "seems re-
luctant" to approve 75c minimum
wage state legislatures certainly
shouldn't be approving jobless
benefits of $50 a week.
Said Director George Jacoby of
GINS Personnel Dept, employers
favor reasonable benefit scales and
reasonable duration. But employ
ers do insist that benefit scales
should be so drawn in relation to
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Real Esfofe Lobby
Defeoted-Trumun

Washington (LPA) - The 1949
rent control law establishes an eff
fective system of rent control ad-
ministration," President Truman
stated on signing the measure last
week, by "remedying weaknesses
in the present law which tend to
make rent control ineffective be-
cause of inadequate enforcement
powers"
"In its final FORM" said the Pre-
sident, "it represents a crushing
defeat for the real estate lobby"
By passing the bill, Congress
has re-emphasized the necessity
for the prompt enactment of legis-
lation which will help to relieve
the housing shortage" according
to the Chief Executive.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Typos Cite Proof That New
Duilies Can Be Started

Indianapolis, Ind. (LPA) 1T
has been proven--a new daily
newspaper can be established"
With these words as his keynote,
Vice President Elmer Brown of
the Int1 Typographical Union
AFL told an unusual story of how
the Typos, in alliance with local
citizens groups, have succeeded in
putting over sound daily news
papers in competition with local
monopoly papers.
Brown detailed the story in the
Typographical Journal. He cited
Trenton, n. j., as one example OF
his thesis that a labor backed daily
can succeed.
Printers on the towns only
paper, the Trenton Times, were
forced out on strike three years
ago. They turned out strike paper
to begin with--a sort of handbill
to acquaint citizens with the issues
at stake. Demands for a new daily
began to mount.
Responding to the demands,
citizens who were fed up with the
anti-union newspaper monopoly in
Trenton got behind efforts to estab-
lish a competing daily" Brown
said. "Thus, the daily Trentonian
began publication in competition
with the struck Times"
The paper caught on and became
a going proposition-so much so
that an Eastern publisher, Edward
Goodrich, formerly with the New
York Post and other papers, offer
ed to buy it. The sale was COM
pleted last month, and Unitypo, a
corporation owned by the ITU, dis
posed of its financial interest in
the Trentonian to Goodrich, who il
operating it on thoroughly union
basis.
Example No. 2 is Colorado
Springs, Colo. There, the printers
were locked out over two years ago
on the Gazette-Telegraph owned
by r. C. Holes, reactionary chain
publisher, who runs a string OF
papers i'm western towns, most OF
them "open shop" The Gazette
Telegraph had been the only daily
in Colorado Springs.
Immediately after the lockout
sentiment for establishment Of q
rival daily rose swiftly. The result
was establishment of the "Free
Press" with aid from the ITU's
Unitypo Corporation. Here too
the new daily proved a success de-
spite many obstacles and it has
just marked its second anniversary
In an editorial on its second
birthday, the Free Press declared
"The Free Press is two years
old this morning, and we are
mighty proud of that fact. Wher
the Free Press hit the streets, we
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
CHARLES II. MEEKS.

Charles Huston Meeks, sc Grant
ST., Newell, died April in City
Hospital, following a several years
illness.
Mr.. Meeks was born in Waver-
ly, w. Va, and lived in this dis
trict for 35 years. He was a sag
germaker and was employed last
by the New Castle Refractories
Co. in Newell. He retired in 1912.
He was a member of the Eagles
Lodge and the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters.
Mr.. Meeks leaves his widow,
Mrs. Mary Meeks; son, Charles
Meeks of Niles; three daughters,
Mrs. Ruth Gorby of Wellsville,
Mrs. Hilda Harris of East Liver
pool, and Mrs. Helen Wagner of
Columbus; four sisters, Mrs. Grace
McAtee and Mrs. Sue Umstock of
Waverly, Mrs. Lorraine Gray of
Huntington, w. Va, and Mrs.
Nellie Chougaris of New York
five brothers, Carl Meeks of
Newell, Howard Meeks and Clifford
Meeks of Waverly, and Royal
Meeks and Raymond Meeks of New
York, and seven grandchildren.
Rites were held in the Arner
Home for Funerals in East Liver
pool by Rev. C. l.. Cope, pastor of
the Pennsylvania Ave. Methodist
Church. Burial was in Locust Hill
Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
OBITUARIES
ROBERT f. BRYSON

New Castle, Pa. - Robert f.
Bryson, 72, died at his home, $40
Knox street March 10, following a
lengthy illness.
Mr.. Bryson was born in New
Castle and lived there all his life,
He was kiln placer by trade and
affiliated with Local Union 108
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and st. Mary's Church.
He leaves his wife and two
daughters, Mrs. Michael Lintz and
Mrs. Harry Barr of Bedford, Ohio,
and seven grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Building Unions Accept Negroes

Washington (LPA)-Underman-
ned building trade unions have
been accepting Negro workers to
a greater degree than ever before,
Samuel b. Danley, of the Labor
Dep'ts Division of Labor Stand
ards, said here last week. He re-
ported that Negroes have made
great advances in gaining mem
bership in unions located in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and
New Orleans. He predicted that job
for skilled Negro
workers would increase in the ma
chine, printing and radio industries
i'm the years ahead.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

London (LPA)-There'll be no
loyalty oath problem in Britain.
Prime Minister Clement r. Attlee
last week rejected suggestion by
Conservatives that loyalty oaths
be required of all civil servants.
Pointing out that such oaths do not
protect the nation, Attlee told the
House of Commons that ~ should
not have thought myself that a
person who was preparing to en-
gage in treason would boggle at an
oath or two"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

New York OPA) = Expressing
fear that Congress seems to be
Overlooking last November's cleo
ton returns" representatives of
$4,000 Textile Workers demanded
immediate repeal of TIL and pass
age of $1-an-hour minimum wage.
In resolution passed at TWUA's
carpet and rug conference, dele
gates called on liberals to ignore
Old Guard obstructionism and full
fill the mandate from the voters"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

Chester, Pa. (LPA)-Signs of a
rift between Dixiecrat and Repub-
lican forces are becoming increas-
ingly apparent, John Edelman,
TWUA legislative representative,
told delegates to the unions reg
ional legislative conference here
last week. Dixiecrat leaders are
beginning to see the coalition as a
potential boomerang, while Re
publicans are finding that it "has
its disadvantages" Edelman said
the coming fight on Taft-Hartley
repeal may show a substantial
weakening of the coalition.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07
Economic HighHghtS
Happenings That Affect the Dinner
Pals, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual
National and International Pro-
blems Inseparable from Local
Welfare

blems lnseparable from Local.
Welfare
The recent shifts of key men
within the Soviet government have
stirred up an apparently endless
discussion as to whether this may
be the prelude to some dramatic
new tangent in Kremlin policy. The
iron curtain is SO opaque that no
one can answer that with certitude
at this distance. However, the ex-
perts, after mulling over all the
available facts and guesses, have
generally come to the conclusion
that the changes stem from per-
fectly logical reasons, which have
relatively small influence on the
relations of Russia with the West.
The most important change was
the supplementing of Molotov with
Vishinsky as Foreign Minister. The
easy conclusion was that Molotov
was in disgrace, and would disap-
pear from public life, as Litvinoff
did years ago. But Molotov remains
member of the Politburo, which
is infinitely more important than
any cabinet post. So it can logical
ly be argued that Stain decided
he could be of more value if kept
at home. 1t wouldn't surprise the
experts if he was made Premier
before long.
The key to the whole business
may be found in conditions within
the Soviet Union and her satellite
states. Things aren't going as well
as the Communists want. The diff
ficulties with Tito have provided
the most publicized example of
this. But what is happening in
Yugoslavia is also happening,
though in different way and on a
smaller scale, in Hungary, Bull
garia and elsewhere. The Soviet
dominated governments are exper-
iencing special trouble in bringing
, the peasants INTO line.
1 Furthermore, it looks as if the
kremlin is far from satisfied with
its own peoples theological fervor.
/ u. S. News puts it this way: "The
old idea was that the elite of the
Communist Party, which has only
/ 100000 members in a country of
about 210,000,000 people, would
have faith in Communist ideology
4 and execute the orders. Now the
Politburo has ordered a tremendous
!, campaign of missionary work that
is designed to sell the idea of com
plete faith in the eventual triumph
of Communism to the whole of the
Russian people. That campaign is
not the kind of thing that can be
put across overnight"
! What effect may all this have on
the great issue of peace or war?
1t is clear, if these opinions are
correct, that Russia is planning on
a lengthy period of peace. AT pres
ent, the lines in Europe seem to be
pretty well established. Russia has
expanded about as far as she can
go. There is small chance of the
West making any headway in
breaking the orbit of countries
which surround Russia and whose
governments she dominates. So, to
Stain and other top men, this may
appear to be the proper time for
correcting grave internal weak
! neSseS.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-07

Washington (LPA)-Racial seq
regation is being ended in the Air
Force, Secretary w. Stuart Sym
ington told the Presidents Com
mittee on Equality of Treatment
& Opportunity in the Armed Ser
vices at a closed session here last
week. Symington informed the
committee that USAF's all-Negro
332nd Fighter Group would be
broken up and its personnel scat
tered thruout the service.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15
Lamb Sales Report

Lamb prices ranging from 1912
cents to % cents a pound were re-
ported in recent sales in Teton, Cas-
cade and Meagher counties.
White Sulphur Springs area: 1900
blackfaced eve lambs, fall delivery,
81 cents; 1900 blackfaced wether
labms, fall delivery, 1872 cents; 1000
whitefaced wether lambs, fall de-
livery, 1912 cents.
Arlington area: 2,100 blackfaced
yearling ewes, out of the wool, July
25 delivery, % cents a pound. AS a
part of this same deal the yearling
operator has purchased 1900 black
faced eve lambs for spring delivery
at % cents-the freight to be equal
lied On the eve lambs in case they
are from a distant point.
Fairfield area: 1900 yearling ewes,
about so percent blackfaces, balance
whitefaces, TO be delivered in Au-
gust and September, $3.50 per head;
900 mixed blackfaced lambs, 201h
cents; 800 mixed whitefaced lambs,
207s cents.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15

A rancher friend of mine got me out
of bed at three A. M. last week. He
had come across several dead calves
while range-riding and was really on
the prod.
"H looks like bIackIeg," he says,
"Gnd can you come dOicn pronfo?"
piled my instrument bag into
the car and got away at the crack
of dawn. He met me at the four
n and we finished the trip on
horseback.
We found a newIy-dead calf and
did a post norton. I wasn't teo~
sure field diagnosis is never +oo-
positive but the laboratory findings
later proved that his "blackleg" di.
agnosis was all wet. 1t turned out
to be malignant edema, which is
almost a twin to "blackleg' and kills
just as fast.
Here, s the point I'm making: Tell
ing the difference betWeen bIackleg
and malignant edema is plenty diff
6cult and dorned near impossible
Without q smart laboratory techni-
clan backing up your suspicious.
knowing that these two thugs,
bLockLeg- and malignant edema.-
often work together, Vaccine has
been developed to prevent both of
them in the same shot and at no
fancy inflated priceM
In other words, if it's no more
trouble and won't make a notice
able dent in your pocketbook, why
take a chance with your livestock?
All of you stockmen who read the
livestock publications know the dan.
gers of internal parasites. These
modern COW thiefs have no rope or
hideout, but they're deadly. l just
came back from a trouble call where
about 1900 head of were
involved. The entire bunch were
unthrifty, anemic, securing badly,
and we found a lot down and a
number dead. They were too weak
to stand the recent cold spell. Phe-
nothiazine seems to be doing a better
than-average job in controlling in
ternal parasites, and ranchers using
it swear by it. They should be treat
edwith the recommended dose when
parasites are first noted, and again
IA days later. Good management
means that you'll have to get up
early and do some thinking to beat
the bugs to the draw.
See you next month";.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15

carrying forward programs aimed at
bringing about improved farming
and homemaking methods and bet
ter rural community living, accord
ing to the report of R. B. Tootell, d.
rector of the agricultural extension
service at Montana State college.
Of the 6,766 adults who served as
unpaid local leaders, 1910 were All
club leaders. In addition, there were
also 304 older All club boys and girls
who served as Junior leaders of All
clubs.
Through this cooperative effort,
extension last year reached %, 453
Montana farm families with some
phase of educational work in crop
and livestock production, c~onserva-
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15

lion Of resources, farm and ranch
management, marketing, nutrition,
clothing, health, housing, family and
community life-to name a few of
the broader phases of the extension
program.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15
$500 Rural Residents
Assist Service

MORE THAN $500 rural men and
women in 43 Montana counties gave
freely of their time during 1913 to
assist county extension agents IN