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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Sen. Kerr Amt
Cooking With Gas,
Sells The Stuff

Washington (LPA)-A bill now
before Congress could cost con-
sumers of natural gas more thar
81 billion on their cooking and
heating bills during the next few
years, according to Federal Power
Commissioner Leland Olds.
Olds told a Senate committee
last week that measure proposed
by Senators Robert S. Kerr Cd,
'Okla.) and Elmer Thomas Cd,
.Okla.) to free the natural gas in
dustry from federal regulation,
would mean an increase in gas
prices for 40,000,000 people.
The extra money, he testified,
would go mostly to about 20 of the
largest and most prosperous COM
panies, Olds showed, have been
making very high profits under
FPC controls and have been able
to borrow capital at extremely low
interest rates. At the same time,
federal regulation of gas rates has
kept cost to consumers down more
than $500,000,000 each year.
Sen. Kerr, who used to be gov
ernor of Oklahoma, owns a large
interest in big gas and oil opera
tions in that state.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Serves Notice On
Steel Companies
For Wage ParIey

Pittsburgh (LPA)-The million
member United Steelworkers of
America last week served notice on
over 1000 steel companies-large
and small-that it desires to ne
gotiate" new contract benefits for
its members before July 16.
Main targets of the steelworkers
union are 835 companies employing
about 100000 workers. They in
|clude the giant US Steel and such
other huge combines as Bethlehem
Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube,
and Republic Steel.
Altho USA's contracts with these
companies run until May 1850,
wage and social benefit clauses are
open for renegotiation now. USA
reminded the employers in letters
that on July 16 it has the right to
strike. The companies, of course,
can lock out the workers if an un-
derstanding has not been reached
by that date.
USA sent similar letters to 1921
companies, employing about 319,-
600 workers, whose union contracts
expire this summer. These small
er companies will be presented
with wage bills similar to those
USA is handing the bigger COM
panies on behalf of their employees.
Altho the letter did not specify
the exact amount of the demands
USA is shooting for, USA made it
plain that it wants hourly wage in
creases, pensions, health insurance,
and company-paid medical care for
its members.
The total demands will come to
about 30c real wage increase per
hour for every steel worker.
Employers attention was called
to the recent Supreme Court decis-
ion in the Inland Steel case which
requires them to bargain in good
faith about pension and health
plans.
No reliable statement has so far
been Forthcoming from the indus
try as to what it's counter offers
will be. Indications are that the
lnion will have to fight hardest for
4 cash wage increase and that the
companies will attempt to reduce
he health and pension benefits
which USA will propose.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
AFL UNION INDUSTRIES
SHOWAGREATSUCCESS

AFL President William Green call
ed it an effective answer to the
challenge of Communism"
Green said: "The purpose of the
Members of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor are determined
that our free enterprise system
shall survive in America and that
freedom and democracy shall not
be obliterated by force in other
nations of the earth"
Ornburn, Mayor Thomas A.
Burke Jr. of Cleveland and top
AFL leaders participated with
Green in the opening ceremony.
Mayor Burke and Governor Frank
j. Lausche of Ohio issued procla-
nations making the week "union
industries" week in honor of the
super-extravaganza.
More than 200 employers of AFL
members, plus all the AFL unions
had exhibits in the show. Many of
the union exhibitions were in con-
junction with those of AFL en-
ployers.
Thousands of dollars in prizes,
cash, were given away
by union and employers exhibitors.
The prizes ranged from cigars and
to electronic stoves,
automobiles, electrical Appliances
and a multitude of other items
all products of AFL labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
SENATE SET TO TACKLE
TAFT-HARLEY REPEALER

liberal Republican support for a
pro-labor bill.
Last week Sen. Hubert Hump
hrey Cd, Minn.), one of the most
fortnight Senate foes of TIL, said
that he favored including in the
repeater a section providing for
government seizure of struck
plants when necessary to protect
the national health and safety.
AS was true in the Houses first
consideration of TIL repeal this
will be a key point. While agreeing
to the plant seizure proviso, labor
has remained adamant in its objec-
tion to anti-strike injunctions, for
which Taft and his Dixiegop
friends are sure to press.
Meanwhile, over on the House
side of Capitol Hill, Labor Com
mittee Chairman John Lesinski
announced that his committee will
have a new repeater ready for pre-
sentation to the House before the
end of June. Rep. Augustine Kelley
Cd, Pa.), floor leader in the House
light for repeal, disclosed that he's
turned down a place on the US
delegation to the Int'l Labor Or
yanization meeting in Geneva.
With Kelley away the Labor
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02

Washington (LPA)-Republicar
charges that President Truman
and his Democratic supporters
want to delay action on Taft-Hart-
ley law repeal, so that they can
use it as a campaign issue in 1850,
were refuted last week when Dem
ocratic Senate leaders announced
that they'll try to get the bill to
the floor this week.
There are 81 Democrats and AZ
Republicans in the Senate. About
a dozen of the Democrats may be-
tray their party's pledge and vote
to "retain Taft-Hartley principles"
Dixiecrats like Harry Byrd Cd,
Va.) and Allen Ellender Cd, La.)
have been lining up southern votes
for Sen. Robert A. Taft's own
compromise"
administration Democrats,
however, believe that they can re-
duce the number of defections by
amending the pro-union Thomas
Lesinski bill along lines agreed to
by organized labor.
But some Republican votes will
still be necessary to pass the ad-
final proposal. Reco-
gnizing this, union representatives
have approached Sen. George Aiken
Or, VT to get his help in winning
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Potters Annual Picnic Just Two Weeks AWAY
Ford Opposes
Jobless Pay For
N Mon-Strikers

Detroit LPA)-Protests agains
unemployment payments to laid
off members of United Auto Work
ers have been filed by Ford Motol
Co. in all states where the com
pany has plants.
Tho the $4,000 strikers at the
Ford plant in Dearborn do not gel
jobless pay, Ford is miffed thai
the $4,000 others it has had to lay
off because of the strike are eligi-
BILE for compensation.
All UAW members are involved
in the speedup strike, the company
claims, because the union has an
nounced that it is seeking thru
this strike to set an industry wide
pattern for application of produc-
tion standards" Asserting that
striking key plants has become a
standard union device, Ford is op-
posing payments to workers at un-
struck plants as improper use of
unemployment funds"
A UAW proposal last week to
arbitrate the key point in the strike
was turned down by the company
because it didn't like the unions
wording.
The question, as phrased in a
letter to Ford from UAW Pres
ident Walter Reuther, is: "Does
the company under the contract
have the right to require an en-
ploye to work at a rate of speed in
excess of 1000 of established stan
dards of production and to require
a worker to make up production
losses resulting from factors over
which the worker has no control?"
That has been the JAWS beef
at Ford all along. At other auto
companies, when the line stops be-
cause Of parts shortages or for any
other reason, it is started up again
at its regular rate of speed. At
Ford, the line is speeded up to
make up for the lost time.
In rejecting the proposal, the
company commented that it was
glad to see the union was finally
accepting arbitration. The union re-
piled that it always wanted this
question arbitrated but had been
objecting to side issues which the
company wanted to drag in.
Both sides agreed, however, that
once this point is settled all other
issues can be resolved in negotia-
tions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02

Cleveland (LPA)-AFL leaders
plan to carry the message of labor
management relations provided by
the Union Industries Show to
more people by staging the show
semi-annually beginning in 1862.
This announcement was made
here by l. M. (Dick) Ornburn,
show director and secretary of the
Union Label Trades Department,
show is to emphasize to the Ameri-
can people that organized labor is
willing to cooperate constructively
with employers who treat their
workers fairly.
which sponsores the show for the
AFL, after the show closed a high
! Unsuccessful five-day run in Cleve-
lands huge Public Hall.
Ornburn said the show would go
on semi-annual basis after it is
staged next year in Philadelphia
and in a West Coast city, probably
Los Angeles, in 1861. He said it is
also planned to sponsor similar
shows, but on a smaller scale, in
smaller cities. This is being plan
ned, he said, because only the
largest cities have the facilities to
stage the huge exhibit.
The Cleveland show, which drew
an attendance of 100000, opened
on May 18 with a ceremony carried
over a national radio network.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
OHIO HOUSE BURIES
ANTI-UNION BILLS

Columbus, o. (LPA)-Two anti
labor bills before the Ohio legisla-
ture were marked for death by the
Industry & Labor Committee of the
House last week. One would pro-
hibit political activity by unions,
and the other would outlaw all
forms of union security. Both were
overwhelmingly buried by the COM
mittee.
Meantime, both chambers of the
legislature have now "okayed" a
bill which boosts maximum unem-
ployment insurance benefits from
$21 to $50 a week; extends cover
age from % to 26 weeks, and elm
mates some "jokers" which de-
prived idle workers of compensa-
tion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Congress Group Releases
Report Prdising IVA And
Unions For Good Relations

Washington (LPA)-After eigh
months Incarceration in the capi
tol hill dungeon, a Congressional
committee report on labor relations
in the Tennessee Valley Authority
has at last been brought to light
L b management relations il
lTVA, says the reports, are "eXcel
lent"
Tho the report was fully com
pleted last October, printed copies
have just been made available to
the public. Responsibility for the
delay may be credited to Sen
Joseph H. Ball Or, Mimi, who
was at that time chairman of the
Joint Committee on Labor Man
agement Relations, com mon y
known as the watchdog" commit
tee for the Taft-Hartley law.
Prepared by committee consul
tant Alexander X. Christie, after
months of research and on-the-spot
investigation, the study was sub
mitted to watchdog Ball for a
routine okay to be printed. Other
studies, in which labor unions were
shown to be unreasonable or. even
dangerous, had been printed which
many people, including Sen. Ball,
expected Dewey and the Republi-
cans to win. The report was not
published during the 80th Con-
gresS.
Last month, Sen. James E. Muir
ray Cd, Mont.), now chairman of
the committee, submitted the re-
port to the Senate where Vice
President Alben Barkley immedi-
ately endorsed routine printing.
Copies are now available.
Ear too much time has been
spent on labor-management con-
flicts," says Sen. Murray in the
foreward to the report. "Far too
little attention has been paid to
those situations in which the re-
lationship between labor and man.
agement has been characterized by
harmony and productivity. l am
pleased to release to the public this
report on how management and
labor in the great Tennessee Valley
Authority projects have learned to
work together to their mutual sat
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Officers Elected BY
Local Union No. IL

At the last meeting of Local
Union No. II, officers for the next
six months were elected. The new
officials who will be installed at
the next regular meeting on June
Z, are as follows: Guy Digman,
president; Harold Haines, vice pre-
sident; John Weber, recording sec
retary; Francis Cubberly, secre-
tary-treasurer; Floyd McCune, in
side guard; Isaac James, Inspector;
William Rutter, trustee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Prices Up Again
But Shorter Week
Means Less Wages

Washington (LPA) = The busi-
ness economists who prophesied
that prices would be rock bottom
by late spring, and others who
forecast mass unemployment are
both out on a limb. Latest figures
from government agencies show
that prices are rising again, and
that employment IS staying fairly
level.
However, there is plenty Of meat
for union negotiators to show that
purchasing power of the average
wage Garner is again going down.
Here are some of the facts:
PRICES-Retail and wholesale
prices are again rising steadily.
The consumers price index of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics on April
Is was at a point 0.2R higher than
a year ago, and rose for the sec
ond consecutive month. More re-
cent primary market prices indi-
cate continued rise to the end of
May.
WAGES-Average weekly earn
ings for manufacturing workers
went down from S53.63 in March
to $52.62 in mid-April. This was
mainly accoL tied for by the short
er work week. Averaging 1873
hours in mid-April, the work week
was at a postwar low. Hourly
wages stayed about the same, ex-
cept for a 1c an hour drop in the
average pay in the miscellaneous
non-durable goods industries.
EMPLOYMENT-The number of
people employed in non-agricul-
tural establishments in mid-April
was just about the same as in mid
March, the first time in three |
that there wasn't a decline
in employment. However, when the
facts for manufacturing industries
are listed alone, it is clear that
there has been a drop of 100000 in
the number of people employed
during the one month from mid
March to mid-April. This was bal
anced by the rise in public con-
and private BODYBUILDING,
and retail jobs. End-of-April fig
lres, just made public, show that
he number of people who had ap-
Piled for or were receiving unem-
oloyment compensation was sharp
y lower than earlier that month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02

the diamond IN the afternoon at
traction to settle the claims of each
for the baseball supremacy of the
pottery industry. These two clubs
are said to boast exceptional talent
with many players ripe for pluck
ing by scouts from the faster cir
cults.
Mr.. Max Rindin, general man.
ager Of Idora Park attended the
meeting and assured the committee
the park is in Al shape and ready
for the potters and their friends
on June 18.
Now is the time to pick out a
comfortable pair of shoes, because
even though the park is exception
ally well planned to shorten the
distances between all points of in
terest, there will be so much doing
on picnic day you will have to
jump to keep abreast of things.
From the time the most beauti-
ful babies in the state, through the
penny scramble, bathing beauty
parade, championship b a e b a | |
game, track and field events and
down to the giving away of the
Buick you will be hurrying over
the park in order not to miss a
thing.
When you enter the park you
and the children will be given
tickets which entitle you to parti-
cipate in the drawing of fifty din
ner sets and fifty pairs of skates.
A dinner set, even though you
handle them all day will more than
make up for the trip and look at
the great day of pleasure you will
have.
With the prizes that will be
given away, it is practically i'm
possible to stay away. Potters can't
afford to miss the opportunity this
picnic presents. First place in the
paid-up dues event is worth
$4,000; second place 1OO-piece
Warwick dinner set, next three
places 53-piece Warwick dinner
sets, next five places one years
dues paid by the picnic committee.
Last and by no means the least,
parents are warned not to forget
the two free hours in which all
rides throughout the park are free.
From 1000 a. m. until II noon,
ootters and their families can have
he time of their lives enjoying the
many riding devices throughout
he park and it won't cost a cent.
That's right-not single penny
will it cost Nom, Dad or the kid
lies.
There is only one Potters Picnic
Zach year, so you can't afford to
lave any conflicting dates for June
Is. Remember-the committee pro-
nises you this outing will be the
,est ever held for the potters and
Tou can be assured you will like
Beautiful Idora Park better than
my you have ever visited.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
CLASH ON PAYING FOR
MEDICAL CARE BEFORE
CONGRESS COMMITTEE

Washington (LPA)-A clearcut
choice of retaining medical care for
the American people as it is at
present, or of developing a trem-
endous new program of increasing
facilities and enabling a vastly
larger number of Americans to af-
ford good medical care, is being de-
veloped in hearings before House
and Senate committees this week.
Major fight is between sponsors
of a national health insurance bill
and the Taft -Donnell-Smith health
bill, which would provide medical
services, paid for out of the public
treasury, for ''all those who are
unable to pay the full costs of
medical care"
Leading proponents of bot h
views were heard last week before
the House Interstate Commerce
Committee and the Senate Labor
Committee. Both bodies continue
hearings in June, and are expected
to take their time about filing re-
ports.
Acting Federal Security Admin
istrator j. Donald Kingsley told
the Senate group this week that
the tremendous strides of science
in the past so years have outstrip-
ped the ability of individuals or
communities to pay for adequate
modern medical care. "The pro-
blem is one for the economist and
the statesman" he said.
1t is generally agreed that the
federal government must help to
end the serious shortages of medi-
cal personnel, facilities and SER
vices, Kingsley said. Beyond this,
it appears to be agreed that our
present system of payment for
medical care is totally inadequate.
The provisions of all of these bills
reflect common recognition of the
fact that, as things stand today, a |
substantial proportion of our popu-
lation must depend upon public or
private charity or go without the
type of medical care that modern
science knows how to provide"
Nothing short of health insur-
ance can prevent the substitution
Of state for private medicine, the
Federal Security Agency head in
sisted. He said the insurance bill
would furnish "a sound, firm, reli-
able economic foundation upon
which private medicine can expand
and flourish"
Kingsley said that the Taft bill
doesn't place very much faith in
insurance and in effect
would institute a medical dole"
On this same ground, he opposed
| liberalized version of the Taft
ill, proposed by southern Demo-
rats and several liberal Republi-
ans, led by Sen. Lister Hill Cd.
Ala.).
The problem of medical care for
'eople already on relief can best
e met thru expansion of medical
are under the public assistance
rogram provided for in the
to the Social Security
Ict now being considered by a
louise committee, Kingsley said. In |
losing, he asked three questions S
bout the Taft and Hill plans: G
lis it good public policy to en- t
ourage normally self-supporting z
itizens to seek charity? 2-Would II
be possible, without such encour- S
cement and without in some way r
the onus which attaches t
, the "means test" to bring into S
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Ekstine Complies
Fine Labor Record
Over H- Year Span.

Trenton, N. J.-When Valentine
(Elkie) Ekstine put away his tools
recently he wound up career of
fiftyfour years as a packer. He
celebrated his last labor day of
work by having his photograph
taken with his fellow workers who
presented him with a purse of
folding money and the best wishes
of the whole department to take
with him.
At our last meeting President
Larry Dolan praised Bro. Ekstine
as being true union man through
out his entire life, pointing out the
active role he played in retaining
the charter of Local Union 49 dur
ing the dark years of the "20's"
when we met in each others homes
and kept paying our dues while
suffering the chidings Of bench
mates for wasting our money. We
who have reaped the benefits of
such sacrifices, have much to be
thankful for.
If the attendance at our last few
meetings is any criterion of future
sessions, extra chairs will have to
be sought for many of those in at
tendance at the last meeting were
forced to park on windowsills.
We here the Apostles of Discord
were in our midst recently but did
not favor US with a visit. If they,
by chance, convert enough mem
bers to their way of reasoning and
gain the Offices for which they have
spent so much of their time and
money CD, and their cohorts carry
on the tactics taught by them,
where will our union end up with a |
dozen Legal Eagles on the union
payroll? =? We wish they would tell
us who is underwriting their coun-
try-wide junkets.
The daily press tells US it is good
business to subsidize airlines, rail-
roads, steamship lines and indus
tries in occupied countries, but is
it a waste of public funds to ap-
money for housing or
apartment projects, especially in
New Jersey?
The Conference Committee re-
ported no progress in negotiations
for new contract. Let us hope the
future brings forth some concrete
evidence of the faith which man.
agement has shown they had for
labor in the past.
Leslie Schek and A. J. Hassall /
we're the victors in the election of
delegates to the national conven-
ion with Michael Fabiano and
Charles Mcclure as alternates. We
wish the condition of our treasury
vas healthy enough to allow US to II
send our regular quota Of dele
gates to back up any action taken
~ the convention. II
Bro. Bernard Myers, who retired I
ome time ago was present at our
asst meeting and praised the mem /
,ers for their conduct. He said it {
vas a real pleasure to see so many {
# his old friends present. ,
Next month will see the election j
# new officers. Any member who
loes not come out to vote should 7
lot criticize any action taken dur ]
ng the year. -O.C. 40 I
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
Sebring And Liverpool
Ball Clubs Picked To
PIav In Diamond Classic

Important poured from the Picnic Committee after
meeting last Saturday evening national headquarters The
committee led the field by releasing the contestants for the base ball
while the transportation committee stated large comfortable
buses would leave the East Liverpool bus
the morning of the picnic The fare from East Liverpool
adults Children
right the park Complete schedules
leave the terminal will be announced
The Sebng Independent and the East Lerpoo Crews will
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 124

Only two meetings will be-,
held this month. Nomination
of officers will be held on June
Ia with the election scheduled
for the following meeting on
June 21.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-06-02
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 4

Nomination of officers for
the new term will be held at
meeting on June 13. All men,
bers are urged to be present.