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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Sees Price War In
Garment Field If
Exemptions Stay

New York (LPA)-A disastrous
price war in the garment field will
result if an exemption for retail
establishments in the House bill
remains when the 75-cent min
imum wage bill is enacted into law
That prediction was made by
Erwin Feldman, director of the
Natl Assn of House Dress Manu-
facturers, in regard to the provis-
ion exempting retail establishments
manufacturing goods for resale,
from the wage-hour coverage.
Wages will be slashed along
with prices, he warned, in a letter
to unions and manufacturers
groups, urging them to act swiftly
to mobilize opposition to the ex-
emption.
Both houses have passed bills to
raise the minimum wage under the
Fair Labor Standards act from the
present 40 cents to rs cents. How
ever, the House eliminated about
100000 from the protection of
the law, while adding only 10000.
The Senate added handful of new
workers but knocked out about
25G000 now covered
The two bills must now go to a
House-Senate conference commit
tee which will try to draft bill
acceptable to both bodies.
It was the southern bloc which
led the fight to reduce coverage
and if possible forestall the 75-cent
level. Observers here believe that
the best that can be hoped for this
year is the Senate version or some
thing close to it because of the
strength of that bloc and its allies
among Republicans.
House conferees, appointed on
Sept. %, are Rep. John Lesinski
Cd, Mich.), chairman of the House
Labor Committee, Graham A. Bar
den Cd, N. CO., Augustine B.
Kelley Cd, Pa.), Samuel X. Nc
Connell, Jr., OR, Pa.), Ralph w.
Gwinn Or, N. Y.) and Walter E.
Brehm Or, Ohio).
Senate conferees, named three
weeks ago, are Sen. Ebert Thomas
Cd, Utah), chairman of the Senate
Labor Committee, James E. Muir
ray Cd, Mont.), Claude Pepper
Cd, Fla.), Robert A. Taft Or,
Ohio), and George ID. Aiken Or,
Vt.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Eubanks Winner In
Guild Referendum

New York (LPA) - Sam Eu-
banks, executive vice-president OF
the American Newspaper Guild,
has been reelected, defeating Jack
Deegan of New York, in referen-
DUN vote. With SO percent of the
eligible vote in, the count was Eu-
banks 7125; Deegan 579O.
Voted into office with Eubanks
was the entire Pro-Guild slate.
Chosen vice presidents at larger
were: Joe Coils, Wilkes-Barre;
Chan Forman, Chicago; Zula Fer
guson, Los Angeles; Milt Lapine,
Cleveland, and Ben Price, Atlanta.
Named regional vice presidents
were: Charles Leveroni, Boston;
Adolph Rahm, st. Louis; AL Dip
man, San Francisco. Harry Martin,
president, and Ralph Novak, Sec
retary-treasurer were unopposed.
Coils led the Pro-Guild ticket with
1865 votes; billiard Stokes, Wash
ington with SITS was second high
on the "Free Guild ticket. The
Deegan forces made Eubanks their
chief target, assailing his record IN
office.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
UNCLE SAM SUBSIDIZING
ANTI-LABOR OUTFITS

Washington (LPA) = The tax
free status of such anti-labor pro-
paganda organizations as Frank
Gannett's Committee for Constitu-
tional Government has finally been
smoked out.
Rep. Arthur G. Klein (Dem. n
W did the job. He wrote to Fed
eral tax chief George j. Schoene-
man repeatedly asking for infor-
nation on the tax setup Of that
outfit and several others. Schoene-
man finally answered.
He declared there are two types
of exemptions under the law-one
covered by Section To- (6) of the
Internal Revenue Code, the other
under Section 101 (8). Under the
former, contributors to education
al. religious and charitable" or
ganizations can deduct their gifts
from their tax bills; under the lat
ter. only the income of such organ
izations is tax-free, but the contrl-
butors can't write off their dona-
tions.
Gannett's committee, Schoene-
man said, now has only the second
exemption-that is, its $6C0,000 an
nual income, obtained partly from
sales of anti-labor, anti-Fair Deal
literature, is not taxable. Schoene-
man wouldn't say whether the con-
tributors to that committee enjoy
ed tax exemption heretofore.
However, the committee has al
ready set up several fronts-among
them, the Constitution and Free
Enterprise Foundation, to snare
tax-free contributions from men
with money under the broader
section 101 (6).
Schoeneman's answer to Klein
also disclosed that the "Founda-
tion for Economic Education" an
outfit which spearheaded propa-
ganda effort to kill rent control,
gets complete tax exemption for
itself and contributors. Among the
contributors are the DuPonts,
Ernest Weir, and such corporations
as Standard Oil of New Jersey,
General Motors and US Steel.
What it all boils down to, Klein
said, is that Uncle Sam, by grant
ing tax exemptions, is in effect
subsidizing a lot of organizations
which are showering the country
with propaganda against the Adj
ministration's social welfare legis-
lation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Heating Oil Price
Probe Urged By
Senator Maybank
Al ANNUAL sArfs

Washington (LPA) - A Con-
gressional investigation of the re-
cent rise in heating and fuel oil
prices was urged this week by Sen.
Burnett Maybank Cd, SCI, chair
man of the Senate Banking & Cur
rency Committee.
Maybank asked the committee
staff to look into the price rises,
pointing out that they Twill be a
severe blow to families who are
having a hard time making ends
meet with prices as high as they
are" and adding that "to large
number of unemployed in the cold
New England area it can only
mean no heat"
The industry's explanation for
the boosts was, according to May
bank, "that the spread between
gasoline prices and heating oil
prices must be narrowed if refiners
are to be encouraged to produce a
greater yield of heating oils for the
winter season."
"There are two ways of correct
ing this spread" the Senator said.
"The oil industry's way-raise the
price Of the low-end products and
heating oils-of the patriotic way
lower the price of the more ex-
pensive product, gasoline"
Declaring that price spreads
should not always be corrected by
raising prices" Maybank cited oil
company profits for 1949 which
"will be considerably higher than
1947."
Maybank recalled the committee
hearings last spring when gasoline
prices were raised. The oil COM
panies' reasons for raising prices
then, he said, boiled down to the
fact that "they charged what the
traffic would bear"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Ohio Newspaper Seeks Monopoly
Government Soys In Antitrust Suit

Cleveland (LPA)-In the first
antitrust suit filed involving a
newspaper and competing radio
stations, the US government charg-
i ed that the Lorain, Ohio, Journal,
is attempting to monopolize the
dissemination of news and adver-
tising by injuring a competing
radio station.
The suit was first made public
in Washington by Atty General }.
! Howard McGrath but was filed in
the Federal District Court of
Cleveland. Named as defendants
are the publishing company and
four of its officers, including the
editor of the Journal.
The government charges that
the Lorain Journal refuses to ac-
cept advertising from enterprises
which advertise over radio stations
WEOL and WEOL-FM in Lorain
and nearby Elyria in an attempt
to gain control of the radio outlets.
| The government also charges
| that the Journal refuses to accept
the advertisements of concerns
which buy space in the Lorain Sun
day News, a weekly newspaper,
and also has sought to keep the
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram from
circulating in Lorain.
The government suit is a civil
action seeking a court order stop
ping the. allegedly monopolistic
practices. If an order is obtained
under the Sherman antitrust act,
the Journal must obey it or be held
in contempt with heavy fines and
Jail sentences the possible pen
alties.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Labor Opposes
Change In Ohio
Election Ballot

Columbus, Ohio - Ohio voters
will be asked to change the present
system of voting on November 8.
The proposed ballot change would
substitute for the familiar two
party ballot a so-called Massachu-
sets Type" ballot.
On this type ballot, candidates
are listed by office rather than by
party, and straight-ticket voting
would be impossible without mark
ing each candidate individually.
The Executive Board of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor in a re-
cent letter to its affiliated organ
izations condemned this attempt to
change our two-party system as
"an effort to serve a temporary
political expediency."
In pointing out that the move to
change our present system of vot-
ing is being sponsored by hackers
of Sen. Taft in an effort to increase
his chances next year, Phil Han
nah, secretary-treasurer of the
state federation said: ''This office
type ballot would have tendency
to confuse the average voter who
is used to the present ballot"
1t is becoming habit of the Re-
publican Party in Ohio to juggle
our election machinery when they
think it might be to their benefit.
In 1910, when former Governor
John Bricker was seeking re-elec-
ton, the Republican-controlled leg
islature split the presidential bal
lot from the state ballot so that
the popularity of President Roose-
velt would not hurt Bricker's
chances.
A committee appointed by Gov
ernor Lausche to prepare argu-
ments against the Massachusetts
ballot have in effect upheld the
contention of the Ohio State Fed
Grafton of Labor that the new bal
lot would confuse Ohio voters and
invalidate countless votes.
Opposition arguments included:
1t would require the use of the
changed ballot at municipal cleo
tions even those electing their Of
ficials under home rule charters;
would result in popularity contests
rather than vote for principles
and issue; would complicate the
manner of voting by requiring each
to be voted for separate
ly and thus discourage voters from
participating in elections.
Also it would outlaw the use OF
voting machines now being sue
cessfully used in many places;
would more: than double the cost
of printing ballots and other cleo
tion supplies, retard the counting
of votes and create uncertainties
resulting in many contests.
Also it would invalidate the pre-
sent election laws and require a
special session of the legislature
before a general election could be
held next year; the last legislative
session turned down similar pro-
posal. 1t would weaken the fabric
of free government now when
greater participation in elections
is necessary"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Wallace Group Blames
Cold War For Crisis

Cleveland (LPA)-The Progress
sive party's Conference on Jobs
and the Economic Crisis" attended
by 800 delegates and 800 observers
from 25 states, declared the nation
faces disaster, and decided the
"cold war" is to blame.
Henry A. Wallace, the party's
candidate for President in 194S,
said the United Nations should
"stop interfering" in the affairs of
other nations. Other speakers as
sailed current foreign policy, the
leadership of organized labor, and
the Democratic administration.
Their plan to meet the domestic
crisis" includes: 500 pensions at
so; So billion in food stamps to
feed the jobless; re-enactment of
the 1920 bill for jobless veterans;
boost in unemployment compensa-
tion benefits; a $50 billion public
works program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Hits Industrialists On
Neglect OF Workers

Cleveland (LPA) - American
workers are dissatisfied because in
dustry has failed to give them "the
spiritual satisfaction they need in
their work." an industrial relations
clinic Of the Associated Industries
of Cleveland was told by Wallace
F. Bennett.
Bennett, president of the Nation
al Association Of Manufacturers,
said "the American people are be-
ginning to lose faith in the system
that has made America great" and
added: "How weak we are as man
ayers if we prove incapable of pro-
viding the kind of leadership that
can help these men and women to
find in our industries the kind of
life they need" Bennett said man
agement must "help man in his
quest to be himself; to grow; to
achieve, and to be recognized"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Strong Dept Of
|Labor-lndust
Relations Urged

Columbus, 0. (ILNS).-A con-
lsolidation of the various state de-
partments of Ohio dealing with
| labor-industrial relations into a
single co-ordinated department
would save the taxpayers nearly a
half-million dollars year and re-
suit in more efficient service for
labor, business and the public,
State Industrial Relations Director
Albert A. Woldman told the Lions
Club of Groveport, Ohio. He urged
that Ohio follow the example of
New York, New Jersey, California
and Pennsylvania in creating a
strong abor-industrial relations
department.
Director Woldman said that it
was a misconception to think that
labor has grown so strong that it
no longer needs the protection Of
the state. He pointed out that Ohio
has nearly 3,250,000 wage earners
and that only approximately 1,OOO,-
600 of them - 100000 affiliated
with AFL, 100000 with CIO and
$4,000 independents-are organized
Into labor unions. Trade unionists
represent only about one-third of
Ohioans who work for living. The
other two-thirds must look to the
state abor-industrial relations de-
partment for protection of their
rights.
The director added that proper
state abor-industrial relations de-
partment should include not only
the activities now embraced by
Ohio departments such as mini
mum wage and maximum hours
standard, safety and health, pre-
vention of child labor and protec-
tion of women workers, collection
of unpaid wages, apprenticeship
schools and compilation of labor
statistics - but also workmen's
compensation, unemployment IN
surance, public employment agen-
cies and regulation of private en-
ployment agencies, equal pay for
comparable work, control of indus
trial home work, and last but not
least, mediation and conciliation Of
industrial disputes.
At present, the various activities
pertaining to labor-industrial re-
lations in Ohio are scattered among
5 departments. Woldman declared
that this situation has resulted in
duplication of stats and facilities,
the maintenance of separate field
Offices and making repeated calls
on businesses for audits and in
spections. Administrative Offices
with duplicate personnel, budget
and other services are costing Ohio
taxpayers at least one-half million
dollars per year which could be
saved through consolidation and
coordination of these activities.
States which have established
single department of labor indus
trial relations have succeeded in
providing a unified program, CON
sistent policies and reduced dupli-
cation of activities and expendi-
lures, Woldman said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
STATE INSURANCE AGENCY
REFUSES TO INSURE NEGRO

Milwaukee, Wis. (LPA) - The
state insurance dept here has re-
fused to insure James Rancher, a
Negro war veteran. State insur-
ance commissioner John Lange ex-
planned the state agency can not
charge higher rates for Negroes,
as private life insurance companies
do. Assemblyman Leroy j. Sim
mons, himself a Negro, has de-
manded that Governor Oscar Rem
nebohm replace Lange. Simmons
intends to apply for state insur-
ance so he can test the ruling Of
the commission.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Washington Labor Report
LABOR HAS A STAKE
IN CIVIL LIBERTIES
By BRADFORD V. CARTER
LPA COlumnist

1
Remarkably little interference
with labor's rights was generally
reported" according to a survey OF
the year made in rs cities in 80
states by correspondents for the
American Civil Liberties Union
and noted in the ACLU annual re-
port, just out. Chief interference
was in the south, the report show
ed.
The report notes also that labor's
resistance to the shackling Taft
Hartley act weakened the repres-
sive force" Of the law, and that
unions found devices for political
action by which the provisions OF
law could be circumvented, as they
commonly are by corporations"
All of which is no news to labor
What is important about the report
is its theme, which is given in the
title of the report: "In the Shadow
Of Fear" The report says:
"The imagined insecurity of the
strongest democracy in the world
in the face of the cold war with
Communism has created an atmos-
phere in which fear makes the
maintenance of civil liberties pre-
carious."
And whenever civil liberties are
threatened, so is organized labor.
Civil liberties go first, then labor
is attacked, as any one who remem-
bers recent history can attest.
There are no civil liberties under
dictatorship-and no free trade
unions.
1t is this fear, says the ACLU
report, that is responsible for the
failure of Congress to enact a
single civil rights measure to date,
or to remove the shackles Of the
Taft Hartley act from labor's poll
tical and civil rights. This fear,
says the report, admits "of only
incidental attention to buttressing
democracy by substantial reforms" !"
The present "hysterical atmos-
phere," notes the report, exceeds
in its severity, intolerance and
fears any such period in the
Unions 29 years of activity; and
the dangers of enduring damage
are therefore the greater, as well
as the obligation to combat them"
The report says the "loyalty
purge" was largely futile, since of
2,457000 government m p o ye s
checked up to June 1949 only SO
were found to merit discharge.
And the list of "subversive" organ
izations was "widely used by news
papers, public officials and others
to condemn out of hand anyone
connected with them. All over the
country the lists were accepted as
authoritative in determining dis
loyalty for quite other purposes
than those intended by the Attor-
ney General"
On the encouraging side, the re-
port says that the courts, particu-
larly the US Supreme Court, "have
continued to stand by and even to
extend the principles of the Bill
of Rights; and on the information
al front, the United Nations has
for the first time in history laid a
basis between the nations
and peoples for enforceable univer-
sal civil rights and international
freedom of communication"
=. S. The report can be obtained
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
Seattle Union Fights
To Keep Rent Control

Seattle, Wash. (LPA) = Boeing
Lodge, international Association
of Machinists, represented in the
Seattle Committee to Retain Rent
Control, is helping plan a general
public meeting to organize an in
tensive drive to keep controls.
Apartment house owners recently
staged a public meeting demanding
controls be ended, have set up a
"Fair Rent Committee, and plan
to put pressure on City Council to
that effect.
Rental housing here does not yet
begin to meet the demand. Rents
on units decontrolled under the old
law rose an average of 48 per cent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29

Ask for Union Labeled merchan.
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
TT'S THE REAL THING"

New York (LPA) = Asserting
that "this time, it's the real thing
Business Week magazine this week
warns that "labor's present poll
teal effort has come to be worth
taking very seriously indeed" The
Disbursements magazine features
on it's cover, a picture of PAC Dir
ector Jack Kroll and LLPE-AFL
Director Joseph keenan,, hands
clasped, before a map of US poll
tical subdivisions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29
IT'S NO SIN TO URGE
UNION MEMBERSHIP

Detroit (LPA) - Mrs. Marian
Urick passed out union applica-
tion cards on her lunch hour at
the plant of the Stainless Ware
Co. of America. Fired, she applied
for unemployment compensation.
The company objected, arguing she
was fired for misconduct. The State
Appeal board upheld the company.
UAW then went to the Michigan
Supreme Court, which ruled unan-
imously that Mrs. Urick had a
legal right to solicit union mem
bership during her lunch period.
Now UAW has filed unfair labor
charges against the firm before the
NLRB.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29

Maybe the absent minded pro-
fessor just needs to have his bat
teries recharged. Tufts College
scientists reported to the American
Psychological Association tn S
week that electrical currents are
discharged from the brain when
anyone makes an effort to remem-
Der something.
They also disclosed that brain
surgeons find a slight electric cur
rent will spur the memory of a
patient when applied to a certain
section of the brain exposed in an
operation.
These experiments place the
"seat of memory" in two Globes" of
the brain, one on each side of the
head.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-29

from the American Civil Liberties
Union, 10 Fifth Ave., New York,
New York, for 25 cents.
p. p. S. Don't confuse the ACLU
with the Civil Rights Congress,
which is horse of an entirely diff
ferent color.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-15
Next War Will Probably Be in Damn Cold Weather, " Says Commander Batk from Alaska

SEATTLE, Feb. 15.--lR-A Pacific fleets amphib.ous commander has returned from Alaska maneuvers, and said the next war probably will te in damn cold weather"
 Rear. Adm. Bertram J. Rodgers prefaced the remark with we don't know where it's going to be, butt" He added: We want to be pre- pared.v
 He said that exercises at Kodiak Island had given 10000 men train- ing-so that they aren't afraid of the cold and know how to take care of themselves.
 The men included nearly 2,000 Marines who invaded the island, their supporting navy force and army and air force units which re- sisted the invasion.
 Rodgers, who returned by air, had special praise for the Marines and for Navy Seabees who beat the ice and snow of Kodiak.
 They demonstrated they can do anything under those conditions that they can do here" he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-02-15
FUEL TAX FOR VESSELS NOT INCREASED
No More Troops for Japan
 Says Roya||; Conditions in
 Alaska Given Preference

WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.-lR- The Army has turned down re- quest by General Douglas Mac Arthur for more troops.
 Secretary of the Army Royal said the supreme allied commander in Japan had been told it would he impractical" to send him any more
 Royal made the statement to re- porters on returning from an in- spection trip to Japan where he conferred with Macarthur.
 (At San Francisco yesterday be- fore flying East, Royall said that, living conditions for U s. troops in Korea and Alaska "leave much to be desired"
 Alaska is immensely important but the current cutdown in Army strength will not permit troops there to be augmented. He said, however, he will recommend con- StructlOn Of more facilities to take care of present needs.)
 At the time of Royall's visit in the Far East dispatches from Tokyo said Macarthur had submitted 6 secret report on the American mili- tary situation in Japan in view of Communist victories in China. These dispatches said MacArthur was be- lieved to have asked for more troops and airplanes.
 Royal was asked about the re- ports. He replied that Macarthur twas told it would be impractical to put more troops over there" Royal then was asked whether Macarthur had mentioned return ing to the United States.
 There was no discussion at all about his return" Royal said. "Hs didn't say anything and didn't ] Royal added that i've don't con- template any change" either ir troop strength or command in Ja- pan.
 The Secretary spent 18 days ir the Pacific area, including six days in Japan.
 | Royall was asked about reports that Pacific defenses would have to lag behind Europe as they die during World War II. q don't know anything about g Europe first strategy" he said.
 T have said this-that at tht present time, the principal stresses are in Europe, that is, involving tht U. s. Army"