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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Better JobIess
Pay Bills Passed
By Four States

Washington IPA)-More vic
tories were won by organized labor
on the state fronts the past week
in battles for higher accident bene-
fits under workmen's compensation
laws and for increased unemploy-
ment insurance payments.
Also, all attempts to enact new
anti-union laws in the state legis-
latures were blocked, but state
labor organizations failed in ef-
forts to wipe existing repressive
laws off the statute books.
Among the weeks developments
in the state legislatures were these:
OREGON-Accident compensa-
ton benefits were raised an aver
age of 239t, and unemployment
benefits were hiked to maximum
of $25 week for 26 weeks, COM
pared to a previous high of $50 for
20 weeks.
Observation-Disclosures acci-
dent benefits were increased from
$27 to $50 week, and death bene-
fits under the workmen's compen-
sation law were boosted from
$500 to $4,000.
COLORADO - Unemployment
benefits increased from $3.50 to
$40 week maximum, with an un-
usual clause permitting workers
engaged in illegal" strikes to draw
jobless pay.
OHIO-By a precedent-making
sweep of 122 to 0, the lower House
increased workmen's compensation
maximum benefits from $25 to $50
week, and in other ways improv-
ed the law. The 1000 vote came
after even the Ohio Manufacturers
Association finally endorsed the
bill. 1t is expected to clear the
Senate easily.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05

urged extension of social security
Natl Farm Labor Union, who
to agricultural workers. "Today a
large part of the farms are man
ned by the very young and the
very DID," he pointed out. In many
cases, workers move from "cover-
ed" city jobs to uncovered" farm
jobs depending on the season, and
receive no credit for the time
they're on the agricultural work.
Agricultural workers make up one
fourth of the total farm population,
he said.
President Arnold Zander of the
Federation of State, County d
Municipal Employees, who said eve
urge extension of old age and sur
vivors benefits to the states, coun-
ties and municipalities" to cover
workers not covered by local pro
grams, and"optionally" to workers
who have short service periods OF
low wages. He told of the "meager"
allowances under present local pen
sion plans.
Charles f. Sands and Fred Spin
ner of the Hotel & Restaurant En-
ployes, who urged that tips be cal
culated as part of earnings for pur-
poses of computing social security
payments and benefits.
Also presenting statements were
Larry Taylor, first vice-president
of the Int'l Typographical Union,
Arthur Olsen of the plumbers, Sec
retary-treasurer William H. Coop
er of the Building Service En-
ployes' Int'l Union, Orrin A. Bur-
rows of the Int'l Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, President S. E.
Roper of Tennessee Valley Trades
& Labor, Council.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Bill,
FEPC Measure
Moved In Congress

Washington (LPA)-Four bills,
containing all the important parts
of the civil rights program on
which President Truman was re-
elected, were thrown into the Sem
ate hopper last week by Sen. j.
Howard McGrath Cd, RI. They
cover an anti-lynching bill with
teeth" fair employment practices
bill, an anti-poll tax bill, and a
measure setting up civil rights ma
chinery within the federal govern
ment and strengthening present
federal civil rights statutes.
Meanwhile, the full Senate Judic-
iary Committee has before it this
week an anti-lynching bill sponsor
ed by Sen. Homer Ferguson Or,
Mich.) which may be the first
piece of civil rights legislation to
reach the floor of Congress this
session. A subcommittee approved
the bill four to one last week.
The measure would subject to
federal prosecution a maximum OF
$4,000 in fines, and possible five
year prison term, any local or state
law-enforcement office who failed
to take all reasonable steps to pro-
tect individuals from lynch mobs.
Meanwhile, hearings begin on
May S before a House Labor Sub
committee on fair employment
practice bills.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Buildings Trades Vents
Army Engineers Functions
Turned Over To Interior

"A Washington, d. c. QLNS). =
10th labor and builders organiza-
tions have recently called for re-
consideration of proposals for low
cost economy" housing.
Views of the American Fedora
tion of Labor were expressed by
Richard j. Gray, president of the
AFL Building Trades Department,
in a letter to Raymond Foley, adj
ministrator of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency.
"No one is more conscious than
/ of the need for housing for the
low and middle-income families of
the nation" he wrote, cor more in
terested in finding ways for sup
plying that housing at the lowest
possible costs consistent with main
tenance of decent standards.
eve must not, however, under
take a program which will in the
long run complicate the problem
even more. The Building Trades
Department, along with the AFL,
stands firmly on the conviction that
the solution of the housing problem
lies in making available to the low
and middle-income families houses
which are more than minimum
shelter"
Administrator Foley also ex-
pressed his opposition to any low
ering of standards in an effort to
get lower-cost housing.
Says Plan Misunderstood
:, "There has been some misunder-
of the plan," he said
1.-The purpose should be to remove
unnecessary costs without sacrifice
of quality in construction or liv-
ability of design. What we seek is
more house for the money-not less
house for less money-if the latter
means merely cheapening the house
to lower the price"
Foley has been in full support o.
legislation recommended by the
Truman Administration for public
housing, has recommended direc
loans to cooperatives and nonpro
fit corporations in one pending bill
and his agency has other similal
proposals under study.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Fred Hartley Is
AIN Economist Now

Washington (LPA) Form e r
Rep. Fred Hartley (R, ND, CO.
author Of the Taft Hartley law is
really giving his employers-the
Tool Owners Union, Inc.-a lot for
their money.
Hartley, who was hired because
Of his expert knowledge of labor
relations" has blossomed out as an
economist too.
Last week Hartley released a
Tool Owners statement Of tax
policy. Of course its basis is OPP
position to the Fair Deal social
welfare program.
The Tool Owners theory is that
the program will cost the country's
workers 2,455,O00 jobs. The unem-
ployment will result from draining
the money of the wealthy off in
taxes 70 support the Presidents
program. More taxes, less invest
ment, fewer jobs, TOU says.
And it was none other than that
old friend of the workers Fred "Joy
Boy" Hartley who delivered the
|TOU's blast against modern econ
omic thinking which is based upon
the theory that high level Of gov
ernment spending helps maintain
high levels Of employment. But
since this involves increasing the
purchasing power of people who
don't own tools, TOU is against it.
Allen w. Rucker, TOU founder
defined tool owners as people who
own productive property or tools
including corporation stocks, in
surance policies and bank accounts.
Another friend Of the working
man active last week was Sumner
Gerard, treasurer Of the Commit
tee for Constitutional Government,
once prominent center of reaction
ary propaganda.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
CoIumnist Doubts
Why Steel Industry
Hits Truman Plans

Washington LPA)-If the Gov
ernment had not gone into the steel
business during the war, there
would today be still greater short
ages of steel products, higher
prices and maybe more unemploy-
ment, Scripps-Howard columnist
Peter Edison wrote last week.
"There may be considerable
wasted BREATH" Edison said, ain all
the present hullabaloo over Pres
ident Truman's alleged proposal to
nationalize or socialize the steel in
dustry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Union Man Named
To EcA Post

Washington (LPA) = American
labor's contribution to the drafting
and implementation of the Euro
pean recovery program received
significant recognition this week
when John Gross, former leader of
the Colorado Federation of Labor,
was appointed chief of the Euro
pean Cooperation Administration
to Norway.
Gross, who has been labor advis-
er on the Norwegian mission, will
in mid-May succeed a business
man, Augustus E. Staley, as ECA's
number one representative in Nor
way.
For Is years John Gross was sec
retary-treasurer Of the Colorado
Federation of Labor, having pre-
viously been its president. His
union card dates back to 1910,
when he joined the Int1 Associa-
tion of Machinists.
During World War ii Gross was
regional director Of the US En-
ployment Service, and Of the War
Manpower Commission.
He has worked in steel mills and
railroad contract and development
shops. While working in the shops
Gross attended night classes in in
dustriai relations.
Clinton Golden and Bert Jewell,
top labor advisors to ECA chief
Paul Hoffman said of Gross ap-
pointment: "He is eminently quail
fled for his new post because of his
past experience, both in the labor
movement and in government SER
vice. His appointment is symbolic
Of the participation Of the US labor
movement in the administration of
the Marshall plan. Certainly this
news Will be welcomed by the Nor
wegian labor groups with whom he
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
WATCHMAN RECEIVES MEDAL

Washington (LPA)-The brav-
cry of a railroad crossing watch
man was honored last week when
President Truman bestowed the
Medal of Honor upon Fred ii.
Chamberlin, a st. Petersburg, Fla.
Atlantic Coast Line watchman. On
Nov. 8, 194S, partially paralyzed
Karl l.. Brook started to cross
Chamberlin's crossing as pass
enger train approached. Brook was
SO frightened he couldn't move and
,Chamberlin, after frantically shout
ing a warning, ran to the man and
lifted him from the track, missing
the locomotive by inches. Neither
'rnan was injured.
Breakfast Cheer coffee served
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Top AFL Leaders
Urge Action On
Social Security

Washington (LPA) = E ev n
AFL officials last week spent a day
telling the House Ways & Means
Committee why it's important to
pass an improved old age and sur
vivors' insurance program in this
session of Congress.
AFL President William Green
led off with a strong statement
backing the present social security
program, which has been "proven
workable" and said that ain the
AFL we have been convined for six
years that the program should be
brought up to date and that it
should be extended to meet other
types of risks to loss of income"
He urged "the adoption of COM
prehensive social insurance against
the contingencies of dependent old
age, death, unemployment, disabil-
ity and the costs of medical care"
"The provisions of HR 1898"
the bill before the committee, "are
aimed at meeting part of these
needs-they contemplate improve
ment in the existing old-age and
survivors insurance system and
the addition of just one new type
of protection-protection against
loss of income because of disabil-
ity." The AFL President, after list
ing the AFL's standards for such
program, said that "we are
pleased to observe that in all
major respects the bill measures
up"
Nelson Cruikshank, AFL Direct
er of social insurance activities,
backed up Green's testimony with
detailed evidence. He especially
warned that disability insurance
must be federally operated, because
1--WE have observed the beginnings
of temporary disability programs
within the states where dangerous
precedents foreign to the concept
of social insurance have been estab-
lished." He told of the "scandalous'
practices that have arisen in New
Jersey.
Following on Green's and Cruik-
shank's testimony, leaders of var
ious departments and internationa
unions appeared to give specia
emphasis to parts of the genera
testimony. Among them were:
James Brownlow, of the AFI
Metal Trades Dept, who empha
sized the fact that industrial strife
would be lessened to the same ex'
tent that workers security under
the federal social security program
was increased.
President A. l.. Spradling of tht
Amalgamated Assn of Street
Electric Railway & Motor Coacl
Employees, who urged that workers
| for city and other public-ownet
transportation system be covered
by social security. More than one
third of the unions 10000 mem
bers have been deprived in recent
years of all or a large part of theil
social security benefits thru nj
| fault of their own in transfer Of
transit systems from private tt
public ownership. He cited Cleve
land, San Francisco, Chicago anC
Boston.
President Lester Washburn Of
the United Auto Workers-AFL
who told of what happened wher
General Electric Co. bought anc
took over the Ken-Rad Tube &
Lamp Corp. plant in Owensboro
Ky. The $500 workers, many OF
them older employees of many
years service, were "denied ever
the opportunity to participate II
an inadequate company-sponsoreC
pension PLAN" He said the unions
experience shows that a fedora
program can be underwritten mucf
more economically than any indi
vidual employer plan,
II President III. l.. Mitchell of the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
Promote AFL FEPC Program

New York (LPA)-"AFL Wants
FEPC" is the title of a new pam
phlet prepared by Workers Educa-
tion Bureau of America to assist
in promoting the AFL's fair en-
ployment program.
The SPACE pamphlet is avail
able to unions by writing to Work
ers Education Bureau, 1440 Broad
way, New York Is, N. Y.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05

Aware perhaps that the Com
mittee is in bad odor, Gerard under
his own name sent out several
thousand copies Of loaded ques-
tionnaire on Taft-Hartley and the
fright to work" which he wants
the recipients to mail to their Con-
gressmen on the eve Of the Taft
Hartley debate in the House.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05

has been working"
The trade union-based Labor
party is the governing party in
Norway. Norwegian union and
Labor party spokesmen who were
recently in the US were unanimous
in their praise of Gross work.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05
MONEY ROLLS IN

Washington (LPA) = TIL e
Iron & Steel Institute has re-
ported that sales in the steel
industry reached eight billion
dollars last year, a record high
and an increase of 21% over
1947. Net profits were S542,-
100000 which was 846 higher
than the year before.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-05

companies contracts to operate the
plants. And when the war was over,
the Government sold the plants to
private operators at about 81 cents
on the dollar of original cost. To
date, roughly 100 plants costing
$3.50, 100000 have been sold for
$3.50. .OO0. .OOO."
Evening star., 1949-08-14

around the top of the base,
4 inches back from the edges,
and let the die-block come to
rest on that.
Holes were bored into the
die-block, Lewises-ratcheted
pikes-were inserted into the
holes, and then the block was
raised with a winch. It took
six men to grind the winch.
Then came the problem of
setting the capstone. For ap-
pearance's sake no holes
could be bored into its top to
afford a lifting grip, so Mr..
Greve, after considerable
thought, came up with an
idea for raising the 8-ton
slab of marble into place. He
placed a wooden block under
each end and then tightly
wound a cable six times
around the blocks. The cable
made a rigid round table.
catching under the edges of
the capstone. A winch raised
the cable, and the heavy mar
BILE was lowered onto the die
block, also prepared with
aluminium stripping like the
base.
Nobody ever set a stone
like that before, and probably
nobody ever will again." Mr..
Greve observes.
Among his other projects
here were the Interior Build
ing, Senate Office Building,
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Poee J

National Museum and WASH
ington Cathedral. Besides, he
worked on the Chicago Trib-
une Tower and Radio City in
New York, plus a host of other
notable structures.
Every one of them pre-
sented a problem of some
kind" he says.
Mr.. Greve got his start in
stone work as a boy In his
native Louisville, Ky. One
day he saw a stonemason cut
ting an ionic scroll on a COL
umn. Thoroughly intrigued.
he suggested to the man that
he could draw that scroll. He
had his tryout there and
then. He was an apt drafts
man and was recommended =
as an apprentice. He served
his studentship, was a drafts
man, worked in the quarries,
learned cutting - in fact.
learned every facet of the
business. At the age of Is
he became foreman of q
stone working company in
Indiana. In later years he
wrote. two books, Physical
Resume of Granite, Marble,
Sandstone, Limestone and
Slate" and Manual on Stone
Work"
He and his wife live at 2819
Bellevue terrace NV. They
have a son and a daughter,
both married.
Evening star., 1949-08-14
Setting Of the die-block
for the Tomb Of the In
known Soldier in 1881.
Frederick G. Greve is
portIy obscured at the
right end OF the block.
Right: A recent visit.

H@AA~A WV w WIG
memorial site was laboriously
accomplished by rolling it
along with winches over a
board floor. Then came the
problem of lifting the block
and setting it precisely and
squarely on the base.
THE chief danger was that
if we didn't come down with
the stone exactly level on the
base we'd snip off an end of
the base" he recalls.
Also, rather than set stone
against stone, he placed a
strip of aluminium one-six-
teenth of an inch thick
Evening star., 1949-08-14
BY Stanley Baitz

O FREDERICK c. aREvE,
l. the stone age" is all the
time.
Until recently he was the
Governments expert on stone
work In Federal buildings. A
stone man since he was is,
he Is more than 70 now.
Although he Is retiring
from Government service this
month, he still expects to
keep a hand in with private
contractors. He wouldn't rest
easy. knowing there we're still
workable chunks of lime
stone or granite lying fallow
IN the hills. To him the
drabbest piece of stone is a
thing of life and beauty, Of
fering the wherewithal for a
mantel in the home, a cornice
outside 1t, or any number of
other ornamental knicknacks.
Mr.. 0reve pronounced
Greevy) has a list as long as
his arm Of the buildings on
which he has done stone
work. interior or exterior,
either under a private con-
tractor or as a Government
expert. One project that he
has special cause to remem-
ber Is the approach and
Tomb of the Unknown SOL
der. because of the delicate
problems it posed.
He had found the marble
die-block for the tomb at a
quarry in Marble, Colo, where
1t had to be slid down a
mountainside to railroad cars.
He followed 1t to Vermont,
where it was shaped. That
block alone, he says, weighed
48 tons when it was finished.
The carving and lettering
were done here, on the site.
The die-block, for the benefit
of the layman, Is the large
solid part that rests on the
base and Is covered by still
another section. the capstone.
The block was taken by
train to Rosslyn and hauled
by truck trailer to Arlington.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-10
Newspaper Men View
State Roads Projects

The Maryland State Roads COM
mission last Friday presented 60
miles of Allegany and Garrett county
highways dressed in 81 million dollars
worth of Improvements to newspaper
and radio reporters for their inspec-
ton.
A conducted survey which started
in Cumberland carried the newsmen
to the sites Of IS major improvements
that have been completed or are
underway in the states 5000 million
five year improvement program.
The caravan toured over $50 miles
Of Western Maryland highway dur
ing its IS stops, lunching at Oakland
and concluding with a dinner at Cum
berland. Garrett county projects
visited included the following:
U. S. 40, from Keyser Ridge to
Maryland Pennsylvania line, rebuild
ing and undermining 1858 miles of
road; S. T. Brotemarkle Construction
company, completion expected during
summer of 1850 at cost of S642, 617.85.
Route 219, near Oakland, Abs miles
of rebuilding, modernization, mac
adam surfacing; Hazelwood company,
work practically completed at cost of
$74O,777O7.
Widening of road, Gortner to Red
House, 4.10 miles, macadam should
ers, reducing sharp hilltops; Inter
state Amiesite company, job about
80 percent complete, $130,G6436.
U. s. route so, rebuilt and modern
lied under two separate contracts,
Hamill Construction company and
Kelley Construction company, cost of
$427,142.20.
State route $50, placing $50 miles
of penetration macadam on new
location between German and Loeb
Lynn, Interstate Amiesite, work eX-
pected to be completed soon on re-
naming 600 feet, cost $3l2,953 so,
financed jointly by Bureau of Public
Roads and Garrett County Commits
sioners, with section being taken into
state system upon completion
Same route, resurfacing 2.76 miles,
cost $107,197.83.
Bridge over B. and O. tracks at
Oakland where state added sidewalk
in connection with gunite repairs,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1949-11-10
Accepts Position

Miss Mary Jane Friend, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton Friend,
Friendsville, has accepted an office
position with Montgomery Ward and
company in Cumberland.
Miss Friend is graduate of
Friendsville High school with the
Glass of 1948. She was the top stu
dent accidentally in her class and
was Glass Valedictorian. In addition,
Miss Friend was a member Of the
Home Economics club, Glee club and
played field ball and basketball on the
school team.
Following her graduation from
high school, Miss Friend attended
Catherman's Business School in
Cumberland, where she pursued the
Secretarial Course.