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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
cruikshank, Ewing
Explain Health
Plan Over Network

New York (LPA) = Organized
labor's ideas on the need for COM
pulsory national health insurance
were forcefully presented to ma
tional radio audience on America s
Town Meeting Of the Air" last
week by Nelson H. Cruikshank, dir
ector Of social insurance activities
of the AFL.
Cruikshank sided with Federal
Security Administrator Osca r
Ewing in debating the affirmative
of the question SHOULD We Adopt
A Compulsory National Health In
surance Program?" The negative
was defended by DR.. Morris Fish
bein, Of the American Medical
Assn. and Sen. H. Alexander
Smith OR, NJ).
The debate, which took place be-
fore a capacity audience at Town
Hall here, was both televised and
broadcast all over the nation over
the American Broadcasting Co.
network.
Ewing began the debate by out
lining the Truman Administrations
views on the national health pro-
gram, maintaining that voluntary
plans as they exist today "do not
and cannot reach the lower income
bracket who need it most"
Cruikshank, when his turn came,
related how labor '.has expert
mented extensively with voluntary
types of protection now available
to meet medical costs. For most
people these plans meet only part
of the cost in emergency cases and
fail completely to encourage pre-
ventive practice on the part of
physicians and hospitals"
Labor wants to pay its share"
Cruikshank asserted. "But we are
convinced that the best way to do
this is through the tried and proven
method of social insurance. Exper-
ience with workmen's compensation
when coverage was elective taught
US, through the bitter experience of
disasters in mines
and factories in states with cleo
tive coverage, that the system
could not work unless everyone
was in"
Ewing explained that under the
proposed plan the most that could
be deducted from salaries would be
l u 60 on earnings up to $4,000 a
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Large Turnout At
Special N Getting
of Local Union "A

Sebring, Ohio-Local Union "A
met in special session Feb. % and
enjoyed the presence of the west
ern members Of the Executive
Board. All were present with one
exception, Br. George Turner who
is laid up by illness.
We had very large turnout to
meet our executives as representa-
tives from Locals Al, SO, 121, 166,
178 and 1872 attended the meeting.
President James Duffy was the
principal speaker and his remarks
were very well received. | will state
here that we got long needed ex-
planation, or might | use the word
overdue. There was no doubt that
the minds of some Of our members
have changed after getting a true
picture of what has been going on
throughout the trade.
Br. Bob Larkins who suffered an
accident recently is well along the
road to recovery. Bob states that
any member of the Brotherhood
who is not covered under the group
insurance plan is making a big
mistake. "The benefits received
from the insurance company, paid
my Hospital and doctors BILL" he
stated.
Local "A will vote in the primary
election for national officers at the
next meeting on March 7. The polls
will open at II noon and remain
open until the close of the meeting.
After all that has been said in the
last two years, it behooves our
members to turn out and express
their opinion.
The breakdown of the 33-cents
does not seem to meet with the ap-
proval of the employees or the
manufacturers. At least there has
been no change in the way we
count up our pays at any of the
shops. You can hear quite a lot of
about it.
Bro. John Hamilton was confined
to his home with severe cold,
but is now on the mend. -O.C. "A
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03

administered by a union-manage-
ment board, highlight the auto
unions '49 demands.
First target for the UAW de-
mands is Ford, where formal nego-
tiations open on May Is. The 116,-
900 UAW members working for
Ford are free to strike on July 15.
The wages of the 225,O00 workers
at General Motors are tied in with
the cost-of- living index of the Bur-
eau of Labor Statistics.
The NLRB decision on General
Motors this week was more than a
year in the mill. 1t began in Nov
ember, 1947, when the company
announced, without consulting the
union, that it was inaugurating a
new insurance plan effective Feb.
/, 1948. The union complained, and
the NLRB got court order keep
ing GIN from putting the plan into
effect for the 225,000 workers re-
presented by JAW.
The Board found that UAW has
been bargaining agent in General
Motors plants since 1910, that GIN
signed an agreement in April, 1947
to bargain on proposed changes
in its insurance plan, and that the
union had asked to bargain on the
subject. Social security programs
come within the scope of collective
bargaining, the Board now rules
and as such it is compulsory that
they be discussed with the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
IVA Plant In
Subcommittee

Washington (LPA)--TVA Chair
man Gordon r. Clapp last week
told the McKellar subcommittee OF
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee why new steam plant is need
ed in the Tennessee Valley.
The Committee is considering d
$2,5OO,00O appropriation for start
ing construction on the plant which
Clapp says will be needed to meet
a power shortage in the winter of
1951-52. The House passed a SIM
liar bill the week before last.
Comment was caused in the cap
ital last week by full-page news
paper ad run by Natl Association
of Electric Company saying that
the Utility Workers join them in
their campaign against the steam
plant.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Stand ards Set
For c m putting
Overtime Puv

Washington (LPA)-The House
this week passed and sent to the
Senate bill which would set spec
ial standards for computing the
overtime required in the longshore
and construction industries under
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The measure, which passed by a
230 to 7 vote, had the support of
the full House Labor Committee,
and was frankly intended to meet
the Overtime on overtime" suits
filed by workers in these industries
who claimed that their overtime
rate of time-and-a-half should be
calculated on the basis of premium
pay when that rate had been paid
them in their first 40 hours work in
a week.
A Senate Labor subcommittee
composed of Lister Hill 3D., Ala. J,
Thomas Withers 3D., Ky.) and
Wayne Morse (R., Ore.) has been
named to study the matter and re-
port to the Senate group.
COP members of the committee,
led by Rep. Samuel Mcconnell
PA. were frank to say they hoped
that the Senate will make the meas
ure retroactive, thus voiding the
suits already in court. Most of these
will have to be paid by the Federal
government eventually, since they
involve longshoring work done for
the government during the war.
Rep. Vito Marcantonio (ALP,
N.Y. fought against the measure,
charging that union officials includ-
ing President Joseph Ryan of the
Int'l Longshoremen's Association
AFL were "penalizing the long
shoremen for the benefit of the
companies" who will save millions
of dollars" if the measure passes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
By WILLIAM c. GAUSMANN

Rome (LPA) = Tho wary, al
II least for the moment, of calling
any more large scale nti-Marshall
plan strikes, the Communists who
run the CGIL, Italy's largest union
| federation, are still trying to sabo-
tage Italian recovery.
Newest wrinkle is a tactic call
ed "non-collaboration." This means
that in plants where "non-collab-
oration" is decreed by the CGIL
workers are expected to engage in
streamlined showdown.
A worker comes in in the morn
ing, loiters around the shop until
the foreman tells him to go to
work. Then he stands by his ma
chine until ordered to turn it on.
He obeys this order, but then
stands by until told to perform the
next operation-and so on.
Of course many workers refuse
to obey the CGIL DEGREES. And the
Communists have not yet attempt
ed to apply it to all plants. But
wherever it has been proclaimed
'non-collaboration" succee S in
cutting production by at least
$3.50.
This tactic is still being supple
mented by "quicke" strikes-which
are usually not related to anything
that we'd call a trade union ques-
tion. If a Communist CGIL leader
doesn't like a speech by cabinet
member he'll call on the workers
to quit for hour, for example.
"Non-collaboration" on the other
hand, since it seriously cuts into
the pay of piece-workers, is NOM
inally associated with demands on
the employers. Actually it is dir
ected against the Marshall plan
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
MAPS '4s DEMANDS; BOARD RULES
GM MUST BARGAIN ON PENSIONS

Washington (LPA)-Forthcom'
ing contract negotiations of United
Auto Workers received a boost last
week when NLRB held, in a un'
animous decision, that Genera
Motors Corp. must bargain with
the union on pension, insurance
and other social security programs
Even board member ]. Copeland
Gray, who has dissented in all pre-.
vious cases on the subject, signed
the decision ordering the company
to bargain with UAW on any in.
surance plan it considers and to
stop making any changes in the
present plan without first consult
ing the union.
The GIN contract provides for
bargaining on social security and
pensions as soon as it's legally de-
termined whether they are a pro-
per matter for negotiation. The
Supreme Court is expected to rule
on the subject in the finland Steel''
case before the end of March.
UAW President Walter P. Reut-
her told newsmen after a union
wage conference last week that a
wage package headed up by social
security demands would be sought
from the big three auto producers:
Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.
1t was General Motors that broke
the contract bottleneck last spring.
A 500 monthly retirement pen
sion for 60 year old workers and a
hospital and medical care program
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Price Settlement
Still Pending At
Cambridge Plant

Cambridge, Ohio - The spring
like weather we have been having
has taken its toll in sickness here
abouts. The latest to be stricken is
our local president, Frank Camp
bell, who is confined to the hospital.
Production is picking up at the
plants and the future looks good.
The new shape, Ballarina, is still
causing trouble and settlement
on prices is not likely to be agreed
upon. 1t looks like a standing COM
mittee question. Jiggermen and
crews have certainly taken a beat
ing in developing this shape, in
the past couple months.
A resolutions committee has been
appointed by Pres. Campbell and
anyone with good ideas for our
next convention should get busy
on their resolutions. Local 122 has
gone on record in favor of certain
changes in our constitution regard
ing elections, referendum votes,
national officials and The Potters
Herald. A request for a referendum
on these changes has been forward
ed to headquarters.
After hearing a report by Marie
Adams on settlement of questions
concerning decal girls and the lack
of settlement of clay shop ques-
tions as reported by George Saw
age, several members voiced their
opinion that there is something
sadly lacking in labor management
relations at Universal. 1t can be
learned from several members that
the management is plenty tough
to deal with.
The reports of drop in the cost
of living are met with skepticism
here. l haven't noticed it yet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
italian COMMUNISTS have new
AMTI-MARSHALL PLAN TRICKS

and the efforts of the Italian gov
ernment to increase production.
Take, for example the situation
today in large hemp plant. In the
industry there is a board which
determines payment of bonuses to
both industrial workers in the in
dustry and to the basic hemp pro-
ducers. Both these groups and the
government are represented on the
board. One of the union spokesmen
is Alessandro Cappelletti, an inn
portant leader in the LCGIL,
Italy's new democratic union move
ment. He told us this story last
week.
The CGIL representative in a
big hemp plant recently came to
the manager and demanded the
workers be given the same bonus
that they received last year. The
manager replied that he'd first
have to check the company's books
and then refer the case to the
board. He did not refuse the re-
quest.
But Immediately the CGIL or
dered "non-collaboration." Mean
while, the company and the board
went over the case and found it
possible to pay the bonus again.
This has been done, but Commun-
ist followers in the plant are con-
tinuing "non-collaboration."
Anti-Communists in the CGIL of
course oppose the policy, and urge
the workers to ignore the Com
munist-inspired directives. The
ICGIL is combating it. And many
workers are making the mistake
of associating this CP trick with
the whole idea of trade unionism,
and are refusing to renew their
membership in the CGIL, or to join
the LCGIL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03

George Goppert, popular mould
maker, again heads this years
committee, making his 21st year in
that capacity. The balance of the
committee includes P. X. Calhoon,
secretary; James Slaven, treasurer;
Francis Cubberly, Roy Masker,
Frank Duffy and Harry l.. Gill of
East Liverpool; William Robinson,
Wellsville; William Berry and Phil
Schroeder, Sebring; A. J. Sanders,
Salem; John Mamrack, Canon
sburg; Leland Quinn, East Pales-
tine; and SyIvanus De Bee of Min
erva.
The committee is the same as
that which planned last years out
ing which was proclaimed by many
as one of the best outings in Bro
therhood history, despite the rain
which fell late in the afternoon.
The aim of the committee to
make each outing a little better
than the last will again be the
policy Of the committee with new
added to the program
which should prove popular with
the youngsters as well as the
grownups.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
AFL Sailors To
Meet With Nmu

San Francisco (ILNS). - The
Sailors Union of the Pacific, AFL
announced here that it would meet
with the National Maritime Union,
CLIO, which has contracts on the
east coast, to discuss the effective
working out of joint national
labor program for American sea-
men.
This reversal of previous policy
of the Sailors Union of the Pacific
was announced by the unions Sec
retary-treasurer, Harry Lundeberg,
at the end of a 3-day conference
here of SUP port agents from
Honolulu, New York and the Paci-
fic Coast. at was self-evident that
NMU policies in the past were be-
ing dictated by the Communist
party" but now the NMU was
making SERIOUS efforts to cleanse
its union house of Communists"
said Lundeberg.
At the proper time representa-
tives of these unions will meet to
discuss long-range problems affect
ing their members and also immed-
late questions such as the boycott
of Panamanian ships, Lundeberg
added.
The Sailors Union of the Pacific
also announced its support of a pro-
posed Senate investigation of the
merchant marine indus
trx,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Michael Calvin Named
New Undersecretary

Washington (LPA) - The new
Under-Secretary of Labor, named
last week, is Michael Joseph Calvin
of Boston. He fills post which has
been vacant since David Morse re-
signed last summer to become head
of the Int'l Labor Organization of
United Nations.
Calvin is a lawyer, whose entire
career has been spent with the
third largest law firm in New Eng
land, dealing with business and
labor matters.
He is AZ years old, married and
has five children,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE LOCAL 100

Members of Local Union l30
will vote in the primary elec-
tion on Friday, March II. For
the benefit Of those working on
swing shifts, polls will be open
from 2 to a p. m. in the after
noon and again in the evening
until close Of meeting.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Unions Push For Higher
Minimum Steel Wage In
Government Contracts

Washington (LPA)-Spokesmer
for United Steelworkers, Int'l AS
sociation of Machinists, and th'
AFL appeared before the public
contracts division of the Labor
Dept this week to show that min
imum wages under government
contracts in the iron and steel in,
dustry should be raised for the
first time in 10 years.
Representatives of 80 steel com
panies argued that no changes
should be made i'm the steel wage
minimums provided for under the
/ Walsh-Healy Act. Steelworkers Re-
search Director Otis Brubaker told
the wage-hour hearing that the
present minimum of 45c to 62.5c
tper hour are obviously now
thoroughly outdated. "Had it not
been for the war and the possible
interference with government bid
ding for war contracts the
union would have long since press
ed for a revision" he pointed out.
Most steel workers now get $1.23
an hour, except for some on spec
ial jobs who only make 1.181z- an
the South, the going rates are
$1.081a and $1.04. In a letter to
Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin,
Steelworkers President Philip Muir
ray asked him to rule $1.23 as the
prevailing minimum, with $1.18h
as sub-minimum for certain class
ifcations. In Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, North Carolina, Okla
homa, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia, the union con-
tends, the $1.0815 and $1.04 figures
should be a floor. The present
hearings are to determine whether
these new standards should be ac-
cepted.
In a statement read by w. G.
Flynn for lam President Harvey
Brown, the machinists union gave
its strong support to these pro-
posals. }
AFL, however, while declaring
that immediate revision is needed,
does not support the minimum
idea nor does it want special rates
for the south. Testimony presented
by Thomas M. Holleran requested
that single minimum be set for
the steel industry: as high as $1.25
but in no event less than $1.19.
Furthermore, various steel Of
ficials told the wage-hour admin
istrator, there's no need to change
these minimums at all, since there
is a minimum wage bill now gett-
ing attention in Congress. A man
from Bethlehem Steel urged that
there be no changes in minimum
pay at this time because we are in
an unsettled economic condition"
He declined to answer all questions
asked by union researcher Brubak-
er with the comment that any in
formation he could give would
only add to the confusion"
Charles Farham, superintendent
of labor relations at Northwestern
Steel & Wire Co. expressed fear
that "any requirement that the
minimum wage under government
be raised would, in effect,
require an increase in wages of all
it's employees, even tho very few of
them work on government con-
tract" On top of that, he said, a
raise in the steel plant would effect
other industries in the area.
The steel manufacturer objected
to the idea of having just
,wo wage areas: north and south.
Under the present system there
are six areas, each one lower than
he next. Plant owners from sub
standard states, especially Texas,
complained particularly about the
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nesses of the hearings-Beryl A
Whitney, research director of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
speaking for President A. F. Whit
ney.
The Senate Committee has nov
gone into closed sessions to drafr
the final bill to be sent to the Sen
ate floor, probably sometime next
week. Sen. Wayne Morse Or, Ore.
has announced that he is working
with Sen. Ives (R, NY) on a com
promise bill he will offer to sup
plant the Truman bill which the
committee is expected to send out
for debate.
In the House, the Administra
tion's measure has been favorably
reported out of subcommittee tC
the full House Labor Committee
which is expected to consider sew
eral other matters before deciding
exactly when to schedule its hear
ings.
Whitney, bested Sen. Donnel (R,
Mo- time and time again in argu-
ment during his testimony. Donnell
has been needing and hockling al
most every labor witness who ap-
peared before the committee, and
Whitney came back at him repeat
edly.
well have a new day in Amer
ica,' Whitney said in his prepared
speech, "when corporations give
their minority stockholders the
same degree of democracy that
union members have"
He ended by saying that Taft
Hartley was to him the most un-
American, immoral and indecent
piece of legislation he had. ever
read. "It's not even written well" T"
he asserted.
Van Arkel, who has been coun-
sci for the Int'l Typographical
Union since he resigned from the
NLRB in protest against Taft
Hartley, got great deal of respect
from the senator's, several of whom
expressed admiration for his know
ledge of the theory of the law and
also in practice.
He began by telling the commit
tee that labor might have been able
to live under repeal Of the Wagner
Act, but that it will be impossible
for labor to survive under Taft
Hartley.
"Those rights given by Taft
Hartley to the employer were pre-
cisely the rights to break unions,"
Van Arkel said. "1t has positively
discouraged collective bargaining.
1t tells the worker that the right
to strike isn't right but a privi-
lege granted by Congress and can
be withdrawn at any time"
He said the Kansas City decis-
ion issued by the NLRB against
the carpenters union last week
denying the right to peaceful
"cleans out the last hope that
picketing in secondary boycott
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Picnic Committee Named
By President Duffy For
P0tters' Annual Outing

Preliminary plans for the National Brotherhood Of Operative Pot
picnic laid of the
national headquarters last Saturday evening.
his newly President
20yearod
every picnic bigger and than
of the will
ability the meeting of the committee 1t assumed that this
which the of the
trade to he should be held.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
OUR APOLOGIES

James Coffey, candidate for
sixth vice president in the pri-
mary election for national of
ficers, is listed on the official
ballot as a jiggerman. This is
in error as Bro. Coffey is a
kilnman by trade.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Pres. Truman'S Labor Bill
Moves Slowly Ahead In
The House And Senate

washington LPAlWork on the counrys national labor
aons forward behind
the Senate bill to be brought for debate
plans for FIRST hearings the BILL which the Senate completed
last week.
The Senate Labor Committee last half
weeks of acrimonious hearings the
eminent labor
of the National Mediation Board
General Counsel the NRB
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 10

Members of Local No. 10 in
arrears, urged to pay dues and
vote at primary election. Polls
open from l p. m. until close
of meeting on March z.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE
MAINTENANCE MEN

Local Union 172 will have
the polls for the primary cleo
tion open from IL noon until
II p. m. on March II.