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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-25
BIG STEEL:
The Break Comes

The break had come in the steel
strike.
The United Steelworkers had
signed an agreement with the
Bethlehem steel corporation end
ing the strike for that company's
10000 workers and breaking the
otherwise solid front that had been
maintained by big steel in the
strike issue.
1T WAS A TRIUMPH for CLOS
President Philip Murray who an
.nounced that the agreement called
for Bethlehem to pay the full cost
of minimum $100-a-month pensions
for all employees IS or over with
rs years of service. A social insur-
ance plan also was included in the
agreement.
Bethlehem, the industry's second
largest producer, was the first unit
of big steel to capitulate to union
demands for a company-financed
pension and welfare plan.
No one could say just how much
the pension program would cost the
steel company per hour for each
employee once it begins operating.
It was expected the pension plan
would start to function in January
and the social insurance program
would get underway at about the
same time.
Murray told newsmen that a
Every conservative" estimate of
the pension cost to the company
would be about 10 cents an hour, but
added actuarial studies would have
to be made before the cost could be
determined definitely.
THE CLIO LEADER said the
Bethlehem action would set a pat
tern for the steel industry, but de-
clined to say what companies he
was talking to privately.
bib Steel" speaking through
u. S. Steel corporation President
Benjamin F. Fairless said:
I'VE renew our earlier proposals
to sit down with the steelworkers
union in an endeavor to negotiate
mutually satisfactory program
-. of course we will study the
Bethlehem settlement"
The question was: How long
would the remainder of "big steer'
hold out? The Bethlehem pact was
forceful argument for the unions
for, they could argue, if Bethlehem
can do it, so can you.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-25
NICKEL CUT:
Howl of Protest

The Eatonton, Ca, city council
recently devaluated the nickel and
right away got taste of the trouble
Britain is having with the pound
sterling.
The value Of the nickel went
down when the council raised the
price Of soft drinks by levying q
penny tax. The bottling business
Immediately went to pot. Some
stores quit selling soda pop al
together to escape the customer ire.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-25
Keep Posted on Values
By Reading the Ads
CRANBERRIES
& HOW TO COOK Them

A 4O-page bulletin Illustrated in full
cranberries, old recipes, new recipes.
how to can, how to freeze. For your free
copy, write Post Office Box 1888. New
York 8. New York. Adv.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-25
Effective Cough
Syrup, Mixed at
Home for Economy

No Cooking. No Work. Real Saving.
Here's an old home mixture your mother
probably used. and is still one Of the most
effective for coughs due to colds Once tried.
you'll swear by it.
Make syrup with cups granuated
sugar and one cup water No cooking needed.
Or you can use corn syrup or liquid honey.
instead OF sugar syrup.
Now put 2L5 ounces OF Pinex into q pint
bottle. and fill up with your syrup. This
makes full pint Of cough medicine. and
gives you about four times as much for your
money. 1t keeps perfectly and tastes fine.
And you'll say it's really excellent for
quick action. You can feel it take hold
swiftly. It loosens phlegm. soothes irritated
membranes. helps clear the air passages.
Thus it makes breathing easy and lets you
get restful sleep.
Pinex is a special compound Of proven
ingredients. in concentrated form. well.
known for its quick action on throat and
bronchial irritations Money refunded il not
pleased in every way.
FOR EXTRA CONVENIENCE GET NEW
READY MIXED, READY.T0.USE PIHEx!
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1949-11-25
ASIA:
How Much?

Top policy makers in the U. S.
government were beginning to talk
about little Marshall plan" for
Asia, hoping that congress will ap-
propriate approximately billion
dollars to "start off" the program
designed to stop the spread of
communism in Asiatic countries.
The news was in line with an
nouncement of meeting early next
year to set up a none Communist
union Of southeast Asian countries,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Strike Figures
Prove Nothing
About TIL Law

Washington UPA)-Watch out
for what some of our daily news
paper writer's will do with last
weeks Bureau Of Labor Statistics
figures on strike in the last few
years. They're bound to try to
make them prove that the Taft
Hartley law decreased strikes. In
fact the BIS data proves nothing
of the sort.
While the number of stoppages
went down 3693 in 1947 to 5000 in
1913, the number of working days
lost declined only slightly-34, $780,
900 to "a 100000 last year.
Compare both these with the
1885 strikes and 116,000,000 days
lost in 1916 and you get the real
picture. Strikes have tapered off
not because of any law, but be-
cause the reconversion era of the
postwar months has passed.
Nearly a third of the time lost
was in coal mine disputes-height-
ened by Taft Hartley provisions.
Other strikes, such as those of the
typographers, are also due to the
existence of the anti-union law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Full Employment
Bill introduced

Washington (LPA)-A bill to
give substance to the long-range
prosperity plans outlined in Pres
ident Truman's recent messages To
Congress was submitted to both
House and Senate last week. Spon-
sors are: Senators James Murray
(Mont.) and John Sparkman Gala.
and Rep. Wright Patman (Tex. J.
all Democrats.
Under the new full employment
proposals a reformed Reconstruc-
ton finance Corp. would be per-
mitted to loan up to Is billion
dollars to private businesses and
public authorities to maintain the
levels of production, employment
and investment" called for in the
Presidents speeches.
While existing business enter
prises, including cooperatives,
would have first call on the fund,
money would also be available to
state governments and regional
authorities" like IVA, to expand
industrial facilities under their
control.
More even distribution of indus
try between the various sections of
the country should be one of the
guides to RFC in making full en-
ployment loans, the bills authors
said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
OBITUARIES
c. RAYMOND (SD SPENCER

Salem, Ohio-C. Raymond ISL
Spencer, So, of r. D. 2, Salem, died
Dec. 7 of complications. He hac
been in i'll health for three years.
A son of George and May Sans
Spencer, he was born May 25, 1896
in Wheeling, w. Va.
He had lived in this vicinity for
35 years. For 33 years he was en-
ployed as kiln placer at the
Salem China Co. plant and was a
member of L. U. AZ, National Bro
therhood Of Operative Potters.
He was a member of the Baptist
church, Eagles lodge and Dads of
Foreign Service Veterans.
Surviving are his wife, Leora;
three sons; George of Alliance;
Charles, who is with the U. s.
Army in Japan and Raymond of
Salem; four daughters, Mrs. Joseph
Good and Mrs. Charles Kille of
Salem; Mrs. Shelby Carpenter OF
North Benton and lila June, at
home; two brothers, William and
Robert of Warren; two sstiers,
Mrs. Robert Bell of Monaco, Pa,
and Mrs. Ernest Simko of Trenton,
N. j., and nine grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Guild Gets Poll
On Sun Papers

Baltimore OPA)-A m r i C a n
Newspaper Guild members in Bal
timore, assisted by national Guild
officials, are working hard this
week to make sure they win an
NLRB bargaining agent vote which
will be conducted within the next
few weeks.
Last week the board overruled
the powerful Sun Papers objec-
tions and ordered a union ballot
conducted for nearly all categories
that the Guild wants in its unit.
Sun officials had tried to get edit
orial writer's, telephone operators,
copy boys, and many other cate
gories Of workers excluded from
the Guilds jurisdiction,
Published by the A. S. Abel
Co., the Sun Papers publish morn
ing, evening and Sunday editions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
NLRB Aid Asserts
tn Sway Over
Construction Jobs

Washington (LPA) = Another
NLRB ruling last week showed
how far the jurisdiction of the
Taft Hartley law can be extended.
A 1926 electrical subcontract on a
construction job was termed typical
NLRB language, embedded in a
network of commercial relation
ships which in their ramifcations
Imanifiestly affect commerce"
Trial Examiner Earl S. Bellman
based his decision on the fact that
the electrical contract involved in
the case bought materials in inter
state commerce and took work
from firms doing interstate busi-
mess.
Bellman ruled against General
|Counsel Robert N. Denham's con-
tention, however, that a local of
the Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers-AFL had violated the
Taft Hartley's secondary boycott
ban. He pointed out that the cleo
tricians' picketing the project on
which non-union electrical work
was being done was an exercise of
free speech. When members of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
AFL quit the project they did SO
voluntarily without coercion" from
the electricians.
Undoubtedly picketing is often
a more effective form of speech
than private conversation because
it exposes the dispute to public at
tention," the NLRB official pointed
out. at has come to constitute a
symbol for some people, calling for
cohesion among those sharing or
sympathizing with certain group
interests"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
UNION BUSINESS AGENT
OUSTED AS COMMUNIST

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). =
William S. Johnson, business agent
of Local 200, Cooks, Pastry Cooks
and Kitchen Employees Union, has
been ordered removed from office
on "circumstantial evidence" that
he is a Communist party official,
the international president of the
locals parent body disclosed in
Cincinnati.
Hugo Ernst, general president
of the Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes and Bartenders Information
al Union, issued the custer order.
Ernst said that he acted on the
basis of a hearing at which "cir-
cumstantial evidence" was produc-
ed that Johnson is vice chairman
of the Communist party in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Under the internationaPs new
constitution, adopted at a conven-
tion in 1947, members of subver-
sive groups are barred from hold
ing union office. The general pres
ident has declared Johnson's office
is vacant and the local will now
have to hold an election, Ernst
said.
Under the presidents order,
Johnson is suspended from office
for 6 months. If he can prove at
the end of that time that he has
purged himself of membership in
any Objectionable group, Ernst
said, he can be reinstated.
Johnson said he had no comment
on the suspension order. Charges
against him were brought by Off
GERS of Washington locals and
other union members here. They
accused Johnson of being an active
party member and said they had
evidence that he held a party office.
The House Committee on IMAM
erican Activities, in its pamphlet
on 400 Things You Should Know
About Communism in the U.S.A.,"
listed a William S. Johnson as vice
chairman of the Maryland-District
section of the Communist party.
The pamphlet was issued last June.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Miners Strongly
Back Their Union
Writer Declares

Philadelphia (ILNS) THE 400,-
600 members of John l.. Lewis
United Mine Workers Of America,
on the whole, stop work at his
order because they feel Lewis is
their only friend, according to John
Barlow Martin, who tells "What
the Miners Say About John l..
Lewis" in the Jan. Is Saturday
Evening Post.
Martin talked with members of
Local 3648, UNIV, in the typical
coal town of st. Michael, outside
Johnstown, Penna. He found that
the men who dig coal often ridicule
and denounce Lewis, but they turn
fiercely against outsiders VIII o
criticize him.
"Not many years ago. in the coal
field men who wanted to start a
union had to hide in the woods to
do it," Martin recalls. "The Coal
and Iron Police-private constabul-
ary of the operators-drove out
agitators, broke strikes and crack
ed skulls. Courts backed them up.
/. Wages were low, hours were
long, danger was great, housing
was squalid, children were sweat
ed, miners were cheated at store
and mine, and so they kept trying
to unionize. :"
Nationally, the UNIV was beat
en- into virtual impotence in the
late 1920's but the New Deal saw
ed it. The union has come a long
way since. The health and welfare
fund is the best thing they ever
got in the miners opinion.
Tf John l.. Lewis didn't do an
other thing in this world, there
should be a monument to the man,"
the Post article quoted Hoot
Croyle, recording secretary of
Local 3648, as saying.
The men don't like strikes be-
cause strikes force a lot of them
into debt. They criticize Lewis for
calling the strikes "work stop
pages" because they believe he is
using the Technology to avoid
paying strike benefits out of the
union funds, according to the Post
article. And they resent the Lewis
defiance of a federal court which
brought a $1,250,000 fine against
the union. But they stick to the
union because they've learned
they'll never get any place in this
world as Individuals" says Martin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Truman Budget Outlines Whof II
Will Cost For Fair Deal In 1850

Washington LPA) - A far
reaching program that will add to
the security, health and well-being
of the American people was con-
tanned in President Truman's an
nual budget message to Congress
this week.
The stunning total Of Sal $685.
100000 proposed for federal eX-
penditures led many reporters and
commentators to lose sight of what
labor officials said was the most
important part of the budget plan
its provisions for our human and
natural resources. The proposals
now up to Congress are these:
Ito start a national health in
surance program, accompanied by
improved services and facilities for
public health and medical care
$2S3, 100000.
2-To extend old-age and survi-
vors insurance to "nearly alP the
25,000,000 persons who work but
are not now covered, with sharply
raised benefits, women permitted
to draw benefits at an earlier age,
and higher part-time earnings per-
mitted-$726, 100000.
3-To provide disability insur-
ance "to protect against loss of
earnings during illness or other
temporary disability, and to assure
continuing annuities to workers
who become permanently disabled
and therefore unable to earn a
livelihood"
ITO improve housing stand
ards for middle and low-income
families, and carry out the hous-
ing activities of the government
1888, 100000.
5-To promote public education
-$326, 100000 (contrasted with
$39, 100000 now.)
6-To conserve and develop
agricultural land and water re-
sources-$65, 100000.
To conserve other land and
water resources-$940, 100000.
8-To develop and control atomic
energy - $725,000,000 (contrasted
with 1864, 100000 now.)
80 increase Labor Dept bud
get and thus restore its ability to
meet increasing needs for media
tion and conciliation, for current
economic information, and for
training workers $4,000, coo
(contrasted with $184, ,000).
This includes $l,000,000 to set up
a Natl Commission Against Dis
elimination in + Employ m
(FEPC), and $9,000,0O0 for a pro-
posed industrial safety program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
Third of Typical
Families Cannot
Make Ends Meet

| Washington UPA) = Congress
men who want to know the effects
of initiation can just have a quick
look around them in Washington,
and they'll soon find the problems
of the average family.
A little-noticed study, published
in the current issue of Labor De-
partment's Monthly Labor Review
shows that in 1947 about one-third
of all Washington families with
husband, wife and two children
under 18 had incomes below the
budget required to maintain such
families at a modest but adequate
level of living.
Since 1947 there has been a rise
in living costs in the nations capi-
tai, and earnings have gone up
slightly, so that it's safe to assume
that nearly the same number of
such families still can't make ends
meet.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
NLRB Rules Out
Company Union

Washington (LPA) - The Int'l
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
AFL, last week won an NLRB rul-
ing against the James X. Kearney
Corp, of st. Louis, Mo-, and the
company union established by the
corporations president nearly II
years ago.
Finding the manufacturing firm
guilty of numerous unfair labor
practices, the board ordered Kear-
ney to stop supporting the "Kear.
ney Employees Benefit ASSN" and
to void its contract" with the COM
pany union. 1t also instructed the
corporation to notify workers that
it will not interfere with their
right to join the IBEW.
Back in 1887, shortly after union
organizers appeared at his plant,
James r. Kearney, Sr., then corp,
Grafton president, called in hit
workers and urged them to form
an organization "free from outside
unions" From that moment on the
company encouraged the employees
association, and for a while even
helped finance it by giving it cut
from Coco Cola machines installed
in the plant.
Only real advantages came to
workers when IBEW men were
agitating for Kearney workers af-
filiating with an outside union"
Then the company would make
some concessions in the form of
agreements with the employees as.
sociation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
BADIE HI. WILLIAMS

Bradie Howard Williams, 55, of
Lawrenceville, Chester, died Jan.
Ia in City Hospital, following a
two-week illness.
Mr.. Williams, a World War |
veteran, was a lifetime resident OF
this district. He served in the
Panama Canal Zone during the
war and was a kilnman at Plant s
of the Homer Laughlin China Co.
He was a member of Local Union
No. 9, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and the Moose
and the Oriole Lodges of East Liv-
erpool.
He leaves two brothers, Luther
Williams of Chester, and Thurman
Williams of Ell Paso, Tex; half
brother, Charles Swisher of Find
lay, and three sisters, Mrs. Perry
Bland of Fairview, w. Va, Mrs.
Elizabeth Brock of Reedsville, w.
Va, and Mrs. Charles Eblim of
Pomeroy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
SENATE GROUP STOPS
PRO-LABOR IVA REPORT

Washington (LPA) - Senators
Taft and Ball, during their reign
in the Joint Labor Committee, de-
liberately squashed a pro-labor re-
port on worker-employer relations
in the Tennessee Valley Authority,
it was discovered this week.
The committee reports previous
" published all portray labor un-
ions in an unfavorable light, to say
the least.
A United Press story from
Washington this week stated that
there was a IVA report prepared
by three committee staff members,
but that it was completed too late
for committee approval in the last
Congress. Alexander A. Christie,
committee staff member who actu-
ally prepared the report, branded
the UP story as inaccurate and
misleading.
"Taft and Ball." Christie told
LPA, KILLED the report because it
was too favorable to unions and too
liberal" There was only one staff
member who worked on the report.
That was Christie, and he insists
it was in the Committees hands in
plenty of time for publication. 1t
will be published now under the
new committee headed by Sen.
James Murray Cd, Mont.).
IVA labor relations, which have
been exceptionally free Of pater-
nalism, have been excellent during
the Is years of the organizations
existence. The report listed the
following reasons for this:
1-TVA directors early adopted
a work policy known as "force ac-
count" making the agency itself
the employer for construction pro-
jects.
2-The management "has proven
by its deeds that it is constantly
striving to deal fair and square
with labor"
4-The IVA Trades & Labor
Council-AFL is composed of "res-
ponsible unions"
5-Officers of the council are
"real labor leaders, men of excep-
tional ability and character"
6-Both labor and management
"know the value and meaning Of
cooperation"
7-TVA keeps the council fully
informed of all things of interest
to it.
8-TVA directors and officers
dealing with labor policy "have on
the whole been competent, intelli-
gent and realistic individuals"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
HARRY s. RUSSELL

Harry S. Russell, widely known
figure in the ceramic industry for
nearly so years, died January Is
in City Hospital. He had been i'll
for several months with a heart
ailment
Mr.. Russell who was 65 years of
age was born in Morristown. He
came to East Liverpool when 18 to
become office manager for the R.
Thomas & Sons Co., electric pro-
celain manufacturers.
He later became associated with
the Louthan Manufacturing Co.,
serving as secretary-treasurer.
When the firm changed hands in
1947, Mr.. Russell remained in an
advisory capacity until he retired
last January.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Flor
ence Louthan Russell.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-20
MANY LEGISLATURES
CONSIDER HOUSING

Chicago ILNS).-In more than
a fourth of the IA states that have
regular Legislative sessions sched-
uled this year, proposals are being
studied either to initiate or to in
crease state aid for public housing
or urban redevelopment, the Ma
tional Association of Housing Of
ficials says.
States in which housing and re-
development plans are pending in
clude New York, New Jersey, Mich
igan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Wis
consin, California, Connecticut and
Washington.