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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Canning Industry
Pay Is Just A
Location Matter

Washington, D. C. ILNS). -
Earnings of canning workers de-
pend largely on the location OF
their employment, according to a
Bureau of Labor Statistics study.
A survey of the 8 leading canning
states during the peak season of
l948 revealed that average e
straight time hourly earnings rang
ed from $1.16 an hour in Cali
fornia, where 90 percent of the
workers made over 81, to 70 cents
in Maryland, where only 5 percent
earned 81 or more.
Three other states had averages
of over 81, New Jersey, Oregon,
and Washington. In Indiana and
Wisconsin, where the averages
were just under 70 cents, over
three-fourths of the workers made
less than 90 cents an hour In Ill
inois, workers averaged SO cents
and in New York, 80 cents.
The size of the community where
the plant was located appeared to
have no consistent effect on the
wage rates but in of the states
workers in communities of over
$4,000 population averaged more
than those employed in smaller
communities. Averages of workers
in communities of under $500 were
generally equal to averages of
those in communities of $500 to
$4,000 population.
Women, on the average, earned
10 to 20 percent less per hour than
men, and worked fewer hours per
week. Average weekly earnings
for women were 20 percent or more
lower than mems in every state.
In wisconsin, where's women aver
aged less than SO hours per week
compared with 65 hours for men,
their weekly earnings were so per-
cent less!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Howoiion Dock Strike 100 Days
Old, Moy Spread To Mainland

Honolulu (LPA)-Hawaii's ter
ritorial legislature came down off
| its high horse little bit with re-
gard to the longshore strike when
| it agreed to give Governor Ingram
M. Stainback a free hand in hiring
strikers and supervisors from the
struck stevedoring ompanie e 5
should the Hawaiian government
actually get into the stevedoring
business as is contemplated.
But whether a "free hand" in
strike-breaking for the Governor
would be enough to settle the 100
day old strike was quite another
matter. At the end of last week
the already complex situation had
been, further complicated by a
teamster walkout in retaliation
against the laying off of teamsters
who had respected picket lines set
up by the left-wing International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems Union.
Meanwhile, there was a growing
feeling that unless the strike was
settled promptly it might spread
to the West Coast of the mainland
as the result of circumstances sur
rounding a Matson Navigation
Company freighter in San Fran
cisco. If the ship calls for long
shoremen to load cargo for Hawaii,
as the company planned, strike
may be precipitated in California
ports.
ILWU President Harry Bridges,
now under indictment for alleged
ly swearing falsely on the Com
munist issue at his naturalization
hearing four years ago, has been
given permission by a federal
judge to fly here. If he does, it is
believed by some that he will urge
acceptance of the 14-cent wage in
crease recommended in June by a
fact finding committee. Other mar
thine unions have urged the ILWU
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
75c Wage Fight
Reaches Both
Senate And House

Washington (LPA)-Despite the
desperate efforts of high-paid lob
byists for industries paying as
little as 40c an hour to workers
the 75c minimum wage bill is fin
ally ready for vote in both House
and Senate.
The Senate's action has been de-
layed by the long -drawn-out fight
over ECA funds and the North At
lantic Pact.
On the House side, an intricate
parliamentary maneuver will be
required to bring the measure to
the floor. Then, the proposal on
which the Congressman must go on
record will raise the wage floor to
75c, extend the protection of the
wage-hour law to merchant sea-
men, and extend the 40-hour week
proposal to some workers on bus
and air lines.
The Senate bill also provides
that the Wage-Hour Administrators
can sue for damages on behalf of
workers who are underpaid, and
would strengthen the Fair Labor
Standards Acts restrictions on
child labor. The Senate measure
would cover workers in the "area
of production" of agricultural pro-
ducts.
Several southern Democrats have
been pushing in the House for a
provision tying the minimum wage
figure to the consumers price
index, with the minimum wage ris-
ing when living costs rise, going
down when living costs sink. This
plan, opposed vigorously by the
unions as simply accelerating the
harm initiation or deflation does to
the consumer, is believed virtually
dead.
Congressional Quarterly, which
checks pressures on Congress in
detail, comments that $50 many
groups came to Congress seeking
exemption from (wage-hour) COW
erage because of particular difficult
ties in their industries that one
Representative was prompted to
say that it appeared that everyone
is in the wrong business" These
seekers for special exemption from
the proposed 75c minimum wage
are expected to try hard to get
friends in Senate and House to
propose limits on the present COW
erage of ELSA.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Fate Of Proposals
Hangs In Balance

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
may decide this week whether OF
not two of President Truman's re-
organization proposals go into eff
feet. Unless rejected by either
House or Senate, they become OPP
erative August 20.
One would set up a Federal
Welfare Dept, and the other would
transfer from Federal Security
Agency to Labor Dept the US
Employment Service and admins
tration of the unemployment COM
pensation program.
The House Executive Expendi-
lures Committee has refused to act
against the plans, but the Senate
committee has asked the Senate
to reject both.
Organized labor is solidly be-
mind both proposals. State and ma
tional chambers of commerce and
state manufacturers associations
have attacked the employment SER
vice transfer to Labor Dept on the
grounds the agency is ito pro-
labor" The American Medical
ASSN has been especially active
in fighting the Welfare Dept idea,
on the grounds that it would make
the health activities of the federal
government subject to direction
by a person who is not a member
of the medical profession.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

217 trial examiners in Ia govern
ment agencies were informed by
the Civil Service Commission that
the Mcfarland Board had found
them unqualified for their jobs.
Accordingly, those jobs would be
terminated on June 25.
Consequently, the 81 protested
to the Civil Service Commission.
Their attorneys asked that CSC
reverse its ruling and disqualify
the Mcfarland Board. So great
was the uproar that the date of
discharge was postponed indefinite
ly. All but a handful of the Sd
were reinstated, and those who
have not been are still appealing
their cases. However, the story
does not end there.
While Mcfarland and company
were attempting to oust liberal
minded examiners from their pre-
sent jobs, they were also busy set
ting up a register" from which
future jobs would be filled. 1t is
the status of this register which
is now at issue.
Liberal groups are charging that
if this register is allowed to stand
the NAM may control all appoint
ments to the post of trial examiner
for the next ten years. They charge
that the register isIloaded with the
handpicked representatives of big
business while many a competent
applicant has been disqualified.
What happens in such circum-
stances has been we'll illustrated
in the past two years at the NLRB,
the liberal groups say.
Reinstatement of all the incum-
bent examiners who were disqual-
flied was one aim of liberal groups
fighting in this issue. The resigna-
ton Of the Mcfarland Board was
another. But unless the register
by the Mcfarland
Board is completely set aside,
either by the Civil Service Com
or by Congress, victories
on the other points will not
to much.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Are Republicans Committing Suicide:
Asks Meany;; Dewey Defends Record

Syracuse, N. Y. (LPA) = i
wasn't billed as such, but the 11OC
delegates to the seth annual con
vention of the New York State
Federation of Labor, held here
last week, were treated to th'
equivalent of debate betweeT
Secretary Treasurer George Meany
of the AFL and Governor Thomas
f.. Dewey.
1t wasn't face to face debate
Meany : sent up his scheduled
speech, because he was i'll anc
couldn't appear personally, and il
was read to the convention by
Harold Hanover, secretary-treasur-
er of the state federation.
The speech included a bitter at
tack on the anti-labor policies OF
the Republican party, and Dewey
walked to the platform just as
Hanover was nearing the end OF
the talk. He answered with a de-
tense of his administration in the
Knickerbocker state.
Meany's speech blasted both the
Dixiecrats and reactionary Republi-
cans. He termed some of the south
ern Democrats Evolves in Sleeps
clothing" and branded Byrd of Vir-
ginia and several other senators
from Dixie as Senators from the
Chamber of Commerce and Natl
Association Of Manufacturers"
AS for the COP, Meany describ-
ed its leadership as bound hand
and foot to corporate interests.
Policies followed by that party
make it appear, he said, that the
Republicans are determined to
commit suicide"
"The Republican party has con
sistently lost because it has had
no program to offer to the people" /"
he declared. at has made itself
the tool Of a small number of in
dividuals who control and direct
the most powerful corporations.
Instead of serving the many, the
Tafts and like-minded Republicans
have preferred to serve the tycoons
of industry.
"One thing is certain--if the
Republican party continues to
stand for election as the party of
greed and the party that places
shackles on free American labor
to please big campaign contribu-
tors, it will continue to go down to
defeat"
Dewey, who heard the latter
part, tried to laugh it off with
light remark, but then he went on
to claim that the Republican ad-
in New York state
had led the way in building harm
onious labor-management relations,
in passing a sickness insurance
law, in maintaining high unem-
ployment insurance benefits, and
in fair employment practices. He
did not touch on the party's ma
tional record.
The convention, after some de-
bate, barred seats to four delegates
accused of Communist connections.
All incumbent officers-President
Thomas A. Murray, Secretary
Treasurer Hanover and Ia vice
presidents were reelected. A
18th, Michael Rossiter of the Hod
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

agencies as the Natl LABOR Rela-
tions Board, the Securities & Ex-
change Commission, the Interstate
Commerce Commission and other
government agencies play just
about the same part in administra-
tive law as do the district courts in
the judicial system. The evidence
one of them accumulates as the
basis of his own original decision
is also the basis on which any APP
peals body makes a final ruling.
In other words, if by hook or
crook big business could gain con-
troll of the trial examiners, big bus
mess wouldn't have to care too
much what kind of labor-man-
agement law reposed on the books
or what kind of a securities law
or interstate commerce regulations.
The kind of trial examiners big
business could control would see
that big business got the right
rulings.
For years big business tried to
get control of the appointment of
examiners, and in 1916 big busi-
ness got its chance. In that year,
on the recommendation of the Am
erican Bar ASSN, Congress passed
a law under which the US Civil
Service Commission was to set up
qualifications for future appointees
to examiners posts. Previously,
examiners were hired directly by
the agency which needed them.
Under the new scheme there would
be a central list or register"
Whatever merit the idea had
faded when the Civil Service Board
named six consultants, called a
Board of Examiners, calling in FIVE
from private life, and handed them
the job of passing on incumbent
examiners and new applicants
alike. The makeup of the Board
was the give-away.
The chairman was Carl McFar-
land, a lawyer whose firm is re-
tanned by the NAM among others.
Another member was Joseph w.
Henderson, Philadelphia corp
Grafton lawyer. A third was Willie.
Smith, another corporation lawyer
from Raleigh, N. G. All three had
openly and frequently expressed
their distaste for labor and for
government regulation of business.
The next stop was inevitable al
though it was a long time coming.
In the spring of 1949, 81 of the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
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to take the ID cents because of
growing maritime unemployment.
The ILWU in Hawaii originally
struck for a 32-cent hourly in
crease and has since offered to
submit the wage issue to arbitra-
ton. The employers have repeat
edly refused to consider arbitra-
tion.
Bridges and a representative of
the employers appeared before the
Senate Labor Committee recently
and Bridges at that time suggest
ed arbitration. After the hearing,
Senator Morse OR, Ore.) said that
Bridges was following the line of
a fellow traveller" but that the
employers case was "weak on its
merits"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
OBITUARIES
MRS. TITLE SHIELDS

Mrs. Tillie Hayes Shields, TO-
widow of Leo A. Shields, 1910
Huston Ave-, died August z in
City Hospital following a three
week illness.
Mrs. Shields was born in Beaver
County, a daughter of William t.
and Caroline Calhoon Hayes, and
lived in East Liverpool most of her
lifetime. She was employed at the
Harker Pottery Company and was
a member of Local Union 124, Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and the First Church of
Christ.
She leaves son, Leonard N.
Shields, and a sister, Mrs. Will
liam Walker, both of East Liver
pool, and a granddaughter.
Services were held from the
Dawson Funeral Home by Rev. D..
Park Chapman. Burial was in Col
umbiana County Memorial Park.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
lam Maps Drive
For 3O-Hr. Week

Washington (LPA)-Resolutions
are coming in to the national head
quarters of Int'l Association OF
Machinists, urging an immediate
fight for a 30-hour work-week.
According to lam Secretary.
treasurer Eric Peterson, resolu-
tions have come in from such wide
ly scattered places as st. Louis
California, Norfolk, Seattle anC
New York City. Replying to one
lodge, Peterson wrote that he
hoped the members will be as
aggressive and militant in fighting
for inclusion of a 30-hour week
provision in their contracts as they
have been in their resolutions"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Shorter Rail Week Reviewed

Chicago (ILNS).--A committee
representing the 16 unions of nom
operating railroad employees met to
review problems arising from
changes being made in prepara-
ton for adoption of the 40-hour
work week on the country's rail
roads Sept. |. About 100000 en-
ployes, most of whom have been
working AZ hour weeks, are in
volved in the change.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

Carriers, was elected to fill vac
ancy caused by previous resigna-
ton.
Teachers union delegates lost a
fight to put through a resolution
which condemned "anti-teacher'
policies of Governor Dewey and
which proposed a censure of Muir
ray for allegedly failing to back
the union in its fight for legisla-
tion to improve the lot of teachers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
NAm-Bar Assn Committee
May Give Up Fight To
Control Trial Examiners

Washington QPAThe Natl Association of Manufacturers and
probably their carefully
calculated attempt to take the administrative agencies of the US
Mcfarland Board body
from organized labor and other
groups However, their victory
taken by the Civil Commission by
Congress.
Mcfarland Board the Board of Examiners for what
classified hearing trial examiner personnel Trial examiners such
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
w. S. STYLLWELL

William S. Stillwell, retired pot
ter and former member of Wells
vile City Council, died suddenly OF
a" heart attack August 6 in his
home, 322 10th ST., Wellsville. He
was rs.
Mr.. Stillwell was born IN New
Cumberland and lived in Wells
vile so years. He was employed
last as a printer for the Wells
vile China Co. and retired about
three years ago. A Democrat in
politics, he served as Third Ward
councilman for two terms.
He was a member of Local Union
No. "a, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters, the Fraternal
Order of Police, Jr. o. U. A.. M.
and the Christian Church.
Mr.. Stillwell leaves his widow,
Mrs. Renie Ward Stilwell; four
sons, Vernon T. Stillwell of De-
troit, Raymond Stillwell of Hol-
lywood, Calf, Norman Stillwell of
Wellsville, and Paul Stillwell of
Alliance; a daughter, Mrs. Pauline
Mcclure of Hillcrest; two sisters,
Mrs. Laura Harshman of Connells-
vile, Pa, and Mrs. Polly Farrell
Of Huntington, w. Va, and l3
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15

gina, and Walter Cruel Great Falls
Williamson was elected TO the
board last fan from the southern
district and Cruel from the central
district.
Cruel replaces Hans B. Erickson,
Conrad, who retired from active
farming and the board Of directors
last year. Erickson had completed a
quarter of a century as one of the
outstanding registered seed growers
of the state, and Is years on the
board of directors of the Montana
Seed Growers association. During
this span of years he has contributed
much to the cause of quality grain
production in Montana. Not only
have producers in this state profited
by his painstaking seed production
policies, but his seed has been
shipped all over the United States
and to several foreign countries.
Officers elected for the ensuing
year are F. A. Halverson, president;
Eric Anderson, Regina, vice presi-
dent, and Ralph D. Mercer, Boze-
man, secretary-treasurer.
A report of the action of the
board will be presented next month.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15
Gardeners Should Try
New Varieties

NOW IS THE TIME for home
gardeners to order seeds. The same
advice applies to insecticides, ferti-
lizers and other tools. There will be
enough of almost everything to go
around, but the early gardener gets
what he wants, reports Charles M.
Drage, horticulturist for the Colo
RADIO Ann extension service.
1t is unwise to order novelty seeds,
but all gardeners should try new
and improved varieties, particularly
All-America selections. A1l-Amer-
lea selections, made each year, are
new varieties tested and proved SUI
perior in many different gardens.
For 1949 there is the new Coco
zelle summer squash called Caserta.
Caserta was developed by the Uni
versity of Connecticut Experiment
Station. The squash is a summer
bush type, earlier, of better quality
and higher yielding than former
types, says Drage. A plant or two
will supply a family over a long
season
New Radish
Cherry Belle radish is a new
tasty and tangy delight coming from
Holland. The little red globes will
be in wide demand as an appetizer
and party delicacy. The radish fails
to get pithy and the short tops
recommend it for market use.
From the Lake of Lucerne IN
Switzerland comes a new, easy to
grow cauliflower, Ideal Snowfall,
adds Drage. This new c~auliflower
makes large beautiful heads which
hold for days without ricing. Large
leaves protect and blanch the head.
Several new and improved head
lettuce varieties are available for
1949. Premier Great Lakes, Penn
Lake and Progress are all varieties
worthy of trial.
Flower Varieties
For new flowers try Indian Sum
mer hollyhock. While strictly peren-
NAL, and developed to last for years
it will bloom the first year if seeds
are started early. The double flow
ers come in a delightful mixture Of
soft and dainty pastel colors. This
new hollyhock won its award in
1910; then the war came to Hol-
land, its birthplace, and it was feared
that the strain might be lost. Bur
some seeds had been saved an<
these have been used to build
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-03-15

tx the famous purple motor OIL
gives greater, longer-lasting protection
for both Diesel and gasoline-powered
farm equipment. T5X is a fully COM
pounded detergent-type oil with special
rust and c~orrosion preventives added.
1t contains special ingredients that re-
tard acidity, oxidation and foaming.
T5X reduces wear to an absolute mini
mum and reduces carbon and sludge
formation to a degree never before
attained. Your Union Oil Farm Repre-
sentative will be glad to show you how
TEX can do a top ~lubricating job for
your farm equipment
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-19
Tulent Program
To Be Given BY
Methodist Church

First in a series of recreational
programs for members of First
Methodist church of Moss Point
will be a talent show tonight at
7:30 p. m. in the new education
building, Edward A. Khayat.
chairman of the board of Chris
tan Education announced.
The program will be presented
by talented members of the con-
gregation and any others who
wish to take part. The public is
invited.
Plans for the program were
made at a meeting of the recrea-
tional committee at the home of
Mr.. Khayat. Attending were Mrs.
John Cirlotj chairman of the
youth council of the church, Bill
Parks, w. M. Alexander, Joe Will
son, Owen DeAngelo, Albert
Lynd, Robert Khayat, Misses Peg
gy Golf, Peggy Suthoff and
Dixie Wilson.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-08-19

Also visiting Friday was Mrs, A.
L. Woodward and son and daugh.
ter and grandson of Kreole.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. o. Stringfel-
low and granddaughter, Mary
Frances and 10 Ann Hassel, went
to the singing at Fairview church
in Pascagoula Sunday.
Roy Morris is visiting his uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Cole
in Vancleave.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. c. Cole visited
the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
c. l.. Tillman, recently.
Returns After Weekend
Ray Trehern returned to Crys-
tai Springs after spending the
weekend with his father, E. A.
Trehern.
Mrs. Eugene Watkins and chill
dren are visiting in Birmingham.
Cecil Matthew of Cameron, La,
was at home for the weekend.
Mrs. Kenneth Woods and son
returned to Louisville, Miss, aft
er visiting Mr.. and Mrs. w. w.
Woods.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Under
visited for the weekend with Mrs.
A H. Linder. The former were
recently married and are residing
in Gulfport.
Mrs. A. H. Under, Jr., and son
are visiting Mrs. Council Myrick
in Ellisville.
T. c. Steele remains in the Vet
Grams hospital.
Mrs. A. H. Under visited her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Molly Matthew,
who is seriously i'll.
Cottage prayer meeting was
held at the home of Mrs. A. H.
Under Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul r. Locker
left recently for Empire, Calf,
to reside.
r. N. Durham of. Leadsville
visited here Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard
and Mrs. Jack Robinson visited