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Milford chronicle., 1949-06-03

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01

worst disasters in the history of
American coal mining have been
caused by fires, DR.. Boyd remark
ed that if the management had not
provided sufficient escapeways, if
the men had lost their heads and
become panicky, or if gas masks
and other respiratory aids had not
been available, the fire at the No.
SO mine might easily have been
added to the list.
"As it is" he told the Secretary,
"it is an illustration of what can
be accomplished when mine opera
tors, mine workers, state mining
agencies and the United States
Bureau of Mines cooperate to in
crease coal-mine safety and save
miners lives. Everybody concern
ed knew what to do and did it. The
incident shows how being prepared
for an emergency pays off,"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Orders Union To
Pay Back Wages
In Unfair Case

Washington (LPA)-Last week
the Natl Labor Relations Board
revealed another pitfall into which
an unwary union can be pushed by
the Taft Hartley act.
AS the result of a board ruling,
Teamsters Local 456-AFL of
Mount Vernon, N. Y, finds itself
jointly responsible with an employ
er for the back pay of a worker
laid off at the unions request. In
this case it's a matter of three
months wages for one man but so
far as the principle is concerned it
might just as we'll be two years to
hundred.
The boards decision was made
on charges filed by Ernest Fritz,
Jr., driver for II. Milton Newman
of Mount Vernon, who accused
both the company and the union
Of unfair practices.
The board found that Fritz was
illegally laid off from March IL to
June 9, 1948, after Local 456 call
ed a seven-day strike OF the COM
pany's two remaining drivers. The
"avowed purpose" of the strike
was to force the firing of Fritz be-
cause he was three months behind
in dues and refused to pay UP.
The layoff amounted to illegal
discrimination against Fritz, the
board found, because the company
and the union did not have a valid
union-shop agreement under the
Taft Hartley act. When the pre-
vious closed-shop contract expired,
the parties entered a union shop
contract without undergoing the
election required to legalize it
under the act. Therefore the union
could not demand a mans layoff.
Under the Wagner act, only the
company could have been made
ordered to pay back wages. Under
the Taft Hartley law both com
pany and union can be made liable
and if one cannot pay the other is
wholly responsible.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Textile Workers
Demand Stop TO
Georgia Beatings

New York LPA)-Emil Rieve
general president of the Textile
Workers Union of America has de-
manded that the president of the
American Thread Co. stop the viol.
ent attacks on union members in
Tallapoosa, Ga, by the firms arm
ed hoodlums.
On two occasions recently AM
erican Thread workers from Dali
ton, Ga, members of the union
have been chased out of Tallapoosa
by armed mobs from the company's
Tallapoosa mill. In addition, a
union member and his wife named
Rochester were beaten mercilessly.
Mr.. Rochester was distributing a
Georgia labor paper.
Reeves demand that the violence
be halted Immediately was includ-
led in letter to Percival S. Howe,
Jr., president of American Thread,
which was sent to the company's
New York office. The union pres
ident told Howe that mill officials
had prior knowledge of the offend
ers' plans, and either condoned or
actually encouraged them
The union obtained an injunc-
tion from a judge of the Georgia
superior court restraining plant Of
ficials and workers from interfer-
ing with union members distribu-
ting organizing literatures, but the
attack on the man and his wife oc-
cured after the injunction was
granted.
Rieve pointed out in his letter
to Howe that the Textile Workers
and American Thread have main
tanned collective bargaining rela-
tions for number of years.
"You know from your own ex-
perience that peaceful, civilized re-
lations are possible between u.s."
Rieve said. "You and other officials
of American Thread do not even
have the excuse of ignorance for
attempting to interfere with the
legal right of your workers to
make a free choice of collective
bargaining agent"
The union asked the Justice
Dept to investigate the Incidents,
using affdavits from union men,
bers that local police saw the beat
ings but refused to stop them.
Meanwhile, Durwood Teal and his
father, Elzie Teal, identified as the
assailants of the Rochesters, have
been arrested and charged with as
sault with intent to kill. The
Rochesters have filed civil suits
against the Teals.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Sees Growth In
Job Opportunities
In Printing Trades

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). =
The next few years will see "a
continued, but much more moder-
ate and irregular, growth" in the
number of jobs in the printing
trades, says an occupational out
look study on printing occupations
prepared by the U. S. Labor De-
partment's Bureau of Labor Stats
tics for the Veterans Administra-
tion.
This and other similar studies
are used as an aid in counseling
disabled veterans in the selection
of their employment detectives.
The two chief factors contribut-
ing to the promising job outlook
are, according to the report, "per-
sistently rising demands for print
ed products such as advertising
materials, textbooks and maga-
zines; and the Increasing avail
ability of new machinery and sup
plies" In addition, unusually
large numbers of job openings are
resulting from retirements and
Deaths"
The BIS report discusses the
employment outlook in a number
of individual occupations in the
printing trades, including hand
composition and machine typeset-
ting, proofreading, electrotyping,
stereotyping, photoengraving, press
work and bookbinding. i
Unions Helped On Report
The occupational report on the
printing trades was prepared with
the cooperation of the Printing In
dustry of America, Inc, the Crap
hic Arts Association of Washing
ton, ID. c., other trade associations,
the Joint Lithographic Advisory
Council, officials of many unions,
and members of the stats of the
Government Printing Office, Bur
eau of Engraving and Printing, u.
s. Employment Service, and other
agencies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Senate Committee
Approves Carson
Sidetracks 0Ids

Washington (LPA)-Senate con
frmation of the nomination Of
John Carson to the Federal Trade
Commission seemed likely this
week after the, Senate Interstate
Commerce Committee finally ap-
proved the labor and liberal sup
ported nominee by straight party
8-4 vote.
Carson was selected by President
Truman to strengthen the Federal
Trade Commissions fight against
monopoly. But while he was win
ming, the monopolists also scored
victory when the denomination of
Chairman Leland Olds, to the Fed
eral Power Commission was shunt-
ed to hostile subcommittee.
The 8-2 vote sending Old's nom
ination to a subcommittee headed
by Rep. Lyndon Johnson Cd, Tex.)
probably kills any chance of con-
frmation at this session Of Con-
gress. But President Truman is ex-
pected to give the veteran FPC
member a recess appointment.
Other developments on the big
business--monopoly front on Cap
ital Hill included: ~
Development Of a deadlock be-
tween House and Senate conferees
on the basing point bill which may
block its enactment and leave in
full force the Supreme Courts de-
cision outlawing this price fixing
device.
The beginning of new drive by
California and Texas oil interests
to force through Congress bill
overriding the Supreme Court and
turning control of the tideland oil
back to the States. The Admins
tration has proposed a compromise
leaving these rich oil lands under
the control Of the federal govern
ment, but dividing their revenues
with the States.
Presentation Of report by the
Federal Trade Commission show
ing 13 major industries are domin-
ated by three companies or less.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01

press associations for labor papers
The new rule, if approved by the
Speaker of the House and the Sen
ate Rules Committee, viii place full
jurisdiction over admission to the
galleries in the hands of the Stand
ing Committee and permit it to
make its own rules. Expressions
from members of the committee in
dicated there was little question
that under this rule Labor Press
Association would be admitted, and
quickly.
Friendly Senators on and off the
Rules Committee quickly began
pushing for action by that commit
tee on the new rule. Speaker Ray
burn was reported favorable to the
change, provided it was approved
by the Senate Committee. While
LPA still was outside the gallery,
there was hope that it might be
admitted by the time it inaugurates
its new and expanded service on
Sept. /.
The Standing Committee voted
3-2 to recommend the new rule in
a long and controversial session
less than a week after LPA had
submitted its appeal from the
former decision. Senator's and
members of the press gallery had
reacted so favorably to LPA's APP
peal that all five members of the
committee favored a change in the
rule-the only issue was how to
make it.
1t was obvious, from the day it
was rendered, that the committees
decision barring LPA as a special
interest" would not stand in view
of the fact that the press galleries
contain at least so members repre-
senting trade and financial jour
nails. At the same time the com
mittee voted to bar LPA, it voted
to consider a change in the rules,
but such fast action had not been
expected. Changing the rules has
been talked about in the galleries
for years-but nothing had been
done except for a minor change
two years ago when the Senate
Rules Committee forced the gal
lery to admit representatives of
press associations for Negro news
papers.
The committee even voted to al
low LPA temporary membership in
the gallery, pending final action on
Its appeal. But this was turned
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01

down by LPA on the ground that
it wanted full membership and no.
thing that might delay a decision
on that issue.
At the same time the gallery
committee voted to offer tempor-
airy use of the galleries to the US
News Service, the State Depart
ment's "Voice of America" There
had also been a bitter dispute
within the committee over this
although Tass, the Soviet news
service, which is absolutely govern
ment controlled, has long belonged
to the gallery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Good Planning, Effective Rescue Work
Averted Disaster In Coal Mine Fire

Washington, d. c. QLNS). =
The escape of all 257 men who
were in the No. SO mine Of the
Peabody Coal Co. near Springfield,
Ill.,, when it caught fire Aug. Is was
"an outstanding example of how
lives can be saved by intelligent
planning of mine development and
rescue operations and by the in
telligent and orderly conduct OF
men when disaster threatens"
James Boyd, director of the Bur-
eau of Mines, told Secretary of the
Interior J. A. Krug. None of the
miners was injured.
DR.. Boyd received a preliminary
report from bureau men who hur-
ried to the scene from the Vincen-
mes, Ind, office of the Bureau upon
receiving word of the fire.
Escape Shaft Saved 135
The report described how the
men in the mine were notified Of
the fire by telephone and directed
to seek safety Immediately after it
broke out. Sixty-two of the men
escaped to the surface through the
main hosting shaft, but the re-
manning 1876 men were barred from
the regular mine openings by
deadly fumes from the fire.
5 Of these, 1876 who were working
in the most remote sections of the
mine proceeded to an intake air
and escapeway shaft that had been
completed recently, and were hoist
ed to safety 8 at time, the bureau
director learned. This shaft had
been provided by the management
in its efforts to cooperate with
state and federal authorities to i'm
prove the ventilation of the mine
and provide an additional escape
way.
eff it had not been for this auxil-
iary opening" DR.. Boyd said,
"these men probably would have
been asphyxiated."
The preliminary report described
how the remaining 60 men, trap
ped at the entrance of their section
by smoke and fumes that prevent
ed them from reaching an escape
shaft $50 feet away, were found by
a rescue party consisting of COM
pany officials. They were assured
that they were in no immediate
danger, and were advised to stay
where they were until changes
could be made in the ventilation.
After these changes had been
made and the condition of the air
the director was inform
ed, a mine rescue team from the
State Mine Rescue Station at
Springfield provided the trapped
men. with respiratory protective
devices and escorted them to safe
ty. eee74xa
Observing that some of the
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Ask for Union Labeled merchan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
| Union, Employers
Still DeadIocked
In Dock Strike

Honolulu (LPA)-The Hawaiian
dock strike remained deadlocked
as it neared the end of its fourth
full month despite new effort to
reach agreement.
As soon as it was clear that the
deadlock might persist indefinitely,
both the struck stevedoring COM
panies and the striking Interna-
tional Longshoremen's & Ware
housemen's Union invited Cyrus s.
Ching, director of the Federal
Cancellation Service, to come to
Honolulu as mediator. But Ching
declined claiming that impending
business required his presence in
the states.
Ching, however, said that he
would be glad to meet with COM
lpany and union representatives in
Washington. The employers re-
jected .Ching's offer, insisting that
all negotiations take place in the
islands, where federal conciliator
George Hillenbrand has been work
ing on the dispute since before the
strike began on May /.
Fhe leftist ILWU, which dropped
Its wage demand from 80 cents to
26 cents or less, readily agreed to
work further with Hillenbrand but
said the conciliator might not ac-
|complish much. The employers also
agreed after prolonged discussions.
Wages continued to be the prin-
|cipal issue.
Meanwhile, the Hawaiian gov
ernment was continuing in the
stevedoring business as authorized
by recent emergency legislation.
Despite the objections of the
'ILWU, nearly TOO government
hired longshoremen were, ut the
last count, working eight ships of
which all but one were of Ameri-
can registry. The remaining ship
was Panamanian.
The ILWU was trying to get an
injunction to keep the government
longshoremen from working, and
from running stevedoring compan-
les, and was demanding three mil
lion dollars in damages from the
governor and legislature of Haw-
ali. The territorial government was
seeking an injunction against
crews that might walk off the
strikebound ships that were being
worked.
In San Francisco the Matson
Co. filed secondary boy
colt charges against the ILWU
with the Natl Relations Board, |
that the ILWU was fly
ing token pickets" to west coast
ports. Then Matson followed up by
filing charges against the leftist
Marine Cooks & Stewards and the
Independent Marine Firemen for
refusing to cross the "tokenp
lines.
Meanwhile, in Washington the
Robertson committee in the Sen
ate, investigating what it calls
'labor monopolies", after listening
to an employer representative from
Hawaii, announced that 1t might
the ILWU. The union
that such an investiga-
ton should also cover the mono |
polistic practices'of the "Big Five"
in Hawaii. 81 Z w.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Older Ford Workers
Cheer Pension Plan

Detroit LPA) - United Auto
Workers is in the best moral and
financial position for a strike that
it has ever been, union President
Walter P. Reuther told a cheering
crowd of Ford employees last week.
Placing any responsibility for a
strike at the feet of the company,
Reuther declared that UAW will
try to win pensions at the bargain
ing table.
However, he assured the 1000
Ford workers, all over 60 years of
age, the union is ready to strike
for pensions if the company con-
tinues its present stand.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
IMediutors Hit Deadlock
In UAW Strike At Bell

Buffalo (LPA)-State mediator'
have stepped into the strike OF
United Auto Workers at the Bel
Aircraft plant here.
Following requests by JAW
New York Governor Thomas +
Dewey last week asked the State
Mediation Board to intervene. The
union says that Bell has flatly re-
fused to negotiate either wages oil
pensions since the strike started or
June 13.
Msgr. John P. Boland, veteran
mediator, has taken on the job al
Bell. UAW representative Johr
Spillane, who handled Bell nego-
tiations from 1943 to 1916, has also
entered the picture.
Thruout the current dispute, the
company has consistently tried to
break the strike rather than at
tempt to bargain. On August ii
Bell sent a back-to-work invitation
directly to its 100 production
workers. According to the union
the back-to-work move was flop.
According to the company it was
highly successful.
UAW subsequently challenged
Bell to an impartial inspection of
the plant. When the challenge was
ignored, 1000 strikers put on their
company badges and entered the
plant long enough to take their
own count and persuade the Is or
20 workers inside to leave with
them.
As a result of that demonstra-
ton, Bell asked Governor Dewey
to send state troops to the plant.
The Governor flatly refused.
The New York Times reported
last week that "an dependent tour
of the plant showed that produc-
tion was at a virtual standstill, al
though there were occasional work
ers to be seen in the enormous
building that houses Bells manu-
featuring activities. Most workers
were to be seen in the sections
where restricted work for the Gov
ernment was under way" Bell pro-
duces jet planes.
Meanwhile, company president
Lawrence ID. Bell is complaining
about JAW charges that he is try
ing to bust the union.
"They keep screaming" he said,
there's something unholy, illegal,
awful or reprehehsible about bust
ing a union"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
ACTION ON DIP BILL SOUGHT

Washington (LPA) - Bipartisan
support is being given the drive Of
Sen. Scott Lucas, Democratic floor
leader, to bring the displaced per-
sons bill to the Senate floor. Be-
cause Chairman Pat McCarran
Cd, New, of the Judiciary Com
mittee opposes the House-approved
changes in the bill which would
eliminate anti-Catholic and anti
Jewish provisions, he has bottled
up the legislation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Labor Documentary On NBC

Washington (LPA)-The famous
NBC weekly feature, "Living-l9 l949"
will deal with episodes from the
studies on Causes OF Industrial
Peace" on the Sunday, Sept. A
broadcast. The half-hour dramatic
program will be aired at 400 PM
Eastern Daylight Time, and will be
built around the studies sponsored
by the labor-management commit
tee Of the Natl Planning Associa-
tion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Chicago Gas Stations
Hit BY Truck Strike

Chicago (LPA)-As a strike by
Int'l Brotherhood of Transfers
AFL entered it's third week here
most of the 1000 service stations
in the Chicago area were bone dry.
About 30 stations were supply
ing gas to doctors, ambulances and
other emergency users after inde-
pendent gasoline jobbers turned
down a union plan whereby they
could have supplied the city with
about 7096 of its normal supply.
The gas truck drivers are seek
ing 171ac hourly raise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-01
Labor Wins In Fight For
Membership In Press
Galleries of Congress

Washington GPA-Labor Press Association speedy and
membership
Press Galleries last week when the Standing Committee Of Correspond
gallery recommended
oming which had ruled LPA
fire of criticism members of Congress and
membership decision LPA from
galleries. the Standing Committee the first revision
the rules admission the galleries in
correspondents
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14
Price Supports
On Grass Seeds

An encouraging price support
program for production of hay,
pasture and range grass seed has
been announced by the u. S. de-
partment of Agriculture, County
Extension agent Frank Webster
reports.
There Is an extreme need now
for grass and legume seeds, he
says, and Benton county farmers
will want to make q check i'm
mediately on the schedule Of rates
and specifications at the local
Production and Marketing Ad-
ministration office.
The program applies to seed
produced In 1919. Price supports,
to be operative through purchase
agreements with farmers, range
from nominal sums on hay and
pasture grasses to SIPS q pound
for certified Ludino clover.
Good support prices are also
offered for Red Clover, IS cents
a pound and Alsike, at Is cents, he
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14

Speaking at meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. Ted
Wagner pleaded for cooperation in setting Boy
Scout troops Kennewic eve far behind other
munies what doing for the Scouts he said He
troops all active in the community But meeting
places camp sites needed These needs small
pared good done the Boy Scout organizations
They good for any community and the best
of security for the nation q whole.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14
Surplus Crops
Sale for Fruit

Fruit growers throughout the
Northwest will get a break as
the result of an amendment OF
the European Cooperation ACT
requiring the ECA and the agri-
culture department to collaborate
in devising methods of selling
surplus crops in pre-war markets
which the Senate passed last
week.
Even ECA Chief PAUL. Hoffman
a consistent foe of surplus dump
ing riders to the European re-
covery program, agreed that the
fruit growers deserved special
attention because so much OF
their market has always been IN
Western Europe.
The amendment was co-spon.
sored by Senators Magnuson and
Cain of Washington; Miller and
Taylor of Idaho; Morse and Cor
don of Oregon; and the two Senat-
ors from California.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14
By DARWIN J. FLAKoLL

a
Washington Staff Correspondent
Proponents of the controver-
sial Ice Harbor lock and dam
are turning their guns on the
senate appropriations COMMITTEES
this week at Washington, D. C.,
in an effort to restore a $l2 mil
lion construction fund cut out OF
the 1850 civil functions appropria-
tons bill by the house.
Senator Cain, of Washington,
and Senator's Taylor and Miller
of Idaho, started testimony late
this week on the need for early
completion of the dam.
Generally, all three were plan
ming to point out that Ice Harbor
could bring new power to the
Northwest a year earlier than
either Chief Joseph or McNary
dams. Also, that Ice Harbor is
the first link in a chain of four
navigation dams that will push
navigation up the Snake river
as far as Lewiston.
Senator Magnuson, of Washing
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14

standpoint.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1949-04-14
Proponents Of Ice Harbor ] Turning
Guns on Appropriations Group

ton. has indicated that he VIII
present testimony on Ice Harbor
''at the proper time"
Senator Guy Gordon IS the
strongest opponent of Ice Harbor
appropriations, but there are q
few other offices on the House
side of Capitol Hill that express
an attitude of hostile neutrality,
if not active opposition, to the
proposed dam.
These critics say that although
Ice Harbor will produce some
power a year ahead of the other
proposed dams in the area, the
initial amount will be only $1,000
kilbwatts-'a little more than
enough to heat an electric blan-
ket." Chief Joseph, on the other
hand, is scheduled to turn out
80, 900 kilowatts during the first
year after its completion.
Also they point out that Ice
Harbor is only the first of four
dams needed to bring barges up
to. Lewiston, and is completely
useless by itself from a navigation
standpoint.