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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03

Dear Editor:
In a recent issue of the Pot
ters News my name was used
in a so called Honor Roll be-
cause of the way / voted on a
certain question before the
1913 convention.
This is to inform all mem
bers of the National Brother
hood Of Operative Potters that
/ did not authorize my name
or my action in the 1948 con-
vention to be used in the Pot
ters News, and / resent most
emphatically the use of my
name or my action as a dele
gate to this convention.
/ only used my prerogative
as "A delegate and voted as |
seen fit, without fear or favor
from any persons or group,
and not for any special honor.
Local Union No. 8 does not
instruct their delegates to vote
either way on any subject be-
fore conventions.
| request this statement be
published in the next issue of
the Potters Herald.
Fraternally and
Respectfully yours,
ROY BROADBENT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Russid Bdrs Investigation
Of Slave Labor Churqes

New York City (1LNS).-As eX-
pected, Soviet Russia reacted
angrily to charges of slave labor
made to the United Nations Econ
omics and Social Council at Lake
Success, n. Y, and served notice
that no investigation of Russian
camps would be tolerated.
The Soviet delegate, Semyon K.
Tsarapkin made a general denial
of the charges, brought before the
council by the American Federation
of Labor and resorted to the usual
Communist trick-a long TRADE on
the alleged virtues of the Commun-
ist system and the shortcomings of
capitalism. He painted the workers
lot in Russia as enyiable in con-
trast to "capitalistic" serfdom
under which millions Of American
workers were alleged to slave in in
security, inequality and oppression.
Tsarapkin declared that any pro-
posal to send a special commission
to investigate "so-called" forced
labor camps in Soviet-land was
simply a ruse to let the United
States dispatch intelligence agents
for military spying and declaimed:
travelling in the Soviet Union
is completely forbidden to haters
of the USSR."
Toni Sender, representing the
AFL, appealed for international
action to investigate the testimony
of persons "who have succeeded in
escaping from the hell of slave
labor camps" She presented a
mass of documentary evidence to
show that millions Of slave laborers
are living under conditions of hor-
ror in Russia.
One statement, by DR.. julius
Margolin, who is now living in
Israel, told of conditions he brand
ed as reminiscent of the famous
scene in Maxim Gorki's "The Low
er Depth" in which as many as
100 prisoners lived in single
room.
"The conditions of life in the So
Wet camps present an indescribable
hell to the eyes of European"
DR.. Margolin declared in his state
ment. "Those who knew Polish
prisons and the German Dachau of
the year 1947 remembered them as
a comparative paradise
Discussion of the slave labor
question was precipitated when the
United States challenged Russia to
allow UN investigators to go be-
hind the Iron Curtain and study
charges that Russians have 8,0O0,-
600 to 100000 slave laborers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
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wages were adjusted because the
living-cost index had risen, said
Assistant Director T. A. tombstone
of the UAW GIN Dept. "We are
not now deceived as to the illusory
&c wage cut next month. The
escalator clause. has served SIM
ply to hold our purchasing power
approximately constant since the
agreement of May 20, 1948."
"On May 20 of this year," the
union spokesman added, "GM work
ers will receive a &c an hour in
crease not subject to the fluctua-
tions of the BIS consumers price
index. This increase is guaranteed
by the Improvement factor clause
of the unions agreement with the
which recognizes the.
workers right to an annual i'm
provement in standards of living"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Rent Control In
Danger As House
Gets Weak Bill

Washington (LPA) = Rent con-
troll legislation is in serious jeop-
ardy, union men warned this week,
as the House Banking Committee
wrsstled with a draft of a bill to
extend rent control beyond the
March 81 expiration date of the
present law.
A vast letter-writing campaign
to members of the House, sparked
by the landlords and real estate
lobby, has been filing up Congress
ional mailbags during the last
week.
"Unless tenants start making
themselves heard before the bill is
in the Senate Banking Committee,
which begins hearings March 7th,
they're going to wake up and find
their rents boosted way up and
their tenancy threatened one
union housing expert warned.
Some time this week, the House
committee will report its bill to
the floor Members of the Senate
subcommittee which will deal with
rent control, and who can perhaps
repair the damage done in the
House, are: Chairman John Spark
man Cd, Ala.) and Democrats
Burnet Maybank (SC), John Wag-
ner (NY), Paul Douglas (Ill.) and
Republicans John Bricker (Ohio),
Ralph Flanders (Vt), and Cain
Wash.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
LETTERS 70 THE EDITOR

March /, 1874;
To the editor of the Potters
Herald.
Skip the formalities, and to
the point, when we take the
obligation in the National Bro
therhood of Operative Potters
we say in part 1--WE do furthur
promise never to reveal any of
the secrets or doings of the
organization.
We cherish these words, and
when we violate our obligation,
we certainly lose self respect.
This local elected four dele
gates to represent them at the
1913 convention, they were
elected in good faith, and we
had confidence enough in them
that they would use their good
judgement for the best inter
ests of all concerned, they were
not sent with their hands tied
or any specific instructions.
Now then, as a strict viola
ton Of our obligation we read
in an anonymous pamphlet call
ed Potters News over no sig
nature, a list Of names caption
ed HONOR ROLL which list
the names Of two Of our dele
gates, and how they voted on
a certain resolution before the
1913 convention.
We take this method to in
form the trade, we resent this
violation, what we do in our
local or convention is not pub
lie property but strictly our
own business, and we insist
these violations be discontin-
ued.
0. C, Local Union No. 8
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
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year. So man earning $50 week
will have 75c week deducted, and
the most for any employe, no mat
ter how much he makes, will be
$l.40 a week.
For this amount a worker will
get for himself and his dependents
medical, dental, hospital and nurs-
ing care, eye glasses, hearing aids,
cost of preventive medicine, and so
forth.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Republicans Name Union Men

Columbus (LPA-A Republican
legislature has named union men
to head Ohio state labor commit
tees, breaking the tradition of put
ting anti-union men in command.
Typographical Union member Ed
Wilmer win head the House Labor
Committee, while Orval Whitacre,
veteran of the BARRIERS Union will
take over the Senate committee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Shorter HOurs-Less Sickness

Washington (LPA)-A US Pub
lie Health survey issued last week
offers argument to management
theory that workers should work
longer hours. Evidence that longer
working employees suffer higher
sickness rates than those working
shorter hours was offered from
statistics taken of 1000 Baltimore
war plant employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
COlOred OleO For Michigan

Lansing, Mich. (ILNS).-Sale Of
colored oleomargarine, banned in
Michigan for 48 years, will be legal
again in a few months. By a 21-7
vote the State Senate approved re-
peal of the old law, acting on an
initiatory petition with 10000
signers. The valuation becomes eff
fective 80 days after the Legis-
iature adjourns.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
Union Push For
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two-area proposal. One manufac-
turer claimed that a $1.1Sa min
imum would be contract breaking
on the part of the union, since they
only get $1.13la under their pre-
sent agreement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE
WAREHOUSEWOMEN

Local Union No. "a will con-
slider and vote on amending
our constitution by a vote of
the trade at their next regu-
lar meeting on March II, 1949.
: Dora Koenig, President
: Mildred Johnson, Rec. Sec.
: Mary Street, Vice Pres.
Mary McGown, Fin. Sec.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE WAREHOUSEMEN

Local Union sc will consider :
and vote on amending our con-
stitution by a vote of the
trade at their next meeting on
March 7, 1949.
Gus Sharkey, Pres.
Wilfred Reeves, Vice Pres. :
Roland c. Edgar, Fin. Sec. :
Harold Il. Palmer,
Rec. Sec. :
j. A. Wilson, Treas.
Thurman Bentley, Stat.
Nelson Forester, Trustee. :
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-03
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 1873

New Castle, Pa. - Local :
Union No. 1873 will consider :
and vote on amending our :
constitution by vote of the
trade at the next regular
meeting on March 8, 1949.
John Popovich, Pres.
George Fenoti, Vice Pres.
Howard c. Frew, Fin. Sec.
Dan Hughes, Cor. Sec.
. : 1. !. i !. !. :. !. !. J. ! \ !. !. .
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-01-06
Crickets For
The Sleepless

ATLANTA, Ga.-tP-Crickets
are puttingq people to sleep in
these parts. That's what w. E.
Voellinger of Macon, Ga. says. he
runs a cricket hatchery.
D.. Time was when he sold the
critters mostly for bait. Now he
is putting them in little boxes for
folks to hang near their beds. It's
a sure cure for insomnia, he says.
He puts about SO crickets in the
sleep boxes. Listening to their
music is lots better than counting
sheep, his customers tell him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-01-06

Befarias are often called the
rhododendrons of he tropics.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-01-06
Hastings Thinks
BY HASTINGS BAKER

A chemical derived from coal
tar has the strange effect, when
touched to the skin, of causing
the skin to lose all color, so that
the skin turns dead, ghost
white. This is true even for col
ored people and it sometimes
lasts for years.
4 X X
81, Just As short years ago Wilbur
Wright took off from Kitty
Hawk sand dune and flew 100
feet at an average speed of six
miles AN hour. He could have
ENTHUSIASTICALLY faster. By now
a man has flown 1000 miles an
hour and the planes are under
way to triple that to 5000 miles
an hour. This would, of course,
have amazed the Wright brothers
back in 1903 But they would
probably be even more surprised
and puzzled if they were told that
in the same As years the world |
would develop guns to knock |
down planes 80 miles away-guns |
that shoot shells costing $4,000
each.
The kitty Hawk" hangs be-
side 1.-THE Spirit of ST. Louis in
Washington's Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition. Either plane could prob
ably fly as well as it once did but !
neither will fly again. They will
probably still be there when men |
have flown to Mars unless they |
sooner disappear in the flash of
an atomic bomb dropped from |
,one of their Frankenstein chill
dren.
h X X
Any time basketball team
scores 100 points in a game, 1t
would seem almost certain they |
would win the game. The highest
ever scored in Madison Square !!
Garden is 81. But already this
season, which is still young, at
least four teams have scored
more than 100 points and still
lost the game.
X X X
The biggest job in the world is
the most underpaid. The Presi-
dent of the United States receives
$4,000, pays income taxes and
has about $4,000 left. To make |
the take home pay what it was
before income taxes started to
cut it down, it would be neces
sary to more than double the sal
any.
h X X
Few Americans realize that
food rationing in England is even
more skinny than it was during |
the war. Quite list of foods are
ratiDned including eggs Zone or
two per person per week., cheese
q u ounces per person per week. |
and meat twenty cents worth
per person per week.. The Eng
lish have been on short rations
ever since they entered the war
almost 10 years ago and their of
ficials say there is no hope of
lifting rationing for at least an
other four years. Yet with all
this, the English are digging deep
into their own pockets to give aid
to the rest of Europe and running |
an airlift into Berlin.
4 X X
Scientists believe they have
simple solution to the problem of |
blights and trusts on plants caused
by fungi which cost the farmers
many millions of dollars every
year. They find that actidione
(related to penicillin used as a
spray has remarkable results,
even when used in a very weak |
solution of one ounce in more |
than 1000 gallons of water.
Befarias are often called the !
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
Jabberwock Queen
(continueS from page 1

She was sponsored by Mrs. Irene
Robert Straughter, a soror of Beta
Zeta Sigma Chapter of Delta Sig
ma Theta Sorority.
Immediately preceding he pro-
gram of skits. the coronation pro-
cession including pages, crown and
train bearers and contestants wend-
cd its way UP the center aisle of
Booker t. Washington auditorium
where standing room was at a prem
ium.
Directly in front of tho dLee" was
her lady in waiting Laura Sway,
first runner up, who carried the
scepter and bouquet of the queen.
Queen Georgene followed wearing
simply designed yet exquisite dress
if white taffeta, beneath a cape of
scarlet velvet.
When the queen and her court
had taken their places on the ros-
trum the jeweled crown was placed
upon her head completing the coro-
nation ceremonies.
This years theme: Comic Parade
was well carried out by the sklts
presented. by the several organiza-
tons of he Greater Miami area.
1t was with great difficulty that
the judges were finally able to de-
termine the winners, which were as
follows: 1st prize: Dorsey High
School; End prize: omega Psi Phi :
Fraternity and 3rd prize: Booker 7.
Washington High School.
The Jabberwock is a national
project of Delta Sigma Theta Soror-
ity given in all key cities throughout
the country to increase its scholar
ship funds, A scholarship is award. 1
Led annually to a graduate Of 9. 10
cal high school.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of our dear
mother,
MRS. HATTIE RICHARDSON
who departed this life April %. 1913.
Precious thought my father knoWeth
in his love she rest;
For what e'er my father doeth must
always be best
Well know the heart that planneth
naught but good for me;
JOY and sorrow interviewer
Love in all I see
Precious thought, my father know
eth
Careth for His children
Bid me nestle closer to him when
the storm beat wild M
Knowing that life's turning pathway
leadeth to his rest,
Satisfied the way He taketh must
; always be best.
Flee Gordon. daughter
Abe Richardson, son
Thomas Gordon, son-in-law
Gladys Richardson,
daughter-in-law
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
In Menorian1

In sad but loving memory Of our
dear wife and mother who departed
this life April %, 1945.
Life for her is life indeed,
The splendid goal of earth s strait
race;
land where no shadow intervene,
She sees thy face.
o fuller, sweeter is that life.
And larger, ampler is the air:
Eye cannot see nor hearts conceive
The glory there.
The Jarrett Family
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23

For Sale

In Washington Park, FIT. Lauderdale
ROOM HOUSE AND LOT
Pump well and junk house in
rear. Lot 5Ox1O2. Surfaced streets,
soon to have lights. Good communi-
ty for fishing, raising chickens and
pigs If desired. Good garden soil.
Only $525.OO cash Balance in small
payments.
For further information see or
write Joseph Drane, 1905 NV 9Th
court, Miami SO, Fla.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
NOTICE

The Brady's School of Dancing
will reopen on Monday, April Is,
1949. Registration will begin at
1890 am. to z pm. daily. Adults
and children.
All types of dancing will be
taught by Mr.. Smalls Boykins, a IA.
nous Broadway star. For other in
formation call the school-9-6231.
Mr.. Zeke Brady, manager.
ma IA
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
Caxds---Menl0rials
IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of my 4'TAr hus
band and father,
GEORGE A. LEWIS
who departed this life on April %,
1947, and our son and brother,
GEORGE A., JR.
who departed this life March II,
1886.
May hey rest in peace.
Mrs. Ethel Lewis and children
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
w. L. Generette
Passes On

Funeral services were held on
April IA for W. L. Generette who
died at his home 2911 NV 46th st.
on April 8. ,..s
Mr.. Generette was at one time
district manager of the Atlanta
Life Insurance Company. Recently
he was employed in he mail in*
coming department Of the Post Of
flee where he served up to the time
of his death.
Surviving are a wife, Mrs. Mary
l.. Generette, and three children.
Richardson funeral home was in
charge.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of our dear
daughter and sister,
INEZE JOHNSON TYSON
who departed this life April 16, 194S,
Gone but not forgotten.
/ cannot say - and Twill not say
That she is dead-she is just away
With CHEEKY smile and a wave of
the hand
She has wandered into an unknown
land.
And left us dreaming how very fair
1t needs must be, since she fingers
there.
And you - o you who the widest
yearn
For the old-time step and the glad
Think of her faring on - as dear
In the love of There, as the love of
Here
Think Of her still as the same, I say
She is not dead-she Is just away.
Lillian Tyson, mother
Rev. T. w. Tyson. father
Thomas Tyson, brother
William Tyson, brother
William Tyson, jr. nephew
Johnnie Mae Green, aunt
M. B. Thomas, aunt
Moses Harry, uncle
| Robert Green, uncle
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23

2-FIVE ROOM HOUSES - on 50x
125 #. lot in Hialeah. Both houses
have bath and electricity, city
water. Income $500 per week.
Price $4,000. $1,000 down and terms
to be arranged.
Call Linton Berrien-Phone 2-1645
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23
Trade

CHOICE BUILDING LOTS Close
in. Will take clean Sedan.
MORGAN
704 NV. End Ave., Phone 9-6612
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1949-04-23

ELLIS w. LINDSEY
April %, 194S
We often sit and think of you, when
we are all alone
For memory is only JOY that grlet
has ever known.
Sadly missed
The Family IL
Montana labor news., 1949-06-09

Ever since Sam had landed i'll the
United States he had been studying
methods Of organizing workers into
groups which could protect their
rights and make it possible Tor them
To earn a decent living. Socialists
aboundcd in New York and their
cry was ior concerted political ac-
ton by workers in order TO achieve
their needs. Others advocated a
violent type OF action IN which
force should be the main weapon OF
those who worked Tor a living.
The Knights OF Labor was at
this time a power in the labor move
ment. Gompers himself joined the
Knights, as did many trade union
lists. He found in them a lack OF
discipline which at the time was
surprisingly successful but more
often mas pitifully inadequate to pro
tect the rights OF the workers. The
Knights admitted everyone except
LAWYERS and b%artendcrs, and many Of
their local bodies became more in
terested in problems OF temperance
and coopcratives than they were
in building a strong union.
When Gompers and his associates
were completely convinced that the
Knights were just purely sentimen-
tai and bereit OF all practical thought
and action they formed, in 1881,
the Federation OF Organized Trades
and Labor Unions. This was the
predecessor organization TO the a.
f. OF L. They met yearly until
1896. but their organization was
never successful.
In 1886 a call vas sent out by
a committee OF trade unionists Tor
a meeting to be held in Columbus
, Ohio. The purpose OF the meeting
was the drawing OF the bonds OF
: unity much closer between the trade
/, unions OF America" Gompers wh'
was president OF the Federation o
{ Organized Trades and Labor union
called upon the members OF that bod,
: to meet in Columbus. There tn
: American Federation OF Labor wa
n formed and Sam Gompers wa
a elected its first president. The OF
lice OF President was made a iul
: time job and the salary was sc
: at $1,000 per year.
a Gompers returned to New Nor
Q and set up his office in a shed /
N the rear of the Cigarmakers Loo;
n office. The constitution oil the
f. OF /. was not to take effect Il
lie three months so there vas no salal
lie for the president Tor that length
n time. Nevertheless there was VOL
I'd to be done so the family went {
10 strike rations and managed to no
As out until money was coming IN.
N. The American Federation of L
re Dor started with a membership
Sc $4,000. The growth OF the orga
in ization was slow but by 1893 it h
as doubled in size. During those yea
at Gompers was adviser, organizer a
ad helper in many unions. He d
OF pensed the funds Of the Federati
Of TO aid international unions whs
ever the treasury permitted. Ma
Montana labor news., 1949-06-09
SENATOR MYERS SAYS
It's Time to Stop Swimming
Ton Dollars and Cut Prices

clothing. during the past two years
OF initiation.
Yet with good Jobs at good pay.
as most Of our people have. and
with some sense of employment Sc
curity. which not all OF them have,
we can maintain for the indefinite
future the remarkably high level
economy we now enjoy.
We can do it il prices are geared
to mass purchasing power, rather
than to top dollar in the scarcity
market: we can do it il purchasing
power, in turn. is maintained by
full employment.
Montana labor news., 1949-06-09
B
HEALTH


The new board oi health named
this week by Governor Bonner
shows real promise Of dong a job
Tor public and rural health such a.
the state has never before known.
At least a majority Of i've 81 the
seven ncw board members are not
only progressivc-mindcd but also
are among the hest qualified people
in the state IL the public hcaitf
field.
The new board members appointet
lhv the governor are:
r. c. I'arrand. MD, of Jordan
Garfield county, for the seven year
term expiring June 30. 1850. ami q
longtime member ot a minority ~
the state medical association fight
ing Tor a vigorous public health
program.
w l.. Bcalc, DDS dDootor a
Dental surgery Of anaconda. Deer
Lodge county. ior the ,iN year term
expiring June 30. 1855.
Mrs. Charlotte I cwis Holt, R.N.
Unregistered Nurse u Portage.
Cascade county. for the i've year
term expiring June 30. 1854 Mrs.
Holt. A member 81 MFI. state
board and also an active member
ii public health planning commits
Montana labor news., 1949-06-09

Instead OF skimming oil top dol
lars any longer. we must have
pricing policies designed to main
tain consumer purchasing power at
a steadily high rate. And TO do
that, we must have a renewed sense
OF employment security.
There have been recent layoiis
in such industries as electrical APP
pliances, specially %steels, textiles,
and other goods. No one can con-
vince me that the American mar
ket for these goods is saturated. |
don't believe we have nearly enough
OF any OF these goods to satisfy
potential demand here at home, lie,
alone abroad.
It's not that people aren't anxious
to buy, in millions Of instances they
Just can't buy so-callcd %luxuries
which are now regarded as essen
tials to our standard Of living. The,
can't buy because their savings ant
their cash went into shelter. food