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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1949-06-02
Opening Of Hiway Postal Service Witnessed
By Town; Attended By High Ranking Officials
!nitiol Trip Of New Bus Made Tuesdoy;
Vast Amount Of Mail From Collectors

DuA ant witnessed the opening
trip of the highway postoffice
service between Durant and Co
lumbus Wednesday morning at
7:2O, as the new bus began it's
special first trip carrying high
ranking postoffice officials and
approximately 400 pieces of first
cover mail.
After 100 people inspected the
bus Tuesday afternoon and We'd
nesday morning in Durant, the
bus began its history-making
Journey. Stopping along the way
for public inspection and mail
pickup and delivery, the govern
ment-owned bus toured through
Starkville. State college, Aber-
deem and Columbus, returning to
Durant at $50 p. m. o. G.. Hack
EFT, district superintendent of
Railway Mail service, Meridian.
pronounced the trip successful.
He had been working toward the
inauguration of the service for
two years.
Other Officials Present
With Mr.. Hackett on the trip
were w. H. Hubbard, president
OF the Railway Mail association,
Bonita; j. c. Jacqua, secretary
treasurer of Railway Mail assoc
iation, Meridian; A. c. Hodges
superintendent of Air Mail Trans
port service, Fort Worth, Texas:
Elton Lewis, assistant superinten-
dent of Railway Mail service.
New Orleans; Mr.. Greer, district
superintendent of Railway Mail
service, Birmingham, Ala; Mr.
Gary representing Congressman
! Thomas G. Abernethy ID. Miss.)s
and Mr.. Donahoe, Memphis
| Regular schedule runs began
this morning, June 2, at 5 o'clock
from Durant, and covering the
same route as the special trip
"wednesday. The bus arrives in
Columbus at Ills a. m. after 14O
miles OF mail carrying. The re-
turn trip begins at D. m. and
covers ITO miles, skipping Aber-
deem, and arriving in Durant at
! $50 pm. This is a tentative
/ schedule.
! Use specially-Built Buses
! The specially-built buses used
IN the service are SO feet long.
and are operated by 212 horse,
power motors. Expected to last
for 100000 to 100000 miles, they
cost the government $4,000. Be
SIDES the regular mail equipment.
on the same order of that of a
railway mail car, the buses con-
tam wash rooms, ice water, and
other conveniences for the work.
ers.
Inc enormous amount of mail
from first cover collectors had to
be handled by the regular staff
at the Durant post office in ten
days, according to M. T. Williams.
postmaster. Each of the 47OO
pieces had to be handled carefully
and accurately, occasioning the
remark from Mr.. Williams that he
had been Standing on his head
and spinning around"
The service was sorely needed
IN the area covered, and the extra
effort necessary to inaugurate it
was well spent, Postmaster Will
liams said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

the drive against Jim Crow in
uniform.
The facts of the case were
dramatically presented at hear
ing in Washington which made
public an order issued by the Mar
inc Corps in 1913, prohibiting all
Negro personnel from outranking
white enlistees in the same outfit.
Witness to the battle waged by the
CIO against shipboard discrimin-
alton was Hoyt Haddock of the
Maritime Union who called jim
Crow zone Of the ways to beat
down organized labor" Serving on
the Commission of Inquiry were
Lewis Hines Of the AFL; Harold
Gibbons of the Distribution Work
ers, st. Louis; Joseph Rauh, ADA
chairman; and Joseph Clarety, vice
president of the American Veter-
ans Committee.
Sessions end found the commit
tee hoping to bring about a legis-
lative program which would: (D
abolish Jim Crow in the armed
forces themselves by a permanent
act of Congress; (2) prevent train
ing of Negro troops in states that
don't respect minority rights; (3)
refuse to grant contracts to COM
panies which discriminate in en-
ployment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
AcW Maps Drive
For LENDERS In
Dozen Key Cities

Washington (LPA)-The broae
outlines of nationwide campaign
to make union members out of de
partment store workers were drawn
by the executive board of Amalga
mated Clothing Workers, meeting
here last week.
Following up the decision award
ing them jurisdiction over the de,
partment store field, the ACW of
ficials met with more than 100 key
organizers called In from points al
over the US and Canada.
Philadelphia, New York, Chic,
ago, Rochester, Baltimore, St
Louis, Minneapolis and Cincinnati
are expected to be some of the
focal points, as ACW organizers
reported on these cities. Offices
have already been set up in the
heart of New York's shopping dis.
trict, and in Boston, Philadelphia
Rochester and Chicago.
Encouraging the delegates wa;
the report that 5000 retail cloth
ing workers, as well as department
store employees in Detroit have
voted to join ACW. They formerly
were affiliated with the Retail
Wholesale & Dept Store Union
the international which appears to
have lost jurisdiction when the ma.
tional threw its support to ACW
Organization Director Allan Hay
wood addressed the session and
promised full support to their
drive.
In New York, ACW Counsel
William Isaacson told the board
the union expects to obtain prompt
certifcation at the Bonwit Teller
stores, adding another 1000 en-
ployes to those represented by
Amalgamated.
In other actions, the board de-
cided to move full speed ahead on
its drive to educate consumers to
look for the ACW label on gar
ments, and decided to hold the next
national convention May Is, 1860
in Cleveland.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Murray Suggests
Strengthening Of
Antitrust Laws

New York (LPA) = Senat o !
James E. Murray, longtime Demo
cratic protector of small business,
lashed out again at monopolies and
unfair trade practices here last
week in a speech delivered to u
banquet of the Natl Association of
Retail Clothiers & Furnishers.
He called for strengthened anti
trust laws to check the rapid con-
centration of ownership" in the
nations economic life. At the same
time he reminded the members of
the Association that he and others
would guard against the possibility
that the federal government may
itself become a threat to our free
DOM"
In the clothing field, he said, he
had information that some manu-
facturers of mems wear secretly
own and control retail outlets
which are in direct competition
with their own independent GUS
toners.
"At the present time," he added,
at is illegal, under our, antitrust
laws, for a trade association, such
as you gentlemen, to expose manu-
facturers who are secretly COM
peting with their own customers.
Certainly Congress ought to amend
the antitrust laws to prevent such
unfair trade practices, which strike
at the foundation of free enter
prise"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Economic HighHghts

Happenings That Affect the Din
ner Pals, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bills Of Every Individual Ma
tional and International Problems
Inseparable From Local Welfare
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Union Sponsors
Blood B ank
For Children

New York City (ILNS).-Local
y, United Association Of Journey
men and Apprentices Of the Plumb
ing and Pipe Fitting Industry, is
establishing a special blood bank
at Memorial Hospital for all child
rem in this area suffering from can
Ger and allied diseases.
Representatives of the union,
which has 5000 members in Man
haitian and the Bronx, appointed a
committee to make arrangements
for donations Of blood
The recommendation for the pro-
ject came from the Rev. William
j. Kelley, chairman Of the New
York State Labor Relations Board.
Recently Father Kelley assisted
the union in establishing a pro-
gram of effective democratic pro-
cedure.
Asked what they could do to
show their appreciation for his as
sistance, Father Kelley wrote to
the union officials, recommending
that a blood bank for children can
Ger sufferers would be "a socially
good act and a good social act"
He explained that he had witness
ed the death of the child of per-
sonal friend with frightening sud-
denness a few days before Christ
mas"
Bank Named for Priest
William T. Dodd, president of
Local 2, in accepting Father Kel-
ley's proposal on behalf. of the
membership, said:
81 feel proud that our union is
able and willing to make this con-
tribution to suffering children and
our membership, which voted un-
animously for this action, is CRATE
full to Father Kelley for his emin-
emily humanitarian suggestion"
The union decided to name the
blood bank in Father Kelley's hon
or.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

the American Medical Association
with its twisted thinking and its
orders to every doctor in the land
telling him what to think and what
to say?
Maybe you can figure it out.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Asks New Drafts
On Rent curbs
And Housing Bill

Washington (LPA)-The CLOS
Housing Committee, meeting here
last week, took two important
steps to get action on effective
housing and rent control legisla-
ton.
The committee, headed by Pres
ident Walter P. Reuther of the
United Auto Workers voted to
urge Sen. Francis Meyers Cd, Pa
and Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas
Cd, Calif.) to combine the rent
control bills that each has intro
duced, to make possible joint
drive for a strong measure.
If Meyers and Mrs. Douglas do
this, the CIO pledged it's support.
The Meyer Douglas bill would be
considerably stronger than that
drafted by Housing Expediter
Tighe Woods.
In another action, the Housing
Committee agreed to endorse the
idea of a totally new bill embody-
ing President Truman's housing
recommendations. This would re-
place both the tily-drafted SUBJ
stitute for the Taft Ellender- Wag-
ner bill, and the measure introduc-
ed by Senate Republicans who ap-
prove of the idea of public housing.
Neither the rent control nor the
long-range housing bill is expected
to be passed on quickly, tho the
present rent control measure ex-
pires March l.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Goldberg Gives
Reasons For Quick
tn Law Repeal

Wa shington (LPA)-A few
hours before the Senate Labor
Committees decision last week to
proceed to immediate hearings on
amendments to the Wagner Act, to
be presented to the Senate along
with a bill repeating the Taft
Hartley act in toto, CIO General
Counsel Arthur Goldberg called a
press conference to make plain his
organizations interest in speedy
action by Congress on that same
matter.
He began by asserting that he
though it was necessary, in view of
the current talk about "one-pack-
age" and "two-p * "a g e" ap-
proaches to the problem, to dispel
some of the confusion on just what
labor's ideas were.
"We think it was made plain by
the American people in the last
ELECTION" said Goldberg, "that they
have no use whatsoever for the
aft-Hartley act and want it
abolished. President Truman was
also pretty explicit in his message
to the Congress that he wanted the
act repealed.
eve are prepared to go along
generally with the Presidents re-
concentrations to the Congress on
amendments to the Wagner act,"
he told the press conference. "But
we want it made plain that we will
vigorously oppose any peacetime
legislation permitting court in
functions against strikes, and any
legislation allowing the anti-Com-
munist affidavit for union leaders"
He told reporters that the con-
vention in Portland made plain the
vigor of its attitude toward Com
munists, and that this vigorous
action will continue, but that the
anti-Communist affidavit still has
no place in national labor relation
law.
"All the nti-Communist affi-
davit does is make the Communists
in the labor movement civil rights
martyrs" Goldberg added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

Happenings That Affect the Din-
ner Pals, Dividend Checks and
Tax Bills Of Every Individual Ma
tional and international Problems
Inseparable From Local Welfare
Comment on Mr.. Truman's leg
islatiye program and proposed
budget runs the gamut from com
plete approval to unqualified dis
approval. Those who hoped or fear
ed that the President would conven-
iently forget many Of the pledges
he made during the campaign no
longer have any doubts-so far as
he is able, he will carry them out
to the last comma. II is clear that
he intends, if possible, TO cement
! much more power in his hands
than he had before, when he was
President only because Of the ac-
cident of his predecessors death.
As an example, it is widely be-
lieved that the appointment of
Dean Acheson means that Mr.. Tru-
man will be his own Secretary Of
State, as President Roosevelt was.
Mr., Truman will establish the
policies, and Mr.. Acheson, an able
administrator, will carry them out.
General Marshall, by contrast,
made policy on his own hook
The Presidents program is
largely noncontroversial so far as
defense and foreign aid provisions
go, except as to details which do
not affect the broad principles. So
it is the domestic program which
occupies the center of the stage.
Most people, regardless of which
side they stand on, seem agreed
that the program marks new eff
fort to direct American life into
channels which once were alien to
it.
The essence of Mr.. Truman's
position is that it is the duty of
government both to protect the in
dividual against the exigencies of
life through more old-age security,
higher minimum wages, cOmpul-
sorry health insurance, ETC., and to
provide certain commodities and
services which formerly were with
in the realm of private enterprise.
such as public power, government
steel plants and housing. Further,
he believes that government should
take a directing hand in almost all
matters affecting the economy, on
the theory that it can maintain
employment and prevent depres-
sions.
To this extent, the Truman pro-
gram flows with the tides of re-
cent history-it does not go so far
as the Labor party has in England,
but it is geared to the same kind
of philosophers. The opposition has
two main points: first, from the
economic point of view can such
a program be successful; second,
what would such a program do to
the moral fiber of the people and
our representative form of govern
ment? William Henry Chamberlin
put the case for the dissenters
when he wrote: 6. Nothing could
overcome the stagnation, the per-
recession that would be the
result of substituting statism as a
main force in production"
Neither those who like the pro-
gram nor those who dislike it
should regard its major points as
separate, disassociated things. It's
lies in its cumulative
effect.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
AFL Leader Riding Herd On Efforts
To End Jim Crow In Armed Forces

Washington (LPA) - Thruout
the year as a special presidential
committee meets to guide the arm
ed services carrying out Of Pres
dent Truman's anti-discrimination
order, it will itself be under care
full scrutiny. The Committee
Against Jim Crow in Military Ser
vice & Training has set itself the
task Of checking on the official
workings.
Key man in the unofficial COM
mittee is tall, poised A. Philip
Randolph, president Of the Broth
erhood Of Sleeping Car Porters-
AFL. This labor leader, who talks
like a college professor and once
planned to be an actor, long ago
won a reputation for achieving the
unlikely.
For decades the Pullman Co. had
been VIGOROUSLY anti-union. No
one could organize Pullman en-
ployees, least Of all the porters, or
so everyone said. But Randolph,
southern born, an outspoken parti-
cipant in the intellectual awaken
ing of Negroes in the 1920's, dis
sented. Only solid economic insti-
tutions-trade unions-could sup
port Negro people in their quest
for a decent life, he realized.
He succeeded. The Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters beat the
mighty Pullman Co., won recOgni-
ton and better standards for its
members, and became an integral
part Of the AFL.
Randolph has played a vital role
in stimulating union interest in
minority group problems, and sup
ported by many AFL leaders, in
cluding President William Green,
has won increasingly full citizen
ship for colored workers in the
AFL.
One of Randolph's greatest ac-
complishments of course was his
leadership in the fight to obtain
the wartime Fair Employment
Practices Commission order from
FDR. Randolph's threat of leading
a mass ''march on Washington" to
insure a fair deal for all minority
groups in war industries gave
Roosevelt the club he needed to win
at least temporary acceptance OF
FEPC. Establishment of permanent
FEPCs in several states has re-
suited from this effort.
The newer campaign to end Jim
Crow in army, navy and air forces
springs logically from the broader
drive for equality Of opportunity in
all fields Of employment.
"The unions generally h ave
shown sympathy with our battles"
Randolph told Labor Press Asso-
ciates reporter in an exclusive in
terview when he was in Washing
ton for Committee Against Jim
Crow in Military Service hearings.
"But," he added regretfully, "they
haven't shown as much interest in
it as they should"
He explained: ONIONS have a
real interest in this fight to abolish
Jim Crow in the services. If the
armed forces can trample on rights
of minority groups, they can also
discount rights Of labor. Both AFL
and CIO convention endorsed Pres
ident Truman's civil rights pro-
gram. This is part of it. | hope
that labor will play an important
part in translating these aims into
concrete Legislation"
Recently Randolph and Joseph
Schlossberg, secretary treasurer
emeritus of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers-CIO, wrote to
every union asking them to help
the American Medical Association,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Still No Labor
T heories About
Current layoffs

Washington (LPA)-Labor econ
omists were still cautious, and re-
fused to draw any conclusions
from the layoff reported in many
parts of the Country in December
and January. They pointed to the
fact that there are seasonal factors
like cold weather affecting the con-
struction industry and post-holi-
day cuts in retail stores, as well
as the factors that might make a
recession.
Reports from the states for the
week ended Jan. 8, just compiled
last week, show that claims for un-
employment insurance were at the
greatest number since May 1916.
The Bureau of Employment Secur-
ity of Federal Security Agency re-
ported that "the rise this year is
much sleeper than usual, and
strongly suggests that there is
more than the usual seasonal and
administrative factors involved"
However, total unemployment is
probably about 2,500,000, more
than million below the level
reached in early 1916 after the
wars end. And the total working
force is much larger.
The only accurate reports on
where layoffs are becoming fire.
quent is the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics, which just last week COM
piled and made public the layoff
rates for November.
"Lack of ORDERS" BIS reported,
"was the reason most frequently
given for the increased layoffs in
stoves and heating equipment,
stamped and enameled ware plants,
and throughout the furniture in
dustry. Logging operations on the
west coast were affected adversely
by weather conditions and some
sawmill operations were shut down
or curtailed because of dock-work-
er strikes and lack of shipping
space.
Though shortages of steel were
of secondary Importance in the
overall increase in layoffs, they did
hamper activities in shipyards and
railroad equipment plants.
an the nondurable goods group,
November layoffs were markedly
higher in the knitted underwear
and mems and boys clothing in
dustries-in part the results of a
between-seasons hull. Orders for
spring received by some mills, on
the other hand, caused a pickup in
woolen and worsted textile manu-
featuring, which had laid off con-
siderable numbers of employees in
preceding months. Cotton textiles
likewise showed some improvement
as layoffs declined from IA to 9 per
1000 workers. Accessions also de-
clined, however, from 38 to 80 per
1000. Altho hiring in the leather
and boot and shoe industries slow
ed up somewhat during N$ovember,
layoffs levelled off at 10 per LOCO.
The higher layoff rates and lower
hiring rates in tobacco and paper
box manufacturing are usual for
this time of year."
What the labor economists are
watching now is to see where the
layoffs are continued into the
spring. If they continue to mount
in the already hard-cut textile, ap-
parel and appliance industries, the
experts say we're in for trouble.
If the layoffs are still scattered
and connected with production diff
fculties and temporary materials
shortages, they can be discounted.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
LABOR POSTS ANNOUNCED

Washington (LPA)-Four union
lists are now members of the fed
eral committee on apprenticeship,
Secretary Tobin said last week.
Fred n. Aten, Railway Employees
Dep't-AFL president; John p.
Frey, president, Metal Trades Di-
vision-AFL; John Green, president
of Industrial Union of Marine
Workers -CIO; and C. j. Haggerty,
California Federation Of Labor
secretary are members of the ma
tional labor-management appren-
ticeship policy making body.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

A thing is never too often re-
learned.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Senator Taylor Appeals
Racial Case Conviction
By the A.soeiotsd Prsss

MONTGOMERY, Ala... Nov. 80.
The State Court Of appeals has
heard the first round in Senator
Taylor's legal battle against Ala
bama's racial segregation laws and
his arrest in Birmingham during
the 1948 election campaign.
Lawyers for the Idaho Senator
filed briefs before the court yes
terday appealing his conviction in
a Birmingham Police Court on a
disorderly conduct charge. He was
fined $50 and given a suspended
180-day Jail sentence. The con-
viction has been upheld by JET
ferson County (Birmingham Cir
cult Court.
Senator Taylor was arrested
when he attempted to enter door
reserved for Negroes at a Southern
Negro youth conference meeting
on May /, 1948. When officers at
tempted to prevent him from en-
tering, q brief scuffle arose.
At the time, Senator Taylor was
running for Vice President on
Henry Wallace's Progressive ticket.
His lawyers contended in the
briefs submitted yesterday that
the Birmingham ordinance which
requires segregation is unconsti-
tutional and therefore Senator
Taylor's arrest was illegal.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
World War Service Flag
Presented 10 Georgetown u.

A World War II service flag
honoring ITO Georgetown Uni
versity alumni who gave their
lives in the war and the 6,637
who served with the armed forces
was presented to the university
yesterday afternoon.
Presentation on behalf of the
Georgetown Alumni Association
was made by 1t. Comdr. E. r.
Ferguson, U. S. N. R., at a cere-
mony on the steps of the Healy
Building. The Very Rev. Hunter
Guthrie, S. j., Georgetown pres
ident. accepted the service flag as
as an emblem, he said. of the
greatness Of the men 1t repre-
Sents.
Col. Remington Orsinger, in
fantry commander. and 1t. Col.
Leo F. Fielder, Air Force COM
mander, attended the exercises
with more than 500 cadets Of the
two ROTC units. The Rev. John
P. Smith, S. J.. delivered the
prayer.
Evening star., 1949-11-30

Kingdom would want bombers,
specifically the B-29, under the
arms air program. the marshal
cautioned that he was mo air
man" but he added that 1--WE have
a pretty good bomber of our own y
He referred to the jet-propelled
Canberra medium bomber.
The marshal, wartime COM
mander of Allied land forces in
Southeast Asia, has just returned
from the Far East. He reported
the situation in Singapore has be-
come more quiet, "but we are still
Evening star., 1949-11-30

eral Staff, who was enroute today
to Fort Benning, Ca, made these
points clear at a news conference
yesterday. He appeared at the
news conference shortly after
lengthy conferences with the
Joint Chiefs Of Staff in the Penta-
gon.
At Fort Benning, Marshal Slim
was to witness an infantry dem
onstration including the firing of
real ammunition in an attack on
a simulated enemy" position.
1--WE have a force large enough
to hold in Hong Kong and we
have every intention of holding"