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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Employers Prefer
Foreigners, More
Easily Controlled

Chicago (ILNS)-Big employers
of agricultural workers frankly
prefer" imported Mexicans ano
British West Indians to American
citizens because they are more
easily controlled" a union head
told the conference on "The Church
and Migratory Labor"
H. L. Mitchell, president of the
National Farm Labor Union, AFL
made the charge in an address
read in his absence by Mrs. F. E.
Shotwell of Los Angeles, western
area migrant supervisor of the
Home Missions Council of North
America, which sponsored the
conference. Delegates inclu d e d
church leaders, social workers,
government officials and educators,
representing % major Protestant
denominations.
I Agricultural employers, Mitchell
charged, prefer foreigners because
such employees "dare not protest
wages, working or living condi-
tions, because the threat of imme-
diate deportation hangs over their
heads"
"While l believe that there
should not be any prohibitions to
prevent the free movement of
workers from state to state or even
across international boundaries, y
Mitchell wrote, at appears that
foreign workers are being used to
break down American standards of
living"
Mitchell, quoting from a Univer-
sity of Texas report, emphasized
that there were now more than
100000 Mexican aliens illegally in
Texas alone.
"These workers are brought
across the border, employed at
low wages, charged high prices for
necessary food and clothing, and at
the end of the season, thrown back
into Mexico, often without being
paid the wages due them," he de-
clared. "They have no legal stand
ing and thus no right under the
United States laws"
Mrs. Louise Q. Blodgett, repre-
senting the Bureau of Labor STAN
dards, Department of Labor, called
upon the conference to press for
federal and state legislation to
protect migrant workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
UE Seeks $500
Package Roise
At Westinghouse

New York LPA)-Leaders OF
United Electrical Workers al
plants Of the Westinghouse Corp
and General Electric have announ-
ced they will negotiate with West
inghouse starting Oct. 4 and with
GE starting Oct. IL.
If negotiations fail to show any
progress the UE group is prepared
to take strike vote among the
100000 Westinghouse and GE
members they represent.
Representatives of the locals
concerned voted last week to cen
ter such a vote around a $500
package raise per member per
year, covering wages, pensions,
hours and other issues. The left
wing leaders have refused to con-
slider the ten-cent pension formula
suggested by a Presidential fact
finding board in the steel industry.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Stage Employees
Win Wage Boosts
At Film Theaters

New York City (ILNS). - The
International Alliance of Theatri-
cal Stage Employees has announced
the signing of 3-year contracts, re-
troactive to Aug. 6, 1948, for 1000
Philadelphia movie theatre work.
ers who last spring rejected bid
to jump to District so, United
Mine Workers of America. That
decision had been generally regard
ed as a choice of peaceful collec-
tive bargaining in preference to
strike aimed at closing the city's
chief entertainment centers.
Under the new agreements,
cashiers, doormen, ushers, porters
and cleaners collect 10 cents an
hour increased back pay for the
year ended Aug. 6, with boosts ris-
ing to 1212 cents during the second
year and 1713 during the third.
The scales for ushers, many of
whom are pupils working part
time, have been stepped up over
the same periods - with raises
starting at 71z cents and then go
ing to 10 cents and finally to 1914
cents.
The contracts provide a weeks
vacation with pay for all employed
over year who work 18 or more
hours per week. All employed over
5 years get 2 weeks paid vacation.
Employers involved are the War
ner, Paramount and Fox circuits,
along with Theatre Cleaning Ser
vice, a sub-contractor.
Negotiations by IATSE Local
8-100 began originally during the
summer of 1948 and were suspend
ed several months later when a
strike-bent faction sought to lead
the membership to break with the
international. The controversy,
after lasting all winter, was set
tied in April through an election
conducted by the Pennsylvania
Labor Relations Board. Total vote
was 472 for remaining with the
theatrical union, against PIP for
the Mine Workers.
After the election, negotiations
were resumed, this time with a
new local bargaining committee
assisted by International Repre-
sentative Lawrence J. Katz at the
direction of Richard F. Walsh,
IATSE president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Admiral Promises
No Seabee Scabs

st. Paul (LPA) = A guarantee
that the Navy's Seabees-its con-
struction battalions = "will never
be used as strikebreakers" was
given to the AFL Building Trades
Department here by Rear Admiral
John j. Manning, chief Of the
Nayy's Bureau Of Yards and Docks.
Addressing the Departments an
nual convention, he promised also
that the Seabees will mot be used
for any construction work that
could be performed by union labor" "
He paid glowing tribute to the
work done during the war by the
fighting Seabees, 70 per cent of
whom came from AFL building
trades unions.
From the landings on North
Africa to the crossing of the
Rhine, the Seabees taught the
Navy more about high speed con-
struction than the Navy ever
taught the Seabees about any
thing" Manning declared.
All in all, he said, "the loyalty,
capacity and know-how of organ
lied labor are the most convincing
weapons in our arsenal Of national
defense"
The admiral asked for coopera-
tion of the unions in the building
up of the Navy's Seabee Reserve
for national defense.
He also recommended that the
unions draw up their Gown mobil-
ization plan" as a preparedness
measure in case of future war;
Such plan, coordinated with the
armed services, would eliminate all
possibility that any concessions
the unions might make as to estab-
lished rights and safeguards would
set a peacetime precedent, he de-
clared.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Approve Units For
Low-cost Housing

Washington (LPA)-The Public
Housing Administration has APP
proved applications from Is more
local housing authorities for initial
participation in the low-rent pub
lie housing program authorized by
the 1949 housing act. The dwelling
units involved total 1885.
The communities are: Owens
boro, KY, 400 units; Paducah, KY,
600; Atlantic City, N. j., 400;
Phillipsburgh, N. j., $50; Trenton,
N. j., 800; Charleston, S c., 800;
Denison, Texas, 200; San Benito,
Texas, 100; San Juan, Puerto Rico,
2S00; Ponce, Puerto Rico, 11CO;
Allentown, Pa, 900; Alexandria,
Va, $50; Birmingham, Ala, 5000;
Ell Paso, Texas, $50; Camden, N. j.,
800; st. Louis, Mo-, $500; Harrison,
n. j., 100; Morristown, N. j., rs.
The approvals are in the forn' of
program reservations" setting
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
kupers Retires As
Dutch Labor Chief

Washington (LPA)-Evert Kup
ers, Ga, recently resigned as pres
ident of the Netherlands Fedora
tion of Trade Union (NVV), vii
continue as chairman of the Trade
Union Advisory Committee to the
Marshall Plan, ECA has announc,
ed.
One of the grand old men of Eu-
ropean labor, Kupers had been al
officer of the Dutch union organ
ization since 1915, its president
since 1928. He also served for 2C
years as a member of the Neither
land Parliament, leading the fight
there for social security and unem-
ployment laws.
Jailed during the German occu-
patton, Kupers' life was saved
when Canadian troops liberated
Apeldoorn.
One of his accomplishments
which received worldwide atten-
tion was establishment of the
Netherlands Labor Foundation in
1945. The Foundation, a semi-offi-
cial, labor-management group CO.
operating with the government,
settled wage and price disputes
when the Dutch economy needed
all-out cooperation to survive.
Active in the Int'l Labor Organ
ization, Kupers played an import
ant role in international labor af-
fairs. He was at one time vice
chairman of the Int'l Federation of
Trade Unions.
Americans, however, will pro-
badly remember him best for his
firm stand in the showdown over
the World Federation of Trade
Unions. When it became evident
that the Communists would keep
their stranglehold of WFTU, Kup-
ers, vice president of the organiza-
ton, stuck his neck out by joining
Tewson of the British TUG
in walking out.
In a Voice-of- America broadcast
last April, Kupers thanked organ
lied labor in the US for its help in
ERP a success. 81 express
the hope" he said, "that the CO.
operation among the 10 countries
will lead to the establishment of
The United States of Europe, at
first of Western Europe, by which
4 better understanding will grow
the nations. This is the first
condition for attaining a lasting
peace"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
By DONALD WOODS

Washington (LPA) - For the
second time in two years the Am
erican Medical Association has
been denounced by one of its owr
press agents, for unprofessional
dishonest and shady tactics, in
fighting President Truman's health
insurance law. This second blast
may be enough to upset the apple
cart of Whitaker and Baxter, the
100000 year team of profession
al promoters who have taken over
since the exit of famed DIR. Morris
Fishbein.
Last weeks denunciation OF
AMA's tactics came from David
Brown, former editor of Liberty
Magazine, who after a few weeks
with the medical association as
$4,000 year Editorial Director
of their campaign, resigned be-
cause ne could not stomach their
tactics in fighting the Presidents
health insurance program.
The story of Browns break with
the ANA was reported exclusively
by Robert S. Allen in his syndicat-
ed column for the New York Post
Allen had a copy of Browns letter
of resignation and knew what he
was writing. But the story threw
ANA headquarters into a turmoil
and it came up with an alibi that
reached new low for playing
dirty ball. 1t claimed it had fired
Brown because of incompetence.
Allen, a fighting newspaperman
as we'll as fighting soldier who
lost an arm in the last war, was
outraged at this underhanded at
tack on friend by Whitaker and
Baxter, who were responsible fol-
the ANA statement. He knew from
what he had seen that the ANA
was lying in a resperate effort to
pet out of a hole. He prepared To
fight back-and readers of his
column will see the result in the
next few days.
Brown also was outraged, OF
course, but maintained his balance
by continuing to refuse to comment
publicly in any way on his break
with the ANA. He disclosed that
in order to protect his former
client he had made no public an
nouncement of his resignation, and
had only disclosed it to Allen when
the columnist, an old friend, called
to ask about it.
Browns resignation and the
furore resulting from it, as a re-
suit of the inept dishonesty OF
Whitaker and Baxter, tossed the
ANA into the most serious Jam
it has experienced since taking on
the fight against national health
insurance. The most damaging as
pect of the whole affair was that 1t
was the second time that it-a pro-
fessional organization of doctors
had been denounced for unpro-
fessional tactics by its own press
agents within two years, or little
more.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Congressman Find
Swedes Turning To
New Health Plan

Washington (LPA)-Rep. And
rev j. Biemiller Cd, Wis., return
ed from a Congressional study of
European health programs convin-
ced that the Swedish switch from
voluntary to compulsory health in
surance has more significance for
America than anything else the
Congressman found in Europe.
'"The Swedes are now shifting
for the reason that the voluntary
plan, despite heavy government
subsidies, did not cover the people
and left out those who needed it
most" Biemiller said.
The Wisconsin legislator, one OF
the sponsors of the Administra-
TONS health insurance program in
Congress, said the Swedish exper-
ience had direct bearing on the
battle in this country between vol
untary and compulsory health in
surance. The American Medical
Association is pushing voluntary
insurance, as a substitute for the
Administration program-but crit
les have contended it would not dc
the job for the same reason that il
has failed in Sweden.
Biemiller said he returned from
the study of the European medical
programs more than ever convinced
that national health insurance is
the answer for the United States,
He said the Congressman were inn
pressed with the differences be-
tween the health insurance pro-
gram proposed here and the soc
ialized system in effect in Great
Britain.
While Biemiller felt the British
system was not needed in this
country, he reported it was work
ing we'll in Britain. British doctors
testified, he said, that they were
able to practice better medicine
now than before. The Congressman
did not find single British doctor
who condemned the British pro-
gram the way the ANA does, Bic
miller said, adding that the only
controversy about it is over details,
not over the program itself.
Members of the Congressional
delegation were much impressed
with a rural health program in
Sweden based around small COM
munity hospitals with salaried
doctors. Biemiller said one of the
Republican Congressman comment
ed that if the ANA had offered
anything like that in the United
States it would make more sense
than anything they had proposed
here.
There was little indication how
ever that the European study had
changed any minds on the Truman
program. Three members of the
delegation who went abroad oppos-
ed to the program came back the
same way. They were Reps. Gill
lette OR, Pa; Bennett OR, Mich.);
and Beckworth Cd, Tex.). Gillette
was quite frank about his position,
asserting:
"My conclusion was decided be-
fore | left. Pm very much opposed,
more so than when | left"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06

aside the dwelling units for the
first two years of the six-year pro
gram, under which a total of 810,-
OC0 units may be authorized. Other
applications may be submitted
later for programs to be under
taken in later years.
The initial participation" is in
the form of preliminary loans to be
used in planning the housing pro-
jects the public housing authorities
intend to build and operate, for
families whose incomes are 50 low
that they cannot afford to buy or
r mt adequate privately-owned
homes.
When the local housing author
tiles complete their detailed plan
ming, the Public Housing Admins
tration will enter into contracts
with them for financial assistance
in the construction.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
FUNDS FOR RURAL PHONES

Washington (LPA)-The senate
has voted $25,250,GOO to help farm
ers get better telephone service,
and 25,O00,000 for repairs on the
Governments mothball fleet of
merchant ships. Both sums are part
of a supplemental appropriation
bill which now goes back to the
House for approval.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
ANA Again Denounced By Own Press Agent For Shady Tactics

In 1947 the firm Of Raymond
Rich Associates, which had been
handling, publicity for the ANA,
resigned with public protest even
more biting than Browns. 1t is not
often that public relations men,
used to hard mitigating, get arous-
ed enough about the tactics of their
employers to denounce them. 1t
had now happened to the ANA
twice in as many years, and critics
wondered how long the organiza-
| tion could continue to survive such
experiences without a real grass
roots revolt from its doctor mem
bers.
Rich quit because the ANA was
using dishonest tactics in present.
ing to facts of medical economies,
and was obviously putting the sell
fish interests of doctors above the
public interest. Raymond Rich, one
of the most reputable public rela-
tions outfits in the business, ex-
planned that he was quitting be-
cause the ANA had failed to adopt
his recommendations to:
"Seek the truth on the economic
and social aspects of medicine;
"Put the public first: and
Become adequate to its respon-
sibilities.
In letter to the $50 members
of the ANA House of Delegates,
Rich explained he was quitting be-
cause the ANA hierarchy had
ignored a year old mandate from
the House of Delegates to adopt
Rich's proposals. His protest sub
stantiated the charge of ANA
critics that the ANA hierarchy
rather than the House of Dele
gates really rules the ANA.
1t resulted in warnings to Con-
gress that the ANA could not be
trusted to administer any national
health law, but the present Con-
gress seems to have forgotten all
this. Browns resignation and the
IAMA's handling of it revive the
whole story.
What aroused critics of the ANA
most in the latest development was
the Whitaker and Baxter alibi that
Brown has been fired. This reply
was given to George Hall, enter
prising Washington correspondent
for the ST. Louis Post Dispatch,
who followed up on Aliens story
for his fighting, liberal paper.
Hall called the ANA for reply
to Aliens story. Whitaker and BaX-
ter refused to comment, but sent
him a prepared statement by DR..
George F.. Lull general manager
of the ANA. LulPs statement as
serted that Browns resignation
had been accepted because the
quality of his work was unsatls-
factory and because he sought to
act, without authority, as a spokes-
man for American medicine on
matters of policy"
Whitaker and Baxter's $4,000 Il
year representative in Washington
claimed the reply had been written
in response to the Post Dispatches
query. But DR.. Lull told the PD
that they had written the letter for
his signature In advance and told
him they "might have to send it
out" to newspapers. Obviously,
therefore, Whitaker and Baxter
were prepared for blast from
Brown, whom they knew had re-
signed in disgust.
This handling of the incident
aroused bitter resentment not only
among Browns friends but among
all newspapermen-many of whom
had been led to expect such tactics
from Whitaker and Baxter on the
basis of their previous record. 1t
was a sore blow for the ANA and
a big boost for the Presidents
health program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Union Head Elected Mayor

Dierks, Ark. LPA) = The new
mayor of this city is H. c.. Scog
gins, chairman of Local 500, In
ternational Woodworkers of Am
erica. The loggers and mill work
ers here have long taken an inter
est in politics and have brought
about a number of improvements
in the school system and local gov
ernmpnt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
HIS MASTERS VOICE

Washington (LPA)-Honest is
the only way to describe President
Rupert Richardson of Hardin Sim
mons College, Abilene, Texas, who
appeared before the Senate Inter-
state Commerce subcommittee to
oppose the nomination of Leland
0lds to the Federal Power Com
mission. The oil and gas industries
are fighting Olds' confirmation
tooth and nail.
Said Richardson: "And the uni
versity with which | have been as
sociated in different connections,
for a third of a century, could not
have survived save for the gifts
which these industries made pos
sible."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
Comment On
World Events

1t is impossible to read without
boiling Indignation the report by
Drew Hamilton in the New York
Times of August rs, that with the
abolition of newspaper licensing in
Bavaria, so or more frankly pro-
Nazi newspapers will be founded
in that state", and that among
them "Max Whitney, once publisher
of the Stuermer, the most rabidly
anti Semitic of all Nazi publica-
tions, intends to publish two papers
in the Nuremberg area.
The same gang that once sue
ceeded in poisoning thoroughly the
minds of the German population is
again at work. Those who are dir
ectly responsible for the outbreak
of the Second World War and for
tens of millions of human casual
ties, those who introduced gas
chambers and cremation of millions
of innocent men, women and child
rem for the first time in the history
of civilized mankind, the same peo-
pie who brought about the un-
heard of atrocities and the infam-
Gus hell spots like Belsen-Bergen,
Oswiecim or Maideneck, are again
resuming their canibalistic propa-
ganda before the eyes of the
whole world.
We are not thinking exclusively
of the 6 million Jews exterminated
in cold blood by Germans, indoc-
trinated to the hilt with the pois-
onous propaganda of Nazi editors.
The spectacle of thriving cities re-
duced to shambles, of millions of
young people who perished in the
war for world domination, planned
by the Nazis, is constantly in our
minds.
The escaped remnants of the
Nazi chieftains are now again
challenging the conscience of de-
cent people all over the world.
They do not even try to parade in
a new uniform. The old Hitler
mantle is apparently good enough
for them.
To permit spiritual leaders of
Nazism to start their work again
is a mockery of decency and JUS
tice, of democracy and of all the
lofty ideals for which the demo-
cratic world fought. To watch in
actively while these people begin
to tread the same path which had
once led-and which may again
lead-to a world catastrophy, is
folly.
Under normal conditions the
Abolition of newspaper licensing is
undoubtedly a step to democracy.
In Germany, however, this step
was the green light for the old
criminal gang of Nazi editors.
Public opinion in the democratic
countries must find ways and
means to stop the Nazi criminals
before it is too late. A crime of
committed now is surely
Some business journals erringly
stamp the Economic Cooperation
Administration as failure; no
such pessimism pervades the ranks
IF labor at home or abroad. AM
erican labor continues intelligent
of the Marshall Plan.
labor knows full well how much |
progress has been made in a short |
year. Labor knows how difficult it |
S to make any progress over vast
Lreas in 16 different countries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06
10000 WIN RAISES

San Francisco (LPA)-Approxi-
mately 110,000 AFL members in
California obtained wage increases
and other benefits in July through
collective bargaining, the State
Federation of Labor announced.
Workers scoring gains included
carpenters, laborers, teamsters, op-
Grating engineers, cement finish
ers, retail clerks, furniture work
ers, culinary workers, street car
men, office employees, bakers and
motion picture operators.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-06

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!