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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
ITU Closed Shop Illegal Under Taft
Hartley, Labor Board Says Unanimously

Washington, d. c. ILNS). -
Continuing its war against the In
ternational Typographical Union,
the National Labor Relations Board
ruled unanimously that the lTU
was violating the Taft Hartley Act
ban on the closed shop. 1t alleged
the unions bargaining strategy
was a deliberate Illustration OF
the bargaining process"
y Union attorneys said the fight
against the law and it's oppressive
restrictions would go on. Pending
consultation with officers of the
union in Indianapolis, no definite
plans were announced.
Discrimination" Banned
4 rhe labor board ordered the
nion and its a top officers to
ease threatening strikes or other
nse trying to cause employers to
discriminate against nonunion
workers. The order also requires
the union and its officials to cease
ain any manner restraining or coer-
cling employers in the selection of
their representatives" This refers
to the hiring of foremen, who have
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
BOARD SLAPS
DENHAM AGAIN

Washington (LPA) - A Natl
Labor Relations Board examiner
can dismiss a case involving unfair
labor practices on the basis of an
earlier board decision in which the
NLRB itself refused jurisdiction
on a representation case arising in
the same company.
This is the way the NLRB ruled,
and in so doing slapped the much
bruised countenance of Board Gen
eral Counsel Robert n. Denham
once more. Denham, who is always
quick to bring an unfair case
against union, should be used to
being slapped around by now.
The ruling was made in case
involving Haleston Drug Stores,
Inc, of Portland, Ore. The COM
pany said the Hotel & Restaurant
Employes-AFL, and four of its
Portland locals violated the Taft
Hartley act by picketing Haleston
drug stores in an effort to obtain a
closed shop. The unions filed
motion to dismiss the complaint,
and the trial examiner upheld
them.
The examiner based his action
on a unanimous decision issued last
spring by the NLRB in which it
was held that the board could not
conduct a representation election
in Haleston stores because Hales-
ton was not in interstate commerce.
However, Denham later issued
his unfair charge, acting on COM
plant from the Haleston company.
But, alas poor Denham! Down he
went again.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
New Fascist Union
Formed In France

Paris (LPA) A new French
labor federation, which adheres to
the totalitarian views expressed by
Gen. Charles DeGaulle in French
politics, was formed here at the
end of October after three-day
conference.
A coalition of ex-Communists
and men who collaborated with the
Germans during the occupation OF
France heads the Independent
Workers Union. It's program calls
for watering-down of the social
security system, tying of wages
exclusively to productivity, and
profits-sharing.
Combat, newspaper with a non
C ON munis left-wing editorial
policy, in its report of the confer
ence, says its program is frighten-
ingly like that of the Vichy gov
ernment that ruled France for the
Nazi invaders. DeGaulle's hench-
men mo longer seek to conceal
their sympathy for this movement
and they openly encourage their
adherents to join it," Combat re-
ports.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10

always been union members under
ITU closed-shop agreements.
The decision was made in the q
year-old case brought by the Am
erican Newspaper Publishers Asso-
citation in behalf of its more than
800 member newspapers through
out the country. j. Copeland Gray
did not participate in the decision.
This is the case that led to an
injunction and contempt citation
against the union officers. The
boards order will take the place
of the injunction. 1t is enforceable
In the U. S. Circuit Court of APP
peals.
The board also issued its decision
in the case brought by the Chicago
Newspaper Publishers Association
against the ITU and the Chicago
Typographical Union No. 16.
In the Chicago case the full g.
member board unanimously order
ed the local to cease all attempts
to cause employers to discriminate
and, if requested by the publishers,
to bargain in good faith and "if an
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Soviet Labor Paper
Urges Worker Curbs

New York (LPA)-The 'labor
book" passport system introduced
in 1888 in Russia must be tighten
ed up, declared an editorial in
Trud, journal of the Soviet labor
unions. These "labor books" freeze
workers in their jobs. Each en-
ploye has book, which his en-
ployer holds. If the worker quits
without the employers consent, he
does not get his book" back. With
out the "book" he can't be legally
hired elsewhere. This control sys-
tenn was disorganized by the war,
and Trud urges the Soviet unions
to get busy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Federation Leads
Fight For Safer
Building Codes

Chicago (LPA) - In order that
small children no longer "be sacri'
feed on the altar of sub-standard
combustible capt to catch on fire.
material" the Chicago Federation
of Labor is leading a fight fol
safer building code rules in this
city.
Two recent tragedies here cited
by the Federation in it's drive con-
Germ 2la year old Edward Clyde
Guthrie, who perished in flames be-
cause the walls and ceiling of his
home were made of gypsum board
surfaced with cardboard and fiber
board, and four year old Jackie
Stevens, who died last week after
an oil stove exploded and flames
swept the wallboard throughout
his house.
"Last year there were 100000
fires in this country" says an
article in this weeks issue of Fed
Grafton News, 100000 of them in
family dwellings,"
"Many cities have revived their
interest in building Codes" the
News reports, land lot of activity
now exists in the revision of the
city building codes. With the very
acute and pressing need for new
housing, however, the danger of a
breakdown in existing regulations
to permit definitely hazardous
buildings to be erected is very
real"
In Chicago, the Federation is
to its members to pre-
vent the new code now being con-
sidered from being adopted by the
City Council. Instead, they are ask
ing a much stronger code, which
will genuinely protect the vast
of people who live in
small homes like the ones in which
Edward Guthrie and Jackie Stew
ems perished.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
One Stop Clinics
To Detect Disease
Urged By Doctor

Washington (LPA)-In one OF
the most progressive statements to
come from the US. Public Health
Service for long time, DR.. A. l.
Chapman, chief of the division OF
chronic diseases, has suggested
public diagnostic clinics for the de-
lection of all easily detachable
diseases.
+ DR.. Chapman suggested that in
Estead of having drives for the de-
lection of individual diseases
Fsuch as syphilis, diabetes, or tuber-
culosis-as the public health SER
vice has been doing, public health
departments should make examina-
|tions of all citizens for all of the
easily detachable diseases at one
time. /. - .':
/ A single examination, DR.. Chap
man said, could discover the exist
ence of a number Of diseases such
as syphilis, diabetes, glaucoma,
anemia, tuberculosis, obesity, faul-
ty vision, hearing loss, high blood
pressure and heart disease.
Using national averages, DR..
Chapman said for every 1000 per-
sons examined, 976 cases of these
diseases would be found. This
would not mean that 976 out of
1000 would be found to be sick, be-
cause some people would have two
or more of the affilictions.
Progressive medical men have
long recognized the need for such
all-purpose diagnostic clinics-but
the US Public Health Service has
been wary in proposing anything
of the kind because Of fear of op-
position from the American Medi-
cal Assn. Meanwhile, public SER
vices have been wasting public
money conducting drives to dis
cover single diseases because it
would have been almost as cheap
to examine at the. same time for all
of the easily detectable illnesses.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Food, Rents, Fuel Up

Washington (LPA)-Food, rents
fuel, and house-furnishing all rose
in price for city families between
mid August and mid-September,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported Oct. 28, for the biggest
monthly living cost increase in a
year.
This is the biggest increase since
August 1948, when the retail price
index went up one-half of one per-
cent-the same amount it jumped
last month. The index is now only
three percent above a year ago,
and 27 percent higher than when
OPA was killed by the 80th Con-
gress in June, 1916.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Lining Dispute
Turned Over To
National Office

Despite the unusual interest
which was shown in the returns of
Tuesday's election, members Of
Local Union 124 cast politics aside
long enough to attend their regular
weekly union meeting.
A large delegation of liners
from Taylor, Smith & Taylor pot
terry were present and voiced their
opinion on the controversy at that
shop. During the discussion many
facts were brought to light and it
was the consensus of opinion that
the matter should be turned over
to national headquarters for ad-
justment. A committee was ap-
pointed to contact President Duffy
Immediately.
All decal girls from the Edwin
NJ. Knowles pottery are requested
to be present at our next meeting
on Nov. Is when a very important
matter will be up for discussion.
1t is important that every girl at
tend this meeting.
An orchid to the shop committee
from Edwin M. Knowles plant for
the wonderful job they are doing.
The members of this committee
have given much of their time free
gratis in handling the many dis
putes turned over to them, and
have stayed on the shop many
hours after their regular work day,
seeking to iron out various dis
putes with company officials.
We are anxiously awaiting re-
port from President Duffy regard
ing his meeting with officials of
the West Virginia Unemployment
Compensation bureau. The Broth
erhood chief attended our previous
when the matter was up
for discussion and outlined the
procedure which had to be taken
in this matter.
Congratulations to Bro. Ed.
Curry who was successful in his
bid for a School Board post in
election. Ed. has the
qualifications to carry out the
duties of this office. -O.C. 124
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
St. Louis Paper
Lauds Labor Press

st. Louis (LPA) = Organized
labor's own newspapers received a
first class tribute the other day
when the great st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch said that the rise of the labor
press was something for the COM
mercial press to gaze upon with
wonder and some gratitude"
In an editorial on Oct. %, the
Post Dispatch, one of the nations
finest liberal dalies, observed that
the labor press "has doomed into a
major enterprise"
Although the Post-Dispatch sug-
gested that the labor press was
still supplementary reading" de-
spite 30,O0O,000 readers, it declared
that there would be no need for
union newspapers at all eff the
commercial press gave full express
sion to the needs and opinions of
millions of trade unionists."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Labor As Always Will Go About To
Strike Blow AT Polio In Dimes Drive

New York City QLNS).-Once
again the ranks of labor will well
come an opportunity to strike g
forceful blow against one of man
kinds cruelest and most Gripping
diseases-infantile paralysis, the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis said here. The founda-
tion's statement continued:
"This years March of Dimes
campaign Jan. 16-31) of the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis has a more compelling
urgency than ever before. Why?
"The year 1949 saw infantile
paralysis take its grimmest toll in
our history. More than 10000 were
struck down by this frightening
disease in the past IL months.
Big Burden on Foundation
"The appalling human devasta-
tion wrought by polio in 1949 plac-
ed an unusually severe burden on
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis, which pays for
the medical care of the stricken,
in addition to financing profession
al education, and research aimed
at finding a cure or preventive for
polio.
$50 great was the strain impos-
ed by the record epidemics of l949
that the National Foundation was
compelled for the first time in its
history to conduct a polio epidemic
emergency drive for stop-gap funds
to tide it over until the 1850 March
of Dimes drive.
"The magnitude of the task
faced by the foundation in fighting
paralysis during the past
year can be calculated from a few
fundamental statistics: $31 ,000,0 900
for medical care; 100000 a day
spent for polio care during the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Papers Refuse
Ads Defendinq
The AGP Case

Washington LPA) = Three ou'
of the four Washington newspapers
have turned down an advertise
ment by the National Federation
of Independent Business, Inc.
answering the A & P advertise
ments attacking the Justice De.
partment's antitrust suit against
the powerful chain store system.
George j. Burger, vice-president
of the federation, said the Star
the Post, and the Times-Heralc
had refused to run an advertise
ment giving the governments side
of the case against the big food
chain. Only the Daily News pub
lished the advertisement.
Burger said a letter from God
frey Kaufman, Advertising Man
ager of the Star, turned down the
advertisement in a letter saying:
'It's not our policy to permit
any advertiser to discredit the ad-
vertising of another, and for that
reason the copy as submitted is
not acceptable"
The Post, Burger said, gave no
explanation. The Times-H d
merely called the advertisement
unacceptable"
The advertisement, as published
by the Daily News, carried head
line quoting the Justice Depart
ment as calling the A & P adver-
tisement "false", with subhead
saying the chain had been "found
guilty of using un-American wea-
pons" but was appealing "for the
sympathy and support of the Am
erican public" The advertisement
to the people to support
the government.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Accepts Appointment
From Labor Dept.

President James NJ. Duffy ac-
cepted the appointment of Will
liam K. McComb, Administrator
Of the Labor Departments
Wage and Hour Public Contracts
Divisions, to serve on an indus
try committee TO re-examine the
wage rates established in the
clay and clay products industry
in Puerto Rico under the Fair
Labor Standards Act.
Members of the Brotherhood
can visialize the importance Of
this mission in seeking to pro-
tect the job opportunities
throughout the trade which al
ready have been endangered by
the imports Of ware from the
island.
The committee equally repre-
sentative of labor, management
and the public consists of nine
members, three from the main
land and six from Puerto Rico.
They will consider economics
and competitive conditions in
the Clay and Clay Products In
dustry and in all probability re-
commend a higher minimum
wage for the industry than the
present minimum rate of 40
cents an hour.
The initial session for the
group to begin deliberations has
been set for Nov. 29 in San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
WAGES OF SIN

Washington (LPA)-It surely
pays well to be anti-labor, espec-
tally if you're an expert at union
batting. In reports filed with Con-
gress under the lobby law, the
fine print reveals that in the first
nine months of 1949 ex-Rep. Fred
Hartley, co-parent of the we'll
known law, was paid $13,333 in
salary and $5667 in expense ad-
vance" by the Tool Owners Union.
And Gerard Reilly and two asso-
yates took in $43,419 from General
ihectric Corp. for work to streng-
(Snen the Taft Hartley law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
Ohio Labor Paper
Lacks AFL Approval

Washington. - The socalled
Estate Labor News" published
at Columbus, O., lacks American
Federation of Labor approval.
The paper is NOT on the AFL
list of papers approved by the
executive council and any use
of official AFL services is un-
authorized.
ecretary-Treasurer P hilip
Hannah of the Ohio Federation
of Labor said copies of the pub
lication containing "spiels glori-
flying" Sen. Robert A. Taft are
stuffed into employees pay en-
velopes.
"You won't find trade union
ist in Ohio touching it with a
1O-foot pole," Hannah said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10

ing, HdNlHS LWO-JnlT0S majority
of Puerto Ricans on this commit
tee is very unfair. This matter is
now being taken up with the Inter-
ior and Labor Departments in
Washington.
In the meantime, Mr.. Crane of
the Crane China in Puerto Rico
has been quite active in the United
States not alone in selling but in
making promises. He is Offering
printed ware at 30 to 40R below
what the American Firms can af-
\ ford to sell it here in the States,
and has virtually made it impos-
sible for the American Potter to
sell any Of this type Of ware in the
Southern States and along the At
lantic Seaboard. As a direct result
our Print Department here is work
ing only three days per week.
Crane recently appeared on the
West Coast where he is now care
fully picking off the best accounts,
as he has done in the South, by
offering Crane China at the above
mentioned reduction in prices. At
the same time he is assuring the
dealers out there that there is no
Echance of the American Potters be-
ing able to reduce their prices, and
any attempt on their part to have
wages or other costs raised in
Puerto Rico would come to nothing
because he, Crane, has the Puerto
Rican sugar interests who main
tain a powerful lobby in Washing
ton, solidly behind him.
Cranes attorney, a Puerto Rican
Government official, has assured
the West Coast dealers that Crane
will be given protection to make
sure that American labor or AM
erican pottery interests will not be
able to disturb the present low
wage setup in Puerto Rico. And
this may sound silly but the Puerto
Rican Government has also assur-
ed Crane that they will not stand
for any moves to raise wages be-
cause they do not feel the Puerto
Ricans are ready for higher wages
and would only throw their money
away on automobiles, drink and
silk underwear. AS the cost of liv-
ing there is repeatedly even higher
than it is here, how much could
anyone buy if receiving the min
imum of 75c per hour, is moot
question.
II has been almost a year since
this Puerto Rican situation has
been brought to the attention of
Local No. rs. In that time a very
imposing array of people have
helped to bring this situation to
the condition we have at present.
Starting with our National Office
and the members of the NIB. of
(Tarn TO Page Tsvo)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10
1904 Receiving
Security Pay In
Youngstown Area

Monthly payments are bein,
made to 1904 persons in tn,
Youngstown area at the rate O.
$2,452, ,456.00 per year under th'
Old-Age and Survivors Insuranc,
provisions of the Social Securit.
Act", William w. Wood, Manager
of the Youngstown office of tn,
Social Security Administration, an
nounced today.
"These figures" Wood explained
"are based on the payments made
as of June 80, l949 in Mahonine
and Columbiana Counties"
In Mahoning County, 1902 re.
tired workers aged 65 or older re-
ceived $79,236 each month. Oh
these workers, 965 had wives aged
65 or older who received $15,01S
each month; 713 widows over 65
received $15,808, while monthly
payments to survivors of younger
deceased workers numbering 1902
;. totalled $31 1,702.
y In Columbiana County, 1,179 re-
tired workers are receiving $31 100
per month; 386 had wives over 65,
who are receiving $5,524. Monthly
benefits on behalf of deceased
workers were paid to 1,067 sur
vivors, at total monthly rate of
$17,595.
Wood estimated that several
hundred thousand dollars are lost
each year by Youngstown area
residents who do not take advant-
age of their right to payment.
A. claim must be presented be-
fore any payment can be made.
1t is not necessary that a work
er over 65 permanently retire to
receive payments. If an insured
worker is at least 65 years old he
may receive payment for any
month during which he does not
work and earn $500 or more
under the Social Security Act, pro-
vided a claim is promptly made.
Wood estimates that several
thousand local residents, over 65,
may receive an old-age insurance
payment for October if they pre-
sent a formal claim for this money
before the end of January 1850.
The Youngstown Field Office is
NO tied at 1913 w. Commerce Street
4 Ne, oom sol of the Schween- Wag-
Vsrd Building and is open each week
calvin except Saturday, from 900
deetsl. until 500 p. m. The phone
humber is 4-4253.
2 Itinerant service is provided for
persons not residing in Youngs-.
town. Mr.. John d. DePietro, Field
Representative, may be contacted
in the basement of the Post Office
at East Liverpool, Ohio, each We'd
nesday and Friday from noon to|
800 p. M; and at East Palestine,
Ohio, in the Red Cross Building
from 100 p. m. to 300 p. m. the
fourth Thursday of each month.
Mr.. Eugene o. Wiles, Field Repre-
sentative, visits Salem, Ohio, each
Tuesday and may be- reached on
the second floor of the Post Office
Building from noon to 800 p. m.
He also may be contacted at the
Post Office in Sebring, Ohio, from
1000 a. m. to 1900 noon the sec
ond Thursday of each month.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-10

height of the epidemicl Local
chapters in more than 40 states
asked the national headquarters
for additional funds to fight their
local epidemics!
"The tragic moral of the story
is simple one. The nation must
mobilize its forces for 1850. 1t must
be prepared for any eventuality.
But preparation for possible epi-
denies in 1850 is not the sole res
possibility. The national founda-
tion estimates it must continue to
provide care in 1850 for more than
1900 polio victims stricken in
|1949.
Labor Will Not Fail'
"This great undertaking has al
ways won labor's support, and this
year, more than ever, labor will
open its heart wide to support this
worthy cause.
Labor has always had a great
stake in this fight against polio.
Time and again it has seen the
little ones in its own ranks stricken
with this paralyzing malady and
in accord with its proud traditions,
labor has always borne its share
of responsibility in helping the
fight against polio.
"The leaders of American labor
have always rallied to support the
March of Dimes. Their unstinted
efforts in its behalf are testament
to the effective accomplishments of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis.
Labor will not fail this year.
Every laboring man in America
will do his bit so that Americas
youngsters may face the future
with courage and hope. Your dimes
and dollars to the March of Dimes
will help them do it."