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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Backs Seafarers
On Shipping Bill

New York City QLNS).-Pres-
ident William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has pledg-
ed full AFL support to the Allan
tic and Gulf District, Seafarers
International Union Of North Am
erica in its fight for passage of the
Bland -Magnuson bill wit h ou
amendment.
The measure was introduced in
the House by Chairman Schuyler
Otis Bland of the House Merchant
Marine Committee and in the Sen
ate by Senator Warren G. Magnu'
son. 1t would plug loopholes in pre-
sent legislation calling for Ameri-
can flag participation in the carry
ing of foreign aid cargoes to the
extent of so percent.
The Bland Magnuson bill is the
result of the storm of protest that
grew out of ECA Administrator
Paul G. Hoffman's proposal last
December to end the equal division
of Marshall Plan cargoes between
American and foreign ships. The
entire maritime industry, with the
Seafarers Union leading the way
rose in arms against the proposal,
The union charged it would lead to
the loss of thousands of jobs by
American seamen and called upon
all labor to join the battle.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Women Need $40 Weekly Minimum
Poy. New York Labor Dept Finds

New York City (ILNS). A
working woman living with her
family in New York state in 194S
had to earn at least $40.13 week
|-$2,087 a year-to support herself
adequately, pay her income tax and
put little money aside for emer-
gencies and old age, according to
the findings of the 18th annual sur
vey of living costs announced by
the New York State Department
of Labor.
The study reveals that in 194S
overall living costs were up nearly
5 percent from 1947. Costs of goods
and services were up 7 percent. Of
the required $2,087 annual min
imum, 81 ,595 covered the costs of
goods and services and $492 went
for income taxes, insurance and
savings.
Broken down to weekly expendi-
lures, the needed $40.13 is appor-
toned as follows:
Housing, food at home, other
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Np du tae % 6att?

AT his feeding times, yes He sounds off on the dot
when meals due. But the rest of your day, you're
wise to depend on electric clocks
With baby in the house, it's surprising how much
you depend on electric sece-to prepare and refrgcr-
ate his food heat water for his bath and laundry, wash
his clothes, and SO on.
OF course you depend on electricity to help take the
work out your housework too Always ready it endsa
willing hand with heavy chores provides comfort ease
and even entertainment. And best of all, you can
depend on its economy for what other item in your
budget does so much for SO little?
Your friends and neighborS in this company = under
sound business management = are continual, using
their technical skill and practical experience to keep
electricity the biggest bargain in that budget of yours
You can depend on that too!
HELEN HAYES stars in TIE Electric Theatre!
Hear it epery Sauaa1, CBS, Pm, EST:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Let's Check The
(COnfinued From Page OHe)

brought to the delegates the in
formation that we had never pre-
viously maintained proper book
keeping of our business, with bal
ance Of all accounts as required IN
practical business affairs. He then
recommended to the delegates that
the Board be authorized to employ
certified public accountants to make
an annual audit of our funds. This
recommendation was wholehearted-
ly adopted in that convention. Pre-
viously we had three of our lay
members who each year would
spend a week at headquarters
checking receipts and expenses with
no balancing Of the accounts except
our bank deposits. Our President
ask that this lay member auditing
committee be continued as a direct
check between the membership and
the national officials, permitting
first hand information Of all finan-
cial transactions in detail.
May we ask When did the
N.B.O.P. enjoy any higher place,
with all due prestige in the Ameri-
can Labor movement, than during
the regime from 1927 to the pre-
sent time. President Duffy's selec-
tion in 1887 to represent the Amer
lean Federation of Labor at the
Inter National Labor Conference in
Geneva, Switzerland and his assign
ment in January 1948 to represent
the American Federation Of Labor
i'm a labor gathering in Lima, Peru
for the purpose of calculating a
militant labor unit so greatly need
ed to bring about betterment in
living standards of the men and
women Of labor in the South Amer
lean hemisphere, attest to his in
dividual place as well as that of
the organization in the great AM
erican Federation Of Labor.
InlS we assert Is SJdIcHlndHSIllp
Of the highest order. President
Duffy, as the titular and tactical
head of our organization, has spear
headed this direction Of Brother
hood affairs during all these years
of ascendancy to great prominence.
And due to the wholehearted sup
port given to him by all of the Ex-
ecutive Board members, we have
carried on to the undoubted advant-
age of the rank and file of the or
ganization which has made the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Operative
Fotters' place what it is today in
the American Labor Movement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Employment Mark
Sets New Record

Washington, d. C. QLNS). -
Virtually full employment prevail
ed in the United States during 1913
setting "A new high average mark
the Census Bureau said in its an
nual report on the labor force.
Total employment averaged 3d.
100000 and passed the previous
high average in 1947 by 100000
In 1913, employment ranged from
a low of 57,0O0,000 at the begin
ming of the year to peak of 6l,-
100000 during the summer, when
many students on vacation and
other Seasonal workers swelled the
labor force.
Unemployment averaged 2,0O0,-
coo and was the lowest for any
peacetime year since 1929, when
the labor force Chose working and
looking for work. was much small
er.
The expansion in employment be
tween 1947 and 1913 was confined
to non-agricultural industries. Non
farm employment averaged 81, 800
600 last year, also a new high. 1t
was 1,750,000 above the 1947 aver
age. Between 1910 and 1913, non
farm employment increased by 49,
500, 900 or about one third. Half of
this rise has occurred since the end
of the war. Farm employment,
which averaged 8,0O0,0C0 in 1948,
was slightly lower than in 1947,
and about Is percent below the
1910 level.
The total labor force, including
the armed forces, averaged 62,75O,-
COO in 194S, or 1,150,O00 above the
l947 average.
The female labor force rose by
100000 between 1947 and l948, or
about twice the normal rate.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Two Highest For
(CoufiHued From Page OHe)

II; George Brunt, Local A; Walter
G. Daniel, Local Union 1874; Luther
Hall, Local Union II; John w.
Hamilton, Local Union A; Samuel
Lawton, Local Union "a; Floyd
Lisk, Local Union 9S; George
Schaefer, Local Union 4; Earl Sim
mons, Local Union %, and Clifford
Wilson, Local Union l30.
Nineteen delegates are running
for delegate to the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor convention with
one candidate East of the Allegh-
eny mountains and one west Of the
Allegheny mountains to be elected.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
New Teamwork Planned
For Electric Industry

Washington LPA) - A far
reaching plan for union-manage-
ment cooperation in all branches of
the electrical industry was made
public here by President Dan w.
Tracy of the international Brother
hood of Electrical Workers-AFL.
The unions aim, Tracy said, is
to work out with the employers CO.
operative machinery along the
lines of that which has prevailed in
the electrical construction branch
for the past % years.
Ever since 1920, the IBEW and
the Natl Electrical Contractors
Association have had joint ma
tional council-to which disputes
deadlocked locally were submitted
for voluntary arbitration. This ma
chinery has worked so well, Tracy
said, that electrical construction
has become virtually "a strikeless
industry"
That experience proves "volun-
tary arbitration works." Tracy de-
clared eve are determined in this
year of 1949," he said, "to make
every effort to have it work in
every phase of our industry-con-
struction, manufacturing, tie | e.
phones, radio, utilities, railroads
and wherever Electrical Workers
are employed. 98
eve want to cooperate with the
employers Of our members in sett-
ing up and maintaining a labor
management program that will
bring a peaceful and prosperous
status to us both.
"We appeal to all employers in
the electrical industry to join with
us and as a team we will make this
the greatest year in the history of
electrical production. We will do
our part to keep Americas econ
omic machine running at top
speed"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
REBELLION WITHIN RANKS

New York OPA)-0pposition to
the American Medical Assn battle
against compulsory national health
insurance came from rear echelOns
last week when Brooklyn doctors
rejected an ANA proposal for a
$25-per-individual assessment to
finance it's campaign. Also voicing
opposition to AMA's counterplan
to the Presidents program, the
Kings County Medical Assn vetoed
a II point plan setting up Dept.
of Health headed by cabinet-rank-
ing doctor. Previous to this rebuff,
ANA had announced it planned
$2,50O,000 war chest to fight the
federal plan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Competition Key
To Steel Pricing
Com mittee Told

Washington (LPA)-When Sen
Homer f. Capehart OR, lnd.) didn't
like what Steelworkers Research
Director Otis Brubaker told the
Interstate Commerce Committee
about steel pricing last week, he
accused Brubaker of being on the
side of the steel manufacturers be-
cause, he said, the unions members
work for them and therefore would
say whatever they wanted. Half of
the members of United Steelwork-
ers work for the customers Of the
steel companies, the research man
pointed out.
The pricing policy suggested by
the union last week after months
of careful study is a moderate"
system which they believe to be
completed in the public interest.
GAS a result of the industry's ad-
ministered price system, the gov
ernment and the consuming public
have consistently paid higher prices
for steel than competitive pricing
would have warranted" Brubaker
told the Senate committee. Steel
or steel products go into the max
ing of most manufactured goods in
this country, and steel prices,
therefore, can affect the ups and
downs Of the whole economy.
Denouncing both the "basing
point" and the fob. systems Of
pricing, the steel union is pushing
for a method under which individ
ual companies could set up their
own pricing systems, including only
whatever freight absorption is nee
essary to meet competition. Bru-
baker made it clear that USA is
not only against the Johnson bill
which would amend the act making
basing points illegal, but believes
that any successful formula to
solve this complicated problem can
not be written into law but must
be worked out by an administrative
agency
"a formalized system such as
the basing point system" the union
witness declared, "is price-fixing
and not competition. We have not
had effective price competition in
recent years in many of our basic
industries, as is indicated in the ex-
cessive profit figures and high rates
of return on investment shown by
many of these industries. These
profits represent an indefensible
toll levied against the consumer"
at is our contention" he assert
ed, :"that, the hullabaloo which has
ragged over basing point pricing is
largely artifcially created by those
who would like to see a legal white
wash of their highly questionable
pricing policies"
"Let the Federal Trade Com
mission get on with the job of try
ing to combat cleverly disguised
price-fxing schemes in order that
we may achieve a greater degree of
competition and build a price clim-
ate in the United States in which
small business as well as large can
survive" Brubaker pleaded.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Management Surprised
To Find Some Members
Want The Closed Shop

New York (LPA) 1t must
have hurt to do it, but even
Editor & Publisher, the manage
ment journal of the newspaper
business, had to admit last week
that some publishers want to
kill the aft-Hartley ban on
closed shops.
+ & p made an informal poll
of what publishers around the
country thought about it and
was surprised to find the pub
fishers split on the question. For
instance, F. w. Schaub, of the
Decatur, Ill. Herald Review re-
minded E & P that he had voiced
editorial opposition to the closed
shop ban when it was first con-
sidered in the TIL law. 1--WE
have seen no reason for chang
ing our position" he said last
week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Recommend That
u. S. Trade Unions
Help Japanese

Washington (LPA) - Assistant
Secretary of Labor John w. Glib
son, who has just returned from an
official trip to Japan, said last week
that he will recommend that a
number of top labor leaders in the
u. S. be sent to Japan to help trade
unions there in their serious battle
with the Communists.
Gibson was questioned closely
about General MacArthur's atti-
tude toward trade unions, but he
refused to say anything critical of
the Army general. Mr.. Gibson said
General Macarthur told him in
person that he was the father of
free japanese trade unions, and
that as long as he, Macarthur, was
in Japan nothing would happen to
them.
On the other hand, it is well
known that the collective bargain
ing rights given trade unions at
the beginning Of MacArthur's ad-
ministration have now been dras-
tically cut. Government workers,
for instance, have lost the right to
strike and good part of their
bargaining rights.
Whether or not this tendency to-
ward restricting unions will get
worse or better, Mr.. Gibson said,
is probably "the $64 question:
He was complimentary of the
work of Chester w. Hepler, form
er official of an American trade
union and now head of the labor
division of MacArthur's staff. This
division has recently started a
labor education service for the
leaders Of japanese trade unions.
The railroad workers and miners
have made substantial gains in
fighting Communists inside their
unions, Gibson said, but outside of
those two the Communists are not
being checked a great deal, and in
fact, they are increasing their in
fluence in the Communications
Workers and other trade unions.
In the last election the Japanese
Communist Party gained 36 seats
in the Diet, the Japanese congress,
and the liberal party, the Socialists,
suffered losses. Now, Gibson said,
the free labor movement in Japan
faces only the choice of supporting
IN the Diet the Communists or the
conservative party now in power,
which they fear even more than the
Communists.
1t was the conservative party
leaders who recently issued a pro-
clamation taking the right to strike
away from the government work
ers in japan. 1t was the belief that
this move had been taken at Gen
eral MacArthur's direction that led
to the resignation of James Killen,
an international vice president of
the AFL Paper Workers Union,
who had been acting as Mac
Arthur's labor adviser.
Despite his pessimism about
Communist influence in the unions,
Gibson said he holds hopes for the
future of free labor in Japan. Col
lective bargaining, as we know it,
is slowly developing although it
has long way to go.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
CALF. LLPE MEETS FEB. q

San Francisco LPA)-A con
ference to set up a California
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation has been called for Feb. 26
in Fresno. In addition, the State
Federation of Labor's Executive
Council will meet after the LLPE
sessions, to put finishing touches
on the AFL program to be sub
mitted to the state legislature
when it convenes March 7.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Medical Assn Throws Smokescreen
On Health Insurance Opposition

Washington (LPA) = Instead Of
a serious attempt to meet the
medical care needs of the average
American, the American Medical
Assn has presented the public with
a "fancy press relations job design
ed to obscure the AMA's stubborn
opposition to any program which
would bring medical care within
the means of the average man."
Said DIR. Claiming rockingham,
chairman of CNH.
"In reading the ANA program, it
would be we'll for the laymen to re-
member that the ANA recently
hired a new and clever publicity
firm for what is reported to be the
biggest public relations fee in his
tory which the Association hopes to
pay from the $3,500,000 propa-
ganda fund it is trying to collect
by assessing its members $25 each.
"That publicity firm has begun
to pay off. It's first achievement is
a fancy press relations job design
ed to obscure the AMA's stubborn
opposition to any program which
would bring medical care within
the means of the average man. The
AMA's only proposal for meeting
that national health problem is the
same as before-voluntary health
insurance. 1t has not moved an
inch on this basic Issue, despite all
the window dressing.
voluntary health insurance has
proved it cannot meet the nations
needs. Despite the AMA's frantic
effort to promote such programs in
order to head off compulsory insur-
ance, the voluntary medical insur-
ance plans favored by the ANA
cover less than a sixth Of the popu-
lation and offer only limited pro-
lection. They are either wholly con-
trolled by the AMA's state and
local medical societies or are mere
ly cash benefits paying a fraction
of medical costs through insurance
companies. As a substitute for the
Presidents program of full protec-
tion, they are a snare and delus-
ion.
"The ANA proposes that govern
ment funds, provided by the tax
payers, be used to aid these pri-
vate programs so that they can
take in INDECENT and medically in
digent' persons. The AMA's own
statistics show that so percent Of
the population-all those with in
comes under $4,000 a year-are not
able to meet the expenses of serious
illness out of their own resources.
The AMA's so-called program
means that millions Of self-respect-
ing American families would have
to be labelled as medically indi-
gent after an investigation Of
their personal finances, before they
could get the government aid the
ANA proposes.
HAS the ANA forgotten that
this proposal was put before Con
gress two years ago in bill spon-
sored by Senator Taft and failed to
win approval even from the con-
servative S0th Congress?
"Most of the remainder Of the
ANA proposals are either on the
statute books already or are in
corporatcd in President Truman's
program now before Congress. The
ANA is merely accepting the in
evitable, and belatedly jumping
onto the bandwagon ms it has in
the case of most social advances in
the past"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
WINS PAY DEMAND

New York (LPA)-An original
demand of 50c-an-hour increase
was won by the United Scenic
Artists AFL when seven contract
ors represented by Theatrical Con
tractors Assn capitulated last
week. Ending a four week contro-
versy affecting stage settings on
five forthcoming Broadway plays
the agreement raises hourly rates
for a 30 hour week to $4.25. Nego-
tiation of the still-ta-be-settled
question of rctroactiyity will be
undertaken at some future date.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
REPRINT AVAILABLE

New York (LPA)-Students of
American labor will welcome news
that Selig Perlman's "Theory of
the Labor Movement" is again
available. Long out of print, this
can be purchased for $2.75 through
the Turtle Bay Bookshop, 800 First
Avenue, New York %.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
VOTES TO END SEGREGATION

Columbia, Mo. (LPAD-The Iarg
est balloting over cast in Missouri
student elections found the Univer-
sity students favoring admittance
of Negroes to classes which are not
offered in the Negro school at jeff
erson City. Results, 4S47 to l847 in
favor, will be presented to state of
ficials and university board of
curators.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 4

: Special meeting of Local
: Union a Monday, Feb. 2S,
: 1949, to discuss and vote on
: asking a referendum vote of
: the trade on eleven issues.
: Fletcher Williams, Pres.
George Brunt, Vice Pres.
: Glenn Mccall, Fin. Sec.
: John Arnold, Rec. Sec.
; James Moss, Treas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24

Quarrels are what love is made
u. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15

Air Force band school, two high
school cadet bands. National
Guard Band. the bands Of the
Police Boys Club, Washington and
Lee High School. and Montgom-
cry Blair High School and the
boys and girls bands OF the Sill
yer Spring Elks Club.
The ceremonies at the airport
will be televised by The Stars
station. WMAL-TV. The program
will be from 3:45 pm. to 4:30 pm
President Truman will make a
welcoming address and the Brazil
ian President will reply.
The television camera will catch
all of the color of the ceremony,
including the firing of the 2l-gun
salute.
The ceremony at the District
Building, in which President
Dutra is to receive the key to the
city from Commissioner John
Russell Young, will feature a
massing of the colors by veterans
and patriotic organizations. These
groups and Boy and Girl Scouts
also will station uniformed de-
tachments at numerous points
along the parade route. Also STA
toned along the route will be an
honor guard of $500, including
troops from Army installations
nearby and National Guardsmen.
President Dutra will leave
Washington for New York Sat
urday, remaining there until May
25. He also plans to visit Nash
vile, Tenn, for an inspection OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15
|. N. Lamm, 50, Dies;
Retired Newsman
And Business Writer

Lynne Murray Lamm, SO. retired
newspaperman who had been
Washington correspondent for
newspapers and trade publications
for more than 80 years. died yes
terday at his home. 1920 Reservoir
road NV. after q long illness.
He retired two years ago because
Of illness.
Mr.. Lamm worked on the Wash
ington Post from 1910 TO 1915 as
day city editor and real estate
editor. He later was with the
Bankers Information Service and
was Washington correspondent for
several industry periodicals Dur
ing his career he had been cores
pendent for many publications. in
GLIDING Steel. Textile World. Daily
News Record. Tobacco. American
Lumberman. Paper Trade Journal
jewelers. Circular and the Amer
lean Paint journal.
Worked For New York Times.
With the advent Of radio. Mr.
Lamm was one Of the first re-
porters of radio news out Of Wash
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-05-15

the Tennessee Valley Authority
before returning to Rio de Janeiro
by air on May 81.
President Dutra will stay at the
Brazilian Embassy until Saturday.
Here is a calendar of his activi-
ties in Washington:
Wednesday: 4 pm-Arrival at
airport, greeted by President Tru-
man with full military honors.
g p.m.-Guest of President and
Mrs. Truman at state dinner at
Hotel Statler.
Thursday: 10 am. Attends
Brazilian Embassy reception for
Brazilian colony here. Noon-Ad-
dresses joint session of Congress
and proceeds to luncheon in his
honor given by Speaker Rayburn.
/ p.m.-Attends reception by the
Brazilian Representative to Coun-
Gil of American States and Mrs.
Accioly, 3940 Fordham road NV.
pm-Guest of the Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Acheson at dinner
at Anderson House.
Friday: 9:15 a.m.-Trip to
Mount Vernon and Tomb of IN
known Soldier, Arlington. 1890
p.m.-Attends National Press Club
luncheon. 8 pm-Host to- Presi-
dent and Mrs. Truman at dinner
at Brazilian Embassy. 1890 pm.
Reception at Brazilian Embassy.
Saturday: 1890 p.m.-Attends
meeting and luncheon of Council
of American States, Pan Ameri-
can Union. 4:10 pm.-Leaves by
train for New York