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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Danes Told EcA
Two-Way Street

Washington UPA) = Travel of
workers studying production met
hods SHOULD be a two-way street"
ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman
told a delegation of 20 Danish
unionists who arrived in this coun-
try last week to study production
in. the shipbuilding, meat packing,
steel, and machinery industries.
In his off-the-cuff remarks when
he met the Danes, Hoffman made
it clear that they'd be completely
free to ask questions, to meet any,
one they wanted, and to travel
wherever they desired to pursue
their studies. "You will not be dir
ected to talk only to the worker at
Bench IT," Hoffman said "when
that worker has been coached to
tell you precisely what the Polit-
buro wants you to hear. You will
not be herded together at night but.
will live in the homes of American
workers so that you may see for
yourselves what a free economy
has brought to craftsmen in your
own line in this country"
Another delegation, made up of
IL Swedes, will arrive by air early
in March under ECA auspices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
House Group 0k's
.Longshore Bill

Washington (LPA)-Having fin
ally worked out a formula on the
Overtime on overtime" question
that was acceptable to labor, en-
ployers, and the multitude of lawy-
ers concerned, the House Labor
Committee this week ends its hear
! ings on a new and improved Fair
Labor Standards Act.
This week the group winds up
hearings, and begins voting on a
bill introduced by Chairman John
Lesinski d., Mich.) which would
raise the minimum wage to 75c an
hour and eventually to 81 on an in
stry-by-industry basis. 1t would
also extend coverage to millions of
workers not now protected and
would strengthen the child labor
prohibition.
The committee last week heard
from two unions supporting an i'm
mediate 81 minimum wage. Russ
Nixon, Washington representative
of the United Electrical Workers,
urged the 81 minimum, and low
ering of the hours after which
overtime pay is required from the
present 40 to 35.
In addition, the Textile Workers
Union forwarded to the committee
a resolution by its international ex-
ecutive council calling for pay
floor Of "at least 81 an hour"
The overtime n-overtime" bill,
which was rushed thru separately |
in order to avoid a serious situa- !
tion in the east coast longshore in
dustry when temporary union
agreement expires this
month, exempts from the overtime
of the law the steve
doring and building construction
The exemption applies
only to the method of figuring what
the time -and-a-ha rate should be, /
which is complicated in these in
1ustries by long-standing agree
ments on premium pay for partic-
llar hours and times of the week.
A Supreme Court ruling last July /
upset these practices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Hits Strategy Of
Truman, AFL, Clio

Washington (LPA) = The Tru
man administration is abandoning
the fight for genuine repeal of the
Taft Hartley law according to a
resolution passed here this week by
the national committee of Henry
Wallace's Progressive party.
The party also attacked the AFL
and CIO for their strategy in the
fight against TIL. The Administra-
tons labor bill, which has been
approved in general by organized
labor, was labeled ian open invita-
tion to the avowed Taft Hartleyites
in Congress to tack on their own
improvements which add up to all
the worst features of that in
famous law"
Major feature of the two-day
however, was the unveil-
ing of Wallace's budget for abund-
ance." This includes cut in ex-
penditures for Marshall plan and
purposes, listed by Presi-
dent Truman as $21.1 billion, to a
total of $13.9 billion which Wallace
would spend $7.2 billion for the
and $6.7 for relief to other
nations, administered thru the
United Nations. Wallace's total
US budget would total SD billion
to Truman's $40 billion
as Wallace figures it. A shift in
the method of calculating social
security funds would be made
under his program and was in
cluded in all of his figures.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
WILLIAM GREEN ASKS
STRAIGHT TIL REPEAL;
DENHAM GETS ROASTED

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Labor Committee, in it's hearings
on the Truman labor bill, last week
heard AFL President William
Green describe the Taft-Hartley
act as "impracticable, unworkable.
and destructive of the common
elemental rights of labor"
He strongly urged the committee
to recommend to the Senate that il
repeal the TIL act in it's entirety
and enact the Administrations
labor bill with few minor changes
He said it was his considered opin-
ion that the new Truman bill would
lay the groundwork for national
labor policy based primarily on
faith in the free collective bargain
ing process"
Green put his stamp of approval
on the section Of the Truman bill
being fought over by some senators
that would return the Cancellation
Service to the Labor Dept. He also
told the Senate committee that he
was pleased to find nothing in the
Truman bill that provided, in his
opinion, for the use of the injunc-
tion in national strikes. He urged
the senators to leave the bill that
way in the final draft.
In speaking of the AFL's exper-
ience with the Taft-Hartley act,
Mr.. Green was scathing in his cri-
ticism. He said the law made it a
"crime" to pursue free collective
bargaining with employers in many
instances, even when the object
was an agreement satisfactory to
both sides. His suggestions on the
Truman bill, in fact, were to make
a few changes of wording so that
not the slightest vestige of the
Taft Hartley act remains in force.
The day before Green appeared
before the Senate Committee, Har-
vey Brown, president of the Intl
Association of Machinists, had also
been articulate in picking to pieces
the Taft-Hartley law.
He said that since the TIL law
was enacted the lam has had to
employ a battery of lawyers to pro-
tect itself, and that strikes had oc-
Cured that would never have hap
pened without the law, and that
now the union is embroiled in dam
age suits totalling millions just be-
cause of the law.
Brown indicated that a prolong-
ed discussion of the new law,
especially if it were apparent that
any part of the TIL law might re-
main on the statute books, would
possibly create considerable strain
during the numerous contract nego-
tiations scheduled for this coming
spring.
On being questioned by Sen.
Hubert Humphrey d., Mimi,
Brown charged that a good proper
tion of the current wave of layoffs
were intended to provide an uyge
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Labor Urges Economic
Program In Public Interest

Washington 1PA)-What hap
pens when you put together around
one big table spokesmen for the
NAM, the Clio, the Chamber of
Commerce, the AFL, the Natl
Farm Bureau Federation, the Small
Businessmen's Association Of New
England and the Natl Farmers
Union? Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney Cd.
Wyo.) tried it last week, as chair
man of the Joint Committee or
President Truman's Economic Re-
port.
In front &C each man, when he
was seated, was copy of HR 2756,
the Administration proposal for
standby controls over ALLEGATIONS of
basic materials and over prices and
wages. 1t was soon clear that NAM
and c of C unalterably opposed the
whole idea. Said Emerson Schmidt,
veteran c of C spokesman: eve
are unalterably opposed to this bill
although its purposes are charming
and beautiful"
Seated directly in front of O'Ma-
honey were Secretary-treasurer
James B. Carey Of the CIO, Albert
Goss of the Natl Grange, Lewis
Hines Of the AFL, and President
James Patton of the Farmers
Union. All three bore down hard,
both in their initial statements and
questioning, on the fact that the
American economy must be regu-
lated when it went against the in
terests Of the people.
Carey called on Congress to in
yestigate the reason that thousands
of workers are being laid off in the
textile, clothing and shoe indus
tries. Why, he asked Philip Reed
of General Electric Corp, doesn't
heavy industry like steel and cleo
trical products, make up for some
of their shortages in production by
hiring these people to expand plant
facilities !? Why, he asked, should
the farmer and the workers in con-
sumer goods industries take the
rap while heavy industry, in the
hands of few big companies con-
tinues to reap profits ?
The AFL in general likes the
Presidents report, and approves
the purposes of the stabilization
bill, Hines said. He urged coopera-
tive action by labor, management
and government to meet economic
problems, and approved especially
the part Of the Administration bill
listing this as one of it's detectives.
eve look with ALARM" he said, at
the attitude Of some employers who
are not so much concerned with the
welfare of the people of this nation
as for their own personal plans"
As evidence Of the fact that un-
animity could be achieved on gen
eral principles of public welfare,
O'Mahoney asked those men around
the table who agreed with the
principle of a minimum wage" TO |
raise their hands. First time he
asked, NAM and C of C represent
atives sat on their hands. When he
put it a little more strongly, they
agreed to the principle"
(tho both organizations had ap-
peared in recent days before the
House Labor Committee to oppose
a 75c wage floor
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Bus Drivers Minus
Right To Strike,
AT Work For State

Richmond, Va. (LPA) - Sixteen
hundred bus drivers in Richmond,
Norfolk and Portsmouth are work
ing for the state of Virginia this
week and are unable to exercise
their right to strike in a wage dis
pute as a result of Gov. William
Tuck's own brand of labor relations.
The states seizure Of the bus
lines in the three cities came after
months of wage negotiations be-
tween the members of the Amalga-
mated Assn of Street, Electric
Railway & Motor Coach Employees
of America-AFL, and the Virginia
Transit Co., which owns the buses.
Last November the union pre-
sented a wage demand for a Csc
an-hour increase, over the COM
pany's present maximum hourly
wage of S1.14K. In January the
company offered a small raise con-
ditioned on the granting of fare
increase in Norfolk and Richmond.
The union refused it, and later the
company offered again 31ac-an-
hour, to be raised to 4c when they
got fare increase. This was also
refused and neither side has moved
since.
Governor Tuck has the power to
seize the bus lines and wait for
one side or the other to give in
under a peculiar law he devised
himself two years ago.
1t is part of the Virginia labor
relations law which not only for
bids strikes on public utilities, but
requires that workers denied new
contracts must train strikebreak-
ers before they can strike, and
then they must not picket.
This was the law that was blast
ed bitterly by Charles Webber,
Virginia CIA director, at the Ma
tional Conference on Labor Legis-
lation in Washington last Decem-
Der. He said continued united poll
teal action by labor unions was
the only way to defeat such laws.
A drive to obtain more pro-labor
members in the state assembly was
last week at the LLPE
conferences held in conjunction
with the AFL Executive Council
sessions in Miami.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
House Labor Group
Starts Drafting
Minimum Wage Bill

Washington (LPA)-'T intend to
stick by my guns" Rep. John Les
inski 3D., Mich.) told LPA last
week, denying reports that he had
abandoned hope of getting a 75c
to 81 minimum wage bill out of the
House Labor Committee which he
heads. The committee starts debate
and voting on Lesinski's bill this
week.
Windup witnesses before the
committee last week were workers
who earn the under-75c wages
which the new bill would prohibit
in interstate industries. One after
another, men and women from
North Carolina, Mississippi, and
from community in Maryland
only a few miles from the nations
capitol, told of how they struggled
to make ends meet ON $2S and $33
paychecks. 81 want to be able to
feed my kids pork chops instead of
fatback," one explained. An Anal
agamated Clothing Workers organ
izer in Mississippi, who got leave
from her neutrality-suspicious. job in
January to carry the message of
unionism to other workers, told of
SOC wages for skilled workers in
garment shops in her state.
Paul Sifton, legislative repre-
sentative of the United Auto Work
ers-CIO, made a strong plea for
increasing the minimum wage to
81 an hour as quickly as possible.
This is justified on economic
grounds, on ethical grounds, and
as well as in the national interest.
He also urged the committee to
delete from the final bill a section
which would allow the wage floor
to be cut from 81 to 85c, in indus
tries where the higher level had
been established, in times of de-
preston. This is simply tying low
paid workers to deflation, and
dragging down the purchasing
power of workers who can least af-
ford pay cuts, Sifton said.
Addition of farm laborers, on
commercial farms, to the coverage
of the Fair Labor Standards Act
was also urged by Sifton. Lesinski
has introduced an additional meas
ure intended to cover this, which he
expects to add to the overall bill. 1t
has had support from Rep. Pace
3D., Ga.) and Rep. Reid Murray
(R., Wis.,.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Peru Charged With
JaiIing Labor Men

Washington (LPA) - The CIT
(Inter-American Confederation of
Workers. has denounced the Junta
military government of Peru, de-
claring that there are thousands
of political prisoners in the Peru
Wan jails, great percentage of
whom belong to the labor move
ment."
This jailing of labor leaders,
says CIT, is a move to "pave the
way for a labor organization set
up by the tools of the military re-
gime, and patterned after the
Argentine CGT."
The American Federation of
Labor, a CIT affiliate, has asked
the United Nations Economic &
Social Council to investigate the
Peruvian situation and demand that
the labor people be freed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
Organized Labor
To Participate In
150th Celebration

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). =
Organized labor from all over the
United States will participate in
the 150th birthday celebration of
the nations capital next year.
Many assurances Of labor's inter-
est have been received, the Nation
/ al Capital Sesquicentennial Com
mission said. In speaking of labor's
participation, "This is as it should
be-" said Edward Boykin, director
of the commission. For certainly
the history of the United States
and the rise of American industries
are the direct products of labor,
faith and enthusiasm"
In a letter to the commission,
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor
mentioned his organizations de-
sire to assist the commission and
his intention to participate "by de-
veloping suitable material in line
with your plan"
H. w. Brown, president of the
International Association of Ma
chinists, pointed to the growth and
influence of labor and of the ma
tional capital as parallel events of
Importance.
Letters have been received from
Alvanley Johnston, head of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine
ers; D. B. Robertson, president,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen; Jesse Clark,
Brotherhood of Railroad
Signalmen; A. F. Whitney, pres
ident, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen; George M. Harrison,
president of the Brotherhood of
Railway and Steamship Clerks;
Hugo Ernst, general president of
the Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes' and ~Bartenders' Interna-
tional Union, and several others
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24
COP FiIibuster
Delays Labor Bill,
Humphrey Charges

Washington (LPA)-Sen Hubert
Humphrey, the first Democratic
senator in Minnesota's history,
who has already made himself felt
in the senate, this week openly ac-
cused the Republican members OF
the Senate Labor Committee of a
filibuster among themselves to pre-
vent the new labor bill from gett-
ing to the floor Of the Senate for
open debate.
"This is the fact that has beer
demonstrated by the hearings or
the new bill SO far" Humphrey
said in an interview. "The Republi-
cans are doing everything they can
to prevent the hearings being COM
pleted this week as the Democratic
majority promised they would
We are pressing for speedy action
on the new bill so that the great
number of labor Management con-
tracts all over the country now
ready to come up for renewal
won't have to be signed under the
Taft Hartley law. But the Republi-
cans are stubbornly fl ghtin g
against it."
1t was apparent that the COP
delaying tactics, led by Sen. Rob-
ert A. Taft (R., Ohio) would force
the chairman of the Labor Cam
mittee, Sen. Thomas, to either re-
strict all the rest of the witnesses
scheduled for this week, including
William Green, to ten minutes
each, or extend the hearings for
another week or so.
Delaying tactics were about the
only maneuver available to the Re-
publicans during the hearings the
first part of this week. Witnesses
were either unable to agree to sup
port of the portions of the Taft
Hartley law that the COP is try
ing to save or completely against
it.
The foremost voice on Monday
was that of William H. Davis,
former head of the War Labor
Board and one of the most respect
ed labor experts in the nation. He
said flatly that he never liked the
Taft Hartley law and that the
committee ought to go back to the
Wagner Act.
Sen. Donnell, the Republican
sides long -winded arguer, went to
great lengths to try to make
Davis admit that some parts of
The Taft Hartley law were good
out he didn't get very far.
Donnell also drew Davis out on
lis ideas about national emergency
an issue that has been a !
lot one since last week, but Davis |
ime and time again with the help |
# Sen. Morse reiterated his dis
aste for the use of the injunction.
Davis patiently explained how
he object of any labor relations
aw is to get the parties to "agree"
0 do business amicably, and that
bject can't be reached by hitting
ne side over the head and threat
ming to put him in Jail.
The Republicans even found
with blank ammunition {
4 NLRB General Counsel Robert {
)enham. The Boards counsel
poke up in favor of the Taft
Iartley Act, but he suddenly found
imself in sharp debate with Sen
tor Morse when he expressed the 5
pinion that the old Wagner Act ,
abor Board had been guilty of |
re-judging cases that came be-
)re it.
There is every indication that
le completion of the hearings,
neither it is this week or next t
eek, will send the bill into a bit
II and extended battle on the ]
oor of the Senate. Since there is t
,me suspicion now that a few =
outhern senators may possibly be S
ersuaded to side with the Repub- t
cans, labor unions i'm Washington i
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-24

Senator'S Immediately to vote for
the Truman labor bill. The Pres
ident and his Senate leaders intend
to achieve the Taft-Hartley's re-
peal, but it promises to be a battle.
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Page 81
We revoers ebeious against God but through
the activity of God in the incarnation ministry death
resurrection of Christ when cast faith
Christ brought into fellowship with God We who
vousy had spiritual moral relationship with the Father
became and adopted into the family of God We
the gift of the Sphe gift of the personal
of God within us-and the gift of Eternal Life
Then Christ and in the Gross of Christ the significance
purely racial national religion burst through For while
for strategic God had accomplished His major redemp
workings judaism that the ulnes of time has
We outside bounds national Judaism, brought into
the Household of God We brought the working of Gods
the Gods Purpose and made of the
glorious Temple of the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ
the Chief Corner Stone When ourselves with Christ
we crucifed with Him, raised to of life in Him,
joined with Him His inheritance and exaaton God has
made to-
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in
in His kindness toward US through Christ Jesus
is certainly that Christians, who have heard
the Christ have been called high position of
exaltation and honor in Christi
CONTINUED week)
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was offering upon the altar
and burning incense that
"there came a man of God out
of Judah by the Word of the
Lord unto Bethel" who cried
against the altar.
The prophet showed great
courage in witnessing against
this false worship in Israel.
He uttered a most specific pro-
phecy, saying, "A child shall be
born unto the house of David,
Josiah by name," who, upon
this same idolatrous altar,
would offer ''the priests of the
high places" and burn mems
bones upon it. Jeroboam was
given to understand that "the
house of David" which he
despised, would recover enough
power to demolish this altar.
This prophecy was literally
fulfilled $50 years later when
Josiah, King of Judah, desc
Grated the altar at Bethel. The
prophet of God gave a sign that
day as proof of his being sent
of God. He said, "Behold, the
altar shall be rent and the
ashes that are upon it shall be
poured out" When Jeroboam
heard these words, he "put
forth his hand" saying, clay
hold on him." Then, as he
stretched forth his hand, it
"dried up, so that he could not
pull it in again"
II THE HEALING OF JERO-
30 A MS WITHERED
HAND AND PARALYZED
ARM - Verses 5, 6; Gen.
1914; 20: II, 18; Elk. g.:
1915; 9:13-3O; 1926;
Numbers 1914, Is; 21:5-
9; Matthew $40, "A, As;
9:1-8; 17:14-21; Acts 81
16; 8:15-24.
The Word Of God gives a
number of instances where
Gods servants interceded on
behalf of the ungodly. Our
Lord gave evidence of the mer-
cy of God when He said, "Your
Father, Who is in Heaven,
maketh His sun to shine upon
the evil and good, and sendeth
rain upon the just and unjust"
Abraham prayed for the heal
ing of Abimelech, king of Ger
ar, and also for Abimelech's
wife and maidservants. Phar-
aoh asked Moses to pray for
the removal of the plague Of
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frogs, and also for the removal
of the pestilence, and of the
hail, all of which came upon
Egypt because of Pharaoh's
insolence in refusing to let Is
rael go. The ungodly lose their
defiance against God when His
judgments reach their flesh
and bone. Jeroboam gave evil
dence of humility in asking the
prophet, whom he had de-
nounced, to pray for the recov-
cry of his arm. He we'll knew
that the Lord alone could re-
store it. Jeroboam asked the
prophet of God to "intreat now
the face of the Lord thy God,
and pray for me, that my hand
may be restored again." The
king believed that God could
restore his hand in answer to
the prophets prayer. God still
answers prayer for those who
repent of their sins and put
their trust in Him. The Word
says, Cali things are possible
to him who believeth."
III THE PROPHETS REFUS-
AL OF A REV ARD-Vers-
es ITO; II Kings 5:1-16;
Dan. 5:15-17; Matthew 6:
1884: 7:21-27: II Cor. 6:
14-18; Rev. 22:12.
After the kings hand had
been restored, he said to the
prophet, II will give thee a
reward" None of Gods gifts
can be bought with money. Sal
walton and Healing are free
gifts which are offered with
out money and without price"
The prophet answered the king
that he would not accept a
gift, neither would he "eat
bread nor drink water" in that
place. The Prophet Elisha re-
fused the reward Naaman Of
fered, after being healed of
leprosy. Gehazi, who took Of
the reward, was stricken with
leprosy. Read the remainder
of this chapter and see the dis
aster thai befell this same pro-
phet for disobeying the Word
of God. Do not trifle with God.
Do not grieve the Spirit of God.
Be true and faithful in your SER
vice of the living God.
DO YOU FULLY REALIZE
THE POWER OF EARNEST,
PREVAILING PRAYER?
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