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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Dock Workers Win.
Five-month Strike

Honolulu (LPA)-Two thousand
members of the left-wing Init
Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's
Union won their 159-day strike
here when the seven struck steve
doring companies agreed to wage
boost totaling Fl cents.
The first IA cents will be paid
now and the other seven cents will
be added March l. The contract
runs to June Is, 1861, when the
west coast contract also expires.
Settlement was announced by
Harry Bridges, union president, as
he stepped aboard plane for Cali
fornia. 1t was expected the union
membership would ratify tn e
terms, and that as soon as few
fringe issues were settled the
strikers would return to their
jobs.
The longshoremen walked out
May / when the companies refused
to meet their demand for a 32-
cent hike which would have raised
their pay from $1.40 to parity with
the west coast. The companies Of
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Building Trades
Okoys New PIon
For Disputes

st. Paul (LPA) - Joint labor
management machinery for settle
ment of jurisdictional disputes in
the construction industry was as
sured of continuance as a result of
action taken at the AFL Building
t r a d Department convention
here.
This machinery, first set up in
May /, 1948, was cancelled by the
executive council of the Depart
ment last July / because of dissat-
isfaction with some features of the
plan.
However, later the department
and contractors organizatio n
reached an agreement to reinstate
the machinery with some revisions,
subject to approval of the conven-
ton.
Overwhelmingly, the delegates
"okayed" the new plan. They
adopted a report which said that
"while the plan may not be perfect,
it will give this department and
the contractors committee an op-
portunity to settle jurisdictional
disputes without interference on
the part of those who know no.
thing about the industry"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Steps Taken To
Curb Imports Of
Puerto Rico Ware

Beaver Falls, Pa.-The members
of Local 33 are going around with
slim pocketbooks. Most of us are
only getting three days a week
with some getting a few more
hours stretched over the week.
In spite of this, we at Mayer
China feel thankful when we look
around and see so many people out
of work due to the various strikes
in this area. We hope these other
crafts will get together and settle
their differences soon.
Their has been quite a lot of
activity at our local meetings. Dis
cussions on trade topics have been
very interesting and those who
have been CONSPICUOUS by their alb
sence, have missed some very good
President Leonard Greco was a
delegate to the Pennsylvania State
of Labor convention at
Harrisburg. He was the only pot
ter out of 1900 delegates. Local
33 sponsored a resolution asking
the state body to aid US in our
fight to curb the import of pottery
ware from Puerto Rico. We are
glad to report the resolution was
adopted and will be a big step in
the fight to stop this evil.
The Union Label League of
Pennsylvania held their convention
in our hall recently. Bros. Chester
Fisher, Brad Townsend and Will
lam Rose were delegates. President
Greco who is vice president of
the League was unable to attend
as he was in Atlantic City at the
time attending the wage confer
ance.
Bro. George Shelly who suffer-
ed broken leg recently is report
ed getting along nicely.
Bro. William Hughes, labor fore
nan, is also hospitalized. Our best
wishes for a speedy recovery for
both brothers. -O.C. 33
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Sfofe Anfi-Lobor
Lows Recedinq

st. Paul (LPA)-Labor's biggest
success of the past year has been
in halting the drive for state anti
labor laws, the AFL convention
was told here by General Counsel
Albert Woll.
"We have stopped the wave of
anti-labor laws in state legisla-
lures, and we have succeeded in
having some of the laws stricken
from the statute books or amend
ed" Woll said. "And we have sue
ceeded in having the courts declare
some of these laws unconstitution-
al or to tighten their oppressive
weight by judicial Interpretation.
But we still have the Taft
Hartley Act, the Hobbs Act, the
Lea Act and many of the anti
union acts passed by the state leg
Woll added.
In the coming year, he said,
labor must muster all its strength
to knock out those. vicious laws.
"a final knockout blow will be de-
livered as surely as darkness fol-
lows the setting sum-" he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Members Of LU so
Mourn Loss OF
Charles PouIton

Camden, New Jersey-Once more
the Grim Reaper has taken another
well-known potter from the ranks
of l.. U. No. so in the past few
days. Charles F. Poulton passed
away suddenly at his home 3016
North Philip Street, Philadelph'a, a,
at 8 a. m. Monday, October Bird,
1949, of an acute heart attack. AL
though not in the best of health
for the past several months his
death was wholly unexpected and
came as a great shock not only to
the immediate family but to his
many friends and acquaintances
and co-workers at Camden Pottery.
"Chuck" as he was familiarly
known, had been working at his
trade as a sanitary caster right up
to the time of his death and in
spite of his ailing condition, retain
ed his well known jovial dispos-
ition to the end.
Bro. Poulton was born at Sher-
rodsville, Ohio, July, 1884 and first
started to work in the pottery
trade at the age of sixteen at East
Liverpool. Later he worked in gen.
eralware potteries in Sebring, Car
rollton and back to East Liverpool.
In 1909 he left the generalware
trade to enter the sanitary trade
in Warrington, West Virginia,
Cameron and Evansville, Ind. In
1918 he again took to the general
ware trade in Akron and then to
artware in Cleveland. In 1922 he
was employed at the Philadelphia
pottery until its dissolution. For
the past Is years he has been en-
ployed as sanitary caster at the
local plant of the Universal-R Rumble
Corp, successor to the Camden
Pottery Corp.
Bro. Poulton is survived by the
widow Rose (nee Childress), one
daughter Mrs. Lorraine Ric c i,
Phila., Pa, three sons, Chas. Jr,
Harry M. and Robert F., the latter
foreman of the casting department
of the Universal-Rundle Corp. A
brother, John Poulton, Trenton, N.
]. also survives. Mrs. George Lam
ming of East Liverpool is a nieee.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

Washington (LPA) - Chairman
Wright Patman, of the House
Small Business Committee, told the
House Oct. 6 that the APP stores
had spent nearly $5,OO0,00O in their
current advertising campaign to
deliberately misrepresent" tn e
facts in the antitrust case against
them.
every so-called fact, every in
ference, every innuendo in the
APPS propaganda material con-
Gtains a deliberate Justification"
Patman told the House, in review
ing in detail the charges on which
the food chain already has been
convicted.
"The pending suit does not at
tack efficiency. 1t attacks brutal
coercive practices that had no ele-
ment of efficiency in them.
"The pending suit will not raise
prices. 1t will reduce the costs, and
hence the prices of all of those in
dependent grocery stores who must
now pay higher prices because of
the rebates which the APP secures.
Over 80 percent of the American
public buys in grocery stores whose
prices are artificially high because
of this subsidy paid to the A&P.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Race Track Off
Limits For kLRB

Los Angeles (LPA)-No matter
how far ahead your horse is,
chances are the goat won't cross
the state line.
That's about the way a trial eX-
aminer for the Natl Labor Rela-
tions Board figured it the other
day when he recommended that the
NLRB decline jurisdiction in a case
involving Santa Anita Park and
Hollywood Park, two big tracks
here.
Specifically, trial examiner Fred
eric B. Parks, End, ruled that the
race track arrangements and a
group of AFL unions had not
violated the Taft-Hartley act by
entering close shop agreements.
He said that a race tracks con-
nection with interstate commerce
is so "remote and indirect" that
the NLRB just couldn't assume
jurisdiction under the law.
Unions in the case were the
Building Service Employees Int'l
Union, Hod Carriers & Common
Laborers Union and the Brother
hood of Teamsters.
The case arose when a man
claimed he was denied employment
because of the closed shop contract.
The examiners decision takes
effect as an NLRB order unless
challenged within 20 days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Home From SanatOrium

John M. Evans, veteran member
,of the Brotherhood has returned to
his home, 169 Thompson Avenue,
after a years confinement at the
Avalon Sanatorium at Mt. Vernon,
Ohio.
Mr.. Evans who is caster by
trade had previously been patient
in the Mahoning County Sanator-
ium before going to Mt. Vernon.
To his many friends who remem-
bered him during his illness, Mr..
Evans wishes to extend his heart
felt thanks for their kindness.
Mr.. Evans who is 76 years of
age was last employed at the Hall
China Co.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

st. Paul (LPA)-The American
Federation of Labor will never
waive the right to fight for higher
wages for its members, President
William Green told the opening
session of the AFL's 68th conven-
ton.
"We have never in any official
statement said that we have reach
ed the point where we will waive
our right to demand increases in
wages for the workers of the ma
ton, and we are not going to do
that" the AFL's president assert
ed.
Our workers are securing in
creases in wages constantly" he
added, "for we have determined
thru an examination of the finan-
cial standing of employing inter-
ests that many of them can grant
in wages without increas-
ing the selling price of their pro-
ducts"
Green attacked the idea of turn
ing over negotiations to govern
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Akron Firm Host
To Employees At
Dinner Last Week

Akron, Ohio-Employees of the
Colonial Insulator Co. were wined
and dined to capacity at the Ger
man-American hall on the evening
Of Friday, Oct. 7 by the firms pre-
sident, R. w. Hemphill.
At the conclusion of a superb
dinner of fish and steaks, the group
of over 100 was treated to a stir
ring address by Rev. FIR. Gregory,
native of New Jersey and former
Army Chaplain. The theme was
Americanism and anti-Communism,
Father Gregory is an authority on
the subject, having spent several
years behind the iron curtain of
Russia.
The remainder of the evening
was spent in the consumation of
liquid refreshment, dancing, and
merrymaking in general.
A special round of applause were
given the folks who furnished the
entertainment. Including Mary
Campbell, accordianist, Frank Mag,
pianist and exponent of the corn
fed tap dance, and last but far
from least, Mr.. Hemphill himself,
who demonstrated the latest ball
room technique.
Local 164 wishes to take this op-
portunity to thank Mr.. Hemphill
for his generosity and extend to
him our best wishes and the assur-
ance that with a labor-manage-
ment relationship like this, we
can't go wrong.
Officials of this local were graft
fled indeed to see that so many
members really can get away on
Friday evenings; We'll be looking
for you at Union meetings the
second Friday of each month,
now. -O.C. 164
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Casters Wanted
At Outside Shops

Although there We're quite q
few matters pertaining to our
trade up for discussion at the last
meeting, the members cleared the
docket in record time and the
meeting adjourned in little over
one hours time.
Bro. Virgil Murray was granted
a transfer card to Local Union 20,
Steubenville, Ohio. Our best wishes
go with Virgil in his new sur
Quite a few requests have been
received at headquarters for cast
ers in some of the out of town
shops. Any caster loafing is re-
quested to register his name at
-O.C. A
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Local Union SO On
West Coast Raises
The Monthly Dues

Richmond, Calif.-The members
of Local SO were pleased to have
Bro. Bill Bailey as visitor at the
last regular meeting. Bill who has
been retired from the trade for the
last five years is we'll known
throughout the trade, having work
ed in many shops throughout the
country and always took an active
role in union affairs.
The shop committee reported
the company has installed new
drinking fountain and replaced an
other that was worn out. They also
reported new modernly equipped
first aid room was in the process
of construction and when complet-
ed trained first aid attendant
will be available at minutes
notice.
This has been sorely needed for
many years as around three hund-
red employees attempting to rend-
er first aid to each other, has in
many instances, had tragic results.
In one particular case it nearly
cost the life of a brother.
We wish to thank Bill McKin-
ney, plant manager, for the inter
est he has taken in the welfare of
the men and feel this is bound to
be reflected in their work.
September was the first month
for the new local dues of $3.50 per
month. This action was deemed
necessary if we were to continue
as a progressive unit and have
representation in the various en-
terprises promoting the interests
of labor.
The retail clerks are still on
strike at two major chain stores in
this area. AS has been published
in the papers, another large inter
national union has gone behind
their lines and organized scabs as
well as bringing in strikebreakers
in an attempt to take over juris-
diction on these jobs.
The order has come from AFL
that all affiliates are
to remain neutral in this dispute.
While we find this hard to follow,
the writer can boast that all pot
ters as well as most other people |
in this area have religiously OBJ
served the clerks picket lines.
AS in former years, Bro. Ralph |
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
ECA Head Reports
Increase Of Hope
In Western Europe

st. Paul (LPA)-Europe is no
longer hungry, Europe is at work.
Europe is investing in new plants
and her production is expanding.
That is the hopeful progress report
made to the AFL convention Oct.
5 by Paul C. Hoffman, head of the
Economic Cooperation Administra-
ton.
Progress towards recovery has
been spectacular, Hoffman said,
but the accomplishments of the
Marshall Plan could be wiped out
within six MONTHS" with Europe
again vulnerable to the false pro-
paganda of the Kremlin, were our
aid to stop tomorrow"
But after Marshall Plan aid
ends, we must be willing to let
Europe earn dollars, Hoffman
pointed out, and Europe can, "if
we will let her.. The greatest fear
in Europe today, he said, is that
we will not let Europe earn her
way. "We dare not discourage the
hopes that we are now building up
in Europe, for in those hopes of
becoming self-supporting lies our
best hopes for peace, he added.
He pointed out that goods from
Europe represent only one per cent
of our total gross national income.
Hoffman announced that Italy,
Great Britain and France are lift
ing their restrictions and import
quotas as much as So per cent of
their total import from other Mar
shall Plan countries. That move,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Conferee Makes
Report Of Farley
To Local No. 122

Cambridge, Ohio - Potters in
Cambridge were pretty well pleas
ed by the report of our conferee,
John Ellis when he made his report
at our last September meeting. We
all realize that big concessions by
manufacturers are almost out of
the question at this time because
of foreign competition in the pot
terry. Also this is supposed to be a
leveling off period in wages and
living cost.
1t is worth note that later con-
ference is in view to work out a
suitable retirement plan for pot
ters who spend the greater part of
their life at the trade. Some other
matters are to be reconsidered
also. Among these is the hourly
charge for clay and scrap and the
carrying out of finished ware to
the green room. This has long
been sore spot for clay workers
and certainly needs consideration
to help bring them up to a par
with earnings of other pottery
tradesmen.
After a long delay, we have
news that members of Local No.
144 stoneware, are now within the
folds of No. 1872 generalware since
they have changed to generalware
making at Plant No. 2. This was
announced by Frank Campbell last
month after a special meeting
with officials of No. 144.
This should increase their earn
ings and bargaining power with
company officials. The old axiom
of strength in numbers.
l am pleased to read in the news
papers that all unions are going
all out this fall in a political pro-
gram to elect favorable Congress
men and Representatives. Let's
back the right men this time. Did
you register or check your regis
tration to vote? -O.C. 122
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Support Community Fund Campaign

The health and welfare of a community is the busi-
of all its members and that is why ii is the business
of trade unOnsts along with other members of the COM
munty, to rally in support of their Community Fund
campaign.
With this reminder that the red feather campaign
gets underway Monday, October H. President James NJ
Duffy urges all members of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters to take active part in helping the
Community Fund Campaign go the top, $57,776 is
the goal set in this years campaign.
President Duffy endorsed the Community Fund cam
paign with these words:
"Organized labor values especially the opportunity
afforded members of labor unions to share in work
which formerly CLOSED shop for relatively few
influential phlanthrOpists.
"It is a privilege to endorse the Community Fund
campaign and am urging the members of the N. b. of
O. p to participate actively in the campaign and to give
generously only of their dollars but of their time
board and committee members on yearround basis"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Green DisapprOves
JurisdictiOnal Fight

St. Paul (LPA)-AFL Pres
ident William Green Oct. 4 criti-
cized the American Guild of
Variety Artists for asking for
a court injunction in New York
in its jurisdictional dispute with
the American Federation Of
Musicians.
at seems inconceivable that
a member of the family of labor
would resort to the use of that
method that we denounced so
many years ago and succeeded
in having abolished through
legislative action" Green said.
He called on the Artists
Guild to withdraw its injunction
application.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
tn As Weapon
To Bankrupt Union
Subject Of Probe

Washington (LPA)-One of the
most fragrant cases of an 1employ-
er using parts of the Taft Hartley
law to beat his workers out of a
union contract will be aired before
the House Labor Subcommittee on
Labor Management Relations here
Oct. 20.
Spokesman for the Textile Work
ers Union and the absentee owners
of the Hart Cotton Mill in Tarboro,
N. C.. have been asked to appear
before the committee, headed by
Rep. Tom Burke Cd, Ohio).
The $50 employees of the mill
have been on strike since May IL,
after the company insisted on writ
ing into a new contract a clause
taken from the Taft Hartley act.
which would have laid the local
union and the international open to
suits for damages in the event OF
a wildcat strike.
Although the union has had two
previous contracts with Hart, anC
there has never been an unauthor-
lied strike, management has in
sisted on the new provision.
Invited to appear before the
committee are: Lewis Conn, North
Carolina Director for TWUA;
Frank H. Leslie, president of Hart
Cotton Mills; E. P. Cave of New
Bedford, Mass, president of Ely
& Walker Dry Goods Co. of st.
Louis, Mo-, which owns Hart Cot
ton Mills; Marcus Carter, vice.
president and general manager of
the mills.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Keenan, Outlines Plans
To Win Election I'm 1850
Foes OF Labor Are
Already Building
Huge War Chests
By IRVING FAGAN

st. Paul (LPA)-"We won't get
liberal votes on Capitol Hill until
we get liberal votes back home in
the ballot box on election day,
Joseph d. keenan, told the AFL
convention Oct. 5. keenan,, head of
Labor's League For Political Edu-
cation, discussed plans for winning
the 1850 election, at an afternoon
session during which the conven-
ton recessed and the delegates re-
assembled for the leagues political
action "clinic".
1t will take work and sweat to
win, he said, because foes of labor
are already building huge war
chests in an effort to save the Taft
Byrd coalition and retain a react
ionary Congress, keenan, said. owe
can't buy elections, he went on.
"We don't have the money. We will
be lucky to have one dollar for
every 100 dollars spent by our
enemies. We do have the votes,
but we must work harder than ever
to get them to the polls"
Labor's League has no desire to
take over any political party, Kee-
nan continued. 1t has no desire to
dictate candidates. "All we ask"
he said, 'is that the parties select
candidates worthy Of our support.
If neither party puts up a liberal
candidate then our local leagues
will be forced, in states where they
have open primaries, to urge other
more acceptable candidates to en-
ter the race"
Labor's task in 1850 will be
mostly to retain friendly Senators,
keenan, said. He named Republi-
can Senators Morse of Oregon,
Aiken of Vermont, and Tobey of
New Hampshire, Democratic SEN
ators Myers of Pennsylvania, Nc
Mahon of Connecticut, Thomas Of
Utah, Hill of Alabama, and Pepper
of Florida as men who must remain
in Washington. Labor must send
back to private life Senators Taft,
Donnell, Capehart, Millikin, and
Dulles, he said.
Labor must also retire at least
IA anti-labor Congressman, Kee-
nan announced.
OF the "a Senators to be elect
ed in 1850 no more than Is can be
considered friendly to labor, Kee-
nan said, and warned: The fight
will be harder because our enemies
will be working harder, and you
can expect every form of under
handed pressure brought upon local
Declaring that the reactionary
forces fighting labor are also
the farmer, keenan, point
ed out that political cooperation
with farm groups is not only pos
sible but is the key to victory on
election day. We must weld this
alliance all over the country before
the primary elections of 1850"
Farmers and city workers have
to gain by working to-
gether, he said.
He warned that in many states
the reactionary political machines
are trying to put over trick voting
laws so as to make it difficult for
workers to vote. One of the most
notorious attempts, he said, is be-
ing made in Ohio, by Senator Taft.
Pointing out that 1850 is not
presidential year, and in those
years the vote falls off, he said the
task is to see that the trade union
vote not only doesn't fall off, but
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Social Security Bill
Over Another Hurdle

Washington (LPA) = By a
roll-call vote of 333-14, the
House on Oct. passed a social
security bill containing liberal
lied benefits, increased cover
age, and Insurance for totally
disabled workers. No Senate
action, however, is anticipated
until next spring.
Crucial test came on a motion
to send the bill back to commit
tee. The vote was 113 for shelv-
ing it, to 232 for immediate
consideration.
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NOTICE LOCAL UNION 81

All members who are three
months in arrears must clear
up this matter by our next
meeting on Oct. Fl or face
suspension. All dipping house
girls are requested to attend
this meeting. By order of
president.