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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Oil Workers Want
New Counsel In
California Case

Denver LPA)-The OIL Work
ers want a special acting general
counsel named for the Natl Labor
Relations Board to act on Cali
| fornia case. 0. A. Knight, the
unions president, has telegraphed
to President Truman asking him to
replace Robert N. Denham, NLRB
counsel, in the case, because Den
ham has refused to act.
Nearly a year ago 800 members
of OWIU were fired by the Union
Oil Co. of California after a bitter
four-month strike. The men were
laid off when Union Oil turned
over it's refinery maintenance work
to the Fluor Corp. Union Oil sign
ed an agreement with Fluor pro-
viding that Fluor employ only
AFL members. Since such an
agreement is violation of the
Taft Hartley act, OWIU brought
charges against Union Oil. The
regional NLRB director recon-
mended formal hearing.
However, as knight points out
in his telegram to President Tru-
man, General Counsel Denham,
after collaboration with company
attorneys, unlawfully and arbitra-
rily refused to issue complaint"
against Union Oil. Knight added
that because of Denham's "appar-
ent deal with the company, the
union has no way of being heard
by the NLRB unless Truman names
a special general counsel in the
case.
OWIU filed unfair labor practice
charges against several major Cal
ifornia oil companies because its
members were fired after the state
wide oil strike in 1948. Denham for
months, the union points out, re-
fused to issue complaints in those
cases and ordered the files on them
removed from the regional NLRB
office in California to Washington.
However, the case against Stand
ard Oil of California slipped by
Denham, and the San Francisco
regional director ordered a hear
ing. AS a result, the trial examiner,
in an intermediate report, recon-
mended that 40 of the Sc employees
fired by Standard at its Richmond,
Cal. refinery be reinstated with all
back pay.
Since then, Denham has ordered
hearings in nearly all other pend
ing cases-except Standard Oil.
OWIU declares it is known that
attorneys for Union Oil have been
in Washington and in almost con-
slant consultation with Denham
since early September.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Readers Digest
Smears Workers
Labor Legislation

New York (LPA)-Readers Di-
gest magazine is at it again
smearing workers and labor legis-
lation. It's latest bleat is tabled
"a Shocking Revelation of Fraud:
Chiselers Endanger Our Unem-
ployment Insurance Program" And
what is a chiseler, according to
this magazine? Why, it's a truck
driver who earned S1.14 an hour,
lost his job, and while collecting
unemployment insurance refused to
take a job for go cents an hour.
And the unemployed union member
who turns down a job in an open
shop paying less than the union
scale also is a chiseler, says Read
ers Digest.
Is fraud in the unemployment in
surance program a real problem :?
1t comes to less than p Of one per-
cent, according to authorities.
What Readers Digest forgets to
mention are the real frauds-by
employers. Many bosses, according
to the Interstate Conference of
Employment Security Agencies,
deliberately conceal" names of
from payroll reports, so
as to dodge payment of unemploy-
ment insurance taxes. And the Di-
gest also forgets to mention the in
creasing number of "jokers" in
state laws which operate to deprive
of workers of any COM
pensation when they are laid off.
Fulton Lewis, radio oracle for
big business, tried the same smear
in the 1949 campaign. 1t didn't pay
off. Now Readers Digest is giving
it another whirl. Of course, the
article is a "digest" of piece in
Nations Business, the house organ
Of the US Chamber of Commerce.
But couple of million more people
read the Digest than Nations Bus
ness.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08

one but SUP members for stew
ards and engine department jobs.
A few days later, the Rolando
went to Coos Bay. The Marine
Cooks and the Longshoremen's
local II Immediately began picket
ing the Irwin-Lyons sawmill here.
Then the trouble began, for the
sawmill employees, members of the
Lumber & Sawmill Workers-AFL
paid little attention to the pickets.
The pickets tried to prevent the
sawmill workers from entering the
plant. For a couple of days, incl
dents of violence were frequent.
There were assaults on sawmill
and number of auto
were damaged by the pic
kets. Police finally had to restore
order and the plant was closed
down. In finding the unions guilty
of coercion, the NLRB sustained
the earlier findings of trial exam
iner.
After the disorder here, the
three unions picketed the rafting
grounds of the Coos River Boom
Co., some miles upstream. The
boom company, whose employees be-
onged to the Int'l Woodworkers of
America, was forced to suspend
operations for a month, and the
lnions were charged with second
lry boycott. Again agreeing with
he trial examiner, the NLRB dis
missed this complaint holding that
Tot only were Irwin-Lyons and the
Doom company commonly owned
,ut were engaged in zone straight
inc operation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
IMPORTANT MEETING
FOR LOCAL UNION %

Local Union % has very import
ant business to transact at their
next meeting on Tuesday evening,
Dec. Is, and the officers urgently
request every member to be pre-
sent.
The social committee has pro-
missed a real surprise for all fol-
lowing the business session. AL
though the writer is not at liberty
to divulge just what is in store for
the members, can let you in on a
little secret, Santa Claus will be
present and award the door prize
to the lucky winner.
Our best wishes to all members
throughout the trade for a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
-O.C, %
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08

bert Clifton of Massachusetts
Robert C. Brown, chief of Mont
ana's state labor division; Harry
C. Harper, New Jerseys commiss-
ioner of labor and industry; Earl
Mcdonald, secretary treasurer OF
the New Mexico Federation of
Labor; Jim Hughes, Oklahoma's
commissioner of labor; Arthur W.
Devine, director of the Rhode Is
land department of labor and
Frank j. Benti of Rhode Island.
Paul A. Strachan, president of
the American Federation of the
Physically Handicapped, addressed
the convention, calling for support
of bill to establish federal COM
mission for physically handicapped
persons.
After the opening session, the
delegates were divided into COM
mittees to prepare resolutions on
industrial safety and health, en-
ployment opportunities, wages and
hours, child labor and migrant
labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
kLRB Shuts Door
Dn CP Gimmick To
Evade Affidavits

Washington UPA)-A further
step has been taken TO make eff
fective the non-Communist aff-
davit required Of officers Of unions
using the Natl Labor Relations
Board. Beginning Jan. l, the Board
announced, it will interpret the
Taft Hartley law as requiring non
Communist affdavits from "per-
sons other than occupants Of Of
fees listed in the unions constitu-
ton" if it appears the union is try
ing to evade the affidavit require
ment of some of its officials.
The new rule grows out Of the
action Of the Food, Tobacco &
Agricultural Workers, whose pres
ident, Donald Henderson, resigned
his elective office to avoid signing
Communist disclaimer. Hender-
son is generally believed to be a
Communist. When he turned up as
national administrative director" "
a post not described in the unions
constitution, the NLRB made him
sign an affidavit anyway, then
turned it over to the Justice Dept.
The 'NLRB, beginning Jan. /,
will investigate situations where it
believes the union failed to list Of
ficers in it's constitution with the
intent of evading the affidavit re-
quirement. 1t will also act to re-
quire affidavits from officers who
have been by-passed by the tech
nicality.
Unions which fail to comply with
the non-Communist affidavit re-
quirement are denied the facilities
of the NLRB in. obtaining collec-
tive bargaining elections and pro-
cessing charges of unfair labor
practices.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
kaiser-Frazer
Airs Program On
.Labor's Radio Net

New York (LPA)-It took far
sighted and progressive Industrial
ist like Henry Kaiser to spot the
possibilities in the string of labor
cooperative FM radio stations
springing up across the country.
Kaiser, through the Kaiser-Frazier
motor company has signed up to be
the networks first commercial
sponsor.
Beginning Jan. 2, Kaiser-Frazier
will put on a daily 15-minute pro-
gram all next year. While the ex-
act character of the program has
not yet been decided upon, it is be-
lieved that news commentators
will be featured. Other commercial
sponsors will follow Kaisers lead,
it is learned.
The Kaiser program will be
heard over the following six sta
tions: WFDR in New York, KSMV
in Los Angeles and WVUN in
Chattanooga, all operated by the
Int'l Ladies Garment Workers
Union-AFL; WDET in Detroit and
WCUO in Cleveland, both operated
by the United Auto Workers; and
WCFM in Washington, a station
owned comparatively by group of
Washington unions and individual
liberals.
While not a network in the sense
of the big commercial networks,
the string of labor-cooperative sta
tions work closely together and
carry many programs in common.
They covered the convention of the
new anti-Communist e e ctric a |
workers. At present, they are
carrying daily programs from Lon
don on the meeting of the new anti
Communist world labor body to
which the AFL and the CIO sent
delegations. Crack radio man,
Morris Novik, is radio consuItant
to both the UAW and the ILGWU.
What Kaiser apparently realizes,
and what other sponsors will learn,
IS that listeners to the stations con-
Stitute a solid labor market.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Hosiery Workers Win
Better Insurance Plan

Philadelphia (LPA)-An improv-
ed health and accident insurance
program went into effect in the
hosiery industry December l after
an agreement was reached by the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers and the manufacturers.
The plan, financed solely by the
employers, puts floor of $3.50
a week under sickness benefits. 1t
also includes payment of Doctors
fees, hospital and surgical bene-
fits, and covers dependents of
workers; 10000 hosiery workers
throughout the country are cover
ed by the improved plan immedi-
ately, another 10000 (now under
plan) eventually.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Battle Between
Snyder and EccIes
Now In The Open

Washington (LPA) - The long
smouldering battle between Mar
riner S. Eccles, of the Federal Re-
serve Board, and Secretary Of the
! Treasury Snyder came out into the
open Dec. 2 in hearings before the
Joint Congressional Economic Com
mittee. As a result, an executive
session was set for the following
week to iron out the conflict.
Eccles and Snyder have been at
each others throats since before
Eccles was denoted from chairman
Of the Federal Reserve Board as a
result Of a battle with Snyder over
credit policies during the initiation.
1t was reported then that President
Truman, denoted Eccles, one of
the ablest public servants in Wash
ington, at Snyder's demand.
As Snyder took the stand Dec. 2
to discuss credit policies with the
Congressional Committee, a letter
to the committee from Eccles criti-
cising Treasury policy during the
initiation was circulating to men,
bers of the committee and the
press. In it Eccles said the Federal
Reserve System was set up by Con-
gress to regulate credit and none
tary policy in the interest of econ
omic stability, but that its efforts
were being wasted because the
Treasury made the decisions often
without even consulting the FRB.
Decisions are apparently made
by the Treasury" Eccles said,
largely on the basis of its general
desire to get money as cheaply as
possible"
Sen. Ralph Flanders Or, VT
asked Snyder for comment. The
Treasury head replied by asking
Flanders to read Eccles' statement
to Chairman McCabe of the FRB
when he testifies before the COM
mittee, "and see if he concurs."
Snyder's face was grim and he OBJ
was angry, but he said no
more.
Background of the controversy is
a long battle between the FRR and
the Treasury over whether interest
rates should be raised to control
initiation. The Treasury has per-
mitted some increases, but has not
given the FRB as free a hand as
many bankers would like to raise
rates because such raise
would cost the Treasury millions of
dollars additional to carry the pub
lie debt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Insurance Head
Says Companies
Growing Too Big

Washington (LPA) - The pres
ident of one of the nations most
successful small insurance com
panies warned this week that the
big companies are growing so fast
they soon will get all of the coun-
try's investment income. The warn.
ing was drowned out by denials
from other insurance companies
and an industrial spokesman that
there is any danger in big business
William Montgomery, long time
president of the Acacia Mutual
Life Insurance Company, sounded
the warning before the Celler mon
opoly investigating committee. He
said limit on the size of insur-
ance companies was inevitable" if
lthey were to be stopped from COB
bling up all the nations invest
ment opportunities within a few
years.
| But other insurance company
spokesmen and Charles E. Wilson,
president of General Electric, all
defended the growth of bigness
and denied charges of monopoly.
Wilson denied all of the monopoly
charges against GE presented by
lprevious witnesses in the hearings
land insisted the company's policy
was to obey the antitrust laws.
+ Chairman Celler Cd, NY) listed
16 antitrust cases against GE and
almost dozen actions by the Fed
eral Trade. Commission. Wilson
testified most of these cases were
based on actions before he became
president and that the convictions
came from changing Supreme
Court attitudes on the meaning of
the law.
Montgomery charged the big in
surance companies were growing so
fast because they overcharged con-
sumers for insurance policies and
were accumulating unnecessarily
large reserves.
If their growth continues at the
present pace, he said, "a few COM
panies will have control of the in
vestment assets and | do not know
where the little fellows like our
selves are going to come in on in
vestments."
Such concentration in a few big
companies, Montgomery said, is de-
finitely mot healthy" for the econ
omy. He contended the big COM
panies were unable to offer insur-
ance any more cheaply than the
small companies and therefore
there was no public advantage in
them.
Montgomery suggested the big
companies be required to give a
public accounting of their failure
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
LU IS Will Elect
Officers Dec. IL

In order that officers for the
new term can be seated this month
Local Union 86 at their last meet
ing decided to hold election of of
ficers at their meeting on Monday
Dec. IL, with the installation being
scheduled for the following meet
ing on Dec. 19.
This change was brought about
due to the fact that we will have
only three meeting in December
since our last regular scheduled
Christmas.
A communication from Trades
and Labor Council was ordered
held over until our next meeting.
-O.C. sc
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
Labor Let Down
By Iowa Cop
Machinists Told

Des Moines LPA) = Labor
must drop any ideas that the Re
publican party is or can be friend
of the working man. Under its pre-
sent leaders, the Republican party
is strictly big business"
That is the verdict Of Floyd T
Smith, secretary-treasurer of the
Iowa Council, International Asso-
citation of Machinists. He so re-
ported to the Council on the Re
publican administration of Gov.
William S. Beardsley. The Machin-
lists backed Beardsley and several
Republicans in 1947, including
Beardsley and state senators and
representatives. The COP legisla-
ture in 1947 passed two vicious
anti-labor laws. The Machinists
were promised by the Republicans
that those laws would be repealed
in 1919, but were double-crossed.
The Republicans voted anti-labor,
while the Democrats voted solid
for labor. Labor can expect nothing
from the COP in Iowa, Smith con-
cluded.
I'm Washington, The Machinist,
weekly publication of the lam,
pointed out editorially that lam is
non-partisan in politics, but not
then added: "How can
party leaders expect
labor support when they refuse to
support labor on a single issue?
How can thoughtful union members
in good conscience vote for the
party so long as it is
controlled by such leaders?")
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-08
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 172

Nomination of officers will
be held at our meeting Friday
evening, Dec. 8. Plans for a
membership drive will also be
outlined at this meeting.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Ruling Gives Virginia Title
To DISPERSED Documents
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 17.-At.
torney General j. Lindsay Al
mond, jr., ruled yesterday that the
Commonwealth has a clear title tc
public records which, due to wars
greed and carelessness, have beer
dispersed among libraries anc
private collections in Virginia ano
other States.
In an opinion furnished Gov
Tuck and State Librarian Ran
dolph w. Church, Mr.. Almond sale
that holders of such documents
might claim compensation fol
recovering and preserving them
during the period in which they
have been out Of State custody
but that ownership legally Is with
the Commonwealth.
The Attorney General suggested
that Mr.. Church contact in person
the institutions and individuals
known to hold the public records
explain the situation and, if pos.
sible, regain possession by direct
negotiation rather than by
written demand for the papers.
He advised that litigation shoulc
be avoided if possible.
The records in question include
county records, letters, State rec
ords believed stolen by Benedict
Arnold's British column when Il
occupied Richmond and numerou.
papers picked up by Fedora
soldiers during the Civil War.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
II. F. SeaweI|, 80, Dies;
Former Tax Court Member

Herbert F. Seawell, 80. former
member of the United States
Board of Tax Appeals here, now
the Tax Court of the United
States, died yesterday at his home
in Carthage, N. c.
Mr.. Seawell served on the tax
board from 1929 to 1886. Since
then, he had practiced law in
Carthage.
Born in 1868, he attended Wake
Forest College, Wake Forest
IN. c., and began to practice law
in Carthage in 1892. He served
as States Attorney for the 7th
North Carolina Judicial District
from 1894 to 1898 and was United
States District Attorney for the
Eastern District of North Carolina
from 1910 to 1914.
In 1909, President Theodore
Roosevelt nominated him to be a
Federal district judge, but the
Senate failed to confirm all nomi-
nations at the close of that Con-
gress. In 1928, Mr.. Seawell was
Republican candidate for Cover
nor of North Carolina.
Mr.. Seawell is survived by his
widow, two sons, Herbert F. Sea-
we'll, jr.. and Henry Seawell, ano
a daughter.
Funeral arrangements have not
vet been completed.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
'UniversaIisfs Criticize
SpeIInan's Statement
sy the Associated Press

CLEVELAND, Feb. 17.-Fran.
els Cardinal Spellman's statement
that rebellion to tyrants i.
obedience to God" is interesting
because it would comfort surviv.
ing Republicans in Franco Spain
according to heads of the Univer-
salist Church of America.
The Superintendents' Council
of the Universalist Church o1
America. attended by 19 superin.
tendents, each a state head of the
denomination, concludes a four.
day quarterly meeting here today
Last night the council passec
the following resolution:
1.-THE apparent confession oi
Cardinal Mindszenty to illegal acts
in Hungary has brought the in
teresting declaration from Francis
Cardinal Spellman in New York
that rebellion to tyrants is obedi-
ence to God
I'VE find this interesting because
such a quotation from Cardina.
Spellman would have been o1
great comfort to democrats ir
Spain had Cardinal Spellmar
found time for it during his re.
cent visit with Franco.
1T might have brought a Ger.
tain amount Of consolation tt
those communicated survivor.
of Spanish Republicans executed
by Frances regime.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Mexican-U. ). Soldier
Reburied in Arlington

The body of Army Pvt. Felix
Longoria, whose reburial caused a
controversy in his home town of
Three Rivers. Tex, was buried on
Pershing Hill in Arlington Gene
terry yesterday in the presence of
a personal representative of Pres
ident Truman, a Senator and a
Mexican Embassy official.
The Arlington burial for Pvt
Longaria, who was killed in the
Philippines in 1945, followed
charges by Texas tin-American
veterans groups that a Three
Rivers undertaken had refused to
handle the body because the SOL
.dier was of Latin American an
cestry.
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan
military aide to President Tru-
man. stood with Senator john
son and Representative Lyle, Dem
ocratS, of Texas and Justo Sierra
First Secretary of the Mexican
Embassy. as the f1ag-decked casket
was lowered into its grave.
The director of the Three
Rivers funeral home said he had
tried to discourage the Longorias
from selecting the chapel in the
belief that friction existed be-
tween the widow and the deac
soldiers parents, according to the
Associated Press.
Pvt. Longoria's mother. his
widow, two brothers, sister anc
sister-in-law were among those
present for Yesterdays services.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Hunt Renewed for Airmen
Lost on Pittsburgh Flight

An air search was renewed out
of Pittsburgh at dawn today for
three Air Force Reserve airmen
missing in the mountains since
they left Boiling Field at 2:2O
pm. Tuesday on a cross-country
training flight to Pittsburgh.
Nine planes searched a 75-mile
area around Pittsburgh yesterday
despite the rain and mist, and
were back in the air today in
clearing weather.
The trainer flew to Washington
Tuesday from Reading, home
base of the missing airmen.
The two officers and an enlisted
man were last heard from Tues
day afternoon when they asked
permission by radio to switch
from instrument flying, in which
the windshield is covered, to visual
flying.
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Harley Becomes President
OF Investors Union
Rx the Associotad Rress

The co-author of the Taft
Hartley labor law, former Repre-
sentative Fred A. Hartley, jr., Re
publican, of New Jersey yesterday
accepted the presidency of the
Tool Owners Union.
He announced. too, he was
opening a Washington Office as
business consultant. He said
he would register as a lobbyist.
The Tool Owners Union is not
a labor organization. incorporated
in Delaware in 1916, it claims &c
represent some 50.000.000 Ameri-
cans-people like investors, farm
ers. small businessmen and those
who live on savings or income
from property.
1t submitted testimony fol
stricter control of unions at hear
ings on the Taft-Hartley Act, be-
fore the House Labor Committee
Mr.. Hartley then was chairman
of the committee.
Mr.. Hartley said the Tool Own
ers' Union is a bipartisan. non
profit corporation representing
the forgotten majority in this
Nation
Evening star., 1949-02-17
Latham, Brent Reelected
.By Production Credit Group
Special Dispatch 10 The stor

WARRENTON, Va, Feb. IL
T. Otis Latham. Haymarket, and
Lawrence d. Brent, Warrenton,
have been reelected to the Board
Of Directors of the Production
Credit Association, it was an
nounced today.
> They were named for three-year
terms at meeting here this
week of that association and the
National Farm Loan Association.
Also elected were j. Lomax Gov
ington, Warrenton, and E. G.
Mason, Fredericksburg, for three
year terms on the Board OF Di-
rectors of the National Farm Loan
Association, and L. M. TWyman,
Rapidan. to the same board for
one year.
At the stockholders meeting OF
the two groups, Thomas E. Thor
burn, director of the Production
Credit Association, served as
chairman. A resolution was
adopted offering $4,000 worth OF
stock on a pro rata basis to all
Production Credit Association
members during the next 80 days
More than $1,000 was subscribed
at the meeting.