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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
UN 0kays Fact
Finders To Guard
Union Rights

Geneva UPA) - Russian dele
gates to United Nations Economic
& Social Council were pretty un-
comfortable last week as the labor
policies of the Soviet Union were
attacked on two fronts.
First of all, the Council finally
authorized an investigation of
trade union rights, calling on the
Int'l Labor Office to set up a fact
finding commission to hear COM
plants from unions, look into con-
ditions in individual countries, and
offer it's services as "a conciliator
to unions and governments.
The Russians had wanted the
Council to by pass the ILO and set
up it's own commission with repre-
sentatives from the Communist
dominated World Federation of
Trade Unions and Latin-American
Labor Confederation.
Secondly, United States dele
gates proposed a UN commission
to investigate forced labor thruout
the world.
Earlier Russian denials that
slave labor existed within the Sow
let Union were squashed when
B r t ain introduced indisputable
evidence to the contrary British
delegate Corley Smith accused the
Soviets of harboring at least 10,-
100000 slave workers in mass
production"
Russian delegate Amasasp Aru-
tiunian defended the Soviet law on
work camps as humane. The
forced labor centers, he said are
for "re-education purposes"
The American resolution urging
an investigation was introduced by
Assistant Secretary of State Will
ard Thorp. 1t would set up an IL
man commission to hold hearings
in any country.
Thorp said that the US. is will
ing to accept process of impair
tial inquiry wherever the chips
may fall" He acknowledged that
some bad cases may be turned up
N Britain and the United States as
we'll as anywhere else.
The British, however, opposed
such a commission on the ground
hat unless a sufficient number of
would agree to let the
group inside their boundaries, it
would be useless.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Accidents In j. S. Last 4 Years Kill 4
Times As Many As Died By Atom Bomb
Chicago (ILNS).-Four hundreds.

Chicago (ILNS).-Four hundred
thousand Americans have been
killed by accidents in the United
States since the atomic age burst
on the world at Hiroshima a years
ago. times as many deaths as
the atom bombs caused.
The two bombs dropped on Hiro-
shima and NagasalSi, whic h
brought World War Ii to an end in
one final convulsion of agony, kill
ed about 10000 Japanese.
That comparison was made by
Ned H. Dearborn, president of the
National Safety Council, writing
in the current issue of National
Safety News.
"Killed By Old Stupidities"
The 100000 Americans have
been killed, Dearborn said, mot by
the new products of genius, but by
the old stupidities. Accidents-the
banal, needless, profitless, prewar
type of accidents-have killed al
most A times as many people in
postwar America as the atom bomb
killed in Japan"
Dearborn said the accidental
death toll in other countries of the
world cannot be estimated, but if
the world rate is anywhere near
the American, about 6 million
human beings have been killed by
accidents in the a years of the
Atomic Era.
81 am not trying to gloss over
the menacing possibilities of atomic
warfare" he said. "The efforts be-
ing expended to secure the world
against a holocaust deserve the
best of our understanding and sup
port.
"But the other isaster-the dis
aster of accidents-is not a possi-
bility; it is a grim and bloody fact.
The millions who have died in the
world, the 100000 who have died
in the United States, are no less
dead because they died singly or
in small groups, scattered in both
space and time"
Big Toll Held Needless
Dearborn pointed out that the
safety movement has
won important victories since the
war, but that against the back
ground of the whole picture of
slowly grinding disaster our vic
tories seem small and inadequate"
Accidents still outrun every dis
ease as a destroyer of productive
life, he said, and they still kill
nalf the grade school children who
lie in this country.
Emphasizing that accidents can
De prevented by techniques already
he said "There is no reason
Why 100000 Americans should die
rom accidents in the second A
years of the Atomic Era. But they
will be killed unless the organized
afety movement intensifies its
.fforts all along the line"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11


s. The summer recovery in the
Stock Market was considered an
omen of expanding industrial acti-
witty.
For 27 weeks, bank loans for
business purposes had been declin-
ing in record-breaking fashion, un-
til on July 20 they were $2,757,-
100000 below the all-time high
reached last December %.
But yesterday the Federal Re-
serve Board reported that such
loans by banks in leading cities in
creased 16 million dollars in the
week ended July 27. This brought
them to total Of $12,891 ,0C0 600.
The rise was comparatively small
and was considered due in large
part to seasonal factors-business
borrowing to build up stocks for
the fall and Christmas seasons.
But the fact that they rose at
all, and thus reversed the long
downtrend, was considered heart
ening by some officials, especially
when taken in conjunction with
other factors. These include bet
ter-than-seasonal upturn in home
building, improved business in
some textile and metals lines, and
the summer recovery in the stock
market.
The Commerce Department re-
ported that construction activity
increased more than seasonally in
July. This was largely due to a
pickup in the building of private
homes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
PRESS LIES AND TORY
FACES ARE MIGHTY RED

London (LPA)-Some time age
the big dailies of Britain gloated
that a royal commission set up by
the Labor government to investi-
gate the press had given the news
papers a clean bill of health.
Tory members of Parliament
gloated, too, and demanded full
dress debate on the commissions
report, in the hope of embarrassing
the Labor party. They did SO on
the basis of the headlines in the
dailies.
Then, however, they got around
to reading the report. They found
it was far from a whitewash, and
in fact contained some harsh cri-
ticism of the press.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Business Is More
Scared Than Hurt,
Labor Group Told

Boston (ILNS). - Business is
"more scared than hurt" Kenneth
j. Kelley, secretary-treasurer Of
the Massachusetts State Fedora
tion of Labor told the federation's
annual convention.
Criticizing the pessimism of
many New England employers who
have been predicting that this
region is "all washed up" Kelley
urged more modernization of ma
chinery and greater diversiication
as we'll as efficiency in production
and selling methods to meet the
competition of the South.
He championed the 65-cent mini
mum wage law pending before the
Massachusetts, legislature as nee
essity to eliminate low wages in
Massachusetts. Passage of this
law would make Massachusetts the
first state in the union to have a
blanket minimum wage statute for
industry.
Kelley recommended that the or
ganization prepare for the 1850
congressional elections, in conjunc-
tion with the Massachusetts united
labor committee.
The labor official called for a
$4,000 a year salary for members
of the state Legislature in order
that they might achieve economic
independence and integrity rather
than depend on jobs on the side.
Too many lawyers and insurance
representatives, he added, are now
serving in the legislature.
Members of the Massachusetts
now receive $500 a
year. A bill is pending to increase
this to $4,000 annually.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Buff Named to Head PIonning of Aid
For Areas With High Unemployment

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). =
Secretary of Labor Maurice j
Tobin has appointed William L.
Bait, Jr., of Philadelphia to head a
Department of Labor committee to
develop plans and programs deal
with economic and labor problems.
His committees work will tie in
with the Presidents program for
the relief of economically distress
ed areas. Bait will be a special as
sistant to the secretary.
Assistant Commissioner of Sta
tistics Charles D. Stewart was de-
signated by Secretary Tobin as de-
liaison officer with the
White House coordinating group,
which has overall direction of the
areas effort.
"There are localities. where un-
is serious" Secretary
Tobin said. "The Department of
Labor, in cooperation with the
Commerce Department and the
Federal Security Agency, will keep
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

we put advertising into uniform,
and it performed magnificent
service for the war effort. Today,
however, it is time to demobilize
advertising and put it back to its
civilian job of selling goods-but
hard
"Many deeply sincere and pat
riotic groups have devised pro-
grams for selling the free enter
prise system to the American peo-
pie. | concur wholeheartedly with
the objectives of these programs
but | have serious doubts about the
methods.
Proof Is Performance
"Our job, | venture to suggest,
is not to sell the enterprise system,
but to put some enterprise into the
selling system. We cannot sell the
system merely by tell
ing people how good it is. The
proof of any product is in its per-
formance. The only way to con-
vince people that the American sys-
TEN is good, is to make it work for
them.
GAS their standard of living con-
tinues to rise, so will their estima-
tion of the system which made it
possible. Advertising, therefore,
can be a far more vital aid to our
economy by selling the fine pro-
ducts and services available to the
American people, than it can ever
be as an outlet for statements on
the American system"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

pliances, which means more jobs
and more purchasing power for
other workers, which in turn means
a bigger market for automobiles
and greater job security for auto
workers."
President Walter Reuther, who
entered Ford negotiations last
week, accused the company of
"trying to threaten its employees
with layoffs if they vote to support
their union and to back up their
just and legitimate demands"
/, Reuther further charged the
company with deliberately misrep-
resenting facts when it said that
ga successful strike vote usually
results in a STRIKE" The union
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Denham Dumped
Again On Boycott

Washington (LPA)-You'd think
that NLRB General Counsel Rob
ert N. Denham would get tired of
being over-ruled in case after
case by the Board itself. But he
doesn't-espccially if he sees the
remotest chance of hanging a sec
ondary boycott charge against a
union.
Last week, in four-to-one de-
cision, the Board declared that pic
keting the premises of a primary
employer does not become illegal
because it affects employees of a
secondary employer located on the
same property. The general coun-
sci had insisted that such picketing
constituted a secondary boycott
and was violation of the Taft
Hartley Act.
The Board ruled in a case based
upon a complaint brought by the
Ryan Construction Corp. of Evans
vile, Ind. against the United Elec-
trical Workers and the Hatter's
Local 813 located in Evansville.
The Board dismissed the entire
complaint which consisted of two
charges.
Investigation of the complaint
revealed that the Ryan company
was building an addition to the
Evansville plant of the Bucyrus-
Erie Co. when Local 813 struck the
plant on July 30, 1948, in a wage
dispute. Local S13 posted pickets
at an entrance used by Ryan en-
ployes and the latter, members of
AFL building trades, refused to
work. They remained out nearly a
month until a US District Judge,
acting on a plea by Denham, en-
Joined Local 813 from further pic
keting.
The NLRB had to rule on both
charges. The first, that the picket
ing was coercive because 20 pickets
were present, was dismissed unan-
imously.
The second, that there was a sec
ondary boycott against the Ryan
Co. was dismissed four -to-one,
Board member j. Copeland Gray
dissenting.
In support of their finding, the
four majority members said:
"The record reveals that the
respondents in support of their
demands on Bucyrus, proceeded to
picket the entire Bucyrus premises,
including the gate that had been
cut through the fence to provide
ingress for Ryan employees to the
site of a construction project
Ryan was performing for Bucyrus.
All this picketing was therefore
primary picketing. Concededly, an
object of the picketing was to en-
list the aid of Ryan employees, as
well as that of all other Bucyrus
customers and suppliers. However,
Section 8 (b) A (A) was not in
tended by Congress, as the legis-
lative history makes abundantly
clear, to curb primary picketing. 1t
was intended only to outlaw GER
tain secondary boycotts, whereby
unions sought to enlarge the econ
omic battle-ground beyond the pre-
misses of the primary employer"
Denham to the contrary notwith-
standing, they might have added.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Business Is Picking Up AS
Depression Score Fades

Washington, d. C.-Business is
picking up all over the country and
the widely heralded depression is
not likely to eventuate, official re-
ports from many quarters indi-
Gated.
These outstanding developments
contributed to a new wave Of opti-
mism in the nations capital:
/. An increase in business loans,
the first such rise in 7 months, was
announced by the Federal Reserve
Board.
2. Retail stores were reported to
have started large-scale buying to
replace depleted stocks, but inven-
tories were still at low level, in
dicating that the buying tempo
will continue to step up for fall
and Christmas shopping needs.
3. Construction activity reached
re c o d-breaking proportions in
July, outstripping even the high
levels Of year ago.
a. The total employment in the
nation reached new high for this
year in July, although at the same
time the number of unemployed
went over million for the first
time in 7 years.
5. Earl r. Muir, spokesman for
the American Bankers Association,
testified before Senate commit
tee that business is improving and
declared there is no danger of
real depression when 175 billions
of dollars in savings and deposits
are in the hands of the American
public.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Comment On
World Events

Russia's job of communizing Po-
land is nowhere near completion
and may never be "as long as the
Roman Catholic Church is allowed
to remain whole and independent, "
says Joseph c. Harsch, writing in
The Reporter magazine.
A recent visitor to Poland, Har-
sch found that the Communists
have captured the government of
Poland but not the Polish people.
This fact the Soviet propagandists
have minimized with the story that
their main effort has been the re-
construction and economic reor-
ganization of Poland, says Harsch,
adding:
"There is not the slightest doubt
that the government has succeed
ed to a large degree in achieving
reconstruction. Four years ago
Warsaw was the worst-damaged
capital in all Europe. Today it is
the best rebuilt capital in all Eu-
rope. -Four years ago the industries
of Silesea were dead. Today they
have put Polish production above
pre-war in almost every category"
\ \ =
"The Communists" Harsch con-
tinues, "would be in quite a differ
ent position today if they had to
put communication at the top of
their priority list, Poland is cer-
tainly not Communist country.
First, it is SO percent Roman
Catholic. Second, it is SO percent
Russian. Third, it is SO per-
cent passionately Polish. Had the
Communists started out to cram
orthodox Communism down Po-
lands throat at the beginning,
there would have been the most
extreme and violent trouble"
Harsch summarizes tht first 4
years of the Communist regime in
Poland as one of building a recon-
struction record behind which they
have gathered in the reins of pow
er. The world, he says, knows this
but the Polish people have been
much too busy rebuilding their
homes and reorganizing their lives
to be impressed.
). !.
Dat oLoporoc oro oo,,o;por oboI
ton of the old and symbolic square
topped Polish Army cap being one
accomplished. Too, says
Harsch, the ruling regime must
soon attempt to actually trans
form nationalist Poland into re-
liable dependency of Moscow. But
here are obstacles of immense
proportions, he adds:
"For one thing, Poland can
lever be a dependable dependency
If Moscow as long as the Roman
Catholic Church is allowed to re- ,
main whole and Independent. Yet
,he tanning of the Church in Po- &,
and would involve a major test of {
;trength-a test which the state
las approached with obvious re- {
uctance and uneasiness. :
"For another thing, Poland will ]
never be truly communized so long {
is the peasant remain private OPP |
rators. Yet collectivization of the
and is step to be approached
With quite as much wariness as the d
wallowing Of the Ca tn olic
;hurch."
In conclusion, Harsch points out +
hat the regime in pursuing its l
resent policy has not had to take
leasures that "interfered with the
yes of a majority of the Poles, but
ow there seems to be no way to {
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
IT ALL DEPENDS

Detroit (LPA)-The proper
place to hold an election, ac-
cording to the Ford Motor Co.,
is wherever United Auto
Workers has the least chance
of winning. Trouble is, Ford
can't make up its mind just
where that is. When UAW
petitioned for union-shop
election last year Ford flatly
refused to permit the election
on company grounds. Despite
the fact that workers had to
leave the plants to cast their
ballots, UAW won hands down
900 for union shop). Now
that it's time for a strike vote,
Ford is complaining about it
being held off mpany
grounds. They want it inside
the gates where Ford guards
can cast their shadow.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

This discovery dismayed the
Tories, according to the ultra-con-
servative London Times. "Subse-
quently," said the Times, "There
was no apparent eagerness on the
party of the Opposition (the
Tories) for a debate.
"This was an example of the
Opposition, once a great political
party, being completely misled by
certain popular organs of the press
on what the Royal commissions
report said," the Times added.
In other words, the Tories were
left in ell of a hole by the bloody
blighters of the lying Tory press.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
ITF May Boycott
Panamanian Ships

Washington UPA) - The long
threatened boycott of the 800-odd
ships transferred to the Panaman-
ian flag by owners seeking to
avoid taxes and union conditions
may result from the inconclusive
meeting between the international
Transportworkers Federation, the
Panamanian government and two
Panamanian-flag ship operators
held at the Panamanian embassy
here on July 20.
The boycott was scheduled to be-
gin on May ! of this year, but was
postponed at the request of the
Panamanian government which ex-
pressed a desire to conciliate the
dispute between the owners of
Panamanian ships and the ITF, a
powerful combine of anti-Com-
munist unions. But since spokes-
men for only two shipowners op-
Grating a mere eight ships showed
up, the boycott "seems to be our
own alternative" o. Becu of Ant
werp, president of the ITF, ann
ounced.
At the insistence Of Harry
Lundeberg, president of the Sea-
farers International Union-AFL,
an affiliate of the ITF, along with
a number of other AFL unions,
the ITF will also boycott the yes
sells of any country where Com
munist-controlled unions refuse to
work cargoes carried by ITF crews.
Lundeberg said bluntly that this
second boycott threat was aimed
at the newly formed, Communist
controlled International Union of
Seamen and Dockers of which
Harry Bridges is president. 1t was
also disclosed that the Soviet
Union owns a number of ships
registered under the Panamanian
flag. These ships are owned
through dummy corporations.
Present at the meeting here
were representatives of the sea-
mems unions of Sweden, Norway,
Netherlands, Belgium,
Great Britain and Greece as well
as of the several unions within the
AFL Maritime Trades Departments
of this country. All but the Greeks
were empowered to speak for the
longshoremen in their respective
countries.
When called, the boycott is ex-
pected to be 100 percent effective
in all of the above countries, and
to be at least 80 percent effective
in France and Italy where the
maritime unions are split into Com
munist and non-Communist sec
lions. 1t is also expected to be ef-
fective in South America.
ITF spokesmen point out that
wages scales in Panamanian yes
sells are extremely variable, rang
ng from not far below the Ameri-
,an scale to as little as $50 a
month for seamen and $50 a month
or officers. However, even where
he wage scales are good they are
and the seaworthiness of
he ships is in question.
There is no union security or
lnion protection of any kind on
'anamanian ships. Even where
he wages seem to be high, there
5 no social security, overtime is
.lmost unheard of, and living and
conditions are unspeak-
BILE. In addition, an injured sea-
nan has no chance of collecting
amages from the compan
through Panamanian court.
Original strategy of the boycott
allied for the 500 ships which have
cen transferred to be transferred
ack to the flags of their countries
f origin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

head cited the history of strike
votes under the Smith -Connally
act, showing that ain IS percent of
the cases disputes were settled
without strikes after a strike had
been voted by the workers."
"The Ford workers." he said,
recognize that their best hope,
and the best hope of the American
people, for job security and a
stable, prosperous economy is in
creased purchasing power in the
hands of those who need it and
who will use it to buy the goods
that American industry can pro-
duce."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

City was reelected president of the
New York State Council of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
& Joiners, in session here. Other
officers, also reelected, were Fred
E. Johnson, the Bronx, and Sam
Sutherland, New York City, vice
presidents, and John Mcmahon of
secretary-treasurer
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
LABOR & UN

Washington (LPA)-Both AL
and CIO representatives met at the
State Department last week to dis
cuss labor participation in United
Nations work. Frank Grasso of the
paper workers and Nelson Cruik-
shank of the AFL chaired the ses-
sions which were held in response
to suggestions made at a UNESCO
conference last spring. 1t was
agreed that the trade union move
ment can be integrated more eff
fectively with UNESCO, particul-
arly in the field of exchange of
personnel. Plans were made to
bring this about.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

avoid such measures" and adds:
$50 far there has been little rea-
son for friction. In the future there
is likely to be much reason for
friction"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11
Carpenters Reflect Hanson

Niagara Falls, n. Y. (ILNS).-
Charles w. Hanson of New York
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-11

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1949-03-04
Good Soil Practices
Urged For County
Forms BY Authority

Conservation of land not only
means the saving of the land it
self, but also higher crop yields
per acre which are needed to
meet the ever increasing demands
of our people and those OF for
eign nations.
Every farmer leaves his i'm
print on the land and it clearly
shows whether he is stealing
from it or cherishing it. Many
farmers mime" their land instead
Of improving it by using good
practices, l.. o. Strange, soil
conservationist, stated.
Some of the farmers in Jack
son County who are practicing
a farm plan on their farms are
E. w. Mcqueen, r. M. Spauld-
ing, j. M. Desoto, H. D.. Ny
gard and Eugene Ravens, Mr..
Strange reported.
Many farmers are c~ultivating
land that is not suited for row
crops, he said. True it is that
new land on steep slopes will