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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
RWDSU Regains All
Jurisdiction Except
Dept, Mems Stores

New York OPA)-The Retail
Wholesale & Dept Store Union
will retain all of its jurisdiction ex-
cept for department stores and
mems clothing stores, it was ann
ounced last week by Organization
Director Allan S. Haywood.
The decision that the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers would
organize and have jurisdiction only
over the department and mems
clothing store workers who are
under the CIO banner came after
more than a month of negotiations
between RWDSU, ACW, and ma
tional CIO.
At the 1913 convention, President
Philip Murray had criticized
RWDSU for its inaction in organ
izing men and women in its field,
and several weeks later jurisdic-
tion in the retail field was trans
ferred to ACW. Since then, ACW
has set up a department store or
ganizing drive and announced it
would spend $1,000,000 to bring
non-union workers into fold.
RWDSU has granted an inde-
finite leave of absence to its pres
ident, Samuel Wolchok, and the
agreement last week was signed by
Acting President Irving M. Simon.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Labor Plan For
ECA Cargo
Hos A Chance

Washington LPA) Labor in
sistence that at least 500 of
Marshall Plan cargo be shipped in
American bottoms seemed destin-
ed to succeed last week as ECA
Administrator Paul Hoffman ap-
peared before the House Merchant
Marine Committee.
Still opposed to the $3.50 plan,
Hoffman declared that if Congress
passes a bill requiring ECA to ship
half its cargo in American ships,
it should provide the agency with
the extra money it will cost.
Earlier in the week, representa-
tives Of the Maritime Committee
presented their case for a $3.50
bill before the committee. Seth
Levine, research director for the
committee pointed out that one Of
the reasons rates are cheaper on
the foreign vessels is that they are
cutting the wages of maritime
workers all over the world.
He explained that some Ameri-
can shipowners are transferring
their vessels to Panamanian and
Honduran flags 'to evade minimum
world wide labor standards, to
evade minimum world wide safety
at sea standards, and to evade in
come taxes and other taxes prevail
ent under the legitimate maritime
flags"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Taft Can Switch
Sides In Argument
Whenever 1t Suits

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Rob
ert Taft is still himself of old
when it comes to the ability to
switch sides in an argument when
ever it fits the situation.
During hearings on the new la
Dor bill being discussed by the Sen
ate Labor Committee last week
Taft fought tooth and nail with
Labor Secretary Tobin over the
fact that the Administrations pro-
gRsed bill has no power for the
government to exercise control by
means of injunctions or other legal
steps in a national emergency"
strike.
On Wednesday Taft took off his
principles and journeyed by taxi
to address a luncheon of Republi-
can women in a downtown hotel in
Washington. There he made a
speech to the effect that he would
fight long and hard against FEEDER
al control of anything. He said:
President Truman's program
contemplates complete government
control with as little regard for
state lines as possible. The funda-
mental cleavage today between the
and Democratic parties
is free government versus total
itarian government; liberty versus
government"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Strike Warning
Served By N. Y.
Service Employees

New York HPA) - Apartment
dwellers in New York will have to
walk up lot Of stairs on April 81
if the building owners don't re-
sumo negotiations with Local BIB,
Building Service Employees Union
AFL, before that date.
The local has $4,000 elevator
opera tors, superintendents and
other service workers under con-
tract in 200 apartment houses in
Manhattan. The contract can be
cancelled on April 20 and the own
ers have refused to discuss badly
needed raises and welfare to go
into effect at that time.
President David Sullivan, in an
nouncing the cancellation, declared
that 'Local 32B fully realizes its
responsibility to its members and
to the tenants. No union with a
sense of public responsibility deli
berately seeks a strike. Particularly
is that true Of union like ours
which has such an impact upon the
life Of the community. The people
in Manhattan will understand how
essential it is for Local BIB to seek
improvement in the conditions Of
workers, mostly family men, who
are receiving little over $40 for
a six-day, 48-hour week"
He pointed out that there are
still 81 days remaining before the
expiration Of the contract and the
local is willing to negotiate at any
time. Demands include $50 for a
40-hour week, "A differential for
night and weekend work, and an
employer-fnanced trust fund out Of
rentals to provide death, sickness,
disability, medical care, hospital
ization and other benefits for the
covered.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Retail Prices
Down Slightly;
29o% Over OPA

Washington.-For the third con
secutive month the Bureau of La
Dor Statistics reported good news
for wage earners and their fam
lilies.
The bureau reported another
drop Of 0.5 percent in the retail
prices of goods and services dur
ing the month which ended Dec
ember Is.
Food prices, falling for the fifth
consecutive month, We're chiefly re-
sponsible again for the drop in the
retail price index as of Dec. Is.
The bureau reported the index on
that date was TIA percent of the
1859, average. The index had
reached a peak of 174.5 in the late
summer. The drop of 81 points
amount to 1.8 percent.
The mid December reading was
&c percent higher than a year ago,
20 percent higher than in June,
1916, and nearly IA percent above
the figure of August, 1889.
The November December retail
price declines included apparel,
which fell one-half percent. Fuel
and house-furnishing prices drop
ped fractionally. Rents rose by 0.6
percent.
Food prices reached their peak
in July and by the year-end had
fallen almost l percent below the
rate in December, 1947, whereas
the indexes for groups other than
foods ranged from 3 to 8 percent
higher than at the end of 1947.
The December food prices were
1.2 percent below those of Novem-
ber and 5.4 percent below the July
peak. The food index im December
was 205 percent of the 1859
average and Al percent higher than
in June, 1916.
Most classes of foods contribut-
ed to the decrease, led by a more
than-seasonal drop of II percent
in egg prices. Meat prices dropped
80 percent in the month as lower
tags on beef, lamp and most pork
cuts more than offset sharp adj
vances for salt pork.
Fresh fruits and vegetables adj
vanced 2 percent, led by sweet po-
tatoes, lettuce, cabbage, spinach,
onions and white potatoes. Prices
of fresh green beans dropped al
most % percent in the month.
Dried fruits and vegetables declin-
ed fractionally. Prices on canned
goods were unchanged on the aver
age.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Lobbying Investigation
Gets Encouragement From
Mdny Letters To Kilqore
Washington OPA)-Letters OF

Washington (LPA)-Letters OF
approval from private citizens all
d over the country began to come to
1nssSen. Harley M. Kilgore, 3D., w.
Va.) last week applauding his lead
ership of the move for a Congress
ional investigation of lobbying acti-
vities in Washington.
Senator Kilgore, with the APP
proval of President Truman has
submitted a resolution to the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee calling
for full probe into lobbying acti-
vities, and he expects that action
may be taken by the Committee in
the next two weeks.
The lobbying investigation was
first suggested to the new Congress
and the White House several
months ago by the executive coun-
oil of the Int'l Association of Ma
chinists-based on common know
ledge of the great activity by the
real estate, oil, utilities, and other
lobbies in the 80th Congress.
In a story copyrighted by the
Congressional Quarterly, the IAM's
weekly, "The Machinist" came
forth again last week to blast the
special privileges being allowed to
former Congressman now working
as lobbyists in Washington.
The rules of both the Senate and
House permit former members the
privileges Of the floor" while the
houses are in session.
This freedom could be of consid-
cradle help to any former Con-
gressman interested in bill be-
fore the Congress for considera-
tion. If he were able to buttonhole
any member of the Congress while
actual debate were in progress
he would have a great advantage
over persons on the other side of
any measure whose last chance to
express a point of view might have
been weeks before when the bill
was before a committee.
The privileges of the floor" rule
of the House prohibits ex-members
who have an active interest in a
specific bill but that prohibition is
rarely enforced.
The story in The Machinists list
ed at least thraa former Senator's
and nine former Congressman who
are now actively engaged in lobby
ing for big concerns. In a state
ment with the story, lam Pres
ident Harvey Brown said, "The in
terests of good government would
seem to require a stricter enforce
ment of the prohibition against
lobbying on the very floors of
Congress at least by registered
lobbyists"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Production European Recovery Key,
Hedges Tells Management Society

Washington, D. c. QLNS). =
l"We should understand that
when we export commodities to
Europe we have fewer commodities
at home, but when we export demo-
cracy to Europe we have more
democracy at home," Marion
Hedges told the Society for the
Advancement Of Management at
Richmond, Va.
Hedges, a special assistant in the
Labor Advisers Office at the Eco
nomic Cooperation Administration
in Washington, spoke on "Produc-
tion-Key to European Recovery" "
"War is a great leveler," he said,
at not only destroys human lives
and whole cities; it topples not
only larders but it also destroys
many intangibles that go to make
up civilization. World War II
brought devastation to Europe. In
dustrial plants, utilities, communi-
cation systems and housing suffer
ed heavy damage and dire destruc-
ton. From the engineering stand
point, damage caused by under
maintenance of the overall econ
omic plan and by obsolescence was
almost as great, if not as great, as
the visible damage of the nations
themselves. Domestic and foreign
trade was disrupted to the point of
almost complete paralysis. Soil was
depleted. Millions of tons of ship
ping were sunk and damaged"
The ECA is encouraging engine
ering skills and techniques in its
approach to the principal Euro
pean problems, Hedges told his
audience. He said that 80 teams of
Is men each will come to this coun-
try in 1949 to study production
methods here. The teams, he added,
will be divided equally between
labor and management.
"a vision seems to capture the
imagination of all the countries of
western Europe" he said, looking
forward toward a new high-pro-
ductivity record that will raise the
standard of living for all of the
people" Hedges asserted that Am
erican engineers will readily recog-
nize that the problem of increas-
ing productivity is not alone a
problem of bettering skills or in
dividual output. He said it depends
upon increasing industrial power
and upon new methods and tech
niques.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

no longer young men. 1t is amazing
that they carry on so vigorously.
They need to conserve strength.
A suggestion is that, instead Of
spending two or three weeks in
Miami, enjoying it's summer wealth
er, they spend the winter thus,
doing better work, prolonging their
lives and giving more value for
their pay.
Those who snipe at this January
February briefness il the sub
tropical Miami climate for the
elder statesmen Of labor are of
narrow minds and mean disposi-
tion.
If Key West is good for the
President (and it isl, then Miami
is just as good for the AT Of l. Ex-
ecutive Council. And that's the
truth!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
Fourth Round Drive Launched

Boston (LPA) = Fur Workers
have started their fourth round
wage battle and already won lie
increases for several thousand
workers, President Ben Gold de-
clared last week, Announcement
came at a semi-annual session of
the executive board which charged
that Fur Manufacturers Associa-
tion was violating collective agree
ments. State supreme court judges
recently upheld union demands
that the manufacturers abide by
contracts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
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when so many were singing the
parody of the tune, "I'm Just Wild
About Harry? Yes, they substl-
tuted the word mild" for "wild".
So many were, in those not too
remote days, just about as mild
about Harry" as they could be and
still keep up nodding sort of re-
lationship.
Even when the nominees were ali
at the post so many still renamed
mild" about the President.
So the guy went out and slugged
it out, telling the folks that actual
ly he stood for things that he could
name and that they could under
stand.
And he won, of all things!
How quick the pseudo friends
were to put the word "wild" back
into the song.
They even sang it at the inaugu-
raj ceremonies.
X X \
There were some who, in those
campaign days were less than
"mild"; they were outright hostile.
They jumped all kinds of fences.
Some jumped into the Dixiecrat
pasture because they were unwill-
ing and, in fact, unable to concede
that civil rights, under the Consti-
tuition, were intended for all per-
sons. Some jumped into the pinko
pasture, following Henry Wallace.
And there were good many
who just sulked in the Democratic
tent, not saying anything publicly
against the President, but not
doing anything for him, either.
Harry Truman has one charact
eristic like the one that so strong
ly marked Franklin d. Roosevelt.
1t is loyalty to his old friends.
Some of Roosevelt's old friends
abused that loyalty and gave him
bad advice.
Truman gets some of the same
mis-payment.
But among all who are most ag-
gravating, or so it would seem, are
those who didn't do too much for
the President, but who now expect
him to carry out his whole pro-
gram in a matter of weeks. You
can hear the impatience already
and in volume.
No President ever bore a burden
as heavy as the one borne by
Harry Truman.
He is beset by domestic issues.
He has made many pledges and he
is beset with demands to hurry up.
Also he has plenty of opposition.
The Democratic party is not a
party of men who think and act
alike. 1t is composed Of men of
many minds, a good many pre-
JUDGES and a good deal of con-
fusion.
The Republican party also is a
party that lacks unity of belief and
purpose.
In both parties there are some
who would make any bargain to
advance their own interests or pre-
judices at the cost of the party.
The Democrats have a majority
f we put it on basis of labels.
What the party has, in unity be-
iefs is a question yet to be answ-
ered. Many good observers think
he President will have to compro-
Mise somewhere along the line, if
lie is to get any large part of his
written into law.
1t would be a good idea to get
about members of Con- !
gress, rather than to aim the
Whole charge against the President. {
:. = :. {
AS these lines are written the
'ang-tails are running at Hialeah
md the AFL Executive Council is
Meeting in Miami
While the two events are stimuli t
aneous, it must not be assumed {
hat they are related. 1t just hap I
ens that sunny and warm skies t
re propitious for both.
The Council has a load Of work, I
which it will do better in warm i
unshine. e
Most members of the Council are t
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
INDUSTRIAL HAZARDS

Cincinnati LPA)-Danger of a
smog poisoning in industrial towns
still exists despite cleanup cam
paigns" according to a report of
the University of Cincinnati De-
partment of Experimental Medi-
cine. Gwen though one can some
times see thru today's smoke and
feel confident that it will not pro-
duce outright slaughter, it still
constitutes an intolerable menace
for surrounding communities" the
report stated. The investigation
rose out of the Donora, Pa. smog
tragedy where fumes from a zinc
plant killed 20 persons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10
SUNPAPERS VOTE UNION

Baltimore UPA)-In a hard
fought NLRB election, the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild finally won
bargaining rights for editorial en-
ployes on the Baltimore Sun. The
vote was 141 for the Guild and So
for no union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

It's too bad they've abolished the
poorhouse; we found it useful in
threatening our family when ex-
penses were too high.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

OF all methods devised for the
extension of personality, the letter
is the oldest and most effective.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

Grim, beefy women frighten me-
We'd be rich, too, if we could do
it all over again.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-10

Once you've mastered the rules
# etiquette you can ignore them.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13
Wednesday. July l3. ls4s

gether for a few hours at Todd Shipyard prior to the shakedOWn cruise. Fuel oil left from the old North Stars last voyage was pumped into the newer vessel.
 Capt. Charles H. Salenjus, who served aboard the old North Star since she was built in 1882 at the old Berg shipyard in Ballard, took the neWly-converted 3,805-ton North Star for a test spin on the Sound. His crew also was trans ferred from the older vessel.
 The new North Star formerly the Coastal Rider) was built in l945 at Los Angeles. IL is 323.9 feet in length, has a 50.0l foot beam and 26.5 foot depth. In the extensive conversion at TOdd's
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13
Russia Charges Macarthur Brutal

WASHINGTON, (P) - Russia charged today that Gen. Douglas Macarthur and the Japanese gov ernment are carrying on a "bru- tai" campaign against the demo cratic forces" in Japan.
 Soviet ambassador Alexander s. Panyushkin told the ll-nation Far Eastern commission also that American policies have brought the Japanese economy to a state of total collapse"
 Panyushkin called on the com mission to rule that workers in Japanese government enterprises may bargain collectively and go on strike.
 Macarthur and the Japanese government have forbidden strikes on government enterprises.
 Panyushkin declared that all the Pacific allies but the United States favor giving strike rights to government workers. He charg- ed the United States has tried "by all possible means" 10 keep the commission from adopting a pol icy on this issue.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13
New North Star On Maiden Cruise

SEATTLE, RJ-An ice-scarred little veteran of the Arctic and Antarctic turned everything over to a sleek successor in Seattle Monday and retired from active duty.
 It was off to the boneyard for the old wooden motorship North Star, which for nearly two decades carried supplies and passengers for the Alaska Native Service. She took time out for Antarctic expe- ditions in l939-l94O and wartime navy duty.
 The 1,435-ton old-timer literal ly turned everything" over to it's successor - even the name North Star"
 Aboard the new North Star on her trial run in Puget Sound were the captain and crew of the old North Star and in her fuel tanks was oil from the tanks of the ole North Star.
 The two North Stars got to- repeal of the transportation ta> on freight.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13
Truman Holds "Fireside Chat

WASHINGTON. (P)-President Truman is going to sit down to- night and tell the American people about his prescription for heading off a depression.
 He wants to get over 10 them his idea that there is nothing to be scared about in the moderate eco homie decline unless folks get panicky.
 And he wants to defend the fis- cal policy of his administration against criticism by some mem bers of Congress.
 The President will talk to the nation over four major radio net work and via televisiOn from a desk in the movie projection room at the White House.
 The talk, White House aides said, will be an elaboration of his mid-year economic report to Con- gress on Monday.
 The President is expected to tell radio listeners why he backed down from his demands for major tax increases in favor of raises only in gift and estate taxes and
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13
IT TAKES ONE TO STOP ONE

BANGKOK, (PJ - Authorities had to look into prison to find the right man to train a special police suppression unit how to handle plotters against the government.
 The right man was an army col onel arrested in connection with an attempted coup last Oct. l. the vessel was given a reinforced bow and hull and a new mldship house for passenger accommOda- tions.
 Maiden voyage of the new North Star is set for August l, sailing from Seattle for Point Bar row and other ports.
The Nome nugget., 1949-07-13

repeal of the transportation tax on freight.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
P Hull, Jr., Leaves
Estate Of S417,000

Cornell University eventually is to
receive the bulk of more than $417,-
900 left by Courtlandt P. Hull, jr,
Washington insurance man, who
died here December 10 at the age
Of 81. Mr.. Hull, who lived here at
1908 Eighteenth street NV, died
in Garfield Hospital.
In addition the Corcoran Gallery
OF Art here is to receive a substan-
tial sum from a trust if it meets
the terms of the will. To receive
the trust, the gallery must display,
as separate collection, various an
tiques owned by Mr.. Hull. Attor-
neys said they did not know the
exact amount of the trust but be-
Ieve it is about $4,000.
Income from the s417,OO0 is to be
shared by cousins for life and will
go to Cornell University after their
death.
The cousins include Mrs. Virginia
Hotchkiss, New Preston, Conn:
Henry Trowbridge, Roxbury, Conn. !;
Robert H. Trowbridge, Ormand,
Fla; Gladys L. Homan and Maud
V. Benton Of New York and Eliza
beth B. Redding Of Hawthorne, N. J..
Neither Cornell University nor the
attorneys were able to account for
Mr.. Hull's leaving the large sum to
the university.
Besides the main part of the es-
tate, the university also NAV get
the additional trust fund, if the
Corcoran Gallery of Art does not
meet the conditions of the will.
Evening star., 1949-01-13
goth Birthday Marked
By Mrs. Josephine Davis

Mrs. Josephine Davis, 1014 Elev.
enth street NV, who was an g.
year-old girl on Surry County IN
c. farm when the Civil War broke
out and remembers seeing the
young men in gray march away
Is SO years old today.
Mrs. Davis, whose "reminiscences
were published in The Star on her
95th birthday, is still active and
In good health. She lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Florence Klinefelter
Evening star., 1949-01-13
Touring Club to Meet

Mrs. Charles Thompson, a membe,
OF the Inaugural Housing Commit.
tee, will address a meeting of the
washington Educational Touring
Club at 8 pm. tomorrow in Garnet
Patterson Junior High School, Tenth
and U streets NV. George H
Wallace, founder of the club, will
outline plans for 1949.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-10
Chester BoWles, Former
OPA Chief, Advocates
Rent-Control Bill Passage
Favors Measure
Recommended By
President: Law Should
Coniinne. Till 1851
IBs rye N~seeIated Press,

WASHINGTON, March 10. :
Former OPA Administrator Ches-
ter. Bowles, now governor of
Connecticut, advocated today, in
testimony before a congressional
committee, that rent-control
bill, similar to the one recon-
mended by President Truman, be
adopted by congress.
Bowles said he had noticed that
most of the men who had testi-
fled against the bill, were the
same who, during the time he
served as OPA administrator,
would have opened the flood
gates of initiation" He advocated
the passage of a law that would
be in effect till July of 1851.
1t was said that it is not likely
the committee will report such a
bill favorably. The length of its
life, according to some members
of the committee, likely will be
till July, 1850.
Bowles said further that the
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