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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Union Wins Battle Union Chief Dead
For Workers Right But Name Is Still
In US Navy Yards On Election Ballot

Washington NPA)-Labor or
ganizations representing employees
in Uncle Sans Navy Yards have
won several rounds in their battle
for protection Of union rights.
Three changes in policy govern
ing civilian workers in the Navy
Yards were announced by the
Navy Department, as an after
math Of demands made by the
unions:
The Navy announced that
supervisory employees who are
union members may participate
actively in union affairs and hold
office in unions. Hitherto, when
employees were promoted to super
visory jobs they had to cease acti-
witty in unions, though they could
retain membership.
2-The Department decreed that
grievances should be settled, wher-
ever possible, at the lowest level
Of management, rather than be
passed up to top officials.
3-Local commandants Of Navy
Yards were instructed to leave it
up to the employees on whether or
not they want to establish a shop
committee in each yard. The com
mandants themselves are not to
set up the committees, the Depart
ment said. Regular unions have
been critical Of some Of the shop
committees as virtual company
unions.
Also, the Department restated
the Navy's policy that it "recognize
the right of employees to organize"
and that navy yard officials shall
deal with representatives Of those
employees who organize"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

Washington (LPA) - Death OF
it's president, Samuel j. Hogan
created ar unusual situation this
week for the Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association.
Hogan passed away in the midst
of a referendum election for a new
president. While the voting dead
line is September 30, the grea
majority Of the ballots are already
in.
Five contestants are on the bal
lot. A possibility still exists, the
union said, that Hogan may turn
out to be in the lead when the
votes are counted. If so, the decis-
ion on what to do will be up to the
executive board, Secretary -Trea-
surer William o. Holmes explain
ed.
Meantime, the board has named
Ray H. Robinson Of Portland, Ore,
now first vice president, as acting
president. Robinson is not a can
didate for president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Private Employers
Asked To. Take In
Dismissed Workers

Washington, D. C. QLNS). =
President Truman has appealed to
private employers to provide jobs
for the 147,000 persons who are
being dismissed by the Depart
ment of Defense.
Defense Secretary Louis John
son announced that for economy
reasons the Armed Forces were
releasing $4,000 civilian en-
ployes and 10000 reserve officers.
Many of the civilians worked in
Navy yards and Army facilities
throughout the country.
Truman said he has asked the
Civil Service Commission to try to
get federal jobs for these employees.
But he said it is "unrealistic" to
expect that all of them can be
moved into vacant jobs in the fed
eral service, which is being cut
down all along the line.
Consequently, he said he hoped
private business and industry will
give "full consideration" to the
workers who "lost
their jobs through no fault of their
own"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
NLRB Gives UE IA
Days To File Non
DRed Oaths For Vote

Washington (LPA)-Oficers of
the United Electrical Workers, one
of the last of the Communist line
unions, have been given two weeks
in which to file non-Communist af-
fidavits and get on the ballot in a
bargaining election at the Westing-
house Air Brake Co., at Wilmerd-
ing, Pa, the National Labor Rela-
tions Board revealed.
In the election, pattern makers
in the plant will have the chance
to say whether they want to be
represented by the Pattern Makers
League-AFL. However, all en-
ployes have been represented by
the UE since 1887.
The NLRB's two-week offer is
based on the UE's long tenure at
the plant, on the recent statement
by UE president Albert Fitzgerald
that union officers would sign the
oaths within couple Of months,
and on the fact the UE will have
held its convention in Cleveland
before the 14-day runs out.
Action on the affidavit question
is expected at the convention where
the present Communist leadership
will be strongly challenged by the
UE's right wing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Swifchmen Seek
40-Hour Week

Buffalo, N. Y. OPA)-Another
rail labor organization, the Switch
mems Union, is embarking on a
campaign for a 40-hour week at
48-hours' pay. President A. J.
Glover said formal demands would
be served Sept. Is on all carriers
where the union represents en-
ployes in switching yards and
terminals.
Glover declared the union will
also ask for a 20 per cent addition
al boost in hourly rates; adjust
ments of inequalities; double time
rates for overtime and for Sunday
or holiday work; night differentials
and other changes. Rail yardmen
at present are on a six-day week
and in some cases, seven.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Sen. Douglas Tours
Illinois, Poll Voters

Washington ,LPA)-Sen. Paul
H. Douglas Cd, Ill., is touring III
inois Sept. II to 20 to find out
what the voters are thinking about
and what farm, business, labor and
housing conditions are most press
ing" and to report ON the record
of the S1st Congress to date.
The Senator announced here last
week that he decided to cancel an
additional Is days of his trip be-
cause many important issues will
be facing the Senate at the end Of
September and beginning of Octo-
ber
Several labor union meetings are
on Sen. Douglas agenda including
the AFL, Railway, and Machinists
unions in Rockford; CIO-PAC in
Rockford; local labor unions in
Quincy; Illinois Federation of
Teachers in Madison; and local
labor unions in Wood River.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Newspaper Guild
Wins Long Battle
With Sunpapers

Baltimore, Md. (LPA)-lt took
several years of bitter fighting, but
he Baltimore Newspaper Guild
low has contract with the Sun
1apers, to run for one year from
Sept. and providing increases of
at least $5 per week for 200 of the
}25 employees covered.
The Sunpapers put up a stiff
battle against Guild organization,
and then against union recogni-
ton, dragging the Guild through
all the delays permitted by the
Taft Hartley act, haggling over
who was and was not in the zap
propriate bargaining unit" And
finally, negotiations took six
months.
The agreement provides a top
minimum Of $93 after five years
service; sick leave; severance pay
up to 80 weeks after 1412 years;
three weeks vacation after five
years; and five double-time holi-
days. Management estimates the
annual cost at $4,000.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Low Rent Housing
Units Allocated TO
Forty-Seven Cities

Washington UPA)-The speed
with which the Public Housing Ad-
ministration is making municipal
allotments for the 810,0C0-unit, six
year, low-income housing program
authorized by Congress early in
July is one Of the brightest aspects
of the current capital scene.
The PHA already has allotted
100000 units to local housing auth
critics in AZ communities where
the situation has been critical
Applications from 70 authorities
have been received and the bal
ance is now being anlayzed. Ad-
ditional allotments will be ann
ounced as they are made.
The news that 100000 low-in-
come units have been allotted does
not mean the bricks are being laid
The projects are still in the plan
ming stage and in most instances
the PHA will have to make pre-
Iiminary loans to finance the plan
ming. These loans require White
House approval. Present ALLEGATIONS
are being made on a two-year
basis.
Under the low-income housing
law, 1885, 600 units are authorized
for each of the six years the pro-
gram is in force. However, in any
one year the President may push
up the total to 100000 or lower it
to $4,000.
When the whole $4,000 units
are completed it is estimated that
housing will have been provided
for some 100000 people. The
government can make capital loans
covering as much as 80 percent of
the development cost of project.
In addition, the government can
grant annual subsidies to bridge
any gap that appears between the
cost of operation and the low
rentals.
So far, housing units have been
allotted to the following commun-
tiles in the numbers indicated:
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
WIN 1O-CENT PAY HIKE

Minneapolis, MINI. (LPA) = A
new contract calling for an increase
of 10 cents an hour has been sign
ed by Lodge 3S2, International AS
sociation of Machinists, and the
Minneapolis and Gluek Brewing
Companies. Covered are machin-
lists, auto mechanics and garage
attendants. Other clauses include
paid vacations of three weeks after
10 years; double time for daily
overtime after the first two hours
IA group life, health and accident,
hospital and surgical insurance
plan; seniority, and grievance pro-
cedures.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
You Moy Have
a Refund Comma

Was more than $4,000 deducted
from your wages for Social Secur-
ity taxes in either 1947 or 1913 ?
If so, you may be entitled to re-
fund.
Social Security taxes must be
distinguished carefully from the
income Withholding tax. Both are
deducted from pay checks. The
Withholding tax applies on the
workers income tax for the year;
the Social Security tax is the III
of wages up to $4,000 a year de-
Quoted to pay for old-age and sur
vivors insurance.
If person works for one en-
ployer only, that employer deducts
Social Security taxes up to $1,000
and then makes no further deduc-
tion for the balance of the year.
But if worker is employed by
one employer and is paid over
$4,000 and then works for another
employer and is paid, for exam
pie, 5000, the first employer will
deduct $4,000 from his wages and
the second $500. This $500 will be
refunded if the worker applies to
the Office of the Collector of In
ternal Revenue in his city or dis
trict.
Also if worker has two jobs at /,
the same time more than $4,000
may be deducted from his wages
and in this case also he will be en-
titled to a refund.
Application for these refunds
must be made within two years
after that in which the tax is paid.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Rail Labor Leaders
Hits Hearst Papers,
Chicago Tribune

Washington (LPA) - II RS
papers and the Chicago Tribune
are being put on the spot by Rail
road Brotherhoods for carrying
Canned" propaganda Of railroad
managements, while refusing to
publish labor's side.
The Hearst sheets ran a scare
editorial raising the cry Of "social-
ism" and naturalization" against
rail safety legislation, now pend
ing in Congress ard supported by
the Brotherhoods. This legislation,
the editorial howled, was really a
plot to put over Federal control
of the railroads" and to "socialize
the American way of life"
President T. C. Carroll of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance Of
Way Employees, who saw the edi-
torial in the Detroit Times blew up.
He wrote the managing editor Of
that paper, charging that the bogey
in the editorial was all hoax. He
outlined the facts about the legiS-
lation and demanded a correction.
The managing editor passed the
buck to Hearst editorial headquar-
ters in San Francisco.
| Failing to hear from there, Car
roll sent a new letter insisting on
a correction. 81 should hate to be-
lieve," he said, "that the Hearst
papers are wide open for Railroad
Lobby propaganda, but closed to
railroad workers."
Carroll warned that if the Hearst
papers continue to ignore the re-
quest to carry labor's answer, the
matter will be brought to the at
tention of all Railroad Brother
hoods and their members. A boy
colt of the Hearst press is pos
sible, he implied.
The Chicago Tribune, like the
Hearst papers, also ripped into the
safety legislation editorially, but
it hoisted tht bugaboo of "feath-
erbedding" rather than Socialism.
President Jesse Clark of the Bro
therhood of Railroad Signalmen
took on the Tribune. He wrote the
editor, denouncing the Feather
bedding" slur as an attempt to
"hoodwinlS the public" He enclos-
ed testimony he had given at con-
gressional hearings on the legisla-
tion and added: "If you will show
me where | am endeavoring to inn
pose featherbedding practices or to
force employment of additional
members of my union who would
perform no useful work, | will buy
you the best steak dinner in Chi
.cago."
Clark declared that whatever.
rail safety legislation is now on
the statute books was put there by
the unions over the bitter opposi-
tion of the railroads. The carriers,
he said, always raised the smoke
screen of "featherbedding" against
such laws. Their attitude, he de-
clared, has been one Of ''to hell
with human lives; let's save a few
dollars"
Clark demanded that space be
given to railroad labor's case.
However, the editor neither ack-
nowledged Clark's letter nor pub
lished a line of it, Clark said. This
abuse of freedom of the press"
the union leader added, will be
made known to all rail workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Farm Plan Compromise
Assailed By Patton

Denver, Colo. (LPA)-James G.
Patton, president of the National
Farmers Union, has called on Pre-
sident Truman and Secretary Of
Agriculture Brannan not to give
up the fight for the Brannan
Agricultural plan.
He called on them to "take it to
the voters next year if that proves
necessary" Patton added: "The
fight is essential to Fair Deal
for farmers and consumers. 1t is
essential to economic stability"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
No Spark In GM
Stand Against FTC
Monopoly Charge

Washington (LPA) = General
Motors began its defense of Fed
eral Trade Commission charges
of trying to corner the spark-plug
market by producing first wit
ness whose testimony was so thin
and irrelevant that trial examiner
Webster Ballinger threw a big
chuck of it into the ashcan and
will toss the rest in the same dir
ection unless GIN strengthens it.
The witness, Leon Francis Ban
igan, identified himself as Wash
ington representative of the Natl
Council of Private Motor Truck
Owners. Under questioning from
a GIN attorney he gave a vague ac-
count of a couple of surveys Of the
spark7plug market he had made in
1884 and 1886.
Burden of his story was that
people didn't know what kind of
spark plugs they used anyway. He
based his Renaissance on what he
remembered of a survey he super
.vised for some automotive trade
papers in 1884 and a second he
conducted for the Edison Splitdorf
company, manufacturers of spark
plugs, in 1886.
Acting on a continuing objection
entered by FTC attorney L. E.
Creel, Jr., the trial examiner order
ed testimony on the 1884 survey
stricken from the record and said
he would withhold judgment on
testimony concerning the 1886 in
quiry until GIN could dip up tang
ible reports to substantiate it.
A second General Motors wit
ness, Calvin H. Campbell, manager
of an automobile service station in
this city, testified that most people
needing spark-plugs to liven up
their cars take what they can get
without bothering too much about
brands. However, observers at the
hearings were wondering if Gen
eral Motors didn't need a few new
spark-plugs in its own power plant.
Testimony of the first two GIN
witnesses was a long way from the
main charges brought by the ETC
against the giant corporation and
its wholly-owned subsidiary, the
AC Spark Plug Company.
The companies are accused on
four counts of creating a tend
ency toward monopoly in the
spark-plug field. The four counts
are: (D Making price discrimina-
tions between various classes Of |
accounts SO that one class gets
;park-plugs cheaper than another.
The govt anti-monopoly agency |
contends that automobile manufac
,urers have bought spark-plugs for |.
is little as six cents apiece, while /
,thers have had to pay 20 to 40 |
.ents. Six cents is less than cost,
he ETC says. (2) Paying rebates
o certain distributor accounts
When the rebates are not available
N "proportionally equal terms" to
'ther customers. (3) Selling to
ealers on condition that the deal
rs not handle the products Of an
ther company. (4) Fixing various
rices for resale of AC spark
lugs.
A motion by GM attorneys for
ismissal of the FTCs complaint
yas denied by the trial examiner
Defense hearings in Washington
yere scheduled to last two days,
fter which the trial examiner,
overnment and company lawyers
ere to move first to Philadelphia
nd then to Detroit for further
IL
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Union Promotes Dept Store

New York (LPA)-The Retail
Clerks Int'l Ass'n-AFL will spend
$4,000 to advertise and promote the
John Wanamaker department store
here. Spokesman for the Wana-
maker local of the union said that
their members wanted more GUS
toners on the theory that more
customers would be insurance"
guaranteeing the union a better
bargaining position on wages and
welfare benefits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Hits Medical Monopoly

Washington (LPA)-As part of
"a Justice Dept drive to eliminate
monopoly in the public health field,
Los Angeles Grand Jury has in
dicted six corporations and four in
dividuals on charges of violating
the Sherman Antitrust Law by
fixing prices on medical X-ray film
sold in the Southern California
area.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
Fired For Attending School

- Louisville, Ky. OPA)-Herman
Porter, an employe of the Champ
ion Wire and Iron Company, at
tended the 1949 Kentucky Labor
School. The boss found out, and
Porter was fired. Local 682, Iron
workers, found out, and Porter had
a new job-as the unions office
manager.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15
5O-Year Unionists Honored

Washington, D. c. ILNSJ. =
Four Washington men have been
honored for 50-year membership
in Local 13, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners. They are
Donald Nj. Wallace, Philip Hamil-
ton, John A. Minor, Edward G.
Loehl.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

He assailed a reported agree
ment to enact the Anderson COM
promise proposal which he said
"will neither stop nor cushion the
p resent precipitious downward
trend of farm prices. Indeed, it
provides further leeway for de-
flating the farmers, most of whom
are already at sub-parity levels"
Patton charged that the Ameri-
can Farm Bureau Federation and
its Extension Service allies in
several states" are responsible for
the Anderson plan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-09-15

If man tries to sneak in little
shuteye, somebody is sure to start
Evening star., 1949-12-19
Arlington Will Issue Stickers
To Bicycles Given Safety OK
County to Institute
Free and Voluntary
Inspection in Spring

A system of mechanical inspec-
ton of bicycles will be Instituted
next spring in Arlington.
The county has required licenses
for bicycles since October, 1941,
and approximately 16.500 are reg
istered.
The inspection, the idea Of the
police departments safety and
education director, Sergt. Frank
Palmer. will be on a voluntary
basis and will parallel one now
given to entrants in the annual
bicycle rodeo. It will cover tires,
brakes, wheels, handle bars and
grips, seats, lights, chains. sprock-
cts and tenders.
Bikes which pass the inspection
will be given a colorful sticker to
be pasted on the front fender. The
red. yellow and green emblem will
proclaim: II drive safety bike
Passed inspection Arlington Police
Department."
For those bikes which fail the
test, the owners will be given a
card listing items needing correc-
ton. Presentation Of the card at
qualified repair shops will entitle
the owner to a discount on repairs.
No fee will be charged for the
voluntary. inspections. Sergt. Pal
mer believes, however, that prac-
tically all Arlington cyclists, es-
pecially those of school age, will
want to have, a sticker on their
vehicles.
The inspections will not start
until Sergt. Palmer has shown a
new safety film, Wheel OF
Evening star., 1949-12-19
Virginia Legislature
To GET Anti-Po|kT Tax
Measure in January
By the Assoeiofed Press

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. 10.
"A bill calling for g., constitu-
tional convention limited to pro-
viding q means of eliminating
the poll tax as a voting require
ment will be among the first Of
fered in the General Assembly in
January by a new member OF the
House of Delegates.
Delegate-elect Victor p. Wilson
of the Hampton and Elizabeth
City County district, said yester-
day he will introduce such a meas
ure. Mr.. Wilson won election to
the House after defeating Speak
er G. Alvin Massenberg for the
Democratic nomination in August.
MI. Wilson, Leader of the "anti-
organization" Democratic wing Of
the party in the peninsula and
the first congressional district, led
the campaign against the Camp
bell suffrage amendments in No
vember.
One of his objections at that
time to the amendments was their
tie-in with other election provi-
sions which he and anti-amend-
ment forces denounced as worse
than the poll tax"
Evening star., 1949-12-19
Montgomery Hills Citizens
Plan Community Sing

The annual community sing of
the North Woodside-M Montgomery
Hills Citizens Association will be
held at 7::30 pm. Friday around
the community Christmas tree on
the circle of Luzerne avenue and
Glen Ross road.
Mrs. Leotine Connolly will serve
as solist and will be accompanied
by q choir of mixed voices from
st. Francis Xavier Church. The
Rev. Joseph Kennedy will give the
invocation and the Rev. George
Hoyer of Calvary Lutheran
Church., the benediction.
Also appearing on the program,
which is under the direction OF
Mrs. j. G. Pratt, will be the Silver
Spring Elks Boys and Girls Band.
After the program, Santa Claus
will hand out candy and oranges
to children,
Evening star., 1949-12-19
Police Unable 10 Link
Cab Ho|dup, Staying

A man accused of holding up
a Washington cab driver at the
point of a gun has been ques-
toned by Prince Georges County
detectives about a recent Berwyn
Staying but, in the opinion of 1t.
Charles N. Thomson, he is not
connected with that case.
The man, Vance Oswald, "a, of
Seat Pleasant, was to appear for
hearing today in Hyattsville Po-
lice Court on the holdup charge.
He was arrested late Saturday
night at Laurel near a Skyview
cab taken from w. T. Lewis, 33,
colored, of the 1400 block of New
Jersey avenue NV.
According to the hacker, he
picked up a passenger Saturday
night at Twelfth street and New
York avenue NV. and drove
him to Brightseat road, Prince
Georges County. There, MIR.
Lewis reported, the man brand
ished q revolver. robbed him Of
several dollafs and forced him
from the cab.
In less than two hours, police
spotted the empty cab in Laurel
and decided to set up a watch.
Shortly afterwards they saw Os-
wald near the scene and arrested
him.
Detective Thomson said the
man. was questioned at length
about the murder of Winston C..
Clay jr., 10, in a filling station
at Berwyn December 6, but that
nothing has been developed to
connect him with the case.
Evening star., 1949-12-19
Falls Church City Council
To Consider School Loan

The Falls Church City Council
will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight
to consider authorizing the school
board to borrow funds for new
buildings and repairs.
Property owners approved a
loan of 100000 November 10.
The Councils action tonight is
required, under the city charter,
before the school board can take
steps to obtain the funds.
Part of the authorized amount
will be sought from the State
Literary Loan Fund and the State
Retirement Fund. The board will
seek funds on the open market
for new construction above the
amount of State loan and money
for repairs to existing buildings.
Other matters to be considered
by the Council tonight include
finding space for the Office of the
new Commissioner of Revenue A..
Burke Hertz, who will take Office
January l.