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, 1949-03-16
Cricket Assoc. Gets
Silver Cup Trophy
Gift from New York

A large beautiful silver cup
trophy has been presented to
the St. Croix Cricket Associa-
ton, it was announced today,
to be awarded along with the
present shield, to the winner
Of the cricket matches of each
year.
James Dominic Simmonds,
prominent cricketer, formerly
of ST. Croix, now residing in
New York, voluntarily pre-
sented the gift for the purpose
of stimulating interest in the
grand old game of cricket.
Mr.. Simmonds, captained a
team of Virgin Islanders from
New York when they took
part in a series of cricket mat
ches in st. Croix and St. Thorn
as during 1947-48.
1t is expected that the st.
Croix Cricket Committee will
place this trophy on display.
Members of the committee
Continued on Page A.
, 1949-03-16
Bornn Pleads for Legislation
To Extend Welfare Benefits

In reviewing his activities
in Washington with the press
today, Director of Social Vel
fare Roy w. Bornn, pointed
out that if passed, the Social
Security legislation would ex-
tend to the Virgin Islands cur
rently existing and proposed
titles which would amount to
some 1926, 900 for welfare
work.
In his testimony, Mr.. Bornn
showed that SO far only Child
Welfare Services have been
extended to the islands; Grip
pied, neglected and emotional
ly disturbed children, a m
mothers receivec ase work ser
vices and expert attention and
treatment, but Federal funds
are not made available for
cash assistance to these famil-
les and children.
The Bill, H. R. 1892, which is
now before Congress would ex
tend to these Islands the Pub
lie Assistance titles now in eff
feet. They are: Aid to Deepen
dent Children, Old Age Assis-
lance and Aid to the Blind.
As the bill now stands it pro
Continued on Page ~
, 1949-03-16
Color Films Of ST. roix
To be Shown Tonite

Several Scenes of St. Croix,
St. Thomas and ST.: John will
be shown from color films to-
night at $50 in the st. Johns
Parish Hall by the St. Croix
Chamber Of Commerce.
The scenes, which are said
to be the most beautiful ever
taken in the Virgin Islands,
were taken by Mr.. Mielche,
Danish Journalist, who vaca-
toned here not so long ago.
The above films will be
shown in addition to three
others; they are: "Soil and
Life, "Soil Conservation With
Your Own Equipment" and
Enterprise CThe Develop
ment of a Small TOWN..
, 1949-03-16
Dir. Davis Commends
Bornn on Testimony
Before Congress

In a letter to Governor Has
tie, James P. Davis, Director
of the Division of Territories
and Island Possessions COM
mended Roy Bornn on his re-
cent testimony on behalf of
the Virgin Islands to Congress.
Mr.. Davis wrote as follows:
My dear Governor HASTE:
l want to let you know
an effective job Roy Bornn
has done in regard to the So
cial security bills pending be-
fore Congress. His testimony
was extraordinarily well pre-
sented and created a great
deal of interest on the part Of
the Committee, SO much so,
in fact, that Congressman
Lynch of New York and Con-
gresham Woodruff of Michi-
gan, for the Democrats and
Republicans respectively, have
introduced bills making the
Continued on Page ~
, 1949-03-16
Bill Extending Benefits
Of Vocational Ed.
Goes To House

A Bill to extend to the Vir-
gin Islands the benefits Of the
Vocational Education Act was
introduced by Congressman
Lesinski, Chairman of the
Committee of Education and
Labor.
The benefits of such a bill
are badly needed in this island
to such an extent that it is ne
cessary t Q import skilled
trades men in various con-
struction projects.
A similar bill has already
been introduced by Senator O
Mahoney in the Senate.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
PAGE FIVE

commend action on their qualifiea-
tions. The ninth, Ben Gold of the
Fur & Leather Workers, is an
avowed Communist who was ruled
ineligible on the convention floor
by President Philip Murray.
Members Of the special commit
tees are: to investigate Public
Workers, American Communica-
tions Assn, Fur Workers and Of
fee Workers-President Emil Rieve
of Textile, President Joseph Beirne
of Communications Workers, and
President Harry Sayre of Paper
Workers; to investigate Furniture
Workers, Food & Tobacco Work
ers and Mine Mill - President
Jacob Potofsky of Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, Secretary -trea-
surer Emil Macy of Auto Work
ers, President Joseph Curran, Natl
Maritime Union; to investigate
Longshoremen, Marine Cooks, Fish
ermen-President o. A. Knight of
Oil Workers, President James Fad
ling of Woodworkers, President
James Fisher of Utility Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
Resent Commies
I'm CzechosIovakia

Washington (LPA)-While there
is no organized force against the
Communists in Czechoslovakia,
'Etheir actions are resented by
$50 of the people of this little
country" Rep. Peter f. Mack Jr.
Cd, Ill., reported on a radio broad
cast this week.
Mack appeared on the last of a
series of "Mr. Congressman Re-
ports From Abroad" programs pro-
duced by Labor's League for Poll
tical Education-AFL. His COM
ments on Czechoslovakia were re-
corded in Rome.
Reports on the Far East by
Reps. M. G. Burnside Cd, w. Va.),
Harold Lovre Or, SD, and Charles
Deane Cd, NC) were also heard on
the program, as well as Sen. Estes
Kefauver Cd, Tenn) from Ger
many, Rep. Chase G. Woodhouse
Cd, Conn., from Turkey, and Rep.
Walter Norblad OR, Ore.) in a sur
vey of reconstruction progress in
Western Europe.
Earlier programs included re-
ports on displaced persons and on
the British health program. Mar
rator for the series was AL Ham
ilton, radio director for LLPE.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
US Steel Signs,
Great 1919 Strike
Virtually Ended

Pittsburgh (LPA) - The Us
Steel Corp, maker of a third Of
the nations steel, met the terms
of the striking United Steelwork
ers on the evening of Nov. H. and
the great steel strike Of 1949 was
over.
Although few companies still
hadn't settled, agreement on the
unions basic demand for company
financed pensions was a virtual
certainty. Hardly had US Steel
signed than Wheeling Steel linked
an agreement. Allegheny-Ludlum
was expected to fall swiftly into
line. Smaller companies had been
signing up all through the strike,
which began Oct. /.
Meanwhile, the Steelworkers'
union was on the verge of winning
a settlement with the Aluminium
Company of America, which was
struck along with the steel firms.
The union represents about half of
Alcoa's employees.
One steel company still holding
out was Crucible Steel, whose of
ficers insisted the firm couldn't pay
the unions demands. Crucible earl
ier appealed to the Federal Medi-
alton Service for special negotia-
tions based on the company's Town
individual circumstances" an d
might renew the appeal. The union
insisted that Crucible follow the
pattern of the industry.
The agreement with US Steel, as
do all the new contracts, follow
the formula established with Beth
lehem Steel, the industry's second
biggest firm, signed on Oct. 81.
Under the Bethlehem plan, which
runs through Dec. 81, 1851, the
company agreed to pay all the
costs of pensions after 25 years of
not less than $100 a month includ-
ing federal old age insurance.
Workers with less than 25 years
receive smaller pensions. In addi-
tion, the union and company agreed
that the workers would pay half
of a five-cents-an-hour welfare
plan while the company would pay
the other half. Just what the pen
sions would cost the company an
hour was variously estimated but
probably would be around nine or
ten cents.
The strike began after the steel
companies, led by US Steel, turned
down the recommendations of a
Presidential fact-fnding board. The
board proposed that the companies
bear all costs of a six-cents an
hour pension plan and four-cents
an-hour welfare plan, and that the
union forego a wage increase. The
union accepted the recommenda-
tions without reservation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
GIN Cuts Biggest
Dividend Melon
In All History

New York (LPA)-The biggest
dividend melon in American his
tory has been cut by the General
Motors Corporation, aggregating
$3.50, ,232,055. On top Of this, GM
is retiring its long term debt Of
$125,0C0,000 years ahead of the
debt maturity.
These record-breaking signs of
prosperity were based on the big
gest year Of profits in GM history
"a year which has seen profits Of
more than half billion dollars
roll into the company Golfers in
the first nine months.
GIN directors voted a year-end
dividend of S4.25 a share on com
mon stock, bringing the total di-
vidends for the year TO So, the
most ever paid on the company's
present capital structure. Last
years dividend totalled $3.50.
Biggest hunk of this dividend
melon will go to the DUPONT Chem
ical Company, which owns 10000
900 shares of GIN common stock.
Dupont will get more than $780,
100000 out of the year-end distri-
button.
Other big automobile companies
also were coming up with prosper
ity reports. The Chrysler Corpora
tion reported net income for the
first nine months of S97651,453,
compared with $59,887, sol for the
same period last year. These earn
ings represented $11.22 a share,
compared with $6.88 last year.
Ford does not publish regular
reports, but it filed in Massachu-
sets statement listing total as
sets at the end of last year Of ST.
49,240,000 as compared with ST.
OPS, ,733, 900 a year earlier. This
covers the parent company only,
and does not include assets of for
eign subsidiaries.
Profit reports from corporations
in other fields of business were
spotty-some up and some down
from last year. Distillers Corpora
tion-Seagrams Limited reported
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
STOCK HANDLERS WIN RAISE

Chicago (LPA)-Seven minutes
before strike deadline, stock
handlers Of this city's huge stock
yards, members of Local A of the
United clearinghouse Workers, won
a 41z-cent pay boost from the
Union Stock Yard & Transit Co.
Other stockyard employees had pro-
missed to back up the stock handlers
and a strike might have closed the
yards completely.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
AFL Insurance Agents
Win Raise In Contract

Washington (LPA)-More than
$4,000 insurance agents won a
S7.24 average weekly raise in an
agreement reached this week by
Prudential Life Insurance Co. and
Natl Federation of Life Insurance
Agents-AFL.
The contract, retroactive to Sept.
10, also granted lump payments of
s125 to $138 per person for 1949
vacations. Union President George
Russ told newsmen that the pact
also includes better employees SER
vice benefits, among them improv-
ed disqualification and retirement
plans.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
Youngstown 0Idsters Recall Bitter
DAYS of The Little Steel Strike
Rv MARY HEATON WORSE


Youngstown, Ohio (LPA) - On
Election Day Republic signed on
the dotted line. Nothing could give
anyone who saw the Little Steel
Strike more satisfaction than to
stand on the Center Street Bridge
and watch the victorious steel
strikers stream back to work.
| came back to Youngstown for
the personal satisfaction Of seeing
Republic open; for in 1887 | stood
on that same bridge and counted
the men seep back to work. When
| had counted 800 | knew the strike
was broken. Most of the men cross
ing the bridge walked as if they
wished they were somewhere else,
some were defiant. There were ma
chine guns on top of the Republic
Administrator Building and the
militia were encamped in town.
During the present strike
drove around the many picket
points with Clarence Irwin, an old
friend from the 1919 strike. He is
International Representative for
Youngstown Sheet & Tube with
1900 men on strike in this area
alone. The first of the sixteen
points we visited were at the Brier
Hill picket station with the flag
flying in the center of its orna-
mental oval. We passed Republic
gates.
"This is about where you got
shot," said Irwin. Remember the
place? This is stop where the
fracas began in 1887" He ended
up in the Union Hall in Campbell,
Local 1418, where | met another
old friend, Francis Gillen, now Vice
President of the local. We got to
talking about the 1887 strike and
about Eperjesi, who was killed
during the evening shooting.
"Eperjesi's family was left in a
bad way" Gillen explained. "He
had wife and four small children.
They lost their house and the
Union got them new one COM
pletely furnished" Over the coffee,
soup and sandwiches always ready
for the pickets, we recalled the de-
tails of the Little Steel Strike in
1887.
Two weeks after the Chicago
massacre everything seemed quiet
in Youngstown. Negotiations were
under way in Cleveland. No one
was looking for trouble. There
were women on the picket line;
some had even brought their chill
dren along. One was sitting on a
box with her baby on her. knees.
Lieutenant Richmond yelled at her,
"Get off that Company property"
She didn't move fast enough to
suit him, and he hurled a tear gas
bomb at her.
babies was more than
the strikers could stand. The men
meeting in the yard behind the
nearby saloon rushed out, call
was put in to the flying picket
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
DIP ACT DISCRIMINATES
COMMISSION REPORTS

Washington UPA) = The Dis
placed Persons Act now on the
books was attacked as unjust, un-
fair, and discriminatory" in the
Displaced Persons Commissions S
Report to the President and Con-
gress No. 10.
The commission endorsed a bill
passed by the House and scheduled
to come to the floor Of the Senate
January 25. The measure would
increase the number of DPS to be
admitted to this country from 205,-
900 to $4,000.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
Hearings Slated
For commies By
Executive Board

Cleveland IPA) - By early
1850, the fate Of ten Communist
line unions now affiliated with the
CIO will probably be settled, when
committees set up by the Execu
tive Board bring in reports on the
qualifications of nine commie-line
leaders to represent their unions
on the top governing body.
Three committees, each made up
of three right-wing board members,
were named here to pass on the
challenged nominees to the execu-
tive board. The challenges were
made under the new provision in
the constitution, passed at the con-
vention here last week, barring
from the board communists, fasc-
lists, and followers Of other total
itarian PHILOSOPHERS.
In other actions following the
dramatic wee k-long convention
here, which saw the custer of the
United Electrical Workers and the
Farm Equipment Workers, as a
new electrical workers union was
chartered, and FE's jurisdiction
was turned over to United Auto
Workers, the Executive Board:
Voted to change rules gov
erning city and state industrial
union councils to bar from office
communists, fascists, and other
totalitarians, in parallel language
to that covering the executive
board.
2-Instructed national officers to
sign the Taft-Hartley non-Com-
munist affidavits.
3-Allowed eight of the nine
challenged nominees to the board
to serve pending action of the
special committees which will re-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17

Life, of Philadelphia; the Bankers
Life and Casualty Co.; Bankers
National Life; and the Combined
Insurance Co. of America. They are
contributing resolutions to Con-
gress, speakers, and machinery for
the distribution of literature.
Even before this tie-up with the
powerful insurance lobby, the
AMA's $3,500,C00 campaign had
begun to be felt powerfully in Con-
gress. With the insurance compan-
les now also working, national
health insurance does not have a
chance unless labor and liberal
groups supporting it organize much
more effectively to fight politically
than they have in the past.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17

profits of S34,766,2 ,292 for the year
ending July 81 as compared with
$54, ,735,660 the year before. But
Parke, Davis and Co., drug firm,
earnings of $S,628, $50 for
the first nine months of 1949 as
compared with s7,209,082 for the
similar period a year earlier.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-11-17
GENERAL WELFARE DUTY
OF GOVERNMENT,
LEHMAN DECLARES

New York (LPA)-In a post
election press conference, Sen.-
elect Herbert H. Lehman declared
that "it was the duty of govern
ment TO look after the general well
fare of all its people, not just a
privileged few"
The man who defeated Sen. John
Foster Dulles in the Nov. s cleo
tion said he would work for: re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley act; fed
eral aid to education; increased
medical care for all the people; an
FEPC law; repeal of the poll tax;
an anti-lynching bill, and expand
ed social security.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1949-03-16

FAIRMONT- The Fa:rmont tow
board this week was making plans
this week 10 employ outside en9i-
ncers 10 determine the cause OIL
the Saturday morning collapse OF
the towns new water tank.
Rumors flew wild!,;' about Fair.
mont and ncighborinS towns that;
l. The town had nc trantee on
the tanks erection.
= That the tank and its erection
had cost the town over %|.CG,0GO'
5 That the contractor a,-eaty
had been paid for his work and
that the town stood no chance OF
getting its money back.
All three of these rumora were
bra;,Ged as false by members of
t..r town board.
True facts, they said. We're:
/ The total cost of the tank,
erected. was TO be $4,000.
. the contractor nad been adj
yanced only $4,000.
3 The contract called for a 80
dny test before the tank and its
erection would he con"lueFeu SAL
isfactory by :he town.
Completion of the tank erection
came last week and water was
turned into the tank for the FIRST
time Friday.
Saturday morning about IL
o'clock, tie tank collapsed, spill
IN" water over wide area.
knu"king down nearby poles anu
wires of the Carolina Power and
light company. and narrowly
missing the newly renovated
Rosenwald Negro school.
Although the catastrophe smut
off power for brief while, there
was no shortage in water due TO
continued use of the old tank.
Tie newer tank came from
Tampa. Fla. and had been bought
tank and construction. from A. J.
Hoffman and company Of fhila-
dclphia.
The Philadelphia concern had
suhlc, the erection of the tank tc
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1949-03-16
University Alumnus
Awarded Saxton
Writing Fellowship

CHAPEL HILL. The Eugene
Saxton Memorial Trust, establish
ed by Harper and Brothers to pro-
vide assistance to writers, announ-
ces the award of its 18th fellow
ship TO William Roy Shelton, oil
Rutherfordton, who attended the
University Of North Carolina be-
fore entering the Army in 194l.
Shelton saw service in both the
ground forces and the air corps
winning several decorations. After
his discharge he and his wife
bought small cabin cruiser on
which for a time they lived and
wrote.
In l947 he enrolled at Rollins
College TO study creative writing
under Edwin Cranberry. He receiV-
ed his B. A. from Rollins last June.
One of the stories. "The Snow
Girl" written on his boat, won
first prize in the M-G-M-At!antic
Monthly short story contest and
was reprinted in the O.Henry vol
ume of Prize Stories of l41- 10.
Another. has been purchased by
The Saturday Evening Post. Two
years ago he began work on a
novel which he hopes to complete
during his fellowship. He is max
ing his home in Winter Park, Fla.
A new anti-submarine destroyer
will be named =. honor OF wee
Admiral Willis Augusta Lee
World War II hero.
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1949-03-16
Probe Started To Learn
Cause Of Tanks Collapse

Wilson and company of Charlotte
town officials said.
EYE WITNESS REPORT
Minnie Lee Thompson, Negro
who lives just across the road from
the site OF the tank, said she no.
ticed water leaking from the
tank late Friday, and that the
leakage grew worse Saturday morn
ing
She was washing clothes in the
ward of her home, she said, when
water started to come out the top
of the tank. and shortly afterwards
the tank collapsed with great noise.
The tank was torn apart, rlVets
sheared, the legs crumpled, and
pieces Of the tank flew some l5O
feet into nearby streets and into
the front yard of Rosenwald school
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1949-03-16
MEET THE DANCER" WHO
CHARMED A KING

One man gave his life, another
his throne for love of the beauty
whose career took her. from pal
aces to frontier towns. Read about
the Romantic Rebel one OF
MANY unusual true stories in the
March 9th issue of
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
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Brr pnlntfhe Aulturkampf

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