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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
European Unions Ready
For New World Federation

lish a new world body.
In Sweden, the Metal Workers
Union, largest in the country, re-
jected an invitation from the
WFTU to participate in a meeting
designed to set up a rival organ
ization to the Int'l Metalworkers
Federation, whose executive COM
mittee recently met in Washington
in the headquarters of the Ameri-
can Int'l Association of Machinists.
Also, last week the Belgian Fed
Grafton of Labor (FGTB) summon
ed a special convention to meet on
May 29 to disaffiliate from the
WFTU and authorize FGTB coop
Grafton in the June 26 meeting in
Switzerland which is designed to
lay the ground work for a new
world federation of free unions.
FGTB general secretary Louis
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Plans Drafted To
Gust Communists

Cleveland (LPA)-As yet undis-
closed plans were drafted last week
by the AFL executive council and
representatives of the Canadian
Trades & Labor Council for a
breakdown on Communist opera
tors inside the Canadian affiliate
of the AFL.
Percy Bengough, president of the
CTLC said that he was swell
pleased" with the AFL's under
standing of CTLC's desire to re-
tain its autonomy, and agreed with
the executive council members that
vigorous campaign against the
Moscow muscle men in Canada
must be launched.
President David Dubinsky of the
Int'l Ladies Garment Workers
Union and President George Har-
rison of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Clerks, whose Canadian locals
have taken the lead in the anti
totalitarian fight, expressed salts
faction with the agreement reach
ed with the Canadians.
Still unsettled however is the
warfare between the Seafarers
Intl Union-AFL and the Canadian
Seamens Union, a Communicated
affiliate of the CTLC. Altho un-
willing to commit themselves now
to dropping the CSU and admit
ing the STU, the Canadian leaders
said that the GSU seems to be fall
ing apart, and should no longer
present major problems to either
CTLC or the AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Confidence Vote Given Rex Morgan
BY Members of Local Union No. 80

Richmond, Calif.-With election
of national officers and delegates
to the convention as the. main
issues, the last meeting of Local
Union SO was very interesting
affair with nearly all members
present.
The. delegates chosen to repre-
sent us at Atlantic City are Rex
Morgan, Sal Freschi and John Lelli
with Ed. Sulpizio as alternate.
Tension has been at high pitch
in the local due to the company
making drastic changes in working
conditions. When it seemed that
the men would stand for no more
and that either a strike or a lock-
out was inevitable, Second Vice
President Frank Hull made a fly
ing trip to Richmond and succeed
ed in his efforts to effect a fair
settlement for both sides.
This tense situation came about
when the company added an ex-
tremely heavy operation without
any explanation to most of the
casters on piece work. Some of the
men were injured as a result of
this lift, and most of the other men
refused to perform this added
work. Approximately thirty en-
ployees were given warnings
threatening discharge the follow
ing day.
One of the foremen went through
the shop threatening the men that
the company would close the shop
unless they, figurately speaking,
Jumped through the hoop" and
the whole shop was ready to quit
work when Brother Hull arrived
on the scene and cleared the air of
trouble.
At our following meeting Pres
ident Rex Morgan was given vote
of thanks and confidence for the
part he played In keeping the shop
open as well as the leadership that
he has furnished the local for many
years, for we feel that with his
record in labor Circles in this area
as we'll as elsewhere that Brother
Morgan always has and will con-
tinue in the future to represent us
honestly and capably and it was
at the meeting that the
local is one hundred per cent be-
hind him.
One of our members on the sick
list, Bro. Charley Taylor sent an
SOS. to the union for blood
donors. The word was no sooner
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26

Washington (LPA) The Con-
gressional phase of the battle
against Taft Hartley slowed down
to a standstill last week.
Over on the Senate side of the
Capitol appropriations bills took up
most of the solons' attention, with
the North Atlantic pact debate
scheduled as the next major item
on the agenda.
The House Labor committee
and pro-union Congressman gener-
ally-were thrown into an uproar
by President Truman's appoint
ment of Rep. Augustine Kelley Cd,
Pa.) to be a member of the US
delegation to the Intl Labor Or
ganization's Geneva meeting.
No one doubted that the leader
of the House floor fight against
the Taft Hartley like Wood bill
was an excellent choice. But the
House Labor Committee, which
must report out minimum wage
and FEPC legislation as we'll as
Taft Hartley repeal is split Is to
IL on all key issues. With Kelley,
a bulwark of the pro-labor bloc,
absent from June l to July 6 none
of them can be reported out.
Kelley's statement that he has
an agreement with Truman and
with Committee Chairman John
Lesinski Cd, Mich.) to return on a
moments notice if his vote is need
ed only partially quieted the COM
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26

Paris (LPA)-Democratic trade
unions thruout Europe welcomed
this week the news that the Am
erican AFL and CIO are going to
be cooperating in the establishment
of a new world federation of dem
ocratic unions. It's long overdue,
they feel.
Just last week several more ma
tional trade union movements took
positive steps towards breaking
with the World Federation of
Trade Unions, under Communist
control since the withdrawal of the
American, British and Du &c h
unions.
The Norwegian Federation of
Labor's executive body-the secre-
tariat-wrote its constituent unions
asking authority to leave the
WFTU and work with other demo-
cratic labor movements to estab-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
{. S. Aitkin Will
Retire As Head OF
Trenton Potteries

Trenton, N. J.-Mr. E. S. Aitkin,
president of the Trenton Potteries
Co. for the past II years and an
executive officer of the company
for the past AZ years, will retire
June /, eastern representatives of
the Brotherhood were advised this
week.
AS company spokesman in wage
contract negotiations with the Bro
therhood covering members of
Locals 45, 40 and 'S7, Mr.. Aitkin
has always been held in the high
est esteem and his judgment of
fair and honest consideration to
all proposals has resulted in peace
full solutions of the workers pro-
blems.
Under his leadership the Tren-
ton Potteries Mutual plant has de-
veloped into one of the most mod
ern of potteries, having a kiln
capacity of ten large tunnel kilns.
Health and working conditions in
this plant are not surpassed any
where in the ceramic industry.
In full appreciation that men of
his calibre tend to make the best
in labor and management relations,
his retirement will be keenly
by all concerned when it is
realized that since he assumed the
presidency, there has never been
complaint made of discrimination
against any worker because of his
union activities.
Eastern representatives of the
Brotherhood who have been in
more active relationship with Mr..
Aitkin during his years as head. of
the company, express the senti-
ments of the Executive Board and
of the Trenton Potter
les Company when they extend
their expression for a long life to
enjoy the benefits of a well re-
warded rest after so many years
with the best of health,
and to retain as long as he lives
keen interest in the problems of
labor.
Mr.. Aitkin will not sever his
activities completely as he will con-
tinue to be member of the Board
Of Directors His successor has not
been chosen.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Union Would Sign
up Workers In
New Launderettes

Chicago (LPA)-A new kind of
chronological competition t h e
automatic Iaunderettes" now dot
ting the cities of the nation-has
the Laundry Workers Int'l Union
AFL worried.
At the unions quadrennial inter-
national convention here, President
Sam ]. Byers described the Laun-
derettes to which housewives
bring their bundles and drop a
quarter in automatic machines-as
a serious threat to the laundry in
dustry.
Byers urged an organizing drive
to bring the employees of these
establishments under the union
banner, so that decent wages and
working conditions can be negoti-
ated for them.
If the operators are at least
compelled to pay union wages and
have union conditions, their COM
petition with the laundry industry
will be on fairer basis, Byers
said.
Byers also called upon trade
unionists to prepare now for the
1850 congressional elections.
"We must support the men who
represent our point of view and
oppose those who do not" he said.
"If we elect reactionary Con-
gress next year many of the gains
we have been talking about will be
impossible"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
STRIKE DISTRIBUTOR
OF PEARSON COLUMN.

New York (LPA)-Despite their
victory by nine-to-one margin in
an NLRB election in January,
members of the American News
paper Guild last week were forced
to strike four syndicate affiliates
of North American Newspaper AL
lance.
Contract ego ia t ions S with
MANA have been going on ever
since the Guild won the NLRB
vote, but without success. Column
lists Drew Pearson, Dorot h y
Thompson and Billy Rose are
among those distributed by the
syndicates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Auto Mechanics
Win Wage Boost

Chicago UPA) = Three agree
,ments just negotiated here by
lodge 701 of the Int'l Association
of Machinists brought wage in
creases and string of other gains
for almost 1900 auto mechanics in
$50 Windy City garages.
ecord-breaking wage increases
of 35 and 38 cents an hour high
light the pacts. Other benefits in
clude six annual paid holidays, 10
cents an hour night shift bonuses,
vacations of one to two weeks a
year, and a reduction of the work
week from 48 to "A hours. The
agreements carry wage guarantees
of approximately $50 a week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26

Atlantic City in June.
The election of delegates to rep
resent the local at convention was
really something to witness. If the
membership took such an interest
in all our other affairs, Local 33
would be the talk of the entire Bro
therhood. 1t is sad to state that
such is not the case as there were
only a handful out for the follow
ing meeting.
!, There were four eligible candi-
dates that wished to run, with only
three to be sent. After quite a bit
of wrangling as to what three
were to go, and having deadlock
at this point, it was decided that to
settle the argument all four would
be sent. The following were the
delegates chosen: Bradford M.
Townsend, Lloyd E. Cook, Curtis
w. Hutzley and Chester J. Fisher.
The above named brothers are
open to suggestions from the men,
bership on anything that will help
the resolutions that this group is
to back.
At this time we wish to express
our sympathy to Fred Ruetter, who
has lost his wife to that great
enemy of life, Death. Also to the
family of Harry Shook who was
buried a few weeks ago. Bro.
Shook was well known throughout
the trade as he had been active in
the affairs of the Local for a good
many years.
Our next meeting will be held on
June 10th. -O.C. 33
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26

could not be bought at the May
Company or Higbees, take this
pamphlet listing the name of the
manufacturers and drop card and
they will be glad to send you the
| information.
Maybe that potential buyer will
go to all that trouble, but the pro-
liability is that he will not and will
buy the first thing that looks good,
regardless whether it is American
made or the product of foreign
manufacturer. Only one of our
manufacturers gave US the name
of his Cleveland outlet and the APP
proximate price of the set to be
had on display, but there was not
a single article on display that did
not excite admiration by some
people every day.
What pleased one was not al
ways pleasing to others and the
old adage, Beauty is in the eye
of the beholder" was definitely
proved to US time after time. Every
manufacturer had his product ap-
proved by the big segment Of the
buying public. Time after time we
were asked, where Is Your Union
Label?" Only one manufacturer
had so stamped his product.
If it so happens that this article
is read by any of our employers,
land the writer is sincerely hope
full that it will be- let me inform
them they are certainly missing
lot there, for the Union Label is a
definite guarantee that your pro-
ducts are American-made by the
most highly skilled craftsmen. It's
our picket line-it's equally as
beneficial to the employer as well
as the employees.
The writer had the pleasure of
addressing the Executive Council
of the Women's Auxiliary of the
A. F. of L. unions while in Cleve-
land. These ladies represent 25O,O
wives and daughters of union men,
bers in the United States and they
are growing all the time in num-
bers. We have their assurance they
will make every effort possible to
further the sale of American-made
ware.
The potters display was tele-
vised over a national hookup and
we know from the many messages
received it was seen over most of
the country and was most pleasing.
As the workers performed their
tasks before the camera, the story
of what they were doing was being
told as we'll as the superiority of
American-made products stressed.
People from all over the state of
Ohio on the following nights told
US they had seen US on television
and they just had to come and see
it for themselves.
All other television broadcasts
during the show were local in
scope, but our exhibition was so
that we were chosen
for nation wide broadcast and
were actually on the air for Il
minutes. That in itself is very
great evidence of the tremendous
interest shown in our display.
We feel we've done a lot for the
industry and none of the time and
effort was wasted. While the cost
was considerable, the money could
not have been better spent.
Great credit is due our national
officials who planned the exhibit
and our members who had a part
in it. Everyone did his or her part
to make it a brilliant success in
to the American public,
the story of the American potter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Results of Pottery Health
Tests On Coust Announced

The Department of Public Health
of California has announced, in q
report and in a meeting with the
Laguna Beach Ceramic Society
the findings of health survey OF
about 400 pottery workers in the
Laguna Beach area.
In Italy, Ramazzini described the
diseases of potters in 1890 in his
book The Diseases of Workmen
In 1886 and 1887, a U. S. Public
Health Service survey of 2,516
employees was made in 8 plants in
West Virginia; this survey uncov-
,ered 189 cases of silicosis, IL cases
)of tuberculosis, and one case of
lead poisoning.
The California survey, conducted
in 27 small potteries employing
from / to rs employees each, was
limited to chest x-ray films and
urinalysis to find cases of silicosis
and lead poisoning. 1t has taken
three years for the Bureau of
Adult Health of the California
Dept. of Public Health, in coopera-
tion with the Orange County
Health Dept. and the Division of
Industrial Safety, to complete the
survey.
Of 1926 persons x-rayed, one was
found to have active tuberculosis
and another had silico-tuberculosis.
SThirteen cases of inactive tubercu-
losis were found. Nine persons
were discovered to have heart
disease and two had a fungus dis
ease of the lungs.
OF these cases, only one-the
silico-tuberculosis case-had any
connection with the pottery indus
try, despite the fact that analyses
of clay materials used showed 20&o
free silica.
The health department has point
ed out that ordinarily it requires
years of exposure to the silica dust
before symptoms appear. Of the
325 persons x-rayed, only IA had
been in the occupation for over ten
years, 40 between five and ten
years, LAG for two to four years,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Crowds Marvel as POtterS
Display SkiIIs at Union
Label Show In Cleveland

1t would take gifted writer using all the adecves at his
describe A. F. L. Industries Show which
closed at the Cleveland Auditorium Sunday evening" May 22 The
humble will the
the trade his viewpoint of the giant spectacle
far the largest by the A. f. of L. exceeding
Milwaukee 1t had
appreciated fortunately several employers
well Of the Brotherhood ava themselves of the
opportunity just what the National Brotherhood Of Operative
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26

Potters is doing to make secure
the American market for union
potters and their employers.
The crowds as usual were enor-
nous with an estimated attendance
of 10000 people in the evening on
the third day of the show and the
attendance on the other four days
matching that figure.
The theme Of our exhibit was
the promotion Of American-made
pottery products in contrast to
similar products made under cheap
labor and, in some cases, the slave
labor conditions of foreign coun-
tries, and thereby stabilize the in
dustry and make more secure the
job opportunities Of the American
potter.
The potters' display in this great
industrial exhibit was greater than
ever before. The centralized loca-
tion of our booth was the most ad-
vantageous from every viewpoint.
Our decorations were beautiful and
many were the expressions of ad-
miration as the crowds passed
through the show. People seemed
to find only one word in telling US
what they thought when they saw
pottery ware being processed from
the raw stages to the finished pro-
duct before their eyes-"It's fac
cinating." And they meant it, for
they fingered and no one operation
had a monopoly on the crowds in
terest.
The exhibitors themselves, vet
Grams of many such affairs, freely
conceded US the palm and many of
them want to be located as near as
possible to US at the show next
year when it is to be held at Phil
adelphia, coming their phrase,
"where the potters are, that's
where the crowd is greatest"
And that is not surprising for
we have the oldest trade in the
world to show them. Our product
is a necessity in every household.
We can bring utility as well as
beauty into even the humblest
home and, we have the craftman-
ship here in America to meet the
demands of even those of most dis
eliminating taste in the ceramic
arts.
We must also not overlook the
fact we have been woefully negli-
gent in our efforts to inform the
American public about it and this
has resulted in foreign-made wares
finding such a ready market here.
We have for great many years
permitted importers to sell the
public a lot of foreign
names. Their advertising has kept
hose names before our people con-
stantly and we have done very
title to combat them.
1t is not surprising that even our
legislators have swallowed the
propaganda and done little to help
is when we seek aid by legislation.
The time is at hand to wake up and
light these enemies through the
combined efforts of the NIB. of O.P. |
and the U.S.P.A. not overlooking
my opportunity to tell the Ameri-
AN people what splendid thing
hey have in the American Pottery |
industry. We taught the public
many things at Cleveland and by
he same token they called to our
many irregularities, such |
is American pottery cannot be had,
md for that reason had to push the
ale of foreign-made wares.
The writer was asked in many,
many instances, 'In what stores
an we buy your products ?" My |
My retort to such inquiry was to
nform them that if our products |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
Meetings of Local Union
No. 33 Are Now Held Att
New Quarters in Brighton

Beaver Falls PaLocal Union Sa has held two meetings in their
the location Our meeting hall located the floor
available cool the pipes for all
special invitation extended all those previous sessions
to be on hand at next meeting to inspect the hall
meeting portion
of membership hand for national
their avortes boost the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-05-26
NOTICE WAREHOUSEMEN

The regular scheduled meet
ing of Local Union sc on Mon
day, May 80, Decoration Day,
has been postponed until the
following week, Monday, June
6.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1949-01-21
The
G.adGe Roe9es

One hears many comments this
week on the competence of the
street cleaning department. AL
though it may be unwise to jay
walk across the middle of the
block, still everyone does it and it
is certainly good to be able to cross
anywhere in the business district
without having to climb over or
through a six-by-six bank of snow,
or search for path by walking up
one side of the street and down
the other in order to get onto the
sidewalk.
BY making use Of the empty lots
as dumping grounds for surplus
snow the city has made the street
level from walk to walk and has
done better job of it than some
of the largest Stateside cities
so, orchids to the street cleaning
department.
This seems a timely opportunity
to reply to some criticism of this,
column. / was sternly and con-
temptuously criticized for discus
sing things other than styles, baby
tending and cooking in woman's
column. 1t is true that the column
was started with the intention of
stressing those topics. but CORE
spondence and comment soon
proved that the women of Seward
are keenly interested in the boost
ing of their home town and needed
only a voice to make known their
wishes and to coordinate their
ideas. That civic betterment is
Woman's work and has a definite
place in the lives and plans of
wives and mothers is a we'll estab-
lished fact. Therefore l shall con-
tinue along this line as long as
there is anything to say.
Let the women pull together for
any definite project and things are
bound to happen.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1949-01-21
S.H.S. HONOR ROLL

The Seward Public High School
made public today the names Of
the Is students whose scholastic
averages for the first half Of the
l948-1949 term has made them eli
gible for the honor roll. The list
follows:
Seniors-Jean Brattain, Richard
Cassel, Richard Dangler, Paul Nc
Mullen, Wilma Myers, Jacqueline
Ratchford. and Patsy Woods.
Juniors-Jeannette Lind, Beverly
RenWald, Eleanor Salt, John Salt.
Sophomores-Jack Rafter.
Freshmen-Gail Jacobs, JoAnn
Milroy, Mary Ann Salt, Iris Smith,
and Helen Varnell.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1949-01-21
Girls oufshine Boys in
Mechanics Test

Seward girls will make better
mechanics and business people
than the boys, if the results of the
aptitude tests taken recently at
the Seward High School are any
indication.
In the Detroit General Aptitude
Examination the girls out-ranked
the boys in general intelligence,
mechanical ability and clerical
ability
1t was found that the Seward
High School averaged higher than
the average of $4,000 cases, with
some of the students showing very
high aptitude.
The average mental age of the
girls was II years and eight
months, while the boys showed a
mental age of II years and six
months. This follows the general
rule that at this age girls are
closer to maturity than boys.
Aptitude, however, without ex-
perience and practice has little
value, so when it comes to repair
work on a car or vacuum sweeper
one would still do we'll to call on
the boys.
Seward seaport record. (Seward, Alaska) 1948-195?, 1949-01-21
COMMUNITY
CALENDAR

(This is a public service, per-
formed free of charge by the Sew
ard Seaport RecordD
PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS: Mon
day and Wednesday, 3 to pm;
Tuesday and Saturday, to 9
pm.
JonudYY FL
LIONS CLUB MEETS for noon
luncheon at Totem Fountain.
January "a
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR meets
at pm. at Masonic Temple.
JonumY Is
VIEW and AUXILIARY meet at 8
pm. at LOOT. Hall.
SEWARD wOMENS CLUB meets
at Seward Memorial Church.
January ~
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, base
ment of Episcopal Church.
WOMENS SOCIETY OF CHRIS
tan Service meets, Seward Me-
mortal Church.