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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
Building Workers
Aware To Need
OF Higher Output

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). =
Frank Boazley, industrial advisor
to the National Federation of
Building Trade Operatives in Clap
ham, England, told a press confer
ence here that the workers in the
British building trades are aware
of the need to increase production
in their country.
"The building industry has taken
a keen interest in productivity y
Boazley said. "A few years ago a
joint labor-management coun i
was set up to see how productivity
could be improved. Following this,
regional councils were set up to
study the problems, and make re-
concentrations for improvement.
We have improved in some mea-
sure, not as far as we'd like, but
we are going along the road"
The British trade unionist is one
of a 17-man team now in this
country from England to study
production methods in the Ameri-
can building and construction in
dustry. Boazley added that he is
certain that the tour which has
been arranged for the team by the
Economic Cooperation Administra-
TONS Technical Assistance Project
office will bear fruit.
The building trades group was
just beginning its American trip.
Also in Washington. at the same
time were 10 men from Great Bri-
tain's pressed metals industry.
This team has just concluded a
months study of productivity met
hods in Is American plants.
Bert M. Jewell, labor advisor to
ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoff-
man, told the teams that American
labor is amazed and pleased at the
commendable attitude taken by
British labor toward the problem
of increasing productivity. "You
have seen and recognized the pro-
blem," he said. american labor
wants to help. We are not critical,
we want to be of every assistance
possible
Jewell added that he felt that the
new world labor organization now
in process of being formed will
contribute great deal, not only
toward peace, but to help build
better world labor movement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25

not want to stand still where they
are now. We found a good rela-
tionship between management and
labor everywhere we went. Ger
tainly we did not see any evidence
of what has been described by
some writer's as slave labor"
Just before the team returned
to England they talked over their
findings with ECA Administrators
Paul Hoffman. The Britishers told
him that they had learned much
that will be of value to Britain's
effort in the European Recovery
Program and that they had been
able to give American industry
some good tips too.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
SfeeIworker Visitors Return To
Brifoin After u. S. Plant Tour

London (LPA) - The u nj t d
! Steelworkers came in for some
high praise from Cyril A. Mawson,
a press operator and die setter at
an Oxford, England steel plant
who has just returned from tour
of American pressed metal plants.
Mawson was member of the
team of 10 British steel managers,
technicians and workers who re-
Gently visited the US. They came
as part of the Economic Coopera-
tion Administration spons or d
Anglo-American Pro d u ct vi t Y
Councils program of exchanging
British and American production
"know how"
"We were very pleased with the
fine organization of the United
Steelworkers in Pittsburgh and the
great knowledge which they have
of plant costs, profits, etc." Nav
son declared. at shows the unions
in America are on their toes, just
as management does it's best to in
crease production and cut down
COSTS"
Mawson was struck too by the
success of the American steel in
dustry in so equipping its plants
that work can go on in weather
hotter than that which British
1ryOYlar- avnoriopoa
"The men worked steadily and
showed skill comparable to that
of the best British men in the same
fields" he added.
AAPC has succeeded in enlisting
full cooperation from American
labor and management in it's pro-
gram of exchange visits, Mawson
indicated. 'In every plant which
we visited, men-including works
managers, supervisors and the
men at the machines took time out
to explain all their equipment and
processes.
"We swapped ideas and We'll all
get lot out of it. The hospitality
of the men in these plants, the
managers, the unions and the in
dividual workers has really touch
ed our hearts," the Oxford men
concluded.
Another member of the British
team, Edgar James Young, a die
maker at the Vauxhall auto plant
at Luton, England, refuted some
"horror stories" that have been
spread abroad about American in
dustry.
Before coming to the US, |
had read reports in one or two Bri-
tish newspapers saying that Am
erican foundry workmen never
smiled and were a thoroughly un-
happy lot. That certainly isn't true
in the plants we visited in Mass
achusetts, New York, Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Ohio and
other parts of the country" Young
3 asserted.
"The men Indicated" he went
on, "That they were we'll salts
fed with wages and working con-
ditions, although of course they do
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
Insurance Lobby
Backs Probe OF
Life Insurance

Washington (LPA)-The insur-
ance lobby won a major victory
/ last week when it succeeded in
blocking a Congressional investi-
cation of the $56,000,000,000 life
insurance industry.
The investigation resolution had
been approved by the House and
Senate Judiciary Committees, but
the Senate Rules Committee, which
has to approve the appropriation
of funds for all investigations,
turned it down. This kills the pro-
posal for full scale joint Con-
gressional investigation which had
been proposed by Senator McCar-
ran Cd, New and Rep. Emanuel
Celler Cd, N.Y..
Chairman Carl Hayden's only
excuse for turning down the pro-
posal was that his committee did
not have enough information to
warrant acting He said Celler and
McCarran had testified but only
four members of the committee
were present and the testimony
was not recorded. $50 the COM
mittee is virtually without pertin-
ent information," Hayden said with
a straight face.
Celler expressed great disap-
pointment at the action of the
Senate Committee-but gave no in
dication whether he would try to
obtain approval for a separate
house investigation. Probably such
an attempt would be futile this
late in the session. Celler indicated |
also that an investigation of the
life insurance industry was too
big project for his monopoly in
committee to under
take at this time.
1t looks, therefore, as though
Congress will ignore charges that
-he insurance companies with their
vast assets, their interlocking dir
and their tremendous in
comes are monopolizing invest
nent funds and channeling them
nto the hands of big corporations
through privately arranged financ-
ng deals. If this is threat to the
;o-called free enterprise system,
Congress apparently isn't interest
ID.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
New Social Security Bill Now
Before House Rules Committee

Washington IPA)-After years
Of pleading from two presidents,
the Social Security Board, a spec
ial commission appointed by the
Republican 80th Congress, and
even the US Chamber Of Com
merce, Congress finally has draft
ed a bill to modernize the social
security law.
The new bill, approved by the
House Ways & Means Committee
and now pending before the House
Rules Committee, goes long way
forward, but despite the years OF
waiting and Ia weeks work by the
committee still falls short of the
Administrations recommendations
1t now faces three major risks
l.. That it will be blocked by the
House Rules Committee. Union
members are urged to write that
committee and demand quick ac-
ton.
2. That the Townsend bill, i'm
posing a straight three percent tax
deduction on every salary in Am
erica of more than $3.50 a month,
will reach the House floor first.
3. That the Senate will adjourn
before acting on the House mea
sure. 1t has not even started work
ing on the momentous Legislation
but could complete action quick
ly if it wanted.
Highlights of the new bill in
clude:
/. Old-age insurance would be
extended to about 100000 new
persons in addition to the 35 mill
ion now eligible. About 2.6 million
now receiving old age benefits
would have their monthly pay
ments increased an average of 70
percent. Increases would range
from so percent on the highest
groups to as much as $50 percent
for the lowest. The average min
imum benefit Of $26 month for a
retired worker would be increased
to nearly S45.
2. New groups covered would be
about As million non-farm self
employed persons other than doc
tors, lawyers and other profess
ionals whose net earnings are
more than S400 a year; 3.S million
employees of state and local gov
ernments if their states work out
compacts with the federal govern
ment; 100000 domestic servants
whose earnings are $25 a week or
more; 100000 employees of nonpro-
fit institutions other than minist-
ers and members of religious
orders; 100000 agricultural pro-
cessing workers off the farm;
about 100000 federal employees in
cluding dollar a year" men; 150,-
900 Americans employed outside
the US; 100000 statesmen, taxi
drivers, industrial home workers
and others who were dropped from
social security by last years Re-
publican Congress and 250,O00I
workers in the Virgin Islands and
Puerto Rico.
3. New old-age insurance bene-
Ga g. Il
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
New Jersey To Pay
Workers in Strike

Trenton, n. j. (ILNS)-A state
board of appeals has awarded un-
employment benefits to 1000 Ford
workers in New Jersey who were
laid off during a strike in the COM
pany's Detroit plant. The board,
an appeal body of the state en-
|ployment security division, said it
was concerned over the possibility
that the ruling might encourage
unions to call strikes.
Workers at Ford's Metuchen and
Edgewater plants will not get the
S225,000 in disputed payments i'm
mediately. The company has 80
days in which to appeal to the
State Superior Court.
Most of the New Jersey workers
were laid off May II, several days
after the United Automobile Work
ers called the Detroit strike, and
returned to their jobs June z.
The state unemployment COM
pensation law withholds benefits
where unemployment is due to a
labor dispute at the factory, estab-
lishment or other premises at
which he (the worker) is employ
ed" The board held that the New
Jersey plants were not in the
same establishment as the Detroit
plant.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
FRENCH UNIONISTS
HERE TO STUDY US
UNIONS, INDUSTRY

New York (LPA)-Union mem
bers of the French productivity
team which arrived here last week
to study U.s. heavy electrical
equipment industry are spending
three weeks in Philadelphia, and
will have plenty of opportunity to
visit with US electrical union of
ficials and rank-and-filers.
The IL French unionists, part
of 17-man team visiting the US
under ECA auspices, expect to
study US unions activities as well
as the industrial know-how of the
electrical equipment plants they
visit.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25

A. Persons who retire in the
future would have their benefits
about doubled under a new form
ula.
5.A prece d e n t-breaking new
benefit would be provided for work
ers totally and permanently dis
abled. Everyone covered by old age
insurance would be protected under
the disability insurance. Benefits
would be the same as for old age.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
nam Intervenes
In Hearings To
Block Pay Boost

New York (LPA)-There was a
Wall st. witness, and big busi-
ness witness, both appearing on
the time allotted to steel manufac-
turers by the fact-finding board
holding hearings last week on the
United Steelworkers demands on
the industry for pensions, insur-
ance and pay boosts.
! USA spokesmen sat thru the
Wall st. witness, John Hancock of
the Lehman Bros. banking firm.
But when Ira Mosher appeared for
the Natl Association Of Manufac-
turers-to charge that to grant
any part Of the unions demands
would "grease the skids for a de-
pression-the union men took a
walk.
The former NAM president, who
appeared on the industry's time,
but was disclaimed even by Vice
president John S. Stephens of US
Steel, gave the three fact finders
named by President Truman a long
lecture.
THE recommendation which this
panel may make" Mosher intoned,
"even though it be not technically
binding on either party, is never
theless bound to have a profound
Influence upon each of these COM
panies and many others.
~ believe the steel companies
have done a disservice to industry
and to the people of this country
in agreeing to appear before this
panel, even though such agreement
resulted from unprecedented pres
sure exerted both by the union
here involved and by the national
Administration"
The union this week will have
time for rebuttal, and summary
of their demands, a 3Oc-an-hour
pay increase made up of a pension
program, social insurance for steel
workers and their families, and a
pay increase.
Besides Hancock and Mosher,
the steel industry brought before
the board DR.. Jules Bachman, New
York University professor who has
specialized for years in pro-indus-
try writings and speeches before
audiences. Bachman in
sisted that the steel industry's pro-
fits (now at a record high) weren't
high enough to give the industry
the incentive it needed to progress.
He likewise claimed that pay
boosts were not justified by the in
creasing productivity of steel
workers; though he also argued
that productivity had improved but
would soon be on the downgrade
again.
Spokesman for "little steel" and
for steel fabricating
that have to buy their
;teel from the big corporations,
claimed that their part of the in
iustry would be bankrupted by
pay increase now.
The three fact-fnders have until
.he end of the month to report to
President Truman. Their recon-
are not binding, but it
S hoped that impartial findings
will head off a nationwide strike
If USA members in September.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
Anderson Kills
Brannan Plan
Consumers To Pay

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Agriculture Committee has joined
with the House in voting to junk
the Brannan farm program and
force consumers to pay the full
support price for foods, instead OF
letting prices drop as Secretary
Brannan proposed.
Unless the Senate overturns the
Committee, which is considered
highly unlikely, this means that
the Brannan program is dead for
this year and will be an issue in
next years Congress and next
years elections. The issue will not
die, because it involves the prices
consumers pay for food, and that
will remain a political issue as
long as food prices are high.
Neither the consumer nor the
farmer will fare as well under the
compromise worked out by the Sen
ate as under the Brannan program.
The compromise bill provides for a
flexible parity, with support prices
maintained at from rs to 90 per-
cent of parity-which is a price
designed to assure farmers a fair
share of national income. This
means that the farmer will not get
what the figures indicate are real
ly fair prices. He will have to take
a discount.
Likewise the consumer will not
get the break Brannan wanted him
to get. Under Brannan's program
the farmer would get a full parity
for his products, but the consumer
would only pay the market price,
on perishable goods, and the gov
ernment would make up the diff
ferences in production payments
to the farmer.
The difference between these two
methods may cost consumers bill
lions of dollars in higher prices for
food. Instead of getting meat and
eggs at reduced prices, they are
likely to have to continue paying
60 cents or better for a dozen eggs
and continued high prices for milk.
The same is true of many other
commodities, including potatoes, al
though in the case of potatoes the
consumer will benefit from a lower
support price at the expense of the
farmer. At the same time the con-
sumer will have to pay taxes to
finance the support program.
Brannan's program did not get
anywhere in the Senate Commit
tee because Senator Clinton p. An
derson Cd, NM, Brannan's pre-
decessor as Secretary of Agricul.
ture turned against it. Anderson
had indicated to the administration
he would support Brannan's plan,
but when the chips were down, he
joined the opposition.
In backing down, Anderson was
following the lead of the big mon
opoly- minded farm organizations
the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton and the Grange-instead of |
the liberal Natl Farm Labor
Union. He did the same thing as
Secretary of Agriculture.
The New Mexico Senator also
showed his colors last week as
chairman of the Senate conferees
on the cotton marketing bill. When
House conferees arrived to nego-
late with the Senators they found
the room filled with lobbyists for
.he American Farm Bureau Fed
sration. They were shocked. Con-
'erences are about the only place
obbyists usually don't get into.
But this time they stayed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
PHOTO ENGRAVERS MEET

Columbus, Ohio (LPA) i Dele
gates to the 10th annual conven-
tion of the Int'l Photo Engravers
of North America-AFL last week
heard Secretary-Treasurer Phil
Hannah, of the Ohio State Fedora
tion of Labor, call for "the great
est political offensive in labor's
history" in the 1850 Congressional
elections.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25
WARNING-SECRECY AHEAD

Washington (LPAl - If you
think it's hard now to find out
what the big boys in the corpora
tions receive, just wait. Congress
has recently passed a bill repeal
ing a requirement that the salar-
les of all corporation officials re-
ceiving over $4,000 year be pub
lished by the Treasury Dept.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-08-25

The most disconnected woman
we know is married to a man who
won't argue, and who adds to her
confusion by making frequent and
profuse apologies, most of which
she says are absolutely unwarrant-
cd
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Jewish Doctor Reinsfated
By Reich City After Protests
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

OFFENBACH, Germany, Nov. 4.
-Odenbach has given its answer
10 charges of anti-Semitism by
reinstating a Jewish doctor as a
city physician.
The doctor, Herbert Levin, was
named chief Of the women's clinic
by the city council last night. The
vote was 20 to Is in favor of DR..
Levin over a German doctor tenn
porarily appointed to the post.
The councilmen also suspended
the deputy mayor, holding that he
was responsible for the cancella-
ton In September of DR.. Lewin's
original appointment.
That action touched off a con-
troversy. German newspapers
charged nti-Semitism was gov
erning factor in the case, and
American Military Government
officials ordered an investigation.
The deputy mayor had said he felt
DR.. Levin might resent treating
non-Jews" because Of the abuse
Jews were subjected to during the
Mani regime.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
By Crashes Into Sea
Off Bermuda, Killing
10 Of 13U. ). Airmen
BY the Associated Press

HAMILTON. Bermuda, Nov. 4.
"A B-29 Superfortress, crippled
by engine trouble, crashed into
the sea mile from shore last
night. The big plane caught fire
after hitting the water and 10
of the 13 American airmen aboard
were killed.
-Four crewmen managed to jump
out after the stricken bomber
plowed into the waves, but one
died Of burns a few minutes later.
The three survivors, rescued by
an oil company executive in
rowboat, were taken to the United
States base hospital at nearby
Kindley Field with minor injuries.
Bermudians watching from
shore could hear the screams Of
the others trapped in the blazing
ship.
Col. Jack Merrill, Kindley Field
commander. said the plane had
turned back from a weather OBJ
servation flight when one Of its
four engines failed. Losing alti-
tude, the disabled plane ap-
preached Kindley Field but was
unable to land because another
plane was on the runway, Col.
Merrill said.
Unable to regain altitude on
three motors, the ship crashed
into the sea.
Witnesses said the plane
smacked into the sea with ter
rifle force. skipped over the water
like skimming stone and then
settled slowly a mile from Ber-
muda's north shore. Escaping
gasoline caught fire.
William Gleason, operator man.
ager Of nearby Standard OH Co.
docks, and two st. George resi-
dents put out in a row boat and
picked I'm the three sI,rvivors
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Book Says Lewis Regards Steel
And Autos Ally Against Coal

coal and you stop steel. Stop steel
and you stop autos and then tires
and every part of our economy.
Therefore, as a strike pro-
crosses. the hostility of the press
and the Government begins to
build up pressure against us; but
on the other hand the pressures
for profits in steel and autos also
develop and increase.
THE industrialists of autos and
steel begin to apply pressure on
the coal operators to accede~ to
our demands, SO that their own
fabulous profits will not be inter-
rupted. Thus we become the i'm
movable anvil, with the operators
lying on us being hammered into
surrender by the pounding blows
of steel, autos (here Lewis
laughed and all our other indus
trial allies or accomplices. If you
will"
Mr.. Alinsky wrote that "to
Lewis the labor movement should
be independent and strong enough
to force the Government to re-
spond to its will. rather than that
labor should respond to the de-
! sireS of the Government"
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Year. Round Sessions
For Prince Georges
County Schools Urged

A proposal that Prince Georges
County schools be operated on a
12-month basis, with staggered
quarterly vacation periods, as a
means Of relieving overcrowded
conditions was presented last
night to the County Civic Fedora
ton.
The organization, after receiv-
ing resolution to that effect
from Walter F. Mulligan. its pres
ident, designated a committee of
II to study the proposals. The
committee was directed to report
back at a future federation
meeting.
Such a plan, Mr.. Mulhgan as
serted, would provide for full
utilization of school buildings,
thus reducing the number of
pupils in any given term by one
fourth.
Pay Would Be Year Round.
The emergency measure, If
adopted. also would enable the
county to provide year. round SAL
aries for teachers. instead Of only
10 months as at present. Mr.. Multi
gan pointed out.
He warned Of the possibility of
overbuilding in the next few
years, asserting that such a build
ing need may decline within the
next two decades. His proposal,
he added. also would provide the
county respite from the problem
of selling new bond issues to a
public already burdened to the
limit with bond servicing charges
on past issues"
In submitting the resolution, MIR.
Mulligan urged federation mem
bers to give 1t serious study.
30S Classrooms Needed.
The federation head said coun-
ty school officials have reported a
need for 308 more "acceptabIe"
classrooms to meet anticipated en-
rollments in the next year or so.
To construct these would cause
the present tax levy to rise to an
unbearable level" the resolution
stated.
Evening star., 1949-11-04
Soft Coal Production
Drops 145,124,000 Tons
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

Soft coal production is now
about l45,124 900 tons behind last
year. Most Of the difference can
be attributed to work stoppages
by the United Mine Workers, in
cluding the current strike which
rounds out its seventh week to-
morrow.
The National Coal Association
reported today that bituminous
production from January /
through October 20 this year was
approximately 349.148,000 tons.
In the corresponding period Of
1913 it was 494 .272, 1000.
Production last week is estimat-
ed at 2,760, 900 tons. In the corre-
spending week last year it was 12,.
805,000. The previous week this
year 1t was 2,540,000.
Last weeks production was from
mines manned by UNIV workers
west of the Mississippi, those
manned by the independent Pro-
gressive Miners Union, and nom
union mines.