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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
NY Taxi Drivers
Planning Strike
For Recognition

New York OPA)-The $4,000
newly organized taxicab drivers in
New York City are planning to
strike this week unless their en-
ployers agree to meet demands for
a "nine-dollar, nine-hour day."
Taxi Drivers Organizing Com
mittee is part of Local 35 of Unit
ed Construction Workers, which is
part of District so of the United
Mine Workers. Decision to strike
if necessary came after employers
had turned down an invitation to
meeting of the 105-member union
advisory committee.
Union spokesman Leon Zwicker
said that union recognition must be
granted because ''the organization
is a fact and an election is unnec-
essary." The drivers could go to
the NY State Labor Relations
Board for an election to prove that
they have a majority of the work
ers, but cannot use the facilities of
the NLRB because the UNIV offic-
ers have not signed anti-Commun-
ist affidavits required by the Taft
Hartley law.
In addition to union recognition,
the cables want closed shop, 1919
bonus for holidays, 40-hour week,
seniority rights, changes in the
system, a $500 life in
surance policy, $26 a week sick
benefit for 26 weeks, health clinic
for their families, and benefits for
diseases "like stomach
ulcers" Besides the SO day for the
day shift they want S11 for the
night shift or 500 of the meter
whichever is higher. They
are now making 421a Ro of the
meter reading, with no guaranteed
minimum.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Unions Turn Down
BowIes Proposal

New York (LPA)-A suggestion
by Gov. Chester Bowles Cd, Conn.,
that northern manufacturers i'm
prove their competitive status by
giving $5O0,000 to unions organ
izing in the south, was panned
here this week by Emil Rieve,
president of Textile Worker 5
Union of America.
Governor Bowles' proposal that
northern manufacturers contribute
to our organizing fund was OBJ
viously made with tongue in
cheek" said Rieve. "But since the
proposal has been discussed SER
iously by the press and some man
ufacturers, l wish to make the at
titude of our union on the proposal
plain. 1t is, of course, completely
unacceptable.
contributions from northern
mill owners would be ill-fitted in
deed. A large proportion of south
ern mills are controlled by north
ern interests who, in their south
ern plants, have fought the union
as bitterly as any other group of
mill owners.
Van Bittner, head of the south
ern organizing drive, reacted much
the same way. Everyone knows"
he declared, "we don't take any
thing from anyone except the men,
bership. Furthermore, if southern
textile mill owners who live in the
north would recognize the union,
we wouldn't have so much trouble
organizing the south"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
7o49 SAFETY PLANS SETAT
LABOR-MANAGEMENT MEETING

Washington (LPA)-A propose
to establish a continuing national
safety conference, to meet In
future years, was approved by 1900
labor, management and state gov
ernment officials at the National
Safety Conference convened here
last week by President Truman and
the Labor Dept.
"It should foster a common effort
to bring all the nations collective
safety experience to the workplaces
of America and should appraise
the effectiveness of this united en-
deavor," it was resolved by the
delegates as they approved re-
port of the coordinating committee
headed by William l.. Connolly of
the Bureau of Labor Standards.
Other members of this committee
included President William Green
of the AFL, CIO President Philip
Murray, James Brownlow of the
AFL Metal Trades Dept, Harry
Read, executive assistant to CIO
Secretary treasurer James CAREY,
Nelson Cruikshank, AFL's Direts-
or of Social Insurance Activities,
and John r. Kumpel of the United
Rubber Workers-CIO.
Safety primarily is the legal
and moral obligation of the en-
ployer," said "A committee on labor
management cooperation for safe
ty, headed by H. C. Zulauf of Alex
ander Smith Carpet Co. and John
Sherman of the Pulp, Sulphite &
Paper Mill Workers-AFL. Sher-
man was prevented by illness from
the sessions. The COM,
mittee's report was adopted after
debate from the floor in which
unionists insisted that safety was
a financial responsibility of the.
as we'll as a moral and
legal one.
Underscoring this, the commit
tee on engineering observed that
'The alteration of a process, or the
substitution of safe ingredient
for an unsafe one, is more fun
damental safety work than the in
sistence that employees wear per-
sonal protective equipment against
a hazard which could be removed
from the process of manufacture
by proper engineering" Subscrib-
ing to this new theory were chair
man James Trainer of Firestone
Rubber Co. and Vice-Chairman
Harvey w. Brown of the Int'l AS
of ,Machinists. Union Of
ficials who helped draft the report
included President Robert Byron of
The Brewery Workers CIO, William
Gallagher of the Painters-AFL,
Hoyt Haddock of the CIO Mari
time Committee, President William
Nc Carthy of the Marble, Slate e.
Stone Polishers-AFL, Paul Sifton
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Urges Congress Balance SocioI
Security Program During 7949

program was originally designed
to do away with the need for pub
lie assistance is paying out less
than one-third that amount in
benefits each year."
These general principles should
be kept in mind when public assist
ance bills are written, the AFL
urged:
1.-The nationwide scope and op-
Grafton of the old age and survi-
vors' insurance program should be
extended to unemployment COM
pensation and to disability insur
ance, but the public assistance pro-
gram should leave wide areas of
discretion to the states. At present,
use of federal funds is limited to
the aged, the blind, and dependent
children. The states should deter
mine who are most in need of
funds.
2-The grants should encourage
states to improve the aid to de-
pendent children.
3-The grants-in-aid should al
low states to decide whether pay
ments for medical care should be
made directly to the persons and
agencies providing medical care
and service or whether they should
be paid by the needy person out of
an assistance grant.
federal financial aid should
De available to the state for well
fare services (such as counseling
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Building Unions
Denied Free Voice
Under tn Law

Washington OPA) = With one
member, John M. Houston, dissent
ing, the NLRB last week interpret
ed the Taft Hartley law to deny
AFL building trades unions the
right to publish lists of unfair en-
ployers in the construction indus
try.
Houston said that the majority
decision is "a dangerous and un-
necessary curtailment of rights
protected under the free speech
section of the act" He pointed out
that if unfair lists are banned
unions are deprived of all rights to
publicize their views about a dis
pute. They are, he said, "enjoined
to silence to a degree which SER
iously imperils their ability to en-
gage in any concerted activity"
The majority of NLRB maintain
ed that AFL Building and Con-
Trades Council in Grand
Rapids, Mich, violated the TIL
secondary boycott ban by keeping
a company which refused to give
its workers closed shop contracts
on the unfair list after the passage
of Taft-Hartley.
By unanimous vote the
board ordered the Grand Rapids
local of the Bricklayers Union-AFL
to permit its members to work for
the open shop company in ques-
ton. That union had ordered it's
members off the company's jobs.
In another case concluded last
week the NLRB ruled that the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
AFL in Montgomery, Ala, had
violated Taft Hartley by picketing
scab work-despite the fact that
the picket line was established be-
fore the anti-union law went into
effect.
This case too involved the TIL
anti-secondary boycott provision,
since the union was picketing a
store in which a non
union contractor was doing re-
novating work.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Hugh |. McNieoI
of cIarksburg
Dies Of iii Heart

Hugh l.. McNicol, president Of
the d. f. McNicol Pottery Co. az
Clarksburg, w. Va, died March "a
in st. Mary's Hospital in Clarks-
burg following long illness Of a
heart ailment. He was 61.
Mr.. McNicol was born Aug. 7,
1887, in East Liverpool, a son of
the late Daniel E. McNicol and
Agnes Cronin McNicol. His father
was one of the city's early pottery
manufacturers. He was an exec
utive of the d. f. McNicol Pottery
Co. here until he went to Clarks-
burg in 1880 to succeed his brother,
the late John McNicol, as head Of
the plant there.
Mr.. McNicol was a member OF
the Immaculate Conception Cath
olic Church and the Knights of
Columbus in Clarksburg.
He leaves his widow, the form
er DR.. Anna Taylor of East Liv-
erpool; two daughters, Helen Nc
Nicol and Catherine McNicol at
home; five sons, Daniel McNicol Of
Clarksburg, and Robert McNicol,
Hugh L. McNicol Jr., Edwin Nc
Nicol and James McNicol, all at
home; two sisters, Misses Mayme
McNicol and Anne McNicol of East
Liverpool, and one grandchild.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Food Price Cuts
Account For Drop
In Living Costs

Washington (LPA)-The cost OF
living went down-especially for
families that spend a large part of
their income on food-between Jan.
Is and Feb. Is, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported last week.
At the same time that the living
cost index declined 1.1Ho, weekly
factory earnings went down slight
ly-from an average of $54.41 to
$54.25. Earnings were lower be-
cause of reduction in the number
of hours worked in iron and steel,
auto, nonferrous metal, rubber,
petroleum and coal, and lumber.
Weekly hours were higher in ap-
parel and leather manufacturing.
The food price drops, which &C
counted for most Of the decrease
in the living cost figure, were
sharp for eggs (down
14% in a month";, lard and marg-
arine, beef and chicken.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Labor Welcomes
Appointment OF
Graham To Senate

Washington (LPA) - Appoint
ment of President Frank p.
Graham Of the University of North
Carolina to the United States Sen
ate last week was hailed by organ
lied labor as a great contribution
to the welfare of this country.
Graham, one of the nations out
standing liberals, was named by
Gov. w. Kerr Scott to fill the Sen
ate seat recently left vacant by the
death of Sen. j. Melville Brough-
ton Cd, E.C.).
The southern educator was on
President Truman's Civil Rights
Commission and said he will con-
tinue to support the President s
program "as specific. measures
come up in the light of what is
most possible and effective at any
given time" Truman was very en-
thusiastic over the appointment,
referring to Graham as a great
American and great citizen.
Labor comment was no less en-
thusiastic. "We commend the ap-
pointment of DR.. Frank P. Graham
to the United States Senate" said
a statement by AFL President
William Green. "We regard DR..
Graham's appointment as an i'm
portant addition to the liberal and
forces representing
southern states in the Senate"
In a telegram congratulating
Governor Scott for the appoint
ment, CIO President Philip Murray
said that "Dr. Graham's wisdom
and expert knowledge of govern
economic and human pro-
blems will now be continually at
the service Of the entire American
citizenry." Murray recalled that
during his service on the War
Labor Board, DIR. Graham demon
strated his exceptional knowledge
Of the economic and human factors
involved in labor-management re-
Iations."
Besides his service on WLB and
the Civil Rights Commission, DR..
Graham served on the NRA, the
UN committee which arranged the
Indonesian truce, and is president
IF the Oak Ridge Institute of
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Union Members In
Congress Help To
Beat Pension Grab

Wa s ington (LPA)-Union
members in Congress played an
important role last week in spiking
the Rankin-led attempt to push an
unecononnic veterans bonus scheme
thru the House of Representatives.
The pension grab," which was de-
feated by only one vote, found the
trade union Congressman 1000 in
the ranks of those who refused to
play the demagogue's game with
Rep. John Rankin Cd, Miss,).
Thruout the two weeks Of man.
uevering the union men stood firm,
while many other Congressman dis
graced their office by voting
against the proposal in voice votes,
and for it when a roll call vote
came.
The union men, like Reps. George
Rhodes (Pa.), Roy Wier (Minn.),
Thomas Burke (Ohio) and Andrew
BiemilIer (Wisc. all Democrats,
IOlAOWtN NitC iCdu ltlhEil dSdIiol LilC
bill by World War III veterans in
Congress.
Many Of these, including Rep.
John Carroll Cd, Colo.), who was
particularly vocal against the Ran
kin measure, and Rep. Richard
Boiling I'd, Mo- former vice
chairman of the American Veter-
an Committee, which mobilized
veteran sentiment against the bill,
were elected primarily on the basis
of trade union support.
In its original form the Rankin
bill would have given pensions of
$50 a month to all World War
and II veterans over the age of 65.
1t would have cost the nation about
S125, ,000,000,000 in its first so
years.
The bill now returns to the Vet
Grams Affairs Committee, from
which it is not expected to re-
emerge this session. !
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
FAIR HAIRED BOY
OF REAL ESTATERS

Washington (LPA)-The real
estate lobby, according to one
of its best friends in the Sen
ate, is composed of "scores of
thousands of the finest citizens
America possesses" That's the
verdict of Sen. Harry Cain Or,
Wash.), delivered as part of his
defense of an end to rent con-
trolls on the floor of the Senate
this week.
To sum up his views, Cain
quoted this ditty, originally of
fered by DR.. Neal of San An
tonic, Tex:
Don't amend it,
Or extend it
You can't defend it.
End it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
Scholarships For
Electricians Sons

New York (LPA)-Every year
two sons of New York City men,
bers of the Int'l Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers-AFL will re-
ceive fve-year scholarships to
Columbia University, it was ann
ounced last week.
Sponsoring the scholarships is
the Joint Industry Board of the
Electrical Industry, composed of
both employers and representatives
of big Local 3 of IBEW. One of
the two annual grants is named
for A. Lincoln Bush, the employer
chairman of the board, and the
other for William A. Hogan, IBEW
treasurer and financial secretary
of Local 3.
It's all a part of the Joint Indus
try Boards program of providing
maximum welfare benefits for
Local members, Bush said in an
nouncing the establishment of the
scholarship fund.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31

Washington (LPA)-The House
Ways & Means Committee was
warned last week by the AFL that
it may be putting the cart before
the horse in taking up bill cover
ing public assistance before ii
tackles the whole question of en-
larging our social insurance sys-
tenn.
In a statement filed with the
committee, the AFL urged that the
Congressman proceed to consider
the Social Security Amendments of
1949 proposed by Chairman Dough
ton Cd, N. c. before it acts on
various proposals to increase and
improve the pu b lie assistance
grants to the states from the fed
eral government.
"In contrast to the failure of
Congress to liberalize or enlarge
the basic insurance program since
1885," the AFL asserted, "the pub
lie assistance program has been
liberalized by basic amendments inv
1916, 1947 and 1948. Each of these
amendments was in the direction
of liberalizing the public assistance
program, in contrast to the gener-
al trend of restricting and limiting
the insurance program.
"The result is a social security
program that is decidedly out of
balance" the Federation pointed
out. "We are spending at the rate
of nearly two billion dollars a year
for public assistance whereas the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31

people were continuing to be un.
employed, and whether many haC
exhausted their insurance benefits
More than three-quarters of the
non-farm unemployed in February
We're covered by the jobless bene-
fits system, Clague added.
Asked about the figures cited by
the United Electrical Workers to
the effect that there are 100000
jobless in the US today, Clague in
dicated that the UE based its fig
ures on Census Bureau door-to-
door surveys, which list domestic
servants and self-employed as we'll
as wage and salary workers, and
which include a large number of
workers who say they have a job,
but aren't working in the particular
week they are questioned. This in
cludes people on vacation, on tenn
porary layoff such as those the
railroads have been using, and
those who are sick.
"If you are thinking of people
who are out of work and who plan
to be full-time workers." Clague
said, then the BIS figure of $780,
900 unemployed applies. "If you
are thinking in terms of decline in
purchasing power" then the UE
figure would be useful, "but that
is an entirely different matter that
may call for entirely different
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-03-31
ConcIave To Plan
Counter-moves On
Blocked Congress

Washington (LPA) - A majoi
counter-offensive against reaction
ary forces in and out of Congress
that have held up the passage ot
liberal legislation will be Launched
at the April 8 to 10 convention OF
Americans for Democratic Action
its acting chairman, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, declared last week.
Among the prominent labor rep
resentatives who will be present at
the ADA meeting, the liberal labor
organizations second annual con-
vention, are AFL President Will
lam Green, CIO Secretary-Trea-
surer James Carey, President David
Dubinsky of the Int'l Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union-AFL, United
Auto Workers-CIO President Walt
er Reuther, Hotel & Restaurant
Workers-AFL President Hug o
Ernst, and President Emil Rieve
of the Textile Workers Union of
America-CIO.
Joining them to make plans for
achieving the Legislative goals
which the people voted for last
November will be such liberal
spokesmen as Sen. Paul Douglas
Cd, Ill.,, Gov. Chester Bowles Cd,
Conn., and DR.. Frank Graham,
new Democratic senator fro m
North Carolina.
Political tactics are scheduled to
receive thoro consideration by the
ADA delegates from chapters thru
out the country. New proposals in
the fields of both domestic and for
eign policy will also be drafted.
In a recent speech to an ADA
audience in his home state Hump
hrey characterized the Republican
Dixiecrat coalition against civil
rights proposals as a shameful
spectacle" He said that the Re-
publicans had sold out their own
policies for the sake of political
expediency, and perhaps have sold
out their own political future.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

or. AMAND LIE Bon was as far as the Nazis
~ went in their 1910 drive to the south.
That far. and no farther: as far as the big dun
walls of the psnsionnsf
At that point the invaders had to reckon
with Papa Pierre and with an Elusive. dis
torted, thin worn substance which sentimental
people provided there are any left in this
world might characterize as the spirit of
France"
1T ALL began long ago. when the Armies of
Bismarck came swarming far to the north and
east OF St. Amand le Bon. and stupid youth
named Pierre was captured by them. While
les Alismands held him in durance. Papa
Pierre. then known only as Pierre the Fat.
manufactured his masterpiece. 1t was pipe.
Various materials went into the construc-
ton of Pierres pipe. A broken stem of amber
- dropped by some officer who visited the
Evening star., 1949-04-03

prison. perhaps; smooth cherry twig; pill
fered block Of brier root After time had per-
formed its proper seasoning. after his fumbling
fingers and horn handled knife had done their
work, Pierre sported the largest pipe in the
captive army.
With peace. Pierre came putting grandly
back to St. Amand lie Bon. He stood en-
horrific tales about his campaign. Every vii
lage the world over has its butt - its hopeless.
doltish jester.
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Pierre's daily bread and wine were earned at
the hostelry of M. Georges and Nine. Mantle.
They conducted hotel of sorts, directly oppo-
site crumbling hulk of sodden stone where
medieval monks had enjoyed ecstasies and
tribulations
PAPA Pierre - he was forever Papa" be-
cause of his girth and whiskers. though he
boasted no children - performed the duties
of gardener. hostler scullion. garbage collec-
tor. and more menial offices of the chambers,
Evening star., 1949-04-03

Occasionally there came reward in the shape
of copper coins and. rarely. silver francs
when travellers strayed that way. These per-
quisites served to stoke Papa Pierre's pipe
with tobacco; there was village joke. purely
legendary. in which the mayor rose screaming
from his bed to summon volunteer firemen .
the hotel was ablaze women and children
must be saved -. it was only Papa Pierre's
pipe, after ALL
BY the time Papa Pierre stood within his
sixties. circa 1914, he was as much part of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-08-15
OBNOXIOUS

Recently The Citizen published a
story, under Tampa dateline. giving an
account of hearing conducted by group
of Florida senators and Legislators to as
certain the attitude of the people of the
state toward the imposition of new taxes
20 increase the states revenue during the
next bennium.
A senator remarked, at the conclusion
at the series of hearings, that practically
everybody favored the states getting more
money, but everybody was against his be-
ing taxed'to supply the extra funds.
Among the proposals was sales tax
to which almost everybody objected. 1t
was generally agreed that of all the pro-
posed taxation, levy on sales is the most
pernicious. 1t not only means that the uti-
mate consumer will pay the tax when he
buys necessities of life, but it also means
that merchants will be subjected to unend-
ing bookkeeping in reporting its collec-
tons of taxes on multitudinous sales.
AS Joe Allen, president of Key West
Better Business Association, remarked in
a story in Saturdays Citizen, everything
consumer buys will have plus" attach
ed to it. That plus" will entail endless
humbug in pooling it every month to send
sales tax money to the state. The plus"
also will appear in advertisements, as is at
present the case in paying federal taxes
on thousands of different articles of mer-
chandise.
Fuller Warren, during his campaign
for the Democratic nomination for COVER
nor, declared repeatedly that he was "un-
alterably against" sales tax. The last
time he commented on that subject he said
he had not changed his attitude. The Citi-
zen trusts that he still feels the same way
about the obnoxious sales tax