The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-04-21
Constitutional
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vention of matters which are their
inherent right to dispose of. In q
word, we are being denied the
same right to function as a nation
al labor union as other labor or
ganizations over the land. Many,
many are the instances where more
learned Judges have refused to
clutter up court procedure with
exclusively organizational matters
when disgruntled members, be-
cause their opinions did not pre-
vail with the majority, attempted
to make cases in their courts, but
not so with Judge Sharp.
Judge Sharp in the shaking fin
guer fashion reprimanded Matte
McGill and Polly Bowyer because,
as officials of subordinate local
unions, they did not protest the
manner their respective locals
voted in the referendum on Duffy
and Jordan salaries of last August.
Therefore, he impugned insincerity
to these two National Convassing
Committee members when they
sought to be consistent and fair by
disposing of their respective locals
case in the same manner as they
did, in deciding similar issues in
volving other locals. How inconsis-
tent, illogical, unreasonable and un-
fair was the Judges attitude in this
instance. Maybe he can clarity for
us the difference between the con-
duct or shortcomings of Matte
McGill and Polly Bowyer in not
having protested their vote at time
of election and the instance of
Whippler and Finlay who con-
sciously accepted the nomination
for President and Vice President,
knowing without question or the
slightest doubt the amount of the
salaries making absolutely no issue
as to legality of same until after
they were defeated in the 1947 ma
tional election.
AS indisputable proof of their
knowledge and information of the
exact salaries, let us relate what
happened in the 1916 Convention.
Local Union No. 124 of which
Whippler was an accredited dele
gate in the 1916 Convention had a
resolution introduced, asking for
resembling the action of the 1914
Convention in establishing the sal
aries which are now at issue. When
the Finance Committee of the Con-
vention brought a recommendation
to the floor of the convention to
reject Local 124's proposal for re-
scinding t h e 1914 Convention
action, Whippler sat in his seat and
despite the fact that a delegate
from another local arose and took
him to task for not endeaving to
have his locals resolution adopted,
he. still remained silent. In view of
this perfect lethargy, indifference
and failure to protest the fixed sal
aries and as above set forth,
Whippler and Finlay's entering the
1947 national election without hav-
ing protested the salaries until
after they had been defeated.
May we ask the Judge why ne
did not apply the same reasoning
to Finlay and Whippler in these in
stances as he so sharply imposed
upon Matte McGill and Polly
Bowyer in circumstances so per-
fectly similar in every respect and
say to them since you did not pro-
tese these salaries before you con-
tested for the Offices and did so
only after you had been rejected
by the membership when you
election in 1947 and the
Judge could also, especially added
that since the matter had been
aired in two previous National
Conventions in all detail, you are
guilty likewise as he so unhesit-
aitly and decisively implied that
Matte McGill and Polly Bowyer
had been guilty of shortcomings
in not protesting the manner OF
their local voting. Maybe the Judge
can enlighten us as to the peculiar.
ity of this differentiation of this
reasoning in such perfectly similar
Another strange anomy is the
acceptance by Whippler and john
ston, two of the complainants, of
a so per cent increase in compen-
sation while serving as members
of National Wage Conference Com
when said 80 per cent was
the result of adoption in the 1914
of the one and same
resolution that increased the sal
aries of Duffy and Jordan which
they were parties to making an
issue of in court. 'Oh inconsistency
thou are jewell.
Just thought, does any member
truly believe that if Whippler and
Finlay had been successful in seek
ing election to the Presidency and
Vice Presidency to the Brotherhood
i'm the l947 election that they
would now be in court raising ques-
tion Of legality of the salary in
creases for these two Offices.
Many were the comments of