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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Comment On
World Events

Was defeat Of the Labor govern
ments in New Zealand and Aus
tralia a few weeks ago defeat
for the welfare state? Not ex-
actly, opines Max ID. Danish in his
Pins & Needles department Of
Justice, newspaper Of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union. Says Danish:
"Recall the joyous acclaim with
which practically the entire Ameri-
can press hailed the defeat by a
tiny margin Of the Labor Govern
ment in New Zealand after Ia
years in office, as defeat for the
welfare state?
Zone week later, most Of our
newspapers saw affirmation of the
new 'anti-welfare trend in the Aus
tralian vote, which unseated the
Labor cabinet in the land Down
Under and put Liberal-Country
coalition in office. Menzies, the
Premier -presumptive of Australia
however, poured some cold water
on our 'anti-welfarists' by declar-
ing that his new government was
not planning to abolish or modify
the public welfare measures insti-
tuted by labor"
Comes now," Editor Danish con-
tinues, "the conservative U. S.
News and World Report, leading
businessmen's and free enterprise
weekly, with compound report
from Wellington, n. T., London,
England, and Washington, declar-
ing:
"'Voters in New Zealand are
somewhat surprised to see how ser
iously the rest Of the world is TAX
ing their decision to throw out Of
office the labor party e. Labor's
socialist program is not under at
tack. . New Zealanders just voted
to change men, not politics. . i
government will con-
tinue building homes and operating
banks, railroads, radio
broadcasting, the telegraph sys-
tenn, coal mines and other indu-
Stries.
"The U. S. News adds: Com
munists don't amount to much in
New Zealand as third party. :.
But they ran 16 candidates of their
own who took votes away from thel
Labor party. ;. The Nationalists,
who profited, wanted to ban thei
Communist party in New Zea-
land.'"
:. !. :.
Speaking at the London confer
ence which formed the Information
al Confederation of Free Trade |
Unions, AFL President William
Green said:
"The free trade unions of the
world now face a worldwide total |
itarian conspiracy. This conspiracy
aims to foist on the workers of all |
free countries a system of econ
Omic exploitation and political op-
preston which would set labor
back hundreds of years. 1t would
rob workers of their human, poll
tical and social rights. =.
"We have learned out of our war
revolution and count
er-revolution that only the max
imum cooperation of the forces de-
voted to human freedom and Soc
ial and economic justice can pre-
serve liberty, freedom and justice.
That is why we want a strong, mil
tant, fighting international con-
federation of free trade unions. We
are ready to give our all to such a
But the greatest contri
oution American labor can make to
his movement is in the moral and
spiritual sense rather than in the
Our undying hatred of
very form of slavery and despot-
SIN is the greatest contribution we
,an make. Our unstinting devo-
ion to human freedom and social
Justice is the most priceless asset
If international labor solidarity"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Gompers' Brother
Unable To Attend
AFL Fete Jan. 5

Norwalk, Conn. LPA) = Simon
Gompers, 81, youngest and last
surviving brother of Samuel Comp
ers, founder and longtime pres
ident of the American Federation
of Labor, will not be able to attend
the big dinner in Washington Jan
IS marking the Tooth anniversary
of the birth of Samuel Gompers.
He is confined to bed in a GONZALES
cent home here, nursing a badly
infected leg, and can't be moved
except in an ambulance.
Only close associates of the late
Sam Gompers knew Simon is still
alive. He had always kept out of
the limelight, and his name came
into the news recently only because
he wrote to Louis M. Wicklein sec
retary-treasurer of the Sheet Metal
Workers, after reading an article
in the unions journal about some
old-times. Simon supplied many
more names.
Simon joined a tin and slate
roofers' local of the Knights of
Labor back in the late sos, which
makes him a trade union member
of more than 60 years. In 1896 he
started a small repair shop in New
York and got a withdrawal card.
He gave up the shop in 1910 and
joined the Sheet Metal Workers.
He has been a member in good
standing since. He insists on pay
ing his dues, and expects to do so
until he dies.
He has been living in Norwalk
since 1923, has a sister, over 80,
living in Boston, has four married
children, IL grandchildren, and IT
great-grandchildren.
To Moe Rosen, vice president of
the union, who visited him, Simon
said, 81 have been laid up almost
a year and if any of the Sheet
Metal brothers still remember me,
| would be glad to have a card or
letter"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Union Lauds Boss,
Boss Lauds Union
In Stamford, Conn.

Stanford, Conn. (LPA)-The 60C
members of the Lodge 1887, Inter
national Association of Machinists
like their boss, and their boss likes
them, and Gov. Chester Bowles is
proud of both. The lodge members
are telling the story of the excel
lent labor-management to the city
and state, by radio, newspaper, and
by advertising.
First step in the Lodges public
relations program was the publica-
tion in the Machinist, lam nation
al weekly, Dec. 8 issue, of two full
pages of pictures showing the good
labor relations and careful work
manship that goes into the making
of Schick electric shavers. Second
step was an IAM-sponsored radio
program, Labor Speaks" Third
step will be newspaper advertising
reprinting the material from The
Machinist.
Appearing together on the radio
program were: Donald Martin,
Lodge president; Gov. Bowles; and
Kenneth C. Clifford, president of
Schick, Inc.
Said Martin: "As the largest
union in this area, we are convin-
ced that cooperation with fair
minded arrangements is to the mu-
tual advantage of everyone. We are
convinced that by intelligent CO.
operation, as equals, with the lead
ers of industry and the leaders in
our community, we can provide a
secure and better way of life for
our members and friends"
Said Gov. Bowles: Something
very significant is happening here
in Stamford-something that will
bring great deal of attention and
praise from across the country.
And it will be worth all the praise
and attention it gets. For here a
labor union, of its own accord, is
getting together to sponsor and
promote the product its company
manufactures. These employees are
telling forcibly and publicly of
their good relations which have de-
veloped with their company, of
their fine working conditions, their
above average wage levels, and of
their successful cooperation on
labor problems"
Said Clifford: "We are fortunate
in doing business with a union
which has the foresight to recog-
nize the overall best interests of
the company, the employees and the
union itself depend upon their mu-
tual cooperation. This type of intel
ligent working together makes it
possible for the company to pro-
vide high wages for its employees
which in turn strengthens the
economic life of the community"
Ask for Union Labeled merchan,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
.AMA's British
Doctors Exposed

Washington (LPA)-The British
doctors who are being shipped
around the country by the ANA to
tell the people of America how bad
"socialized medicine" is in Great
Britain are being gradually expos
ed.
Recently, it was disclosed that
DR.. E. F. st. John Lyburn, adver-
tised by the ANA as a doctor who
quit the British medical service be-
cause of bureaucratic controls,
had been reprimanded by his fell
low-doctors in Britain for unethical
advertising. The ANA planned to
bring him here for propaganda
purposes, but Lyburn has decided
to stay in Britain and live with the
British medical system.
An ex-British doctor&R. J. Gam
pell-has been making speeches all
over America for the ANA con-
demning the British program. In
quiry of Glenn Whitaker, publicity
chieftain for the ANA, disclosed
that DR.. Gampell is not lecturing
entirely for his convictions. He is
being paid $400 a month by the
ANA, plus expenses, in addition to
what he can earn as practising
physician in Los Angeles. Gam
pell's story is that he could not
make enough to live under the Bri-
tish program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Farm Programs
Help Big Farms,
Economists Say

Washington (LPA) - Evidence
that the billions spent by govern
ment in the past 20 years to sup
port farm prices have helped the
big farmers more than the little
ones was presented to the Con-
gressional Economic Committee
studying low incomes by two Uni
versity of Chicago economists.
D. Gale johnson and Theodore
w. Schultz presented statistics
showing that despite the govern
ment programs and improved agri-
cultural conditions the gap between
high income and low income farm
ers was as great as it was 20 years
ago. They said the poorer farmers
and poorer areas had little political
influence and were not represented
by the major farm organizations.
With the exception of the Farm
Security Program and the feed and
seed loans, the economists said,
most farm programs have tended
to favor the larger farmers. The
special measures directed at low
income farmers have been offset by
the other agricultural aids, they
contended.
When Rep. Rich Cd, Pa.) ex-
pressed surprise that this data had
been presented by outside econ
omists, rather than the Agricul-
ture Department, Chairman Spark
man Cd, Ala.) and the witnesses
replied that Congress had forbid
den the department to make such
studies and collect such statistics.
Critics of the American Farm
Bureau Federation and the Ma
tional Grange have long contended
that these two powerful farm
groups spoke for the big, rather
than the little farmers. Both are
now fighting the Brannan farm
program, which would tend to help
small farmers more than the big
ones.
Schultz testified that standards
of living in some rural communities
in the United States were as low
as in Eastern Europe before the
war, or in India. He said these con-
ditions were created by the way
our economy has developed, and
not by "any original differences in
the cultural values or capabilities
of the peoples themselves.
Contending that in the depressed
areas population was too dense for
the resources to support, the econ
omists said the remedy was the
introduction of industry into such
areas, and provisions to increase
the mobility of the people so they
would move to other areas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
likes Old Backers
Start To Wonder

! Washington LPA) = General
/ Dwight Eisenhower, that old mon
political" may be losing some of
his renowned ability to win friends
and influence people.
James G. Crowley, who does a
weekly program for the AFL over
the American Broadcasting Sys-
tenn, poked a little fun at General
"Ike," the night of Dec. 6. Crowley
observed, as others have, that the
generals distaste for security was
hardly in line with his apparent
enjoyment of the military form of
welfarism throughout his adult
life.
Crowley pointed to Ike's $3.50
salary which he still draws as a
five-star brass hat, his $4,000 year
special allowance, his free medical
care as a soldier, and his military
aide, a major. The general also
gets a tycoon,s pay plus luxur-
ious home from Columbia Univer-
sity. Crowley contrasted Ike's Sc
curity with that of the one fourth
Of American families who have to
get by on less than $1,000 year.
Naturally Crowley got some mail
from listeners. The letter that
tickled him most came from a bus
inessman in Hyattsville, Md. Here's
what the man said:
"Just line to let you know that
your talk concerning General Els
enhoWer's recent utterances was
particularly eff &c tive, and |
thoroughly agree with your argu-
ments."
The letter was signed:
Henry d. Spalding
Founder and Natl Chairman,
Draft Eisenhower for President
League (Last Presidential Cam
paign).
In recent speeches, Eisenhower
has sounded like a Republican can
didate for the presidency in 1862.
In Galveston, Tex, he told lunch
con group that if people wanted
security they could find it in prison
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Butcher Workmen
Sign With Armour

Chicago nPA)-Armour & Co.,
one of the Big Four packers, has
signed new master contract with
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters q
: Butcher Workmen-AFL, which rep
resents 10000 workers in 13 Arm
our plants. The contract runs to
Aug. II, 1850, with a wage re-
opening permitted after Feb. 10.
Wage increases are retroactive to
Oct. 81.
Terms include a wage increase
of from a half cent to Is cents fo:
all but the common labor" wage
bracket. Each pay bracket is now
3 cents apart instead of 2A cents.
An additional flat 2l2 cent boost
is provided for workers in Armour
plants at Huron, S. Dak., Grand
Forks, n. Dak., Green Bay, Wis,
Memphis, Tenn, and Lexington,
KY.
Other provisions: workers with
Is years or more of service get
plant-wide seniority; three weeks
vacation after Is years service for
both men and women (men pre-
viously had to put in 20 years.;
and employees are guaranteed 80
hours work for the first five days
of any work week.
The contract is similar to that
signed late last month by Armour.
and the United Packinghouse
Workers, which represents about
$4,000 Armour workers. The Anal
gamated and the UPWA, working
together in their bargaining pro-
grams, signed up Swift q Co., III
October.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
0'Mahoney Plans
Early Probe OF
Steel Price Hike

Washington (LPA)-Denouncinl
the new steel price increase, Chair.
man Joseph c. O'Mahoney Cd
Wyo.) has submitted facts on the
profits of the industry to members
of the Joint Congressional Econ
omic Committee with a view tC
holding an open investigation OF
the price rise shortly after Christ
mas.
In view of the current profits IN
the industry, Senator OMahoneJ
said, the industry "is not justified
in levying an increased tax upor
the whole economy of the United
States"
"The steel industry as whole
and the United States Steel Co. in
particular" O'Mahoney added, "are
enjoying extraordinary profits ex-
ceeding even those of the record
year of 1948. Standard and Poor's
Corporation Records is authority
for the statement that profits, after
taxes, of most of the larger steel
companies were much greater dur
ing the first nine months of 1949
than in the first nine months OF
1913.
Omitted States Steel reported
profits after taxes of 1929, ,00C
for the first three quarters of this
year as compared with $88,042,0OC
in the same period of 1948, and
! 1948 was a most profitable year
Bethlehem, in 1949, had profits
amounting to $S2,S98,O00 as COM
pared with $53, 900 a year ago,
and Republic $35, 5,348,000 as COM
pared with $29,813,000.
"In the face of this amazing re-
cord of earning power, record
which is borne out by additional
statistical material which shows
that in 1948 the steel industry as
a whole was enjoying the highest
rate of return in more than 25
years, | feel definitely that there
should be no steel price increase
at this time. The industry will be
acting against its own interest and
against the interest of all American
business if it persists"
O'Mahoney called attention to
the fact that the Steel Industry
Fact Finding Board had indicated
that steel prices should be lowered
rather than increased.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
ANTITRUST SUIT
FILED AGAINST CELANESE

New York (LPA)-The Depart
ment OF Justice has filed suit in
Federal Court here charging Gel
anese Corp. of America with un-
reasonable restraint of competition
by its merger in 1915 with Tubize
Rayon Corp. The suit asked that
the merger be declared illegal and
that Celanese be permanently en-
joined from acquiring any concern
competing in the manufacture of
rayon warp-knit fabrics without
the courts consent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Republican Census
Smear Collapsed
In Senate Hearing

Washington (LPA)-The Repub-
lican effort to make political am
munition out of the proposal to col
lect income data as part Of the
1850 census collapsed in a hearing
before the Congressional Small In
come Committee Dec. 13.
Rep. Robert Rich (R., Pa.), who
voiced all the objections the most
reactionary Republicans have been
making, was thoroughly squelched
not only by the evidence but also
by his own committee colleagues
including Republican Senat tor
Flanders, of Vermont.
Chairman Sparkman d., Ala. }
asked Assistant Secretary Of Com
merce Thomas c. Blaisdell about
the need for the information. Blais-
dell mentioned problems such as
those involving low income fam
lilies, with which Sparkman's COM
mittee is struggling, but he en-
phasized that one of the most per
sistent demands for such data
comes from business.
Matthew Hale, Assistant Solicit
or of Commerce pointed out that
as far back as 1870, when the Re-
publicans were in control, the Cen
sus takers asked much more per-
sonal questionable total value of
each family's worth.
Senator Flanders interjected he
could see mo objection" to the
Census Bureaus plans, but Rich
quickly jumped in to object that
the same material already was col
lected by the Treasury, that neigh
bors would get confidential data on
their rich neighbors, etc. Hale
answered all these objections, then
noted that in 1910 only two per
cent of the people objected. Rich
quickly computed that two per cent
at 100000 people, lot of votes.
Flanders quietly interjected that
involved counting his 11-month-old
grandchild. Hale pointed out the
two per cent in 1910 amounted to
only 100000 persons-because not
everybody is asked for income
data.
Members of the committee and
Hale tried to convince Rich the
data was of great value to busi-
ness, but Rich insisted business
was "wide awake" enough to get
its own statistics. In view of the
evidence that business wanted the
statistics, however, Rich finally
calmed down.
The case against Rich and the
Republicans was completed a few
minutes later when Sparkman read
into the record the formal defense
of the Census Bureau plans sent to
him by Secretary Sawyer.
This official reply noted for 100
years similar questions had been
asked in the census and replies
were compulsory; that public CO.
operation had been excellent; that
the questions had been submitted
to the House Appropriations Com
mittee before the appropriation for
the census was voted and so had
been approved by Congress; that in
1910 less than one half of one per
cent of the people used the special
form for reporting their incomes
directly to Washington.
Rich had no comeback to the
Secretary's report. He had been
squelched.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Second Bomb Plot
In Detroit AS FBI
Finally Moves In

Detroit (LPA)-There's large
scale campaign of terror in pro-
gress against union leaders in this
area. In addition to the acts of
violence and the threats against
officials of the United Auto Work
ers, officials of other unions, CIO
and AFL alike, are being victimiz-
ed.
On Dec. %, just as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation was begin
ming to investigate the latest
bomb plot against the UAW, it was
reported that the Street Car & Bus
Operators-AFL had received an
anonymous letter 10 days earlier
threatening to bomb the unions
Division 20.
The bomb that was discovered
outside a basement door of JAW
headquarters here the evening of
Dec. 20 Immediately brought to
mind the shooting of UAW Pres
ident Walter Reuther on April 20,
1948, and of his brother, JAW
Education Director Victor Reuther,
on May "a, 1949. Walter Reuther
has not yet regained complete use
Of his arm. Victor Reuther lost an
eye.
The bomb also brought to mind
attacks or threats to a number of
other JAW officials and two
Teamster officials. Police never
turned up any evidence, although
one mans trial for the shooting of
Walter Reuther is pending. How
ever, while this man was in jail,
Victor Reuther was injured in cir
cumstances almost identical with
those in which his brother was
wounded - by a shotgun blast
through a window in his home.
The FBI has moved into Detroit
with the utmost reluctance. FBI
chief ]. Edgar Hoover ducked all
requests that he investigate the
Reuther shootings, including one
from the US Senate. After discov-
cry Of the bomb on Dec. 20, the
FBI told reporters it was a local
Detroit affair. A few hours later,
Atty Gen'I J. Howard McGrath
ordered the FBI to get busy, and
they did.
Meanwhile, the JAW has offer
ed close to quarter Of million
dollars in rewards for information
leading to discovery of the perpat-
rators of the attempted bombing,
the attacks on the Reuthers and
other acts of violence. There is a
100000 reward in each of the
Reuther cases.
The bomb at JAW headquarters
was found by a couple of UAW
maintenance men. Events immedi-
ately preceding discovery reflect
credit on neither the Detroit
Police or the Detroit Times,
daily paper. Here seems to be what
On the afternoon of
Dec. 20, Times reporter received
an anonymous tip about the bomb.
Before calling the police he himself
tried to find the bomb, apparently
in anticipation of a scoop, without
worrying about what happened to
the building or the four people who
were in it. Not until 7 p. m. did he
phone the cops who also failed to
find it although it was wrapped in
Christmas paper with a blue rib
bon. The bomb, consisting of 30
sticks of dynamite, would have
gone off if a detonator had not
been faulty and if a fuse hadn't
burned out.
The anonymous tipster told the
Times reporter that the bomb
would be exploded when the "big
guy was there. Presumable the
big guy was Walter Reuther,
who was out of town.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29
Louisiana LLPE Meets Jan. 29

Baton Rouge, La. (LPA)-E. j.
Bourg, secretary of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor, will soon issue a
call for a meeting of the Louisiana
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation at Alexandria Jan. 20. The
state AFL executive board will
meet at the same time to formu-
late plans for Louisiana's part in
the AFL 1850 drive for 1,000,0C0
new members. The state will elect
eight House members and a Us
Senator next year. Of the eight
present Congressman, five are anti
labor. Sen. Russell B. Long, up for
reelection, has consistently voted
pro-labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-12-29

ket the Johnson dinner were: Nor
man Thomas, Rev. Donald Har-
rington, City Councilman Louis P.
Goldberg, Louis Nelson, manager
Local i55, ILGWU-AFL, Charles
H. Kerrigan, UAW-CIO regional
director, and James T. Farrell.
Evening star., 1949-03-25
Australian Defense Chief
COMING Here Next Month

The possible American use Of a
3,000-mile rocket range in Aus
tralia may be discussed when the
defense chiefs of the two nations
meet here next month.
The defense establishment an
nounced today that Sir Frederick
Shedden. permanent head of the
Australian Department Of De-
fense, expected to arrive here
April 7 at the invitation of Ameri-
can defense officials. He will talk
with Louis johnson, the new De-
fense Secretary.
An Australian government
spokesman at Sydney said last
week that the United States would
be given use of the guided missile
range, on request. 1t is UNDER
stood that a United States survey
board already has studied the
site. which probably would have
to be shared with Britain and
Canada as we'll as Australia.
A decision to adopt the Aus
tralian range would not stop
plans for guided missile testing
range entirely within, or with
at least the launching area within,
the United States. The Australian
range might provide a second
place where missiles could be
tested Under climatic conditions
different than those here.