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Evening star., 1949-01-25

5. How many degrees are In the
three angles inclosed in triangle?
40 90 180 800
$40. An organ" differs from
gland" primarily in the fact that
the latter secretes some chemical
product. Try to distinguish between
the five parts of the body named
by placing a check mark under the
appropriate heading.
Evening star., 1949-01-25

Score yourself as follows: o.,
poor; 3-6, average; TO, superior !;
9-l0, very superior.
Evening star., 1949-01-25
Answers TO Horse Sense ouis.

]. Intuition. 2. Orpington tEsgs with
ham. 8 Alabaster. f. Shelved him. 8.
IsO degrees. g. The heart and brain are
organs. The other three are glands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

for an international trade organ
ization is intended to establish
trading conditions that make for
good world markets"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Use Secret Ballot
TO BIackbaII
ILeinski's Choice

Washington LPA) A former
Democratic congressman, who ran
for the Senate last year and made
no bones about his pro-labor views,
was refused the job of committee
counsel by the House Labor Com
mittee last week.
The full committees action in re-
fusing to pass on Frank Hook, of
Michigan, after he was recommend
ed and requested by Committee
Chairman John Lesinski was un-
precedented on Capitol Hill.
! Hook was rejected by vote Of
1873, when seven Democrats in
sisted on secret ballot-also a
very unusual procedure-and join
ed in voting no with the 9 Repub-
licans who were of course solidly
against the fve-time former Con-
gresham from Michigan.
Lesinski said that one member
of the committee had insisted on
reading to the full committee
file on Hook from the Un-Ameri-
lean Activities Committee, but that
none Of the members came for
ward to charge that he was Com
munist. Hook had clashed with the
Un-American Activities Commit
tee in 1915, when he was a mem
Der Of Congress, and charged the
Un-American group with trying to
break up the labor movement in
this country. He also clashed open
ly with Rep. John Rankin when the
Mississippian made a slurring re-
mark that Hook was mixed up
with" Communists. None of the
Republican members or the Demo
Gratis who refused to pass him,
however, challenged his ability to
hold down the job as committee
counsel.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03

majority Of the Labor Committee
was obviously due to some influ-
ence Of the Senate leaders. Only
two days before the united action
there had been public expressions
of different opinions on how to pro-
ceed between Committee Chairman
Ebert Thomas, Of Utah, and Sen.
Pepper of Florida. Thomas told re-
porters that he expected hearings
to continue until around April 15,
but that was before the Democratic
members met with Majority Leader
Scott Lucas.
Meanwhile, the House Labor
Committee meets Jan. 26 to act on
committee st if appointments.
Chief target of the Republicans on
the committee is former Congress
man Frank Hook, Michigan Demo-
cratic candidate for Senate in the
November balloting who has been
proposed as committee counsel.
Hook, long known as fighting lib
eral, is contesting the right of Sen.
Homer Ferguson to his Senate
seat, claiming that in the extreme
ly close balloting he was elected.
The Senate Campaign 1nvestigat-
ing Committee is now working on
Hooks charges.
In addition, three of the south
ern Democrats on the House COM
mittee may start their careers in
the 81st Congress by boiling to
the COP side when the staff names
come up. They are: Reps. Barden
On. c., Lucas (Texas) and Wood
(Ga.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Charges Racket In
Door-to-Door Sale
OF Encyclopedias

Washington (LPA)-West coas'
families have been victimized by &
new racket, the Federal Trade
Commission charged this week
Door-to-door statesmen hired by
Charles U. Branch, who trades
under several names, have been
telling prospective book purchas-
ers that they've been chosen as
prominent citizens for special
price privileges in exchange for a
testimonial letter.
The statesmen are working for
National Surveys, Educational De-
velopment Co., and the United Ac-
ceptance Co. And they're selling a
whole shelf of books, including
something called The Wonderland
of knowledge, and the American
Educator and Home University
Encyclopedias.
The pitch is that the prominent
citizens" (whom ETC charges are
chosen at random) are offered one
of the sets of encyclopedias or
other books as a gift or at reduced
Introductory prices in exchange
for a subscription, accompanied by
a testimonial letter.
FTC complains that the books
aren't sold at reduced price or
"free." The federal agency also
charges that Branch claims falsely
that he's conducting national edu-
cational surveys, that the offer is
limited, that the regular price for
the books is higher than the COM
bination price, that the American
Educator Encyclopedia and other
books are comparable with the En-
cyclopedia Britannica, that the
books will be delivered promptly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Studebaker Union
Maintains Record
|Of No Strikes

South Bend, Ind. (LPA) = A
near-perfect record of never hav.
ing a labor-management dispute
reach the strike stage was main
tanned last week by Local 5
United Auto Workers, and the
Studebaker Corp.
With more than 10000 of the 16,-
600 production workers crowded in
and around union hall, the local
decided to accept an agreement
whereby 43 men fired for refusing
to do new work at a new rate were
reinstated. The argument began
when the men were put to work on
a new kind of seat cover, at rates
lower than they had previously
been paid.
Now the union officers, with
authorization to take strike vote
at any time, will meet with man
n luding Studebaker
President Harold S. Vance, to dis
cuss how to revise piece-work
standards in the plant.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Democrats Move On Repedl
Of 7 dft-HdrtleY Low, To
sRe-Endct Wagner Act

Washington (LPA)--This week
the Democratic leaders of the
new Congress made it plain to all
observers that they intend to move
and move fast on the Taft-Hartley
act, altho their wake during the
coming weeks may be strewn with
the bodies of angry Republicans.
The resolution Of the Democratic
portion of the Senate Labor Com
mittee this week to brush off the
Taft-Hartley act by a straight re-
pealer and proceed to hold hear
ings on amendments to the Wag-
ner act met with screams OF
anguish from Senator Taft and
four other Republicans, but the
eight Democrats held their lines
firm and passed their resolution.
When Sen. Wayne Morse Or.
Ore.) said the Republicans would
be heard on the Senate floor ii
they were refused a chance to holc
extended hearings on the Taft
Hartley act in committee, Sen
Pepper 3D., Fla.) put the Demo
cratic position in these words: awe
have resolved to wipe the slate
clean Of the Taft Hartley act. Sc
far as we are concerned we regard
ourselves as having got rid of the
Taft Hartley act this afternoon"
These are the steps the Demo
Gratis propose for the next two
weeks:
Repeal the Taft-Hartley ACT
and restore the old Wagner act in
tact, except that under the revived
statute the Natl Labor Relations
Board would continue to have five
members, instead of the three il
had in the old days.
2-This done, begin open hear
ings on amendments to the Wagner
act and close them not later thar
Feb. 10. These amendments would
be restricted to those consistent
with the proposals made by Pres
ldent Truman, which are now be-
ing drawn up by number of ex-
perts including members of Sec
retary Tobin's staff.
There is little doubt at this point
that Senator Taft, Morse and other
Republicans will turn the Senate
floor into a battle-ground on the
bill which is reported out from
committee, but there is also little
doubt about the determination of
Democratic leaders to go ahead
with the plans for fast action.
Secretary Tobin, who has been
working with his staff feverishly
since the advent of the new Con-
gress to prepare the Presidents
recommendations, was scheduled
to be the first witness to be heard
when the committee began hear
ings. Allowing day for his recon-
mendations, the committee will
have less than two weeks to hear
all others they choose to call.
The action of the Democratic
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Unions Heard On
Trade Agreements
Bill In Congress

Washington (LPA) - The Ad-
ministration- backed measure ex-
tending and liberalizing the 15-
year old reciprocal trade agree
ment program goes from House to
Senate this week. The House-ap-
proved measure will probably have
the full backing of the CIO, and
qualified backing from the AFL.
Both Stanley Ruttenberg, speak
ing for CIO, and Walter Mason for
the AFL told the House Ways &
Means Committee last week that
American workers endorse the Ad-
ministration's program designed to
build a healthy worldwide econ
omy. Both union spokesmen told
the Congressman that the reci-
procal trade program is a vital
part of the Administration plan.
Congress is faced with the task
of restoring the program, which
the 80th Congress extended for one
instead Of the usual three year
term, and which the COP saddled
with crippling amendments last
year.
"Under the Trade Agreements
Act" Ruttenberg pointed out, "the
President may conclude ira d e
agreement is a swap of trade
benefits"
Said Mason, speaking for the
AFL: GAS part of its foreign policy
program, the AFL supports the ex-
tension of the Reciprocal Trade
Agreement program; but we have
some suggestions to offer"
Mason said the AFL would like
to see tariff agreements negotiated
by the Tariff Commission, and to
have labor representatives on the
US team taking part in the nego-
tiations.
"The advantages Of reducing
trade barriers and expanding world
trade are too numerous and we'll
known to be enumerated here in
any detail" the AFL man said.
"As workers in the US We benefit
by an expanding world trade in
two particular respects: lover
100000 workers in this country
are dependent upon exports for
their jobs; Pas consumers we are
able to purchase foreign-made
goods, which otherwise would not
be available for consumption in
this country"
"The establishment of trading
conditions that make for good
world markets." Ruttenberg told
the Congressman, "is a life-and-
death matter to a self-supporting
Europe. The reciprocal trade agree
ments program supported by the
eventual adoption of the charter
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Governor Lausche
Urges Assent bly,
To Improve Laws

The ratic-controlled 9Sth
Ohio General Assembly heard Gov
ernor Frank j. Lausche make sew
eral recommendations favorable to
Labor when he made his annual
address to the Legislature Monday
night.
The Governor told the lawmak-
ers that he favored the following
improvements in labor legislation:
Unemployment Insurance-Raise
maximum benefits from $22 week
ly to $25 weekly; extend period for
compensation from % to 26 weeks;
reduce waiting time from two
weeks to one week.
Workmen's Compensation-Raise
maximum benefits from S25 week
ly to S29 weekly; reasonable in
crease" for dependents Of workers
killed in occupational accidents;
improve silicosis provisions.
Temporary Disability Insurance
A joint legislative committee to
study disability insurance with
view of recommending specific leg
islation.
Raises for State Employes-A
"wage adjustment commensurate
with the increased cost of living
and within the limitations of avail
abla ,,,npavc
Fair employment practices-Leg-
islation which will provide for a
state commission with powers of
conciliation and enforce
ment.
Aid for the Aged-An additional
allowance of S5 monthly.
Housing - Give municipalities
power to purchase or appropriate
slum areas and to dispose of such
property for redevelopment as
public or private housing.
Strip Mining = Modernize laws
provisions; adequate funds for en-
forcement.
Election Laws-Do away with
technicalities which
an estimated 100,-
900 voters during the last election.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Detroit Guild
Blasts RuIinu

Detroit UPA)-Detroit's Police
Commissioner Harry S. Toy rar
into solid opposition last month
when he ruled that all reporters
carrying fire and police press cards
sign notarized non-Communist
statements.
The Detroit unit of American
Newspaper Guild passed resolu-
ton condemning Toy for his rul-
ing and declaring that he has no
power to license reporters. The
Detroit Free Press backed up its
reporters, asserting that it would
issue its own press cards. "lf Toy
or any other public official at
tempts to restrict the freedom of
the press" said Editor Basil Wal
ters, 1--WE will resort to the courts
If necessary"
The issue still hangs fire. If Toy
tries to keep newspapermen from
the public records, observers agree
he will have a court case on his
hands.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Repeal OF Strike Ban
For Public Workers
Asked In New York

Albany, N. Y. QLNS).-Repeal
of the Condon-W Wadlin Act provid-
ing for automatic discharge of pub
lie employees who strike is proposed
in a bill introduced by Democratic
state legislators.
The repeater was introduced by
Assemblyman Bernard Austin of
Brooklyn. 1t was approved by Sen
ator Elmer F. Quinn and Assembly
man Irwin Steingut, the Demo-
cratic minority leaders who said in
a joint statement that "the Con-
dom Wadlin law, pushed through
the Legislature in anger, makes
second class citizens out of the
state civil servants" The law has
been frequently denounced by or
ganized labor.
Assemblyman Austin introduced
also, with the approval of Quinn
and Steingut, a bill guaranteeing
to all state employees the right to
organize for collective bargaining
and requiring department and di-
vision heads to meet with repre-
sentatives of employe organizations
for the adjustment of grievances.
If the grievances were not adjust
ed satisfactorily, the employees or
their representatives could take
the case to the State Mediation
Board which would have power to
hold hearing and render an ad-
visory opinion.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
Newspaper Guild
Issues Report On
World Eswsprint

New York OPA)-Two solu-
tions to the long-range problem OF
supplying newsprint to the worlC
have been recommended by the
American Newspaper Guild in Z
study released last week.
The first solution at hand is the
use of huge untapped resources il
Alaska instead of depending more
on the Canadian monopolies which
are encouraged by the Canadian
government.
Secondly, the report says, sue
cessful solution might be forma
tion Of a cooperative system Of
pooling American newsprint sup.
plies, together with rationing Of
the supplies at an "equalized'
price, similar to the British sys-
tenn which has been accepted as be-
ing pretty fair to all users Of news
prints.
Titled "The Newsprint Problem,
the long study was prepared for the
Guild by Clara H. Friedman. 1t as
serts at the beginning that "The
American Newspaper Guild is con-
cerned with the economic aspect OF
the newsprint problem because il
affects the present and future earn
ings and job security of newspaper
workers. 1t is concerned with the
political-social aspects of the pro
blem because the source of supply,
pricing policies and distribution of
newsprint have direct impact on
the performance of free press
the world over"
Although both of the solutions
above must come from the nations
newspaper publishers, the report
says, both should include partici-
patton by the AFL craft unions
and the Guild membership of the
newspaper plants.
These are the main points the
study makes:
There is a pressing shortage
of newsprint created by wartime
destruction of plants and material
and by the "Unwillingness of news
print producers to expand produc-
ton"
2-The US depends largely on
Canadian newsprint, and the Can
adian government supports mon
opolistic practices of its newsprint
industry. For this reason the US
newsprint industry price and pro-
duction behavior is marked also by
concerted price fixing and attempts
to restrict output in apparently
monopolistic fashion.
3-American publishers have
failed to take unified action in
fighting the Canadian monopoly,
chiefly because the newsprint use
here is concentrated among a few
big publishers who benefit from
long-term contracts or ownership
links with Canadian mills.
4-The present newsprint short
age means that many people
abroad are receiving little or no
news that might help them in their
fight for democracy.
5-The development of our re-
sources in Alaska would material
ly ease the shortage of newsprint
all over the world.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-02-03
American Cities Hold ADA Dinners
Morkinq 1sf Annual Roosevelt Doy

washington tLPA) - In more
than a dozen cities last weekend
thousands of Americans crowded
into dinners sponsored by Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action mark.
ing the first annual Roosevelt
Day" in honor Of the late great
| president, an occasion which the
ADA intends to make a yearly OBJ
servance.
The ADA said that the dinpers
were also to commemorate the
"great liberal victory" in last falls
elections and to assure that the
work of President Roosevelt will
go on in the future with President
Truman's "Fair Deal"
In New York, Senator Hubert
Humphrey, national chairman OF
the ADA, addressed more than
1000 persons at a dinner at the
Hotel Astor. In Philadelphia, La
Dor Secretary Maurice Tobin spoke
to hundreds more at banquet in
the Broadwood Hotel.
Senator Estes Kefauver, Walter
Reuther of the UAW, and Franklin
d. Roosevelt Jr. were the speakers
Friday night at the dinner at the
Shoreham Hotel in Washington,
which was attended by 700 ADA
members, Congressional leaders,
and government officials.
Similar dinners were held in
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore,
and dozen other cities across the
nation.
In Washington, Senator Kefau-
yer said:
"There was probably no man in
all of America who agreed in every
particular with everything Pres
ident Roosevelt did. He was alone
on untrodden paths in everything
he did. 1t could not be expected in
reason that these dramatic inno-
vations including in the New Deal
would meet with the approval of
everyone. But we, in this great
democracy, on mature reflection,
recognize the need for adjusting
our differences and accentuating our
positives. Most of US who doubted
his principles or policies, never
really doubted his genuine SINGER
ity of purpose. So much good
emanated from the fertile mind of
his rich intellect, that we are in
clined more and more to consider
his errors of mind-never of heart
to be microscopic in comparison
with the alienation of human suf-
fering and human fears, for which
he was so largely responsible"
Reuther told the gathering:
"On Nov. 2 the American people
inundated that the unfinished work
of Franklin ID. Roosevelt's New
Deal must go forward. Harry Tru-
man is fighting to carry out the
peoples mandate and we are all
behind him.
"Let's build a living monument
to Franklin d. Roosevelt in the
minds of men and steel them with
the determination to go forward
together in winning of peace and
human dignity in a world society
in which all may share a full mea-
sure of both bread and freedom" +"
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Mediation Board
Finishes Hearings
In 1O,oO0th Case

AN1W Il VI n O1Ny OthhNAij
employer and government spokes-
men hail IL years Of progress to-
ward peaceful industrial relations
in New York state as the State
Mediation Board completed hear
ings in its 10,C00th arbitration case.
At an informal celebration in
the boards Offices here, a message
from Gov. Thomas +. Dewey said
that New York had "for the past
years won the enviable distinc-
tion of having the best record of
any industrial state of the nation
for the proportion of man-days lost
as the result of industrial strikes"
Dewey's message praised the
mediation board for it's contribu-
tion to this record and pledged his
administration to carry forward it's
policy of promoting peaceful col
lective bargaining through "a max
imum Of voluntary mediation and
arbitration and a minimum of gov
ernment compulsion."
Edward Corsi, State Industrial
Commissioner, reported that time
lost through strikes in New York
during December had dropped to
the lowest level in so years. He ad-
ded that the record for the month
and for all of last year showed
that New York had lost only half
as much time as result of strikes
as had been lost, on a proportion
al basis, in the nation as whole.
"This record reflects the volun-
tary cooperation of labor, industry
and government in this state" he
declared. "It provides a model for
all states because it shows what
can be accomplished without re-
sort to compulsory legislation of
any kind. 1t demonstrates that the
State Mediation Board is doing a
thoroughly essential and vital job
for the people of this state"
Representatives of both sides in
volved in the 10,000th arbitration
case-the Realty Advisory Board
and Local 32-B of the Building Ser
vice Employees International Union,
AFL-joined in praising the board.
The arbitration case, which is to
be decided by Prof. Jerome Michael
of Columbia Law School, affects
the wages of $4,000 workers in
Manhattan office and loft build
ings.
Arthur A. Meyer, chairman of
the State Mediation Board, who
presided at the ceremonies, noted
that the board had handled more
arbitration cases in 1947 than all
other state agencies combined. He
said final figures for last year were
not yet available.
Ching Sends Congratulations
In addition to the arbitration
cases, which involve a commitment
by both sides to accept the arbi-
traitors ruling as final, the board
has mediated 6,939 disputes since
its establishment IL years ago. In
mediation the board assists the
parties to arrive at a settlement,
but there is no obligation on either
side to abide by it's recommenda-
tions.
The congratulations of the Fed
eral Mediation and Cancellation
Service were conveyed to the
board in a letter from Cyrus S.
Ching, director of the Federal
agency.
William Collins, regional direc-
tor of the American Federation of
Labor; David Sullivan, president of
Local BIB, and James c. Quinn,
secretary-treasurer of the Central
Trades and Labor Council were
among those who expressed labor's
Co. A. LoaxJJr .,,1rI.
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