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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
1873 CHARTERS
ISSUED IN 'Aq

st. Paul (LPA) = During the
year ended August 81, 1949, AFL
charters were issued to two Inter
nationals, II Central Labor Unions,
125 local trade unions, and "A fed
eral labor unions.
The two internationals were the
Flig G h Engineers International
Assn. and the Railway Patrolmens'
International Union.
The central bodies were: Men
docino county, Calf; Larimer
county, Colo; Winchester, Ind;
Spencer, Iowa; Hodge and Jones'
boro, La; Amsbury and Vicinity,
Mass; Lincoln county, Ont; North
Platte, Neb.; Sharon, Pa; st. Al
bens, Vt; Amigo and Rhinelander,
Wis.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Sir:
Looking over the news regarding
the steel and other industries CON
cerning pension problems, it is
quite evident to me "Big Business"
has made up their minds to well
come a strike and break up the
unity Of the unions and keep them
under their thumb. Too long has
this been going on.
Labor is wise to these tactics.
The workers have always been
willing to go along and take the
crumbs that fell, but the time has
come when more than the crumbs
are needed. Old age protection is
necessary and to get that protec-
tion after working from 20 to 40
years in industry, there must be
some method whereby industry
can supplement the existing social
security pension by one hundred
per cent.
Unless industry gives this their
fullest cooperation l can see the
end Of capitalism in the next fifteen
years.
Many of our CTS have availed
themselves of the opportunity for
a better education. They are using
their brains and thinking a lot and
will not be content with digging
bitches and selling apples. \ new
era has arrived. Labor knows its
strength and will stick together
A little more equality and consid-
Grafton by "Big Business" will save
the capitalistic system and save
our country the fate that has be-
fallen other nations.
WILLIAM THORNTON,
Honorary member
Manorville, Pa.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
TRUMAN GREETS
AFL CONVENTION

st. Paul (LPA) = Express
ing regret for not being able
to attend and address the AFL
convention, President Truman
sent his greetings and best
wishes for a successful con-
vention.
"The American Federation
of Labor, through all its long
history, has been a leader in
championing the rights of
wage earners," he declared.
"Be assured that your unions
and all progressive Americans
will have my full support in
rounding out much needed pro-
grams to insure the Fair Deal
goal for the benefit of all the
people," Referring to the re-
peal of the Taft-Hartley act
as unfinished business" the
President declared "that is a
matter which we can agree
will be finished to the salts
faction of working men and
women in response to the
voice and wishes of the Am
erican people"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Co-Ops Are Weapon
To Fight Monopoly
voorhis Tells AFL

st. Paul OPA)-A strong CO.
operative movement in this coun-
try can be a major bulkwark
against monopoly, the AFL conven-
tion was told by Jerry Voorhis
executive secretary of the Cooper
ative League Of the USA.
If the people were doing Is to
20 percent Of the nations busines.
through cooperatives, real economic
freedom could be restored" Voor-
his said.
"With that much of the peoples
buying power offering an assured
market, the cooperatives could
challenge any monopoly in the
country-could break its strangle-
hold by competing with its process
ing and manufacture"
Voorhis also declared that co-ops
can be the means Of stabilizing the
nations economy.
"If we can build cooperative
membership to a point where 15H
Of the nations business is done by
them, then the competition Of CO.
operative enterprise would be able
to prevent either a serious defla-
tion or a severe depression from
ever taking place again"
Voorhis contended that co-ops
and trade unions are vital for the
protection Of democracy and the
defeat Of Communism.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Fact-Finders To
Investigate Bell
Aircraft Strike

New York (LPA)-For the first
time since the New York State
labor laws has been on the books,
State Industrial Commissioner Ed
ward Corsi has appointed a fact
finding board to look into strike.
This move in the strike of United
Auto Workers at Bell Aircraft
Corp. in Buffalo followed an at
tack on Bell by the Buffalo Com
mon Council. The strike, the Com
missioner said, virtually affects
the public interest in the Buffalo
area"
The strike has been on since
June 13. Bell has been accused of
sending armed scabs in groups to
attack the picket line, working in
collusion with the Niagara County
sheriff to arrest union leaders, and
presenting the sheriff with a hell
copter from which he dropped tear
gas and smoke bombs on union
members and their wives.
Several days before Corsi acted,
the Buffalo Council passed a reso-
luton condemning Bell for its
methods and declaring that solu-
ton of the dispute "has been block
ed by the management rather than
labor"
Members of the fact-finding
board are: DIR. Edmund f. Day,
chancellor of Cornell University;
Paul Shipman Andrews, dean OF
Syracuse University; Samuel P.
Capen, chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Buffalo; Charles Garside,
New York attorney; and Mrs.
Elinor Herrick, personnel director
of the New York Herald Tribune.
Union officials said they are pre-
pared to appear before the board
at any time. Company spokesman
have not yet committed them
selves.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Democrats Take
Fight For 0lds
TO Rank And File

Washington (LPA) - Taking a
"clear-cut issue" to the rank-and-
file voters who sent President Tru-
man to victory, and voted in a
Democratic majority in Congress,
all of the strength of the Demo-
cratic leadership here has been
mustered to get Senate votes for
the confirmation of Leland Olds as
a member Of the Federal Power
Commission.
Chairman William Boyle of the
Democratic Natl Committee, in APP
peal to state committeeman, wired:
The effort to block confirmation
. is a straight issue Of Demo-
ratio action to protect the Ameri-
;an people against the monopoly
seeking power lobby, which wants
Olds kept off the commission be-
cause he worked in the public in
terest during the two terms he al
ready served"
"Olds has stood for what the
Democratic party has stood-the
best interest of the general public
in the public utility field.
Defeat Of his nomination would
be a defeat for the millions of
Americans who are entitled to fair
power rates and a victory for the
power lobbyists and the Republi-
can party"
And at his weekly press confer
ence President Truman reiterated
that he still was putting all pos
sible pressure on the Senate for
confirmation, despite an unfavor-
able 1912 vote in the Senate Inter-
state Commerce Committee.
Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.),
who previously had predicted only
20 pro-Olds votes out Of the 90
members Of the Senate, told LPA
after the Boyle and Truman state
ments that he wasn't making any
on the outcome.
Senate leaders are expected to
keep the Olds confirmation from
coming to a vote if they can't carry
the Senate. This will permit the
snowballing of pro-Olds sentiment
from around the country as news
that his post is endangered is
spread more widely by liberal col
and radio commentators,
and the labor press. They would
bank on a favorable vote in Jan
Iary, after Senators heard from
heir constituents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

can't buy the goods they produce
and have to export them all"
In his prepared testimony, Kais-
er had pointed out that the draft
constitution of the new non-Com-
munist international trade union
organization which will be formed
in November of this year states
that one of the primary aims of
the organization will be "to en-
courage the development of the re-
sources of all countries in order to
further the economic, social and
cultural progress of the people of
the world" Both AFL and CIO re-
preventative participated in the
drafting of this constitution.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Urges Labor Take Part
!, In Point Four Program

Washington (LPA)-Unless we
export "labor" know-how to back
ward countries, the Point Four
program is likely to be a flop,
Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas Cd,
CALI told her fellow members on
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee as hearings on the admins
tration's Point Four bill wound up
last week.
Mrs. Douglas, in question Assist
ant Labor Secretary Philip Kaiser,
aired her views on labor participa-
tion in development of backward
areas. Her argument was that we
can't teach people to produce in
factories without teaching them to
organize and protect their living
standards. Otherwise, she said,
We'll be creating worse squalor
than we're trying to wipe out, and
setting up industries in cheap COM
petition with our own.
"There's a lot of talk about ex-
porting industrial know-how" the
Congresswoman from California
declared, "but there's little talk
about exporting labor know-how.
Let's export the knowledge of how
working people organize to better
their wages and working condi-
tions. Export the knowledge of
how to form unions"
Rep. Frances P. Bolton Or,
Ohio) interrupted Mrs. Douglas to
comment that labor groups have
made "a most amazing contribution
to the progress we are waging in
Europe" Mrs. Bolton added that
eve mustn't underestimate the
very great contribution made by
the AFL and the CIO in the fight
against the Communists"
Turning her comments to a bill
that has been reported out by the
House Banking & Currency Com
mittee, Mrs. Douglas pointed out
that the measure guarantees pri-
vate investors against riot, seizure,
and other disturbances. "What
guarantees, she asked, "are writ
ten in for working men and
women ?"
If we guarantee against riots
and there's a strike, the Congress
woman asserted, the Marines might
be called in. Then we're fighting
the strikers. Let's not be jockeyed
into an untenable position" she
warned.
Asked by Rep. A. S. ]. Carna-
ham Cd, Miss whether the Point
Four Program isn't likely to build
competitors for US industry, Labor
Department representative Philip
Kaiser replied that this might
happen. That's another reason,
said Kaiser, why we have to raise
labor standards in those countries.
Rep. Douglas added to that "If
you can't pay decent wages to the
workers in these countries, they
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Three States Cooperate
On State Service Study

Montpelier, VT. (ILNS).-Three
states = Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont-are trying to figure
out what they can do to help each
other to get more for their money
in state institutional services, the
American Public Welfare Associa-
tion notes.
In an attempt to find joint answ-
ers to common problems in the in
stitutional field these states have
underway conferences of top-rank-
ing men from each state in the
field. 1t is believed that the talks
may lead to plans for new insti-
tutions to be run jointly by the 8
states for patients from all three.
Initially, studies of facilities for
alcoholics, defective delinquents
and sexual psychopaths will be un-
dertaken. If it is found that coop
erative action is advisable, such
plans will be taken up with COVER
nors and legislatures of the 3
states.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Trial Date Set
For Fitzgerald

Lynn, Mass. (LPA)-October II
has been set as a trial date for
United Electrical Workers Pres
ident Albert Fitzgerald and three
other delegates from the Lynn
UE local to the unions national
convention in Cleveland last month.
The four men face expulsion
from the local for failing to fol-
low instructions of the member
ship at UE convention. As dele
gates they had been instructed to
vote against Fitzgerald and for
Frederick Kelley and his slate.
Thruout the country, similar
charges by locals continued to pile
up. At Schenectady, N. Y, General
Electric Local 301, third largest
local in UE with 100 convention
delegates, split on whether to ac-
cept the convention report of its
left-wing delegation.
The 14,000-member local met in
two shifts, both of which were ad-
dressed by Secretary-Treasurer
james B. Carey and by Kelley. The
day shift meeting broke up in con-
fusion. The night shift tabled a
motion to approve the report.
Every UE local that has met
since the convention has repudi-
ated, tabled, or failed to take ac-
tion on delegate reports, which in
the case of most conventions are
accepted as routine. This turn of
events is building up to show
down fight at national Convention
in Cleveland, opening Oct. 81.
Right-wingers may at that time
ask to charter a new union in the
field.
Membership meetings of three
Ohio locals last week said they
would like to see such move.
Local I'll in Mansfield, Ohio call
ed on CIOxf'to give electrical work
ers a union within the industry
free from the domination of the
Communist Party"
A Dayton local of the Delco
Products Corp. barred a UE repre-
from attending shop
declaring they were fed
Up with international represent D
atives disrupting our meetings"
In Lima, Ohio, Local 724 voted
o oust two delegates who failed
o follow convention instructions. '
Charging that the present lead
,rship of UE is unable to provide /
adequate union leadership, right !
vingers cited figures from the /
Bureau Of Labor Statistics show {
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
WHAT NEXT2

The use of rubber in highway
construction is likely to open large
new fields for the consumption OF
both-natural and synthetic rubber,
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., chairman
of the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Co., said recently at Akron. His
statement was made following lay
ing of a test section of rubber
roadway near the old Firestone
family homestead in Eastern Ohio.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
HEAVY ACCIDENT COSTS

Chicago (LNS). = America is
spending $4,000 a minute accid-
entally. The 1949 edition of Acct
dents Facts, the National Safety
Councils statistical year b o k,
points out that persons are killed
accidentally and 200 injured every
10 minutes on the average some
where in the United States. The
costs of those accidents total $140,-
O00-or $4,000 a minute.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
HUTCHINSON GIVES
100000 FOR AFL's
POLITICAL LEAGUE

st. Paul (LPA) - William L.
Hutcheson, an AF'L vice president
and chief of the 750,000-member
carpenters union, has contributed
100000 to the AFL Labor's Lea
que for Political Education. Hutch
eson had taken no part in the Lea
gue's work before, was chairman
of the Republican party labor COM
mittee in the Wendell Willkie
campaign, and in the 1914 Dewey
campaign.
"I'm still a Republican and the
carpenters will continue to carry
on their own political activities"
he said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Comment On
World Events

Continued dismantling Of Ger
man industrial plants has been
sharply criticized a number Of
times in this column. Now let's
hear what the American Fedora
tion Of Labor executive council has
to say on the subject.
In it's report to the st. Paul
AFL convention, the council com
ments:
Current plans Of Great Britain
and France for further reparations
and dismantling threaten hundreds
of thousands of families with hope
less unemployment and reduces in
dustrial Germany to level that
threatens the existence Of all. Com
munist propagandists are using
this opportunity to induce the Ger
man to turn eastward-an historic
slogan Of Bismarck. They point out
the professed friendship of the
democracies can be judged by its
acts. Unemployment removes all
hopes"
The council further said that the
AFL "from its first consideration
of economic recovery for Europe,
believed that recovery for Germany
must be developed simultaneously
with that of Europe without trans
fer of facilities. Through the de-
velopment of an integrated Euro
pean economy, there would be the
widest opportunity to detect and
curb production for war purposes.
We hope that Commissioner Nc
Cloy with his dual authority can
promote progress to these ends"
!. !. 4
The council has some interesting
things to say about American
policy in the Far East. 1t advo-
Gates American cooperation with
nations banding for defense against
communism, urging specifically
that the United States back the
Pacific Pact entered into by Chan
Kai-sheck, former head of the
Chinese Nationalist government,
the president of the Philippines
and the president of South Korea.
The pact is for mutual defense
against the Communists.
"Our nation, with so much at
stake in promoting friendly rela-
tions with Asia, should take an ac-
tive part in promoting this con-
structive movement to secure gen
eral participation" the council de-
clares. "No one country can block
the world machination of the
Kremlin, but cooperation for unit
ed defense is irresistible. Such a
move would protect Japan, the is
lands of the Pacific and Australia.
''Our nation should proclaim a
policy of cooperation with all
democratic groups in Asia. We
should offer them economic aid and
similar to what we
have given Europe. Communism
can be defeated by cooperation in
defense of high ideals of human
life-moral standards and human
rights assuring freedom"
:. Z. :.
"The power-mad clique in the
Kremlin," the council charges, "has
been frantically engaging in insti-
eating chaos and civil wars
throughout Southeast Asia. With |
lnbridled demagogy, the rulers of
The worlds most rapacious imper-
alism have been exploiting the
urgent needs and serious griev-
ances of depressed and under-de-
veloped areas-solely and strictly
'or the purpose of promoting their
aims of totalitarian domination on
1 global SCALE"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

ing that from April to August, UE
signed 6 wage agreements, 81 pro-
viding no wage increases, three
raises from one cent to
three cents, II providing raises of
from four cents to five cents, and
nine providing raises of from six
cents to ten cents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto yoVl
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-05

uated. In addition TO authoriz-
ing the coming Business Census
it provided for subsequent counts
at five year intervals, and for an
nual and other surveys of the
business field.
The new Census law requires
all business establishments to file
reports, and imposes upon the
Census Bureau the responsibility
of guarding against publication OF
data in any form which would re-
veal operations of individual es-
adjustments. All census employ
ees are bound by an oath of Sec
recy, and are subject to penal &C
ton if they violate their pledge
Preliminary Census of Business
results relating to selected cities.
geographic areas, and to special
| subjects will be released last in
1949. A continuous flow of sum-
maries will be published through
out 1850.
Some To Be Available
Early in 1851 a final PRINTED
| Census volume will be available
| These data will present a com.
plete statistical picture of distri
button and service in the natlor
/ as a whole, in each region, state
! city, and county in the Unitee
States, and in the territories o.
Hawaii and Alaska.
District supervisor McNail
! whose headquarters for the Bust
ness Census are located at 81
McWilliams Building, Clarksdale
is responsible for the Censu:
work in the following counties
| Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Carroll
| Coahoma, Desota, Holmes, Hum
phreys, Issaquena, Lafayette, Lee
flore, Marshall, Pamela, Prentiss
Quitman, Sharkey, SunfloWer,
Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tihso-
mingo, Tunica, Union, Washing
ton and Yalobusha.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-05
RESOLUTIONS

Whereas Almighty God, the
Great Architect of the Universe,
in his infinite and i~nscrutable
wisdom has seen fit to remove
from our midst our well beloved
and highly esteemed Bro. Robert
A. Meek.
Therefore be is resolved by the
membership of Mi. Moriah Lodge
No. So, F. and A. M:
/. That we manifest our very
great appreciation of his long,
useful and honorable career, IN
which he exemplified in his life
character the highest princi-
pie of both Christianity and
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-05

Masonry and set a bright and
shining example for others to fol-
low.
2. That we reaffirm our belief
in this great doctrine, 1.-The Resur-
rection of the Body" which
bridges the chasm between life
and death, gives Christianity its
great prominence and its COM
forts to all believing mankind in
the hour of death.
8. That we express our very
great sorrow and regret at his
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-05

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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1949-05-05

passing and extend sympathy to
the bereaved and sorrowing rela-
tives.
1. That a copy Of these resolu-
tions be spread upon the minutes
of u Lodge, a copy printed IN
the local paper and a copy Tor
warded to the family Of the de-
ceased. rox1rc
I. L. JONES
B. +. CLEMENT
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