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The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-12
RESERVE OFFICERS MEET WEDNESDAy;;
 TRAINING UNIT

It. Col. J. D. AleXander announc- ed today that local Reserve Officers will meet Wednesday. March 16, at TOO pm. in the Juneau city coun- cil chambers to form composite training unit and to take part in the first class of local group in struction program for this area.
 Officers from Fort Richardson will be present to conduct the meet ing and to present the first lecture. Officers who have applied for local group instruction are expected to attend and officers who have not yet expressed an intention to pa tlcipate are invited.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-12
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. h0WS0M
 MONDAY AFTERN0 CON

The fun1 al service for Mrs. Me linda A. Howson will be held Mon- day st 2 pm. rom the Chas. w. Carter elapel. The Rev. Samuel Me phetres will conduct the final rites fnterment will be in the Cnas. W Carter family plot within the ] 0. c. F. section Of the Eyergfeer Cemetery.
 pallbearers will be Clifton K. Tis. dale. Lester Linehan, Henry Har- non. Monte Grisham, George Skust and Charles Skuse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-12
AgM0JIsT SERVICES
 ARE SET FOR TUESDAY

Funeral arrangements for Mrs. G. E. Almquist, who died at St. Ann's hospital yesterday. have been announced for Tuesday at the Charles w. Garter Mortuary chapel. The Rev. Willis R. Booth will con- duct the services.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-03-12

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
CITY LABOR DIVISION
HELD MONEY SAVER

New York City ILNS). - The
city's Division Of Labor Relations
has intervened in $50 labor dis
putes and has saved business and
employees millions of dollars since
its creation in October, 1916, Mayor
O'Dwyer said in a report on the
agency.
Beset by an unprecedented num-
Der of employer-employe disputes
upon taking office in January, 1916,
the Mayor established the division
in an effort "to avert or to settle
quickly strikes and work stoppages
in industries essential to the
health, safety and welfare of the
people of the city," the report
said. Settlements worked out with
the aid of the division included
those in building construction, in
the printing and milk industries
and among teamsters and tugboat
workers.
The report said that the division
aimed to intervene In dispute be-
fore rather than after strike was
called and that its basic tenet was
that all parties to a dispute owed
an obligation to the people of the
city to settle it satisfactorily with
out endangering public health,
safety or welfare.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Windy City UniOnists
Aid LakefrOnt Plan

Chicago (LPA)-Two prominent
Chicago union leaders are among
the. 3S persons appointed to COM
mission which will promote per-
manent lake front fam for the
Windy City.
The unionists are Reuben Block,
manager of the Chicago Joint
Board, Amalgamated Clio hin G
Workers, and William A. Lee, pre-
sident of the Chicago Federation
of Labor and also president of the
Chicago Milk Wagon Drivers
Union-AFL.
The commission will seek to
raise about $500,000 to underwrite
a permanent exposition on the site
now occupied by the Chicago Rail-
road Fair. Leaders in the auto,
food, and other industries will be
for sponsorship.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

decided that if government or the
state began paying pensions it
would cut its payments by the
amount the public agency paid.
This was where employe contri-
buttons began. Railworkers, some
Of whom work for steel corpora
tions, put up part of their pension
fund out of wages. Other workers
were to do the same when federal
social security came along in 1887.
Latimer says that in 1889 the
company began "to retire the pen
sion plan rather than to retire the
employees" through a decision to
eliminate the base on which retire
ment pay was calculated. At that
time the company announced that
all employees retiring after Jan. l.,
1945 would have their pensions cal
culated on the basis of the 10 years
ending on that date.
In 1910, Steel came out with a
"contributory" plan. Employ oye s
earning over $4,000 a year ($36O0
if they worked for a railroad)
were declared eligible and were
asked to put up three per cent of
the excess to build up fund.
However, few were eligible and
the pensions were tiny. 1t took
more than 25 years to build up a
$15 a month income.
Since then, Latimer points out
that the number of pensions actu-
ally granted has steadily declined.
Aging steel workers end with a
few dollars of federal social secur
ity money plus their meager saw
any. After that it's up to
somebody else to support them.
That's what the steel strike it
about.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Red Sheet Shows
Circulation Drop

New York UPA)-Membership
in the American Communist party
is really on the decline if the cir
culation figures Of the Daily
Worker, the party organ published
here, are any indication.
From the circulation statement
the Worker along with other
papers is compelled by law to issue,
it was learned that the daily press
run is only 23,400 copies with all
seven editions counted in which is
way under what it used to be.
Actually the present figure is
4400 above what the press run was
at the end Of last year as the re-
suit of two party drives urging
members to subscribe for friends
and to order bundles for free dis
tribution. But the permanency of
these promotion results is ques-
toned.
The party also publishes the
Peoples World on the west coast
and a number of foreign language
papers. However, it is estimated
that the total circulation of all of
them combined with the Daily
included cannot be much
more than 10000.
This figure includes several
thousand copies of the Worker and
the others which are read by anti
Communists who always want to
know what the Commies are up to
now.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

which had never been above &c.
100000 until 1916 have climbed
to $13,000,000 since price control
was abandoned. Perrin claimed'
this was because of increased in
vestment, and that the book invest
ment figure did not represent the
company's real value.
Chairman Guy Gillette Cd, Iowa)
expressed fear that the food indus
try was destroying its market"
by high prices. He pointed to an
Agriculture Dept report showing
that between January and October
1948 while the local price of wheat
dropped 80 per cent; and the retail
price of flour dropped Is per cent,
the retail price of bread rose z
per cent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Big Business Mon Shows Small
Profit, Is Friendly To Labor

Washington (LPA)-A big busi-
ness man who operates on four
per cent profit on invested capital
and talks about the hard time
workers are having buying food
startled the Senate Agriculture
Subcommittee investigating food
prices this week.
He was Philip Pillsbury, Pres
ident of the Pillsbury Flour Mills,
who was called as witness in the
investigation of why food prices
here have not gone down more
than they have.
Pillsbury turned out to be an en-
gaging witness. He appeared with
out the usual folder of prepared
statements and exhibits, talked ex-
temporaneously, and showed the
best profit record of any company
that has been before the committee.
He was a good witness for the in
dustry.
Asked why flour prices dropped
only Is per cent last year when
wheat prices went down 80 pei
cent, Pillsbury pointed out that
there always is such lag, both
going up and down. He said in
1947 when wheat prices went up
80 per cent, flour prices went up
only IA per cent.
Pillsbury admitted his profits in
1947 '48 and 40 were much higher
than under price control, but point
ed out that last year they amount
ed to only AZ per cent on his in
vested capital. The highest for any
of the years was about 8 per cent
in 1947.
Questioned about the current
prices of a pound of bread which
averages 14.5 cents as compared
with 8.3 cents a few years ago,
Pillsbury said he was puzzled, but
didn't know the answer. He said
the answer might come out when
the bakers testify, but the commit
tee pointed out some of the bakers
already had testified without sup
plying the answer.
Asked if he looked for a decline
in labor costs, Pillsbury said "no",
he didn't, because "even with the
increased rates they are now get
ting, it is pretty difficult for work
ing man to. pay the grocery bills
at current prices"
Other witnesses for the big mill
ing companies were neither so con-
nor so friendly to labor.
L. N. Perrin, President of Gen
eral Mills, Inc, stressed that labor
charges had increased 127 per cent
since 1889, and contended that the
company's profits had remained at
less than three per cent on the
volume of sales throughout the
past years.
But Paul Hadlick, committee
counsel, brought out that this rep
a profit of II per cent or
more on General Mills investment
and that profits of the company
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
LAUDS UNION ROLE IN ECA

st. Paul LPA)-European re-
covery depends in large measure
upon free trade unions, according
to w. Averill Hartman, Marshall
Plan Ambassador. His statement
to the AFL convention here was
read by Boris Shishkin, director of
the ECA Labor Division in Europe.
Labor information is foremost in
the establishment of a bond be-
tween America and Europe" the
statement declared.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Farm Plan Nears
Senate Approval;
Brannan Plan Out

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
was expected to pass by the end of
this week slightly revised ver-
sion of the Anderson farm pro-
gram and sent it to conference
with the House, which has approx
ed the Gore bill, continuing the
present New Deal farm policy.
Both measures ditch the labor
backed Brannan farm program,
which is designed to give the best
break both to farmers and consum-
ers. There is little chance for any
of the Brannan program this year,
but Democratic leaders are plan
ming to carry the campaign for it
into next years elections.
The Anderson plan, which the
Senate probably will pass with
little change, and which probably
will be the measure finally adopted,
is close to the Republican Aiken
plan. 1t provides flexible parity
levels which probably will protect
farmers next year, but would per-
NIT prices to drop thereafter. 1t
does nothing to ease prices for con-
sumers.
Unless Congress agrees on some
new legislation the Aiken plan will
go into effect next year under leg
islation passed by the 8Oth Con-
gress. In view of that the Senate
probably will not yield on any es-
sential point to the House, because
it would prefer to let the Aiken
plan go into effect than to take the
rigid parity proposed in the House
bill.
In reporting the Anderson bill
for the second time, after it had
been sent back for reconsideration,
the Senate Agriculture Committee
on Oct. 6 expanded the protection
for wool, which probably will in
crease the cost of wool goods to
consumers for the next five years.
Several members of the commit
tee are favorable to the ,Brannan
plan, but did not offer it in view of
previous reflections by the commit
tee. Senator Anderson told LPA
that farmers were opposed to the
Brannan plan because they under
stood parity and did not under
stand the income guarantee feature
of the Brannan plan. He and other
committee members also opposed
the Brannan plans proposal for
benefits to the big farm
ers, fearing this would wreck the
whole crop control program.
Anderson quoted Glen Talbot,
president of the North Dakota
Farmers Union as testifying for
this provision because OF a desire
for punitive measure to close
down large farms" He said ne did
not agree with Talbot in that OBJ
jective.
Chairman Thomas (D-Okla.) has
a bill to apply produc-
ton payments, the basic feature
Of the Brannan program, to pota-
toes, but it has little chance for
at this session. An
derson said he would be willing to
apply the Brannan program to1
potatoes and wool as a trial.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
Lewis, Ching And
Coal Owners Hold
Talks In Capital

Washington (LPA) = President
John l.. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers and representatives Of the
coal industry met here with Cyrus
S. Ching, chief of the Federal
Mediation & Cancellation Service,
Oct. 7 to try to find a solution to
the three-week old coal walkout.
After morning conference
Ching said they were "just explor-
ing" In the afternoon, Ching met
first with the miners representa-
tives and later with the industry
delegation.
Lewis was accompanied by UNIV
president, Tom Kennedy, and
secretary-treasurer, John Owens.
Before the meeting here, nego-
tiations were in progress at White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, where a
UNIV committee headed by Ken
nedy conferred with northern and
western operators. At BFuefeld,
Va, Owens headed UAW COM
mittee dealing with southern oper-
ators.
The coal miners are not formal
ly on strike. However, nearly 400,-
600 of them have been working
mo day weeks" in the bituminous
fields since mid September in con-
trast to the three-day weeks they
worked in the summer. Another
100, ,000 in the anthracite mines of
eastern Pennsylvania and the BIZ
luminous pits of the far west were
idle for II days until sent back by
the union. The walkout came after
a number of southern operators
halted payments to the union well
fare and pension fund.
According to unconfrmed re-
ports, the United Mine Workers
are seeking $500 a day to replace
the present $14.05, a cut in the
work day from 7A hours to z and
80 cents per ton of coal mined for
the welfare and pension fund. At
present, operators pay 20 cents
ton to the fund.
Persistent rumors indicate that
the mine owners may ask for APP
pointment of a presidential fact
board similar to the one
which surveyed the steel industry
last summer.
In calling for the coal confer
ence in Washington, federal con-
Ching said that he felt the
coal walkout would bring on "a
national emergency" He appeared
to rate the coal situation as more
now than the steel stu
alton by saying "You can't operate
steel mills without coal"
Ching said that he had not been
asked by the White House to act,
and in Washington President Tru-
man told reporters that he did not
believe there was any reason for
him to take hand at this time in
either steel or coal.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
United Against Meat Packers

Chicago (LPA)-Figuring that
perhaps united front of all pack
inghouse workers unions can sue
coed where individual unions have
so far failed, the AFL and CIO
unions in the meat industry have
broken precedent and undertaken
joint contract negotiations on be-
half of their 100000 members in
the "big four"-Armour, Cudahy,
Swift and Wilson.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
UE Will Bargain
On Pensions First

Pittsburgh (LPA)-United Elec-
trical Workers whose national Of
ficers recently attacked steel and
auto unions for giving up wage
demands this year in exchange for
pensions and social insurance, has
agreed to put pensions and insur-
ance first in bargaining with the
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
The UE decision this week was
in response to notice from the
Westinghouse Co. that it would ne
gotiate pensions and insurance but
grant no wage. increase.
Union representative Edward
Matthews said that UE will con-
tinue to seek $500 per worker per
year in economic gains. '"The union
is prepared to undertake the nego-
tiations for pensions and insurance
as the first item of our economic
demands" he told the company,
"and then we will continue to ne
gotiate the balance of these econ
omic demands"
Proposing that bargaining start
no later than Oct. Is, Matthews
demanded that the company imme-
diately start paying $40 per month
toward present disqualification and
insurance plans. He agreed with
Westinghouse officials that pen
sion plan should go into effect on
Jan. /, 1860.
UE represents a large majority
of the 100000 Westinghouse work
ers. The union went into negotia-
tions with authorization from its
members to take a strike vote if
the company would not bargain on
its demands.
Company officials are seeking to
have employees share the cost of a
retirement and insurance plan, a
principle to which the unions are
steadfastly opposed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13

pany places its desire to break the
union over its obligations to the
taxpayers whose money built its
plants and its airplanes and paid
profits to its owners
and executives"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
STEEL PAID FOR PENSIONS
IN 19O1--WHY NOT NOW?

Pittsburgh (LPA) - When the
officials of Big Steel piously insist
that their opposition to granting
,company-paid pensions to their
employees is based on their belief
that such pensions will undermine
the workers sense of self reliance,
they are talking through their hats
and know it.
Such statements flow smoothly
from the typewriters of the slick
publicity men and they sound fine
in the country club bar. But they
contradict US Steels own history,
as the Big Steelmen are well aware
if the general public is not.
The history of pensions for US
Steel employees is told in great de-
tail in a report drafted last sum-
mer for the United Steelworkers by
insurance consultant, Murray Lat
inner.
The fact, is, Big Steel started its
first company paid pension plant 48
years ago and has been tearing it
to pieces ever since.
The original plan was created by
the late Andrew Carnegie, the
Scotch immigrant boy who grew up
to be one of the most powerful in
dustrial barons of American his
tory.
Carnegie headed the Carnegie
Steel Co. which became the US
Steel Corp. after a bewildering
series of mergers and other man
euvers. Carnegie was as ruthless
an operator as the next turn-of-
the-century millionaire and he
could have given lessons in indi-
vidualism and self reliance to Pre-
sdent Ben Fairless of US Steel
himself.
But Carnegie didn't hesitate to
endow the Carnegie Relief Fund
with $4 million worth of the com
pany bonds. The money went to
pay pensions to employees over GO
who had been with the company Is
years or more. There also were
pensions under certain conditions
for employees whose companies had
been sold by Carnegie and for dis
abled workers.
OF course, the original pensions
weren't very big, but it wasn't
long before the company was hack
ing away at them and at the basis
on which they were granted. By
1911, US Steel said a man had to
be 70 years old and to have been
with the company 20 years to get
one. (Women were eligible at 50.) !
In 1915 came compulsory retire
ment at 70, and you had to have
% years to get pension. You
could retire voluntarily at 65 and
get one if you had 20 years, or at
So if you were woman.
BY 1927, the only way you could
get disability retirement was to
be sure you put in 25 years first.
According to Latimer, compul-
sorry retirement was not enforced
IN the early years. However, in
1881 the company began to shove
he old men out. The ones who
lidn't have 25 years received no
they met some
,ery stringent conditions. Lat-
mer says that a non-eXecutive
With less than 20 years had about
me chance in a hundred million of
Getting retirement payD
In the spring of 1888, US Steel
ut the pensions. The following
ear the company took a look at
he Railroad Retirement act and !
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
OBITUARIES
ROY c. BRYAN

Beaver Falls, Pa.-Roy C. Bryan,
SO, died Sept. IA in the Rochester
General Hospital, after an nine
month illness.
Mr.. Bryan was a turner by trade
and had been an employee of the
Mayer China Co. for the past as
years. He was a member of Local
Union 33, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
Survivors include two daughters,
Mrs. Laura Dydell, Newton Falls,
Ohio; Mrs. Thelma McComb, Beav-
er Falls; one son, William c.
Bryan, New Brighton, Pa.
Burial was in Beaver Falls
cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-10-13
II. STEWART FALCONER

r. Stewart Falconer Of 100
Vine street, died at his home Sept
ember 27, following several
months illness.
Mr.. Falconer was a mouldmaker
by trade and was a charter mem
Der of Local Union %. He former
ly worked at the Jackson Vitrified
China Co., in Falls Creek, Pa. He
was employed last at the Steuben-
vile pottery.
He was member of the First
Presbyterian Church of East Liv-
erpool and the Elks and Eagles
Lodges of Wellsville.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Maude Falconer, and a sister, Miss
Mary Falconer of this city.
Funeral services were held by
Rev. Rudolph Miller, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church.