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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08

Pfc. Charles Keys, son of Mrs.
Ester Mae Bullet, 100 w. North ST.,
is member of the oath Infantry
Regiment, now stationed at Gifu, ia
pan. The oath Infantry is a part of
the 25th Infantry CTropic Light
ning) Division, commanded by Ma
jor General William B. Kean.
Keys is a rifleman in Headquar-
tiers Company End Battalion and re-
Gently returned to Camp Gifu from
summer maneuvers which were
held at the base of Mt. Fuji. ia
pans most famous mountain. He
entered the Army in October 1913,
received his basic training at Fort
Dix, New Jersey, and departed for
overseas duty in February 1949.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08
Gene Raney Buys HagerstOwn
Franchise In Interstate League
Names Dutch Dorman Manager = Signs
Working Agreement With Boston Braves
Pledges Every Effort To Give Fans A Real
Ball Club.

Just week ago Tuesday, after
the Field Athletic Association made
their public statement that they
had been unable to complete ar
engagements to buy the franchise of
the Hagerstown Owls, Eugene J. c..
Gene" Raney, owner of the Colise-
UNI Bowling Alleys here and other
alleys in Western Maryland, and
who has been in business in Hag-
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08
Roger E. Haynes Heads
Tall CedarS Forest No. 95

At the annual election of officers
of the Hagerstown Forest No. 95
of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon. held
at the Masonic Temple last Thurs
day, Roger E. Haynes was named
Grand Tall Cedar.
Other officers elected were: Charles
T. Barber, senior deputy; Ford
Bryan, junior deputy; c. ]. Emmert,
scribe; Paul H. Bovery, treasurer;
and Julian L. Oliver, trustee for
three years,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08

Pvt. Ward Abshire son of Mr..
and Mrs. Fife West, 422 N. MuIber-
ry ST., who is stationed in Japan,
has just returned to Nara from four
weeks maneuvers at Mount Full
with his battery.
Private Abshire is cannoneer in
Baker Battery of the 9th Field Ar
tillery Battalion.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08
Just In Case.

Congress should be prepared to
carry on its business by television
in the face of a threat of an atomic
attack, says Senator Wiley, Repub-
lican of Wisconsin. Members could
be seated around television sets and
cast their votes on legislation at 80
or 40 points throughout the country.
the Senator suggests.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08
Norman Wolf Named
Supervisor of DeCtiVes

Captain Brown announced last
week that Detective Norman Wolf
has been named supervisor of de
tectives of the Hagerstown Depart
ment, the appointment being made
by the Board of Public Works.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08

Kenneth s. Renner, fireman, USN,
GIG W. Washington ST, recently re-
turned from three weeks "cold
weather" cruise in the North At
lantic aboard the escort carrier USS
Mindoro.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Lobor Wins ECA
Continued From Page One)

least, believe that good Congress-
ional policy will make it possible
for the unions to agree to a change
in the ECA 500 rule at a future
date.
Representing AFL unions at the
parley this week were Matthew
DuShane of the Seafarers' Int'l
Union and John II. Owens, former
secretary of the AFL's Maritime
Trades Dept.
ClO spokesman were Natl Mari
time Union President Joseph Cur
ran, President John Green of the
Industrial Union of Marine & Ship
building Workers, and Secretary
Hoyt Haddock of the CIO Maritime
Committee.
Clinton S. Golden and Bert NJ.
Jewell, the CIO and AFL labor ad-
visors to Hoffman also participated,
as did Marion Hedges and Ted
Silvey of the Office of Labor Adj
visors, ECA.
Before the conference with ECA
officials, Curran invited AFL as
we'll as CIO unions to confer with
the NMU, in Washington on Feb.
q, on program to "refloat the
American merchant marine"
Transfer of ships from US to
low labor standard foreign regis
teries, Defense Secretary James
ForrestaPs scheme to place civilian
operated Army transports under
Navy control, as we'll as legis-
lative program for building new
ships, and ECA shipping policy are
among the topics Curran believes
maritime unions should handle
jointly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Apprenticeship
(LoniiHHrd From Page ORe)

building Workers of America, CIO,
Camden, N. j.; c. A. Putnam, pres
ident Of the Markem Machine Co.,
Keene, N. H.; C. j. Haggerty, sec
retary-treasurer of the California
Federation of Labor, San Fran
cisco; DR.. Raymond w. Gregory,
assistant commissioner for Voca-
tional Education, u. S. Office of
Education, Washington, d. C.
The committee, which recently
was augmented from 9 to II mem
bers, has been composed Of rep
resentatives of employers, 2 each
of the American Federation of La
Dor and of the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations, and one Of
education. Secretary Tobin will APP
point the second CIO member of
the committee in the near future.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Civil Liberties
Group critieizes
Communist Trial

/ New. York (LPA)-The nation'
foremost civil liberties organiza
tion last week sharply criticized
the trial of IL Communist Leaders
in US district court here, on ths
grounds tha the government
Charges no overt acts of sedition tt
the defendants, and that the gov
ernment move, if successful, viii
simply drive the Communist move
ment underground
While pointing out that the Am,
erican Civil Liberties Union "is
wholly opposed to the entire Com
munist philosophy of police-state
dictatorship" and excludes Com
munists as we'll as other anti-dem-
ocratic forces from it's councils,
Director Roger Baldwin of ACLU
was extremely critical of the JUS
tiee Dept case against the Il men.
"It has always been the position
of our courts, as well as sound
policy" said Baldwin, chat no
language, publications or propa-
ganda are punishable unless they
constitute clear and present
danger of unlawful acts" The de-
PENDANTS can be charged, under the
1910 anti-sedition act, with con-
spring to overthrow the govern
ment by force, and incitement to
disaffections in the armed forces.
Nothing in the indictments sug-
gests any such DANGER" the ACLU
director asserted. His organization,
he added, is Opposed to restricting
the freedom of Communist propa-
ganda in the absence of unlawful
acts.
1T takes that position not only
on the ground of legal rights but
also on the practical ground that
it is far better for democracy to
such movements to op-
crate in the open than to drive
them into secret underground chan
nels."
Meanwhile, in court here, de-
fense lawyers for the IL Commun-
lists were devoting their time to
charges that the special grand
jury which returned the indictments
was illegal, and the indictment
therefore void, because the panel
of jurors was selected so as to ex-
clude low-income and minority
group jurors. A. j. Isserman, at
torney for two of the Communists,
charged that the jury twas consti-
tuted like rich mans club"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
NLRB Easing Up
As Debufe Looms

Washington (LPA) - Belying
General Counsel Robert Denham's
postelection threat that he'd con-
tinue vigorous enforcement of the
Taft Hartley law, regardless of its
rejection at the polls, life has been
quieter at the NLRB lately.
During December, a recent board
report reveals, not one injunction
was asked for by the indomitable
Denham. In the two months pre-
ceding the elections II injunctions
were requested.
The board was able to dispose
of 15fo of it's backlog in Decem-
ber, as the number of cases filed
declined 21@S below the November
figure.
Despite Denham's denials, some
observers in the nations capital
persist in believing that pro-Taft-
Hartley NLRB officials in Wash
ington and in regional Offices are
easing up, in hopes of rewriting
much of Taft Hartley into any
new federal labor law.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Exhibits Of Transportation Industry
To Be Feature of Big AFL Exposition

Washington.-New developments
in the transportation industry will
be featured at the great Union In
dustries Show to be held this year
in Cleveland from May 18 to 22,
according to |. M. Ornburn, show
director and secretary of the AFL's
Union Label Trades Department
which sponsors the annual event.
AFL unions engaged in this gi-
gantic industry will demonstrate
new techniques and devices with
which their members work in rail
road, bus, truck, and air transpor-
tation.
1t is expected that the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters
will put on it's usual large and in
teresting attraction. Last year, at
Milwaukee, the union occupied the
entire stage of a vast auditorium
with a streamlined exhibit of SER
vices which it renders.
The Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes of America will exhibit an
actual, streamlined bus, and will
demonstrate the automatic doors
with safety devices for the pro-
lection of patrons.
The Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks will employ sew
eral booths and install an up-to-
date ticket office for the conven-
fence of those in attendance who
desire tickets and reservations.
The Association of American Rail
roads will have an animated ex-
hibit of a complete, miniature rail
way system.
"Even to get to Cleveland is
easy" said Mr. Ornburn. at is on
the main line Of all transportation
from East to West, by rail, high
way, air or water. 1t is just an
overnight ride from the nation 5
heaviest population centers. Plan
your vacation now and go to the
Union Industries Show by auto,
bus, train, airplane or boat. Any
way, be sure to get there. You will
see the greatest labor-management
event in the world"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Rent Contro! Bill
Will Be Rushed by
March | DeadIine

Washington LPA) - Extension
and Tightening of rent controls, to
replace the law expiring March 1,
will have to be done in speedy
fashion. This became clear this
week, as both Senate and House
committees which must pass on the
new law scheduled "early Febru-
ary" sessions.
Sen. Paul Douglas 3D., Ill.),
chairman of the Senate Banking
subcommittee on IN limitation
measures, is expected to begin
work on bill before the beginning
of February. Douglas, elected with
solid labor backing, has already
come out for strengthening the
current law, and Tightening many
of the loopholes in the measure.
On the House side, Chairman
Brent Spence 3D., Ky.) of the
House Banking & Currency Com
mittee expects to get his group or
ganized this week, and to hold
hearings early in February.
Union spokesmen are expected
to tell both committees that they
want extension for at least two
years, with increased powers to the
rent administrator to recontrol
areas, or to impose controls for
the first time. They will also insist
on much clearer and stronger rules
to prevent evictions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
TO HEAR USA CASE

Washington UPA)-The Sup
rene Court agreed last week to
review NLRB and circuit court de-
cisions denying the United Steel
workers of America federal pro.
lection under the Taft Hartley law
Altho the NLRB said last year that
Inland Steel Co. should bargain
with USA on pension proposals, II
conditioned enforcement of it's rul.
ing on union officers signing the
Taft Hartley non-Communist aft.
davits. This President Philip Muir
ray and the other anti-Communist
officers of USA have refused to do
on principled grounds.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27

machinists are expected at each in
stitute, the number being limited
so that everyone may participate.
The first days discussions hing
around American labor history
"It's important" Tom Tippett says
"for union people to know how
much heroism and sacrifice Wen
into making the American labo'
movement and what unions have
done not only for their members
directly, but for the whole Amer
ican democracy. We want all our
members to realize that it's damn
honorable thing to be a part of
organized labor"
From here on out the students
will really become the teachers
as lam leaders discuss with each
other the techniques of organizing,
negotiating, and contract admin
istration. Each of these topics will
get a full days attention. By the
fifth day the team from the grand
lodge will have prepared summar-
les Of the four days sessions, and
all the participants will work it
over to make sure that's what the
discussions really add up to.
When Tippett went before lam
executive board members not long
ago to submit his plan he wonder
ed how much of it they'd "buy",
and how important they'd consider
it. Frankly, he didn't expect to get
an okay for the whole program.
After all, it costs lot Of time and
money to bring union leaders from
each district and sub-district to-
gether for five days, in each Of 20
or more centers. But the IAM's
executive board members are as
serious about thesproject as Tip
petit is himself. They approved his
program in toto. When Tippett
suggested that it might be helpful
if a grand lodge official opened
each institute and explained to the
district representatives the import
ance of the plan, they Immediately
agreed that in every case either
President Harvey Brown or some
other prom inent machinists'
spokesman would begin each dis
cussion series.
Neither the lam chiefs nor Tip
petit is sure where exactly the edu-
cational effort will go after the
first 20-odd Institutes. What parts
Of the plan will prove really valu-
able, and what parts should be
dropped or changed has to be
found out by experience. How to
get the same knowledge and inter
est in improving the operations of
the union to every lam member
after the district leaders have put
each other thru the PAGES, has not
yet been determined. A lot Of
thought, however, is going into this
problem. This is no zone shot" af-
fair.
A couple Of months from now,
after Tippett has finished his swing
around the lam circuit wen tell
you how it's worked out, and what
The next steps in this "integrated
program" will be.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
HITCH IN UNION PLANS

New York (LPA)-Preparations
by Amalgamated Clothing Workers
to organize department store work
crs here received a slight upset
when Louis Yagoda, state mediator
in the Buffalo region, announced he
would not accept post as organ
izer for the union. "Altho the an
nouncement that | would under
take the job was made in good
faith, | intend to remain with the
Board of Mediation" he announc-
ed. Meanwhile, ACW plans an or
ganizing session in Washington
next week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
IBT PIonning Big
(Confinued From Page One)

warehouse, and "back of the store
efforts would cover some of the
same employees now being recruited
by both AFL and CI0 retail clerks
unions, Beck denied that jurisdic-
tional disputes between thes G
unions and IBT will necessarily oc-
cur. He said that the teamsters will
respect the jurisdiction of other
unions.
Previously spokesmen for sever
al unions organizing clerks had as
serted their willingness to cooper
ate with the lBT and honor its
claims.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Mdchinists' Integrdted
Education Program Gets
Underway In Philadelphia
By WILLIAM c. GAUSMANN

Philadelphia (LPA) - The Int
Association of Machinists inaugu-
rates its new education program
at a conference of LAM national
and district leaders in Philadelphia
this week.
It's no ordinary class room deal
with inexperienced pupils covering
under the gaze of a self-important
teacher. The students" include
some of the IAM's key men, union
lists with plenty of background in
the subjects they were considering.
The teacher" is Tom Tippett, a
veteran union organizer, news
paper man, and educator
The aim of the program is to
make the LAM a better union, and
each of its officers and members
better fitted to play his part in the
unions life. 1t is, at the same time,
an inspirational and a down-to-
earth idea.
Nearly two years ago the lam
started shopping around for a good
education director. Altho the Grand
Lodge had done a bangup job of
training its representatives, and
local lodge leaders, to handle NLRB
cases, it has never before under
taken a general educational pro-
gram. Many machinists' lodges
have had good local programs, but
others have paid little attention to
this phase of union work.
When the national heads of the
LAM talked with Tippett they were
in total agreement on one point
the machinists' program must not
be one of the window-dressing edu
cational ventures-sort of an APP
pendage to the public relations de-
partment. Nor could it be-no mat
ter how good its content-one Of
the highly abstract, academic pro-
grams, which stimulates the think-
ing of a few union members, but
doesn't seem to most workers to
help much with their own problems.
Tippett, and his assistant, Will
lam O'Connell, went to work plan
ming a series of discussions, in
which union men would be both
the teachers and the students. They
figured that the most expert in
structors on how to organize ma
chinists, negotiate good contracts
for them, and enforce those con
tracts properly, are the men who've
been doing the job-IAM district
heads, grand lodge representatives
and auditors, and other working
officials of the union.
For Is months they studied the
history and the functioning of the
lam. They noted that it is made
up of all kinds Of locals-craft and
industrial locals with ten thousand
members all employed by one boss,
and locals with "A few score of
members all working in groups of
two or three for different employ
ers, locals on the railroads, and
locals in the air transport industry.
LAM members include veteran
craftsmen with a long union tradi- |
tion, semi-skilled workers who
were brought into the contract
benefits of the lam sometimes
without much effort of their own,
and white collar workers brand now
to the idea of unionism. Here, |
within the structure Of one union,
was a wealth of different exper-
fences, a chance for one group Of
IAN members to learn from the
Others, and in turn to teach others
what il had learned.
Tippett and O'Connel came up
with plan to hold n series of five
day Institutes in a number of i'm
portant LAM centers. About 80 .
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
Housing Segregation Forbidden

Newark (LPA) - Attempts to
discriminate against Negro veter-
ans in city housing development
were restrained by court order last
week. The city has attempted to
place all Negro vets in one build
ing, but was defeated by court
judgement that "since there is no
segregation in civic duty and sacri-
flee, there should be none in the
realm of human dignity and equal
ity."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1949-01-27
STEEL BATTLE RACES
THRU INAUGURAL WEEK

Washington LPA)-The excite
ment over President Truman's in.
auguration here in Washington
and in homes thruout the country
didn't slow down the battle raging
within the government, and in bust
ness circles over future steel prices
and production levels.
A cold war inside the President
Council of Economic Advisors was
brought out into the open last week
when one of its members, Leon
Keyserling, aligned himself with
Traman's proposals for expanding
basic steelmaking capacities. Key
serling spoke out after Council
Chairman Edwin G. Nourse told re-
porters he didn't agree with all OF
the Presidents plans.
Nourse said that it's all right
for the government to take "facili-
tative action" but it must not en-
gage in Operative activities" In
other words he goes along with the
Presidents proposal to make ex-
pansion loans available to the steel
industry, but disapproves of Tru-
mans statement that if this doesn't
produce the steel America needs
the government might go into the
steel business itself.
Another Truman advisor, Com
merce Secretary Charles Sawyer,
also took the lid off the debate be-
tween himself and Asst Interior
Secretary G.. Girard Davidson.
Sawyer said that the steel short
age "this year will be substantial
ly less than some estimates have
forecast" Davidson has been
leading spokesman inside the gov
ernment for the view that an adj
ditionaI 100000 tons of steel
should be produced each year.
Sawyer added, however, that he
thinks Congress will approve Tru-
mans request for study of steel
facilities and will okay the
expansion program 'if
found necessary" He also caution
ed that present supplies of iron
and steel scrap are inadequate.
The steel industry itself declar-
ed that it is now producing at
99.5% of ingot capacity-the high
est rate in history. Bethlehem Steel
Corp. announced that it will invest
500, 100000 in capital equipment
this year. Much Of this fund will
go for purposes other than increas-
ing basic steel-making capacity,
however.
While &c per 100 ID. increase
in steel prices in New York was
being announced, the US Chamber
If Commerce was preparing to line
up it's affiliates for an attack on
he Federal Trade Commissions
powers to outlaw discriminatory
,asing point pricing.
The Chamber has started a poll
its members asking them to
approve amendments to the anti
rust laws legalizing delivered
prices" Altho the Chambers PAM
billet accompanying the poll states
he case for the FTC, and its
are allegedly designed
% preserve FTCs power to outlaw
he worst tricks of the delivered
prices" industries, the poll is timed
% coincide with Senate commit
zee hearings late this month on
amendments favored by
he steel industry.
And of course Irving S. Olds,
chairman of the board of giant US
Steel got his two-bits worth in.
)lds said that "some of the indus
,ry's critics" want to follow Bri-
aims course and Eventually ma
ionalize the steel industry" Altho
lie didn't identify these critics he
made it clear that he is just as
trongly opposed to President Tru-
mans threat of limited government