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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Swings Wild In
Second Assault
On NLRB Member

Washington (LPA)-NLRB Gen
eral Counsel Robert N. Denham,
who recently said board members
were too Wagner-act minded to ad
minister the Taft Hartley act pro-
perly, took some more wild swings
at the board Jan. 80.
This time Denham's subject was
secondary boycotts, and he used
the Int'l Brotherhood of Teamsters
as a secondary target. He said, in
effect, that the Taft Hartley act
hadn't been able to curb complete
ly the power of strong unions like
the Teamsters, and by implication
blamed the NLRB. Board members
just didn't see eye to eye with him
on secondary boycotts, seemed to
be his chief complaint.
Addressing the American Truck
ing Ass'ns, Inc, here, Denham lam
ented that time and again he had
obtained injunctions against unions,
notably the Teamsters, indulging
in what he thought were secondary
boycotts only to have the NLRB
reverse him. What really Mortified
him was that in a couple of recent
cases the NLRB ruled that an "un-
fair list" and "hot cargo" clause
were perfectly legal, Denham had
maintained they weren't.
! Denham finally gave the truck
ing bosses essentially the same ad-
/ vice he gave New York Building
Trades Employers a month ago. If
they didn't like NLRB decisions
! they ought to appeal to the FEEDER
al Circuit Courts, he suggested in
directly. When he urged the New
York bosses to do the same thing
month earlier, Denham was
blasted from all quarters of organ
lied labor. When the boss goes
into court with a case in which the
NLRB has reversed Denham, it is
Denham, as general counsel, who
must argue the boards side.
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stimulate private capital forma-
tion, plant expansion, and related
job opportunities.
The serious deficiencies in the
states unemployment insurance
programs are highlighted by the
subcommittee's third proposal, to
revise the state laws to broaden
the present coverage (only three
out of ten wage earners now COW
ered) and make benefits more ade-
quate (benefits are less than 30
per cent Of wages in 18 states, and
over 40 per cent in four states).
The subcommittee also pointed out
the experience rating" provisions
inserted by industry lobbyists
pressure in many state laws makes
the payroll tax rate higher in times
of heavy unemployment, and low
in times when few are employed.
Looking back on the period be-
tween 1929 and 1949, it is possible
to see "the magnitude and rapid
ity" Of the social and economic
changes in the US, the committee
observes. 1t is testimonial to the
"resilience" of the American econ
omy that employment in the
second half of the period approx
mated 60 million, a goal considered
impractical only few years earl
ier. The entire period of the forties
was probably the longest sustain
ed approach to full employment
since the turn of the century, a
fact which gains perspective when
compared to an average gain OF
only two million workers in the
two previous decades"
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Senator
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the 40-odd international unions in
the C. |. o. The fact that this is so,
is directly traceable to Gompers'
concern over excessive concentra-
tion of authority and power in
federation of unions. The American
labor movement is therefore a de-
centralized movement"
LAS an American, | take an enor-
NOUS satisfaction in the Gompers'
story because it serves to give adj
ditional strength to the American
heritage of equal opportunity ire
spective of national origin, creed
and color. The career of Samuel
Gompers Eliminates the way in
which our cultural diversity has
been a source of strength in build
ing an effective democracy"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

miners wage in Czechoslovakia is
about 1000 krones monthly, or
about $4,000. Yet prices are so high
that wages mean little.
Shabbiness On Increase
Living standards seem to be go
ing down despite the fact that
wages are higher now than before
the 5-year-economic plan of the
Soviets got under way. Clothes and
shoes are hard to get. People are
beginning to look shabby. The
women actually wear old sack cloth
as dresses. | brought my male re-
lations some gray work shirts.
They wore them for their Sunday
best. The second day of my visit
in Roznova, / heard the Prague
radio announce that America was
in the midst of a terrible depres-
sion, that everyone was jobless,
hungry and without heat or clothes.
Most Czechs are believing this pro-
paganda. When some of those
folks who looked as though they
were rag pickers and hadn't had
square meal in months started feel
ing sorry for me, / couldn't keep
my mouth shut. However, my rela
tives warned me not to start any
political talk in public. Unions are
under Communist control. Workers
cannot strike.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
PRIVATE GREED BUCKS
COOP HOUSING BILL

Washington (LPA)-The private
building and mortgage banking in
terests opposing the middle-income
cooperative housing bill are doing
so for one reason. The scarcity of
good homes for families in the
$25O0 to $4500-a-year bracket "has
proved most profitable" to them,
Jerry Voorhis of the Cooperative
League USA told the House Bank
ing Committee Feb. 2.
The, former California Congress
man, now executive secretary of
the League and of the Natl Coop
erative Mutual Housing Assn, said
this is "the real reason for oppos-
ition to the bill. There will be more
building of homes, at less cost to
the families living in them if the
bill is passed. This will tend over
a period of time to relieve the
scarcity of good homes now exist
ing. That very scarcity has proven
most profitable to some interests.
They do not want to see it distur-
bed. So they are against the bill"
Even discussion of the coop bill
has lowered prices and improved
quality of homes built for sale to
families in the middle-income
group, Voorhis asserted. Passage
of this bill will affect indirectly
many more families than will be
directly aided through technical
assistance and insured loans for
the housing co-ops to which they
belong, Voorhis pointed out. Alto
gether, there are from 40 to so
million people in this income range.
Similar freeing of credit for
their own use" has brought the
benefits of electricity to thousands
of farm families through the Rural
lectri f ication Administration,
without penny's loss to the US
Treasury" he pointed out.
Existing machinery" of the
Federal Housing Administration
"just can't do the job. 1t has had
long time to try. The results are
pretty negligible if not negative"
Voorhis asserted. He supported a
change in the bill before the COM
mittee separating the coop hous-
ing agency from FILA.
Biggest barrier to coop housing,
Voorhis reported, has been "the
utterly inadequate access to nee
essary financing. Nor has FHA as
yet proven an appreciable help.
| Indeed in many cases it has SEEM
ed that, instead of trying to expe-
dite the desperately needed con-
struction of homes for veterans and
others, FILA has needlessly and
most seriously retarded progress
by its insistence upon a long SER
les of changes in plans"
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AFL. CIO Join
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Lewis Hines, special representa-
tive of AFL President William
Green, is member along with
spokesman for the American Leg
ion, the Natl Catholic Welfare
Conference, the Natl Education
Assn, the American Medical Assn,
the US Chamber of Commerce,
B'nai Birth, and others.
Hines and Read were successful,
despite the pleading of Sen. Karl
Mundt OR, ND i'm blocking pass
age of a resolution endorsing the
bill to outlaw the Communist party,
which Mundt is trying to push
through Congress.
The way to fight the Commun-
lists, the two veterans of the anti
Connie battles in the labor move
ment asserted, is to eliminate
economic insecurity and the inse-
curity created by flaws in US civil
rights.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
LABOR PEACE PROBE

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Labor Committee has voted unan-
miously to ask the Senate for a
$108,000 fund to carry on an inves-
tigation Of labor-management rela
tions, in preparation of a report
due in December 1850.
Meeting Jan. 20, the Senators
okayed the proposal, brought in by
the subcommittee headed by Sen.
James Murray Cd, Mont.).
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tions, Tobin said: This pact be-
tween two great unions has been
negotiated without intervention or
pressure by the Government in any
form. believe that this agreement
can be a major contribution toward
industrial peace through the re-
moval of unnecessary jurisdiction
al disputes. The conclusion of this
agreement will be source of sat-
isfaction to every thoughtful citiz-
en- in our country. Certainly, it is
evidence that organized labor can
work out its own internal problems
voluntarily and without Govern
ment intervention"
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Labor Leader
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carry out Spain's end of the agree
ment, Gomez said.
The exiled labor leader pointed
out that an amalgamation of Con-
federation leaders with monarch
ist groups after a 1948 conference
in France put him in touch with
at least so per cent of anti-total-
itarian labor inside Spain through
well organized liaison system.
This pooling of resources has
greatly strengthened and stimu-
lated anti-Franco activities, he re-
ported.
Gomez pointed out that he at
tended the London conference at
which the Int'l Confederation of
Free Trade Unions was established
bearing credentials actually signed
inside Spain despite Francois police
methods.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Demonstrates Need
For Coop Housing
To House Group

Washington (LPA) = Claims of
the real estate and home builders
lobby that plenty of housing is now
being produced for 'low income"
families were answered with facts
and figures Jan. 80. In testimony
presented to the House Banking
Committee on behalf of the Federal
Housing Agency, Raymond M.
Foley, appearing in support of the
middle-income cooperative housing
bill, charged that two fallacies are
inherent in the arguments used
against the bill. These opponents
say private builders are erecting
ample housing for people in the
$2000-$ $4,000 income bracket.
First, the real estate lobby
"misuses national averages" in its
arguments. 'It balances off the
low-cost homes, most of which are
produced in the south and in parts
Of other sections where prevailing
construction costs and income levels
are lower or where savings in
home construction are possible be-
cause the climate is milder, against
the housing needs of middle-income
families In higher-cost areas, such
as. New York, Chicago, or Detroit" :"
Here's the proof: Over the coun-
try, So per cent of the federally-
insured rental units built in the
first half of 1949 rented for $50 or
more. But in New York and Chi
cago, only about five per cent rent
edi'under $50 a month. In Denver,
no apartments renting under $50
a month were planned; in Detroit,
not a single unit was scheduled to
rent at under $40. Even the few
available in New York and Chicago
were mainly efficiency or one
bedroom apartments.
"The plight of middle-income
families with children is even more
pronounced than the rental figures
by themselves would Indicate" +"
Foley added.
The figures: for the first half of
l919, Ga per cent Of the rental
units built with FILA insurance in
New York City had three and a
half rooms or less, and in Chicago,
this figure was II per cent.
The federal agency figures that
a four and-a-half room apartment
built by a coop would rent to the
members for $64.67 a month-a
figure including utilities. By CON
trast, private-profit rental housing
of comparable quality would rent
at $90.32, FILA figures.
The coop housing bill, which is
expected to be approved by the
Senate Banking Committee later
this week, Foley said, will Ground
out our efforts to encourage and
assist in obtaining volume produc-
tion of good housing at costs with
in the paying ability of the middle
income third of American families.
This is an area where we are at
present least well-eQuipped. In my
judgement, it is also an area of
great and urgent housing need"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
A PLEA FOR BROTHERHOOD
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Almighty God, we make our
earnest prayer that Thou will keep
the United States in Thy holy pro-
lection; that Thou will incline the
hearts of the citizens to cultivate
a spirit of subordination and obed-
ience to government; to entertain
brotherly affection and love for
one another and for their fellow
citizens of the United States at
large"
1t is fitting that Washington's
prayer ter his inauguration
should be the prayer with which
we celebrate Brotherhood Week.
Our nation was founded upon the
principle which is the foundation
of all monotheistic religions-the
Fatherhood of God and the Broth
erhood of Man. We gave allegiance
to this credo when we accepted as
the cornerstone of this republic,
the declaration that all men are
created equal.
Consider the prayer of our first
President. He prayed first for di-
vine protection for the United
States. Next for the willingness of
Americans to submit themselves
TO the laws which they themselves
should make, to the will of the
majority, and lastly he prayed that
they have brotherly affection and
love for one another as fellow
citizens. BY submission to law,
Washington did not mean blind
subservience. His formula left
room for laws to be tested, to be
subject to repeal, to be put to a
high and supreme authority to
establish their justice. Those rights
come under our procedures as
Washington understood them.
Here was no mention of creed,
race or color Here were drawn
none of the differentiating lines of
the old world. He prayed to the
Father of all mankind that His
children might recognize their kin
ship and display the spirit of bro
| therhood.
Our need for brotherhood is even
greater today than it was when
the republic was founded. If we
are to survive as a nation, if we
are to take our proper place in the
world Of nations, we must have
brotherhood-not a condeScending
charity toward those whose ances-
try, faith or work is different than
ours, but a whole hearted accept
ance of the kinship Of all right
thinking men, of the brotherhood
Of man under the fatherhood of
God. America is made up of all
races and creeds, but Americans to
be true Americans, must respect
individuals for what they are indi-
vidually, regardless of color or
creed.
The strength of brotherhood is
the strength Of love. If we as in
dividuals cannot get along with our
neighbors, how can we ever hope to
live peaceably with other nations.
Prejudice and bigotry are the sub
terfuge and the foundation of an
wars.
The full expression of brother
hood is the Golden Rule which has
never been surpassed as the most
practical rule of life and as the
only basis for peace on earth. As
we celebrate the birthday of the
Father of our country during Bro
therhood Week, let us pause to
pledge ourselves again to that
Golden Rule of Life-"Therefore
all things whatsoever ye would
that man should do to you, do ye
even so to them; for this is the
law and the prophets"
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Baltimore Group
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enry the need of working together
to save and enhance the lives Of
men, women and children, regard
less of their income or where they
reside in this country. However, |
find | cannot serve on the commit
tee you suggest, as | could not de-
fend with fact the detectives you
mention in your letter."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
New Area Pastors TO Visit Unions

Chicago (LPA) - The Chicago
Church Federation is starting a
program for new ministers in the
area; visits to union headquarters.
The first such tour started Jan.
23. Denying the accusation that
church policies and programs are
built around middle class business
men and the few wealthy members,
the announcement says "The union
holds the key to the worker today.
BY knowing the union you can
know both the problems and joys,
hopes and disappointments the
key to opportunity for the laboring
man."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

Women expect IA man to notice
their clothes and extend the usual
compliments, but they seldom have
a decent word to say about any
mans wardrobe.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
katters Research
Chief Named To
Important Post

New York City (ILNS). - Max
Zaritsky, president Of the United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work
ers International Union, announc-
ed the appointment of DR.. Alfred
Braunthal, research director of the
union, as the new director Of the
Economic and Social Department
of the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions with head
quarters in Brussels, Belgium.
"His appointment to the post, "
Zaritsky said, "was unanimously
approved by the ICFTU executive
board at the joint suggestion OF
the AFL and CIO delegates who
attended the recent London confer
ence. We are loaning DR.. Braun
thai to the ICFTU because of our
desire to help lay the groundwork
for the building of a mighty free
world trade union federation. ar
CDR. Braunthal will, | am sure, "
added Zaritsky, with his ability
and his charming personality, make
an important contribution to the
stability and growth of the Inter
national Confederation of Free
Trade Unions. We shall miss him
at the United Hatters and welcome
him back when the new internation-
al is firmly established and en-
trenched."
To Work With UN Bodies
The Economic and Social Depart
ment is designed to service the
lICFTU and it's affiliated trade
unions ccnters on all matters per
taining to employment problems,
social security standards and all
other questions affecting the gen
eral welfare of working men and
women throughout the world.
In addition, DR.. Braunthal will of
course be working closely with the
Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations and it's affiliated
bodies. His plans include complete
cooperation between the Economic
and Social Department of the
ICFTU and the research and econ
omic departments of all affiliated
trade unions.
Dir. Braunthal has been director
of research and the economist for
the United Hatters since December,
1886. "He came to u.s. said Iarit-
sky, "as an exile from Hitler's
Germany, where he had formerly
been a researchist and economist
for the German Federation of
Labor. Since 1886 he has served our
international union, its officers
and members with distinction"
Other Union Officers Lent
His leave of absence will expire
when DIR. Braunthal feels that the
new department of the world trade
union organization has been firmly
established and is performing its
varied tasks with speed and eff
cheney. At that time he will re-
sumo his position with the United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work
ers International Union.
1T seems to be our lot, /" Zarltsky
went on, "to lend distinguished
members of our staff to govern
mental agencies from time to time.
We have in the past given such
men as William Munger, former
executive secretary of our interna-
tional union, to the Economic Co
operation Administration. MarN
Lewis, our present general secre-
tary was loaned by us to the City
of New York, where he served as
the deputy treasurer. Louis Fine,
formerly of our staff, is now a
commissioners of mediation in Can
ada"
Dir. Braunthal will take up his
new duties with the International
Confederation of Free Trades
Unions Feb. Is.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

The ambition of every parking
lot attendant is to get 100 cars
into the space where only so were
parked before.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

It's a lucky man who can tele-
phone his home without busy sig
mails blocking him for half an hour,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09

Buy Union-Made goods from
lthers as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
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Evening star., 1950-01-18
Couple Put on Probation
For NegIecting Children
BY the Assoeidfed Press

ROANOKE, Va. Jan. 18.-Brax-
ton D. Sumner, a truck driver, and
his wife Sue were placed on con-
ditional probation in Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court yester-
day after being convicted of neg
lecting their young children.
The plight of the Summers chill
dren, two of whom are in the hos
pital recovering from acute mall
nutrition, touched off repercus-
sions resulting in a call for a
special meeting of the city coun-
Gil tomorrow night to investigate.
Judge K. A. Pate sentenced the
couple, both of whom are 38, to
IL months each in prison camps.
But he suspended the sentences
and put the Summers on probation
provided they meet certain con-
ditions-including that they move
out OF their home, which officials
have described as understandable"
and that they find a suitable and
healthy place in which to live.
Meanwhile, under court orders.
the children will remain in the
care of the welfare department.
and Summers pay checks will be
turned over to the Juvenile Court.
Evening star., 1950-01-18
Cafe Owner Becomes Citizen
After 5 Hearings in 3 Years

1t took Joseph William McDon-
aid, 67-year-old Bethesda restaur-
ant owner, five hearings in three
years to become an American citi-
zen, but he finally made. it yes
terday. 81.
Mr.. Mcdonald, a native Of Can
ada, was one of 81 persons ad-
mitted to citizenship by Judge
Stedman Prescott in Montgomery
County Circuit Court.
81 got mixed up before because
I was so excited" said Mr.. Nc
Donald after passing his oral ex-
animation. This time, I took it
easy"
Mr.. Mcdonald lives at 1924 Wis
consin avenue and operates his
restaurant at 7546 Old George
town road. He moved to Bethesda
from the District shortly after he
came to this country in l943.
Others granted citizenship are:
Mrs. Gisele Bouquet Perry, %,
of 1905 Dresden street, Kensing-
ton, and Mrs. Andree Leonie New
man, 33, of 4012 Leland street,
Chevy Chase, French nationality:
Mrs. Lillian Dorothy Thomas. q,
Rockville, Australian.
Also, Mrs. Suzanne Marie Bach
schmid, 80, of 1906 Lynnbrook
drive, Bethesda: Mrs. Edith Anna
Ashford, IS, Rockville; Mrs. Mona
AngelabBrahler, rs, Of 1906 Maple
avenue, Bethesda; George r.