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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Capital Social
Laws Might Catch
Up If Bills Pass

Washington (LPA)-If Congress
adopts three bills now before the
Senate committee for the District
of Columbia, the nations capital
will catch up at last with the more
progressive states in some aspects
of social legislation, hackers of the
measures say.
One bill would liberalize the Dis
trict's unemployment compensation
law by upping benefits to max
imum of $33 a week, and by elm
mating the waiting period" appli-
cants for jobless pay now undergo.
Another bill, similar to legislation
already in effect in a number of
states, would require employers to
pay their employees at least twice
a month and provide commission
to collect wages in arrears. A novel
feature of the measure is that pri-
mary employers would be liable for
the wages of employees working for
SuDCOliJ1 dCJOiS. Il llClc 10 dlSO a. pIb-
vision making wages payable be-
fore an employers other debts.
Third bill is designed to elimin-
ate discrimination against women
and employable minors. Modelled on
a New York statute, it would
amend the Districts minimum
wage law to cover men as well as
women and males under 18. In eff
feet, it equaizes the wages of men
and women.
Capital business groups forced a
three-week postponement of hear
ings on the unemployment compen-
sation bill, first to be considered by
the committee. They said they
needed time to study the measure.
Bills were introduced by Sen.
Matthew Nicely Cd, w. Va.), chair
man of the Senate District commit
tee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Labor Men To Aid
Study Of Imports

Washington (LPA)-A study OF
Americas capacity to consume
more goods and services from
abroad and the effects of increas-
ed imports on this country's indus
tries will be undertaken jointly by
the National Planning Association
and the Twentieth Century Fund
it was announced here.
The study, major project, will
be headed by H. Christian Some,
chairman of the NPA board of
trustees and a trustee of the Fund
Evans Clark, director of the Fund
and f. j. Coil, director of NPA.
The study twill promote under
standing of this situation by the
American people, and aid in the
Qualification Of policy, the organ
izations heads declared.
Labor will be represented by
Solomon Barkin, director of re-
search, Textile Workers-CIO; Geo
rye p. Delaney, international rep
resentative, AFL; and Michael
Ross, director, Department of In
ternational Affairs, CIO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Resistub Makers
In More Trouble
With FTC Group

Washington (LPA)-The makers
of Resistabs, charged by the Fed
eral Trade Commission with mis-
leading the public in their advertis-
ing about the virtues of Resistabs
as cold cures or preventives, are in
more trouble with the ETC.
Bristol Myers, in replying to the
FTC complaint, not only denied the
ETC charges but asserted it could
not receive a fair trial because the
ETC had ulterior motives in issu-
ing the complaint. The firm charg-
ed ETC is "predisposed" to issue
a cease-and-desist order because it
fears that failure to do so will
bring severe criticism and possible
adverse action by organized medi-
cal groups and by Congress. The
firm said ETC fears jurisdiction
over the advertising of food, drugs
and cosmetics will be shifted to the
Food and Drug Administration.
The FTC ordered such state
ments stricken from the record as
having no bearing on the allega-
tions in the complaint and as being
unfounded and unwarranted, and
further reserved the right to take
disciplinary action against the at
torneys who filed the brief.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
High Geared Lobby Serves
Breakfast And Propaganda

Washington UPA) - Capital
newsmen watched the public utility
lobby from a ringside seat April 19
when the National Assn. of Elec-
trio Companies gave press
breakfast at the Hotel Statler. The
associations aim was to convince
reporters that public power adj
vocates are fuzzy-minded socialists
or worse who are wasting the tax
payers money and leading the ma
tion toward ruin.
Purcell L. Smith, one of the cap
ital's highest paid lobbyists, pre-
sided, and the speakers were top
flight utility executives from all
sections of the nation. All but one
denounced public power as cor
ruption of the American way. The
lone exception was John Dierdorff
of Portland, Ore, vice-president of
the Pacific Power & Light Co. Even
he took a couple of swipes at the
public power idea, but said that
power was short in the Pacific
northwest and that federal devel-
opment of the Columbia river must
go forward on schedule.
The National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association immediate
iy charged the press breakfast was
part of a drive by commercial pow
er companies to rally support for a
private power monopoly. Clyde T..
Ellis, the associations executive
manager, hit the utility magnates
for trying to pin the label social
istic' on the federal power pro-
gram. Emphasizing that he spoke
for 2,445,035 consumer members of
his organization, Ellis said:
"Our farm people support this
program because from it they get
abundant low-cost electric power
without restrictions. This is never
the case when the power comes
from commercial sources"
At the press breakfast, after re-
porters had downed harvest-hands'
helpings of ham, eggs and potatoes,
Purcell Smith blandly declared he
was registered lobbyist working
for 101 electric companies. He de-
clared the public utility companies
favored government reclamation
projects and the generation of cleo
tricity at government dams, but
that the companies didn't want to
be put out of business. His remarks
set the tone for the rest of the
speakers.
j. E. Corette, Jr., vice-president
of the Montana Power Co., describ-
ed the grandeur of the Rocky
Mountains and said the mountain
states don't need the public power
the government plans to bring
them. Albert A. Cree, President of
the Central Vermont Public Ser
vice Corp. declared that New Eng !
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

lands rock-hewn Yankees would
resist threatened public power
invasion"
Robert H. Gerdes, general coun-
sci of the Pacific Gas & Electric
Co., insisted that the Interior De-
partment is imposing an un-needed
$50, ,000,00 government project on
the inhabitants of California's Cen
trail Valley. After Dierdorff con-
ceded the necessity of government
development of the Columbia river,
Louis v. Sutton, president of the
politically powerful Carolina Light
& Power Co., claimed the govern
ment has been foisting public pow
er on an unwilling people under
false pretenses. Frank M. Wilkes,
president of the Southwestern Gas
& Electric Co., declared the Rural
Electrification Administration and
the Interior Department are plott-
ing to bring socialism to America.
The ham and eggs were fine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Pamphlet Advises
Labor Unions On
Public Relations

Milwaukee UPA)-Don't let tn,
public judge a strike solely by what
the company tells the newspapers
BE sure the papers have the unior
side, too. That's the theme of "Pub
lie Relations for Labor" a new
pamphlet released by the Unitec
Automobile Workers of America
AFL.
The pamphlet, which is aimed al
local unions, spells out the how anC
why of public relations. 1t tells
how union officials should estab,
lish contact with newspaper edit
ors and explains in detail what
kind Of material should be rcleas.
cd Above all, a union shouldn't
hide the truth about itself, the
authors advise.
Strikes aren't the only things ia
tell the public about, the pamphlet
declares, Keep people informed
about the unions role in commun-
ity projects and tell them about
new contracts, union social events,
elections and sporting events, the
pamphlet says. Moreover, don't for
get that pictures, radio, movies
.filmstrips and even billboards can
be used effectively to carry the
unions message.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Hearings Slated On RR Union
Shop; Roads Oppose 1t

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Labor Committee is expected tc
open hearings May l on railroad
labor's drive for the union shop
and dues checkoff. The committee
will consider a bill introduced last
month by Senators Murray o.
Mont.), Pepper Cd, Fla), Hill 3D.
AlaD, Nicely Cd, w. Va.), Hump
hrey Cd, Mimi, Lehman Cd, n
", and Morse OR, Ore). Ten days
later, the House Interstate Com.
merce Committee is expected to
open hearings on a similar bill in
troduced by Rep. Robert Crosser
Cd, o..
The Railway Labor Executives
Association wants the Railway
Labor Act broadened to include
both the checkoff and the union
shop. Railroad management says
it's against the move, and is ex-
pected to offer its own amendments
to the Railway Labor Act if the
union shop bill gathers steam.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

1--WE have won two big wars and
big business was a powerful fac
tor in their winning" he asserted.
Before White appeared, the Con-
gressmen heard several witnesses.
One told of the difficulties of buy
ing ore from the U. S. Steel SUBJ
sidiary which controls most of the
Mesabi range. Another U. S. Steel
subsidiary owns the railroad run
ming from the range to Lake Sup
erior, virtually the only way to get
ore out to the mills. When the little
steel companies tried to get a more
favorable rate from the railroad
for their lowgrade ores, they were
turned down flat. The witness said
that the company for which he
worked, Butler Brothers, was fore
ed to sell out.
Two witnesses from Georgia told
of the stranglehold US Steel
subsidiary and Republic have over
the manganese ores produced in
the Clarksville region of that state.
They said contracts between the
mines and the two steel companies
allow the two to dictate prices, and
to decide how much they'll buy of
the mines production. Finally, the
contracts were alleged to dictate
that the two steel companies can
tell the mines whether they can
sell any of their output not bought
by the two to other steel COM
panies.
White vehemently denied the
charges. He also insisted that the
interlocking directorates betweenI
Republic and other steel companies
on the one hand, and Cleveland
Cliffs Co., ore producers, on the
other, had no monopoly aspects.
White, though he didn't want
the government to tamper with
bigness, asked for whole series of
financial concessions that are GER
tainly welfare state" handout if
ever there was one. He asked for:
Enactment Of legislation to
construct the st. Lawrence Water
way to carry ores from Venezuela,
Labrador and Liberia to the mills
on the Great Lakes. He wants
$400,000,000 Of federal money for
this.
2-Giving special tax cuts to the
steel companies; allowing them tol
charge off to current operating ex-
penses all development and prelim-
mary mining expense. Giving anl
assured depletion allowance, in adj
dition, which would be sliced off
income before taxes are paid each
year. Allowing the companies tol
write off their depreciation costs i
rapidly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
Monopoly Story Available
In Government Book

Washington (LPA) = Want to
know how monopoly works? !? How
it strangles the little business man
and Injuries our whole economy?
A complete record of the hear
ings over five-week period last
summer before the special Con-
gressional monopoly Investigating
committee, including questions and
answers of witnesses, along wit
an index, is now available. "
The revelation of monopoly prac-
tices is a summary of material re-
ported in this paper at the time,
but includes even more startling
detailed material, as we'll as the
accounts of businessmen who have
tried to buck monopoly. To order,
send $1.75 for "Study of Monopoly
Power" TO Sup't of Documents,
Govt Printing Office, Washington
rs, d. C.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

ployment. The firm increased its
labor force from "A to 81, a gain
of nearly 80 percent. In other
words, the board did not concern
itself at all with the economic as-
poets of the case.
What with growing unemploy-
ment and increasing labor pressure
for a shorter work week, much can
be said for the firms stand on
purely economic grounds. Its mo-
tives were lousy, but the effects
beneficial. The NLRB on the other
hand had nothing but good inten-
tions; it's ruling was strictly in ac-
cordance with the law. The econ
omic results, flowing from such a
decision, are another matter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
PAGE TWO
Growing Monopoly In Steel
Described At House Probe

Washington (LPA) - The high
grade iron ore supplies of the Mes
abb range in Minnesota are nearly
used up, what new ore sources have
been found are largely in the hands
of few giant steel corporations
and will be costly to process. These
facts about the steel industry
backbone of American industry
have been brought out by witnesses
before the House Monopoly Investi-
eating Committee.
James Mead of the Federal
Trade Commission expressed that
body's grave concern" about three
developments in the steel industry
that are leading to further mono
poly. The depletion of the Mesabi
ores may force the " smaller steel
firms in the u. S. which depend on
Mesabi ore to curtail operations,
Mead said. And the enormous costs
of processing low grade ores, or of
finding and transporting ore from
new foreign fields to U. S. mills
rules out any participation by the
smaller corporations.
"The steel companies" Mead
warned, "are in effect buying up
their own customers. Since 1880,
the FTC Commissioner said, 13
companies making steel drums, oil
well machinery, wire cloth, prefab-
ricated houses, and other finished
steel goods which have been ac-
quired by U. S. Steel. He listed Is
that have been taken over by Beth
lehem Steel. In still other indus
tries, like steel stomping, the big
steel corporations favor their own
subsidiaries whenever there is a
shortage of steel, forcing the inde-
pendents to the wall.
Most serious of all, Mead said,
are the rather clear hints in the
trade press that the postwar steel
shortage is not temporary, and
that steel capacity is not adequate
for the nations long-term needs.
81 can think of nothing which
would contribute more to the elm
ination of competition both within
the steel industry and within the
general field of metal fabrication
than long-term shortage of steel
capacity" Mead told the Congress
men.
He said ETC is now studying
who controls iron ore reserves, and
can give Congress a picture of how
much is owned by big and little
companies in a few weeks; he
urged quick enactment of the anti
merger bill already approved by|
the House and now before the Sen
ate, to deal with the buying up
customers problem, and urged Eek
tremely intensive analysis" of
whether steel capacity was grow
ing fast enough "at the earliest
possible moment"
Getting down to cases, the Con-
gressmen then turned TO President
c. M. White of Republic Steel
Corp, third largest producer in the
country. White spent nearly day
on the witness stand, vehemently
denying any monopoly practices,
but ending his testimony with an
emotional appeal to the Congress-
men not to "tamper with bigness."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27
safeway, Acme Clerks Win Raise

Washington (LPA) - Fourteen
hundred clerks of the Safeway and
Acme stores will get a SIS per week
raise under new contract signed
by the companies and the Retail
Clerks -AFL local 639-A. Effective
within a 25-mile range of Wash
ington, the contract benefits both
full and part-time workers, the
latter winning a l2-cent pay boost.
The new pact runs until December
y, 1851, with wage reopening
December 2, 1860.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

The trouble with people who do
nice things for you is that they ex-
pect so much voluble appreciation.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

Opportunity, like lightning,
strikes Unexpectedly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

These points, | admit, are open
to debate. What is not debatable is
that the above cut in working
hours, so sharply condemned by
the board, created additional en-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-27

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Evening star., 1950-05-23
Soviets Tighten Grip on China
Under Guise of HeIpinq Mao

the plants from the coastal areas
to cities where they will be less
exposed to bombing.
At Tsingtao the Russians have
set up a new submarine base for
the Soviet Seventh Submarine
Squadron for scouting operations
In the Formosa Strait of the
China coast.
Up north, Soviet Army advisers
are reported reorganizing 100 Chi
neSe Communist divisions along
Soviet lines and deploying them
along the Siberian border in the
northeastern provinces.
Aviation Schools.
In Harbin and other Manchu-
rian cities, the Russians are said
to have established aviation
schools under Red Air Force Off
GERS to train 2,400 Chinese Com
munist pilots.
The new Chinese Air Force al
ready is reported to have set up
bases with Soviet help in Shang-
hal. Marking. Peiping, Hankow,
Chungking, Chengtu, Sian, Hami,
Langchow and Taiyuan.
All these reports would seem to
indicate the Russians are not only
turning China into satellite, but
are gradually securing complete
control of the China mainland.
The same kind of consolidation
that occurred in Eastern Europe
apparently is being started now
in the Far East, with China as the
stepping stone, according to Chi
nese officials.
For the long-term explanation
OF what is going on and what this
will mean to the Communist
world, the Chinese refer Americans
to an old saying Of Lenin's.
Long before Stain came to
power, Lenin coined the phrase:
who controls Asia, controls the
world"
Evening star., 1950-05-23
BY Steffon Andrews
North American kewspoper Alliance

TAIPEI. Formosa.-The Rus
SLAMS today are reported fastening
an iron grip on Red China under
the guise of helping Mao TIE
tung to consolidate his Communist
gains.
The degree of control in some
areas amounts to outright mill
tary occupation, according to we'll
authenticated intelligence reports
and eyewitness accounts OF
Americans returning from China
1T is hard to conceive the ex-
tent Of the Russian influence. The
Soviets are literally taking over
the cities. And they're all military
personnel. not civilians" reports
Maj. Michael A. Luckey.
Maj. Luckey, former assistant
air attache in Nanking, is one of
the 100-odd Americans who left
Shanghai recently on the expatria-
ton ship General Gordon.
Experts Give Advice.
HIS personal account and that
OF several other American officials
gives this picture Of what is oc-
curing today on the Communist
held mainland Of China:
!. More than $4,000 Russian
military experts have poured into
China and now are giving "ad-
vice" to Chinese Communist off,
cials in the principal cities.
2. Soviet advisers not only par
ticipate In all top decisions but sit
at the elbow Of every top Chinese
official to see that the right" de-
ciSionS are made.
3. The influx Of the Russians is
not mentioned in the Communist
press and the Soviets try to re-
main aS unobstrusive as possible
by segregating themselves In mill
tary compounds.
Luckey says 1t is difficult to
gauge the extent of Russian mill
tary and economic aid to the
Chinese. because everything the
Russians do Immediately is CLASH
fed top secret.
Airfields Well Guarded.
For instance, the airfelds
around Shanghai are ringed with
three different sets Of guards and
only Chinese with special passes
approved by the Russians are per-
mitted to pass through.
However, he adds. Russian jet
fighters have appeared almost
daily over Shanghai, and reliable
reports indicate they are Russian
operated because only Soviet
pilots are allowed to fly them.
In other parts of China the
Russians are reported to be super
vising the dismantling of ma
chine-tool plants and other fac
tories producing military potential
and moving them into the interior.
Presumably this is to remove
Evening star., 1950-05-23
Two D. {. Men Get Year
On Weapons Charges

Municipal Court Judge Thomas
d. Quinn yesterday ordered two
men to serve q year in jail each
for carrying fully loaded revol-
vers. RsA ~
In sentencing Pernell c. Traps
2s, colored, of the 100 block OF
p street NV, Judge Quinn said:
"The minute you put loaded
gun in your pocket, make up your
mind that, if you are caught and
brought before me. you will spend
a year in jail. This seems to be
the only way to wipe all this out. "
Traps, who pleaded guilty to
o charge Of carrying a concealed
weapon. said he had found the
gun a few minutes before he was
arrested on q threats charge
Judge Quinn sentenced Traps to
serve 80 days on that charge, but
with, the sentences to run con-
currently.
A similar sentence of a year in
Jail on a weapons charge was
given Thomas Sothern, 80, colored
Of the 1900 block of Twelfth street
NV, who had a loaded .32-cali.
ber revolver in his belt when ar
rested early yesterday.
Evening star., 1950-05-23

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Montana farmer-stockman. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1947-1993, 1950-01-15
A Bread Problem

TO ONE OF OUR READERS who
wrote that her bread had soggy
strips along the side of the pan and
shrank about an inch when removed
from the oven, Clara Gerhard
Snyder, director of the wheat Flour
Institute, writes:
although it is difficult to make
a positive diagnosis of Mrs. KS
bread-making difficulties at this dis
lance and without having seen the
bread itself, my guess is that she is
letting the dough rise too long after
the loaves have been shaped. If she
will let the loaves rise only until
they have doubled or perhaps until
they are just a little more than
doubled in bulk and then bake them,
I believe she will find that her diff
ficulty will disappear.
Also, it may be that she is not
baking her loaves quite long enough.
We recommend 400 degrees F. for 40
to As minutes, depending on the size
of the loaf. Some home bakers feel
that this temperature makes too
heavy and brown crust. They may
prefer using 400 degrees for the first
10 minutes, then reducing the tenn
perature to $50 degrees and continu-
ing baking at this temperature for
As to so minutes. This should bake
the bread thoroughly so that it will
not have tendency to shrink or
collapse when removed from the
oven.