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Arizona sun., 1950-01-27
Teen-age Highlights
BY Donald Benton

Greetings Gang:
First of all a vote of thanks and
big, big bouquet to Mrs. Bass,
who in last weeks letter to the
editor so valiantly defended our
right to have the "Club 21" remain
open on Sunday night. Even if it's
not up to the standard, it should be
because it is the best we have at the
present. Teen-agers, let's all strive
to attain bigger and better club,
with the highest standards and
more becoming conduct. If you or
your parents haven't read the arti-
Gle written by Mrs. Bass, please do
so.
The Carver Monarchs have
shown superb talent in the bas-
ketball field. They've only loss to
the best teams in the state. There
are such promising players as
Hadie Redd, a team within him
self; Willie Kemp and Carl Ham
mons, who are necessity to the
team; and Jessie Jackson, who is a
very good player and also very
comical.
Now for some of the latest buzz
zingS about town. Betty Haywood
and Benjiman Pittman are always
seen together. Betty, what hap
pened to Charles Christopher? .. /.
Dollie Williams seems to be seeing
lot Of Joe Willie Steed again. I
wonder what happened to Emerson
Billion and Helen Cochran? .
The most peaceable and ever-lov-
ing couple of the week is none other
than Edna Franklin and Eulis Har-
ris +. Does Calvin Delaney ever
say anything to Louisa Willis? If
he does, he must use code of some
sort "Sluggs" what happened
to you and Ester Hasker, and why
is she always cooling with Robert
Essex lately? :. ] c. Walker has
at last found the one and only girl.
The lucky girl is Eta Concholar.
I'm sure she feels the same as he.
Now days it seems as if the Hornets
are easier to talk to now that
Bertha Scott and Ernestine Hall
has hooked their man Does
Fred MsDonald really have eyes for
Irma Williams or has he eyes for
someone else? It seems as If
Jessie King and Lawrence Lover"
Blackwell have big eyes for one
another. Joan Thomas and BURNS
Brooks seem as if they'll go to-
gether forever, and I'm glad be-
cause Joan doesn't keep changing
like her friends. (Ernestine HalD
Zelona Colt and Charles Van Dyke
would make perfect couple if they
didn't have to much in common.
Do you agree.
All for noW-Take it easy.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-27
Casa. Grande News
By Miss IOnia II. Dixon

Mrs. Bruce Bonner and Mrs.
Scott of Casa Grande, spent Christ
mas in Tucson, and while there
they visited friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Bonner and
their daughter Bettye June spent
New Year visiting friends and rela-
tives in Phoenix.
Miss Geneva Hankins, a teacher
at McNary, Arizona, visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Han
lzins of Casa Grande. She spent
part of her Christmas vacation Wis
iting friends and relatives.
The Youth Christian Union of
Casa Grande had a district meeting
here. Guest churches were: Tue
son, Chandler, Coolidge and Ran
do1ph.
Misses Bobbie Jean Weaver and
Liza Hankins were active members
in the Youth Christian Union dur
ing the week of the meeting in
Casa Grande.
Miss Bobbie Jean Weaver, Lie
Mae Hankins and Isabel Hankins
are delegates to the Young Peoples
Christian meeting that will be held
in Phoenix.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-27

Well Folks

Did you get your dimes and dol
lars in to the kitty's for the March
of Dimes? Well, it still isn't too
late. Better late than never.
5000! LET'S GET ON THE
BALL. We've a kitty here at
Reddy's Corner who needs to be
filled.
No baseball games scheduled as
yet, but some of the fellows will be
out i'm Eastlake for work cuts Sum
day. Come on out you ball players
and ball fans. Well have some
games for you as soon as possible.
We still have an ample supply
of Anti-Freeze tThe DrinkiR
Kind.) The selection is still very
good. Although some of those bar
gain items are getting short
Think /" take the Little Wife and
Jump down into Guaymas, Mexico
over the weekend. But Annie Mae
and Little freddy" will be as al
ways Freddy" to serve you
Thanks Folks
Freddy"
Arizona sun., 1950-01-27
Mesa News
BY Creozetta Myers

The Bethel A.M.E. Church held
its second quarterly conference
Sunday, January 8. Bishop F.
Kindrick delivered the sermon. The
presiding elder was also present.
Rev. F. S. Skinner Is the pastor of
Bethel.
Mrs. ]. o. Perroult, has returned
from Los Angeles.
Arizona sun., 1950-01-27
Buckeye

Mr.. Sam Wardoff, owner of the
Shamrock Cafe, took two-day va
cation for fishing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08

already tentatively voted by the
House committee. Truman asked
the committee to raise the corpora
tion tax rate ceiling from 38 per-
cent to AZ percent-which would
net the Government about $685.
100000 in additional revenue each
year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Oil Imports Cut
US Coal Output
House Group Told

Washington (LPA)-Residual oil
imported from foreign fields and
dumped in the US is throttling both
the coal industry and the domestic
oil industry, Thomas Kennedy, vice
president of the United Mine Work
ers, told a House Labor Subcom-
mittee June 2.
Testifying before the subcom-
mittee on the effect of imports on
employment, Kennedy repor e d
that the 100,000,000 gallons of re-
sidual oil brought in during 1949
affected the jobs of at least $4,000
coal miners. Some lost their jobs,
Others had their work days cut sew
erely.
Residual oil is the surplus pro-
duct left after gasoline and lubri-
eating oil have been refined from
the crude product. According to
witnesses before the subcommittee,
it is imported from the Middle
East and other overseas fields and
sold at low prices in this country.
Chief offenders are the big oil COM
panies. Independent producers take
essentially the same view as the
UNIV.
Kennedy described the employ
ment effects of the imports as fol.
lows: Like pebble cast upon the
still waters of pond, the effect of
this employment disturbance travels
in ever widening circles almost to
immeasurable extent through the
economic structure. First the trans
portation systems manpower is
displaced, roughly man for man
with that of the coal mines; then
retail coal outlets, mine equipment
manufacturers and suppliers are
next in line" The UNIV officer
pointed out that to weaken the
coal industry was to weaken the
national defense. He pointed out
that if men left the industry, it
would be hard to rebuild it in time
of crisis. He suggested that the
residual oil be marketed in Britain,
where the coal industry is less eff
ficient than in the US, or in west
ern Europe. He said the British are
cutting down domestic coal con
sumption in order to export the
product of their mines. The Bri-
tish could use cheap oil, he declar
ed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08

Angeles.Mayo Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles signs
SO Union Label Week in that city
Watching Dan international president OF
the AFL Bakery and Confectionery Workers. Herman Fneberg
Hebrew Bakers
and David Wsemar secretary Los Angeles Jewish Bakers 9
William public relations directors
Neund secretary Guck president Southern California
Board the Bakery Confectionery Workers
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Farm Phone Coop Diss0lves,
Pressure BY Bell Charged

Iowa Falls, la. (LPA) = The
Rural Telephone Cooperative here
has voted to dissolve and return
the $4,000 loan from the Rural
Identification Administration. The
action followed "a decision by SO
members to sell their line to the
Bell System, thus weakening the
coop. Leaders of the coop blamed
their decision on pressure from
Bell.
The Bell System agreed to pro-
vide standard service, at standard
rates, to any existing coop lines
it buys; continue switching service,
and to connect new consumers
along existing lines without charge.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Labor Hailed For
Fiuhf On Reds

New York City QLNS). - The
fight of American labor to elm
mate "subversive elements" in its
ranks was warmly praised by Sec
retary Of Labor Maurice j. Tobin
in speaking at the 50th anniver-
sary convention of the Workmen's
Circle. More than 10000 persons
attended the convention, held il
Madison Square Garden.
"The manner in which the Work
mems Circle has stood up against
the infiltration of the Communists
is a stirring story" Tobin said
The whole labor movement was
threatened by the same forces and
has faced its menace and gotten
rid of it's subversive elements. II
was not an easy thing for labor
unions or for the Workmen's Circle
to do.
During the second World War
the Workmen's Circle threw itself
into the fight against Nazism with
all it's resources. Because of its
Jewishness, it had a great stake in
that conflict. Founded by people
who had felt the direct impact of
anti-Semitism, the circle was under
special obligation to help obliter-
ate Hitlerism."
The Workmen's Circle, a frater-
nal organization, has 10000 men,
bers in the United States and
Canada.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
BY MARY HEATON WORSE
For Labor Press Association


EDITORS NOTE: Mary Heaton
Worse, famous labor reporter,
whose series for LPA on the steel
and auto strikes attracted wide at
tention, is covering the Enka tex
tile strike in Tennessee for LPA.
Mrs. Worse is a novelist and mag
azine writer, a veteran of the labor
movement, and has seen the viol-
ence of earlier strikes in coal,
autos, steel and textiles.)
Morristown, Tenn. (LPA) = At
the Enka mills in nearby Lowland,
real old-fashioned strike breaking
just like that in 1929 or 1884,
with its violence, terrorism and
brutality-is in operation again.
The town swarms with National
Guardsmen and members of the
State Highway Patrol. Lowland
looks like an armed camp. Work
ers have been arrested, beaten, and
denied counsel for hours.
Of course, some of the old-fash-
ioned zip is gone. No one has been
shot in the back--yet. No women
have been bayonetted. But in all
other respects it looks like the old
days of the Mohawk Valley plan,
supposedly dead and buried.
Two years ago Enka, a Dutch
firm, built a rayon plant in Lows
land. The labor force of 800 is local
and young us to 35), high school
graduates or better preferred. Be-
fore the rayon mill came no union
had ever been seen in town-a not
unpleasing thought to the mill
owners. But they reckoned without
the many veterans and the natural
spirit of the young people. When
the first contract was signed with
the Textile Workers a strike was
only 10 minutes off This year, on
March 28, a strike was called for
higher wages, seniority schedule,
and premium for night work.
Before the strike there was an
agreement that if the union would
permit an orderly shutdown, man
agement would not try to reopen.
Rayon is especially vulnerable; if a
plant is not shut down properly,
pipes freeze tight, with untold
damage. Two weeks ago manage
ment broke the agreement by open
ing the plant and recruiting strike
breakers. At the same time man
agement, taking advantage of the
Taft Hartley act, got an injunction
forbidding more than six piekets,
who were to walk 20 feet apart.
There never had been more than rs
pickets, except at change of shifts.
The number was increased after
management reopened the mills,
but picketing was orderly.
Orderly or not, the Highway
Patrol was taken off all the roads
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Maine Seen Pointing Way
To Small Business Aid

Portland, Me. (ILNS).-Maine is
pointing the way to a partial solu-
ton of financial woes that beset
small businesses, the American So
ciety of Planning Officials says in
commenting on an act passed by
the 1949 legislature. Under the act,
a newly created state development
credit corporation has been set up
for the purpose of providing a
source of venture capital for estab-
fishing or expanding a small bus
mess enterprise. Working funds of
the corporation are expected to
total about $l.5 million.
Capital for the new corporation
will come from the sale of $4,000
capital stock and from banks and
insurance companies that become
members of the corporation. The
program of the corporation will be
geared in with those of member
banks, building and loan associa-
tions and insurance companies.
Upon call from the corporations
board. member institutions will
furnish funds, not exceeding 2H
percent of their capital and sur
plus, for loans. The corporation will
charge the usual rate of interest
for loans and all losses will be alb
sorbed by members in the same
proportion as their contributions to
the capitalization.
Loan requests will be screened
by the general manager of the
corporation, after getting the ad-
vice of local board of business
men and bankers. This board will
assess the proposed new business
or business expansion in relation to
the economy of the community and
make sure that no local bank is
able to handle the loan directly.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Strike-Bredking Pattern
Of Old Repeated At Enkd

as far as Nashville, leaving the
roads unpatrolled for the "Mem-
orial Day massacre" of auto acci-
dents. All the patrolmen were de-
putized, and they would storm into
an organizers room, Is at time.
"Boy, these are tough babies all
right" said one striker. They're
the ones that shot at US and black
lacked US in the Vultee strike at
Nashville"
Although both union officials and
individual strikers, as well as
townspeople, say there had been
Ino trouble, the next step was to
call on Gov. Gordon Browning for
troops. He refused at first, so two
cars were tipped over, a job Ten
gineered and planned by the mill" "
the union members told me. That
the old strike-breaking pattern
might be classic in every respect, a
stick of dynamite was planted near
workers home. Then Sheriff
Robert Medlin telephoned that the
strike was out of hand, and Gov.
Browning sent the troops in.
Browning is the man who defeated
the Crump machine. Labor cam
paigned for him and management
opposed him.
Everything was quiet here until
the guards came" the workers tell
you. The trouble began when a
trooper ordered l.. w. (Blackie)
Warrick "to get away from there" F"
When he replied 81 got right to
be there" he was arrested and beat
en-. When at last Robert S. Cahoon,
the union lawyer, insisted that
Warrick be examined by a doctor,
Silas Switzer, union business agent,
went along. He too was beaten.
Cahoon heard Switzer yelling
"don't hit me, don't hit me-" and
asked them to stop twisting Switz-
er's arm. Guardsmen rushed Ca
hoon and knocked him cold with a
pistol butt. Then he and Switzer
were arrested.
Negotiations to end the strike
are under way in Atlanta, but the
presence of Theodore X. Iserman
as chief negotiator for the mills
darkens the picture. For Iserman,
with Sen. Taft's law partner, help
ed draft the Taft Hartley act. And
it was Iserman who was top labor
relations counsel for Chrysler dur
ing the recent 100-day strike.
The workers are pessimistic. AS
long as the guardsmen and state
troopers are protecting the strike
breakers, the mill won't settle, they
say. They're out to break our
union" 1t looks like it, with all the
old, familiar trimmings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08

rotary Ernest Beyin, made short
shrift of the belief that British
trade unionism is welded to the
Labor party, till death do US part.
eve are not tied to it," he de-
cIared. "Our reaction to this gov
ernment has been this-that, inso-
far as it set out to achieve the prin-
ciples we have advocated for so
long, we were entitled to give it
our unstinted support" In other
words, Messrs, Attlee, Morrison,
Cripps, etc, are coolly reminded
that organized labor will go along
with. them as long as it suits the
workers interests, and not step
further.
Another problem doubtless in the
minds of those present was the
French proposal for the integration
of French-German coal and steel
resources, leading eventually to a
merger Of European heavy indus
try. Intriguing as this combination
may seem, and full of political pro-
mise, its effects on industry and
labor elsewhere need to be watch
ed.
Aware of the competitive dang
ers Of a French German pool in
coal and steel, the TUG has lost
no time in voicing its anxiety over
the possible results to the wages
and working hours of British min
ers and steel workers. Agreement
to this far-flung scheme, it is the
consensus of British labor, would
mean adjustment of British pro-
duction costs to the European level
something which can be done
only through lower wages and long
er working hours.
A European coal-steel combine
may mean little to American indus
try and American labor, but this
only seems so. Concentration of
European basic industry and the
corresponding release Of competi-
tive forces throughout the world
must of necessity make themselves
felt in the United States. Consider
ing what low-priced foreign oil
imports are already doing to the
American fuel industry and to the
livelihood Of its workers, British
pre-occupation and worries thus be-
come more understandable.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Corporations Fight Tax Low
Chances To Lessen Deficit

Washington (LPA) - What may
become the "spare the rich" tax
bill is still being worked on by the
House Ways and Means committee,
which so far has tentatively voted;
to cut some excise taxes; to keep
most of the present loopholes
whereby corporations escape taxes;
to maintain or increase the special
tax exemptions for oil, coal, and
non-metallic minerals producers.
Only important new action at
the end of May was a tentative
vote to allow corporations to spread
their business losses over longer
period of time, when calculating
tax returns. Effect of the proposed
carry back" and carry over" pro-
visions would be to allow corp
oration to apply current losses over
a six-year period, instead of a four
year period as at present.
At present, if a corporation
makes a 100000 profit in 1850,
but had losses in the two previous
years, before it figures the income
on which it pays tax it may de-
duct the previous two years losses,
cutting the tax by that much. 1t can
also obtain tax refunds, in effect,
for the two years in the future if
it has losses in the next two years.
Under the committee plan, it can
figure back one year, and ahead
five years. The best estimate avail
able is that corporations could save
themselves about $100,000,O0O a
year during the next five years by
this provision in the law.
Committee members, in their
daily secret sessions, are working
over proposals to increase the corp
oration tax rate, as proposed by
President Truman. They also will
'be voting on the proposal by Rep.
Wilbur Mills Cd, Ark. which would
require corporations to pay their
taxes within six months of the time
when they figure their profits, in
stead of holding onto the money
until the next fiscal year before
turning it over to the Treasury.
Corporations are fighting both pro-
posals. They're especially opposed
to the Mills plan, because they've
been using the cash to finance their
businesses in the period before the
date when they have to turn it in
to the Treasury. In effect, this has
meant an interest-free grant of
funds from the government to the
corporations.
Reports the NY Journal of Com
merce, "the Mills plan is objected
to by more than three-fourths of
all corporate treasurers who have
studied it, first on the general prin-
ciple of creating more tax liabili-
ties in a given fiscal year and, sec
ond, in the practical sense that It'll
would cost them money to borrow
from banks. Apparently about half
the corporations of large size would
have to borrow to a greater or less
degree, for they have been using
tax reserves as working capital
pending the due date of the taxes.
The Truman proposal on corpor-
alton taxes, on which the commit
tee is reported to be closely divid-
ed, represents the last chance to
recover a big hunk of the $1,080,-
O00,0O0 cuts in excise tax revenue
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Leighty Nabed RLEA Chairman

Washington LPA) - George
Earle Leighty, So, now serving his
second term as president of the
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
has been named president of the
Railway Labor Executives Asso-
citation. This group speaks for 2C
affiliated standard railroad labor
organizations with a membership
of 100000. Leighty replaces Pre-
sident Harry w. Fraser of the
Railway Conductors, who died sud
denly.
Leighty went to work at 15
jointed the ORT at II, became a
local chairman at 20, rose steadily
in the union, became first vice
president in 1912 and president in
1946
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08

ask for Union Labeled merchan-
':se.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
News und Views
" By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT, Can ILNS Feature)

Moderation and Go-slow have be
come the guiding stars of the Bri-
| ltish Labor government and the
Labor party, if the reports of the
recent secret conference at Dork-
ing, Surrey, are to be believed. Fol
lowing the two-day meeting, a non
Icommittal statement was issued,
but even its vague wording cannot
hide the effort to shape a political
and economic program for the time
when the government decides once
again to go to the people.
What such a program of modera-
tion-instead of the intensified
radicalism favored by party left
wingers-would mean is clear. 1t is
intended to lay the specter of ma
tionalization, to regain much of the
middle-class support Labor lost in
the last election, and last, to allay
the rebellion among the unions on
the issue of rising living costs and
goth century economic puritanism,
better known as austerity. 1t marks
an all-out victory for Herbert Nor
rison, government leader in the
Commons, who has long favored
halting naturalization and instead
concentrating on consolidation of
labor's position.
y
British labor's unrest, it is well
to keep in mind, goes in a sense
deeper than the governments ma
tionalization policy. What most
concerns the unions and their mem
bership is their own status in the
economy Of advanced statism. The
precarious condition of postwar
Britain and the advances in econ
omic planning on nationwide
scale have forced organized labor,
time and again, to accede to wage
freezes and other restrictions which
they would have bitterly fought if
proposed by an administration not
their own.
Having learned the hard way,
the Trades Union Congress leader
ship went to Dorking determined
to make the government pay less
attention to socialist doctrine and
more to economic issues. Whether
they have succeeded on the first
point is questionable.
But there is little doubt that the
Attlee government has been made
to see the light, at least as far as
the country's lowest-paid workers
are concerned. Establishment of
minimum weekly wage of 5 pounds
would partly relieve union pressure
for all-round increases. Further
more, the TUG leadership believes,
Britain has moved far enough in
the direction of public ownership,
thus making additional steps in this
direction at this time undesirable
and exasperating.
y y =
Union restiveness under the whip
Of government has been recognized
and even justified by Arthur Deak-
in, general secretary of the coun-
try's biggest union, the Transport
and general Workers. In a state
ment which unfortunately has not
met with the attention it deserves,
Mr.. Deakin, successor in the post
formerly occupied by Foreign Sec
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
AGREE ON DIP BILL

Washington LPA) - A joint
Senate-House Congressional confer
ence agreed on a compromise Dis
placed Persons bill just 80 days be-
fore the deadline for passage of
DIP legislation. The bill will admit
5000 DPS by June 80, 1851, in
cluding 10000 who are already
here.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-08
Notice Sanitary Firms

Any firm seeking skilled craftsmen Tin all trades)
or having job opportunities available for workers in
any job operation in the sanitary branch of the in
dustry, contact Walter f. Shutter, Secretary, Local
Union II, Route 2, Box SO, Warrington, w. Va.