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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Lundeberg Defends Union Hiring
Halls: Seumen Unite For Bottle

ment Relations Act in the maritime
industry if the parties had not
continued their hiring hall arrange
ments subject to Supreme Court
review"
Lundeberg, last of the top sea
mems leaders to testify on the hir-
ing hall issue said the SUP's hiring
clause gave seniority to all former
crew members of ships belonging
to companies in the Pacific Mari
time Association. He disclosed that
the only men with such seniority
were SUP members, and pointed
out this was fact Taft might not
have known when he approved the
clause. He said Communists and
Trotskyites, expelled from the SUP
and other unions, were suing the
unions under the Taft-Hartley act,
charging discrimination.
The hiring hall provisions nego-
tiated by the SIU's Atlantic & Gulf
District are worded differently
from the SUP's and do not include
the seniority factor, but they were
not discussed at the hearing. Also
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Pensions, Welfare
Progran, Ii Pact
For Coast Potters

Richmond, Calif.-At the last
'egular meeting of Local 80 the
members voted to accept the new
agreement for the coming year
The agreement provides for old age
PENSIONS, disability pensions and a
,ealth and welfare program which
will give most of. our. members
;3700 week while off sick.
The grievances that the local
were unable to settle during the
past year, due to company policies
were finally settled and few spot
Increases were granted.
The committee reported plant
manager, Mr.. Bill Mckinney was
very fair during negotiations and
FEELS that most of the day work
Jobs that were not given increases
IAN be changed over to piece-work
Jobs that will enable these mem
5ers to increase their earnings, in
spite of the fact that so far the
plant management has proposed
some piece-work prices where a
man would have to increase. his
production nearly fifty per cent to
maintain his present earnings.
The committee reported they feel
this was window dressing and soon
the company would get down to
business and negotiate some fair
piece-work prices in the spirit that
our delegates to the joint Pitts
burgh conference reported the Of
fer was made by the company
heads.
Bro. Sal Freschi was voted an
honorary membership card at this
Bro. Freschi has left
Richmond to accept a supervisory
position in a southern California
pottery recently organized by the
Brotherhood. He will be remember
ed throughout the trade for the
representation that he gave Local
80 in many conferences and con-
ventions, and we feel that he will
10 as good a job for the company
as he did for the union and will be
fair in all his dealings with these
new members of the N. B. of o. p.
Bro. John Lelli who has repre-
sented Local 89 at many confer
snces and conventions and has a
ong record as a real union man
vas selected to fill the vice pres
dents post.
The new representative on the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30

Washington (LPA) = Harry
Lundeberg, president of the Sea.
farers International Union-AFI
had an unusual ally when he testi-
fled March 21 in defense of union
hiring halls for seamen before the
Senate Subcommittee on Labor
Management Relations.
Lundeberg said the hiring hall
! clause in the contract obtained by
)the Sailors Union of the Pacific,
the SIU's west coast district, was
personally approved by Senator
Taft in 1947 after the Taft Hart
ley act went into effect. Taft, a
member of the subcommittee, smil-
ingly agreed when the veteran sea-
mems leader said he met with the
Ohio Republican and a shipowners'
attorney in Santa Cruz, Calf, to
discuss the hiring hall question.
Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
Federal Mediation & Cancellation
Service, told the subcommittee in a
letter that "labor relations peace
and continued operations could not
have been attained since the en-
actment of the 1947 Labor Manage
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Unions Ask Slash
In Liquor Taxes

Lawrenceburg, In d. (LPA) -
Unions all across the nation are
joining the campaign to reduce
taxes on alcoholic beverages, ac-
cording to Mabel Lutherbeck, busi-
ness representative of Local 6 of
the Distillery Workers-AFL.
The House Ways and Means
Committee in Washington is now
considering excise tax reduction,
but current proposals call for the
imposts on alcoholic beverages,
gasoline and tobacco to be contin-
ued, Miss Lutherbeck points out.
She says such discrimination is un-
fair and reports that organized
labor is demanding an across-the-
board slash in all excise taxes.
Miss Lutherbeck, who is also an
international vice-president of her
union, says unions are asking "fair
and equal treatment for the alco-
holic beverage industry" The ma
tional campaign began few weeks
ago at a meeting of Local 6 whose
members work in the Schenley
plant here.
"Our union did not protest when
Congress raised the federal excise
tax on distilled spirits from Sc to
SO a gallon in 1914 as a war emer-
gency measure. But the law that
raised the rate carried a promise
that the special emergency tax
would be taken off six months after
the end of hostilities."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
II. Winter. Refires
After Fine Record
In Labor Circles

Miami, Fla. = Herman Winter
president of the AFL Bakery anC
| Confectionery Workers Interna'
ltional Union, has retired. So ann,
tounced the general executive boarc
of the union at the conclusion OF
its 10th session.
Mr.. Winter, 65, served a halt
century in the labor movement and
| in the baking industry, eliminating
in his rising to the top position in
his own organization and to place
on the executive council of the Am
erican Federation of Labor. In re-
cognition of his service, the gen.
eral executive board honored him
with the title of president emeritus
for life.
The general executive board un-
animously selected General Secre-
tary- Treasurer William F. Schnitz
Ter for the office of president. In
assuming that office, Mr.. Schnitz-
Ter becomes the third president of
the international union since the
post was created in the 1941 con-
vention of the organization.
Assistant General Secretary
Treasurer James G. Cross was un-
animously selected to fill the post
of general secretary-treasurer left
vacant through the advancement Of
Mr.. Schnitzler to the presidency.
Mr.. Cross has served the interna-
tional union in his duties as gen.
eral executive board member, as
AFL convention delegate, and as
assistant general secretary-treas-
urer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Social Security: Coverdge
f or ALI Urged On Senate

Washington (LPA)-Two of the
professors who know most about
our federal social security system
have asked the Senate Finance
committee to take bold steps to
give the pension and survivors in
surance program a shot in the arm.
Prof. Sumner Slichter Of Har-
ward urged the committee, which
begins work on the House-approved
social security improvements after
hearings ended March "a, to ex-
tend coverage to virtually all of
the 25,000,000 people now unpro-
tected. He pointed out that diff
culties of administration, not ques-
tions of principle, led to exclusion
of farm operators and workers,
domestics, and the self-employed
when the law was enacted IL years
ago. Unless they're covered, he
pointed out, the assumption will be
that they have to turn to charity
in their old age, unless they're
among the fortunate few who have
piled up savings.
The predominantly conservative
committee will consider extending
coverage to farm workers and op-
orators, and to domestics, but in
fluential members are still hesitat-
ing over how far to go. In reply to
Sen. Miilikin (R, Colo.), the rank
ing COP member, Slichter warned
the Congress not to wait until
overwhelming popular support for
eoverage and raising|
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Local Union No. As
Hands Down Ruling
On Temporary Jobs

Trenton, n. 1.-THE members of
Local Union AZ were very sorry to
hear of the death of Bro. John
Simpson on March 10. Although he
had been i'll for sometime, ann
ouncement of his death was a
shock to his many friends. Until
his retirement last September, he
was very active member and had
held many offices. He was the
founder of the Contingent Fund.
which still takes care of many of
our expenses and was intensely in
terested in matters of health, serv-
ing on this committee at conven-
tions, sometimes as chairman. We
extend our sincere sympathy to his
wife and other members of his
family.
Seniority status is being watch
ed. very carefully. This committee
in conjunction with members of the
Conference Committee and Vice
President Wheatley and Organizer
James Solon spent three hours last
week trying to solve various pro-
blems. The local being asked for a
ruling on temporary jobs decided
they should be posted when they
become permanent.
Various rumors make the rounds
of the shop from time to time, but
the latest report, and one in which
we are vitally interested, has some
members sneaking in to work be-
tween $50 and $50 a. m. 1t is
hard to believe anyone would be
guilty of such practice, but if such
be the case, we know the firm will
take care of it. We do not want to
revert back to the dark ages when
such things were allowed. The shop
committeeman on your floor should
be notified of any Irregularities
Immediately.
The 50th Anniversary Dinner|
scheduled for Saturday, April %, is
the main topic of conversation. We
feel this will be the party of parties
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Anfihisf Ads Are
Brunded As False

Washington (LPA)-The makers
of Resistabs and Anahist have made
false and misleading claims in their
advertising of cold drugs, the Fed
eral Trade Commission charged in
complaint issued March 20.
The advertisements, the ETC
complaint said, have actually mis-
led and deceived "a substantial por-
tion of the purchasing public" The
products, said FTC, are neither
cures, preventatives nor adequate
or competent treatment for the
common cold or it's manifestations.
The ETC also attacked as decep-
tive representations in the ads as
to the safety of the products. Bris-
tol-Myers, New York, makes Re-
sistabs. The Anahist Co., Yonkers,
N. Y, produces Anahist.
The FTC said these two COM
plants are the first results of an
investigation of advertising claims
for antihistamine products and that
complaints against other firms will
follow where the evidence war
rants. The investigation is contin
|uing, the ETC declared.
The commission contended that
Resistabs and Anahist may be
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30

benefits expresses itself. The aver
age man, he said, doesn't begin to
think about old age security until
he's in his late 40's, sometimes
until he's 65, and then it's too late.
He proposed that eligibility bene-
fits be changed to bring seven out
of 10 men under the pension pro-
gram when they retire.
The Harvard professor said he'd
urge going even farther than AFL
and ClO spokesman have done in
paying pensions in proportion to
the average wages of the worker
before he retired. He also urged
other changes in computing bene-
fits which all together would have
the effect of doubling the average
amount now paid.
Senators Byrd Cd, Va.) and Taft
(R. Ohio) expressed alarm over
the industry-wide pension program
negotiated between the mine work
ers' union and the coal operators.
They asked if there shouldn't be
some federal regulation of indus
try-wide pensions, Byrd said these
could reach Colossal size"
Cutting Byrd's "cost" arguments
out from under him, Slichter insist
ed on discussing the cost of pen
sions as proportion of the total
national payroll. Looked at in this
light, he said, the cost of the fed
eral pension program proposed by
the Advisory Council to the finance
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Pay Up Your Dues
Cambridge Local
Warns DeIinquents

Cambridge, Ohio - Delinquent
members of Local 122 should tax,
notice that we have a very active
investigating committee and the
bylaws of the local are going to bt
strictly enforced. There is no ex.
cuse for being in arrears, especial.
ly when work has been very good
This is to be your final warning sc
if the axe falls, you have no one
to blame but yourself.
Proof that work is good at Uni
versal Potteries is shown by the
following new employees added to
our roster: William CARLY, Olin
Tuttle, George Birkenheimer and
George Paling, jiggermen; Ray
Enos, caster; Mrs. George Paling,
|finisher; Donald Parsons, Clay Sny-
der, kilnmen; Tiszal Kenny, Bessie
McNeal, Nellie Buck, Schirver, Vir-
ginia Wray, Eva Grimm, Edna
Black, decal; Clyde Nicholson,
warehouseman. We welcome these
new arrivals to the ranks of Local
Union 122.
No report as yet from the COM
mittee named to arrange suitable
ceremonies to commemorate our
twenty-fifth anniversary. Come on
boys, get on the ball!
Great interest is being shown
here to revive the "Buy American
drive. Union Label charts for our
meeting hall and throughout the
shops have been provided and our
delegates to the Central Labor
Council report the central body
have affiliated with the Ohio State
Union Label League.
There was a fairly good attend
ance at our last meeting and all
business transacted in record time.
The shop committee reported sew
eral settlements handed down in
recent disputes.
The announcement that Meyers
Lake Park has been selected as the
site for this years outing, meets
with the approval of all picnic fans
here. A much larger delegation
than attended last years outing
will be on hand, come June IL.
On the sweeter side of life-a
new candy machine service has
been installed for employees in the
shops. The machine is of the latest
model and dispenses choice grades
of the finest candies.
James O'Donnel, modler, had the
of having his new car
side-swiped. Any one who is inter
ested in a two-tone Frazier, get in
touch with Jimmy. O.C. 122
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Pres. Duffy Guest
OF Honor At 18th
Anniversary Party

Trenton, n. with Vice Pres
ident Joseph Valentine presiding
as toastmaster and President James
NJ. Duffy as the guestIof honor,
the twelfth anniversary banquet
of Local Union 40 was observed
March Is with a record attendance.
From the moment Financial Sec
retary A. ]. Hassall asked the
Lords blessing and guidance on
the officers and guests present,
until the closing strains of '.Henie
Sweet Home" rendered by Ernest
Guenther and Joseph lSam Spade)
Cavallo, those present had nothing
but words of praise for the efforts
put forth by the entertainment
committee headed by Chairman
Jim Purcell and Co-Chairman
Joseph Farletta.
President Duffy, in well re-
ceiyed address, traced the course
of pioneer unionists from early
days, to the birth in the sIums of
London of Sam Gompers and the
founding Of the A. F. of L. When
one realizes 1850 is the centennial
of Gompers and his efforts toward
the betterment of the downtrodden
working classes of his day, to the
advantages enjoyed in this decade,
people in all walks of life have
much to thank for unienism, Pres
ident Duffy extolIed the sanity dis
played by both sides in, negotia-
tions conducted by the Brotherhood
since its founding, resulting in the
lowest of all industrial strike sta
tistics.
Those seated at the guests table
included First Vice President, E.
L. Wheatley; Fifth Vice President,
Devlin; Elijah Watson,
financial secretary of Local Union
As; Joseph Brown, president of
Local Union 35; Organizer James
Solon, Joseph Pieslock, plant g.
superintendent; Fred Bentley, for
mer superintendent; James Quig-
ley, health officer; Lawrence Dolan,
president of Local Union 49; Mrs.
Dorothy Bisset and Miss Ann Shea.
In December this O.C. warned
members who were delinquent to|
pay up or else. Now that the axe|
has fallen on several, those remain
ing on the fringe should take heed
and pay to date so that should mis-
fortune overtake them, their fami-
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Ex-Judge Kenyon
Refutes Charges
Of Sen. Mccarthy

Washington (LPA)-In a state
|ment of her democratic liberalism
(which reminded many Washington
reporters of David LilienthaPs
famous credo of Americanism, ex-
Judge Dorothy Kenyon answered
by point the charges made against
her by Sen. Joseph Mccarthy Or
Wis., before the Senate Foreign
Relations subcommittee. Miss Ken
yon denied categorically any sub
versive views or acts alleged by
Mccarthy when he made her the
No. exhibit in his highly publiciz-
ed charges that subversive individ-
uals were employed by the State
Dept.
Her work as a State Dept offic-
lial, Miss Kenyon told the commit
tee, was as US representative for
two years on United Nations COM
mission on the status of women
where she came into sharp and
regular conflict with Nine. Popova,
the Soviet delegate. Miss Kenyon
read to the committee a radio
broadcast by a Soviet woman lead
er in January 1949, who said
Dorothy Kenyon, in endeavoring
to conceal her reactionary stand
has engaged in slandering the So
Wet people, in particular Soviet
women"
Taking McCarthy's charges, first
in prepared testimony, and then in
reply to questions by Sen. Bourke
Hickenlooper (R, Iowa., Miss Ken
yon indicated that guilt by asso-
citation" would prove that many
leading Republican lawyers and
others were sponsors of the same
organizations which Mccarthy
charged her with sponsoring, and
in no case was her association at a
date when they had been declared
subversive by the US Attorney
General. In many cases, she denied
or could recall no connection with
the sponsorships.
She listed her membership in
for Democratic Action,
and as a member of the Boards of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
Phi Beta Kappa, the National
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, and the American Association
of University Women. She also|
cited evidence that she was an Of
ficer of the group which fought the
Communist influence in the New
York American Labor Party, and
later formed the Liberal Party. She
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Jordan And SIaven
" WeIcomed Visitors
At Lincoln Local

Lincoln, Ill.-Secretary-T -Treasur-
er Chas. F. Jordan and Third Vice
President James Slaven were re-
cent visitors in Lincoln and | might
say the visit of our two national
officials could not have been at a
more needed time.
Difficulties in handpainting as
well as wages for decorators in our
new decorating shop had been
hanging fire for sometime and
threatened to reach the danger
point.
Bros. Slaven and Jordan in con-
junction with the shop committee
met with officials of the firm and
discussed various propositions as
basis for proposals of procedure in
drawing up working contract. The
meeting with the firm was held
on Friday and proceedings of this
conference were presented to men,
bers of Local 116 at their regular
meeting that evening.
The local concurred in the action
taken by the committee and an
agreement was reached covering
handpainting. A proposal for wages
covering decal, stamping and lin
ing was presented the firm with
the understanding that an answer
would be given in week.
We wish to thank Bros. Slaven
and Jordan for their assistance and
hope they can visit US again in the
near future. To other members of
the Executive Board we wish TO
have the honor of visit from
them anytime.
A Resolution Committee has been
appointed and consists of the fol-
lowing: Bert Carpenter, Glen Hale,
Joe Sample and Jess Sampson. Any
members having resolutions they
wish to come before this years
convention are urged to hand them
over to the committee as soon as
possible so that they may be pre-
sented before the local for discus
sion.
A resolution of respect for our
late Bro. Casper Elsas was ordered
drawn up and sent TO the bereaved
family. William Tolls, Bessie Willis
and Glen Hale were named as a
committee to handle this matter.
-O.C. 116
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30

pected to take an even DINNER
view of the bills when they appear
before the committee later.
The first bill up for hearings
sponsored, by Rep. Nixon, Or.
Calif.), is a companion to the
Mundt bill i'm the Senate. 1t would
require the registration and publ
cation of membership lists of the
Communist party and those organ
ization declared by the Attorne,
General to be communist fronts
The second bill, sponsored b.
Chairman Wood, Cd, Ga.), woult
forbid a federal employe or IAN,
individual employed in connection
with" national defense contracts
be or become a member of or con
tribute funds or services to tho
Communist party or any Organiza
tion designated as subversive by
the Attorney General, or to advise
counsel, or urge other persons to
do or to omit to do any of these
prescribed acts. Penalties for vio-
lation would be up to $4,000 fine
and three years Imprisonment, OF
both.
Assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral Peyton Ford, in letter to the
warned the Wood bill
seeks to restrain private citizens
as we'll as federal employees from
certain acts; it would "haye the ef-
feet of inflicting punishment upon
named groups without jury trial"
and "the bill contains no legislative
finding that the activities proscrib-
ed present a clear and present
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Issue Official Call For
National Convention
Will Be Held In
July At hoIIenden
Hotel, CIeveIand,0 0.

The coming convention of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters, the fifty-sixth i'm the his.
tory of the organization, will be
held in Cleveland, Ohio. The first
session has been called for Mon
day morning, July 3rd, in the Hol-
lenden Hotel.
The official call for the coming
convention has already been issued
in a communication from Secre-
tary-Treasurer Chas. F. Jordan to
all local unions. The communica-
tion lists the number of delegates
each local union can send, with said
delegates to be elected at the first
meeting of the local union in May.
Also included i'm the official mott
fietaion from headquarters, is a
list of various hotels, giving the
rates for single and double rooms.
As in the past, delegates reserve
the right to make their own accom-
modations, but should do so as
soon as possible.
The official call to the conven-
ton is as follows:
In accordance with Section
"a of the National Constitu-
tion you are hereby requested
to send in for publication in
the printed program whatever
resolutions your local intends
to have considered by the Con-
vention.
To insure publication in the
printed program resolutions
must be received at headquar-
ters on or before May !, 1850.
Local Unions are privileged
to introduce additional resolu-
tions at the opening of the
convention, necessary to cor
rect any unusual conditions
within the industry.
Resolutions should be plain
ly written son regular sized let
terheads, on one side of the
paper. only, and a separate
sheet used for each resolution.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-30
Poor Attendance
|AfLocuI Meefinqs
Leads To Trouble

Attendance at our last meeting
was only fair and again we appeal
to all casters to attend at least one
meeting a month. These meetings
are of vital Importance and are
very instrumental in protecting
your means of livelihood.
The excuse that meetings are not
important and they run far into
the night, is not the case at Local
No. 4. The gavel rests in the very
capable hands of President Fletch-
er Williams and although every
question and complains is given
every consideration, discussion is
held to a minimum and our meet
ings never exceed ten O'Clock ad-
journment.
The fact there is an excess of
casters and work is none to steady,
seems to give some firms the idea
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