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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1950-01-06

Louis B. Mayer, head Of Metro.
;oldwyn.Mayer studios. has been
,warded the Medal Of Merit Of the
ewish War Veterans Of the United
Iates, it was announced by Jackson ].
Ioltz, of Boston, Mass. JWV National
commander. The award was voted Mr..
layer by the fifty.fOurth annual En-.
lmpment of the JWV. Presentation Of
re medal will be made in New York
a dinner marking the JWV's fifty.
IN anniversary in April. 1850.
Mr.. Mayer was cited for his econ.
buttons Of more than quarter of
injury to the dissemination Of Ameri.
principles and ideals throughout
world through the medium Of the
nerican motion picture.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
Labor Protests
(ContiHped From Page One)

bread is too good to come in that
category. 1t contains more wheat
and soy than is required.
apparently your reasoning is
that larger amounts of these highly
nutritious ingredients would de-
ceive consumers" wrote Montgo-
merry, because (D the loaf would
lack the graveyard whiteness which
millers and bakers impart of their
bread, and (2) consumers would be
getting a better-tasting and more
nourishing product than the COM
mercial bakers, through years of
quality degradation, have led them
to expect"
News commentator Raymond
Gram Swing has also joined in the
bread fight. He told his radio aud
ience last week that the FDA is
setting a maximum standard of
what constitutes enrichment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21

percent. Copper rose 8,9 percent,
wool 30 percent, pig iron 6.5 per-
cent, oil II percent, rubber 124
percent, and tin "A percent. (Rub-
Der, tin and wool are bought in the
international market.)
"What logical excuse or reason
can be found for these unwarrant-
I'd increases in wholesale prices ?"
Hayes asked. Surely not wage in
creases. The labor costs in most Of
these items are comparably small
and the increased costs due to in
creased wages (Which is less than
2 percent) is negligible. We need
not look further if we are sincere
in trying TO prevent initiation. Here
we have the cause Of the initiation
ary forces now in progress. FreeZ-
ing or restricting wages will not
stop it because increases in wages
did not set these forces in motion.
If we need further proof that we
do not need wage restrictions at
this time, permit me to point to the
corporation profits.
"Annual rates Of profits after
taxes rose from SIP billion during
the first quarter in 1850 to $24.4
billion during the third quarter, an
increase Of Alb percent. During
this same period the Federal Re-
serve Systems production and
business activity index rose about
6.5 percent. Business Weeks pro-
duction INDEX for June stood at
21O.2 and in December reached
220.6, an increase Of 40 percent.
There are no available data to in
dicate that the Al percent increase
in profits is due to increased pro-
duction. There is no other answer
except profiteering-wilful raising
Of prices which causes initiation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
Not Time Yet To Impose
Wage Controls Says Hayes

Washington (LPA)-The step
ped-up defense program America
must have requires stringent and
enforceable controls" on raw ma
terial and consumer prices but the
"time has not yet arrived to i'm
pose wage controls"
That was the opinion presented
to the National Wage Stabiliza-
tion Board Dec. Ia by President Al
Hayes Of the Int1 Association Of
Machinists. He spelled out the case
against wage ceiligns now in great
detail, demonstrating to the board
that post-Korean price levels are
the result Of outright profiteering,
not pay raises.
Hayes emphasized that the lam
was fully aware Of the gravity Of
the world situation and the need
for stern measures. The Us faces
a "life or death struggle" with
communism, "the most serious
threat to our form Of government
and our way Of life in its entire
history" he pointed out.
Consequently, 1--WE must immedi-
ately build our own defenses and
assist in building the defenses Of
other free countries of the world,
particularly those in Europe" he
added, and eve must do whatever
is necessary to build our own
strength" even though it newt
ably means Substantial changes
and sacrifices" in our civilian lives.
Getting back to wages and prices,
Hayes told the wage board that the
Defense Production Act directed
President Truman to put actual
ceilings on prices but only to
Stabilize" wages. Thus, the lam
chief declared, Congress gave the
President wider latitude in dealing
with wages than it gave him when
dealing with prices" Spokesman
for industry have insisted that the
act requires ceilings to be imposed
on wages in any industry in which
price controls are introduced.
Here's what happened after the
Korean conflict broke out, Hayes
said:
Average hourly earnings of all
industry have moved up slightly
from Slab in June to $1.480 three
months later, a rise of 1.8 percent.
In the same period, the consumers
price index rose 81 percent and
has gone still higher since. Pur-
chasing power actually has gone
down in terms of prices and wages
and the higher income tax hasl
driven individual purchasing capa-
city down still further.
The wholesale price index was
1878 in June. By the last week in |
October it had risen to 1894 |
Wholesale farm prices were up 8.5l
percent. Food prices went up 7.3I
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
Conodiun Unions
Unite First Time

Montreal CLPA)-For the first
time in Canadian history all four
major labor organizations have
joined together-they are fighting
for price and rent controls.
The action was taken following a
conference of The Trades and
Labor Congress Of Canada, Canad-
ian Congress of Labour, Canadian
and Catholic Confederation Of
Labour, and the Dominion Joint
Legislative Committee Of the Rail
way Transportation Brotherhoods.
They have well over 100000
members.
A joint announcement said the
prospect Of early removal of rent
controls and the continued upward
trend Of all prices could no longer
be ignored.
Repeated appeals from our or
ganizations and our members have
failed to impress the Government
with the need for immediate price
control measures, therefore, the
four major trade union centres are
now inaugurating a jointly-spon-
sored nationwide campaign"
The group said that under war
controls the cost-of-living index
rose so points between December
1941 and April 1916. Since controls
were removed, the cost-of- living
index has shot up 80 points.
Statements that wage increases
are the cause Of higher prices are
the announcement
said. "Since the removal of con-
trolls, prices have been free to rise
at the will of the employer. Wages,
on the other hand, can only be ad-
justed by negotiation, conciliation
or even arbitration"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
Supreme Court
(COHfiHusd From Page One)

peals Court.
The decision of the high tribunal
not only is vindication for Pres
ident Duffy and Secretary-T -Treasur-
er Jordan, but the power and auth
ority of the convention and other
tribunals of the National Brother
hood Of Operative Potters We're
fully upheld and confirmed.
Although the two Brotherhood
officials were adhering entirely to
the law, as found by the court, the
undue scorn they have undergone
cannot be overlooked. Their fam
lilies likewise have been subjected
to undue criticism. Last and by no
means least is the irrepairable
damage brought upon the National
of Operative Potters
in the ranks of organized labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
More Liberal Compensation
Law Urged In Idaho

Ada, Idaho (LPA)-Further lib
eralization of the states workmen's
compensation law has been urged
by a special legislative interim
committee, headed by Paul Vernon.
Recommended were increases in
total disability weekly benefits to
family maximum of $37; in
creases in partial permanent spec
fife indemnity payments to top
of $25; increase in death benefits
to top of $18; broadening provis-
ions of the occupational disease
compensation law, including blan
ket coverage.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
RESOLUTION OF RESPECT

Whereas Almighty God in His infinite wisdom, has seen
fit to take from midst friend and fellow worker
Brother Harold Whpper respected and admired for his fe
lowshp and character, and
Whereas We the members of Local Union Sc, recognize
the this Brother and shall cherish and respect the
memory his pleasant and evidence of sympathy
and esteem, it is hereby further
Resolved That extend profound sympathy to
his family copy of this resolution be published in our
official Journal The Potters Herald copy spread the
minutes of the Local and copy sent to the bereaved family
that charter be draped in mourning for period of
thirty days.
GEORGE MULLEN
LAIRD CHRISTIAN
ELMER HUNT
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
Closed Shop
(COnfinned From Page One)

chops because the complaint came
from a working man rather thar
an employer. Seven officers Of the
Society were indicted for criminal
conspiracy" before Municipal Judge
Peter Oxenbridge Thatcher.
Parker charged the "Society
shop" was akin to slavery, that the
12c dues was an illegal tax be-
cause only the legislature could
levy taxes.
Robert Ratoul, Jr., the Society's
lawyer, was a Jacksonian Demo
crat, a radical in those days who
believed that workingmen had
rights. First off he proved that
Horne did not believe in God. That
was too much for a staid Boston
court. Horne wasn't even allowed
to testify. Rantoul then showed
that doctors and lawyers had or
ganizations for their mutual bene-
fit and that members had been ex-
PEELED for not conforming to by
laws. Lawyers rules forbade mem
bers to consult or associate with
non-members" and also fixed "min-
imum fees" Rantoul then argued
that the workers had the right to
quit work as individuals and that
therefore they had the same right
in a group. He said the old "crim-
inal conspiracy" law under which
the indictments were handed down
was no good because it was part
of the criminal tyranny from which
we fled"
He made a great impression-on
everyone except the judge and the
jury. The seven Society officers
were found guilty, Rantoul immedi-
ately appealed, and Judge Thatcher
withheld sentence. This was in 1910
and business was picking up again.
Powerful textile interests in New
England wanted the unions beaten
before they gained strength and
signed up the masses of underpaid
textile workers.
Two years later when the case
finally came up before the Appel
late Court, business was bad and
the textile interests could hold
down wages and organization, but
were concerned with European pro-
ducts flooding the market and
wanted a higher tariff for protec-
ton. They needed the votes of
labor to put across the tariff.
Judges were trying to get off the
hook as far as workingmen were
concerned. In New York workers
had burned judges in effigy after
anti-labor decisions.
SO the case was handed to Chief
Justice Lemuel Shaw who came up
with a ruling which established
the legality of the Society shop" ,,
but opened the way to rule by in
junction. Justice Shaw said it was
the lends" the Society sought, and
the "means" it used to gain them
that must be judged. If they were
legal, then everything was legal
if they were illegal, then every
thing was illegal. In the case Of
Horne he ruled both the Society's
ends and the means were legal, but
he left a legal loophole by which
lawyers for generations to come
could ask courts for injunctions byl
claiming unions sought illegal ends
by illegal means.
(The term, "closed shop, wasI
coined at the 1903 convention of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers. 1t was intended tol
spread the impression that a "clos-
ed shop" was closed to all but
union members, while an "open
shop" in reality because it wasl
closed to union men,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
PROBABLY LOOKING
FOR SPACE TO PARK

Portland, Ore (LPA)-A million
and half miles without an accid-
ent has helped John Castner win
the title of Oregon's driver of the
year. Castner, who has also won
the national "roadeo" uck-trailer
championship twice, has been driv-
ing for II years.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21
News and Views
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT Can ILNS Feaure)

| For reasons obvious to every
American, this column accepts the
olive branch extended by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacture
ers to the federal government at
it's face value. But it takes two to
make a bargain, and whether the
administration is prepared to do its
part toward a better understand
ing with business remains to be
| seen.
So far Washington has shown
little inclination to forego "dwell-
ing on the differences and difficult
ties of the past two DECADES" to
quote from the keynote speech at
the NAM congress. On the con-
trary, recent decisions of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, the Fed
eral Communications Commission
and other agencies indicate an ever
greater determination Of the state
planners to impose further and
tighter restrictions on business.
Moreover, these efforts of officials
who are neither elected by nor re-
sponsible to the people, are so
camouflaged as to make it prac-
tically impossible for the general
public to either understand the
issues at stake or to mete out to
the bureaucrats the rebuke they
deserve.
FTC'S ban of price discounts in
certain segments of the automotive
industry is a case in point. This
ruling, now before the commission
for final approval, aims at doing
away with a vital element in the
structure Of American competitive
business. Worse, in the name ofl
fighting nefarious activities by bigl
business, that decision paves the
way for giant, integrated monopoly
at the expense of thousands of
smaller manufacturing, wholesale
and retail firms and the livelihood
of hundreds of thousands of their
employees. And in so doing it invites +,
the greatest monopoly of all--the
state.
This ruling flows directly from
the so-called basing point decision
of the FTC some years ago. The
basing point ban, later sanctioned
by the u. S. Supreme Court, pro-
hibited what is known as delivered
pricing, that is, absorption off
freight costs by producers as a
means Of meeting competition with
plants situated nearer to the GUS
toner. Although it applied only to
the cement industry, it was bound
to affect every industry and trade,
and through them the consuming
public.
!. !. X
Appropriately enough, it fell to
a spokesman of organized labor to
make clear the real meaning and
ultimate consequences of this de-
cision. Said William Schoenberg,
president of the AFL Cement
Workers Union, in the American
Federationist (Jan. 1949):
delivered pricing means the
freedom of every man who has
something to sell to take that
something to any place he
chooses and there put a price
upon it and offer it for sale,
coupled with the freedom of
every buyer to request deliver
ed prices and to buy at the
competitive prices, which in
clude delivery at his (the buy
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21

er's) location.
"That is delivered pricing
an expression of a basic free
dom, an attribute of free en-
terprise. Any attempt to re-
strain such a basic freedom is
a threat to a free society and
an approach to despotism.
&. We are interested only
in staunchly defending the
basic freedoms upon which the
American government and the
American enterprise s y S m
and the well-being of our peo-
pie depend. If these rights are
destroyed or invaded, then
very soon some government
bureau will undertake to tell
the wage earners of this coun-
try where they may and where
they may not work-and for
what wages. The freedom of
government S cure d to
labor through development Of
trade unionism will thus be de-
stroyed."
X X <
The same intent, so we'll statet
by President Schoenberg two year
ago, underlies the TV color rulint
by the Federal Communication
Commission. -,d,
Here, under the pretext of max
ing the fruits of scientific progress!
available to the public, a decision
was rendered which, aside from be
ng arbitrary and harmful to the
as a whole and its work.
ers, makes again blindingly clean
The single minded resolve of the
to narrow down the
areas of free enterprise and ex.
)and the authority Of agencies
which neither the American people
lor Congress have endowed with
powers of life and death over the
endeavors of the nation.
X !. y
Present conditions may make il
,xpedient for the administration to
;oftpedal these policies of infil-
ration, so as not to antagonize
public opinion, weaken the national
lefense effort and retard indus
rial mobilization. But this, in the
light of the long-range program to
'ule with mandatory controls and
governmental directives, will be
,nly stop-gap. 1t is incumbent up
IN the people, if they value
heir freedom and their rights, to
watch with utmost care the activi-
les of government by agency and
% curb excessive powers which will
and eventually destroy
he very values we are trying to
uphold.
"By their fruits ye shall know
HEM" To judge from the crop OF
he past two decades, the trees OF
government bear strange fruit in
Iced.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-21

No. -Saggermakers, East Liverpool,
Ohio. Harry f. McCombs. 927 Dresden
Ave, East Liverpool, Ohio. Meets first and
third Tuesday in Room 2, NBOP Bldg.
No. l7.-Kilndrawers, East Liverpool,
Ohio William Cox. 644 Minerva St. Meets
first Thursday only in Room A, NBOP
Evening star., 1950-05-02

An irresistible combination stripes
on top. solid skirt. So foshionobIy fresh
with double-breosted effect, big wing cuffs
and stond-out pockets to moke the skirt
look even fuller. In ice cream pink, blue
or oquo
Exclusive at Jeuetrs Junior Cotton Shop Fifth Floor
Street and yelletrs Shirlington. Ez73 Conn. Ape
and SIuer Spring
Evening star., 1950-05-02
Barbizon's Body-Contour Slips

Bohzons
BOn Chic trimmed with dony oopno Bozons etnot
Lody 384O Little Miss t95; Little Lody U422h), (339).
Evening star., 1950-05-02
S8.95 to S17.95 Ny|on Gowns

Hundreds choose from! Non gowns non crepe on-eey
famous moke oil ngon trimmed Fashionable sleeping
beauties with neknes wide bodces nfed
os lace insertions net trimmed bodees hemnes beautifully mode
onPH cut Hoeino fit And the coos-eooe blue BEIGE
white block the group Regular ond sizes q 48
penN OF extro sizes 48 You'll surely find the gowns you for gift
giving wardrobe but eoo telling how long voue like
these will lost
Evening star., 1950-11-26
Herbert /. Brooks
Honored at Porty

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Lee Brooks
were the guests of honor at a
silver wedding anniversary recep-
ton given from 4 to 6 o'clock
yesterday by Mr.. and Mrs. John
Harrington Marshall at their
Chevy Chase home.
Mrs. Brooks wore a turquoise
tissue faille gown, trimmed with
rhineStones, and a corsage Of
orchids. The hostess wore navy
fiat crepe and a corsage of deep
pink carnations.
White chrysanthemums were in
the living room and the dining
room table was decorated with
white roses, a wedding cake and
long silvered tapera
Among the 100 or more guests
were DR.. William S. Abernethy,
who officiated at the wedding, and
Mrs. Abernethy; Mrs. Guy E. Ives,
who was Mrs. Brooks maid of
honor, and Mr.. Carl E. Bogardus.
who served as best man.
Evening star., 1950-11-26
I own and Country Folk

out a story: Mercury was just
shifting.
Is there skunk in the house !?
Eveline Paterson nearly cleared
the audience at Donald Downs
private movie showing when she
came in carrying a small sachet
pussy. It turned out to be only a
clever toy, with concealed spring
which made it crawl. The Pete
Morans were not so lucky. The
attractive doctor and his beauti-
full wife discovered "a real one in
their cellar, where he evidently
planned to spend a cozy winter.
Shooting it was, Of course. out of
the question, but SO was their re-
naming in the house. Finally,
someone solved the odiferous
problem by using a new and
harmless chemical which freezes"
the glands temporarily. and lets
all concerned part without lin
gering effects!
Heady stuff: That Balenciaga
bonnet, worn by the wife of the
Peruvian Ambassador. Sonora de
Berckmeyer. Black velvet, with a
torero influence, it was one of sew
eral which she selects from
sketches /. The chapeau of coral
colored feathers gracing the dark
tresses of Katharine Byron, per-
Evening star., 1950-11-26
BY Nike Anderson.

Blonde Mug Richardson, Ar
thur Godfrey's former Girl Fri
day. is now juggling pots and
pans as competently as she once
did microphones. music and bon
mots. Thanksgiving found Mug
basting her first bird in many a
year. in anticipation of several
friends for dinner, among them
the extremely attractive Califor-
mia bachelor, Jack Dahlgren.
Mugs new career will take the
form OF TV show. but since even
a whisper of one of her keen ideas
always has a far reaching echo.
it must remain mystery. Mean
While, she looked prettier than
ever. wearing gardenia in her
short, fair hair, cropped a la
Hemingway'S Maria, and in a chic
black taffeta coat dress. Her aerial
debut will be one to watch for.
Administrative Assistant to the
President and Mrs. Donald Daw-
son are soaking up a little Vita
min c on the beaches of Florida.
and going for long swims-a sport
at which both excel. They will
probably return in time for the
cocktail party to be given by their
great friend, Martha Channel, on
December End. Also on the
December calendar, the twin din
ner parties to be given by co-host-
esseS, Mrs. Hamilton Lamar and
Mrs. Biddle Gordon, at Balti-
more's. exclusive Mount Vernon
Club-one dinner to be held on
the End, one on the 9Th.
The romance that has been
glowing so brightly these many
years between author Mannix
Walker and his favorite cfarac-
ter, Mrs. Dowell, Brahmin from
Boston's Beacon Hill, is ablaze
once more. Mannix, who brought
the old girl to amusing life in two
earlier novels, Everything Rus
ties" and Count on Two Days, +"
is taking her. in a new novel, soon
to be published, to the South of
France. And you know what in
teresting things happen in the
South of France. The scribe
and his handsome cocker spaniel.
Black Mercury, were recently seen
prowling through the Victorian
manse at the corner of Hillyer
and Connecticut, one Of the few
houses that looks exactly as it did
In the Mauve, decade.
Mannix may have been shifting
Evening star., 1950-11-26

fectly matching her antique coral
necklace and brooch.
The great Hawaiian queen Lili-
ukeani will soon have another
American descendant, for it is
great expectations for the Justin
Funkhousers. The millionaire West
Virginia sportsman and his beau
tiful wife, daughter of a pineap-
pie executive, already have two
charming daughters, one of whom
graduated from Madeira this past
spring.
A wondering male, who prefers
to remain nameless, penned the
following immortal lines about the
weird names which cinemactresses
use for attention getting:
Poni and Choochoo sound like
toys:
Theirs Saxs really something for the
While t,oinkling in cinema heao-
Are Heather Angel. Toni Seuen.
on, lOhy must stars describe them
SelUes
Like products from the pantry
SheIUes-
Ginger, Chill, Candy, Honey,
Cherry
What in Il is 1Drong tDith
Mary?