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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-31
Senators Learn The Tricks Of
Union-Busfing. Southern Style

union, but he'd starve 'em to death
He'd keep 'em in court five years.
w. B. Terhune, a city detective
in Rome, reluctantly testified about
pistol permits issued to employees
during the strike period. There
were 43 permits issued between
March IL and April 5, he said, but
wouldn't venture an opinion as to
whether that was "an unusual num-
ber." He agreed that the pistols
contributed to strike violence.
Terhune also told, under pres
sure, how he had returned $1,000
reward for the arrest of the per-
son who shot William t. Brock, a
scab. (The union had testified the
day before that both the company
and the press lost all interest in
bringing the culprit to justice when
they discovered another non-strik-
er, Quinton Dempsey, had shot
Brock by mistake.)
The detective returned tn e
money, he said, because his bosses,
the mayor and city officials told
him to. Anchor Rome, Terhune,
testified, is a heavy taxpayer. "You
know how small towns are" he
told the committee. 81 have to have
a job. Stead of losing my job I'd
rather give $1,000 back"
Repeated instances of violence
were described by witnesses at the
hearing. One of these, as told by
Joe d. Pedigo, an employe of the
Textile Union, described how the
Personnel Director, plant superin-
tendent, and overseers led about
rs or 100 scabs out of the office
entrance of the plant armed with
sticks, hammers, wrenches, hat
chefs, blackjacks and other wea-
pons.
They spread over a railroad sid
ing where four workers were pic
keting, Pedigo related, and waved
switch engine pulling two car
loads of cotton to run down the
strikers. When this failed, he said,
they beat them with hammers and
blackjacks. Three of the strikers
were women.
Another incident was described
by Herman Hyde, former employe
of the company, who was on strike
at the time. Hyde told how the
plant foreman shot companion Of
his, Hubert Wilkie, without pro-
vocation, and permanently disabled
the man. The foreman shot at him
too, Hyde testified, but missed.
Hyde also told the committee
how he was unable to get his job|
back after the strike, and was|
by all the textile plants
in the area. Even though theyl
needed weavers, and he had tenI
years experience as a weaver, they
refused to hire him because he had
been on strike at Rome.
"Not a single one of the hund-
reds of skilled textile workers who
participated in this strike has been
re-employed," Pedigo had told the
committee. "We have been to the
NLRB and to the Taft Hartley act
for relief" he declared, $50 far, all
we have received is such remarks
as "Too bad. You got a raw deal.
But the company was pretty smart
Constangy has handled it smart"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-31

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, 1950-08-31
1T DOESN'T PAY TO SCAB
IN ROME, GEORGIA

III DOESNNI FAY III SCAB
IN ROME, GEORGIA
Washington (LPA) - Scabs
at a strike in Rome, Georgia,
in 1913 were supplied with pis-
tolls by the company, William
B. Sword, worker in the plant
at the time, told Senate sub
committee, Aug. %. "The pis-
tols," he testified, "cost $3.50
each, along with a half box of
shells" The Anchor Rome Co.,
though, never known for its
generosity, deducted the cost
of the guns from the workers
pay checks over a period of
weeks. at was charged up as
TOOLS" Sword said.
eight or ten lights, and don't let
anyone see you" Sword said he
broke windows, under the same
orders. Committee aide Thomas
Shroyer, a Republican hack, tried
to discredit Swords testimony by
pointing out that he was fired last
June. Sword said he was fired "for
drinking bottle of beer. The wit
ness obviously was indignant about
it. "Mr. Holcomb gets drunk and
goes down to the picket line and
shoots people It's all right for him
to do that" he declared. "But
drink one bottle of beer and get
laid off"
His testimony, however, checked
exactly with that of other wit
nesses, including William Shiflett,
who was president of the local at
the time Of the strike. Shiflett had
told the committee earlier that he
saw the windows knocked out by
someone inside the mill, and a
policeman who was nearby CON
firmed it.
"That was the evening the Gov
ernor was in town." Shiflett said.
"The company reported that the
union was shooting out lights. Next
morning they had the Governor at
the plant showing him knocked-out
windows"
Sword also told about a meeting
where Frank Constangy, attorney
for the company, declared he did
MT know whether he'd beat the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-31
BY BETSY BILANOW

Washington (LPA)-Union-bust-
ing employers who take anti-unior
workers into their confidence, bet
ter be good to them afterwards.
That's one of the morals that
could be drawn from testimony
given at a Senate labor-manage-
ment subcommittee investigation
of the Textile industry in the
south. The subcommittee is look
ing into charges brought by Tex
tile Workers Union of America
that management tactics at the
Anchor Rome mill, Rome, Ga, des-
troyed the union there. The Senate
group is considering the Georgia
incident and others with an eye to
recommending legislation.
William B. Sword, former en-
ploye of the Anchor Rome mill,
told how he broke windows during
a I948 strike under orders to make
the damage look like labor-union
violence. Sword worked at the mill
for Is years. He has never been a
union member. At the time of the
strike he continued to work in the
mill.
Sword testified that T. H. Hol-
comb, plant superintendent, 'told
me to go up there and knock out
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-31
Dutch Workers Go Back To Work
r Unsuccessful Strike

After Unsuccessful Strike
Hague, Netherlands (LPA)-The
majority of the 1000 striking
dock workers returned to work
here Aug. %. The eight-day Com
munist-led strike was waged for a
10 percent pay raise.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
8y Charles E. TroceweH

very last word in usefulness, according
to the queer scale of values and conduct
we have imposed upon the natural crea-
tures-rather, let us say, the more nat
ural creatures, for man himself is pretty
natural at times, sometimes too
blamed natural for his own good.
We had looked upon the robin, SOL
emily tugging angle worms out of the
lawn, as the very quintessence of good"
in this respect.
Truly, he is pretty good. no doubt of
it, and our hats are off to him, if we
wear hats, which many of us no longer
do nowadays, to the quiet despair of hat
makers, whose guild is very ancient and
whose history has never known the like
before. What, not wear hat! 1t is
lese majeste, or something, according
to all honest hat makers. No doubt
we would feel the same way, If our bread
and butter came out of hats.
The robin turns up his nose at Jap
anese beetles.
He says they are furriners, and he is
a provincial and likes them not.
"Just my meat" snarls the startling,
as he seizes one of these enemies of
America and tears it's heart out with one
stroke of that big strong bill.
Multiply 40 million starlings by diet
of japanese Beetles and you get some
thing astonishing. "Of more economic
value than the robin? Why certainly"
whistles the startling. And he ought to
know. He is a smart bird.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
OF Soldiers and Ciyiliuns

Corporal Cornelius Dora c'Letters to
The Star" October S, 1850 appears to
feel that the attitude of civilians toward
servicemen is gesture of snobbery COM
pounded with ingratitude toward their
heroic defenders.
I was a soldier in the last war long
enough to be thoroughly shamed on
multitude of occasions by the obnoxious
and irresponsible conduct of American
servicemen. Extreme vulgarity OF speech,
unwelcome advances to women ranging
from offensive remarks to actual laying
on of hands. bullying attitude toward
civilians, and even depredations against
property. all occurred many times under
my personal observation. Particularly
CALLING by comparison, to an American
who tried to be gentleman, was the
far more disciplined and gentlemanly
behavior of the British when troops OF
the two nations served in the same vi
cinity.
Within the last two weeks, in Wash
ington, three burly young soldiers well
"oiled' with spiritus frumenti, boarded
a streetcar I was riding. Going to the
extreme rear, they engaged in loud and
profane conversation, sang r1bald songs
at the top of their voices. and shouted
and stamped on the floor in self-ap-
plause. Ladies left the car; and as
followed them couple stops later. was
the target of shouted unprintable cpl
thet as the car sped away into the night.
Such conduct, of course, is not seen
in all servicemen. But 1t is encountered
frequently enough to justify the civilian
in standing aloof in self-defense.
Ex-Artilleryman.
Evening star., 1950-10-11

The food habits of the starting are OF
more economic value than those OF the
robin, according to experts.
This statement may surprise some
persons, who have tended to object to
starlings, and who therefore have failed
to watch them at work.
Any one who believes what he sees,
however, will agree that this often-de-
spised species really does good job for
mankind.
If it were no more than consuming
the hated japanese beetles, the startling
would receive the thanks of honest home
gardeners.
The bird does far more than that.
Being large, husky and vigorous, he not
only needs a great deal of food for
himself, but he also must have it to
feed his young.
All young birds of whatever species,
need live food. In this way only, and
from this type of food. they receive the
nitrogenous elements necessary for
growth.
Watching starting babies in the home
yard is one of the joys of home bird
watching.
Such watching is entirely different
from the stereotyped pursuits of the
good folk who prefer to wander along
towpaths in the early morning.
No one can quarrel with such pur-
suits. but at the same time one must
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Suffers Sons and Daughters

In an article by John c. Proctor in
The Sunday Star of october l, the i'm
preston is given that in the 1890 Census
of Maryland, all those people counted
opposite the mans name were either his
sons or his daughters or his slaves. This
is not correct. The headlines over the
old census columns are, Free White
Males of 16 Years and Upwards, Includ-
ing Heads of Families; Free White
Males Under Is Years; Free White
Females Including Heads of Families;
and Slaves" Sons and daughters are
not mentioned
Mr.. Proctor surmises that John Suter
of Suffers Tavern in Georgetown there
fore had in 1790, seven sons and four
daughters and four slaves. These people
did bear the name Suter. However. John
Suter died not long after the 1790 Census,
and his will (f1led in 1894 at Rockville)
enumerates his children - three sons
John, jr., Robert, and Alexander), two
daughters (Volinda and Margaret), and
his wife, the former Sarah Williams,
whom he married in 1865 Their farm
was near Rockville, Md. This information
is given in my book, George Washing
tons Headquarters in Georgetown"
Bessie Wilmarth Calm.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
This and That =.

recognize that the leaders have all been
trained in certain ways, and that the
followers will receive a line" rather
than honest observation.
One of the components of this line"
is that the starting is terrible creature,
and that he chases native birds away
from their natural nesting sites.
Our innocent native species are
pictured as nitwits, unable to go else
where if chased away. We seem to
see them, according to these pictures,
standing helplessly, unable to nest, un-
able to understand the facts of life,
destined to fail to replenish the world
with progeny, while the black-hearted
starlings grin from ear to ear with
malice triumphant on a peak in, Rock
Creek Park or somewhere.
The truth seems to be that starlingS
do, in a sense, pay their way, and do
eat many inimical insects and their eggs.
They not only eat them but they eat
a great many of them, due to their nat
ural size and hunger and young.
Even the official bird people have come
around to this at last. In one Of the
latest government publications as much
is admitted.
"Of more economic value than the
robin
That's Old Man Startling, himself, and
none other.
Most of us had thought the robin the
Evening star., 1950-10-11

Chinese prosody. One of them, which he
called 1.-THE End of the Journey" ends
with the lines:
Today, aoith long rope in my hand,
loonder hoiD long before tUe can bind
up the monster.
Success of the Long March was
achieved at tremendous cost. and final
success in binding up the monster" lay
years in the future. One hundred thou
sand troops set out from Kiangsi. When
they reached Northern Shensi there were
only 10000, and many of these were re-
cruits who had Joined the Red Army on
the march. But legend had been Gre
ated, and Mao knew the value of legends.
In the years that followed, he waited
for events. He lived in a cave, working
by night and sleeping by day. He smoked
necessarily and read omnivorouSly. Every
move that Chang made increased the
power of Macs shadow government"
It continued to increase during the years
of uneasy truce in the fight against
Japan.
The truce ended in 1947, and Chiang's
troops took the Red capital of Yenan.
But the tide soon turned. Yenan was re-
captured in a year and less than year
later the Red Army was in Peiping All
China except Tibet and Formosa quick
ly followed Mao was greeted in Peiping
with the Give ten thousand years" &C
clamation, previously reserved for the
emperors.
Even before the defeat of Chang, Mao
had proclaimed America the new enemy.
His troops had fought with captured
Evening star., 1950-10-11

American equipment. Many of Chiang's
American armed divisions had come over
without a fight. but the bitterness re-
manned. In 1948, Mao placed "Ameri-
can Imperialism" ahead of the Kuomin-
tang as the main enemy of the Chinese
Communists, and declared Soviet Russia
to be their only dependable friend.
In part, that was straight Commu-
mist propaganda. In part 1t reflected Mao's
ignorance of the outside world. Almost
alone among Chinese Communist lead
ers, he has no links with the West. Until
been outside China.
In Yenan, his radios monitored foreign
news reports, but he trusted only those
from Russia. His most direct contact
with America came through some movies
flown in to the Yenan Observation Group.
They did the United States no good Mao
delighted in THE Grapes of Wrath"
shuddered at Betty &rable and watched
with amazement the peculiar infantry
tactics of "A Walk in the Sun" do
Americans really fight like that?" he
asked.
A man of brilliant cautious and subtle
mind, Macs strength lies in his knowl-
edge of China and it's people. Soviet
Russia helped him little enough in his
years of struggle, and he has modified
Marxism to meet Chinese needs. But he
does not look like potential Tito.
Wherever he can, he is likely to work
for the world revolution in ways that
will not be to our advantage. For good
or Ill, the power he represents seems
certain to be with us for long time.
Evening star., 1950-10-11

statesmanlike and altogether convincing counsel
on what it must do to be reasonably safe in this
age of great danger As for his former role in our
military establishment-which he lkened good
humoredly to the hard lot of baseball manager
he limited himself to the brief statement that
he would leave it entirely to the historians" to
argue about his contributions and his shortcom-
ings, There were no recriminations no bitter or
biting asdes-just an admirable speech rejecting
the admirable qualities of man whose critics,
while he was in office, were sometimes much less
than fair to him.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
The Pacific Meetinq

There may be some who will read domestic
political implications into the Presidents sudden
decision to hold weekend conference with
General Macarthur at an unrevealed meeting
place in the Far Pacific But the circumstances
surrounding this dramatic development hardly
justify the inference that it is primarily polit
ical maneuver. sThe most important of these
circumstances in Mr.. Truman's words, is that
the United Nations action in Korea now appears
to be entering "the final phase" a situation
that raises special problems calling for
consultation between him and the supreme
commander of our American and Allied U. N
forces.
Moreover there are number of collateral
problems bearing upon the overall security of
the Pacific. These include the question of
peace treaty for Japan, the trend of events in
Red China the Communist threat to Southeast
Asia, the status of Formosa and "other matters"
that fall within General MacArthurs RESPONSE
bility. General Macarthur has not seen eye to
eye with Washington as regards the Formosan
question, and there may be additional issues that
call for firm understanding between him and
the President Certainly with events apparently
approaching climax in Korea, there must be a
single sense of American direction as regards
both our political and military policy in Asia.
To that end, the President will take with him
highly placed advisers from both the State De-
partment and the Defense Department., including
General Bradley, chairman of our Joint Chiefs
of Staff The fact that he is doing so refutes the
notion that this meeting Is a stunt related
to the November elections. There is every reason
to believe that it will have to do with decidedly
important matters involving the free worlds
security in region of vital Importance to our
position in the international balance of power.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Dishonest Crime Reporting

Conspicuously absent from the tabulation OF
urban crime trends just issued by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation are figures showing the
crime situation in New York City. After New
York's name in the list is the explanation
complete data not received" The story behind
this omission is beginning to come out as
result of the productive investigation of irregu-
arities and possible graft in the New York police
department.
That the FBI has been justified in refusing
to publish the New York crime statistics in its
semi annual bulletin, Uniform Crime Reports, Is
indicated by discoveries made by District Attorney
Frank Hogan. prime mover in the sensational
New York inquiry. In 10-page report Mr.. Hogan
discloses why New York's self-compiled crime
reports have been obviously inaccurate, wholly
unreliable and indefensble." 1t has been the
practice, he said, to permit detectives to pocket
and forget cases as they see ht. "One OF the
obvious advantages to detective in his exercise
of this omnpotent discretion, Mr. Hogan pointed
out sis that 1t permits him to compile an
admirable record of efficiency by the simple
process of ignoring and not recording cases
where solution is improbable"
That this system was used to great advantage
is indicated by New Yorks incredible record of
crime solutions. In the case Of burglarleS Tor
example, New Yorks police reported that rs per
e
average for other cities is about Is per cent.
More fantastic still was the departments reported
total of robberies, burglaries and larcenes in
1948 Insurance companies paid claims in more
than twice as many of such cases that year as
were recorded by the police. In most cities the
recorded total usually is six times as large as the
claims paid.
Although the FBI complained to former
Mayor ODwyer and former Police Commissioner
OBrien about such absurdities, nothing was done
to correct the reports 1t is good news to every
one interested in honest crime reporting, there
fore, to learn that something finally is to be done
about it.. Police Commissioner Murphy, who
is helping Mr.. Hogan clean up the department.
has announced that new reporting system will
be adopted as soon practicable. 1t would be
good idea to ask the F'BI to assist in setting up
the new procedures so that there will be no
question about including New York City in the
next crime bulletin. Meanwhile, Jersey City
officials should be called on-by the citizens who
elected them-to explain why the Jersey City
police report also is excluded from Uniform Crime
Reports The FBI's only comment is the same as
for New York City: Complete data not received"
Evening star., 1950-10-11
Koreo's S Heavy Toll

The latest tabulation of American casual
ties in the Korean war shows total of 756
Army Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps men
tion was as of September % and included only
casualties whose next of kin had been notified.
The actual number of Korean war victims is
larger than the announced total. The figures
show how deadly war has become since the early
days of the Republic. For more Americans have
been killed, injured or captured in the Korean
campaign than in all the battles of the Revou-
ton and the War of 1872 combined.
Revolutionary casualties totaled 12172. Those
in the War of 1912 totaled 6,765. Losses in the
Mexican War were 16,399 and in the Spanish
American War, $780, And Korea has proved
more costly in human life and limb than some
of our modern campaigns. The bloody Normandy
phase of World War II caused 10,438 American
casualties The capture of Guadalcanal resulted
in 7,O25 casualties on our side.
Most of the losses suffered by our troops oc-
Cured prior to the Inchon-seoul operations,
during the long, heartbreaking period when we
were being driven back to the small perimeter of
the Pusan beachhead. Those were the months
when we were short in nearly everything essen
tial to winning battles-in trained men, in artil-
lery, in tanks and in weapons capable of knock
ing out the well-equipped enemy's armored col
umns. We paid dearly for our weaknesses. And
we will pay dearly again if, in the flush of victory,
we forget the meaning of the heavy sacrifices
paid by our young men on the Korean peninsula.
Evening star., 1950-10-11
The Dangerous Potomac

Director Edwin r. Cotton of the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River Basin has
made very timely appeal for public support of
the commissions efforts to clean up the Potomac
River, particularly in the dangerously polluted
stretch in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Citizens of Arlington County, Virginia will have
an opportunity soon to give active support in an
effective way. On November they will vote on
the question of $2,617o0O bond issue to finance
new sewage treatment plant If they are
properly aroused to the perils of using the river
as cesspool, the bond issue is certain to win.
i Assistant Surgeon General Hollis of the
Public Health Service regards the rapid increase
in stream pollution throughout the country as
alarming" He told the Federation of Sewage
and Industrial Wastes Associations at their
annual meeting here that aggressive remedial
measures" are urgently necessary in critical
areas. These measures, he declared should take
priority over everything except the national
defense program. Arlington is faced with other
important needs, including schools for the grow
ing population. But it is risky to subordinate
public health to education or any other service.
According to the Potomac River Basin Com
mission, public health definitely is menaced by
the present filthy condition Of the river. The
popular notion that the river is dangerous only
to swimmers was attacked by Director Cotton.
He pointed out that the Potomac in this region is
tidal river which deposits regularly on its banks
raw sewage and other pollution. The tidal fats,
when exposed at low tide, are feeding and breed
ing places for flies and other insects capable of
carrying disease to humans. '1t should not be
necessary for tragedy to befall us in order to
make us aware of the condition of the river" he
said
The District of Columbia and the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission in Maryland
already are cooperating in sewage treatment
program on the washington side of the river. On
the Virginia side, Fairfax County is preparing to
build its first treatment plant. Arlington has
an old plant that is totally inadequate. Alex
andria has plant at all. It is essential to the
health and welfare of all residents of the
Washington Metropolitan Area that all commu-
mites in nearby Virginia do their part in making
the river safer for those who live along its shores.