The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-10


Government registers listing top
administrative officials of all fed
eral agencies in 1947 showed that
only about 3 percent were women.
A comparison Of listings in one Of
these registers for 1925, 1941, and
1947 shows some progress over
these 22 years-from "a percent
in 1925, the proportion Of women
in top administrative jobs grew TO
3.5 in 1947. However, the percent
women formed Of all adnninistrators
remained at a standstill, 3.5, from
1941 to 1947, while the proportion
of women in the lower grades Of
work increased from about 20 per-
cent in 1941 TO about "a percent in
1947.
Hourly earning of men weavers.
which ranged from s1.27 TO S1.36
in 3 New England areas and from
|S1.21 to S1.27 in 5 Southern areas
did not exceed those of women
weavers by more than Z cents an
hour in any of the selected areas
according to a study of cotton tex
tile mills in April, 1850 released by
the u. S. Bureau of Labor Stats
tics. In Northwest Georgia women
averaged 5 cents an hour more
than men; in 8 areas men showed
an advantage Of l cent; and in the
Fall River New Bedford area both
men and women weavers averaged
S127 an hour.
The earnings levels of womer
ring frame spinners, the largest
group of workers studied, ranged
from $1.09 to S1.13 in the New
England areas and from s1.01 tc
S1.08 in the Southern areas. Bat
terry hands recorded the lowest
earnings among women workers il
most of the areas and averaged
from 95 cents in Greenville-Spart
anburg, S. c., to s1.01 in Northerr
New England and Northwest
Georgia.
President Truman has asked
Congress to consider legislation
for the District of Columbia to pro-
hibit nighttime employment Of
women or minors under the age
of Is in industrial establishments.
The proposal was in keeping with
two conventions adopted at the
1948 conference of the Information
al Labor Organization at San
Francisco, to which the United
States adhered.
The President told Congress no
other federal legislative action was
necessary to motivate the program.
Provisions of the convention also
are being forwarded to the states
and to the territories.
District officials said local sta
tutes now do not ban night work
by women in industries and a
check as to the laws for minors
showed that while the District has
restrictions, they are not in full
accord with the convention.
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ore producer in the Minnesota field.
The corporation also owns the
Duluth, Mesabe and Iron Range
railroad, which carries ore for the
Oliver Co. and for the Independents
who own smaller mines in the
Range. The rates are inordinately
high and the railroad is extremely
profitable.
Naturally, the corporation has
no objection to paying itself high
rates on it's own ore, while collect
ing tribute from the Independents
who have to ship over its railroad.
There is evidence also that the
railroad gives better service to its
sister company than to rival mine
owners.
"The railroad is a bottleneck
monopoly in favor of US Steel"
To remedy this, Celler has in
troduced a bill at the urging of the
Justice Dept. 1t would forbid a
railroad to carry goods in which it
has an interest, direct or indirect.
"Not only must there be no open
controls exercised between shipper
and railroad" a practice forbidden
by current federal laws" Celler
warned, "but there must be no re-
lationship between them that can
be used for control"