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Evening star., 1950-01-08
Intruder Slabs Woman
In Chest, Steals Coat

A woman was stabbed in the
chest yesterday when she sur
prised an intruder in her, apart
ment as she returned from q
party.
Mrs. Carmen Tucker, IS. col
ored, practical nurse, of 160a
Thirteenth street NV, told police
a 25-year-old colored man stabbed
her, then took her fur coat and
fled through a bedroom window
She was treated at Freedmen S
Hospital and released.
The missing coat was. valued at
500.
Evening star., 1950-01-08
Teachers Union to Meet

The monthly meeting of the
American Federation of Teachers,
AFL. will be held at 7::30 pm.
Tuesday in the conference room
OF the Petworth Library, Georgia
avenue and Upshur street NV.
Evening star., 1950-01-08
Federal Bar to Hear
AustruIiun Envoy

Ambassador Norman j. 0. Ma
kin of Australia will address q
Federal Bar Association luncheon
meeting at 1915 pm. Wednesday
in the Willard Hotel. Ambassador
Evening star., 1950-01-08

South AfTco Bons Magazine
South African censors banned
issues OF leading American pic
ture magazine which showed riots
between whites and Negroes.
Evening star., 1950-01-08

ton of bills listing the number dis
posed of.
But in spite of all that things
got worse. In the last two months
$306.25 in claims for damages
of '1949 the county paid out
by dogs.
To top it off the question arose
as to whether payments to the
special officer could really be made
without Supnnrting vouchers even
Evening star., 1950-01-08

Wood for coff1ns is said to pro-
vide one of the heaviest drains on
Chinese forests.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Morse Says Tdft- -HdrtleY
Act Aids Union-Bustinq

tax are going to find out what the
American voters think of their
tactics"
He declared, too, that economic
sacrifices will have to be substitut-
ed for profits as usual and for sub
stantial wage increases as usual.
He called for a rollback of prices
which have skyrocketed and for
holding the line generally on
wages"
If prices are not rolled back to
the pre-Korean level, then some
wage increases will have to be
granted, Morse said.
However, the soundest wage in
creases for labor will be a rollback
of prices and then a holding of the
cost-of- living line," he asserted.
Morse closed with a ringing de-
claration. 81 am conducting an ex-
pertinent" he said, "to find out
whether a man in the Republican
party can express his convictions
and survive. In this spirit | am
carrying my fight to the state of
Oregon, with a determination to
place principle above politics in an
American campaign"
The senator got clamorous
standing ovation from nearly a
thousand AFL delegates and visit
ors when he finished.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Labor Government
Wins Steel Vote,
Stays In Power

London UPA) - The British
Labor Government staked its very
life on its steel program Sept. 10
and won 306 to 300 on a vote of
confidence in the House of Com
mons.
Vote followed announcement of
the Labor Party's determination to
go ahead with its program to ma
tionalize the steel and iron indus
try. Naturalization of steel is the
last step toward the goal the
the party set for itself when it
came to power in 1915.
The decision to allow a vote Of
confidence was taken recently
when Conservative members of the
Commons asked the majority lead
ers if they intended to go ahead
with the steel plan which calls for
establishment of a government iron
and steel corporation next month
and actual naturalization this
winter.
Had the vote gone against the
Labor Party, Prime Minister Att
lee and his cabinet would have re-
signed and forced a new election.
The party remained in power by al
scant margin in national election
last winter.
The vote was on motion by|
Winston Churchill, opposition lead
er. "That this House regrets the
decision of His Majesty's Govern
ment to bring the steel nationaliz-
alton act into immediate operation
during this period of tension and
danger thus needlessly dividing the
nation on party political issues and
disturbing the smooth and effic-
lent working of an industry vital
to our defense program"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Cola Could Make Hole In
Capital Steps, Doctor Says

the chemist knows as calcium sui
fate. Today we still allow alum as
conditioner for flour and most OF
US probably ate some ground cal
cium sulfate in our breakfast toast
or roll. This latter was probably
used by your baker under the name
of yeast food and as a carrier for
bromates which helped the baker
get a larger loaf volume"
If we made it mandatory to put
the amount of milk used in bread
on the wrapper, we would solve a
health and economic problem, Nc
Cay said. The manufacturer using
less milk would be exposed.
"Our present law" he pointed
out, "says the manufactures must
list the ingredients but not the
amount. It's like the fellow who
said he was making sandwiches of
half horse meat and half rabbit
meat-one horse, one rabbit. We
don't want a pinch of milk, we want
six percent.
The inferior bread now being sold
hurts low income groups the most,
McCay said, because they eat more
bread because it's cheaper than
other foods.
He sees no reason why the price
of bread is rising. "The triple-en-
riched bread being used in New
York state mental hospitals and
schools cost only one-half cent
more than the worst bread to
make" he pointed out.
The Food & Drug Act should be
amended, McCay insisted, $50 we
know what we're eating and drink
ing"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Tells Of Terror
Against Unions
In South America
tRy N. b. O. p. Delegatesl

Houston, Tex. (LPA)-An ac-
count of terrorism used by Latin
American relationships to smash
unions was given to the AFL con-
vention here by Francisco Aguirre,
former minister of labor in Cuba.
He is now Secretary-general of the
lnter-American Confederation of
Workers, known as the "C.I.T."
Aguirre declared the C. l. T. has
had to battle continuously against
Communist intrusion on one side
and repressive measures of pro-
Fascist governments on the other"
The organization has suffered most
in Peru, Venezuela and Argentina,
he said.
In Peru, labor leaders were as
sassinated, jailed, or exiled,
Aguirre said. In Venezuela, all free
unions were dissolved and their
leaders forced into exile. Some
have returned and are operating
underground.
In Argentina, the last-remaining
Independent unions have been
smashed by the Peron regime,
Aguirre added. Now all the unions
there are stooges of the regime.
Insofar as Communists are con-
cerned, they have lost influence in
most of Latin America, except for
Guatamela, Aguirre reported.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
AFL Denounces
Plot Charge Made
By French Reds
fRx N. d. O. p. Delegatesl


Houston, Tex. (LPA)-A fan
tastic charge made by Communist
leaders in Paris was hurled back
at them from the AFL convention
hall here.
The charge was that the AFL is
plotting" to eliminate" the Com
munist leaders in control of the
French General Confederation of
Labor. international News Service
relayed the accusation to this coun-
try.
President William Green and
Irving Brown, European represent
ative of the AFL, were named by
the "Reds" as the "chief plotters.' .
An answering blast was brought
into the AFL convention by it's in
ternational labor relations commit
tee, and unanimously approved by
the delegates.
"This charge is as ridiculous as
it is false" the committees report
said. "Once again the Communists
are resorting to the stop thief
strategy for which they are in
famous.
@Unlike the Communists, the
AFL does not resort to violence
and assassination.
"This ridiculous charge is in
line with the time-dishonored tao
tics of Moscow and its minions to-
blame in advance others for the
crime they themselves are planning
to perpetrate.
"The Cominform is apparently
preparing to eliminate outstand-
ing leaders of the free trade union
The declaration made it clear,
too, that the AFL will not be in
into halting it's program|
of aid to free trade union move-|
ments abroad.
"We will continue to cooperatel
fully and lend all aid to every de-
labor organization inl
every country, in the battle against
Communist intrigue and subver-
sion," the AFL declared.
President Green also personally
denied the charge by the Paris
Red" chieftains.
There isn't word of truth toI
their accusation" he said. "It's all
part of the party propaganda and
the party line.
1--WE will rely on the workers ofl
France, when they are successful
n building strong free union
to remove these Com
nunist leaders"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
THE MENACE WITHIN
BY ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT
COllectivism-Made in U. S. A.
Instament iii
InstalIment iii

From powerful unions have come
clear indications of their WEAKNESS
with government paternalism and
of their determination to resist
state encroachments upon private
enterprise. The AFL Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, for example,
in statement MAY 1950) con-
demning federal intervention in
the public utilities field as having
reached the stage where it threat
ems free enterprise in this indus
try" declared:
Labor does not choose to have
its welfare determined by the adj
ministrative orders of government
officials, no matter how well in
tentioned. Under fascism,
nazism and communism the people
work for the state Under the
policies inaugurated by the Rural
Electrifcation Administration those
employed on electrical properties
work for the government under
the guise of cooperatives. 1t is a
distinction without a difference"
Taking a similar stand at their
1850 convention, the CIO Utilities
Workers unanimously resolved that
control of the electric industry is
"the key to control Of the maj
s.,I <xf Al, UNL1
government is already in the
utility business to quite an ex-
tent and, unless we are on our
guard, will soon own most of
it. This will be the first step
down the socialistic highway.
Then transportation, commu-
nication, steel and the rest will
follow to put an end to our
American way of life"
Last the powerful AFL Metal
Trades Department took a swingI
at government employment prac-
tices, describing them as "a chal-
lenge to the rights of the civiliansl
+. totalitarianism in its initial
stage"
Despite growing re b Ell | i o nj
against the interventionist state, |
it is difficult to imagine the unionl
movement as a whole breakingl
away from government tutelage.
Granted the membership is tired
IF bureaucratic shenanigans, yeti
there seems little they can do in
view Of labor's wholesale commit
ment to the state and its depend |
ence ON administrative and legis-
Iative favors.
But, so the collectivists argue,
will the workers interests not best
De served by leaving the determin-
alton of the national economy to
the state, thus assuring labor Of a
sizable stake and an equal voice in
industry? This again is beggingl
he question. The scheme, advanc-
ID i'm the name of economic demo-
'racy and described as Employed
,o-determination i'm industry, would
seem to make the unions equal
partners in the economic enterprise
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Labor Dept Says Western Union
Must Pay Minimum Wage

Washington (LPA)-The request
of Western Union Telegraph Co
to pay foot and bicycle messengers
65 cents an hour has been denied
by the Labor Departments Wage
and Hour Division. 1t has been or.
dered to pay at least rs cents, the
minimum wage. The company said
compliance with the legal stand
ard will cost IL an extra 81, ,l28,000
annually. The case was heard last
December by division officer, who
recommended the minimum wage
An appeal to the courts is open to
Western Union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Harvard Law Dean Hits Tax
Favors To Oil Industry

Washington (LPA)-The tax bill
concocted by Congress is full OF
gross almost crude inequities"
The bill favors "oil interests and
everything that smells of OIL"
That's the opinion of Erwin N.
Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law
School. He hit at the tax lawyers
in a speech before the tax section
of the American Bar Association
convention here, asking why the
members were silent at the time
the legislation was being debated.
"Where was the voice of the tax
section on that matter?" he asked.
"The tax section ought to be quick
to act in the public interest. John
O. Taxpayer needs our help, too"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Is PC RENT HIKE APPROVED
IN PONTIAC AREA

Pontiac, Mich. (LPA) - Rent
hikes of Is percent have been
granted Oakland County landlords
by Area Rent Director William G..
Haines. The boost applies to all
rental units not increased since
June 80, 1947. Haines said the hike
was approved on the basis of a
recommendation by the Oakland
County Rent Advisory Board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
BY BETSY BILANOW

Washington (LPA)-A nutrition
expert who has made a study OF
cola drinks says "you could drop il
on the Capitol steps and it woulc
erode them."
DR.. Give M. McCay, Cornell
University professor, made the
statement to Congressman in sup
port of his plea that foods and
beverages should be labeled with
the exact amount of their ingred-
tents.
McCay was one of a string OF
witnesses before the House Select
Committee to Investigate the Use
of Chemicals in Food Products,
headed by James J. Delaney Cd,
NY). The committee is collecting
information that may be used to
change the Pure Food & Drug Act
so that it can better protect con-
sumers in this country.
Loopholes in the present law in
clude one allowing manufacturers
to put untested new chemicals in
foods, as we'll as the one McCay
wants plugged, that keeps informa-
ton from consumers about what
they're swallowing.
Tests made at the Naval Re-
search Institute, he said, showed
that 'the molar teeth of rats are
dissolved down to the gum line if
the rats are we'll fed but given no
thing to drink except cola bever-
age for a period of six months" ("
He also told of experiments with
extracted human teeth. He put the
teeth into some cola he took from
a dispensing machine and the
enamel wore right off. Another
effect of drinking cola is gastric
ulcers, the doctor said.
The ingredient that causes all
this decay is phosphoric acid, Nc
Cay said. Bottles of cola should
say right on the label the amount
of phosphoric acid, caffeine, and
other chemicals they contain, he
declared.
Rep. A. L. Miller OR, Neb.),
himself a doctor, questioned the
use of such labelling to the buy
ing public. at would make the
educational job easier" McCay
answered. at would give us teach
ers a chance to teach" Miller also
pointed out that cola is sometimes
useful in certain illnesses, where it
prevents nausea. SIN that case"
McCay suggested, "maybe it should
be sold on prescription by physic-
ians, not distributed for wide pub
lie use."
McCay particularly deplored the
fact that soft drinks are consumed
by so many children ain place of
wholesome drinks such as milk"
Bread, on which he has spent
years of research, offers a good
example, he said, of the way chem
lcals are introduced into foods "in
order to make a cheaper product
appear like better one."
DR.. McCay told how "in England
more than a century ago, when
wheat crossing the Atlantic often
moulded, it was common practice
TO mill this wheat and then treat
it with alum or copper sulfate tol
make flour that resembled that
rom sound wheat. In those early |
lays flour was commonly diluted
With white, ground gypsum wnl,..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
,Bv n. b. O. p. Delegates)

Houston, Tex. (LPA)-A blister
ing denunciation of the Taft-Hart-
ley Act was made by Senator
Wayne Morse, liberal Oregon Re-
publican, in an address here to the
national meeting of Labor's Lea
que for Political Education.
"Three years of experience under
the Taft Hartley Act" he said,
proved that it is an act Of legis-
lative hypocrisy.
"On the one hand, in pious
phrases, it purports to protect the
rights of self-organization and col
lective bargaining. On the other
hand, by trick phrases and by de-
vious and endless procedure, it
makes possible for anti-social en-
ployers to Illustrate and defeat
those selfsame rights"
Morse cited example after ex-
ample particularly down South
of how anti-union employers took
advantage of the TIL. act to
smash unions by intimidation, out
right violence, use of yigilantes
and other means.
Where unions filed charges in
such cases against the employers,
and even won National Labor Rela-
tions Boards decisions ordering
arrangements to "cease and desist",
the latter defied the orders, fore
ing resort to long court litigation.
Some of the most fragrant union
busting exists in the Southern tex
tile plants, Morse said.
Employers resort to or permit
every anti-labor stratagem from
subtle insinuation to armed viol-
ence," he declared.
"Organizers are kidnapped and
beaten and expelled. Union leaders
are threatened and attacked. Where
no union exists, the employees are
k ept disorganized. Established
unions are fighting for their very
existence.
"ln spite of the pious phrases of
section l of the Taft Hartley Act,
Southern employees are being de-
MED the rights which Congress has
SO solemnly declared they are en-
titled to exercise"
The record of such anti-union
activity, Morse said, is spread out
in hearings conducted by a Senate
subcommittee on labor-manage-
ment relations, of which he is al
member.
He pointed out, too, that the act
is "honeycombed with provisions
which permit any lawyer to engage
in delay and delay and delay, with
the result that organization is
choked off eventually"
"1n the old days the accepted
technique for destroying a union |
was the importation of strikebreak-
ers," Morse declared. although
that technique is still used in GER
tain situations, it is no longer nee
essary except as a last resort,
! N S T E A ID OF PLUG-UGLIES,
THE SMART ANTI-UNION EN-
PLOYER NOW RETAINS AL
LAWYER.
Zone of the most vicious things
about the Taft-Hartley Act is that !
--as some of US predicted-it is a
make-work project for unscrupu-
lous lawyers"
Morse also condemned the fail
ure of Congress to enact an excess
profits tax and declared that "onl
November z some politicians who
voted for postponing action on that
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28

Houston, Tex. LPA)--The AFL
will fight any attempt by employ
ers to cripple the Walsh Healey
Act, which requires payment of
prevailing minimum wages on gov
ernment contracts.
The AFL convention here reaf-
firmed full support of the act and
called upon the Labor Department
to continue making minimum wage
determinations, industry by indus
try, so that government contracts
will be denied to firms paying sub
standard wages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28

of the nation.
In reality, however, these adj
vances are make believe. Behind
them is hidden the ugly truth that
both labor and business are turn
ed into puppets of government;
and that the decision over the dir
ection, policies and operations OF
| the economy rests more and more
with the state, and none but the
| state.
:. i \
Politically, what does labor's
Isubordination to government mean!
Again it was Gompers who fore
saw the consequences of shotgun
wedding between government and
labor with binding clarity. Fol
labor to jump into the maelstrom
of party politics was, to him, to
court disaster. Moreover, this
course would make political ex-
pediency paramount, divide the
unions and isolate them in politics
from the community forecast
amply borne out since Gompers
death.
In a still larger sense, Gompers'
warning was the logical outgrowth
Of his opposition to any large-scale
extension of government power, ex-
cept where such was required for
the welfare of society. Government,
like other institutions, Gompers
had written earlier, grows by what
it feeds on. Governmental owner
ship and control, instituted for one
phase of industrial relations, grad
ually but inevitably reach out to
other connected relations until the
whole is under the domination not
of the people but Of an oilgarchy-
bureaucracy"
Contrast this approach with the
present efforts to solve the ma
tons economic. and social ills via
IOllCNIlNlSiil. IL WOuIu Dc easy vi
blame the early stages of statism
on foreign intrigue and commun
ist-totalitarian ideology, but this
explanation overlooks our native
capacity for mischief. The collec-
twist solutions peddled at home are
truly home products. Grown in the
murky twilight of contemporary
politics, they carry a threat to
Americas freedom and progress
greater than all the spiritual poison
imported from abroad.
The danger to democracy and it's
institutions lies not in the over
night transformation of the United
States into a socialist common
wealth. 1t lies in the lack of under
standing of the politico-economic
forces at work; the Vaccinations
of an unholy alliance between gov
ernment and privileged groups;
and last, the palming- of a sys-
tenn compounded of collectivist
theories and neo-capitalist prac-
tices on the unsuspecting Ameri- |
can people
(Part Nv in next issue.)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
81 An Hour Minimum Urged

Hou ton, Tex. (LPA) - The
Wage Hour Act should be amended
to raise the minimum from 70
cents to 81 an hour and to extend
coverage to workers in large de-
partment stores, hotels, interurban
transportation systems, canneries,
other food processing plants and
on large industrialized ia rm S.
That's the position taken by the
AFL convention here.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-28
Local AffiliatiOn Urged

Houston, Tex. (LPA)-A pro-
posed resolution to compel all
locals 0f AFL national and inter-
national unions to affiliate with
local central labor bodies and state
federations of labor was rejected
at the AFL convention here. In
stead a declaration was adopted
urging all such locals to affiliate
voluntarily.