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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Get Pay Increase
Outside Contract

Detroit (LPA)-For the first
time in auto history, a pay increase
has been granted outside a union
contract.
Chrysler Corp. has announced a
ten to Is cent hourly pay boost for
12O, 900 workers. $4,000 hourly paid
employees will get 10 cents an hour
more, 1000 skilled workers will
get Is cents, and 10000 salaried
employees will get comparable
boosts.
United Auto Workers signed a
contract with Chrysler last May
after a bitter To-day strike. There
were no pay boosts in the contract
and raises have been granted in the
auto industry since that time.
Wildcat strikes have been taking
place in the company's various de-
partments, and it was expected
that the pay boost would end them.
UAW Chrysler Director Norman
Matthews said the union is very
proud of the agreement" Chrysler
Labor Relations Director Robert
Condor said the company "felt this
was the thing to do because condi-
tions have changed since the con-
tract was signed"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Hudson Workers
Given 7c Raise

Detroit (LPA) - Hudson Motor
Car Co. granted voluntary wage in
creases of seven cents an hour to
10000 production workers, Aug. 81.
The move followed on the heels
of similar pay boosts by Chrysler,
General Motors, and Packard. The
Chrysler and Packard boosts fol-
lowed a series of unauthorized
wildcat strikes throughout the COM
panies' plants. Similar walkouts
were taking place at Ford Motor
Co., only major auto manufacturer
that has not granted increases since
the Korean fighting shot prices
skyward. However, a break was
expected at Ford.
Several parts plants have grant
ed the hikes. The biggest of these
was Briggs, a supplier for Chry-
sler. AS Labor Day approached,
about 75O members of the United
Auto Workers struck the l.. A.
Young Spring & Wire Co., another
Detroit supplier, and a wildcat
strike was in progress at the Teter-
boro, N. J. Bendix Aviation plant,
a supplier of plane parts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
YOUR LOCAL CAN HELP GET EVERYONE
READY TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER

November is not far away and the time is at hand
for every member of the National Brotherhood OF Ope
atve Potters to make they are registered ana
qualified to in the coming election Labor has more
at stake in this years election than before and we
must be ready and willing to meet this task come NoVe-
Der 7.
For those of us who live in Ohio, there is one prime
objective on the defeat of Senator Robert TAFT
Returning this gentleman to private life will not only be
great victory for the working and women OF this
state but his defeat would be the greatest victory for or
ganzed labor throughout these United States
AS co-author of the unpopular Taft Hartley law, this
individual has done to shacke the advancement OF
abors interests than other man who was ever seat
ed in the United States Senate
The most important thing can do to defeat Sen
ator Taft is take the time and trouble and line up at
the polls election day and cast ballot In this re-
spect remind you what your local and your members
do to get out the vote, namely:
Your local should set up registration committee
which will make it it's business to that all members
and their families registered voters.
2-An election committee should be formed to study
ways and to get all members and their families to
vote on Election Day.
3-Members should be informed, non-partisan
basis of their representatives in Congress and in other
legislative bodies.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Union, Industry
Confer On Sunday
Work For Mills

Toronto, Canada (LPA)-Repre-
sentatives of the international Bro
therhood of Paper Makers-AFL
will confer with officials of the
Canadian paper industry on the
possibility of Sunday production in
newsprint mills. The union, which
for so years has adhered to no
Sunday-work policy, arranged the
conference to consider ways to in
crease the output Of newsprint to
meet current high demands.
Paul Phillips, Brotherhood pres
ident, said the union is willing to
explore the advantages that might
accrue from Sunday production.
ave have no set ideas on the sub
ject," he declared, but 1--WE want
to cover all suggestions to allevi-
ate the problem of newsprint
shortage" ..s
Opposing Sunday work, Premier
Maurice Duplessis of Quebec de-
clared "We cannot allow or auth
orize such step. The Sunday law
is fundamental. Not only is it a
human law, but it is above all a
divine law"
Under present Dominion law,
only mill repair and maintenance
work is allowed on Sunday.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Union Wins Five
Year Contract AT
Packard Motor Go

Detroit (LPA)-The United Auto
Workers won new five-year con
tract from the Packard Motor Car
Co., ending a two-week strike OF
5000.
The contract is based on the
General Motors agreement which
stirred the industry three months
ago. Called for are $125 monthly
pensions, a sliding wage scale
hitched to living costs and an auto
matte four-cent increase every
year.
The Packard 1925 top pension is
higher than the one obtained by the
union at GIN where the top pension
is $117.50. Norman Matthews, reg
ional director for the UAW, ann
ounced that the contract would
cost Packard 10 to 20 cents an
hour.
Packard employees were to get
the four-cent increase as soon as
they went back to work. Then they
were slated to receive an extra
five cents Sept. l under the cost
of-living clause.
Apparently Packard gave in to
the union when the Chrysler Corp.
Turn to Pa0e Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Unionism Is Good
And Welfare OF
All Says Hayes

Washington (LPA) = "T d e
unionism is more than wages and
shorter hours" President AL Hayes
Of the international Association of
Machinists told Americans on
Labor Day.
"Trade unionism," Hayes said,
"is dignity for our labor, respect
for our skills, and justice on the
job. And beyond that, it embraces
the good and welfare of every liv-
ing American.
GAS a matter of history, the
labor movement has led every fight
to better the lot of the plain people
from free public schools and uni
versal suffrage of hundred years
ago down to workmen's compensa-
tion and old age pensions in our
time. In large part, the heritage of
America is the proud accomplish
ment of working people,"
Hayes delivered his Labor Day
message over the Mutual Broad
casting System the night of Sept.
3 after the broadcast of Boomer
JONES'" star-studded radio docu-
mentary based on Machinist his
tory. Brian Donlevy, William Hol-
den, Marie (The Body Macdonald,
Jeff Corey and Harold Vermilyea
were in the cast.
Hayes said that trade unionists
would continue to fight "until
freedom and justice are in truth
the birthright of all men," He said
labor could not tolerate "any form
of dictatorship" and added that
the Machinists "pledge to our gov
ernment in this hour of crisis our
support"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
-Cdn Count Upon Labor In
Crisis, Truman Tells Unions

1t is the purpose of the United
States in the world today to bring
about conditions of peace under
which working men and women, in
every land, can achieve better
lives, and participate in the affairs
of their own nations. We know that
to reach this goal will require sus-
tanned hard work, by every one in
our country and in all the free
countries.
One of the great obstacles in the
way is the communist movement,
which falsely processes to be the
friend of those who labor, but
which reduces the working man to
slavery wherever it attains power.
Today, this movement has violated
the peace of the world. 1t threat
ems the free nations with aggress-
ion. In the face of this threat, our
country has taken the only course
that can lead to peace. We and
other free nations, acting through
the United Nations, have given un-
mistakable notice that armed ag-
gression will be met with armed
defense. And we are increasing and
organizing our common strength,
as a shield behind which we can
carry on the great constructive
tasks of peace.
We believe that world at peace
contains boundless possibilities for
growth and progress-for all men
(Tgrn TO Page Thres)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Groups Wise To
Connie Ways Hit
Anti-Red Bills

Washington (LPA) - Some of
the organizations that know most
about the Communist movement
have told members of Congress
that several of the anti-subversive
measures now before them will
not do the job"
Through he Civil Liberties
Clearing House, spokesmen for the
American Civil Liberties Union, the
Americans for Democratic Action,
the Int'l Association of Machinists
and the Natl Farm Labor Union
AFL, along with 18 other organ
izations condemned the Wood, Nc
Carran, and Mundt-Ferguson anti
Communists bills now pending in
Congress.
The group said it was conscious
of the need for adequate internal
security measures, united in their
opposition to all totalitarian poll
teal movements, and committed to
the preservation of the democratic
way of life" They said the bills
they oppose "are Unfortunately
repressive measures :. they jeop-
ardize the rights of individuals
and of organizations which not
only are not subversive but are de-
dicated in principles and program
to the fight against Communism"
The signers of the letter called the
bill "hysterical."
While expressing some reserva-
tions about parts of the measure,
the signers supported the Magnu-
son and Celler bills which were
called Clearly preferable"
Voting on the various anti-Com-
bills has been promised in
the Senate as soon as tax and mo-
bilization measures are finished.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Rubber Workers
Win Pension Plan
At Mansfield Co.

Akron, Ohio (LPA)-The United
Rubber Workers union and the
Mansfield Tire and Rubber Co
have agreed on pensions and col
lective bargaining in a five-year
contract following a month of ne
gotiations.
The health and welfare program
covers more than 1000 workers.
Monthly pensions will be 500 and
up for those retiring at 65 with Is
years or more with the company.
With the enactment of the new So
cial security bill, the base figure of
500 will be raiesd by one-half the
boost in the federal benefits. The
welfare plan also provides $50
monthly for disabled workers with
Is years service and 81 a month
for each additional years service;
severance pay amounting to two
percent of a workers gross earn
ings after five years service, joint
contributory insurance program in
Guiding $4,000 for life insurance,
$4,000 for accidental death or dis
memberment, $50 weekly for 26
weeks for sickness and accident,
So daily of disqualification for 70
days plus $50 for miscellaneous
hospital expenses and up to 5000
in surgical benefits.
Retired workers are provided
$500 life insurance. Full coverage
is extended to retired disabled
workers until they reach 65, when
they receive the same as the nor
mally retired.
Both the welfare and the collec-
tive bargaining agreements con-
tain re-opening clauses. The pen
sion plan must be approved by
Co. stockholders and the
Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Truman Lauds AFL
Government Union.

Omaha, Nebr. (LPA) = "Hard
work, loyalty and devotion to duty
were the terms President Truman
used in praising the American Fed
Grafton of Government Employees
AFL, holding it's 18th annual con-
vention here. In a letter to the
delegates, Truman sent his greet
ings with a feeling of genuine
gratitude"
Union President Henry C. Her
said Ages accomplishments in
clude "an imposing list of improve
ments in the operation of the Fed
eral Civil Service and much-need-
ed benefits for the employees of the
Government, which were conferred
by legislative enactment as we'll as
by administrative regulation and
policy determination" Her told
the delegates to "strive to make
the AFGE an even more powerful
force for the welfare of Federal
employees and for the advancement
of the Federal Civil Service"
Government representatives slat-
ed to attend the convention includ-
ed Donald S. Dawson, Administra-
tive Assistant to the President;
Ralph Wright, Assistant Secretary
of Labor, and Michael Calvin, I'm
derSecretary of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Sen. Morse Says
Readers Digest
Lies About US.

Washington.-Sen. Wayne Morse
of Oregon called on the House
lobby investigating committee to
unmask the anti-labor Readers
Digest"
He charged the magazine is de-
liberately spreading m licio u S
falsehoods about American institu-
tions and American officials.
Sen. Morse charged conspiracy
by utilities to smear AS suhversive
un-American and socialistic, the
federal power, navigation and re-
clamation projects, and said:
eff our nations most widely cir
culated magazine can deliberately
spread malicious falsehoods about
our American institutions and our
American officials it is giving aid
and comfort to the enemies of our
democratic way of life"
Readers Digest has been expos
ed repeatedly as anti-labor and
anti-Fair Deal. The magazine ran
digest of John T. Flynn's hyster-
ical, anti-labor book, "The Road
Ahead" Hundreds of thousands of
copies of the digest, and of the
book itself, have been distributed
by the Committee for Constitution
al Government, considered the key
in a network of anti-labor lobbies.
E. A. Rumely, executive head of
the Cog, defied the Buchanan COM
mittee by refusing to name his
financial angels, and later the
committee counsel recommended he
be cited for contempt.
Sen. Morse asked the investiga-
tion "to determine whether Read
er's Digest has not secretly con-
spired with powerful business in
terests to discredit governmental
institutions and defame govern
mental administrators acting under
the authority of this and other
Congresses"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
BY HARRY S. TRUMAN
President of the United States

We have good reason for special
observance of this Labor Day. 1t
should be day of thanksgiving for
past accomplishments and present
opportunity; but it should also be
a day of solemn dedication to the
tasks that lie ahead off US. This
year, especially, Labor Day SYM
bolizes our facing forward as a ma
tion in the heroic tasks we have
assumed, with other free nations
of the world, in the cause of peace.
1t is appropriate on this Labor
Day-as on this great holiday in
the past-that we pay tribute to
the tremendous achievements of
American labor. Each year since
the end of World War II we have
had increasing cause to celebrate
the record the working men and
women of our country have made
in helping to build a stronger and
more vigorous economy.
The world has long witnessed the
benefits that free labor has achiev-
ed under our democratic institu-
tions. The working men and wo-
men of this country enjoy high
wages, good working and living
standards, and great opportunities.
They are partners in living demo-
cracy; today, more than ever be-
fore, they are a vital force in
every section of our public life.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Who's The Senator, Who's
The Lobbyist. Reporters Ask

cording to his official registration
with the Secretary of the Senate.
Before becoming a lobbyist, he dir
ected the work of a committee
headed by Sen. Homer Capehart
Or, Ind.), which tried unsuccess-
fully to get bill legalizing the
monopolistic practices through the
8Oth Congress.
Two new and liberal members of
the Federal Trade Commission,
which is now in the midst of hear
ing and issuing orders on several
key cases involving basing point
pricing, were called up before the
watchdog" committee. They were
quizzed at length, with intricate
and loaded questions, most of
which were intended to trap them
into pre-judgment of the cases
which they will hear in September.
Senators Johnson and Capehart
asked most of the questions, from
written notes handed to them by
the committee clerk. 1t wasn't un-
til this had been going on for some
time that the source of the follow
up questions became apparent. 1t
was lobbyist Simon, sitting in an
adjoining room, preparing the
questions and relaying them to Sen.
Johnson. The roomful of steel, oil,
cement and other big g-business rep
resentatives had a dramatic demon
3f. Turn to Page Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
By ALVAINE HAMILTON

Washington (LPA)-How close
can a registered lobbyist get to
performing the functions of a Sen
ator, without having to go to the
voters and be elected? Reporters
who covered hearings before Sen
ate watchdog" committee, headed
by Sen. Edwin C. Johnson Cd,
Colo.), and investigating the Fed
eral Trade Commission, are wond-
ering.
Johnson, chairman of the Inter-
state & Foreign Commerce COM
mittee, named a subcommittee of
his colleagues, all of whom opposed
Supreme Court Interpretation
that certain pricing practices of
big steel, the cement and oil indus
tries are monopolistic. The prac-
tices are loosely called chasing
point" pricing, and have been the
subject of hearings and orders by
ETC.
The Senator'S are sore because
President Truman vetoed the bill
steered through the Congress for
steel and other big business inter
ests in an operation master-minded
by a young lawyer named William
Simon.
Simon's law firm in Chicago was
supposed to receive $500 month
from the pro-basing point interests,
organized in the Council for Clari-
fication Of Pricing Practices, ac-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Meeting of Local
Union 4 Postponed
Until Sept. 18th

The regular meeting Of Local
Union No. 4 scheduled for Sept
ember II has been postponed until
September 25. The switch was made
so as not to conflict with the ban
quet to be held by Trades and
Labor Council on the 18th. Many
Of our members are planning to at
tend this banquet as two prominent
men from the Ohio State Fedora
tion Of Labor will be guest speak
ers.
Applications for honorary mem
bership were received from Bros.
George Turner and Harry Hauser.
We hate to see these two brothers
leave the active ranks as both have
done a lot for the trade.
The shop committees on the var
ious plants have been kept busy
lately with so many new shapes be-
ing introduced. Strengthening out
prices for the new shapes as well
as some of the old ones has re-
quired a great deal of time and
effort and it behooves all to lend
a helping hand when called upon.
A fine report of proceedings
from the Ohio State Federation of
Labor convention was made by
James Moss. 1t was nice to hear
that a resolution introduced by
potters at the state meeting asking
affiliated unions with the state
body, to write their congressman
and senators to use their influence
to curb the imports Of foreign
made pottery products into this
country unless they are on a COM
petitive basis with the cost of pro-
duction in this country, was passed
unanimously.
We are anxiously waiting to
hear a report from the manufac-
turers regarding a pension plan.
-O.C. 4
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Pension Plan Long
Overdue Writes
Scribe From No. II

Local Union No. IL had a very
fine turnout at their meeting Tues
day evening and we hope the same
enthusiasm will be shown for the
months ahead.
Several shop committees report
ed on conditions on their respective
plants and everything seems to be
running on an even keel. The main
topic Of discussion on the evenings
agenda centered on what the man.
ufacturers will offer in the way of
pension plan for the industry.
With employees of practically
every other industry in the coun-
try being granted pensions, we
feel somewhat sighted that we
have been overlooked in this re-
spect.
The n. B. of o. P. and the
U.S.P.A. have always been able to
sit around the table and solve any
problem facing the industry and
the pension plan should be no ex-
ception.
The annual picnic of mouldrun-
ners, battersout and jiggermen was
held at Cable Park on August. 26.
The outing was the first we have
held for several years, due to the
war, but we hope to make it a
yearly affair from now on. A fine
crowd was on hand and everyone
seemed to have a good time.
Festivities got under way at one
O'clock and from then on there was
never a hull in the days program.
The soft ball game between the
two locals turned out to be one of
the highlights of the day with the
(nine old mem from No. IL, TAX
ing their younger rivals by the
score of IA to 4. Presidents of both
locals acted as managers with Guy
Digman holding the reins for the
jiggermen and Bro. McCalhaney
directing the strategy for Local
131. Terrence pitched for the win
ners while McCalhaney dished up
the strikes for the losers. We are
glad to report there were no cas-
ualties.
The horseshoe pitching contest
ended in a close victory for the
jiggermen with Digman and Tor
renee defeating Hanorfor and Nc
Calhaney. There are rumors that
a protest will be filed with the
Standing Committee regarding the
measuring stick used in this con-
test.
There was plenty of refresh
ments for all and no one came
away hungry. Our thanks to the
committee who arranged the out
ing. We will be looking forward to
next years picnic which we have
been told will be bigger and better
than ever. -O.C. IL
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Union Chief Says
Engineers Lobby
Will Guido ANA

Washington (LPA)-A new re-
dictionary lobby was identified and
denounced by Stanley w. Oliver,
president of the International Fed
Grafton of Technical Engineers,
Architects & Draftmen's Unions
AFL.
Stanley said the new lobby, a
merger of 16 national professional
engineering societies for political
action, packed three times the po-
tential power of the American
Medical Association, top-spending
lobby last year. He described the
new lobby as "an elite oligarchy
of engineering executives whose
subterfuges amount almost to
moral fraud"
Trouble with the new lobby,
Oliver says, is that most of its
members will be engineer en-
ployes, many of whom are union
minded, while top executives of
US industry will run the show. He
estimates the lobby will collect
$3.5 million in dues annually from
100000 members.
Stanley makes his charges in a
signed editorial in the September
issue of Engineers Outlook, the
unions publication. He stresses the
hapless situation of a union mind
ed engineer employe who retains
membership in a professional So
ciety which uses part of his dues
to finance cause which is against
his personal interest. If he resigns
from the professional society he
loses professional standing, STAN
ley points out.
Stanley contends that any organ
ization which contains both en-
ployer and employe groups should
refrain from lobbying lest the min
ority be benefited at the expense
of the majority. He says the stu
alton is the same as it would be if
the Community Chest earmarked
employe contributions for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacture
ers.
The fact that the National So
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-09-07
Dockers Embargo
Trade With USSR

New York (LPA)-Goods going
to or coming from the Soviet Union
will not be handled by AFL Long
shoremen here. In clamping the
boycott, the unions New York
Council announced it will make ex-
ceptions of "goods which our gov
ernment says it needs for the army
or navy"
The action, making official a
policy already adopted by rank
and-file dockworkers, did not in
clude cargoes to or from Russian
satellite countries. Shortly after
imposing the embargo, the council
was unsuccessful in persuading
longshoremen to unload Polish
hams and Czechoslovak shoes from
two American freighters here. The
council asked that the dockworkers
handle satellite cargoes pending a
meeting of the unions Atlantic
fTurn TO Paor Three