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The Valley settler., 1950-01-13

January l3,l95o No. 3
 n1tLk HEARII1G FIELD
 A10TlOaJ
 Last Monday at HOO pm. the Heering conc erning the Co-op milk injunc- tions was held in Judge Anthony Dimond' s Gourt. The Co-op is asking that Arthur Helbrook, Frank NcAllis- ter, A.A. Rempel, Leonard lToffitt, Ernest H rrington and Arvid Johnson be enjoined from shipping to any other purchaser of milk as long as they gre Producer members of the Co., op. The six defendants, through their attorney, tendell Kay, claimed that they are no longer bound by the Contract for one or more of the fol- lowing reasons: Il. They were signers on a petition dated March II, l948, in which they eave notice that they were terminat- ing their market ing contract unless lease agreement was signed between the Matanuska Valley Dnirmen Asso- citation and the My F.C.A. for the Dairy and Gre eamery facilities by . March Is, l948.
 2. They state that by the "Co-oper- ative Marketing As soc iation Act of 1SOO, . CIdU they cannot COnCr0CC TOT more than 10 year period. Several of the defend ants contracts were older than that.
 3. They claim that the M.V.F.C.A. dhd not live up to it's contract to the dairmen in l945 and l946 and therefore they are no longer bound. The Co-op'o Attorney, Edward D. wis, answered these charges by pointing out that:
 Il. Negotiations for a sale or lease were continuad until as late as Mo- vember l9A8. That the members could not just automatically terminate their contracts, particularly when that termination was only under cer- tain conditions. That these members continued to participate in Coop affairs as members after they claim to have terminated thems elves. g. Our Association is organized under the Cooperative Associa ation Act of xuAS S0h ro@+
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
New Wage Level
Dictated By
Social Justice

Washington (LPA) = President
Truman hailed the new statutory
75-cent minimum wage for work
ers in interstate commerce as "a
measure dictated by social justice"
He said the new wage minimum
"adds to our economic strength
and "is founded on the belief that
full human dignity requires at
least minimum level of economic
sufficiency and security"
Sec'y of Labor Maurice j. Tobin
said: "This increase in the mini
mum wage will produce a better
climate in American industry" He
also observed that the increase in
take-home pay for those benefited
would result in "a greater flow of
money in expenditures for food,
clothing and other necessities"
The new wage level was approx
ed by Congress last year after it's
supporters exempted number of
employe classifications from COW
erage to appease Dixiegop bloc,
but it did not become effective un-
til Jan. 25. The new minimum COW
ers approximately 23,000,000 of
the nations 60,0O0,000 workers.
However, the Labor Dept estimat-
ed that it meant wage boosts for
only about 100000 since the rest
of those covered already are max
ing rs cents or more by union con-
tract.
President Jacob S. Potofsky of
the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers, chairman of the CLOS mini
mum wage committee, welcomed
the effective date of the 75-cent
floor as "a day of economic liberia
tion and advancement for millions
of Americans" Potofsky indicated
that organized labor would now
fight to hike the minimum to a
dollar.
President Emil Rieve of the
Textile Workers said enactment Of
the 75-cent minimum wage legis-
lation was "the greatest single
safeguard against depression erec-
ted since the end of the war"
However, he also said that the min
imum should be increased to a
dollar.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
HOW ABOUT 1T?
BY RUTH TAYLOR

Seems to me lately as though
I've done nothing but talk about
public relations-and how to i'm
prove them. And here ! am again,
right back at the old stand.
The trouble with most people is
that they hear only what people
want to tell them. That is, from
their friends they hear how good
they are, and from their enemies
how bad, but they never really
know what kind of an impression
they make on the people they meet
every day.
You have to be mighty interest
ed-one way or the other-in a
man before you'll bother to talk to
him about himself. You know how
it is. You know how you will dis
| like a man for a mannerlsm-or
like him for it--but you wouldn't
think of telling him so until it af-
fected subject on which you felt
strongly.
: But all the time you're storing
up little unconscious pictures Of
him, and your opinion Of him is
jelling without very much more
than an impression to go on.
That's just what the other fellow
does about you! You can't expect
other people to make an effort to
understand the reasons for your
actions, and to give you break
unless you, too, have made an eff
fort to understand other people and
to approach their problems with an
unbiased mind. Unbiased does not
mean that you must have no opin-
ion Of your own--but simply that
you assume that your opponents
motives are as good as your own
and try to find out what those mo-
tives are. You'll never convert a
man by merely silencing him. You
have to understand why he thinks
what he thinks to get him to think
differently.
collect stories about Andrew
Fureseth-and one of the best was
that Andy didn't give damn for
your opinion but respected your
reasons for these opinions. To my
way of thinking that is one of the
finest characteristics man can
have-because such man will
play fair with everyone-including
himself.
! Why all this? Well, think it over.
There is labor unrest. There is
misunderstanding about labor. The
public relations of labor, the mer-
chandising of the labor movement,
is the job of each and every indi-
vidual trade unionist. You are the
man by whom the public-those
people whom you meet every day
will Judge the whole organiza-
ton. How do you stack up?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
STU Distributes
(Coniinned From Page One)

tilithed Getting it to the ships is
another matter, however, and re-
quires an elaborate system,
Core of the system is a Sched-
U-Graph mounted on headquar-
ters wall, and containing the names
Of every ship and company under
contract to the STU. Each vessel is
described, and if it's at sea, its
complete itinerary is listed. (ln the
case of tramp ships, only the next
port of call is noted.) The list is
checked every day TO accord with
each ships movements.
When it comes time to mail out
"a Bulletin, a copy is sent to each
ship at sea after the prospective
ship movements are calculated with
regard to the time it will take the
paper to reach the ship. A port
must be selected for each vessel.
Getting up the Bulletin mailing
is a tricky job, but it pays off with
the AFL seamen. AS the Seafarers
Log put it, the member who
doesn't know what is going on in
the union should be a rare bird"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Togs Bell
(COnfinued From Page OHe)

wage picture.
The company's boast that its
workers will get a pension of $40
Beirne branded a distortion, putt
ing the true figure as nearer $85
month, and asserting that the
pension system is less liberal than
the retirement plans recently
agreed on in other industries, al
though pensions have been part of
telephone wages since 1913.
The union has found that AT&T
has always been "a ruthless, cap
ricious lot of highbinders, having
little regard for the public or the
employees" Beirne declared. He
called the plight of the telephone
workers "a malignant cancer" in
the nations economy, and declared
that the union "intends to stamp
out this un-American blot"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Machinists Back
Bill To Halt
Plant Dispersal

Washington (LPA) - The Int'l
Assn of Machinists drive to block
irresponsible dispersal of defense
plants and defense work is begin
ming to bear fruit.
On Jan. %, Sen. Warren G. Mag
nuson Cd, Wash.) introduced bill
to force military procurement Of
ficers to submit for review and ap-
proval by the Munitions Board and
the Natl Security Resources Board
any contracts requiring the move
ment Of privately owned plants,
and relocation of employees wheth-
er from one geographical area to
another or from private plants to
goyernment-owned plants.
On top of that, Hubert f. How
ard, Munitions Board chairman,
made public a letter to lam Pres
ident AL Hayes saying that the
Dept Of Defense is not advocating
the movement of defense plants
from one area to another.
Meanwhile, the entire California
delegation to Congress gathered
to hear the IAM's views on plant
dispersal as presented by three
lam spokesmen for the California
Council of Aircraft Unions. Giving
the lam story were Hal Shean,
council chairman and business
agent for the lAM's Lockheed unit,
Byron G.. Rhodes, president of the
Douglas Aircraft unit, and Tommy
Aycock, business agent of the Con-
solidated Vuitee unit.
The three officials asked the
Congressman to support the Mag
nuson bill, and asked that Con
gressional action be taken to safe
private defense plants
against arbitrary action by the
military.
President Hayes said he was
glad to learn that the Dept of De-
fense did not advocate dispersal,
and hoped military procurement
officers would abide by the de
partment's policy. He indicated his
support of the Magnuson bill, say
ing, "We don't want to wake up
some morning and find that sew
cral thousand aircraft workers are
being laid off because some gen
eral or admiral has decided that
the work ought to be done in
Oklahome or some other distant
point"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Liberal Democrats, GOPers Try
All Methods To Get FEPC Vote

Washington (LPA)-The birth
day of Abraham Lincoln is the
next target date for supporters OF
fair employment practices legisla-
tion in the House of Represents
tives. After taking a drubbing at
the hands of House Speaker Sam
Raybum Cd, Tex on Jan. %, the
day when, under the House rules,
FEPC could come up, liberal Demo-
Gratis and Republicans have filed a
discharge petition which, if 21S
Representatives sign, can come up
on Feb. 13, the day after Lincoln's
birthday.
Three of the bloc, led by Rep.
Franklin ID. Roosevelt Jr. (D-Lib-
eral, N.Y., announced that they
had obtained more than 80 sigma
lures on the petition during the
first twenty-four hours after it
was filed by young FDR.
If the House is in session on
Monday, Feb. 13-and the bloc in
sists that it can force a session on
that day-and if the 218 signatures
are obtained, the decision on wheth-
er to recognize Roosevelt will agin
be up to Rayburn.
Rayburn, frankly an opponent of
FEPC, was faced with choice on
Monday, Jan. % between Chairman
John Lesinski of the Labor Com
mittee, with the FEPC bill, or
Chairman Hardin Peterson of the
Public Lands Committee, with the
statehood for Alaska bill. Explain
ing that the atmosphere" was still
too heated after the previous
weeks fight over the House rule,
and that Peterson had filed his
bill first, Rayburn refused to rec
ognize Lesinski when the two men
stood before him, shoulder to
shoulder, to demand the floor.
Nevertheless, Dixiecrat oppon-
ents of the liberal rule, aided by
Republican Clare Hoffman OR,
Mich.) managed to snarl up the
House machinery for five hours,
demanding one quorum call after
another. Each quorum call takes
about 20 or 25 minutes. Later,
when some FEPC supporters tried
to buck the House leadership on
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Full Employment
Election Issue
Of British Labor
By DAVID WILLIAMS

London (LPA)-Full employment
is the issue on which the British
Labor party will campaign in the
February elections. Keynote will
be LET us win through together. .
The welfare state, hotly debated
in the US, takes second place in the
Labor party's campaign. What
counts for the British worker is
the right to useful job at living
wage. Naturally he likes to know
that, through social insurance, he
has protection against the risks of
sickness, unemployment and old
age. But he's more interested in
going to work every week without
the fear of layoffs, and that is
just what the Labor party pledges.
The Tories are tagged "the party
of outdated ideas, of unemploy-
ment, of privilege"
Labor has kidnapped the favor
ite Tory slogan, "a property owing
democracy" Through Labor's pro-
gram, with a reasonable measure
of public ownership, the people for
the first time control their own
economic future, Laborites say.
Fair shares in the necessities of
life and care for the health of the
people are also promised. Full
speed ahead with housing is anoth-
er pledge. Labor will go forward
until every family has its own
separate home," Laborites pro-
claim.
Unlike American unions, Bri-
tain's Laborites will not have to
spend lots of effort registering
voters. Registration here is auto
matte, and you don't go off the
register, no matter how often you
fail to vote. The result is high
turnout on election day. In 1915,
for example, 76 percent of the
voters cast ballots and it's believ-
ed that the Feb. % turnout will be
even greater.
Every doorbell will be rung, not
once but several times before cleo
tion day. Copies of the election
register with the names of voters
arranged by street and number
are given to each candidate for the
House of Commons. In most consti-
tuencies there's full-time organ
izer in residence. He has every
thing set, and when volunteers ap-
pear he's ready to tell exactly what
to do. These election agents., as
they call them, are skilled at their
work, having passed stiff examina-
tions to qualify.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02

Nothing is funny when you're
hungry or your feet hurt.
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hour, whether he's paid by the
hour, week, month or otherwise.
In addition, he must be paid at
least time and a half for work be-
yond 40 hours a week unless he is
specifically exempted from over
time as some classifications are.
The new law tries to define over
time more exactly than did the
1888 law whose overtime provisions
are still being pondered by the
courts.
General improvements in the old
wage law include stronger child
labor clauses and a provision Civ
ing the wage-hour administrators
The right to sue in a workers be-
half for unpaid wages or overtime.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
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sentatives admitted that Chrysler
is well able financially to meet the
unions demands"
Plants in Michigan, Delaware
Georgia, Indiana, California, and
Kansas have been shut down by the
strike. An additional 5000 en-
ployes of supplier firms are ex-
pected to be laid off as a result Of
the shutdown. Production of COCO
cars and trucks a day is at stand
still.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Twin City Citizens Get Lesson
In Hiuh Finance From Trunsif Co.

Minneapolis (LPA) - Ordinar!
citizens here have been learning &
little bit about the intricacies OF
high finance lately-and they have
mt liked the lessons.
The Twin City Rapid Transit Co.
which has monopoly on public
transportation in Minneapolis ano
st. Paul, has raised its fare from
TIA cents all the way to II cents
since 1914. Now the company is
pleading poverty again and wants
Is cents ride. Actually, this would
make a ride from Minneapolis to
st. Paul-or vice versa-cost 80
cents.
What's more, instead of request
ing the increase in an orderly fash
ion, the company abruptly slowed
service, giving out series of scare
cries about shutting down COM
pletely and even abandoned one of
its runs. Only court order pre-
vented it from abandoning others.
The company's one demand is
that it be allowed to rake in "a
seven per cent return" on its rated
valuation of $34,000,000. Many
local citizens thought this fair
enough--until they learned what
the company's owners paid for
THAR choroc
A seven per cent return on the
rated valuation would yield an an
nual profit of $2,380,000. Out of
this substantial kitty would come
$213,742 for the holders of prefer
red stock. A neat $2,166,258 would
be left over-for distribution on
common stock.
This is even better than it
sounds. The $2,166,258 is more
than the total value of all the COM
mon stock outstanding at the cur
rent market price. There are 229,-
3l5 shares of common stock selling
at $9.37H a share. Sale of them all
would yield only $2,149,828-more
than $4,000 less than what the
owners want each year as a com
mon stock dividend melon.
According to informed observers,
some so per cent of the common
stock outstanding has been bought
during the past 10 years while the
market value has shifted from
about $500 to about $1,000 a
share. Presumably these shares
were bought at an average of about
$500 each.
Holders of preferred stock do
okay, too. They are entitled to a
five per cent return on the par
value of their shares. Par is $4,000
so their dividend is $3.50 a share.
But most of them bought their pre-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
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vcniently forgetting that the FEP
Commission would follow the same
general administrative procedures,
with recourse to the courts, that
was in the Wagner Act and which
he carried over without protest in
the Taft Hartley act. The Ohio de-
legation had earlier pointed out to
him that the Cleveland FEPC law,
which contains no enforcement
powers, has been Intellectual.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Comment On
World Events

No one can even estimate the in.
fluence for good the Internationa
Confederation of Free Tr d
Unions will have on the future OF
the world, says Taylor T. Buchan-
an, editor of the International
Molders' and Foundry Workers
journal.
Mr.. Taylor, who attended open
ing sessions of the historic London
meeting which founded the new
world organization, writes in the
Molders' publication that it will be
to the world "what the AFL is to
the United States and what our
central labor unions are to the COM
munity. When all workers move in
the same direction, no power can
stop them."
Editor Taylor goes on to point
out that the World Federation of
Trades Unions (WFTU) fell to
pieces because it came under the
domination of Russian union lead
ers who, from the start, sought to
make it the instrument of commun-
istic propaganda for the further
ance of Soviet policies.
X 4 !.
"The AFL leaders," he recalls,
"steadfastly refused to become af-
filiated with the WFTU, giving as
their reason that free unions could
not work with unions dominated by
outside influence. That statement
was later proved to be true when
the CIO, the British Trades Union
Congress and the Dutch Trade
Union Congress withdrew, with
several others following their
lead"
Every precaution was taken at
the London meeting to see that the
same thing did not happen to the
new organization, Taylor empha-
sizes.
Representation was deliberately
extended" he explains, "only to
those trade unions and other or
CARNATIONS that are free and dem
ocratic bodies independent of any
external domination and exercising
the right of free speech, free asso-
citation, and the practice of collec-
tive bargaining in their relations
with employers and the state.
Through this organization" he
says in conclusion, "labor is making
a contribution to world stability
and world welfare"
New York states labor force
has been increased only one-fourth
of | percent by the number of dis
placed persons who have settled in
the state during the first 13 months
the DIP. program has been in op-
Grafton, says the first regular bull
letin issued by the New York State
Committee on Displaced Persons of
which New York Industrial Com
missioner Edward Corsi is chair
man. Of the 4,797 who have taken
residence in the state through Dec.
81, 1949, only 10000 are bread win
ners.
"These figures certainly point up
the fact that the settlement in this
state of these unfortunate indivi-
duals and their families, who were
uprooted as a result of the conse-
quences of World War Ii, has had
no appreciable impact upon our
economy" Commissioners Corsi de-
clared.
Since Oct. 30, 194S, when the
first group of S13 displaced persons
arrived in New York, the proper
tion of refugees resettling in the
state has steadily declined. Of
those arriving in 1948, more than
half intended to locate in New
York. In the first quarter of 1949
the proportion dropped to 43 per-
cent. BY the end of July it was 33
percent. And by the end of 1949
it. had fallen to 28.5 percent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-02
Slum Clearance Group Named

Washington (LPA)-A 20-mem-
Der advisory committee on slum
clearance and urban redevelopment
has been named by the House and
Home Finance Agency. The COM
mittee will meet bi-monthly, said
Nathaniel S. Keith, director of the
division of slum clearance and
urban development.
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a motion to adjourn, they got al
most evenly divided support from
liberal Democrats and Republicans,
but lost by vote of 1877 to 100.
The slim hope that in the House
Rules Committee the northern
Democrats and Republicans would
vote together to grant the FEPC
rule is still alive. For the first
time on Jan. "a, one of the Repub-
licans present-Christian Herter of
Massachusetts voted to report
the bill. By a five-to-five tie, the
proposal lost. 1t will be brought
up again and if all Republicans are
present and vote for the rule it
can pass. Voting for FEPC were:
SABBATH Cd, Ill.,, Madden Cd, Ind.),
McSweeney ID, Ohio), Delaney
CD, N.Y. and Herter. Against
FEPC were four Southeners and
Brown OR, Ohio).
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licenses on the grounds that il
feared monopoly.
Actually, the Justice Dept has
acted against the Lorain Journal.
1t filed a civil suit last year, charg-
ing the paper with conspifing to
monopolize locally the dissemina-
tion of news, advertising and other
information, but the case has not
yet been tried.
ferred shares at about $3.50, so
their dividend actually is about
eight per cent on their investment.
That's high finance for you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-19
% Year Common-Low Relation
Ends in Marriage and Divorce

A man and wife who lived to-
gether in apparent harmony for
% years Of common-law relation
ship today were divorced. six years
after they finally decided to
marry.
The District Court decree was
granted by Judge Matthew Nc
CURE to Mrs. Mary q. Anastasi,
81. OF the $500 block OF Eleventh
street NV. Her husband, Domi-
nick Anastasi. 50. q shoemaker OF
the 100 block Of D street NV,
declined to contest the action. He
also agreed to pay $50 monthly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-19
FoxhaII Road Widening
Slated 10 Begin AUG. |

The Highway Department ex-
poets to begin widening Foxhall
road NV. between Reservoir road
and Whitehaven parkway about
August l.
The present two-lane roadway
will be widened to four lanes and
Strengthened out. Concrete curbs
will be constructed. and q side
walk Is being contemplated for
pedestrian safety.
The Commissioners yesterday
approved condemnation awards
for land acquisitions to permit the
work, and highway officials hope
all necessary land will have been
transferred by the end Of July.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-05-19

alimony to his ex-wife, q part
time needleworker.
According to the record Of the
case. both parties agreed they
lived together as man and wife on
q common-law basis from 1915 to
1898. On July 80. 1888. they de-
cided to marry. It was not long
afterward. Mrs. Anastasi COM
planned, thai her husband began
treating her cruelty. became in
toxicated frequently and other
wise engaged In alleged miscon-
duct.
She was represented by Attor-
ney Myron Enrich, while Mr.,
Anastasi's lawyer was Joseph
Ttlrco.