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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
|Cy Ching Heads
Wage Board; Price
Chief To Be Named

Washington (LPA) = Cyrus S.
Ching, the towering chief of the
Federal Mediation & Cancellation
Service since 1947, has been named
to head nine-man Wage Stabil-
ization Board. The White House
announced the appointment late
Oct. 10, but the capital had been
expecting it for week.
The wage board will be part of
the Economic Stabililzation Agency
created by President Truman under
the Defense Production Act. The
overall agency, headed by DR.. Alan
Valentine, also includes a price
control bureau whose chairmen was
expected to be named shortly. 1t
was expected that Ching, who had
many friends among union leaders,
would be greeted more cordially by
labor than Valentine, although
Chink's background is that of an
industry man.
Under the Defense Production
Act, the wage board will make
wage-c on troll recommendations
which the President can impose in
selected industries when he clamps
down on prices in the same fields.
The nine-man board will include
three public members of whom
Ching will be one, three labor men,
bers, and three industry members.
Charlie Ross, White press secre-
tary, said that technically Ching
would be on leave of absence from
his mediation post to which hel
would return ultimately. Conse-
it is believed that Ching
will chair the wage board for only
a. short period before resuming the
duties he likes.
Six-foot seven-inch Cy Ching,
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board hourly wage raise and an ad-
ditional % cents hourly for those
in minimum and maximum rate
ranges in a contract with Dake
Engine Co. The settlement came
after a five-week strike. In Phil
adelphia, the union won 15-cent
hourly pay boosts for non-incen-
tive workers and Scent raises for
incentive employees. The contract
with Strick Trailer Co. also provid-
ed 10-cent hourly shift premiums.
In the beginning of July in New
York the International Association
of Machinists won from Air France
5 to 35-cent hourly pay raise and
double time for flight duty. About
week later in San Francisco, ap-
proximately $500 lam members in
140 shops gained an hourly pay
boost of 612 cents in a new one
year contract with the California
Metal Trades Assn. At Athens,
Pa, 800 lam members went back
to work Aug. l after a six-week
strike, with an Scent hourly boost
from Ingersoll-Rand Co. In Keno
sha, Wis, the LAM won a 10-cent
raise in a last-minute settlement
with Eaton Manufacturing Co. A
week later, the highest pay rates
in the airline industry were won
from United Airlines by lam MEM
bers through an arbitration award.
The gain was 6 cents across-the-
oard for $3.50 workers, and
brought retroactive pay boosts of
S250,0O0. About $500 lam men,
bers received a 10-cent pay raise |
from Eastern Airlines coveringl
most big cities east of the Miss
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Big Boys Roking
In The Dough
Hand Over Fist

Washington (LPA)-It's no Sec
ret that US manufacturing corpor-
ations have been raking in dough
but just how much and how fast is
now revealed in joint report is
sued by the Federal Trade Com
mission and the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
The report is for the second
quarter of 1850 and shows: Profits
were "a percent above the first
quarter, and SO percent above the
second quarter of 1949; net sales
also set a record of s43.5 billions,
13 percent over the first quarter
while costs and expenses rose only
II percent, which meant a bigger
profit.
The report covered 22 different
manufacturing industries. Of these.
printing trades and publishing, ap-
parel and finished textiles, and
textile mill products didn't do so
we'll in the second quarter. But all
the rest did, and Ia had profits sc
percent higher than in the first
quarter.
Of course, as business doomed,
more money came in. But the i'm
portant figure is not the total pro-
fit, but the rate of profit. And the
FTC-SEC report shows that the
rate of profit (after taxes, mind
you), rose from an average of II
percent in the first quarter, to 1876
percent in the second quarter. But
that's not all; the bigger the corp
oration, the bigger the rate of pro-
fit. Thus, corporations with assets
of under $250,00O had an increase
in the rate of profit from 4 perl
cent to 9.6 percent; those with as
sets of 81 to So millions had an in
crease in the rate of profit from
10 percent to 1872 percent; those
with assets of $5 to 500 millions
rose from 11.2 percent to 14.S per-
cent, but those with assets of $10Ol
millions and over, rose from 1876
percent to 17.2 percent.
Total assets increased $3.7 bill
ons in the second quarter, with
cash and US government securitiesl
accounting for $1.4 billions. |
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Man Who May Set
Pay-Price Ceiling
Named By Truman

Washington (LPA)-Champions
at Washington's favorite parlor
game-predicting political appoint
ments-fell down badly on guessing
who would be named Administrator
of Economic Sterilization.
The man appointed is DR.. Alan
Valentine, former president of the
University of Rochester. His ex-
perience in government service is
limited to two years as chief of
the ECA mission in the Neither
lands. The predicters had never
heard of him. Or if they had, it
was as head of the Democrats for
Wilkie in 1910.
In labor circles the tendency was
to wait and see what Valentine does
in the job. He's a director of sew
eral corporations including Baush
g. Lomb Optical Co., which has
been linked to nazi cartel, and
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Rwy. Co. He comes from Rochest-
er, where reactionary publisher
Frank Gannett exerts quite a bit
of influence. (Gannett is the man
who dreamed up the Committee for
Constitutional Government, to p
anti-labor, anti-Fair Deal lobby.)
On the other hand, labor attaches
in the Netherlands ECA Mission,
had no complaint about the cooper
alton they got from Valentine.
The job that faces him is so
large that even a superman would
have trouble filling it. He is the
man who is to establish price and
wage ceilings.
The language of the Defense
Production Act also orders him to
"plan and develop both short and
price and wage stabil-
ization policies and measures and
create the necessary organization
for their administration"
He also is supposed to "informI
the public, agriculture, industry
and labor concerning the need forl
and encourage and
promote voluntary action to this
end; consult and advise with the
government officials responsible
for procurment, production, man
and rent control and forI
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British Laborites
Will kationaIize
Steel, February Il

London (LPA)-Britain's labor
government will take over the iror
and steel industry Feb. Is, the
Ministry of Supply announced Oct
9.
Naturalization of steel is one OF
the labor governments chief aims
in it's program of modified social
ism. Basic legislation was passed
in 1949 over bitter opposition from
the Conservatives.
The government will purchase
the securities of 90 companies and
transfer them to the Iron & Steel
Corporation, a government COM
pany. Private owners of the secur-
tiles will be reimbursed, through
perhaps not as heavily as they
would like. However, payments will
total 300,000,000 (about $S40, ,000,-
600 by the present exchange rate). !.
Earliest possible date at which
the 90 companies could be taken
over is Jan. /. The February date
set by the Ministry of Supply was
believed to indicate that Prime
Minister Glenn Attlee has no inten-
tion of dissolving Parliament be-
fore late winter or early spring.
In other words, there will be no
elections before mid February un-
less Winston Churchill's Conserva-
tives can unhorse the Labor Party
in a vote of confidence.
The government survived such a
vote recently on the steel national
ization question by the narrow
of six. Churchill himself
had moved "no confidence" after
the government said it was going
ahead with it's naturalization pro-
gram.
Meanwhile, the British Labor
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Wage Gains Won By Unions Since
Outbreak OF The Korean Fighting

Washington (LPA)-Mushroom
ing prices and the feeling that i'm
pending attempts to stabilize wages
will result in gross inequities have
led unions throughout the nation
to seek pay increases since the out,
break of hostilities in Korea late
in June.
In general, employers have taken
the view that the increases were
inevitable and have granted them
but not without bitter disputes
at many points. A feature of many
of the new contracts is that they
provide for automatic raises next
year and the year after, thereby
posing a knotty problem for any
stabilization agency. Such auto
matte raises next year and the year
after, thereby posing a knotty pro-
blem for any stabilization agency.
Such automatic raises anticipate
further initiation as well as great
er productivity. Here are few of
the wage hikes unions have obtain
ed:
The United Auto Workers, a few
days after the outbreak in Korea,
won a five-cent hourly pay boost
for 10000 workers at Briggs Man
Co. in Detroit. In Grand
Rapids, Mich, in mid-July, 1850
won a package 10.93-cent increase
at the American Seating Co. after
an eight-week strike. A few days
later in Milwaukee the United
Auto Workers-AFL gained 10 cents
hourly, retroactive to Sept. H.,
1947, and a straight 10 cents
across-the-board in a five-year
contract with Briggs -Stratton Corp.
The hike followed a 15-week strike
last spring and 73 brief workshop
pages. The gain is equivalent to a
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Big, Bold Toff
Is Crying Quit
Picking On Me-

Cleveland, Ohio (LPA) - Sen.
Robert A. Taft, Mr.. Republican, is
now crying that the opposition is
"intimidating the voters.
His campaign manager, Willis
d. Gradison, wired to State Auditor
Joseph T. Ferguson, Democratic
nominee against Taft, asking Fer
guson to "call off the campaign of
intimidation by your supporters"
Ferguson, in personal letter to
Taft, replied "If any of your gang
knows of any workers being inti-
Undated it is your duty to report
the incident to the proper author
tiles. The fact that you haven't
either means that your intimida-
tion propaganda is more of your
fantastic dreams, or else you are
still the same sorry spectacle you
were when you opposed nearly
every legislative measure in the
US Senate designed to protect ma
tional security"
Walter Reuther, president of the
Auto Workers, in a speech in
Columbus, ch arged Taft was
BLOCKING the road to social justice
in America" Taft thought that
over for day and the best retort
he could muster was "I've been for
as many social justice measures as
anyone in Congress-" And then he
threw in the one about outsiders.
Blabbed Taft, 81 don't think the
people of Ohio are going to listen
to a Michigan labor leader coming
here and calling me names"
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52R cent package for the next
year. At the same time, in the same
city, 10000 UAW members won
three cents more in pay and 1900
skilled workers got an additional
two cents hourly in a new three
year contract with Hudson Motor
Car Co.
A month after the start of hostil-
tiles in Korea, the Allis-Chalmers
Co. signed fWe-year contract with
UAW providing a three-cent pay
boost plus another three cents next
July. About week later, the same
union won general three-cent
hourly wage. boost for 10000 work.
ers at Bendix Corp. plants in In
diana, California, New York, New
Jersey, and Michigan. At the same
time the union won a six-cent
hourly boost from the Laher
Spring, Wire & Battery Co. in Oak
land, Calf. A day or so later in
Peoria, ILL.,, the JAW, after i've
hour strike, won a new pact with
the Caterpillar Tractor Co. giving
$4,000 workers an extra ten cents
an hour.
In the last week in August, his
tory, was made in the auto indus
try. In an agreement "outside the
contract, approximately $4,000
Auto Workers, hourly employees,
gained a 10-cent pay raise, TOO
skilled workers got Is cents, and
10000 salaried employees got COM
parable boosts. About the same
time, the Briggs Manufacturing Co.
in Detroit gave it's $4,000 Auto
Workers outside-the-contract pay|
boosts. All hourly rated workers
got five cents, skilled workers won
an additional five cents, and SAL
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Short Meeting Held
By Local Union A

Sebring, Ohio = The regular
meeting of Local Union No. A was
held Monday evening with Brother
Jack Mylar in charge, in the abb
sence of President Clyde Jones
who with j. l. Sullivan as con-
ferees and John Hamilton of the
Pension Board are in New York at
tending the National Wage Confer
ence.
A very short meeting was held.
The proposed amendment to our
hospital bylaws was held over
until our next meeting, when it is
hoped we will have a very large
crowd in attendance to hear the
conference report.
Another member of our local has
passed on, Brother Louis Myers
died Sunday. -O.C. A
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

There are few pieces made by
our people that are such poor jobs
that no one wants them. Scattered
around, one to man over his regu-
lar days work, causes much dissat-
isfaction. We wish something could
be done about these pieces.
Vacations are coming to an end
for this year, but they have been
greatly enjoyed in spite of the
weather. Anyone who got more
! than two or three clear days was
very lucky. Brother Hannah plans
an auto trip to Canada this coming
week. Brother Ansell has just re-
turned after his two weeks; Clar-
ence Brewer is in Florida and we
hear Charlie Johnson is flying to
England for his time off. Brothers
Jack Turner, Howard Nugent, Jack
Macaulay, Dick Swick, Jack Harp
er and Stanley Zoltanski left to go
into the service recently. We wish
them the best of luck and take this
opportunity of thanking the Tren-
ton Potteries Company for the
extra week vacation with pay, so
generously given to them.
Thomas Eyers, one of ass old
timers, died recently. Flowers We're
sent and the sincere sympathy of
the local extended.
Bud Templeton, Russ Southard,
Andy Werner and Joe Abrams
have been reported sick, but we
hope they are better now.
Frank Civinski lost an uncle and
aunt in one week. He has every
ones sympathy. Several fellow
workers were pallbearers.
Mr.. Rydstrom is kept sy-fly-1
ing between here and California.
Some of our key men are to make
their homes out there in the future.
We hope they will like it. Do we
hear our brothers of that State say
we don't even have to hope it!
We were glad to read in the
Herald that most of the sanitary
firms are going to the aid of their
employees financially, that helps
all of us and minimizes unfair COM
petition. We hope it will also help
our brothers in general, china ware
and other branches. -O.C. 45l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Roll Groups
Ask 25-Cent
Hourly Boost

Washington (LPA) - Wage-in-
crease drives of Americas Railroad
Brotherhoods gathered steam this
week.
Fifteen Incorporating" unions
representing approximately mill,
ion workers in all crafts on the
Iron Horse other than those engag-
ed in direct operation of trains, be-
gan rolling first.
On Oct. II they announced they
will demand a pay raise of rs cents
an hour. Notices asking for this
increase will be served on all rail
roads Oct. 25 with a request that it
be made effective Nov. 25, it was
explained by George E. Leighty,
chairman of the joint negotiating
committee of the 15 unions. Leigh
ty is also president of the Ors.er
of Railroad Telegraphers.
Leighty said the unions felt the
25 cents was the minimum necess-
ary to bring the employees they re-
present up to the level of gains
made by organized labor in other
industries.
"Our people haven't had a wage
increase since October 1913, and in
the meantime they have suffered a
serious reduction in the buying
power Of their take-home pay"
Leighty said.
The rs cents, he added, would do
more than bring the million rail-
readers abreast of living costs and
on par with wages in other in
dustries. At present, their average
weekly earnings are $60.15, "far
below the average for the country's
major industries" he declared.
Elsewhere on the railroad labor
front, these were the developments:
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Auto Price Boosts
Unjustified, Says
Union Chieftain

Detroit (LPA)-Price boosts or
autos would be "a crime against
the American people," and could
not be justified by recent wage
hikes, President Walter Reuther
Of United Auto Workers charged
Oct. 8.
"Such increases would only add
to profits already at record levels,
and contribute further to the al
ready dangerously mounting in
flationary spiral", Reuther said.
He added that the recent wage
boosts have not noticeably cut into
these profits.
at has been the practice of the
industry to increase prices after
making wage adjustments" the
union leader declared, "and to
blame the price increases on in
creased labor costs. That blame has
never been justified at any time ir
the postwar period and it is less
justified at the present time thar
ever before"
A study by the JAW Research
Department showed the following:
Biased on government figures
for the first quarter of this year
the auto industry as a whole, in.
cluding the parts suppliers, could
have raised payroll costs a hypo-
thetical Is percent and still have
enjoyed a profit of 20 percent on
after taxes.
2-Six major automobile COM
panies General Motors, Chrysler
Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Nash
Kelvinator) were making an aver
age of at least as percent profit
on investment-after taxes-before
their recent increases in payroll
costs. After the cost of recent wage
increases and other economic gains
won by the workers have been met,
these major companies will still
make an average of at least 40 per-
cent return on their investment
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
= Pay Increase For
CIofhing Workers

New York (LPA)-A 12h-cent
wage increase has been granted
10000 members of Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, in the mems and
boys clothing industry.
Only brief negotiations preceded
the industry-wide agreement, ef-
fective Nov. 20, which both sides
agreed was justified by the steady
rise in living costs.
A joint statement by the union
and the Clothing Manufacturers
Assn of the USA declared that
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Local Union No. 214
Reports Work Good
On Pacific Coast

Redlands, Calf. - The Pacific
division Of the Universal Rumble
employing members Of Local Union
No. 214 is back in full production.
At the time of contract negotia-
tions in June, the plant had been
operating on approximately so per
cent basis for one year. Only one
kiln was in operation on % car
schedule, with man powe
throughout the plant of only 122
men.
Shortly after contract negotia-
tions were completed, the idle kiln
was again retired and employees
recalled. This, of course, having
been the result Of a general up
trend in the sanitary industry
throughout the nation. Along with
very commendable sales and pro-
duction improvement program con-
Quoted by our company officials
which has proven once again that
they are never lax a moment in
their effort to keep up with the
ever changing methods. Also to
hold fast to the fine record achiev-
ed by them throughout the years
of stiff competition in the indus
try.
Your O.C. is glad to report to the
trade that we are now operating
both kilns on 80 cars each pay day.
We have 232 members working full
time which means we have 10 men
called back to work. The local
union membership, | am sure, as
we'll as the company is grateful
and happy that these members are
back on the payroll.
The Negotiating Committee and|
all members of our local wish to|
thank Second Vice President Frank
Hull and Organizer George Pacel
for their usual untiring effort and|
splendid results in the contract mel
gotiations.
None of US ever get all we would i
like to have, but as long as that
which we do get is comparable to
and in some cases better than that
by your neighbor, l see mol
reason to complain.
Without going into long detail,
I'll say that fringe adjustmentsl
were received by our members inI
various departments, ranging from
two and one-half cents to sevenI
and one-half cents per hour. Coupled
that with the general across the
board cost of living increase of ten
cents granted just recently and |
say in behalf of all our members,
THANKS-Frank, George and Ma
.ional Executive Board membersl
for a good job.
We also wish to express our ap-I
1reciation for the fine support of
Ill locals which enabled our local
% represent the sanitary trade at
he American Federation of Labor
Convention held recently in Hous-
on, Texas. 1t was indeed a great
lonor for a young local, such as
'urs to achieve through you, real
Trade Unionist recognition at the
18th Convention. / am sure the
company and all members of Local
IA join me in expressing our sim
ere thanks and appreciation.
O.C. 214I
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! The company is giving one bond
and the union the other.
Formerly only SO employees were
enrolled in the Bond Savings pro-
gram. With completion of the drive
ITO members are now enrolled. We
wish to thank the company for the
cooperation given during this drive.
Needing President Duffy's plea
to have every eligible voter regist-
er for the November election, so
that labor might wipe the Taft
Hartley law from the statutes,
Local 80 decided something should
be done to get all its members to
the polls. Brother Tony Lobese was
appointed to get registrars to come
to the plant and register every man
who had failed to do so. This was
done Immediately and Local 80 is
proud to state that every eligible
member in the union is now a reg
istered voter. Come November our
strength will manifest itself by
electing officials who will see that
labor gets a voice in matters of
legislation that is beneficial or
harmful to union men all over the
nation.
A report was made on the col
lection for the Crooksville Relief
Fund. An average of over two dol
lars per person was contributed by
members of this local and this is
now in the hands of the Crooks
vile Relief Committee. We certain
ly hope that our contribution in
some small way helped to relieve
the sufferings and hardships of
our brothers and sisters in that
area.
The results we are getting at the
plant now are very good. The COM
pany and the union have cooper
ated with each other to wipe out
many of the evils that were con-
fronting US. This has created a
better understanding between man.
agement and the workers and as a
result workmanship has improved
greatly.
Too much cannot be said of the
way the Lost Court Committee has
functioned at the plant. This COM
mittee has been ably headed by
Brother Leo Seeley, who with the
assistance of Brothers Landucci,
Bartlett and Glass have given
many hours each week for the
benefit of our members.
New members are coming in all
the time, but we are losing just as
many because of cost of living
zooming and the low wages paid.
This has cost the company many
good workers and in the same
token has deprived the union of
many good members.
1t is hoped the company and
union will get together in the very
near future, as wage adjustments
are needed all along the line, espec-
ally in the hourly paid category.
Slowly, but surely piece work
rates are being worked out wher-
ever possible for our members, but
mere again the company benefits
most, as men are working harder
and producing more for the few
,ents that are gained.
We wish to thank Manager VIM.
for repairing the park
ng lot. This work has been sorely
needed for many years and it is
rood to see someone take the bull
~ the horns and get things done
is they should be done.
We wish at this time to repair a
crave mistake made by this writer
n omitting the name of Linhart's
Radio Sales and Service from the
list of donors for our annual pic
tic. Every year Linhart's have do
ated the loud speaking and phono-
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