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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Injunction Granted
Against Potash Workers

Albuquerque, N. Mex. (LPA)-
Striking members of the Mine
Mill & Smelter Workers were en-.
Joined from sending pickets to
block the entrances to the pits OF
three big potash producers al
Carlsbad, n. Mex.
The injunction was granted by
ex-Sen. Carl A. Hatch, now Judge
of US District Court here, at the
request of Robert N. Denham, gen.
eral counsel of the Natl Labor Re-
lations Board. The 1900 strikers
walked out Nov. 19 in an effort to
win 25-cent pay boost. Present
basic wage is S1.60 an hour.
The three companies, Potash Co.
of America, US Potash Co. and
Int1 Minerals & Chemicals Corp,
produce IS per cent of the nations
potash, a substance vital in COM
mercial fertilizers. Denham, in ask
ing for the writ, said national
fertilizer crisis loomed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Denham Says His
Negative Opinions
Should Be Revised

Washington (LPA)-Robert n
Denham, general counsel of the
Natl Labor Relations Board, does.
MT really want to be a Car. He
said so openly at the January meet
ing of the Bar Assn of the District
of Columbia.
It's Denham's responsibility un-
der the Taft Hartley act to pass on
charges of unfair labor practice
whether the complaint is filed by a
union or by company. If he says
eyes, his opinion is subject to re-
view by the NLRB and federal
courts. But if he says mo-" there's
an end to the matter. That's one
reason he's tagged Car.
However, in response to direct
question, he confessed his mo" de-
cisions should be subject to review.
YOU'D be in court all the time, >
snapped Thomas L. Harris, assist
ant general counsel of the CIO.
Herbert Thatcher, AFL general
counsel, smiled in agreement with
Harris.
Denham, in an informal debate,
was defending the positive side of
the question: HAS the Taft Hart
ley act operated to benefit Ameri-
can labor?" His partner was John
Gall, general counsel for the South
ern Coal Producers. For the ne
gative side, and taking it strongly,
were Thatcher and Harris.
Gall was the attorney who filed
the first of the recent briefs charg-
ing that John L. Lewis and the
United Mine Workers were com
mitting an unfair labor practice by
working three-day week. Den
ham had not yet ruled on these
charges, and many observers in
cluding a UNIV spokesman ques-
toned the propriety of his sitting
as partner in public debate with
an attorney for one party in a
highly controversial case still to be
decided, even though he managed
to avoid saying anything about
coal.
The debate, which was chaired
by Theodore Crank of the Ameri-
can Forum of the Air, was record
ed for broadcasting Jan. Is.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Work Continues
Good For Potters
,Atcambridge, Ohio

Cambridge, Ohio-Our new local
officers for 1860 were installed
January IL, our first meeting of
the new year. James Coffey, Pres
ident, and George (Red) Savage,
Vice President. Mr.. Coffey gave a
short outline of his plans for shop
committees for the year. Due to i'll
health he has asked the old com
mittees to function until next meet
ing. Frank Campbell, retiring pres
ident, announced that he has re-
tired from his job as jiggerman at
Plant No. because of i'll health.
He was elected defense secretary
for 1860. We all wish him good
luck.
The changeable weather has
taken its toll in illness among Cam
bridge potters. The most serious
are, Joseph Ambro, who is in As
pinwall Veterans Hospital and
Charles (Dick) Bird, who is recov-
ering at home from virus pneu-
monia. Many others have lost work
from colds and flu.
Work continues good with the
kilns gobbling up the ware as fast
as it can be made and finished.
Some out-of-town potters are re-
ceiving some employment to help
maintain production.
The latest labor news in these
parts is the recent NLRB election
at the Marion Power Shovel, Cam
bridge, Ohio. The employees voted
by large majority to accept the
United Steel Workers of America
as their bargaining agent.
There is one thing that amazes
this writer. 1t is the sad fact that
a few working people still support
Republican candidates at elections,
despite the benefits they receive
from legislation enacted by Demo-
crat law makers. They should be
educated and converted.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Senate Body Backs
cED Budget Plan
Along Truman Plan
BY DONALD WOODS

Washington (LPA)-The Com.
mittee for Economic Development
plan for budget automatically
balancing in good times and auto
matically unbalancing in times OF
depression has been officially re-
commended by the Douglas Sub
committee of the Congressional
Economic Committee.
The report, submitted by Sen.
Paul Douglas Cd, Ill.,, an econ
omist, is the first official recon-
mendation by a Congressional
Committee for unbalanced budgets
in times of depression. Whether
that would apply today-when
there are 31a million unemployed
was not made clear.
But the Committees report
marked a significant crystalization
of expert opinion around the broad
theory back of President Truman's
economic policy-that an effort to
balance the budget on an annual
basis is wrong-and that, instead,
we should try to balance the bud
, get only when there is virtual full
employment.
At a press conference explaining
the report, Chairman Douglas and
Senator Flanders Or, VT, a form
er head of the CED, said the re-
port was prepared before Presi-
dent Truman's recent deficit bud
get was submitted and so did not
specifically apply to that. But both
Flanders and Douglas indicated
they favored a balanced budget
under present conditions. They
were not emphatic about it, and in
fact seemed to try to duck any fin
al conclusions.
Douglas emphasized that he did
not go along, however, with the
Byrds and the NAM in proposing
to balance the budget entirely by
cutting expenditures. He said he
would cut spending about So bill
lion and rely on higher revenue to
balance the budget. He said he felt
the Treasury had under-estimated
revenue. A cut of SO billion would
still leave a deficit of So billion,
unless revenue should prove better
than estimated.
The Douglas subcommittee also
strongly recommended furt h r
studies to determine whether a
more flexible system of changing
revenue and spending policies
could be found. Economists have
long held that Congressional action
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19

, laHd, ana came TO wheeling, w.
Va, with his family in 1885.
Recalling his early days at the
trade, he started to work in the
pottery as mould runner when he
was a mere lad of IL years. Adj
vancing to the jiggering trade four
years later, he joined the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
when lad of Is and together with
pioneer leaders of the Brotherhood
in those days, played an important
role in furthering the interests of
the n. B. of o. p. in establishing
an industrial relationship with en-
ployers, making life better and
more secure for those who were to
follow.
Old timers will recall his active
role in Brotherhood circles some
fifty years ago when the first
wage contract was negotiated with
the manufacturers, establishing a
standing committee of three work
ers and three employers to settle
disputes without strikes.
In 1899 he was elected secre-
tary of the n. B. of o. P. and held
that position until 1903. In the
Wheeling convention of that year
he was elected president, succeed
ing the late Al Hughes who re-
signed to accept managership of
the Bell Pottery in Columbus.
Mr.. Duffy retained the pres
idency of the Brotherhood until
1911 when he was named a men,
Der of the State Industrial Com
mission of Ohio by Governor
Judson Harmon. He served II years
as a member of the Commission
part of it as chairman, being reap
pointed by Governor James NJ. Cox
and Governor Vic Donahey.
During his reign in the field of
organized labor Mr.. Duffy gained
the reputation of being an eloquent
= PSdhCI WHICH ldlCI NdIIl lCu Iiliil
into the political field. A staunch
Democrat and a leader in the ranks
of his party, it will be recalled he
delivered keynote speeches at the
state Democratic conventions in
1922, 1926 and 1880. He was candi-
date for Governor of Ohio in 1922
and for the Ohio Supreme Court in
1912.
He was a graduate of Ohio State
college of law and was
to the Ohio State Bar in
1919.
In 1916, Mr.. Duffy headed the
Ohio finance committee for the
Democratic national campaign.
A true disciple for practicing the
Golden Rule, his ability and leader
ship won him wide acclaim in fra
ternal circles. He was a former
district and state deputy of the
fTurn to Pa0p Tsps)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Attack On Labor
In Senate Report
Turns Out A Dud

Washington (LPA)-Despite re
ports in the daily press implying
that the Senate Banking Commit
tee had unanimously urged appli'
cation of the antitrust laws tC
labor unions, this version of the
latest attack on organized labor
has blown up in the face of its
sponsor, Sen. Willis Robertson Cd
Va.)
Three Senators, at a closed sess-
ion Of the Banking Committee Jan.
IL, obtained unanimous approval
to the addition, at the end Of Rob-
ertson's anti-union report, of a
statement indicating they Were
willing only to pass on the report
to the Judiciary Committee, with
out recommendation. They denied
press reports that they had approx
ed Robertson's ideas about using
the anti-monopoly laws against
organized labor.
Senator Paul Douglas Cd, Ill.),
Glen Taylor Cd, Idaho) and John
Sparkman Cd, Ala.) were the three
who wanted to make their position
clear.
At present the long, rambling re-
port by Robertson on an investi-
cation of the United Mine Workers
and the three-day week in the coal
industry last summer, is in the
hands of the conservative Judici-
AIRY Committee.
Minutes of the Banking Commit
tee meeting Jan. II also confirm
LPA's earlier report that Robert
son had prepared specific bill on
which he wanted the committees
implied approval before the shift
to the Judiciary Committee, under
whose jurisdiction the antitrust
laws come. This bill was cut out of
the report before it was approved
for transmission to Judiciary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
British Election
Set For Feb. Is;
|Laborites Favored

London (LPA)-Nearly 35,OOO,-
600 voters will go to the polls Feb
% to pass judgment on the five
year record of the British Labor
party. The odds are in favor of the
Laborites.. Although the Labor gov
enments in New Zealand and Aus
tralia have been turned out, in
Britain Labor has not lost one OF
the 35 by-elections held since it
came to power in 1945.
The Labor government will cam
paign on it's record of social well
fare and naturalization of indus
try. The Conservatives will attack
Socialist waste, and argue it is
time for a change. At stake will
be 625 seats in the House of Com
mons.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee,
in announcing the election date,
said the present Parliament would
be dissolved Feb. 3.
According to one OF Britain S
top bookmakers, Douglas ("Duggie
Never Owes") Stuart, the Labor
party is four-to-six favorite. This
means that a sporting Englishman
who "invests" six pounds in
Labor victory will collect 10 pounds
if he wins.
Stuart quotes five-to-four against
the Conservative party. But the
odds make Conservative Winston
Churchill better bet for prime
minister than the incumbent Att
lee. The reason: Some expect Att
lee to step down even if his party
wins. In addition, Church stands
better chance of heading a coali-
ton cabinet, according to the dope.
Scoffers thought the odds on
Churchill were sentimental.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
ASK CONGRES
INVESTIGATE
WIRE TAPPING

Washington, d. c.. QLNS). =
Voicing their opposition to tn
practice of wire-tapping by agent
of the Federal government, tn
American Civil Liberties Union an,
Americans for Democratic Action
called on the Senate Judiciar!
Committee to open an immediate
investigation of "this rapidly
spreading evil"
In a letter to Senator Pat Nc
Carran of Nevada, head of the Sen
ate committee, they urged that the
investigation cover the power oi
the. government to employ wire
tapping either to secure evidence OF
leads to evidence, the extent OF
overlapping, "and if it does not
now do so, whether the Federal
Communications Act should not be
amended so as to outlaw all such
methods by federal authorities"
The letter was signed by ACLU
Board Chairman John Haynes
Holmes, General Counsel Arthur
Garfield. Hays and Acting Director
Clifford Forster, and ADA Nation
al Director Charles M. La Toilette
and Executive Committee Chair
man Joseph l.. Rauh, Jr.
Noting that recent disclosures of
overlapping by federal agents
prompted their action, the ACLU
and ADA officials stated that
Fundamental rights such as con-
fidential communication between
attorney and client, husband and
wife, parent and child, doctor and
patient, minister and parishioner
seem to be in jeopardy"
They added they always consid-
cred wire-tapping as an invasion
of the right of privacy and a SER
ious infringement of civil liberties.
"In our opinion the Federal Com
Act prohibits all forms
of wire-tapping, and we call to
your attention the various decis-
ions of the United States Supreme
Court which have strongly criti-
cized and barred these practices in
Federal cases"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19

action" on it.
The Robertson report is now be-
fore the conservative Judiciary
Committee for consideration. Some
kind of legislation applying the
antitrust laws to labor many re-
suit.
The Robertson report was cur
ious document, consisting chiefly OF
summarization of the testimony
before his committee. But under
the heading recommendations, it
wound up with these assertions:
/. That virtually every witness
agreed the United Mine Workers
has complete monopoly, not only
over the labor supply in the coal
industry, but over the management
and business of the industry itself,
as demonstrated by its imposition
of three day work week upon the
industry;
2. That no one doubted a bill for
bidding in general terms the mon
opolization of labor would
"straighten out the present situa-
ton" but that former Judge Thur
man Arnold, whom the committee
quoted at length, had held this was
mot practical solution"
3. That some witnesses recon-
mended wiping out all distinctions
between labor and management
under the antitrust laws, while
others proposed "the comparatively
mild but direct approach of making
(Turs TO Pace Tsve)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
PetriIIo Refutes
Charges By Dean

New York (LPA) = James c.
Petrillo, head of the American
Federation of Musicians, never got
beyond the fourth grade in school,
but he has no hesitation about
tangling with college dean.
He sent a sizzling telegram to
Dean Simeon c. Leland, of North
western University, who referred
to Petrillo in a speech on medical
schools. 'You are guilty of a most
unacademic error in citing 'Petrillo-
like economies as a symbol of re-
straint upon youthful practitioners
of their careers" said Petrillo.
Noting that for years the public
has been told Petrillo is labor
czar, the AIM head said he has
seldom replied, and added: "But
when responsible educators, dedi-
Gated professionally and morally
to dealing with facts, perpetuate
such misconceptions as that con-
tained in your ACAD (American
Conference Of Academic Deans) re-
port | feel you should be confront
ed with the record" Then Petrillo
quoted the AIM bylaws, which
provide that all performers of any
kind of musical service for pay are
eligible for membership. "Thus we
are Justly proud of being an open
union," said Petrillo. That makes
Leland eligible to membership, if
he plays a musical instrument for
pay, Petrillo said, and ''we will be
glad to have you upon the condi-
ton that you sound truer note
than you did yesterday" In the
name of intellectual honesty and
the need for presenting true facts"
he asked Leland to correct your
error"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Victory In Strike
High Point For
Farm Labor Union

Fresno, Calf. LPA)-When the
delegates to the 10th annual con
vention of the Natl Farm Labor
Union-AFL assembled here Jan
13, they could look back on a yeal
in which their union won a specta.
cular strike of 100000 workers and
laid the groundwork for wide fu.
ture expansion.
! The NFLU's 1949 record and
program for 1850 and beyond were
recounted in comprehensive,
highly readable report to the dele
gates issued by the unions execu-
tive board. "1949", the report said,
"was year of great Importance to
all workers in the land"
The report viewed the success
full strike of 100000 cotton pickers
in this states San Joaquin valley
as turning point in farm labor
history. The strike began in Sep
ttember when the big Finance farm
ers" tried to cut the cotton picking
wage. The NFLU Immediately took
charge of the strike which had the
backing of small farmers, trades
people, local unions, the Califor-
MIA State Federation of Labor, and
the AFL in Washington. The big
farmers were brought to book
within a few weeks down to the
last stubborn holdout. The State
Cancellation Service helped with
the negotiations.
The victory opened the way to
union organizers throughout Cali
fornia and in Arizona, New Mex
leo, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Missouri, Mississippi and Alabama,
the report noted, as farm workers
in those states realized what the
union could do for them. A number
of AFL unions are supporting the
NFLU financially and otherwise
during the present organizing cam
paign, the report said. The union,
which already has many members
in "a states including New Eng
land, will extend its drive beyond
the south and southwest, the report
indicated.
At the same time the NFLU will
press Congress to extend old age
pensions to all farm people, pro-
vide housing for farm families on
and off the farm, extend the fed
eral minimum wage to employees of
large-scale industrial farms and
allow employees of industrial farms
to use the facilities of the Natl
Labor Relations Board. The NFLU
also intends, if necessary, to take
steps to induce the State Depart
ment to stop permitting Mexican
nationals to cross the border to
work on US farms for cheap
wages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Robertson Fdvors Applying
Antitrust Lows To Labor

Washington (LPA) = A report
from Senator Robertson Cd, Va.)
on his investigation of labor mon.
opolies" suggesting at least limit
ed application of the antitrust
laws to labor unions has been re.
ferred by the Senate Banking Com
mittee to the, Senate judiciary
Committee, which has jurisdiction
over the antitrust laws.
The Robertson report was am
biguous. The action taken on it by
the Banking Committee also was
ambiguous. Chairman Maybank Cd,
SCI announced at first the report
had been approved unanimously,
indicating the Banking Committee
was recommending amendment of
the antitrust laws.
But later Senator Douglas Cd,
Ill., issued a statement indicating
the committees vote was limited to
approval of transmission" of the
report to the Judiciary Committee
and did not constitute approval "of
it's contents.
Douglas said he had voted ito
join my colleagues in transmitting
the report without recommends
tion to the Judiciary Committee for
its information" but did not in
tend by this vote to signify approv--
al of all the contents of the report"
A clerk of the committee said
the committee had agreed unan-
imously to transmit" the report
but "did not recommend specific
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
Senate Group Maps
Year-Long Probe
OF Effects of tn

Washington LPA)-Two inves
tigations-one very short-range
the other to last until Dec. 81, 1861
were mapped by the Senate
Labor Committee Jan. 13. "Withir
few days" the committee will
hear Sen. Homer Ferguson Or
Mich.) and other co-sponsors ex.
plain why they think Congress
should pass a resolution asking
President Truman to invoke the
TaftHartley law in the coal strike
General approval of "full and
vigorous prosecution" of a five
point agenda of Investigations by
its subcommittee on labor-manage-
ment relations was voted, but no
funds for continuing the work were
asked of Congress. Chairman FL
bert Thomas Cd, Utah) attributed
this to the absence of Sen. Robert
A. Taft Or, Ohio) from the session.
Earlier, pro-labor members of the
committee had indicated they would
ask $150,000 for searching study
of why labor-management friction
exists despite the Taft Hartley
''labor peace" law.
Specific problems approved for
investigation include:
Status of collective bargaining
in textile and other industries in
the south, as well as other areas
where there is strife; the maritime
industry's hiring halls; and nation
al procedures in national emer-
gency disputes.
In the more general area of
labor-management relations, the
studies will cover: survey of pro-
blems listed as tough ones by pro-
fessional arbitrators; how demands
for welfare funds affect labor
peace; what happens when injunc-
tions are used in strike situations;
and the effect of industry-wide
bargaining.
Sen. Thomas indicated he didn't
see that much could be accomplish
ed by the Ferguson resolution aim
ed at the coal strike. "There is no.
thing that any resolution can do to
remove the requirement of the law
that the President alone is respon-
sible for deciding when a national
emergency exists" Thomas point
ed out. He indicated that he person
ally does not intend to advise the
President how to act, unless invit-
ed to do so.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
I. J. Duffy Former Head Of
Brotherhood Called By Death

1t is with note of sadness inform members through
out the trade of the death of Thomas j. Duffy former
dent of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters who
passed at his home in Columbus January r. following
an illness of several weeks
IT j." he familarly known to older craftsmen
throughout the trade had been poor health for
his condition had not been considered serious until the
month. Death attributed to blood clot.
Mr.. Duffy born May 13 1877 in Staffordshre Eng
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-19
NOTICE DIPPERS

The members of Local Union
Is have very important busi-
ness to transact at their meet
ing on Friday evening, Jan.
20 and every member is urged
to be on hand.
Beginning with the first
meeting in February, meetings
will be held on the first and
third Wednesday of each
month in Room a.
The Nome nugget., 1950-05-05
Reds Object to Jap Air, Naval Bases

TOKYO, (P) - Russia Wednes- day asked General Macarthur to explain military and news reports that the United States is rebuild ing key Japanese naval and air bases.
 It charged such rebuilding would be in violation of Allied oc- cupation policy.
 The top general of the Soviet Missions in Tokyo presented Rus sia's complaint in a letter to Mac Arthur.
 The Russian, It. Gen. Kuzma Derevyanko, cited several pub lished accounts of how the U. s. put new sinews in Japan's old na- val bases and built "a number of airfields from Hokkaido to Kyu- shu" which "can accommodate the country's largest bombers."
 Derevyanko quoted retired U. S. Adm. D. C. Ramsey as saying in April, 1948, when he was Pa cific Fleet commander, that "the naval bases at Sasebo, Kure and Yokosuka, together with the bases on the islands of Okinawa and Guam. offer a formidable combination of forward operation bases in event of any future hos tilities in the Far East"
 U. s. military authorities said originally air and naval bases were necessary to protect Ameri- can and British occupation forces. Since then they have been declar- ed essential for the protection of unarmed Japan. ...