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Evening star., 1950-06-19

square miles, over which thou
sands Of sheep. goats and camels
Craze.
At this time Of year the desert
doesn't look the way deserts are
supposed to look. Thanks to the
spring rains the sand Is covered
with grass and flowers. and. believe
it or not, our car got stuck IN
mud shortly after we turned on
the highway and started across
the desert. 1t took the combined
effort Of two camels and half a
dozen Bedouins to get US out.
Writing In Tents.
I am writing this under the
main tent Of the desert encamp-
ment. It consists of a giant tent
of cloth woven from goat hair.
and is black as ebony. The tent
is broken into many sections by
screens, and a while ago made
the mistake of walking toward
the far end of the tent. I hadn't
gone very far before one Of the
men grabbed me and. through our
guide, told me that I was not to
wander about-that many dan
gerous dogs were loose and would
do me harm.
There weren't any dangerous
dogs at all. What I had done was
to head toward the section Of the
tent where the ladies of the harem
live, and they are not supposed
to be seen except by their hus-
bands. Jean visited the harem and
reported that, judging by the
number Of them, each man must
have at least four wives.
The tent where I am writing
this offers a fine study in con-
trast. The floor Is Of dirt. but
scattered about are a dozen or
more Oriental rugs which would
cost thousands Of dollars at home.
And the coffee and tea pots are
of hammered silver with golden
handles.
The men are dressed In little
more than rags, yet each carries
a dagger of the finest Damascus
steel, with silver handles inlaid
with jewels.
The Emir wasn't in the camp
when we arrived, but his brother
was hospitality itself. Neither he
nor his workmen knew us from
Adam, but they greeted us with
open arms. First they served us
a drink which none Of US could
figure out. It seemed to be a
combination Of coffee and tea.
highly laced with cinnamon, and
laden with sugar.
Eat With Hands.
We had planned to spend only
an hour or so in the camp but
the guide told us that we would
offend our host unless we stayed
for lunch.
What 1unchl
A lamb was brought in and.
before our eyes. neatly slaugh-
tered. A big fire was lighted and
the lamb barbecued and served
on q huge platter. surrounded
with rice. All Of US fell to. No
forks. no knives. no plates, no
nothing. Just our hands. I am
not a very graceful eater with my
hands to Judge by the condition
Of my suit. It'll take three dry
cleaners three days to clean the
lapels alone.
The Emir's brother was only q
little better dressed than his EN-.
ployes. and I asked the guide why
it was that the brother Of one Of
the wealthiest men In this part
Of the world didn't have finer
clothes.
His explanation was simplicity
itself. He said that If the Emir's
brother wore the rich clothes he
could well afford. one Of the no.
mads would be sure to kill him
for them.
Distributed by McNausht Syndicate. Ine)
Evening star., 1950-06-19

fare program in
Congress by q.
coalition of Re-
publicans and
Southern Dem
ocrats and Of
his civil rights
prog r a m by
Southern Dem
ocratS, while de-
priving him Of
positive accom-
D ] ! S h m e ntS,
n e v e r t h eless
still yields him
a batch Of is
sues at which
Evening star., 1950-06-19

ana James H.
Duff, the Penn
sylvania red
head strode
onto the stage
of the Cover
nors conference
today like con-
querors. Their
i n t e n t ion to
fight for the
leadership OF
tn e ir part y
could not have
been more plain
had it been ad-
vertised W it h
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to lea We u S,
Jean, Capt. Guy
McCaderty OF
Pan-Am and ]
will be out here
by an oasis the
rest Of our lives.
We are about
so miles from
Damascus. Wis
iting an Emir
reputed to be
the wealthiesr
man in Syria
His desert do
m ain consists
xl.~A~ -
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dealing W ith
r u ia S at
tempt to black
mail the rest of
the world into
seating the Chi
nese Commu-
nistS in the
United Nations.
T h e t W o
members of the
Senate Appro-
priationS Com
m it tee have
gone on record
with the state
Evening star., 1950-06-19
By Thomas L. Stokes

President Truman has had con-
siderable luck in making issues
negatively.
The blockade of his social well
Evening star., 1950-06-19
By Constantine Bropn

Senators Bridges and Knowland
have issued an important warning
in an effort to strengthen Secre-
tary of State AcheSon's hand in
Evening star., 1950-06-19
By Doris Fleeson

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
w. Va, June 1.-TWO attractive
progressive Republican Governors
blond Earl Warren of California
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Entertained by Emir
In Syrion Desert
By Henry MeLen ore

SOMEWHERE IN THE SYRI-
AN DESERT.-For the life of me,
! couldn't tell you where I am.
II my guide ever takes q notion
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

Michigan Bell Makes Wage Offer
Detroit LPA)-Michigan Bel
has Offered wage boosts of SO to SIS
to Division Is, CWA. The price is
an l8-month contract with no wage
reopening.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
LATE JOE PADWAY LAUDED;
WAS AFL's ATTORNEY

Madison, Wis. (LPA)-The late
Joseph Padway, for many years
attorney for the American Fedora
tion of Labor, was the subject of
moving eulogy by David Previant,
attorney for the United Auto
Workers-AFL. Reviant, speaking
before the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, termed Padway "an impass-
ioned advocate of, and crusader for,
the rights of man."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Maybe Hosiery
Will Cost Less

New York (LPA)-The Textile
Machine Works and the Berkshire
Knitting Mills, both of Wyomiss-
ing, Pa, have promised to behave
hereafter and give other manufac-
turers a chance. And maybe full
fashioned hosiery may cost less
now.
Textile produces over S5 percent
of all full-fashioned hosiery mach
ines in the U.s., Berkshire is the
largest manufacturer. The same
people control both. To avert COM
petition, the two would buy up and
destroy second-h n d machinery
which could have been used to
make low-priced hose, according to
the government complaint in an
antitrust suit filed Oct. 20, 1947.
Now an antitrust consent judg-
ment has been entered in US Dis
trict Court here against both firms
and two of their corporate officials,
John +. Livengood and Ferdinand
X. Thum. The judgment ends the
practices whereby Textile favored
Berkshire, to the detriment of other
manufacturers.
Under the judgment, destruction
of second hand machinery is pro
hibited; more than 200 patents and
patent applications must be licens-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
News and Views
By ALEXANDER S. LIPSETT Gan ILNS Feature)
A ILNS Feature)

That coffee, aside from being an
economic foundation stone of the
Americas, sets the pace of progress
and living standards throughout
Latin America?
And that coffee, as the main
staple of Latin American exports,
enables their peoples to buy man
ufactured goods they so much want
and need?
X :. <
Much of the confusion underly-
ing the coffee picture, it seems to
me, stems from the lack of know
ledge of these basic economic and
human factors. They also illustrate
the immense role Of that product
in the political, economic and social
realities of the Americas and it's
significance as an economic link
and symbol of political solidarity
among the republics of the West
ern Hemisphere.
In recognizing a healthy and
prosperous coffee trade as an in
dispensable means of intercontin-
entail friendship, economic progress
and higher living standards of the
countries of Latin America, Ameri-
can labor helps its fellow workers
down south to achieve their aims.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Steel Operations
|Up As Union
Presents Demands

Cleveland (LPA)-As the Steel
workers presented wage demands(
for $4,000 to Republic Steel Corp,
third largest producer, the Ameri-
can Iron & Steel Institute took the
opportunity to announce near-re-
cord wage payments, and record
production.
Steel operations for the week
were scheduled to set a new all
time tinnage record for the third
consecutive week, with an output
of 1,959,600 tons. Operations were
at 101.6 percent of rated capacity.
The Institute reported August
wage payments boosted the indus
try's payroll to new peak of more
than $1H billions for the first eight
months of the year. 1t estimated
the August payroll at S206, ,000,
nearly $18,000,000 above July,
$3l 100000 above August 1919, and
only $500,0O0 below the March
1949 record. The Institute said
average weekly wages in July were
$67.83, and $8.62 above the weekly
average for workers in all manu-
featuring.
William F. Donovan, USW direc-
tor and chairman of the negotiat-
ing committee for Republic work.
ers, said he could not disclose the
wage demands. The company said
it was taking the demands "under
advisement', that no further meet
ings were set pending the Study,
but that something" may be ann
ounced within a week. The Repub-
lie plants are at Cleveland, Youngs-
town, Warren, Canton and Massil- !
on, Ohio; Buffalo, N. Y; Chicago,
and Gaddson, Ala.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

Whether Gov. Dewey's Withdrawal
from the presidential campaign OF
1852 and designation Of Dwight
Eisenhower as his choice for the
White House could affect this
years voting was beyond knowing
In Pennsylvania, labor's pros
poets were DINNER. However, there
still remained chance that labor
backed Democratic Sen. Francis
Myers could squeeze through
against his Republican opponent
Gov. James H. Duff. The big city
vote might tell the story. In Phil
adelphia, registration was about
what it was in 1948, but in Pitts
burgh an extra 10000 had regist-
cred. However, the total Republi-
can registration was far in front
of the Democratic figure. Mean
while, Myers was fighting hard,
might be helped by the vote on
local issues.
All IN all, organized labor was
backing candidates for 25 Senate
seats outside the south. Only Re-
publicans were Morse and Sen.
George d. Aiken of Vermont. Other
Democrats than those mentioned
were:
Emmett Kelly in New Hampshire
(although Republican Sen. Charles
w. Tobey was reported to have
some labor support); Sen. Carl
Hayden in Arizona; Sen. Brien Nc
Mahon and Sen. William Benton in
Connecticut; Claude j. Burtenshow
in Idaho; Albert j. Loveland in
Iowa; Paul Aiken in Kansas;
Thomas C. Hennings in Missouri;
Sen. Pat McCarran in Nevada;
Harry O'Brien in North Dakota;
John w. Pastore in Rhode Island;
John A. Engel in South Dakota;
Sen. Ebert ID. Thomas in Utah; );
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson in Wash
ington; Tom Fairchild in Wiscon-
sin.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

What little girl could resist this
adorable doll with her cute button
nose and soft curly hair? She's
dressed completely with socks,
shoes, undies and ric-rac trimmed
dress.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 17l9
comes in one size, 20 inches. Doll
requires Y yard of 35 or 39-inch
fabric; dress q yard; slip and
socks, y yard; pantie, II yard;
shoes y yard.
For this pattern, send 25c plus
&c for first-class mailing, in coins,
your name, address, pattern num-
ber and size wanted to Barbara
Bell, Labor Press Association, PO
Box 80, Station g, New York 10,
N. Y.
Send an additional 25 cents today
for your copy of the Fall and Win
ter issue of STYLIST, our COM
plete pattern magazine. interest.
ing, informative and colorful. Free
gift pattern for you printed in the
book. ~
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

lCampbell.
In Illinois, Democratic Sen
Scott Lucas, majority leader on the
Senate floor, faced a strong battle
against former Rep. Everett Dirk
sen, who bore the blessing of the
super-reactionary Chicago Tribune
Lucas was pointing out that Dirk
sen was essentially an isolationist
who ''has fought all the liberal leg
islation designed to help Illinois
farmers and working men," Lucas,
who is backed by labor, was also
saying that Dirksen wants to
stand pat, where Mckinley stood in
1900"
In Colorado, Democratic Rep.
John Carroll had labor's backing in
his drive to oust Republican incum-
bent Sen.., Eugene Milliken. The
Colorado Labor Advocate, crack
Denver labor paper, lowered the
boom on "Glittering Gene" regular
ly. In the House, Carroll was a
sponsor of much .labor-supported
legislation. Just before Congress
shut up shop to campaign, Carroll
was one of the leaders of the last
minute fight for the excess profits
tax this year which the CIO and
AFL were demanding.
In California, Rep. Helen Cab
agan Douglas, staunch liberal and
a Democrat, was waging a strong
fight against Rep. Richard Nixon
for the Senate seat vacated by
Sheridan Downey. At the same
Jimmy Roosevelt was running as a
Democrat for governor against the
incumbent Republican Earl War
ren. Mrs. Douglas was backed by
labor and was given a fair chance
to whip Nixon, whose chief claim
to fame was that he unearthed the
dirt of Alger Hiss Jimmy seemed
to have less chance against War
ren, partly because of the states
cross-filing system. Registration is
above the five million mark, how
ever, with the Democrats holding
a three-to-two preponderance, and
many recalled that Warren was un-
able to put California in the Repu
blican camp in 1948 when he was
Dewey's running mate.
In Oregon, Republican Sen.
Wayne Morse, one Of labor's best
friends in Congress, looked like al
shoo-in. His Democratic opponent,
Howard Latourette, was getting|
virtually no support from the|
Democratic party's national organ
ization and none at all from labor.
Both the AFL and ClO endorsed
Morse.
In New York, political develop
ments were confused and spectacu-
lar. Sen. Herbert Lehman, working
for reelection as a Democrat-Lib-
eral, had the support of all labor.
A veteran vote-getter (although al
freshman in the Senate), Lehman
was expected to win despite the
fact that Tom Dewey decided to
run for reelection as Governor, de-
spite the fact that Acting Mayor|
Impelliteri of New York City had
chosen to make the Mayoralty race
a three-cornered contest, and de-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
They Got Him, But
NLRB Orders Man
Rehired, Back Pay

Tampa, Fla. (LPA)-Lewis G
Burnside, truck driver, left his
motor running for short time
while he stopped at a roadside
stand for soft drink, and he
hadn't checked his gas supply that
morning. So the Tampa Sand 4
Material Co. fired him without
notice for negligence" That was
Sept. 9, 1948. His union, the United
Stone & Allied Products Workers
went to the National Labor Rela-
tions Board.
The hearing before a trial eX-
aminer disclosed that no driver had
ever been fired for similar of
fense; that Burnside had run out
of gas twice before without being
criticized; that he was regarded
by his superiors as competent
driver who took care of the equip
ment; that back in June 1948 the
superintendent had threatened to
liIt IlSttlc IL llC IOuld SCl airy
thing on him.; that after Burnside
was fired, the superintendent ad-
mitted he had "been after Burnside
a long time and finally got him.
Actually, Burnside's sin was that
he was active in the union. Since
Jan. 26, 1913, the bosses had been
questioning employees about the
union, had warned them against
joining, had threatened them, and
finally fired Burnside.
1t was not until July 1850 that
the trial examiner made his report,
finding for the union. The com
pany appealed. And it was not un-
til Oct. l3, 1850, that the board up
held the examiner, and ordered the
company to rehire Burnside, and
make good his lost pay.
In other words, the case took
two years to settle, under that
Taft t-Hartley act.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19

ed to any applicant; Textile must
make it's experimental facilities
available to all manufacturers on
a non-discriminatory basis; Textile
must make its machinery available
to all others on the same basis as
to Berkshire; officers of one COM
pany cannot serve with the other.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
JAVlTS WINS AWARD FOR
CIVIL RIGHTS STAND

New York (LPA)-Rep. jacob
X. Javits, Republican-Liberal OF
this city, was awarded a citation
Oct. 6 for his Outstanding record
in the struggle for civil rights for
all. The citation was signed by D.
Ward Nichols, Presiding Bishop OF
the African Methodist Episcopal
Church. DR.. Walter P. Offutt, Jr.,
church secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, made the pre-
sentation in the Great Hall of the
College of the City of New York.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
'Last-Minute Offer
Averts Strike
OF Phone Workers

Newark, N. J. (LPA) - -Four
hours before walkout of 11,00C
Jersey phone workers, the Bel
System agreed to a wage increase
of 81 to SO. The settlement was
reached at 2 A. NJ, Oct. 6, after a
12-hour session between negotia-
tors for Division 35, Communica-
tions Workers, company officials
and state mediators.
The Bell System had won a vic
tory in the State Supreme Court
only four days earlier, when the
court knocked out a $3.50 award
made by an arbitration board. The
board, acting under the states util-
| ity anti-strike law, had made the
award last April, but the company
had appealed, attacking both the
award and the constitutionality OF
the law. A lower court had ruled
for the union.
But even while the Bell System
was fighting the $3.50 award in
New Jersey, 81, 300 telephone work
ers belonging to Independent unions
in New York had received increases
of 81 to $5 from New York Bell.
The union took a strike vote last
spring, in a dispute going back to
May 1949, but remained on the job,
under the state law, and the Bell
facilities were technically seized
by the state.
The arbitration board had also
granted a modified union shop, but
the Supreme Court had ruled that
the board had no such authority,
and the matter must be negotiated.
In August CWA Presi d e n t
Joseph Beine appeared before a
Senate labor subcommittee with
detailed evidence of the Bell Sys-
TENS anti-labor attitude. He point
ed out that Bell refused to bargain
system-wide asserting that each
Bell company makes its own labor
policies, but that Bell officials had
to admit that all such decisions
were referred back to American
Telephone and Telegraph, the par
ent company, so that negotiations
became a farce.
The union points out that
A.T.&T. attitude toward regional
Independent unions is much more
conciliatory. As evidence they cite
an offer of IL cents to the indie
pendents in New York state while
offering the installation men only
8 cents.
OF the court ruling declaring
that the arbitration board had mol
power to grant union shop, the|
internationaPs publication, CWA
Newsletter, said: at is obvious|
that such status cannot be achiev-
ed short of a voluntary gesture by|
a utility employer, almost incon-
ceivable in the case of a Bell com
pany." The publication said the rul-
ing shows the utter fallacy of all
compulsory arbitration laws, which,
in the ultimate, deprive the worker
of his only real economic strength.
Favorable rulings from arbitration
boards can be contested by wealthy
employers and infinitum in the
courts. Such a law. in the face of
an obdurate employer, can serveI
only to create lawyers paradise" II
The New Jersey law was hailed
by Gov. Alfred NJ. Driscoll as pro-
industrial peace while as-j
suring fair deal to the worker.
The New Jersey court ruling, said
the CWA, "has completely blasted
this claim"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-10-19
Big Registration Brightens
Labor S Political Chances

| New York UPA)-As the 1876
Congressional campaign reache,
Its closing weeks, nobody could pre-
dict the results with confidence
However, in areas where registra
tion was high, Democratic hope
were even higher for Democrats
victories frequently flow from bis
turnouts.
Organized labor was by no means
hitched exclusively to the Demo
cratic party, but it was true thai
labor's hopes also were running
high. For where registration was
up--as in Ohio and ,Indiana-was
where labor was exerting its ut
most to unhorse Republican Sena-
tors and elect Democrats. But reg
istered voters would still have to
go to the polls Nov. 7 to make their
preferences felt.
In general, Democrats in key
areas were running on the party's
New Deal-Fair Deal record, call
ing for Taft Hartley repeal and
Backing other unrealized aspira-
tions of the 1948 platform. In gen.
eral the Republicans were crying
"throw the rascals OUT" and bas-
ing their arguments on foggy
charges of Communism in govern
nAent. The Republicans seem un-
moved by the fact that Sen. Joe
Mccarthy had yet to prove a single
one of his accusations. If they
echoed Mccarthy often enough and
loud enough they could frighten
the voters, they apparently ibeliev-
ed. The COP also identified the
Fair Deal with creeping social
ism" but didn't dare demand re-
peal of such things as social secur-
ity. And there was more than a
trace of isolationism in much Re-
publican campaigning. AS of mid
October, here's how key contests
shaped up.
Top national interest was in the
Ohio campaign where labor backed
Democrat Joe Ferguson was pitted
against labor's arch enemy, Sen.
Robert (Mr. Republican, Taft,
sponsor of the hated law which
bears his name. Labor was solidly
opposed to Taft. The AFL, CIO,
Machinists, Mine Workers, and
Rail Brotherhoods were linked in a
hardworking organization seeking
his defeat. Meanwhile, registration
was up nearly z percent in seven
county sample, and it was hoped
that it might be at an all-time
high. Taft was campaigning fran
tically, implying that the drive
against him was being run by Com
munists. Many saw desperation in
Taft's tactics, but labor was inten-
styling it's efforts to get out the
vote on election day.
In Indiana registration was so.
heavy that incumbent Republican
Sen. Homer Capehart was making
an extra strong appeal for labor
full well that if
he won he never would have to de-
liver. In indianapolis, registration
was a good $4,000 ahead Of 1913
and it was believed the increase
was fairly typical. Capehart's
Democratic opponent is Alex