The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-31


tration form, submit a copy Of it's
ltement. 1t must certify that a copy
ly is made available to all its men,
officer must file an affidavit stating
: that he is not a member of the
Communist party. Employers are
not required to register, file fin
ancial statements or indicate their
deposition to Communism, even
though under this act employers
are permitted directly to petition
the Board for collective bargaining
elections.
Why did Senator Taft co-sponsor
this anti-labor measure? 1t can by
no stretch Of the imagination be
said that the Senator gave his all
for the enactment of this vicious
Legislation because of any interest
in the laboring mans prolems.
Much has been said about the
Senators forthrightness, sincerity
of purpose and craftsmanship. Sup
pose we grant him all of this. Why
is it then that he threw his trem-
endous influence behind this labor
regulatory law, resulting in weak
ening, bunting and dulling the one
genuine instrumentality for the
alleviation of the sufferings of the
laboring people? Yes, we know
what the proponents of the Taft
Hartley law will say in reply. 1t
was not the conduct or actions Of
the rank and file of labor, but it
was the abuse and i'll conduct Of
labor leaders that made necessary
this reformist law.
Readily we admit that unfortun-
ately some labor leaders have erred
and erred grievously. Can it, in all
truth, be said that labor leaders
have been more numerous and per-
. sistent in wrong doing than men
in other positions of responsibility
lin the nation? Let there be
checking of the record as to our
respective actions and conduct and
We are sure that for every
labor leader who may have devil
ated from the path of righteous
ness, there will be found infinitely
more legislators, newspapermen,
lawyers, business and professional
men in general who have been
Icaught with the goods and
convicted in court of irregular
tiles than will be shown among
labor leaders. Who was it led
laboring men and women from
the degradation of the sweat shop,
unlimited hours of daily toll, the
evils of the yellow dog contract,
the suffering of loss of limb or
life in the course of their employ
ment, the evils of the company
store? Was it our legislators, our
Inewspapermen or our lawyers!
! Certainly not. Who led in the fight
for state regulatory laws for safe
ty in factories, mills and mines,
j for sanitation measures, prevent
ing exploitation of child labor and
compensation for the loss of
limb and life? Yes, it was the labor
leaders in the early days Of the
struggle for industrial democracy
and decency in employment who
gave their all in service to these
harrassed and inhumanly exploited
human beings.
To put it mild, it comes with no
lcredit to newspapers, this in
cludes the EAST Liverpool Review
and other self appointed guardians
of long suffering working men and
women, to tell these good people
/. what kind of leaders they should
choose and kind of labor union
organizations they desire. 1t would
be interesting to peruse the file OF
any of the newssheets during the
days of labor's struggle upward
from the hard ways to ascertain
how many, if any of the news
papers that have been so prolific
in their writings as to the evil OF
labor leaders who espoused the
cause of humanity and decency in
employment and for correction OF
the industrial evils that were typ
ical of these times.
Il This newspaper, voicing the
sentiments of the members of the
lN.B.O.P., is against Senator Taft's
reelection, also Governor Lausche.
In this we follow our usual inde-
pendent, non-partisan attitude to-
wards candidates for public office.
We wish also to publicly announce
our opposition to "Tobinism" in
lColumbiana County. Lawyers Tobin
are definitely anti-union and by
reason of the fact that they took
up the cudgel for malcontents in
the Brotherhood who were motivat-
ed primarily because of the Taft
Hartley act, to take issue with
ma jority rule of delegates in our
National Conventions from 1914 to
I195O inclusive, on questions decid-
ed by majority vote of the dele
gates. Then hailed us into court