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assumed by such companies: Rates OF oivi:
disbursements. based on the last quarterly
or semiannual declaration. Unless ether
wise note9: speciai Or extra diyidsnds are
xr Ex rights. Also extra or extras Plus
stock dividend Cash or stock. De-
clared or paid so far this year. Payable
In stock, estimated cash value on ex.divi:
dend date Paid last year b Declared
Or pad after stock dividend or split-up
tive issue with dividends in arrears. p Paid
this yea dividend omitted. deferred or no
action taken at last dividend meeting,
Declared lS49 payable in 1850. y Lioui-
dating dividend, Payable in stock. exact
cash value undetermined on declaration
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Metal Quotations

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 Q9.-Spot non.
ferrous steel prices today: Copper, ~ k2-
lead, 16 cents a pound, New York; zinc
TIA cents pound. East st. Louis; tin
1.01 a pound, New York. At Pittsburgh
scrap steel. No. l heavy, was quoted to-
day at Al 90.
Evening star., 1950-09-20
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Sept. 20 1P.-Dividends
declared: Pc Stock of Pay
Rate. riod. record able.
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Washington Exchange

Potomac Elec Pwr com-1O0 at 1914.
Capital Transit lst ref 4s-$2,0O0 at 993s,
WASHINGTON Gas S4.25 pfd-13 at 1o2.
Capital Transit 1st ref 4s-$3,O 900 at 99h
Potomac Fl Pwr 3.60% pfd B-70 at 46M
rot Eiee PVT com-16 at 1914, S5 at 1874
PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Anthracite Miners
Reach Agreement

Scranton, Pa. (LPA)-There was
rejoicing among $4,000 hard-coal
miners here March 9 when they
learned that the United Mine
Workers and the anthracite oper-
ators had reached complete agree
ment" on a new contract. The ann
ouncement meant the end of the
three-day week the miners had
been working since mid-December
and the restoration of full day
week the miners had been working
since mid-December and the res
toration of full production. The
miners cut the week to three days
to protect the absence of a con-
tract.
The agreement was announced
in Washington, where UNIV Pres
ident John L. Lewis and his aides
We're meeting with the operators.
Contract terms were not revealed.
but they were believed to parallel
those won five days earlier by the
soft-coal miners with allowances
for the difference between the hard
and soft coal industries. The latter
obtained 70-cent-a-day wage hike
and a 10-cents-a-ton boost in the
royalty operators pay into the
UNIV welfare fund. Anthracite
miners have a separate fund.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
herbIock Donates
His $500 Award To
Busch Campaign

Washington (LPA) = Herbert
Block (Herblock), whose cartoons
in the Post won him this years
$500 Haywood Broun award, as
sent the check to the committee
backing Henry M. Busch for the
Democratic nomination for Senator
in Ohio, to oppose Taft. Block
formerly lived in Ohio.
Herblock wrote, Because of the
man in whose honor the award was
made, / think it's appropriate that
it be spent in the campaign of a
fighting liberal-one who has al
ways given himself to the peoples
causes without asking the Odds
Busch heads the Social Sciences
division of Cleveland College; heads
the Cleveland chapter, Americans
for Democratic Action; is panel
chairman of the Annual Natl
Farm Institute, Des Moines; panel
chairman and summarizer of a
Turn TO Pa9e Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Leading Citizens
Invited To Hear
chrysIer Dispute

Detroit UPA)-The United Auto
Workers has invited 10 outstand-
ing citizens to hear the issues in
the Chrysler strike presented at a
meeting the evening of March l6
The union has offered equal time
at the meeting to the Chryslel
Corp. spokesman.
The invitations were signed by
President Walter Reuther and Nor
man Matthews, JAW Chrysler
department director, and said:
"If at the time of the meeting
those present feel it advisable to
form a Citizens Fact Finding Com
mittee to explore the situation fur
ther and report its findings to the
community, we would welcome the
formation of such a committee"
The letter says the strike will be
settled "only by an honest and in
telligent evaluation of the merits
of the dispute. 1t is our sincere
hope that the issues can be fully
clarified before this representative
citizens group so that you will be
in a position to Judge independent
ly the merits of the dispute and fix
the responsibility for the strike and
its continuation"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Foe Of Sen. Byrd
Nominated ToFTC

Washington (LPA)-One of the
most effective foes of Sen. Harry
g. Byrd Cd, Va.) has been nomin-
ated by President Truman for the
vacant post on the Federal Trade
Commission which regulates busi-
ness practices in the interest of the
public. The nominee is Martin A.
Hutchinson of Richmond.
Byrd, who last week tangled
with Sen. Hubert Humphrey Cd,
Minn.) on the effectiveness of
Byrd's economy" committee, has
reputation of voting more often
with the Republicans than with the
Democrats. Hutchinson was his OPP
ponent in the Democratic primaries
in 1916. Byrd has told reporters he
will oppose confirmation.
Hutchinson's appointment is now
in the hands of the Senate Com
merce committee, where nomina-
tions of John Carson to FTC and
Leland Olds to the Federal Power
Commission were delayed by anti
Truman Senator'S for long periods
earlier in this session. There hasn't
yet been any indication of when
Chairman Edwin C. Johnson Cd,
Colo.) will move to take it up.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Accidents Cut $4,000 Under
New Jersey SdfetY Program

New York City (ILNS).-Acci-
dents in New Jersey were reduced
bv $4,000 in l949 as compared with
1948 under a statewide 'free enter
prise" safety program, VIII C h
brought substantial savings of life
and money, Gov. Alfred E. Dris-
coll announced. He outlined results
of the program as the New Jersey
State Safety Council completed its
first 8 years of activity.
Gov. Driscoll praised the volun-
tary program, which is supported
financially by 81 large industrial
concerns, by labor unions, women's
clubs and other community organ
izations. 1t also is helped by IA
state agencies. He reported that
such a program, if dependent upon
the state, would cost 8 times the
amount provided through private
groups.
The council officers and Driscoll
said at a press conference in the
ESQ Building at Rockefeller Plaza
here that an additional $45O,000
was being sought to support the
program through 1862.
$23,000,000 Saving Last Year
A saving of $23,000,000 in acci-
dent costs was reported for 1949.
Industrial, home, traffic and other
types of accidents cost New Jersey
4 loss of $780,, 100000 in 194S, as
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Truman Asks For,
Cool Commission

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman asked Congress to create
a nine-man commission to investi-
gate the coal industry and recon-
mend rules for its stabilization.
Four days earlier, when he ask
ed for authority to seize the mines,
the President had said such COM
mission was needed because "The
coal industry is a sick industry"
and what was needed was "pos-
tive and constructive effort to get
at the root of the trouble"
Previously, Sen. Hubert Hump
hrey Cd, Minn.) and Rep. Andrew
Biemiller Cd, Wis., introduced
identical bills calling for an 18-man
body, modelled on the Hoover Com
mission, to investigate coal and
report next January.
Truman's proposal was referred
to the Senate Interior committee
whose chairman, Sen. Joseph O'Ma-
honey, agreed that coal was "sick"
and declared that legislation was
needed to cure it. He said one Diff
ficulty would be to establish rules
which could be applied equally to
the big Captive" mines run by the
US Steel Corp, and the small
wagon" mines.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Patton Reelected
Farmers Union Head

Denver (LPA)-President James
G. Patton was reelected at the
mid-century convention of the Natl
Farm Union, which heard Secre-
tary of Agriculture Brannan and
H. H. Hannah, of Canada, pres
ident of the Int'l Federation of
Agricultural Producers.
The convention declared that
only if the income of farmers and
labor is stabilized and safeguard
ed can the nation continue to pros
per. The program called for repeal
of the Taft Hartley act, full pro-
duction and employment, extension
of the minimum wage to farm
labor, and limited world govern
ment. Plans were made for develop
ing a labelling program for a
Family Farmer" brand for union
members and cooperatives.
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compared to 1899, 100000 estimated
for 1949, Driscoll said. He added
that there were 283,814 accidents
in 1948 and only an estimated 232,-
455 in 1949. Accident deaths were
reduced from 2,419 to 2,077.
In telling the story of the safety
program, Gov. Driscoll asserted
that the state had two alternatives
when it faced the huge drain of
life and money. Either a wide
spread governmental program or
mobilization of private enterprise
to support conservation of lives
and the economy was needed, he
said. He added that since New
Jersey favored retaining home
rule" in government the latter
course was adopted and the safety
council was set up with Thomas R.
Jones, president of the American
Type Founders Corporation of
Elizabeth, as its president.
Program Seen Test
Driscoll described the program
as one with national significance"
He said that it was testing wheth-
er private enterprise can be mobil-
ICED to meet a great need or wheth-
er we have to go back" to govern
ment rule for everything.
M. ]. Rathbone, a director of the
Oil Co. and an officer of
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Here's S Ldugh
On Big Boys
For uChunqe

Washington (LPA) - Congress
is about to strengthen the anti
trust laws-by indirection. The
funniest joke is on the monopolists
The butter bloc in the Senate
wrote into the oleomargarine bill
a very stiff penalty designed to
prevent manufacturers from sell
ing their product as butter. En-.
forcement was entrusted to the
Federal Trade Commission, with
the penalty fixed at $4,000 for each
day of violation.
This amendment was submitted
by Senator Mccarthy OR, Wis.,,
who is shrieking that the State De-
partment is filled with commun-
lists (but won't name names).
Somehow, he got his language a
little too broad, and it was written
to apply to all of the Federal Trade
Commissions powers to enforce
antitrust laws.
SO the net effect is that the bill,
as now approved by the conferees,
does what critics of monopolies
have been trying to do for years
strengthen the penalties under the
antitrust laws. The present pen
atty is only one fine of $4,000. The
oleomargarine bill would make it
possible for violators of the anti
trust laws to be fined $4,000 for
each day of violation-which might
amount to enough to affect even
the big companies.
The monopolists-and Senator
McCarthy-are very unhappy. But
to make change now would be
very embarrassing, because then
Congress would have to admit that
it cares more about penalizing the
oleomargarine manufacturers than
it does about enforcing the anti
trust laws.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Angry Taft BIames
President Truman
For Miners Gains

Washington LPA) Angriesi
man in the capital these days ir
Sen. Bob Taft. He's really steam
ed up over the soft coal settlement
To his dismay, the United Mine
Workers were found not guilty OF
contempt of court, and the nation
al emergency provision of Tafts
favorite law, the Taft Hartley act
proved useless. Worse, the UNIV
then negotiated a contract, wrest-
ing a wage boost and better fin
anced welfare plan from the coal
operators.
First he blamed everything on
President Truman, who, he said,
encouraged open defiance of the
law"-the Taft-Hartley law, that
is. Then Truman tried to get a coal
fact finding board "outside the
law, Taft said. Finally the fact
finders the President named after
invoking the law didn't do their
job.
Then there were the contempt
charges. The government present
ed such a weak case" Taft walled,
"that it failed to obtain the penal
ties and fines which ended the two
previous strikes Apparently Taft
would have been serenely happy
only if the UNIV had been fined
about $5,000,000 or more.
Taft didn't like the Presidents
proposal to seize the mines, either.
The seizure bill Truman sent to
Congress was "a one-sided bill PEN
alizing the employers" and favor
ing the UNIV, the Senator COM
planned, because it provided for an
interim wage board.
The only other course Taft could
think of, however, was passage by
the House of Representatives of a
Taft Hartley amendment the Sem
ate approved last year. The amend
ment gave the White House auth
ority to seize struck industries for
60 days in national emergencies.
But, the Senator did not explain
very clearly why this amendment
was better than Truman's bill.
Maybe it's clear to him, though.
Taft didn't mention the proposal
by the President and others that
a national coal commission be
to investigate the coal
industry and recommend legisla-
ton for regulating it. The idea
must smack of socialism or some
thing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
|NBOP Chief
PdYs Visit To
Erwin, Tenn.

Erwin, Tenn. A little news
from the Sunshine City" Of the
world, where work has been very
good and all indications point to
steady employment for some time.
We would also like the trade to
know that attendance at our meet
ings leaves little to be desired.
If you want TO see a smile on
the faces of members of Local
Union l03 these days, all you have
to do is walk through the shop and
announce that special meeting
has been called-President Duffy
is coming to town. We appreciate
the recent visit of our national
head and his timely remarks re-
garding conditions at hand.
One thing for sure, President
Duffy pulls no punches when it
comes to informing members Of the
Brotherhood the necessity of turn
ing out a quality product, worthy
of expert craftsmanship. "The days
of the slip-shod methods are over"
he stated, and all must put forth
their best efforts in turning out
products, capable of meeting the
competition from foreign shores.
He likewise stressed the import
ant part the manufacturers must
play in this team play to meet for
eign competition. "Both sides must
work together" he added, if we
are to go forward.
President John McFadden is
again displaying that famous smile.
1t seems for the past few weeks
John has been doing a little batch
ing, but now that the little wife
has returned from visiting rela-
tives, everything is fine.
The only complaint heard about
the shops these days comes from
Herman McInturff, whose fishing
have been somewhat
curbed. -O.C. 103
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Two brotherhoods
Turn Tables On
Rail Spokesmen

Chicago (LPA) - Tables were
turned on the railroads by the Bro
therhood of Railroad Trainmen and
Order of Railway Conductors at a
hearing this week before an En-
ergency Fact-Findingt Boar d
here.
The two unions are pressing an
11-point program for correction of
wage inequities, improvements in
working conditions and other
changes for nearly 250,0O0 en-
ployes, and for a 40-hour week at
48-hours' pay for members in yard
service.
One of the main points they
brought out in support of their de-
mands is the great increase in pro-
ductivity. They cited official sta
tistics of the Interstate Commerce
Commission showing that if pro-
ductivity had remained at 1886
levels, the railroads would now
need 100000 more workers than
they have to handle present traffic.
Their sockdolager, however, came
when they put into the record
testimony from the management
side supporting the argument of
the unions.
That was in the form of a state
ment issued to the press recently
by President William T. Farley of
the Association of American Rail-
roads. In it, Farley boasted that in
creases in efficiency and produc-
tivity have made it possible for the
railroads to save the public the
of 50 billion a year,
compared with costs back in 1921.
Why shouldn't the workers, the
unions asked, share in such gain?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
House Pays Tribute To
Rep. Mary Norton

Washington (LPA)-All parties
and factions in the House joined
March 7 in paying tribute to Rep.
Mary Morton Cd, NJ) on her sew
enty-fifth birthday and her 25th
year in the House. Mrs. Norton, in
the hospital with pneumonia, was
not present.
The tribute was unusual in that
northern and southern Democrats
joined with Republicans in lauding
Mrs. Norton's services. Those who
spoke included Reps. Dingell Cd,
Mich.) House Democratic Leader
Mccormack, of Mass; Rep. Can
field Or, NJ); Cox Cd, Ga.), Bos-
one Cd, Utah), Celler and Klein,
New York Democrats; LeCompte,
Or, Iowa., Case (R, SD, and Sa-
bath Cd, Hl.).
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Business Mdgdzine Data Is
Arqument For HIGHER Wage

workers. 1t confirms this overall
study by a check of individual
plants.
One midwestern manufacturer
reports that output per man has
gained Is to 20 per cent in the past
year. Another ended 1949 with en-
ployment 1000 under 1948 and sales
volume $40 million higher-about
10 per cent shift each way.
A Cincinnati manufacturer oper-
ating three plants says that pro-
ductivity in all is the highest ever.
And a big producer Of building
materials figures that while his
base rate of pay has doubled since
1889, unit-labor cost is just about
where it was.
Even in agriculture, the maga-
zine reports, the increase in pro-
is Striking. Since 1947
employment on farms has been
dropping, but production is as high
as ever.
This article in Business Week
means:
That unemployment will rise
unless more purchasing power is
provided workers to buy more
goods.
That the only way to get increas-
ed purchasing power is to pay
workers more money.
That the increased pay is justi-
fled by increased output.
That unless business men re-
cognize these facts of life, the ma
tion can never absorb the nearly
/ 100000 new workers who are
for jobs every year, and
the nation will soon be back in
depression.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
BRITT SH LABOR
TEST BY
NARROW VOTE

London (EPA )--Britain's La0of
government stood fast in its first
Parliamentary test March 8 by de-
feating a Conservative motion cri-
tical of government plans to ma
tionalize the coal industry, $40 to
296. The close vote underlines. how
narrow the Labor party's election
victory in February actually was.
Had the vote been reversed, new
election would have been necessary.
The Conservative motion must
have sounded innocent to non-Bri-
tish ears. After King George form
ally opened Parliament March s
with a speech prepared by Labor
ministers, a perfunctory motion to
thank him was introduced. The
Conservatives moved an amend
ment regretting the speech con-
tanned no reference to the iron and
steel industry. Approval of the
amendment would have amounted
to rejection of the Labor party's
steel program, Prime Minister Att
lees Laborites Unexpectedly asked
for "vote of confidence, mean
ing they would stand or fall by the
result. The Liberal party voted
with the Tories.
Parliament voted last year to-
nationalize steel but can't take the
first steps toward implementing
the decision until next fall. Since
1945, it is estimated that the Lab
orites have nationalized about a
fifth of the British economy.
Meanwhile, the government ann
ounced that its power to freeze
workers in their jobs and send job
seekers to vital industries would
be repealed March IL. The power
had been greatly relaxed during the
(Turn TO Pa0e Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-03-16
Latin Americans
Duck Blame For
Coffee Price Rise

Washington (LPA) = A spokes-
man for coffee growers of Latin
America denied they had anything
to do with the sharp rise in coffee
prices in the US stores that started
last fall. He blamed it on "com-
placent coffee traders in New York
who didn't believe the reports that
Brazil's coffee stocks were ex-
hausted." And Rep. M. G. Burnside
Cd, w. Va.) urged the same Sen
ate Agriculture subcommittee that
heard the Latin American man, to
get behind his bill to encourage
production of coffee in the high
lands of southeast Asia and the
Philippines as part of the Point
Four program.
Andres Uribe, acting chairman
of the Pan-American Coffee Bur-
eau, told. Sen. Guy Gillettee Cd,
Iowa) and hiss subcommittee on
March 8 that he couldn't explain
the rise in coffee prices last fall,
out presented elaborate document
alton for the case for keeping cof-
fee prices at present levels. "When
coffee prices are equitable" Uribe
said, "coffee production will in
crease. Coffee prices were rising
gradually, and in my opinion would
have risen to today's prices event
ually, even without the sharp in
crease. And when all the talking is
over, the reason will be simple and
clear. . E. If Latin-America receives
a fair price for coffee, we can work
another miracle like that which
you have performed here in the
U.s." Tribe told of the extremely
low incomes of Latin-American
farmers in contrast to US farm
erS.
However, Sen. Gillette pointed
out, the Senators are trying to find
out who caused the price rise, and
who is profiting by the addition of
$4,000, 100000 year to housewives
budgets from the price boost.
Rep. Burnside, who is an expert
n the economic problems both of
Latin America and of southeast
Asia, declared that technical aid to
Increase coffee production would
benefit US coffee drinkers by al
lowing prices to come down, and
would at the same time lessen the
iollar shortage suffered by all
coffee-producing countries except
Brazil. An additional end can be
served in Thailand, Burma, Indon-
esia and the Philippines, he added,
by increasing employment and
thus strengthening anti-Commun-
list forces.
Sen. George d. Aiken (R, Vt.),|
after closely questioning Tribe
about how coffee is grown, indicat-
ed skepticism that any part of thel
current price being paid for coffeel
is actually reaching the Brazilian
coffee growers. Most coffee is inI
the hands of the traders and ship
pers by late September of each
year, he found.