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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
Free GI Policy
IA Giant Gift For
Insurance Firms

Washington (LPA)-The CT in
errance bill before Congress looks
like a generous gesture from g
grateful government, Actually it is
a gigantic pift tn the private in
surance companies, according tc
critics.
The bill provides free S10,0CC
policy. pavahle upon death. to the
heirs of the boys killed in Korea
T. covers the period of actual war
time service and 90 days there
after. If bow survives. 90 davs
after he is out of the service he
has no insurance protection. Which
means that the veterans of the
armed services will be deprived OF
the insurance protection given ia
veterans of World Wars | and IL
There are 20,000,000 such policies
in force now.
There is one exception. which is
also pimmick. A wounded veter-
an will be permitted to retain this
free CT policy but a healthy veter-
an will not. That means that the
government will foot the bill for
those that the private insurance
companies would not accept as
good insurance risks. Any healthy
veteran, if he wants insurance, will
have to go to the private companies
and pay a higher rate. The govern
ment gets stuck with the uninsur-
ables; the insurance companies get
the others.
Under the present National Ser
vice Life Insurance program, GTs
who take out policies pay the pre-
miums, which are lower than the
premiums of any private company.
On leaving the service they can
convert that policy to number of
other types, including not only
term and straight life, but also en-
dowment,' 20-payment life, etc. By
getting this insurance while in SER
vice, they come in at low pre-
MUM. The proposed plan would
end that protection.
In hearings before the House
Veterans committee, who testified
for the measure? Two men repre-
senting the National Association Of
Insurance Agents. The bill was pi-
loted through by Rep. John f.
Rankin Cd, Miss.) and passed the
House without dissent.
Frank Edwards, AFL radio COM
in reporting on this at
tempted grab by the private insur-
ance firms, called on his hearers to
write or wire their Senators and
insist that life insurance privileges
be restored to the GI's.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
GLOBE WIRELESS
ORGANIZED BY CWA

San Francisco UPA)-After a
vigorous organizing campaign, the
Communications Workers of Am
erica have demanded recognition
and bargaining rights for employees
of the Globe Wireless Corp.
The company, subsidiary of the
Dollar Steamship Lines, is an in
ternational carrier of wireless
1t has 100 employees in
San Francisco, New York, Homo
lulu and Manila.
The employees once were repre-
sented by the American Commun-
ications Association, which was
booted from the CIO because its
leaders preferred the Communist
line to ClO policies. They left the
AGA after what the CWA describes
as "a poorly handled strike which
was lost"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
OBITUARIES
FRANK w. DOAK

Frank w. Doak, retired potter
died Dec. "a in his home, 206
Baum St., following a brief illness.
Mr.. Doak was born in Hancock
county, a son of James S. and
Deborah Stevenson Doak. He came
to East Liverpool in 1888 and was
employed last as warehouseman
for the Homer Laughlin China Co.
He was a member of Local Union
sc, National Brotherhood of Opera
tive Potters and the First Presby-
terian Church.
Mr.. Doak leaves three sisters,
Miss Maud Doak and Mrs. j. A..
Whiting of East Liverpool, and
Mrs. c. C. Hill of Pittsburgh.
Rites were held from the Dawson
Funeral Home by Rev. M. Rudolph
Miller. Murial was in Riverview
Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
AFL PAPER BOX
PENSIONS START

New York (LPA) - Eligible
members of Paper Box Workers
Local 299-AFL started collecting
$50 monthly pensions here Dec. II.
The pensions resulted from agree
ment between the local and employ
ers i'm the set-up box trade.
Although established only last
September, the fund gets off to a
running start because of resources
in the Health q Welfare Fund
which originated in l948 and in
which large sums were earmarked
for pensions. Pensioners will get a
flat $50 at age 65 regardless of
Social Security payments.
Demand the Union Label
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
Drive To ScuttIe
Farm Child Labor
Law Has Begun

Washington (LPA)-The nation
al defense effort is being used as
a smokescreen here in an under
cover war to scuttle a 1949 law
prohibiting child labor on farms.
A closed executive session of a
House subcommittee has asked
government attorneys to prepare
standby legislation to wipe out
that portion of the child labor law
which forbids working children
under Ia years of age on farms
during school hours.
Representatives of farm-owner
groups were admitted to the hear
ings, but labor unions were exclud-
ed. 1t was reported that one Con
gressman said: 81 have always
been concerned with the education
Of children, but in time of national
crisis there is no reason why they
shouldn't do their part by working
on the farm"
When another Congressman ask
ed why Mexican workers couldn't
be imported he was told by Gov
ernment official that Mexico re-
quires written guarantees for it's
workers before allowing them to
cross the border.
"Why we're probably giving
Mexico money" sputtered one in
dignant Congressman. "Why can't
we force them to send their work.
ers here 2"
Another so-called solon inter
jected that if we forced Mexico to
send workers we should only have
them send the men and women and
leave the children at home.
"Hell," the sputtering one is re-
ported to have said, "let them send
the kids, too. There amt no use
sending Mexican kids to school"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
$500 Food Store
Workers Given
.S4.4O Wage Boost

Washington (LPA)-AFL meat
cutters and grocery clerks will get
raises of 10 cents an hour in major
food stores here. They include 1900
clerks in Safeway, APP, and Am
erican stores, and 1000 butchers
and helpers in the same three
stores and Food Fair.
Weekly increases will be $3.50
as they work AS hours. Clerks had
a SIS weekly increase negotiated
for them in April by Local 639-A,
AFL Grocery Clerks. Basic rate for
beginners is now $55 week, while
two-year men get $68.
Local 555, AFL Meatcutters, also
gained the 19-cent hourly increase
for their members and an addition
al 10 cents premium for work after
store hours. Their one-year con-
tract gives $50 for apprentices, S72
for journeymen after three years
experience, $85 to $40 for head
meatcutters, $49.50 to $54.50 for
weighers and wrappers in self-ser
vice markets.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28

lis similar to finding fault with a
department store which tells what
it has to sell but doesn't tell what
its competitor is offering"
Health insurance is treated in a
special article from London by
Julian Jacobson, who interviewed
British workers and asked about
Mrs. Bells charges. She found
only one out of IA working people
against the plan, a waitress who
has never been sick. A department
store clerk said the US should
have the plan. "You do have some
poor people. don't you? he asked.
Kathleen Giovine also comment
ed on health insurance: "That word
Compulsory was made part of the
name opposed to it. i can take
care of the normal costs all right,
but I'd like low cost insurance
against the big onslaughts."
Mrs. Bell said higher wages
created higher prices "ad naus-
eum". Here are her answers.
Giovine: 81 know for a fact that
prices go up first because we never
have enough to cover the costs Of
the things we need TO live decent
ly."
Thompson: "Sure we go for high
er wages, in order to keep up with
the rising prices so that Mrs. Bell
and millions Of working people may
have few good things in life
not just the bare necessities.
"Paper Makers Wife,: {" all
labor wants is their share and |
don't believe any labor organiza-
ton wants to run any fair and rea-
sonable company out of business" :"
The right to strike is upheld by
paper Makers Wife" She says:
Working people do not go on
strike unless forced as a last resort
by the employer" Thompson says
"MoSt strikes are forced on work
ers. A worker will never regain in
dollars and cents what he loses,
but he will keep self-respect and
the respect of his fellow men,"
Metcalfe says: Owe all work happy
in paper mills today because we
have the protection of our local
and international because we
can strike and hold the Big Stick
over the heads of anyone or any
group to obtain a justifiable stan
dard of living for ALL"
The plush lives" led by union
chiefs "is just one big fat lie" ac-
cording to Kathleen Giovine. She
says the five or six biggest union
leaders have Salaries and allow
ances" which are peanuts" com
pared with what the heads Of corp
orations knock down. Thompson
says he doesn't hear of any labor
leaders taking cruises or spending
millions abroad to enjoy themselves
on priyately-owned boats"
Most Of the writer's agree that
Mrs. Bell has a warped understand
ing Of Democracy and what it|
means and point out to her that the
best example is The Paper Maker
which printed her letter while dis
agreeing with it. They express hope
that Mrs. Bell will see the light
and "join us in our demonstration
of fairness and equity, and for the
advancement of organized labor
unions"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
Document Shows Slave Labor Is
Foundation of Russian Economy

Washington, ID. c. (ILNS). -
The slave labor system administer
ed by the Russian governments
secret police is a major foundation
of Russia's economy, it is proved
by a secret document made public
here by the U. S. government. Ex
istence Of slave labor has often
been voicerously denied by the
Russian Communist dictatorship.
The document is the Estate plan
for the Development of the Ma
tional Economy of the USSR in
1941." 1t carries an official Soviet
security classification "Not to be
publicized" and is labeled, "Sup-
plement to decision No. 127 Of the
Council Of Peoples Commissars of
the USSR and Of the Central Com
mittee of the All-Union Commun-
list Party (Bolshevik), Jan. IT,,
1941."
A 750-page statistical compila-
ton, the plan covers all phases of
planned Soviet production for 1941
in great detail, including the pro-
duction and construction activities
Of the NKVD, the old title of the
MVD, the Russian secret police.
The United States and British
governments have been in posses
sion of this plan throughout the
postwar period but until recently
have kept it hidden behind secur-
ity restrictions. knowledge Of the
facts it contains has been one Of the
reasons both countries have press
ed the subject of slave labor in the
Soviet Union before the United
Nations.
The draft of the 1941 Soviet eco
nomic plan, which has never been
made public in Russia was captur-
ed by German forces in the Soviet
Union during World War ii. 1t was
obtained by Western intelligence
officers when Germany surrender
ed and has since been carefully
checked for authenticity and accur
acy by American and British spec
iaists on the Soviet economy.
The picture Of the secret police
economic activities that emerges
from this plan indicates that this
organization is the largest single
construction division in the USSR
and also engages in large-scale
production of a number of major
commodities, including timber, coal,
Chromium ore and furniture.
Regarding construction, the 194l
plan provided that the secret
police be responsible for work valu
ed at 6,810,000,000 rubles out of a
total of new construction by all
Soviet economic agencies valued at
37,G50,0 100000 rubles.
Gross industrial production by|
the secret police in l94l was pro
jected at 1869, 100000 rubles in
terms of 1926-27 prices, almost 2
percent Of all industrial production.
In the case of individual commod-
tiles on which the slave labor force
was to have been employed, how
ever, the percentage of its output
was much greater.
The most important area of sec
ret police production was lumber
cutting and wood manufacture. For
194l the NKVD was scheduled tol
produce "a 4,730,000 cubic meters of
timber out of total planned pro-
duction of 290,640,000 cubic meters.
In l941 the NkVD was schedul-
ed to turn out 10,5O0,00O railroad
ties, more than 20 percent of thel
Soviet total
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
Lobor Poper's Readers Reply To
Housewives Letter Ripping Unions

Al bany, n. Y. (LPA) - Jim
Russell, editor of The Paper Max
err, official monthly publication of
the International Brotherhood of
Paper Makers-AFL, doesn't have to
wonder if people read his paper
any more-now he knows they do.
In his November issue he carried
a letter from Mrs. Betty H. Bell
who said her hubby was happy at
his job in a paper mill, that The
Paper Maker was one-sided, Ma
tional Health Insurance "a mess"
labor leaders led plush lives, and
that strikes, drives for higher
wages, and unions in general were
"a threat to our whole democracy"
If Russell had any qualms about
running the letter they were wash
ed away as the first flood of mail
hit his desk after the November
issue was delivered.
He ran a page of the letters in
his next issue, apologizing for not
having space to run them all, and
said they are still pouring in. What
do they say? To man-and wo-
man-they express surprise that a
union mans wife can honestly hold
such opinions.
Among those answering were:
Kathleen Giovine, "just a house
wife," Flushing, n. Y; Mrs. S. T.
Dolan, Washougal, Wash; ]. II.
Thompson, "a member of organized
labor for 33 years.; Alexander
Metcalfe, of Hoosick Falls, N. ",
who says he is an average paper
maker" the same as Mrs. Betty II.
Bells husband; T. +. William
of the Bronx, n. Y; and vi Dolan,
also of Washougal, Wash.
Not all comment on every phase
of Mrs. Bells letter. Here, for ex-
ample, are the answers to her
charge that The Paper Maker is
one-sided.
Kathleen Giovine: 81 know how
hard it is not to be affected by the
terrific amount of scurrilous anti
union propaganda that's being
spread around in the nations press
and radio, especially around cleo
tion time. There's so much Of this
stuff being spread by our finest
people (Taft?) that you begin to
wonder whether there's any truth
to it.
"That's just what makes the
statement about The Paper Maker
being one-sided so pathetic. It's a
good thing we've got something on
our side because we certainly need
it, The union press is tiny com
pared to the thousands Of news
papers and magazines published
and controlled by big business and
industry. If being one-sided means|
that PM stresses the achievements
of labor and that it fights strongly
for the things which benefit the
laboring man and his wife and
children for one am darn glad
of it,"
Mrs. Dolan: ain her simplicity
she asks why The Paper Maker,
one small voice raised against this
tide Of reaction, does not allot
space on behalf of big business"
Metcalfe: owe spend part of our
small incomes to provide a paper
in which to express to the people
the unbiased truth which you will
not find in practically any Of the
newspapers"
William: "Berating a labor news
paper for promoting political cand-
idates and issues which will serve
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
1900 At Arsenal Get Wage Boost

Rock Island, Ill. (LPA) - The
300 hourly workers at the army
arsenal here will get wage hikes of
II to 16 cents starting Jan. 6, Col
w. w. Warner, commandant, ann
ounced Dec. %. The increases, he
said, "will place arsenal employees
on an average wage comparable to
that of private industry in the
area"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-12-28
CHEMICAL WORKERS GET
RAISE AT PARKE. DAVIS

New York (LPA) - Production
workers at Parke, Davis & Co.
members of United Chemical Work
ers have been given a five-cent
voluntary pay boost. Skilled mech
anics got 7h-eent boost.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05
FAIRBANKS PAINTERS OUT ON STRIKE

FAIRBANKS. (P)-In, support of demands for a 3O-cent hourly wage increase the Fairbanks painters union struck last week against six painting contractors. The current wage was $2.70 an hour Three contractors have agreed to the wage hike but three others still are strikebound, with about 30 painters affected. The union membership is about 60.
 The only large military project affected is the painting of build ings for post engineers at the Ladd Air Force Base.
 The struck contractors are Cen tral Paint company which has the Ladd contract, Pioneer Paint com pany and Far North Paint com pany.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05
Holiday Deaths
 Set Near Record
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated Press) !
 Accidental death struck down at least 739 Americans during their four-day Independence Day week end. The toll was much higher than expected, and rocketed tow ard the 'all- time high set in 1936- 761 deaths.
 Citizens died in traffic crashes, by drowning, and by miscellane- ous accidents at a little better than one every 10 minutes during the 1O2-hour period between 6 pm. local time Friday and last night at midnight.
 Highway smashups claimed 458 lives in what was predicted as the biggest U. S.. traffic jam in his tory.
 Water deaths totalled l68. Mis- cellaneous kinds of mishaps killed 113.
 No one was reported killed in Fourth of July fireworks trage- dies, but the other deaths were tied in with Independence Day celebrations.
 The national safety council had predicted that 1885 would die in traffic crashes. But the toll mount ed and mounted as the holiday drivers coursed along the high ways.
 The 1886 death record was set during the four day Christmas pe- riod. At that time 555 of the 761 deaths were in automobile acci- dents.
 Last years three-day Labor Day week end highway toll-410 was a postwar record.
 On a four-day, non-holiday weekend last month, an Associ- ated Press tally across the coun- try showed that only 455 persons met accidental death. Of these, 27O died in traffic mishaps, 75 drowned and no died from other accidental causes. The survey was made by the (P) to compare holiday and non-holiday fatai- ties figures.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05

Mrs. Fred Rohn left today for Seattle to visit with relatives and friends for few weeks while on her annual vacation from Polet's.
 Eddie Gross. well known pio- neer timer who has been in the hospital most of the winter left today for Portland to enter a medical clinic.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05

at Nome bears 5. 43 deg. "A min. w.; U.SL.M. No. 1899 bears s. 231 deg. A min. w.; thence N. 17 deg. 17 min. F., 1041.66 it. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. F., 66L90 it. to Cor. No. 3; thence s. 16 deg. 01 min. w., 1587.19 it. to Cor. No. 4; thence N: AS deg. 37 min. w., 333.e it. to Cor. No. s. thence N. 55 deg. B min. w. 347.52 it. to Cor. No. and place of beginning, containing an areas of 18.223 acres. w '
 There are no conflicting claims. {
 The adjoining claims are:
 On the N., Survey No. 1885, Doyle Fraction.
 On the E., Survey No. 1182, No. 7 Below Discovery.
 On the S., Survey No. 1166, No. 4 Below Placer.
 On the w., Survey No. 1310, Great Western Group Claim Pla- cer.
 The original certificate of loca- ton of said placer mining claim is recorded in the office of the Re- corder of said Mining District and Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of the records of locations of said District.
 The mineral monument to which. this claim is tied is de- scribed as follows:
 U.SL.M. No. II is a fir post, 6 in. sq. 5 it. above ground in stone mound. It is situated about 70 it. east of the Bessie Road from Nome and about 2.7 miles NE. of the mouth of Snake River, and is in Lat. GA deg. 32 min. N., Long. 165 deg. 9 min. w.
 Dated the 1st day of August, 1944.
 Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
 Acting Register
 Pub. June 2, 14, 21, 28, July 5, 12, 19. 26, Aug. l, 8, 15.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT


 Received, US. Land Office, Nome, Alaska Date: Aug. l, 1944. Hour: 11:55 am. Mineral Entry No.0972. IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE FOR THE NOME LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL ASKA.
 NOTICE OF APPLICATION
 FOR PATENT
 Mineral Survey No. 1890
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ralph Lomen by and through his attorney-in-fact, Ira D. Orton, whose post office address is Nome, Alaska, has made application for a United States Patent for the No. 3 Below Discovery placer-min- ing claim situated on Newton Creek, No. 1 tributary of Dry Creek, tributary of Snake River. in the Cape Nome Mining and Re- cording Precinct, Territory of AL aska, and designated as United States Mineral Survey No. 1890 and particularly described in the official plat and field notes now on file in the said Land Office with magnetic variation at each corner of the survey of mean val ue of IT degrees 12 min. E.. as follows:
 Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident- ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No. 1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor. No. IT. Survey No 1910, Great Western Group Claim Placer from whence U.SL.M. No. II, bears S. 86 deg. B min. w., 7290.75 it.; E.. edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg. 24 min. w.; Newton Rock bears N. 1 deg. 35 min. w.: Radio Tower
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND DIVISION. TERRIFIC RYsOF ALASKA NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. sll IN THE MATTER OF THE ES- TATE of COLEMAN GRIFFIN, Deceased. e. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Margaret M. OLeary, of Nome, Alaska, is the duly ap- pointed and acting Administrators of the above-named estate:
 Any and all persons having claims against said estate should present them, with proper vouch- CTS attached, to the said Admin strator at Nome, Alaska, within six (6) months from the date of this Notice.
 DATED this 13 day of June, 1850.
 Margaret M. OLeary
 Administrator
 Pub. June 14, 21, 28, July 5.
The Nome nugget., 1950-07-05

Pub. June z, 14, 21, 28, 12, 19. 26, Aug. 1, 8, IS.
Evening star., 1950-04-29
Dog That CrowIed to Hospital
After Being Hit by Car Dies

Ringo. the dog that dragged
herself to Sihley Hospitals emer-
gency room yesterday after she
was struck by an auto. is dead.
Ringo's master. James Mickey"
Bailey, a l5-year- -old colored boy
Of ~ Pierce street NV. was get
ting ready to visit his big white
dog this morning when his mother
told him the news.
Mrs. Robert J. Bailey authorized
the Animal Rescue League to put
Ringo out of her misery late yes
terday because she was almost
dead" after her traffic accident.
Ringo was said to have been
struck by a truck not far from
the hospital at l14o North Capt.
tol street. Then she pulled her
self into the hospital with a
broken hip. While doctors gath
cred around. friends of Mickey's
summoned him from Bundy
School. Mickey took Ringo home
and then Mrs. Bailey phoned the
Animal Rescue League for assist
ance.
Evening star., 1950-04-29
Bookbinders Settle
Strike in 20 Plants

Local 4 Of the Journeymen
Bookbinders Society (AFD has
settled it's 10-day-old strike for
shorter hours, John Fitzgerald, its
president, announced last night.
The settlement. reached yester-
day in the Pythian Temple, 1912
Ninth street NV, affects 180
workers in 20 establishments in
the District.
The union, now on a 40-hour
week, had demanded a 371a-hour
week with the same take-home
pay. According to terms of the
settlement, the 40-hour week will
continue to July /, when it will
be reduced to 3834 hours. After a
year of this. the 3712-hour week
with same pay will go into effect.
AS a further stipulation, the
union agreed not to ask for further
reductions in its work week before
1855.