The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-05

tinue to fight for pay raises. The
executive council passed a resolu-
tion appealing for labor unity.
Four railroad brotherhoods won
their 44-day strike against the
Missouri Pacific railroad. United
action by Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters & Butcher Workmen-AFL and
United Packinghouse Workers won
a contract providing pay increase
for 500 of the employees of Swift
& Co.
The JAW strike at Bell Aircraft
ended after intervention Of state
fact-fnding board, first in the his
tory of New York state. After four
bitter months the company finally
agreed to arbitrate, move the
union had been urging for weeks.
The Atomic Energy Commission
and it's chairman David E. Lilien-
thai were cleared Of mismanage-
ment charges after extensive in
vestigation by the Joint Congress
ional Committee on Atomic En-
ergy. Rep. Emmanuel Celler Or,
NY) launched a congressional
probe into the growing strangle-
hold Of big business on the US
economy.
November: Fair Deal victories
swept the country in the November
8 elections. ex-governor Herbert
H. Lehman defeated reactionary
Senator John Foster Dulles in New
York. AFL's Jack Shelley was
elected to Congress in California.
A woman Democrat was sent to
Congress from New York City.
Eight upstate New York towns
voted in Democratic mayors. The
Democrats swamped the Republi-
cans in Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh. The voters rejected phony
poll tax repeater in Virginia.
The great steel strike reached a
victorious end when US Steel and
other big companies capitulated to
union demands for a company-fn-
anced pension plan. Aluminium Co.
of America signed a pension and
insurance agreement for 10000
workers with Aluminium Workers
AFL. United Auto Workers and
Kaiser-Frazer Corp. signed a con-
tract with a pension plan following
the recommendations of the steel
fact-fnding board.
CIO convention, purging Com
munist-led unions, ousted United
Electrical workers and set up a
new union for the electrical, radio
and machine industry; expelled the
Farm Equipment Workers; chang
ed the constitution to allow the ex-
ecutive board to disaffiliate unions
which fail to follow CIO policy.
The new IUE union mushroomed.
Later in the month, when it held its
founding convention, it claimed a
Of over 100000.
Labor Press Association finally
Won Congressional press gallery /
lights. Anti-Fair Deal lobbies re-
ported spending more than 20 times
IS much as labor did during the
irst nine months of 1949. Ameri-
AN Medical Assn, biggest spender
n history with total of S1,225,-
l28, brought the insurance COM
,anies into their fight against ma
ional health insurance and also
,ot the pledged support of the real
state interests.
A Senate subcommittee studying
he problems of low-income fam
lies revealed that almost 10000
90 families are still trying to live
n under $1,000 year. In the first
major Federal Power Commission
since Leland Olds was de-
eated, Pacific Gas and Electric I
%. won a plum and consumers got
shellacking.
December: Leaders of democra-
ic unions throughout the world !
net in London to form the Int'l
Confederation of Free Trad e
Jnions. Phillip Murray and Will
am Green were named vice-pres-
lents. Five Americans are on the
eneral council.
A CIO political action conference !
tapped its 1850 campaign, concen- {
rating on congressional districts /
here the fight was won or lost by
bout five per cent In its first pub i
shed financial report, the CIO list
i its net worth at 81 ,4S0,313-or {
bout % cents for each of its mem '
ers. Z
NLRB General Counsel Robert i