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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01
Truman Tukes RIGHT Action

In its October 9th edition this the opinion
that considered the death penalty
Leon Gilbert for misconduct the battle field Apparently President
Truman the mind for Monday he committed Gilbert
death sentence Of Army court martial TO 20 hard labor
The fact that have the total facts
Gilbert made most the largely speculative
President Truman had the facts Apparently his decision
careful study which brought him the conclusion
atty too drastic
Even without such facts obvious that the maas
judgement 0bes conduct precipitate
the the fact that he had
In the World War II Italian campaign
The the nation daily deserve
credit for turning the spotlight the Gilbert possibly
Gilbert death penalty
win eventually be reduced
Gilbert had been executed with the widespread doubt
the fairness Of the sentence the would
Fifth district Legion commander pointed recently
much unfavorable reaction from citizens everywhere
did play q
decision cancel the death penalty for Gilbert We believe
viii applaud his action.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01
Negro girl who happened to be member of the league


Whean right interviewed all
tiers at the alley the Of members of the league and the
Of the alley He found member the
said he would told
nions bylaws forbid the
bers Other pinsees at the alleys told Whan they would
for the alleys regardless bowling
alley employers this longer going be able to hide be
hind the excuse that pin settlers prejudced
Whean thus by prompt action able to establish that the
difficulty semmed from the action Of ONE pin ALL
the We by this
raised the that actually inspired
discrimination.
with fairness desire bad Strengthened
to be commended well his union.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01

promised Christmas shopping
going looking the Twin City loop
windows the wonderful displays
before around to viewing them the Dig os-
the stores This year
going rubberneckng at Day
Emporium Donadson Schunemans the Baker Co., the
and others In order to the wonders OF the
displays football tactics but we
know of the windows worth It.
testimonial Nov 81 the Hotel Mcoue
table We remarked to our
tables which filled the there
celebrities fill head table at almost occa
and rounds of praise
Minneapolis superintendent Of public relief for the
charge did the neatest job Of ban
quet giving we've seen in many day.
principal "WorlxHorse" Pearson Min
Housing and Of the Board of Pub
During years this business Pearson
grooming and grntng relation
Usually the beefng side with
correspondent doing most Of the beehng.
when during the escorted
the Twin Cities
Brighton It VIP Very Important
questions and comments the
remembered longest At that time there $4,000 per-
employed operation something
time have waxed edtoraly critical of
his ability public servant For
Bohannon Negro his assistant
of his big
justified Parsons confidence in
cabre
distinction Good luck ole
public the of public
sponsbites - that of dispensing public rehef-cEN
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01

given the thing they asked of and staff the
could do and be judged that fact
nothing
hope Mnnesoas next coach will the need for
treating with Of the picture
place for color ma
u competitive college sports Perhaps aren't
very at this late daeI rather think
which promsef to
Big Ten of
questionable considerably
other hand. ability and carries to
university toward Negro
Indignation competitive sports viii do
markable job in jeopardizng this program
closing long grid at Min
auded practically daily in the u
department straight To the
nked mserably in the human
department important phase in democratic
unfamiliar Judge by his individual ability not
by Newman $500 Fourth
Ave g, Minneapolis
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sions was held Imply In your hand and your pencil
was back In the breast pocket from which you had
taken II at the start Of the concert
The great Mr.. B." was singing. You had known
he was marvellous for you yourself were of those
who had first encouraged him to abandon the haz-
ardous business Of baton twrling In front of a band
to go out and give the world the magic of his voice
You and your paper had urged him on every
step of the way as he got bigger and the magazines
and newspapers filled with raves, the fan clubs
mushroomed. the men nodded approvingly and the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01

Certainly the oyear election trend makes administration
dependent that has been southern
Democrats maintain vote either particularly
Senate Is rmored the majority floor leadership upper
chamber south Of the Mason Dixon line then
deed that the fair employment practices bill other
Presidents cvghs program will
Science Monitor
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01

make fortunes Many ae Priesthood ntpisery
They deliberately reject the
Many OF the greatest minds America found schools colleges
and universities where their abilities guide
efforts into money did
there would be no in America The accomplish
in medicine
lucrative practices and spend their days laboratories
Thank Heaven that the bank
ment Of human very poor land
Grand Rapids Review
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01

swooned But tonight this greater
your fondest dreams.
You got tremendous feeling. sweeping
Of them thrill when MIR. B." launched
his greatest numbers, ~ Like II Here"
1t that tells of the pigs
hot dogs which America
plumber 1t which triumph
strength Of a song speaks the
evils which s haunt the American dream
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and belief and faith. Billy Eckstine sings
It as no one else could. He sings 1t with a
rollicking good humor and a fine under
standing
Sitting there watching Billy Eckstine
singing Il Like 1t Here" you thought of
another beige American singer of songs
He is a man who. in many circles these
days, bears a tremendous unpopularity
For, while Mr., b." is singing the songs
of faith and hope, dashed with strains of
nihtancy. Mr. r., the tremendous Paul
Robson, is singing the songs of protest,
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MR.. "B" AND MR.. IRA
TALE OF TWO BALLADEERS

BY Billy Rowe In the Courier
York-Sittng Carnegie a Saturday evening
watched with attention slender
swayed slightly In front of the mike.
HIS voice rich the tappngs a knights
q midtown the hues
rainbow
You had forgotten you reporter covering
The notebook you usually impress
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1950-12-01
PENALTY FOR PAYING CASH

hts sad state OF affairs when who has paid all his bills
with cash the barehead finds that get
he has credit rating No firm his credit
they had bills against hmPeOPes Lyndon Kan
aid
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
ST. Louis Landlords Sing Rent Control
Blues. Hate TO See Those Profits Down

st. Louis (LPA)-A noisy crowd
of 5000, mostly landlords, jammed
the City Hall rotunda here Jan.
81 to demand the Board Of Alder
men get local rent controls lifted.
Their arguments seemed to make
little impression, and after the
meeting Mayor Joseph M. Darst
declared he still opposed decontrol.
The landlords asserted a survey
by the Property Owners League
showed 1908 vacant housing units
or about three per cent and proved
control unnecessary. One of their
spokesmen openly admitted units
were being withheld from the mar
ket deliberately until rents went
up. He said any landlord who didn't
hold out for a profit "was a sap"
Labor and other liberal spokes-
men, although booed and Kissed
took the survey apart. Oscar A.
Ehrhardt, secretary of the st.
Louis CIO Council, denounced it as
"a bit fictitious" and said the land
lords were unwilling to make a
factual survey of existing, avail
able units" Ehrhardt also cited
what had happened in cities, not
ably Dallas, where controls had
been lifted.
John |. Rollings, secretary of
the AFL Central Trades & Labor
Union, agreed with Ehrhardt and
declared crowded family conditions
now existing are not conducive to
good health, morals or worker pro-
ductivity.
After the meeting four aldermen
came out flatly against the land
lords. One told reporters that many
Of the indicated vacancies were in
buildings about to be condemned
to make way for a new inter-reg-
ional highway.
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it was against medical society
policy. He said that, the doctor
soberly told the court, because he
didn't want to hurt the associa-
tion's feelings by telling them the
real reasons. Another doctor ad-
mitted writing a similar letter in
1887, but claimed he hadn't been
coerced into writing it by medical
society pressure. He might, he ad-
mitted, have been influenced" by
the medical society policy, but not
coerced.
The one legitimate reason given
by some of the doctors-that the
commercial associations insisted on
consultation with lay association
officials on diagnosis before sur
|gery-was destroyed when it was
discovered that the doctors SER
vice did the same thing, where
heavy expense was involved.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Steel Profits
Are Highest
In 20 Years

New York (LPA) - US Steel
Corporation, which boosted steel
prices $4 and blamed union pen
sions for the hike, made net pro-
fit of $165, 1858, ,806 in 1919, the
highest figure since 1929, despite
the steel strike. If there had been
no strike, US Steel profits would
have hit an all-time high.
So lush was the income that the
quarterly dividend on common
stock was boosted from so cents
a share to 65 cents, jump of 30
per cent. And the near7record pro-
fit was made on sales that were
SITS, ,065, AL below the sales for
1913. In other words, US Steel sold
less in 1949 than in 1948 but made
more profit.
I'm Washington, Sen. O'Mahoney
Cd, Wyo.), heading the committee
which held hearings on the recent
steel price hike, said the US Steel
profit statement was another
demonstration that they are taking
it out of the consumers unnecess-
arily," declared the report indicates
that steel prices should be cut, and
added 81 think those fellows are
doing their best to have themselves
declared public utilities.")
(The NY Times headline on the
story was the increase in the di-
vidend; the profit was reported in
the bank of the head. The NY Jour
nal of Commerce also headlined
the dividend hike, and the bank
said earnings were highest in 20
years; the NY Herald Tribune put
the profit angle in its top head
the Washington Post had 3-col-
umn head, with the top line on the
dividend, the second line on the
profits. The Washington Star de-
voted its entire headline to the di-
vidend hike, gave the story only
five short paragraphs.)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
c. DELBERT McLANE

C. Delbert McLane, 72, died sud
denly Feb. 6 in his home, 323 West
Sixth Street.
Mr.. McLane was born at West
Point and lived in East Liverpool
for 55 years. He was employed as
a warehouseman at the Edwin M
Knowles China Co. for the past 81
years. He was a member of Local
Union 76, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters and the First
United Presbyterian Church. .
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary
Williams McLane; two sons, Rob-
ert McLane of East Liverpool, and
Delbert McLane of Midland; two
daughters, Mrs. Harold Brozka
and Mrs. Richard Evans of East
Liverpool; a brother, Clark Nc
Lane, two sisters, Miss AIDA Nc
Lane and Mrs. Georgia Campbell,
all of East Liverpool, and four
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
UAW Drafting New
Contract Demands
At ChrysIer Corp.

Detroit (LPA) - The Chrysler
committee of the Unit
ed Auto Workers met here Feb. 6
to draft demands on the ChrysleI
Corporation for contract changes
and 1875 delegates from Chryslel
locals will meet, as the Chrysler
conference Feb. for the same
purpose.
The present contract with Chry-
sler runs to Aug. /, but clause
provides that the contract is auto
matically reopened if strike oc-
ours. The $4,000 Chrysler workers
walked out Jan. 90 in a dispute
over pensions.
The corporation has refused two
opportunities to give its version of
the dispute, preferring to make it
answers in advertisements. The
Detroit News invited both sides to
prepare 1000-word statements. The
UAW complied; the company re-
fused. Whereupon the News de-
clined to print the union statement.
The UAW station, WDET offered
free time for a round table discus
sion. The company refused.
The JAW will start assessing
all it's working members 81 week,
beginning Feb. 8, for the strike
fund.
The union has released to the
press the statement the Detroit
News turned down. In it Walter
Reuther, UAW president, refuted
the Chrysler claims. He says if
Chrysler had actually made a pro-
posal for a genuine, foolproof,
lasting and guaranteed pension"
and if the corporation had made
"any reasonable offer" on a hospi-
tal-medical plan, there would have
been no strike. He says Chrysler
rejected every reasonable offer be-
cause Chrysler "was determined to
force its cut-rate, unsound, non
guaranteed pension plan" on the
union. "By slick propaganda, most
notable by its omission of any
mention of the numerous and fatal
flaws in its pension offer the
Corporation has sought to con-
vince the Chrysler workers and the
public that its pension proposal is
as good as any"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
McF Fetridge Named
Member Of AFL
Executive Council

Miami Beach, Fla. LPA)-The
AFL's executive council, in quart
erly session here, named William
l.. McFetridge to the vacancy in
its ranks caused by the death last
year of William d. Mahon, former
president of the Street & Electric
Railway Employees.
McFetridge, Sc, has been pres
ident of the Building Service EN-
ployes Int'l Union since 1910. He
is also vice president of the Illinois
Federation of Labor and a COM
missioner of the Chicago Park
Board. Under his leadership, the
BSElU had doubled its member
ship.
The AFL council heard a full re-
port from the l0-man AFL delega-
tion to the December meeting in
London at which the 1nt'l Confed-
GRAFTON of Free Trade Unions was
established as the western worlds
answer to the Communist-domin-
ated World Federation of Trade
Unions. The report was presented
by AFL President William Green
who took leading part in shaping
the 1CFTU's structure and policies
The council adopted a statement
emphasizing it's awareness that the
new body would face fanatic hos
tility and fiendish opposition
around the world from the Soviet
run WFTU, and that "reactionaries
of all stripes" would be against
the ICFTU because it favored
"free labor and human decency."
Nevertheless, free trade unionism
i is the strongest possible bulwark
against the spread of Communism,
the statement said.
AS the mid-winter session of the
council moved into a second week,
the AFL leaders asked the Senate
to approve the United Nations anti
genocide pact because of tragic
developments" behind the Iron
Curtain. The council charged that
Soviet dictator Joseph Stain and
his henchmen are trying to wipe
out the Jewish race.
The council denounced State De-
partment plans to grant Franco
Spain full diplomatic recognition.
If the US should renew full rec0g-
milton of Franco, the council said,
recognition of Communist China
would become perfectly logical.
Such a course would lead the US
"from one fatal blunder to anoth-
err, the council reasoned, declaring
that recognition of Franco would
play into Russia's hands all over
the world.
During the first week of the ses-
sion, the council called for enact
ment of the middle income housing
bills now before Congress and re-
buked General Counsel Robert N.
Denham of the Natl Labor Rela-
tions Board for an attack on the
AFL Teamsters. Denham was term
ed unfit to hold office.
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S25, 900.
Appealing for tougher taxes OF
big estates, Snyder testified thai
in the last 10 years, while exemp
tions from the income tax were be
ing cut so low that they applied
to poor people, the exemptions fol
rich estates had been increased
chiefly in the Republican tax bill
two years ago.
The tax on an income Of $l0,0OC
has risen from 4 to l6 per cent
the tax on an estate of $250,C0C
has fallen from IL per cent to 4
per cent. Statistics were presented
showing that many big estates
were escaping death taxes almost
completely through various loop
holes.
"No other method of raising this
additional revenue would have less
serious effects ON the economy
Snyder testified.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
AFL Bldg. Trades
Meet In Florida

Miami Beach, Fla. (LPA)-In a
conference preceding the mid-wint-
-er meeting of the AFL Executive
Council, the AFL Building Trades
Department assembled to discuss
the building crafts status under
Taft Hartley, and the Federal
Housing Administrations inability
to enforce prevailing wages on its
projects and other matters.
Late last year, the Building
Trades asked the Natl Labor Re-
lations Board to establish method
whereby unions in the construction
industry could be recognized be-
cause of the demonstrated impos-
sibility of holding elections. A
hearing on the matter was unsat-
isfactory because the board coupled
it with hearing in a specific case.
The Building Trades spokesmen at
that time presented briefs but did
not argue orally.
FHA officials say that although
the law calls for prevailing wages
as determined by the Sec'y OF
Labor, on their projects, they have
no authority to enforce compliance.
The Building Trades Department
has asked that the FILA be giver
such authority by Congress.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
FLOYD POLLOCK

Floyd "Pete" Pollock, 494 Mon
roe Street, died suddenly Feb. 2 il
City Hospital, following a hear
attack. He died a few minutes after
being admitted. He was 81.
Mr.. Pollock was an amateur
baseball player during his young
er days. He was a caster at the
Harker Pottery Co. and affiliated
with Local Union a, National Bro.
therhood of Operative Potters.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Mary
c. Pollock at home; daughter
Bernice Pollock of East Liver.
pool; three sisters, Mrs. Flora
Mendell of Canton, Mrs. Myrtle
Holler of jamestown, Pa, and
Mrs. Hazel Edgell of East Liver
pool two brothers, Sherd Pollock
and Jack Pollock, both of East
Liverpool; three stepdaughters
Mrs. Dora Mountford of Erie, Pa.
and Mrs. Kathryn Swan and Mrs
William Hoskinson, both of East
Liverpool, and a step-son, James
Mackey, also of East Liverpool
and six grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Antitrust Units
Favor Bill To
Raise Penalties

Washington (LPA)-Strong sup
port for legislation providing high
er penalties for antitrust law
violations was voiced before Sen
ate Judiciary Subcommittee Feb.
/ by the Justice Department and
the Federal Trade Commission.
Spokesman for both agencies
urged the committee to approve
the Walter bill raising fines from
$4,000 to $4,000. The ETC official
james w. Cassedy-speaking for
himself, urged the committee to
boost the penalty even bigger. Cas-
sedy said he doubted that $4,000
was enough, for big corporations
which make many times that in a
day. He said $4,000 penalty was
mo penalty at all" for General
Motors, which recently reported
making $500, 100000 i'm a year.
Cassidy suggested sliding
scale of penalties, based on the
PtolitS VI hitC IOl pOl dtioi. liC Sdiu
a penalty of 5 or 10 per cent of the
profits made during the period of
violation would prove a deterrent.
Herbert Bergson, assistant at
torney-general in charge of anti
trust enforcement, testified the
Justice Department "wholeheart-
edly" supports the Walter bill be-
cause the antitrust penalties were
inadequate originally and have be-
come more so as the value of the
dollar has declined. He noted that
the dupont company had paid a
total of $4,000 in IL antitrust
cases, and compared that to profits
of $l48,000,O00 in a single year.
"An increase in the penalty
would help to make the punishment
fit the crime," Bergson said. Rep.
Keating Or, N.Y. commented that
the "cost of SHINING ought at least
to keep pace with the cost of liv-
ing"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Oregon Doctors Admit They
Are lust Like Hucksters

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-What the
organized doctors of Oregon tried
to do to the commercial hospital
insurance plans which for years
had served the wood workers of
the state is just what one big de-
partment store does to beat an
other big department out of bust.
ness.
That's the way DR.. John II. Bes-
son of Portland, one of the defend
ants in the federal suit charging
monopoly practices in medical care,
described what he had done in re-
fusing to treat men and women
whose bills would be paid by the
hospital association. It's strictly
huckstering.
"If | have done anything against
any prepaid medical plan it would
only be in the same way that Meier
& Frank does something against
Lipman Wolfe (local department
stores) in the way of competitive
business" DR.. Besson told the
court. "My allegiance was to the
medical society organization which
was established to furnish prepaid
medicine of the people (the Oregon
Physicians Service) and | felt we
had better type of goods to offer
the people and | was promoting
and pushing it, and was trying to
get business before the competition
did"
On trial are eight doctors, eight
county medical societies, several
individuals, and the Oregon Physi-
clans Service. The trial, now in it's
second phase, earlier had featured
testimony by officers of the Int'l
Woodworkers and lumber company
officials that doctors had refused
to treat people belonging to at
least two long established COM
mercial hospital associations. The
defendants deny all of the anti
trust charges. The suit was filed
Oct. 18, 1948, and the trial opened
a year later.
Several doctors had earlier testi-
fled that they had been dropped
from the medical society because
they treated members of prepay
ment groups not approved by the
doctors organizations. veral
others told of threats that they
would be dropped
DR.. Karl H. Martzloff, a rugged
individualist who testified that he
refuses to treat patients through
any prepaid plan, including the
local medical society's plan, de-
Tended expulsions as indefinitely
justified" on grounds that such
doctors had proceeded against
the principles of ethics" of the
American Medical Assn by taking
tickets of commercial hospital as
sociations. He called the suit a
"Hitler technique" and said the
government men represented "the
Red wing of the federal admins
tration."
One doctor witness said he had
written to the Natl Hospital Asso-
citation to say he would not accept
any more of their tickets because
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
Stock holders Are
Warned of Strike
In Newspaper Ads

! New York (LPA)-If the Sea
farers Int1 Union-AFL has tc
strike the Cities Service Oil Com
pany to get contract covering the
firms tankers, Cities Service stock
holders won't be able to claim
ignorance of the outfits anti-union
practices.
To make sure, the SIU's Atlantic
g. Gulf District ran full page ads
in the NY Times and the NY Her
aid Tribune explaining the dispute
in full. The ads, addressed specifi-
cally to Cities Service stockholders,
will also appear in Boston, Phila-
delphia and New Orleans papers,
the union announced.
In the ads, the STU charges
Cities Services refuses to bargain
collectively although the union was
certified by the Natl Labor Rela-
tions Board in December to repre-
sent seamen on the tankers. Certi-
fication was granted after two
NLRB elections in which the tank
er crews voted almost 9 to | for
the STU.
The STU puts its case in the dol
lars-and-cents terms that stock
holders are supposed to understand.
The union has accused the com
pany of firing upward of $50 men
for labor activity, the ads point
out, and it is made clear that if the
complaints are upheld by the NLRB
the company stands to lose humid