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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29

union anyway? Maybe there was
our story.
Turned out he'd been active in
the Screen Actors Guild a long
time, but he'd known about unions
even longer. He worked on the
waterfront once, not as sailor,
but as clerk. He knows why they
have unions on the waterfront, and
other places too.
To hear him tell it, there's no
reason why he should be vice-pre-
sident of the Screen Actors Guild.
According to his version, the guild
was seeking young blood for its ex-
ecutive board right after the war,
wanted some veterans too. Hold
en- qualified on both counts. So
he's the vice-president. There must
be more to it than that, we decided.
What special problems are they
facing in the movies these days,
we asked him.
Unemployment, he told us, un-
employment and the slump in the
picture business. Competition from
television is hitting the movies
hard. TV makes jobs for enter
tainers, he said, but not for many
movie people. Seems few movie
people are multiple card holders.
Kids work in movies, lose their
jobs and first thing you know
they're back jerking sodas or clerk
ing hotels. "It's tough" Bill Hold
en- said.
Then there are other problems.
England has rs per cent tax on
US films, and there's a lid on the
profits an American company can
take from Britain. To offset this,
the movie industry tires to use
British profits to make movies over
there. Leaves the boys in California
holding the bag. "It's not the in
dustry's fault" Holden said. "The
industry can't do anything about
it."
At this point a waiting mob of
school kids broke us up. They
wanted autographs. "Hey, lady,
don't yuh know schools out?" they
yelled. SO we headed back for the
office.
One thing bothered us. We'd seen
lots of union leaders who talked
like actors. But here was an actor
who talked like a business agent.
Like a good one, too.
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small groups in congressional dis
tricts to see that their congress
man "votes right.
But when it came to a letter to
a Rhode Island man about a coali-
tion of northern Republicans and
southern Democrats, Hart put on
another disguise. The fact that he
heads NEG, he said, does not mean
that he gives up his private rights
as citizen. Any such correspond
ence, he said, is not written on
NEG stationary, and goes in his
personal files.
Letters put in the record show
ed that the NEG used the "scare
technique" to raise money. One,
for Operation Snowball", and ad-
dressed to "Dear American, said
"your family and home are in
danger. Even your life may be
Threatened"
Letters also pointed out that
since contributions were for "edu-
cational" purposes, they were de-
ductible for income tax purposes.
The method is to get contributor
to give sum for the NEG publica-
tions, which would be sent to
churches, colleges and Libraries.
Thus the gift was for publications.
Then, arbitrarily, that sum was
earmarked as having paid for a
certain number of publications to
the Azusa, Neb., library of a Che
boygan, Mich, college.
The effect, of course, is that
Uncle Sam-meaning you and I
loses that tax revenue, and is in
directly subsidizing the "Ameri-
canism" message of the NEG. And
to NEG Americanism, Hart said,
means:
Opposition to: federal aid to
education; displaced persons legis-
lation; further immigration; pub
lie housing; middle income hous-
ing; US participation in UN, ITO,
LILO; ratification of the genocide;
convention; FEPC; anti-lynching
bill and other civil rights mea-
sures; rent control; Marshall Plan;
US support for an independent
Israel; social security; farm price
support; Point A program; Reci-
procal Trade Agreements act;
IVA; Atomic Energy Act; World
Federation resolution; communism;
world government; UN; bi-part-
isan foreign policy; militant"
Zionism; anti trust suits against
APP and dupont.
To NEG Americanism means:
Favoring additional restrictions on
labor unions; removal of present
Supreme Court and barring itsl
members from holding judicial of
flee; limiting the governments
taxing power through Constitution
al amendment; a ceiling on incomel
tax levies; aid to Spain; withdraw
al of federal claims to tidelands
oil in favor of the states; taxing
of the cooperatives.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29
ON MINORITIES
BY RUTH TAYLOR

A lot Of thoughtless people are
asking today "Why all this clamor
for rights? Don't minority groups
know when they are well offr'
But-have you noticed how many
of the people who say that, are
those who have never met with
discrimination? They have never
moved outside of their own parti-
cular orbit, but the barrier that has
kept them back has not been that
of restriction" or "discrimina-
ton" Instead it has been lack Of
money, or desire, that restrained
them. As individuals they knew
they were acceptable anywhere.
Before you condemn minority
|pleadings, just sthink how you
would feel if you weren't wanted
not after having had chance
to prove your worth, but before
and regardlessl
Remember that America was
founded by men and women who
were annoyed to action by restric-
tions-on jobs, in lands where
trades descended from father to
son; on religion, where no man
could hold office who did not ad-
here to the creed of the State; on
speech, where the secret police
dogged the steps of those who
thought for themselves-and so on.
All of US who are native born" are
descended from those who objected
to restrictions.
Can we, therefore, be anything
but patient and understanding of
those who are trying to achieve
what we have been born to-equal
treatment as equals, the rights of
being judged as individuals, not
labelled as a minority and held
outside the common life?
These minorities want to belong.
They want the same rights we
possess-the right to work and bel
useful, the right to economic sec
urity, the right to freedom from
want for their families, and, most
important of all, the right to par
ticipate on equal terms in our COM
mon life. Perhaps these minorities
don't all think as we do, nor act as
we would act-but have we given
them the opportunity to learn our
ways of thought, our way Of life?
There is no such thing as equal
ity of possession-but there must
be equality of opportunity. Wei
can provide the education, tradi-
tion and background to give every
one a chance if he has what it |
takes. As the stronger it is up to
us-but we must do it by under
standing and friendliness-not by
or discrimination.
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campaign. the eloquent call Of
Franklin d. Roosevelt that "The
only thing. we have to fear is fear
itself" the unions engineering
department activities Zone of the
funniest scenes in the movie shows
collective bargaining over rates for
a new style) 3. the Unity House
vacation center (starring ILG Pre-
sident Dubinsky's granddaughter
/. the retirement program for the
old timers.
But to understand why the tech
nicians have been able to capture
so much of the spirit of the union
in such brief space, you've got to
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29
incidents Pile Up
AT Enka On Eve
OF Senate Probe

Washington (LPA)-As a Sen
ate subcommittee prepared tC
leave for Morristown, Tenn. tc
conduct an investigation of events
surrounding the Enka strike, Incl
dents continued to pile up at the
scene.
The headquarters of Textile
Workers Union of America, tent
near the textile mill, was stolen.
Union leaders charged state troop
ers chased away the pickets and
walked off with the tent, the chairs
and all the other equipment. Pat
rolmen beat up five Negroes in a
cafe. Only one was a striker.
A scattering of tacks on the
highway was used as an excuse to
call 100 more National Guardsmen
to the area.
Gov. Gordon Browning bitterly
attacked the decision of the Sen
ate Subcommittee on Labor Man
agement Relations to conduct the
investigation at the scene. There
are still states in the union,' said
Browning. 81 think the people in
Washington might assume we know
what our duties are done here. |
will not be intimidated on doing
my duty and | will be the judge of
what is my duty when | know the
facts" The investigation was voted
by the Senate group June 13 over
the loud objections of Senators
Taft and Donnell.
TWUA Washington Representa-
tive John Edelman wrote to SEN
ator James Murray Cd, Mont ex-
planning the unions request for the
investigation was not based solely
on the strike.
Edelman declared, the commit
tee will find "a dramatization of
the now clearly revealed pattern
of violent, opposition to labor
SIN which has spread
throughout the Southern states as
a direct result of the passage of
the Taft-Hartley act"
The so-called violence" which
the newspapers are playing up,
Edelman charged, may very well
be a frame-up to discredit strik-
ers. He cited an incident June 10|
when an unidentified person phoned
the union headquarters. ''We were
told that one of our strikers had|
been killed at a point several miles
from town. A small committee was
sent to investigate. Just a few
minutes before we reached the
point there was a loud dynamite
Whether the purpose
was to actually injure our strik-
ers, or merely to frame them for
a breach of the peace, we cannot
say"
Edelman said TWUA was block
ed from buying radio time on the
ocal station. He pointed out too
that Enka was only few years
ago a part of a Nazi-dominated
,artel.
"The curious resemblance" he
"between the foreign
bread of management policy and
he type of present-day native
Southern anti-labor arrangements
S so striking as to be well worth
he attention of any group having
% do with the problem of labor re-
ations in the United States"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29

A union is really grown up when
its members can look back on the
thorny paths, laugh merrily at the
lighter moments, and weep for its
martyrs. And when a union with
the stormy history of the Int'l
Ladies Garment Workers reaches
it's 50th birthday, it takes a skill
full and sympathetic group of tech
nicians to pack into a 40-minute
movie the laughs and tears that
make the union an American insti-
tuition.
A Broadway opening on June Is
brings to the American public such
a story of the ILG, in a movie
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29
Film Actor Talks Like
Business Ageat---And He Is

washington (LPA) - screen
actor Bill Holden's in town." the
note on our desk said. "He's to do
some scenes for the movie Born
Yesterday. He's vice-president of
the Screen Actors Guild. Think you
could get story without swoon-
ing?"
Could we? We sure could. What
if we did swoon. Bill Holdeni The
choice was Holden or some Con-
gressman, or bloke in the Labor
Department who had a message.
No choice at all, if you know what
| mean.
We grabbed our lipstick. Wished
we'd had the hair done yesterday.
Off we dashed to the Jefferson
Memorial. That's where director
George Cukor was supposed to be
putting our hero and a young lady
named Judy Holiday through their
PAGES under the shadow of Mr..
Jefferson himself-his statue we
mean. What Mr.. J-would have
thought of the goings-on we don't
know. The old boy might have rails
ed an eyebrow.)
We moseyed around till we saw
a real good looking fellow in a
light suit. We took look at our
compact, gathered our courage and
said, pardon me, aren't you Mr.
Holden?"
"No, man," he said, 81 amt.
Pm the driver of the sight seeing
bus"
~ we walked around some more
until we spotted three friendly
looking fellows talking on the
steps. Why one of them might be
Bill Holden, we thought. They were
that friendly looking.
Beg your pardon, we said-al
most curtsying - but did one
of them know where Mr.. Holden
might be?
'I'm Bill Holden" one of them
replied. And, glory be, it was.
We were from Labor Press Asso-
citation, we told him. We wanted an
interview with the vice e-president
of the Screen Actors Guild, we
said.
Labor press, Screen Actors
Guild, why that's what we were
talking about, said Holden as his
colleagues agreed. Stick around
and listen. We stuck, and you
could have knocked us over with a
four-page weekly. Still, as things
turned out, we might as we'll have
been standing in the lobby of AFL
headquarters.
Seems Bill Holden has the same
problems as any other labor leader.
The union takes up so much time.
81 was just telling these boys II
was thinking about resigning," hel
said.
j, 1t was the pressure, he explain
ed. Too much to do. Meetings,
meetings, meeting, all the time.
"I've got three-kids, four, six and
twelve" he went on, "and | neverI
have a chance to see them"
Up in the morning, start to|
shave, Holden said. A man ought /
to whistle when he shaves. "Do |
whistler" he asked. "No. | think.
| have to go see Dore Schary-wel
have to talk about the union. A
man ought to be allowed to go back
to whistling after he's shaved
thinking about union business four
or five years"
All very interesting, but notl
much of story for US, we thought.
Nobody has to talk to an actor
labor leader to learn how hard it is
to find time to do what has to be
done. An agent for the butchers,
the carpenters, the auto workers,
the dressmakers, the sailors could
tell you that.
What about Bill Holden's back |
ground? =? How'd he get into the
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realize that the script was written
by Morton Wishengrad, who was
one of the youngsters who organiz-
ed the garment center's shipping
clerks during the depression, and
who later worked for several ILG
locals in New York as educational
director before becoming author Of
such radio scripts as "Commun-
ism -USA" and "The Eternal
Light" And when the movie was
cast, the two leading roles went to
Sam Levene-who once worked as
a cutter-and to Joseph Wiseman,
who turned out to be the son of
ILG members in New Haven, Conn.
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| all the Marshall Plan countries. In
line with its spreading activities,
the confederation will open a New
York office to handle its relations
with the United Nations. An office
will also be opened in Geneva to
aid in closer relations with the In
Iternational Labor Organization.
I. = +
A sound argument for giving or
ganized labor direct voice in the
administration Of United States
government domestic and foreign
activities is made by the American
Federation of Labor in its official
magazine, the American Fedora
ZIONIST. An editorial by William
Green says:
There should be proportionate
representation for organized work
ers in the executive branch of the
government in Washington and in
our diplomatic delegations to other
countries, as well as in our repre-
sentation in United Nations agen-
cies. The problems and interests of
wage earners today are worldwide.
In view Of the fact that organized
labor has gained a position of great
influence in all industrial countries,
it is indispensable that our gov
ernment have the benefit of the
experience and knowledge of rep
resentatives of wage earners in adj
ministrative and diplomatic posi-
tion.
Emphasizing the support which
Samuel Gompers gave to genuine
international labor solidarity,
Matthew Vol said:
"Gompers realized that the labor
movement Of no single country
could remain free and stay pros
porous long if the working people
of other lands were not free and
were subjected to low standards of
life and labor. That is why he pion-
eered in the formation Of the Inter-
national Labor Organization and
laid special stress on raising the
standards and improving the con-
ditions of the toiling folk in the
under-developed countries"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29
Lauds Union Aides In Battle For
Veto OF Basing Point Bill

Washington OPA) = Speaking
on the floor of the house June 10,
Rep. Wright Patman ID, Tex
paid high tribute to union officials
who worked successfully with
farm, cooperative and small busi-
ness groups for a veto of the bas-
ing point price bill.
George Nelson, who represented
the International Association of
Machinists, and Donald Montgo-
merry, for the CIO "gave generous
ly of their time and talents" in the
fight, Patman told the Congress
men.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29

called with These Hands. "'It will
be made available for showing in
theaters and union halls all over
the country, and should go a long
way to interpret this unique union
just as unique in it's way as the
typos, the rail mems, the auto and
steel workers union are-to pro-
labor men and women, and the
youngsters who have only read in
the books about the contributions
of the New York garment workers
to American political and economic
life.
The old-timers who still can
hear the screams of the victims of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29

the Triangle fire, who still talk
"dressmakers' English" that the
movies actors make so richly ex-
pressive, like this film. Some of
them aren't too pleased at the way
the Communist attempts to take
over the union in the '20s-which
nearly sapped the unions strength
are handled in the film. But
they're tickled at the inclusion in
the splendid musical score of the
ditty of unknown authorship that
the Commies sang in the shops
"The cloakmakers' union, is a no
good union, is company union by
the boss" (Sad to relate, the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-06-29

movies star, Sam Levene who
played in Crossfire, The Babe
Ruth Story and. other hits, turned
out to be tone-deaf, so it's not
rendered with operate skillD
In 40 minutes, it's miracle that
director Jack Arnold has managed
to pack in so much of the unions
life-the old days when an opera
tor trudged the streets of the East
Side of New York, sewing mach
inc on his shoulder, looking for
work. the blood curdling cough
of the consumptive worker :. the
Triangle fire, and the 1911 gener-
al strike. the Hillquit election
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Buy Union-M Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
Evening star., 1950-03-29
Exclusively Yours
Embassies Shocked When Presented With Something Gratis
Whitneys Have First Chonee to Live Westbuy House

ception at the Chevy Chase Club.
Elene's attendants VIII include
Eleanor Burton, Beverly Earring
ton, Judy Gill, Fiji Fisher and
Jean Holden. the daughter of the
Commandant of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Bolstering Johnnie
during his last moments of bache-
lordom will be his brother Law
and best man. Bill Kerkam, and
Phil Nash, Ted Rolph, Arthur w.
Deffenderfer, Alfred Brandt and
Rufus Lusk, jr.
First thing in the gay and giddy
department for the engaged
couple is the square dance Mary
and Bud Deffenderfer will stage
at the Battery Lane Clubhouse
on April 8. Sharing honors will
be Fiji Fisher and her fiance,
and Fiji will spend the rest of her
life explaining who she married.
A week after Elene's wedding Fiji
will become the bride of Thomas
Edison, and he had nothing to
do with the electric light. He's
a doctor and very much alive.
Beverly will have cocktail
party for Elene and Johnnie on
the 18th; Bessie and Bill Ker-
kam will be hosts at = cocktail
party and kitchen shower for
them the following day, and
Elene's stepfather and mother,
Capt. and Mrs. William J. Murphy,
will entertain the bridal party at
supper on the Goth.
Tall, lanky Glen Conger Of the
State Department is all grins.
His pretty wife. the former Lianne
Hopkins of New York and Wash
ington, presented him with a son
last week, one William Ramsay
Conger.
Evening star., 1950-03-29
Emily Post

After many months the follow
ing question is again asked: What
finger should my fiance's wedding
ring be fitted to? I think the
left ring finger goes for the bride
groom as we'll as the bride and
that a mans little finger is only
supposed to be for other rings he
might wear. But he seems to
think a man may wear all rings,
including his wedding ring, on the
little finger. We will need your
help to decide this"
Here in America, most men of
fastidious taste wear their rings
Gncluding a wedding one) on
their little finger. In other coun-
tries, the third finger is custo-
mary. In any case. this question
must be decided by the personal
preference of the bridegroom. In
other words, there is no fixed
rule governing a mans wedding
ring that is similar to the rule
that the brides ring must be
placed on the third finger of her
left hand.
Evening star., 1950-03-29
H0isHp
Gives Party
For Mexican

The Vice Chief of Staff of the
United States Army, Gen. Wade
H. Haislip, was host at a lunch
con yesterday at the Carlton
Hotel. entertaining in honor Of
the Military Attache of the Mexi-
can Embassy, 1t. Gen. Leobardo
C. Ruiz, who will depart shortly
for his homeland.
Gen. Ruiz was presented with a
decoration from our Govern
ment-the Legion of Merit-Order
of Commander, for his sincere
efforts in bettering an UNDER
standing between the armed
forces of Mexico and the United
States.
The Mexican Ambassador, Sc
nor Don Rafael de la Colina, was
among the guests, as were the
Counselor, Senor Don Carlos
Peon del Vale; the Consul Gen.
eral, Senor Don Rafael Aveleyra:
the First Secretary, Senor Don
Justo Sierra; and the Assistant
Military Attache, Brig. Gen. Al
berto Salinas.
Still others were 1t. Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgway. 1t. Gen.
Thomas B. Larkin, 1t. Gen. AL
fred NJ Gruenther, Maj. Gen.
Frederick A. Irving, Maj. Gen.
Robinson E. Duff, Brig. Gen.
James E. Moore, Brig. Gen.
Arthur R. Harris, COL A. J.
Drexel Biddle, Col. John H. Stod-
ter. Col. Paul Freeman. 1t. Col.
John F. Condor and 1t. Col.
Frederick Judson.
Evening star., 1950-03-29
Ambassadors Wife Entertained

colored spring costumes, the party
took on the air of a fashion show
Bright yellow jonquils and vari-
colored tulips mixed with other
spring flowers decorated the six
tables. each of which was presided
over by the wife of a foreign am
basSador.
The guest of honor and hostess
were at one. Mrs. Norman Maxim
at another, Sonora de Thomen at
a third, and Lady Berendsen,
Sonora de la Colina and Sonora
de Berckemeyer at the three re-
naming tables. Easter bunnies in
the center of each where inscribed
with the names of the table hos
tesses.
Among the eighty guests were
Nine. Thors. Nine. Jutila, Nine
Abello, DR.. Mica Trbojevic, Nine
Kwapiszewska, Mrs. Charles F.
Brannan, Mrs. Stanley K. Horn
beck. Mrs. Wade H. Haislip, Mrs
Leslie l.. Biff1e, Mrs. Dennis
Chavez. Mrs. Edward Eugene Cox
Mrs. Anthony j. Drexel Biddle
Mrs. Alexander Kirk, Mrs. John N
Greely, Mrs. Francis w. Hill, Jr.
Mrs. Allan Dougherty, Mrs
Arthur w. Vennell, Mrs. Harold
G. Mosier, Mrs. Jesse E. Saugstad
Mrs. Charles F. Wahl, Mrs. Ed
ward F. Bartlett, Mrs. Benjamin D
Hill, Mrs. T. Ridgway Macy, Mrs
Peyton c. March, Mrs. j. Hunte,
Drum, Mrs. Ollie M. James, Mrs
Curtis Shears, Mrs. James A. MIr-
ray, Mrs. Valentine L. Pottle, Mrs
M. Robert Guggenheim and Mrs
I William S. Culbertson.