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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
NLRB Rules Out
Phony Woge Do+o
In Bargaining

Washington (LPA) - The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board has
cracked down on another company
device to obstruct true collective
bargaining, in a case involving the
B. F. Goodrich Co. and the Rubber
Workers, acting for 10000 en-
ployes at the Akron plant.
The company had furnished an
alphabetical list Of employees and a
separate list Of pay scales in var
iOus departments, but refused to
match the two lists so the union
could tell what Individual employees
were actually being paid.
The board ruled this was a
phony, and ordered the company to
supply data ''in a manner not 50
burdensome or time-consuming as
to impede the process of bargain
ing" Specifically, the board order
ed the company to: furnish a list
of all workers, identified by name,
department and payroll number,
showing the salary of each employe
before and Immediately after a
horizontal increase July l, 1948,
the present salary Of each employe;
the number of performance rating
points received by each employe in
the last rating.
The board ruled the union needed
this data to bargain effectively and
to determine whether the wage
provisions of the contract were be-
ing administered properly. The
Board also ordered the company to
supply information on merit raises.
The union originally requested
the data Jan. 20, 1949, then COM
planned to the NLRB. A trial ex-
aminer filed a report Nov. IA, 1919,
upholding the union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
Council Endorses
Proposal To Aid
LLPE Activities

Philadelphia (LPA) = The AFL
Executive Council on May 9, the
second day of its spring meeting
here, endorsed proposal by
Labor's League for Political Edu-
cation that all AFL unions be as
sessed 10 cents a head to support
LLPEs educational activities. Such
an assessment would be purely vol
untary, AFL President William
Green emphasized, and it would be
paid from union treasures.
The Council also endorsed sec
ond LLPE proposal that a special
campaign be conducted in June and
July to persuade AFL members to
contribute So a piece to support the
Leagues activities in connection
with next falls Congressional cleo
tions. This en dorse m ent was
strongly urged by Joseph keenan,,
LLPE director.
In addition, the Council approx
ed the invitation Green had sent
to the international Association of
Machinists, asking the IAN to re-
turn to the AFL fold, Green told
reporters. The lam left the AFL
in 1915, following a jurisdictional
dispute with the Carpenters. At its
Miami meeting last winter, the
Council voted to invite the lam
back. Now it's up to the IAN MEM
bership who will vote in a refer
endum on the issue. Green said the
AFL expects and wants the lam
to vote to return.
Further action by the Council in
cluded strong endorsement of Pres
ident Truman's "Plan H." reor-
ganizing the National Labor Rela-
tions Board. Under the plan, the
NLRB's general counsel would lose
the independence he's enjoyed un-
der the Taft-Hartley Act, and the
present counsel, Robert n. Denham,
would be hunting a job. While
labor's opposition to the present
setup is partly rooted in its dis
taste for Denham's bias against the
unions, labor also points out that
as now organized under two heads
the NLRB is a house divided.
President Green said he was con-
fident that committees of the AFL
and CIO would meet "in the near
future" to discuss possible plans for
merger. Twenty-four hours earl
ier, the Council rejected CIO Pres
ident Murray's proposal for a
standing committee of all Ameri-
can labor to coordinate legislative
and other matters, but at the same
time offered to send a committee to
discuss "organic unity" with the
CIO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
US Court Backs
Firms Refusal To
Obey NLRB Order

New Orleans (LPA)-The diff
culties put in the way of union or
ganization by the Taft Hartley act
have been illustrated anew by the
decision Of the US Circuit Court
here in the case of the National
Labor Relations Board VS. the Pos
tex Cotton Mills, Post, Tex.
The board had ordered Postex to
stop refusing to recognize the Tex
tile Workers as the exclusive bar
gaining representative of its work
ers. When the firm declined the
board asked the court to order the
firm to comply. The court refused.
The NLRB, the court ruled, lack
ed jurisdiction because at the time
of the board order President Philip
Murray and other top officials had
not filed the non-Communist affi-
davits required by the Taft Hartley
act, although the officers of the af-
fected local were then in compli-
ance. Murray and other top off
cials complied July 20, 1949.
Judge Robert Russell, in uphold
ing the company, said the US twill
not knowingly aid or nurture those
pledged to its destruction" He adj
ded that a non-Communist affi-
davit was ''prima facie evidence
that the person making the affi-
davit does not advocate the over
throw of the Government"
In permitting a charge Of unfair
labor practice to come before it in
the Postex case, the NLRB had
oYerruled Robert N. Denham, its
general counsel, who had held the
case was without merit until Muir
ray signed the non-Communist af-
fidavits.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

the United Mine Workers, propos-
ing a standing committee to coor-
dinate the activities of all labor on
economic, legislative and political
problems. Both the Machinists and
the UNIV later indicated their
willingness to meet with other
groups to consider the proposal,
but the rail brotherhoods have not
yet replied.
In his letter, Green said that the
Executive Council felt that the
Murray proposal would not "accom-
plish the desired objective, viz, or
ganic unity in the labor forces of
America" The AFL council, Green
wrote, felt that its counter-propos-
al eff realized, will lead to organic
unity for all forces and groupings
of organized labor in America y
Murray had placed joint action now
ahead of actual organic unity.
At, a press conference, Green i'm
piled that he would not be surpris-
ed if events moved swiftly. Green
did not mention the fact, but Muir
ray was attending the convention
of the United Steelworkers, of
which he is also president, in At
lantic City only 60 miles away.
The AFL leader pointed out that
the CIO proposal differed from pre-
vious efforts at labor unity in sew
eral respects, notably because it
included the rail brotherhoods. He
said the brotherhoods always had
been Independent and that they
probably would remain so. In addi-
ton, he declared that any action by
the brotherhoods would inevitably
be a longdrawn process.
The AFL chief emphasized that
the executive council was not lay
ing down any advance terms as a
basis for a meeting with the CIO.
However he said that if an AFL
committee met with a group from
the other organization it's members
would not be able to commit the
federation to a program without
the approval of the Executive
Council. If the CIO agrees to such
a conference, Green indicated that
the AFL committee would be SINH
lar to the committee which met
with the CIO in the spring of 1947.
Asked what organic AFL-CIO
unity would mean, Green replied,
eve are ready to unite with the
CIO because it would conserve
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
Using Red Smear
Tactics To Defeat
Sen. Wayne Morse

Portland, Ore. (LPA)-The ole
"red" smear has been dragged out
in the Republican primary cam
paign against Sen. Wayne l.
Morse, who is seeking denomination
May 10. "MOrse has sided with the
pinkos, the commies and the left
lists practically 100 per cent of the
time," reads one advertisement.
Morse, who in his own words is
running like a scared rabbit" is
opposed by Dave "Deadwood Dave
Hoover, a farmer from central Ore
gon, who says he doesn't believe in
farm subsidies but accepted pay
ments "only because everybody else
did" A price-suppOrt farm pro
gram, says Hoover, is step on the
road to socialism.
Hoover's campaign is well-fin-
anced, with an abundance Of huge
billboard ads, newspaper ads, and
radio speeches. The ads say Morse
is brilliant but $50 was Klaus
Fuchs, who gave the secrets of the
atom bomb to the Russians" The
ads attack Morse for having voted
to confirm Leland Olds to the Fed
eral Power Commission; for back
ing the ''far-to-the-left" ADA; for
supporting the Marshall Plan. The
ads have even gone way back to at
tack Morse for helping get a par
don for Tom Mooney, "the radical
who had been given life sentence
for his part in the 1916 Prepared
ness Day bombing in San Fran
CISCO" Impartial students long
ago decided Mooney had been
framed.)
Hoover, who leans to the 1928-32
outlook for another Hoover (Her-
bert), drew an audience Of four to
an advertised talk in a small town
recently. The press reported that
of the four, one was a reporter, two
were Morse spies and the fourth
was a Hoover man.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
g Bell Strikers
Freed I'm Trial
On Riot Charges

Lockport, N. Y. UPA)-Nine Of
the 23 members on trial for rio
and conspiracy here as an after
math of the Bell Aircraft strike
conducted by Local SOL, United
Auto Workers, last year were dis
missed by County Judge John S
Marsh for lack of evidence. He
withheld a ruling on a defense mo-
ton for a mistrial in the case OF
Martin Gerber, director of UAW
Region 9, who was never arraigneG
after he was injured Sept. 7.
Under persistent cross-eXamina-
ton by Defense Attorney Charles
McDonough of Buffalo, witnesses
herded into the court room and
coached in the corridors by Bell
officials have testified to the fol-
lowing facts:
/. That Bell Aircraft furnished
helicopters and horses for use by
the sheriff of Niagara County.
2. Blackjacks an d bludgeons
were manufactured by the salaried
engineers and scabs on company
time for use against the strikers,
(Fourteen of these weapons have
been presented and marked for
Identification as evidence by the
defense.)
3. The company installed a sound
system at the main gate of the Bell
plant to jam the unions sound car
announcements = and fire hoses
were laid out for possible use
against the pickets on Sept. 7.
A. That engineers and scabs were
hauled to one plant gate in COM
pany trucks Sept. 7, where they
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
CANADIAN RR UNION
TO VOTE ON STRIKE

Ottowa, Canada (LPA)-A con
ference committee of "non-operat-
ing" railway unions in Canada has
authorized a strike vote among 90,-
900 members of Is unions after re-
iecting a report by the Federal
Cancellation Board recommending q
44-hour week and a wage cut. The
rail workers are seeking a 40-hour
week and a seven-cent pay boost.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
MOVIE CHAIN SUED BY US
In ANTITRUST CASE

Nashville, Tenn. LPA)-The U,
S. has filed civil and criminal con-
tempt proceedings against the
Crescent Amusement Co. an d
others, charging they violated a
1943 antitrust Judgment. Involved
are movie theaters in Tennessee,
Alabama and Kentucky. The 1913
judgment was designed to end
practices which suppressed the
growth of independent competition.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

labor's financial resources, woult
end raiding of each other ant
would be of great benefit to th'
masses-the workers" End pro
duct would be development of tn,
labor movement to it's highest ser
viceable point" he added.
At later sessions, the council
was scheduled to review the status
of the invitation to the Machinist!
to re-affiliate with the AFL which
they left five years ago. The decis
ion to ask the Machinists back wa'
made last winter at the councils
Miami meeting. The council wa'
also slated to sit as the admins
trative committee of Labor's Lea
que for Political Education th'
afternoon of May 9.
The complete text of Greens
letter to Murray follows:
GAS indicated in my response o.
April 10th, your letter of April 4tl
was referred to the Executive
Council of the American Federation
of Labor for attention of our meet
ing now being held in Philadelphia
Pa.
"Our Executive Council CAV,
most thorough consideration t.
your proposal for unity of actor
among the several groups of or
ganized labor to whom you address
ed yourself.
eve regret the absence of a con
ference prior to the issuance O
your invitation and proposal. Ou
Executive Council doubts seriousl.
that the method and procedure sug
gested and proposed in your lette
would accomplish the mutually de
sired objective, VIZ, organic unit.
in the labor forces of America.
eve find ourselves in complet,
accord with the necessity of unit.
in all fields of organized labor!
activities and would direct atten
tion to the several appeals pre-
viously addressed to your organ
ization in the past number of years
for unity not merely upon a tenta
tive and cooperative basis, but upol
a permanent and organic basis
Our Executive Council would di
rect your further attention to th'
unanimous decision of our most re
cent Convention urging the neces
sity and furtherance of unity in th'
forces of organized labor in spiri
as we'll as in substance, not merel!
on conference level, but upon {
permanent and organic basis.
"In view of these decisions anC
in accord with the mood and temp
er of your letter, the Executive
Council has, by unanimous decision
authorized and directed me to ad
wise you and your organization tha+
we are prepared to select a Com
mittee to meet like Committee o.
the CIO to engage in conference
looking toward an early and sue
cessful realization of unity upon {
permanent and secure basis be
tween our respective organizations
"We, therefore, await your earl!
and trust favorable consideration
regarding the foregoing propose
for unity of organizedlabor as rep
resented by our respective organ
izations and which, we feel confid
ent, if realized will lead to organic
unity of all forces and groupings OF
organized labor in America"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
AFL Names Tobin,
Tracy, MacGowan
To Confer With Clio

ooNlPlllo Al<i a ~h'ADSAANA
step toward labor unity was taken
at the closing sessions of the AFL
Executive Council here when the
council named three top labor
chiefs to conduct negotiations with
the CIO.
They are Presidents Daniel w.
Tobin of the Teamsters, Charles j.
MacGowan Of the Boilermakers,
and Dan w. Tracy of the Electrical
Workers.
AFL President William Green
explained at a press conference
that there will be no strings at
tached to the three-man committee.
awe want to leave the negotiations
wide open," he said. "Our commit
tee will be prepared to give consid-
Grafton to all proposals that are
made"
president Philip Murray of the
CIO welcomed the AFL action. He
said the issue will come up at a
meeting of the CIO vice-presidents
in June, and that arrangements for
Joint meetings will be made shortly
thereafter.),
On the question of reaffiliation
of the Int'l Association of Machin-
lists, Green said he will confer soon
with officials of the LAM on next
moves. The council sent an invita-
tion to the Machinists to reaffili-
ate, but officials of the latter union
declared they would have to, study
the terms of the invitation to deter
mine whether they are such as can
be submitted to a membership ref
erendum for a decision.
Action to promote and retain
high employment was demanded by
the council in a statement on the
economic situation. Unemployment
is still serious despite a seasonal
rise in jobs during April, the coun-
Gil said. Much of the joblessness, it
declared, is due to heavy postwar
mechanization and increased pro-
ductivity.
"Unless the market for the goods
produced by the nations factories
is expanded, this growing produc-
tivity will mean fewer and fewer
workers on the job" it warned.
As a solution, the council pro
posed these steps: (1) higher un-
employment insurance payments
and for a longer period than now;
(2) higher wages to boost consum-
er buying power; (3) prevention OF
price increases and retention OF
rent control; (4) formation of local
full employment committees; (5)
revision of government programs
in the fields of public works, taxa
tion, agriculture, resource develop
ment, ETC., so all will be geared to
the goal of high employment.
Among other actions the council:
Urged a billion-dollar reduction
in excise taxes OH consumer goods
and services.
Favored revision of estate and
gift tax laws to plug loopholes and
boost rates.
Assailed Postmaster G n "a |
Donaldson for his orders cutting
back mail delivery services and
wiping out thousands of postal jobs.
President Truman, Congress, and
Donaldson were called upon to re-
scind the orders.
Announced the 1850 AFL con-
vention will open September 1S in
Houston, Tex, and the next Execu-
tive Council meeting will be Aug
ust 8 in Chicago.
Set up a three-man committee to-
study the whole subject Of pensionI
plans in private industry. The
members are President William l..
Hutcheson, Carpenters; Vice-Pres-
ident Matthew Woll, PhotOengrav-
ers; and AFL Secretary-Treasurer|
George Meany.
Revealed that AFL membership
has reached the 7,8C0,0C0 mark.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
AFL Ready To Meet CI0|
On Organic Unity, Bars
Plan of President Murray|
BY CUSHMAN REYNOLDS

Philadelphia UPAThe AFL Executive Council rejected the CLOS
plan for immediate functional unity all labor but
gested further exploration of achieve complete unity
The council whose veday meeting convened here May
work
unity of the AFL CIO President
President Philip
reply letter. Murray, acting with approval
CLOS April AF
broherhoods of Macnss and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18
Comment On
World Events

The American Federation Of
Labor has reiterated its call for a
constructive policy in Germany and
has again assailed dismantling Of
German plants essential to peace
time productions foolish policy
which this column has denounced
on several occasions.
Declaring that West Germany
has left no doubt Of its desire TO
cooperate with the Western Allies,
the AFL says in its latest Labor's
Monthly Survey "the people of
Germany do not want an alliance
with Russia. But they are faced
with many difficulties. Foremost is
the problem Of making living"
Germany, the federation recalls,
has always depended heavily on
trade with the east to provide a
market for her products and jobs
for her workers. Today, trade with
the east is reduced to mere trickle
and if Germany is to support her
self, other foreign trade must be
developed to replace it.
The federation says that unem-
ployment in western Germany now
affects 13 percent Of the popula-
ton, level equivalent to 8 million
unemployed in the United States.
The problem of German export
trade, it is added should be a first
concern of the occupying powers,
Britain, France and the U. S. For
until it is solved the German peo-
pie must depend for support on
American taxpayers; unemploy-
ment will continue and German
workers cannot hope to raise their
living standards. Since the occupy
ing powers have not permitted Ger
many to set up diplomatic relations
with other countries, the response
bility is theirs"
\ :. =
Discussing the dismantling po-
Icy, the federation gives compell-
ing reasons for changing the policy.
Britain continues to dismantle
essential German factories in her
zones. The AFL has steadfastly
opposed dismantling as an unnec-
essary burden on the American tax
payer and a crushing and needless
blow to German working men and
women. Dismantling destroys work
ers' means of earning a living,
eliminates needed factories, adds
to unemployment.
"The argument that dismantling
destroys war potential misses the
points; factories now slated for dis
mantling were never on the official
list of war plants; they were de-
clared surplus under the level of
industry rule which restricts pro-
dnction thus limiting employment
and living standards"
!. y
"The German people do not want
communism," the AFL asserts.
"But they desperately need the jobs
that could come from industrial ex-
pansion and they want to share in
the restored European economy and
help make it a going concern, Sc
cure against Soviet infiltration and
aggression. They want to revive Ger
man trade in order to maintain eX-
pansion. The 5 million German
trade unionists and the Social
Democratic Party have voluntarily
decided that they do not want Ger
man rearmament-bu they want a
chance to produce adequate food,
clothes, housing"
In conclusion, the AFL points
out: "The real security is not in
dismantling German plants or in
separating off German territory,
but in restoring the German econ
omy, thus strengthening her pre-
sent friendly government, and in
enabling Germany to play a con-
structive part in building the new
El1ropaD -
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have then
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-05-18

Demand the Union Label.
Laurel outlook., 1950-03-01
Simple Phenomenon Draws
Hundreds of Puzzled Folk

BRANDON, WIS. - Despite a
perfectly natural explanation for
the apparent phenomenon. the
cross on a bedroom wall here is
still the top conversational topic
in the Fond du Lac county area.
The explanation is simple-the
cross is merely the electric light
from another room reflected
through the edge of a mirror. The
people in the area, however, were
still flocking to Mrs. Clara Null
der's home to see it.
The cross, about two feet high,
appears in the room where Mrs.
Mulder's husband. william, died
Oct. %, but only when the light in
the adjacent dining room is turned
on.
The amazing thing. though, says
Mrs. Mulder, is that no one saw it
until her son, Jacob, 81, walked into
the bedroom one night after his
fathers death. The bedroom furni-
ture, including the dresser with its
bevel edged mirror. never was
moved, she says.
Laurel outlook., 1950-03-01
Isofopes Are to Be Used
On Oysters Eating Choice

BEAUFORT, N.C.-The federal
atomic energy commission and the
fish and wildlife service are going
to try to radio-sc tivate oysters
here. The Acc hopes to learn more
from the experiment than it did in
the A-bomb tests at Bikini.
The fish and wildlife services
part in the project will be to de-
termine what an oyster likes to
eat. In a huge building used before
the war as a biological laboratory.
the oysters will be fed artificially.
Tiny amounts Of radioactive
chemical substances from the
Aces isotopes division at Oak
Ridge, Tenn, will be shot into the
tanks along with organisms which
scientists believe appeal to an
oysters appetite.
AS the organisms grow, they ab-
sorb the isotopes and the oysters
will be eating the "hot" food.
Isotopes can be traced. Thus the
food taken in by the oysters,
digested and incorporated in their
tissues, may be determined chem
icany and by radiation measure
ment