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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20

profit record of any L. S. indus
try). are able to deduct the ex-
penses Of developing well over
and over again.
President Truman's proposal to
end the oil depletion allowances"
is now before the House Ways &
Means committee, which is work
ing on new tax legislation.
In his veto message, President
Truman referred indirectly to the
depletion allowances when he as
sured the Congress that producers
and gatherers are finding, and |
am sure will continue to find,
strong incentives to search out new
sources Of natural gas and to sell
their gas in interstate commerce.
/ believe the production and sale
of natural gas will continue to
grow rapidly, to the benefit of con-
sumers and of all the businessmen
concerned with serving them"
First positive action by Federal
Power Commission in a rate case
involving price rises for city users
which may be blocked at the other
end Of the pipelines may come in a
case now being heard, involving
the biggest gas producer, Phillips
Petroleum Co., and affecting pro-
ducers in the midwest. FPC has
been very hesitant to act until the
Congressional fight was over, but
a majority of the Commission now
favors regulation of gas prices
charged to the pipe lines, and it is
expected to proceed now to set up
standards to protect in
terests of consumers, producers,
and the pipelines, using the public
interest as its yardstick.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Myers Speaks At
Gompers Banquet

York, Pa. (LPA)-An appeal for
Democratic votes in November was
made at the Gompers memorial
banquet of AFL unions here by
Sen. Francis Myers, who is assist
ant majority leader of the Senate,
is a candidate for reelection.
eve must continue to raise our
standard of living to ever new
heights Myers told the unionists.
Remember that our population has
jumped about Is per cent in the
past ten years and is still rising
rapidly.
"This means we must create
hundreds of thousands of new job
opportunities each year through
the expansion of our free enter
prise system, and we must produce
more of everything each year mere
ly to keep pace with our ever
growing population"
Key points in the Fair Deal pro-
gram, the Senator asserted, are in
creased social security benefits to
relieve old age insecurity, fair
labor law to encourage healthy
labor movement, and adequate
housing for middle income families.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Ohio Printers To
Work For Defeat
OF Senator Taft

The 85th semi-annual meeting OF
the Ohio Typographical Confer,
ence concluded its two-day deiiber.
ations at Canton, Ohio, after lay.
ing out its program and preparing
for the political battle to defeat
Senator Taft.
The conference activities includ-
ed several business sessions as wei
as speaking program, floor show
and dance.
In giving the main address at
the night session, Phil Hannah
Secretary-treasurer of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, said the
state A. F. of L. would go all out
in its efforts to defeat Senator
Taft.
Hannah lashed out at reaction
aries in both parties, at the Taft
Hartley Act and at those who have
no use for people who work and
who belong to unions.
"The federation will mobilize all
of labor's forces to get out the
vote," he said. 81 feel confident
that labor and the progressive
forces of Ohio will defeat Taft"
Mr.. Hannah, former assistant
U. S. secretary Of labor, did moi
predict who would oppose Mr.. Taft
but said that whoever the Demo
cratic nominee is he will receive
the enthusiastic support of organ
lied labor"
Michael J. Lyden, president of
the state A.F.L. body, forecast that
Senator Taft will be retired to pri-
vate life if A.FL. members go to
the polls in sufficient numbers on
Nov 7.
He said that the senior Ohio
senator's attitude toward organic
ed labor has been Every unfriend-
ly" ever since he entered the U. S.
Senate.
Brief talks were made by Don
Hurd of indianapolis, secretary
treasurer of the International
Typographical Union, and Roy D.
Moore, president and publisher of
Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc.
Other speakers included Mayor
III. Nichols, Frank w.
Oakley, president of the Canton
Union, and Harold
Clark, of Indianapolis, assistant to
Mr.. Hurd.
Donald c. Wagner was toast
master for the speaking program.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Detroit ND Calls
Present Medical
Plans Obsolete

Detroit (LPA) = The American
Medical Association is spending
millions fighting national health
insurance, declaring that such SER
vices as the Blue Shield are the
answer. A Detroit doctor has chal-
lenged them, assailing especially
the Blue Shield (medical plan).
He is DR.. William Broome, a
member of the Wayne County
Medical Society's governing board,
and editor of the Detroit Medical
News. Present prepaid medical
service plans are obsolete, and
ought to be revised to "meet the
needs of Americas wage earners" i,
he declared.
"They (doctors) want prepay
ment, but they want it without as
suming any of the responsibilities
to make it work." Broome declared.
"Blue Shield has nothing in any
sense comparable to the recent
Blue Cross (hospital plan) contract
with the steel industry"
The steel plan provides 100000
workers with hospital benefits paid
jointly by management and labor.
Broome said the Blue Shield medi-
cal plan is so unrealistic at present
that it cannot be offered on an in
dustrywide basis.
He said that for Blue Shield to
be offered on an industry-wide
basis it must work out a program
which provides for uniform fees,
with medical services provided ac-
cording to medical needs and not
on a cash indemnity basis.
DR.. Broome pointed out that the
Blue Shield formula is out of line
with present income levels. AS al
result, he said, doctors have beenl
charging above the Blue Shield
rates.
DR.. Broome warned doctors to |
recognize the role of labor unions
m their drive to secure adequate
insurance for their mem
oers. "The highly organized work
er in the country's urban area oc-
;upies a key position in the pic
ure," he added.
Of the two ways of getting
nto the lake-walking and jump
ng-Dr. Broome remarked that
Blue Shield has walked into the
of medical service.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
IBEW, Industry
Warn Of Local
Pension Plans

Washington (LPA)-Both man
agement and labor in the electrical
contracting industry have been ad-
vised not to set up local pension
plans, in joint statement issued
by the International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers-AFL, and
the National Electrical Contractors
Assn.
The statement, distributed in
printed form, was signed by D. W..
Tracy, IBEW president, and Will
lam MacMahon, chairman of the
employers labor relations commit
tee, and will be printed in the jour
nails of both groups. The state
ment points out that the industry
is now covered by the IBEW pen
sion plan and the employees bene-
fit agreement, under which con-
tractors pay per cent to the ma
tional benefit fund. "When desir-
able improvements appear possible,
they will be brought about through
collective bargaining at the ma
tional level", the statement de-
clares.
|. The statement voices concern
with the damage which can be
done to our national program if
unsound local pension plans are
adopted, and points out that the
IBEW pension benefit fund, aug
mented by the national employees
benefit fund, "gives enduring pro-
lection throughout the life of the
eligible employee, cannot be abb
rogated at the will of an employer,
pension rights are not lost if an
employer goes out of business, and
workers carry their pension rights
with them from employer to en-
ployer and from one part of the
country to another.
The statement points out that a
local pension plan cannot protect a
member if he moves to another
community before retirement, and
that an unexpected change in local
employment conditions can destroy
the security of local plan.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
STRIKE NO BAR TO JOBLESS
PAY, COURT RULES

Little Rock, Ark. UPA)-Mere
existence of a strike does not block
unemployment compensation, the
State Supreme Court has ruled, re-
versing a lower court which de.
MED benefits to five striking en-
ployes of the Scott Paper Box Co.
here. The state law provides unem-
ployment benefits if the strike is
caused by the employer, and the
Supreme Court ordered the State
Board of Review to reinvestigate
the facts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Labor Management Group Ask Caution
On Imports, Clashes With EcA Chief

w as hi ngto n (LPA)-O. r.
Strackbein,, chairman of the Ma
tional Labor Management Council
of Foreign Trade Policy told Paul
Hoffman, head of the Economic
Cooperation Administration, his or
ganization strongly y questioned
adoption of a policy of increased
imports from Europe because US
firms might be forced out of busi-
ness and US workers rendered job
less by cheap foreign competition.
The council, speaks for approxi-
mately Is industries and the AFL
unions having jurisdiction in them.
Strackbein emphasized that his
group was in full sympathy with
the foreign aid program as long as
needed. However, he charged that
Hoffman and his aides were beat
ing the drums in Europe to stimu-
late low-priced competition and
setting in motion a vast propa-
ganda campaign in this country to
lead the American people to prefer
foreign products to those made by
our own workmen and producers" !"
He added that it was a "bizarre
proposal to use public funds to
show foreign producers chow best
to penetrate our home market and
undermine our labor standards,
break the price structure and throw
workers out of jobs" Strackbein.
who conferred with Hoffman April
13, said they had stormy session.
Recently Strackbein's group voic-
ed strong opposition to proposals
to lower tariffs on imports from
Marshall plan nations. His confer
ence with Hoffman was an out
growth of the earlier activity.
Meanwhile, ECA spokesmen were
countering with strong arguments.
In statement released April 8,
Bert Jewell of the AFL and Clin-
ton S. Golden of the CIO, Hoff-
mans top labor advisers, told AM
erican labor unequivocally that the
American economy would not be
harmed by increased imports from
Europe. They quoted literally from
a letter Hoffman wrote to Sen. H.
Alexander Smith of New Jersey.
In his letter, Hoffman said we
must export less to Europe and
buy more from her if the present
"dollar gap'' is to be closed. The
alternatives, Hoffman indicated,
are to continue to aid Europe or
let her economy slip into grave
danger"
Hoffman warned that no Ameri-
can business could gain real secur-
ity through protection. Stressing
his faith in competition, the ECA
chief declared that business under
pressure from competitors would
keep itself "in better trim" than
a protected enterprise. He also con-
tended that an import increase
amounting to one third of one per-
cent of the value of the national
product could not affect the Ameri-
can economy. In addition, he said
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Contract Gains Won
For 1000 Blacksmiths

Chicago (LPA) - Agreements
with six firms, covering 1000 work
ers, have been signed by the Black
smiths, Secretary-Treasurer A. j.
Eberhardy announced.
The Ladish Co., drop forgers,
Milwaukee, has agreed to five paid
holidays, company paid life insur-
ance, and year-end wage dividend
payments depending on length of
service. Corrections for inequities
come to to 13 cents an hour. Con-
tract changes equal 13 cents across
the board, plus Scent adjustment
for inequities, plus wage-divid-
end arrangement like Ladish. The
company will also increase its pay
ments on group life insurance.
A package increase of IL cents an
hour was granted by the Canton,
Ohio, Drop Forge Co. and Steel
Improvement and Forge Co., Com
mercial Forgings Co. and Midwest
Forge Co., all of Cleveland.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Comment On
World Events

Latest arrivals in the large and
evergrowing army of fugitives
from behind the Iron Curtain are
members of the Mozart girls choir
of Dresden. Now safely in tho
Western sector Of Berlin, they have
appealed for sanctuary, which they
undoubtedly will receive. They dc
not want to go back to their home
city. They do not want to live agar
in the Soviet zones of occupation
Having resisted Communist de
mands to key their voices to the
Moscow party line, and having
suffered retaliation in the form OF
reduced food rations, higher taxei
and mounting threats, they know
they are marked people.
They know that if they return
the terror will close in on them il
one way or another. Their story is
not unique. 1t is common. In all
the lands dominated by the Krem-
lin, there are countless others like
them - countless others yearning
for some. stroke of good fortune
that will enable them to be free.
Il !. =
The avenue of flight is west
ward, not eastward. There is no
stream of refugees moving into
the Red empire; it moves out, al
ways out, into the West. This, in
its own way, is measure of Mos
cows true power. The power is one
that has no appeal to anybody wht
has had taste of it. All who fee
its weight feel at the same time 6
compelling desire to run away from
it.
That is one of several reasons
why the strength CT the Russian
tyranny should not be overesti-
mated. The facade may look for
midable, but behind it, among the
terrorized and oppressed masses
there is a smoldering volcano
which if it ever blows up-as woult
be likely in the event of some grea
Cominform crisis-will destroy the
thing now riding high behind tho
Iron Curtain.
Here, certainly, is an importan'
factor of weakness that ought MOI
to be overlooked in any effort tt
evaluate the real might of the
Soviet Union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Monopoly Probers Begin
Search Of Steel Industry

try spokesmen appear later, they
be asked to provide a long list of
dissatisfied customers"
Earlier, in announcing plans for
the hearings, Rep. Celler had OBJ
served that many small business
men in steel fabricating lines had
offered to give the committee evid-
ence, as long as they didn't have to
appear in public session. Celler said
they feared reprisals, and pointed
to the problems of the president of
a small water cooler company who
testified before his committee last
summer. Banks refused to give him
credit after he had attacked West
inghouse and General Electric, Gel
ler said, the committee as a pro-
lection helped him to get a, Recon
struction Finance Corporation loan.
DIR. Stigler considered and re-
jected two of the three alternative
antitrust methods that could be
used ON the steel industry. Con-
tinuing the traditional antitrust
policy of seeking to uncover, pro-
secute and eliminate specific abuses
like the basing point system, in
industries dominated by few COM
panies, develops into a game of
leap frog between these large COM
panies and the Antitrust Division.
The companies are always one
Jump ahead, Stigler maintained.
Would Break Up Giants
The proposal implicit in the re-
port of the Joint Congressional
Committee on the Economic Report
IS another. alternative. Stigler said
that accepting the present struc-
ture of the industry and subjecting
it to continuing supervision and
regulation to prevent abuse OF
monopoly powers leads to "enor-
nous difficulties" One headache is
how to figure a fair rate of return
for the companies. Such regulation,
zoo, might make the present over
rigid structure of the steel indus
try even worse.
To the monopoly committee,
Stigler commended dose of old
fashioned "trust busting." This, he
proposed, would involve dissolving
U. S. Steel, and probably Bethle-
hem and Republic into a consider
able number of smaller companies.
~. S. Steel" he said, "has dozen
Or more fairly complete steel plants
in various parts of the country. It'll
may be that joint ownership leads
to minor economies in joint fin
ancing, joint research, and joint
lobbying, but it is more probable
that this huge company is consid-
erably less than the most efficient
company in the industry. If thel
steel mills near Birmingham and
the steel mills at Geneva (Utah) |
and the steel mills near Chicago
and near Pittsburgh are operated
it is impossible to be-
ieve costs will rise appreciably,
and they may fall" If this is done
ne added, the collective bargaining
structure in the industry should
also be broken down into smaller
lnits.
Before it is through with three
weeks of hearings, the Monopoly
investigating committee expects to
lear from anti-monopoly experts,
rom heads of the big and middle
lied steel corporations, from STEEL
lsing industrialists, and f ro m
pokesmen for the United Steel
workers..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Brazilians Profit
By Coffee Price
Senate Group Told

Washington UPA)-Despite the
best efforts of three Senators, very
little light was shed on how and
why coffee prices have risen when
Senate Agriculture subcommit-
tee heard top officials of the New
York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
April IL.
The type Of coffee contract trad
ed on the New York exchange, OBJ
served Chairman Guy Gillette Cd,
Iowa) at the end of several hours
of futile cross-questioning, is
traders dream" Gillette and COM
mittee counsel Paul Hadlick finally
obtained an admission that about
rs traders in Santos, Brazil, have
been cleaning up huge profits by
buying coffee contracts on the New
York exchange at lower prices than
coffee is being sold for in Brazil,
and then selling it back again at
profit.
The Braziians' position appears
to be completely speculative, OBJ
served Sen. Spessard Holland Cd,
Fla.) after he had repeatedly chal-
lenged the straight-faced assur-
ances Of the coffee traders that
there always was enough coffee
here on hand in the US, or en- route
here from Brazil, to materialize in
case any purchaser really wanted
the coffee beans, not the specula-
tive profit from trading in con-
tracts. Holland was still not salts
fled that there were actual coffee
stocks to meet contracts being sold.
In typical month, he found, less
than one per cent of the contracts
were liquidated by actual delivery
of bags of coffee.
The squeeze by the Brazilian
traders leaves Us coffee buyers at
their m ercy, the questioning
brought out, because coffee con-
tracts that are traded on the New
York exchange must be of speci-
fled quality (even though other
quality coffees may be avail
able at lower prices to fill the con-
tract), must be shipped through
a specified Brazilian port, and ship
ments through that port are limit
ed by Brazilian government regu-
lations.
The sharp cut in coffee purchases
by housewives has finally resulted
in small decreases in retail store
prices, Sen. George Aiken Or, Vt.)
brought out, but not to anything
like the level Of prices before the
Shortage" scare last November
and December. All of the exchange
men agreed with Sen. Gillette that
the threatened shortage had been
averted. None, however, would pre-
dict lower prices, and all admitted
that the Brazilians who assertedly
controlled the market were trying
for higher prices in coming months.
Indignantly, Hadlick lectured the
coffee traders. you're perfectly
willing to let this trade go on, col
Letting your commissions and not
giving damn what happens to the
people who want coffee" he told
them.
The hearing April IL was one of
a series in which Gillette's sub
committee has heard from General
Goods and APP, the two big cof-
fee sellers and professors, as well
as from traders and spokesmen for
.he Pan American Coffee Bureau.
Earlier, the subcommittee was in
in giving widespread
publicity to Commerce Dept fig
Ires proving the much-advertised
coffee crop failure" in Brazil was
A false alarm.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
LPA ARTICLE QUOTED IN
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

Washington (LPA)-The account
of the Senate debate on the Kerr
natural gas bill, appearing in the
LPA service of March %, was in
serted in the Congressional Record
by Sen. Paul Douglas Cd, Ill., who
is among those leading the battle
against the bill. The article was
written by Alvaine Hamilton, as
sistant editor of LPA.
that it would be necessary to i'm
port goods if we wished to continue
to export. Strackbein's group says
an increase of imports would hit
hardest at small business.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
RADIO STATION MUST SEEK
OUT FOES OF POLICIES

New York (LPA) = Station
WLIB in New York has been re-
buked by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission for broadcasting
views in support of FEPC without
soliciting other points of view for
an airing. The FEC said it was not
enough for a radio station merely
to make time available for an op-
posing point of view, but that the
station must seek out and encour-
age the presentation of the other
points of view. The FEC said that
radio broadcasters who take sides
in public disputes must seek and
transmit opposing views.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20

Washington (LPA) = A 1914
complaint against Crawford Clothes
Inc. and Levy Clothing Manufac-
turing Co., both of New York, has
been dismissed by the Federal
Trade Commission. FTC had ori-
ginally charged them with misrep-
resentation in sale of mems cloth
ing, but the Commission unan-
imously found the charges were
either no longer true, or were not
sustained by the evidence present
ed to back up the complaint.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20
Leaders In Two Organizing Fields

drive 100000 members in 1850
in Samuel Gompe founder and first president counts
industrial
Lead
fields j. L. Rhodes ~ Atlanta south
Virginia Texas; Paul r.
Hucings center) president Vice President L. G. Nygren
Mnneapols of the Office Employes International Union
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-04-20

Demand the Union Label.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1950-09-29
Caesar Rodney School
News

The Caesar Rodney faculty reor-
ganized for the 1950-51 school term
by electing John G. Branner, pres
ident, Richard G. Clark, vice presi-
dent; Dorothy H. Brown, treasur-
err; and Fay Sale, secretary.
David L. Williams was a dele
gate to the D. S. E. A. leadership
conference held at Rehoboth Beach
on September %. Maurice Daisey,
a director of the D. S. E. A., serv-
ed as a discussion leader at the
conference.
The parents of the first grade
students attending Caesar Rodney
school met on Thursday, Septem-
Der %, at 300 p. m. to get better
acquainted with each other, the
faculty, and with the routine of
the school This meeting is spon-
sOred annually by the Parent-Tea-
cher Association.
The following individuals APP
peared on the program: Mrs. o. B,
Williams, president of the Parent
Teacher Association; Mrs. Ann B
Cieaves, school nurse; Mrs. Mar
garet E. c. Hairgrove, cafeteria
manager, and Robert E. Shilling
principal.
The first meeting of the Caesar
Rodney Parent-Teacher Associa.
ton will be held on Thursday, DC.
tOber 5, at 500 p m. The faculty
will serve refreshments. The pro
gram includes installation of off
GERS, and an address on redistrict.
ing. A business meeting will pre-
cede the program.