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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Basketball Standings
Island City Basketball League
Sports Calendar

BASEBALL
Island City Baseball League
Municipal Stadium,
Afternoon)
Each Game, z Innings
SUNDAY
l:oO-Key West cubans VS..
San Carlos.
800 - Atomic Bombers VS..
Adams Dairy.
600
Boca Chica Field
(Afternoon)
Each Game, 8 Innings
SUNDAY ~
To be announced. na,.
x BASKETBALL
Island City Basketball League
(High School Gym,
Night
WEDNESDAY
ZOO - Overseas Garage VS..
Sonar School.
8:00-Spider Web Drive-Inn VS..
Vogue Cleaners.
9:00-Pollock's Jewels VS..
Bamboo Room.
THURSDAY
7:00-Overseas Garage and
7;00-Overseas Garage VS.. Spi-
der Web Drive-Inn.
800 - Pollock's Jewels VS..
Vogue Cleaners.
9:00-Bamboo Room VS.. Sonar
School.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
TRAVELS 24O MILES
TO UNION MEETINGS

Jacksonville, N. C. (LPA)-TC
go to a union meeting, Lee G
Strickland, So, boards a bus here
at 2:30 p. m. and travels 120 miles
He gets back home at 6 a. m. the
next morning. He rarely misses a
meeting. The trip is worth every
mile of it," says Strickland, shop
steward of Lodge 1885, Intl Asso-
citation of Machinists.
Strickland makes the long jour
ney because 81 feel dignity and
pleasure in my job which | never
felt in the days before we were
organized by the lam. know the
other boys feel the same way. Our
union has done a lot for us, more
than we had hoped for. We are
free men now" A bus mechanic
with the Carolina Coach Co.,
Strickland said, 81 am proud now
that we maintain 100 percent
in our shop. This
is in spite of the North Carolina
freedom to work law which for
bids us the union shop or any kind
of union security"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Anti-union Whisky
Blamed For Defeat
In NLRB Election

Chicago (LPA) = Anti-u o r
whiskey helped sway voters in a
recent NLRB election here. Sc
charges Local 1876, AFL Mattress
Spring & Bedding Workers, in a
petition filed with the regional
NLRB office.
Nachman Corp, the union said,
promised to trade bottles for bal
lots, and paid off by distributing
so cases of whiskey at the plant
the day after the election. The
company also poured out pay in
creases to many workers week
before the election, the union
charged. The "No union" vote was
a staggering 573, with 233 for
Local 1876 and 56 for Local 18-B,
United Furniture Workers.
In answer to the unions charges,
Fred A. Nachman, company vice
president, said: "Sour grapes" One
union observer, however, insisted
that the bottled stuff was made
from grain.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Real Estate Lobby
Wins Fight On
Low-Rent Housing

San Francisco (LPA)-Proposi-
tion 10, the stumbling block for
low-rent public housing, has appar-
emily passed in California.
The measure, which would re-
quire special city or countrywide
elections before any kind of public
housing project could be approved,
received $4,000 votes in 1881
districts tout of a total of 18,408)
against 1.489,799.
This represented a victory for
the real estate lobby and the cam
paign Of lies conducted by Whit
aker & Baxter, a publicity firm
which also handled the campaign
of the American Medical Associa-
tion against national health insur-
ance.
w & B even claimed the Ameri-
can Legion was for the measure
after the Legion's convention pass
Aed a resolution poposing it. All
labor groups-AFL, CIO, Railroad
Brotherhoods, and independents
were against the bill.
1t provides that if the people
vote "No" in a referendum on pub
lie housing the vote is final. But if
they vote "Yes" the vote is merely
advisory and the local governing
body can still do as it pleases.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Labor Sponsors
Education Fund
In Gompers Name

Chicago (LPA) - A 100000
Samuel Gompers Memorial Fund
to provide scholarships, improve
educational facilities and develop
greater labor education opportun-
tiles at Roosevelt College here has
been sponsored by AFL President
William Green, CIO President
Philip Murray, and President AL
bert j. Hayes of the international
Association of Machinists. The
fund, to be presented to the col
lege in December, is part of this
years nationwide observance of
the Tooth anniversary of the birth
of Gompers, AFL founder and long
time president.
Union spokesman said the school
was chosen as recipient of the
fund because of it's extensive
labor training and research pro-
gram, it's stand against bias and
discrimination in higher education,
and the provision for equal repre-
sentation on the colleges Board of
Trustees of both management and
labor" Board members include
Walter Reuther, United Aut o
Workers president, and Morris
Balls of the AFL Ladies Garment
Workers. Philip Murray is MEM
ber of the Advisory Board.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Election Results
No Mandate To
Abolish Fair Deal

Washington LPA) = The reac-
tionaries are going to try to sell
the results of the Nov. 7 election
as a mandate to kill the Fair Deal
The results have undoubtedly
made the task of the Truman ad-
ministration much more difficult
to accomplish because the 82nd
Congress will be house divided
against itself. Any kind of vital
legislation, even legislation on for
eign policy, will be hard pressed.
Nevertheless, it is reasonable for
the people to ashland to expect
Congress to quit playing partisan
politics with our foreign policy.
Sure, labor-backed candidates
were beaten in a number of con-
tests but other labor candidates
won. "The batting average wasn't
too good-and it wasn't too bad"
Naturally, Taft's victory in Ohio
twas bitter pill for the unions to
swallow" But Donnells defeat in
Missouri "was sweet music to their
ears"
Although liberal forces lost
ground, they lost a lot less than
they did in 1916, the last off-year.
And the clear fact is the Nov. 7
elections failed to disclose a sweep
ing trend in public thinking.
Phoniest issue in a campaign
full of underhanded,. dirty tactics
was the charge of Communism in
(Turn to Pa0e Three)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
cED JOINS FIGHT OF BUSINESS
AGAINST EXCESS PROFITS TAX
population.

Washington (LPA) = The Com
mittee for Economic Development
has joined in the fight against al
excess profits tax.
It's new Statement On Nationa
Policy - Paying for Defense
proposes instead defense profits
tax on all corporations in addition
to the basic tax, plus an increase
in individual income taxes and q
subsequent increase in excise taxes
The CED urged the need for a
"pay-as-you-go" program to serve
while the tax structure is being
adjusted to long-run needs, and
then outlined an emergency pro-
gram which it said would check
initiation and permit increases in
production while raising the added
revenue needed for rearmament.
The CED program is for one
year, to take effect Jan. l, 1851.
It's program would: Revise the
profits tax so it would
consist of a basic rate of 3S per-
cent, plus a Defense Profits Tax
at flat rate on all corporate pro-
fits; a defense addition to the in
dividual income tax at flat per-
centage rate on net income in ex-
cess of exemption and the present
tax.
The rates would depend on the
expenditure outlook for 1851. AS
a total of $62 billion, with
s35 billion for the military and $27
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Ask Congress Pass
i Temporary Rent
Control Measure

Washington (LPA) = Housing
Expediter Tighe E. Woods is busy
drafting stop-gap rent control
measure which the lame duck Con-
gress will be asked to pass. 1t is
planned to extend rent controls so
that the S2nd Congress, which
meets in January, will have time
to work out a new rent control law.
In Los Angeles, tenants still
fighting to continue controls there
despite action by City Council to
the contrary, were shocked at the
tale of a landlord who gypped a
paralyzed veteran of S1100.
The vet, Richard Kimble, a war
time flier with no place to live,
gave a landlord his special auto
mobile for paraplegics at its book
value-$2300-in return for two
years rent. The landlord sold the
car for $2400 and the vet found
out the rent for two years should
only be $1,000. He went to court and
the Judge ordered the landlord to
return $1100 to the veteran.
In New York, State Rent Ad-
Joseph D. McGoldrick,
denied charges made during the
recent campaign that he was plan
ming a Is percent rent raise. How
ever, he refused to give any hint
of what he has in store for tenants
in the rent changes which will go
in effect Jan. Is. He and nine
assistants parried reporters ques-
tions for 40 minutes without giving
definite responses.
In San Francisco, the General
Rent Advisory Board (another
name for the real estate lobby has
recommended a 25 percent rent
(Tnrn to Pa0P ThrP<l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
EMPLOYMENT UP

Washington (LPA) - In June
256, 400 workers were employed in
the manufacture of aircraft and
parts. By September, due to mill
tary orders, the work force was
291, 100. August production was 8
percent above June, and 81 percent
of it was for military use. Most
plants reported shortages of skill
ed labor.
Some plants, yielding to the
realities of a tight labor market,
have begun to soften hiring speci-
fications," reported the Depart
ment of Labor. Age limits are be-
ing raised, experience requirements
are coming down, women are be-
ing hired, and training and up
grading programs are being start
ed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

billion for everything else, the
CED would put the Defense Pro,
fits Tax at Is percent, estimated
to yield SO billion above the pre-.
sent profits tax; an added indivi-
dual income tax of percent, to
bring an estimated SO billion more
In opposing an excess profits
tax, the CED argued that such a
tax "was an incentive to extravag-
ant expenditure for travel, and ad-
vertising was a national joke and
a national scandal during the last
war" 1t added that Corporations
subject to an IS percent excess
profits tax would often rather
spend their potential profits for
various non-production and nom
essential purposes than pay them
to the Treasury. But the money
they pay the Treasury does serve
an anti-i n f a ionary purpose,
whereas the money they spend for
such purposes serves to bid up the
price of goods and services"
The CED added that the best
way to prevent excess profits on
production is by strict
policing on military contracts and
by full use of the renegotiation
power. 1t added that barring fur
ther initiation, a Defense Profits
Tax of Is percent would leave 1851
profits at the exact average of
l947-49 profits.
(TuSa to Page Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Scribe Finds 1t
Difficult Task To
Report 124's News

1t has only been few months
since this writer accepted the jot
as O.C. from Local l24 and / car
now realize how difficult tasl
was assigned to me. Yes, brother;
and sisters, difficult is what
mean judging by the remarks a
our last meeing.
1t seems as though | may have
stepped on the toes Of some Of oul
members in reporting the activitie;
Of Local 124. If so it was not done
Intentionally and | humbly apollo
gize. But if the criticism directed
my way was to the accuracy OF
my statements, then | will with.
draw my apology and let the chips
fall where they may.
We have been moving along in
true trade unionism in our local
for the past few months and in the
democratic procedure Of achieving
accomplishments for which unions
are for. True it is there are bound
to be some among US who may not
see eye to eye with all the union
is doing tor to this humble scribe
in reporting it,, but let's bury the
hatchet and let bygones be bygones
and strive together from here on
as a solid unit to meet bigger is
sues that are to come.
A vote requiring all members of
shop committees to be present at
one meeting a month or be subject
to fine, with each member to take
a turn until the whole group has
was defeated. Many felt
this was not the proper method to
use to meet the issue at hand.
We still continue to add to our
rolls with three members initiated
at the meeting.
The attendance was fair but no.
thing to brag about. -O.C. 124
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Rumored Member
OF Fair Sex For
Executive Board

Trenton, N. J.-As reported re.
Gently in the "Potters Herald", the
l0-cents hourly wage increase re.
ceived by members of Locals as
40 and 81 here in the East was
very welcomed news indeed and
we sincerely hope it will be suffice
for the time being. If the cost of
living continues to soar unchecked
as it has the past few months, who
can tell what will happen.
Dorothy Bissett of the Political
Education League urged all mem
5ers to cast their ballot on election
day and vote as their conscience
dictates, but to be sure and vote.
With several candidates for pub
lie office present, seeking labor's
support at the polls on election day,
there was a short recess while they
were granted the floor to express
their views. Lunch was served fol-
lowing the political rally by the
refreshment committee headed by
Chairman James Purcell and his
trusty aide Joseph Farletta.
The meeting reconvened and
President O'Neill called upon Bro.
A. j. Hassall who was an observer
at the final meeting between the
manufacturers and the generalware
and Chinaware Brotherhood repre-
sentatives in New York. He told
of the difficulty encountered in
gaining an increase in wages, due
to the flooding of the domestic
market with foreign-made ware
and the rejection of the pension
plan by the manufacturers.
Rumor has it here in the East
efforts will be made at the next
election to elect one of our sisters
to the Executive Board. The writer
thinks this is a good idea and
of support. If necessary the
of vice presidents could be
with a member of the
fair SEX representing crafts en-
ploying only females.
Work continues good in this part
of the trade but quite few of our
members are being called to the
armed services. -O.C. AZ
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
NEWSPAPER SUPPLIERS GANG UP
on UNIONS PITTSBURGH DAILY

Pittsburgh (LPA) - Newsprint
manufacturers have ganged up or
the 10 unions publishing the Pitts
burgh Daily Reporter, refusing to
supply the necessary newsprlnt
There's plenty of newsprint here
in warehouses-being held for the
big dailies when they reopen.
The Reporter began publication
Oct. Is, two weeks after the city's
three regular dailies stopped pub
lication in a wage dispute with the
AFL Mailers. AS a result 3OOO
newspaper workers were made idle.
The 10 unions involved got togeth-
er for joint publication of the Re-
porter as an emergency public SER
vice.
Since its start, the Reporter has
existed on what job lots and odd
size paper rolls it could obtain at
premium prices. At one point, it
had only enough for three days
operation, although it has held
down it's daily run to 10000, when
the demand is more than five times
as great.
Newsprint manufacturers have
refused to sell paper rolls. Appeals
to nine Canadian and American
newsprint manufacturers for regu-
lar ALLEGATIONS have had no effect.
They refuse to ship to the unions
as little as 100 tons a week to meet
requirements. The Re-
porter has managed to stay in busi-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Says Taft Spent
$4,000, 900 For
His Reflection

Washington (LPA) = 81 have
never believed in offering alibis,"
writes Raymond Lonergan in the
Nov. II issue of Labor, organ of Is
standard rail labor organizations.
"If you're licked, you're licked and
that's the end of it."
But clicked" or not, Lonergan
doesn't think much of the way Bob
Taft played it in Ohio.
Taft paid for and got "stupen-
dous" majority, Lonergan says,
contending that Taft spent $5,OOO,-
900 for reelection. In addition,
Taft "endeavored to split the Cath
olic vote by pretending he was
open-minded on the subject of ex-
tending government aid to paro-
chial schools. At the same time, his
managers were turning loose old
leaders of the Ku Klux Klan to
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

ness only through the help of var
ious individuals and unions.
Because of this blockade, San
Eubanks, executive vice-president
of the American Newspaper Guild
wired Rep. Emanuel Celler o.
N. Y.) asking that he and his
House subcommittee studying mon
opoly power come to Pittsburgh to
"examine evidence of collusion be-
tween daily newspaper publishers
here and paper manufacturers to
blackout news in this city"
"The manipulation of newsprint
supply in an endeavor to suppress
this city's sole daily news organ is
a prime example of vicious effect
of monopoly control in newsprint
production and distribution" Eu-
banks wrote.
Meanwhile, thousands of tons
of paper are stored in Pittsburgh
warehouses being held for use of
big dailies when they reopen. With
holding this tonnage from the
market helps to create an artificial
shortage and raise prices to all
time high in reactivated gray
market.
There is evidence here that
even gray market dealers are re-
luctant to supply the Daily Rel
porter because of fear of retalia-
ton from their sources of SUPPLY
(The newsprint manufacturers
(Turn TO Page Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Gompers Honored
By Green, WoII,
Readers Digest

Mill waukee IPA)-Willian
Green, president of the American
Federation Of Labor, told a Comp
ers Centennial celebration gather.
ing here that unions need unity Of
action and unity of purpose.
More than 60O0 people, an un.
usually large labor turnout for thi:
city, heard Green speak. The meet
ing honoring the founder Of the
AFL was jointly sponsored by the
Milwaukee Federated Trades Coun-
Gil and local lodges of the Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists.
"Disunity in the ranks of labor
is a standing contradiction of all
those articles of faith which Comp
ers espoused," Green said.
He said the AFL was working
always toward this unity. He pre-
dicted the LAM would soon re-enter
the AFL and that there are
grounds for hope that eventual
unity" may emerge from talks be-
tween the AFL and the CIO.
Green said labor had already
learned to work together in politics
because through bitter experience
it has learned that its only pro-
lection against political attack lies
in unified, militant and aggressive
political action"
The AFL chief said there are
more workers than any other class
in America and that they are en-
titled to more representation. He
said that sin democracy, they are
entitled to representation by men
who are in sympathy with their
aims and aspirations"
Rapping political free riders" !"
Green sad that the union man who
fails to vote is neither a good
union man nor good citizen"
Another recent speech in con-
junction with Gompers' Tooth birth
day was made by Matthew Woll,
AFL vice-president and chairman
of the Samuel Gompers Centennial
Committee, before the convention
of the American Federation of
Teachers in Detroit.
He quoted GOmpers' advice that
"the whole problem of progress is
fundamentally educational in char
acter. To withhold opportunities
for education for the least among
our people is a crime committed
against the Republic"
A tribute to Gompers' leadership
is also contained in the December
issue of the Readers Digest, in a
special article by labor writer Vic
tor Riesel.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

refractory, NeWell, w. va; Elec
trical Refractories; Fitzpatrick In
dustries, Inc., and the KingwooC
China Co. all of East Palestine
Ohio.
Sixth Vice President Frank Dales
and Eighth Vice President Joshua
Chadwick along with committees
from the various locals affected
under the new agreements, repre-
sented Brotherhood interests ir
\ negotiations with the various rep.
)resentatives from the firms in
volved.
In addition to the wage increase
under the new contracts, some in
equities We're ironed out and en-
bodied in the new pacts which adds
further benefits derived for our
members.
Negotiations were carried out in
the usual peaceful relationship with
employers, under true collective
bargaining relationship as prac-
ticed by the National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters and manu-
facturers in the ceramic industry.
1t is with sincere pride and pres
tige that members of the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters
can proudly proclaim membership
in an international labor organiza-
toin which negotiates contracts
with wage increases for its men,
bers without any stoppage of work.
1t is in this respect that men,
bers of the National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters reap all the
benefits that the words imply--a
wage increase in the "take-home"
pay.
To members of the official fam
lily from President James NJ. Duffy
down, and to the members of the
various committees and the trade
in general, forward progress has
been made and will continue to be
made as long as we maintain
strength and unity within the or
ganization. Make no mistake that
without it we are at a standstill.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
ROmualdi On Tour
OF Central America

Washington (LPA) - Serafino
Romualdi, secretary of the Inter-
American Confederation of Work
ers (CIT), has left for a tour of
HCentral American nations.
He is scheduled to address a
gathering of labor unions in Ell
Salvador, and from there will go
to Honduras and Costa Rica.
Romualdi charged before he left
Washington that Argentine dicta-
tor Juan Peron was closely tied in
with the Puerto Rican Nationalists,
the group from which President
Truman's would-be assassins came.
The same day, Critica, Buenos
Aires paper favorable to the Peron
government, carried a feature
story hailing Pedro Alzizu Campos,
arrested for leading the Puerto
Rican revolt, as "the last soldier
of independence, a martyr to his
cause"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Most Cities To
Continue Public
Works Programs

y
Chicago tIENS) ~ Cities gener
ally plan to continue their public
works programs until they are
stopped by federal regulations oil
by the shortage of materials anC
labor, a survey of representative
u. S. cities by the American Nun.
icipal Association shows.
Already lacking adequate facil-
titles for their growing population
because of the ban on building dur
ing World War II, a large number
of cities felt that as a matter OF
policy municipalities should GO
ahead with school buildings, road
improving and sewer construction
projects until federal policies are
clearly defined or until materials
are no longer available. Several
cities were expediting their pro-
grams in anticipation of coming
shortages. New York City, on the
contrary, Immediately took steps to
curtail all capital improvements
which were not already under con-
struction.
A few cities suggested that
municipalities proceed only with
the most necessary public construc-
tion while others felt that the de-
termination of priorities on con-
struction were important at this
time. New York and Milwaukee
plan to limit further projects by
their value to national defense or
to the most basic needs of the