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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Senate Group Told Taft Hartley Act
Guarantees hon- Collective Bargaining

Washington (LPA)-The Taft
Hartley law does not guarantee
collective bargaining, but non-col'
lective bargaining.
Isadore Katz, general counsel OF
the Textile Workers Union, points
that out in testimony filed Nov. Ia
with the Senate Subcommittee or
Labor Management Relations.
The testimony, presented as a
118-page report entitled, "Taft-
Hartleyism in Southern Textiles
Feudalism With a New Face" says
that the TIL law has hurt unions
very much despite claims of bust
ness propagandists to the contrary
In cases after case, documentec
with photostats of company letters
and hate sheets, Katz shows that
the lot of the southern millworkel
is almost as bad as that of feud-
al slave in the Middle Age.
"The company doesn't hesitate to
use every pressure it can exert in
the plant and in the village on
workers with union sympathies, y
KATE said in explaining his report,
Churches, schools, stores are
used against him. There is no
equality in the communication of
ideas as far as the union is concern
ed and the union man is bounded
socially and economically and then
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23

thrown out of the community. II
takes man of strong convictions
and unfettered with wife and chill,
dren, to be a union man."
Katz also raped the TIL for its
slowness and said it "is filling arc
hives for the research student OF
the future"
He said the paid tough is being
replaced by the "suave legal tech.
nician" as a union buster. "Any
lawyer who can't tie up case fol
at least two years is lousy law
yer,' Katz said.
He stated that companies only
wanted delays so that they could
break unions and that TIL afford
ed them legal means to get such
delays.
"This law can not be appraised
in a vacumn,' the report says. at
must be studied on a human level
1t must show how it affects the
lives of workers in the mills"
The use of injunctions was de-
nounced by Katz. He said they de-
prive people of trial by jury and
are supposed to speed justice, but
that in actual practice judges get
caught in a web of injunctions and
court cases still go on long after
the original labor dispute is settled.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Workers Education Bureau Moves To
Washington To Become New AFL Dept.

most 80 years as an independent
organization, the bureau is only
fulfilling its destiny. Even in the
first year of its existence, 1921, a
memorandum, drawn up by Presi-
dent Gompers, Matthew Woll, Hugh
Frayne, and Chester NJ. Wright,
with Spencer Miller, Jr., secretary
of the bureau, was adopted as a
basis of cooperation between the
federation and the fledgling organ
iZation.
"Since then the relations between
these two organizations have grown
more and more cooperative and
functional.
"The purpose of the Workers
Education Bureau, as originally
conceived, was to serve as a clear
inghouse of information and a
guidance center in the development
of workers education in the United
States. In its early days, most OF
its financial support came from in
dividuals both within and without
the labor movement, and from
foundations. But as organized
labor's interest in the education of
it's members increased, more and
more funds for the bureaus pro-
gram have come from labor, until
during the past decade the Ameri-
(Tgrn to Page Thres)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Things You've Always
Known Til Now, Dept.

New York (LPA)-The rags-to-
riches dream of every American
boy was ripped to sheds here by ar
enterprising reporter who has
proved that it's pretty hard to save
a million dollars out of your salary
He made a survey of a number
of people, mostly millionaires
after that old benchwarmer Bern
ard Baruch cracked that "anyone
can still become a millionaire"
! It's impossible to pile up mill
ion iron men if you depend on the
old paycheck alone because when
you get making real dough Uncle
Sam steps in and walks away with
as much as 85 percent of it.
An accountant suggested that
the magic figure might be reached
by speculation in real estate or
food because only a 25 percent
capital gains tax must be paid on
such deals.
Of course there's always the
black market-or opium smuggling
or a captaincy on the New York
police force.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Maybank Opposes
Further Federal
Rent Controls

Miami Beach, Fla. (LPA) = II
Chairman Burnet Maybank Cd, Sc
of the Senate Banking committee
has his way, federal rent controls
will end Dec. 81.
He told the National Assn OF
Real Estate Boards that he is op-
posed to further federal rent con.
trolls, and that rent controls should
be left to the states. He said nc
rent control bill would be before his
committee at the ''lame duck" ses-
sion of Congress starting Nov. 27
"My committee cannot pass any
bill in three weeks" he said, "and
there will be several faces at the
lame duck session that will not be
present in the new Congress"
Maybank also called for "sev-
ere cutback" in home construction.
The day before, in Washington, the
Federal Reserve Board announced
easier credit restrictions so that
more homes could be sold.
Homes started before October IL
have been exempted from Regula-
tion X (higher down payments and
less time to pay), provided the
builders arranged their financing
before May l, 1861. The original
order placed the credit restrictions
on all homes started after August
3.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Local Union A To
Nominate Officers
|At Next Meeting

Sebring, Ohio-There was good
attendance at the meeting of Local
Union "a on Nov. 13, resulting in
some very lively discussions on
trade problems brought before the
local.
The new percentages for our re-
cent increase in wages were read
and discussed. Judging by the ever
increasing rise in the cost of living
essentials, another wage increase
would be in order.
The time is at hand when some
thing must be done regarding
health conditions in some of the
shops. A dust hazard at the Royal
China Co. was reported to be so
bad that something must be done
about it right away.
Several agreements reached at
the Gem Clay were read and APP
proved.
Nominations for officers for the
next six months will be held at our
next meeting on Nov. 27. Election
will be held Dec. IL. -O.C. al
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Dubinsky Calls
Election Results
Not Too Dark

New York LPA)-David Dub
insky, president Of the Int'l Ladies
Garment Workers-AFL, does not
think the election results are as
dark as they have been painted.
Writing in the Nov. Is issue OF
Justice, official organ Of the union,
Dubinsky says that "The facts as
they begin to take on shape and
substance reveal, for example, that
the number Of House Of Represent
atives members lost by the Admin
istration was the lowest ever re-
corded in mid-term election dur
ing the entire New Deal"
Dubinsky said the record turn
out could be attributed to labor's
efforts and that the vote stemmed
tide of reaction. He said the Lib
eral party. in New York provided
the margin by which Sen. Herbert
H. Lehman was reelected and that,
while it had failed to defeat Mayor
Impellitteri, it was ready to admit
it had erred in its judgment about
him.
The union leader said the swing
to reaction left a dim outlook for
liberal legislation in the next Con-
gress, but that defeat must be
taken in stride the same as victory.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23

New York City (ILNS) - The
Workers Education Bureau, lnde'
pendent for 80 years, will move tc
Washington Dec. l to become al
integral part of the functional
structure of the American Fedora
ton of Labor as its Department OF
Education.
The change has been under con-
sideration for some time but only
recently was it possible to find
suitable office space in Washing
ton. The AFL headquarters build
ing is overcrowded, so the fedora
ton has leased office space for the
bureau in the Victor Building at
724 9th st. NV.
The Workers Education Bureau
was formally dissolved as an inde-
pendent educational organization
at a meeting of it's executive COM
mittee during the Houston AFL
convention and title to its library,
copyrights, office and film equip
ment, files and other assets trans
ferred to the AFL.
Fulfilling Its Destiny"
Announcing the move to Wash
ington, the bureaus monthly News
Letter said:
"In becoming integrated into the
federation as one of its depart
ments and thus terminating its al
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Sees No Return
To Normal Times
In Our Lifetime

Chicago (LPA)-"We aren't GO
ing to see what we thought of as
normal times for the rest Of our
lives" That was the warning
sounded by Chester c. Davis, pres
ident Of the Federal Reserve Bank
of ST. Louis, addressing the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board.
Treasury Secretary John Snyder,
also speaking in Chicago, predicted
#"very much larger increases in the
rate of taxation.
NJ. S. Szymczak, a member Of
the Federal Reserve Board, adj
dressing the New York Chamber of
Commerce, predicted that 100000
persons win be directly engaged
in defense work by the end of 1851,
and that the work week will then
have to be extended beyond 40
hours. He foresaw the need for a
substantial increase in taxes soon,
called for tighter credit curbs, and
said wage and price controls should
be tried only as 'last resort"
Meanwhile wholesale prices rose
to new sll-time high in the week
ended Nov. ID. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics index hit I'LL, a
fraction over the previous peak of
August 1948, and 81 percent above
the level before the Korean war
started, Id percent over a month
ago, and 12.9 percent over a year
ago.
BIS said that government pur-
chases, cutting into available sup
plies of textiles and other products,
helped push wholesale prices to the
all-time high,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Layoffs At Ford
Due To Shortages;
Others To Follow

Detroit (LPA)-Ford Motor Co
laid off more than $4,000 employees
Nov. Is because of materials short
ages. Similar layoffs were expect
ed throughout industry as the gov.
ernment clamped down on the use
of scarce metals.
Auto production has dropped tt
a low for the year and the trade
publication Automotive News pre-
diets "vehicle production will be
under constant pressure of supply
shortages for weeks to come"
United Auto Workers warned
several weeks ago that steel short
ages would lead. to layoffs at Ford
and other places. UAW also attack
ed cutbacks in civilian use of cop
per and aluminium. The Natl Pro
duction Authority ordered civilian
use of aluminium cut 35 percent on
Nov. Is. A similar order on copper
is expected shortly.
After meeting with Commerce
Secretary Sawyer the week before
AFL President William Green and
UAW President Walter Reuther
said labor was promised a role in
NPA planning. Labor recommends
tions Of aluminium, however, were
completely overridden in the cut
back order.
Int'l Union of Electrical Work
ers had vigorously protested the
proposed cuts in civilian use of
aluminium and copper. The appli-
ance industry will be the next to
feel the pinch. Vice President Hard
age l.. Andrews of General Electric
has predicted 25 percent cutback
in production of household appli-
ances in 1861.
Military orders are not coming
in fast enough to fill up the gap.
IUE and UAW warned this would
happen. In statement Nov. H.,
Reuther urged that the cutbacks
''be coordinated with all other steps
that can be taken to assure max
imum availability, of these scarce
materials and to gear increased
production for defense closely into
the reduction of civilian produc-
ton"
In Washington, government Of
ficials explained why the United
States turned down chance to buy
100000 tons of aluminium from
Aluminium Co. of Canada. Defense
Coordinator w. Stuart Symington
said that only 10000 tons Of it
could have been delivered immedi-
ately, and in order to get it, they
would have to buy the whole 2O0,-
900 most Of which will not be pro-
(Turn to PAGE Three,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Syndicate Kills
Pegler 0. X. Of
Assassination Try

New York (LPA) - Westbrook
Pegler wasn't shocked at the at
tempted assassination Of President
Truman and hopes at will be a
lesson" to him.
In a column so venomous tha.
King Features Syndicate ordered
it Killed after it had been distri-
buted, Pegler urged the assassina-
tion Of Joseph Stain but denied
he favored assassination of Pres
ident Truman.
GAS to Harry S. Truman, at the
present stare cf the game he
wrote, 81 am willing to settle for
the impudence, the scare and the
reminder of the scene at the Blair
House"
The New York Post, long Peg
Ter foe, acquired a copy of the
column after it failed to appear.
Here are typical quotes:
81 hope this will be a lesson to
Truman and the anonymous, eye
rolling, disembodied hypocrites of
the editorial page who have been
croaking that the nation will view
this dastardly resort to anarchy
with shock and horror.
IF it takes this to remind US
that no President is holy person,
the cost is great, but the result is
worth it."
Pegler deplored the attacks on
the Blair House guards but said it
was all President Truman's fault
because he has helped produce
anarchy" in the US by siding with
labor groups.
"Any man who throws IN with
traitors and gorillas against the
loyal, law-abiding people of the
United States is asking for the
same kind of treatment and is
getting off easy when his guards
take the rap"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
TWUA To Ask Fol
Wage Boosts In
Cotton And Wool

New York (LPA)-The wooler
and worsted division of the Tex.
tile Workers Union will ask for 6
wage increase and the cotton-rayor
weaving division will hold a meet
ing in Washington Dec. 1917 tC
determine a collective bargaining
policy.
The decision to ask for a wage
raise in the woolen industry was
reached by 800 delegates represent
ing 10000 TWUA members in 15C
mills, meeting Nov. 11-12 in Bos-
ton. They heard President Emil
Rieve point out the changes in the
industry since the last contract
was signed in Feb. 1948.
"While we have successfully ne
gotiated a 12c an hour interim
wage increase" Rieve stated, "this
is not sufficient to compensate the
worker for increases in the cost of
living, and to bring him the stand
ard of living which textile workers
deserve, and the industry can af-
ford.
Rieve warned that there will be
more attacks on the workers pay
envelope and condemned employer
efforts to duck an excess profits
tax and shift the burden of tax
alton onto the workers.
In addition to Substantial"
wage increase, TWUA will ask for
establishment of employer-p a d
severance pay for dis
placed workers, and several other
(Turn TO Pd0p Thrrel
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Union Publicity
Men Tell Panel
How They Operate

Washington (LPA) - Organized
labor has two stories to tell the ma.
ton, according to Gordon Cole
| editor of The Machinist, weekly
lpaper Of the Int'l Assn Of Mach.
tinists.
Participating in a panel of union
editors and publicity men at the
convention of the American Public
Relations Assn Nov. 13, Cole said
the first story is the development
of collective bargaining as "a real
alternative to industrial warfare"
The second story, he declared, is
how social justice can be achieved
"under our system of competitive
free enterprise-through the order
ly processes of democracy" Others
in the panel were in general agree
ment with Cole.
Phil Pearl, the American Fed
Grafton of Labor's director of pub
licity, charged that sometimes the
commercial press fails to take ad-
vantage of organized labor's pub
lie relations facilities. He assailed
the "experts" who talk about labor
without checking the facts, hitting
radio commentator Fulton Lewis,
Jr. in particular. Pearl described
the AFL's many-sided public re-
lations activities, noting that putt
ing Frank Edwards on the air five
nights a week has been the top
project.
Ken Fiester, editor of Textile
Labor, organ of the Textile Work
ers, pointed out that much of
labor's public relations work is
necessarily performed in connec-
tion with organizing campaigns. Of
some 81 million employed persons
in the US only about Is million are
union members, he observed. Ac-l
cordingIy, one big public relations
problem is persuading non-mem-
bers to join up.
Justin Mccarthy, public relations
(Tura to Page Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Extend Marshall
Plan, Help Others,
Gray Report Urges

Washington (LPA)-The United
States must extend The Mar al
Plan in Western Europe for three
years and invest up to 600 ,00C ,00C
Ia year in Asia, Africa, and Latin
America if it is to win the cold
war.
Gordon Gray, president of the
University Of North Carolina and
Former Secretary Of the Army,
makes those proposals in his 131-
page report on US Foreign Econ
oRnic Policy prepared for President
Truman.
The report, released by the Pres
|ident Nov. l3, points out that we
must fight our global war on four
fronts-financial, military, social,
and informational-if we are to
survive.
Frankly international in flavor,
the reports recommendations are
too far-reaching to be acted on at
the "lame-duck" session of Con-
gress and they will face bitter op-
position from the reinforced isola-
zionist group when the 82nd Con-
gress meets in January.
High points in recommendations
of the report are: continuation of
the Marshall Plan to allow West
ern Europe to rearm, increased
agricultural production in under
developed areas through US
grants, world ALLEGATIONS of strate-
gic materials to prevent price
boosts, the Fastening of free inter-
national trade, and one agency to
handle all but military aid pro-
grams abroad.
Major economic problems we
must face, as listed by Gray, are:
Western Europe can't rearm and
feed itself at the same time, lack
of new capital for Increasing pro-
duction throughout the world,
unrest in underdeveloped
countries, lack of enough imports
into the US, the Morale and out
look" of the peoples of WesternI
Europe.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
|AFL Chief Warns
Against False
Peace Propaganda

Washington (LPA)-The worlds
free labor organizations W e RI
warned by William Green, AFl
president, to beware of false "peact
propaganda" from those attending
the second "World Peace Congress
in Sheffield, England.
Green sent a cable to j. H. Old.
enbroek, secretary-general of the
Int'l Confederation of Free Trade
Unions, saying: "Please alert, al
affiliated free trade unions to
fraudulent nature of peace parts
ans second world congress meet
ing today Sheffield, England. This
is Communist false front. It's peace
propaganda is really camouflage
for aggression, because Commune
lists hope to lull free nations into
abandoning defense program while
they are for war. Free workers
everywhere should be advised to
beware of such hypocritical propa-
ganda.
(The congress, after a one-day
session, adjourned to meet again
at Warsaw. Present were $50 dele
gates, $50 of them Britons. Humid
reds of others were refused entry
to Britain. o. John Rogge, an Am
erican delegate, was jeered when
he declared support for Yugosla1ia
for attempting to find d middle
way between capitalism and COM
No delegates from Yugo-
slavia had been invited. Outside,
rain extinguished torch held by a
runner who was finish.
ing an international relay for
peace. British labor gave the
''peace congress" the cold should
er.)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
No Taft Inquiry
Says Senofe Body

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
Elections subcommittee will not in
vestigate the Taft-Ferguson elec-
tion in Ohio, but may go into Penn
sylvania.
Senator Guy Gillette I'd, Iowa)
chairman of the subcommittee, said
the charges of excessive spending
in the reelection of Senator Taft
were ''too general" The same is
true of complaints from Nevada
and Utah. Complaints from Iowa,
Kentucky, and New York are still
being investigated, and a new COM
plant has come from Connecticut.
Gillette recommended hearings
on reported Irregularities in Penn
sylvania, and such hearings will be
held if the other committee men,
bers agree. Preliminary reports on
the Duff Myers senatorial race in
dicated that in Philadelphia board
ing houses had more registered
voters than occupants, Gillette de-
clared.
(At Columbus, Ohio, campaign
costs of $232, ,0S8.80 were reported
to the Secretary of State by Sena-
tor Taft and five of his campaign
committees. Previously one county
committee reported spending SILL
652. The Taft-for-Senator commit
tee reported it spend $137,326.27,
got contributions of $l63,192.48,
and its outstanding debts were
$750O.O
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Farmers Union To
Stick To Brannan Plan

Bismark, N. D. LPA) - "For
some time to come" the Farmers
Union will remain in the Demo
cratic party column, and will con-
tinue to fight for the Brannan farm
plan.
So declared James Patton, ma
tional president, and Glenn Tai
bott, state president, at the North
Dakota convention of the union.
Previously Patton had told the
Minnesota unions convention at
Willmar the same thing. Ed Christ
ianson, Gully, Mimi, defeated the
incumbent, Roy Wieseth, Good
ridge, Mimi, for state president,
1901 to 6,845. William Nystrom,
Worthington, Mimi, was unoppos-
ed for vice president.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Vote For Union Shop

Employees at the New Castle
Refractories plant in Newell, w
Va, voted for a union shop in re-
cent election conducted by the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
Approval of the union shop re-
quires membership in the union
as condition of continued en-
ployment. Employees of the plant
are now affiliated with Local
Union 16, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
New employees will be required
to join the union 30 days after be-
ing hired.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Loans To Spain
To Be On Straight
Business Basis

Washington (LPA) - Govern
ment loans to Spain will be ION a
straight business basis, project by
project" So the State Department
declared Nov. II, two days after
ECA announced loans from spec
ial S62, 100000 fund voted by Con-
gress would begin Immediately"
Said a Department spokesman:
"This government is in no sense
trying to bring Spain into the Eu-
ropean Recovery Program, or en-
deavoring to establish separate
ECA program for Spain"
President Truman, at his press
conference Nov. 16, said he is still
reluctant to send an ambassador to
Spain. That country is still consid-
cred totalitarian, and its sole poll
tical party, the Falanage, is listed
"totalitarian" under the new Com
munist control law.
The NY Times said 1--WE have
again played into Frances hands"
The NY Post said &c ra |
Frances campaign managers can
congratulate themselves; they have
seemingly carried 48 states without
ever putting his name on the ballot.
Come to think of it, the General
issimo has never dared to put his
name on a free ballot in Spain,
either"
The labor movement and liberal
groups generally have been united
in their opposition to a loan to
Franco Spain.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-23
Young Heads WiscOnsin's
School For Workers

Madison, Wise. (LPA), = Prof
Edwin Young has been named dir
ector of the School for Workers in
the University of Wisconsin Exten-
sion Division. He succeeds Prof
Ernest E. Schwartztrauber, who
died Sept. Is.
Professor Young has taught
Labor Problems, American La
Dor History" and participated ex-
tensively in the School for Work
ers' summer institutes. He received
his doctorate in economics from
the University of Wisconsin.
Last summer Professor Young
was a consultant on labor affairs
in Germany for the US State De-
partment. He also was on the staff
of the Harvard Seminar in Ameri-
can Studies at Salzburg, Austria.