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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Bill Would Bar Ship
Transfers To Panama

Washington UPA)-Sen. War
rem G. Magnuson Cd, Wash.) has
introduced a bill to halt the trans
fer of American freight ships and
tankers to Panamanian registry.
Seamen's unions, AFL and CIO
alike, have long charged that Am
erican shipowners register vessels
Under Panamanian, Honduran and
flags of other small, non-maritime
nations to avoid union wages, res
possibility for damage suits, in
come taxes and high safety and
engineering standards. European
seamen have made the same
charges. The international Trans
portworkers Federation, Of which
the Seafarers International Union
AFI is a member, has threatened
worldwide boycott Of Panaman-
ian ships.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Price of Beer Too
High. US Charges

Pittsburgh (LPA)-Beer drink
ers have been taken for ride as
the result of a conspiracy by dis
tributors, a federal grand jury here
has charged. 1t has indicted a
trade organization and 25 of its
members, two other corporations,
and "a individuals distributing
beer in the McKeesport, Pa, area.
The formal charge is violating
of the antitrust laws, but what
theN actually did, said the indict-
menta was to: raise prices, set them
at "high and arbitrary levels;
freeze out other beer distributors
by refusing to sell to anyone who
bought from non-members of the
group; to boycott, picket, "harass
and annoy" retail outlets that did
not fall in line; "force other distri-
butors to adhere to the conspiracy
by causing those who failed to do
so to be be boycotted."
As a result, said the US, the
consuming public has suffered from
the imposition of high, arbitrary,
and non-competitive prices
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Union Health Plan
Beats Insurance
Co.'S Judge Rules

st. Louis (LPA)-You get more
for your money under a unions
medical and health program than
under a commercial insurance com
pany's. A federal judge has so rul-
led, after hearing the evidence as
chairman of an arbitration board.
Local 6S8 of the warehouse en-
ployes negotiated last fall with a
food distributors association rep
Presenting 16 grocery warehouses
in the st. Louis area. A medical
and disqualification plan was agreed
on, but the employers did not want
to accept the Labor Health Insti-
tute as the medical agency. The
association suggested arbitration,
with US Judge Roy H. Harper as
the arbitrator Both sides present.
ed data, and Judge Harper has just
ruled-for the union.
The union proved that under the
employer-insurance company plan,
60 per cent Of the income would
go for actual medical services;I
under the LII plan, it would be
90 per cent.
Judge Harper pointed out that
the LII plan was also more liberal
with respect to laboratory, X-ray,
nursing service and doctor calls
at home. He also noted that in the
case of dependents the LII plan
is worth $3.50 more a day in hos
pitalization to the individual than
the company plan. The LII plan
reimburses up to 1925 compared to|
the 800 under the company's plan.
For maternity benefits the LHI|
plan would save an average of|
$3S.72 more per claim than the|
private insurance.
Affected are 81 employees and
ATS dependents.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
A FREE COUNTRY
BY RUTH TAYLOR
This is a free country.
Sure it is-but free for what ?

This is free country.
Sure it is-but free for what?
1t is free for work. No man has
to be what his father was before
him. No man has to work where his
father worked. In time of emer-
gency we may voluntarily regulate
our man power but it is done under
the laws we ourselves made, which
are to be abrogated when the need
is over.
1t is free for knowledge. No man
need stay ignorant if he has the
will to learn. The history of the
country has proven that. Of course,
there are differences in education
al opportunities-but the man who
truly wants to learn, who is will
ing to work at the job of getting
ahead, can do so. No man need
stay ignorant.
1t is free for courtesy. Where
each man is counted as one, there
need be no Servile scraping nor
condescending nod. Each man is
free to accord to every other man
the same courtesies of behaviour to
which he is himself entitled. 1t
takes but one person to be polite.
1t is free for friendliness. We are
all equals under the law, bound by
the same rules and regulations. We
can therefore accord the comrade-
ship of citizenry to our neighbor,
of his class, creed or
color.
1t is free for integrity. No man
wears the yoke of another. No man
is bound to another as his slave.
Each man can stand alone-incor-
rupt, and loyal to the finest ideals.
1t is free for thought. The un-
fettered mind of man is the secret
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Bitter Pill Given
Doctors At ANA
Meet By A Doctor

San Francisco (LPA)-Doctors
attending the American Medical
Associations annual meeting here
were taken aback when Brig. Gen.
James S. Simmons, respected dean
of Harvard's medical school, told
them bluntly "the important chal-
lenge to the medical profession to-
day is not socialized medicine" If
that's the case, some of them are
asking, why tap us for $25-a-year
compulsory ANA dues to fight the
menace? The ANA, regardless, is
going to spend the $3,000,0C0 it
collects for newspaper and radio
advertising and other high-pres-
sure publicity against health insur-
ance.
However, President Elmer l..
Henderson, in his inaugural address
here warned that "The American
medical system has been made a
target for the barbs and criticisms
of comparatively small group Of
little men, whose lust for power is
far out of proportion to their intel
lectual capacity, their spiritual un-
derstanding, their economic realism
and their political honesty"
Warming up, DR.. Henderson ad-
ded that these men of little faith
in the American people propose to
place all our people-doctors and
patients alike, under a shabby, gov
ernment- dictated medical system
which they call compulsory health
insurance. And this, factually, is
socialized medicine, regardless of
how hard they try to disclaim it. "
A clean-cut distinction was made
by the Harvard dean between So
cialized medicine and national
health insurance-the latter sup
ported by the Democratic party
and the unions. He pleaded with the
doctors to end the atmosphere of
confusion, petty controversy and
political pickering" and to lend
their help, as scientists, to meet
ing the urgent problems of defend
ing the national health.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Scabs Provoke
Shooting Spree
At Enka Plant

Morristown, Tenn. (LPA) - A
shooting-match which the union
claims was started and provoked
by the company took place June %
at the struck Lowlands plant of the
Enka Corporation.
Two days before, according to
officials of the Textile Workers, a
strikebreaker came out of the
plant and started shooting at pic
kets, apparently just to scare
them. The union sought the mans
arrest but a warrant was never
served.
Strikebreakers continued to enter
the plant, making a big show of
guns they had with them. 1t was
only after this, TWUA says, that
the shooting between the strikers
and scabs started. 1t was reported
that three strikebreakers were in
jured in the fracas. A striker was
shot later several miles from the
plant.
The $50 state highway patrolmen
rushed to the scene picked up
every TWUA member they could
find, about 65 of them, and threw
them in Jail without warrants. All
but Is were released the next day
because the Jail did not have the
facilities to house them. II
Pickets had parked their cars
near the plant and while they were
in Jail the strikebreakers hacked
the tires, overturned cars, shot
them up and completely wrecked
at least ten. The tent which the
union used as strike headquarters
was burned down. This was the
second tent set up by the union.
The first was stolen.
At 4:30 the next morning, Carl
Holt, an organizer in Bristol, Tenn,
was pulled out of bed by the Bris-
tol cops and held on charges of
shooting in Morristown, 85 miles
away. They took him over to the
Morristown Jail, where they re-
fused to let his family commun-
icate with him.
A Senate subcommittee recently
investigated the Morristown situa-
ton and is expected to report on it
soon.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
lam Quits Group Which
Front For Big Business

Washington OPA)-The Inter
national Association Of Machinists
has severed all connections with
the National Council for Commun-
ity Improvement, and President
All Hayes has resigned from its
board of trustees. Hayes warned
all labor that those now in control
are using the Council as political
front against labor and liberal
legislation.
Both Harvey w. Brown, former
lam president, and Hayes have
served as trustees, but in the last
seven months Hayes has not been
invited to participate in its affairs.
He got a letter May IL, from Will
lam O'Neil, of the General. Tire q
Rubber Co., Akron, new board
chairman of the Council. The letter
was addressed to "a selected group
of far-sighted business leaders"
and evidently was sent to Hayes
by mistake. The letter solicited
financial support for a program Of
saving the American system, by
slowing down the tendency of go
ing to Washington for handouts,
and "to reverse the trend toward
Capitalization of authority and the
paternal state"
These detectives, said Hayes,
sound innocent, but they cloak the
real detectives (which reactionaries
always use to oppose and obstruct
every piece of social welfare legis-
lation."
Hayes called on Paul G.. Stark,
of st. Louis, new Council president,
to disavow the political intent ex-
pressed in O'Neil's solicitation let
ter. There was no reply, so Hayes
took the matter before the lam
executive board, which voted un-
animously to quit the group.
Hayes, in resigning, wrote that
many other organizations formed
for worthy causes have Travelled
the same road, and said the LAM
will continue to work for the "im-
provement of the many commun-
tiles in which our members live
and work.. He expressed hope that
another and more worthy organ
ization" with such aims will be
formed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Korean Lobor Specialist Tells
Of Experiences With Communists

Washington (LPA) - I'VE In
Korea will be firm and contribute
to our fullest extent to the war
against Communist invaders of our
country-tiil we die" Dai Wi Lee,
manager of the government-owned
Sam Chok coal mine in South
Korea, and former Secretary of the
South Korean Department of
Labor, declared to reporters in
Washington, three days after Com
munist forces invaded his country.
In Washington on a State and
Labor Department sponsored miss
ion to study labor-management re-
lations here, the visitor heard news
of the fall of Seoul, where his
mother, wife and two small child
rem are, in a dramatic interruption
of the press conference.
The 52-year-old veteran of the
struggle for Korean independence
spent three years in a japanese
prison camp and was recently tried
for his life by a peoples court
after being held up by Communist
bandits near the North Korean bor-
der. The court freed him only be-
cause workers in the countryside
considered him their friend.
The United States and the UN
have taken the only possible course.
Mr.. Lee said, pointing out that
Communist tactics are the same
everywhere. at is like the Chinese
rick-shaw coolie. You want to go
to a certain place, a rickshaw coolie
looks at you and sees you are well
dressed. He tells you it will be two
dollars. If you are poor man, it
will be ten cents. That is how it Is
with Russia. If they think you dC
not know the price, they keep
charging you, but if you know the
price, you tell them, and they viii
accept what you firmly offer"
Lee thinks 80 per cent of the
people in north Korea are non!
Communists and that his country
someday will unite to build &
strong and independent Korea
"We cannot live broken in two," he
said.
The greatest help has been ECA
and before that UNRRA, Lee said.
There has not been enough bread
not enough rice, not enough
clothes. "The Communists have
used this situation to disturb and
disrupt our people. We could not
go ahead to solve our problems"
The Communists were outlawed
when the republic took over ir
South Korea. Since then they have
been underground. "They have har-
rassed us in every way" Lee said.
"Three times in a year great fires
broke out that were set by Com
munists. 1t has been no peace
vaalivn
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Graham Beaten
In n. {. Runoff
For Senate Seat

Raleigh, N. C. (LPA)-In bin
ter election fight, Willis Smith,
who campaigned as an opponent of
the Fair Deal, defeated Sen. Frank
Graham in the Democratic Party
primary election runoff for the
Senatorial nomination.
In North Carolina the Democratic
nomination is equal to election.
Graham had the backing of organ
lied labor and Gov. Kerr Scott,
who appointed him to the Senate
Is months ago, stumped the state
in his support. Smith opposed the
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission, the Brannan Farm Plan,
the Truman health program, and
other fair deal measures.
In the regular party primary the
month before, Graham led by 53,-
600. He did not have a clear maj
ority of the total votes cast, how
ever, and Smith called for a run
off election. In the runoff, Snlth
led by about 10000.
The New York Times, reporting
the results, said 'the upset result
ed from much hard work by Mr..
Smiths men, who thought they
were battling for lost cause, and
unexpected effectiveness of their
principal weapon = an emphasis
upon race relations and a display
of race bitterness such as this state
had not witnessed for so years."
PAC and LLPE. workers report
ed that tremendous amounts
money had been poured into TIN
Smith campaign by various big
business and hate organizations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06

Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
Use.
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Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06

of the advancement of the nation.
Here no man need be told what to
think or when to think it. He blows
not hot or cold as he is ordered. He
can be for or against and, provid-
ed he keeps to the law of the land
that self-made law of free men
he can think and act as he pleases.
1t is free for belief. No man need
worship or not worship at the be-
hest of his master. Each man is
responsible to his own conscience
and to his own concept of God.
Strong in his faith, he can stand
or fall by what he believes. His be-
liefs are his own.
This is a free country-founded
upon freedom and free to grow
with the times to a newer and
finer fulfillment of the law of lib
erty-which is the law of right
eousness.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
NAM MAN SEEKS PRO-LABOR
THOMAS SENATE SEAT

Salt Lake City, Utah UPA)-
The chairman Of the board Of dir
ectors of the Nat'l Association of
Manufacturers, Wallace +. Ben
nett, has resigned his NAM post.
He will try for the Republican
place on the Nov. z ballot, opposing
Senator Ebert Thomas,
a Democrat and chairman of the
Senate Labor committee.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Truman Names Harper To
Rail Retirement Board

Houston, Tex. (LPA)-President
Truman has named Horace Harper
labor member of the Railroad Re-
tirement Board to fill a vacancy.
Harper, veteran general chairman
of the Railway Clerks on the Texas
& New Orleans railroad, is an ex-
pert on railroad retirement and
social security.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-06
Strikes Loom As
Management BaIks
At Union Demands

Chicago (LPA)-There's Turmoil
ahead on the nations railroads il
rail management doesn't relax its
stubborn resistance to legitimate
union demands.
On June 21, "A. j. Glover, presi-
dent of the Switchmen's Union
called a strike of 1000 members OF
his organization on five western
and midwestern roads for the
morning of June 25. The union
goal is a 40-hour week at the same
pay now received for As hours.
A. G. Wise, executive vice-pres-
ident of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors, announced that plans were
being set for a strike July IL on
the Pullman System and the Mil
waukee Road. The union seeks a
reduction in the hours worked per
month with time and half for all
work after 210 hours. If a Pres
idential emergency board is named,
the strike will be deferred, Wise
said. ..e
F. H. Nemitz, president OF the
Conductors, branded the recon-
mendations of Presidential board
as "the worst ever issued by any
emergency board" President w. p.
Kennedy of the Brotherhood of
Trainmen denounced the recon-
mendations in equally scorching
terms. The two unions also wanted
48-hour pay for 40-hour week for
yardmen and liberalizing adjust
ments for road men. The boards
recommendations failed to provide
the 48-hour wage rate or to salts
fly the road mems demands. The
unions will decide what to do at a
July 10 meeting of general chair
men. The recommendations of an
emergency board are not manda-
tory under the Railway Labor Act.
M. G. Schoch, president of the
Railroad Yardmasters, blasted an
other report by the same emer-
gency board as a "monstrosity"
and disgrace. The Yardmast-
ers also are demanding a 40-hour
week at 48-hour pay. For Yard
masters, Trainmen, and Conduc-
tors alike, the board recommended
the 40-hour week, alright. How
ever, it also proposed first a one
sixth reduction in 40 hour earn
ings, then a flat 18-cent hourly in
crease. All three unions insist this
means a cut in take-home pay.
For road men among the Train
men and Conductors, the board
turned down a proposal for gradu-
lated rates of pay keyed to loco
motive sizes and weights, such as
engine crews now enjoy. Also re-
jected was a basic work day of
five hours or 100 miles, which en-
.gine crews have. In addition, a
number of other adjustments were
vetoed by the board.
The Switchmen ordered their
walkout on the Great Northern,
Chicago Great Western, Rock Is
land, Denver & Rio Grande West
ern and Western Pacific. The
Switchmen's dispute actually is ma
tional, but the union selected these
five roads for a showdown.
One road, the Lackawanna, has
met the unions demands in full
and been called "crazy" by officials
of the others. Glover praised the
Lackawanna for its display of
genuine collective bargaining" He
said the Switchmen would be sorry
to Inconvenience the public. How
ever, he said union demands were
legitimate and reminded the public
that the Switchmen hadn't struck
for 80 years.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-01-05
Adoption Of Senator Byrd's Budget
Would Save taxpayers b,25O,OOO
Montana Chamber of Commerce States

The Montana Chamber Of
Commerce recently called upon
Montana's delegation in Cong
ress to support to the limit
the $36 billion budget of prog
ress" proposed by Senator Harry
F. Byrd for the federal govern
n1ent for the fiscal year 1851.
Senator Byrd democrat, Vir-
ginia) is a member of the Sen
ate Finance committee, and
since 1871, has been chairman
OF the congressional joint COM
mittee on Reduction, of Nones-
sential Federal Expenditures.
In letters sent to, Senators
James E.. Murray and Zales N.
Ecton and to the two Montana
representatives in the lower
house, the state Chamber de-
clared that If the federal bud
get for 1851 could be held to-
the size suggested by Senator
Byrd, it would represent a re-
duction of 71a billion collars
below the 1917 billion dollar
1850 spending budget.
This, the Montana Chamber
said, would assure a balanced
budget in 1851 with about two
billion dollars left over to re-
duce the huge inflationary fed
eral debt" The Chambers let
tiers were sent over the sigma
ture of Dean Chaffin of BoZe-
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man, president of the organiza-
ton.
The Chamber pointed out
that since federal expenditures
must be met by taxes collected
from the people of the 48 states,
and since Montana taxnayers
presently bear about $50 of
all direct and hidden taxes i'm
posed by the federal govern
ment, a STU billion spending
redu ction such as Senator
Byrd's proposed 1851 budget
contemplates would save Mon
tana taxpayers approximately
$26, 100000 for that year.
. This estimated $26,250,O00
saving under the Byrd propos-
al, the Chamber reminded
Montana's members of Congress,
Is only W. million dollars less
than Montana citizens paid in
1949 property taxes to support
all of our grammer schools and
high schools. How much longer
do we ignore the needs of our
schools, our highways and our
towns by throwing our money
away to Federal wastre1s -
The Chambers Letter contin-
ued: Senator Ryrd's proposed
1851 federal budget, the de-
tails of whi"h were carefully
spelled out in his statement Of
Thursday, Dec. 8, would pro-
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vide sufficient funds to cover
the demands of all reasonable
people. Although its $36 billion
spending estimate represents a
STU billion reduction below the
record break ng peacetime ex-
penditure for the present fiscal
year, it should be noted that it
is 81 billion more than was
spent in the fiscal year 1913. 1t
is four times the maximum
expenditures in the highest
pre-War budget = that of 1910.
"As Senator Byrd points out,
his proposal need not represent
a single element of reaction. It
can be reached principally by
foregoing nonessential increas-
es and by eliminating a large
part of the extravaganza and
waste disclosed recently by the
Hoover Commission. Indeed, a
spending budget of considerab-
ly less than $50 billions could
be achieved if all present waste
full and Unnecessary spending
were to be eliminated"
The Chambers statement
added: while the 500 ESQ, 900
saving viii h would be assured
to Montana taxpayers through
the adoption of Senator Byrd'S
budget of progress is an i'm
portant thing to consider, 1t Is
not nearly as>important as the
contribution such a BRIDGET
would make to the muoh-
needed restoration of stability
in the nations economic situa-
ton.
"a balanced federal budnet in
1851, achieved by reduction of
spending rather than by the i'm
position of new tax burdens,
would go far to strengthen the
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confidence Of productive in
dustry in the governments fl
nancing policies. 1t would slim
ulate constructive investment
and expansion in industry and
agriculture. 1t would preserve
the governments so1vency. We
agree with Senator Byrd that
without solvency and stability,
our form Of government cannot
survive. =
eve venture to say that the
entrenched spending interests
in Washington won't like Sena-
tor Byrd's budget very much,
but the large majority of the
people of this state will like it
when they realize that no es-
sential government service need
be impaired by its adoption,
and that it requires no new
taxes, nor an increase in the
public debt"
The Missouri Mississippi riv-
a~o - ~ 0 400 y,oisa., I1,,er