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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

ain a prone position" in the cab of
his truck during his lunch hour"
The NLRB examiner ordered re-
linstatement of another worker
fired for union activity and told
the company to stop interfering
with efforts Of the AFL Teamsters
Union to organize the plant. Rip
petoe's discharge was upheld when
| it turned out his lunch-hour nap
was taken at 3 p. m.
If Marshall DENLY, a deaf mute,
and Darlington Hammer, employees
of the Us Rubber Co.'S Scottsville,
Va, tire cord plant, had been fam
iliar with an old adage, they'd have
their jobs today.
The adage-"Don't do as do, do
as | say"-might have warned
them to pay more attention to com
pany admonitions not to gamble.
The NLRB report says that at
one time the company "did not in
terfere with employees matching
coins for Coca-Colas in its cafe
terra, the practice being indulged
| in by the supervision from the
plant manager down as well as by
the rank-and-file employees"
This practice of gambling
spread from the confines Of the
cafeteria" the report states, "to
locker and wash rooms and to the
working areas Of the plant. Var
ious forms of gambling were pre-
valent, some known and some un-
known to the company. Employees
openly conducted baseball pools. .
they gambled on their paycheck
numbers and they tossed or pitched
pennies at a mark in the floor"
Things got so out Of hand that
the company ordered supervisory
employees to set an example. When
that didn't work, bulletins were
printed prohibiting gambling under
penalty of immediate discharge.
Denby and Hammer both were
active in an organization drive be-
ing conducted by the union, and
they both liked to pitch pennies
bad combination. Denby even do
mated the use of ball park he
owned for union meetings.
Though both men denied they
were matching coins at the time
the company claims they were, the
NLRB examiner upheld the COM
pany after a parade of witnesses
said they had watched the two men
tossing pennies during working
hours.
For DENLY and Hammer it was
a case of "heads | win, tails you
lose"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Conductors Win
Shorter Month

Chicago (LPA)-A 15-hour re-
duction in the basic work month
without a pay loss was the chief
improvement a Presidential emer-
gency board granted Pullman con-
ductors. Old work month was 225
hours, new one is 2l0.
However, the Pullman conduc-
tors, members of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, wanted time and
a half after 210 hours, but the
board insisted that straight time
should be paid through 220 hours.
Previously, the Pullman conductors
didn't get time and a half until
after 235 hours.
The board considered a total of
SO issues in the dispute between
the union and the Pullman Co. 1t
recommended a number of changes
in working rules but rejected other
union proposals, many of them
dollars-and-cents issue.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
OBITUARIES
RALPH Z. PICKENS

Ralph E. Pickens, 81, of Henry
and Crawford Aves., Wellsville,
died Nov. 8 in City Hospital, where
he was patient for 10 days with
"a heart ailment.
Mr.. Pickens was born in Letart
Falls and lived in East Liverpool
for many years. He later moved to
Falls Creek, Pa, and 16 years ago
went to Wellsville. He was a decor
ator for the Sterling China Co.
until recently when he went to the
Mayer China Co. at Beaver Falls.
He was a member Of Local Union
"a, National Brotherhood of Opera
tive Potters.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Nell
Shannon Pickens; a daughter, Mrs.
Kathleen Gardiner Of Cleveland; !;
two sons, Ralph Pickens and Jack
j. Pickens at home; his mother,
Mrs. David S. Pickens of East Liv-
erpool; a sister, Mrs. Mia Steven
son of North Hollywood, Calf,
and a brother, Ernest X. Pickens
of Los Angeles.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Doctors ignore
Town Clinic
They Suggested

Washington (LPA)-Frank Ed
wards, AFL radio commentator
has given nationwide publicity to
two more instances of the doctors
disregard for the sick and injured
Both instances were in North Caro-
lima.
+ In Greensboro the county medical
society persuaded the county to
close it's general clinic, open to the
sick every day, on the promise that
they would replace it with a dia-
.gnostic clinic, and staff the clinic
themselves. The county clinic clos
ed, the other opened. The sick
came, but the doctors stayed away.
Between Oct. 20 and Nov. 8 seven
clinical sessions were held. At only
two did any doctors appear, and in
one of the two cases, the doctor
had to be summoned. from another
town.
In Raleigh, Edwards told his ma
tion-wide radio audience, a truck
driver was trapped in the wreck
age of his machine. He was writh-
ing in agony. Telephone calls were
made to 25 doctors. Not one re-
sponded. They were busy, or out of
Town, or in meeting, or in con-
ference, etc. Helpless bystanders
asked druggists nearby to give
first aid. They refused, saying
"We'd like, to but the doctors
would jump all over US if they
heard of it," Finally, after 45 min
utes, some students from State
College cut away the top of the
truck cab and managed to get the
driver out.
Edwards added, "The American
Medical Association says the Am
erican public is getting the finest
medical in the world"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Ohio Body Seeks
Many Changes In
Sfufe Lubor Lows

Columbus, Ohio (LPA)-Prohibit
minors under 18 from working in
hazardous employment. Keep child
rem under 16 out of manufacturing
and mechanical jobs. Allow youths
under 18 to work only Al hours a
week, instead of the present AS
Keep children under Ia out of farm
work, unless it's on their parents
farms.
These and other changes in Ohio
labor laws have been recommended
by the Ohio Commission on Child
rem and Youth. 1t will take the re-
concentrations to the Mid-Century
White House Conference on Child
rent and Youth, to be held in Dec
ember, for consideration.
The group also urged that labor,
industry and business cooperate
with the schools and the Ohio State
Employment Service in providing
information and guidance on jobs.
They further asked that the OSES
expand and improve its counseling
work with older youth; that both
the schools and the OSES break
down discrimination based on race
or creed; and that farmers work
through OSES to cut down the
number of relief cases among mig
rant laborers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
$500 Workers Get
S208 Poy Raise

Detroit (LPA) = Approximately
4500 Wayne County employees have
been granted a $208-a-year pay
raise by the County Board of Sup
ervisors, effective Dec. /. The in
crease, equivalent to 10 cents hour
ly, puts the minimum scale at
$3148. The board acted on a min
ority report of it's Ways and Means
committee, which had the active
support of the Detroit Building
Trades Council, Detroit and Wayne
County Federation of Labor, AFL
Electrical Workers, American Fed
Grafton of State, County and Mum
icipal Employees, and the AFL Hos
pital Employees Union.
Supervisor Frank X. Martel,
president of the Detroit and Wayne
County Federation of Labor, said
that while the pay levels of coun-
ty workers "have remained static,
wages in private industry have
been boosted from 20 to 40 cents
an hour" He noted the employees
have received no pay raise since
Dec. l, 1948. 1t is expected, that the
County Road Commission will fol-
low suit and grant its 150C en-
ployes similar raises.
Ask for Union Labeled merchan-
disc.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Not Necessary To
Go Around Picket
Line, MLRB Rules

Ell Segundo, Calf. UPA)-The
National Labor Relations Board
has ruled that a strikebreaker has
a right to walk through picket
line-he doesn't have to try to
avoid trouble by walking around it.
In 3-2 decision, the full board
reversed Wallace E. Royster, trial
examiner, who had ordered three
men rehired by the Ell Segundo Re-
finery here, a subsidiary of STAN
dard Oil of Calf.
The company had refused to re-
hire the men after a strike by
Local 180, Boilermakers-AFL, be-
cause it said they had been guilty
of picket line violence. The trial
examiner said that "minor brushes
of such character are not uncom-
mon when strikes are long and
tempers short"
"1t should be recognized" he
said, ''that in the heat of industrial
conflict, strick adherence to a stan
dard of conduct prevailing in the
drawing room is not to be expect
ed."
Royston, and the dissenting
NLRB minority of John M. Hous-
ton and Paul L. Styles, held that
Leslie Ga strikebreaker) invited
whatever humping or jostling' he
received when, instead of walking
around the picket line, he deliber-
ately walked through it and pro-
voked Rice Ga striker) to hit him
by his obscene remark"
The majority held that Leslie
Exercised his right" when he
walked through the picket line and
said it couldn't go along with the
idea that the alterations were
"minor brushes" normally encount-
cred during a strike. 1t upheld the
company's failure to rehire Rice
and two others accused of picket
line violence.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
HARVEY MELLON

Harvey T. Mellon, so, formerly
of Newell, w. Va, died Nov. 9 in
the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Thomas j. Wilson, at East Pales-
tine.
Mr.. Mellon was born in New
Matamoras and lived in Newell
for AZ years where he was a kiln
placer for the Homer Laughlin
China Co. before his retirement.
He went to East Palestine in June.
Mr.. Mellon was a trustee in the
Newell Methodist Church and a
of Local Union 8, National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Ger
trude Russell Mellon; two other
daughters, Mrs. Hazel Neff of
Loudenville, and Miss Gladys Nell
on of Uniontown; a brother, Syl-
vester Mellon of East Liverpool,
and six grandchildren and six
great grandchildren.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Election Returns
SPELLED Bad News
For Beer Drinkers

New York (LPA)-An election
return that spelled bad news for
Republicans and Democrats alike
Nov. 7 issued from meeting CT
the tavern owners here. They
agreed to raise the price of draught
beer in New York pubs to Is cents
a glass.
The customers really lost before
the election even started. The three
alternative propositions on which
the saloon operators voted were:
Are you in favor of 15-cent
beer, maximum ten ounces? 2
Are you in favor of ten-cent beer,
maximum six ounces? ? 3-Are you
i'm favor of both a maximum six
ounce glass of beer for ten cents
and a maximum ten-ounce glass
for Is cents?
The first one won; no ten-cent
beer at all. Some rebels out in
Queens, however, voted for the
third proposition, saddening the
hearts of the Manhattan bar own
ers.
An eloquent delegate from the
Bronx Liquor Dealers Assn adj
mitted that the change is terrible
tragedy for the customers. '"The
ten-cent beer is dear tradition to
u.s." he said. at is like asking our
customers to give up their wives to
abandon it," Decrying the effects
of home television, though, he pro-
claimed: at is time the tavern
keeper got on his feet and fought" T"
The tavern owners didn't let
sentimentality stand in their way,
however. The ten-cent beer has
gone the way of the five-cent beer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Bio Business Meets In
Secret Pdrley With Snyder

Sea Island, Ga. (LPA)-Secre-
tary of Commerce Charles Sawyer
and his 90-man big-business Advis-
ory Committee met here for a
three-day semisecret discussion of
the defense program in which the
business spokesmen made another
try to seize full control of defense
spending through manipulation of
the antitrust laws.
Just before the conference clos
ed, Secretary of Defense Marshall
told the big-business spokesmen
that the Defense Department is
half way through the job of draw
ing up a four-year military produc-
tion program in which orders will
be scheduled so evenly that there
will be no peaks and valleys of de-
fense employment.
Before that, the business leaders
expressed their willingness to pay
higher taxes to support the defense
effort. However, they opposed the
idea of an excess profits tax even
if the tax should be patriotically
labeled a defense profits tax"
They also bitterly opposed the
price controls unless or until the
defense program reaches $50 bill
ion a year.
Instead of controls, the big-busi
ness representatives said they
wanted the antitrust laws relaxed
SO they could indulge in practices
now held illegal. Presumably, they
also wanted advance rulings on
certain practices, something the
government has opposed in the
past.
Reports of the big-business com
mittee's views on the antitrust
laws touched off some fireworks in
Washington and elsewhere. George
j. Burger, vice-president of the
National Federation of Independ-
ent Business, called for "all-out en-
forcement of antitrust laws" in
connection with defense production.
Burger asked whether the Depart
ment of Commerce and its head had
"become the voice of big business"
He said that the nations ability
to fill defense needs wouldn't bel
impaired in any way if the anti
trust laws were vigorously applied.
Rep. Emanuel Celler Cd, N. ",
chairman of the House subcommit-
tee on monopoly, said, "We must
at all costs avoid repetition OF
the fragrant abuses made possible
in the last war by exemptions be-
ing granted in an irresponsible
manner" The Congressman was
referring to wartime exemptions
from antitrust prosecution.
Celler was highly critical of the
secrecy surrounding Sawyer's con-
ference here. In the beginning,
Sawyer flatly told newspapermen
they wouldn't be welcome in Sea
Island. However, when reporters
showed up, he finally relented,
granted them an interview. And
nearly all that happened at the
leaked out anyway.
One subject that came in for
broad discussion by the big-busi-
ness group was manpower. Discus
sion around draft deferment "re-
ferral" (the steering of workers to
particular areas or plants where
men are needed, training of wo-
men, and-of course-strikes. Some
wanted government to persuade or
ganized labor to give "no strike"
pledge, but it was believed that
most of those present preferred toI
bargain by themselves. Meanwhile,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Washington Culinary Workers
Gain 50-Cent Daily Raise

Tacoma, Wash. UPA) - Six
hours before strike deadline, 2SOO
members of the Hotel and Restaur-
ant Employees and Bartenders
Union gained a 50-cent daily raise
and elimination of wage differen-
tials for hotel employees and those
covered by standard" contracts.
The wage gains for culinary work
ers and hotel service employees are
retroactive to June and those for
employees of clubs, taverns and
Class II establishments are retro
active to Oct. /. The contract pro-
vides Mattresses with 81 a day;
tavern bartenders $1l, with six
cents an hour additional for work
after 6 p. M; hard liquor dispen-
sers, $14.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
USW LOSES AT WEIRTON

Weirton, w. Va. (LPA)-United
Steelworkers have lost a repre-
sentation election at the Weirton
Steel Co. by more than two to one.
The Independent Steelworkers,
which won the election, was set up
last summer after a previous COM
pany union was outlawed by the
courts. The court action had come
after IS years of legal wrangling
and violence against the workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Elks. Gambling And Mouse
FIGURE In NLRB Rulings

Washington (LPA) = The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board does
MT have bats in its belfry-but it's
got little bit of everything else.
If you pitch pennies on the job,
or knock off for a couple of days
to hunt elk-even if mouse gets
into your radio-you're likely to
wind up before the NLRB.
Of course, while it can be an or
binary mouse, it's got to be some
thing more than an ordinary radio.
It's got to be-or at least it was in
the case of Dwight L. Stephenson
"a radio transmitter.
Dwight, a radio engineer at
radio station KVEC, San Luis
Obispo, Cal, was active in signing
up other engineers for union men,
bership. He held meetings in his
home and signed all the technicians
attached to both the AM and FM
outlets of the station.
When the Federal Communica-
tions Commission cancelled the FM
license of the station, KVEC said
that all engineers would have to
double as announcers to hold their
jobs. Two of the men who had at
tended meetings at Stephenson's
home lost their jobs when they
either refused or failed to perform
both jobs. Stephenson was kept on.
The station went off the air one
night and Stephenson told the chief
engineer there was a mouse in the
transmitter. The chief scoffed.
When the station went off the air
again the next day Stephenson was
fired.
The NLRB ordered his reinstate-
ment saying: "The mouse was
there. When the chief engineer put
a jumper across a voltage switch
which had burned out and got the
station back on the air he eXtin-
guiShed the mouse in the process" 4"
S. S. Hightower, a sawmill work
er in La Grande, Ore, wasn't as
lucky. He didn't get his job back
at the Mt. Emily Lumber Co. after
he took off to go elk hunting.
Hightower told the NLRB he
was fired because he circulated a
petition among the men asking that
the mill be shut down for the open
ing of the elk season. The NLRB
pointed out he had had two weeks
in addition to his two weeks vaca-
tion and that he had had a month
off when the plant was shut down
plenty of time to go hunting.
Alberto Winterton, an edger at
the plant, testified that he talked
to Hightower after he returned
from his hunting trip and that
Hightower told him, "My Daddy
always told me that if my work in
terferes with my pleasure | should
quit work--so | went hunting"
In his efforts to get permission
to go hunting, Hightower went to
practically every boss in the plant.
AS a matter of fact he went to-
everyone except August J. Strange, +,
president and general manager of
the company. He couldn't find him
Strange had gone elk hunting.
Another Northwest lumberman
mixed by the NLRB in his effort to
regain his job is Charles +. Rip
petoe, who was fired by the Mag
nolia Lumber Co. in Ashland, Ore.
Rippetoe had been active in a re-
volt staged by the truck drivers
when their pay was cut, but Rip
petoe admitted to being caught
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
= Out of 10 In
Greet Brifuin
OK Health Plan

London LPA) - The govern
ment's nationalized health services
are approved by more than seven
out of ten persons. So the British
Institute of Public Opinion has dis
covered in a survey.
To the question, "Do you think
that naturalization has been good
or bad", II percent said good,
22 percent said "bad" and 7 percent
had no opinion. Asked whether
service was better or worse, Fl per-
cent said worse, Ii percent said
better, and AZ percent said it
was the same.
The survey asked opinions on
naturalization, also Of coal, gas
and electricity, railways, and road
transport. Only AS percent thought
nationaizing the mines was good;
33 percent for gas and electricity;
30 percent for railways, and 26
percent for road transport. But the
'no opinion" figures were, in
order, l6 percent, 27 percent, "2l
and %.
Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Organized Labor Joins Co-ops In
PROTESTING Bon On New Breed

Washington (LPA) - Organized
labor has joined the cooperative
movement in protesting the Food
& Drug Administrations new bread
standards which would exclude Co.
op Triple Rich Bread from being
marketed as white bread.
Letters of exception have been
filed with Federal Security Admin
istrator Oscar Ewing by President
William Green of the AFL, Pres
ident Al Hayes of the Machinists,
cretary-Treasurer James Carey
of the CIO, and Washington repre-
sentative Donald Montgomery of
the United Auto Workers. The
Food & Drug Administration is a
part of Ewing's organization.
Additional exceptions were filed
by the Cooperative League, Ithaca
(NY) Consumers Cooperative, Ma
tional Grange, National Farmers
Union, Potomac Cooperative Fed
GRAFTON, Palo Alto (Calif.) Cooper
atives National Association Of Con-
sumers, DR.. Leonard Maynard of
Cornell, DR.. Marian Pfund of Cor
nell, and other cooperative, nutri-
ZIONIST and consumer representa-
tives. Nov. 8 was the deadline for
filing exceptions.
Trouble with Triple-Rich is that
it's too good for the FDA's new
standards, its supporters insist.
The standards say you can't call
bread "white" if its soy flour con-
tent exceeds percent, if its dry
yeast content exceeds 2 percent, or
its wheat germ content exceeds
| IL percent.
Triple Rich is 6 percent soy
flour, 2 percent wheat germ, and 6
percent milk solids. Accordingly,
it can't be sold in interstate com
merce as white bread if the FDA's
new standards go into effect. And
it can't be sold as soy specially"
bread unless it is 10 percent soy
flour. Moreover, if the several
states adopt the standards, it can't
be sold at all.
Meanwhile, Triple Rich bread
has been hailed by nutritionists and
is being eaten regularly by at least
half million Americans today. In
New York, Baltimore, and other
cities, it is being used in school
lunch programs. In New York
alone, five big bakeries are max
ing it for the schools. 1t is being
served to staff members and in
mates Of New York state mental
institutions. Pepperidge Farms,
makers Of choice bakery products,
has planned new plant to produce
it.
Triple Rich was created by DR..
Give McCay of Cornell University
and the Ithaca (NY) Consumer Co
operative. Spokesman for the Co
operative League insist it's white
bread-no matter what the FDA
says. FDA spokesmen say ruling
on the exceptions will be handed
down in a few weeks. According to
one report, the FDA may raise theI
soy content, but whether
to permit sale of TRIPLE
Rich made by its present formula
is another matter.
William Green urged Ewing not
to permit FDA to put ceiling"
on nutrition. AL Hayes asked that
the rule be revised to allow the
maximum amount of nutrition
value in bread" Jim Carey express
ed fear that ceilings will be set on
healthful ingredients" Montgo-
merry asked that consumer inter
ests be heard further in protest
against the regulation.
1t was estimated that the excep-
lions were filed by representatives
g ,,,.ll,a,.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
Wholesale Prices Fraction
Under All-Time High

Washington (LPA) = Average
wholesale prices, as of the week
ended Nov. 7, were two-tenths of
one percent below the all-time high
of August 1948. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics said the rise was
largely a reaction to the news
from Korea"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

Buy Union Made goods from
others as you would have them
pay Union wages unto you!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16
WISDOM

Democracy has proved that so
cial justice can be achieved through
peaceful change.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

Demand the Union Label.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-16

Buy Union Made goods from
others az you would have them
pay Union wages unto you'll
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1950-11-24
State Highway
Problem Looms
For Solution
Continued from first page)

CONTINUED from first page)
costs. The committee found new
primary construction last year
cost $31, ZOO a mil e. compared
with 1880 in 1929. Secondary
construction costs W emit from
81, 800 in 1888 to $1A,000 la s t
year.
Maintenance costs jump ed fro
an average $514 a mile from 1910
through 1913 to 81, 900 in 1919.
Committeeman say too much
highway mileage in this tat e
has been built on primary high
way standards which are higher
than secondary-or feeder--road
standards. They found that some
of the paved primary highways
in Montana carry as few as lis
cars a day. Highway engineers
figure it takes at least 200 cars
daily in order to justify main
tenance.