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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Federal Group
To investigate
TeIevision Ad

Washington (LPA)-The FEEDER.
|al Trade Commission is going tC
look into that television advertise.
ment, the one headed, "There are
some things a son or daughter
won't tell you."
The government regulatory bur-
eau has sent letters to % televisior
manufacturers and to Ruthrauf &
Ryan, the New York advertising
agency which is handling the tele-
vision campaign. ETC spokesmer
said the bureau would try to "de-
termine the truth or falsity OF
statements and representations
appearing in the adj a3es :, -
After it appeared, the ad came
under heavy fire from religious,
educational and consumer groups
and from many individuals. 1t was
denounced as an appeal to class
consciousness because it suggested
that children in homes without tele-
vision would be unwanted, unloved
social outcasts.
The ad, first of series, was
sponsored by the 1850 American
Television Dealers & Manufacture
ers. The FSTC said it was acting
because of the volume of COM
plants by parents and educators.
The bureau is empowered to call
halt to false and misleading ad-
vertising, but its orders can be ap-
pealed to the courts.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Labor Leaders To
Attend Farley
With Symington

Washington (LPA) - hirt y
labor leaders will be part of a 90
man group attending top-leve
meeting at the Pentagon Nov. 80.
Mobilization Director w. Stuart
Symington has called the meeting
to discuss security matters, at the
request of his advisory committee
on mobilization policy. The advis-
ory groups, on which three labor
representatives sit, asked for the
briefing session so that more of
their people would be properly in
formed. Contrary to at least one
newspaper report, spokesman for
the Natl Security Resources Board
made it clear that wages and prices
would not be discussed at the meet
ing.
A separate unofficial 14-man
labor committee is being establish
ed to set policy on such matters.
The labor group, in which AFL,
CLIO, Machinists, and rail unions
are to participate, is particularly
concerned over government pro-
duction orders which are leading
to unemployment throughout in
dustry. 1t is expected to meet with
in the next few weeks.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Greeted With BOOs
Unions Must Mold Public FQUO1

support of other groups, unions
can get backing for their legisla-
tive and other programs, and build
stronger union membership.
The strip defines public relations
for labor as getting people to
know about labor, understand labor
and work with labor to help build
a better community"
Panel members were Charles
Foxworth, vice president, AFL
Lake County Central Trades and
Labor Council; Harvey Pearson,
international representative, JAW
CIO, and representative to the Ill
inois legislature; Ralph Smith,
business agent, International AS
sociation of Machinists, District
140, and r. A. Peters, legislative
representative, Brot h e r hood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, Lodge 500. Panel chairman
was Director w. Ellison Chalmers
of the u. |. Institute of Labor and
Industrial Relations.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30

Waukegan, Ill.-A union pane
agreed that it matters what people
in the community think about
labor.
The 4-man group unanimously
proposed that an all-labor commit
tee be set up to handle public rela-
tions activities in the community.
The one-day education confer
ence on "Public Relations for
Labor" sponsored by the AFL
Lake County Trades and Labor
Council, and conducted by the Uni
versity of Illinois Institute Of
Labor and Industrial Relations,
also recommended:
(D Public relations begins at
home. The first job is an educa-
tional one with union members,
not only in getting them to under
stand and participate in their own
unions, but in knowing about other
unions in the labor movement.
(2) A speakers bureau. A union
might exchange speakers with
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Butchers Get s.
Hour Work Week
Without Pay Cut

st. Louis (LPA)-An agreemen
providing 40 hours pay for 81
hours work each week has been ap
proved by 65 union meat cutter:
here who are employed exclusivel!
in selfservice markets. Raises were
also approved for 1900 other mem
bers of AFL Meat Cutters Loca
|S8.
The short work-week without
loss of pay was the first negotiat.
ed by self-service market employees
anywhere in the country. The
agreement will run for one year
for self-service and three years fol
conventional meat cutters, both
contracts retroactive to October /
1850.
Workers in conventional shops.
will continue on the 40-hour week,
will receive $5 increases, bringing
their rate to $3.50 for joumeymen
and $95 for head cutters.
In self-service shops the journey
man rate is $50. Head cutters get
$10O if fewer than 10 are employ
ed and $115 if more than that num-
Der work in a shop.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Bates, Walker And
Rieve Appointed
To Wage Board

Washingtn (LPA)-Labor mem
bers of the Federal Wage Stabil.
ization Board will be Henry Bates
president of the Bricklayers-AFL
Emil Rieve, president of the Tex
tile Workers-CIO and Elmer E
Walker, vice-president of the In
temational Association of Machin.
lists, President Truman announced
Nov. "a. 1t had been known fol
several weeks that Rieve, Walker
and Bates would be named.
Other members Of the board in
clude three public and three indus
try members. Cyrus S. Ching, Fed
eral Mediation Chief, was named
board chairman early this fail and
will serve as a public member
Remaining public members will be
Prof. John Dunlop of Harvard Uni
versity and Prof. Clark Kerr of the
University OF, California.
Industry members will be Henry
B. Arthur of Hinsdale, ILL.,, manager
of the commercial research depart
ment of Swift & Co.; J. Ward
Keene of Akron, Ohio, president of
the B. F. Goodrich Co.; and Reuben
Robertson, Jr., of Cincinnati, pres
ident of the Champion Paper &
Fiber Co.
Eventually there will be par
allel price stabilization board. Both
boards will be under stabilization
chief Alan Valentine.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Discuss Wages
And Safety In
Textile Industry

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). -
Inequalities in the consumption OF
textiles and textile wage scales il
various countries were scheduled
for examination by government
workers and employer delegates
from 22 nations at a meeting call
ed by the international Labor Or
ganization in Lyons, France, start.
ing Nov. %. 1t was the third meet
ing of the Hos Industrial Com
mittee on Textiles.
1t will discuss: ID Recent inter
national trends and developments
in the textile industry; (2) Dispar-
tiles of textile wages between var
ious countries and their effect or
living standards; and ~ The safe
ty of textile workers.
The general report notes that
the amount of textiles available in
1948 averaged Alt pounds per per-
son in the United States; 1876
pounds per person in France; 81 in
! Italy; 5.5 in the ,U.S.S.R.; 81 in
Peru; and 1.3 in Indonesia.
"For the year 1948-49 the pei
capita fibre consumption during the
period was still about Is per cent
below the level of the last prewar
season because the world popula-
tion has increased faster than fibre
nsump t o n" Unless demand
keeps pace with supply, the report
warns, the tendency of some coun-
tries to expand their national pro-
duction may well lead to a surplus,
thereby causing unemployment.
The report notes that wage dis
PARTIES influence the world tex
tile market as wages are the most
important cost element in the pro-
duction of textile. "What is needed
is a greater flexibility in the pro-
ducing countries to facilitate and
hasten the transfer of workers and
capital from the relatively less eff
ficient to the relatively more effic-
lent branches of the textile indus
try" The report proposes consid-
Grafton of some form of interna-
tional cooperation among textile
producing countries with respect to
longrange programs of investment,
reinvestment and production.
The committee will consider:
~ Measures to improve the COM
parability of national statistics of
textile wages; (2) Ways to facilit-
ate the international comparison of
real wages of textile workers,
Tabor productivity, and production
costs; 81 The causes and social
consequences of differences in tex
tile wages; and a. appropriate
action to raise and protect wage
standards. 1t will also consider
drafting model code on safety
regulations. 81
Member countries of the commit
tee are: Argentina, Australia, Bel
gium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech
oslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Fin.
land, France, India, Italy, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Po-
land, Sweden, Switzerland, United
Kingdom and United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
CrOOksville POtters
Get 1O-Cent Hourly Raise
In New Wage Contract

President James NJ. Duffy ann
ounced this week that employees
of the Diamond Pottery Corp. in
Crooksville, Ohio, recently receiv-
ed 10-cent hourly increase in a
new wage contract signed with the
National Brotherhood of Operative
,Potters. Adjustment of inequities
was also included in the new pact.
The firms main product is art
and novelty but they have been
making some generalware items
and will now pay generalware
rates of pay for same.
Vice Presidents James Slaven
and Frank Dales, along with or
ganizers Phil Tracy and Joe Muir
ray represented the Brotherhood in
negotiating the new contract with
the firm.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
British Unionists
To Help Organize

London (LPA) - T h e Trades
Union Congress is making plans tc
assist the half million union mem
bers in colonies of Great Britain
While the union membership is
small compared to the population
Of the countries involved, much
progress has been made since
World War ii.
The situation of the young and
struggling colonial unions is sim
liar to that of unions here 15C
! years ago. They must face huge
problems arising from poverty and
inexperience, but they have been
fortunate in that they do not have
to face hostile governments.
1t is not desired to export the
same kind of unionism that is pre-
valent here because it would not be
applicable to all colonies, due to the
differences in economic develop
ment, literacy and tradition.
Stationery, duplicators, type
writer's, and even automobiles, will
be sent to colonial unions together
with union literature and books to
instruct union leaders in trade
union principles, office procedure,
and bookkeeping. Correspondence
courses will also be offered and
! British unionists will visit long
Enough in each colony to obtain
first-hand knowledge of conditions
so that advice may be offered which
will fit local circumstances.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
70-cen+ Pay Raise
Ends Long Strike

Washington (LPA)-The To-day
strike at Bird & Son plants ir
three states by more than 5000
members of five different unions
has been settled by 10 cent hour
ly wage increase.
Five of the ten cents go into eff
feet Immediately, the balance after
80 days. Other benefits include i'm
provements to existing pension
plans, sickness and injury insur-
ance, ard disqualification plans-5C
percent paid by the company.
The company, one of the Oldest
papermaking firms in the country
has plants in East Walpole, Mass,
represented by the United Paper
workers, the United Rubber Work
ers, and an Industrial local. The
company's Chicago, Ill. plant is
represented by the Gas, Coke and
Chemical Workers and the Pro-
violence, r. l. plant has an inde-
pendent union.
Striking UPA workers in East
Walpole were insured real
Thanksgiving dinner when the
Paperworkers' executive board
voted $4,000 to make sure the 400
strikers there had turkey on the
table.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
|AFL Hutters
Will Demand
Pay Increase

New York UPA)-The United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work.
ers-AFL will seek a general raise
for their 10000 members.
The announcement was made by
president Alex Rose following q
special meeting of the unions
board of directors. He said the
move was necessary because OF
mounting economic press
touched off by the Korean War.
Most union contracts were nego-
tiated two years ago. Where they
have been renewed in the past five
months, wage adjustments have
been obtained. New contracts also
provide for periodic adjustments to
take care of increases in the cost
of living which take place during
the life of the contracts.
Rose said it is necessary to ''hait
the decline in the real earnings of
our workers as the cost of living
continues to mount. Substantial
losses have already been sustained
and it is generally agreed that the
worst is yet to come"
He said many other industries
are making such agreements and
that he is confident that our en-
ployers with whom we have main
tanned amicable and constructive
relations over the years will recog-
nize the problems which initiation
has caused and will want to help
solve it, even where agreements are
now in effect.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
|Shiskin Named To
|ECA Labor Post

Washington (LPA)-New direct
or the ECA's labor division in
Paris will be Nelson Cruikshank
director of the AFL's social insur-
ance activities. He was sworn into
his new office Nov. 20, and will
leave for France, Dec. 5.
Cruikshank replaces Boris Shis-
kin, chief economist of the AFL,
who will return to his Washington
duties after his successor settles
down in Paris. Meanwhile, William
Calvin, former secretary of the
AFL's Metal Trades Department,
will be acting director of the social
insurance office.
Shiskin has been on leave from
the AFL since the summer of 1948,
when he went to Paris for ECA.
Cruikshank is a member of the
Seafarers International Union.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
6O.DAY STRIKE NOTICE. is
PLENTY JUDGE RULES

Philadelphia (LPA) - Judge j..
Cullen Ganey ruled here that GO
days is plenty of strike notice and
denied a $365,O00 damage suit
against the AFL Paper Makers.
The suit was the outgrowth of a
El94s strike by the unions Local
500 against the Paterson Parch-
ment Paper Co. of Bristol Pa. The
company said the strike violated a
contract it had with the union the
year before, but Judge Ganey said
the strike notice, plus the fact that
the company met with the union
after the notice was filed, gave the
company sufficient time to make
plans.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
'BAMA FIRST STATE TO GET
FEDERAL AID FOR DISABLED

Montgomery, Ala. (LPA)-Ala-
bama will be the first state to re-
ceive federal funds to help finance
it's program to aid the permanently
and totally disabled.
The program, which was author
lied by amendments to the Social
Security Act this year, will assist
about 5000 disabled persons who
have been receiving local and state
funds. With the addition of the
new funds the disabled will aver
age $40 each per month. This. fig
ure is 50 a month more than they
have been getting. Maximum pay
ment will be $50 a month to any
individual.
The program will cost an esti-
mated $3.50, ,000-$476,0 900 of which
will be Federal funds.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30

other unions and with other groups
in the community.
(3) Labor representatives il
civic agencies. Labor men shoulo
be on the governing boards of com
munity welfare agencies, the school
board and other local bodies.
Other suggestions included in
viting the clergy to union meet
ings, setting up a booth at the
county fair to show union men and
women at work, and to pass out
union literature; sending the local
labor paper to other than union
members in the community. 1t was
also suggested that unions select a
member to regularly attend meet
ings of the city council and report
back to the membership.
A film strip, "Public Relations
for Labor" was shown. 1t analyses
the why, what and how of a union
public relations program. 1t points
out that labor is only one group in
the community, but by gaining the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Goal
Set For Red Cross
1851 Fund Drive

Washington, ID. CA goal o
S85, 100000 for the 1851 American
Red Cross fund campaign was an
nounced today by General George
c. Marshall, Red Cross president
The figure was set by the organ.
ization's Board Of Governors II
meet the enormous tasks assumed
by the Red Cross in the present
national emergency, General Mar.
shall stated.
The campaign will be helC
March 1-31, with Brig. Genera
David Sarnoff, Chairman of the
Board of the Radio Corporation OF
America, as national fund chair
man.
The nations mounting military
strength is creating sharply in.
creased demands on the Red Cross
General Marshall pointed out. In
addition, civil defense commitment;
require the organization TO train
100000 persons in first aid; in
struct hundreds of thousands ir
home nursing and as nurses aides
recruit millions of blood donors;
and prepare for mass feeding
clothing, and shelter in case OF
major disaster or national emer.
gency.
"The total resources of the Red
Cross must be mobilized for de.
fense of our homes, our commun-
tiles and the nation in the interes,
of security and world peace" he
declared.
The estimated cost of the Rec
Cross program for the fiscal year
1951-52 actually totals $94, 800, 600
General Marshall said. The differ
ence between the estimated cost
of the Red Cross program fol
1951-52 and the fund goal of $685..
100000 will be met by the apph-
cation of reserve funds. General
Marshall pointed out that this will
exhaust the accumulation from
wartime over-subscriptions. Last
year the operating budget was s79,-
with the fund goal set at
$67, 100000.
The fund goal announcement fol-
lowed a series of meetings of the
governing boards committees on
finance and program last week in
Chicago, in which Gen. Sarnoff
participated. They were also assist
ed in their deliberations by repre-
sentatives from metropolitan and
small town chapters who expressed
their unanimous conviction that the
1851 budget. represented the min
imum sum required to carry out
vastly increased Red Cross respon-
sibilities.
E Roland Hartman, New York
banker and chairman of the Board
of the Union Pacific Railroad, who
will succeed General Marshall as
Red Cross president on December
/, participated in the meetings.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30

Mr.. Smith had parked his car
on street adjacent to his home
the night before because of the
heavy snow, to make it easily ac-
cessible the family said. He left his
home at 5:45 a. m. to report for
work at the Laughlin shop and his
, body was found at 8 a. m. He had
been dead about an hour.
When his body was discovered
police were notified and they had
to call firemen from the North
Side Fire Station to remove his
body from the car and turn it over
to an undertaken.
He was a member Of Local Union
No. 8, National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters, a charter mem
Der of the Grant Street Civic Lea
que, a trustee of the Fraternal
Order of Police Associates, and at
tended the First Church of Christ.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Marion
Smith; two daughters, Vera Kath-
ryn Smith and Donna Jean Smith
at home; a son, Richard of East
Liverpool his mother, Mrs. LYDIA
Smith, and a sister Mrs. Florence
Hendricks of East Liverpool, and
a grandchild.
Mr.. Schroeder's death was also
caused by a fatal heart attack
while shoveling snow at his home
in Sebring.
Mr.. Schroeder was born in East
Liverpool, March 6, 1900 and moved
to Sebring "a years ago. He was a
son of the late Jacob and Mary
Schroeder. He had eben employed
as cup truner at the American
Limoges China Co. for the past
80 years. He was member of
Local Union A, National Brother
hood of Operative Potters and a
member of the Brotherhood Picnic
Committee.
Always taking an active interest
in civic affairs, Mr.. Schroeder was
serving term as member of coun-
ell and its president in 1943 when
the late Lewis Bandy, then mayor,
died. Mr.. Schroeder then served out
his unexpired term.
At the time of his death Mr..
Schroeder was financial secretary
of Local Union a.. He was a chart
er member and secretary of Post
"a, Dads Club, Veterans of For
feign Wars. He was a member of
Holy Name Society of st. AIMS
Catholic Church.
In addition to his wife, Alice, at
the home, Mr.. Schroeder leaves a
son, Philip L. of Sebring and a
daughter, Mrs. Lawrence 0esch Of
Alliance R.. d. 4. Also surviving
are. two brothers, F. p. Schroeder
of Sebring, and Arthur L. Schroed-
,er of Beloit r. d. l.; two sisters,
Mrs. William Meachem of Beloit
r. D. l and Mrs. T. w. Pryor of
Georgetown, Pa. and two grand
children.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-11-30
Finnish unionists
An Inspiration, /,
Hartman Says

washington (iPA)-From right
under the Soviet gun, four top lead
ers of Finlands trade unions have
dared to make visit to this coun-
try at the invitation of American
Labor.
The Finnish unionists were hon.
ored Nov. 22 az a luncheon given by
the AFL's Free Trade Union Com
mittee. w. Averill Hartman, Pres
ident Truman's special assistant
on foreign affairs, paid tribute to
them, and to the whole Finnish
people, for their tremendous cour-
age" in resisting Communist ideo-
logies.
Having been in Moscow, ! know
what they're up against, said Har-
riman. "Their tremendous courage
is an inspiration to our country and
to the free world. We want to help
in every way we can"
AFL President William Green
expressed admiration for the Fin
nish unionists, pointing out that
their visit to this country is likely
to have repercussions. The Soviet
government will know about it and
will not like it, he said.
American workers, Green told
his guests, "place great value on
personal and organizational free
DOM" Their goal is to enjoy free
dom individually as we'll as collec-
lively and "the right to negotiate
free of government interference"
At a convention next June, the
Finnish trade union group will vote
on whether to disaffiliate from the
Communist dominated World Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions and join
the AFL backed Int'l Confedera-
tion of Free Trade Unions. Green
urged them to give their ''solid
united indivisible support" to the
ICFTU. "You can count on the
AFL to stand with you," he assur-
ed them.
Aku Sumu, president of the Fin
nish Federation of Labor, said that
he and his companions made the
trip because ''in the current world
it is good we are engaged
in joint activities" The popular be-
lief that Finland is behind the iron
curtain is not true, Sunni said. "We
are still free to make our own de-
cisions and hope we will be able to
keep it that way"
AS representative of a small
country, the labor leader said he
is in position to recognize the
great Importance and signific-
ance" of the AFL's international
He thanked the AFL, the
Free Trade Unisn Committee, and
it's director Jay Lovestone.
Like other groups of European
who have come here, the
Firms were impressed by the size
Of things in the United States. The
membership of the AFL alone is
twice as large as the population of
Finland.
They will have a chance to really
see how big the country is when
they leave Nov. "a for a tour of
cities as far west as
Minneapolis. They will visit plants,
,alk to workers and attend union
Their schedule includes visits to
he iva, to Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Duluth, Superior, Minneapolis, De-
,roit, and New York.