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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Trenton Potters
Attend Meeting
OF Sebring Local

Sebring, Ohio-Our delegates to
the convention made their report
at the last meeting and it was very
well received and a vote of thanks
extended them for their services. ..
Three brothers from the Tren-
ton area, Local Union 45, had a
little car trouble on their way
home from convention and stopped
over in Sebring to have repairs
made. While in our fair city they
contacted Bro. Clyde Jones who
took them on a tour of district
plants and showed them how it is
done in generalware. In the even
ing they attended our local meeting
and were called upon for few re-
marks.
After reading about the disas-
ferrous flood in Crooksville, Ohio, in
which a pottery plant was burned
to the ground, my memory goes
back to a fire which destroyed the
Scio Pottery not long ago.
How we'll do we all remember
the wide publicity given the dis
aster at that time. Help came from
all directions and the speed in
which the plant was rebuilt was
featured over all radio networks.
Why is it the same help is not
forthcoming in the Crooksville
case. Could it be the plant employs
union help and the people affected
should not be given the same OPP
portunity to return to their jobs
and earn a fair and just living
under a union contract. Certainly
the people in Crooksville suffered
much greater hardships than those
in Scio.
There is still room for improve
ment in attendance at local meet
ings. Our sessions are not long
drawn out affairs and since Bro.
Jones has been in the chair, he
makes it a point to keep it that
way. -O.C. A
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
State Federation
Convention Will
Open On Aug. Il

The Sixthy- Fifth Annual Con-
vention of the Ohio State Fedora
.tion of Labor will take on added
significance from the fact that il
will weigh the results of political
action thus far and press with de-
termination the drive to defeat
Ohio's senior senator and every
reactionary Congressman in the
state.
Sessions are to get under way
Monday, August 81 in the Grand
Ballroom, Neil House, Columbus,
Ohio. The gavel will be welded by
President Michael j. Lyden, who
has pill o t d the organization
through many critical years.
A very heavy budget of business
awaits action by the convention,
which is expected to last four days.
Prominent speakers and fine en-
tertainment will round out the pro-
gram. American Federation of
Labor President, William Green,
will again address the convention.
Phil Hannah, secretary of the
state body, will give the conven-
tion report on the latest develop
ments affecting the political pro-
gram.
In a pre-convention statement,
Secretary Hannah said: politics
(Tsrn to Page Threel
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Dissident Potters Denied
New Trial In Court Case

Brotherhood officials were
advised this week the Seventh
District Appellate Court over
ruled motion for a new trial
on the decision recently hand
ed down by a Special Appeals
Court regarding salaries of
President James M. Duffy and
Secretary-Treasurer Chas. F.
Jordan.
The appeals court previous
ly reversed a decision handed
down by Judge Joel H. Sharp
in Columbiana County common
pleas court, withholding pay
increases granted President
Duffy and Secretary-Treasurer
Jordan by action taken at the
1914 convention
In reversing Judge Joel HI.
Sharp, the appeals judges up
held the officers rights to the
higher salaries and ruled the
union membership had legally
approved the increase in salar-
les i'm referendum vote of the
trade.
The long litigation began
back in 1948, four years after
the increase was granted when
a group of dissident pOtters
including Larry Finlay, Local
Union No. IL; Norman Whip
pier, Local Union l24; Edward
Jones, Local Union A; Shell
Johnson, Local Union 4, and
Clyde McDaniels, Local Union
9, challenged the national Of
ficers' right to higher salaries
and Judge Sharp ruled in their
favor and ordered their sal
aries be rolled back to the 1914
level.
The Brotherhood officials
Immediately asked for a new
trial which was denied by
Judge Sharp, and the case was
referred to the Seventh Dis
trict Court of Appeals. While
the case was pending in this
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Teumsfers Union
PIans Boycott
Of Entire Town

Reno, New. (LPA)-This gamb-
lers' paradise may be "the biggest
little city in the world", but as far
as organized labor here goes, the
entire city is going on the unfair
list. Potential visitors and vaca-
TONERS will be advised to spend
their money instead at resort
like Las Vegas, which is 80 per
cent. organized.
The move to boycott the entire
town is labor's answer to the en-
ployers' city-wide and open anti
union campaign. The decision came
after the Employers Council Ad-
visory Board sent a letter to all
Reno businessmen urging them to
patronize firms which are being
picketed
The city's cab drivers, members
of the Transfers union, have been
on strike eight months. Recently
union attorneys and members of
the employers group met to dis
cuss an overall labor program in
an effort to settle the cab strike
and lay foundation for stability.
Transfers attorneys waited for an
answer. They got none, but the
Employers group then sent out the
letter urging patronage of picket
ed firms. The unions decision to-
put the whole town on the unfair
list" was the result.
The boycott program will not be
confined to the Teamsters, but will
include every labor organization in
the west. All organized labor will
be informed of the anti-labor tao
tics of the Reno Employers Coun-
Gil.
"Reno is the only city in the
west, to our knowledge, said one
union attorney, "in which an open
appeal has been made to oppose
labor by patronizing concerns
which are having labor trouble"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Rose Denounces
NAM Brund Of
Free Enterprise

San Diego, Calf. (LPA)-With
"free enterprise" the theme of San
Diego's 1853 Worlds Fair, Billy
Rose, world famous Snowman,
warned Fair officials that "if it's
the National Association of Manu-
facturers' brand, you can count me
out" Rose told $50 representatives
of local business, industry and
labor that the Fair is not possible
without labor. Labor is the quar-
terback that is calling the signals
in this country today and these
signals will set the pattern for liv-
ing from this time on" he said.
Rose said that the theme was
fine if it includes the American
working man and his system of life
as one of it's ideals. Such a theme
should demonstrate how the aver
age American is getting a better
break in this country than any
place in the world, he said. You
are getting up this Fair for the
fellows who will make or break
this country and you've got to put
across the idea that we have some-
thing better than the Russians
have been attempting to peddle."
The Snowman told the gathering
to keep away from So dinners and
high prices. He reminded them that
fairs are not held for rich people|
but for Charlie Smith, his wife and
three kids-and all like them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20

court one of the members,
Judge John Buckley Jr. was
claimed by death and the re-
naming two members asked
that the case be assigned to
another Appeals Court. This
resulted in the case being as
signed to a Special Appeals
Court who handed down a un-
animOus decision restoring the
salaries of the two Brother
hood officials, approved by a
referendum vote of the trade,
but held back by a decision of
Common Pleas Court Judge
Joel H. Sharp.
Significant with the decision
handed down by the Special
Appeals Court, vindicating
both officials who were charg-
ed with receiving salaries OBJ
tanned illegally, was the i'm
piled rebuke that the dissident
pOtters who attacked the legal
ity of the salary increases,
shouldn't have gone to court
in the first place, stating fur
ther, the plaintiffs in the case,
"by their membership have
adopted the rules created by
the constitution and bylaws as
the basis for conducting the in
ternal affairs of the Brother
hood, and by such rules they
must be bound"
While it is hoped the recent
decision handed down will
bring to an end once and for
all the internal strife within
the organization, and our ma
tiOnal officials can devote their
time to rendering service
throught the trade which has
been greatly hindered by court
cases, a ruling is still pending
by Judge Sharp in two injunc-
tiOn suits i'm which he granted
temporary restrainers against
imposition of convention pen
alties.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
District Potters
Back On The Job
After Vacations

District potters employed at the
Homer Laughlin China Co., Edwin
M. Knowles China Co. and the Hall
China Co. returned to work this
week after a two-week shutdown
for vacations which begun on July
/.
The three firms which issued
$280,000 in vacation checks. asus-
pended operations to give all en-
ployees vacations at the same
time. Es
Employees of Taylor, Smith &
Taylor Co., Harker Pottery Co.,
Louthan Manufacturing Co., Phone
er Pottery Co. and Wellsville China
Co. returned to their jobs last
week when the vacation period
ended.
The annual two-week vacation
period for employees Of the w. S.
George Pottery Co. in East Pales-
tine returned to work on July II.
Clayshop workers at Plant No. l
and decorating shop workers at
both Plants No. l and 4 returned
to work on that date.
The plants were closed on July
1, at which time $4,000 in vacation
pay checks were issued to workers
at the company's plants in East
Palestine and Canonsburg, Pa.
During the vacation period,
maintenance crews worked, max
ing various repairs and improve
ments to the plants.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Happy Anniversary

A picnic touch was added to the
spirit of a wedding anniversary
celebration last week when Mr.. and
Mrs. William Winters of R. d. l,
Georgetown, Pa, celebrated their
twenty-sixth wedding anniversary.
"Bill", who is a member of Local
Union 131, won first prize in the
event at the potters
annual outing and was awarded a
Fada television set, plus check
for installing the aerial.
The grateful potter stopped in
at headquarters to extend thanks
to the picnic committee and in
formed us the Video arrived on the
exact date of his anniversary.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Union Approves
5-Year Contract
With Briggs Corp.

Milwaukee (LPA)-The 15-weeh
strike this spring at the Briggs
Stratton Corp. and 73 other brief
stoppages have paid off for Local
232 of the United Auto Workers
AFL. The local has just unanimous
! ly approved a five-year settlement
which the union estimates is equi-
valent to package of 51R cents
for the next year.
Chief features are: Ten cents an
hour retroactive to Sept. II, l947
estimated to be equivalent to rs
cents an hour for the next year; a
straight increase of 10 cents across
the board; a pension plan costing
the company 1871 cents an hour; a
health and insurance program cost
ing the firm cents an hour.
In addition the workers will get
pay for four holidays lost as re-
suit Of strike activities. This, esti-
mated to average $50 per employe,
is in addition to the retroactive
pay, which may go as high as $700.
lThe retroactivity cost is estimated
Vat $1,000,00O.
A union shop was won subject
to an NLRB election July 20. The
company met the union demands
for grievance procedure and COM
plete overhauling of the seniority
and transfer clauses. The company
also agreed to make all data on
time study and related matters
available, and has agreed that time
study results shall be subject to
collective bargaining.
Other gains include dues check
off, triple time for holidays work.
ed, call-in pay, and a guarantee
that the work week will not be re-
duced. A wage reopening each year
is provided.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-07-20
Delegates Told How Imports From
LoU- Wage Nations Can Curb Job
Opportunities of American POHerS

The flood Of imports of pottery
products from low-wage nations
and the harmful effects it will
bring about in job opportunities for
the American potters, was very
plainly brought home to the dele
gates seated in the fifty-sixth ma
tionai convention in a stirring adj
dress by Mr.. o. r. Strackbein,
secretary of Americas Wage Earn
ers Protective Conference.
Successor to the late M. ].
(Mike) Flynn, man who made
many friendships in Brotherhood
ranks over the years he attended
national conventions and his ef-
forts in our behalf on tariff issues
in the nations capitol, Mr.. Strack-
bein, is a man well qualified to
carry on the great work of his pre-
decessor. He has served in many
government positions, and travelled
in many foreign lands, making him
unusually qualified to discuss pro-
blems of foreign competition.
President Duffy in introducing
Mr.. Strackbein to the delegates,
stated we are unusually favored by
having his services in these times,
and he might well be termed "a
good servant of labor"
Mr.. Strackbein who is also chair
man of the National Labor Man
agement Council on Foreign Trade
Policy, which was recently set up
as cooperative effort by several
AFL unions and which President
James NJ. Duffy is a member of
the executive council, told the dele
gates the council is not concerned
with taxing or otherwise restrict
ing imports from other nations
that do not provide fair competi-
tion by reason of differences in
wages paid.
"This was made clear, he added,
in statement prepared recently
by the council for the Hon. Gordon
Gray, special assistant to the Pre-
sident. 1t is understood that Gray's
mission includes the shaping of
our foreign trade policy, especial
ly as it is influenced by the con-
tinuing dollar gap and the coming
expiration of the congressional
grant of aid to European countries
under the Marshall plan, in 1852.
Conditions vitality Important
"Our interest in the character of
this policy is direct and vital,' the
statement emphasized. "The condi-
tions under which competitive inn
ports are admitted into this coun-
try are of the utmost Importance
to US. We wish to place special en-
phasis upon the conditions under
which importation of competitive
goods take place.
"Those conditions can determine
whether imports will be helpful to
our economy, or Indifferent, or in
furious; whether they can be alb
sorbed by the market with min
imum of disruption, or whether
they will break the price structure,
depress wages, curtail employ
ment, and lead to stagnation and
of industry here in
America.
"Obsession with the idea of re-
moving the dollar gap and over
to balance our foreign
trade account, by the simple device
of increasing imports, can endanger
millions of jobs in this country"
according to the council.
at can reduce the flow of money
Turn to Page Thrss)
Evening star., 1950-02-03
New High in Wcases
Reported Here in 4o

A record number of venereal
disease cases were reported in
Washington last year. DR.. s. Ross
Taggart, director of the Health
Departments Bureau of Venereal
Disease. has reported.
8 DR.. Taggart said that all types
of venereal disease showed an
increase with the exception of
syphilis and lympho- -granuloma
which showed reductions in num-
ber.
In 1949 there were 5000 cases
of gonorrhea, an increase of
nearly 700 over the previous year
A total of $50 cases of chancroid
were reported last year. an in
crease of 449. There also was an
increase in the cases of granuloma
inguinalo, from 46 cases in 1948
to So cases last year.
Syphilis, with 1891 reported
cases, showed a decrease of SO
per cent, DR.. Taggart stated. The
decrease was attributed to in
formation to the public about
treatments for the disease and
penicillin.
DR.. Taggart said the short in
cubation period for gonorrhea
accounted in part for the in
crease in that disease. He also
said that the disease often re-
mains unnoticed in women and
reinfection is common.
Evening star., 1950-02-03
AtLeast 6 Possibilities
Give 6. 0.P. Choice Of
Presidential Nominees
BY the Associofed Press

An unofficial field of at least six
presidential possibilities indicated
today that Republicans may have
a wide range of political choice in
picking their 1852 nominee.
Gov. Earl Warren's decision to
seek third term as Governor
of California put him back into
the presidential picture.
He thus Joined a field that
entirely officially-includes SEN
: ator Taft, Gen. Eisenhower, Pres
ident Harold E. Stassen of the
University of Pennsylvania. Gov.
Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey,
and Senator Wherry of Nebraska.
Gov Warren, who won both
major party nominations for Gov
ernor four years ago, may face
James Roosevelt. son of the late
President, in a November battle.
For "SociaI Progress"
If the Republican Governor
could duplicate his feat of 1946
and defeat Mr.. Roosevelt in the
primary, he would be hard man
to stop for the 1852 COP noni-
nation.
The California Governor said in
announcing for reelection that
he is for social progress but
against socialism.
Gov. Warren ranks in about the
same COP classification as Gov.
Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey,
who may have his eye on the 1852
nomination. Gov. Driscoll ducked
questions about his ambitions at
a news conference here yester-
day.
He gave sort of back-handed
approval to a statement of policy
issued by Gov. James Duff of
Pennsylvania, in which five other
Republican Governors concurred.
Gov. Driseoll said he was asked
to join in the statement but
didn't. He said. however, he thinks
the declaration will serve very
useful purpose" :"
Stassen Still Factor.
Gov. Duff said the Republican
Party must be one of service. not
of privilege; hard-hitting, not
timid; progressive and not back
sliding; constructive and not
petty. j..
President Truman gave the
declaration unexpected publicity
when he told his news conference
the statement described the DEM
ecratic Party. With a sly smile,
the President said Gov. Duff
ought to join the Democrats.
Mr.. Stassen is keeping out
wardly clear of the Pennsylvania
contest. But no politician has
any doubt that the university
president, former Governor of
Minnesota, retains his presiden-
tial ambitions.
Senators Taft and Wherry have
been making their sometimes con-
flicting views known almost daily
in the Senate. They are ex-
pected to join, however, in a
forthcoming statement of party
principles on which Senate and
House Policy Drafting Committees
may complete preliminary work
today.
Although he denies any presi-
dental aspirations, Gen. Eisen-
hover continues to figure heavily
In the plans of some Republicans. I
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Retail Sales Decline
Despite CIearances,
Other Promotions
BY the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-Clear-
ance sales and other promotions
failed to swell retail business this
week. Dun & Bradstreet reported
today.
"The retail dollar volume de-
clined slightly in the week ended
this Wednesday, as postholiday
Indifference was coupled with un-
favorable weather in many locali-
ties" the report said.
Total purchases were mod
erately below the level for the
corresponding period a year ago,
despite prevailing clearance sales
and other promotions.
THE consumer demand for ap-
parel was noticeably below last
years level. The aggregate sale
of outerwear appreciably slackened
as the. mild weather of the previ-
GUS week remained in the East
and Midwest.
Dresses continued relatively
unpopular, except for cotton
housedresses and some other fast
selling lines. Women's interest in
formal models remained perfume
tory contrary to seasonal expecta-
tions. Many articles of mems
wear were increasingly sought
following widespread clearances. !"
Total retail dollar volume for
the United States for the week
was 3 to per cent under year
ago. Percentage changes by re-
gions follows: East. South, Mid
west and Southwest, down 2 to 6;
Northwest and Pacific Coast, down
3 to 7. and New England, un-
changed to down 4.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Farmers OF -Four States
Weigh Shift 10 Cattle
BY the Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Jan. 20.
Farmers from the surrounding
four-State area met here yester-
day to discuss the idea of raising
grass and livestock instead of
corn, wheat and other field crops.
Experts told them they ought
to do a lot of thinking about it
and go slow.
More than 700 farmers listened
to the reports, talks and discus
slons sponsored by the Farmers
Committee, spontaneous organ
lzation which sprang up in the
area when leaders decided they
ought to get together often and
review their problems.
Besides grassland farming. they
also studied father-and-s part
nerships on farms.
Delegates came from dozen
counties in Western Maryland,
Southwest Pennsylvania, Northern
Virginia and the Eastern Pam
handle of West Virginia.
DR.. w. B. Kemp, director of the
agricultural experiment station at
the University of Maryland, told
them that when they consider
converting to grassland farming
they ought to think about the
competition they'll run into.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
Stock Market Stages
Further Recovery
In Active Tradinq
BY the Asseeiaied Press

NEW York, Jan. 20.-The stock
market made fresh progress to-
day in its recovery from last week S
break.
The advance was somewhat
hesitant and accompanied by fire.
quent seesaW movements among
leading issues, but the main direc-
ton was persistently upward.
Gains ranged from fractions to
around a point and in several
cases above a point.
A substantial amount of business
was done although trading was not
in the 100000 -share-a-day class.
Word from Washington that
President Truman definitely plans
to ask Congress for higher corpor-
alton taxes appeared to have little
effect ON the markets course. Such
"a request has been widely antici-
pated but it is also expected to be
small and, even though small, to
run into considerable Congress
ional opposition.
Santa Fe Railway was one of
the star performers, rising more
than 2 points before being clipped
by profit taking.
Others higher included Nickel
Plate, Union Pacific, Pepsi Cola,
United States Steel, Youngstown
Sheet, General Motors, Chrysler,
Packard, Studebaker, Hudson
motors, Goodrich. Montgomery
Ward, Douglas Aircraft, Emerson
Radio, American Telephone,
Dome Mines, Allied Chemical,
Dow Chemical, General Electric,
and Lehigh Portland Cement.
Heyden Chemical dropped
around 2 points following word of
an omitted dividend. A trifie
down were Woolworth, j. I. Case,
American Smelling, and Philip
Morris.
Corporate bonds moved mar
rowly. United States Govern
ment issues held steady in over
the-counter dealings.
Evening star., 1950-01-20
New York Produce

~ NEW YORK. Jan. 20 R.-Easines.
marked ma @ trading today in the .wholesal.
egg market. Receipts totaled 1925
cases s{dr.s Spot aY9ootations follow:
weishts, 34-35: extra / large, 33-33ia; ex.
sIsnt. tTs .nf nn1fediTm' y11 sok-31;o current Re.
bullets, 29k-30h. Whites. fancy Heavy.
weights' 1875: extra l large. 33-33M
hhssasyyweishts' 34-35; extra l large. 33.
Nearby-CTop quotations on nearb,
white white and brown eggs represent wholesale
seliing prices for the finest marks, anc
Psrso 9s se Whites: extra fancy heayyweights
large; 1894: mediums, 3I-32; puiiets
3o3;3oi Progns; extra fancy heavy
weights, 35-a6: fancy heavyweights, 81
others; 9th Sob large; ;, 33; mediums. 30-3l: pul
ButterEfe6:s7o; steady wholesal
Prices 81 ep bulk cartons: Creamery. highe
haen 9aen sin ~ score e tAA. 62-62A: 92 scor
SO score (C), 6OA, -
changed 49,