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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Paid Welfare Plan
New Years Gift
To Seamen's Union

New York (LPA)-The new con-
tract of the Atlantic & Gulf Dis
trict of the Seafarers lnt1 Union
AFL contains the first company
paid welfare clause ever obtained
by east and gulf coast seamen.
The contract went into effect
New Years day on the ships of
nine steamship companies, and Paul
Hall, the unions secretary-treasur-
er, announced he expected no diff
ficulty winning the assent of an,
other 43 companies to the welfare
provisions.
The plan, ointly-administered,
will consist of a common fund into
which all contracted shipowners
will pay % cents day for each
man employed. 1t will run for at
least five years, but the types of
benefits to be paid are still under
discussion.
The SIU's west coast district,
the Sailors Union of the Pacific,
recently negotiated a similar well
fare agreement.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Wage-hour Duties,
JobIess Pay Costs
Up Labor Budget

Washington (LPA) - Funds foi
the Labor Dept, severely cut in re-
cent years, would be about $50, ,000,-
600 higher in the II months start
ing July /, 1850, if President Tru-
mans budget proposals are put
into effect. Truman asks $252,OO0,-
900 for the department.
A House Appropriations subcom-
mittee starts work Immediately on
the Labor Dept fund measure, with
orders from Chairman Clarence
Cannon Cd, Mo- to complete work
by Feb. 3. Hearings are by law
secret, though the record is made
public when the subcommittee turns
in its version.
Extension and improvement of
the unemployment insurance pro
gram accounts for the bulk of the
increase in funds-about $33, ,000,-
600 to cover the states costs result
ing from increasing unemployment
and another $26, 100000 proposed
to cover first years cost of the en-
larged unemployment insurance
program planned in the House-ap-
proved social security bill now be-
fore the Senate.
Changes in the wage-hour law,
requiring government lawyers to
go into the courts to obtain inter
pretations of some of Congresses
working, and an increased enforce
ment staff for the wage-hour work,
will result in added spending Of
$4 100000 over last year.
Smaller sums will go for these
new or special projects in the De-
partment:
A study of whether the 75-cent
minimum wage really will result,
as its foes claim, in closing of in
dustrial plants, and cutting out
jobs for marginal workers. A three
year study of this, and related pro-
blems Of coverage and exemptions
from the Fair Labor Standards
Act, is proposed by President Tru-
man for the Bureau Of Labor Sta
tistics.
Continuation of the big overhaul
Of the "cost of living" index is en-
dorsed in Truman's proposals.
Enlargement of the international
labor affairs activities, including
the program of educating German
trade unionists, is planned.
The Women's Bureau would
again be able to have a small field
staff, jobs which have been cut out
by Congress despite repeated re-
quests from the President and
in the past few years.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Truman And BorkIey Loud Gompers
Life Deeds At Centenary Dinner

i'm the lives of workers.
Gompers called the AFL "rope
of sand", Green recalled, and de-
clared that to Gompers that rope"
was the strongest force on earth
because held together by mutual
interests and moral compulsion." 1t
was the "rope of sand, Green
pointed out, which forced passage
of the labor provisions Of the Clay
ton act, the Seamen's act and the
Legislation establishing the US
Department of Labor.
Green recalled that Gompers had
recognized the evils Of the Com
munist movement from the very
first, and that Gompers "stood i'm
movable in his opposition to the
imposition of totalitarianism" and
to other contradictions to the Am
erican way Of life"
Green said the AFL was a great
barrier to Communist infiltration
in the US, and declared the new
Int1 Confederation of T d e
Unions, which the AFL president
helped organize recently in London,
would be "an international house
of labor" and would be "a barrier
to Communism in Europe itself"
In closing, Green called upon AFL
members to dedicate their lives to
the principles of Samuel Gompers.
In the evenings opening address,
AFL Vice President Matthew Woll,
chairman of the Gompers Centen-
airy Committee, said: "Gompers
had vision but was not a visionary.
He had dynamic vitality and never
confused noise with miitancy or
rowdyism with effective action and
struggle against the open-shoppers
and other enemies Of labor"
Seated on the dais with Green,
Meany and 10 AFL vice-presidents
We're the following:
President and Mrs. Alben
w. Barkley; Secretary of State and
Mrs. Dean Acheson; Secretary of
Labor Maurice j. Tobin; Secretary
of Agriculture and Mrs. Charles
G. Brannan; Secretary of the In
terror and Mrs. Oscar w. Chap
man; Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath; Senator and Mrs. Ebert
Thomas; Representative and Mrs.
John Lesinski; Rev. Frederick
Brown Harris, chaplain Of the Sen
ate; and the Rev. Gerard Gates,
dean of the graduate school of
Georgetown University.
Gompers' birthday is Jan. 27.
The Jan. 5 dinner touched off a
year-long AFL celebration of his
centenary which will be marked by
a drive to add another 100000
workers to the 100000 now in
AFL unions and a drive to elect
liberal Congress next fall. On Jan.
81, the Postoffce will honor Comp
ers by issuing a three-cent Comp
ers stamp, the first to honor a
labor leader.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
PrObers Check Files Of
Real Estate Lobby

Washington (LPA)-lnvestigat-
ors from the House special com
mittee on lobbying have already
been around to the Offices Of the
three key groups in the real estate
lobby, one of the organizations con
firmed here.
The Natl Assn Of Real Estate
Boards and the US Savings & Loan
League have already been checked
by Rep. Frank Buchanan's probers,
according to Frank V. Cartwright,
executive vice-president of the
Natl ASSN Of Home Builders. He
revealed that his groups records
and files are now being studied for
evidence of lobbying activities.
The Buchanan investigation is
being conducted under wraps at
present, but public hearings on
abuses of the present law controll-
ing lobbying are expected to start
at the end of January.
Buy Union-Made goods from
others as you would have them
oay Union wages unto you'll
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
STRIKE POSTPONED
BY PHONE UNION

st. Louis (LPA)-The strike of
$4,000 telephone workers in six
midwest states, set to start Dec. 81,
was postponed at the last minute
on a plea by Gov. Forrest Smith of
Missouri. He wired to officials of
the Communications Workers of
America, asking a 15-day delay,
and the union at once agreed.
Union and officials Of the Bell
Telephone Co. met again with US
conciliators Jan. 3. The six states
affected are Missouri, Kansas,
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
Illinois.
The union set the strike date at
Dec. 81 after the company refused
to agree to arbitrate all issues left
unsettled after a Today negotiat-
ing period, as recommended by a
special committee of the governors
of the six states involved.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
UNION CHARGE
BELL SYSTEM
FORCING STRIKE

Washington (LPA) - The Bell
System may force a nationwide
telephone strike next month in an
effort to weaken the Communica-
tions Workers of America, the
union charged Jan. a. CWA Vice
President A. T. Jones told news
men that although bargaining has
been going on since last May, the
only offer so far made by Bell has
been to extend the present con-
tract. The union seeks substantial
wage increases, shorter apprentice
periods, and a shortened work
week.
A strike of $4,000 workers in Di-
vision 20, covering six midwestern
states, has been postponed twice on
the pleas of Gov. Forrest Smith of
Missouri. Free to strike at any time
are $4,000 more. Another 10000
filed notice Jan. l and will be free
to walk out by Feb. /. The dates
mean little, however, because the
phone installation men, who go into
every phone exchange in the coun-
try, can strike Immediately. If
they set up picket lines it's unlike
ly that other phone workers will
cross them.
Jones pointed out that phone
workers have fallen from 7th to
25th place in average weekly earn
ings since 1899, and that it would
take an increase of 25c an hour
just to restore them to their form
er position in relation to other in
dustries; that the apprentice per-
iod for phone operators runs as
long as eight years, and that 40
hour week is standard in the in
dustry now. Because of the mech
anization of phones, however, there
are widespread layoffs. To offset
the layoffs and provide more en-
ployment in the industry, CWA is
seeking a 35-hour week.
The last nationwide phone strike,
in the spring of 1947, lasted eight
weeks. CWA members had to go
back to work without winning their
demands. Jones believes the union
is in a far better position today.
The automatic phone system has
not been extended so much that it
will be able to break a walkout, he
predicted, especially since t n e
maintenance men will be among the
strikers.
Much of Bells stubbomness,
union leaders say, is due to it's fear
of being faced with a really strong
union in the phone industry. In a
surprise move last month, Bell
granted a pension increase with
out consulting the union, an action
that Jones termed "a fortnight
violation of the law"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
House Labor Group
Finally Schedules
Education Bill

Washington LPA) - The log
jam of welfare and labor legisla-
ton that's been piling up in the
House Labor Committee is broken,
union spokesmen hope. Chairman
John Lesinski Cd. Mich.) announc-
ed Jan. 9 a schedule of closed COM
mittee sessions to reach final decis-
ions on such key bills as federal
aid to education and the labor ex-
tension program measure.
A bill appropriating 100000
for federal aid to schools has al
ready passed the Senate, and the
subject will be taken up by the
House committee Feb. 6. Sessions
will continue until a satisfactory
bill is completed. Lesinski told re-
porters the measure should be
ready for the floor by early March.
Here is the rest of the schedule: !:
Bills on aid to the physically
handicapped, and amendments to
the vocational rehabilitation act
will be worked ON during the week
Jan. 16. The labor extension pro-
gram will come up the week of
Jan. %. Welfare of coal miners,
public library demonstration SER
vice, and community recreation
program bills will be taken up the
week of Jan. 80.
After federal aid to education,
tentatively scheduled for March 6,
the Labor Committee will pass on
a bill to provide for federal funds
for education Of children in areas
with congested schools because of
new federal activities-like Oak
Ridge, Tenn. and Hanford, Wash
ington.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Lehman Sworn In
As Newest Senator

Washington (LPA) - Pledging
himself to avoid the "excesses of
regionalism," Sen. Herbert H. Leh-
man (D-Liberal, N.Y. told report
ers after he took the oath of office
that he interpreted his election as
a mandate to use "the powers of
the Federal government to advance
the general welfare of the people" I"
Lehman, who won out in a hotly
contested election to replace retir-
ed Sen. Robert Wagner, also a
Democrat, said he experienced "a
real thrill" on taking his place in
the Senate chamber.
Relying to questions, he express
ed a hope that the Senate would
pass social security bill even
more extensive than that voted by
the House. He said he'd follow his
campaign pledges to back civil
rights legislation, to work for Taft
Hartley repeal, for federal rent
control, more liberal displaced per-
sons legislation, and enactment of
a middle-income coop housing bill.
He revealed also that he would
work for public power and naviga-
tion development of the st. Law
renee and Niagara rivers. Govern
mental economies, he observed,
should not be "at the cost of dis
sipating our true national wealth
the health and well-being of our
people"
AS he's done several hundred
times since | was elected" Lehman
declined to comment on whether
he'd run for reelection next No
vember, when his term expires.
Also sworn in were Senators
William Benton Cd, Conn., and
Darby Or, Kans.) and the newest
member of the House, Mrs. Edna
Kelly Cd, N.Y..
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
OBITUARIES
CHARLES HUGHES

Charles Hughes, II, died Jan
uary 6 in his home, $50 Chester
Ave-, following a long illness.
Mr.. Hughes was born in Eng
land and came to East Liverpool
SO years ago. He was a caster and
was employed last at the Taylor,
Smith & Taylor Co.
He was a member of East Liv-
erpool Eagles Aerie 457, and Local
Union No. a, National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters.
He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Rhea
Silverthorn of East Liverpool; two
sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Redick Of
Akron, and Mrs. Ada Ward OF
Sebring, and two grandsons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12

Washington (LPA)-Power sys-
TENS financed by the Rural Elec-
Administration distri-
buted 80 per cent more power in
1949 than in 1913, the Agriculture
Dept. reported. The 1949 increase
in number of consumers served and
in volume of power used was the
largest yet recorded for any year
of the program. REA indicated that
with 1872 per cent of the country's
farms electrified, use of power is
beyond the stage of home
to devices which con-
tribute to farm income.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
tn Ineffective,
'49 Second Biggest
Year For Strikes

! Washington UPA) - The Taft
Hartley act was supposed to pre-
vent strikes, but the 1949 record
proves again that TIL may bust
strikes, but it does not prevent
them.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reports a per cent increase In
1949 over 1913 in the total number
of strikes, and a so per cent rise
in strike idleness as measured by
man-days lost.
Idleness resulting directly from
strikes reached SO million man.
days last year, a figure topped only
by the 116 million lost in l946,
BIS reports.
I'm 1949 there were 10 strikes in
volving 10000 or more workers
and these accounted for 60 per cent
of the man-days lost. Biggest was
the strike of 100000 members of
the United Steel Workers against
the basic steel companies. Next
biggest were three walkouts by
nearly 100000 coal miners, mem
bers of the United Mine Workers.
Steel strikes lasted one to two
months in various plants. Coal
walkouts totaled IA days.
The bureau points out that pen
sion and welfare plans became the
dominant issue in 1949, while in
1916, last previous year of great
unrest, wages were the main con-
sderation. However, unions sought
and won many a wage boost last
year.
Other than the steel strike and
the three coal strikes, l949 walk
outs involving 10000 or more
workers were:
Transport Workers-CIO against
the Philadelphia Transportation
Co., 11,C00 workers, 10 days; East
wing United Electric Workers-ex
ClO against the Philco Corp, l0,-
600 workers, 25 days; United Auto
Workers-CIO against the Ford
Motor Co., $4,000 workers, 25 days;
Hod Carriers and Carpenters-AFL
against the Washington Master
Builders Assn, $4,000 workers, 39
days; UNIV District so against the
Tri-S tate Lumbermen's Assn
maryland, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia), 10000 workers, 107
days; United Auto Workers-CIO
against the Briggs Mfg. Co., 29,-
600 workers, three days; East-wing
Intl Longshoremen's & Ware
housemen's Union-CIO against Dis
tributors Assn of Northern Cali
fornia, 1000 workers, l07 days;
Building Trades-AFL against AS
sociated Genl Contractors of st,
Paul and Minneapolis, 10000 work
ers, 35 days; United Auto Work
ers-ClO against the Chrysier Corp,
1900 workers, six days; United
Rubber Workers-CIO against the
b. f. Goodrich Co., $4,000 workers,
35 days; three rail brotherhoods-
ind. against the Missouri Pacific
RR., 27,000 workers, Al days; Hod
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Louisiana AFL Launches Paper

Monroe, La. (LPA)-Volume 1,
No. /, of the Louisiana League Re-
porter, the voice of the Louisiana
Labor's League For Political Edu-
cation, is the January $50 issue, a
cleanly edited four-page tabloid.
The masthead carries the line,
Member Labor Press Association -
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Job Shortage in California

San Francisco (LPA)-There's a
serious job shortage in California,
members of the international Asso-
citation Of Machinists everywhere
have been warned by Robert Pater-
son, secretary-treasurer of the
California Council, and business
representative of lam Lodge 1927
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
By CUSHMAN REYNOLDS

Washington (LPA) - S I'M
Gompers was zone of labor's great
est statesmen" and was the "ori-
ginator of the great movement that
set labor Free" President Truman
told upwards of 1900 AFL repre-
sentatives and high government of
ficials including FIVE cabinet mem
bers gathered here Jan. 5 to cele-
brate the Tooth anniversary of
Gompers' birth.
Truman was a surprise visitor
at the centennial banquet in the
Hotel Statler. He entered about 10
p. m, escorted by AFL President
William Green, Daniel Tobin, pres
ident of the Teamsters, and George
Harrison, president of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks.
Truman, who said he'd been
at the house all evening" working
on couple of problems including
the national budget, received a pro-
longed ovation. He recalled that
Sam Gompers, first president of
the AFL, died in 1924, "the year |
was defeated for reelection" and
added, "They haven't succeeded in
doing that to me since" He declar-
ed Gompers 'was as good a Demo
crat as ! ever was"
AFL Secretary Treasurer George
M y, POSTMASTER, introduced
Truman as "a great friend of the
little people of America" When
the chief executive departed after
his brief, informal talk, Meany
said "We appreciate beyond words"
his coming at a time when he was
preoccupied with the budget and
other pressing matters of state.
Earlier in the evening, Vice-pre-
sident Barkley, who was accompan-
led by his charming bride of a few
weeks, told the audience that Sam
uel Gompers Impressed his char
acter on the American people" as
have few others in American his
tory. Barkley reminded his listen
ers that during World War | Pres
ident Wilson leaned heavily on
Gompers for counsel and support
He observed that Wilson and the
AFL president were much alike in
firmness Of purpose and leadership.
Barkley said Gompers, who was
born in London in 1850, found Am
erica a land of promise and 'help-
ed make it a land Of fulfillment." h."
He summed up the labor pioneer as
a great leader not only of Ameri-
can labor, but as symbol of labor
throughout the world"
President Green, obviously NOV
ed by his memory of Gompers, re-
viewed the strenuous life of his
predecessor at the helm of the
AFL in many of its colorful details.
He traced Gompers' progress in
the Cigarmakers' Union after com
ing to the US in 1868, and review
ed the turbulent years of labor his
tory which resulted i'm the forma-
tion of the AFL in 1886 with
Gompers as president, a post the
latter was to hold until his death
except for single year in the 90's.
Green recounted many of the or
ganizational lessons which Comp
ers learned and which still are the
basic principles by which labor
unions live. Recalling Gompers'
wariness of politics except when
the path of action was clear, Green
quoted the early leader as saying
that shorter hours and more pay
were the most revolutionary forces
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
WISDOM

When man learns to understand
and control his own behavior as
we'll as he is learning to under
stand and control the behavior of
crop plants and domestic animals,
he may be justified in believing
that he has become civilized.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
FEPC BILL UP JAN. %

Washington QPA) - Chairman
Lesinski' of the House Labor Com
mittee has announced he will call
up for consideration by Jan. %
bill creating Fair Employment
Commission. An FEP bill
was approved by the committee
last session.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12
Succeeds keenan, In Chicago AFL

Chicago UPA) - William +.
Cleary has been elected secretary
of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, succeeding Joseph ID. Kee-
nan, who resigned recently to de-
vote all his time to his post as dir
ector of Labor's League For Poll
tical Education.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-01-12

against the Gulf
Coast Construction Employers
Council of Houston, $4,000 work
ers, IL days.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-09-01

education. y. c. Attorney Cen
eral Harry Mcmillan declared
in his argument that the testi-
mony had shown that equal op-
portunity existed at the school
in Durham. mat the setting of
the case. ne progress that has
beer made and the permanence
Of the existing facilities for Ne
groes nus; he considered, in
preference u the beliefs Of out
siders VINO iQ not know what
has beer d4ne and do not know
the conditions that exist in the
State.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-09-01
Fishing ROdeO at Lake

Continued from fret pogeJ
boats, II which the Youngsters
were accom- panied by Wildlife
Club members, parents, or other
adults. Kenneth Putnam was
general chairman Of the rodeo,
which was considered the most
successful of the three held 50
far. Mr.. Putnam said terday
that - success was largely d
result II the interest and assist
ance given BY parents, the Boy
Scouts, and members of the Wild
life Clu..
We are also indebted;' h
said, 80 J s, Bennett, the super
intendent Of University utilitie,
and u Elton Moore, caretaker
At the lake, for their cooperation
and good wiil.'
Three hundred feet Of color
movies were made of the rodeo.
The films, when developed and
returned here Cate next week) 4,
will be the property Of the Wild
life Club and will be available for
showings before civic clubs or
other groups Interested in seeing
them.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-09-01
New School Teachers

(Cortinatd from frs: pa9sJ
Helen NJ. Peacock. librarian
Mr.. Edna Profit. science: Mrs.
Bernad.ne Sullivan. English
Miss Margaret Lewis. home
economies: Ray Sizemore, agri-
culture, and { " Da1-is,,, super
intendent.
Returning elementary school
teachers are Mrs. Audrey Austin,
Mrs. Jacqueline Carriker, Mrs.
Dorothy Harris, Mrs. Linda Nc
Intosn, Miss Ida Oettinger. Mrs.
Kate Sanders. Miss Chattie Ca
son, Mr, Dorothy Ellis, Mrs.
Mary he..am, Mrs. Elizabeth
Plemnc., Miss Elizabeth Sea-
well. Nj, Florence Weaver, Mrs.
Adeline Mccall. music; Mrs.
Martha Davis, librarian; Hu-
bert He,aerson, band, and Miss
Mildred monaghan, principal.
The k2. school teachers at
the Lincoln high school (the
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1950-09-01
Trial of Suit for Admission of Negroes

tn. -rial' of the su;+ of fo,1r
Nec,,,s.s lor admission n the
jau srt,ol of the University of
Nor.t rarolina conducted bv
Judge Johnson II HAYES in the
t46er strict cour, ;r Durham
ended CAV before Yesterday.
Judge HAYES directed the a;tor-
neys g, 9th sides to submit
ther -"a.ngs o. facts within
ne nsA. NO weeks.
Tbe .2la;Bt of ,he Negroes
is ,ta. .,..r NJ. being permitted
to er-e- ,he University law
scboo denial ot ne equal
oppo~- .y . which they are
er...l-. .,der me federal Con.
s.lt1.l9r The Safe O. North
Caroline contends that. as & re-
sal. ot me developmert~a..d i'm
prover7er: Of the law school Of
the No~~t Carolina College in
Durham. Negro institution.
ne plaintiffs have not suffered
denla, q equal opportunity.
Desr Rrsnd;s o4 -,a ls,r
~cboo, her Dear T,,rrsr r he
lsw schoo, IN Durbsr Af;ss ~,
ciie Fl,;o.. l;hrsr,o, r. =.
>cbo.6% tara and 4a+ .,.araI
vear. g., infant l..,rsr.., for
.ba orr Durham. .,4 .o.;ro
pres;da,, u n C.rr,.,,.. -