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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Many Face Loss
Of September 1850
Social Security

Washington (LPA)-AbOut 100,
600 people over 65 years old will
lose social security benefits for
September 1850 unless they claim
payment by Friday, March 80.
The Social Security Administra-
ton says these are people who be
came eligible for old age benefits
last September under amendments
to the social security law, but who
have not yet filed claim. The new
law limits back payments to six
months.
Majority of the 100000 workers
who became eligible under the new
law have already filed claim. But
the SSA believes at least 100000
have not filed because they do not
realize they now are eligible.
Anyone retiring at 50, who has
at least Is months since
1886 in jobs covered by social secur;
ity, is eligible for old age benefits.
People over Is are eligible for bene-
fits even though they still are em-
ployed.
Survivors of World War III SER
vicemen made eligible for benefits
by the new act also will lose the
1850 payment unless they
file claim by March 30, the SSA
said,
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Labor Group Meets To Mop
Setup In Defense Dispute

Washington UPA)-A two-day
conference of state and local labor
officials got underway March 20
with the AFL, CIO and Railway
Labor Executives Association hold
ing separate meetings.
The conference was called by the
United Labor Policy Commit
tee so that state and local lead
ers could have first-hand the facts
of labor's fight for full-scale rep
resentation in the mobilization pro-
gram in the face of entrenched big
business. After the conference, the
local leaders would be able to speak
authoritatively in their own COM
munities, the ULPC believed, and
would be equipped to rally consum-
ers inside and outside labor's ranks
to resist mounting living costs.
AFL delegates heard AFL Pres
ident William Green call for
fight for seven objectives on two
fronts. Green said labor must de-
mand that Congress enact a new
Defense Production Act, an equit-
able tax program based on the
principle of equality of sacrifice
and defense housing law giving
defense workers housing "at rents
they can afford to pay"
At the same time, Green said,
union members should insist that
the persons actually running the
defense program give labor "gen-
uine voice" equal to big industry's.
In addition, he called for a Wage
Board empowered to
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
UE Must Pay Men
Who Lost Pay
Through Strike

San Francisco (LPA) = United
Electrical Workers Local 1412 has
been ordered by a trial examiner OF
the National Labor Relations Board
to furnish back pay TO three EN-
ployes who were kept from their
jobs by a UE strike.
The union pulled an eight day
strike at the Gardner Electric Co
across the bay in Emeryyille, when
the company refused TO discharge
the men at UE direction.
UE had a union-ShOp agreement
and seniority clause in its con-
tract. but a union shop election had
never been held under NLRB aus
piceS and the contract therefore was
ruled illegal.
The union refused to testify in
the case and the acknowledgements
reasons for the request for dis
charge never came out. However. in
Sept. 1850 the local wrote the COM
IldIlA utlIldHtIllS the llliil- VI thiVN
men because they had been expelled
from the union and therefore were
no longer eligible for work. The
union also directed the company TO
stop checkOff for the men.
When the company pointed out
that the contract required the men
themselves to give written notice
by registered mail" the union re-
piled that the men should then be
fired because they had lost senior
ity. The company again balked and
the eight-day strike resulted. All
three men returned to their job
when it was over and sued UE for
the loss of pay. claiming the union
sponsored strike kept them from
their jobs.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Pay Your Dues Or
Name Is Posted
On Bulletin Board

New Castle, Pa.-Keen interest
was shown in the primary election
by members Of Local Union 133 and
We were glad To see 20 many show
this fine spirit Of uniOnism.
There has been some changes
made in the spraying department
which has resulted in the shop
committee being faced with many
new problems daily. They have
done excellent work along this line
and have spent much Of their time
in our behalf.
President Duffy has promised to
attend our next meeting and the
committee feels that any problems
that are not settled by that time
will be quickly adjusted when he
arrives on the scene.
We are looking forward to negO-
tiating Il new wage contract by the
end of the month. President Duffy
will no doubt arrange meeting
with officials Of the firm while he
is here
The attendance at our past few
meetings has been very good and we
are making real progress. Keep it
up fellows for you can see what
can be achieved when you attend
meetings regularly.
Six members were obligated and
their names added TO the roll Peter
Naples, Angelo Orlando, Clarence j..
Snyder, Michael T. Michalo, Charles
+. PhersOn and Anthony Savicky.
We have read from time to time
in the Herald where various locals
are having trouble with delinquent
members. We might pass this word
along 10 the trade. With permission
of plant officials we have posted
the names of delinquent members
ON the bulletin board and ii has
brought great results. -O.C. 133I
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Senate Reports
Out Housing Bill;
Good Intent Gone

Washington LPA)-The critical
ly-needed defense housing bill was
approved by the Senate banking
committee on March 20 with half its
money and most of its good intent
cut out
The bill originally provided for
S3 billion to relieve housing distress
in mushrooming military and de-
fense-plant areas. Housing was to
be erected in 'integrated cOmmun-
ities"-there would be planning for
the workers needs, rather than the
jumbled shack towns of World War
III.
The House voted down such a bill
March II by 219-170. This means
an entirely new bill must be brought
out by the House Banking commit
tee, and it was SO stunned by the
defeat that it is waiting to see what
the Senate will do.
The bill the Senate Banking com
mittee approved provides 81 " bill
ion instead of SO billion and this en-
tire amount is to back FILA insur
ance plans for private builders in
critical defense areas defined by
President Truman.
Only S135,000,000 is earmarked
for direct spending in defense areas
in the next two years. This money,
less than a tenth of what will be
spent to insure private concerns,
will be split up into: $50 million for
streets, etc. $50 million for
isolated areas which private indus
try won't touch; $15 million for
pre- fab manufacturers; so million
to buy land for community facilities.
Just how far this money will go|
may be judged from the fact that
Norfolk, Va. alone has spent $6|
million in the past five years Onl
school construction and another S13l
million to expand its water supply.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Say Straw Bosses
Cause Of Dispute
AT I S & 7 Pottery

If the members Of Local Union Sc
We're as faithful in attending meet
ings of their union as the officers
of the local, there would be little to
complain about.
This lack of interest i'm local
meetings has reached the stage
where we are confronted with IL
problem that might lead TO serious
trouble. Ii is the duty of every
member 10 put their shoulder 10 the
wheel and help.
A report of a condition at the
Taylor, Smith * Taylor pottery re-
garding apprentices being put on
contrary to our agreement, calls for
action. Some feel officials of the
firm are not aware what is taking
place and place the blame on su-
pervisorS.
1t seems they are demanding
warehouSemen do labOr'S work and
they will put on apprentices TO do
work, using the eX
cuse that work piles up and there
are not enough warehOusemen to
handle it. A word to the wise should
be sufficient, but if the situatiOn
then let the axe fall
where it may.
Make sure your dues are paid up
if you want to vote in the general
election in May.
May is the deadline for receiv
ing resolutions at headquarters. If|
you have any resolutions to offer,
better get then in right away.
Bro. LOckhart was reported On|
the sick list. Our best wishes to himj
for speedy recovery.
William Young, Edward j. Rich
ards and o. Owens, new members,
were obligated and their names add
ed to the roll. -O.C. SCI
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Authors Book To
Guide Consumers

New York (LPA)-Sidney Margo
illus, LPA's own consumer expert,
has written "The Consumers Guide
to Better Buying" on sale at news
stands for 81 cents.
The pocket sized, 191-page guide,
published by Signet Books, tells you
how to choose the best buys in
everything from life insurance to
baby shoes. 1t is an excellent book
to use I'm addition to MargOliuS' reg
ular LPA column.
The book is completely revised
edition of his previous popular
work, How to Buy More for Your
Money" Not only are definite buys
given, but Opportune times for diff
ferent articles are listed along with
a set of Ten Tested Shopping Prin-
ciples which will save the family
money.
There are sections on buying in
chain stores, during department
fTaSn TO Pa0p Thrr>l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Housing Farley OF
All Groups Backs
Defense Program

st. Louis (LPA)-More than 40C
leaders in business, government
construction, and labor from 35
states in a two-dsy conference
here hammered out a nine-point
housing program which included
Endorsement of federal aid for
housing for defense workers.
Views at the meeting of the Ma
tional Housing Policy Conference
ranged from those of John Edel-
man, Washington representative of
the Textile Workers, who charged
housing conditions "are a national
scandal, a sensational disgrace" to
those of Rodney M. Lockwood, of
Detroit, former president of the
National Association of Home
Builders, who called public housing
morally, economically, and poll
tically wrong"
But out of the meeting, which
was called by st. Louis Mayor
Joseph M. Darst, came recommen-
dations for federal defense hous-
ing, and "a decent home in a whole
some environment for every Am
erican family" 1t also called on all
groups to unite in a spirit of tol-
erance, understanding, and cooper
ation."
Other points in the program in
cluded: adjustment of credit and
building material restrictions, eli
of blighted areas, ap
pointment of national admins
TRAITOR of defense housing, local
non-partisan bodies to study COM
needs, and a combined pro-
gram by public and private build
ing agencies for the benefit of the
people. A move to indorse
non-segregation, introduced by the
National Association for the Ad-
of Colored People, was
defeated after Walter B. Mills, Jr.,
executive director of the Gadsden,
Ala. housing authority charged "it
would lead down a blind alley"
and that the question should be
settled by Congress.
Edelman charged the real estate
lobby is opposing slum clearance
and housing program on national
and state levels. He said opponents
Of public housing are using figures
to confuse, that they include as
dwelling units" 11,750,OO0 label
census.
Richard j. Gray, president of the
ed "substandard" by the 1850
(Tnrn fo Pa0s Thre<l
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29

'dOnatiOn from our hospital fund.
THE sum agreed on by the commit
tee will be brought back for the
locals approval.
Insurance and disqualification was
discussed and we understand any
one interested can get copy of the
one dollar month plan at the First
Aid room or by applying To Mr..
Collins. The secretary was instruct
ed 10 secure pamphlets for distri-
button on WOrkmen's Compensation.
The latest information available
on seniority is that all bowls, jets,
tanks and layatories are in respec-
tive brackets. A man can be moved
in any bracket subject to the will
of supervision, but cannot bid for
another job in the same bracket.
The cOnveyOrs at present are part
of their respective brackets which
does not seem 10 he agreeable to
Everyone Some feel they are being
denoted when called on to work
three shifts, others would rather do
this than have To take poorer
paying job. The committee have
done their best TO make things work
out as fairly as possible with little
or no help from the membership.
especially when special meetings
are called TO discuss seniority.
The conveyors were originally i'm
a unit of their own and if that is
the way 1t is wanted. the members
should make it known at local. We
are sorry when anyone has TO step
down through seniority. but by the
same token, seniority is the fairest
rule when advancing upward.
We are glad TO see Fourth vice
president Charles thinner back on
the job after an illness of almost
a year Our best wishes Charlie for
continued Improvement in your
health.
Bro Mike Devak is still laid up
and Stanley Chmielewski has been
added To the sick list. The flu hug
really hit Trenton lately. One day
there We're one hundred reported
off work
Bro. Edward Dermody died re-
Gently as a result of an accident.
Flowers were sent and our very sim
cere sympathy extended his family.
He was we'll known throughout the
trade. -O.C. AZ
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Progress Reported
In Councils Drive
To Buy American

The "Buy American" movement
revived by Trades and Labor Coun-
ell at recent meetings of the Cen
tral Body has gained momentum,
PRESIDENT Frank Duffy announced
this week.
The committee appointed by
Trades Council to contact merch-
ants and seek their cooperation in
clearing their shelves of foreign
products, made their report at the
last meeting and it was very fav-
orably received.
Officials of the Chamber of Com
merce and the Retail Merchants
Association have promised TO take
the matter up with the heads of
their respective state organizations
and indicated favorable actiO IN
would be taken.
The committee also made a sur
vey of local business establishments
and found there are Il few stores
still displaying foreign merchandise
pottery products. Belong
ing to a national chain, the manag
ers of these establishments informed
the committee they were forced to
carry this line of merchandise.
Continuing in their efforts for a
campaign on the home
front as the basis for receiving
for "a. national :"Buy Amer
lean" drive, President Duffy re-
quested representatives from all af-
filiates to the Central Body to at
tend the next meeting.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29

handle "all labor disputes affect
ing the defense effort" full use of
available authority to control prices
on dollars and cents" basis and
a manpower program utilizing the
voluntary efforts" of both labor
and management.
The new Defense Production Act
should provide effective" control
over food prices and rents, the
AFL leader declared. He added
that labor wouldn't yield until it
won top-level defense responsible
tiles. Other AFL speakers includ-
ed George Meany, AL Hayes and
George Harrison.
The CIO meeting was not open
to the press, but in a press confer
ence later President Philip Murray
declared that undoubtedly the
ULPC would present a detailed
program to amend the present De-
fense Mobilization Act. That pro-
gram will cover prices, taxes, rent
control, wage stabilization and
equal representation in the mobil-
ization program.
This is not just a labor fight, he
said, but a fight for equality of
treatment of all segments of the
No alliances have been
made yet, he said, but the ULPC
will work with farmers and other
groups.
Before labor returns to the Wage
Sterilization Board, said Murray,
there will have to be a number of
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Report. Anti-Red Leaflets
In Red Occupation Army

how they are being cheated and ex,
plotted.
whoever protests about all this
is AN enemy of the people, a fas-
cist hireling,' and an agent OF
Anglo-American imperialism No
we cannot fight Bolshevism with
words alone. 1t is no use criticiz-
ing Bolshevism, it has to be des-
troyed."
Continuing, the leaflet exposes
some of the communist propaganda
about life in the Soviet Union, as
follows:
"'A happy prosperous life
when your old mother has to stand
for hours in a queue for bread,
when your father on the collective
farm is working for Stain from
dawn to dusk without straighten-
ing his back.
"'The fight for peace'-means
preparation for new aggressive
war. Our people have no need of
that war, which can bring us no
thing but new chains, new suffer
ings, new sacrifices.
"Russia needs not war but free
dom through revolution! Russia
needs a revolution to free your
brothers from the prisons and con-
centration camps! Russia needs a
revolution to shatter the chains
binding the people to their places
of work through kolkhozes and
stakhanovism! Russia needs a
revolution to build a just life of
(Tgra 10 Page Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29

! Brussels, Belgium (LPA) - AT
least one anti Stain leaflet is be-
ing circulated in the Red Army
forces occupying East Germany
according to the international Con-
federation of Free Trade Unions.
1t is a cry for revolution distribut-
ed by the National Labor Union,
which is described as an under
ground anti-Communist organiza-
tion.
Russian soldier and officer" the
leaflet says across the top. "You
hold in your hands a leaflet Of the
Anti-Bolshevik Revolutionary Staff.
Be careful" Leaflets text says, in
part:
"Why do the conquered Germans
live better than you, the conquer
or? Because the Soviet government
has stolen everything from you,
and turned you into begger. The
riches of your land go for the main
tenance of Stalinist parasites and
informers. for the preparation
of another aggressive war.
"Why are you not allowed out
of barracks? Why are you forbid
den to make friends with the Ger
mans? =. +. Why do our people live
as in prison, fenced off from the
world by barbed wire?
Because Stain is afraid you
will tell the Germans how you live
in the land of socialism achieved
afraid you will write home about
how the workers live abroad, afraid
our people will come to understand
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29

prolonged the meeting and 1t did mo-
break up until late hour. While Il
is not the writer's intention that any
member should be curbed in vOicins
their opinion, it seems lot of un
necessary discussionn is more harm
ful than good. 1t certainly is no in
ducement to boost attendance al
meetings.
The death insurance plan submit
ted to the local seems to meet the
approval of the ma jOrity of the
membership. If it is adopted, full
details will be published I'm Herald.
We see several new faces in the
decal department. Work still is no
thing to brag about. Liners are still
on part time and caster at plants |
and 2 are on part time, In these
days of ever-rising prices in the
cost of living essentials, those work
ing only part time find it very diff
ficult to make ends meet.
We We're very sorry to hear Bro.
William Lambright is a patient in
the Aultman Hospital in Canton.
Also of the serious Illness of Bro.
Earnest HOyt at his home on Wood
lawn Avenue. A card or visit to
these brothers would help to speed
their recovery.
George (ReO Savage who has
been in Buffalo on leave of absence
has returned TO his bench here.
Bro. Carl Christian, mouldmaker,
has accepted temporary employ
ment at CanOnsburg, Pa.
Our sincere sympathy to brother
and sister Alexander in the recent
death of their granddaughter in
Cleveland. -O.C. 122
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
New Financial Secretary
For Local Union 1875

Mildred Ward. financial secretary
|of Local Union 195, handed in her
resignation at the last meeting. We
hate TO lose Mildred for she has
been very efficient in her duties as
Financial secretary, and has served
on several committees.
She has been transferred 10 Local
Union l24 and Harriet Jackson was
named to fill her post for the un-
expired term. Her address is 1874
Laurel Lane. East Liverpool, Ohio.
We also wish TO remind members
that dues are now j0-cents a month.
-O.C. 1915
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
MouIdmakers Turn Out In
Fine Style To Air Views
Before Meeting Of LU As

Trenton, " I'VE very glad such fine turnout of
After discussing detail all involved
worked satisfactorily
OF of
al b4npa
this all
they received They a
budIng a
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-29
Voice Your Sentiments
With Ballot Cambridge
Scribe Tells Members

Cambridge Ohio-Wth membership nearing the eight hundred
mark small election national
negligent
Whichever
president president who
working the night shift Bro Van Camp presided meeting
and did job
brought before the local discussion Mlch
Evening star., 1951-09-23
Recruiting
CONTINUED From First Page.)

sis. pending final action on the
new bill.
Comic Book Burned.
Earlier this month the army
backed down when Senator Cape
hart, Republican, Indiana, de-
Inounced as "socialistic" a Sad
Sack" comic book being distribu-
ted as part Of a re-enlistment
campaign.
The Army said yesterday it had
destroyed the books. Capehart
said the Army had printed 100000
copies at a cost of S17,544. He
objected to them, because, he said
they discredited American busi-
nessmen by tending to show serv-
ice men had so much trouble in
civilian life they preferred to re-
enlist.
An Army-Air Force spokesman
said the new programs were going
ahead as planned: Mr.. Laine on
a chain of 125 CHS stations be-
ginning October 7 for SO weeks
Mr.. Stern on the NBC network
for 26 weeks beginning Decem-
ber /.
The Laine half-hour programs
call for a total of $434 1000, the
Stern 15-minute shows. $254,000
Actually the stars would receive
but part of this total, the rest
going to cover other expenses
IMr. Stern's manager said he would
Evening star., 1951-09-23
Indiana G. O. P. Pushes Drive
To Shun II. S. Welfare Funds

of what they call Federal bureau
cratic dictation."
Favor "Going It Alone"
They are suggesting that the
State "go it alone" on welfare
paying its own way - with only
State and local tax money.
They propose strict welfare ad-
Iministration, and removal of
"chiselers" and undeserving re-
cipients by opening rolls to pub
Ilic view. They advocate State and
county "hone rule" BY doing
these things, they say. costs would
be cut sharply.
For many on welfare rolls, the
question is one involving food,
shelter and clothing in winter
months ahead.
To many politicians, it is a red
hot political issue that will have
great effect on the 1852 Indiana
voting in presidential, senatorial
and governor races.
Evening star., 1951-09-23
Negroes Hit Segregation
On Blood Donations
BY the Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 22.-Bir-
mingham leaders of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People today protested
segregation of Negroes in con-
tributing blood to a Red Cross
blood bank here.
A resolution signed by the Rev.
r. L. Afford. president of the
IN.A.AC.P. Birmingham chapter
and Secretary Emory Jackson, re-
Iquested that the Red Cross chap
ter here do away with the
Thursday for colored only plan
for Negro citizens of this COM
munity."
1t asked that Negroes be given
"the opportunity to contribute
their blood freely as all other citi-
zenS."
Red Cross officials were not
available for comment.