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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Phone Workers
Take Strike Vofe

San Francisco (LPA)-Voting on
a possible phone strike in Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington, Ne
vada and Idaho has begun in a mail
poll of 1000 toll technicians en-
ployed by Pacific Telephone q
Telegraph Co. The men are repre-
sented by an unaffiliated union, the
Order of Repeatermen & Toll Test
boardmen.
ORTT President L. Monahan
said, "We have had no wage in
crease for two and half years.
We have negotiated almost with
out stop since December 19. We
have offered to submit our wage
dispute to arbitration. To all our
proposals, the telephone company
simply turns a deaf ear"
The unions members operate and
maintain long-distance, radio and
television circuits, telephoto and
telegraphic news circuits, mobile
radio and ship-to-shore commun-
ications and virtually all of the
phone company's leased circuits IN
the five states.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Profits Almost
'TripIed In 1850

Cleveland (LPA) - For almost
two years the nations railroads
have stalled the rail unions, until in
desperation a series of unauthoriz-
ed walkouts developed. They have
always raised the cry that they
just can't afford any increases. lr
fact, they are begging the ICC foi
higher rates.
The profits reports for 1850, now
beginning to accumulate, tell a diff.
ferent story. Profits in 1860 of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, for example
were almost triple the 1949 profits
And this was "after year-end ad.
justments including excess profits
taxes" B & o profits more thar
doubled. The same was true for the
Erie & the Pennsylvania. Lehigt
Valley made only $174,265 in 1919
and $500, 1877 in 1850. Jersey Gen.
trail turned a 1949 deficit of $685.
1876 into a 1850 profit of $2,279, ,692
The Wabash reported gross revenue
up 11.44 percent, expenses up 2.34
And they want higher rates.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Cont Halt Prices Before
Summer Says Eric Johnston

Washington (LPA)-Eric Johns
ton, who heads the Economic Stab
ilization Agency (ESA), doesn't
think he can halt the upward move
ment of prices before midsummer.
But by then he believes prices
can be leveled off and held steady
at least through 1851. Beyond that
he feels that if credit controls can
be frightened, if the budget can be
kept in balance, and if production
can be stepped up, perhaps prices
won't rise.
That's how the stabilization chief
saw things when he talked with
|newsmen Feb. 7. He predicted there
would be a great many rollbacks
of individual prices but doubted
whether such rollbacks would off
set the overall rise he expects in
the next few months.
Housewives might have dis
agreed with Johnston when he said
he didn't believe food prices to be
the main problem in economic stab
ilization. Almost as he was speak
ing, the Dun & Bradstreet whole
sale food price index was released
in New York and showed a rise for
the eighth consecutive week. 1t was
| up four cents to S7.21, 29-month
peak. (Cyrus Ching, head of the
ESA's Wage Sterilization Board
has repeatedly said wages can't be
stabilized as long as food prices
keep rising.)
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
announced Feb. 9 that retail food
prices, as of Jan. 29, had reached
another new all-time high, having
risen g percent in two weeks tc
reach 221, or percent above pre-
Korean prices. The 221 means that
| it takes S2.21 today to buy what
81 could get you in 1859.
Johnston saw the reporters after
comforting with a group of top
level labor and management lead
ers. The group was the one with
whom he met in New York before
becoming stabilization director. He
said he hoped to meet with the
labor-management spokesmen the
| first Wednesday of each month.
Present were President William
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Seal Of Approval
Of ANA Denied I'd
Aid To Crippled

Washington (LPA)-The Amer
lean Medical Association, the doc
tors lobby, is running true to form
Of nine bills introduced so far in
the S2nd Congress dealing with
health, the ANA has disapproveC
six.
The ANA has approved bills; de.
Quoting for income tax purposes
premiums and dues payments tc
health insurance plans and com
panies; a study of air pollution
boosting grants for hospital con-
struction to $150,000,000.
The ANA looks with horror or
the following bills: Delegating to 6
civilian agency of the government
the job Of rehabilitating men re-
jected by the armed services fol
physical and mental defects; fed
eral aid to medical education; aic
to local public health units; pro-
viding hospital and medical care
for dependents of servicemen IL
armed service facilities; the sub
stitute offered by liberal Republic
cans for the National Health In
surance plan; medical care to de-
pendants of Coast Guard employees
Helping rehabilitate men reject
ed in the draft is, according to the
ANA, "a new medical proposal that
surpasses, in the extent to which II
nationalizes medicine, even the
compulsory health insurance bills
The ANA opposes care for depend
ents of servicemen because it would
be just awful to have $50 many de-
pendents as camp followers IL
areas adjacent to camp"
AS to the COP substitute for the
National Health Insurance plan
that's terrible too, says the ANA
because 'it essentially amounts tt
federal subsidy of voluntary health
insurance, which would lead to fed
eral CONTROL" and also "discrimin
ates against commercial health in
surance." And giving medical care
to dependents of Coast Guard EN-
ployes is "class legislation" say!
the ANA, and "would start treno
that might eventually encompass
the population = certainly coulo
spread to any or all branches Of
federal service"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Labor Dolly Held Possible;
Bdckers Publish Sdmple

Pittsburgh (LPA)-In the belief
that daily newspaper for labor
would be a practical enterprise, a
group of unions here has published
The National Reporter. The ten
page, full-size paper appeared once,
Feb. 2, as sample of what a labor
daily would look like. It's sponsors
do not plan any further editions.
Volunteer editors and cores
pondents turned out the sample
daily to back their belief that "a
national labor daily can be done, II
we want it." The cost was borne
by the Newspaper Unions Publish
ing Company which successfully
published the Pittsburgh Daily Re-
porter for six weeks during lock
out of newspaper workers in this
city.
Co-ordinator for the job was
Sam Eubanks, executive vice pres
ident of the American Newspaper
Guild, who also co-ordinated the
Pittsburgh paper. A special four
page section tells the story of the
Pittsburgh Reporter: how it was
started by idled AFL and ClC
newspaper workers to meet the
needs of city stranded without
daily, and ended up selling close tt
III, 900 copies day.
When the news blackout ended
the Reporter stopped publication
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
House Ok's Bill
Extending Bonds

Washington (LPA)-Without a
dissenting vote, the House of Rep
resentatives passed bill extending
Series E defense bonds an extra 10
years. The measure must still be
approved by the Senate.
The bonds are the ones you
bought during World War H.
They're scheduled to start matur-
ing May / unless Congress passes
the ext sion. Administration
spokesmen contend that to pay the
bonds off would require additional
borrowing by the government in
order to get up the cash. Further
borrowing on such a scale plus the
resulting payoff to bondholders
would have dangerous inflationary
results, they say.
However, the government will
continue to pay interest on the
bonds if they are extended. For the
first 71a years after the bonds ma
ture, the Treasury proposes to
pay 2la percent on the matured
(Turs to PAGE ThSee)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
MORSE HITS TALK BROTHERHOOD
RENEGED ON DEC. Fl AGREEMENT 7

to get both sides to quit pickering
over petty grievances and start
thinking of a lasting settlement in
the national interest"
Morse and The Post, however,
were among the few cool heads in
the Capital. Representatives with
anti-union records were having a
heyday braying about "the fine
boys in Korea"
Rep. Graham A. Barden Cd, NC),
whose doctor son was drafted by
the Army after he failed to volun-
teer, suggested drafting striking
rail workers. Others mouthing
threats against the rail union men,
bers included Rep. George w.
Andrews Cd, Ala.) and Joseph K.
Bryson Cd, Sc. All three men
have voted against such legislation
as rent control, public housing, and
for Taft Hartley and the poll tax.
The Army said protestations
about "the poor boys in Korea"
were a little premature, that there
is plenty of ammunition and other
supplies in Korea and much more
stockpiled in West Coast ports
awaiting shipment.
In Chicago, hearings continued
OH contempt charges against Off
cials of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Trainmen, one of the Big Four
operating unions involved in cur
rent discussions. j. w. O'Hearn,
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15

Washington (LPA) - The little
fellow will be hit hardest. That be-
came clearer as Administration
sources began to spell out the pro-
posed increases under President
Truman's request for $40 billion in
additional taxes.
Secretary of the Treasury Sny-
der proposed: A 20 percent tax on
new automobiles, to raise $685. mill
ion; a 25 percent tax on refrigera-
tors, television sets, radios, phono-
graphs, records, electric, gas and
oil appliances and other consumer
durable goods, to raise $425 mill
ion: an increase of from SO to $12
on whisky and other distilled
spirits, and from So to $12 on beer
and various hikes in wine taxes, to
raise $710 million; an increase from
7 to 10 cents pack on cigarets,
with varying hikes on cigars, to
raise $525 million; doubling the
present IA percent tax on gaso-
line to raise $3.50 million; miscel-
laneous revisions on such items as
furs, jewelry, toilet preparations,
to raise $110 million.
Snyder also would require coop
eratives to pay the regular corpor-
alton income tax on earnings that
they do not now return to their
members. He also would tax mutual
savings banks and building and
loan associations on their retained
earnings.
Snyder recommended an increase
in individual income tax rates OF
four percentage points in each tax
bracket. At the lowest level, this
would be an increase from 20 to "a
percent, a jump of one fifth. The
boost would get progressively
smaller. In other words, the great
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Bigger Tax Bite
Still Away Off

Washington (LPA)-Uncle Sam
will take a much bigger chunk of
your pay-eventually, but not to-
morrow, or next week, or next
month. And the taxes on many
items like autos, refrigerators,
radio and TV sets, tobacco and
liquor also will go up-but not for
a while.
For first the House Appropria-
tions Committee has to get down to
business, and it hasn't-yet. And
then the House tax writing COM
mittee has to get down to business
and it hasn't even finished pub
lie hearings. Then will come the
dirty work in closed sessions, and
then a bill will be offered in the
House, and there will be more
squabbling.
The job of labor people, right
now, is to keep pounding at their
congressman and Senators, to in
sist that the new tax laws spread
the burden equally.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
LABOR GOVERNMENT WINS BY 10
VOTES ON NATIONALlZING Steel

British-style middle-of the-roaders
have often threatened the balance
of power, especially since some de-
gree of absenteeism is inevitable
in any legislative body.
Only a week before the stee
vote, the Labor party survived q
"no confidence" motion on the coal
issue by II votes, with the Liberals
abstaining. Had the Liberals oppos-
ed the motion, Prime Minister Att
lees margin would have been a
willowy two.
Meanwhile, a new confidence
test loomed on the meat question
Churchill's followers would try to
oust Attlee on the grounds that his
government had mismanaged meat
negotiations with Argentina. The
Conservatives could point to the re-
cent cut in the meat ration.
Both the coal and meat short
ages were very real for BritonS
who were having a tough winter
The railroads announced 10 per
cent cut in train service to con-
serve coal stocks. The Londor
Transport System also announced
reduced services and 1876 industria
firms in the London area were re-
ported down to coal for less than
week.
The dock strike remained unset
tied. Approximately 11,4O0 dock
workers were idle in Manchester
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Officials Arrest
800 'Wetbacks' In
Immigration Raid

FL Centro, Calf. (LPA)-Immi-
grafton officials raided the Whit
ergarden Farm near here and ar
rested 300 of the $50 Mexican farm
workers for illegal entry to this
country.
The farm is owned by Frank
O'Dwyer, brother of the former
New York City mayor and present
Ambassador to Mexico. His part
ner, Kenneth Metz, is president Of
the Imperial Valley Farmers Assn
which has fought organization of
American farm hands.
Hank Hasiwar, international rep
resentative of the National Farm
Labor Union-AFL, has protested
the hiring of the "wetbacks" by
O'Dwyer and Metz and wants the
US to cancel an existing contract
under which farmers caught using
illegal Mexican labor are barred
from using any at all.
Another protest came from Ern-
este Galarza, vice president of the
union, who has just returned from
Mexico City, where US and Mexi-
can Government officials met to
arrange for importation of hund-
reds of thousands of Mexican ma
tionals for use as cheap labor or
farms, railroads, and mass indus
try.
Galarza, who went to the meet
ing on his own after the US refus'
ed to okay representatives of labor
at the meeting, said that cheese
cloth curtain" was drawn over the
whole affair by US State Depart
ment officials.
Accompanied by Frank Noakes
educational director of the Bro
therhood of Maintenance of Wa!
Employes-AFL, Galarza requested
daily progress reports from Car
w. Strom, chief of the US delega
ton.
According to Galarza, Strom not
only refused the information, but
told Mexican newspapers he hao
never heard of labor delegation
(Tnrn to Pare Thsee)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Senate Gets Bill
Barring Espionage
Against Unions

Washington LPA)-Six liberal
Senators have introduced a bill
aimed at labor spies in interstate
commerce.
They would fine man up to
$4,000 and give him two years in
prison if he accepted "any verbal
or written report" intended to
"coerce" an employe in regard to
his labor rights.
Sponsors of the bill are Sen.
James E. Murray ID, Mont.), Sen.
Matthew Neely ID, w. Va.), Sen.
Hubert Humphrey Cd, Mimi, Sen.
Paul Douglas Cd, Ill.,, Sen. Her
bert Lehman Cd, NY), and Sen.
Wayne Morse (R, Ore.). All six
are members of the Senate Labor
committee.
Murray, now chairman Of the
Labor committee, was chairman
last year of a subcommittee on
labor-management relations which
surveyed the working Of the Taft
Hartley act in a number of indus
tries.
In a speech on the Senate floor,
he declared that most employers
have long since abandoned labor
Espionage "but in some of our in
dustrial byways it still sprouts and
poisons labor-management rela-
tions."
He pointed out that his subcom-
mittee found espionage practiced in
the textile industry, the furniture
Industry, and others. He said the
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Reject 78c Offer.
Hold Out For 43c

New York (LPA) - Marine &
Shipbuilding workers have turned
down an 18-cent pay raise offer
for 1900 workers in eight east
coast shipyards of the Bethlehem
Steel Co. The union wants Accents.
President John j. Grogan said
the 18 cents would leave wages "in-
adequate to support the members
families and insufficient to retain
present workers or to attract new
ones for the defense effort"
The company offer would bring
hourly pay to $1.75. Local l3 Of the
union, in two Brooklyn shipyards,
has asked it's members to demand
"$2 or else" If a strike becomes
necessary, local leaders said, the
men should seek employment in
defense plants, Navy yards, Army
bases, or in the longshore or air
craft industries.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Congress To Probe
Rent Increases At
Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Washington LPA) - A Con-
gressional investigation has been
promised Of government imposed
rent increases in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Senator John Sparkmen p Cd,
Ala.) told workers in the atomic
city that he will ask the staff of
his Housing G. Rent Subcommittee
to examine Immediately increases
scheduled for August l. The boosts
run as high as 80 percent.
President Martin Wagner of
United Gas, Coke & Chemical
Workers, union counsel Benjamin
Sigal, and Leo Goodman, director
of the Housing Committee, called
on Sparkmen Feb. 8. He told them
he would consider the matter OF
applying federal rent control to
government owned housing, includ-
ing the units at Oak Ridge, Los
Alamos, n. NJ, and Hanford, Wash.
Chairman Brent Spence Cd, Ky.)
of the House Banking Committee
assured the officials his committee
also will investigate.
Wagner pointed out that work
ers at Oak Ridge are at the mercy
of the Acc in the matter of rentals
and housing assignments. He asked
now the government could ask price
control of private groups while al
lowing one of its top agencies, the
Atomic Energy Commission, to
hike rents.
The Chemical Workers local in
Oak Ridge has charged that the
boosts were made in order to in
crease the value of the housing
units, so the Acc can get more
money for them if they are sold
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15

London (LPA) - The British
Labor government won a vote OF
confidence on steel naturalization
Feb. 7, by vote of 308 to 1898.
The motion of "no confidence
was introduced by Winston Church
i'll, leader of the Conservative
party, World War ii prime minis
ter and probable choice for that
post again should his party return
to power while he's still active. The
Conservatives have fought steel ma
tionalization bitterly since it was
first proposed by the Laborites
The Feb. 7 vote was a last-ditcf
effort to forestall the transfer OF
iron and steel company securities
to a state corporation Feb. 15.
Churchil's motion read as fol
lows: "That this house, in view OF
the record production attained by
the iron and steel industry and the
urgent needs of the rearmamen'
program, is of the opinion that the
decision of His Majesty's govern
ment to give immediate effect to
the naturalization of this industry
is not in the public interest ano
should be reversed"
What raised Conservative hopes
was the announcement by the nine
Liberal party members in the Com
mons that they would support the
Churchill motion. In house con-
tanning 314 Laborites and 297 Con
servatives, the Liberals, who are
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15

Washington (LPA)-Sen. Wayne
Morse (R, Ore.) told the Senate
that "it is unfair for the White
House to give the impression that
the Brotherhoods reneged" on the
Dec. 81 agreement with railroad
management.
Morse suggested the w h te
House call on both sides on a wal
emergency" basis to submit their
dispute to binding arbitration. He
said this method had worked "ir
every instance" during World Wal
III.
While saying railroad workers
could not justify this STRIKE
Morse did concede they might have
Legitimate claim, but told union
members there could not be a per
manent solution to their problems
unless the dispute is settled on its
merits" !"
The West Coast liberal also said
it is a mistaken impression that
an emergency board has ruled on
the merits of the case-the board
Just doesn't have that power, ac-
cording to Morse.
Lending credence to mounting
rumors that presidents of major
railroads would be brought to
Washington to meet union chiefs
face-to-face was a demand for such
action by Morse and by the Wash
ington Post. The latter said that,
in our opinion, it is the only way
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Shop Committee Must
Attend Local Meetings

At the last meeting of Local
Union f31 there was quite a dis
cussion pertaining to members OF
shop committees attending one
meeting a month or be subject to
a fine. After a thorough discussion
the local went on record to enforce
the law now on the books which
calls for a $500 fine for any men,
ber of a shop committee who fails
to attend one meeting a month.
President d wson appointed
James Bennett and Alice Sewers
to work with him as resolution
committee and urged the members
to hand in their resolutions early.
-O.C. 131
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Labor Role Urged
In Civil Defense
At Factory Level

Chicago (LPA)-A briefing on
civil defense work at the plant and
community level was given COM
munity service workers from seven
midwestern states at a meeting
here of the National Community
Services & Civil Defense Commit
tee.
The main target in any possible
bombing of this country would be
the factories Committee Chairman
Leo Perlis told them. "That shows
you how close the job Of civil de-
fense is to US. We can't wait.
We've got to get busy right away,
so that we'll be ready if any atom
bombs start falling"
Establishment of union-manage-
ment committees to handle such
work was recommended. "These
committees should be something
apart from the collective bargain
ing process, so that they can oper-
ate without the friction that comes
from other issues" Perlis said.
He suggested that unions check
civil defense organizations in their
areas to see if they can put labor
people not only on top committees,
but on various subcommittee such
as those on communications, public
affairs, transportation, welfare
medical services.
Newman Jeffrey of United Auto
Workers urged that unions send
members to various civil defense
training schools that are being
established now. "It's not enough
that we should scream for repre-
sentation on this and that board
and committee" he warned. "We've
got to be sure to pick men who have
the time to give to the work and
the skill to handle it."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-02-15
Local 86 Reports
Dispute Settled
IAt (. M. Knowles

The members of Local Union sc
met in their regular weekly session
Monday evening with President
Sharkey presiding.
A report was made concerning
the dispute in the decorating ware
house at the Edwin NJ. Knowles
China Co. and we were glad to
learn this matter has been settled
satisfactorily to all parties con-
cerned. We hope this will set
precedent and in the future such
disputes will be handled in the pro-
per manner and adjustments made
before they reach the danger stage.
The attendance at the meeting
was about up TO par but nothing to
brag about considering our men,
bership. | guess we will have to
wait until the weather breaks be-
fore some of our members will ven
ture out to meetings.
We are sorry to hear Bro. Kiddey
is not doing so well. He has been
off work for several weeks, due to
a fractured leg.
Bro. William L. Griffith was re-
ported on the sick list. Our best
wishes to these brothers for a
speedy recovery and their early
return to the shop.
The following new members were
obligated and their names added
to the roll: Robert Jeanguenot,
William L. Tenant, L on a d
Batcha, Homer Delong and Will
lam Gillpen.
There will be special meeting
on February 19 for all warehouse
men of the Homer Laughlin China
Co. Every brother who works for
this firm should make it point to
be present for there is important
matters to be taken up. -O.C. SO