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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Free Riders Dismissal Without
Last Chance UpheIp BY NLRB

ing up and by April 1949 more
than 400 of 900 workers were be-
behind in dues. When told they
could be fired they "put it off as a
joke"
When the "joke" put the union
in a financial hole the executive
board voted to suspend members
delinquent 80 days. The employees
argued they should have been
given "a last chance" to pay. They
claimed previous lists had been
posted on the bulletin board threat
ening dismissal and nothing had
ever happened. The examiner found
this to be false, but even if that
had been the practice the dismiss
ais would still stand, he said. "The
burden being on the complainants
to pay their dues, the abandon
ment without notice of a practice
of threatening each delinquent
with discharge without actually
seeking it, is not violation of the
law"
The examiner said what they
wanted was "a last, last chance. :.
one more warning than they were
given-no matter how many that
would be-" His ruling also stated
that the law says failure to tend
(Tprn to Page ThSee)
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Automobile Workers To Set Up
New Political Education Proorom

Milwaukee OLNS) The inter
national executive board of the
United Automobile Workers OF
America, AFL, has authorized a
new political education program
which will be instituted at once in
its local unions throughout the
country. Major feature of the new
program, adopted at the meeting
in international headquarters here,
is the designation of the 8 trustees
in each local union as the Legis-
lative and Political Education Com
mittee.
This committee will be charged
with the administration of all leg
islative and political activity of the
local union. The committee will
make regular monthly reports to
the international secretary-treasur-
er on special forms provided for
that purpose. These reports will
include such information as the
of members registered,
the number voting, and the num-
Der active in precinct and ward
work.
Committees will also be charged
with the responsibility of securing
prior commitments of the
votes of the members during pri-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22

Hoboken, N. j. (LPA)-A union
can request the firing of delinquent
members in a plant with union
shop contract without giving them
ga last chance" to pay up.
That's the ruling of Charles w.
Schneider, National Labor Rela-
tions Board trial examiner, in dis
missing unfair labor practice
charges against Local Sc, Meat &
Cannery Workers UnionAFL and
Standard Brands, Inc.
When II workers were fired
after they were suspended by the
union for non-payment of dues,
they filed charges. They claimed
they were Disseminated against by
the union and that it was the COM
pany's duty to refuse to fire them
in such case. The examiner said
the company was relieved of res
possibility if covered by union
shop contract requiring union men,
bership as a condition of work.
Up to 1948 the contract called
for the union to give the company
two weeks notice if it wanted to
have a delinquent member fired.
This was changed in 1949 because
the company was tired of being "a
collection agency for the union"
Immediately delinquents began pill
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22

maries and in final election cam
paigns.
The board also recommended that
regional conferences on political
action be called in the various
regions and subregions throughout
the international union, to work
out precinct and ward organiza-
tional setup as we'll as emphasiz-
ing the securing of prior commit
ments of the votes of members.
Crucial Election Coming
The action of the board was
taken in the form of a resolution
which pointed out that crucially
important national election is COM
ing in 1852, and that in the mean
while there will be many political
trial runs in every state, in spring
1851 elections for school boards,
housing referendums, ETC." The
resolution also declared that
stronger showing by labor in the
1850 national elections would have
insured its being given a bigger
voice in the present administration
of the defense production setup.
UAW-AFL local unions will be
sent complete details on the new
political program in the near fu-
ture.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
DR.. Graham Heads
Labor Department
Manpower Office

Washington LPA)-Dr. Frank
Graham, former president of the
University of North Carolina ano
former "short term" Senator from
that state, has been named defense
manpower administrator in the De-
partment of Labor.
The appointment was announced
by Secretary of Labor Maurice j.
Tobin March IL. Tobin said Gra-
ham would direct, supervise and
coordinate all the departments
manpower activities.
Graham, an outstanding liberal,
has long demonstrated understand
ing and sympathy for organized
labor. But whether his appointment
does anything to shake the grip
mobilization czar Charles E. Will
son took on manpower recently is
another matter.
Wilson was given overall con-
troll of defense manpower by Pres
ident Truman over the protests of
organized labor and Secretary
Tobin. Labor wanted manpower
responsibility to remain in Tobin's
hands. Wilson set up an inter-de-
partmental Manpower Policy Com
mittee headed by Arthur Flem-
ming, president of Ohio Wesleyan
University.
On this committee Tobin is only
represented" as are other govern
ment departments and bureaus.
Presumably Graham will be the one
who represents" Tobin, but Flem-
ming will report directly to Wilson
and will be the later's overall dir
ector of manpower problems.
Labor has been fearful that Will
son and his big-business deputies
will press for a draft of civilian
workers. In announcing Graham's
appointment, Tobin emphasized his
support for a volun-
tary labor program.
Inside the Labor Department,
Turn TO Pa01 ThySN
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Union Objects To
Higher Beer Tax

Washington (LPA)-A proposed
increase in excise taxes on all bev-
erages has been denounced as "un-
fair, ill-advised and short sighted"
by the Brewery Workers.
President Karl Feller said in a
statement filed March Is with the
House Ways and Means committee
that the proposed tax "will bring
evils in their train which will far
outweigh any additional revenue
which they may produce"
Stating the tax on beer in par
ticular is already Enthusiastically
heavy, Feller predicted any tax
increase would only lower revenues
by causing lower consumption and
by aiding in the destruction of
small business.
He further voiced concern that
any higher excise on distilled spir-
it's would force retail prices to such
a high level that "the bootlegging
of alcohol on which no tax has been
paid becomes attractive to law
less elements"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Senate Extends
Rent Control Law

Washington (LPA)-The Senate
voted March 13 to extend the pre-
sent rent control law to June 80
The present law expires March 81
Passage was by voice vote and the
only audible mo" was by Sen
Harry P. Cain (R, Wash.), darling
of the real estate lobby.
Sen. Burnet Maybank Cd, SCI,
chairman of the Banking commit
tee, said the 90-day extension was
80 permit further consideration on
June 80, when the Defense Produc-
ton Act also expires. Maybank
said there are 2,700,0C0 rental
units still under control in 1874
communities, that the present law
carries no provision for recontrol,
and that with defense plants be-
ing reestablished it would be nee
essary "to move people from one
end Of the country to another"
Cain was all for reestablishing
"a free market" in communities
still under control, even if only for
three months, because otherwise
Congress "won't have the faintest
idea what the economic situation
is in those 1400 communities"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
COP Tedms With Dixiecrdts
To Block Rent And HOUSING

Washington (LPA) - Republi-
cans and Southern Democrats in
Congress temporarily blocked de-
fense housing and stop-gap rent
control legislation on March Ia. A
move to get the Administrations
SO billion defense housing bill on
the floor of the House for consid-
Grafton was beaten, PIG to ITO. The
defeat means the House Banking
Committee will have to modify the
bill before bringing it up again.
Republicans had prepared sub
stitute bill, expecting the House
to agree to discuss the Administra-
tion's proposals to build homes
and community facilities in defense
areas VIII re private concerns
couldn't or wouldn't do the job. OPP
ponents claimed the bill gave the
President too-broad powers and
said he could give orders to build
"golf courses and just about every
thing else under the guise of de-
fense emergency" Rep. Wright
Patman Cd, Tex was booed by
Republicans when he said, defeat
of this bill would make Joe StalinI
very happy" He was booed again
when he likened the need for de-
fense housing to the need for new
A-Bomb plants.
Rent control legislation was
blocked when Rep. Jesse B. VOL
colt Or, Mich.) refused to dismiss
Housing Expediter Tighe f. Woods
from a hearing before the House
Committee.
In stalling motion, Wolcott in
sisted Woods return to the stand
at a later date to answer questions
despite the fact he was through
with his testimony. Rep. Brent
Spence Cd, KyD, committee chair
man had planned to get the stop
gap rent control bill out of COM
mittee for an immediate vote be-
cause the Senate version was al |
ready passed.
Earlier, Woods had told the COM
mittee that stop-gap rent control
was needed until June 80. He said
that by then the Administration
hopes to get unified wage price
rent legislation passed. Woods
Urged approval of the bill passed
(Tnrn 10 PAGE Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Urges kefauver To
Probe unsoIved
Murder OF Tresca

New York LPA)-The Senate
Crime Investigating committee has
been urged by Norman Thomas to
investigate the unsolved murder
here in 1943 of Carlo Tresca, Ital-
ian anti-totalitarian editor. Thom-
as, head of the Tresca Memorial
Committee, gave Sen. Estes Kef-
auver Cd, Tenn.), chairman of the
committee, a detailed memoran-
dunn of new evidence in the case.
Thomas referred in part to a
book just published in Paris, en-
titled Life and Death in the
USSR." The author is Gen. Valen-
tin Gonzales, known also as "El
Campesino," (The Peasant), who
commanded Loyalist forces in the
Spanish civil war. Long Com
munist, Gonzales later broke with
the party and turned against it.
Gonzales served as a model in
Ernest Hemingway's book "For
Whom the Bell Tolls" and in
Andre Malraux's "Man's Hope"
The Gonzales book charges
Tresca was marked in 1889 for as
sassination by someone in Moscow.
Gonzales says that in August 1889
three Spaniards left Moscow for
Mexico. Their leader, Martinez
Carton, carried list of 20 names
of those to be killed. The list in
cluded Leon Trotsky, Tresca, Jul
ian Gorkin, and Hans Kahle. Car
ton was to deliver the list to Carlos
Contreras, described as an agent
of the Soviet secret police. Trotsky
was murdered in Mexico in 1910.
Five attempts were made on Cor
kin's life. Kahle died in Germany
(Turn TO PAGE Three
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Paul Douglas Top
Democratic Choice
After Truman

Washington (LPA) - President
Truman can have the Democratic
nomination again next year if he
wants it regardless of the 22nd
amendment, a recent press poll OF
Democratic bigwigs revealed.
But if Truman says, "No.
thanks" as many think he will,
surprise top choice is Sen. Paul
H. Douglas of Illinois. Douglas is
an independent liberal who some
times doesn't care whose feelings
he hurts. He came to the Senate
two years ago.
After Douglas, second choices"
included Gen. Dwight Eisenhower
provided he's really a Democrat,
some said), Chief Justice Fred
Vinson and Justice William O..
Douglas of the Supreme Court,
Gov. Adlai Stevenson Of Illinois,
Senator Richard Russell of
Georgia, Harry Byrd of Virginia
and Estes Kefauver of Tennessee.
Russell and Byrd are Dixiecrats,
Kefauver is a southern liberal.)
The United Press, which took the
poll, said it obtained answers from
36 state Democratic chairmen,
seven National Democratic Com
mitteemen, one lieutenant govern
or, one states attorney general
and a state Democratic executive
secretary. Support for Douglas
came from Arizona, California,
Kansas, Michigan, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, Oregon, New Hamp-
shire, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Washington and Wisconsin. Doug
las denied having Presidential
On the other side of the political
fence, Gov. Earl Warren of Cali
fornia, Thomas E. Dewey's run
ming mate in 194S, was said to be
ready to start plugging for the Re-
publican nomination.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Dirksen And Taft
Tang;e On 1860
Election Mandate

Washington LPA)-Maybe Re
publicans in the Senate better
caucus and figure out just what
the 1850 elections meant.
On the Senate floor March IL,
freshman COP Senator Everett
Dirksen of Illinois, darling OF the
Chicago Tribune, said he objected
to bill providing five-year aid
program for medical education. His
reason; the measure would cost
money. Said Dirksen:
"But | admonish the authors of
the bill that there has been an cleo
ton since that time (when hear
ings were held on the aid-to-medi-
cal-education proposaD and | have
some notion about the type of a
mandate at least that brought the
Junior Senator from Illinois from
that state to the United States
Senate. SO because Of basic and
fundamental objection to the gen
eral nature of the bill, and because
so million is involved, and it is
about time we were trimming sail,
| object"
Nonsense, snorted Sen. Robert
A. Taft Of Ohio, or words to that
effect. Said "Mr. Republican" him
self: $50 far as the last election
is concerned, may say that in
nearly every speech made in
Ohio, | advocated the passage of
this bill; consequently, | do not re-
gard my own election, at least, as
reputation of a bill which | sup
ported in the last Congress.
But hte bill had come up under
the Senate calendar call. By stick
ing to his objection, Dirksen fore
ed it to be passed over for the
time being. Also passed over was
a bill authorizing federal assist
ance to states and their subdivis
ions for local public health units.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Fewer Than 5O%
Got Raises In so
Senators Learn

Washington (LPA) - Members
of the Labor Management Subcom-
mittee of the Senate Labor Com
mittee heard some of the hard facts
of living, March 10.
EVAN Clague, the Labor Depart
ment's Commissioner of Labor Sta
tistics, told them that less than
half the nations as million non
agricultural workers received pay
increases in 1850. Most of those
who did get raises received six to
eight percent, only a few won more
than 10 percent. Moreover, most of
the boosts went to employees in
highly unionized industries. In the
same period, Clague said, the gov
ernment's consumer price index
rose 7.9 percent.
The Labor Management Subcom-
mittee has been granted $77,750 to
continue it's investigation of labor
management relations. But as Of
March 10, President Truman hadn't
signed the legislation authorizing
the money and committee employees
hadn't been paid in two amonths.)
Sen. Hubert Humphrey Cd, Mimi
is subcommittee chairman.
The group will conduct this
years Investigations along five
lines: (D administration of the
Taft Hartley act with special at
tention to procedural delays; (2)t
use of injunctions in labor disputes;
(3) how to deal with wartime labor
a. company unionism in
the maritime industry; (5) labor
and the use of "crimp|
halls" in the maritime industry.
The subcommittee interest in
maritime stems from it's investiga-
tion last year of the espionage
system and hiring practices used
by the Cities Service Oil Co.'s mar
inc division in a vain effort to
keep the Seafarers international
Union-AFL off its tankers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Restaurant Prices
Expected To Rise
Under OPS Order

Washington UPA)-You won't
be driving out to the inn for dinner
quite so often to give the little
woman night off from cooking
and dishwashing.
And you'll be watching what you
eat for lunch at the corner beanery
little closer too. That is, you will
unless you prefer to cut costs
somewhere else.
The reason: The Office Ct Price
Sterilization is removing the cell
ing from restaurant meals as Of
April /. 1t won't be any April Fool
joke when the 65-cent lunch that
used to be 40 cents suddenly turns
out to be So cents.
Technically speaking restaurant
prices will continue to be controll-
ed, OPS was careful to explain.
But it will be "mark- up" control,
not price control, however the
baloney is sliced.
The OPS order signed by price
chief Mike Disable will permit res
taurants, cafeterias, boardin G
houses and other public eating
places to adjust their menu prices
to reflect actual increases in food
costs, but bar them from increas-
ing pre-Korean margins.
Disable said his order made il
mandatory for restaurants to re-
duce prices whenever food prices
go down, and allows them to boost
prices only when their food costs
actually go up. He insisted there
would be rollbacks by restaurants
who increased their margins after
last July /. Observers thought
Mike was being optimistic.
"Under the formula worked out,
the menu prices will be stabilized
automatically, when the cost of
commodities used by eating and
places are stabilized" Di-
Sale declared. This regulation
does not allow any restaurant to
reflect a higher markup than was
used during the base period, either
the calendar year 1949 or the per-
iod July /, 1949 to June 80, 1880"
Incidentally, the regulation is ap-
plicable to that snort you like once
in a while.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Legion In Detroit
Wants No Part Of
Non-union Shop

Detroit (LPA) - Legionaires in
Detroit have no use for non-unior
shops. Delegates from LOG Ameri-
can Legion posts unanimously have
passed resolution demanding that
the Michigan Monthly Legionnaire
now published in non-union shop
be returned to a shop operating
under union standards Of pay and
working conditions"
The resolution called for the de-
partment's executive committee to
terminate it's contract with the
non-union Livingston County Press
of Howell, Mich. 1t charged that
Livingston Press pays "a wage
rate below American standards.
and thus jeopardizes the welfare
of many thousands of Legion men,
bers in the printing trade"
Both the Detroit Districts Asso-
citation and the national depart
ment of the Legion have their Of
ficial publications printed by "com-
panies that operate under union
standards and conditions" the
resolution pointed out.
Officials of the local printing
trades council are preparing to
present their case to the state
Legion executive committee. Wal
ter Wisdom, secretary of the coun-
cial and a Legion member, pre-
dicted that many Legionnaires, who
are assessed so cents annually for
the publication, would withhold
payment until the paper is return
ed to union shop.
The paper, which has a circula-
ton of $4,000. was printed by the
Safran Printing Company prior to
the March issue.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Labor Deeply Shocked By
Defense Set-Up Says Green

Baton Rouge, La. (LPA)-Amer.
icah labor has been deeply anc
profoundly shocked by the spec.
tacle that has confronted US in the
highest levels of the defense pro.
gram," AFL President William
Green declared in an address here
March 13.
zone small narrow group of oul
economy has-through default on
the part of our elected representa-
tives-managed to secure detailed
control of the mobilization effort,
the veteran leader said. "The rep
resentatives of large corporate en-
terprises have established them
selves firmly in the saddle, through
a sort of interlocking directorate
superimposed upon our govern
mental institutions.
Although "No group is more
! acutely aware of the pressing need
for national unity in this time of
crisis than labor" the United
Labor Policy Committee pulled
labor representatives out of the
defense agencies Feb. 28 because
of labor's "even greater awareness
of the basic requirements for unity
in a free and democratic society,""
Green said.
"Real and enduring national
unity can only be built from the
ground up, on the basis of a de-
fense program which emb0dies the
elemental concepts of fair play,
and which affords all groups in our
economy an opportunity to be
heard" he continued.
The AFL president was making
his second national radio broad
cast since the United Labor Policy
Committee announced it was going
to the country in it's fight for eff
fective price controls and equit-
able wage stabilization. The COM
mittee represents Is million MEM
bers of the AFL, CIO and non-op-
Grating Rail Brotherhoods.
Labor's withdrawal from the de-
fense agencies "was designed as a
contribution to the attainment of
the kind of unity which will be re-
quired to see us through the strug-
gle against tyranny. 1t was design
ed not to impair or impede the de-
fense effort, but to improve it,
(Turn to Pane ThrsPl
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Baby Sitter Wins
Compensation For
Fall Down Stairs

Newark, N. j. (LPA)-If you're
baby sitter and the little monster
whacks you over the head with a
baseball bat, relax. You may be
eligible for workmen's compensa-
tion.
Deputy Commissioner Stahl of
the Workmen's Compensation Court
here ruled March Is that a baby
sitter, under some circumstances
at least, is covered by the New
Jersey compensation statute. He
awarded Mrs. Arielle M. Smith of
Caldwell $275 for injuries sustain
ed while sitting for an Essex Falls
family May 2, 1850.
While sitting in an upstairs bed
room adjacent to the children's
bedroom in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Barton Greason, Mrs. Smith
heard the doorbell ring. On her
way downstairs to open the door
she fell, sprained both ankles.
Commissioner Stahl awarded the
compensation when he learned Mrs.
Smith was employed by the Grea-
sons fairly frequent intervals and
must be classed as a regular rath-
er than a causal employe. Mrs.
Smith said she occasionally sat for
the family for four-hour periods
and was paid 65 cents an hour. The
court gave her an extra SIS for cab
fares. She repoted that the Grea-
sons paid her doctors bill.
Court officials said the award
was the first in New Jersey re-
ceived by sitter.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1951-03-22
Argentine Tyrant
Seizes La Prensa

Buenos Aires (LPA)-Argentine
Dictator Juan Peron has taken
over La Prensa, South Americas
greatest newspaper, for daring to
speak critically of his regime.
Technically, it was the Argen-
tine Congress that seized the fam
Gus publication, March II. But the
Congress, the overwhelming maj
ority of whom are in Peron's hip
pocket, simply did what the dicta-
tor directed.
A nne-man Congressional COM
mittee was scheduled to take con-
troll of the papers affairs. Three
members of the 100-percent Peron-
ista Senate were named to the
committee. A six-man group from
the House of Deputies, including
one anti-Peronista Radical, was
also named.
The paper has been shut since
January by a typical dictator's
trick. Peron had the captive"
leaders of the Buenos Aires news
venders union close the paper by
serving it with impossible de-
mands. The whole maneuver rous-
ed the entire free world, brought
forth denunciation of Peron from
the free unions of North and South
America and Western Europe.
1t was believed that Peron
would keep La Prensa shut down
at least until election time next
February when he'll run to sue
ceed himself. After that he may
allow it to reopen as a govern
ment organ"
Meanwhile, Buenos Aires other
great paper, La Nacion, was con-
tinuing to be critical of Peron. How
.ong it would be permitted to speak
was a matter of speculation. In
Cordoba, the anti-Peron newspaper
Vos Del Interior was shut by the
demands of the news vendors
lnion.