FACE FOUR 4 THE POTTERS'HERALD $ ' Thursday, June 20, 1946 z UNION HEALTH FUNDS AS LONG as trade unions have operated in thisl Jerald A country, they have tried to help workers withl OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF their health problems. The first service has gener-l X THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTER! ally been sick benefits paid by the unions. Thesel and "■ EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES A LABOR COUNCIL were inadequate to provide medical care but, even] ..... ■------a— though meager, they gave workers dependable! THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Published every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O. P., owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job incomes when other revenue stopped. I rc’ W. C. Lynch, genial representative of Taylor, Smith A Taylor pottery Printing Plant in the State.______Unions have added other health provisions! .leaves this week to cover the southern states in the interest of the Chester from time to time, including homes for recuper-l Entered at Postoffice. East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second- llllflfflw 1 , * I| firm-The Dippers L. U. 18, elected the following officers last Friday night: class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rates of Postage ation and cooperative medical care plans. Morel ; provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 18, 1917, authorised 5 Rv JOHN PATMir — I President, W. H. Moore: vice president, W. H. Green; financial secretary, August 20, 1918.______recently, unions have ______incorporated provisions ini y “* (James Jackson; recording secretary, E. W. Collins; treasurer, P. J. McKeone; union agreements providing insurance for med-l Washington~ (FP) —Arguments„ are a dime a dozen in the bar of the|insPector, Bill Gibbs; trustee, W. Russell. General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 4th St., BELL PHONE 575 ical care and hospitalization plans financed either I National Press club or in’ the' Senate~ restaurant where‘ newsmeniwsmen dine atatl John Heckathorn, kilnman, who has been playing professional ball for a hHARRY L. GILL.______Editor and Busineas Manager jointly or byrthe cprrSSmdintfwttha remarkable command of English couple# rat of Hogan months of has Mannington, returned toW. his Va., bench was ata housethe West guest End of pottery.“Tim” Desmond One Year to Any Part of the United States or Cansda —42.00 Pat of Mannington, W. Va., was a house guest of “Tim” Desmond insurance -companies and group hospitalization|an(j a ^>ne understanding of the American scene from three years in thisl°f- Wheeling, W. -Va.,t on( Monday. plans. I capital, inquired what could be expected in the development of the American! . During the past year two new locals were organized: namely, Local (UfllQI The rate of illness for small-income families I worker from the current labor and political situations. I Union 86, composed ofoi warehousemen, in East Liverpool, and Local Union 5 He believes, I Ohio, was reorganized during the year. mg larger incomes providing more necessaries analfrom a test-book acquaintance of U. S. labor history, that “pork chops”! John Reark, foreman of the clay department at the old end of the .. v. Box 752, East Liverpool. Ohio. Comforts. Workers in crowded shops, surrounded I are the only goal . . . that the average union member cares only that he gets IK. T. A K. Potteries company, will be a candidate for county recorder at Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street Natiosal “an extra two bucks,” and to hell with everybody else. Ithe coming primaries. Bank Building, Trenton, 8, New jers». by unguarded machines which facilitate accidents, | Bocond Vice President—Frank Hull, 2704 E. Florence Ave., Huntington , ■ xj. uOQVV duct-filloH air and often handling*! Seeking a reply, I turned to the current OPA fight in which all sectors! Edward Allison, jiggerman at the Smith & Phillips pottery company, P&rkt C*life w . neavy, u llnw land complexions of labor are united against an inflationary and dangerous |will leave with his wife and family this week end for a two weeks’ camping iThird Vice President—James Slaven, Cannons Mills, East UverpoeL poisonous materials, are subject to diseases, Ho ’|measure threatening the home of every person who works for a Iiving.|trip near Marietta, Ohio. Ohio. Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton, 8, ever, it has taken factory fires, mine catastrophes, 11 argued that here was a proposition upon which all labor agreed . . . and! Miss Florence Myler, finisher at the Newell pottery, returned this week New Jersey. miners’ silicosis, insanity due to poisons, etc., to lwhicn would be remembered for years, and particularly if the inflationary prom Atlantic City where she represented the Long’s Run Presbyterian Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton, 9. mnU thp nuhlir understand that nroduction to I bill goes through. I Church at the great international Christian Endeavor convention. New Jersey. fho Ufa and! My friend from abroad disagreed ... he argued that labor would | Henry Seibert has accepted a job on the biscuit kiln crew at the Tay- Sixth Vice President—George Turner, 215 W. Fourth Street, East Liver- make t p pool, Ohio. . meet its needs and comforts costs the lite and|be con(ent with an 18 5c wage incr€ase . . . a 30% goOSt in wages> and gol|or, smith & Taylor pottery in Chester. Seventh Vice President—T. J. Desmond, 825 B> Lincoln Way, Minerva, health of many workers. . I along like the bull, Ferdinand, chewing contentedly in peace under the I George Costello, Decorator, at the K. T. A K. pottery, will return home Ohio- - .. _ Eighth Vice Preaidoat—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, West Those immediately affected by the hazards of (olive tree. . |the first of the week from a weeks’ fishing trip in Michigan. Virginia. inrliiafrxr havo horn the tn seek remedies I In reply, my argument was that this tini6 things dr? different. .”that| William Calhoun of Wellsville has accepted a position on the biscuit Secretary-Treasurer—Chas. F. Jordan, P. O. Box 752, East Liverpool, “T * I? h,that T health nflthe war, the reconversion troubles and the fight on OPA were awakening at the Salinevilje pottery beginning there this week. Ohio. ihey nave Wisely recogmzea Lnai ine nedin I American labor to the fact that the fight for living, the battle for home| John Pollock, saggermaker at the Riverside pottery, Wheeling, was GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE workers IS a matter With Which collective bargain- Lecm-iy, for a future and for happiness is political as well as economic. (mingling with East Livrpol friends over Saturday. He returned to Wheeling Manufacturers______M. J. LYNCH, W. A. BETZ, J. T. HALL ing could deal. Approximately 2,000,000 workers ! For instance there’s the fact that today, before the Senate OPA debate I Sunday evening. Operatives—.___ cwaa. F. JORDAN, FREDERICK GLYNN, HARRY arp nlrpadv covered bv contracts with employerslis fairly under way, the foremost spokesmen for Big Business are already! Herbert Machin of Steubenville was an East Liverpool visitor last PODEWELS » • . marginal and bnanitAlivntihn (predicting a national wave of strikes for America late in 1946 or early in|Monday. which provide medical care and hospitalization. I1{>47 I James Kays, a presser at the Colonial pottery, is able to be around CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE Manufacturers...... E. K. KOOS. H. M. WALKER. W. A. BETZ One group Of workers who daily lace acci- l Take the June 14 issue of U. S. News, the weekly printed by Columnist I again after a few days’ indisposition. Operatives...... BERT CLARK. DAVID BEVAN, CHARLES JORDAN dents and death in carrying on the industry that (David Lawrence. It says that a new wave of “labor disputes,probably of I William Worthington, bench boss of the biscuit crew at the Globe lies at the heart of our economy—the miners—(strikes, will follow closely on the wave now running out.” Ipottery, is rejoicing over the arrival of a new daughter in his home. DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE k„.,z. .'..ArvwmrI iho mino a fund to I It predicts a commodity cost rise of “15 to 25% this year, 1946, if | Thomas Cartwright has returned to East Liverpol after visiting hia Manufaetoran___ ROBERT DIETZ. Sr., MARGARET PARKER, RAY have proposed to the mine operators a runa to 1 .g defeated> but admits that 0PA itse|f figures on> a priceyboo^t of f;Om parents at Canton, Ohio. BROOKES — Operatives JAMES SLAVEN, THOS. WOOD, ROLAND HORTON take care of the maimed ana to proviae meaicaiii-Q to 150% when price controls end, and that if the total reaches as much! Charlie Conley, a kilnman, arrived in the city during the week from care for the miners and their families. Most mines lag 25% “there is to be great pressure for new demands and new strikes.” (Cincinnatti. * are in agricultural areas, while medical care fa-1 And Lawrence concludes that labor leaders will emerge from the present! Edward Snodgrass and Wade Dodds, kilnmen at Huntington, W. Va., -i,-.*.- „ in tnwna Miners’ incomes Istrike wave unhurt, but they may “not do so well in the next (Lawrence- |have arrived in the city; the Wyllie China Co. plant, where they were em- , ORGANIZING SOUTHERN WORKERS Clllties are centered rn towns. minera mcoinw| rted) gtrike Wftve due late in 1946> early 1947„ ployed, having suspended operations temporarily. 'THE INDUSTRIALIZATION of the South pro- do not permit the accumulation Oi reserves iori What does that mean? Obviously it means that OPA is expected to I Sixth Vice President T. M. Woods and wife have gone to housekeeping A gressed rapidly during the war. Now South­ sickness or other emergencies. In a single mine lbe smashed; that prices and the cost of living will soar; that labor will|on Lincoln Avenue. disaster scores of family heads may be killed or lbe forced to make new demands for wage boosts . . . and that new and! George Chadwick, treasurer of Local Union No. 4, is spending a couple ern agriculture is undergoing basic changes which Qnd tho mnthprs left without in-leven more vicious anti-union, anti-labor legislation* is expected. |of weeks’ vacationing at the home of his father-in-law, near Coshocton, Ohio. will bring industrialization to the farms and re­ incapacitated and th€! motners leri W^^ Can American labor sit down and take that_take .ra couple of bucksd First Vice President Frank H. Hutchins of Trenton, N. J., has been lease workers for urban communities. Chemical comes to rear and eaucate me cniiareii. * las a price of keeping quiet? To see labor organizations smashed to bits? (selected by the employees of the. Johnson street car line, as one of the industries and new uses for waste agricultura mothers have no place to turn for assured aid. I pjd American labor sit quietly and take Pres. Truman’s lashing before [arbitrators in the settlement of thir strike grievances. John A. Campbell products have resulted in large industrial invest­ The mine operators, who are familiar with (congress ? Did it swallow the Case bill? Will it take a far worse bill ? I of the Trenton Potteries company, has been named by the company to dpnrpniatinn funds to nrovide for the writing off I No, my foreign friend, we didn’t . . . and we won’t take this new represent its side. ments. In order that constructive labor standards /vormiie invoefmpntc have refused to accent lbeating < B> of °* P' at Meyers Lakp Park’ Canton, Ohio, last Saturday. A ganized in substantial unions, with city centrals ewnut orn np nAvolfv A !;------—-■ .._■■■ —(crowd conservatively estimated at fifteen thousand, participated in the day’s in all urban communities and State Federations in Welfare funds for miners are no novelty.Ve y. A It. (pleasures. W. E. Wells, leading American pottery manufacturer of Newell, all states. Effort after effort has been made to tax per ton utilizing the royalty principle has CALLING 'EM STRAIGHT I [W. Va., and outstanding orator, delivered the principal address. been enacted into law in Great Britain, Spain, the ( Officers elected by Mouldmakers Local No. 22 Tuesday evening are as organize the textile workers, but prevailing pov­ Netherlands, New Zealand and British India. The| (follows: President, William Riedel; vice president, Edward Lancaster; finan- erty and reserves of poorly paid or unpaid workers I>gssss=ssass»s8saai^=^=g!^===L ■< i ■ a ...... a.- ’*■|(cial secretary, Leonard Brindley; corresponding secretary, Edwin E. Walker; in the mountains and on the plantations defeated United Mine Workers made their welfare fund -'(treasurer, George Goppert; inspector, Leonard Usler; guard, Frank Kennedy; these efforts. But the South is realizing limitations proposal the first item for negotiation. The fundi A pLASHBACK T() FIRST BASEBALL STRIKE 1 The sum of $1,700 was raised by employees of the Shenango pottery in is to provide medical care for miners ana tneir l ^,be new|y formed American Baseball Guild, confronting its first test New Castle, Pa., for the benefit of Mr. Drushel, kiln fireman, whose home to its manpower resources and is catching step |was destroyed in a recent fire. • families — hospitalization, rehabilitation, lire in-(of union courage, < temporarily buckled at the knees when Pittsburghh T . iininn Kd Now with the higher labor standards of other sections. surance, and for cultural and educational purposes. (National League players refused, by a margin of four votes, to P^«c«|M dLocal Union 54, New t Castle,j Aecterson- Pa., elected vice presidentthe following Rachel new Samuel? officers Paper mill workers have organized and wiped out Surely this proposal is constructive as ju^ir®Pittsburgh hiretn^'might have benefitedL. &thWrS* ‘ ChtoaOl?„mOronrvy kil" CreWS* ‘’’“H ‘ *>enC’’ “ unionization was the Negro differential. Negro 1 tionalization of industries in Great Britain, (by a mental flashback of the first strike against management in organized) Bob Thompsoni the clever Marathon runner emuloved as a batter-out at workers formerly used the difficulties of white Writers, lecturers and other so-called observers, (baseball — the Natl. Bro. of Ball Players revolt 56 yearsi ago. These players, |the Smitb & phini’pK China Co pjant> East Liverpool* has been under the workers as an opportunity for Negro workers. Ex­ who know nothing about industrial problems and|,a nroblems of British lcxp *or evtrX d?* la« ,n .8’?ht. ... (himself by reason of having won first prize in the mouth organ competition or iailiament IO solve tne piooiiiris oi ihiiisiii The reserve rule (still existing and which the American Baseball Guild|at Meyers Lake Park last Saturday economic freedom as a foundation for political labor. The facts, as reported, speak for them-|hopes to shatter) was given its proper definition by the aroused players.) An official count made by the *park management showed 1,797 automo- freedom. selves: Efetnut^iwv ^Sui’ Suvewphnuc^ve?nbOn&htTTSOad rmwwc »etJrKS|bi,es owned by potters and their friends, passed through the gates at Meyers ★ “The British coal mines have operated under|^H0UpH SHEEP INSTEAD OF U. S. CITIZENS. Thehake Park, Canton, Last Saturday, in connection with the N. B. of O. P. Competei nc goveinmenivinu inpe i . • . olmagnates[described asand “stronger the oppressive than the machinerystrongest trust.of the” National League werelI outinLocal„ tbere Union 113 of Burbank, Calif., was‘officially represented at the FIGHT HAS JUST STARTED months now, and both the miners and the gov-1 Just as the Pittsburgh club owners now refuse to bargain collectively|reunion by E< E Roberts, well known kilnman of that city. Last year “Dad” ernment have found that nationalization of the|with the players, so it was 56 years »go. The Players manifesto revealed I prjce> saggermaker, crossed the country to represent Burbank potters at I A BOR can’t afford to relax its vigilance as a re- mines, of itself, has solved no problems, although|tbat y£ars befor® tb® str,ke tbey ?V‘d.aPp,1’,5j a b®ar’n£ to ye^edy|the first annual reunion. " suit of President Truman’s veto of the Case it has created a few new ones |aom® ivFhey wer?> ^lubbed .b/ tb® bas®bal1 bar(’n-S told to( pob jewep dipper at the Crescent China plant, Alliance, renewed his n 1 “AiikihiH^rlv pLpmnorl hv t,,J tht V?d °f< Ue Th^.?. h,st^ry repeatin«-lta.e,f *acarbo‘’ acquaintanceship with W. E. Wells at the picnic, Saturday, it being the first bill and upholding of the veto by the House of Abstntccism, bltttlly condemned by Elman |copies of a half century ago. William Benswanger of the PittsburghLjme either had seen each other for 25 years. The two rode bicycles together Representatives. uel Shinwell, minister of fuel, IS, if anything, on|Pirates used exactly the same words to the Guild. . ,|here more than a quarter of a century ago. Brother Jewell was then employed Advocates of the Case bill in House and Sen­ the increase and has been since the mines were| The embittered Brotherhood players then organized their own league andlaR a djpper at the river plant of the Homer Laughlin China Co., and Mr. nationalized Reports from the North Midlands Ifired theJfol,owTf? broa the National Leagpie with no questions asked. In fact|f0]ks generally “sit up and take notice.” and will try every kind of parliamentary device .. me nuii.Mi tvai tl 1 |the still quivering magnates, who admitted that “a pitifully small number!------and trickery to gain their ends. tion of the mines for years. Now that it has come|of patrons remained loyal to the league through the struggle", were over-1 they find no benefit in it; the work is just as hard|joyed. Killing of the Case bill had no effect on the and hazardous, and the union has no more say| To guarantee full employment, they actually added four more ball President’s program for “emergency” anti-strike silmiif 1'11miinu* thp industry tlmn it did whon itldubs to the circuit for the followinp, season. legislation, which is far more sweeping than any­ about limning ine industry tnan it aia wnen Hl Th< (.ourageoUB Brotherhood players won a fine moral victory. Trouble POST-WAR LIVING thing in the defunct Case bill. It is hard to see was under piivate ownership. As the years pass|was tbey foo]jsbiy overlooked continuing to function thereafter as a union the union Will probably have less to say as the(within the league. With fear implanted in the magnates they could have how the President could veto the Case bill, while government entrenches itself in the mines.” (gone places. insisting on passage of his emergency measure. (OST OF WAR, COST OF LIVING Apparently he believes it is all right to enact America’s wars have cost more than all the wealth the country has “temporary” legislation and wrong to pass the piled up since the Declaration of Independence, according to the Bureau of same sort of permanent legislation, forgetting AMERICA’S LABOR MOVEMENT M v^TTO T^YR ANTI TMF TAW Economics A Business Research at the University of Illinois. Wars have cost that “temporary” legislation always leaves its “’THE LABOR MOVEMENT,” says Mary Beard 1 VUU JV/JLj AlYL/ 1X1X1 XjhFl. VV the U. S. $414 billion. All the farms, homes, factories, stores and other mark and often has way of becoming permanent. A in her book, Short History of the American|||[ ______I property in the U. S. are valued at $300 billion. Labor Movement, “is an organized and continuous 1^I ...... saBssssoBBH^i^SEiS^&^sasasttesSteassssaaH« ~ ...... uu.;—| I For wbat tbe country has spent on wars, every family in America could ★ effort on the part of the wage-earners to improve AFL ALARMED AT THREATS TO WORLD PE;A( E have a new $8000 home, a $1200 car and $2000 in the bank, the report said. Washington (FP)—Viewing with concern the mounting threat oil ’ r their standards over a natioanl area. The origin of another world war,” the AFL executive council May 19 called on the U. S.| • * • * ;; SARASOTA STORY the Labor Movement lies in self defense in at-1 '“to insist that Russia observe her wartime commitments based on the| tempts of the workers to protect themselves(Atiantic'charter.1 A SARASOTA, FLORIDA, veteran earns $10 a ./—.viv I USE THAT NYLON LINE against the worst ravages of the industrial system GreatThe Britain council one noted side the and widening Soviet Russiacleavage on fnthe policy other between and declared the U. itS. was|andl Only , hope, for, saving price. control. . now is. to. deluge, , Senators with post­ week. Until the first of the year he paid $50 as it proceeded, step by step, to transform the ag­ a month for an apartment to house his wife and ricultural, or feudal society of the 18th centurvl convinced that “further delay and appeasement offer little hope of surress|cards, petitions and wires demanding that the Senate pass the OPA extension baby. On January 1 rent ceilings were lifted in . . .. . , . , , . | . . « onii |anuand maymay umyonly wiuenwiden the u.c«»vn.breach. ” It accused mvthe Soviet Union ...of “denying|law vuvungcutting uutout methe crippiuicripplinga ainenuinciiv.-.amendments passed uyby methe nouse.House. oinceSince it’s into the urban and industrial society o: the Z0Ul|fUIldamental freedoms to the citizens of other countries and depriving them|the housewives who will feel the pinch first if price control goes, why not Sarasota. The rent for January was $100. An­ century. • »» ■ -■— _ —- ---■ j.-.--..■ -----. —. x. * mij • aTin other Sarasota vet, earning $85 a week, saw his of self-determination. ♦ ♦ » t I yourself with a batch of postcards or petitions and make a tour of the nylon rent jump from $35 to $75. Sarasota, Florida, ------ALTMEYER URGES FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION |and butter lines? now regretfully appreciates Mr. Bowles and price FOR SEAMEN | , * , ♦ . The■ • I union label is the.I .only .11 guaranteeJ . you .1can Washingtonwasningion iri-l(FP)—Houseouuse ways ami iiieannmeans vuimun-vrcommittee’c iicomignhearings BiayMay ii2C|’l control.- get which assures you that the products you buy(beard Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer of the Social Security Board recommend] BREAD IN THE RIVER__ It is up to the nation in the next few days to were/ere (1) made in America, not by cheap foreign!foreign] extension of federal unemployment insurance toto. maritime ^workers,workers. |. ' . , ..... labor; (2) made by free labor, not in a sweatshop] Altmeyer pointed out that seamen can be left out of work in a port| Consignment selling, an outlawed practice by which retailers were per- throw in with all its strength if it wants to pre­ n any state where their ship touches and that 85% of deep-seamen were| mitted to return unsold bread without charge to bakeries, wasted enough vent a repetition of the Sarasota story. The price or prison; and (3) made by American workersLfederal employes in wartime under the War Shipping Administration — both] bread in 1942 to supply 2,055,000 persons with one loaf every third day, the control bill is scheduled for action by the u. s. under American standards of wages, hours and|^.acts making state unemployment insurance systems inadequate in the| Federal Trade Commission says. Countless loaves were dumped in rivers or Senate. working conditions. | industry. J ’ T ’ Isold for livestock feed. •