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GREAT, BOOST TO MEN
Sanitary Employes Will Be
Benefited In Many
Ways By Support
Trenton, N. J.—The New Jersey
State Building Trades Council will
support the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters in its fight against
the installation of unfair sanitary
pottery, it was learned last week when
First Vice President E. L. Wheatley
received the following official notice
from Secretary-Treasurer Harold A.
Pierson at the eastern office of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters:
"Dear Sir and Brother:
"This is to advise you that the Ex
ecutive Board of the New Jersey
Building and Construction Trades
Council has approved the action of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters to organize all pottery plants
in New Jersey, and will advise all lo
cal building trades councils and affili
ated local unions of this action.
"We will give your organization all
possible support in combating manu
facturers who have been placed on the
unfair list."
The eastern members of the Execu
tive Board and the entire membership
of the sanitary locals in New Jersey
are deeply grateful to the officials of
the Building Trades and the members
of the State Council for this splendid
example of cooperation. This support
was offered following an invitation
received by the eastern office to send
an official to the regular session of
the State body which met May 16 in
Newark. The invitation to attend
was presented chiefly through the ef
forts of AFL Organizer Thad Burns
and members of Trenton's plumbers'
union.
After hearing an explanation of the
sanitary members' efforts to recognize
and enter into collective bargaining
agreements with the employers and
learning that thos£ manufacturers
now hesitating to enter into true bar
gaining relationships would not, un
der any circumstances, get in wrong
with the Building Trades, there was no
hesitancy on the part of the Council
in taking the action requested by the
N. B. of O. P. representative.
The same undivided cooperation has
been received from the State Plumbers
and Steam Fitters association, Local
49, Paterson, New Jersey Local 270,
Perth Amboy, New Jersey Local 236,
Trenton, New Jersey. The potters of
Locals 96, Perth Amboy Local 50,
Camden, New Jersey Local 45 and
19 of Trenton have also been very
active in this campaign to enlist the
aid of the Building Trades to bring
about a condition whereby only union
made sanitary ware will be handled
by the union building craftsmen.
The officials of the National Broth
erhood of Operative Potters not only
feel that the moral support of the
Building Trades will be helpful to
sanitary potters by affiliation, but that
the educational features are practical
ly unlimited. Building Trades' commit
tees functioning in each district'
throughout the country have advance
knowledge when building projects are
being contracted and designed which
will make it possible for our people
to also learn which manufacturers
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Installation of Unfair Sanitary To
Be Fought By N.J.Building Council
Wheatley Receives Official
Notice ol Cooperation
From Secretary
Negotiations For
New Contract Set
For Friday by 159
Committee Will Be Headed
By Hull Meet With U. S.
and Knight Co's.
Akron, 0.—Everyone is asked to be
present at Local Union 159 meeting
June 17 when officers will be nomin
ated for the coming term. Our de
fense collector reports a good col
lection and we hope the members will
keep up their excellent record.
The negotiating committee, headed
by National Representative Frank
Hull, will meet with the managers of
the U. S. Stoneware and M. A. Knight
companies at the Portage Hotel, Fri
day, June 10, to decide upon a new
contract for our members.
The members and officials of this
local wish to express gratitude to
Brother Hull for the fine work he has
done in assisting us in drawing up the
new contract.—-O. C. 159,
Local Union 86
Receives Report
Members Looking Forward
To Broadcast Promised
By Miller
TO ELECT OFFICERS
Election To Be Held Early
To Allow Delegates
a Ballot
An extremely interesting meeting
was held by Local Union No. 86 when
a large attendance heard a report on
the address by Spencer Miller, Jr. The
report was accepted with great satis
faction and there was favorable com
ment on the talk by Mr. Huffman of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor's
education department. We are all
looking forward to the radio broad
cast.
Election of officers will be held by
this local one week from next Monday.
The balloting has been moved forward
to allow our delegates an opportunity
to vote.
William Watters' transfer card has
been received by our local. We hope to
see him at all the meetings. After
the election of officers, June 20, we
will hear an instructive talk on the
benefits of the Social Security Act by
Mr. V. Faulhaber, manager of the
Youngstown field office. This talk will
interest everyone.—0. C. 86.
Special Report To
Be Heard by No. 4S
Local Pays Respects At Bier
of Campbell, Pottery
Head
Trenton, N. J.—The regular meet
ing of Local Union 45 was held Fri
day night with President C. Smith in
the chair. We were very pleased to
have Brother Jack Cooper with us
once more after a number of weeks
in a sick bed.
Business matters were soon out of
the way to give the members an op
portunity to pay their respects at the
bier of John A. Campbell, head of the
Trenton Potteries Co. and a gentleman
who will be missed by many. He was
82 years old.
The members of the local will hear
a report from a special committee next
Friday. We should be hearing from
the committee on plans for an agree
ment soon.
Work at the Mutual still remains
about the same with reverse traps
taking the lead.—O. C. 45.
State Federation
Issues Its 54th
Convention Call
Ohio AFL Unions To Meet
At Cincinnati First
of August
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, O.—For the fifty-fourth
consecutive time, the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor, state branch of the
American Federation of Labor, last
week issued a convention call to affili
ated Local Unions and city Central
Bodies in the state.
The convention will be held in the
Hall of Mirrors at the Netherland
Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, with the
opening session scheduled for Monday,
August 1, at 10:00 a. m. The conven
tion will probably continue through
Friday, August 5.
The call was issued by the Execu
tive Board of the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor, and Secretary
Treasurer Thomas J. Donnelly urged
that each affiliated Union send dele
gates to the convention, as many mat
ters of importance, including the
adoption of a legislative program to
be presented to the 93rd General As
sembly in 1939, will come before the
Convention.
Representatibn in the convention is
based on the membership of affiliated
Unions, each being entitled to one
delegate and one vote for every 100
members or major fraction thereof.
Central Labor Unions are entitled to
one delegate and one vote.
Eligible Unions must have been af
filiated with the Ohio State Federation
of Labor not later than June 30, and
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IN
VOL. XLII., NO. 6 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938
Local Union No. 31
Will Elect Monday
Local Members All Set For
Great Time At "Buy
American" Picnic
TO ROOT FOR TEAM
East Palestine Nine Meets
Sebring In Baseball
Game At 3 P.M.
East Palestine, O.—The election of
officers, scheduled to be held last Mon
day night by Local Union 31, has been
moved up to the next regular meeting
night when everyone is expected to be
present. We had an exceptionally in
teresting meeting June 6 with a fairly
good attendance.
East Palestine is all set for the
"Buy American" Picnic this Saturday.
We have a bus leaving the Leader of
fice at 9:00 a. m. for those who are
not making the trip to Idora Park in
autos. A special rate of 50c for child
ren and 75c for adults has been obtain
ed for the round trip. The bus is
scheduled to leave the park at 10:30
p. m.
"Sunny Jim" Turner was in from
Sebring last Monday night to spy on
our club with the idea of seeing how
much of a chance Sebring will have
in the ball game. We want everyone
in Palestine to be present at 3 o'clock
at the athletic field to root our boys
home in front.
See you at the Picnic.—O. C. 31.
Civil War Vets Invited To
Attend Battle Anniversary
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—The
War Department has invited the 12,
000 living veterans of the Civil War
to attend the 75th anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg on the battle
field. There are about 9,000 veterans
of the Union army and 3,000 of the
Confederate army and all are treated
alike. The fare of each, and the fare
of an attendant for each, will be paid
by the Department.
The need of attendants is easy to
recognize when the Department states
that the ages of these range from
around 90 to lO'jf years.
Official Organ
of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
ALL SIGNS POINT TO THE "BUY AMERICAN" PICNIC AT IDORA
Selling the Consumer
(AM EDITORIAL)
this day of selling through appeal, everyone is convinced of the value of advertising. Mem
bers of the Brotherhood, and labor in general, believe in promoting the sales of the products
by which their living is made.
National attention v/as focused on East Liverpool, and necessarily upon the American pottery
industry, in December when the national "Buy American" campaign was launched here by
the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters v/ith the aid of William Green and Captain
F. X. A. Eble, both spot-light figures.
This movement, which had its birth when President Duffy of the Brotherhood introduced it in
the American Federation of Labor convention, took hold and spread throughout the country. It
receivied major publicity when the various pottery centers staged celebrations.
Being the driving force behind the "Buy American" movement, the N. B. of O. P. kept the story
of the American potters in the headlines continually. This means the American-made pottery
ware v/as nationally advertised.
Following up these advantages gained by its campaign, the Brotherhood put on one of the
best shows ever seen anywhere at the Union Label Exhibition in Cincinnati the week of May 16.
Again the attention of a nation was on the products of American workmen, and, for those who
saw the show, upon the potters in particular. Even more important, 2,500,000 women, through
their representatives, were told of the necessity of buying union-made merchandise and es
pecially of the plight of the Brotherhood members, hard-hit by cheap importations. The dele
gates to the first annual convention of the women's auxiliary of the AFL should stimulate inter
est in our ware. Since it is the women who do the purchasing, that was certainly direct ad
vertising.
We know that the display will be an annual feature and the potters can be expected to do their
part to bring business to the union manufacturers.
We now learn that these advances will be followed up, in all probability, by a radio broad
cast over the Columbia Broadcasting chain.
If present plans go through, a potter will be on the air ... telling the story of our industry.
He will paint a word picture of what he does, under what conditions he does it, and what place
the finished product has in present-day society.
This broadcast will be on the "Americans At Work" program over the 93 stations in the Colum
bia chain. The Crosley radio poll gave this program an audience of 2,000,000 people after only
its third broadcast.
Spencer Miller, Jr., Educational Department head of the AFL., has promised to have the potters
considered on the program by the committee in charge. Not only is Mr. Miller a member of
this committee, but he was the originator of the program.
In all the steps outlined here, we see direct advertising to the consumer a real appeal
sent out to the people who pay for the products of Brotherhood members.
It can also be noted that in every instance the advertising is done by labor by the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters, either directly or through its connection with the American
Federation of Labor.
With hut two or three possible exceptions, it is the only advertising done to the public. The only
way the people, who buy and use the of -our great potteries, are told the wcuoe is
good, or even for sale.
While in every instance the manufacturers have cooperated with us in this fight for business,
it still remains a fact that they have not followed through the great opening in the wall to
public acceptance. A firm wedge of real consumer advertising could be driven into this open
ing made by labor. To coin a phrase, this is the golden opportunity, and may never present
itself again.
While many trade journals may carry the story of the quality and beauty of our ware, it is Mrs.
Average Citizen who uses the dishes and must be made anxious to have a set.
Without the slightest desire to boast, we think labor has done its share. The car seems to be
on the right road. We appeal to the manufacturers to furnish the needed speed and power.
SETTLEMENTS
At June 3rd's special meeting of
the generalware standing committee,
the following 11 decisions were reach
ed:
Local Union No. 10—Hall China Co.
1.—Turning mustard.
Settled, 8c per dozen.
2.—Turning marmalade.
Settled 9c per dozen.
Local Union No. 25—Hall China Co.
3.—Packing carton 3088.
Settled $4.50 per hundred.
4.—Packing carton 3089.
Settled $28.00 per hundred.
Local Union No. 132.—Harker Pot
tery Co.
5.—Finishing Reveria cup handle.
Committee agreed not sufficient
number of dozens had been made on
which to base settlement.
Local Union No. 4.—Homer Laugh
lin China Co.
6.—Casting Nautles casserole, cream
and sugar.
Returned to firm and men.
Local Union No. 12 and 53—Homer
Laughlin China Co.
7.—Jiggering and finishing indi
vidual nut bowls.
Settled on shop.
Local Union No. 4.—Edwin M.
Knowles Pottery Co.
8.—Casting lamp bases.
Returned to firm and men.
Local Union No. 116.—Illinois
China Co.
9.—Jiggering 24s bowl with lugs.
Settled 3c per dozen, extra for lugs.
10.—Jiggering cover with lugs for
24s bowl.
Settled 8 Vac per dozen.
11.—Jiggering cover with lugs for
12s bowl.
Settled 10%c per dozen.
CORRECTION!
In the list of decisions reached
by the chinaware standing com
mittee and published in last
week's Herald, the settlement for
No. 18, jiggering 3'/i-inch fruit,
should have been: Present price
continued.
NOTICE SECRETARIES
All locals which have elected
delegates and have failed to send
credentials to this office are re
quested to do so at once.
Potters Herald
Wheeling Ready for
Big Demonstration
All Details Of Rally Well
Taken Care of by Alert
Committee
COOPERATION GIVEN
City and County Officials
Grant Permits For
Parade and Fire
Wheeling, W. Va.—Only a very few
details remain to be worked out until
our plans will be complete for the
"Buy American" demonstration which
will be staged here Friday, June 17.
Automobile stickers, window posters,
home cards and such are being dis
tributed by the committees and Ameri
can flags will be given to all those
participating in the parade. The con
tract for decorating the hall has
been let and we can certainly promise
that all will be in readiness by the time
our rally goes into high.
City and County officials have all
expressed a willingness to cooperate
in any way possible and permits for
the parade and bonfire have been
granted. Funds for the bonfire feature
have exceeded our expectations and
the display will be enlarged. Aerial
bombs and other crowd pleasers will
accompany the huge "Buy American"
sign and flag in this part of our climax
to our foreign-made goods boycott
and "Buy American" drive.
The committee in charge of the
demonstration wishes it known that
all members of the National Brother
hood of Operative Potters Executive
Board are invited to participate in the
rally.
All local unions, civic bodies, organ
izations and clubs from Wheeling,
Moundsville, Wellsburg, Bellaire, Mar
tins Ferry, Bridgeport, Canonsburg
and other points will be represented
in the parade. Two bands from the
musicians' local will furnish the
marching airs. Wheeling's American
Legion drum corps has been invited
and we expect to hear from this or
ganization within the next few days.
All potters living within driving dis
tance of Wheeling are asked to be in
the city June 17. We will not only
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Record Crowd Expected To Attend
Fourteenth Annual Potters' Outing
Local 96 Proves It
Is One Solid Unit
Vice Presidents Wheatley
and Cook Straighten
Out Difficulties
CONTACT COUNCIL
Committee Appointed to In
terview Local and N. Y.
Building Trades
Perth Amboy, N\ J.—Since our last
letter, Local Union No. 90 has proven
to itself and to other locals in the dis
trict that the old union saying, "One
for all and all for one" is exactly that
for which we stand.
In a recent dispute over deduction
made against one group at the Fords
Porcelain Works, which was consider
ed an unfair practice by this local, the
members stuck together 100 per cent
and with the assistance of First Vice
President E. L. Wheatley, the commit
tee settled the matter after a two-day
lay-off. This local wishes to extend
thanks to Brother Wheatley, Vice
President George Cook, Julius Kass,
local attorney, and Thomas Kelly, of
the teamsters, for their aid.
A committee was appointed by the
president to contact the local Building
Trades Council for the purpose of be
coming affiliated with that group.
This is in line with the Brotherhood's
(Continued or. Pcae Six)
Japanese GoodsHit
By Representative
Bogdrs, of Massachusetts,
Calls Cheap Imports
"Dangerous Attack"
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—A
warning that the flow of Japanese
manufactured goods into domestic
markets constitutes, "A dangerous at
tack upon American standards of la
bor, upon American pay rolls, and up
on American employment," was sound
ed on the floor of the House of Rep
resentatives by Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts. Mrs.
Rogers addressed a crowded house, il
lustrating h^r remarks with, samples
of Japanese imitations of American
products.
"Our country is being infested by
Japan in an economic way,'' Mrs.
Rogers declared, "as certainly and as
energetically as China is invaded by
the military forces of Japan with a
rain of destruction and death upon
Chinese cities and towns, and upon
(Continued on Page Two)
CIO Led by Reds,
Seek Control Of
Ports, Says Report
Massachusetts Legislative
Commission Points
Out Dangers
Boston (ILNS).—A special com
mission of the Massachusetts legisla
ture has made a 2,500 page report,
saying that Communists led the drives
which built up the membership of the
CIO unions, that "in large industries
organized by the Committee for Indus
trial Organization, Communist fun
ctionaries occupy leading and strategic
positions through which they dominate
and control the groups of which they
are a part."
"Every indication," says the report
in one part, "points to the fact that
the National Maritime Union (CIO)
along the Atlantic Coast and in the
ports of Massachusetts is controlled
by the Communists."
The report says that one of the
Communist party's "prime objectives"
is to gain control of all water fronts,
and goes on:
"Such control of transport, coupled
with control of industrial labor, would
enable the Communist party to par
alyze the country.
"Should we be engaged in war with
any other nation, the Communist
party could that much more easily
carry out its avowed purpose, 'to turn
every war into a civil war'."
The report charges Communists
seek to win members in the CCC, the
Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., the
WPA, organization of Hebrew youths,
boys' and girls' clubs, American
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Ball Game and Boxing Bouts
More Than Worth Trip
To Youngstown
SEE OLD FRIENDS
Everybody Will Be There
Join In One of Many
Fanning Bees
Some eighteen to twenty-five thous
and potters and their friends are ex
pected to join in a great day of fun
at Idora Park, Youngstown this Sat
urday when the potters stage their
fourteenth annual outing, the "Buy
American" Picnic.
Dedicated to the rebirth of the "Buy
American" movement, which has lost
some of its st*»am since the men of
Boston dressed in Indian garb to
throw a ship load of foreign tea in the
harbor, this reunion is even more im
portant than the previous thirteen.
Bus service from East Liverpool,
Wellsville, East Palestine and Sebring:
will be an improvement over the train
of other years. Not only will the
busses take you direct to the park,
making a change unnecessary, but
they will be uicker, cheaper and al
low a little more flexabilitv in the time
of departure from the park. Mothers
tired and anxious to be home will be
able to leave the park on the first
bus while others, wishing to stay for
all the fun, may leave later.
The coaches will leave East Liver
pool at 8:00 and 9:00 a. m., two
busses leaving at 9:C0 Wellsville at
8:00 a. m. Sebring at 9:00, 10:30 a.
m. and 12:C0 noon East Palestine at
9:00 a. m. Those boarding the busse®
in East Liverpool will go to the locjd
terminal. Arrangements Jiave beea
made'f»r the to !/•:*•.T«£ 't-Br.
tral School at Ninth street, Wellsville.
Fares will be $1.25 and 60c from East
Liverpool and $1.35 and 60c from
Wellsville.
Sebring picnic goers will pay 70c
and 35c and find the coaches at Ohio
avenue and Fifteenth street. The fare
from East Palestine has been set at
75c and 50c. The bus will leave from
the Press office.
Those who make the journey -to
Idora by auto will find the roads well
marked with arrows. All signs are
pointing to the Potters' "Buy Ameri
can" Picnic.
Children's rides will be five cents
throughout the morning and early
part of the afternoon, the swimming
pool will be ready for that plunge of
the new season, all rides are in per
fect condition, the eating pavilion is
improved and you can't improve on the
free coffee and cream given away by
the committee.
There are four boxing bouts, guar
anteed good by promoter Frank Pal
ermo, a battle royal, wrestling match,
tap dancing, baby show, checker tour
nament, penny scramble, ball games,
races, and so on and so on, from
11:00 a. m. until late into the night.
Don't forget the time for the main
events. The baby show will be held
at 11:C0 o'clock sharp at the ball
room the penny scramble at 11:45
Softball game at noon checker tour
nament at 12:30 athletic events at
1:0 tap dancing contest at 2:00
bathing beauty contest for children
between the ages of 4 and 7 years in
clusive at 3:00 baseball game between
Sebring and East Palestine at 3:00,
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Wm. Watkin Wins
Delegate Post To
A. F. L. Convention
Local 29 Candidate Defeats
Cambridge's Dales
Allison
The canvassing" committee an
nounced William Watkin of Local
Union No. 29 was the choice of the
trade to represent the National Broth
erhood of Operative Potters at the
next American Federation of Labor
convention along with the permanent
delegates, President James M. Duffy
and First Vice President E. L. Wheat
ley. Mr. Watkin defeated Dales
Allison of Local 122 for the honor.
The convention will be held in the
fall of 1938 at Houston, Texas. Ed
ward Martin, Ernest Torrence and
Arthur J. Bostock comprised the com
mittee which met Tuesday to go over
the vote.
A detailed vote of the election has
been sent to all local unions. Any sec
retary not receiving a copy should
contact Headquarters at once.