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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
TBZ MAnOPAl BBOTHEBHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
-and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Jot
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoiiice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rate oi Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of
August 20, 1918.
class matter,
rovided for in Section 1108, Act ol OctoSer 13, 1917, authorized
General Office. N. B. O. P. Building, West Sixth St., BELL PHONE 575
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street Nationa
Bank Building, Trenton, N. J.
Second Vice President—George Chad wick, 802 Bank Street, East Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice Presidents-George W. Cook, P. O. Box 244, Hamilton
Square, New Jersey.
Fourth Vice President—Alex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. J.
Fifth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Sixth Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, Eas
Liverpool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va.
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool
Ohio.
National Organizer—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
F. JEROME McKEEVER
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada
Editor and Business Manage!
lagei
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. G. DALE, FKLD SUTTERLIN, JAMES TURNEF
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYF1ER1
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGILLlVRAY, LOUIS PIESLOCK, FRANK HAYNEE
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHNT.BAI.DAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALviN J. BURT, H. R. HAISLQP, JOHN D. McGILLlVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE V
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALD, HARRY SPORE, MARGARET PJTOKLP
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVIC, HUGO MILLEFC, ROLAND HORTOK
NO MAGIC IN GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
There are several things, however, that gov
ernment can do in the electrical field that the law
denies to private enterprise. It can take the money
of all the people to build power plants to serve a
limited area—as it has done in the Southeast, the
Middlewest and the Pacific Northwest. It can de
clare these immensely expensive projects tax free
—thus depriving states, counties and municipali
ties of the millions in taxes that would be paid by
private utilities of comparable size. It can provide
certain services "free," such as the mail franking
privilege, which private business must pay for
And, finally, it can charge oil much of the cost oi
power development to Hood control, navigation, ir
igation, etc., thus making it next to impossible to
discover the true cost of government electric pow
er.
Think of this the next time you hear of "cheap
government power." It is "cheap" because tax
money is used to subsidize it, and because it en
joys immunity from the tax collector who takes
about 15 per cent of every dollar received by pri
vate utilities. Government could sell "cheap" in
sura nee or "cheap" groceries or "cheap" clothing
on the same basis. It isn't hard to sell things cheap
or give them away when you can mortgage the re
sources of a nation or "attach" the public pocket
book to raise money or pay losses.
CHRONIC DISEASE
K.OC
R. MAY of the Portland General
Electric Company of Portland, Ore., recent
ly pointed out something that should be self-evi
dent to all, when he said: "There is no magic in
governmental construction or operation of electric
resources that will produce power for the industry
or small consumers cheaper than comparable pow
er can be produced by private enterprise. Private
enterprise for fifty years has provided increasing
ly more dependable electric power at progressively
lower costs .... and during that time the gov
ernment has neither financed nor subsidized the
research and laboratory work that accompanied
the growth of this public service now so intimatel.v
identified with the progress of America. In other
words, private enterprise has, without govern
ment aid, heretofore brought the electric utility
to its high estate as a nearly universal public ser
vice, at a cost within the reach of nearly all. Elec
tric power is one of the cheapest commodities in
this modern world."
is an affliction wherever it falls, but
in the low income groups disease is a double
affliction because it handicaps the victim and it di
verts disproportionately family income from the
need of the healthy to the one sick. Acute disease
as the technical person calls it, comes rather slid
denly but it goes also, while chronic disease de
velops slowly, almost imperceptibly, but it comes
to handicap its victim.
Chronic diseases increase with
fe
THE
age
body is less able to overcome them, but are by no
means restricted to the upper-age groups. The
U. S. Public Health Service recently made a Nat
ional Health Survey covering 800,000 families in
6.'3 cities and 23 rural districts in 11) states. This
survey found that half the persons impaired by
chronic disease were under 45 years of age anc
over 7) percent were under 55 years. One reason
for chronic disease among younger groups is prob
ably low income resulting in inability to have ado
quate medical care or proper living standards. The
survey referred to found that disability expressec
in days lost per person through chronic disease
was two or three times as high in lower income
groups (relief and non-relief under $1,000) as in
the higher group, $3,000 and over. Chronic disease
like acute disease is greatest where the family in
come is least able to care for it. Chronic disease
may be a handicap or it may be totally disabling
In classifying chronic disease according to num
ber of cases, rheumatism comet, first, followed by
as the
THE
leart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood
pressure, hay fever and asthma, hernia, hemor
rhoids, varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, nervous
and mental diseases, sinusitis, cancer and other
tumors, etc. If these diseases are classified by the
degree to which they incapacitate persons for
normal pursuits nervous and mental diseases come
first, rheumatism falls second followed by heart
disease, hardening of the arteries and high blood
pressure, tuberculosis, cancer and other tumors,
udney diseases, etc.
The number of deaths due to chronic diseases
has increased due in part to increased longevity
the relation of chronic disease to advancing age.
At the age of twenty, 80 persons in 1,000 have
hronic disease at the age of forty, 200 persons
at the age of sixty, 350 persons at the age of
eighty more than 500 persons—over 50 per cent—
lave chronic disease.
Because of the economic problems involved in
chronic diseases, this is a field for which public
medicine must provide with medical care and often
lospitalization. This is notably true in mental
ases and tuberculosis, both in the interest of the
patient and the public. Public responsibility for
medical care has long been an accepted principle—
the only issue is to what degree and for what cases.
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COOPERATION INSTEAD OF RETALIATION
TOHN W. HANES, member of the SEC, recently
said: "I believe that the time has come for bus
iness men to cease harping on the theme that the
govenment is the enemy of business. And it shall
be my everlasting endeavor to persuade govern
ment officials from uttering publicly or privately
the thought that business is the enemy of govern
ment."
Business men certainly don't want to feel that
government is their enemy. This breach between
government and business has been largely created
by politicians who, in recent years, have chastised
the many for the shortcomings of the few, in bus
iness.
It is politicians who have passed legislation
hamstringing and punishing business. It is poli
ticians who have saddled business with a tax bur
den that makes operations next to profitless in
many instances
It is not business' duty to make "peace" with
government. Government exists to serve business
and the individual. Government is a means to an
end, not an end in itself. Government lives finan
cially off the fruits of business. Government's truej)vould .require moje than two traffic
lanes, it is reported by Mr. R. E. Toms,
purpose is to act as an umpire, not a player, in the'
commercial affairs of the people. Government
should punish the guilty—and cooperate with the
innocent. And that is exactly what the politicians
nave prevented government from doing.
Government will find practically all business
ready to work in amicable accord with it when the
politicians pursue policies of cooperation instead
of retaliation.
ARTISAN AND ART
series of photographs which constitute the
the frontispiece of this issue illustrate the
daring, the precision, tj^e coordinated skill of
mind and hand of the structural steel workers
without whom our sky-scrapers and all large
structures would be impossible. The blue prints
and work orders for this Baltimore hangar carry
the specification "No tolerance"—precision and
nothing but -precision. It houses huge and delicate
mechanism that must' move with precision. Mis
takes mean costly error if not loss of life. The
whole is the creation of hand and mind of workers
who put ideas into material form for the use of jthe expected" large increase in the
Society. Men in work clothes whose physical skill,number of automotive taxpayers, will
and energy have created our material civilization!j)rovl(je adequate funds for the financ
,. ,, .„ Iinf? of highways safe and satisfactory
are essentially creative so that the skilled ar-jfor general use. The only other threat
tisian is an artist in his field. In appreciation ofjto the automotive taxpayers' pocket
this relationship and the beauty of the products .K,()kf.ls,seo" the practice of divert
..
IT
NO GIJKSS WORK
safety of life insurance, as an institution,
has been proven in a hundred economic storms.
And that safety is guaranteed by two irrevocable
principles—the jnultiplication table and the law of
mortality.
A life insurance company knows almost to a
nickel how much it will have to pay out during any
given future period. Its charges and costs are ad
justed accordingly. And the money is there and
ready when the contract falls due.
Life insurance has survived the greatest war
and the greatest depression in modern history
with its colors flying. That is why more and more
citizens are turning to it as a haven for savings.
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THE POTTERS HERALJ)
IN THE NEWS
W. JETT LAUCK
W. Jett Lauck, will undoubtedly be
the economic counsel for the railroad
workers in the hearings which lie
close ahead and in a way, it will be
old stuff to him. He has been at that
—and similar things—for 27 years.
He was economic counsel, probably
under another name, for the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen & En
ginemen way back in 1911 and a lit
tle later, he won their case for a raise
of pay.
The inside story of that rise is little
known. Asked by the board of arbi
tration what he expected to show, he
answered that he meant to show that
the waste and graft of certain rail
roads would much more than cover the
desired raise. He happened to men
tion the New Haven. J. P. Morgan,
then still controlling the New Haven,
wanted nothing on that score he was
having troubles enough with that
pestilential Boston lawyer, Louis D.
Brandeis. He sent his orders to the
railroad folks to compromise.
Lauck was economic counsel for the
shop crafts before the strike of 1922
and his assembly of figure was de
vastating. He has had a dozen simi
lar jobs, before and since. He served
variously in the World War, statisti
cian of U. S. Shipbuilding Labor Ad
justment Board, secretary of National
War Labor Board, and the like. But
probably the thing in which he takes
the most satisfaction is that he and
Jerome Frank worked Section 7a, la
bor's charter of liberty, into the Nati
onal Recovery Act.
He was born in West Virginia in
1871), graduated from Washington and
Lee University in 1903, won a fellow
ship that took him to the University
of Chicago, taught in Washington and
Lee, had been summoned to Cornell
when tangled up in railroad arbitra
tion cases. He is about 5 feet, four
inches above sea level, dark, with thin
ning black hair, and a remarkably
pleasant smile.
Highway Requirements
Is the Hope For Relief
It is politicians who have forced'motive levies is seen in the findings
government into direct competition with business'0* highway surveys now being made in
I, .. many States through cooperation of
in certain fields, using to the full its advantages g^e Highway Commissions and the
of tax-freedom, and unlimited public credit. It isju. S. Bureau of Public Roads. Pre
politicians who have pilloried business men, andjlimmary studies of the surveys indi
*i* i ,. cated that tax economies will be pos
held them up to scorn and ridicule. It is politicians Ibecause the greater proportion of
who have been undermining confidence in our highway needs will be for generally
American system of government and fomenting
class hatred between labor and capital.
Hope for relief from excessive auto-
inexpensive roads
Even if, by 19(10, the increasing an
nual use of motor vehicles and the
growing number of vehicles on the
cre^*
a 100
,nK
ol skilled lalxn, the Centrcll Labor Union of Bill- poses, thus pr venting State Highway
timore has joined with the Baltimore Museum of Commissions from developing the
Art in a celebration of Labor Day. Baltimore
wants to bring together the skilled workers of in
dustry and the skilled workers in the fine arts
and the works of both so that each may under
stand and appreciate the other. The idea is es
sentially democratic and in keeping with our
national ideals. The Baltimore Federation of
Labor is to be commended for its foresight in
finding a new field for cooperation.
o
Per
ce"*
increase
in traffic proijKUJjonately throughout
the entire road system, not more than
10 to 13 per cent of State highways
Chief of the Bureau's Division of De
sign. Writing in the "Buick Maga
zine," Mr. Toms indicates that not
more than two per cent of the nation's
highways need be wider than two lanes
to accomodate the 42,000,000 motor ve
hides which, at the indicated rate of
increase, would be travelling the roads
in 1960.
Currently there are some 3,068,921
miles of highways in the United States,
and slightly more than 533,000 miles
in State Highway systems. On this
basis, only about two per cent of the
roads need be wider than two traffic
lanes which Mr. Toms feels, easily will
care for an annual average travel up
to 2,000 vehicles per day. Even if
maximum traffic were 6,000, he says,
the two-lane highway would not be
seriously congested.
In Mr. Tom's opinion, proposed
super-highways and luxurious boule
vards are largely unnecessary. High
way travel of sufficient volume to re
quire the heavy expenditures involved
insuch projects is confined to the
vicinity of populous urban areas. With
the threat of enormous expenditures
thus removed, it is» believed that reas
onable tax rates, especially in view of
highways funds to general pur-
roy(ls fuJ
paid.
^'hieh, highway users have
W I S O
*'1. & tK'*'!1 ft 'I' 'i'
There
IU'MT
was a good war or
a bad peace.—Benjamin Franklin.
Organized Labor
Cannot Cease Fight
Union men and women have no
reason to flatt themselves that their
work is done iiecause their trade and
the trades of many others are organ
ized. As lon^ as there are workers
unorganized und there are millions of
them in the United States), organized
labor cannot ase its fight to increase
union membership. As William Green
said:
"Ours is a constant, never-ending
fight for a full and complete recog
nition on the part of all employers of
labor of the principles of collective
bargaining, f..r justice, decent wages
and tolerable and humane conditions of
employment. Our task will never be
completed so long as any part of this
undeclared goal remains unrealized."
TRUTHS PONDERED WHILE
Riding at Anchor
MR. MODESTU8
FIXED IDEAS
"GREEN TABLE"
STPERSTITUTIONS
"MARK ON TREE"
WORLD INTO NEXT STAGE
Fixed ideas!
Are anachronisms—
That means, out of their time—
Nothing else stays put in this world
of change—
Men with fixed ideas wake up sud
denly some morning—
To find that the world has gone off
and left them.
This idea that economic cycles are
inevitable—
That we must submit, we workers-T*
Every once in so often—
Not saying how often, or when—
To this elusive will-o-the-wisp of
business—
The recession, depression, crisis,
crash, panic—
In a nation of the highest pro
ductive capacity of any—
We must get our announcement
from the* green table called Wall
Street—
Of when we are to grind flour, and
)ake bread, and eat regular—
But that is what the wisest of the
wise men—
Specially selected from legislators
and administrators—
Are beginning to exude from their
brain joints—
In response to the demand of a na
tion—
That they proceed to find 4 way to
make the machine go—
Not all superstitutions are religi
ous—
1'
Some are about horse racing, others
about cats—
Superstitutions accumulate around
gambling tables—
Men act on hunches in politics and
business—
Superstitutions five fixed ideas jn
some minds—
In fact, they are slipping all the
while—
But the men held by them usually
think they are inflexible—
And so, the stars in their courses, or
the June-bugs in flight—
Or something which answers for a
first premise in their thinking—
Serves these self-deluded wise men
into swallowing something dead—
Thinking that it is really fund vir
tually important—-
Economists have been starting at the
wrong point—
As surveyors they have been work
ing from a mark on an old tree—
The tree has grown, the ground has
been washed—
And the old creek had dug itself
a different channel—
But they are still pointing their in
struments at that old tree—
Some day that old tree, with its
ancient blaze-marks—
Will be washed down creek in some
spring flood—
Then the surveyors will have to
start from a mark in their heads—
While the community laughs at
them.
What is the only bench-mark on
which to base our survey—
In platting the structure qf our pro
duction and distribution?—
It is the level of the standard of liv
ing of the whole people—
Start from that, and you are begin
ning with first principles—
Note this well:
That level is not a fixed level—
It moves—
If it moves up, civilization is ad
vancing—
If it is going down,
The bells are ringing for the last
days—
The world is moving on to its next
stage—
If there is resistance enough to
overcome the down-slip—
If the people whose living l§vel is
affected—
Object intelligently enough—
Bench-marks, and everything ejge—
Will move again.
W A N E
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The latest in buses, designed to
match railroad streamlineVs and
crack air liners, have air con
ditioning, rest rooms, wider par
lor car seats and hostesses to
serve free lunch.
SILK INDUSTRY
Washington, D. C.—Because silk is
an animal fiber requiring different
processing than cotton and rayon and
because wages in the silk industry
have been generally higher than in
cotton and rayon, there is still a pos
sibility that the silk industry will not
be included as part of the Committee
on Textiles now being organized by
Administrator Andrews, of the Fair
Labor Standards Act. There is also
a strong indication that hosiery will
be handled under a separate commit
tee.
WOOL INDUSTRY
Washington, D. C.—Sometime this
month the Federal Trade Commission
will issue its tentative regulations for
the labelling of wool products as
protection for the consumer. In an
ticipation of these rules the industry
has begun labeUing virgin wool prod
ucts.
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
•••••••I. -v.-
Premier Chamberlain may have
thought that peace and war flew with
him to Adolph Hitler's mountain
castle. But there are few students
of history, of the World War, or of
the news that has been coming from
urope in the last four years, who
would say that Chamberlain's visit
will make more than a few weeks dif
ference in the time when the conflict
breaks.
It is one of the results of Hitler's
speech and that speech, in its way,
was a masterpiece. Everyone has
known since the raid on Austria that
there are sharp differences between
Hitler and the staff of the German
army. The staff believes that Ger
many must wait some years before
risking a general war. Hitler appar
ently w^nts to start it now. Bu^ in
stead of overruling his generals to
their faces, he made a speech which
practically called the Sudetens in
Czechoslovakia to revolt, and promised
them help.
There are just two questions: How
much of the rights of Czechoslovakia
will Chamberlain agree to yield for
what he calls peace
7and
how much
.•ill the English people stand? Cer
tainly the Trades Union Congress of
lish workers did not advance visits
to Hitler, or any concessions. It call
ed for the government to stop Hitler,
now and to summon Parliament at
once.
'No British governing minister has
ever done such a thing before,"
chorused the headlines. There is a
much more apt comparison. It is not
of record that any governor of Mis
souri ever rode into the mountains to
consult with Jesse James.
An American plane already -has
made some test flights, and is expected
to go into the Translative service this
fall, unless war prevents. It is a
sizeable 'article to take to the air. It
weighs 42 tons. It is 152 feet from
tip to tip of its tremendous wings. It
has four engines, one of which it is
claimed would keep the plane aloft
and its possible speed is over 2C0 miles
an hour. And it carries a crew of 8,
and can take 72 passengers over the
ocean.
It is claimed by the builders that
this is the largest practical plane yet
built and inquiry at the Department
of Commerce confirms the claim. The
German plane of similar size was no
good at all, and the Russian one has
cracked up.
But the burning question which no
one has answered is this: Why is a
social order that can build such a mir
acle and fly it so silly as to let millions
of men stay idle when millions of
things need-to be done?
On Capitol Hill
By GEORGE L. KNAPP
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—George
Washington Hill of the American To
bacco Co. is one of the great go-getters
of big business. He has, in his time,
raked in more thousand dollar bills
than the first George Washington
raked in of British soldiers at York
town. Here in his score for 1937, as
filed with the SEC, at the head of the
American Tobacco list:
G. W. Hill, president $380,976.17
Paul M. Hahn, v. 206,685.69
Charles Neilley, v. 206,585.69
17 officers not named..' 1,409,863.84
Vincent Riggio, bonus 156,585.69
A total of $2,360,697.08 paid to 22
men... The latest report I have puts
the average wage in the tobacco in
dustry at a little less than $16 a week.
Assuming steady work all the year—
which they don't have, the sum paid
to these 22 men would pay the wages
of 2,836 tobacco workers.
Also, please not that
G. W. Hill gets five times the sal
ary of the President of the United
States
Hahn and Neilley get a trifle less
than three times the President's sal
ary, each
Riggio gets a little over twige the
President's salary, and,
The 17 unnamed ones get an aver
age of $83,000 a year, or $8,000 more
than the President's salary.
Do we need an investigation of
monopolies and near-monopolies? One
guess.
In the difference between President
Roosevelt and Senator Glass on the
poll tax, labor will side with the Presi
dent. To make a citizen pay in order
to vote is a restriction on suffrage that
absolutely certain to weaken labor
and strengthen those who would ex
ploit labor. Labor, as a mere matter
of self defense, could be expected to
turn thumbs down on that scheme—
and this is one place where expecta
tions will be fulfilled.
Senator Glass says that many who
pay poll tax do not vote. That is not
the test. States with restrictions on
voting, poll tax or otherwise, cast
much smaller share of their vote than
states with no such restrictions. Just
as samples, the poll tax walls from
the ballot box the share croppers of
the South and persons on relief. Yet
certainly, no people have greater neec
of having their voices heard by gov*
ernment than these.
If politicians can set your wages
high and your hours low it must not
be forgotten that they can also set
ypur wages low and your hours high
—••James A. Taylor, president, Wash
ingtpn St^te Federation of Labor.
Thursday, September 22,1988
The Cherry Tref»
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Truth
SHADOW COVERS EARTH
PEOPLE MADE DESPERATE
3 AMERICA A DEMOCRACY
O IU IAN "PURGE"
%d i.r
arth
it uicai"
orkers?
iVlany wa e-eamers old enou' to
cmember 1914-1918 must be wonder
ing.
AV.Cl
Industrial conditions have been im
proving. Now, no one knows what will'*
happen, as no one can tell what the ef
fect of war, actual or long threatened*
will be.
Workers' best protection, as always,
is in organization.
If industrial improvement con
tinues, union members will be in best
position of all workers to share fairly
in the gains.
If war gives industry a sock, union
workers will be in the best position to
maintain wages scales and resist cuts.
Revolution producing despotic gov
ernments grew directly out of the
World War.
War-produced poverty and misery
cd the state of mind that produced
.'uscism, na .ism, communism.
nstead of making the world safe
for democracy, the war had the op
posite effect.
Where there was a measure of de
nocracy and freedom, as in Germany
and Italy before the war, there is none
w.
Another war mirht easily have tht^
same effect in Europe s remaining de
mocracies.
Peoples made despeiate by war's
sufferings and horrows are likely to
do anything.
America is the hope of democrat
IF WE STAY OUT OF WAR.
If we go in, anything might happen
here, as in Europe. Much of democ
racy would go by the board and might
never be restored.
Modern war, with its necessity for
lightning quick decision and action, is
ncompatable with democratic process
es, which are often siow and haltin
If America stays at peace, it can
make its democratic system work and
be a beacon light of hope to the world.
Even in peace, however, making the
American system work will require the
co-operation of all elements of the
population.
"It is ours either to be a grave in
which the hopes of the world shall be
entombed or a pillar of fire that shall
pilot the race onward to its millennial
lory," said Alexander Hamilton, long
ngo.
Many believe Hamilton's words $ven
truer today than when first said.
Russian weakness may account for
some of Hitler's brashness.
Dictator Stalin's attempt to make
all Russians think alike has seriously
affected the Red army, reports in
dicate.
One account is that more tjian half
of the army officers have been
"purged" out of the service by execu
tions, prison sentences and dismissals.
It is quite likely that Hitler and his
aides think there is something seri
ously wrong in a nation that conducts
a "purge" lasting many months, as
Soviet Russia has done.
Britain and France may have the
same thought and so fear that Russian
aid will prove of small value in the
event of war with Germany.
There is ground for thinking that
the "purge," in effect, has strengthened
Hitler, weakened France and Great
Britain.
PLUMBERS' UNION
SEE BUILDING BOOM
Atlantic City, N. J. (ILNS).—
"Early beginning of the greatest boom
in history" was predicted in reports
of officers of the United Association
of Journeymen Plumbers and Steam
fitters of the United States and Can
ada, submitted to the association's
convention here. No quick increase in
employment was forseen, however.
Three thousand delegates repre
senting 53,986 members, heard the
joint report of the officers and gen
eral executive board in which the pre
diction was made. The forecast was
based upon the assumptions that the
necessity for a shorter work week and
work day and highest salaries pos
sible would be recognized by the
nation and that capital and labor
would work together for self-govern
ment in industry.
The basis for the boom forecast in
cluded "extension and replacement so
necessary in the great industries, need
for 700,000 family units each year for
our growing population, necessary al
terations and improvements in pres
ent buildings to protect the invest
ments, a rising percentage of mar
riages and a clamor on every tongue
for a higher and better life because
of our widespread educational sys
tem."
"The day of the large building era
is over for some time," the report
said. "We must confine ourselves to
securing the small building work such
as homes and apartment buildings."
The convention is the association's
first in ten years.
N. L. R. B. HEARS C. T. U,
Washington, D. C.—The petition of
the Commercial Telegraphers Union to
have it named majority representative
for all Western Union Employes in
this city will be argued before the
National Labor Relations Board on
September 12. The C. T. U. is $n
AF of affiliate.