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Tim POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
THE RATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTEBB
-and-
EA8T LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCtt
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., own'
Printing
Liverpool, Ohio.
P., owning' and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Jot
Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
ig at Special Rate of Postagt
ol October 13, 1917, authorizec
class matter. Accepted for mailing
provided for in Section 1108, Act
August 20, 1918.
General Office, N. B. O. P. Building. West Sixth St.. BELL PHONE 57i
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117, Thompson Avenue, East Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—George W. Cook, P. O. Box 244 Hamiltor.
Square, New Jersey.
Fifth Vice President—Alex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. J.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio
Seventh Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, Eas
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool
Ohio.
F. JEROME McKEEVER Editor and Business Manage
One Year to Any Part oi the United States or Canada SZ.OC
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturer A. G. DALE, FRLD SUTTERL1N, JAMES TURNE1
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIERl
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLE
Operatives, JOHN McGlLLiVRAY, LOUIS PIESLOCK, FRANK HAYNEf
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALVIN J. BURT, H. R. HAISLOP, JOHN D. McGILLIVRATr
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALD. HARRY SPORE, MARGARET PARKEF
N. B. ol O. P.. JAMES SLAV1N, HUGO MILLEk, ROLAND HORTOE
SHAME INDEED
Probably the most sickening news to hit the
front pages of our daily newspapers made its ap
pearance last Sunday when headlines announced
the closing of many southern factories because
the officials of these firms rebelled at paying the
twenty-five cent minimum in wages demanded by
the Wage-Hour law which went in force Monday
morning.
Another article stated three-quarters of
million workers would benefit by the new floor
for wages. That too, was nauseating. Not be
cause poor, downtrodden people would receive
boost in weekly earnings, but because 750,000
workers in these United States had been exploited
—had been earning less than a quarter of a dollar
an hour for their labor.
To union men and women, used to a fine col
lective bargaining system, conditions, such as
those to be read between the lines, were almost
unbelievable. Little wonder that President Duffy
was extremely alarmed at the possibility of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation furnishing
money to those who would build huge potteries
in the south.
Proud America must hang her head in shame
when she is reminded that factory doors are being
closed because employers renounce a law compel
ling them to pay at least twenty-five cents an hour
to employes.
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AN HONOUAKLK PEACE
A lot of intellectual theorists whose practical
knowledge of the fundamental principles under
lying the origin and development of bona fide la
bor organization in the United States approaches
the zero point continue to orate about the advis
ability of the American Federation of Labor sur
rendering its democratic procedure and accepting
the destructive philosophy laid down by John L.
Lewis as the basis for ending the controversy be
tween the American Federation of Labor and
Lewis's dual and secessionist Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
The utter fallacy of the admonitions exuded
by these parlor Reds and their satellites was well
exposed by the lit. Rev. C. K. Byrne, Bishop of
the Diocese of Galveston, in an address before the
annual convention of the American Federation of
Labor at Houston, Texas. The distinguished Cath
olic prelate said:
"The whole country deeply regrets the rift
that has come in your ranks, but no matter what
the loss, stand for truth and principle.
"It may be that the old slogan is sounded, 'di
vide and conquer.' But principles are stronger, for
they are of (lod and eternal while slogans are of
man's formation, and like the grass of the field
are today and tomorrow cast into the fire.
"Peace is a great desire but peace at any price
is always purchased at a losing price."
We suggest that the misguided intellectuals
who have become the victims of decadent reason
ing with regard to the division in the family of
organized labor take to heart the warning given by
Bishop Byrne. The American Federation of La
bor desires peace and unity in the labor movement.
But it must be based on democratic procedure and
majority rule, which are the fundamental princi
ples of the Federation, and not on the dualism, re
bellion, secessionism, and dictatorship which char
acterize the leadership of the Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
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NEEDED INFORMATION
In recent years we have talked increasingly
about economic planning. Under the National
Recovery Act we attempted a program that as
sumed planning for its decisions would have con
trolled developments. Under the Fair Labor
Standards Act there is again the assumption of
national economic planning. Again, as under the
National Recovery Act, we look for the data to'rainbow.
guide such planning. We want to know amounts
of goods and services produced, how rapidly goods
are distributed, the standards of living of various
income levels.
We have long had data on amounts produced in
the major industries and in agriculture, but we
have never been able to follow output through the
other stages of commerce—warehouses, whole
sale and retail sales. We need to know the volume
of sales and inventories and what wholesale and
retail dealers have on hand. These factors should
be taken into consideration in planning production
each season.
The Marketing Research Division of the De
partment of Labor is providing som£ excellent ma
terial on wholesale and retail sales and inventories
which should be expanded as rapidly as possible,
for it is the essential foundation for planning. The
indexes show dollar retail sales in mail order
houses, chain grocery stores, rural general mer
chandise stores, new automobile sales, limited
price variety stores. Reports are received cover
ing drugs, men's wear, shoes, women's wear. In
dexes to these fields are not yet available. Monthly
data on value of stocks in retail stores and ware
houses are now collected from retail chains in
grocery, general merchandise and variety fields.
Voluntary cooperation of employers provides
the basic data indicating they realize the value
of the resulting indexes. Labor hopes that pro
visions will be made to expand this fundamental
service as well as the supplementary and final field
—the purchasing power of retail buyers.
We need to have regular information oil earn
ings according to income groupings—that is, how
many families live at various income levels repre- ^$245^835 a'rbeerappro^d
senting standards of living fixed by the income.
Average wages are useless for this fundamental.
Only actual earnings are what people live on. We
will know then how groups are sharing in econ
omic and social progress. The information is
necessary for economic planning as well as for
evaluating national progress.
LABOR SPEAKS FOR AMERICA
Nazism and Fascism got a little of their "need
ings" at the A. F. of L. convention in Houston.
The report of the resolutions committee on these
subjects fairly sizzled. President Green sent a
vigorous cablegram to London protesting against
the proposed closing of Palestine to Jewish immi
gration as a refuge from Nazi persecution. Mat
thew Woll roasted what he rightly considered a
favor to Nazi industry by a ruling of the Treas
ury.
And all of them expressed the overwhelming
sentiment of the American peopl?.
No one has commented on it yet but not an
American newspaper editor or columnist has de
fended Hitler's seizure of Austria
Czechoslovakia. Some of them
the blame on the treaty of Vers
have supported Hitler. In view of the way that
some of these publicists have condoned or in
dorsed the brutal strikebreaking tactics of re
actionary American employers, this is decidedly in
consistent—but it is also very important.
For it shows the instinctive American response
to autocratic barbarism when the mask is off and
the Nazis have thrown masks away. They have
revived race persecution by their savage treat
ment of the Jews. They have resorted to class
persecution by crushing all German labor move
ments with a brutality that recalls the crushing of
peasant revolts in the Dark Ages. They have even
made a start at religious persecution by imprison
ing a Protestant clergyman and stoning a Cath
olic cardinal for not kowtowing to Nazi tactics.
Not while they know their way about can
Americans be made to like or to keep still about
such things.
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THE DISCOVERY THAT COUNTED
Now that Columbus Day is well over, and the
Norsemen and Welsh and Irish and others have
set forth their claims to the discovery of America,
one fact often overlooked may be mentioned.
Irish navigators may have discovered America,
though the evidence is not very convincing. Norse
men certainly did. One of the most amazing voy
ages of all history, more wonderful even that of
Leif the Lucky, must have been that of those
Scandinavian heroes of whom we know nothing
except what is told on the inscription they left
on a glacial boulder in a marsh of Minnesota.
There are only two ways they could have got
to that place. Either they sailed to the southern
end of Hudson's Bay, and marched south or they
worked their way up the St. Lawrence past the
rapids, built a new boat above Niagara Falls, and
marched west and south from the tip of Lake Su
perior. The first alternative is by odds the more
likely and the inscription says that they were
surrounded by natives. Undoubtedly they were
killed.
But the fact mentioned in the first paragraph
has nothing to do with Columbus. He may pos
sibly, on his voyage to Iceland, heard legends qf
these earlier trips. But the fact remains that he
made the effective discovery, the discovery that
was followed by colonization. To him the white
nations of this continent must and will look back.
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Occupy yourself with the wise use of time
and the proverbial rainy day will bring on the
THE POTTERS HERALD
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Construction of a $1,115,000 addition
to the post office at Dayton is reported
contemplated by the U. S. Treasury
Department, which is preparing plans
for the project. A site east of Wilk
inson street and north of Fourth street
has been selected.
A two and one-half story building,
to house administrative offices, wait
ing room, radio and other equipment is
contemplated by Dayton city officials
at the municipal airport. Cost of con
struction is estimated at $130,000. An
application for PWA assistance has
been filed.
Federal assistance in the form of a
PWA grant of $890,119 has been ^sked
by the trustees of Miami University,
Oxford, who are contemplating the
construction of a laboratory building
on the campus at a cost of $866,930.
The University's share of the cost is
reported available.
Also contemplated by the Miami
University trustees is a stores and ser
vice building to cost $165,380. A PWA
application for a grant of $74,421 has
also been filed for that project.
Construction of a girls' vocational
school at a est of $631,363 is reported
contemplated by the Toledo Board of
Education on an undetermined site. The
project is awaiting PWA approval, as
the Board's share of the cost is re
ported available.
Three new fire stations, a drill tower
and installation of a complete central
fire alarm system, to cost a total of
$545,000, is contemplated by Cincin
nati official.-, who are completing
plans for the projects.
An addition to the school at Wads
worth, Medina county, at a cost of
$110,000, is reported Contemplated by
the board of education. A PWA ap
plication for a grant of $49,090 has
been filed, and a bond issue for the
remainder will be voted upon Novem
ber 8.
WISDOM
»:»M'» 'I'
I think the first virtue is to re
strain the tongue he approaches
nearest to (he gods who knows
how to be silent, even though he
is in the rinht.—Cato.
UNION MOVES HEADQUARTERS
Columbus, 0. (OLNS).—Headquar
ters of Local 156, Ohio State Highway
Department Kmployes affiliated with
the A. F. of I.., have been moved from
the Rowlands Building, 12 North
Third Str^efc^to the Walgreen Build
ing, 10 bast' Town Street, V. W.
Ramage, secretary-treasurer of the or
ganization, announced last week.
State of Ohio, County of Columbiana, ss.
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TRUTHS PONDERED WHILE
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MR. MODESTUS
FREE SPEECH
COMPULSORY LISTENING
TECHNIQUE OF
DEMOCRACY
CAN IT HAPPEN HERE?
Free speech—
Does not mean "compulsory listen
ing"—
"Go hire your own hall"—
Is a fair answer to the but—inski—
Trying to steal his opponent's meet
ing—
Or to force himself* on an unwilling
public
But when mobs gather outside meet
ing hall doors
Or police officers censor1 speeches
and gatherings—
Of labor unions, or even Communists
and Nazis—
There is something to think about
again—
Freedom of speech—
That is not just something for one
orator—
It is a guarantee for the open road—
For ideas, for, protests, for free con
sideration—
It is also a sieve for the sorting of
minds—
For the selection of leaderships—
As well as for the nailing of
frauds—
Exposure of demagogues—
Testing of democratic potencies—
In the matter of the free press—
What shall we say of England—?
We thought there was the original
pattern—
Of free public knowledge of public
affairs
Freedom of discussion, and demo
cratic processes—
In that problem of Edward, once
king, now only duk
Behind the curtains, Baldwin and
his priests—
Curtains woven of a so-called pub
ic press—
Accomplished equivalent of ancient
coup d'etat—
While the people wondered.
Once again, Chamberlain—
Covered by a tory-owned press—
In absence of free organs of public
information—
Confronted Britain with his fait
d'accompli—
Only break in the wall of silences—
Being 2,000 meetings of union
men—
Choked off the bold voice of a peo
ple—
Until the deed was done—
.All time for choosing past—
Is this the technique of democracy?
Can it happen here
f°r the state ai)d county aforesaid, per-
,a ^IM'Pared 1\ Jerome Mckeever, who having been duly sworn according
to law, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of The Potters Her
a (l and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true
statement of the ownership, management of the aforesaid publication for the
date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24,1912 em
'I1
sect'on
411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse
of this form, to wit:
1. 1
hat the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business managers, arei
Publisher, Natiopal Brotherhood of Operative Potters, East Liverpool,
Business Manager, F. Jerome Mckeever, East Liverpool, Ohio.
2. That .... M..,: i i,
the owner is
pool, Ohio.
3. 1 hat the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities are: None.
4. Thi'l the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners,
stockholders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security
holders as they appear upon the books of the company but also, in cases
where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the com
pany as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or
corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given also that the said two
paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief
as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security
holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold
srock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner and
this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or
corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or
other securities than as so stated by him.
F. JEROME McKEEVER, Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of October, 1938.
ALBERT P. MORRIS, Notary Public.
(My commission expires January 21, 1939).
SMALL CHANGE
as little as
10' A DAY
pays for a modern
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COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS i
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The fact that karl Kautsky was per
mitted to live in Vienna until the age
of 84, and was driven out only when
Hitler took over that ancient strong
hold of the Social-Democrats, is evi
dence of the strong hold he had on the
minds not only of the Austrian work
ing people but also of the Austrian
nation. His death in Amsterdam,
Holland, (the same land in which
Kaiser Wilhelm found refuge) occur
red on October 17.
Karlt Kautsky was one of the old
guard of the tremendously vital Ger
man Social-Democracy which means
that he possessed a mental capacity
far beyond the ordinary, standing be
side Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles
as among the very first and foremost
of the men who hewed out of the solid
rock of European feudal-capitalistic
regimes a place for the constructive
activities of the organized workers,
both in their trade unions and their
political movement.
As editor of Die Neue Zeit for 34
years, he impressed upon the entire
Socialist world movement his "con
ceptions and interpretations of So
cialist thought and activity. As an
interpreter and editor of the works of
Karl Marx his word was authoritative.
Kautsky was an irreconcilable foe
of Bolshevism. Doutbless he express
ed most completely the German Social
Democratic resentment that the "back
ward nation"—Russia—should be the
one to undertake first «the establish
ment of a Socialist national structure
In the two decades since the close of
th£ World War and the founding of
the Soviet Republic, we have lost much
of the meaning, as well as the accus
tomed use, of the word "Bolshevism,"
in its replacement by the more rep
resentative name of "Communism."
Kautsky lived and fought through
those first and formative years, only
later to see the further eclipse of the
Social-Democratic powers, which had
been as a rising sun in Germany and
Austria in pre-war days, not only bj
the tremendous power of the Com
munists but also by the Hitler-Nazi
party, first in Germany, and then in
his own country.
Widespread unrest among German
workers, whose conditions grow daily
worse under the oppressive regime of
Adolf Hitler and his associates, is re
ported in the Information Service of
the German Trade Unions, published
by the International Federation of
Trade Unions.
Considerable sections of the popu
lace which prior to 1933 were pro
Nazi, are now completely disillusioned,
and share with their fellow workers
a deep hatred of the regime.
All kinds of privileges were
promised them by Hitler before his
accession to power. None of those
promises have been fulfilled.
Conditions are reported particularly
bad in Western Germany, where mass
es of workers have been virtually
pressed into the task of building for
tifications.
The lengthening of hours is univer
sal and is part of a general "speed
ing-up" which has resulted iti a whole
sale exploitation of the workers. A
working week of from 60 to 9(5 .hours
is now the rule rather than the ex
ception.
Even 100 per cent Nazis are de
pressed by the bad conditions which
prevail, and by the dread that Hitler
is leading Germany into a war of ag
gression.
EXEMPT FROM TAXES
Trenton, N. J.—The "Society for
Establishing Useful Manufacturers,"
founded in 1791 by Alexander Hamil
ton, may continue to function exempt
from taxes, the New Jersey Court of
Errors and Appeals ruled recently in
answer to a challenge of the Society's
charter by the city of Paterson which
claimed annual losses of $50,000 in
taxes. The city contended that the or
ganization ceased the direct manu
facture of goods many years ago. The
court ruled that it was obliged "to con
strue in the most favorable manner to
the society", the 140-year-old charter
which perpetually exempted it from
paying taxes.
The Society now sells hydro-electric
power from the plants at the falls on
the Passaic River and leases manu
facturing sites.
Is it a free press which headlines
"Purge"?
Which shouts in type about "dicta
tor" 7
In connection with appeals made to
citizens in elections—
Is it a free press—
Bought and owned by shares of
stock
Is it a democratic press—
Which openly derides and bitterly
opposes—
Democracy in industrial relations?
What contribution to democratic so
lutions of our problems—
Can be expected from those who
howl at "sit-down strikes"—
But fail to register the existence or
the habits—
Of absentee lords of credit?
Not all democracies have endured—
What cycle do we enter now in his
tory's arc-?
Shall America succumb to the in
ertia of associated minds?
Or will the channels of free think
ing—
Send us over the bars and through
the narrows—'
Swing us out to wider deeper seas
of competent democracy?
Thuwtfey, OctoEer 5V, T098
The Cherry Tree
'Where We Hatchet
The Truth
Oui
FOUNDATION LAID
REPORT ENDORSED
REDS GRIEVE
NO HELP NEEDED
American Federation of Labor con
vention at Houston laid the foundation
for another year of marked progress.
Constructive action was taken all
along the labor front.
Decisions to promote economic, leg
islative and political advancement were
made.
Now it is up to every union member
to get behind the program with a will
and help to bring even greater prog
ress in the next twelve months than
was recorded in the twelve months
ending with the Houston convention.
That does not merely mean paying
of dues, important as that is.
It means taking a lively interest
in every union activity.
It means attending union meetings
regularly, without fail, anJ,,co-oper
ating in all work intended to further
labor progress.
Houston convention gave the labor
press a boost, of course.
It declared the labor press loyal to
the A. F. of L. is giving "most valu
able service."
Delegates endorsed the report of the
Executive Council, which said:
"The Executive Council bespeaks
for this splendid labor press and ff'/Ct
labor publications the full support ar.'qj£
assistance of all the officers and mem
bers of the American Federation of
Labor and of all national and inter
national unions, of state federations of
labor and city central bodies."
The convention said, in effect,
that support of the labor press is
one of the most important jobs be
fore union men and women.
That has been said before, but it
will bear repetition many times.
Red brethern and their sympathizers
are grieved because Great Britain and
France did not go to war with Ger
many to save Czechoslovakia.
They don't say this in so many
words but theic-comments reveal their
true feelings, which seem in disagree
ment with American public opinion.
Gallup poll, which has a record of
accurately registering public opinion,
finds that some 61 per cent of Ameri
cans believe Great Britain and France
did the best thing in not going to war.
Dorothy Thompson says this is be
cause they believed Great Britain and
France were not adequately prepared
to tackle Hitler.
Maybe—and maybe not. It is quite
likely Americans think the "settle
ment," bad as it may have been, was
preferable to a million or more fu
nerals.
Perhaps the able Miss Thompson!^
has not thought of this.
v
Americans telling European nations
they should go to war are like the
small boy who eggs on a fight but is
very careful to keep out of it himself.
You know—the youngster who
shouts, "Sock 'im, Bill," and gives one
or both of the prospective fighters a
surreptitious push as they warily cir
cle each other with fists ready for
action.
There is no evidence that America
favors getting into Europe's quarrels.
On the contrary, there is plenty of evi
dence the nation's chief desire is to
keep out. In view of this attitude, it
hardly becomes America to urge na
tions to do something it is unwilling
to do itself.
Some Americans, however, simply
dote on giving advice to the rest of the
world.
Strange as it may seem to these
busybodies, it is barely possible Great
Britain and France are fully com
petent to manage their affairs without
the advice of Americans.
WAR DEATH TO CIVILIZATION
(Thomas F. Woodlock in Wall Street
Journal
Among the many new things which
we are painfully discovering in the
general collapse of an old order is the
fact that the civilized world can no
longer afford war—this for the first'
time in the history of mankind. Mod
ern war and modern civilization art^
simply incompatible, for war can
neither be civilized nor limited. It is
today an unmitigated evil, the greatest
of all material evils. It is, moreover,
extremely difficult to imagine modern
circumstances in which its employ
ment as a means to prevent a spiritual
evil would be warranted as a choice
of the lesser evil of the two.
The terrible impasse that we have
been facing for a quarter of a century
arises from the fact that while the
modern world cannot afford a war, it
has been apparently unable to make
a peace. Peace has yet to be made.
All that we have done so far is to re
coil at the last moment from war. The
hopeful things now is that the greai jJ
fear that held us back may bt« lasting
enough to bring us to the point where
a beginning can be made on peace.
Aifc A A A Ajtuft A A A A A A
WHAT NEXT?
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A Syracuse, N. Y., manufacturer
is building a plant designed for
24-hour operation Mo days a year.
Air-conditioning and panels of
glass blocks eliminate the need for
windows.
The modern wife's cigarette- bill
makes her husband fume.