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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
(HE NATIONAL BBOTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTEHS
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EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of
P., owning -and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Jo
Printing Plant in the Stale.
Entered at Postoiiice, East Liverpool, Ohio* April 20, 1902, as seconc
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rcte of Postag
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorize
August 20, 1918.
New Jersey.
General Office, N. B. O. P. Building, West Sixth St.. BELL PHONE 57
President—lames M..Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street Nation
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Fraiik Hull, 117, Thompson Avenue, East Lr
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Live
pool. Ohio
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmers, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trentor.
Fifth Vice President—A!ex Young, 31 Passaic Street, Trenton, N. J.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohi
Seventh Vice President—James J. McGowan, 744 Cadmus Street, Ea
Liverpool, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. V'
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpoc
Ohio.
F. JEROME McKEEVER _. Editor and Business Managt
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada $2.0'
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. G. DALE, FKED SUTTERLiN, JAMES TURNt
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYflEP
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELL
Operatives, JOHN McGiLLlVHAY, LOUIS PiESLOCK, FRANK HAYNL:
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDLSTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWIf
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWhl
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D, llARDESTY, E. K KOOS, CHAS. F. GOODWII
Operatives, ALV1N J. BURT, H. R. HA1SLOP, JOHN D. McGILLIVRA
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. J. M-DONALD, HARRY SPORE, MARGARET PARKE'
N. B. oi O.
P.,
JAMES SLAViN, HUGO M1LLLR, ROLAND iJORTOl
PENSION FOR OLDSTERS
'PHE political influence of elderly people whose
capacity to produce commodities and rendei
effective service in bur system of production is
still very large but who are barred irom employ
ment by those who own and operate industry con
tinues to impress Federal legislators.
This influence was apparent when Senatoi
Charle 0. Andrews and Representative J. Hard
ing Petei'son and A. Pat Cannon, all of Florida
told the House Ways and Means Committee in the
hearing on proposed amendments to the Social Se
curity Act that persons past 60 years of age should
be guaranteed a comfortable living by means ol
a §200 a month pension.
Senator Andrews said there was one ghost
haunting every elderly person: the question oi
what would happen to him when he no longei
could earn a living. Of course what the Senator
meant was what would happen to the elderly per
son when employers would no longer permit him
to earn a living.
Emphasizing the point that all of those eligible
for
pensions after 60 had contributed large
amounts to support our governmental institutions,
Mr. Andrews declared that "there ought to be
some kind of dividend for men who have paid tax
es for 10 years and own a part of the richest Gov
ernment in the world."
Representative Peterson asserted that, despite
our large national income, "today the old people
probably need help more than at any other period
in history." He said the plan for $200 a month
pension would put money in circulation and stimu
late business. It might result in some incvease in
living costs, but the element of social justice in
volved in providing for the elderly should be con
sidered even though it did raise the cost of living
Representative Cannon expressed his belief
that the $200 a month pension would "abolish the
need and necessity of poorhouses," which he char
acterized as "eyesores on civilization." He said the
enactment of the pension legislation would be jus
tified on that ground alone.
Much of the insistent and growing demand foi
pensions for elderly people is rooted in the policy
of many employers to discriminate against the
employment of middle-aged workers, who are tlun
compulsorily rek'gated to the unemployed army de
spite their mental and physical ability to produce
wealth and perform service.
When employers refuse to permit hundreds of
thousands of able-bodied working men and women
to earn a living, pensions adequate to support then1
in comfort are absolutely imperative. Under om
system of representative government based on tin
franchise for all adults, it is inevitable that the
victims of this discrimination should use their po
litical power to secure by legislation the essentia'!
justice denied them by our economic dictators.
o
FORWARD MARCH I OK INTERNATIONAL
LA HOR
T1T11EN John (1. Winant was sworn in as the nev
Director of the International Labor Organ
ization by the Government Dody at its recent
quarterly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Pau!
Perg, of Norway, chairman of the Governing
Body, welcomed the first American to hold the di
rectorship and stressed the heavy responsibilities
confronting him.
"We all know," Mr. Berg said, "that the new
Director takes office at a particularly difficult
period in the history of the International Laboi
Organization. The necessity for economy will in
volve reduction in the staff and a a rlain measure
of reorganization."
With his well known thoroughness as an ad
ministrator of public offices in the United States
as a background, Mr. Winant in a brief statement
alluded to Mr. lierg's observation about the diffi
culties confronting the International Labor Or
ganization with thi.. t»Tse but significant declara
tion
"Some people have asked nie what we are go
ing to do and where we are going. The answer ol
another man comes ringing down through the de
cades, 'We will go anywhere provided it be for
ward.' With faith and courage we will continue in
that direction.'
in W HO OWNS THE INCREASED Ol'i PIi I V
ESTER C. DAVIS, a mbT of tin1 l'Vdera.
Hoard, tolel the Thirei Annual 1'arn
Institute, at Des Moines, Iowa, that a general in
crease in the output of the industrial workers
coupled with profits for employers gauged by vol
ume instead ol high price's, would selve the iann
tiV economic problem. lie said that under thit
plan working men and women would "seek lughei
income through continuous employment and ex
panded production rather than through the high
3st attainable wage for the minimum output."
This is an indirect way of saying that wage
earners should work longer hours per day and
more days per week, thus increasing the amount
of commodities produced or services rendered
("expanded production") in place of existing wage
rates for a definite number of hours work, and
then "seek" higher annual wages.
Evidently Mr. Davis was thinking of the Bib
jical expression "Seek and ye shall find." Un
lortunately Biblical precepts of this Utopian type
do not amount to much in determining wages un
ler our present economic system. Usually higher
.ncome sought by wage earners is only secured by
effective trade union organization even where
statutory law stipulates higher pay. And a con
siderable portion of our wage earning population
are as yet outside the protective wings of the trade
anion movement.
Moreover—and this is an important point
which the increased output business interests
never mention—all of the commodities produced
and the services rendered by the more than forty
tiiillion working men, working women and working
jhildren in the United States are the private prop
erty of individual and corporate employers. This
applies, of course, to the increased output which
ulie workers are urged to produce. The increase
would all belong to the employers, and, barring
jffective trade union organization of their em
ployes, would normally lodge in the pockets of the
jinployers and be distributed in their totality to
investors.
It is therefore appropriate in discussing wages
under increased output to keep in mind the prim
ary economic fact that the workers produce the
increase, that the employers own it all, and that
usually employers refuse to permit any of the in
crease to reach the pay envelopes of their em
ployes without the persuasive element of strong
well-disciplined unions typified by those ai'liliateel
with the American Federation of Labor.
ENFORCING THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS
ACT
Q.RADUALLY employers throughout the United
States are learning that the l-air Labor Stanet
ards Act of means wiiat it says vvnen it stipu
lates that employers subject to tne act snail pay
uieir employes not less tnan 2o cents an Hour ana
snail limit tneir employment to 44 Hours per weeK.
Most employers ouey tne act witnout govern
mental pressure. Otners, however, seem to oe un
uuiy inioxicate.'(t in tneir subversive oenei tnat tne
policy oi paying low wages is tileir private ana
personal ngnt guaranteeu by the Constitution oi
uie United states against which statute law must
not prevail.
ine Powers Manufacturing Company of
Waterloo, Iowa, is evidently one of the concerns
wnich require legal pressure to convince tnem oi
uie error oi their illegal low-wage policy ana tne
aavisabihty oi obeying the very reasonable wage
stipulations imposed upon employers by Feuerai
statute.
Following adequate evidence that the Powers
Company was paying its employes less than
cents an hour prescribed by tne rair Labor bianu
ards Act, iMmer 1. Andrews, Administrator ol tne
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division,
iniornied Federal District juetge George C. Scoti
oi the delinquency of the Waterloo company. Judge
Scott thereupon issued an injunction permanently
restraining the company irom paying employes
less tnan 25 cents an hour and Irom snipping its
products interstate commerce until tne legal
minimum wage is paid.
Announcing that this was the first permanent
injunction restraining an employer irom alleged
violation of the Fair Labor standards Act wnicn
iias been in ehect since October 24, oinciais
oi the Wage and Hour Division estimated that tne
company, winch has approximately 1 employes
on its payroll, would be requireei to pay the
neighborhood of $2,200 in bacw wages, tills amount
representing the diflerence between what the
workers got and what they would have gotten un
der the legal rate ol pay under the act since it
oecame efiective.
REORGANIZING UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
^JOiNMDFKAr.LE opposition is evietently going to
be mamlested to some of the provisions of the
bill for the reorganization of Federal relief l'or the
millions of jobless workers introduced in the
United States Senate by Senator James F. Byrnes
oi South Carolina.
The bill proposes a permanent system of pub
lic works to be administered through a new Cab
inet Department of Public Works. The depart
ment would.take over the present Works Progress
Administration, Public Works Administration, liu
ivau ot Public Koiids, Public Buildings uraiicn ol
uie Treasury Department, the Civilian Conserva
tion Corps and the National Youth Administra
tion. It would also transfer the United states r-ni
ployment Service from the Department of Labor
to the Social Security Board.
A goodly number of persons who advocate a
permanent system of Federal public works seri
ously object to linking up public works with re
net for the jobless. They maintain that public
works should be kept separate irom work renei
projects conlornnty with the policy of the Gov
eminent ever since these two branches of Federal
activity were established a number of years ago.
ilus view was expressed by Harold F. ickes, sec
retary of the Interior and Public Works Adminis
trator.
"1 do not think that relief and public works go
together," Air. ickes said.
The proposition to take the United States Em
ployment Service from the Department ot Labor
where the service has been ever since it was es
tablished and turn it over to the Social Security
lioard brought vigorous opposition from the Ex
ecutive Council oi the American Federation oi
Labor, in session at Miami, Fla. In voicing the
Council's position, President Given of the A. F.
of L. said the traditional policy of the Federation
lavored concentrating ah administrative bodies
dealing with labor in the Department of Labor
and that the proposal of Senator Byrnes contro
verted this policy.
y
Now that the Supreme Court has knocked out
che theory of utility monopoly, what is Congress
getting ready to do about the fact of monopoly
in glasb't
THE POTTERS HERALD
JOB INSURANCE
INFORMATION
Q.—in ease of partial unemploy
ment, is (he employe required to reg
ister at an Ohio State Employment
Service office before his waiting
period commences?
A.—Yes.
Q.—If an employe is required to
register before his waiting period
commences for partial unemployment,
how soon after such registration will
the employer be notified?
A.—The employer will be notified
within two or three days after the em
ploye registers.
Q.—If a minor is no longer required
to attend school, and does not enroll
in a school of higher learning, will
the employer be required to pay con
tributions on his wages?
A.—The employer will be required
to pay contributions on wages paid
to the minor unless he is enrolled in
or actually attending school.
Q.—How do you distinguish be
tween "casual"
and
"temporary" em­
ployes?
A.—A casual employe is one who
performs services for a short time
only—not to exceed four weeks of
ontinuous duration—which services
are occasional, incidental, and irregular
and do not promote nor further the
employer's business, trade or pro
fession, for which permission has
)een obtained from the Commission.
A temporary worker is one who is em
ployed by an employer in coverable
employment, which is in the further
ance of the employer's business, trade
or profession, for any period of tem
porary duration.
Q.—How shall we distinguish be
tween "casual"' and "part-time" em
ployes?
A.—A casual employe is one who is
hired to perform services for remun
eration in coverable employment not
to exceed four consecutive weeks,
which are not in the promotion of the
employer's business, trade or pro
fession, permission therefor having
been granted by the Commission. The
Ohio Law does not provide for "part
time" employes as such. However, for
the purpose of benefits, an individual
shall be deemed partially unemployed
in any week of less than full-time
work if the total remuneration pay
able to him for such week is less than
(30 per cent of his average weekly
wages.
Q.—How shall we distinguish be
tween "part-time" employes and
"seasonal" employes?
A.—A part-time employe (for the
purposes of benefits) i.- an individual
whose total remuneration in any week
of less than lull-time work is less than
GO per cent of his average weekly
wages. No empfrMttmnt has, as yet,
been declared seasonal in Ohio.
Q.—I nder what circumstances is
the owner of property the employer
of the general contractor engaged to
construct a building?
A.—The owner of the property
would be considered an employer of
the general contractor when there is
an employer-employe relationship ex
isting between such parties or when
such property owner reserves in him
self the right of control as to what
shall be done and how it shall be done.
Q.—I'nder what circumstances is
this owner subject to payroll taxes on
the wages paid the workers on the
construction project?
A.—Only when the owner is the em
ployer of such workers and retains
control over the methods to be used in
the performance ot said job.
Q.—Is the owner of the buiirling
liable for unemployment compensa
tion contributions lor the employes of
the contractor and sub-contractors?
A.—Usually not.
Q.—How can the owner of the build
ing avoid liability for unemployment
compensation contributions and have
definite knowledge that the contri
butions have been paid?
A.—The owner of the building
woulel not be liable where the contract
is let to a general contractor and the
general contractor sublets to the sub
contractors.
Q.—Is a general contractor liable
for contributions on the employes of a
sub-contractor?
A.—If there is no employer-employe
relationship, no. if there is such an
employer-employe relationship, yes.
Q.—Are contractors specializing in
certain trades and oiTcring their ser
vices to the public subject to contri
butions on their employes?
A.—Any employer who employs
three or more individuals in coverable
employment at any one time is liable
under the Ohio art.
Q.—Are individuals, as well as part
nerships or corporations, subject to
contributions on their entire payroll?
A.—No. Only such remuneration as
falls within the category of coverable
employment. They would not have to
return on 'the salaries paid to in
dividuals who are performing services
in exempted employment.
Q.—I'nder what circumstances is
any employer engaging the services of
a contractor or a sub-contractor the
employer of person.-, hired by the con
tractor or sub-contractor, and liable
for payroll contributions on their
wages?
A.—When ia li employer retains
control over the means and methods
by which the work is done, and has
the right to hire and dismiss the em
ployee.
(j.—Is an officer of a corporation an
employe, regardless of the fact that
he may own the controlling interest
in the corporation?
A.—An officer of a corporation who
owns the controlling interest therein
is, nevertheless, an employe under the
Act if he performs service^ fox re
numeration.
tCoulii.^oJ on Fajf© Six)
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MB. MODESTUS
IIKAYY INDUSTRIES
MAKING MILLIONAIRES
BOMBS FOR BUTTER
MORE DAMAGE BILLS
Disarmament—
Would have reduced "heavy indus
tries"—
By more than $17 billion in 1988,
in all nations—
Which means, that peace is a very
unprofitable business—
Military expenditures of the U. S.
A. in 1938 were over $1 billion—
Heavy industry will increase in
1930 very much in this country—
Because we are getting "ready" in
a big way—
Query:
What was the connection between
rearming of Germany—
French and British heavy indus
tries—
Reorganization and' eclipse of
League of Nations?
Was rearming of Germany permit
ted—
To stimulate "heavy industries" of
other lands?
Was this why European countries
enjoyed "recovery"—
Earlier than American heavy indus
tries
What part did Czechoslovak Skoda,
heavy industries—
Play in recent events culminating
at Munich?
Did "heavy industries" write British
and French consent—
For Chamberlain and Daladier?
Another Query:
Are Heavy Industries—
Climbing into the saddle in Amer
ica?
Will next war, if and when—
Make as many more millionaires as
the last one?
If present idle $40 billion does not
go into munitioneering—
What other place is there for it to
go?
Now that U. S. Steel has the rib
bon steel plant—
Is there hot an excess industrial ca
pacity in U. S. A.—
Measured by any prospective pur
chasing power here?
Germans were told that they were
getting bombs instead of butter—
Is it the increasing millions spent
for munitions—
Which is delimiting flow of butter
in U. S. A.?
Or is it the increased munitioneering
in other lands—
Such as Japan, Italy, China, Russia,
Germany—
Which is curtailing markets for U.
S. A. products?
How much of that price in butter
will Americans have to pay—
For the increasing flow of bombs
and cannon here?
Americans do not contemplate calm
ly—
Prospect of Nazi-Fascist successes
throughout the world—
If then, the Axis powers are to be
checkmated—
What kind of a Versailles reckoning
is to follow
Are the munitioneers again to stop
disarmament
Will the profit motive and method
still dangle baits—
For have-not nations to play with?
Will there be more damage bills—
Impossible of payment?
Will hopes of "Revanche", and
Songs of Hate—
Still fester in discomfited peoples?
Will some other Samurai, Berserker,
Foreign Legion, Uhlan—
Nurse secret plans and tribal ego
tism—
Within a quiet wrold, war-wearied?
It is a time which calls for long
looks ahead—
Charting of world-weather for a
century.
MEAT CUTTERS SIGN CONTRACT
Chicago (1LNS).—Signing of a 100
per cent union shop agreement pro
viding for increases in wages, a 44
hour week, time and one-half for over
time, vacations with pay and seniority
rights has ended a two-year strike
against the Consolidated Dressed Beef
Co., Philadelphia, Pa., called by Lo
cal No. 195 of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America, American Federation
of Labor affiliate.
The contract, announced by Patrick
E. Gorman, president of the internati
onal union, sets up an arbitration
board for the settlement of any dis
pute that may arise.
President Gorman also announced
that the Albert F. Goetze Co., Balti
more, Md., one of the largest packers
in the eastern section of the country,
had signed an agreement which would
make all of their employes members
of Local No. 195 of the Amalgamated
within thirty days. The pact stipu
lates that every worker is to receive
a 5 per cent increase in pay at the end
of sixty days and provides for reopen
ing of the wage question after ninety
days for further beneficial adjust
ments.
The Consolidated Dressed Beef Co
employs about 300 workers the Albert
F. Goetze Co., around 1G0.
ACCOMMODATING
Chi: "Are you doing anything for
that cold of yours?"
Omega: "I sneeze whenever it wants
me to.''
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS S
*3* *8* 4" *3* 4*
The British Trades Union Congress
expects to secure the passage by Par
liament during the session of 1910 or
1941 of laws establishing vacation
with payment for almost all workers.
Such agreements have already been
reached by many unions and manu
facturing companies. The T. U. C.
also expects to shorten labor weeks
to 44 hours for all young workers by
the same time.
Belgium passed a system of one
day's holiday for two months employ
ment, or one week's holiday for each
year. This bill was passed in 193G.
It does not apply to workers in farm
ing, horticulture or forestry. Belgian
workers are trying to apply it to those
industries.
Over 1,300 writers and labor lead
ers have been arrested in Japan with
in a little more than a year for having
spread "dangerous anti-war thoughts"
among Japanese labor. It is estimated
that 700,000 or 800,000 Japanese work
ers will be out of jobs when the raw
materials for making other than war
materials are manufactured.
World events are now quite largely
events relating to threatened war. In
a single day's dispatches recently,
Hitler expressed "pained surprise"
that Great Britain is increasing her
armaments the French premier ser
ved public notice that France will not
be "blackmailed" out of any of her
territory and Japan has warned the
western powers that she is likely to
clear out the International Settlement
in Shanghai. Any of these things
would have been a top headline across
any daily newspaper's "front page in
ordinary times. Now, they are all on
that page.
Yet there are some items of news
which give Americans some comfort
and satisfaction. America is not go
ing into war unless kicked into it
but she is not going to be caught flat
footed. It is plain already that our
air force that should daunt any enemy
—if that enemy had any sense—and
there is a circumstance which may
even make one chuckle.
The French are reported to be good,
close bargainers. They would not
praise unduly any merchandise which
they wanted to buy. Yet French mili
tary agents have said openly that two
American planes are better than any
thing of the sort in Europe and have
ordered several hundred of them. If
that is not a testimonial to America's
potential strength, what it?
WHAT NEXT?
Paper made from "de-inked"
waste paper was recently tried in
the printing of a Pittsburgh news
paper and the test is said to have
been highly successful. The paper
was made from old magazines,
newspapers, poster sheets, and
even carbon paper. Dr. W. F.
Hochstetter, the inventor, says the
process will reduce the price of
newsprint from the present scale
of $50 to $05 a ton to $30 to $35.
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WISDOM
*8* 4* '3* *8* »S*
I consider the people who con
stitute a society or a nation as the
source of all authority in that
nation.—Thomas Jefferson.
Dory Poe of R. D. Box (5, Kensing
ton, Ohio, writes in to say that the
article in the Herald sometime ago
relating to the Sam Collyer vs. Billy
Edwards prize fight in July of 1877,
was on the south side of the Ohio
river, but in the state of Pennsylvania
rather than in West Virginia.
The titanic struggle was held on the
farm of the writer's grandfather
Eight dollars was split between the
writer and a brother, li. G. Poe, for
carrying water.
Anyone present at the event is ask
ed to write to the above address.
-K
Thurm Cunningham, greatest of all
athletic statistical experts, can give
the color of hair or eyes tell the cor
rect shoe size of any E. L. H. S. regu
lar or substitute the past fifteen years.
He can also toss in some batting aver
ages down to the Class D. leagues
upon request.
The only trouble with Thurm, he
absolutely refuses to mention sports
on the shop.
Super Market Tax Nullified
New Jersey.—A year-long fight be
tween independent grocers and oper
ators of "super markets" in New
Jersey, which is comparable in many
ways with the national controversy
over chain stores, come to a climax
today, when the State Supreme Court
set aside ordinances in two cities to
impose heavy license fees on large
self-service food markets.
The court nullified laws of Cam
den and Atlantic City which fixed an
nual fees of $10,000 and $5,000, re
spectively, for the big markets, and
held:
"The municipality may not require
its residents to forego the exercise of
any economy in order that a group of
merchants, unwilling to take advan
tage of economy and management,
may prosper."
Thursday, March 2, 1939
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
CARE FOR "MR. WHITE"
IN KI LL BLAST
MORE LABEL ACTIVITY
MARK OF FAIR PLAY
Pet cat of a Washington, D. C., man
goes to celebrated Johns Hopkins
Hospital at Baltimore for treatment
of infected feet.
"Mr. White," as the cat is listed at
the hospital, gets the care of renown
ed specialists.
Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the
RFC and a friend of the cat's owner,
got the hospital attention for "Mr.
White."
Whereat "Mr. White has his picture
on the front page, with appropriate
text.
Why can't human beings get as
good treatment as "Mr. White"?
Story of "Mr. White" must have
posed this question to many who read
it.
Moneyed cat and moneyed humans
get the best of medical care.
Poor cats and poor humans some
times have good care, more often do
not.
(Ed. Note: Poorest of people receive
excellent care at Johns Hopkins. Pic
ture of "Mr. White" was news, not
an aid to health.)
Growing realization of humanity's
right to adequate medical treatment,
when needed, is leading to widespread
demand for such treatment for all.
Doctors will have to heed this de
mand, co-operate, or get bumped.
No one knows how adequate medical
treatment for all will come. It may
come by private co-operative effort,
by government effort, or through a
combination of both.
But it's on the way.
The boys who know all about what
is going to happen in Europe in the
next few weeks are at it again.
Forgetting their past boners, they
are indulging in a saturnalia of
speculation. Their guess machines
are in full blast.
Makes one dizzy to read their out
pourings.
They have the totalitarian powers
striking in so many directions at once.
One day they have Russia doomed
to attack within 48 hours. The next
day they see Holland and Belgium
overrun this spring. Another day it
is England and France. Again, Swit
zerland and Denmark are the victims.
So far they have not predicted the
principality of Monaco will be the
early object of totalitarian wrath.
Likely they'll get around to that soon.
The prophecy boys forget how hard
they fell down last year. They had
war coming at a dozen different times.
Dates and even hours were set. But
they never came. Some of the boys
were deeply pained. Hardly fair, you
know, for the totalitarian powers to
fail to perform according to schedule,
as mapped out for them by hardwork
ing journeymen soothsayers.
No wonder the Montreal Star poked
fun at the boys as "pin-headed
prophets of evil."
Gosh, suppose they should fall down
this year, too! That would be too bad
—for the prophets.
Labor papers from various sections
report increased union label activity.
Union men and women everywhere
are alert to the need of promoting
the demand for union label goods and
services.
They know that the union label is
notification to the purchaser that
goods bearing it are made by wage
earners receiving fair wages and
working under good conditions.
They are emphasizing that the
union label is an insignia of American
fair play and as such is deserving of
the support of every American who
has the interests of his country at
heart.
WINANT AND THE ILO
(From the Washington Post)
Former Gov. John G. Winant, of
New Hampshire, who has just been
sworn in as director of the internati
onal Labor Organization, has a diffi
cult task ahead. The ILO, like other
international organizations that came
into being after the World War, is
suffering increasingly from the col
lapse of the collective system. And
one country after another, the in
creasing preoccupation with extensive
military preparations has steadily un
dermined laoor standards that had
oeen slowly and painiully built up
over a period of many years.
Nonetheless, the ILO continues to
function. If anything, it has a more
vital role to play at this time than
ever before in its history. At no pre
vious time has there been a greater
need for co-operative action by gov
ernment, capital and labor of the Kind
evidence at ILO meetings. At no
previous time have the advanced in
dustrial nations of the world, most
notably the United States, felt so
great a necessity for trying to elevate
world standards of labor. Only in that
way can our own standards be fully
safe-guarded.
8-HOUR DAY
Washington, D. C. (1LNS).—Sen
ator James M. Mead of New York has
introduced a bill setting a maximum
eight-hour day for employes of vess
els of less than 100 tons. Small vess
els have hitherto been exempt from
hours requirements established for
sea-going ships.
Even if you are on the right track
you will be run over if you sit there.