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Home Education
The Child's First School is the
Family"—Froebel
Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 40th
Street, New York City. These arti
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
Betty Breaks a
Tumbler
MARION BROWNFIELD
Betty, aged eleven, was in the
kitchen washing the dinner dishes
while her father and some relatives
were visiting in the breakfast room
adjoining. Betty often "did" the dish
es alone. She now proceeded method
ically to stack them as she had been
taught to do. Then she prepared the
soapy dishwater and placed a second
pan to rinse the dishes in. All the
time, however, one ear was straying
toward the pleasant conversation near
by. Mother was across the hall put
ting the last stitches on a dress Betty
was to wear on the morrow, and the
little girl was dawdling in order to en
joy the chat Daddy was having with
the "company."
Suddenly, Betty breather a pro
longer, "Oh—!"
Daddy's head appeared in the kitch
en doorway. "Break something?" he
imiuired.
"The hot water did!" explained
lletty replacing a tea kettle of hot
water on the stove.
The guests in the breakfast room
srhiled at the explanation. But Betty
bravely held up a cracked tumbler.
"Too bad," said Daddy sympa
thetically.
"I'd better go and tell Mother."
Betty marched gravely out of* the
kitchen.
"I'd give anything if my boy,
George, would own up when some
thing like that happens," remarked
Cousin Harriet. "I scold him and scold
him, but it doesn't seem to make any
impression."
"II'm," said her husband, "it makes
him afraid to confess."
Betty, back in the kitchen, ap
proached the breakfast room door,
holding the cracked tumbler. She
smiled at her father. "Mother says I
must be sure to have the rinsing
water cool enough to put my finger in.
But she say.-* not to worry about this
particular glass, because it was a
cheap one." Betty resumed her dish
washing humming softly to herself.
"Well, it's a sort of habit, 1 think,"
her father said in an undertone to his
relatives, "this Messing up', but Betty's
mother never makes it hart^for a child
to tell her anything. She says confi
dence is the one thing she wants from
the children. And we find that they
themselves are as regrettful over a
mistake or an accident as we are. W
simply talk it over and sometimes, not
too often, use it as a basis for a future
reminder to avoid repetition.
"When we gave Ted his new bicycle
I told him to be careful where he
parked it—not to leave it long in un
familiar surroundings. He was pretty
careful the first month. Then he for
got one day and left his wheel in i
vacant lot down near the railroa
tracks, while he pitched an impromptu
ball game."
"And it was .stolen V" inquired
Cousin Harriet.
"No when he went for it, apparent
ly it was all right. Then he discov
ered about half a dozen of the parts
were gon'!"
"Well," said Cousin Harriet's hus
band, "I expect he didn't relish tell
ing you!"
"No," said Ted's fathef with a
laugh, "he didn't. He commenced
though, by saying, 'You were right
Dad, about my hike.'
"it's expensive," complained Cousin
Harriet, "the things these youngsters
do 1 w./uld whip George if he dis
obeyed me like that!"
Ted's father shook his head. "ThatV
out of date, Harriet. I said to Ted
'What happened, Son?' He then told
me just what had happened and what
was missing. Well, 1 told him it was
his job# to earn back those missing
parts.
"'I've been thinking it over, Dad,
he said, 'so 1 asked Mrs. Clark, down
the street if 1 could mow her lawn
and she said she would like to have
her car cleaned. It'll be every two
weeks, Dad!'"
"To have to work for something
like thai, will make a man of him!'
approved Cousin Harriet's husband.
"We must go." Cousin Harriet arose
Betty hurried from the kitchen and
soon returned. "Mother wants you to
see my new dress!" she said.
Cousin Harriet looked around the
kitchen. It was unmistakably in or
der. "Your wife must take a lot of
time and trouble training the child
ren." She sighed.
Betty's father heHitated. How much
dared he say? "Well, an 'ounce of pre
vention—'" ho ventuied. "But after
all, children are people—they are sel
dom intentional miscreants—that is if
you treat them as if you expected
tliem to be responsible.—If you—well
—take it for granted, you know."
"THE LABOR I'A KADIS" OK
MARCH
Washington, D. C.—"The Union La
1k»1!"
Its history and the part it is
playing today in eliminating sweat
shop and child labor employment is
dramatically presented by the Marcl
issue of "The Labor Parade." Watch
your local newspaper radio colunn
iur the anno uneeiuetit r/hen tlu«
gram will be carried in your locality
Workers In Many
(Continued From Page One)
played an important role in his
country, as Governor of the State of
New Hampshire and later as Chair
man of the Social Security Board, em
phasizes to the whole world the active
participation of the United States in
the Organization.
American Labor Conference Called
The attendance at Geneva of Miss
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor,
at the 1938 Session of the Conference,
and the fact that, for the first time,
the United States has ratified inter
national Labour Conventions (to the
number of five, including that on hours
of work on board ship), also contribute
to show the vigorous collaboration of
the great Republic of North America.
This collaboration, moreover, has
been common for all parts of the
American Continent. As industry de
velops throughout the world, the
urgent character of industrial and so
cial problems is felt more and more
in extra-European countries. It was
emphatically demonstrated in a unani
mous resolution of the International
Labor Conference, which has led to
the calling for November, of a
Second Regional Conference of coun
tries of America, similar to the one
held at Santiago de Chile in 11)3(5,
which proved so useful. This Second
American Labor Conference will be
held at Havana on the generous in
vitation of the Government of Cuba.
Welcomed by Great Britain
In response to the invitation of the
British Government, the Governing
Body of the I. L. 0. met last October
in London. The warm welcome which
its members received everywhere in
Great Britain, the willing and active
participation alike of the British Gov
ernment, employers and workers, and
the unanimously favourable comment
in the press of all political tendencies,
enhanced the importance of this proof
of the attachment of the world's oldest
industrial country, and one of its
greatest to the International Labor
Organization. King George himself
stressed the significance of the oc
casion in his speech from the throne
on November 4.
Invited to Norway
Then again, the Norweigan Govern
ment has invited the Governing Body
of the I. L. O. to hold its autumn
session in Oslo. At the present time
a delegation of the Governing Body is
visiting South Africa on the invitation
of the Government of the Union.
Coming after the visits of Mr. Butler
to Malaya, the Netherlands Indies,
Ceylon, India and Egypt, these facts,
by their very geographical diversity,
show the interest that the activity of
the International Labor Organization
arouses iu widely-varying regions of
the world.
Seventy Conventions Ratified ill 1938
This interest is also manifest in the
ever-increasing number of ratifications
of International Labor Conventions by
the various States. In 1!)3H, 70 rati
fications wen registered, as against
35 in 1937 and 53 in 1936 and not
since 1933 has there been a greater
number of ratifications than this year
Equally significant is the fact that
the 193K Session of the International
Labor Conference under the presi
dency of the Brazilian Minister of
Labor, Industry and Commerce, had a
total attendance practically the same
as that of the 1937 Session, which was
the greatest in point of numbers up
to that date.
Questions Discussed at 1938
Conference
This fact is the more interesting as
the agenda of this year's Conference
did not involve any important decis
ion. The only problem which might
be disposed of by a single discussion
saw a convention on the subject adopt
ed under the most favorable condi
tions. This convention aims at mak
ing more easily comparable statistics
in various countries on hours of work
and wages.
With regard to the other questions
before it, the 1938 Conference was of
a preparatory nature. Its discussions
were fruitful, and arranged for a defi
nite decision to be taken in 1939 on
technical and vocational education and
apprenticeship the regulation of con
tracts of employment of indigenous
workers and the recruiting, placing
and working conditions (equality of
treatment) of migrant workers.
Hours of Work Considered
The discussions on the problems of
hours of work, in a new form, were
of a preliminary character only, and
will be continued at the 1939 Session
of the Conference in connection with
the reduction of hours of work in in
dustry, commerce and offices, and in
coal mine.-, and also with regard t(
the regulation of hours of work and
rest periods of professional drivers
and their assistants engaged in road
transport. In addition, the reduction
of hours of work in railway transport
will be studied in the first place by a
"Technical Tripartite Meeting," con
vened for March 20, 1939.
Thus despite the armaments race
which has retarded this reform, the
normal activity of the Organization in
this complex field of hours of work is
being carried on.
In connection with public works
planned as a useful method of prevent
ing unemployment and counteracting
economic fluctuations, a new stage wa*
reached by the convening of the first
meeting of the new "International
Public Works Committee," which is
the first step towards effective inter
national collaboration on this subject
Problems of Karm Workers Surveyed
Two other important meetings open
up for the International Labor Or
gani'&atinn new, or at least only partly
e\p!i»red, subjects for .special study in
tJ'A: rntci:nai'jnal b.^ld In February
193o, wab held at Geneva the hr»t ses­
sion of the new Permanent Agricul
tural Committee, which is a real inter
national parliament of the agricultural
world, and which will aid the I. L. 0.
in its efforts to solve the social prob
lems in agriculture.
It was noteworthy for the attend
ance of qualified experts, not only
from Europe, but also from Argentina,
Australia, Canada, India, Japan, Mex
ico and the United States. The prob
lems of hours of work, wage-fixing
and other conditions of work, which
are of vital importance for agricul
tural wage-earners, were dealt with
in a sympathetic manner which show
ed the general desire to better the con
ditions of agricultural workers so far
as economic conditions may allow.
In March, 1938, a Conference at
Geneva of Experts on the development
of Migration for Settlement for the
first time brought emigration and im
migration countries into closer con
tact. It revealed new possibilities for
migration movements, and contributed
to the better understanding of all
sides of the problem by certain coun
tries chiefly concerned.
Mine Workers Interests Explored
The coal-mining industry was the
subject during this year of two other
most useful meetings: a Technical
Tripartite Meeting on the reduction of
Hours of Work in Coal Mines and a
Conference of Experts on Accident
Risks in Coal Mines, which drew up
the basis of a model safety code aimed
at decreasing the risks of such acci
dents.
Also in connection with miners' in
terests—to protect their health as
well as that of workers in stone, quar
ry workers, pottery workers and, in
general, all workers exposed to the in
halation of dusts containing silica—a
Conference of Experts, continuing the
work of that which met in Johannes
burg in 1930, studied measures to be
taken against the pulmonary disease
known as silicosis.
The legal regulation of the work of
salaried employes the safeguarding
of the rights of interpretative artists
as regards broadcasting, television and
the mechanical reproduction of sound
the social aspects of scientific man
agement and the difficult problems
created in almost all countries by the
investment of the funds of social in
surance institutions, were also studied
by special meetings.
I. L. O. Publications Reviewed
On all these questions, as for all
those discussed by the Internationa
Labor Conference, the I.* L. 0., as
usual, drew up thoroughly documented
reports. Moreover, in addition to its
regular publications—the weekly "111
dustrial and Labour Information," the
monthly "National Labor Review,"
the "Year-Book," the "Year-Book of
Labour Statistics," the "Industrial
Safety Survey," the "Bibliography of
Industrial Hygiene," the "lnternati
onal Survey of Legal Decisions on
Labour Law," the "Legislative Series,"
etc.—it published special studies on
the world textile industry, the work
ers' standard of living, the legal status
of working women, labour courts, sta
tistics of industrial accidents, the
economic organization of medical and
pharmaceutical allowances in sickness
insurance, labour problems in India
and the East, the conditions of work
of Indians in Peru, etc.
The number and variety of these
reports and studies show that the
scientific activity of the International
Labor Office keeps pace with its gen
eral vitality, shown by the wide ef
feet of its relations throughout the
world and in the development of its
work of social legislation.
State Labor Act
(Cji.tn.iiO'J i'ioi.i I'jqu U n a
General Assembly at least half com
pleted, hearings on a number of labor
sponsored measures have not been
held by Committees to which they
were assigned after considerable de
lay. Some bills have not been refer
red to Committees.
In the meantime, representatives of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
are being forced to devote consider
able time and effort in opposition to
vicious anti-labor measures which have
been introduced, particularly by Lucas
County Representatives.
There are three measures in the
General Assembly proposing to give
full police powers to the State High
way Patrol, and other bills propose to
compel labor unions to incorporate
and otherwise restrict and regulate
union activities and procedure.
From the anti-labor attitude ex
hibited to date by the General Assem
bly, on bills which they have consid
ered, labor leaders feel that only those
measures affecting labor with which
employing interests are in accord, or
to which they have given silent ap
proval by not opposing them due to
their minor nature and effect, will have
a chance of becoming enacted into
law.
Law To Fix Price For
Haircuts Is Considerec
Austin, Tex. (AFLWN'S).—A bill to
allow barbers, by agreement of K,r» per
cent of those employed within
county, to set minimum prices was
passed by the House of Representa
tives and sent to the Senate.
The measure stipulates that no
price fixing above 10 cents for a hair
cut shall be permitted, and permits
barbers in towns of 1,000 or less popu
lation to charge -5 per cent less than
the code price for Uirgcr communities
in the county.
Provisions that tlie Stale barbe
board could enforce agreements to
regulate hours of barber shop oper
aho.'i and prohibit ad ertn-mg price,
charged were eliminated from the bill,
THE POTtERS HERALD
Evils of Private
(Continued From Page One)
"The functions of private police
systems must be restricted to the pro
tection of plant and property.
"Employers using the channels of
interstate commerce should not bfe
permitted to spread and perpetuate a
system of repressing the civil rights
guaranteed by the Federal Constitu
tion and Federal legislation. When
company-controlled police systems
cover several States and aflfect the ac
tivities of thousands of workers, it is
the place of the Federal Government
to intervene.
Company Police Must Be Curbed
"In the interest of industrial peace
and the uninterrupted functioning of
the natural economic system, it is
necessary that Federal action confine
company police systems to their prop
er duty of protecting plant and prop
erty.
"In recommending legislation to
correct the evils of company police
systems the committee is scrupulous
not to interfere with the right of the
employer to police his premises or
employ persons for the legitimate
functions of protection.
"The committee does not feel that
at this time the Congress should un
dertake detailed regulation of the per
sonnel and conduct of the police sys
tems of employers. Rather it should
define those practices which have led
to the infringement of civil liberties
and industrial disorder and make their
commission an offense.
"In only one respect does it seem
advisable i,o regulate the personnel
which employers may hire, and that
is to prohibit the employment as arm
ed guards of persons who have pre
vious criminal records showing a ten
dency toward violence or the danger
ous use of deadly weapons.
Ban on Labor Espionage Urged
"Legislative remedies, in the opinion
of the committee, should be aimed to
prohibit the practice of labor espion
age and the shadowing, coercion, and
intimidation of workers in ordinary
times, and to restrict company police
to company property during times of
strike.
"A statutory prohibition of these
practices by private police systems,
carefully defined will also cover the
similar practices of detective and
strikebreaking agencies. To this end
the committee is drafting appropriate
legislation shortly to be introduced in
Congress."
Labor Continues
(Continued From Page One)
to lia\e our people.1 clubbed over the
head by persons who are not respon
sible to'l*fc*artfthprity.''
Secretary *Donnelly advised Repre
sentative Cyril R. Culp, also of Lucas
county, who claimed to be a member
of Organized Labor, to read the his
tory of constabularies in other states
to realize the danger of a state police
system to Ohio labor.
J. Rus-ell Lloyd, representing the
Ohio State Automobile Association,
also appeared in opposition to the
measure.
Colonel Lynn Black, superintendent
of the Highway Patrol, appeared be
fore the Committee as a neutral speal
er. He stated that the traffic enforce
ment work of the Highway Patrol
would be cut in half if the bill was en
acted into law, and pointed to tin
state-wide reduction in traffic fatal i
ties as an example of the elTecth
work of the Patrol in that respec!
work which he believed should not I"
curtailed.
Walter F. Kirk appeared before tin
Committee as a proponent of the hi I
in behalf of the Ohio State Granp
and the Ohio Farm Bureau. He to!
the Committee a state police systen
would provide better protection fm
rural areas. The bill was also sup
ported by George J. O'Brien, repri'
senting the Ohio Chamber of Cor.:
merce.
Representative William Eiric!
Cleveland, a member of the Commit
tee, declared that the measure was
violation of a solemn promise mali
when the Highway Patrol was create
that the power of the Patrol wouii
never be increased.
Representative Herman E. Wernet
Akron, also a member of the Commit
tee, said the promises of previous Le^
islatures were not binding upon tb
present General Assembly, am
strongly urged approval of the bill.
Following lengthy debate, a motioi
was made by Representative Culp
1
report the bill favorably for passa*:
by the House, but the motion was lo
by a vote of eight to eight.
Voting for the approval of the i
were Representatives Austin J. Bow
er, Montgomery county W. D. Bu'
gett, Ashtabula J. F. Church, As'11
land Cyril R. Culp, Lucas Ray I
Huston, Henry Walter L. Tarr, Har'
ilton Herman E. Werner, Summit,ami
Warren W. Williams, Fayette.
O o s i n were Representative
Floyd V. Acton, Preble county Geori
1
W. Branscomb, Stark William F. Ei'
ick, Cuyahoga Graham Kirkpatrid
Licking Cloyd L. Barricklow, Br'
mont William Glass, Mahoning 11. I.
Mason, Wyandot, and Charles
Sweeney. Cuyahoga county.
A motion was then made and car
ried to postpone further hearing
the bill until this week.
(C
Is
It was-decided to continue to me
on the second Wednesday of earl
month until turther notice, 'llii* v.
bring the ue..t meeting oil April 1-
A NEW TWO-GUN CAGNEY
President Duffy
(Continued From Page One)
James Cagney has put away his gangster talk, but retained the guns to
play the "Oklahoma Kid" a real saga of the old west.
Humphrey Bogart furnishes the target as the Kid goes gunning. The
picture will piay the Ceramic, Sunday through Thursday.
Julius Olah are employed at the Gem
Clay Company, Sebring, Ohio.
We are very sorry to hear of the
death of Master William Cope, son of
William Oope of the glost crew at No.
2 plant. Our sympathy goes out to
the bereaved family.
Local 51 received their new charter
from the Pennsylvania State Federa
tion of Labor.
The potteries are working slow in
some departments at the present time,
but we have hopes they will pick up
before long.
Spring seems to be just around the
corner, some report having seen the
first Robin.—O. C. 51.
Rickert Appointed
(Continued From Pago Ono)
cline your appointment of me as a
member of that committee/
"In view of this decision made by
our good friend, Daniel J. Tohin, 1
have selected Mr. Thomas A Rickert,
Second Vice-President of the American
Federation of Labor, to serve instead.
"The committee representing the
American Federation of Labor will
now be, Matthew Woll, Third Vice
President, and Thomas A. Rickert,
Second Vice-President of the American
Federation of Labor.
"Mr. Rickert has advised me of his
acceptance of his appointment to serve
as a member of the American Federa
tion of Labor committee."
John L. Lewis, president of the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations, an
nounced in a letter to President Boose
velt th" appointment of a three-m 'in
N
her committee to negotiate with an
American Federation of Labor Com
mittee appointed by President William
Green.
The C. I. O. committee will be com
posed of Mr. Lewis and Phillip Mur
ray and Sidney Hillman, vice presi
dents. Mr. Murray is also a vice pres
ident of the United Mine Workers of
America and chairman of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee. Mr.
Hillman is president of the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers of America
and chairman of the Textile Workers
Organizing Committee.
Mr. Lewis's follows:
"Complying with the request con
tained in your letter of Feb. 23, I ad
vise that the committee to represent
the Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions will consist of Mr. Philip Mur
ray, Mr. Sidney Hillman and under
signed."
F. T.:C. SAYS "LA PEP" LACKS
"DA PEP"
Washington, 1). C.—Le Pep Health
Beverage Company, Philadelphia, Fa.
respondent, has been directed by the
Federal Trade Commission to cease
representing that its product, a mixr
ture of fruit juices and herbs, is a
competent remedy in the treatment of
skin eruptions, sluggish blood, con
stipation, fatigue, gall bladder trouble
heart trouble, rheumatism, or other
similar ailments that it will guide a
person to health and act as a body
disinfectant, cause wrinkles to disap
pear and cleanse and clarify the skin.
Findings were that these assertions
are untrue.
Most of the "high pressure" sales
men seem to regard business as a
battle.
Built by Kcttmar, this unusual modern suite employs the nrw
hclicnl-tic. guaranteed "Kcnflex" scat construction ... the softest,
quietest and most durable scat under-constructton yet *dcvclopcd.
Also note the rounding channels on davenport back and the
wood hand grips on arms that reduce wear on coveting material.
Buy now on diesc liberal terms.
Liberal Credit Tcrm.cs
Our credit department will
gladly arrange terms with
a Miiall carrying charge
The MARK
of
QUALITY
CROOK'S
Thursday, MarcliD, 1939
NOTICE1
Important Announcements of Local
Unions are to be found in this
Column
NOTICE WAREHOUSEWOMEN S
All members of Local Union
No. 94 are urgently requested to
attend the next meeting March
& 10 to participate in the primary
election of national officers.
New Unemployment
(Continued From Page One)
said that, following a complete survey,
any changes thought necessary would
be made under the theory .that the en
actment of the ripper legislation was
the enactment of a new law, and
changes in personnel and key posi
tions could be made on that basis.
He indicated that employes found
to have been appointed in "proper" ac
cordance with civil service regulations
would probably not be disturbed, but
that the expiration of the 5)0-day pro
bationary period did not, in his opin
ion, necessarily apply to prevent ap
pointments to positions under the new
Bureau of Unemployment Compensa
tion, due to failure of the General As
sembly to include a "saving clause" in
the bill, transferring employes of the
Commission to the new Bureau.
Oyster Supper
(Continued From Page One)
chance as members of other locals
when apprentices are needed. The old
est boys in good standing should be
given the preference. This seems to
be fair to everyone.
The first meeting in April will be
suspension meeting. Any member
more than three months in arrears at
that time will be suspended without
further notice. You have ample time
to check your book, pay what you owe
and avoid being suspended.
Come out to the next meeting and
give us a lift. This is your local, just
as it is ours.—O. C. 131.
TO MEMBERS
Are you an active member
The kind that's liked so well
Or are you just contented
With the badge on your lapel."
Do you attend the meetings
And mingle with the flock,
Or do you stay away
And criticize and knock?
Say, do you take an active part?
And help the work along,
Or are you satisfied to be
The kind that just belongs
-£o you get. out and hustle
And help to crack a lick
Or leave the work to just a few^
KEN MAP S KENFL EX
SEAT CONSTRUCTION
Used in this Suite is
guaranteed by the
manufacturer and by
ourselves to give long
satisfactory service.
DAVENPORT
and CHOICE
OF CHAIRS
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Si
y
And then talk about the clique?
Come on out to the meetings
Help with hand and heart
Don't be "just a member"
But take an active part.
Think it over fellows,
You know right from wrong.
Be an active member
Instead of "just belong."
—Unknown.!
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