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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOUBNAL OF
THE RATIONAL BBOTHEHHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTO!
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EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES S LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and ok
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoifice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rats of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act ol
August 20, 1918.
lass matter.
rovided for in Section 1108, Act ol October 13, 1917, authorized
General Oiiice. N. B. O. P. Building. West Sixth St., BELL PHONE 575
President—lames 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—Charles Zimmers, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
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
Liverpool, Ohio.
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 Manager
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada $2.00
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. G. DALE, FHHD SUTTKHLIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHARLES F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGlLLIVHAY, LOulS PIESLOCK, FRANK HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDEiiTY, E. K. KOGS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HAhDESTY, E. K. KOGS, CHAS. F. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALViN J. BURT, H. R. HAISLOP, JOHN D. McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. McDONALD, HARRY SPORE. MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P., JAMLS SLAVIN, HUGO MILLEh, ROLAND HORTON
NEW HOUSING AS JOB PROVIDER
tremendous possibilities of work for millions
of the unemployed in providing adequate
housing for hundreds of thousands of working
men and women in the low-income groups are
pointedly revealed in recent figures compiled by
the American Federation of Labor in connection
with the proposal to set up a National Planning
Board composed of representatives of all groups
of industry, commerce, finance and consumers, for
the purpose of encouraging investors to lend their
idle funds for industrial expansion.
Declaring that a "program to re-house oui
population living in slum areas" would be at least
a partial answer to the admitted social need J'oi
housing, the A. F. of L. said:
"The United States Housing Authority has
made a good beginning, and in 1940 it will build
90,000 low rent homes and give jobs to 213,000
persons producing materials and electing the
houses. But this is a very small beginning com
pared to the need. For over and above the United
States Housing Authority program and the maxi
mum private industry will build, there is need for
710,000 homes which have not been planned for.
A large proportion of this need is in low rent
homes which are not profitable for private indus
try. To!
mjld these homes would employ 1,()8'1,000
persons. In all. it has been estimated that we need
to build 1,300,000 new homes each y ear for the
next ten years. This would create 3,081,000 jobs
yearly."
In the important field of "low-rent homes
which are not profitable for private industry," the
United States Housing Authority has already al
located the $800,000,000 in loans for this purpose
authorized by Congress, with new demands for
slum clearance funds coming in every day.
It has been estimated that tin $800,000,000 al
ready earmarked will provide direct employment
at the site of the slum clearance projects for mort
than 200,000 building trades mechanics and labor
ers, and, in addition, will give work to approxi
mately 150,000 employes in the production ol
building materials and their transportation. This
means approximately 700,000 full time jobs in in
dustries where employment is critically needed.
Well informed observers claim that the hous
ing' for low-income groups already guaranteed by
the $800,000,000 Housing Authority loans makes
only a dent in adequate housing requirements foi
the masses of our people. It is therefore axio
matically evident that an enlargement of the Fed
eral housing program is an important element in
this definite social improvement capable of miti
gating markedly the unemployment crisis.
To meet in part this admitted emergency. Sen
ator liobert F. Wagner of New York has intro
duced a bill in the U. S. Senate authorizing an ad
ditional $800,000,000
for
low-cost housing loans
and $1
r,000,000 to subsidize certain rents which
will still be too high. The new bill is endorsed by
the American Federation of Labor.
E A I O N S E W E E N I N E V I O Y V I E N
COMPENSATION AND NATIONAL RELIEF
/""NUIl Government initiated under necessity and
practically simultaneously national programs
for relief and for compensation for the unemployed
attached to the labor market. Because of the con
tinued large number of persons unable to get work
we have not been able to turn our thoughts from
the emergency problem of relief to that of depen
dable provisions for the needy. Our
provide an emergency income for persons who
have lost their jobs pending the finding of new
ones. The primary test of eligibility is registra
tion in an office of the Employment Service for
new employment. Unemployment, compensation
takes care of its group for a limited period of
time. The problem is to make the best possible
provisions for those unable to find work. -After a
worker has had benefits over the maximum dura
tion and is still unable to find work it is better that
he go under some assistance provision rather than
lower the standards of unemployment compensa
tion so as to continue to pay benefits. Formula
tion of relief policies must go along with improve
ments in unemployment compensation.
THEY WON'T DO IT
1NCBEAS1NG the purchasing power of low paid
wage earners is generally recognized as being
one of the fundamental principles the application
of which will bring prosperity to industry. The
difficulty of the remedy is that the increase must
be provided b,* the employer^ in pay envelope con
tents for their employes. And so far employers
rjpilE
failure
sider this problem has inlluenced our planning for
the unemployed.
Unemployment compensation
to con­
i s
intended to
manifest a definite disinclination to part company
with any of their surplus funds for this commend
able purpose.
A visualization of this question was presented
by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins in an ad
dress before the recent Farm Institute at Des
Moines, Iowa. She is reported as having said that
if the small sum of one dollar a month per person
were added to the incomes of the lowest paid
groups in the United States during the next few
years, the expenditure of that augmented pur
chasing power would raise the sale of commodi
ties to levels never attained heretofore.
The remedy offered by Miss Perkins is valid.
The only hitch in the program is the persistence
of one of the smallest but most significant words
in the English language—"if."
Expressed plainly and in more definite phrase
ology, Miss Perkins evidently meant to say this:
If employers would increase wages only one dollar
per month per person to workers in the lowest in
come groups for a number of years, the spending
of this increase of one dollar per month would pro
vide a very much larger market for goods. But
the employers just won't do it.
BANK STOCKHOLDERS MUST PAY
GOVERNMENT LOAN
A NOTHER victory in the broad field of protect
ing funds of the Federal Government against
the questionable practices of certain bankers is
recorded by the decision of the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Judicial Cir
cuit in awarding to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation $11,000,000 from the stockholders of
the Central Republic Bank & Trust Company, of
Chicago, 111., the old "Dawes Bank," which passed
out of existence in 1932.
The suit of the Reconstruction Finance Corpor
ation against the stockholders developed from
$90,000,000 in loans made by the R. F. C. to save
the bank from collapsing during the days preced
ing the 1933 bank moratorium.
Charles (J. Dawes, a former vice president of
the United States, was one of the highlights in the
Central Republic Bank & Trust Company. When
the financial condition of the bank became acute
in June, 1932, Mr. Dawes resigned as chairman of
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and re
turned to save the tottering bank.
A short time later the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation agreed to lend the Central Republic
$90,000,000 with an immediate advance of $30,
000,000 on the commitment. Despite this large
loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
the affairs of the bank grew worse, and in Octo
ber, 1932, Mr. Dawes and his associates establish
ed a new bank, the City National Bank & Trust
Company, with Mr. Dawes as its chairman, to take
over the deposits of the Central Republic Bank &
Trust Company. This metamorphosis was ac
complished through a R. F. C. loan of $50,000,000
under the original commitment.
The banking officials responsible for this in
volved situation, evidently designed to relieve the
tockholders of responsibility for the Government
loans, set up the Central Republic Trust Company
as a liquidating shell for the old Central Republic
Bank & Trust Company.
The suit of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to collect $14,000,000 of this loan from
the stockholders of the Central Bank & Trust
Company was filed November 19, 1931, under the
Illinois Bank Stockholders Liability Act which
provides double liability. In November, 1936, Fed
eral Judge James H. Wilkerson awarded that
amount to the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion. Presiding Judge Evan E. Evans, who wrote
the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals up
holding the Wilkerson decision, concluded the opin
ion with this significant declaration regarding the
responsibility of stockholders for the debt incur
red by the bank:
"Concluding as we do that this stockholders'
liability was a right which attached when Central
gave its note to the plaintiff and is enforceable in
a direct suit against the stockholders, it follows
that the decree should be, and it is hereby affirm
ed."
The distressing note in the case is that the
wealthy stockholders involved in this malodorous
transaction should be so lacking in business mo
rality as to attempt to defraud the Government
and violate the law prescribing their legal obliga
tion.
"VALUABLE TRAINING"
American Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion strongly opposes having the child labor
provisions of the wage and hour law being ap
plied to newsboys. At the hearing in Washington
on this matter before the Children's Bureau of
the Department of Labor, the attorney for the
publishers made the argument that "newsboy's
work is valuable training for the youth of Ameri
ca, not injurious to school work, but extremel.Vicompel
beneficial to tin well-being of those so engaged."i
The publishers should have given cases of such!
benefits. Al Capone, now, served quite an appren
ticeship as a newsboy in New York before he be
came a gangster's assistant, and worked himself
up to the chief gangstership of America. Quite
a number of prominent gangsters in Chicago got
their start in this way though the Genna broth
ers didn't—perhaps that is why they were killed
so early. The Annenberg brothers, now believed
to be the chief purveyors of race track news,
gained their experience handling the Chicago Tri
bune.
It is true that one of them was indicted for
manslaughter or murder but he was not convict
ed. Neither was Al Capone, who fell from grace
by cheating Uncle Sam on income taxes. One is
sure he did not learn that by crying the "Noo
Yoik Chonical."
Newsboys on strike have been beaten up by
full sized policemen but perhaps this was part
of their "valuable training." It is always well to
give details in such matters.
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HYSTERIA IS PREFERABLE
A Maryland doctor is denouncing "hysterical'
laws against syphilis. But as between hys
teria, however unpleasant that may be, and a con
tagious disease that even when cured seems to
shorten life and that is a fair ticket, if allowed
to liui. to insanity and locomotor ataxia, most ol
us would choose hysteria.
THE POTTERS HERALD
WHAT NEXT?
A new buoy has a miniature
radio transmitter sealed inside
it
which sends out continuous code
signals to guide ships, regardless
of weather conditions. The U. S.
Lighthouse Service is testing the
new type of buoy in the main ship
channel of Boston harbor.
Death Blow Dealt
(Continued From Page One)
"the protection of the right of em
ployes to self-organization and to the
selection to representatives of- their
own choosing for collective bargain
ing without restraint or coercion," the
opinion continued:
Congress also recognized the right
to strike—that the employes could
lawfully cease work at their own
volition because of the failure of the
employer to meet their demand:
Right to Strike Upheld
"Section 13 provides that nothing in
the act 'shall be construed so as to
interfere with or impede or diminish
in any way the right to strike.' But
this recognition of the right to strike'
plainly contemplates a lawful strike—
the exercise of the unquestioned right
to quit work.
"As we said in National Labor Re
lations Board vs. Mackay Radio and
Telegraph Company, 304 U. S. 333,
347: 'If men strike in connection with
a current labor dispute, their action is
not to be construed as a renunciation
of the employment relation and they
remain employes for the remedial pur
pose specified in the act.'
"There is thus abundant opportunity
for the operation of Section 2 (3)
without construing it as countenancing
lawlessness or as intended to support
employes in acts of violence against
the employer's property by making it
impossible for the employer to termin
ate the relation upon that independent
ground.
"Here the strike was illegal in its
inception and prosecution. As the
board found, it was initiated by the de
cision of the union committee 'to take
over and hold two of the respondent's
key buildings.' It was pursuant to that
decision that the men occupied the
buildings and the work stopped.
Seizure Right Denied
"This was not the exercise of 'the
right to strike' to which the act re
ferred. It was not a mere quitting of
work and statement of grievances in
the exercise of pressure recognized as
lawful. It was an illegal seizure of
the buildings in order to prevent their
use by the employer in a lawful man
ner and thus, by acts of force and vio
lence, to compel the employer to sub
mit.
"When th^employes resorted to
that sort of compulsion they took a
position outside the protection of the
statute and accepted the risk of the
termination of their employment upon
grounds aside from the exercise of the
legal rights which the statute was de
signed to conserve."
Turning to the contentions of the
Labor Roard that the sit-down strike
was justified because of the Fansteel
Metallurgical Corporation's alleged vi
olation of the Labor Relations Act and
that the corporation did not have the
right to discharge employes Connected
with the strike, the Court made this
significant declaration:
"As respondent's unfair labor prac
tices afforded no excuse for the seizure
and holding of its buildings, respon
dent had its normal rights of redress.
Those rights, in their most obvious
scope, included the right to discharge
the wrongdoers from its employ.
"To say that respondent could re
sort to the State court to recover dam
ages or to procure punishment, but
was powerless to discharge those re
sponsible for the unlawful seizure
would be to create an anomalous dis
tinction for which there is no warrant
unless it can lie found in the terms of
the National Labor Relations Act."
With regard to the Labor Board's
argument that, the Fansteel Corpor
ation did not have the legal right un
der the labor act to discharge em
ployes because of sit-down strike ac
tivities, the Court declared:
"We think that the argument mis
construes the statute. We are unable
to conclude that Congress intended to
employers to retain persons in
their employ regardless of their un
lawful conduct—to invest those who
go on strike with an immunity from
discharge for acts of trespass or vio
lence against the employer's property,
which they would not have enjoyed
had they remained at work.
-j
Fails to Find Law Support
"Apart from the question of the
constitutional \alidity of an enactment
of that sort, it is enough to say that
such a legislative intention should be
found in some definite and unmis
takable expression. We find no such
expression in the cited provision."
And so, on February 27, 1939, the
Supreme Court affirmed the position
taken by President William Green of
the A. F. of L. in March 19.'i7, that the
sit-down strike is "the illegal seizure
of property," utterly opposed to Amer
ican institutions and abhorrent to the
economic and organization policy of
the American Federation of Labor."
Justices Me Reynolds, Butler, Stone
•ind Roberts joined with Chief Justice
Hughe.-, in the majority opinion. Jus
tice Black and Reed dissented.
DISTRACTING
"If you don't marry me, I'll take a
rope and hang myself in your front
yard."
"Ah, now Herbert, you know Pa
doesn't want jou hanging around.''
—Yellow Jacket.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
MACHINE KIDDING
INSTALLED HORSE-POWER
WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING?
INCREASE IN TRADE
They are still claiming—
That machines make more
jobs
So here goes, again:—
than
they spoil—
Until they quit this kidding—
It will be necessary for us to con
tinue—
To feed out the figures pertaining
to these matters—
There are so many figures which
are perfectly simple—
No engineering ability is required
to make sense of them—
No complicated mathematics is in
volved in stating them—
Population of U. S. A. in 1920 was
106.5 million—
In 1930 it had grown to 123 mill
ion—
This was an increase of 16.1 per
cent—
Mechanization, machinery applied to
industry—
Is measured by what they call "In
stalled horse-power"—
In 1920 this was 29.3 million H-P—
In 1930 it had increased to 42.8 H
P—
That was an increase of 13.5 million
H-P, or 47.7 per cent—
Equivalent of about eight times
that many man-power—
But it did not displace that many
human workers—
Because it was doing a lot of things
which human beings never did—
However: persons gainfully occu
pied—
In 1920 numbered 41.6 million, in all
occupations—
While this increased to 48.8 mill
ions by 1930—
Increase of 7.2 million in 10 years,
or 17.4 per cent—
Which was 1.3 per cent more than
increase in applied Horse-power—
In agriculture, those gainfully em
ployed decreased by 193,814—
Although farm lands increased 30,
887 acres, or 3.2 per cent—
Extraction of minerals employed
105,900 less, decrease of 1.3 per cent.
There were 133,567 less machinists,
or 14.5 per cent—
While toolmakers, die setters and
die sinkers increased 23,702, or 43 per
cent—
Manufacturing and mechanical in
dustry employed 1,278,773 more—
An increase of 9.95 per cent while
population grew by lti.1 per cent—
Electricians increased by 67,353,
which was gain of 30.9 per cent—
u a e n i e e e i i a n s e
creased 5,041, or 52 per cent—
And building trades apprentices de
creased by 4(5 per cent—
Then, what were all these people
doing?
Well, there were about 750,000 more
in transport and communication—
Most of whom were in the 613,000
more chauffeurs, truck and tractor
men—
But there were 309,000 less team
sters, draymen and carriage drivers—
As well as about 125,000 less oper
ating railway men—
There were 165,000 more laborers
building roads and highways—
But 33,000 less laborers on railway
construction—
Telephone operators increased about
58,000, mostly women—
While telegraph operators decreased
about 12,000—
Railway officials increased about
2,000—
But the great increase was in
"Trade", by 1.8 millions, or 42.5 per
cent—
In professional service, by 1 mill
ion, or 60 per cent—
In domestic and personal service,
by 1.5 million, or 46.5 per cent—
In clerical work, by 1.9 millions, or
61.5 per cent—
The increase in numbers and per
cent of those gainfully occupied—
Is not in the jobs which are opened
up by operation of machines—
This increase in jobs is in what has
been called "overhead"—
Labor saving machines have re
leased these people from production—
Has increased supplies of food and
clothing available—
But has not increased directly the
number of occupations.
UNEMPLOYMENT FUND OVER
$112 MILLION
Columbus, O. (OLNS).—Ohio's un
employment compensation fund con
tained a total of $112,178,679.16, in
cluding interest, when the books were
closed on January 1, 1939, before the
payment of benefits was begun.
This figure was reached when con
tributions for the last quarter of 1938
were received from employers, com
pleting the three year contribution
period under which the fund was cre
ated.
By March I, the Commission had
paid out a total of $1,617,356.30 to
Ohio workers for total and partial un
employment. On that dat°, the num
ber of claims received totalled 148,
927.
Of that number, 122,114 were claims
for total unemployment, and 26,813
for partial unemployment benefits. To
that date, the Commission had allowed
111,223 claims, and disallowed 22,529,
leaving only 12,175 claims on hand and
in process while the claimants are
s e v i n e i e e- w e e k w a i i n
period.
I COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
The best estimates are that need
less illness costs the American people
at least $10,000,000,000 a year. En
forced idleness and unavoidable weak
ness caused by unnecessary disease are
the chief items in this gigantic bill
though not the only ones. And the
Wagner National Health Act, just in
troduced, is a sober, thoughtful, not
at all hasty effort to deal with this
appalling waste.
It will go through in some form
that is a perfectly safe wager. No
change in our national attitude in
many years is more striking than our
rising resentment at unnecessary
sickness and death.
No small part of this change is due
to a woman, Dr. Jessamine Whitney,
who, with a competent staff furnished
by an insurance company analyzed the
sickness and mortality figures of 1C
states. An astonishing proportion of
our people now recognize poverty as
the deadliest of all diseases and the
newest Wagner bill—how many times
have we used those words in the last
10 years?—is one statesmanlike rec
ognition of that fact.
And while American statesmen are
trying to lower the death rate at home,
the three big dictatorships seek to win
their aims by exporting death in mass
ed quantities abroad.
Field Marshal Hermann Goerinp
has declared, with all possible em
phasis and publicity, that Nazi Ger
many annexed Austria and Sudeten
land by the threat of her bombing
planes, and that she proposes to bring
'20,000,000 more population under her
sway by the same means. Goering
does not name the territories he pro
poses to annex in this way but he
makes it clear that any nation which
resists Hitler's will have its cities
bombed from the air.
A fine, humane way, this, to estab
lish a world overshadowing empire.
How many lives have the three big
dictatorships sacrificed since they
started to expand?
No one knows. The lowest estimate
of the loss of life in Spain, soldiers,
civilians, women and children, is fully
a million. In China, it must be more.
In Ethiopia, where in the total ab
sence of medical supplies and care,
even a moderate wound means death,
the figures are doubtless vastly great
er than accounts of the fighting show.
The House committee has reported
the largest army appropriation since
the World War just under $500,000,
000. There's no occasion for surprise.
By comparison with dictatorships,
democratic governments are much
handicapped in plotting or springing
war but when it comes to paying for
war, Uncle Sam can outspend Ger
many, Italy and Japan, all three.
OHIO CONSTRUCTION
NEWS
Several major construction projects
were reported contemplated through
out the state last week, and a million
dollar housing project at Warren
neared maturity as the United States
Housing Authority approved a loan
application making the project possi
ble.
Construction of an office building
and power sub-station at Portsmouth,
costing a total of $1,000,000, is re
ported contemplated by the Ohio
Power Co. Working drawings on the
office building have been completed
and bids will be asked soon, according
to reports.
Plans for a $400,000 women's dor
mitory at Miami University, Oxford,
have been completed and construction
will start as soon as lowest bids are
approved, reports state.
Two privately sponsored housing
developments in Cleveland suburbs
will be under way soon, according to
reports.
A corporation plans to develop a
tract in the Shaker View sub-division
with a construction program of 300
dwellings, mostly in the $7,500 classi
fication. Work on the first units is ex
pected to begin soon, reports state.
Another project, embracing 10 or 12
homes in the $10,000 class, is expected
to be launched soon on Severn Road,
Cleveland Heights.
A 28-building, 223 suite housing
project, to be erected on a 21 acre site
by the Warren Metropolitan Housing
Authority, is a step nearer maturity
following approval of a $990,000 loan
by the United States Housing Au
thority.
Preliminary plans are complete, and
working drawings will be started soon
by architects selected by the Author
ity.
WISDOM
Tlic .strength of a nation, es
pecially a republican nation, is in
the intelligent and well-ordered
homes of the prople.
—Lydia Sigourney.
FRIEND TO MAN
Yes, I'd like to sit by the side of the
road and be a friend to man but the
Chevies go by with a hiss and bang,
and the Fords with their rattling pan.
I'd need a stretcher and a Red Cross
nurse, and a doctor with ether can.
Then I could sit up in a tree by the
road and be a friend to man.
—Helen Creel.
Advertising promotes ideas of all
sort&—including the idea of buying.
Thursday, March 9,1039
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
PUBLIC OPINION
NO EUROPEAN WAR
PURGE ABSURDITY
WAR FOR DEMOCRACY
Court of public opinion began to rule
against the sit-down strike two years
ago. Decision wasn't unanimous but
it soon had good sized majority be
hind it.
Now Supreme Court rules the same
way, in a vigorous opinion written by
Chief Justice Hughes. s
American Federation of Labor W
the way in showing dangers of
sit-down. i 'Urvey,
It pointed out tb"f- -cegsary would
"new" strike techniqifleory 'that the en
to labor itself. pr legislation was
The dangers were 'aw»
who took time to refle'
a.
an"
*ey posi-
the sit-down and wher?11 "as's*
It led, of course, to
aemployes
found
less confusion, with irrel11 "ProP^r
norities in a position to
union contract they didn't fancy.
ac"
V™'
The boys who are always ready to
hail some short cut to labor's eman
cipation greeted the sit-down with
gladsome shouts.
They could see the immediate gains
won by the sit-down but they couldn't
~ee that in the long run, it threatened
greater losses than gains, because it
was bound to alienate public and em
ployer sympathy.
A. F. of L. opposition to the sit-f
down threw light on the whole prob-'_
lem and was a strong factor in the
ruling against sit-downers given by
the court of public opinion.
London and New York stodc ex
changes say there will be no European
war in the near future.
Rising prices on the two exchanges
express this opinion.
The Cherry Tree has suggested
from time to time that possibly the
writers on international affairs who
are always seeing war just around
the corner may be mistaken.
Possibly the world's financial powers
know more about the international
situation than the newspaper "ex
perts." They may be confident that the
totalitarian nations will not force war,
because of the realization that it will
mean their utter ruin.
Anyway, Americans can contribute
to world stability by not getting jit
tery. As the A. F. of L. says:
"We in America need to guard
against an emotional approach to for
eign problems, which would magnify
war scares, create hatred and fear,
and serve as a background for large
armament expenditures."
The utmost in "purge" absurdity
has been reached in Russia.
Children are now the victims of the
Communist purgers.
Three Soviet officials in a city in
the Urals are revealed as having
"framed" school children and obtained
their "confessions" on trumped up
charges of treason. They hoped thus
to win reputations for "vigilance
against enemies."
The children were questioned for
days and kept in jail eight months,
crowded into general cells with com
mon criminals as well as political of
fenders.
Revelations such as these should oc
casion no surprise. Dictatorial power
always brings gross abuses. The tyr
anny in the Kremlin is no exception to
the rule.
And this kind of thing goes under
a regime that American Communists
glorify and seek to line the United
States up with, in a "war for democ
racy"!
18 Tire Firms Sued
For Fixing Prices
Department of Justice Demands Over
Million Dollars Damages for
Conspiracy
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Washington, D. C.—The evident de
termination of certain large business
interests to evade statute law appears
to be revealed in a suit brought by the
Department of Justice against eigh
teen of the largest tire manufactur- II
ers in the United States on charges
of conspiring to fix prices of tires sold
to the Government between October
1, 1936, and March 31,1938.
The department alleged that the
companies reported to collusive or
identical bidding on Government con
tracts, which is held to violate the pro
vision of the Sherman Act which seeks
to give the Government the advantage
of competitive bidding.
Taking action under Section 7 of
the anti-trust act which provides for
triple damages, the Government sued
the companies for $1,053,174.
The eighteen companies named by
the Government as defendants are:
Cooper Corporation, Dayton Rubber
Manufacturing Company, Dunlop Tire (J
& Rubber Corporation, Falls Rubber
Company, Firestone Tire & Rubber
Company, Fisk Rubber Corporation,
General Tire & Rubber Company, B.
F. Goodrich Company, Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Company, Kelly-Springfield
Tire Company, Lee Tire & Rubber
Company of New York, Inc., Mohawk
Rubber Company of New York, Inc.,
Norwalk Tire & Rubber Company,
Pennsylvania Rubber Company, F. G.
Schenuit Rubber Company, Seiberling
Rubber Company, United States Rub
ber Products, Inc., and U. S. Tire
Dealers' Corporation.
Always Demand the
Union
Label.