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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
and
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published Every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P., owning and operating th« Best Tradas Newspaper and Jot
Printing Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
clas* matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rate of Postag»
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorize*
August 20, 191S.
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F. JEROME McKEEVER.1 Editor and Business Managei
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada
President—James M. Puffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Firut Vice President—E. L. Wheat ley. Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building, Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East Llv-
Ohio.
New Jersey.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton
New Jersey.
Sixth Vicc President—George Turner, Gienmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Seventh Vice President—William Watkin, 605 Edgewood Avenue, East
Liverjiool, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant St., Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool,
Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. G. DALE, FRED SUTTEULIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARI) SEYF1EKT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, CHAS. F. GOODWIN. M. J. LYNCH. ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives. JOHN McGILLIVliAY, LOUIS PIESLOCK, F. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN I). HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. BALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS. CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALViN J. BURT, Ii. li. HAISLOP. JOHN McGILLlVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALD, H. SPORE, MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVIN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
ADVANCE OF THE FIVE-DAY WEEK
'PHE achievement of the organized labor move
ment in obtaining shorter hours by trade
union action is significantly set forth in the re
port of the Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor to the annual convention of
the Federation in Cincinnati, Ohio, that 1,442,610
union members enjoy a five-day week.
The statistics submitted by the Council show
that fifty-five national and international unions
have secured the five-day week for some or all of
their members. A few of the larger numbers are
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, 17,893
members Boot and Shoe Workers Union, 80,850
members International Union of the United
Brewery, Flour, Cereal, and Soft Drink Workers
of America, 42,000 members Bricklayers, Ma
sons and Plasterers International Union of Amer
ica, 65,000 members The United Brick and Clay
Workers of America, 10,000 members United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
ica, 270,000 members National Federation of
Postoflice Clerks, 45,000 members International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of America,
162,000 members International Union of Oper
ating Engineers, 62,960 members Internationa!
I'hoto-Engiavers Union of North America, 9,500
members international Brotherhood of Firemen
and Oilers, 16,380 members United 'Garment
Workers of America, 40,000 members United
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International
Union, 35,000 members National Association of
Letter Carriers, 56,700 members Lithographers
International Protective and Beneficial Associa
tion, 11,000 members International Association
of Machinists, 92,000 members Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, 13,000
members Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America, 107,137 members
Operative Plasterers' International Association of
the United States and Canada, 19,000 members
United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters
of the United States and Canada, 40.000 members
International Printing Pressmen's and Assistants
Union of North America, 40,000 members Inter
national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper
mill Workers of the United States and Canada,
30,000 members Railway Mail Association, 22,
000 members American Federation of Teachers,
80,000 members Tobacco Workers International
Union, 16,115 members International Typograph
ical Union, 59,000 members Upholsterers Inter
national Union of North America, 10,000 mem
bers.
WATCH PRICES!
outlook for prices is vital to union mem
bers, as soaring prices could easily more
than offset wage gains resulting from business and
industrial improvement.
"A rapid rise in prices of food and other neces
saries could cancel workers' increasing income and
keep buying power at its present low level," the
American Federation of Labor points out, in urg
ing union members to watch prices and report any
undue increase to Federation headquarters.
The Federation declares tl^pre lias apparently
been price profiteering in some of the recent price
increases and says that by price profiteering it
means "raising prices more than enough to cover
legitimate costs."
Then the Federation goes on to say that union
members can perform an important service by im
porting any undue price increases in goods they
buy and by emphasizing that there is no reason
for runaway prices which this paper pointed out
some weeks ago.
"There is no shortage of food
in
States, and supplies of practically all important
.staples are ample," the Federation says. "Except
in cases where prices are below production costs,
there can
be
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of one year fi
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no excuse for large increases.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION
YISIONEP BY (iOMPERS
A\Y of those who recite the advantages which
working men and women throughout the
world have gained due to the activities of the In
ternational Labor Organization of the League of
Nations
unmindful of the fact the necessity
for such a group to promote better world-wide
.economic conditions for the workers was visioned
T\v the late Samuel Gonipers, president of the
•deration of Labor with the exception
roni its establishment until lus death
in 1924, many years before the I. L. 0. was set up
by the Versailles Peace Treaty.
This foresight of Mr Gompers was littmgl.\
recalled by James Wilson, former president of the
Pattern Makers' League of America and vice
president of the American Federation of Labor
now7 labor adviser of the International Labor Or
ganization, in an address before the annual con
vention of the A. F. of L. at Cincinnati on the ac
tivities of the I. L. 0.
"The older delegates to this convention," Mr
Wilson said, "will recall that at the 1914 conven
tion of the American Federation of Labor in Phila
delphia that Samuel Gonipers introduced the res
olution into that convention which gave birth to
the International Labor Organization. The organ
ization was born as a result of the World War
from /the vision of Gompers, who wanted to see
established some instrumentality that would seek
to raise the standard of life of the working peo
ple throughout the world.
"This International Labor Organization has
now functioned for twenty years. It has brought
many benefits into the lives of millions of people
throughout the world. As its preamble states, it
seeks to establish social justice and recognizes the
fundamental truth that world peace can only be
maintained by the establishment of social justice.
There is nothing that the International Labor
Organization does that is not in accord with the
high ideals and great principles of the American
Federation of Labor.
"At a time when the dictators are threatening
to destroy freedom and democracy in the world
we as trade unionists, know that the trade unions
are the bulwarks of both freedom and democ
racy. For under dictatorships trade unions are
suppressed and with it all forms of civil liberties.
The one great force that can prevent the de
struction of the organizations of labor is labor it
self."
OVER TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS
PAID IN TRADE UNION BENEFITS
tremendously important service performed
by trade unions in protecting their members
from want caused by unemployment, various
types of disability and in provision for their de
pendents in case of death is strikingly visualized
in the report of the Executive Council of the
American Federation of Labor to the annual con
vention of the Federation held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The report showed that during the twelve months
covered by the Council's report ".$25,586,288.58
was paid by National and International labor or
ganizations to their members in out-of-work, dis
ability, pension, death, sick, and miscellaneous
benefits." Commenting on this creditable achieve
ment, the Executive Council said:
"This vast sum of benefits paid, however, does
not cover the total amount paid by all National
and International organizations and local unions
during the past year. It represents the amount
paid by National and International organizations
and other organized units which reported to the
American Federation of Labor.
"Many local unions chartered by organizations
affiliated with the American Federation of Labor
and federal labor unions, chartered directly by the
American Federation of Labor, have established
funds out of which benefits were paid locally. Thus
there should be added to the total amount set
forth in this report of benefits paid to members
of organized labor, many millions of dollars more
paid by organizations not reporting and by local
unions chartered by National and International
organizations which have established local benefit
funds for the protection of their membership."
A breakdown of the total of $25,586,288.58
which the Executive Council reports the unions
paid in benefits reveals the following items: Death
benefits, $13,125,858.38 sick benefits, $1,306,
767.79 unemployment benefits, $2,582,542.87 old
age benefits, $5,331,206.54 disability benefits,
$1,611,090.88 miscellaneous benefits, $1,595,
827.12.
It is evidenced from these figures that the
unions affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor are vitally concerned with a much larger
field Lhan that encompassed by wages, hours,
and work conditions.
TRADE UNION HUMANITARIANISM
AN example of the broad humanitarianism fre
quently practiced by trade unions is furnished
by the Central Labor Union of Cambridge, Massa
chusetts, which recently provided an outing for a
large number of mothers and children in the low
income groups. In addition to an extensive en
tertainment the union supplied plenty of edibles
with a suitable gift for everyone who attended the
outing. The experiment was such a success that
lank S Curtis, secretary of the union, recom
mended that it be duplicated by other A. F. of L.
affiliates.
In a letter to Mr. Curtis praising the action of
the Cambridge Central Labor Union, President
William Green of the American Federation of La
bor said:
"Your central body is to be commended most
highly for the humanitarian service which it ren
dered the mothers and children at Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
"It is highly gratifying to learn that a central
body, such as the Cambridge Central Labor Union,
chartered by the American Federation of Labor,
serves as an instrumentality through which
nany mothers and children are accorded an oppor
tunity to enjoy recreation and an outing sponsor
ed by your Central Labor Union. It was a mighty
fine service which you rendered.
"1 noted with interest the character of the en
tertainment you supplied, and the abundance of
food which you distributed. Those who con
tributed toward the cost of your outing are to be
commended for the fine spirit which they mani
fested.
"1 value very highly the suggestion you make
that central bodies throughout the entire nation
set aside a day each year for the purpose of giv
ing an outing to mothers and children in the dif
ferent cities throughout the country."
o
The record of the American Federation of
Labor stamps us as a dependable, constructive,
American oiganization that maintains discipline
within its own ranks while it keeps progress for
wage-earners abreast of progress for the whole of
society. We are guided always by democratic
ideals. The A. F. of L. believes American labor
can best promote its own welfare within the
framework of American institutions and that
progress for labor is inseparable from progressi
for all.—William Green.
I
THE POTTERS HERALD
Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
We hear so much about democracy
these days that it is natural to as
sume everyone knows what democracy
means. The danger is we may con
lent ourselves with the definition that
democracy is the opposite of dictator
ship and let it go at that.
But we must probe a little deeper
for our own protection. In what re
spects is democracy the antithesis of
autocracy
Essentially democracy means gov
ernment of the people, by the people
and for the people, while autocracy
means government of the people by
an individual for that individual.
Therefore, in a democracy the people
themselves are empowered to protect
their rights while in an autocracy the
the dictator assumes the power to
trample on their rights.
What are these rights which so con
cern us? They are the right of free
speech, the right of free assembly, the
right to worship God as we please,
the right of free press and the right
to our day in court. Enjoyment of
these rights, it should be emphasized,
must be guaranteed in a democracy to
members of a minority group as well
as to those in the majority.
Now let us apply these elementary
but fundamental lessons to labor or
ganizations.
Many years ago, in 1910 in fact, a
convention of the American Federa
tion of Labor issued a declaration on
the rights of a minority in a demo
cratic organization which has always
been the guiding rule of the Federa
tion and which is especially pertinent
today.
Our Guilding Rule
We quote from this 1910 declara
tion:
"Every report, resolution, recom
mendation or suggestion coming be
fore the convention received the earn
est consideration of the delegates.
There are many gatherings of men
and women in which things that are
thought inconvenient or unacceptable
are suppressed by reference to a com
mittee, where they are killed and
buried. The American Federation of
Labor has this record—that no mat
ter what opinion may be held by a
delegate, if he expresses it in the form
of a resolution it is given consider
ation by the convention. We realize
the thought and the principle that
that country is best, that organization
is best, where the 'greatest freedom
obtains and where the rights of the
minority are guaranteed."
How that convention of 1910 called
the turn on the C. I. O. of today!
For in San Francisco last week
there was held a gathering of men
and women—the ""convention
—where several things that were
thought inconvenient or unacceptable
were suppressed by reference to a
committee where such resolutions
were killed and buried.
Ao an outstanding example, take
the subject of labor peace. More than
a dozen resolutions from State and
city bodies and from affiliated unions
were submitted to the convention de
manding unity with the A. F. of L.
These resolutions were suppressed.
They were referred to the resolutions
committee which killed and buried
them. And, instead, that committee
brought out a resolution which refer
red the peace pica from the President
of the United States to the so-called
peace committee of the C. I. 0. It is
that committee which John L. Lewis
has refused to permit to continue ne
gotiating with the A. F. of L.
Phony Democracy
By that very action the C. 1. O. ex
posed itself as an autocracy masquer
ading as a democracy. Beyond any
question of doubt the delegates to that
convention, as well as the rank and
file members they represented, were
eager to take action leading to labor
peace. Even if they were only a mi
nority, they had the right—or should
lave in democracy—to get up and
?peak for their ideas. But one man,
John 1. Lewis, trampled on their
rights. He ordained that the peace
resolutions be killed and buried. They
were. He ordered that these resolu
tions be thoroughly suppressed. They
were. Not a single'line of them was
even made public.
Is it any woner that Mr. Lewis,
the dictator of the 0. J. O., is being
widely compared with Adolph Hitler,
the dictator of Nazi Germany? Is
there any difference in their methods?
If additional proof of the C. J. O.
dictatorship were needed, it was sup
plied by Mr. Lewis himself during and
ifter the convention. I)o you remem
ber how Lewis publicly proclaimed
his "five-year plan" to the conven
tion? Outstripping even the dictators
of Europe in his contempt for democ
racy and truth, he brazenly declared
he expected to continue as a leader of
the C. I. O. for at least five years and
during that time expected to enlist fen
nillion members. How was that for
iiTogance? Did the thought ever occur
to Lewis that the members of the 0.
O. might want to choose another
leader in the meantime? It did he
atedly. In accepting re-election for
the coming year, be had the brass
nerve to say he didn't want to continue
in the job but had been persuaded to
do so by his associates. Excuse us
while we laugh.
One more point. At the conclusion
the convention, Lewis instituted a
'purge." He demoted several of his
puppet assistants and raised up other
tooges to replace them. Purge?
'urge? Whore have we heard of that
word before?
The busiest long distance telephone
circuits are those between New York
and Philadelphia.
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MB. MODESTUS
YOU'VE MISSED
SOMETHING
MACHINES DO THE
FARMING
N O O E A I S I N O S
BY "GUESS AND BY GOSH"
Did you ever—
Pitch wheat bundles in harvest
time—
Onto a farm wagon, drawn by live
ly horses—
When it began to rain, and they
trotted the horses—
Then did you have to "swing it"—
Or get the horse laugh from the
hired man?
Or, did you ever—•
Harvest corn fodder with a chop
ping knife—
Moving along, with an armful of
stalks—
Until you could carry them no
farther—
Stopping there to pile a "shock" of
corn?
In the fall, when the 6ars were
dried out—
"When the frost is on the punkin—
"And the fodder's in the shock—"
Have you husked corn out of the
field—
Pitching the heavy ears into the
moving wagon—
Breaking your linger nails, sprain
ing your wrists—
Trying to keep up with the
"champion husker"—
Well, if you have not done these
things—
It is getting too late to try it from
now on—
For it is getting itself done by ma
chinery—
Motorized threshing machines go
down the long fields—
Clipping off the heads of wheat,
shelling the kernels into sacks—
Leaving the tall straw to be plow
ed under again—
Helping to put humus back into the
soil—
Or the corn cutter, ambling along
between the rows—
Gathers stalks, shucks the corn,
loads the conveying truck—
One man doing the work formerly
requiring twenty husky fellows—
They have even ground the wheat
the same day it was reaped—
Making bread fresh from the field,
for harvest hands—
Farming by hand—
liaising crops by "guess and by
gtjsh"—
Has gone the way of the hand loom,
and the wagon shop—
In 1850 the total farm acreage was
293 million acres—
In 1930 all farms totaled 986 mil
lion acres—
More than three times the'acreage
in farm lands—
Farm implements in 1850 were
valued at $151 million—
In 1930, 80 years later, their value
was $3.3 billion—
More than thirty times the investr
ment in farm implements—
But: half of the farms in the
United States in 1929—
Produced only about one-tenth of
the marketed farm products—
W'hile farm land was being washed
down to the oceans—
At the rate of about 200 forty-acre
farms every day—
There are deserts in the Mesopo
tamian valleys—
Which came into being by just such
processes.
The man with a Hoe—
Had one Tool with which to produce
his daily bread—
Your modern farmer has about 00
different devices—
Of which the shovel, hoe, sickle and
rake are the least—
Farm workers in 1929 averaged
12,209,000 in number—
In 1938 they had decreased to 10,
745,000 or 12 per cent—
Meanwhile the national population
increased 44 per cent.
We bragged about employing a
million farmers—
To grow $300 million worth of cot
ton for export—
And didn't see that it amounted to
about $300 a year per farm family
While the cotton lands washed
down-stream—
And thg cotton chopper's children
Grew up ami went away to city
factories—
A1
read v ovo r- crowded.
INDUSTRIAL RISE CUTS (VU
Washington, D. C. (1LNS).—Robert
Fechner, director of the Civilian Con
servation Corps reports that in
creased industrial activity was re
sponsible for the first drop in CCC
enrollment in two years. New Jersey.
California, Connecticut, Oregon and
New York failed to meet quota allot
ments in October when the crops ask
ed for 90,655 junior enrollees and re
ceived only 90,307.
SESSIONS AVERAGE 111 DAYS
Chicago, 111.—The 44 state legisla
tures which met in regular session in
1939 sat for an average of 11 cal
endar days, a survey by the Council
of State Governments showed recent
ly. This was approximately 10 days
longer than the average sessions of
either 1937 or 1935 when these legis
latures last met. Wisconsin, adjourn
ing October fi, had the longest session
268 days—giving rise to a pro
posal for limiting legislative meetings.
The proposal was rejected.
'I' *t'
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
Benefits of labor organization, once
enjoyed, are not forgotten by the
workers, though the organization it
self may have vanished. The Nazis
are learning this fact, to their grief
and anger.
The International Transport Work
ers' Federation reports that drastic
wage cuts, speed up of work and other
exploitation of labor under the Hit
ler regime, especially since the war
began, are making the German work
ers remember keenly the comparative
ly good conditions won by the trade
unions in former years. The Nazis are
well aware of the workers' mood and
the Berlin "Treuhander der Arbeit"
warns sternly against the workers
"remembering former trade unionist
methods and imaging they can turn
the scarcity of labor to account and
exact the highest possible wages."
But the flood of Nazi measures
hostile to the workers is helping to
create a popular front of despair and
misery, the Transport Workers' Fed
eration says. It adds:
"In the struggle for their daily
bread the Nazi workers, the champions
of liberty, the friends of peace are
united in one front. Open resistance
is not yet feasible but they still have
one weapon: for a low wage, slow
work they will only just do precisely
what they must but no more. And
every bit of work left undone is one
obstacle .more to Hitler's war of
plunder."
Premier Molotoff of Russia in
blandly referring to treaties forced on
the little Baltic nations as "mutual
assistance pacts" set a new record for
gall.
The treaties, as all the world knows,
make Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
virtual Soviet protectorates.
Yet Molotoff has the nerve to ex
press wonderment that Finland
should be unwilling to accept a similar
"treaty."
The Finns have the same suspicion
of Soviet Russia that the hen has of
the fox, when Sir Reynard comes:
proferring "protection" and profess
ing undying affection for all the hen
tribe.
After seeing what Russia did to the
Baltic nations, Finland would be
stupid indeed if it welcomed Russian
demands with open arms.
In an editorial headed "Expert,"
the Washington Daily News points
out that we have just lost a real ex
pert on neutrality. It says:
"Tolbert Hatfield of Ransom, Ky.,
saw a lot of feuding in his time. He
was a young man in the 1880s, when
the famous Hatfield-McCoy 'border
war' broke out. A first cousin of
'Devil Anse' Hatfield he lost many a
kinsman in the fighting. But some
how Tolbert Hatfield managed to re
main on peaceful terms with both
sides, and he died in his bed the other
day at the age of 89.
"We're sorry he's gone, for he
seems to have been one of this
country's real experts on neutrality
under difficult circumstances."
THE BUSINESSMAN
Was arguing. He was against any
Curtailment of a man's right
To make as much money as he could
Holding that if you interfere
In any way with a man's profits you
Will destroy his initiative and he
Won't work. And then I
Remembered that this businessman
Had been in Washington, D. C.
As one of the dollar-a-year-bovs, and
He had worked hard for actually
Nothing, because he didn't even
Cash his one-dollar check,
But kept and framed it.
And I reminded him of this
And asked him to explain.
He had an answer, but it was
Quite unconvincing.
There are other things beside
Profits that will stimulate men
To their best, and the
Man who thinks otherwise is
Underestimating himself.
W I S O I
The critics of democracy have
the easiest of tasks in demon
strating its inefficiency. But there
is something e\en more important
than efficiency and expediency
namely, justice. And democracy is
the only social order (hat is admis
sible, because it is the only one
consistent with justice. The moral
consideration is supreme.—Robert
Br i ITau It.
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W A N E
Subdividing offices and par
titioning shops and factories be
come a simple, low cost operation
with new movable partition walls
of asbestos-cement composition.
Connectors are said to make dis
mantling and relocation as simple
as original erection. The
Malls
are only I and three-quarters inch
thick but posses a high degree of
resistance to noise and fire.
JOB DISCRIMINATION FOR AGE
I contend that a person in hi.
forties is at the peak of his capabili
ties. It is unfortunate that he should
be denied employment by the Govern
ment or by private enterprise simply
because, he has reached that age.—
Senator James M. Mead of New York.
Thursday, November 9,1939.
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
REMEMBER "BUY UNION"
FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
BOOST UNION'S POSITION
BOOST JOBS FOR
UNIONISTS
Union members and their friends
can give a big impetus to union or
ganization and union conditions by do
ing one thing when they buy Christ
mas presents.
That one thing, of course, is to "buy
union."
Which means demanding the union
label on everything they buy and by
insisting on being served by union
men and women.
"Buy union" may mean some slight
inconvenience, in a few cases.
It may be a little hard to find cer
tain things bearing the union emblem
but in most cases there will be no
difficulty.
Anyway, suppose there is? Are
union members to be turned from
their purpose by a little difficulty
If they had been in the past, there
would be no labor movement in
America today.
Just a little thought will reveal
some of the ways in which Christmas
"buying union" will boost organized
labor.
It will increase employment of
union men and women, by increasing
sales of union goods and services. In
creased employment of union members
will enlarge union membership and
fatten union treasuries.
"Buy union" will strengthen the po
sition of organized workers in negoti
ating with their employers.
If employers are benefiting sub
stantially from the sale of union label
goods, they can hardly refuse to look
with favor on requests for higher pay
and improved working conditions.
Higher pay anywhere increases the
national purchasing power and helps
employment.
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"Buying union" will make non
union employers better disposed to
ward unionization of their working
forces and will lead to more unionized
plants and service establishments.
These desirable results, and others,
are promoted by union label buying
any time, but union label buying for
the holiday season is especially ef
fective, because of its great volume.
Perhaps the reader now is thinking,
"all this is very well but it's too early
to think of getting Christmas pres
ents."
But it isn't. Now is the time to
resolve to buy early and buy
unidn and make good on the re
solves.
Because the early buyer is the wise
bird who gets the best of everything,
at the fairest prices.
He or she has the widest selection,
from stocks of goods that are com
plete and have not been pawed over
by hurrying throngs.
And buying early is a help to sales
people who are under great strain
just before Christmas, when last
minute shoppers jam the stores in
frantic effort to buy this and that.
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Not all people can shop early, for
various reasons. Unfortunately, some
can't shop at all. Those out of work
can do little if any buying.
But the great body of union men
and women can begin now to get their
Christmas presents.
Business and industrial improve
ment of the last two or three months
are putting more to work, adding to
the army of labor unionist Christmas
shoppers.
If this army of labor unionists and
their friends begin NOW to demand
union label products, the beneficial re
sults will soon be apparent.
Let's make it a "Merry Union La
bel Christmas," says I. M| Ornburn of
the A. F. of L. Union Label Trades
Department.
Widespread and consistent union la
bel buying would make Christmas,
1939, truly a Merry Christmas for all
organized labor.
New Wage-Hour Standards
Affect Over 176,000 In Ohio
(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Hours of labor for an estimated
176,000 Ohioans employed by firms en
gaged in interstate commerce were
reduced from 41 to 42 per week on
October 24 as the second phase of the
Federal Fair Labor Standards (Wage
Hour) Act became effective.
Minimum rates of pay for approxi
mately 12,900 workers in Ohio were
raised from 25 cents to 30 cents per
hour at the same time, while higher
increases, established by industry
committees and approved by the ad
ministrator, went into effect in the
hosiery and textile industries.
Pay at the rate of time and one
half for all work performed in excess
of the 42-hour maximum is provided
under the Act. Deadline for the hour
reduction is October 30 to permit work
schedule readjustment, but the in
creased minimum pay rates went into
immediate effect October 24.
Ohio workers affected are a part of
the estimated 690,000 in the nation
who get wage increases and 2,380,
000 now working more than 42 hours,
whose standard week is reduced to
that maximum figure.
On October 24, 1945, a permanent
40 cent minimum will become effective
under the provisions of the Act. A
4'J-hour work week will go into effect
on October 24, 1940.