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The convention, with President Jo
seph Wells in the chair, will open
Made In America Week, one of the
features of which will be Made In
America Day at the World's Fair,
Tuesday, May 21.
Officers for the coming year will be
elected during the afternoon session
of the convention, Monday. A nomin
ating committee will be appointed to
present candidates to the members.
-C. B. J. Molitor of the North Amer
an Lace Company will give his views
on "What American Industry Can Ex
pect At the Close of the War." At the
dinner, which will be held in the ball
room of the Astor Monday evening,
C. F. Hatmaker, vice president of the
American Oil Company George Cless,
author of "The Eleventh Command
ment," and Saul Cohn, former presi
dent of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association, will address the guests.
The club will undoubtedly continue
its past policy of teaching Americans
to spend their American-made dollars
for American-made products so other
JWnrier8 c*»n buy the goods they, the
original spenders produce. Necessary
imports do not injure our national
economy. They enhance it. On the
other hand anything that displaces
and competes with that which we pro
duce ourselves curtails employment,
reduces our own buying power, lessens
consumption and eventually curtails
production, which is the very life of
American business.
if -If we put our own house in order
first, we will buy more of these essen
tial imports than we have ever im
ported before. Thus will our foreign
trade increase in a normal and healthy
way.
For Made in America Day at the
Fair, the club will have a hostess com
mittee with the following well known
women serving: Dr. Louise C. Ball,
chairman Mrs. George Washington
Kavanaugh, vice-chairman Miss Ad
rienne Poillon, Mrs. Mollie Tackaberry
McAdoo, Mrs. Lenora H. Warner, Miss
Fbnnie Hurst, Princess Farid, Mrs.
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Fifteen Hundred
Delegates Attend
Penn State Meet
Delanie of Canonsburg, L.
U. 51, Introduces Japanese
Boycott Resolution
Canonsburg, Pa.—Local Union No.
61, at the regular meeting Monday
evening, elected as delegates to the
national convention, Charles A. Har
ris and Edward C. Delanie with James
Green and Calvin Bixby, alternates.
A large turnout filled the hall to vote
for their favorite candidates.
Charles T. Wayte, treasurer, was
among the missing as he was laid up
with a case of the grippe. It takes
something like that to keep Charlie
away from the meetings as he holds
the record for attendance.
The financial secretary wants it to
be known that he will read out the
names of delinquent members at the
next meeting unless they pay up. Any
one not wanting their names read out
had better see the financial secretary
and put themselves in good standing.
Brother E. C. Delanie gave a report
of the Pennsylvania State Federation
of Labor held at the William Penn
hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. The report was
well received and a vote of thanks
given Brother Delanie. He stressed
the labor forums which preceded the
convention, calling them most educa
tional, as they prepared the delegates
for the convention. Labor must be
advised and instructed as to what to
expect in the future so they can meet
oncoming conditions, he stated.
The speaker and leader of the fo
rums was Spencer Miller, Jr., well
known to our national president, Mr.
Duffy. Other speakers were James L.
McDevitt, president of the State Fed
eration of Labor, who opened the fo
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Duffy To Address Made-ln-America
Club Convention In New York, Monday
Relationship Between Work
er and Employer Subject
of NBOP Heads Talk
DAY AT WORLD FAIR
Made In America Week
Opens Monday Tuesday
Will Be Spent At Fair
President James M. Duffy of the
National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters and vice president of the Made
In America Club, Inc., will address
that body on the opening day of its
convention in the North Orangerie of
the Hotel Astor, New York, Monday,
May 20, on the subject of employer
and employe relationship and the
benefits to be derived from a thorough
imderstanding of each other's prob
lems.
VOL. XLIV., NO.
Workable Pension
Plan Backed A.F.L.
Wild Promises of "Ham anc
Eggs" Townsend and
CIO Are Hit
Washington, D. C.—Rattle-brained
pension schemes which promise the
moon to gullible aged persons were
exposed and assailed by the American
Federation of Labor.
President William Green sent to af
filiated organizations copies of a new
pamphlet called "A Rainbow Pot of
Gold, or Dependable Income for Old
Age," which blasts the fallacies of the
Townsend, "Ham and Eggs" and CIO
pension schemes and presents the hon
est, workable program of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor.
Summed up, the A. F. of L. pro
gram provides for the following ob
jectives:
1. "Jobs first with good wages and
working conditions.
2. "Insurance next to provide in
come and a reasonable protection
against huge expenses during periods
of unemployment and illness for the
worker and his dependents.
3. "Income in old age which is in
reasonable proportion to the whole
program of social protection.
"That is a plan," the A. F. of L.
pamphlet declares, "organized labor
can honestly support and for which
our millions of workers can reasonably
work. That is a program worth pay
ing for, one which keeps a fair rela
tionship between individual and social
efforts.
In a preface to the pamphlet, Mr.
Green charged:
"Persons baiting you with Town
send plans, 'ham and eggs' or soft
promises of $60 a month when you are
55 or 60. if single, and $90 if married,
never "tell what the plan will cost, who
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MIAC Gives Away
World Fair Tickets
Made In America Week
Passes Go To Those Spot
ted Wearing Buttons
New York, N. Y.—Beginning Tues
day, May 14, the Made in America
Club will give away free tickets to
the World's Fair, according to an
nouncement made this week by Cap
tain F. X. A. Eble, the national direc
tor of the club. These tickets will be
good for May 21, which has been des
ignated as "Made-in-Ainerica Day by
the World's Fair. The free tickets
go to lucky wearers of the Made in
America Club membership button who
are spotted by field representatives of
the club who are to be directed to
various areas throughout the city
which areas were not known to them
until the morning of the 14th.
The purpose is to promote a greater
interest in the club's campaign to give
preference to American products as
far as possible and to stimulate its
millions of advocates to buy patrioti
cally at this time so as to increase pro
duction and employment.
Made-in-America Week
May 20 to 26 has been designated
as "Made-in-America" week during
which period department stores and
retail outlets have agreed to drama
tize the high quality of American
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With all plans for the greatest pic
nic ever to be staged in this state
coming along at a speedy rate, the
Golden Anniversary outing promises
to be the main topic of conversation
in the various local unions, street
corners and ice cream parlors along
the pottery cities' main drags for
many a year to come.
Hyrum Updyke, noted weather seer,
has come up after many weeks of
figuring with the assertion that he
will allow his reputation to hang on
his decision that June 15 will be the
most perfect day in some thirty-odd
years. Even Dr. C. Mortimer Crumb
ly, the gifted professor, has returned
after a hard football season to do a
bit more prognosticating. He sees
the 1940 picnic surpassing all previous
records as to attendance and fun,
which is some prognosticating, just in
case you are asked.
The good doctor also stated he
thought he would have his shoes
shined, wear his best bat-wing bow
tie and slick down his curls in the hope
of meeting Aunt Minnie at Idora Park.
He will have to go some if he expects
Efforts To Block Abolition Of
Board Backed By
Federation
Washington, D. C.—Full endorse
ment of the efforts of Senator McCar
ran and Representative Clarence F.
Lea to set aside Presidential Reorgani
zation Order No. 4 was expressed by
President William Green in letters to
these Congressional leaders.
This order proposes to abolish the
Air Safety Board and strip the Civil
Aeronautics Authority of its independ
ence and place regulatory control of
air transportataiqn back under the De
partment erf Commerce.
Mr. Green pointed out that a world's
air safety record has been established
during the administration of the Fed
eral agencies affected by this reorgani
zation order. For 12 consecutive
months the airlines Hew 23,028,817
passengers without a single fatility,
The A. F. of L. President also noted
that the Air Line Pilots Association,
affiliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor, are strongly opposed to
the reorganization order.
Contrasting the air safety record of
the past year with the fact that 473
persons lost their lives in airplane ac
cidents during the period that the De
partment of Commerce regulated civil
air transportation, Mr. Green con
cluded
"Why not let well enough alone?
"The American Federation of Labor,
heartily endorses your House Concur
rent Resolution 60 (Senate Concurrent
Resolution 43) to set aside Reorgani
zation Order No. 4 because there never
was a proposal more just and right. I
feel certain that all Congressmen and
Senators who voted for the enactment
of the law that you and Senator Mc
a a n s u e s s u y s o n s o e a n
which has worked out so admirably
will again vote with you to maintain
in status quo the Civil Aeronautics Act
of 1938 in the interest of air safety for
America's air traveling public and the
splendid men and women who make
up the crews operating the ships."
Just about time you started to figure
out a new way to make potato salad.
The old way won't be good enough
for the Golden Anniversary Picnic.
Dr. C. Mortimer Crumbly, Back to View
The Picnic, Hopes To Meet Aunt Minnie
to keep up with our Paden City frient,
however, because Aunt Minnie never
misses a trick. She says she goes to
the annual outing to have fun and she
goes out after it.
The one hundred pairs of skates to
be given away to the children are re
ported the finest ever obtained by the
committee. They will soon make their
appearance in the display windows of
the Keys Co., West Fifth Street.
Ace Brigode, one of the more pop
ular of the purveyors of swing, will
furnish the tempos for both afternoon
and evening dancing in the excellent
ball room. The afternoon jam session
is absolutely free. And we mean free
and we mean JAM.
It's going to be a great day. Make
certain now that you have the date
well in mind, because you will never
forgive yourself if you allow anything
to conflict with your plans to attend
the Golden Anniversary Picnic of the
potters. It will be the best.
Remember, too, that one of the main
features of the outing is the drawing
which is open only to those potters
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You'll be going off the deep end for this Golden Anniversary Picnic, June
15, at Idora's beautiful park in Youngstown. Why not take a peak in the
trunk to see if the moths beat you to your swim suit. With the weatherman
predicting a good hot day, the swimming will be fine.
Air Safety Board
Endorsed By AFL
Official Organ
of the National Brotherhood of Operative Pot,
EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
COME ON IN—THE WATER'S FINE
Arnold
a
"Hitler"
States Matt Woll
Ass't Attorney General's
Actions Are Bound To
Weaken Unions
New York City (ILNS).—In vigor
ously condemning the Department of
Justice's actions against labor unions
under the anti-trust laws, Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, referred to As
sistant Attorney General Thurinan Ar
nold as a "Hitler," whose activities
"are bound to weaken, if not destroy
the labor organizations of our land.
Speaking before the Cei.tral Trades
and. Labor •"•"'"-H Ar
nold's program constituted "persecu
tion and prosecution of labor" under
the Sherman act.
Woll said Arnold was "throwing a
protective arm around the CIO and
company unions despite the fact that
Congress expressly recognized that
the company union has been a fertile
source of industrial strife."
Following Woll's attack, the dele
gates unanimously voted to protest
against Arnold's activities in petitions
to President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Robert H. Jackson.
And So It's Over!
Fake Chicago Guild Strike
Is Exposed By AFL
News Writer
(The following article on the settle
ment of the CIO American Newspaper
Guild "strike" against the Chicago
Herald-American was written by Don
De Michaels, Vice President of the
Chicago Editorial Association, to give
members of the American Federation
of Labor a true picture of the situa
tion.)
And so it has ended—the 1712
month boycott against the Chicago
Herald-American and its predecessor
papers, the Herald-Examiner and the
Evening American.
The CIO Chicago Newspaper Guild
and its parent, the American Newspa
per Guild, which ah-eady are shouting
"Victory" from coast to coast, in the
hope that someone will believe them,
have taken a licking that they will be
years in recuperating from—if ever
they do.
The vote, when the plant election is
held sometime in the next few months,
will be limited to current employes of
the affected departments only.
Since the two American Federation
of Labor locals, the Chicago Editorial
Association and the Newspaper Com
mercial Associates, each outnumber
Guildsmen in their departments by six
to one or better, the eventual outcome
is obvious.
The Guild, in its version of the set
tlement, brags that some of those re
turning will receive salary increases
and carefully avoids stating this is be
cause they are coming back to the em
ploy of the paper under the higher
wage scale negogiated by the Chicago
Editorial Association, whose contract
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DON'T FORGET:
Potters Golden Anniversary
Picnic.
Where:
Idora Park, Youngstown.
When:
Just Four Weeks From
This Saturday
Teamsters Receive
Clean Slate From
US Judge F. D. Letts
Anti-Trust Indictments Are
Dismissed By Federal
Court Action
DECISION QUICK
Judge Hands Down Ruling
One Minute After Close
of Long Case
Washington, D. C.—Federal Judge
F. Dickinson Letts ordered a directed
verdict of acquittal for the officials of
e I n e n a i o n a o e o o o
Teamsters indicted here under the
anti-trust laws.
The decision was hailed by President
William Green and Defense Counsel
Joseph A. Padway as a great victory
for the American Federation of La
bor. They called the court's ruling
a severe blow o the campaign under
taken by Assistant Attorney General
Thurman Arnold to prosecute activities
of labor organizations under the Sher
man Act.
Judge Letts handed down his deci
sion at the conclusion of two weeks of
testimony presented by the prosecut
ing attorney. Mr. Padway argued for
a directed verdict of acquittal. The
prosecutor objected. A minute after
he had ended his argument, Judge
Letts handed down his sweeping de
cision. He ruled:
1.—That the defendants had done
nothing other than they had a right to
do as officers of the union.
2.—That their conduct did not vio
late the Sherman Act.
3.—That none of the defendants
could be charged with criminal intent.
The judge then threw out the indict
merits which were based on a jurisdic
tional dispute between the Teamsters
Union and the International Union of
Operating Engineers, that has since
been settled. **..•»-
Those acquitted of all charges by
order of Judge Letts were:
Local G39, the District of Columbia
local, of the International Brotherhood
of Teamsters.
Thomas O'Brien, international repre
sentative of the union Stewart Keyser
and Aubrey Streams, business agents
of the local Charles Bell, president of
the local, and Linwood A. Trainham,
secretary.
President Green commented:
"This court decision is a distinct vic
tory for the American Federation of
Labor. It should demonstrate to the
entire country the truth of our con
tention that Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Thurman Arnold has gone far
afield in seeking to proscribe the law
ful activities of labor unions by the
filing of wholesale indictments under
the anti-trust laws.
"It was Mr. Arnold's theory that the
Federal Government could regulate
and control the activities of labor un
ions by invoking the anti-trust laws
against them. Now this theory has
had its second test in the Federal
Courts. Both times it has fallen to
pieces in the face of the facts, the law
and common sense. Federal Judge
Davis in St. Louis recently dismissed
i n i e n s a a i n s o i i a s o e
United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Judge Letts, in the District of Colum
bia Federal Court did the same thing
in the Teamsters case. After presen
tation of prosecution testimony for
two weeks and without finding it nec
essary to hear the defense, Judge Letts
threw Mr. Arnold's case out the win-
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!iMIK
Herald
2.00 PER YEAR
Better Business, More Jobs, Forecast
As Employment Gains Are Reported
Washington, D. C.—Better business
conditions and more jobs for workers
were forecast in the American Federa
tion of Labor's monthly unemployment
survey which reported large employ
ment in May and in the third quarter
of the year," the survey found.
Increased buying power of workers
and farmers was held definitely re
sponsible for the upturn.
"Thus," the survey continued, "we
see in operation the economic principle
which labor has been declaring for
years. High workers' income creates
new business. Hourly wage rates have
been held at high levels throughout
the 1938 recession, and this year they
have increased further, to one per cent
above last year. This slight raise, to
gether with increased employment, is
providing the buying power to which
industry responds."
The Federation's employment esti
mate shows that 1,100,000 more per
sons were at work in March, 1940, than
in March, 1939. This gain more than
offsets the increase in working popula
tion, so that unemployment has been
e u e o 1 0 9 0 2 0 0 0 i n a
Family Homes Down Abou
Twelve Per Cent With
Union Labor
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Over
all costs of building complete family
homes have been reduced to an aver
age of $4,456 in the first 193 low-rent
with loans from the United State
public housing projects constructed
Housing Authority, the agency report
Th is is about 12 per cent less than the
$5,071 average total cost of like dwell
ings in 240 large scale rental develop
ments erected by private industry on
much the same basis.
The low costs have been achieved
without any cutting of wages or
lengthening of hours. USHA work is
done under standard union conditions,
the law setting up the agency specify
ing that prevailing rate of wages must
be paid.
New Cost Significant
Nathan Straus, USHA administra
tor, pointed to the significance of the
new low over-all cost achieved because
it includes total charges for land and
for constructing the house, costs of
non-dwelling facilities such as play
grounds and recreational rooms with
in the project, administrative expenses,
equipment, carrying charges and ar
chitects' fees.
The average net construction costs
of these same homes, including charges
for plumbing, heating and electrical
equipment, have reached a new low
of $2,79C. This is about 20 per cent
less than the $3,448 average for pri
vate building throughout the country
as shown by statistics of the U. S. Bu
reau of Labor.
Major reasons for continuing lower
ing of construction costs in the USHA
program were attributed by Adminis
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Taxes Take Fifth
National Income
Total Two and One-Half Per
Cent Below Peak Hit
During 1938
New York City (ILNS).—T a e s
take one-fifth of the national income,
the Tax Policy League, 907 Broadway,
says in the current issue of its month
ly journal, Tax Policy.
The league reports that taxes col
lected by all units of government in
the United States—national, state and
local—last year amounted to 30.1 per
cent of the national income produced,
nearly 5 per cent more than the share
of the national income taken by taxa
tion in 1930 but almost 2.5 per cent
less than the peak reached in 1938.
No Definite Trend
Because both income and tax col
lections have fluctuated so widely in
recent years, it is difficult to see any
very definite trend during the decade,"
Tax Policy says.
If we exclude payroll taxes, we find
that the ratio reached its highest point
in 1932, when taxes amounted to 20.5
per cent of the national income. The
next highest point was reached in
1938, when taxes amounted to 20.2 per
cent of income.
''Taxes in 1939 amounted to 20.1 per
cent or 17.8 per cent, depending on
whether or not payroll taxes were in
continued on Page Two)
1939, to 10,348,000 in March, 1940. To
tal employment in March, 1940, was
43,511,000 as compared to 42.387,000
in March, 1939, and 43,218,000 in Feb
ruary, 1940.
The survey continued:
"It is significant that, from Febru
ary to March, while employment in
factories fell off by 55,000 due to de
clining production levels, gains in farm
employment and in retail trade greatly
exceeded those of last year. In retail
stores, 153,000 were added to payrolls
in March, 1940, compared to 86.C0 last
March, and total retail employment
exceeded last year by more than 215,
000.
"The early Easter date advanced the
spring season somewhat, but this gain
is due chiefly to the higher level of re
tail sales, which are running some 8
per cent above last year. Workers'
buying power in the first quarter of
1940 has been above last year by $519,
000,000 or 4.9 per cent, and this with
increased farm buying accounts for the
higher level of retail sales. Farmers'
buying power has been above 1939 by
(Continued on Page Two)
Brotherhood Wins Clear Cut Victory In
NLRB Election At Trenton Standard Co.
USHA Reports New
Low All-Over Cost
Almost 300 Cast Ballots In
Consent Election Held
Last Week
CONFERENCE SET
Meeting To Consider List of
Propositions Expected
This Saturday
Held under the supervision of the
Philadplphia National Labor Relations
Board, Tuesday, May 7, the election at
the Standard Pottery Plant in Trenton
resulted in Local 175 National Broth
erhood of Operative Potters attaining
a clear cut majority in its favor as the
sole bargaining representative for all
employes in production at the above
mentioned plant.
The election, which in Labor Board
circles is known as a consent election,
was arranged among Mr. William
Lewis, representing the Labor Board,
Mr. Kelly of the Standard Company
and E. L. Wheatley, representing the
Brotherhood. These men signed an
agreement permitting the Labor Board
representative to set up the machinery
for determining whether a majority of
all production employes favored Local
175 and its representatives to carry on
their collective bargaining or not.
Organizer James Solon and Eall
Clawges, president of Local 175, acted
as observers for the union. Mr. HiH
and Mr. Henderson represented the
Standard Company in the same capac
ity. Approximately 90 per cent of all
employes voted and the majority real
ized by Local 175 is indicative that tiki
Standard employes desire collective
bargaining under the banner of s
legitimate trade union organization!.
The election was run off without aiqr
difficulties in fact, not even one pro
test was made by either party con'
eerning an ineligible or unentitled
vote.
Sinoe the official decision bar
sent to the company and the union v
rangements are being made for a cotf»
ference that will probably be held Sat
urday, May 18, to negotiate into aA
agreement the propositions previously
endorsed by Local Union 175 anu sub
mitted to the management.
Representatives of National Broth
erhood of Operative Potters and its
members employed at the Standard
Plant believe there is no reason why
the same cordial relationship cannot
be realized that now exists between
its members and the same company
management in Richmond, Calif.
There are 321 employes listed in
production departments in the Trenton
plant, exclusive of clerical and super
visory employes. This large number
of potters is made up of very intelli
gent men who give great promise of
progressive and militant unit in the
vastly increasing membership that is
being admitted to the original and log
ical family of potters in the trade un
ion movement.
Increase In Wages
Interest Members
Of Local Union 96
Congratulates Employes of
Trenton Potteries On
Boost Received
Perth Amboy, N. J.—The members
of Local 96 were pleased to read in
the Herald of May 1, that members
of the Trenton Potteries received an
increase in pay. This question has
been a drawing card at our meetings
for the past few months and the mem
bers make it clear that they want
more pay.
C. L. U. delegate Lybeck reported
that he and Brother Madson attended
legislative session of the assembly
at Trenton, May G. No legislation
was brought up that night, but never
theless both brothers urged all mem
bers to try and attend some of these
sessions to show our representatives
we are interested in having labor bills
put through.
It was also mentioned that Brother
Lybeck has been quite active in the
forming of an American Legion Labor
Post in the vicinity and that he, aa
chairman of the Ceneral Labor Union's
American Legion Labor Committee,
has sent 30 letters requesting vete
ans who would be interested to get
in touch with him. A meeting will be
arranged if enough veterans show in
terest.
Since our local has been affiliated
with the Building Trades Council of
Perth Amboy it has had a representa
tive at every meeting and recently the
N. B. of O. P. had occasion to test the
alue of such an affiliation when we
decided to picket the local housing
project. This picketing was done af
ter warning those in authority on the
project many times, at least five
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