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Becknell, Smailwood, Stack
house and Woodward
Named Delegates
PICNIC INTEREST
Local 70 To Be At Idora To
Root Baseball Team Home
Against Clarksburg
Minerva, Ohio.—Hello, folks. Mi
nerva is here again to speak her lit
tle piece which we hope will prove of
interest to the members of the organi
zation.
We went into session last Friday
v. night to choose delegates to the com
ing convention in Atlantic City. Practi
cally all departments were represented
by eligibles for the four posts permit
ted us and it was certainly in our favor
that all those contesting for the honor
of representing this local were of the
highest calibre.
Local Union No. 70 named Scott
Becknell, Harry (Bud) Smailwood,
Hurbert Stackhouse and James Wood
ward to present our resolutions to the
convention and act with that body in
the important work of forming a ba
sis for the propositions to be taken by
the joint conference later in the year.
We are certain all of our members
will be with us at the next meeting to
discuss our proposals before sending
the delegates to Atlantic City. Alter
nates chosen were: Abe Edwards, Tim
Desmond, Louis Brim and Anna Scott.
Vice President George Turner paid this
local a visit in an attempt to straight
en out a difficut problem confronting
us in the lining department. Lacking
a few days of having their six months
in at the bench, two of the girls were
removed from their jobs. The local
lid vised that the spirit of the law was
-feeing* violated and that the girls
should be permitted to return to work,
t)Ut some of the liners refused to ac
cept this ruling. Brother Turner gave
the same ruling, but again the same
liners refused to abide by the decision
and have attempted to bring other
members of the decorating shop to
their way of thinking and are threat
ening to start a separate unit.
A situation of this nature arose be
fore President James M. Duffy's last
visit, but no one mentioned it from the
floor of the local after he arrived.
With a wage conference in the near
future and general unrest due to the
great war, this is no time for our peo
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Youth Placed In
Many Jobs During
1939 BUC Reports
Placement of Those Under
25 Up 114% Over the
Year Previous
Columbus, Ohio.—Job placements of
youth 24 years of age and under by
the Employment Service Division of
the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation last year were 114.2 per
cent greater than in 1938, an analysis
of the 148,314 total placements made
in 1939 by the Service discloses.
Youth placements accounted for 47,
369, or 31.9 per cent of the jobs found
for workers last year by the Employ
ment Service, the remaining 100,945,
or 68.1 per cent, going to workers 25
years of age or over, the Bureau re
ported yesterday to Governor John W.
Bricker.
Average percentage increase of
youth placements in 1939 over 1938,
through offices operated by the Bureau
in eight Ohio cities of over 100,000
population, was 52.6 per cent, the ana
lysis reveals.
These metropolitan offices, located in
Akron, Canton, .Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Columbus, Dayton, Toledo and
Youngstown, accounted for 90,042 of
the total placements made in 1939 by
the Employment Service, through 47
general offices, 13 branch offices, and
52 itinerant (part-time) points, oper
ated by the Bureau throughout the
state.
Of the 90,042 placements made by
these eight offices in 1939, 25,436, or
28.2 per cent were workers 24 years of
age or under, workers 25 or over being
placed in 64,606, or 71.8 per cent of the
employment opportunities filled.
Youngstown, Canton, Cleveland, and
Akron had high placement averages of
workers 24 years of age and under.
Dayton, Columbus, Toledo and Cincin
nati offices had ratios lower than the
average for the eight principal cities.
The analysis shows that placements
of persons 24 and under in 1939 by all
Bureau offices were concentrated in
two occupational groups clerical
workers and salespersons.
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Vi
iiTitiVitall
Minerva Elects
Four Delegates
To A. C. Meeting
tf
Reduction in the hours of work is
one of the foremost objectives of the
organized labor movement," Mr. Meany
said. "For sixty years the American
Federation of Labor has championed
the fight for the shorter work week
and the shorter work day. Through
out these years the shortening of the
working hours has been one of the
most bitterly fought proposals, one
which has offered men and women
workers a rallying point for self-or
ganization and mutual protection.!'
Between 1880 and 1930, Mr. Meany
declared, the American Federation of
Labor "enabled wage earners to re
duce the work week from 63 to 48
hours, adding 15 hours to their leis
ure time," with wages during the same
period increasing from 19 cents an
hour to 72 cents. "Today," he said,
the average work week in our indus
try is 38 hours—a reduction of 25
hours per week from the average
weekly hours which prevailed sixty
years ago."
Although emphasizing the benefits
of shorter hours in increased leisure
for the workers to mitigate the strain
imposed upon them by mechanized in
dustry and in protecting and bettering
their physical welfare and prolonging
their life span, Mr. Meany stressed its
great importance in connection with
he unemployment problem.
"The most important objective of
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New York City (ILNS).—A declara
tion that organized labor must cam
paign for the 30-hour week to make
employment even if it means reducing
the income of some wage earners stir
red lively debate among labor execu
tives at a conference on the shorter
week here.
Thomas J. Lyons, president of the
New York State Federation of Labor,
started the fireworks by declaring:
"Sooner or later we have got to meet
squarely the issue of putting people
back to work by shortening working
hours, regardless of whether it means
a reduction of income. There is no use
of kidding around any longer. If or
ganized labor can't do something about
unemployment, we may see govern
ment taking over the unions and run
ning them for us."
Viewpoint Challenged
William Cross of the Photo-En
gravers Union was the first to chal
lenge President Lyons' viewpoint. He
said he represented an organization
that had reduced hours and raised
wages and asked why a labor leader
should recommend reduction. of
STROLLING ON THE IDORA MIDWAY
This isn't a picture of a Potters Picnic, you can tell because there just
isn't enough crowd. The little fellow near the scales will bet you a cane
against a dime he can tell your weight before or after dinner, Golden Anniver
sary Picnic Day.
In the right background can be seen the ballroom where dancing to Ace
Brigode will be free from 2 until 4 P. M. The great baby show and penny
scramble will be held here also. Don't fail to bring Junior.
Thirty-Hour Week Anti-Union Group
IsUrgedByMeany Fought By A. F. of L.
Shorter Hours Necessary To Fox River Valley Manufac
Provide Employment For turers Association Hits
Jobless Workers Unionism
New York, N. Y.—The advantage of
the 30-hour week as a practical meth
od to provide employment for the mill
ions of unemployed working men and
women was emphasized by Secretary
Treasurer George Meany of the Am
erican Federation of Labor in an ad
dress here at the Conference on the
Social and Economic Consequences of
the Shorter Work Week sponsored by
the Central Trades and Labor Council
of Greater New York and affiliated
unions with the cooperation of the
Workers Education Bureau of Amer
ica.
VOL. XLIV., NO. 4 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940
Aurora, 111.—The strike waged here
by the Machinists, Blacksmiths, Fire
men and Oilers, Patternmakers and
Teamsters, all A. F. of L. affiliates,
against the Western-Austin Company,
a large manufacturer of dump cars,
road building equipment and other ma
chinery, has developed into national
importance .due tethefaet that the
company is supported by the Fox River
Valley Manufacturers Association, a
notorious anti-labor "open shop" or
ganization.
Last January the A. F. of L. unions
won a National Labor Relations
Board election at the company's plant
by a majority of 386 to 45. Later the
company merged its Harvey, 111., plant
with the Aurora factory and nearly all
of the 650 workers joined the union,
which began negotiations with the
management for wage increases and a
signed agreement. The wage increases
would restore pay scales which pre
vailed prior to a reduction two years
ago when a speed-up system was in
troduced in the place of a bonus plan.
Reasonable as these terms were the
management refused to grant them,
thus forcing the unions to call a strike
which was voted by nearly one hun
dred per cent of the members and tied
up the plant.
Charging that the anti-union stand
of the company reflects the policies
i a e y e o i v e V a e y
Manufacturers Association, which is
headed by a Western-Austin official,
Grand Lodge Representative J. W.
Ramsey of the Machinistc Association,
said:
"The association has been known for
its blacklist system. It tries to force
employes who want to be fair not to
sign agreements with unions. It has
been responsible for injunction and
damage suits against unions for im
portation of 'guards' for distorted ad
vertisements in the newspapers aimed
at inciting mob violence agaiinst union
men, and for other notorious anti-un
ion practices."
Labor Heads Hit View Cut In Working
Hours Must Bring Reduction In Wages
hours at the expense of labor and not
recommend that the employer take the
major burden.
His question was referred by Spen
cer Miller, Jr., director of the Work
ers Education Bureau of America and
leader of the discussion, to Professor
Walter Peabody of Rutgers Univer
sity, who said he had assumed that
wages would remain the same under
shorter hours.
William Collins, Eastern representa
tive of the American Federation of
Labor, said emphatically it was a ques
tion that should be answered and de
clared the A. F. of L. position "very
clearly" was that with reduced hours
standards of living should not be re
duced. "We want eight hours pay and
six hours work," he said.
Meany Tells A. F. of L. Stand
George Meany, secretary-treasurer
of the A. F. of L., said the Federation
held the shorter work-week program
to be the most important as "an effec
tive method to reduce unemployment,"
and also that it would give workers
increased leisure and be beneficial to
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Official Organ
of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Balsley, Vincent,
Walters, Reedy To
Represent L. U. 42
All Members Requested To
Be Present At Next Meet
ing To Instruct Men
TO REGULATE PAY
Salem Local to Decide How
Delegates Will Be Paid
For Work In A. C.
Salem, Ohio—Local Union No. 42
held election of delegates to the con
tion at their last regular meeting.
Eighty-three members wore present to
vote, electing Richard Reedy, Roy
Balsley, Harry Vincent and Leona
Walters to represent thi local in At
lantic City. We believe thf-y will do all
they can to have the resolutions adopt
ed which are being presented to the
convention by this local.
Some of our meirtbers are a little
hurt, as is only human, over not get
ting the chance to make this trip, but
this will heal by the time the next
call is made. There were 18 candi
dates, some withdrawing and the rest
hoping to be the ones to ^ret the call,
but as you know only four can go, so
the rest can look forward to next year.
While talking about delegates,
please don't forget to attend the next
meeting when the amount each dele
gate will receive will be set. There
was a lot of unnecessary arguing over
this last year and we believe it can
be eliminated before they start. No
one knows just how long the conven
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ATTENTION
Ballots for election of delegates
to the American Federation of La
bor Convention were mailed out
the first of the week. Any local
not receiving these liallots, please
Hwuty John -Brx 6,
East Liverpool, Ohio.
China Problems
Solved Tuesday
In Long Session
Eleven Disputes Settled By
Chinaware Standing
Committee
Twelve problems confronting the
chinaware trade were discussed and
eleven disposed of last Tuesday when
the branch's standing committee held
an all-day session in the rooms of the
United States Potters Association.
1. Local Union No. 24—Sterling
China Co. Turning Saxon, or C. P. O.
cup. Settled: 5% cents per dozen.
Cup measures—diameter 3% inches
height 3*2 inches.
2. Turning large Tulip cup. Set
tled: 5V2 cents per dozen. Tulip meas
sures—diameter 3% inches height
3% inches.
3. Turning standard Saxon cup.
Settled: 5 cents per dozen. Cup meas
ures—diameter 3 9-16 iniches heighth
SV2 inches.
4. Handling C. P. O.fcUp. Settled:
5 cents per dozen.
5. Handling No. 1 Boston cup. Set
tled: 4% cents per dozen.
6. Handling Navy Boston cup. Set
tled: 4% cents per dozen.
7. Handlers boxing cups no adhes
ive. Covered by scale.
8. Finishing Q. M. C. cup. Settled:
3 cents per dozen.
9. Jiggering C. P. 0. cup. Settled:
5 cents per dozen.
10. Jiggering Q. M. C. cup. Settled:
5 cents per dozen.
Six dozen additional per hundred
dozen effective on present pay.
11.—Jiggering H. P. Grille plate.
Settled: 25 cents per dozen plus 2
cents for knocking off moulds.
12. Jiggering Miller, large Tulip
and Saxon cups. Held over until
committee is able to make a survey.
Rrepresentiing the manufacturers
on the committee were Charles Good
win, secretary of the U. S. P. A. Ben
Hardesty, Mayer China Co. Kenneth
Koos, Sterling China Co. Presenting
the side of the Brotherhood were John
McGillivray, secretary-treasurer of
the National Brotherhood of Operative
Potters Alwin Burt, Local Union No.
76 H. R. Haislop Local Union No. 98.
DON'T FORGET:
Potters Golden Anniversary
Picnic.
Where:
Idora Park, Youngstown.
When:
Just Three Weeks From
This Saturday
Potters Herald
fc
To Increase Jobs
A. F. of L. President Outlines
Economic Program In
Radio Address
Washington, D. C.—President Wil
liam Green disclosed the essential fea
tures of the American Federation of
Labor's program for reemployment
and returning economic prosperity in a
nationally broadcast address over an
N. B. C. network.
"The real problem," he said "is not
over-production and surpluses, but
under-development of the purchasing
power of our own people."
It is foolish to hazard involvement
in foreign wars by seeking out new
foreign markets in these troubled
times, Mr. Green declared, when the
American domestic market has not
been fully utilized.
"American purchasing power has
not kept pace with the increased ef
ficiency of our factories and farms
through the introducion of new and
improved methods and machinery,"
Mr. Green charged. "We have devel
oped our machine power at the ex
pense of our man power.
"Millions of workers have been dis
placed by technological advances in
industry and farming. The hours of
work of those who have retained their
jobs have not been sufficiently reduced
to compensate for their increased pro
ductivity. Wages have not kept step
with the increased value of work. This
has been a cumulative process and to
a y A e i a n u a s i n o w e
which is the lifeblood of American in
dustry and American agriculture, is
running thin."
The only logical cure, Mr. Green in
sisted, is to reverse "this unhealthy
process." He added:
"Let industry pay the highest
wages possible. Let the universal 30
hour week be applied. Let production
expand, gradually but consistently.
"The beneficial results would be
manifold. First of all, the unemploy
ment log-jam would. be broken. Mil
lions of workers would return to well
paying jobs in private industry in a
steady stream. Billions of dollars
would be added to the national income
and to the purchasing power of our
people. The government would be
freed from the high cost of providing
unemployment relief and the heavy
burden of taxes could be lifted from
business.
"We suggest that a 10 billion dol
lar increase in our national income
would be sufficient to provide reem
ployment for the majority of the work
ers now unemployed. Considering that
93 per cent of all families and single
persons in America have incomes of
less than $3,000 per year, and three
fourths of them have incomes under
$1500 per year, we must realize that
this is the income group that buys 78
per cent of all consumer goods sold on
the American market. The answer is
clearly that with the release of the
purchasing power to the wage earners
and through the maintenance of their
real wages at the level necessary to
sustain a rise in the national income,
enough productive activity can be gen
erated to achieve this reemployment.
The question is how to release the flow
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(In the following article A. Philip
Randolph, president of the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters (AFL),
gives his reasons for refusing to
stand for re-election as president of
the National Negro Congress and for
severing all relations with the organi
zation
By A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
I am convinced that until the stigma
of the Communist Front is wiped from
the National Negro Congress it will
never rally the masses of the Negro
people.
The procedure, conduct and policies
of the Negro Congress, as set up in
this third national meeting, will make
its influence in the affairs of the
American Negroes, short lived. The
American Negroes will not long fol
low any organization which accepts
dictation and control from the Com
munist Party. The American Negro
will not long follow any organization
which accepts dictation and control
from any white organization.
In the last national Executive Com
mittee, meeting in New York City,
$2.00 PER YEAR
ARE YOU ALL SET FOR GOLDEN
ANNIVERSARY PICNIC AT IDORA
PARK.
Green Offers Plan
W1™.
Executive Council
Drafts Planks For
Two
One of the major tasks of the Ex
ecutive Council meeting, Mr. Green
said, will be to draft a comprehensive
labor plank foT inclusion in the plat
forms of both Democratic and Repub
lican parties.
i s a n n o u n e e n o e s a o w e
relentless opposition by the American
Federation of Labor to any third party
move and further indicated the deter
mination of the A. F. of L. leadership
to maintain the organization's tradi
tional non-partisan political policy.
At a press conference following the
first session of the Executive Council,
Mr. Green called for cool thinking anil
restraint to prevent the building up
of war psychology such as plunged
this country into the World War in
1914. He said:
"The time has come for every one
of us to put on metal brakes and to
speak carefully in order that we may
not lose sight of the paramount im
portance of maintaining our neutrality.
No matter how deeply we resent the
aggression of European dictators and
sympathize with their victims, we
should not forget that this nation must
stay out of war."
The Council received a confidential
report from the officers of the Cana
dian Trades and Labor Congress on
the effect of the war on labor in that
country. Tom Moore, President7 and
R. J. Tallon, Secretary, said that there
is unity of opinion and purpose among
the people of Canada in support of the
government in its war program.
At the request of the Canadian offi
cials, the Executive Council agreed
to award exclusive right to the Cana
dian Trades and Labor Congress to
charter central labor bodies in Can
ada. Hitherto both the A. F. of L. and
the Canadian body have been issuing
such charters.
Randolph Explains Why He Refused to
Run For President of Negro Congress
Brother John P. Davis was author
ized to go out and borrow $1000 to
help put the Third Congress over. He
informed me that he had borrowed it
and mentioned the name of a man.
I was given no specific identity of the
man. What was the source of this
money The delegates to the Congress
should know. Because whatever is the
source of the money with which the
Congress is run, will also be the source
of its ideas, policies and control.
It is a well known fact that most
of the contributions to this Congress,
expressed by the Secretary, Mr. Davis,
are from CIO unions. Is this the rea
son why the Congress is taking the
CIO line?
In an Executive Committee meeting
in New York City, Mr. Davis informed
it that the Communist Party contrib
uted $100 a month to the Congress.
Is this the reason why the Congress
refuses to attempt to make plain to
the American people that it is not a
Communist Front? These questions
should be definitely and unequivocally
answered.
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far.
JUST THREE WEEKS AWAY?
BIGGEST BARGAIN OF THE YEAR AWAITS POTTERS
AT YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. PLAY SPOT ON
SATURDAY, JUNE 15
the program complete, the Golden Anniversary Picnic of
the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters at Idora Park,
June 15, is all set to outshine any previous outing arranged by the
committee, which is predicting pretty big things for any picnic.
The park management has the huge amusement center in tip-top
condition from the great free parking lots to the ball field while
confidently expecting the largest crowd on the interesting mid
way in many a year.
There are so many prizes you can hardly miss one. Doc
Crumbly says, "A guy just can't afford to stay away from this
kind of an affair. You can't possibly lose." The good doctor is
just about right too, with fifty excellent dinner sets for the adults
and one hundred pairs of the best roller skates for the children
on the gate prize list. Special cash awards will go to foot racers,
sack racers, three-legged and shoe racers, ball throwers, rolling
Major Parties
Committee To Be Named To
Represent AFL At Political
Conventions
Washington, D. C.—President Wil
liam Green announced the Executive
Council of the American Federation of
Labor during its current session here
will appoint a special committee to
represent the Federation at the con
ventions of both major political par
ties.
pin throwers, baseball players and
what not and don't forget the
grand prizes to be awarded the lucky
holders of the tickets obtainable only
for a glance at a paid-up dues book.
Then there are loving cups and baby
sets, baby dolls and cash for the
babies, bathing beauties and tap
dancers.
Last, but as usual, best, there is
Tap dancers, or their mothers, are
urged to send in their entry blanks
which can be found in this paper. Un
less the signed entry is in the hands
of the committee by June 11, the
dancer will be unable to compete for
one of the fine prizes.
And mothers, be sure you enter
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Consumers Held
Responsible For
Higher Expenses
Costs Considerably More
To Distribute Goods Than
To Make Them
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Con
sumers themselves are largely respon
sible for the fact that it costs con
siderably more to distribute goods
than to make them, says a pamphlet,
59 cents of your $1, released by the
Public Affairs Committee, 30 Rocke
feller Plaza, New York. The pamph
let was prepared by T. R. Carskadon,
summarizing the Twentieth Century
Fund's study of the costs of distribu
tion.
Advertising, and duplication of sal^
effort, though factors, account only in
small part for the vast increase in the
relative costs of distribution in recent
years. Nor is the "middleman" found
to be at fault. The toll taken by the
"middleman "is shown to be less than
one-fifth of the total cost of distribut
ing goods from producers to consumer.
Modem Habits Blamed
Modern living habits account fpr
many of the increased costs of dis
tribution in modern economic society,
the pamphlet indicates. Today's house
wife is not content to buy in bulk as
her grandmother did. She "wants
small packages for her kitchen shelf.
She wants fresh goods she wants
branded goods she wants them in
sanitary packages and, above all, she
wants them easily available."
Costs are also increased by special
demands of consumers, many of which
are unreasonable. The privilege of re
turning unwanted goods for example,
is held to be abused at the expense of
consumers as a whole. This practice
is revealed to have grown to such
on the average amount to one day's
sale out of eight in department stores.
Style Craze Big Factor
"Aside from abuse of the return
privilege," the pamphlet adds, "many
more legitimate practices of the con
sumers cause the costs of distribu
tion to amount up. Our desire always
to be in style is, of course, a great
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:4
OQOt
the
fourteen hundred dollars worth
at
automobile, a big luxuriously appoint
ed Nash Ambassador Eight sedan in
an eye-striking green to be given away
in the evening. Have you seen it yet
in the Diamond You will want plenty
of chances on it once you view
this
beauty.
Let's say you are disappointed and
do not drive the Nash home, do not
take away the hundred dollars, 100
piece Warwick set, or even a smaller
one. in the dues book drawing dont
even see your fond cherub take home
a pair of roller skates—where
you fincf a day that would give you
a championship ball game, eighteen
rounds of fast boxing, dancing to Ace
Brigode, a two-hour track meet, all
the coffee you can drink, and all free
even to the parking? There just isn't
another bargain like this coming up
this year.