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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOl'RNAL OF
THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday nt East Liverpool, Ohio by the N. B. of O. P..
owning and operating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job Printing
Plant in the State.
Entered at Postoflice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Siecial Rate of Postag
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
August 20, 191^.
General Officc, N. B. of 0. P. Building:, W. 6th St., BELL PHONE 575
F. JEROME McKEEVER Editor and Business Manager
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada $2.0i
President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liven
tool, 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
Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, Blast Liver
lool, Ohio.
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton
New Jersey.
Sixth Vice President—George Turner. Glennioor, East Liverjiool, Ohio
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 245 East Michigan Avenue
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool
Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufactunis A. HALE, FRED SL'TTKRLIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYFIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. (HAS. F.GOODWIN, M. J. I.YNCH. ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGILLIVRAY. LOUIS I'lESLOCK, F. HAYNEF
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. HEN D. IIARDKSTY. E. K. KOOS. ('HAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. HALDAUF. Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. BEN 1). HAKDESTY. E. K. KOOS, CTIAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, ALVIN J. HURT, II. It. HAISLOP. JOHN McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALI), H. SPORE, MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVIN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
PLANNING FOR DEFENSE
TX) push the national defense program into action
as rapidly and efficiently as possible, a Nati
onal Defense Advisory Commission lias been
named. Jt does much of its planning* as a group,
but each member has a special assignment. You
can tell the soil of problems the Commission deals
with by looking at the divisions assigned to its
members.
There is an Industrial Materials Division, head
ed by Edward It. Stettinius, Jr., until recently
chairman of the board of the United States Steel
Corporation. The Production Division is under
William S. Knudsen, formerly president of Gen
eral Motors. An Agriculture Division is headed
by Chester C. Davis, member of the Federal lie
serve I'oard and formerly head of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration. Transportation is
under Ralph I'udd, president of the Chicago, 1 lul
ling ton & Quincv Railroad. Price stabilization is
under Leon Henderson, member of the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
The Division of Labor and Employment is
headed by Sidney Ilillman, president of the Amal
gamated Clothing* Workers of America. This Di
vision is responsible for meeting the labor require
ments of the defense program. It estimates pros
pective labor needs and plans for the training of
workers. It is responsible for seeing to it that
good labor standards and good labor relations are
maintained in defense industries.
This Division is also responsible for certifying
the need of workers in defense industries for hous
ing, and for the maintenance of good standards in
the erection of such housing.
A Labor Policy Advisory Committee, made up
of officials of the A. F. of L.. C. 1. O., and the Rail
road Brotherhoods, helps formulate the policies of
this Division.
The Division of Consumer Protection is under
Miss Harriet Elliott, of the University of North
Carolina. It is concerned with protecting the
standards of living" and the health and welfare of
American consumers. Most American consumers,
of course, are wage earners. And it is they who
most need protection as consumers—because they
have small margin in the family budget, and they
cannot afford soaring prices or shoddy quality in
the things they buy. To wage earners consume)'
protection is not an abstract phrase.
America is a large country. Master plans for
defense originate in Washington, from the people's
representatives—Congress and the President, the
War and Navy and other Cabinet departments.,
and the National Defense Advisory Commission.
Put defense planning goes down the line, too, from
Washington to the States, and sometimes on to
the localities.
State Councils of National Defense, somewhat
along the lines of the National Defense Advisory
Commission, are being set up in some States. The
Governor appoints his State's council. Local coun
cils, too, may be set up in some communities, de
pending on local needs and local interest. When
set up, there should be labor membership on Slate
and local councils.
INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY
'PHI! iylit of workers to organize into unions of
their own choosing and to bargain collectively
is protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
The American way in industrial relations is
the conference table, where the labor representa
tives sit down with management to discuss wages
and hours ami working conditions. This is the
way of efficiency, too. and hence of maximum pro
duction—for d"l' ..c and I.r all the things the
country needs.
Orderly, responsible collective bargaining
makes for industrial peace. It prevents the inter
ruption of production, which is sometimes the
only other way to secure recognition of the union
from management.
Differences of opinion do not disappear, of
course, when organized workers deal with manage
ment. Put these differences can usually be re
solved in an atmosphere of mutual recognition,
mutual responsibility, and mutual respect.
For unions and management unable to reach
an agreement, the Conciliation Service of the
United States Department of Labor offers the ser
vices of experienced conciliators. These men will
lend a hand
when y the paitii. to the
call them in.
In the railroad and airline industries a similar
service is provided under the National Railway
Mediation Act. There tin tradition of collective
bargaining is long established and organization of
dispute
both workers and employers is more nearly com
plete than in any other industry.
In the days ahead responsibility on both sides
of the conference table will be more than ever es
sential. But, to begin with, the principle of the
conference table must be fully accepted in indus
trial practice, as it is in the law of the land.
SAFETY AND HEALTH
QUR human resources are America's greatest
resources. At all times we have too high a
toll of industrial accidents and occupational dis
ease. Last year alone 16,000 workers were killec
and a million and a quarter injured or permanently
crippled by on-the-job accidents and disease. Last
year was no exceptional year.
This year, if we do not take care, the toll may
be even more tragic. The expansion of industry,
the hiring of new workers, the stress on getting
out production—all these will mean still more in
juries (as they did during the World War) unless
workers, management, and the Government do
something about it.
Wo know, in most cases, what needs to be done.
If we do it, thousands of lives will be saved, anr
hundreds of thousands of workers will be savec
from loss of limbs, fingers, eyes, and from loss of
their earning capacity. They and their families
will be protected—and we will produce more and
better for the national defense.
State laws provide the chief regulation for in
dustrial safety and health. Unions and individual
workers should cooperate with State labor depart
ments for vigorous, full enforcement of these laws.
Unions should also have safety committees in each
local, or at least one safety committeeman in each
plant on each shift. Unions can give their locals
and their individual members the facts on job
hazards in their industries and how to guard
against them.
To help protect workers on defense contracts,
the Secretary of Labor has organized a National
Committee on the Conservation of Manpower in
Defense Industries. Labor-union spokesmen sit
on this committee with safety experts from pri
vate industry and government.
Labor members of this committee have just
put out a timely booklet of practical hints for
workers: "The Worker's Safety and National De
fense." Its pointers on how to make the job safe
ire for all workers, whether or not they are work
ing directly on defense production.
LAROR LAW INSPECTORS
A good ins] lector is as necessary as a good
law," and trade unionists know this is par
ticularly true of labor laws. Today more than
ever it is realized that the effectiveness of our gen
ral labor laws—those limiting hours of work, set
ting minimum wages, regulating child labor, pro
viding for collection of unpaid back wages—-de
pends on enforcement by competent, trained, sym
pathetic inspectors.
"Qualifications for General Labor Law In
spectors," just published as Bulletin No. 38 by the
Division of Labor Standards, U. S. Department of
ibor, outlines the recommendations of an advis
ory committee to Secretary of Labor Perkins. The
recommendations are based on the first-hand ex
periences of the committee, composed of state la
bor law administrators and representatives of or
ganized labor, including Boris Shishkin, American
Federation of Labor economist.
Work in the trade union movement is recog
nized as qualifying experience for labor law in
spoctors.
Qualified inspectors should be kept in the pub
lic service they should not be subject to sudden
dismissal without cause. "Definite provision for
promotion, based upon quality of performance and
length of service, and for tenure of office through
the protection of civil-service system or its merit
rating equivalent," is urged.
FULL STEAM AHEAD!
jDESliLTS of the election are generally pleasing
to organized workers, a big majority of whom
nobably supported President Roosevelt, thereby
contributing largely to his reelection. They backed
I lie President because, as William Green said,
"they believe Mr. Roosevelt is their friend and the
champion of social justice and economic freedom."
Friends of labor were elected in impressive
numbers right down the line from congressional
seats to minor local offices. The election was clear
v a demonstration of the soundness of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor's time tested policy,
'support your friends, defeat your enemies."
But the election aroused bitterness in labor's
ranks as elsewhere and took up the time and at
tention of many union members for weeks. Now
it is all over and the times demand unity and co
operation of all elements in the national and the
abor movement. Union workers will do well to
turn their attention to strengthening the position
if labor in every* possible way. This means more
abor organization, more education of old and new
members in unionism's tactics and policies, more
iislative activity—in short, more progress in all
fields of union effort.
DEFENSE AND JOBS
TN a real sense, all workers in the country—
whether in arsenals or airplane building or ship
yards, in mining or construction, in factories or on
the farms—are contributing to the national de
ense.
Defense production opens up new jobs. The
Government arsenals and navy yards already need
many more workmen. So do industries like avi
ition, shipbuilding, arms, chemicals, and machine
tools. Expansion of jobs in these industries will
carry back to the industries which feed them ma
terials and supplies. Where they are adding to
their plants, there will be mere work in con
struction.
Of course, new .jobs will not open up at the
same rate all around—in all lines of work or in all
communities. At the present time skilled work
ers are in greater demand than unskilled workers
men are wanted more than women. There will be
increasing opportunity for women, especially in
semi-skilled jobs, as production continues to ex
pand.
A pleasant time is usually had by all except
.he hostess.
THE POTTERS HERALD
CcOMOmic
JiUfUhtflUi
Happenings That Affect the Dinner
rails, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual. National
and International Problems Insep
arable from Local Welfare.
Near the end of October, a note
worthy event occurred. The Business
Week industrial activity index, which
is one of the standard business baro
meters, touched 136. That was seven
tenths of a point higher than the pre
vious all-time record, which was
reached during the week of July 27,
back in fabled and fabulous 1929.
What this obviously means is that
we are in the midst of a boom—and
a boom that will undoubtedly reach
giddy heights before it is done. Equal
ly obvious, it is not a healthy boom.
It is based upon one thing, and one
thing only—war. It will stop when
war and war preparations stop. And,
like all war booms, it is inflationary in
tendency.
Dismissing that for the moment, it
seems clear that a period of consider
able artificial prosperity lies ahead of
us. Practically all business will be
affected. Modern war and modern
preparedness programs call for an un
precedented degree of national effort.
For every soldier in uniform, there
must be half-a-dozen men or more
behind him in factories and supply de
pots, producing, distributing and hand
ling the hundred and one articles that
today's soldier must have if he is to
be an efficient destroyer. In modern
war, in brief, the civilian population
is as much involved as the actual
armies in the field.
Some industries will probably ex
pand at a tremendous rate during the
next few years. We have seen signs
of that already in aircraft manufac
ture—the principal makers are work
ing 24 hours a day, are building new
plants as fast as the necessary labor
and materials can be obtained, and
have gigantic quantities of unfilled
orders on hand. It was lately reported
that Britain will buy 12,000 additional
military planes in this country, and
that our government will place orders
for an equal number.
Railroad carloadings will be going
up. Electric power output will neces
sarily follow the surging industrial
production indices. And such basic
heavy industries as steel will find
their principal problem in figuring
how to keep output up to demand.
Normally, a great jump in pro
duction such as this would involve gi
gantic profits. That will not be true
this time. This year, for instance,
many industries **pect that net earn
ings will be under ithe 1939 level, even
though production' is substantially
greater. There are a number of
reasons for that. One is that com
modity costs are rising. Still another
is that it will be necessary to put a
larger proportion of gross income back
into plant facilities. And the most
important reason of all is taxes. We
are starting a twenty or thirty-billion
dollar arms program on top of a
$15,000,000,000 national debt, and in
the face of the fact that Federal in
come has been under Federal spend
ing for eight years. The tax boosts
put into effect by the current Con
gress are generally regarded as but
a modest start. It seems inevitable
that far larger increases will be
necessary next year and during the
years to follow. At the same time,
government will probably do all it
can to hold down prices of finished
products, and to force industry to ab
sorb as much of the higher costs as
it, can. Profits must be adequate, but
they won't be great.
It isn't pleasant to think of the de
pression that, in the view of most
economists, will follow the war boom.
History shows us again and again that
prosperity based on arms production
is eventually disastrous. But force of
circumstance is forcing us to follow
the rest of the world in the race to
ward military supremacy. So, until
peace comes again to a tired world,
business is going to be booming in
America.
The "Battle of Britain" is at least
temporarily slowing in tempo. The
Battle of the Empire" has begun.
Starting point was Italy's invasion of
Greece.
Whoever controls Greece, its islands,
and its many undeveloped sea and
naval and submarine liases, largely
controls the Mediterranean Muss
olini's "Mare nostrum." The Italian
attack on Greece is obviously designed
as the first step in a carefully planned
Axis effort to destroy Britain's influ
ence in that area. If that attempt
should succeed, the Axis would have
taken a long step toward eventual vic
tory in the war.
Whether it will succeed is the ques
tion now. Best answers seem to be
that it will fail. For one thing, the
Italians, as in the past, have shown
themselves to be poor fighters—the
pathetically small and ill-equipped
Greek army has made the going plenty
tough for Italy's warriors. For an
other thing, it looks now as if Russia
is none too happy about present Axis
moves, and may be preparing to resist
them.
For a third tiling, the British navy
is still the be. navy in Europe, by a
tremendous margin. Italian naval
forces have steadfastly avoided meet
ing their English enemy, even when
they had the advantage in number and
size of ships. Amusing commentary
on this is found in a story which has
been making the rounds in Loudon.
Every navy, the story funs, has it£
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
IDLE IDEAS
'MEN ARE UNEMPLOYED
'LABOR SAVING' MACHINES?
WHY PENALIZE WORKERS
Idle Ideas—
Technology Unemployed—
Men unemployed, could be just
"Men on Vacation"—
But high capacity production ma
chinery, strangled—
Automatic channels of commerce
blocked by petty claims—
Valves of commerce, closed by
hands of meddlers—
Engineers of generous civilization
shoved out of place—
There are the causes of failure of
20th century supply sources.
Men are unemployed—
So what?
They call these things "Labor sav
ing Machines"—
But complain when laborers are re
leased—
Must humanity indulge in the special
calisthenics—
Connected with operation of sheet
ing looms?
Must women seek health running
full-form hosiery machines?
Will children be stunted if they
don't pick cotton?
Will humanity deteriorate if less
men puddle steel
Will home life be ruined without
eight hours spent in tanneries?
Are slaughter houses essential to
Americanization of aliens?
What is so bad—
With producing more commodities
in 1940 than in 1929—
With nine million workers on the
side lines?
Why not go right on with logical
use of "labor saving" machines?
Put 20 million men on part time
leisure—
Make adequate and complete use of
modern technology—
The real crime of civilization—
Lies in unemployment of potential
technology—
Why assume that some Americans
must work long hours—
While some other Americans work
not at all
Vacations with pay are now being
enjoyed by some—
Make those vacations longer, with
better pay—
Turn loose all the labor saving de
vices the engineers can devise—
Set G-Men after whoever gets in
the way of production—
Put America on a basis of plenty
for the rest of the century—
Wipe out the blunder of mere "Un
employment' of men—
By correcting the Unemployment
of Technology—
Bring on your plastics—
Replace steel with stuff made from
cellulose—
Liberate tenant farmers and share
croppers—
With proper use of modern farm
machinery—
Give coal miners some joy in living,
with leisure—
By hitching up all the water power
in America—
Turn 'em loose on a real vacation
for once—
Give men and women a chance to
learn what civilization is.
Why pile up $10 million?
Why penalize 20 million workers—
For
the success of modern invention
and discoveries?
What excuse is there for modern
science and engineering—
If it increases poverty and de
gradation—
Forcing desperate people into de
vastating wars?
Something is interfering here with
reason—
When you see what*that incubus
is—
Swat it!
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WHAT NEXT?
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Good news for national defense
comes in a report from the Nati
onal Metal Congress at Cleveland
that research has developed a new
fast hardening process for armor
plate which has three cardinal ad
vantages oxer old methods used in
this country (and probably those
of other countries): It is claimed
the new process will greatly ac
celeratc production, lower cost,
and use equipment easily convert
ed to peacetime industrial use.
RULED EMPLOYES
Albany, N. Y. (ILNS).—Industrial
homeworkers are employes and not in
dependent contractors to a State Su
preme Court's interpretation of the
State Unemployment Insurance Law,
it was announced by Milton O. Loysen,
Executive Director of the Division of
Placement and Unemployment Insur
ance, State Department, of Labor.
This decision is significant because
scores of firms employing homework
ers must now contribute to the unem
ployment insurance fund to cover their
employes against unemployment.
own favorite drink: The English pre
fer gin, the Americans whiskey, and
the Italians stick to port!
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
t»
The reported indirect request by
Great Britain to the United States to
speed up aid to Britain by increasing
hours of work in defense industries will
meet strong opposition from the Amer
ican Federation of Labor and the Con
gress of Industrial Organizations, as is
right. There is no ground for mak
ing such a request.
Government officials have expressed
annoyance at such a request coming
from Great Britain. Labor has been
assured that working standards would
not be altered downward by the de
fense problem. This assurance plus its
practical application is accountable in
a large measure for the enthusiasm
of organized labor in the defense pro
gram.
Officials of the Wage-Hour Division
of the U. S. Department of Labor in
sist that no increase in working hours
is necessary at this period of the nati
onal defense program nor will it be
necessary in the future unless the
United States is unexpectedly drawn
into the war.
Protests of labor against the British
request will be based on the sound
ground that Britain has no right to
dictate labor standards to workers in
the United States. Such interference
is backed up by the suspicion held by
some trade unionists that Great
Britain is .doing everything possible to
draw us into the war soon.
While government officials connect
ed with the Department of Labor are
not known to hold this view, they ad
mit that Britain's suggestion may cre
ate in the ranks of the workers, oppo
sition to "all aid short of war, to
Britain."
In connection with the reported
British request, it is interesting to
see that Ernest Beven, British union
leader and Minister of Labor, predicts
that within another six months Britain
will pass Germany in munitions pro
duction and that the "ugly regime will
crumple up in Hitler's hands."
"Give us another six months of in
tensive production," Bevin urged work
ers, "and we shall have passed Ger
many in production of aircraft, ships
and guns and I venture to prophecy
that, immediately we have done that,
the world will move back to peaceful
times, reconstruction, the wiping away
of privilege and the growth of knowl
edge.
"The Hitler and Mussolini rats will
squeal and run directly their turn
comes."
If Mr. Bevin's confidence is well
founded, it is difficult to see why the
British should be worrying particular
ly about American production of im
plements of war. There is not much
doubt about their being able to hold
out against any Nazy assult for six
months and then, according to the
British Minister of Labor, they will
be in a position to carry the war to
Hitler aggressively and effectively,
using weapons made in their own fac
tories.
Incidentally, Bevin's confidence
should serve to lessen the fear of those
in the United States who have been
vociferously "viewing with alarm" for
months the alleged prospect of a Hit
ler triumph over the British Empire.
BUILT BY CO-OPERATION
(From the Electrical Workers Journal)
Amazing work of Father D. Wilfred
Soucy in building co-operatives in
Maine and rehabilitating St. John
Valley is at last getting national at
tention. Father Soucy went to St.
John as pastor "to save souls," as he
put it, but he discovered he said, "he
had to save bodies first."
St. John Valley was a dying com
munity, when he found it, numbering
5,000 families averaging six members
to a family, and starving. The com
munity numbered expert needle work
ers among its members, but these
were operating on a one-family basis.
The valley was off the beaten track
and at one time the family shops had
been taken in and beaten by a slick
city firm. Needle workers were sus
picious.
Father Soucy first went up and
down the community talking co-oper
ation, and co-operatives. He first
founded credit unions, the kind which
many local unions of the Internati
onal Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers have established. He built tele
phone lines so that the far-tlung units
of his flock could be brought closer
together. Little by little, he and his
reviving craftsmen built a co-operative
crocheting and knitting industry, which
did a business this year of $350,000
and now looks forward to a $3,000,000
a year volume. Moreover, to take up
slack, the aroused workers established
a co-operative creamery, which pro
duces more than 100,000 pounds of
high grade butter a year. A dying,
discouraged community of 30,000 per
sons has been given new hope and
dignity. There is an old adage that
competition is the life of trade. But
this is only a cover-up for economic
war. All la.-ting and good things are
built by co-operation, as trade union
ists well know.
if
WISDOM
5
Well done is better than well
said.—Benjamin Franklin.
Why not try to see things from your
wife's point of view?
Thursday, November 14,1640
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
CAN BE SAID AGAIN
COLUMNISTS CAUGHT IN
SPELL
WOULD BE KING MAKERS
DISHED OUT DIRT
Now that it's all over it can be
said again—as it probably has been
said at least every four years—that
politics is about the dirtiest game in
America.
And not since the old days when
Conde Nast's cartoons threw constern
ation into the vortex of a presidential
campaign have we seen more despic
able dirt than in the battle just closed.
This time the newspapers con
tributed to the general smudge far
more than ever before.
The newspapers ought to look back
with more than a little shame upon
what they have done.
It isn't the editorial columns that
have reeked most with the filth of
gutter politics.
It is the columnists' tripe that has
smelled up the printed page.
It is during the last four years that
the columnists have become so im
portant a part of American journalism.
And at the top of the power they did
a nose dive into the biggest pit of
dirt and calumny they could find.
It is fair to wonder whether some
of the most blatant and arrogant of
the columnists can ever again have
quite the respect that they enjoyed
before politics got the better of them.
Radio commentators are, by and
large, under a restraint that does not
apply to newspaper columnists. They
have some regard for decency or get
off the air. It seems that in this re
spect the ethics of radio are higher
than the ethics of newspapers. Of
course, some newspapers have no
visible ethics and never had any. But
where there have been ethics the col
umnists have bowled them over as if
they didn't exist and had never been
heard of.
What happened to so many of the
columnists? Perhaps therein lies the
material for a good mystery thriller.
Maybe they got caught in a spell
of their own weaving—thrilled by
their own adjectives.
Or perhaps, they sought to out-do
each other in villainy on the theory
that the loudest and most vindictive
would become most popular.
Perhaps, too, the columnists had a
hunch that the one that could deliver
the most striking diatribe each day
might be chosen to enter the White
House with the hoped-for victory,
there to strut upon a paper throne,
with a mud hook in lieu of a sword
strapped to his belt.
There are a lot of things that make
life pleasant for statelites of victory
in Washington.
The trouble with that idea is that
there have been more dirty columnists
than could be accommodated, even
under the most generous of circum
stances.
The whole experience points up one
thing: Newspapers will do well to
clean their page*. They can't entirely
wipe away the stains left from these
past weeks of poisonous filth, but they
can sweep up the place for the future.
Sweep it up and mop it up—and then
disinfect it.
The would-be king makers have done
the kind of job that makes no more
of it highly desirable.
Happily the labor press has resorted
to no such exhibition of slanderous
writing.
In pleasant contrast to the daily
newspaper field, the labor press has
gone through this bitter campaign
with a dignity and cleanliness that
should make their readers proud and
their owners very satisfied.
Reasoned argument is one thing and
hatred is another. Reasoned argu
ment is not only permissable, but
highly desirable. It should be indis
pensible. It is proper to discuss
issues and then explain divergent
views. We have freedom and we
should exercise it fully.
But freedom has decended to license.
License is excused, but should not be,
merely because it's politics. Candidates
seldom sue. It is supposed to be bad
form.
The labor press has had its
reasoned argument, its pungent
and urgent messages. But it has
preferred to remain clean and
free from the filth that has de
spoiled so many daily pages.
As for the columnists who have
"dished the dirt," it will be a long time
before their alibis will overtake their
lapses.—CMW.
DEFIER OF NRA LOSES FIGHT
ON JOBLESS COMPENSATION
Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS).—Fred M.
Perkins, York, Pa., small manufac
turer of batteries, who once gained
national notoriety by defying the
National Recovery Act, was overruled
by the Dauphin County Court in an
action to knock out the State Unem
ployment Compensation Act.
Judge William M. Hargest decided
that the court "has no power to con
sider" the manner and operation of
the four-year-old statute. Perkins
had objected to paying $222.61 in the
2.7 per cent wage tax claimed by the
state, arguing that, it was a "surren
der" of Pennsylvania's rights because
the Federal Government had taken
custody over a $120,000,000 trust fund
accumulated from social security ta:\es.