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Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumers'
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, D. C.
Lunch For Nine Million
"Nine million undernourished child
ren are eligible for our free
school lunches This coming year
we hope to reach 6 million of them
... If we can afford several hundred
dollars a year to educate a child, we
can afford $10 a year to keep that
child physically fit for study. A full
stomach is the best possible personal
defense against fifth column poisons,
says Milo Perkins, Administrator,
Surplus Marketing Administration, L\
S. Department of Agriculture.
If you are interested in having the
undernourished children in your com
munity get a free hot lunch every day
of the school year, Federal officials
are ready to cooperate in setting up
a program. Write Director of School
Lunch Programs, Department of Agri
culture, Washington, D. C., for full in
formation.
Pointers on Vacuum Cleaners
For less than 50 cents a month you
can buy and run a 'vacuum.' When you
set out to buy, you can be no surer of
picking the right one than you can
of getting your man in 'Blind Man's
Buff.' The tips below will help you tell
quality in a cleaner.
Most cleaners depending on suction
alone remove less dirt than motor
driven brush cleaners. Suction clean
ers may have to be run longer than
motor-driven machines to get the same
results.
Most motor-driven brush machines
have rotating brushes which loosen
dirt. Suction carries it off. Ten to
20 minutes a week are recommended
for cleaning a 9x12 rug with a motor
driven brush cleaner.
Other cleaners have steel bars or
metal-tipped rubber vibrators on the
cylinder in addition to brushes. These
vibrate the carpet and help loosen
dirt, stimulating the old-fashioned
beating carpets got before the vacuum
cleaner era.
Keep your needs in mind when buy
ing. Suction cleaners are easy to
handle, are most effective when used
on upholstery, draperies, and lights
rugs with short pile, where dirt does
not burrow too deeply. Motor-driven
brush machines are considered best for
heavy rugs. The beating, brushing
motion helps stir up the dirt ground
down in heavy pile. Once loosened
suction can more easily i hold of
it, and carry it off.
A cleaner's main job is cleaning
When considering special features and
attachments—such as humidifiers or
sprayers—be sure you will use them
enough to make them worth the .-cost.
Try the cleaner out at home befoxjje
you buy. Household dirt is not like
that sprinkled on by salesmen. An Un
dorwriters' Laboratories label is insur
ance against electrical defects, not a
guarantee of performance. Check these
points: Does the nozzle adjust simply
to different rug thicknesses? Does the
handle raise and lower easily and stay
in place at each of the 3 use heights?
Is it easy to operate? Ten heavy
cleaners are hard to cany up and
down stairs.
Does the cleaner run quietly with
out too much vibration? Can it be
used under most heavy pieces of fur
niture? Is it accompanied by i clearly
stated year's guarantee ,and can you
rot reliable, convenient repair service?
Finally, be sure you have full in
si ructions for carinr for the cleaner
and adjusting the n•./.•.I'' and other
attachments.
Keeping Laundry White
Cotton?? and linens tend to Inn
yellow if you let them li\ when not
thoroughly rinsed of soap.
If clothes are very dirty or yellowe
In!fore going into the laundry, then add
from 1 to 0 tablespoons of turpentine
or kerosene to a boilerful of water be
lore boiling the clothes. Of course
you will have to rinse them very thor
oughly to remove all odor of the kero
sene or turpenitne.
Another way to whiten clothes is to
add the juice of 1 or 2 lemons to a
boilerful of clothe-.
If you wash and clothes thor
oughly and regular!, :J
I
hot, clear, and
soft water, and then dry them in the
bright sunshine, they won't need the
boiling treatment to make them clean
That doesn't hold, of course, for
clothes coming from a sick room of a
patient with an infection.. 1'
These must be boiled.
Never boil woolens, silus, or rayons
Lukewarm water and mild .-oap is
enough. That holds for colored fab
lies, too, with the added cuution of
washing them as quickly as possible
On the Air
Tune i CONSl'MH: 'I I Ml. on
Saturday morning, November 30, at
11:10 A. M., Eastern Standard Time
for reports of Government experts on
how to buy apple and how to jjafe
guard your house against fire risks
Consumer reporters from the De
partment of Agriculture will bring
listeners quality tips on apples, and
pointers on storing them. Simple
proven fire preventive measures in the
home will also bo described.
Also on the program will be i'
ular announcement of the C«a. u.»i
Honor Roll, naming an outstanding
consumer group of the week, and a
statement by Donald E. ^Montgomery
Consumers' Counsel of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
CONSUMER TIME is a v.
feature of the Red Network of the
-National Broadcasting Cumpan..-. it i
Support of Free
(Continued from Page One)
tions, American business is like a foot
ball team being sent out on the field
without knowing what minute, on
what play, the rules are going to be
changed on them."
Cites Contribution
Daniel J. Tobin, president of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, chairman of the labor commit
tee of the Democratic party's national
committee in the three presidential
elections in which President Roosevelt
has been elected, representing some
CO,CC0 members of what he says is
"America's biggest union," said: "The
best way I can tell you how much we
believe you can't have free enterprise
without democracy, or democracy
.vithout free enterprise, is that our
men want to keep their jobs, and our
union contributed $100,000 to the Dem
ocratic campaign fund to elect Presi
dent Roosevelt for his third term, and
11 told we spent about $200,000 of
our own money in this last campaign,
educating our members on that point.
We'd ostracize the man among us we
•.•aught with his hand out behind his
back to take money from a politician.
Not one of us had his hand out for
a political job, either.
"I'll never believe President Roose
velt is hostile to private business, lie
knows free enterprise is vital to the
welfare of labor, and he's the best
president labor ever had. It seems to
me that the business men who con
tend that Roosevelt has been the
enemy of business are the business
men who never tried to understand
Roosevelt. President Roosevelt has
told me himself, face to face, that he
hoped he could help business without
uutting down the working man that
he believed by raising workers
wages he war. increasing their pur
chasing power and helping business as
whole. But the actions of certain
lements of big business have forced
him to call big business to order.
"Some of the leaders of big l)us
iness have refused to try to under
tand President Roosevelt, just as once
iiiey refused, and some of them re
fuse yet, to try to understand labor
Intelligent leaders of big business are
paying the price for the actions of
their less intelligent brothers.
All Vital Parts
"But free enterprise and labor and
democracy are all vital parts of one
whole, and that whole is the United
.States of America."
John Frey, president of the Metal
Trades department of the A. F. of
v/ith a membership he says stands to
:la.v "somewhere between 750,000 and
•k 00,000," said: "Free enterprise and
l.'^e right to private property can only
e\i.t under a democratic form of gov
cm ment, for any other form of gov
ernment is a government by men in
rtead of a government by law."
Democratic Relations
"Our unions' relations with our em
ployers, the men who have put adven
ture money into free enterprise, which
I take it is what you mean by cap
italisni, are as democratic as we can
make them, and that is very demo
cratic indeed," said John P. Coyne
president of the Building and Con
•".traction Trades department of the A
F. of L., which he says has some
1,500,000 skilled workers in 19 differ
ent trades. "When one of our work
ers is able through his brains and
ability and thrift to become an em
ployer, which I assume you would call
'entering the capitalist class,* we cheer
him for it, for we knew here is a boss
who has come up the hard way and
knows what the workers' problems are
because he has lived them.
"We have committees of employer
IVIP to our conventions and sit with
while we draw up our contracts
Of course, we believe that this is an
integral part of democracy. We have
enough accurate information from
workers in the totalitarian nations t(
know that, there is no labor situation
under the directors any more. Work
ers there are the same as slaves
the same as convict labor on a chain
gang. All they can do is take orders
"Even thouirh the British have
wartime dictator, with extraordinary
wartime power the situation of
British labor is vastly different from
that in the totalitarian nations. British
labor is like a free citizen who has
volunteered to defend his country and
joined the army for the duration of
the war. British labor has been a pow
erful factor in British government for
years.
War—at a Work Bench
"War these days Is more than
.nan with a gun on his shoulder,
cartridge-belt and bayonet at his
waist, and a full pack on his back
War in 1910 means a man at a wor
bench with micrometer he knows how
to use, and plenty others with plenty
of other tools, too. At the start of
our national defense program we mad
a survey in the building and construe'
tion trades, and listed 370,000 skilled
workers out of jobs. We've made them
a mobile force for national defensi
The United States government needed
•0,800 skilled workers at Corpu
Christi, Tex., with only ubout 20C0
skilled workers normally in that ter
ritory. We sent them, just as we sent
10,500 more to Jacksonville, Fla., and
thousands more to other places. And
when the question rose whether th
government would have to pay thei
transportation, or who, these Amori
can working men just stepped int
their flivvers and drove to the jol
ponsored jointly by the General Fed
eration of Women's Clubs and the Con
suir.ers' Counsel Division of the De
lartr.ical ci' Agriculture.
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A sweet angel w.tli red liUn- s
year-old Eleanor O'Leary, youngest
recruiter for Flying Cadets in the
Army's Fifth Corps Area.
This patriotic little miss is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Martin O'Leary, 1080 West Second
Avenue, Grandview, Columbus, Ohio.
Back in 1917 Mr. O'Leary enlisted
in Company E, 137th Infantry, 35th
Division. During the great battle of
the Argonne, Private O'Leary was
shot through the head—but is still hale
and hearty.
Eleanor's daddy said: "This is the
grandest country in the world. I was
That's what American labor can do
for defense of a democracy, just as
British labor can do for defense of a
democracy, just as British labor play
ed their part. That's the way it al
ways will be while we have free en
terprise in a democracy. It takes
free working men and free enterprise
in a democracy to get results such as
England and America are getting
right now."
"It is my opinion that contractual
relatienship between employer and
trade union automatically obligates
the union to co-operate with a recipro
city management," said Harvey Brown,
president of the International Associa
tion of Machinists, with some 200,000
members. "Basically the program
known as union management cooper
ation is to develop a more friendly re
lationship between both parties, to the
end that unnecessary waste be elimin
ated. Unnecessary waste is a tax up
on the consumer, the worker and the
owner of the industry. Such a pro
gram, with full recognition of the
rights of free enterprise, seems to me
an indivisible part of democracy as we
understand it in America."
Matthew Woll, vice-president of the
International Photo-Engravers' Union,
ami a vice-president of the A. F. of
L., said: "Without title to private
properly, there can be no personal
freedom, for the exercise of personal
freedom is dependent on title to
private property, and private adven
ture money, free enterprise, also is
dependent on title to'private property.
"So without either title to private
property or personal freedom there
can be no freedom of contract, which
is the instrumentality devised by man
kind for safeguarding industrial lib
erty. And on the freedom of contract
the safety of democracy depends. Of
course there can be no free enterprise
without democracy, and no democracy
without free enterprise."
Perth Amboy Hears
(Continued from l'age One)
in the shop and locality to be on hand
December 5 at Union Hall, 223 Smith
street, Perth Amboy, N. J. to hear
Assemblyman Bob Wagner of New
York.—-O. C. 9C.
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THE POTTERS HERALD
AN ANGEL (WSTH RE© HAIR) JOINS
FLYSMG CADET RSCRUITI^G STAFF
EST POINT
THEAIR
id i he a soldier in 11M 7 and all
my life Pve been proud to be an Amer
iean. We O'Learys are like that!
certainly recommend that all yeung,
red-blooded Americans become Army
Flying Cadets—and I know that my
little red-headed Eleanor would advise
the same thing if she were old enough
to understand that it's a real honor
to defend our democracy."
Flying cadets get $75 a month and
$1. a day for food. They are trained
for nine months and then commission
ed in the Army. Complete information
may be obtained at all Army recruit
ing stations.
Green Proclaims
(Continued from Page One)
"the situation requires," Mr. Green
declared. For the nresent, he main
tained, the need could be met through
continuance of overtime at the rate of
time and one-half in basic defense in
dustries and a rapid absorption of the
unemployed throughout the program
lie said the extra cost entailed in the
payment of time and one-half for over
time was "insignificant."
When he was asked whether the A
F. of L. would ^helve its drive for
the thirty-hour week, he said the fed
eration was eageij to have the shorter
work-week recognized in principle so
that it might provide a cushion to take
up the slack in employment that would
follow the termination of the Euro
pean war and suspension of defense
production. Two brilliant neon signs
advocating the thirty-hour week as a
"practical solution for unemployment"
hang in the convention hall.
The resolution to bar the awarding
of government cpntracts to concerns
found guilty by an administrative
agency of violation of the National
Labor Relations ^Lct put the A. F. I
on the same side as the C. 1. O. on
this issue. The motion, sponsored
originally by the International Ladie.
Garment Workers Union, was recom
mended to the convention by the com
mittee on legislation, under the chair
manship of 1. M. Ornburn, president
of the union label trades department
It was adopted unanimously.
"Certain Corporations" Accused
The resolution charged that "certain
large corporations who bid on govern
ment contracts have llagrantly and
willfully violated the law by employ
ing coercion and intimidation and even
by resorting to violence to impede or
prevent workers from exercising their
rights granted them under the law
The awarding of contracts to such
corporations wag "intolerable," the
resolution declared.
More than two hours was spent in
debating the proposal of the A.
of L. executive council that it be al
lowed to retain the power to suspend
"in cases whore two or more national
and international unions unite and con
spire to create and launch an organ
ization for any purpose dual to the
American Federation of Labor." Un
der all other circumstances unions
could be suspended from affiliation
only by majority vote of delegates to
the federation's annual convention.
David Dubinsky, president of the
I. L. G. W. U., whose union was one
of the ten organizations' which found
ed the C. I. 0. in 1935, charged that
tlvs proposal r. presented a "partial
repudiation" of the pledge given to
the Garment Workers last May when
they voted to rejoin the federation. He
read a letter from Mr. Green assuring
the I. L. G. W. l.T. that the executive
council would commend that power
to suspend be restricted to the con
vention, but IM admitted that he did
not. object t., the retention by the
council of .some authority to safeguard
the federation against dual union
movements thai might spring up in
the period b-.t Aeej^conventions.
His principal objection, Mr. Du
binsky saidrvas to the.procedure .set
up in the council's recommendation for
appeals from unions suspended for
dualism and to the lack of specificity
defining a dual organization. Ac
cording to the council, unions convict
ed after a trial of conspiring to form
dual movement could appeal to the
next annual convention, "as provided
for by the laws of the American Fed
eration of Labor."
Asserting that this provision was
meaningless," Mr. Dubinsky sug
gested that the appeal clause be
amended to give the suspended unions
the right to take their seats at the
next regular convention and to vote
and be heard on all questions involv
ing their suspension.
He told the delegates that if the
executive council had waited sixty
days before suspending the original
I. O. unions on August 5, 1936, the
garment workers would never have
left the federation. He said that he
had informeel the council, of which he
was then a member, that he would be
content to permit the A. F. L. con
ention in October, 1936, to decide
whether the C. I. O. was a dual move
ment and that if a majority of the
delegates decided it was, the I. L.
W. U. would withdraw from all con
nection with the C. I. O.
Tobin Makes Reply
By suspending the ten formers of
the John L. Lewis group without wait
ing for the convention, the executive
council opened up the "suspicion" that
it did not wish to let the C. I. O.
unions record the votes of their 1,000,
000 members on the convention floor,
Mr. Dubinsky said.
Daniel J. Tobin, president of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters and chairman of the laws com
mittee, which supported the execu
tive council's recommendations, was
the first to take the floor in opposi
tion to the Dubinsky viewpoint. He
said he had voted for the proposal to
restrict the suspension power of the
executive council to cases of conspir
acy to create a dual organization, even
though he believed the council should
have power to deal with other "crimes
against the federation."
He said there were many "crimes"
besides "treason, rebellion and seces
sion" that should be subject to punish
ment in the best interest of the fed
eration, and that the proposed resolu
tion was particularly weak because it
denied the council any power to sus
pend where a single union was guilty
of secession or rebellion.
In his own union, the largest in the
federation, was interested in playing
"strategic politics" it would vote for
a broader grant of authority behind
the council's recommendation in the
interest of harmony.
Green and Woll Take Exception
Other members of the executiv
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council, including Mr. Green, Matthew
Woll,. vice-president of the Photo
Engravers Union, and Harvey W.
Brown, president of the International
Association of Machinists took ex
ception to Mr. Dubinsky's suggestion
that unions suspended for dualism re
ceive all the rights and privileges of
good-standing members in the conven
tion passing on their appeal.
Mr. Woll said the vesting of such
a right in suspended unions would put
a "premium on rebellion" because
unions which had not paid per-capita
dues in several months and which had
been convicted of "the most treacher
ous offense" would be authorized not
merely to argue their appeal but to
sit as delegates and vote on every
measure before the convention.
Measures Against
(Continued from Page One)
Joseph Fay, delegate of the Operating
Engineers' Union had a fistic en
counter early Thursday.
The resolutions committee will re
port to the convention Tuesday, Woll
said.
Dubinsky, who has charged that
the A. F. of L. executive council, rul
ing body of the federation, has "re
pudiated" parts of the agreement un
der which his union, a former affili
ate of the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, returned to the A. F. of
L. fold, has promised to oppose the
laws committee's report if it favors
changing the terms under which the
garment workers returned to the fed
eration.
Housecleaning Is
(Continued from Page One)
"It is very satisfactory to the offi
cers and membership of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. I know that
my colleagues feel the same way I
do."
Mr. Padway said:
"Dr. Millis is an outstanding labor
economist, one who is well-informed,
practical and extremely fair-minded.
Labor as a whole will have reason to
be gratified by his appointment."
Questions Turned
(Continued from Page One)
Balsley and Peter Schmidd. Now if
these brothers don't get back to work
soon there is to be a prize fight. We
are going to place all of these boys
in the ring and have a sham battle
with the winner receiving his name
in head lines in the Potters Herald. So
come on fellows, fight, fight, come out
with that right and come right back to
work.—O. C. 42.
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Stockholders Hit
(Continued from Page One)
the kilns apart from the property
were put on the block aird the Ferro
Enamel company representative au
thorized a bid of $17,000. Later they
also bid on the land and buildings.
The accounts receivable were bid
in at $1,000 by M. Blanch of New
York City. Later in the day Mr.
Blanch raised his offer to $2,000.
Bidding by lump and piecemeal lots
continued until the lunch-time recess.
When the sale was resumed, Mr. Gil
bert asked permission to raise his bid
from $33,000 to $35,000 which was
granted by Auctioneer Rosen. Mr.
Gilbert then filed his bid under the
name of Mr. Arbaugh. The Ferro
Enamel Co. also raised their bid on
the kilns to $20,500.
At the close of the bidding these
offers were recorded:
Two tunnel kilns, Ferro Enamel Co.,
$20,500.
Land and buildings, Ferro Enamel
Co., $6,500.
Machinery and equipment, Harker
Pottery, East Liverpool, $3,900.
Packing materials, boxes, etc. M.
Blanch New York City, $50.
Motor Truck, Charles Rock, Cleve
land, $50.
Dishes, etc., Sidney Cohen Cleve
land, $5,700.
Raw Materials, Cronin China Co.,
Minerva, $250.
Total of above offers: $36,950.
In the piecemeal classification, bids
were accepted on odd lots of ware and
single items, reejuiring several hours
to complete.
Bids were filed on Tuesday with
Paul D. Roach of Canton, referee in
bankruptcy, who in turn will forward
them to the Cleveland court for con
firmation. Terms of the sale, it was
announced, are to be cash.
The sale of the Mayfair assets was
made in accordance with a federal
court order issued October 22. Judge
Robert N. Wilkin of Cleveland had re
fused permission to Mayfair to reor
ganize under Chapter 10 of the federal
bankruptcy laws, the court upholding
the recommendation of Mr. Roach that
the pottery could not entertain any
hope of refinancing.
This opened the way to action upon
involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
filed against the Mayfair Potteries by
three creditors who said the company
owed approximately $105,105.
PUTTING IT STRAIGHT
Little Mary's father had denied her
request. That night when she said her
prayers she concluded with the peti
tion:
"'And please don't give daddy any
more children. He don't know how
to treat those he's got now."
SANTA
KNOWS
NOW
MIRRORS, PICTURES,
LAMPS, TOYS
QUAKER CURTAINS
MODERN RUFFLED OR
TAILORED CURTAINS
RIVERDALE DRAPERIES OR SLIP
COVER MATERIAL
SURE-FIT FURNITURE COVERS
NAIRN LINOLEUM
CONGOLEUM RUGS
QUAKER LACE TABLE CLOTHS
CHILDREN'S FURNITURE OF
ALL TYPES
BATH RUG SETS
if