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THE POTTERS HERALD
OrrlliAL j()l KNAL OF
THE NATIONAL BiJOTUKKHOOI) OK OPERATIVE POTTERS
EAST LIVERPOOL TRACKS & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at 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 Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1U02, as second
class matter. Acccpted for mailing at Special ite of Poataci
provided for in Scction 110S, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St.. BELL PHONE 575
P. JEROME MeKEEVER Editor and Business Manajjer
Ono Year to Any I'art of the United States or Canada $2.00
President—James M. Dully, P. O. Box 0, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatliy, Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building. Trenton, New Jersey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East Liv
erpool, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver-
Fourth Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton
Now Jersey.
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton
Sixth Vice President—Georpe Turner, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, Ohio
Seventh Vice Pie.-ident—Charles Jordan, 243 East Michigan Avenue,
SebrinjT, Ohio.
Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, W. Va
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. DALE, FREI) SUTTKKLIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives, E. L. NVHEATLEY, WM. E. YOUNG, EDWARD SEYEIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. CIIAS. F. GOODWIN, M. J. LYNCII. ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives. JOHN Mi-C-ILLIY HAY, LOUIS P1ESLOCK. F. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN 1). HARDKSTY. E. K. KOOS, CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives. E. L. WHEAT LEY, JOHN T. BA LDAUF. Jr.. WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, HEN D. HAP.DESTY, E. K. KOOS. HAS. (iOOI)WIN
Operatives. ALVIN J. BURT, H. R. HAISLOP. JOHN McfilLLlVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. McDONALD. II. SPOPJC, MARGARET PARKER
N. of O P., JAMES SLAVIN, llU'liO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
UNITY, OUR DEFENSE
'THE strength and security of our nation depends
on national unity.
Tliore is no room in this country now for nar
row partisanship, for class hatred, for exploiting:
old grudges and differences. Uut unity must be
more than a slogan, more than a vague and appeal
ing word. It can be achieved only by action.
Unity calls for fair dealing between industry
and labor, for a policy that neither favors nor pen
alizes either side. It calls for an attitute on the
part of both labor leaders and industrial managers
that will make possible frank and honest arbitra
tion, with each understanding the problems of the
other. The nation cannot afford exploiters now—
the industrialist who would grind down labor,
or the labor leader who would disrupt industry
for personal glory.
Unity calls for a government policy of honest
cooperation with all industry. The need of the
hour is production—and still more production, in
the interest of our ordinary needs no less than in
the interest of our extraordinary defense program
The country cannot afford that kind of politician
who fights industry, reviles industry, and who
attempts to ruin industry in reaching out for more
and more power.
Unity calls for a tax and spending policy which
will get maximum results in the least possible
length of time with minimum waste. Taxation
must be distributed equitably over, all income
groups, and all industries and business. We are
willing to spend every dollar that is needed for
real defense.
We can have uml
arc to survive as a fi\
to put into effect a
achieve it.
I
YvV !i,ii it have it, if we
people. Now is the time
program that will reall.v
CONSUMERS GET COOPERATION
'PIIE consumer movement, according to recent
reports, continues to grow. More and more
people, especially women, are showing an intelli
gent interest in packaging, grading, truth-in-ad
vertisiny, etc. These people are wisely determined
to know what they're buying, and to get maxi
mum value for minimum expenditures.
Fortunately for the success of the movement,
after much pushing by the government it is being
given cooperation in two important quarters. First
the manufacturers of the country are showing
praise-worthv interest in improving their prod
ucts, in frankly and truthfully labeling them, an
in using advertising copy that tells the story with
out going' in for poetical exaggerations.
Second, American retailing is also doing its
part to see that the consumer movement achieve
the success it deserves. The chain stores have
led in this, and other stores have joined in. Tin
retailers are seeing to it that packaged foods con
tain the proper quantity and are of the describe
quality—are helping to simplify and clarify
grading standards find terrm—and are kpepiiv to
the facts
t!: !. r' it:*- .VIM prn!! iniial ac­
tivities.
TIk* kind of manufacturer or store which work
ed on the principle that anything they could get
away with was all right, is going out of the pic
ture. Business today is fully aware that its own
welfare depends upon the consumers' welfare. It
knows that a "gyped" customer doesn't come bacl
And the consumer is getting- the breaks.
ONE KILOWATT-HOUR
"lyCVE all hoard of kilowatt-hours—which are a
measurement for a certain amount of elec
tricity. But few realize much i :i r»y one
kilowatt-hour represent
In a recent laboratoi.. a strong .voun^ ex
pugilist was put to work driving a hand generator
until exhaustion forced him to stop. He produced
just a little ov ie per cent of one kilowatt-hour.
More than tw id red men took turns operating
a bicycle-driven generator—and their combined
efforts, kept up until they were too weary to go
on, prod'iced ten cents worth of electricity!
". .The] all the more reason. .for the
surviving fre i their eyes open
when new as* •. Berlin, Rome or
Tokyo. Whoever imagines that Hitler's 'new
order* offers any basis for peace is shutting his
eyes as disastrously as the Poles rnd Norwegians,
the Dutch and Belgians, the Fre,^!, and British
who once trusted in his promises .No amount
of planes and guns and tanks will defend us unless
awareness goes constantly with them."
—The Xuw York Time
FIRM STAND IS IMPERATIVE
ATTACKS on the 10-hour week continue. Some
spokesmen of big business think they see a
chance to break down the 40-hour standard by
spreading the erroneous idea that the defensepro
gram requires lengthening of hours. There is no
indication that they are getting anywhere but the
riends of the 40-hour week, which includes the
vast majority of Americans, must be on the alert,
is the American Federation of Labor Executive
Council pointed out in its report to the New
Orleans convention.
Only constant vigilance and united action on
the part of labor can prevent the "pernicious drive
of reactionary employers" for longer hours, the
council emphasized. It went on to say:
"We must keep the facts before the public.
We must insist on maintaining the 40-hour week
because it makes for greater production. It has
taken 14 years of persistent effort, since we made
our first declaration for the 5-day, 40-hour week
in 1926, to win this standard for the United States.
We cannot now relax our efforts and see our gains
for human conservation swept away.
"The 40-hour week standard is one of the
strongest bulwarks of American defense. Coun
tries which have lengthened hours to increase
armament production have found that longer
hours defeat the very purpose they are intended
to accomplish. Increasing accidents, poor quality
of work, and decreased production are the result
of lengthening the work week."
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"GO FORWARD IN PEACE"
IN the opinion of a number of the commentators,
the President's Madison Square Garden speech
of October 28th was one of the most effective of
his campaign. It had much to do, they feel, in
turning the tide in his favor. In that speech, the
President declared that his policy was one that
would safeguard our country's peace in a torn and
warring world. His last two sentences were these:
"We shall continue to go forward in firm faith.
We shall continue to go forward in peace."
The issue that confronts us today, is the issue
of peace or war. That is the most terrible issue
that any President, any government, any nation,
can face.
Those polls which proved so accurate in fore
casting the result of the election, indicate that an
overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed
to war. The Congress is a peace Congress, with
almost every member committed to the principle
that we shall not again participate in a foreign
war. The President has said he is a peace presi
lent.
We can stay at peace if we set ourselves dead
against aggression and make ourselves so strong
that no aggressor will dare attack us. That must
be the American policy. That must be the ideal
n which all Americans share, from the President
to the lowliest among us.
PRETRIAL" COURT PAYS
T'HE first month's operation of Chicago's "pre
trial" court has saved the city treasury at
least $12,000, the American Municipal Association
reports. The court was created to speed justice,
and save costs for both litigants and taxpayers
in cases involving small damage suits, broken con
tracts and unpaid wages.
Under the pretrial court system, litigants are
called into conference before their cases come to
trial to see if the issues can be settled through
conciliation and agreement. Municipal Judge
Oscar S. Caplan, who presides over the unusual
court, said about 31 per cent of the 2,2."0 cases
called have been disposer! of, and that action has
been taken on all but 179 of the cases
The association said the practice of calling
cases in advance of trial for the settlement of
issues has been of great aid in Cincinnati, Detroit
and Los Angek's in bringing about settlements,
and in stabilizing dockets so judges may be kept
busy trying cw: I hat !e:, rvv and are ready for
trial.
ALL IN THE SAME BOAT
HPiiE Richmond, Virginia, Cooperative Milk Pro
ducers' Association has a unique and effective
way of getting milk producers and milk dealers
to become better acquainted, according to an ar
ticle in the Dairymen's League News of New York
This association takes the producers and dealers
on a combination boat trip and picnic each year
A symbolic significance could be read into that
boat trip—for. using an old saying, the people who
produce our crops and the people who sell them at
wholesale and retail arc "all in the same boat.'
Differences may occasionally appear between them
—but those differences are usually of a minor, not
a basic character. There can be no sound pros
perity for one group unless the other prospers as
well. The future' of one is inextricably related
to the* future of the other. It is just plain com
mon sense for producers and distributors to get
together. Marketing co-ops in the milk production
field have helped bring about through better
service to consumers.
TO FIT THE CRIME
(From the Washington Post)
•THERE was nothing secretive or cowardly in the
action of the eight New York theological
students who refused to register for the' draft
The young men, all of whom held that lvgistratioi
«n itself constituted a warlike act, left signed state
ments to this effect with an assistant United
states attorney at the local place of registration
vlor can their sincerity of purpose be suspect
ill rely this was demonstrated by their willingness
o go to jail for their convictions.
In the circumstances the sentence of a year in
irison seems unnecessarily harsh. It is possible
course, that the sentence was passed as an ex
miple as well as a punishment for the act itself
ut a first case1, as this was, might have caller
'or a suspended sentence, without fear that the
livinity students' action would invite imitation.
Yogressive socialism, once under way, results
n aii increasing momentum down hill for all sur
viving private economy. That is, it feeds upon it
self, and, as we have seen, seeks to grow and be
come permanent, even though it may have started
out purely as a temporary or emergency measure.'
—Albert \Y. Atwood
THE POTTERS HERALD
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Happenings That Affect- the binner
Tails, Dividend Checks and Tax
Bills of Every Individual. National
and International Problems Insep
arable from Local Welfare.
The Axis' spokesman continues to
boast of the dreadful doom that is
about to befall Britain and all other
powers which dare to oppose German
Italian-Japanese ambitions to create a
lew and revolutionary "world order."
Jut in much of the present boasting
here is a hollow and discordant note.
For it is a plain fact that today the
dictators are winning most of their
battles on paper instead of the field
of action.
The war, in other words, is not go
ng well, from the Nazi-Fascist point
of view. Germany has apparently
abandoned hope of invading England—
move which, according to Hitler's
original calendar, was to have been
completed months ago. Her air at
tacks go on, and they do much dam-
But there is no evidence to in
dicate that the plane can win a war
or break the morale of a proud and de
termined people. In the meantime,
English plane production, buttressed
by imports from this country, moves
steadily forward toward the day when
Britain will be Germany's equal in the
air. Nazi raiders and submarines have
sunk an immense amount of British
shipping. But Britain's merchant ma
rine is still vast, and is being added
to almost daily. And new British war
ships, including one or two 35,000-ton
super-dreadnaughts, have lately been
commissioned.
Greatest fiasco has been that of
Italy. One expert recently observed
that Germany alone is stronger than
Germany and Italy together, and that
may very well be true—Italy is one
of the least self-contained of nations,
and Hitler must keep supplying her
with materials which he could use to
advantage at home. On top of that,
the military experts are shaking their
heads in amazement over what they
regard as the almost incredible stu
pidity of Mussolini's much-bemedaled
general staff. The invasion of small,
poorly-armed Greece is a vivid ex
ample. Italy attempted to use blitz
rieg tactics in a rugged, mountainous
country in which there are few roads,
and she started in the worst possible
season. It was inevitable that her
usses would be tremendous. No au
hority believes that Greece can hold
out indefinitely, but Italy's victory
will be won at great cost, in prestige
no less than in men and material. And
in the meantime, England has been
able to establisr^ji* and naval bases
on the Greek islands which are of im
mense importance in cementing her
hold on the Mediterranean.
The British air attack which dis
abled three Italian battleships and a
number of lesser craft is, if English
reports of the action are true, one of
the major victories of this war. It
means that the Italian fleet has lost
close to half its effectiveness so far
as the surface vessels are concerned.
And that, in turn, means that Britain
can now release ships from the Medi
terranean to other places where they
are badly needed for purposes of con
voy, and to hunt down and engage the
German raiders which are operating in
the mid-Atlantic.
Watch Africa now—the next show
down will probably come there. More
and more of French Africa has dis
avowed the German-dominated Vichy
•overnment and is throwing in with
the "free French" cause led by Gen
eral De Gaulle. Mysterious General
Weygand is now in Africa. He was
sent there by the Vichy authorities to
hold the colonies. But reports leak
out that Weygand may have an en
tirely different plan in mind—that he
may join De Gaulle or, at least, keep
the part of Africa he controls out of
an alliance of any kind with Germany.
If he does that, it will be a blow to
the Axis, which must conquer Africa
as a main step in its. program for de
stroying the 1
if.-line
of the British
Empire.
Also watch the Far East. There is
quiet on the surface there at the mo
ment, but there is turbulence under
neath. Japan has been withdrawing
great quantities of troops from China.
Some fear she will use them in a
foray against French Indo-China and
the Dutch East Indies— or, if worst
comes to woivt, against the Philip
pines. Ray of hope is provided by Far
Eastern experts who insist that Japan
knows she is far too weak to provoke
us into war, and that she will back
down if we maintain a strong and un
yielding policy.
Most of the columnists have been
busy as bird dogs in forecasting what
course the Administration will now
take. And all of them seem to have
different ideas. Some think the Presi
dent will pursue a conservative policy
others that he will go in for experi
ment on a bigger scale than ever.
For the time being, discount all of
those forecasts considerably. Only one
man, the President, knows what he
plans to do, and he hasn't talked
about it publicly. The speeches and
statements he has made since the
election have been moderate in tone
and have not indicated any startling
new departure...
It is obvious that the demands of
rearmament comes first in government
now. Whatever the Administration
thinks i.- necessary to expanding pro
duction with maximum speed, will be
done, but no one yet knows what that
will entail.
Truths Pondered While
MR. MODESTUS
9 SURPLUS OMODITIES
LABOR PRODUCTION
DON' NEED MANY MEN
MEN ARE A SURPLUS
Perhaps it doesn't matter—
That 217,880 skilled workmen—
Registared as applicants for jobs,
Oct. 28—
Of whom 51,297 had secondary
training 6r experience—
Seven states registering 145,887 of
the whole number—
Of course, it was really tough—
On that cold morning in Florida the'
other day—
For the 3,000 men who waited in
such camps as they had—
Around the new military construc
tion job—
Hoping for a chance to help fix up
the new army camp—
Uncle Sam sent three truck loads of
surplus commodities—
For those 3,000 surplus workers to
eat on—
Until the next best thing came
along—
Surplus men—
Fed with surplus commodities—
That begins to give you the pattern
for the future—
But so long as the surplus grub
catches up with the surplus men—
Why fuss about such little things as
getting 3,000 more jobs—
Wou'll find other thousands playing
around—
Up and down the beaches at Miami,
San Diego, Anna Maria—
It seems to be all right for them to
do that—
No policemen following them
around—
They get their share of the "sur
plus", like the others—
So it must be all right to do it that
way—
Os, is it?
Look at it this way—
Polakov, Superintendent of N. Y.,
N. H. & H. R. R.—
To produce all that this nation needs
for subsistence—
That comes from things like the
Bedeaux System—
Which increased production 44 per
cent in 200 plants—
Between 1916 and 1927, affecting
150,000 employes—
Reducing labor costs by 20 per
cent—
Man-hour out put increased 27 per
cent from 1929 to 1933—
According to National Bureau of
Economic Research—
Man-hour output increased in six
auto plants 40 per cent—
In 15 years Buick raised production
1,400 per cent—
Increased labor force by only 10 per
cent—
So, why worry about what they call
"jobs"&
The point is:
You don't need so many men—
To do the necessary work of the
nation—
So why get so excited about the
"Unemployed"?
It is not jobs that matter so much,
any more—
Because, industrially, men are a
surplus, any way—
Except certain skilled men, when
tool shops get excited about war
stuff—
Real problem is something entirely
different from now on—
That is: how to distribute enough
of the production, wisely—
So that these millions without the
jobs—
Never get seriously without food,
and clothes—
But: the dividends MUST be con
tinued—
Don't you believe that?
Well, that is the way the big hats
see it—
It is producing DIVIDENDS that
begins to puzzle them.
$650,000 Back Wages
Paid Lumber Workers
Washington, D. C.—At the comple
tion of the first four months cam
paign of the Wage and Hour Division
of the U. S. Department of Labor to
enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act
of 193S in logging camps, sawmills,
lumber manufacturing plants, and
Benefiting by this amount, a large
part of which has already been paid,
were 20,051. Many of these had been
receiving wages averaging about 10
cents per hour and some were get
ting as low as a nickel. Colonel Flem
ing said that in addition to the res
titution already paid or computed, ad
ditional thousands of dollars are pay
able under investigations till under
way.
Leather Workers Poll
Won By A. F. of L. Affiliate
Philadelphia, Pa.—Employes of the
C. F. Rumpp and Sons, leather goods
company here, voted 135 to 89 to be
represented in collective bargaining
by the International Ladies' Handbag,
Pocketbook and Novelty Worker.
Union, A. F. of L. affiliate.
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
An object lesson of what happens to
organized labor under a government
tending to totalitarianism is being
given in France, where the Nazi-domin
ated Petain government has just abol
ished labor unions, employer organisa
tions and steel and coal trusts. Marshal
Petain's action is something for union
ists and employers in America to
think about.
Marshal Petain called his decrees
abolishing the various organizations
"co-ordination by the government of
private interests," "breaking the
forces of the trusts and their power
of corruption," and "freeing individual
liberty of its shackles by subordinat
ing it to the national interest."
The Confederation Generate du
Travail, France's principal labor or
ganization and the employers' associa
tion were accused of entering into pol
itics. Properties of labor and employ
er organizations will be temporarily
managed by the government.
Translate the Petain action into
terms of American unions and corpo
rations and draw your own conclu
sions. It may or may not agree with
a body of opinion in the United States
that holds organized labor and organ
ized industry are inextricably involved
as part of our democratic system and
national economy and that they must
find a way of working out their- prob
lems together in order to avoid the
fruits in the United States of the Eu
ropean totalitarian systems.
Previous to announcement of Pe
tain's ban on the unions, nothing had
come from France about the French
labor movement, in the months since
the surrender to the Nazis. The bulle
tin of the International Transport
Workers' Federation explains the
silence by saying that the "German
authorities and puppets of Vichy were
anxious to suppress the truth, which
is embarrassing to them."
The bulletin goes on to report that
the French workers have refused to
support the Petain regime, and have
stood firmly against the Nazis. It
says:
"The Nazis-backed Petain govern
ment provided itself with a show
horse in Rene Belin, (next to Jouhaux,
the most outstanding personality of
the French labor movement.) After
the surrender Belin made common
cause with the Vichy government and
placed himself in their service as Min
ister of Labor. It was thought to show
by this that the French workers had
changed their opinions.
"Information now available shows
that the principal leaders of the
French trade unions have turned
against Belin. In the first half of
August a meeting took place in Tou
louse of representatives of fifty of the
unions affiliated to the G. G. T. This
meeting very distinctly dissociated it
self from Belin.
"Since his entry into the authori
tarian government, Belin has sought
to persuade the trade unions to co
operate with the Petain authorities,
but met with a blunt refusal from the
great majority of the movement. At
Toulouse, far from declaring them
selves prepared to co-operate, the
trade unions sharply condemned as
weaklings those who in the confusion
of the national disaster has answered
the call of the turncoat who has ac
cepted office as Minister, and who
was unanimously ignored by the
meeting.
"The Toulouse meeting confirmed
that Belin does not represent the or
ganized workers of France, who de
sire freedom, in spite of Hitler, Mus
solini and Petain, and in spite of
Belin."
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W A N E
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A. P. Kellogg, turbine engineer of
the General Electric Co., is making
plans for a floating power plant to be
towed through coastal and inland
waterways and connected with regular
distribution lines to meet emergency
demands for electricity for the nation
al defense program. His plant would
be installed in a low hull like that of
a Great Lakes freighter.
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sociated establishments, Colonel Philip
B. Fleming, Wage and Hour Admin
istrator, announced that in 9(5 con
cerns back wages totaling $050,097
were found due employes to bring
their wages or overtime compensation
up to the figure required by the law.
W I S O
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Charity is a universal duty, which
it is in every man's power sometimes
to practice since every degree of as
sistance given to another, upon proper
motives, is an act of charity and
there is scarcely any man in such a
state that he may not, on some
occasions, benefit his neighbor.—Dr.
Samuel Johnson.
SHELTER OF 7,000,000 PLANNED
New York City.—A plan for the pro
tection and shelter of the 7,000,000 in
habitants of New York City in case
of disaster has been drafted by the
municipal board of control. The plan,
prepared under the direction of the
police commissioner, provides for the
mobilization of 87,COO city employes
within four hours, and for the use of
jill municipal equipment. In prepar
ing the plan, municipal employes
mapped the structure of buildings and
estimated the number of people that
could be sheltered in each, and indi
cated on city maps every street,
bridge, tunnel and public utility.
Thursday, November 28,1940
7E:2 CE:o Ty Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
JOHNSTON AND LEWIS
A GREAT TEAM
"CRACK DOWN HIGH"
3 AND GREAT JOI1N L.
In this calmer atmosphere of thrc
weeks "after the event," there is one
teeney weenev thing that seems to
need writing about somewhere—and
it mipht as well be here.
Those who didn't turn their radio
dials to shut him out will remember
the caterwaulings of one Gen. Hugh
S. Johnson, as he trundled out his
line of horrendous warnings, a rather
pitiful relic of the spector that was
Hugh Johnson in the days of NRA.
Still trading on the headlines he
got during that hectic period, Hugh
Johnson did his stint of high priest
ing for whomsoever would listen to
hear him through.
Well, it wasn't easy to listen to
Hugh Johnson for a full session, but
for the sake of knowing just what
kind of show he could put on, it has
to be done—a chore for the benefit
of subsequent elucidation.
Johnson had two main strings to
his rather squeaky fiddle. One was
that we were headed hell bent and
he got away with those two words on
the air) for dictatorship and war the
other that John L. Lewis was a great
and good man.
Labor men who think that John L.
Lewis is something several grades be
low sainthood will not soon forget the
aura of nobility which Hugh Johnson
sought to cast about the head of John
L. Lewis.
It was almost Johnson's opinion, in
those radio diatribes, that Hugh John
son and John L. Lewis wei-e responsi
ble for all that was done under and
by NRA. By folly they were the hard
riding twins in them thar days—if you
listened to Johnson.
Johnson put the millions to work
and Lewis put them into unions. Of
course there was nobody else around
in those days—just nobody that mat
tered.
It's easy to lay on the halos in re
trospect—easy to build up the Cae
sars.
So, let's have a look at the record.
What sort of man was this cackling
Johnson in those days when NRA and
the Blue Eagle swept down upon the
country to give it a lift?
Well, he was just about the most
absolute autocrat that ever had a
chance to wield great power.
That he ganged up and played with
John L. Lewis doesn't have to be
proved the general admits it.
But he doesn't drag out his own
dictatorship record. He's too wise for
that.
However, hundreds of labor men
will remember the "crack down" or
ders of that day—from which there
was NO APPEAL. You dared at
your peril.
"Ci-ack down" became famous in
the headlines. Good old "Crack down
Hugh."
And thousands of labor men will
remember the petty despots that were
brought in by him and given power.
Kids fresh froc college wielded power
iver whole industries. Youngsters
fixed wages and hours under NRA
and you were just about run out of
the place for a dare to protest.
Deputies tied to big industries were
given jobs where power was used as
ruthlessly as ever it was used by any
old Roman pro-consul. I could name
some of them—and so could William
Green and so could the chiefs of a
score of international unions.
Nor was that all. This hero of the
radio and of the columns went so far
as to issue edicts saying who could
and who couldn't appear as spokes
men for unions. Their freedom of
choice was subject to approval by the
great viceroy.
Perhaps, having fallen from that
pinnacle of power Gen. Hugh S. John
son finds it difficult to resume the
role of common man. Perhaps that
is why he sputters like a fizzled and
worn out volcano, pitifully pontifical,
trying hard to spout like the iron
pants general of those years—per
haps something like a bullet flopping
weakly out of a muzzle, with not
enough powder in the breech.
But the general must keep in char
acter—the boss who tells 'em. Well,
at least he ought to know about dic
tators. He was one. But there are
so many other things that he has for
gotten—he and John L. Lewis!.
FACTORY JOBS AND PAYROLLS
JUMP IN PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia (ILNS).—Factory em
ployment in Pennsylvania expanded
about 3 per cent in October to approxi
mately 978,000 workers, and wage dis
bursements increased 5 per cent to an
estimated $25,800,000 a week, the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Philadelphia re
ports. These advances considerably
exceeded seasonal expectations and re
flected unusual improvement in both
durable and nondurable goods indus
tries. The number of wage earners
employed in October was 4 per cent
and payrolls were nearly 9 per cent
greater than in the same month last
year. Aggregate working hours ex
panded 8 per cent over the twelve
months and in comparison with the
low point of 1940 have increased 2L
per cent.