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ID I
See Trade Union Movement
Coming To Life Even
In Germany
VICTORY~ASSURED
American Aid and English
Courage Too Much For
Hitler, He Says
Washington, D. C.—A strong in
dictment of Nazi dictatorship as the
enemy of liberty throughout the world
and the necessity of protecting Great
Britain from its tyranny feature an
article by Ernest Bevin, British Min
ister of Labor, in the latest issue of
the American Federationist, official
magazine of the American Federation
of Labor.
Paying an enthusiastic tribute to
the support already given Great
Britain by both the American Fed
eration of Labor and the entire Amer
ican people, Mr. Bevin continued:
"In the British labor movement we
were under no delusion as to what
would happen once Hitler came into
power. We knew that everything la
bor stood for would go if his regime
succeeded. His object was to make a
slave state. And what ruthless meth
ods he adopted in order to achieve it!
Not merely the crushing of the trade
unions but also the knout, death or
the concentration camp.
"The same thing has followed in
his train wherever he has gone. The
Nazis have taken trade union leaders
and put them to death. T' ey have
stolen the money and assets of the
movement. But they have not de
stroyed its soul—neither in the coun
tries which they have conquered nor
even in Germany where there are still
remnants, probably crushed at the mo
ment but whose resurrection is as cer
tain as that dawn follows night,
I "JB
it not a glorious task whereon
we are engaged—to destroy tyranny,
to allow the plant of freedom to re
vive and the soul of man to start
again on its upward course?
"We are adopting in this country
far-reaching measures of organiza
tion of industry and labor in order
for ourselves not merely to withstand
Hitler's onslaught but to make the
great offensive which will cause his
destruction.
"We are translating ourselves into
the position of a freely organized de
mocracy, with each citizen submitting
willingly to discipline on a character
calculated to bring victory nearer. So
you have the remarkable experience
of seeing the British people—men and
women—not only going into the forces
but also engaged in fire fighting,
watching for incendiary bombs and
saving their homes, while others are
occupied in the great hospital ser
vices."
Emphasizing the herculean efforts
of the British workers and the British
people generally to resist successfully
the tyranny planned by Nazi totali
tarianism, Mr. Bevin said:
"We feel in our very bones that we
are the bastions of liberty. The words
'they shall not pass' have greater
meaning than ever before because we
know that we are preserving not only
our own liberty but that of the whole
Commonwealth. Indeed, in saving
ourselves we save every lover of lib
erty in the world.
"But it is useless to underestimate
either the power of our enemy or the
task we are called on to perform. He
has dragooned forces, subjugated mil
lions of people to his will and created
a vast arsenal, utilizing the labor of
a population of nearly 200,000,000
people, many of whom hate him and
would turn their weapons upon him
tomorrow if only the opportunity pre
sented itself.
"We in this tight little island have
a working population of 17,000,000.
We have to face the output of his
formidable labor force and simultane
ously bring goods and raw materials
from overseas. And bravely the mer
cantile marine of our own and allied
nations are doing it.
"You have only to look at these
figures to understand what encourage
ment it gives us when we read the
declarations of the great labor move
ment of America and realize that they
see the problem in all its nakedness
as we do and give expression to their
great determination to supplement
our production with America's and to
restore balance with the productive ca
pacity now against us.
"The courage of our forces is in
deed superior to that of the Germans.
It is the limitation of our productive
capacity which gives them momen
tary superiority.
"Therefore, when we now learn that
the mighty American productive ca
pacity, together with the will of the
American labor movement, is going to
throw its full weight into providing
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Bevin Declares British Workers Are
Fighting Against Nazi Enslavement
AFL Would Plan To
Prevent Economic
Collapse After War
Urge Outline of Desirable
Peacetime Public
Works Now
Washington, D. C.—Stressing the
importance of immediate steps "to
avert mass unemployment and eco
nomic collapse" following the national
defense emergency and upon the re
establishment of world peace, the
American Federation of Labor pre
sented a number of essential meas
ures that must be undertaken to pre
vent these calamities. The A. F. of
L. set forth its position in an article
"After the Emergency—What Then?"
published in the March issue of the
American Federationist, official mag
azine of the Federation.
"Incentives for stabilizing full em
ployment at the end of the emergency
can be developed by means of taxa
tion," the article said. "The shift
from war production to peace produc
tion will be fundamentally a shift
from heavy industries such as iron
and steel and munitions to consumers'
goods industries. Tax readjustments
developed now in such a way as to
make possible a reduction of goods
and services could go a long way to
ward expanding the market for con
sumers' goods and stimulating their
production.
"Planning of desirable peacetime
public works should be done now so
that work could be begun and em
ployment assured on a peacetime pub
lic works program without delay.
"Provision for a post-emergency
housing program for low-income fami
lies could be made most effectively if
closely related to a thoughtfully con
ceived and soundly developed defense
housing plan. Much of the adminis
tration of defense housing has been
diverted from its immediate task by
being made a testing ground for ex
pensive experiments with droll
schemes and untried methods.
'Yet defense housing administra
tion can render an outstanding serv
ice to the nation if it provides the
needed housing facilities for the de
fense workers and at the same time
makes sure that most of this defense
housing becomes available for post
emergency use to low-income wage
earners and their families of whom
millions are still compelled to live in
housing which cannot even meet the
lowest standards of decency, safety
and health. A balanced low-rent hous
ing program should play a foremost
part in achieving this end.
"The present program of factory
allocation is guided almost exclusively
by the immediate strategic, economic
and sometimes even political consid
erations. Yet the allocation of new
machinery and equipment for defense
production should be tested not only
in terms of the most efficient pro
duction and the safest and most de
sirable distribution of its essential
products. Such allocation should also
be tested for the availability of the
plant and equipment with a view to
its maximum peacetime utilization in
the post-emergency period.
"Unless this is done we shall be
faced with the prospect of building
a network of industrial communities
which are certain to become ghost
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Labor Movement Vigorously Defended
Cleveland, O. (ILNS).—In a strong
reply to critics of labor unions, James
Myers, industrial secretary of the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
in America, vigorously defended the
labor movement as one of American
democracy's greatest achievements.
The public has been given an ut
terly distorted impression of the fre
quency or seriousness of strikes in de
fense and other industries," declared
Myers, speaking at the Epworth
Euclid Methodist Church Forum,
Cleveland.
"This false impression," he con
tinued, "is probably due not so much
to anti-labor bias on the part of some
newspapers as it is to the fact that
it is considered 'news' only when there
is labor trouble. When unions get
along well with employers, there is
seldom any mention of the fact in the
newspapers. The fact is that if on
any given day the papers were to
print even a list of union plants where
there is no trouble, there would hard
ly be room for any other news in the
paper!
Strikes Not Serious Problem
If the public were to judge the
institution of marriage only by re
ports in the newspapers, it might get
Members Urged To Attenc
49's Anniversary Banquet
Saturday Night
The casters of Elmer Lewis' shop
recently held a dinner at the Pine
Tavern Grill to celebrate the de
parture of Brother Bill Pennington,
Jr. who has left to join Uncle Sam's
army. Brother Bill was given a
Gladstone bag and a Schaeffer pen
and pencil set. Brother Sigie rendered
accordian solos and all enjoyed this
music greatly. Everyone had an en
joyable evening. This group certain
ly hopes Bill likes army life.
The Crane Company has just put
into effect an old age pension plan,
whereby all employes of (5 or more,
according to health conditions, can be
pensioned off. This is greatly ap
predated by the workmen. Insurance
and hospital benefits can be carried
on by the pensioners if they wish to
carry same.
Coca Cola dispensers have been in
stalled recently and part of the
profits, as well as those of the candy
canteens will go towards the fund
which is used to help our brothers
who have been wa]Ie to work for
some years now.
One of the first to take advantage
of the pension plan is Brother Norval
Miller who was at one time a fore
man at John Madock's Coalport plant
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Warehousemen
Meet March 17th
Trades and Labor Council's
Banquet Makes Change
Necessary
Local Union No. met with an
other banner crowd in attendance.
Gale Burchett and Richard King were
obligated and the transfer card of
Brother William Nagel received.
The financial secretary would like
all to note the following: "Each ap
prentice who has served his appren
ticeship in the glost warehouse will
when he gets his warehouse labor card
eturn same to the financial secretary
and receive the journeyman ware
houseman's card."
The record on the labor card has to
correspond with the record on the
ledger before a journeyman ware
houseman's card can be issued. All
warehouse laborers when advanced to
warehousemen must report to the
financial secretary so it can be record
ed in the ledger.
This local was very sorry to hear
of the recent death of Brother Charles
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as distorted an impression of matri
mony as it does of labor unions. For
it is seldom 'news' when a man gets
along well with his wife. If, on the
other hand, he hits his wife over the
head, or seeks a divorce, he makes
the headlines."
Myers pointed out that William S.
Knudsen and Sidney Hillman of the
Office of Production Management do
not consider strikes in defense in
dustries a serious problem and re
ferred to Hillman's statement that
statistics from eleven basic defense
industries showed that in the seven
months of the present defense pro
gram the man-days of idleness due to
strikes in relation to man-days worked
were "only small fractions of one per
cent."
Unions Make For Peace
"In fact, it has been my observa
tion over a period of many years,"
said Myers, "that in general there are
fewer strikes where labor is organ
ized and accepted on an industry-wide
basis, than there are where there are
no unions or where employers are
still fighting against the formation of
unions. After unions have been ac
cepted by employers, machinery exists
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VOL. XLIV., NO. 46 EAST LIVERPOOL. OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1941
OYSTER FRY IS
PLANNED BY 45
FOR MARCH 21
Trenton, N. J.—In spite of the fact
that we have had severe blizzards the
Irst two Friday evenings, the attend
ance and interest shown by the mem
bers of Local Union No. 45 has been
very good.
On March 21 we intend to have an
oyster fry, so brothers come out and
help make this a special occasion
You are promised all the oysters you
can eat.
Local Union No. 40 is to have its
anniversary banquet at the Itoma
Grill Saturday evening, March 16
Tickets are on sale at $1.00 each. They
will be expecting a nice representa
tion from our local, don't forget it
boys.
Official Organ
of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters
With the buying power of the com
munity boosted through the efforts of
the National Brotherhood of Oper
ative Potters, it is only just that those
employed in the laundry and dry
cleaning industry keep abreast, states
Spokesman Salsberry.
Representatives of the union will
meet the employers at an early date
in an effort to work out all arrange
ments for the new contract.
Wheatley Reports
On Ford Contract
Local No. 96 Hears Details
of New Pact From First
Vice President
Perth Amboy, N. J.—At a special
meeting held March 3 First Vice
President E. L. Wheatley gave a re
port of the conference held with the
Fords Porcelain Works on January
24. This was the second time he gave
this report, due to the fact that cer
tain settlements made at that con
ference would not be effective until
after six weeks from January 24.
The report, as given by Brother
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Work Is Steady At
Warwick China
jocal Misses Tillie Stangel
Who Died At Age 70
Wheeling, W. Va.—The O. C. from
Local No. 6 has been very neglectful
in sending news items from this fair
city in the past year, but things are
unusually quiet down here. Work at
the Warwick China is very good at
this time.
Sister Tillie Stangel, aged 70, a
retired employe of the Warwick China
Company and an honorary member of
the National Brotherhood died sud
denly following a stroke at her home.
Sister Stangel was born in Wheeling
April 15, 1871, the daughter of the
late John and Wilhelmenia Jasper
Stangel.
She spent a great number of years
at the Warwick and all her friends
and ghop mates will miss her greatly.
Potters Herald
SPEAKS HERE MONDAY
MATTHEW WOLL, many titled labor representative, will speak to mem
bers and friends of Trades and I^abor Council Monday evening at the Central
Body's 47th Anniversary banquet, Brotherhood auditorium.
Dry Cleaners And
Laundry Workers
Asking Pay Boost
Local Union Seeks 20% In
crease In Conierence
With Employers
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A twenty per cent wage raise is
being requested by the local unit of
the Laundry and Dry Cleaners Union.
At a meeting last Monday evening
which climaxed several sessions with
the employers, the petitions of the
union were virtually agreed to pend
ing the working out of certain details
concerning problems confronting the
industry at this time.
George Salsberry, president of East
Liverpool's Trades and Labor Council,
has been acting in the capacity of
business agent for the union. The
Central Body has also been working
in conjunction with the workers.
$
Allison Resigns
As President Of
Local Union 122
Cambridge Local Continues
To Grow As Eight More
Are Initiated
Cambridge, Ohio.—Local Union No.
122 held a regular session March 3
and covered the usual routine busi
ness. Later votes were ca.st for the
primary election of officials of the
Brotherhood.
Brother Ramsey and Bob Wagstaff
were the two latest winners of the
attendance prize of three month's
dues.
Brother Dales Allison, our trust
worthy president, who has held this
office year after year, serving the lo
cal to the complete satisfaction of
all, has found it necessary because of
other responsibilities to resign. Broth
er Oscar Newman, kilnman, was
elected to complete the unexpired term
of president. Brother Newman is well
qualified to serve as president and the
affairs of Local Union No. 122 will
doubtless be conducted in the usual
orderly manner.
A resolution committee composed of
Brother John Mooney, Art McCracken
and Fred Green were appointed to
receive any resolutions pertaining to
the trade and intended for consider
ation by the coming convention.
Eight new members were obligated
and we continue to grow in size. May
our wisdom develop in proportion.
Labor unions, since the blue eagle
Mapped its wings, have grown to giant
size, but unless the gray matter im
parts the relative intelligence like the
mastodon, extinction from anti-labor
legislation follows.
The recent raise granted the or
ganization caused little comment, be
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2.00 PER YEAR
Strikes Found Minor Defense Danger
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—"Labor
in this country is united in its devotion
to the common cause" and has made a
"remarkable record" since the defense
program was begun, the Labor Di
vision of the National Defense Ad
visory Commission declared in a re
port of progress.
The report, entitled "Labor Speeds
Defense," details the progress made
by the Labor Division since its es
tablishment last June, in helping to
mobilize America's manpower for de
fense production, to launch the most
wide-scale training program ever at
tempted in this country, to settle la
bor disputes in defense industries, to
stabilize labor conditions in the ship
building industry, to employ the un
employed and in helping to farm out
defense work among the nation's
smaller shops.
Strikes Actually Few
Sixteen representatives of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, Congress
of Industrial Organizations and Rail
road Brotherhoods make up the La
bor Division.
Although strike news is prominent
in the news columns, the Labor Di
vision said that actually the number
of men involved in strikes in the first
TRADES AND LABOR BANQUET
PRESENTS MATTHEW WOLL TO
EAST LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NITE
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR'S THIRD
VICE PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK TO PACKED
X. II. OF 0. P. AUDITORIUM
'IpHh East Liverpool Trades and Lalor Council lias completed
plans for its Forty-Seventh Anniversary banquet to he held
Monday evening at six o'clock in the National Brotherhood of Op
erative Potters' auditorium featuring Matthew Woll, noted labor
leader.
Having- secured, through President James M. DufTy of the
N. B. of O. P., the acceptance of the top man in the American labor
movement to speak to its members and friends, the local Central
Body has prepared for the largest attendance in the history of
the annual celebration.
Uniform Scale For
DecalAccomplished
Marks Third Decision Now
Reached By Uniformity
Committee
A uniform wage scale for decal was
agreed to at the close of the two-day
session last Wedne.-day and Thursday
making the third decision reached by
the joint decorating uniformity com
mittee in the past month.
Opening the meetings early in No
vember of last year, the committee
has assembled about eight times in an
attempt to work out uniform price
lists for the decorating trades. An
agreement was reached for lining
February 7 and six days later tinting
was settled.
The problems confronting stamping
are the only ones remaining unsolved
at the present time, but they will
undoubtedly be taken care of at the
next meeting of the joint
The three settlements reached thus
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Five Settlements
In special session last Monday night,
the generalware standing committee
agreed on five settlements effecting as
many plants.
Local Union No. 122—Universal
Pottery Co., Cambridge, Ohio.
Casting Crosley jug.
Settled SI.03 per dozen.
Local Union No. 12—Harker Pot
tery Co., Chester, W. Va.
Jiggering cereal baby plate.
Settled
41-JC
per dozen.
Local Union No. 44—Royal China
Co., Sebring, Ohio.
Casting and finishing sugar handles.
Not sufficient evidence submitted to
warrant a change in price now paid.
Local Union No. 44—Limoges China
Co., Sebring, Ohio.
Jiggering tcoupe) deep plate.
Settled 5'ac per dozen.
Local Union No. 4—Taylor, Smith
Taylor, Chester, W. Va.
Casting juice jug.
Settled f.0c per dozen.
six months of the defense program
was only about half as great as the
number involved when the United
States was at war 24 years ago.
Other points made in the report
were:
"Work stoppages due to strikes in
American industry during the year
1940 accounted for an average loss
of less than two hours per year per
worker.
Work Stoppages Decrease
"This figure is put in perspective
when compared with the time lost
through industrial accidents. On-the
job accidents accounted for an aver
age idleness of more than one day
per worker, or upward of four times
that due to strikes. And the figure
for accidents does not include the tre
mendous loss resulting from more
than 11,000 deaths.
"There has been a 47 per cent de
cline in the number of man-days idle
due to strikes during the first six
months of the defense program over
the corresponding period of 1939."
The report said that a detailed
study of industrial relations, made
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
11 industries crucial to national de
(Continued on Page Two)
Probably more sought, than any other man in public life today,
^Mr. Woll is recognized as an out
standing authority on labor and econ
omic topics.
tcommittee
which will be scheduled in the very
near future.
The committee was an outgrowth of
the regular biennial conference held
last September in Atlantic City. Presi
dent James M. Duffy of the National
Brotherhood of Operative Potters and
Joseph M. Wells, head of the United
States Potters Association's Labor
Board are the co-chairmen.
Mr. Woll came to the United States
at the age of 11 in 1891 from Lux
emburg. The family located in Chi
cago where he received his public
school education. In 1901 Mr. Woll
entered I~ake Forest University's Kent
College of I,aw, graduating in 1904.
In addition to being the Third Vice
President of the American Federation
of Iabor, Mr. Woll is president of the
Union Labor Life Insurance Co.,
Union Label Trades Dept., (A. F. L.),
Workers Education Bureau, America's
Wage Earners' Protective Conference
and for 23 years served as head of
the International Photo Engravers
Union. Upon his resignation he be
came and is today the First Vice Pres
ident of this organization.
He is a director of the Legal Bu
reau of the A. F. of L., editor of the
American Photo-Engraver and former
editor of the American Federationist.
Standing Committees on Education
and Social Security of the American
Federation of Labor lis*t Mr. W' II
their chairman and he'was delegate to
British Trade Union Congress, Birm
ingham. England, 1915-191G to Inter
national Federation of Trade Unions,
Warsaw, 1937, and representative of
Labor to International Labor Organ
ization, Oslo, 1938.
Mr. Woll is also trustee and A. F.
of L. representative on radio station
WCFL, Chicago, Public Education
Association, Chicago, Chicago Tuber
culosis Institute and National Tuber
culosis Association. He is a director
of the National Eureau of Economic
Research and served as director and
member of the Executive Committee
New York World's Fair, Inc.
Finally Mr. Woll is a member of
the National Committee on Prisons
and Prison Labor, National Academy
of Political Science, New York State
Insurance Advisory Board, Sports
manship Brotherhood, Knights of Co
lumbus, Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica. He has served on many com
mittees including the War Labor
Board, dealing with social, labor, in
dustrial, unemployment, educational,
civic and charitable purposes.
(Continued on Paere Two)
Salem Urged To
Vote At Meeting
Friday, March 14
Resolutions Scheduled to be
Presented All Asked To
Attend Meeting
Salem, Ohio.—Friday, March 14 will
be election of national officers and we
expect a large crowd in attendance.
Every member is urged to attend the
local meeting, if this is impossible at
least come down to the hall and cast
your vote. The primary election is
just as important as the general elec
tion. All members of No. 42 should
vote in order to let the trade in gen
eral know what a good man we have
up for third vice president. Brother
Richard Reedy, our local president,
should have the vote and support of
his own local members, this is one
way of proving to the rest of the
trade he is a good man for the job.
I understand there will be some
resolutions presented at this meeting.
You should put forth an effort to at
tend and hear them it may give you
an idea for your own.
The flower fund collector has called
on most of the members and all but
two have consented to belong. Those
two members feel that the local union
treasury should be touched for these
last signs of respect. This flower fund
has been maintained for the sole pur
pose of taking care of final respects
to all potters' families. If you didn't
belong to this group, you, or your
family would certainly feel hurt if
your fellow workers failed to send you
a basket. Twenty-five cents a year
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