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THE POTTER* HERALD
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF
THE NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTEBS
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio by the N. B. of O. P.
owning and derating the Best Trades Newspaper and Job Printing
Plant in the Stat«.
Entered at Postoffiee, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rate of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
August 20, 1918.
Gmaral Office, N. B. «f O. P. Building, W. 6th St.. BELL PHONE 57E
P. JEROME McKEEVER Editor and Businesa Managei
One Year to Any Part of the United States or Canada. 92.OC
President—James M. DufTy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool, Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 210, Broad Street National
Bank Building. Trenton. New JetKey.
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 117 Thompson Avenue, East LiV'
eriKo!, Ohio.
Third Vice President—George Chadwick, 802 Bank Street, East Liver
pool, 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, Glenmoor, East Liverpool, 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
Manufacturers A. DALE, FREIt SUTTER LIN, JAMES TURNER
Operatives. E. L. WHEATLEY. WM. E. YOUNIi, EDWARD SEYFIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, ('HAS. F. (iOODWIN, M.J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives, JOHN McGILLIVRAY, LOUIS PIESLOCK, F. HAYNES
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, BEN D. HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY, JOHN T. HALDAUF, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers HEN I). HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, (.'HAS. (JOODWIN
Operatives. ALVIN J. BURT, H. K. HAISLOP, JOHN McGILUVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. M.DONALD. H. SPORE. MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P.. JAMES SLAVIN, HUCO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
TRAVEL TO BORDER COUNTRIES
Official statements showed that 13,592/129
visitors from the United States went to Canada
in 1940 and l(,f78,119 visitors in 1939. Only
6,418,500 Canadians visited the States in 1940,
against 11,555,23(i in 1939. Travel to and from
Mexico shows little change.
SUBSIDIZING THE AIRWAYS
'PWO great American airlines will «vt huge sub
sidies from the Government, which is a clear
cut decision against monopoly in our overseas
plane services. Business on the airways between
the United States and open ports like Libson, is
rushing and as it grows in popular favor it is
sure to interfere with the ship companies. That's
another thing to start worrying about.
HYSTERIA SETTLES NOTHING
(From the New York Times)
T'HFJ hysterical approach to the problem of
strikes in the defense industries is illustrated
by a bill introduced in Washington by Representa
tive Leland M. Ford of California. Under it a
sentence of twenty-five years in prison could be
imposed on any one who "incites, advocates, calls,
participates in or assists any strike" directly or
indirectly affecting the war industries. ]f the
strike results "directly or indirectly" in the death
of any person the punishment might be death.
Of course, Congress will not pass any such
legislation, which if literally enforced would put
a large part of our working population in jail.
Management itself would be in danger, for it
could be held that a recalcitrant employer, refus
ing to have anything to do with collective bar
gaining, was "inciting" a strike.
REPUBLICANS AREN'T SURE
Republican National Committee staged a
harmony session in Washington at which
Joseph W. Martin, Massachusetts editor and Con
gressman, yielded to the pressure that he remain
Chairman of the Committee. On the same day
Wendell Willkie was being cheered as a World
hero in Toronto, because of his belief that the
United States should "give every ship, and mori
than every ship that is l'ree and unnecessary, giv
ships until it hurts, keep them going and victory
then is sure."
The fact is, Willkie is so many jumps ahead
of the old established leadership of his party, that
began with Abraham Lincoln as President, that
the National Committee skipped enumerating its
policies. Silence seems to be golden in these days
when no one knows for certain whether Willkie
will continue to boom as a leader, or politicians
all know that, right or wrong, Willkie is
a
hero at the present time.
BELIEVING IN SIGNS
TWIE United States has the finest highways in
the World, but there are hazards in motoring,
nearly all of them traced to careless drivers. The
fact is generally realized that many drivers who
are pretty good at the wheel think they are so
near perfect that they often fail to recognize the
fact that driving is a full-time job and doesn't
allow time for thoughts to go wandering over mul
titudes of things that do not concern the duties
of the man at the wheel. The worst things hap
pen usually when l^ast expected, and safety de
pends on the "other fellow," and yourself.
An automobile traveling 30 to 50 miles an hour
cannot be stopped within 75 to 175 l'eet, depend
ing on exact speed and it cannot be put around
a curve with safety when it is going at high speed.
W hen you drive a car, you cannot pass another
car on a hill, even if the other car is "dragging."
There may be an oncoming car racing up to the
brow of the hill. .lust hold back until you can
see clear road ahead. Don't pass over a railroad
crossing without stoping to look and listen. Bicycle
riders or pedestrians must be given wide berths,
and don't gamble on which way children decide
to go.
Rules that we find on the markers placed be
side the highways are there to be obeyed, and most
of these instructions are sensible warnings. If you
are a driver who doesn't believe in signs, suppose
you think matters over carefully, and consider
the wisdom of Whittior who found that nature
and thoughtful persons "speak in symbols and in
signs." After all, most accidents may be charged
up against lapses, and "wool-gathering," which
lead to trouble on the open road and city street*.
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BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
'PHE seizure of German, Italian and Danish ships
brought prompt protests from Germany and
Italy. Our own Government announced that the
seizures were "strictly legal," and the Axis wasn't
even asked to agree with our position. It seems
very likely that our Government will assume
formal title over these ships as the next step, and
the Axis won't like that, either. As a matter of
fact the time has passed when the Government
of the United States gives a whoop about what
these European war lords think, or like.
Naturally, actions speak louder than words
and a good many Administration and Congression
al leaders in Washington admit the truth of the
daily charge that the United States "is in the
war," "on the way." We may convoy loaded ships
to England, and other friendly countries in spite
of Germany's threats to destroy American ships
carrying aid to the British. Greece and other
nations are also being furnished liberal aid from
Washington, and if Germany and Italy sink our
ships, the little neutrality that still exists in the
United States will "go out the window."
It has been perfectly plain for several weeks
that the Axis have been given plenty of excuses
to extend their war to include the United States,
and that our Government hasn't backed down an
inch on anything. Our Nation has taken over
ships, and given the Hitlerites to understand that
they can't bluff us. So, what's the answer? Some
people in Washington say that is the right way
to keep out of this war. When you ask them why,
they will remind you that Hitler instructed his
butchers in the very beginning of the attacks on
Czechoslovakia and Poland that the United States
must not be given cause to go to actual war with
Germany. The reason he gave was that the United
States was the cause of German defeat in the first
World War.
Isn't it reasonable to believe that Hitler is
afraid of the United States and that is why the
Germans want, above all things, to keep us out
of the Battle of the Atlantic? And isn't that quite
likely to be the way the United States will "keep
out."
FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
truth that organized labor has frequently
emphasized, but which many persons still do
not see, was stressed by William Green in a re
cent address before the Rotary Club of Philadel
phia. This truth is that organized labor is work
ing in the best interests of business, agriculture
and in fact the whole nation.
"The object of the American Federation of
Labor," said Mr. Green, "is to promote the econ
omic and social welfare of working people and to
elevate their living standards through organiza
tion, collective bargaining, legislation and educa
tion.
"Our efforts are not hostile to business. On
the contrary, what we are doing and what we are
seeking to achieve is in the best interests of busi
ness and agriculture. By lifting the purchasing
power of the great mass of Americans we are in
creasing buying power and thus creating a greater
domestic demand and consumption of the products
of factory and farm.
"We are working in the best interests of our
country because we are building up the standard
of life and living in America."
The truth pointed out by Mr. Green can't be
brought too often to the attention of the nation
by labor and its friends. When it is given uni
versal recognition, this nation will be well on the
way to a better and happier civilization.
OLD AMERICAN TRUTHS
City of "Brotherly Love" has never wavered
in loyalty to its noble founder, William Penn,
whose philosophy is an accepted standard in our
own times, two and a half centuries after thf
Quaker observed that "the public must and will
be served." The modern streamlined version of
that original Penn philosophy has recently been
stated: "The public will be pleased."
Those philosophies and observations are proven
in many ways. Electricity furnishes light, heat
and refrigeration. Communication and transpor
tation have led the line of progress and thousands
of luxuries and necessities are its products. In
earlier times James Watt's first engine performed
miracles in the leap from muscle-power to motor
power. More than 30 million motor vehicles, and
perhaps 30 million times more and better high
ways are forward-steps that have been recorded
within the lifetime of many oldsters still living.
Farms, mines, mills and factories have com
bined their forces and stepped-up slow-motion and
wasted energy into mass production.
HEART OF FREEDOM
IT is unthinkable that labor's income should be
determined in any other way than by collectivc
bargaining. Free enterprise depends upon tin
employer's right to contract and free labor upon
its right to contract covering terms and conditions
of services. Wages must not be fixed by law,
administrative edict or ceiling fixed for "stabiliz
ing" or freezing purposes.
War industries are making profits and can
afford to pay workers adequately. If profits arc
excessive, they will be reduced by taxation. Like
wise workers' wages are subject to taxation, and
the larger their incomes the larger their tax pa.\
ments.
The right to negotiate a contract specifying
terms and conditions of work is the right of every
free person employed to do work. The right of
contract is the keystone of private enterprise for
both employers and workers and hence is th(
heart of freedom. In maintaining our right to
union membership and collective bargaining, we
wage earners are defending the citadel of free in
stitutions.
TO PROVE YOU CAN FLY
Civil Aeronautics Hoard requires an appli
cant who wants to pilot a plane to demonstrate
his ability to make take-offs, pilot solo flights, and
negotiate a series of landings from an altitude of
1,000 feet, with engine throttled, and to come down
within 300 feet of a certain prescribed spot. Two
pages of typewritten details explain the tests
There is no indication that the Aeronautics Board
considers these matters difficult or dangerous.
But the young man who can get away with specifi
cations must earn a place in the clouds.
THE POTTERS HERALD
Facing The Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
Congressmen are getting a lot of
mail these days about strikes. One of
them was telling us about it the other
day.
1
He was quite disturbed. He
said he was a friend of labor. He
said he was going to remain a friend
of labor. But he was more than a
little worried about some of his broth
er Congressmen. He feared their loy
alty to labor might be wavering be
cause of the letters they were re
ceiving. These letters came from
the voters back home. They were
down on strikes and they were down
n labor.
Now our friend, the Congressman,
had a bright idea. "Why don't you
fellows start writing letters to your
Congressman?," he asked. "The work
ers are voters, too, and the Members
of Congress realize it. But they
haven't heard from you. Why don't
you tell your Congressman the work
ers' side of the case?"
Well, the truth is we don't have a
Congressman. We wish we did. But
we live in the District of Columbia
where the so-called soverign citizens
—050,000 of them—don't have a vote
and don't have a Congressman. So at
first we regretfully passed our friend's
bid. Then we got to thinking it over
and we decided not to let a little thing
ike not having a Congressman stop
us from writing a letter to him. We
figured that if we did write a letter,
even to an imaginary Congressman,
we might start something that our
friends in the labor movement might
follow up. So here goes:
The Same Speech
My Dear Congressman:—How are
you? I haven't heard from you in a
long time, ever since I helped to elect
you last November. My name is Joe
Blank, remember? I served on the
labor committee that rolled up a 90
per cent vote for you in the west
side factory district. You told us
you were labor's friend, remember? I
believed you then, but I'm beginning
to wonder a little now.
I'll tell you why. You made a
speech the other day that sounded
very patriotic—at least the part of
it I read in the paper. The papers
print a lot of your speeches lately.
Almost every day. And it's all on the
same subject. In fact, it sounds like
the same speech. It's all about guys
like me, working guys. You say we
mustn't strike. You say anybody who
strikes on a defense project ought to
be shot at sunrise.
Well, Congressman, I'm against
strikes, too. I always have been. That
doesn't mean I haven't been in strikes.
Sure 1 have. Five or six of them dur
ing the twenty years I've been work
ing at my trade.—iftnd-I fought hard,
too. It looked like we got licked a
couple of times but in the end we al
ways won out. Because we've got a
bunch of right guys in our union and
we stuck together and we refused to
be licked.
Let me tell you something, Con
gressman, we's not. going to get licked
now either.
Sure I'm against strikes. So is every
other working man. Do you think a
guy like me, with never more than
a few dollars in the bank and with a
family to support likes to lay down
his tools and walk out and miss the
weekly pay envelope and have to tell
the missus and the kids to cut down
on the spending, even for food? Do
you think that's fun? Do you think I
and the others in my union would
vote to strike unless we could see
no other way out?
We're Not Having Any
Now don't start telling me these
are no ordinary times. I know all
about the emergency. 1 am for the
defense program 100 per cent. So is
my union. So is the American Fed
eration of Labor to which my union
belongs.
We are the guys that are building
the defense program. You can't tell
us anything about it that we don't
already know. We're the ones, who
are doing the work. And we're glad
of the chance. We're getting good
pay and we're getting overtime and
we want to keep on working. We want
to do it not only because there is
good money in it for us but because
we want to se( Great Britain lick
Hitler and we want to get ready for
that guy in case he licks the British
so we can give him a taste of our
own medicine. We don't want strikes.
We ain't that dumb. And we're not
having strikes!
Put that in your pipe, Congressman.
I said our union and the other unions
in the A. F. of L. are not having
any strikes. Read the papers for
yourself. How many of these strikes
which are splashed all over Page One
are A. F. of L. strikes? I looked over
the whole list this morning and I
couldn't find one that amounted to
a hill of beans.
Why don't you guys in Congress
use your heads and show some sense?
Why don't you stop denouncing labor
in general and place the blame where
it belongs? Why don't you put those
Cotnmy so-and-sos in the CIO on the
spot where they belong? They're the
ones who are responsible for these
strikes and (hoy will keep on striking
until and unless you put the finger
on them, instead of shielding them.
They are trying to hide behind the
-kirts of the millions of decent, hard
working, loyal American workers and
as long as you just raise Hell with
labor in general these trouble-making,
no-good rats will be able to get away
with their stufT. Why don't you show
some guts and run the rats out?
But don't start talking about pro
hibiting strikes of any kind because
that's where 1 and the rest of my
bunch come in. If our bosses knew we
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
EDUCATION IS THREEFOLD
MUST SHOW POWERS
ADD TO EXPERIENCE
AND AID SOCIETY
Education should have three ob
jectives—
First—the unfolding of individual
capacities and powers—
Second—adding to individual ex
perience the results of race-experi
ence—
Third—co-ordinating the individual
with the society in which he lives—
These three should go hand-in-hand.
One so educated will be able to do
the things expected of him—
He will have adequate knowledge on
which to base his judgments—
His habits of life will harmonize
him with the human forces about
him—
He will not become a Hitler, nor
want to join an outlaw gang.
The first involves sustenance for
body and mind—
It calls for physical and mental
gymnastics—
These will result in expansion of
faculties—
They will also result in co-ordin
ation of these faculties—
Their cap-sheaf will be recognized
in the achievement of self-control.
Self-control seems at first to have
its objective placed within—
But self-control is never attained
without an external objective.
Mere passivity is not self-control—
Repression is likely to lead to the
death or distortion of faculties—
Self-control becomes effective in
action—
Unconscious action, without con
scious purpose—habitual action—
May be a desirable result of habit
formations attained by purposeful
action—
Healthful habits are liberators of
body and mind—
They set consciousness free for
concentration upon further develop
ment.
Body and mind full-grown, full
powered, and free—
Ready and able to be, to go, and to
do—
Without a chart for the voyage
ahead—
With no adequate information of the
trails traveled by other men—
Must waste time and energy—
years and opportunities—
Must consume itself in conquering
ignorance—
Must blaze many trails that end in
swamps—
Climb many hills that end in blind
canyons—
Suffer many pains and destroy
many useful things.
All of which are useless—
Because they can be avoided—
By looking at the maps made by
other travelers—
By consulting the laboratory rec
ords of other investigators—
By comparing the histories of other
races and peoples.
A mind furnished with flood lights
of human experience—
May know that paths which cannot
be traveled
But need not suffer the pains of
hopeless explorations—
This applies to the common prob
lems of the man, the family, the race.
Action is of the essence of human
life—
But action of one man, unrelated to
actions of other men—
Is intelligent, destructive, and tends
to become irrational.
Freedom of life is not found in iso
lation—
Enlargement of life is to be found
in association.
Fulfillment of human purposes is
found in co-ordination of action—
Co-ordination of the individual is
the basis of social action—
Co-ordination of the members of
a community is of the essence of
progress—
Uncontrolled action of members of
the community leads to anarchy.
Social control is impossible without
intelligent self-control—
Neither of these can be attained
without a previous basis of habit—
The accomplishment of these habits
of social action—
Depend upon the accomplishment of
individual habits of wholesome action.
These habits do not come by spon
taneous output—
They come from experience—experi
ence that has been directed to a goal—
That is the cap-sheaf of all properly
directed education.
Phelps-Dodge Workers
Win Increased Wages
New York, N. Y.— Local No. .'5 of
the International Brotherhood of Elec
trical Workers, AFL affiliate, voted to
accept an agreement providing for
wage increases and vacations with
pay at the Yonkers plant of the
Phelps-Dodge Copper Products Corp.,
which holds $'{0,000,000 in direct de
fense contracts.
couldn't strike no matter what hap
pened we'd lose everything our union
fought for and Rained in the last sixty
years. As long as this is a free
country, we workers will not do any
goose-step.
That's all for now Congressman.
See you on Election Day. Sincerely
yours,—JOE BLANK.
I
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
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The people of the United States are
urged to cultivate the "sheer love of
life and the spontaneous expressive
ness" of the Latin-American temper
ament, in an article appearing in the
April issue of "Recreation" magazine.
Writing on "Music's Good Neigh
borliness in the Americas," A. D.
Zanig, music director of the National
Recreation Association, declares that
these aspects of the "South American
way" are not for restaurants, the
atres, dance halls, or amorous ro
mances alone. "They arise," he says,
"also between parents and their child
ren and among the old and in homes,
fields and all the other places of nor
mal everyday living.
"In music they are best represented
in the small group gathered about a
guitar player or two, not so well by
the large group aroused and managed
by a song leader. There is a maxi
mum of what can be called 'inner
propulsion' in the typical Latin-Ameri
can singing."
"There is," continuing Mr. Zanzig,
"a very large variety of songs and
other music and dances reflecting
various racial traits and many differ
ent loves and faiths and other aspects
of the life of these peoples. We all
have a long way to go to know these
distant neighbors of ours better, and
there is still very little musical ma
terial available for us to go on."
In Houston, Texas, Mr. Zanzig
points out, Mexican fiesta celebrations
are held on city playgrounds and the
Christmas season is especially rich in
folk festivals in which the folk dances
have a large part. In Los Angeles
Latin-American music and dances are
a live part of the community culture
and are apparent throughout the
whole city recreation program wher
ever music and dancing have a place.
To provide North Americans with
a better knowledge of Latin-American
and other folk songs, Zanzig has pro
duced a collection of 120 songs and
choruses entitled "Singing America."
This contains 14 folk songs of Argen
tina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba,
Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Puerto
Rico. There are four such songs from
Canada and 35 distinctively U. S.
songs and nearly as many folk songs
gathered from American people of
more recent European ancestry.
Twenty-three of the folk songs have
been recorded by the Victor Company.
Current increases in wholesale cof
fee prices arc not warranted in view
of the existing supply situation and
the lines of action possible under the
terms of the Inter-American Coffee
Agreement, Miss Harriet Elliott, Con
sumer Commissioner of the National
Defense Advisory Commission recent
ly declared. She pointed out that
existing stocks of coffee in the United
States are almost double those of a
year ago, and that the loss of Euro
pean markets has resulted in large
surplus stocks in producing coun
tries.
Referring to the provisions of the
Coffee Agreement which permit an
increase up to 5 per cent over the
basic quota, as well as an unlimited
increase in case of "imminent short
age of coffee in the United States
market in relation to its require
ments," Miss Elliott said:
"There are sufficient powers avail
able to the Government to assure con
sumers of adequate supplies of coffee
at reasonable prices, and 1 am pre
pared to recommend the use of these
powers for this purpose if necessary."
W A N E
"Split-second heating" by use
of high-frequency electric cur
rents is supplanting older methods
of heating metals and promises a
short cut to lower production
costs
ill
industry, according to
Harry E. Blank, Jr., technical
editor of Modern Industry. Writ
ing on "Split-Second Heating,"
Blank points out that high-fre
quency heating is just what its
less technical name implies. By
this method a rod of steel can be
brought to the melting point at
one end so quickly that the other
end can be held by a bare hand
without danger! Cost-saving ap
plications of "split-second heat
ing" include hardening of metal
surfaces annealing, brazing and
sintering curing and setting plas
tics: drying operations cement
ing layers of cellulose products.
W I S O I
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A government had better go to
the very extreme of toleration
than do aught that could be con
strued into an interference with
or jeopardize in any decree the
common rights of any citizen.
—Abraham Lincoln.
SALES PROSPERITY SIGN
Atlanta, Ga.—Charles K. Everette,
merchandising expert of the Cotton
Textile Institute, doesn't think sales
of diamonds, automobiles or evening
clothes are the best index of retail
business conditions. He estimate?,
sales of overalls and other work gar
ments will reach a new high mark
this year, indicating booming retail
market for a great variety of com
modities.
Thursday, April 17, 11)41
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
O MUST PAY THE PRICE
FOR ANYTHING WORTH
WHILE
TYRANTS LEARN LITTLE
FROM OTHER TYRANTS
Queer thing, but a price has to be
paid for just about every worth while
thing.
It is so in all life, including govern
ment, industrial life and in every hu
man relation. There are equities
throughout.
It isn't the thing
Is
entirely simple
sometimes it seems complicated. Good
institutions generally breed good re
sults. Freedom brings the blessings
of freedom.
Denial of freedom brings the pen
alties of that denial. Repress and you
generate some kind of dynamite. In
physics they have a law covering such
matters. "Every action brings an
equal and opposite reaction."
The stronger force wins, for the
time being. Heat melts ice, but enough
ice will, when melted, put out the fire
that makes the heat.
Employers, strong for a moment,
may deny the right of organization.
They may repress the natural and
reasonable desires of the workers.
If they repress hard enough or long
enough there will be a back action.
The workers will organize and some
times, in their resentment against
past brutalities and inequities, they
will inflict penalties. Life is like that.
All tyrants have been slow to see
the coming end of their tyranny. That
is axomatic. It is plain, on the face
of it. All history shows it. Human
emotions today are about what they
have been always. Natural laws have
not changed.
Today's tyrants have learned little
from earlier tyrants.
There are industrial tyrants today
who think' they can go on forever.
In actuality there is no limit to
which humanity will not go in retali
ation, if pressed hard enough and
long enough. Undoubtedly part of
the inhuman cruelty of the Com
munists in Russia was generated by
the inhuman cruelty of the Czars.
Extremes beget extremes.
Employers who oppose unions
ought to ponder these things. They
ought to learn about humanity and its
conduct. Just knowing about ma
chines and markets and money isn't
enough.
If the employers of America, deny
the right of labor to organize sanely
and freely, ultimately the workers will
organize—not so sanely, not so free
ly, but possibly with destructive re
sults.
A great safety movement has grown
up in the United States. It is saving
irms and legs, eyes and faces every
week. It is a magnificent thing.
Mostly the safety movement was
started by unions. In many cases
unions and union men are responsible
for safety codes and safety laws, In
Massachusetts a mason was respon
sible for a whole big section of the
State safety code.
All over the country unions have
fought for safety. Many of them
write safety provisions into their
trade agreements. They have put a
stop to dangerous tools and practices.
Employers used to fight safety pro
visions because they often cost
money. Now they know that safety
saves money.
Many archaic practices have gone
into the discard. Life is constantly
made safer and better.
The trade union movement's achieve
ments are to be found on every hand.
Many of them are unrecorded, which
is
a pity.
But the trade union movement
didn't start out to build a monument
for itself. It started out to make life
better and it keeps on doing that.
It is a living monument, concerned
with life, not with monuments.
FIRE DEFENSE PLANNED
Baltimore, Md.—Approximately 180
Maryland fire companies with 7,991
firemen are preparing for concerted
action against large-scale fires in event
of war emergency. The plan includes
not only Maryland fire forces, which
are almost all volunteer, well-equipped
companies, but also fire departments
in districts extending 15 miles into
bordering states. Sponsor of the fire
defense plan, formulated after a study
of the errors and successes of the
British fire service, is the Maryland
State Firemen's Association. The gov
ernor, the state fire marshal and fire
service leaders are co-operating with
the association in working out the de
tails.
Imhoff Advised Road
Improvement Is Okeh
Congressman Lawrence Imhoff has
just been advised that the President
has designated as acceptable for in
clusion in the Work Projects Admin
istration Program, the county-wide
road improvement project for Colum
biana County, which calls for an
allotment of .$(554,010.
This project is now eligible for op
eration at the discretion of the State
Work Project Administrator, and of
course his decision will be governed
largely by availability of funds, the
presence of certified relief labor of
the types and skills required, and
other considerations that may be im
portant in the state or locality.