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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOl'RNAL OF
THE NATIONAL ISK'UHliKHOon OF Ol'KRATIVE POTTERS
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EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at East Liverpool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O
P.. owninir and operating: the Best Trades Newspaper and Job
Printinu riant in the State.
Entered at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, an second
class matter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rates of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
August -0, 1018.
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St., BELL PHONE 575
F. JEROME MiKEFA'ER Editor and Business Manager
One War to Any Pari of the United States or Canada. $2.00
President James M. DulTy, P. O. Box G, East Livcniool, Ohio.
First Vice President E. L. Whoatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
Bank Building. Trenton. New Jersey.
Second Vice President Frank Hull, 533 College St., East Liverpool
Third Vice President—James Slaven, Cannons Mills, East Liverpool
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, 400 Monroe St., East Liverpool
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 176 East Virginia Avenue
Scbring. Ohio.
Eighth Vii-0 President—Joshua Chadwiek, Grant Street, Newell, W
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WAR!'. STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufa..-Hirers A. J. HALE, FRKD SUTTERLIN. .IAMKS TURNER
Operatives. E. L. WIIKATLEY. \VM. E. YOl'NC, EDWARD SKYFIERT
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. CHAS. F. (iOODWIN, M. J. LYNCH. ARTHUR WELLS
Operatives. JOHN MeGII.LIVRAY. LOUIS PIESLOCK, F. HAYNEb
EASTERN CHINA WAIiE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers. BEN 1). HARDESTY, E. K. KOOS, CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLKY, JOHN T. BALDAUF. Jr.. WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturer*. BEN D. HARDESTY. E. K. KOOS. CHAS. GOODWIN
Operatives, BERT CLAIiK, II. R. I1AISLOI', JOHN MI'CJILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, J. B. MrHONALD, H. SPORE, MARGARET PARKER
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVIN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
TAKE IT EASY
a
run
on stockings!
All of the coun
try's great department stores have seen theii
hosiery counters literally mobbed by Jrantic woin
en of all ajros attempting to lay in a stock of silk
or nylon hose against the day these
luxuries
not be available.
Stores, especially along the eastern coast, re
port that supplies which would normally have
seen them through the rest of the year, including
the Christmas rush, are now exhausted.
The women have all been willing to do more
than their share in the deiense program anc
proved beyond doubt their desire to cooperate b\
contributing their pots, pans and kettles to the
La (Juardia aluminum collections—but takin
away what they consider their most Mattering ai(
to feminine charm—that is something else again
... a blow below the belt.
Hut why worry and run a temperature? 11
things continue to get worse, it will soon become
unpatriotic to Haunt silk hose and those who do
will be definitely dated because Yankee cleverness
can be depended upon to produce many substitutes
which will sheath the limbs in just as mud
glamour aa did ever the product of the Orienta
silk worm.
A SECl'KITY I'KOCiKAM
(lly William Green)
CECUltlTY is a relative term and in this age oi
rapid and drastic change it must be expressed
in terms that do not mean maintenance of thing
they are. In addition to the normal change
due to technical progress and social change, oui
nation witli all other countries laces the emer
gencies of conflict aimed at worldwide revolution
Property and physical possessions may be swept
away. For those we can provide no security. How
vcr, they may be duplicated or improved upon i
tir citizens remain with physical vigor and ere
alive power unimpaired. About the only policy
i liat can lay claim to a degree of permanence is
conservation of human beings.
People are the primary asset of a nation an
tliey are ready to risk perils if relieved of th
n sequences of emergencies to themselves aw
ihose dependent upon them. These emergencie
\. itich no one can forestall or escape are the thing
.ilich prevent them from earning a livelihood 01
capacitate them—sickness, accidents, unemploy
v'nt, total disability, old age.
When there is provision for the emergencies
i:iiit bring temporary incapacity, the individual
i-as a chance to recover his abilities and again lx
(••me self-dependent if there is provision for
i rmanent incapacity, individual has the re
I of knowing he is not overburdening his family
id that his dependents will be cared for.
We have made some progress toward provif
i
security, but it seems relatively futile in th
riod of upheavals and in anticipation of the ecu
i -unic adjustments that must be made when peace
established. We need to extend coverage to all
and to include |.«»\ i, ions
against
i iM of emergency.
insurance should be extended to a
mployes as well as low-income self
persons. Old-age pensions should be
vanable to those who have not been able to ac
imulate contributory insurance.
Unemployment compensation, with benefits
:id coverage adequate for the return from dc
•-n.se production, should be provided by nation
I gelation, covering all who work. Temporal1
id permanent disability compensation, providin
i
inos lor medical can in addition to compciisa
i oil for loss of earnings, is an essential part ol
ay real security program. Such a program,
hich workers, employees and the government
lould contribute, initiated during this period of
I j.sincss activity, w-otild constitute a real cushior
••.hich would enable us to weather the (inanci
fliculties of the transition. Such a program
ith a pooled fund intt which employers and
vorkers should pay, with contributions by th
'•overnment, would be a check on inllationai
\endencies itnd would assure an easier transition
i normal and a citizenry able to cope with tin
roblems ol the luture.
Ileal social security on a i.ationwide
i nder federal administration should lie our first
,"p in long-time national planning, assurin
hysical well-being and removing fears that hold
lack individuals fr i e nsci'.w caikavoi'
which involve
risks.
will
the
basis
anc
FUNDAMENTAL DEFENSE POLICIES
T^HOSK WHO live and wrork in Washington know
and understand the efforts which are being put
forth to develop and expand war industries. As
lese efforts become increasingly successful, those
ho live and work in industrial centers find that
aw materials and workers are being diverted
from civilian industries. The Defense Adminis
ration may issue an industry-wide priority order
affecting a commodity, as in the cases of alumi
num and copper, which reserves the entire supply
for defense production, or it may ration the sup
ply, allotting quotas for defense and civilian uses,
in either case the industry is hard hit and in
comes of investors and workers may be reduced.
Workers may find themselves without jobs.
Plants concerned may be the main or important
industries around
which community business
been developed.
We all realize that a worldwide conflict is ra.ee
ng and that no country can escape its implica
tions or consequences. We realize that business as
usual cannot continue, but we maintain that plans
to develop the munitions and tools of defense shall
be guided by a controlling determination to pro
tect and conserve the rights and welfare of the
people concerned. We believe that the United
States has the technical ability and the states
manship to do the job in this way. Labor main
ains that, whenever plans for defense production
lecessitate changes in operating factories and in
lustries upon which people depend for incomes,
lans be ready when the defense order becomes
•ffective either to provide these industries with
lefense orders or enable them to be converted to
ther production. OPM contemplates this pro
od u re through its Defense Contract Service at
ached to the Federal Reserve and its branch
banks, but this service is not yet developed in
practical proportions to do the job needed nor is
geared into priority orders.
More serious than these shortcomings is the
lack of central authority and procedures neces
sary to put such an administration into effect. So
long as small business concerns tied up by priority
orders are compelled to go through the process of
competitive bidding in order to secure defense
contracts, we shall not be able to achieve produc
tion capacity and business depression and unem
ployment will accumulate and undermine national
morale in many localities. The War and Nav\
Departments cannot maintain contracts as usua
any more than business can do business as usual
These are problems which can be met by the
necessary administration setup, including repre
sentation for employes and employers concerned,
with the mobilization of engineeers and other
technicians, and with the authority delegated to
one head to put into effect plans developed. Ob
viously this problem extends into the jurisdiction
of the Office of Price Administration and Civilian
Supply which issues priorities for civilian produc
tion as well as control prices.
The special problems of defense economy
where action is controlled by other reasons than
price bring us sharply to the realization that total
warfare or total defense requires national plan
ning for total resources to meet defense and
civilian needs, so that coordinated planning is in
dispensable. The Defense Administration be
comes the government under which we live anr
work. Unless the groups concerned have organ
ized representation, they live under a despotism
Employers' rights under defense contracts
were carefully formulated and defined. Industrial
management maintained that this must be done
before contracts were let, and they were in a po
sition to insist upon this course. The Adminis
tration secured legislation to comply with pro
visions formulated by employers. Workers can
take similar steps for their protection only when
making a work contract with employers. W
lave an equal right and duty to protect ourselves
Among the rights which must be fully protected
in order that wage-earners' progress in social bet
torment shall not be impaired or destroyed are:
Development' and conservation of work
skills. These are the chief assets of wage
earners, corresponding to capital investment
on the part of employers.
Rights growing out of work experience
such as seniority, rate
of
has
pay, vacations, pen­
sions, etc.
Rights to retraining for new jobs without
loss
of pay or status when plants are convert
ed to new production due to defense needs.
When workers, due to national defense
needs, must move from their homes in order
to find employment, the cost of transporta
tion and help should be borne either by in
dustry or the government.
The work rights of persons working for wages
•ire not so clearly defined and accepted as rights
lerived from property ownership.- Decisions oi
the fundamental defense problems will do nine
'ii establishing a balance between conservation o
human welfare and conservation of property
rights.
FKEEZING COTTON
TMIKRE 1IAS I'.KKN a determination of repre
sentatives from the southern states in th
two Houses of Congress to stop the governnioji
from selling its seven million bales of loan cotton
This is a live issue in connection with price-con
trol, which principle is challenged by a stron
farm bloc in Congress. Chairman Steagall of th
House Ranking and Currency Commission wa
chosen by the President: to sponsor tin1 Adminis
(ration price control bill. Rut he is siding with
the farm group in its rebellion to obtain greaU
benefits for farmers than exist in the bill, "to sus
tain the debt structure" being piled on the coun
try. In other words the farmers don't want
have agricultural prices fixed by the government
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau hole
the purse strings, and he wants to sell the seve
million bales of cotton because there is a profit
be had at this time. He brought down his mighty
fist last week and declared that it would be "ter
:*ible" for the Treasury to lose money on its loan
nvestments by refusing to sell its cotton.
NATURAL (JAINS
Kmplovmont is up: Relief is going down St
curitv values and markets have improved Agr
culture is in good shape Industries are busy. Ruy
a Government bond, watch your step, and Uon'i let
the
wars
get you down.
THE POTTERS HERAIB
Facing The Facts
With PHILIP PEARL
They tell us that John L. Lewis is
marching up and down his air-con
ditioned office in Washington these
days, gnashing his teeth and biting
his- nails in an effort to find some
way to get back into the limelight as
president of the CIO.
Of course, Lewis has remained the
power behind the throne ever since
Phil Murray was elected to the title
of president last November. But that
does not sati.-fy the CIO dictator. He
no shrinking violet. He does not
bloom in the background. His love of
power is matched only by his lust
for notoriety and this lust will not be
appeased until lie regains his former
office.
What grates on. Lewis' nerves most
s the enforced silence with which he
must conduct himself in order to keep
up- appearances. Under present cir
cumstances, even though Phil Murray
is seriously ill in a Pittsburgh hos
pital and cannot attend to business,
all important CIO statements must
be issued under his name.
Just think of it! Lewis has been
unable to issue a public blast ever
ince that campaign speech of his
when he ignotniniously defeated him
self by predicting the defeat of
Roosevelt. No wonder John L. has
been suffering!
Hut from all reports we get Lewis
has been doing a lot of rumbling and
thundering behind closed doors lately.
There isn't the slightest doubt in the
orld that these doors will be thrown
open before long so that the terrific
pectaele of John L. Lewis in
1
full
torm may be viewed by all and
undry.
The Lewis Come-Back
We read somewhere the other day
that the projected Lewis comeback
may hinge on the outcome of the
present war between the forces of
Hitler and Stalin. The sudden break
n the Nazi-Soviet entente was a great
break for Lewis—at least he thinks
Allied as he is with the Com
munistic elements in the CIO, he
figures that the new European lineup
gives him a chance of entering once
more within the pale of decent peo
ple. While the Communists and the
Nazis were pals, the liberal fringe in
this country who had previously been
flirting with I.ewis and the Stalin line
uddenly became disillusioned. They
uddenly discovered a hate for Lewis
and denounced him with all their
former fury of devotion. Exiled and
ast out from the liberal fold, Lewis
anguished forlornly. But now he
thinks he has a good chance of being
welcomed back.
Still .searching I.ewis' mental con
ilutions, we find that he thinks his
position will be especially fortified if
Stalin succeeds in licking Hitler. Be
cause the t^uih is that Lewis has not
yet been converted to democracy. He
still hates Roosevelt and all that the
President stands for. He still is op
)sed to the national defense pro
grain. His dream is this—that if
Stalin licks Hitler there will be no
longer any cause for the United
States to fear involvement in the war
and the national defense program will
be exposed as a waste of money and
effort. That, in the opinion of Lewis
will make Roosevelt look silly and
make himself look smart.
The Lewis dream does not end
there. It goes on to the dim, distant
future where he sees himself as
andidate for President of the Unite
States with Senator Wheeler as his
running mate on the ticket of the
Shruhl(tallies Party.
Revolt in the CIO?
Well, we would like to caution
Lewis, in the first place, to do a littl
reducing of his own paunch before hi
dares to run on that ticket or he will
ok little silly in his own right.
In the second place, much as w
pray for Hitler's defeat, we doubt
that Soviet Russia will be able to ac
omplish it.
In the third place, no matter what
happens in the future and no matter
tow the political picture changes, the
•bailees of John L. Lewis ever being
•lected President of the United
States are exactly nil.
However, it must he admitted that
iCwis can be elected President of the
'10 any time he wants to call a con
tention. He has the solid Communist
bloc behind him, he has the support
of all the paper unions he maintains
out of the treasury of the United
Mine Workers and, of course, he con
trols the mine ufiion.
But, the chances are that if Lewis
insists on iieing crowned again he will
do so onlj at the risking of ripping
the CIO wide open and losing some
of its strongest unions.
The anti-I.ewis forces in the CIO
are led by Sidney Hillman. He has a
strong following among the hosiery
workers, tlie rubber workers and sev
eral other organizations, including tin
CIO ,.ii workers. There is no love
•»st een Lewis and Hillman.
-ewis toid him at a recent CIO meet
ing that he would enjoy the pleasure
kicking him out of the CIO. He
uttered lighting words and the editor
of the "Advance," organ of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers re
plied in kind in a full-page article. It
is indeed a significant fact that Hill
man is the last of the original found
ers of the CIO who still remains in
the Lewis organization and that now
he is
i
bom!).
welcome there as a time
ne played a dii-ty trie'.
the Jenkins."
"Zasso!"
"Yes, they turned out the light
the churc at her third wedding, and
they gave her the laugh because she
found her way to the altar alone."
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR. MODESTUS
COMMUNISM
CZARDOM &
MASS-PRODUCTION
HOPKINS MEETS STALIN
STRANGE BED-FELLOWS
Communism—
Hybrid offspring of Czardom and
Mass-production—
Half-way evolution from serfdom
to democratized mechanisms—
Mental product of mujhiks, cosmo
polists, machinists, aberrated genius—
Behemoth from sociological slime,
sloughing ancient epidermis—
Its innate impulses of battle and
ruthless destruction—
Revealed by adaptation of all dis
iplines and instruments—
To perfection of warring arts
against Nazidom's terrors—
While history awaits outcome of
head-on collision—
Between Nazi social order en route
back to barbarism—
Against advancing structure, up
ward bound from Nihilist and Cos
sack.
Stalin, sired' in poverty and super
stition—
Hardened in fires of Czarist police
terrors—
Tempered in flames of revolution
ary fellowship and teaching—
Knows his Russia, Vladivostok to
Sevastopol, Murmansk to Odessa—
But never saw Paris, Rome, Lon
don, New York or Rio Janeiro—
Peasant erupted to seat of emper
ors of ancient blood—
Possessing intelligences which they
obviously lacked—
Meeting, now, exactly what he has
been preparing Russia to meet—
Smashes Hitler's panzer strokes
with Cossack counter-charges—
Matches invading fifth columns
with more cunning guerilla ma
neuvers.
Stalin failed to penetrate secrets"of
unfolding democracies—
Saw only capitalistic and auto
cratic structures—
Planning a free world, could see
only a road of destruction—
Leading through ruins of social or
ders built on private property—
Ignoring freedoms there existing,
guaranties of more to come—
Your simple Communist mind saw
no technique but that of destruction—
If he was to preserve the -social
structure of his Soviets—
Against inevitable attacks of
capitalist world—
Did not know the incredible inertia
and stupidity—
Of Chamberlains, Daladiers, and
Wheelers—
Meeting proposed ''new orders."
Thus Harry Hopkins, Democrat
from the West—•
Carries to Joseph Stalin, autocrat
of Soviet Communism—
Refined essence of ultimate output
of western cultural experience—
Expressed in four-motored bombing
planes, fruits of mass-production—
To implement a Soviet generation
welded by mass-propaganda—
To meet their common enemy, re
verting to barbaric objectives—
A nation, enjoying freedoms which
Communism professes to furnish—
Hands to the younger brother, inep
in civilization's manners—
Weapons from its armories, for
mutual defense.
QUERY: Will Communist perspec
tives widen now
Will intelligence be added to
fanaticism
Will minds of Stalin's brethern be
open to acknowledge
That if a Browder's ,-clienu s had
lately been successful-
Russian soviets mi^lit haw I'ailei
facing panzer strokes
Without the hands across the cm:
tinents to help—-
And will they rejoice, in turn
That their emissaries failed, again
defenses of democracy—
In their efforts to dostroy the pat
tern, here set up—
Of social orders self-controlled, by
democratic disciplines .'
War makes many l.c fellow •f
the time—
Who sometimes tliu. oeconie bet
ter acquainted.
W A N E S
$
In Stockholm, Sweden, where
motor fuel is rationed even more
drastically than breadstuff's, a
bakery is producing fuel for ."»() of
its own cars and trucks from
vapors arising from baking bread,
says Business Week. Yeast aris
ing from dough produces ethyl
alcohol and other chemical com
pounds. In the process of baking,
the dough gives off an alcohol
water mixture in the form of
steam. Special equipment, proba
bly the first in the world, collects
the steam from the oven, con
denses, and distills it to provide a
per cent alcohol at a cost of
about 33 cents a gallon.
I W I S O
$»
The actions of men are the best
interpreters of their thoughts.—
John Locke.
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
1
This column recently told of the
plans for the formation of foreign
fadc union groups in Great Britain.
Reports show that organisation of
these groups is progressing and that
Belgian, French, German, Austrian,
Czechoslovak national groups are now
operating.
Plans are being made for the or
ganization of Polish and Norwegian
groups. Well organized unions of
seamen from the two nations have
been functioning for some time.
Foreign trade union groups in
Britain are based on the principle of
simultaneous membership of the ap
propriate British trade union and of
the respective national trade union
organization. The foreign workers are
organized in British unions for the
protection of their wage and working
conditions. They are grouped also by
nationality to give expression to their
close mutual bonds which these
workers feel, to maintain the conti
nuity of relations with the labor
movements of their respective home
lands and to be the seeds of ihe
future free trade unions movements
in their countries. Thus the tasks of
the foreign groups are principally
social and propagandist. They will
pay special attention to relief cam
paigns and to the encouragement of
trade union tradition.
-fc
As a result of the world crisis,
compelling the inauguration of the
national defense program in the
United States, the Federal employ
ment service has made advances that
might have taken ten years to achieve
under ordinary circumstances. What
these changes mean to the average
worker seeking a defense job or an
employer seeking skilled workers is
described in detail in a pamphlet en
titled "Man Meets Job—How Uncle
Sam Helps," published by the Public
Affairs Committee, 30 Rockefeller
Plaza, New York City.
Written by Philip S. Broughton of
the Social Security Board, the pamph
let tells why the U. S. Employment
Service was formed, and how it
functions in the present emergency.
It is no longer concerned, Brough
ton points out, with finding a job
any job—for the jobless man or
woman. It has "to meet defense''job
demands with the best skilled men
and women wherever they can be
found—whether or not they are em
ployed."
Workers seeking defense jobs are
given the following advice:
1.. Register at once with your local
state employment office, if you are
qualified for work in a defense indus
try. 2. Register if you are working
at a semi-skilled or unskilled job and
you have the skill needed for a better
job. 3. Apply at the employment of
fice if you want training for a de
fense job. 4. Do not leave your home
town in search of work unless the
local employment office tells you there
is a definite opening somewhere else.
"The U. S. Employment Service,1
Broughton adds, "also serves as
channel to all kinds of training for
defense jobs.
"During the entire period of the
first World War, only '10,000 workers
were especially trained for defense
industry jobs. In the first six months
of the present defense program, more
than ten times that many have been
trained or retrained. Since March
1!M1, new defense training activities
undertaken in any community are
first clqared with lhe tale employ
ment service."
AIL UNION LABOR TO BUILD
BIG SHELL LOADING PLANT
.Minden, La. (1LNS).--Construction
of the government's shell loading
plant a few miles from Minden to
cost approximately thirty million
dollars will be entirely by union labor
both skilled and unskilled. Approxi
mately 10,000 persons will be em
ployed on the project. The labor
agreement does not apply to key men
and office workers. Unskilled labor
will be charged for initiation and
three months dues.
The agreement was signed by R. E
Stripling, president of the Shreveport
Building Trade Council R. L. Telford
of the Silas Mason Co., and Bryce
Holcombe, commissioner of the U. S
Conciliation Service. All parties to
the conference agreed that all work
should be dime by A. F. of L. union
labor. There will be no slow down of
work due to strikes or lockouts.
i AR MEN'S WAGES BOOSTED
Detroit.—Union street car and bus
employes here are rejoicing over
new high rate of wages which has
added $1,372,COO annually to their in
comes. The new rates were estab
lished through negotiation and a re
cent arbitration award. Hourly rates
of bus operators are increased cents
and of motormen and conductors
cents, bringing the maximum to 92
cents an hour for bus and 87 cents an
hour for two-man street car oper
atiyn. Vacation allowances were ex
tended from 10 days to 14 days, with
12 days' pay.
G. E. FARMS OUT ORDERS
.'•( henectady, N. Y.—The General
Electric Co., announces that it has
"farmed out" .S20,c00,000 in defense
orders to nearly -1C0 small manufac
turing firms. This has speeded pro
duct ion, and provided needed ma
chinery, equipment ard tiled labor
for additional work, the company
says.
Thursday, August 14, 1941
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatched Out
The Truth
LATIN AMERICA
HEMISPHERE SOLIDARITY/
o WELFARE BOARD
MEXICO IMPORTANT
Suppose for today we give a little
thought to Latin America affairs.
What happens in Latin America is
extremely important to every citizen
of the United States—and plenty is
happening.
There has been much change in the
Latin American attitude toward the
United States in the last ten years
and that is why something approach
ing hemisphere solidarity is a fact
today.
But hemisphere solidarity is not
complete. Some of the nations of
South America find it difficult to make
up their minds. They want to be a
little more certain as to who will win
this war. They want to be with the
winner—or be neutral, because after
the war they must find trade with the
winner.
Thus, as a means of filling the gap
pending a decision, we find in Brazil
and the Argentine, for example, a
fierce nationalism, which takes the
place of partisanship toward either
side in the war.
The pendulum probably swings to
ward the democracies, but it hasn't
by any means completed the swing at
this hour. The Rockefeller Commit
tee, by seeking to swing United
States purchasing power into such
countries, is doing much good. 4
Brazil and the Argentine, to sfijB
to our examples, live by selling
materials. Someone has to buy them—
not just today, but on into the period
after the war.
The new Economic Welfare Board,
headed by Vice President Wallace, is
expected to continue this job and to
enlarge it, probably taking the lead
away from the Rockefeller Commit
tee as time goes on.
But whatever may be the state of
affairs in some of the nations, of one
there is no doubt. That one is Mexico.
There have been times when some
of our own citizens thought little of
Mexico. But touay Mexico is of vital
importance. And Mexico stands there
like a rock.
The President of Mexico pledges to
the President of the United States
full and complete support. Mexico
goes with the United States all the
way. And he who does not know what
that means has but to look back to
the nightmare of li)17-18.
Today in Avila Camacho, Mexico
has a real President.
Mexico has risen out of the fog of
abstractions which, during previous
years, was generated froir. the com
munist tained intellectualism of Lom
bardo Toledano.
Toledano is by no means out of the
picture,, but he is by all means in
eclipse and his partnership with Je^
L. Lewis is a waning thing. Thesew
brighter days.
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And another great friend of the
United States is rising to new and
delayed importance. That is Luis N.
Morones, head of the CROM, ally of
the AFofL.
There have been those who have
been willing to write Morones off as
finished. They saw the rise of Tole
dano as the end of Morones. But they
were short-sighted.
The CROM has just finished a great
convention. At the conclusion there
was a great parade, in which the
Mexican and United States flags were
carried side by side by beautiful Mex
ican girls. It was such a spectacle as
Mexico never saw before. It was more
than a gesture. It was a pledge
Matthew Woll, there as AFofL dele
gate, must have been thrilled by the
slight.
It is good to find good news in at
least one spot in a sadly battered
world. Let citizens of the United
States, and especially union members,
appreciate to the full what it means.
—CMW.
ONLY FIVE BIGGEST CITIES
LACK HOI SING PROGRAMS
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—With
the establishment of a housing au
thority in Kansas City, Mo., onlyj ftvo
of the nation's 30 largest citie^
main without public housing
grams, Nathan Straus, administrator
of the United States Housing Au
thority said here.
Milwaukee, Wis., and Minneapolis
Minn., both larger than Kansas City
and Indianapolis Ind., Rochester N.
Y.,' and Portland, Ore., are the five
such localities without housing au
thorities. All have over 300,000 popu4
lation.
Among the leaders in city planning
through its early interest in well
planned large-scale public parks,
Kansas City has until now been pre
vented from engaging in public hous
ing by thc Missouri Housing Law. The
law permitted St. Louis alone to
on public housing until a
amendment extended its provision
all cities over 5,000 population.
C^rrv
The members of the new housing
authority are representative of the
many varied local groups interested
in public housing. The chairman is s
real estate and building operator
Other members include a woman
prominent in social welfare, a laboi
leader, a Negro civic leader, and
man experienced in commercial and
civic affairs. They serve without pay
and all their appointments are foi
five-year terms.
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