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PAG# TWO
International Officers At
63rd Convention In Boston
See MBA Industrial Drama
1,600 ATTEND SPECIAL SHOWING
OF "THE FORGOTTEN FACTOR"
Boston.—International officers, delegates and their wives, of
the American Federation of Labor, and Fraternal delegates from
the British Trades Union Congress and the Trades and Labor Con
gress of Canada, attending the 63rd annual convention of the AFL
in Boston—representing 13 million workers in the three countries
—were present at special showings of "The Forgotten Factor," a
new three-act industrial drama, and enthusiastically acclaimed it
as portraying the national philosophy of teamwork needed to win
the war and reconstruct the post war world
officers present
Vice President Executive Hoard AFL
and President of the International iiro
therliood of Teamsters Joseph N.
Weber. Vice President AFL and Presi
dent Emeritus of the American Fed
eration of Musicians: Felix Knight,
vice President AFL and President of
the Brotherhood of Railway \artnen
William Birthright, Vice President
AFL and President International I'nloii
of Barbers: Frank .Morrison, Secretary
Emeritus AFL Frank Foiiton. Direc
tor of Organization AFL, and oilier
International. S':itc ami Local nllicfi
and deleft i -.
The Fraternal Delegates in attend
nnce from other countries were Harry
N. Harrison, British Trades I'liion
Congress and President of the Con
federation of Engineering and Ship
building unions: William Bayliss
British Trades I'liion Congress and
Member Executive Committee of tin
Miners Federation of (treat Britain,
and Joseph Matte, Trades and Labov
Congress of Canada.
"The Forgotten F! i ]." a this
MIIA industrial drama i- aptly titled,
supplies tlie vital link that is missing
in the minds of so many people today
regarding World War II—.the fact that
\ve a re lighting two wars a war of
ideas as well as a war of arms. This
show- in- battle I* i the right ideas
the i!i":ai st. i 'I nr ds of 10(\'/(
honesty, unselfishness and true just let
•—is being fought out eycr.v day in tin
nation, in every heart, home and indus
try, and only if that further victory
in this war of Ideas is won will we have
achieved what we are lighting for.
"The Forgotten Factor" graphically
illustrates this clash of ideas in live
gripping scenes set in an industrial
town and centered around two men and
their families the president of the
union and the president of the com
pany. The genius of "The
Factor" is how it reveals the tWTi'nit'ii
who think of themselves as natural
enemies, as really thinking alike, hav
ing the prejudic i :i mulls
and virtue i !.e sati i ms al
home, tlw same dillieillii' handle—
the one in his union ami
his board of directors.
In the final scene the two men dis
cn\i they really want the satin* thing
•—a decent world, and that only I heir
own fe^irs, mist rust, pride and stub
bormicss have kept them from lighting
shoulder to shoulder as Americans to
build it. They see .1 lie true battle Hit
in industry is not betwi-en labor and
management, but between the constrti
tlve forces of both labor ami manage
ment on Ihe one hand, and the self
seeking forces of selfishness on tlx
oilier. Willi all barriers down the now
cotil r.i i a up and sin •-. i 1 .tin
basis ..i i i wIio'h right I i whntV
right, to the satisfaction of die union,
the company and Ihe workers.
"1 think this is one of the most won
derful pla* has i• i ni mii by
tills group nil Feli\ !i 'i1. AFL
vice President. "It teits i Mory thai
both employers and employees might
well give serious a.nd careful consider
ation i" Many labor representatives
presciii .ii the informal gathering al'lci
the pel i i ma nee expressed the opinion
that "The Forgotten Factor" is a not
able contribution toward winning tin
battle for industrial am i, ,i th
foundation of a sound -•1.1! uciiirt!
In the picst war world.
Drop In Attendance
(Continued From Page One)
take Into .» t.*ij.-n im
portant l'a
First, hii I i i, i 11 '1111**ti
concerning •mils
disunity I i' and
civilian pei
Secondly i.-,. i .•: i v
n «"!»»••«. .1 ut i i
"t
1
fa mil'
'I ilies l|" I i •»i
than one soiiree of income. |i i, the
majority of families at pr i base
only otic source of income. i Dial
group I... i I"
Thl I
raising oi iiinns io i.i ir io
an early and vh-lorioii bin
desires to make laiowi axes
should eon
one that w i ...
tlial Ottr Im,* n iii' !. i! i
for—their homes
After reading i i
Secretary ."florgenthau iting
President (irwn for aiding
labor support to the '1 ... Loan
Drive, It makes 1..- i.
War Bond seem i acani.
However, i i little |m .. ,i
A he enemii- "i Innon..
Ilicident.i .. if anv«.
the surplus iiiotie., th.ii i a
loned columnist, i i.
would be wise to invest n in iiie best,
safest, and most worthwhile Invest
ment—!'. »S. War Bunds.—O.C. 175.
Sixteen hundred people attended the showings and AFL
included Ian .1. Tohin.
111*• il"
& 4» «&
with
08STUARY
IIAICKY KIJ.SWOKTH Ol KT
Sebring, Ohio.—Funeral services for
Harry Ellsworth Court, 67, a retired
pottery worker and the brother of
Ceorge Court of Sebring. wen* held
Monday afternoon at the Van Iyk«
Funeral Home in East Palestine, ltev
(J. Wellemoyer, .Methodist pastor, olli
dated and burial was made in (Hen
view Cemetery in East Palest in*
An active member of the Methodisf
Church in East Palestine, Mr. Court
is survived by his widow two daugh
ters, Mrs. Earl Evans of Columbiana
and ilrs. Vernon Walters, near Lee
ton la live grandchildren five bro
thers, William Court of New Brighton
Pa., Philip Court of Salem, Herman
Court, of Poland It. I).. Ceorge Court,
and two sisters, Mrs. Bert Hendricks
of Canfichl and Mrs. William (Jrotli of
S 11f 11 Beaver Tow nship, Pa.
MRS. MAKY I'KKTO
Sebring, Ohio.—Airs. Mary Petro, 4a,
wife of Louis Petro of 73"i North Kith
Street, and a ware bntsher at tin
Limoges China Company, died at lh
Alliance ^'ity Hospital Saturday, Oc
tober 1(1, following a four-days' illness.
Born in Austria-Hungary Septemlx
S, 1H!)8, the deceased harl lived in this
vicinity for 2!) years. She was a mem
ber of Local I'liion Hi), X. B. of O. P.
Surviving with I lie husband are
daughter, Mrs. Mary Cosgrove, of
(Jeorgia and a son. Private Samuel
Pel ro, I a I ioned willi an ,\ rm.\
Hawaii.
Services were held Thursday from
the Greek Orthodox Church in Alii
a nee.
Pay Hike Protested
By B.SO. Employees
Is Insult To Intelligence, De
clares General Chairman
Ol B. L. F. & E.
1
111111n• rI:tni(. .Mil. .Iii-i li»w railro i
workers leel about the niggardly -I
ccni-un-hoiir increase recommended by
an Emergency Board for train, engine
and yard service employees was dem
oust rated at a meeting last week of flu
Locomotive Firemen ami En'-'inenien's
general grievanc" i iiitii nil the
ISal.tiuiore & Ohio.
iH'legates to the confereiH-e Voted
unanimously to reject the meager raisi
and instructed their general chairman
II. A. Porch, Io participate in a con
clave of chairmen of the live Trans
portation Itl'ot herbooil 1 lie held
Oi iober iu Chicago, n which III*
unions will decide their ni\t step.
M. i! s a ..i iur" grievanc ••niiuit
ii 11•
a 11- de-Ire to st riK" in this
most es.-e.ntial Industry," Porch
clared, "but they feel lln' cent award
is a ilireii insult to their intelligence.'
Duffy Urges
(Continued From Vnqe (n)
tactories or al your olliees, don't coin
plain of the high cost of living, or
.point out that you are buying War
Bonds cver,\ |m\ and unable i maki
and donation l.- an-e it would ieat
a hardship upon you. Think ol the
sa*rillces that the boys iu the fox
holes are making for you and I, tliinl
of what they are going through L'1
hours a day, and I am sure any sacrl
lice that we might be forced to under
go in giving one day's wages to put
this drive over the top will be small
in comparison to what i
service are giving.
(lilTerenl
plan that
11
We know perfectly
people iu this vicinity k:
campaign is all about,
ly Interested iu making
that lb*
what Ibis
s fervent
Chief beneficiary of ti
Fast Liverpool donors
I'liiled Service Organizations
which provide recreation facilities for
soldiers still in this country.
nc\ i ii".
lie tin
I SO)
W Hi
Other glollps U llich Will lial. arc
the War Prisoners' Aid, the I mu
Seamen's Service and 14 other organ
izations for Mje relief of the stricken
people I• i I
slavaI.' i and 111• t1 i ,n11[11ci
land.-:.
in A ini'i n an dollar.s i1.'11 K ,i |mi\\ i• i
nil punch lor freedom S| I the
knockout blow for Hitler ind I'ojo.
Buy more War Bonds.
AFL Membership
Hits New High
As IAM Returns
Secretary-Treasurer Reports
6,564,141 Paying Mem
bers On Books
Once" again the otlicial dues-paid
membership has broken all previous
record heights and now stands at the
huge total of t5,r»t4,l41. This was an
nounced to the AFL convention by
Secretary-Treasurer C.eorge Meany fol
lowing the return of the international
Association of Machinists with more
than tfUo.OtM) members.
The .Machinists had withdrawn from
alliliation last spring as a result of a
long standing jurisdictional dispute.
Conferences with a special committei
representing the Executive Council fol
lowed. The agreement to reatliliate was
reached at further conferences between
representatives of the union and th
Executive Council.
Announcement, of thi (instructive
move from the convent ion llonr was
greeted by resounding cheers ami gave
a big lift to the delegates, who freely
e i e a e e e s i o i n
AFL would soar beyond the eight mil
lion mark by the time the next conven
tion mils around.
Red Gross Council
Will Meet Oct 27
Field Directors To Speak At
Meeting In Brotherhood
Auditoriiun
Mrs. J. I)onald Thompson, chairman
of th*' East. Liverpool branch of thiJ
Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsyl
vania Camp ami Hospital Council has
planned a meeting of the council Io
held Wednesday, October U7, S:00
m. in the auditorium of the N. Ii. O.
Miss Dorothy Vogeley, Field Direc
tor of the American I ted Cross at
I c.-hon (ieneral Hospital ami Mr
Thomas B. liotmjue, assistant Field
Director of the lted Cross at Camp
Iteynolds have been invited to address
the group. They will discuss their work
iu tiie camps and hospitals and tin
great need for the councils.
The Eastern Ohio-and Western Penn
sylvania Council is composed of lit)
branch chapters. Each chapter extend
invitation to all labor, fraternal and
religious organizations to lie a part ol
the branch. The K. i: I'. conirnittet
iias worked very earnest on this
project.
Mrs. Thompson is pwml to state.jlliat
Fast Liverpool has hee'u 'praised ,(Vtlio
nth degree for their contribution in
supplies for tin- camp and hospital
project.
Mrs. Km I: Bergner, general chair
man oi iIk East Liverpool chapter of
the lted Cross will conduct the meet
ing. Mrs. Thompson will be assisted by
members of the lted Cross Volunteer
Service.
Kilnmen Will Vote
(Continued From Page One)
iI w- on lie subject.
I regie,t. that 1 omitted from my
letter two weeks ago that Brother Ed
i e a e e n i n u e i n o i n
Army. Brother Libert came to No. II
some time ago from East Palcslini
I see that some of our Congressmen
are strongly advocating a 10 per cent
sales tax, along with some niemhei
of the Fnited Stales Chamber of Coin
nieree who brazenly state, it will not
juake much difference in the dinner
pails of the low paid workers, whose
wages are frozen iu spite of the sharp
advances in I ho cost of many foods
such as eggs, li-li. fruit ami vegetables
during .Ihe jcar, good idea would In
o o e e s e e n o i v e o n I I I
meager wage's of the common laborer
hey would soon holler for relief
A Her overthrowing .\a/a I asci.-i
power in any A,xi territory, we must
he careful not to throttle the inevil
able popular demons! rat ions, not to
discredit liberal ideas, and not to I it
up with "leaders" who but yesterday
Were Fa .-cist chieftains.
(fi
m. i n
City chairman Maxon
iluced i!i chairmen oi
column i anil told oi
a s e e n s e i u o s o i i a i o n i n i n
dri\e. I'I edge cards have been distrib
tiled to all chairmen and collodions
will be mailt' Mi rough |in»!l de
duction plan in all poll
11
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"FERGIE" KIND SAYS
Now is the Time
to Buy Coal
PHONES:
Office 934 Home 693
KIND COAL CO.
Railroad & Belleck Streets
The Name E&cient
and Sympathetic
Service to All.
MARTIN
Funeral Home
ll."» \V. Filth St.
PIIONI 306
Ohio and II7. fa.
License
£3
TOE POTTEfcs HEftALD
LAW-ABIDING
FREEDOM
By RUTH TAYLOR
i e i a i e n w o w a n e e n e
fore the beginning an? leveling criti
cism against our government, decrying
the fact that we deal with established
governments only, that we do not deal
with governments set up by "liberals"
if they do not have the backing of the
laws and people of their own country.
We are called reactionary. We are
condemned for not standing for "free
dom" which they interpret to mean the
right.to do as they please.
Freedom of itself is a beautiful word
but freedom without law to back it,
is anarchy. .lust as men must have
freedom to think?, and speak in order
to progress and Indeed survive, so must
they have self-made laws regulatin
that freedom.
History has n this again and
igain. Tin* Unman Kinpire was great
as long as it was composed of disci
pli tied-free men. To he a Roman citi
z e n e n e a n o e a e e a n a
over the world. The lloniuns conquered
not: merely by force of arms, but by
force of concerted, intelligent action.
But when liberty degenerated into li
cense, they fell a "prey to the barbaric
iermanic invaders.
As the historian. .James Truslow
Adams, wrote: "Without a vision men
shall die. It is no less true that without
hard practical sense, they shall also
die." This has been tlie secret back of
all mankind, but it: was backed up by
laws that insured the keeping of that
freedom. Freedom alone is not enough.
Nor will arbitrary laws suffice. But
freedom, backed by laws, conceived
and legislated by those to whom they
must apply, is invincible.
We cannot: safeguard the freedom
that is democracy by undemocratic
means. Democracy, the rule of the ma
jority, implies tin n-|uiescence to self
government, a willing obedience to tin
laws of the majority, plus a realization
by the majority that minorities not
only have rights, ton, but are entitled
to equal consideration and cannot: In
trammelled or imposed upon, ltights
which we demand for ourselves w
must grant to others. That is why free
speech and freedom of religion are
basic to our American democracy.
A democra.tic free government is one
of laws not of dictates. Yet the laws
themselves are no stronger nor weaker
than the persons who enforce them.
Black markets, economic discrimina
i o n a e u e v i o n i o w e a k i n k s i n
the chain of cilizun
"Only freedom'iVI ii-h is under stron
law, only strong l4v^-to which iuch con
sent because it preserves freedom, can
endure," Walter Lippmann wrote re
cently. It is up to each of us who de
sire freedom, who believe in demo
racy, who want to preserve our Amet
ruirnnmimniiii'inmiimiu
Tbut
HANKS...to
Lawyers Guild Asks
Public Get Behind
Treasury Program
Rejects Sales Tax As Impos
ing Hardships On Little
Incomes
Washington, D. C. (ILNS) The
Treasury Department's tax program
"contains many desirable features
which are in line with the basic re
quirements of ii sound wartime revenue
measure." the National Lawyers (Juild
declared in a statement to Chuiriuun
Dough ton of the .House Ways and
Means Committee.
Terming the "Victory" tax "oppres
sive," the statement said repeal of the
tax program, would "relieve 5) million
hard pressed families from a heavy
burden and at the same tliue eliminate
an unnecessary complication in the
computation schedule." The statement
continued:
Higher Incomes Reached
"The program rejects the inequitable
sales tax which would fall heaviest on
those with little incomes.
"It would effectively reach the high
er incomes so that a married person
with two dependents with a .$10,000
net income would pay $3,"rr» instead
of his present tax of $2,208 one with
a $2r,000 income would pay $1:5,750
instead of ${,"74: and one with a $100,
000 income would pay .$81,43.") instead
of $67,803."
Tiie guild noted that "the Treasury
also proposed raising an additional
$2,r00,000,000 through increased excise
taxes on a long list of items, such as
liquor, cigarettes, tobacco, jewelry
furs, toilet preparations, luggage, tele
phone and telegraph services, trans
portation, admissions, etc., the bulk of
which would fall on luxury or semi
luxury items.
"Finally, S e e a y Morgentlia u
strongly urged .that the present Socia
Security system be widened to cove
virtually all persons in the nation,
increase employment insurance benelii.
and to provide benefits for tenqfnrar:
disability and hospitalization. Such an
the broad outlines of the Admiuistra
tion's tax program to finance the cost
of the war."
Sales Tax Drive Happed
The guild warned that "Americai
Big Business has dragged out: it
heaviest artillery to substitute a re
gressive sales tax for the more pro
gressive features of the Treasury's
program modified so as to provide ade
quate exemptions and so as to elimi
nate consumer .taxes on items used by
the low-income groups."
iean way of life, to obey our own law
—whether or not we like them—an I
to accord the same privileges to others.
That is the democratic way. That is
the way to successful freedom.
the Chinese, who never had much,
who at least had the guts to stand up to
the Japs for seven long years.
Thanks...to the Norwegians, who lost their
country but never surrendered themselves.
Thanks...to the Russians, who gave their lives
and homes and burned their factories and fields
to turn Hitler's dream of conquest into a night
mare of defeat.
Thanks to the British, who might have given
up but didn't...to the Yugoslavs, who still fight
in the hills...thanks to all the freedom-loving
people in the world who gave us time to gather
our strength.
Make your thanks to all of these really mean
something...by giving generously to the National
War Fund through our own community war fund.
Give ONCE
for all these
!r
How Much is Your lhanfo Worth
uso
Harrison Tells
(Turn to Page Two)
the award!"
The wage rejection, said Mr. Harri
son, came nt a time when the carriers
were earning the largest profits in
their history,
Mr. Harrison mentioned that Secre
tary Stimson had called upon Paul V.
McNutt, head of the War Manpower
Commission, to arrange for use of war
prisoners on the railroads.
'My Cod, does he not know that rail
roading is a most delicate operation,"
commented the union chief. "We carry
on day and night on split-second sched
ules. I have not been able to get tin
reason for turning loose Nazi soldiers,
skilled in demolition practices, so they
may run amuck on the railroads."
President (ireen seconded Air. Harri
son's remarks and criticized Mr. Vin
son's veto of the wage increase.
'It is an outrage," he declared. "1
am burning with indignation. 1 could
be arrested for what I think of tin
man who made the decision. The rail
way workers won their case before a
(loverninent tribunal. But one man said
'No' and that ends it.
*So far as I am concerned whatever
the railway men decide to do in oppo
sit ion to the decision will be supported
by the AFL.
Mr. Vinson was the target for fur
ther attacks by. George Meany, seere
tary-treasurer of the federation and in
resolutions adopted by the delegates at
the closing session. Mr. Meany charged
that the War Labor Board,^which had
once had ample authority to make
wage decisions, was now hamstrung by
Mr. Vinson and other Government
agelicies.
viv..
APS-
total!
United Seamen's Service
War Prisoners Aid
Belgian War Relief Society
British War Relief Society
French Relief Fund
Friends of Luxembourg
Greek War Relief Association
Norwegian Relief
Polish War Relief
Queen Wilhelmina Fund
Russian War Relief
United China Relief
United Czechoslovak Relief
United Yugoslav Relief Fund
Refugee Relief Trustees
United States Committee for the
Care of European Children
Southern Columbiana County Campaign Committee
Thursday. (Vloher LM, 10iM.
N O I E
Important Announcements of Local
Unions are to he found in litis
Column
&
NOTICE KILNMEN
Every member of Local I'nion
•J* No. is urgently requested to be
present at our meeting Friday
night. Business of vital import
ance will he transacted.
& —By Order of President.
4* •J*
Cafeteria To Be
(Continued From Page One)
made available in the plant about .the
latter part of next week. They yire de
signed to take the place of cold pre
vention shots and are reported very
economical in comparison to tlie cost
of shots. They will be obtainable on a
fixed schedule of five or six months.
When supplies arrive, all employees
will be able to secure at cost prices,
vitamin tablets containing a complete
daily balanced adult vitamin ration.
The vitamin tablets will be dispensed
live or six months or as long as seven*
weather makes it difficult to maintain
health standards.
Chester Brunt is chairman of the
e o y e e s a n a e e n o i n i e e
which is sponsoring the innovations at
tin* Limoges plant. Of the 12 employees
on the committee, three represent each
of locals 102, 121, 51), and 44.
Our labor relations must be ethical
as well as arithmetical.
Furniture—Stoves—Bedding
Linoleum Curtains
Drapery Rugs-- Carpets
Paint—Appliances
Convenient Terms
EXCHANGE YOUR CASH FOR BONDS C»R STAMPS HERE.
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ESTABLISHED 1880 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
:«v:
Seventeen war relief agencies have banded to
gether in this great work to make the thanks of
America mean something both abroad and at
home and wherever our men fight on land or sea.
For we owe thanks, too, to the young men of
America who gave up careers and good jobs to
do the job that has to be done...and to those who
cheerfully saw their lives turned upside down
so that their men could fight and build ships
and turn out tanks and planes and guns, all day
and all night.
Because the National War Fund is combined
with our local united campaign, you are being
asked to give only once, this year, for
alI
agencies represented by it. So add up all you
would have given to each, and then
the
double
There's no better way to show your
gratitude.
the
NATIONAL
WAR FUND