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Company Takes Steps To
.. Protect Workers' Health
During Winter Months
SEE YOUR FOREMAN
Jialloween Party WU1 Be
Held Oct. 31 In High
4School Auditorium
.' Sebring, Ohio.—Through the recom
mendation of the Employee-Manage
ment 'Committee, The Limoges China
Company has again arranged to obtain
Cold Preventative Tablets and Vitamin
Capsules for its employees at cost.
In an effort to protect all employees
against severe colds, which can cost
you lost time and money, the company
is now offering a vaci nation protection
in which no n«k*dle is used—just small,
tasteless, easy-to-swa How tablets. These
can lie secured for each member .of
your family, from your foreman.
The most inqiortant thing to each of
us is our own health. How we feel—
how much i»ep we have—determine
how much time we lose—how well we
do our job as well as how much we
enjoy life.
The majority of 111 health and poor
feeling occurs during winter months
when we get little sunshine or outdoor
life. Through these months we are
constantly
contagious
time when
ly in the
and have the lowest resistance to in
fection.
exposed to colds and other
diseases, which is during a
unfortunately we are usual
poorest physical condition
In order to help keep their employee®
in the best of health and to avoid sick
ness and lost time the company has
made provision* and wlU furnish to
employees at cost, cold' tablets and
vitamin capsules made by one of the
most reliable drug firms in the United
States.
Plans have been completed and
everything set for the All-Plant Hal
loween party to lie held Tuesday eve
ning, October 31, in the Sebring High
School auditorium.
There will be round and square
dancing, bingo, movies, prize contests,
entertainment, lunch and a door prize.
Mark this date on your calendar
and let’s make this party an even
bigger success than the one we had
last year. ’’'.A \.
Tickets arenow on'sale and can be
purchased from any member of the
committee. The price is 50 emits and
includes everything—lunch and enter
tainment.—O. C. J-’ ..
Laughlin Employee
Gets Purple Heart
Private Walter Fraricxek Hit
By Shrapnel Recovers
In England
Pvt: Walter Franczek, husband of
Mrs. Blanche Franczek, 404
Newell, and son of Mr. and
Franczek of Kenilworth,
awarded the Purple Heart.
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Limoges China To Furnish?
i Cold Capsules And Vitamin
Tablets For
Grant St.,
Mrs. John
has been
He is reported in "fair” condition at
an army base hospital in England,
where he is receiving treatment for
shrapnel wounds received Sept. 19
while serving with an armored field
artillery unit in Germany.
He is 35 and was employed as kiln
fireman at the Homer Laughlin China
Co. in Newell before he entered the
army in April,.1943. He has been over
seas since April. Pvt. Franczek has a
daughter, Patty.
Level Of
Jobless At
^ln Post-War Era
Cleveland, Ohio (ILNS.—Unemploy
ment in the nation will be at about a
level of 2,500,000, Brig. Gen. Leonard
P. Ayres, economist, predicted in the
(’leveland Trust Co.’s monthly business
“No very serious readjustments.will
be required in about half our economy,
but very difficult changes will be re
quired in the rest of it," t^e fu^^ou
said.
fl Jen. Ayres, vice president of the
trust company, wrote:
“Unemployed members of the labor
force have decreased from 8,600,000
(in 1940) to only 1,000,000. This last
figure is abnormally low, and a reason
ably post-war figure in prosperous
times might well be about 2,500,000.”
Ln trade, finance and service and
transportation utilities construction
brackets, Gen. Ayres reported, employ
ment was little changed from 4 years
ago. Agricultural employment dropped
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STRIKES AND LOCKOUTS
AT ALL-TIME LOW.
Stockholm (ILNS).—Of 8,824 wage
disputes in 1943, affecting 841,000
workers, 99 per cent were peacefully
solved by negotiation an all-time
record. The workers whose collective
wage agreements were prolonged
without'"'dispute amounted to 99.9 per
cent of the total. Strikes affected only
i)96 workers and lockouts 237. This,
for
too, constitutes a new record
Swedish labor relations.
During the first half of tiie 1930‘s
an annual average of 30,761 workers
were affected by strikes and lockouts,
and during the second half of the
same decade the number was 13,892.
Workers Urged To
Push Construction
To Meet Schedules
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Forrestal Says New Assault
Vessels For Pacific Navy's
4 Most Urgent Need
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Buying
of union label goods and services was
advocated as one of the most effective
ways to maintain good lalior stand
ards, Ln a recent broadenst by I. M.
Ornbum, secretary -treasurer of the
A FL Union Label Trades Department
and Mardy Polaner, secretary-treas
urer of the Great Lakes District of
the Seafarers International Union.
The two officials made a Joint state
ment through the medium of the Great
Lukes Swrturer, «x«j StaU(^,WS^
Sault Ste. Marie, Mfcfi.
“To acquaint the Great Lakes sea
men with some of the other organiza
tions and departments of the labor
movement,” Polaner said, “we have in
the past hail visitors on the air edition
of the Great Lakes Seafarer to explain
their functions in .the lalior movement.
We have with us today the secretary
treasurer of the Union Label Trades
Department of the American Federa
tion of Labor. It is through the means
of the Union Laliel that American
work men'a re able to determine which
products are union-made and which
are not.” .'
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In reply to pie question by Polaner,
“Have you any solution for post-war
problems?” Ornburn replied:
“I honestly tielleve that the best
guarantee for our high labor standards
Is for members of labor unions and
their families to list* their buying
power to maintain the lalior conditions
which have been established by the
American Federation of Lalwtr over
the past 63 years.
"The solution of our |Mst war eco
nomic* problems will not dei»end on the
union formula entirely but union label
education is necessary to get rid of
anti-union-minded employers who now
stand in the way of a solution.”*^
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WIN HIGHER COMMISSIONS
Philadelphia (ILNS).—Higher ‘com
mission rates for approximately 400
industrial agents of the Prudential
Life Insurance Co. ip Deleware, Mary
land, Virginia and the District of
Columbia have been directed by tiie
Tilt rd Regional War Labor Board in
a dispute between the company and
the American Federation of Industrial
and Ordinary Insurance Agents’ Union,
A FL. The new commissions are effec
tive starting with policies dated July
12, 1943.
About 2,500,000
Economist Predicts
from 11,000,000 to 9,600,000 in the 4
years, but the economist added that
“probably the farms will be able to
support about as many people after the
return of iieace as they did in 1940.”
“Manufacturing employees have in
creased by.well over 50 ier cent in the
war years, and most of the newcomers
are making things not used in peace
time,” he said. “The real fact is that,
manufacturing will have to release
about 4,000,000 after the war, and that
about half of them are now making
ships and airplanes."
Demands Jobs For Veterans
Stressing the increase from .400,000
to 11,600,009 Ln the armed forces Ayres
said:
"When peace returns jobs must be
found for all of them who will want
jobs. It will not be easy to solve this
problem. Clearly, It cannot be done by
telling manufacturing to tak£ care of
them.
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Potters In Erwin
Receive Vacation
Checks Last Week
New Addition To Decoration
Shop Underway Heat
ing System Installed
Erwin, Tenn.—The employees of the
Southern Potteries were pleasantly
surprised last week when they received
their 1943 vacation checks. While no
definite date has been set as to when
we will receive our 1944 checks, we
feel sure the firm will make every
effort to do so at the earliest |»osslbk*
moment.
With the coming of winter the usual
number of employees are suffering
from colds, some Iteing forced to loaf.
We feel much of the time loss could lx*
eliminated if we had a plant cafeteria
where we could receive a warm m^al
at noon hour, and not lie forced to
treek through all kinds of weather to
satisfy the needs of the innerman. Tiie
firm likewise would lienefit by this
innovation by Increasing their produc
tion.
The new addition to the decoration
shop is now underwa.v and will he
realy for occupancy within a short
time.
Organized lalxir in Erwin has taken
an active interest in isilitics lately
having elected Mr. Harvey, clayshop
foreman, as Aiderman, and Jake
Gouge, County Commissioner. Presi
dent Henry Bruce will make his first
hid for county office in
election.
the coming
Is being In
will be an
A new heating system
stalled which we ho|»e
improvement over the present set-up.
Believe it or not, it gets pretty cold in
the ‘Ijand of Sunshine’ during the
winter months.—O. (’. 10,‘L
Restaurant Unions
Endeavor Ta Find
Jobs For VeterariS
Drafts Plans For Setting Up
Central Agency To Aid®*
s Service Men
New York City (ILNS). Deter
mined to spare returning veterans the
disillusioning job of hunting employ
ment following their discharge, the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers Joint
Board of Brooklyn has drafted a [dan
for setting up a central hiring hall to
aid former service men and women
in their search for work.
The plan, still in its formative stage,
is ex[»ected to spread to other trades,
which will be faced with a similar
problem of job placements for mem
liers of their trades returning from
military service, the
Courier comments.
Trade Union
a system, the
the aid of all
In establishing such
Joint board will enlist
tiie affiliated local unions, which will
in turn canvass all employers in their
domain for ofienings which could be
filled by war veterans.
Another phase of the service to be
rendered will be the aid given return
ing veterans who, due to Injuries in
curred in action, find themselves un
able to return to their former employ
ment status and must seek another
trade better suited to their abilities.
For these men, the new hiring hall ex
[iects to establish contact with other
agencies, also set up by unions if pos
sible, which
trades where
be employed.
•have access to other
such servicemen might
electricians Are
Victors At Polls
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Gains Are Scored By Union
In Electronic And Com
.Mr, munication Fields
New election victories in the elec
tronics industry, which has expanded
enormously during the war, were re
ported this week by the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
The latest triumphs were at plants
of the R. C. A. Victor Division of the
Radio Corporation of America, in
Bloomington, Ind., and Lancaster, Pa.
At each the I. B. E. W. was certified
by the National Labor Relations Board
as bargaining agency for production,
maintenance and plant protection em
ployees, after winning contests at the
ballot box by overwhelming majorities.
New Inroads were also scored by
the union in the communications field.
At the plant of Press Wireless, Inc.,
Hicksville, L. I., the I. B. E. W. was
certified as bargaining agency aftar
rolling up a big majority in an NLRB
election.
Brotherhood officials hailed the Vic
tories at R. C. A. as particularly signi
ficant because of the great role elec
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VOL. XLVIII, NO. 26 4 EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1944 $2.00 PER YEAR
Extols Virtues
Pf Eritployeis
At Warwick
Constant Bickering of Cer
tain Groups Endangers?
^WeHare Of AU -n
SUPPORT FUND DRIVE
Candidate^ Become Friend
ly To Workingman As
Etectipn Draws Near
Wheeling, W. Va.—Just to let th»
trade know that the Warwick Won
ders are still doing business at the old
stand, and are getting along like one
big happy family,
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Displaying our nsvai eagerness fo
donate, we might pqsnibly approximate
ten iqintites pay as our share in the
War Fund Drive, Thl* gang here Is
unique in the fact that it always has
its hand out to UM, but develops
paralysis of thp digits when asked to
donate to some worthy cause. While
an analysis of the organizations to
which we are asked to extend aid may
reveal a few that should be more self
sustaining, the seton 'as whole de
serves* the ONE DAY’S PAY as advo
cated in the Pottere lieraid.
And while we are '‘extolling” the
virtues of the Warwickers, we might
make additional mention of the won
derful spirit of brotherhood (and
sisterhood) and ImrHMMiy that prevails.
It seems that so much time and effort
in sniping each oth^ is taken that I
"the good of the ord#’’ pledge that is
taken by each Uiembea has been plowed
under. An outstanding example of the*
"harmony” that prevails is found in
tiie recent action t»M0 by two sections
of our Decorating Department. Hitler
and Churchill are jials compared to
the friendships exlMMk between these
rival groups. -They were given a few
days* cooling [M»riod. One of tiie groups
is now hack on the job.
The two per cent arrangement on
our vacation checks puts a number of
olir members in the money who were
not eligible under the 1600-hour mini
mum.
Isn’t it wonderful'!haw the strong
[Kiints and weaknesses of the two
major parties are being -given o’er the
air? It’s too had we always have to
wait for election time before we get
tiie real low down on politics. We do
not think those candidates who usurp
the radio time 0/ ’attractive features
for .their [toison gassing are furthering
their cause by so doing. And the advo
cacy of a candidate by tiie firm ever
liegets suspicion on the [uirt of a cer
tain group that tiie very fact that the
firm endorses him means that he must
be against the workers.—O. (’. 6. 1
'Black Market" In
Liquor Is Broken
OPA Chief Claims
Violation Still Being Com
mittocl But Large-Scale
Rings Have Disappeared
A liquor “black market," on as vast
scale as during the dizzy prohibition
era, has been brought under control,
Lt was claimed this week by Chester
Bowles, OPA administrator.
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The “racket,” with operations in
volving millions of dollars, was broken
up by the OPA tn coiqieration with the
alcohol tax un|t of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, the Department of
Justice and various state alcoholic
beverage control commissions, he said.
Before the crooks were hunted down
and rounded up, Bowles added, it was
necessary to call in state and local
police and even portions of the United
States army. I
During the first seven months of
1944, he said, over $1,900,000 was paid
in fines and settlements. A totai of 190
convictions were obtained, and many
have gene to jail. In addition to crimi
nal prosecutions, OPA has treble dam
age cases in excess of $30,000,000 pend
ing against sellers of whisky.
“At the beginning of the year,”
Bowles declared, “the liquor black
market had reached gigantic propi
tious. The OPA and the Treasury
worked out a master plan to crack it.
and it was carried through. Today the
black market is virtually a thing of
the past, with liquor again moving in
legitimate channels.
JOBS BASIS OF WORLD SECURITY
New York City (ILNS). Bernard
M. Baruch, financier and special ad
viser to the Director of War Mobiliza
tion said here “peace can be just about
what America makes it
security can be attained if
jobs for all.”^
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To Rule On Deca
Dispute At Salem
Board Hands Down Decision
In Print Cutters-Decal
Controversy
When Informed of the decision hand
ed down by the Executive Boh rd w»*
are sorry to say that some members
refused t» abide by their decision. This
is entirely out of line with the policies
of the organization and one which will
lead to serious trouble if not stopped
immediately. Only by coojieration can
we ho]e to achieve satisfactory results.
Two memliera were gusjiended for
non payment of dues, Richard Hill and
Erlln Taylor Honorary membership
granted to Blanche Mohr and the*
death claim of George Stewart, ai»
proved.
z Six new members were obligated an!
one withdrawal card issued.
Vincent Judge, candidate for county
treasurer, apjieared before the local
and asked the support of organize!
lalmr in tiie coming election. His record
is favorable to labor.
Another member of our local has
made the supreme sacrifice while sen'
ing his country, Pfc, Stanton Trimmer,
age 23, son of Mrs. Anna White was
(Tun r* Puur Six)
Crucial Problems
Face Convention
Of British Labor
Big Issue Is Whether Coali
tion With Churchill Govern
ment Should Be Continued
Blackpool, England—Facing some
the most crucial problems in years, the
68th annurtl convention of tiie British
Trades. Union Congress got under way
here this week.
The Congress controls the British
Labor Party, and one of the hottest
issues confronting the 725 delegates is:
Shall the party continue in a coalition
government with Prime Minister
Churchill’s Conservatives, or resume
its former inde|endent position?
Labor leaders close to ChurchiP,
many of whom are In the cabinet, want
the coalition to continue. Rank and file,
members, on the other hand, seem
prefer a break in the tie-up.
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As Ln the United States, labor
much concerned with the problem
post-war jobs.- Many of the delegates
can remember what happened after
the last war, with the terrible days of
tiie dole. They don’t want that to
happen again.
How can such a predicament be pre
vented? Some delegates contend the
answer is to cooperate with the
Churchill government others that the
Lalior Party should strike out with its
own program.
At this writing, tiie convention has
not come to a decision.
Oiienlng sessions were lively, how
ever, Ebonezer Edwards, president of
(Tun te Peer Sir)
Workers Urged To
Buy Label, Goods
ield Best Guarantee Of
Good Post-War Labor
Conditions
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Asking
laior for all-out support in the build
ing and outfitting of assault vessels.
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal
has declared APA’s end AKA’s the
Navy’s "most urgent need."
In order to meet current schedules,
the Navy must receive nearly two
APA’R and AKA’s every day for sev
eral months to come, starting imme
diately, Forrestal says. September
completions were not up to expecta
tions. This program has now been
given top priority among all shipbuild
ing programs.
Lack of manpower is the principal
cause of the current lag in the APA
(attack troop transport) and AKA
(attack cargo vessel) program—lack
of manpower in the building and out
fitting yards and also in the plants
producing such vital components us
ball bearings, electrical equipment,
deck winches, pumps, davits and me
chanical and electrical spare parts,
(Tun to Poge Tw)
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PRESSMAN'S OFFICIAL
DIES IN BOSTON AT S2
of
Sebring, Ohio.—The small turnout
decal girls at our meeting Friday eve
ning was not very encouraging to our
shop committee who have gone all-onf
in their efforts to settle this contro
versy. A series of disputes and com
plaints has been existing among th*
decal girls and print cutters for sons*
time and tiie shop committee in order
to reach an agreement satisfactory to
both parties, apitealed to Headquarters
for advic*e.
Knoxville, Tenn. (ILNS). Fred
(’Hfford Hudson, 52, director of en
gineering service for newspapers of
the International Printing Pressmen’s
and .Visisttants’ Union of North Amer
ica. died in Boston Oct. 16.
Hudson, a native of Atlanta, former
ly was employed on the Atlanta Jimr
nal and the Atlanta Constitution, and
at one time was mechanical suiierln
tendent for the Hearst and Scripps
Howard newspafiers. He also formerly
was in charge of the pressmen of
Detroit Free Press.
Of the 11,839.000 persons working on
farms the first of October, 8,928,00l or
75.4 [ier cent—the highest percentage
in more than a decade—were unjiaid
family workers. The decrease «»f 6 [»ei
cent in number of hired workers from
October 1,943 to Octolier 1944 for the
country as a whole is in agreement
with similar declines recorded month
ly throughout most of this year.
The Oct. 1 index of farm wages was
325 per cent of the 1910-14 average.
46 points or 17 per cent higher than
on Oct.
than on
Harbor.
October
point rise made between Oct. 1, 1942
and the same date in 1943 which was
the greatest increase ever recorded
within a year’s time. All four classes
of farm wage payment rose about th«
same (17 i»er cent) from Oct. 1, 1943.
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1, 1943 and lt5O points higher
Oct. 1, 1941 just before Pearl
The 46 point rise from last
was not so great as the 60-
Foreign workers brought into the
country to help on farms have, for the
most part, proved very satisfactory,
and it is probable that considerable
acreage of some crops have been saved
that otherwise would have been lost
without assistance, the Agriculture
Department reports. Ji
SURPLUS INTO POSTWAR FUND
Berkeley, Cal. (ILNS). —This city
has transferred to a post-wa^ fund a
$180,000 surplus carried over from the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1J144. To
this, $90,000 will be added out of tbe
tax levy for the present fiscal year.
Part qf this $270,000 fund probably
will be used in matching a total of
$11,000 wiiich the state proposes to
give Berkeley for tiie preparation of
plans and specifications and the pur
chase of sites for post-war projects.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Report
ing of general labor news in the press
is improving. In the opinion of Albert
N. Dennis, director and commentator
for the Labor News Review program
of Station WTOP, Columbia Broad
casting System.
Discussing handling of labor news
in the dallies and by the press asso
ciations and radio commentators, Den
nis said, on the 533d broadcast of his
program:
"Labor ^continues as a vital force
in the day-to-day developments of life
and living tn America. This is reflected
in what appears to be a gradual im
provement in the reporting of general
news concerning labor activities by the
press associations, individual news
papers and the various radio reporters
and commentators. More facts and less
fiction is evident
"It is, of course, still true that or
ganized
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Fund To Insure Peace
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Funeral services were held In
lanta Oct. 19.
Small Labor Force
Harvesting One Of
The Biggest Crops
Foreign Labor Working On
Farms Saves Consider
able Acreage
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). The
smallest farm lalmr force on record is
harvesting one of the biggest
tion of full crops this country
raised, the U.
culture says.
produc
has ever
of Agri-
S. Department
workers
utilization of
sources, the number of
Despite the
from unusual
Iteople working on farms Oct. 1 was
slightly lower than at the same time
last year and 5 j»er cent less than the
1935-39 October average, when crop
production was much, smaller than this
year. Fnrffi wage rate* averaged id
per cent higher on Oct. 1 than for the
siiine date last year the index of farm
labor supply remained unchanged and
the demand index declined 1 |s»int.
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Representative Of National
War Fund Addresses Meet
ing In Brotherhood Hall
GIVE TILL IT HELPS
President Duffy Outlines
Plans For Canvassing
Shops In Drive
Wayne Hanson of Oak Park, III., a
representative of the National War
Fund addressed over 290 members of
organized labor at a rally Tuesday eve
ning in the Brotherhood hall.
Itescribing our contribution to this
year’s drive as an investment against
a third world war, America’s inffuence
in peace will extend exactly as far as
its willingness to help the world in its
post-war misery, he statel.
President James M. Dnffy, chairman
of the campaign in Southern Colum
biana County, presided, and outlined
the plans to be carried out by the
various chairmen and their assistants
in canvassing the city’s industries and
business centers, seeking $27,509 as
East Liverpool’s share of the National
War Fund’s apjieal for finances.
President Duffy in asking members
of organized* labor to sypjort this
worthy cause, cited the wonderful re
sponse made by labor in last year’s
drive. The results showed what labor
can do when it rolls up its sleeves and
goes all out for a cause which enlists
its sym|athy and Its interests.
Mr. Hannan devoted much of his
talk to a description of the functions
Prisoners’ Aid America’s
notice To Its captive soldiers in enemy
prison camps that /'somebody cares.”
During ~a flMvr -«splaiMtton of how
assistance is carried to the men In th*
camps, be disclosed that 1,650,609
books "have been sent over, 181,009
musical instruments. 70 motion picture
houses established, and equipment di
fiatched for every conceivable hobby
from gardening to [lottery tools.
Illustrating how the men put these
supplies to use, he said a "college” was
organized at one camp with a full staff
of instructors and 1,000 students, 45
softball teams, outfitted for a league at
another, everything from jazz bands to
symphonies formed at others, stage
productions created which brighten the
dreary lives of hundreds.
"We can draw peace plans until our
fingers ache," Mr. Hanson commented,
"but the world won’t pay much atten
tion until we show that our hearts, ton,
(Tun to Poor Tve)
Meeting Called To
Select Candidates,
Labor Will Endorse Slate At
Meeting Friday In N. B.
O. P. Auditorium
A non-partisan committee of union
members from the entire county will
meet in the Brotherhood hall Friday
evening at 7 :30 p. m. to endorse a slate
for the coming election. The purpose of
the meeting is io remember the friends
of labor and also the enemies.
Brother Larry Finlay of Local Union
No. 12 will act as temporary chairman
and Sam Lawton of Local Union 24 a*
temporary secretary.
Permanent officers will be namel
and the selections of the group will be
given to the members of organized
labor and their families next week.
Any local union in Columbiana
Comity may send delegates and if you
(Tin to Peer Six)
'mprovament In Labor News Reporting,
Albert Dennis Tells Radio'Audience
Ings, and assuredly there are still
many individuals who may reasonably
be classified as 'anti-labor’ people who
get in a ‘knock’ wherever they can
but the trend is definitely toward more
factual reporting and less general
bitterness, in the handling of news
developments concerning labor.
“Noting this trend, I discussed It
with several responsible labor officials.
All were emphatic in expressing their
belief that labor—meaning particular
ly organized labor—has not had here
tofore what is termed a ‘good press.’
"They agreed, too, that, discounting
the individual newspapers which carry
on their own private campaigns against
labor, for political or other purposes,
and the few columnists and commen
tators who express unkind opinions
rather freely, the general handling of
labor news may be said to be ‘improv
ing.’
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