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NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF
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VOL. XLVIII, NO. 48
Procedure For
Compensation
In New Jersey
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Became Effective
January 1st, 1945
Trenton, N. J.—In order that
members of the National Broth
erhood of Operative Potters who
are residents of New Jersey,
may be informed of the pro
cedure necessary to participate
in compensation in New Jersey,
under the new Silicosis Compen
sation Act, which became effec
tive January 1, 1945, the follow
ing information has been received by
Vice President Wheatley from
Thomas Parsonnet, legal counsel for
the New Jersey State Federation of
Labor.
In answer to a request from the
eastern office for a laymen break
down of the new -silicosis compensa
tion act, and in a manner that Broth
erhood members would understand,
without having to resort to legal ad
vice in each instance where a mem
ber may be affected, New Jersey
members of the Brotherhood should
clip this information for future refer
ence.
The act is to take effect January
1, 1945. This is important because if
any member now has a right to sue
at common law tpr compensation for
disability due to silicosis, he must
protect his rights by bringing action
before January 1, 1945. If he fails to
do so, he will thereafter be barred
from any such action.
The act which is known MS Chapter
88 of the Laws of 1944 grants Work
men’s Compensation for both silicosis
and asbestosis. It must be noted that
compensation is payable only for to
tal disability but “total” disability is
defined as “the^state of an emplmiree’s
being actua^lnS|2lgSed V
per
forming his work in the tat occupa
tion in which he was injuriously ex
posed.” In other words, total dis
ability does not mean that an em
ployee must be unable to work at any
occupation, but merely that he must
be actually incapacitated from work
ing in the occupation as a result of
which he contracted silicosis or as
bestosis.
Technically the act is elective and
not compulsory. However, as is the
case with the regular Workmen’s
Compensation Act, it is presumed
that the employer and the employee
have elected to become covered by the
act, unless either one serves a written
notice upon the other that he does not
desire to be covered by the act. If
such a written notice is not served,
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ANTI-BIAS BILL HELD
BACKED BY PUBLIC
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—
Charles H. Tuttle, who drafted New
York’s fair employment practices bill,
just made law, told Congress that a
federal proposal along the same
lines was constitutional if democracy
was constitutional. I
Tuttle, counsel to the New York
Commission Against Discrimination,
testifying before .a Senate Labor Sub
committee on a bill to set up a per
manent federal FEPC, said that pub
lic opinion was back of the New York
measure and of the federal bill de
spite contrary assertions by “some
pessimists.”
SOCIAL SECURITY FOR YOU AND
YOUR WIFE WHEN YOU ARE OLD
In general if you work for any
manufacturing firm or corporation,
you come under the Social Security
Act. You have a social security ac
count with your Government and you
have, or should have, a social security
account number card. This is issued
to you under the Federal old-age and
survivors insurance system establish
ed by the Social Security Act. Some
day, if you go on working on jobs
covered by this act and have enough
wage credits, you will have built up
insurance rights which will bring
you something to live on throughout
your old age.
Have you figured out what this
may mean to you And to your wife
For example, suppose you are getting
along in years. In January 1945, shall
we say, you will be 65 years old and
want to quit work for good. What
would your social security benefits
come to?
The amount of the benefits would
depend on the pay you have been get
ting your average monthly pay,
figured over the years since the old
age and survivors insurance system
-was started, January 1, 1937. For a
round figure let
you have
us suppose
Wellsville Local
Takes Steps To
Boost Attendance
Health Committee
jDoing A Fine Job
Sixth Vice President George Turner
was a recent visitor at the Sterling
shop lining up delinquent members
who seem to have lost all sense of
loyalty to the Brotherhood and their
fellow workers. Incidently, there are
a few who should read Section 244 of
the Constitution and familiarize them
selves with the penalties that can be
imposed.
Production was curtailed at the
Sterling shop last Thursday because
of the lack of boards, due to the kiln
being shut off automatically when the
current failed.
Roll call of officers found our re
cently elected guard still among the
missing.
Eleven new members were obligat
ed and their names added to the roll.
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Penalty Assessment
For Non-Attendance
Dropped By Local 99
THOSE OPPOSED TO PLAN ADOPT
“GANG-UP” METHOD TO DEFEAT
MEASURE ON FINAL READING
President Sontag ordered all the1
girls in the decorating shop to be
present at the next meeting or they
will be subject to a $2.00 fine Thid
order exempts the liners.
We notice the liners have been get
ting a great deal of overtime lately.
We wonder if this is done to keep
some of the older employees who
have served the firm faithfully for
years, the opportunity of a chance
they most certainly deserve.
Brother Dave Bevan made a report
on the activities of the Central Labor
Union and stated the Red Cross drive
is falling below expectations. 'This is
partly due to officials of the drive
who, in formulating plans for this
year’s campaign, failed to invite la
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Clarksburg, W. Va*. Local Union No. 99 rhet last Monday
evening with the largest attendance of the year on hand.
Chief discussion on the agenda of the evening’s session center
ed on a resolution to abolish the non-attendance fine, which was up
for its third and final reading. Although the vote showed the ma-1
jority in favor of abolishing the penalty assessment by a scant I
margin of two votes, further action along this line can be expected I
as it was brought out that the present system tvhich has been al
real benefit to the union would still be in effect, had it not been
for the “gang-up” method adopted to put the measure across.
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Wellsville, Ohio. Several
gestions as to how we could improve
attendance at local meetings resulted
in the adoption of a resolution placing
a five-cent assessment on all dues col
lected- on the shop. Perhaps if we
were to adopt a resolution refusing to
accept dues only at meetings, would
be the proper solution to our problem.
The Health Committee made a re
port of improved conditions in the
clayshop with several more adjust
ments to be made in the near future.
While their efforts have brought re
sults in the clayshop, they still face a
big problem in the decorating shop,
warehouse and around the sanders.
a
been paid an average of $150
month.
If your social security account shows
an average monthly pay amounting
to $150, and you have been working
since January 1, 1937, your monthly
retirement payment, figured by the
rule which is given in the law, comes
to $32.40. Your wife, if she is 65 when
you retire, or whenever she is 65,
would get half as much as you would
get, and the two of you would have
$48.60.
This sum might not cover all the
costs of food, clothing and shelter
each month but it will go quite a
ways in helping to meet those ex
penses.
At 65 you probably have 12 years
ahead of you. Your retirement insur
ance will come in all that time unless
you go back to work on a job which
is covered by the Social Security Act,
and which pays $15 a month or more.
(You can make up to $14.99 a month
on a covered job and you can earn
any amount on a job which is not cov
ered, and still get your retirement
benefits.) In other words, the insur
ance you receive will amount in
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Mutual Agreement
Approved By WLB
Trenton, N. J. Local Union 451
received the good news last week that
the War Labor Board had approved
our request for vacation pay to be
Wiesneski are the latest to leave for
service with their Uncle Sam.
hepe this sad a«a.r Wil all be over
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grant'd on the 48-hour week basis, in-1
stead of 40 as we received last year.
This is in accord with an agreement
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reached between the management of
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the Trenton Potteries Co. and the
meeting, but had to be approved by
the WLB before it became effective.
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Conference Committee at an earlier
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We wish to thank the Trenton Pot-1
we remind the trade that we now -re-
day. The new setup will give us an
extra hour of sunshine and a chance
to work in our victory gardens.
Brothers Paul Biesecki and John (phasizes
?n7wirttL™&Ct"
wherever they are. I
We are sorry to report foreman
John Nixon has been notified by his
fTan.
to Poor Fieri
We are glad to welcome into our
fold, Sister Doris Smith
Selders. We urge their imunui ai-1
tendance on the second and fourth
RnilprmakerR GivA Pnst
To William J. Buckley
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1945
WAGE POLICY ATTACKED AS POST-WAR PERILYEARPER$2.00
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vU3llUVTVH LVVUl |at least 50 cents in order that our
Ema (organization will give its fair share
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AV rk xi._late8. Labor in the liberated countries
Coshocton, Ohio. Despite the Lg ug for heip jn rebuilding
warm weather and the eagpr wish to the-r frei trade 4^^ trade
get out in the back yard and begin uniori8 their and our 0*n
spading for that victory garden, the weJfare we mugt not fail them
members of Local Union No. 75 still „The flood of ch commodities
find time to attend their local meet-|will a thteat the pottery indus.
ing8, try therefore a threat to the high
A social was held following our (living standards which we now en
meeting on March 8 with the Enter-(joy.
tainment Committee serving lunch “For this reason, the members of
and refreshments. The balance of the (the National Brotherhood of Opera
evening was spent in dancing and|tive Potteze must take quick positive
card playing. (action if we are to forestall this
A $10.00 donation from the Local (threat. Success in -restoring free,
plus $108.50 raised through solicita- (democratic trade unions abroad is all
tion on the shop was our contribution (important if lasting peace and eco
to the Red Cross drive. |nomic stability are te be realized.”
Sister Margaret Clark was granted (Management committee of the Limo
a withdrawal card. 0. C. 75. |ges China Co. announced this week
.........................- (that plans have been completed and
Buckley, a veteran unionist, has (terested in dancing.
been a member of the Brotherhood Eddie Juenemann and his 10-piece
since 1916. In recent years he directed (orchestra of Canton, one of the finest
many of the union’s key organizing (dance bands in the state, has been en
campaigns and contract negotiations, (gaged to furnish the knusic. The band
Prior to his election as a vice presi- |wifi feature many novelty numbers
dent at the Boilermakers* last
national convention early in
Buckley served for many years
international representative.
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ceive starting last year on^|zN X'SF TV WV 1 TT |den units of the Universal Sanitary
week’s paid vacation,for one year or
I I (Company, and the Trenton Potteries
more service and two weeks for over wwX A A A A Vr aLaK^AA
(Co.,
five years’ service. a y __ a The co-operation of
Starting April 7di, we will return A UH Cl IniDflHflln Ifi (Brotherhood members
to the 48-hour week. For more than
|in the requirements
a year those who were willing and Aur^. T— __a (make the treatments successful, has
able have been working overtime each
We Must Not *al1 Labor In Liberated Countries I
Looking To Us For Help, President Duffy Warns I
Possibility of-an early victory over Germany sharply ern-lton
the importance of restoring bona fide labor organizations Ken
in devastated Europe, President Duffy stated this week as he
Local Unions throughout the .trade
and Brother I fTam to Poor Two)
faithful at-1 a
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WeLgain appealed to locals throughout the trade to support the AFl|^“" dL^
fYee Trade Union Fund drive to raise ?1 000,000 .to be Used for re-
eo»»tnieMo» of Europe’s free labor movement.
“After the war IS over new industrial centers will develop all
Iover World and if they are manned by low-paid, unorganized
I labor, America wHl be flooded with cheap products,” he warned.
(the campaign £nd urges every mem-'
“The National Brotherhood of Operative Potters has endorsed |by the
EWiplOyCOS
To Hold Dance On
Wednesday, Apr. 4
Thursday of each month. I—
It looks like our National conven
tion in July will have to be postponed
according to reports in
press. If it is for the good of the war
effort, all well and good. Sebring, Ohio. The Employee-
(everything in readiness for the an
7 nual spring dance to be held in the
(auditorium of the McKinley high
Kansas City, Kan. President M001’ Wednesday evening, April 4.
Charles J. MacGowan of the Interna- The affair, which is but one of the
tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers (many events planned by the joint
appointed Vice President William J. (committee for the summer season,
Buckley as secretary-treasurer of the under way at 8:45 p. m. Mo
organization to fill the vacancy creat- |tion pictures will be an added enter
ed by the death of William E. Walter, (tainment feature for persons not in­
inter-1 during the course of the evening’s en
1944, Itertainment.
as an I Families and friends of employees
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question at issue will be debatable at
Catering Workers Union
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all meetings during the month, en
abling any member to vote at any.
one meeting they attend during April, (said a company president. “Then we’ll
President Armstrong appointed the I pu,Llbose un*ons 4nz,_tbe/r p'ac7
following as a Resolution Committee: I There are only 600 bosses in this
Thomas Woods, Roy Thompson, Ruth I^ea^er’
Bowers, Margaret Curley, A. J. Wynn, are 6°°’C00 of US ^.ho do X°U
Henry Cresswell and Naomi Hall. fbmk are^going to run things after
Two candidates were initiated and
their names added to the roll.- “We’ll have to exercise bghter con
0 124 |trol,” warned a government adminis
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Asks Curfew Change I.
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Employees of the Eljer Company,
who are in contact with silica dust,
lare being examined and x-rayed in
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order that they may be benefited by
■the Aluminum Treatment. This makes
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the fourth Sanitary Plant where the
(Aluminum Treatment for silica dust
has been installed the other three
(plants are the New Castle and Cam*
Meany Says Treeze’
Would Destroy Chance
Of Full Employment
AFL Official Warns Nation
I Of "Disaster" Following War
X-Rays Taken
lOf Employees
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I Fourth Sanitary Firm
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Ford City, Pa.—The Eljer Pottery
Company of Ford City, Pa., has re
|cently installed the Aluminum Ther
lapy Treatment, which is under the
direction of Dr. J. W. Hannon, of
Washington,D. C. (ILNS.—“The government’s present frozen
and unintelligent wage policy is plunging war production into un
necessary embarrassment and will inevitably destroy any chance
of attaining full employment when peace comes,” George Meany,
(secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor charged
on the AFL’s “America United” program over a nation-wide NBC
(network.
I Meany said he was making a serious charge and that it was
(based on “serious facts,” a few of which he wished to bring to the
(attention of his radio audience. He continued:
N. J.
Management,
and officials,
necessary
plants of Trenton,
been mutually satisfactory.
he Lnv a-
aZuon or x-ray Mr Aitkin^f “e
ling bulletins throughout his plant,
(gave credit to the Brotherhood for
(bringing the treatment of Silicosis
Aluminum Therapy method, to
their attention, and for its installa-
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Business of routine matters were|a^n8 us far as possible, the ravages
transacted including varied discus- |and ill effects that have been a detri
sions on settlements handed dowm by |ment to so many potters in the past,
the Decorators Standing Committee We wish to thank the above men
at their last meeting. As is always |tioned Companies for their interest in
the case, some complaints were voiced (this new treatment, which we feel is
against their decisions, but the ma- |a humanitarian matter, and it is
jority were of the opinion that the de- (hoped that the remaining Sanitary
cisions were made for the benefit of (Tum to Pogr Five)
the trade as a whole, and not for any
We call your attention to the refer-
Latest reports from Camden, Tren-
|t°n Potteries and Ford City are
(pleasing and it is the desire of the
(Brotherhood officials and the en-
Local Union 124 had to vie with the (dorsement of two National Conven
weatherman last Tuesday night and (tions of the Brotherhood, that the
as a result came out on the short end (membership lend their full co-opera
when only a small turnout was present tion with the management and Dr.
for the weekly meeting. (Hannon and his associates, in elimin-
(dynamite-loaded situation
MRA PAPER SHOWS BATTLE FOR
CONTROL IN AMERICAN INDUSTRY
“Unknown to many Americans a
Ibattle for control is being fought out
Buffalo, N. Y. (ILNS).—The execu-(jn the industrial plants of this coun
tive board of the Hotel and Restaur- |try,” says the leading article in the
ant Employees’ International Alliance (March number of New World News,
and Bartenders’ International League, (world news service of Moral Re
meeting here, asked change in the (Armament. ‘Extremists of both left
curfew on night clubs and other (and right are massing their forces
amusement places from midnight to (and maneuvering for position. They
1 a. m. Speaking for 300,600 em- (fight for labor to run management,
ployees in night places, the board (or for management to run labor, or
telegraphed War Mobilization Direc- (for government to run both. Their
tor James T. Byrnes that members of (goal is control of industry, knowing
the unicm would observe the curfew (that this will carry with it control of
but felt undue hardship could be (the nation.”
avoided by permitting amusement Workers will
places to stay open one hour later (which lays bare
than set by Byrnes. (industry today,
AL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
President Duffy
Attends Meeting
to
has been definitely agreed, be-
|tween the managements of the Tren­
Potteries Company and the Cam-
^Ot?ero Cfmpaoy’ tbat. ,n? rneJn*
Our health program has taken a
little slump, due largely to insuffi
cient help, but we have been assured
by the firm their fullest cooperation.
The firm has been granted a license
to purchase the necessary equipment
to administer Aluminium Therapy
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PEDESTRIAN DEATHS
SOAR IN BIG CITIES
Chicago (ILNS).—City people are
literally walking themselves to deaths
in tragic numbers.
In a survey made by the National
Safety Council of 68 cities
population of more than
pedestrians were 70 percent
total motor vehicle deaths.
‘Just wait till the war_is over,” all the battle going on in their own
unions and plants, with factions, over
grievances, contract negotiations and
production and the why the problems
are being solved by union men and
management in teamwork together.
find in this article,
the true situation in
the counter-part of
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“First, how high are wartime
wages. Oh, no! It was officially set
Board tried to find out. It discovered
that the average earnings of the 14
million workers who had appealed for
increases during a 20-month period
amounted to less than 70 cents an
hour. No American family can live
decently on that kind of income at
present prices.
Workers Going in “Red”
“How then are these workers get
ting by How do they live The
acting director of the U. S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics supplied the answer
before the Senate Committee on
Banking and Currency.
“He testified that thousands of
workers, even those with no depend
ents, are going into the ‘red’ each
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Difficulty Finding^***
Suitable Quarters
Buffalo, N. Y.—Local 76 was re
cently honored by having our national
president, Janies M. Duffy visit with
us. Many of our problems and circum
stances are beyond our control, due
largely to labor shortage, but Presi
dent Duffy did all within his power
to untangle these difficult problems.
We still have difficulty in finding
pointed another committee to try and
secure this Utopia. Good luck boys!
the ideal meeting place, but have ap-
with a
100,000,
of the
Nationally in cities and towns, 62
percent of motor vehicle fatalities
were pedestrians. There were 9,700—
or approximately 800 pedestrian
deaths per month last year in both
urban and rural America.
Union men who are disillusioned
and thinking of giving up because of
petty selfishness, ambitions and poli
tics in their own ranks, that prevent
the building of the world that labor
wants, will find new hope and cour
age in the news of a force of labor
fighters rising up not only in
America, but across the world who
put the moral principles of labor be
fore self.
“What will the future hold?” asks
New World News. “Teamwork and
production based on trust? Or will it
be class conflict and breakdown based
on hate? If labor and management do
not fight together to win the battle
for teamwork, then a strong right
hand or a strong left hand will take
over.
“On the outcome of this battle
hangs the future of America, and of
world democracy.”
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Pictured in New World News
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