Newspaper Page Text
il &> OFFICIAL ORGAN NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF OPERATIVE POTTERS w VOL. XLIX, NO. 27 President Duffy Will Attend Labor-Industry Parley At Washington ’BROTHERHOOD CHIEF AMONG DELEGATES WHO MET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN IN PRELIMINARY SESSION AT WASHINGTON President James M. Duffy was back at his desk at headquar Wednesday following his return from Washington where ters the Brotherhood chieftain was among the delegates who met with President Tinman Tuesday morning to discuss labor’s problems prior to the national labor-management conference which opens in Washington on November 5. President Duffy, an alternate to the national labor confer ence, received the invitation to the White House when he was chosen from a list of delegates submitted by the American Federa tion of Labor. Called to hunt for a program to promote industrial peace, the conference includes all factions of organized labor, industry and manage ment and is faced with an agenda that is filled with ticklish problems. Realizing that such a conference would be successful only if planned ,*ahead of time, the problem of laying preliminary plans were discussed with v ’the president at Tuesday’s meeting which included the following topics: The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by full and genuine acceptance by management of collective bargaining in every instance where workers choose to organize to bargain collectively on 1 questions of wages, hours and working conditions. The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by full and genuine acceptance by organized labor of the inherent right and re sponsibilities of management to direct the operation of an enterprise. The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by the willingness of management and workers to utilize the machinery of the National Labor Relations Act and any existing State Labor Relations Act for prompt determination of the collective bargaining agencies. The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by the willingness of management and workers to utilize the machinery of the National Labor Relations Act and any existing State Labor Relations Act for prompt determination of the Collective bargaining agencies. i The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by recog-, nized and orderly procedure to negotiate first contracts between a union, and an employer, and the extent to which provisions should be made for -j the use of conciliation, if negotiations seem to be breaking down. The extent to which industrial disputes can be minimized by provi sions incorporated in aollqctivf bargaining agreements. «. To prevent industrial disputes from taking place, should provisions7 be made for improving and strengthening the Conciliation Service of the Department of Labor, kind should there be additional support for the**' operation of this Service? What provisions should be made for lessening or preventing strikes which come from jurisdictional or other inter-union disputes? Commenting on the progress made at the preliminary meeting to the conference which opens next Monday, President Duffy said the American Federation of Labor is going into the conference “in a spirit to make it a success.”. One objective, he explained, was to restore collective bargaining “so that it will be real collective bargaining in the right spirit.” While it is probable that many important decisions will be made at the conference, he added, “it must be borne in mind that no conference can possibly completely clean the slate of all present and potential sources of friction in the highly complicated American economy.” Members of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters throughout the trade can feel justly proud in the recognition bestowed upon the organ ization in the selection of President Duffy as a representative of labor to 1 this all important conference, which not only adds further prestige to the organization, but extols the ability of a man who is fast becoming a world figure in the ranks of American labor. In 1927 President Duffy was American labor delegate to the Interna tional Labor conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and will leave shortly to i study conditions in China for the American Federation of Labor. AFL Will Oppose No-Strike Pledge Cincinnati (FP).—The 8-man AFL delegation to the labor-management conference in Washington Nov. 5 will be “unalterably oposed” to a peace time no-strike pledge and compulsory arbitration, President William-Green said here. dreen said the AFL executive coun cil, in session here, had spent a half day discussing the conference but had not worked out any recommendations for submission to the parley. The AFL (Turn to Page Two) Hollywood Hollywood (FP).—The 33-week-old strike-lockout of movie studio em ployes has ended with most of the demands of the Conference of Studio Unions (AFL) met, but with members of International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employes (AFL) who took CSU men’s jobs when the latter struck still left on the job. CSU President Herbert Sorrel said, “This is a complete victory.” He an nounced pickets would be withdrawn from the Warner Bros, studio after a decision by the AFL executive council meeting in Cincinnati, O., ended the strike-louckout at other major studios. The national AFL leaders’ solution, reached in conference with industry representatives, met the demands of CSU unions that all strikers be re hired, that Set Designers Local 1421, Brotherhood of Painters (AFL) be recognized as bargaining agent for set decorators as ordered by the War Labor Board and NLRB, and that ma chinery be set up for disposing of fur ther issues in dispute. |It met IATSE demands by guaran (Turn to Page Five) '7®he 7- 7^-77. Hearst Workers Win Big Increase £os Angeles (BP).—Pressure of a Los Angeles (FP). Pressure of strike threat winning out over stub born management resistance, Hearst’s Herald-Express signed a new contract with the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild which granted the four hun dred workers an overall 19.3% wage increase. The agreement, reached a day be fore, the Herald-Express employes were to take a strike vote, was hailed by local officials as the best news (Turn to Page Six) Strikers Win Most Demands As Strike Comes To End AT perity hinges on ij AFL Council Suspends Machinists Takes Action When Taxes Are Not Paid Cincinnati (FP).—The International Association of Machinists, largest AFL affiliate, has been suspended from the federation for failure to pay per capita taxes on its 681,962 mem bers since last November, AFL Presi dent William Green announced here. The machinists owe the AFL be tween $75,000 and $100,000 on the basis of per capita taxes of l%c a month a member on the first 300,000 and 1c a month a member on all over 300,000. Basis for the machinists case, which at one point led to the lAM’s quitting the AFL, is a jurisdictional dispute over the making, erecting and repairing of machinery between the IAM and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Internationl Brother hood of Operating Engineers. Last November, date at which the IAM stopped paying per capita taxes, the AFL executive council recom mended to its annual convention that jurisdiction of the engineers be up held, although at the convention in Boston the year before the IAM re turned to the AFL on the understand ing that some settlement favorable to it would be worked out. While IAM President Harvey Brown is not attending the present sessions of the executive council here, some council members explained his absence by saying he was attending a board meeting of his own union in Washington. Indications that the IAM convention will maintain its position of refusing (Turn to Page Two) AFL COUNCIL SESSIONS. AFL President William Green greets President Daniel J. Tobin of International Brotherhood of Teamsters at AFL executive council sessions in Cincinnati, Ohio. Council gave its unions go ahead sign in drive for major wage increases, declaring that nation’s pros —.... u-------labor’s fight for higher pay.—(Federated Pictures)..' .-s: "r .5, 1 ...•■?'. S™,^.. *.& ... 4 4L .I'Stz.*. „., ,- J* t' SETTLING FILM STRIKE. Peace returned to Hollywood movie studios after striking AFL unions won victorious settlement of 33-week strike which saw large-scale violence against pickets. Left to right: Movie czar Eric Johnston representing the producers and strike leader Herbert Sorrell confer in Los Angeles, Calif., prior to strike settlement.—(Federated Pictures3. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945 Ask Substantial Wage Hike .'h Many Laid Up With Illness At Wheeling Warwick Employees Contribute To Fund! Wheeling, W. Va.—Potters as well as all other Wheelingites had the op portunity of inspecting one of Uncle Sam’s Navy ships, the LC1-57 an chored at the Wheeling Wharf for three days. The ship was part of Navy Day observance and vast throngs visited the vessel at all public in spection hours. Lieut. M. R. L. Cica relli and his crew were aboard and rendered courteous explanations of the various features of the big craft. This seems to be the time of the year when quite a few of our mem bers are off the job, due to illness. Brothers George Grimm and Edward Reineke are among the most. serious ly ill and have been away from the bench for more than ten days, but with proper care both brothers should improve in health in the near future. No settlement has been reached as yet in the Block. Bros. Tobacco Co., strike which began October 17. Picket lines have been re-inforced and the (Turn to Page Six) Labor Dept. Says Repeal Strike Vote, Retain NLRB Washington (FP).—Faced with “an almost impossible administrative job” the Labor Department has joined the NLRB in asking repeal of the Smith Connally anti-strike act, with reten tion of certain sections. Appearing before the House mili tary affairs committee, Asst. Sec. of Labor Daniel Tracy asked especially repeal of Sec. 8. This section estab lishes the procedure for filing notices of labor disputes, holding secret strike votes and providing for the so-called “cooling-off” period. Instead of reducing labor disputes, the bill has, in effect, so inscreased the number of strikes that during the week ending Oct. 17, 123 notices were filed, as against 12 for the same per iod last year. While advocating repeal of Sec. 8, Tracy asked that the seizure provision of the act be retained, as it “may prove useful in the event of emer gency,” promising that the power would “be used sparingly.” AFL WORKERS WIN CALIFORNIA STRIKE San Diego, Calif. (FP).—A four weeks strike of AFL millmen and teamsters which tidti up 34 lumber concerns ended here when the com panies yielded to union demands for wage increases. The owners agreed to raise the low est classifications lumber handlers and warehousemen—from 87 Vi cents to $1 an hour, and to increase all others 12% across the board, thus boosting top classifications of millmen from $1.23% to $1.38 an hour and teamsters from $1.18% to $1.27. o. #tte w Me ra Id of Sebring Local inS96 with I VVCUT .nnfli JDOCI1C1 I A1D130CuS fL I Dhifi TT-ntrwa A A wiast Sebring, Ohio.—1 —Local Union 44 met I siding. After dispensing with the petition now being circulated through-1 out the shops in Sebring, asking for al change in the present set up of the unemployment law. This petition has been signed by tnde'lnd Ohio general assembly for considers-1 tion. This change is deemed necessary following the closing down of two plants last May when a dispute in-1 ta'Xmplw“7TXp!n«t'irS ,77 denied several hundred others because I^he Q. 44, wuovo I tor. This will serve to relieve the WLB of having to decide any new cases. At a press conference, Garrison ad mitted that the WLB hereafter may have to determine policy on justifiable wage increases involving maladjust ments and inequities, but said that its action would be only advisory with (Turn to Page Six) Tells President Bill Cannot Pass Washington (FP). An Alabama congressman, Rep. Carter Manasco I (D), visited the White House Oct. 26 to tell off the President of the U. S. Manasco, chairman of the House I committee on executive department I expenditures, told newsmen after-1 wards he told President Truman I “there is little chance of passage of cided by the chief executive. I the type of full employment bill” de- I I The congressman went on to relate I how he told the President that he did I not believe the bill could be reported I out of Manasco’s committee without a lot of amendments. I I Immediately afterwards Manasco I SPONSORS DEPRESSION. presided over a session of his com- lered living standards, or the pros mittee at which President Edward A. Ipect of 350,000 striking auto workers O’Neal of the American Farm Bureau Idon’t bother President Charles E. Federation testified along the lines of I Wilson^ of General Motors Corp, th. thinking .gain* the «£•). w in! “i S.» a danger of .reeWinm ^“InS leading to a totalitarian regime if the I higher prices, has been denounced by federal government undertakes to |CIO andAFL as a repudiation of all guarantee full-time, remunerative jobs (planning for American prosperity.— through passage of HR 2202. I ♦4- EXECUTIVE higher wage rates. I W»y I “Instead of interferring with reconversion, labor’s demand for wage in- I lan I I I After Oct. 22, the WLB will act on stipulation cases only and on these I will simply agree to name an arbitra-|A(J (Federated Pictures). MEMBER INTERNATIONAL LABOR NEWS SERVICE w AFL Drafts Proposals To Reduce Industrial, Strife council says wartime I PROMISES TO LABOR WERE NOT KEPT and insists on immediate action u the its ful1 suPP°rt ‘he efforts of all affiliated unions to obtain I He expressed the conviction that industry is able to afford I to pay wage boosts of from 20 to 30 percent in hourly rates with out materially increasing prices. Executive Council included: of an interpretation of the law. I 1. The council urged immediate reduction in income taxes and empha The delegates to Trades Council re-1 sized that personal exemptions should be raised to pre-war levels. ported the recent change in the meet-1 2. It expressed strong support of a firm American foreign policy which ing night for that body has not work-1 w®uld assure lasting world peace by according liberated nations the right ed out so wdll, and they will go back freedom, democracy and independence. to the former schedule of the second I The AFL leaders drafted proposals to be submitted to the forth and fourth Wednesday of each month I coming labor-industry conference in Washington for the establishment and With election day near at hand we ^intenance of peaceful and stable industrial relations and the prevention call your attention to four potters who .. are worthy of your support at the 4. Unanimous endorsement was given to the pending postwar housing polls on November 6.PBro. PhilipSloTif XTbT h°’“1’"5 “nstrurt‘“n dr,ve and I candidate for mayor, Chester Brunt,IKilgore Unemployment Compensation Bill, the Full Employment Bill recording secretary, is running for I I I ne*8 highlights developed from the quarterly meeting Congress was also asked in on uncertain terms to enact without delay an(j amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act lifting the minimum city clerk, and brothers Robert Webb I wage floor to 65 cents an hour immediately. and George Gottshell are candidates I jn discussing wage policy, the Executive Council declared that the war for the school board. time wage freeze had wiped out parity between static wage rates and boom- Quite a number of our members I ing prices, resulting at the end of the war in a 30 percent disadvantage have recently been mustered out of I to labor so far as the relation between hourly rates of pay and the cost the service and are resuming their I of living were concerned. former jobs. All report they are glad I The council added: When we entered this war to rid the world of political to be back at the trade. land economic despots we were assured that nobody would be allowed to A word about clean shops The I profit unduly from the war—that there would be no new crop of war mil Limoges is second to none when itl But the of the profits made during the war by industry J: -i and business as a whole make that proinBe «s hollow as the promise made conies to a clea sh and dese I to labor that its economic position would not be allowed to deteriorate be credit for the efforts they have made I of jtg willingness to forego the use of the strike while our country along this line. The French-Saxon is I wa8 at war. preparing to follow suit and when they start look out, for the manage-1 profit-makers on the grounds that they are interferring with reconversion ment at this plant has stated their I that they will increase prices and start an inflationary spiral. The charge plant will be second to no other plant I comes with singular inappropriateness from the very interests who profited when it comes to having a clean shop. I most during the war and whose profits have already resulted in prices which I current demands for wage increases are being opposed by these same have taken from the workers the meager wage increases they received dur-* I ing the war. creases—and their early realization—is the best possible assurance of sound and lasting prosperity in the post-war period. Purchasing power is Chairman Lloyd Garrison said the I percentage of increase in wages but will leave that to its affiliated unions^ WLB will accept appeals from direc-L tive orders issued by regional boards I trade. and commisisons, however, in cases in I “But the American Federation of Labor wil support its affiliated na which the directive was announced I tional and international unions to the fullest extent in their efforts to prior to the present decision. The only I secure substantial wage rate increases,” Mr. Green said. other exceptions will be in cases in I “Until we are shown otherwise by facts, we believe the wage increases which a regional board has made an I can be paid out of profits without need for higher prices.” order and the parties have not agreed I Mr. Green said he believed affiliated unions could obtain their demands that the regional board’s decision shall I in most cases by collective bargaining and other peaceful procedures. be final. a^A°*ute essential to our mass production economy. We proved during the war that we have the resources, the machinery and the manpower tot (produce enough'to raise living standards above levels heretofore believed^ War Labor Board announced Oct. 1G1 “The degree of prosperity which we shall have in this country following that it would accept no new cases or I appeals in order to wind up its work lachjeves in its demands for higher wages. *. by Jan. 1. possible. Our problem today is to distribute purchasing power so that ... ,. ,* lall the people may receive Hie benefits of our productive genius. The key: Washington (FP). The National Ito that progiem ig higher wageg. war depends almost wholly upon the degree of success which labor: “Mr. Green told newsmen that the AFL is not stipulating any national which are in the best position to know what conditions are in their own I-------------------------------------------------------------------------declared.he”strikes,promotingoffavorinnotareWe“ 11 Al KIM CYDACCC U W vKI\EKw UlMlVrl CAiUwtw WILSONS BACK-TO-POVEHTY PLAN Low- y $2.00 PER YEAR 77 7 77 Cincinnati—In the interest4i justice and national prosperity, I the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor de Imanded substantial wage increases for the nation’s workers. I AFL President William Green declared the federation will Detroit (FP).—Auto manufacturers plan to rob both the public and their workers, while increasing profits by the hundreds of millions of dollars, were exposed here Oct. 22—with dol lar and cent statistics—by the United Auto Workers. Proof that the auto industry could meet labor’s demands for a 30% wage increase, cut the cost of cars $60 to $100 each, and still make 50% more profit than they did before the war was offered by UAW after President Charles E. Wilson of General Motors Corp., told a lushing cocktail party of daily press reporters his plans for lengthening the work week and cut ting pay, on Oct. 21, 71 aS Vx U From Cincinnati, O., came support for the UAW demands from a source not accustomed to giving aid and comfort to CIO unions. AFL President William Green derided GM’s pay-cut ting, hour-lengthening proposals as “completely impracticable.” “Labor has maintained for several years,” the AFL chieftain said, “that the answer is higher wages, and labor won’t be 1 satisfied with anything else.” The UAW, in negotiation with GM at present to get a 30% increase in y. hourly rates—to compensate for the, reduction from 48 hours to 40 hours a 7 week—has been dealing only with assistant stooges of GM, and has been unable to get even them to comment on the union’s demands. GM’s president came out with his (Turn tt Pw Fiw).