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VOL. XLIX, NO. 30
The dinner was served in the decor
ating department of the plant which
was especially decorated for the oc
cassipn and was opened with a prayer,
giving thanks to Almighty God for the
many blessings we are privileged to
^^«njoy and asking His Divine Guidance
re, preserving the liberties that our
‘Pilgrim Fathers had planned for us.
Representatives from the Brother
hood attending the dinner were
George Turner, sixth vice president
Joshua Chadwick, eighth vice presi
dent Charles F. Jordan, secretary
treasurer and Harry Gill, manager of
the Potters Herald. All were called
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600 Workers Gg
On Sitdown Strike
Philadelphia (FP) Six hundred
workers at the Bendix Aviation Corp,
plant here went on a sitdown strike
to protest company cancellation of
their union contract and demanded
that the Mead committee investigate
the scheduled closing of the plant.
The workers, all members of Local
114, United Electrical Radio and Ma
chine Workers, are the survivors of
a force of 5,200 men and women laid
off the day after V-J Day.
UE International Representative
Francis White said the strike follow
ed a 2-hour sitdown several days be
fore caused by reports that a num
ber of layoffs were to be made with
out regard to seniority.
White said he and the local negoti
ating committee were told by manage
ment that, so far as the company was
concerned, the contract was cancelled.
The company said it no longer recog
nized the union as bargaining agent
for the workers and confirmed that
some employes, largely women, were
to be laid off without regard to sen
iority.
Spaulding Employees
Enjoy Annual Dinner
Held Last Thursday
The spotlight man of the day was
none other than Clarence (Baldy)
Bostwick, toastmaster, who, in his re
officials of the
cooperation, as
and sisters‘for
have shown in
178, one of the
marks thanked the
firm for their fine
well as the brothers
the fine spirit they
making Local Union
most progressive locals in the Broth
erhood.
Speaking in liehalf of the firm Mr.
George Stanford, plant superinten
dent, told the employees how much
he appreciated being with them on
such a splendid occassion. He praised
the wonderful relationship which ex
isted between Local 178 and the firm,
and hoped such cordiality would con
tinue for many years to come. He
concluded his remarks by announcing
that a new contract with the Brother
hod has recently been signed.
TURKEY WITH ALL TRIMMINGS GRACE
FESTAL BOARD PLANT HEAD LAUDS
RELATIONSHIP WITH BROTHERHOOD
Sebring, Ohio.—The third annual dinner for employees of the
Spaulding China Co., has come and gone, but the memory wi
linger long, so stated representatives of the National Brotherhooc
of Operative Potters, who were guests of the firm and their em
ployees at a fitting ceremony to mark the occassion last Thurs
day noon at the plant.
The affair got under way promptly at 12 noon affording am
ple opportunity for all those to enjoy the dinner who had to re
turn to their benches to complete their day’s toil.
Roast turkey with all the
comprised the menu and was served
by a committee headed by Mrs. Erma
Syme, assisted by Mrs. Myrtle French
and Mrs. Lueanna Smith.
Seaway Project Peril To Employment
Rail Labor And Management Men Say
New York City (ILNS). Labor
and management representatives, de
claring their firm opposition to the
proposed St. Lawrence Seaway Power
Project, charged at a luncheon-meet
ing here that the development would
reduce employment and damage the
railroad industry. Several hundred
labor and business representatives at
tended the meeting.
H. W. Fraser of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, president of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, described the project
as “one of the great American fan
tasies” and declared that it is not
needed from the standpoint of either
transportation or power.
Rail Workers Opposed
Urging the importance of preserv
ing the railroad industry against “un
fair and unwarranted competition,”
Fraser said, railroad employes and
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Wheeling, W. Va.—In the recent
tirement fo Bro. Edward Reineke, a
presser at the plant, the local loses
one of its most faithful members. For
many years Mr. Renineke served as
our treasurer but due to ill health re
fused re-nomination at the last elec
tion. He plans to take things easy at
his home in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
The employees of the Bloch Bros.
Tobacco Co., are scheduled to return
to their jobs in a few days or just as
soon as the big plant is put in shape
to operate. A. F. of L. representatives
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Seek Solution For
Christmas Gifts
At Local Union 45
Trenton, N. J.—Local Union 45 is
holding such interesting meetings
that it is hard to understand the small
attendance. How much easier it would
be for the officers to judge the de
sires of the rank and
members were on hand
nings.
dations.
file if more
Friday eve-
working six
After three years of
days a week at a stepped-up speed,
many have expressed their desire to
return to the five-day week, while on
the other hand many cannot afford to
lose the 12 hours pay. The firm does
not object to a man resting up oc
cassionally, but this also has its diffi
culties.
Our servicemen are returning now
and we are trying to cooperate with
the firm to keep benches open for
them. Several are contemplating re
turning to sanitary casting. The Con
ference Committee will meet shortly
and we hope they can find some solu
tion.
complain that an effort to
production is crowding them
that they cannot work prop
Many
increase
so much
erly. These complains were turned
over to the shop committee for in
vestigation.
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ASK INCREASE
New’ York (FP)—New York dress
makers asked for an increase of 20%
in the wages of all workers in the in
dustry, Gen. Man. Julius Hochman of
New York Dress Joint Board, Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union (AFL), announced here.
their families in the United States
and Canada numbering more than
4,000,000 persons are dependent up
on a payroll of rail carriers now run
ning well above $4,000,000,000 an
nually.
“I know how these workers feel
about the St. Lawrence project,” he
continued. “I work with them and
their representatives. They are
record many times in opposition
the proposed development.
“The St. Lawrence project is a
months’ project each year with
months—5 winter months—each year
in which operations would be impos
sible because of ice conditions. With
the project completed the railroads
would be in the position of standing
by for 7 months with a plant equip
ped to take over the transportation
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The committee on existing collec
tive agreements, Mr. Taylor told
newsmen, “appears to be in agree
ment that there must be some termi
nal point to grievance procedure if
the agreement is to contain an effec
tive no-strike, no-lockout clause.”
This is to prevent management from
defeating the purpose of such agree
ments by delaying action on griev
ances interminably.
Improvement of machinery for set
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Art Ware Workers
At Chester Plant
Join Brotherhood
Local Union No. 209 added sixty
some names to their roster this week
when employees of the Continental
Kilns in Chester, W. Va., joined the
ranks of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters.
At a meeting with plant officials
and their employees, Sixth Vice Presi
dent George Turner outlined the poli
cies of the organization and the bene
fits to be derived through a collec
tive bargairfing agreement with the
Brotherhood.
Manufacturers of a high grade of
art ware, the firm is fast establishing
a reputation throughout the industry
and it will not be long before new em
ployees are added-to the pay roll, of
ficials stated.
The management expressed approv
al with the Brotherhood’s system of
collective bargaining and feels both
parties will benefit through the affili
ation.
NAM and U. S. Chamber
Wants Profit Tax Killed
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Washington (FP). The National
Association of Manufacturers and the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce joined
hands Oct. 17 to attack the pending
tax bill relieving the rich and the big
corporations as “to little and too
late.”
While organized labor objected to
the House-approved tax relief meas
ure as ignoring the situation of the
small wage earner and carefully help
ing the wealthy, the of and NAM
asked outright repeal of the wartime
excess profits tax. The bill as passed
by the House cuts the excess profits
levy from 85.5% to 60% for 1946,
with repeal set for 1947. i
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THANKSGIVING—1945
LABOR-MANAGEMENT
PARLEY IS DRIVING
TOWARD AGREEMENT
Another committee was reported
unofficially to have reached unani
mous agreement in favor of repeal of
the Smith-Connally Act on the ground
that it has increased industrial strife
instead of reducing it. The American
Federation of Labor fought his
meausre from the beginning and has
never wavered in its opposition.
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Washington, D. C.—Substantial progress was reported by the
Labor-Management Conference seeking to minimize industrial dis- lone in the ^ar fatura
putes as committees began drafting reports on specific recommen-1
The first major agreement reported by Conference Secretary
George W. Taylor was on collective bargaining. All six conference
committees have fully accepted the principle that collective bar-Uor th.®
gaining is the primary and basic method of resolving disputes be-1
tween unions and employers. Failure of employers to accede to this
principle wrecked the labor-ma
the last war in 1919, Mr. Taylor said.
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Clarksburg, W. Va.—Vhe social held
recently by Local Union No. 99 went
over with a bang. After a delicious
turkey dinner with all the trimmings,
we were entertained by Gramdpa Lan
dis and his group of amateur enter
tainers.
The balance of the evening was
spent dancing to Henry Palmer’s fine
music. A remark heard often through
out the evening’s entertainment was
why don’t we hold these affairs more
often? The committee deserves a big
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nagement conference held after I
I, mo^jje un-t ^or x-ray examinations
The Labor-Management committee
(reported that those present at the
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last meeting were all in accord with
securing cold tablets and vitamin pills
employees, but due to Mr.
S,«wa,d being away at the
time, we will have to wait until his
... .return for the final decision.
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it was reported we can expect the
in a couple of months and the instal
|iation of the necessary equipment to
(administer the treatments of alumi-
inum therapy win folIow soon after
Mass picket lines by members of lunderwent an operation. Our best
Lodges 529 and 1557, Association of (wishes for her speedy
Machinists (AFL), had until then kept I john Fazir and “Shorty” Littleton
out of the plant W. .Gibson. Carey Jr., Iare holding top honors in the bowling
labor-hating president of the company (league v^th a tie of 252 for high
and ?ne time head of the National (game. We hear Crispino is going to
Association of Manufacturers.
militancy of the strikers, who have
won widespread community and AFL
support for their demands.
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jjOW goon they will receive an in-
tkn (crease in wages, they feel they are
Stamford, Conn. (FP).-To the ac-L behind the jn other ind
nMa/iihw ton j|tries and think it is about time some'
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consideration is shown them.
ment officials of the Yale st lowne I .__ !,
Manufacturing Co., were allowed t/ Our sympathica are extended Bro
enter the plant here for the first time lP«reBt Sargent ,n the del“h °f 1,181
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Sister Virginia Garvin is a patient
lin the Clarksburg hospital where she
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Stubborn refusal of Carey to eub-l (T»r. u, P.„ T^)
mit the dispute to arbitration or meet I
with the union has heightened the A
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Before the war Yale & Towne work- (On
ers got as little as $13 for a 40-hour
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week. During the war rates crept up I Washington (FP). Can a state
to a minimum of 50c: an hour. Loss lprohibit the closed shop or mainten
of overtime with the war s end |ance of membership agreements by
brought demands for wage increases enactment of a constitutional amend
and a closed shop from the unions, (ment
which were flatly turned down by
management
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Th., last hope of the ant.-umon,
A similar strike is underway at the «P«n 8h°P forces will get a final an
lswer soon from the u- s
Supreme
9 (Court, which agreed Nov. 13 to hear
(arguments on the question from the
(AFL and the state of Florida.
Florida adopted a constitutional
(amendment in 1944 stating that “the
■right of persons to work shall not
(be denied or abridged on account of
(membership or non-membership in any
(labor union or labor organization
■provided that this clause shall not be
(construed to deny or abridge the
(right of employes by and through a
(labor organization or labor union to
(bargain collectively with their em
ployer.”
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First Labor Relations
Schooi Opens at Cornell
New York City (ILNS).—The New
York State School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, the first institution
of its kind in the nation, will open at
Cornell University, Ithaca, Nov. 1.
There will be general and intensive
training in a 4-year course, the last
DEFENDS JOB BILL—To oppose I2 wil' ,d8v0‘e1„f°
repeated insinuations that the fufi em-1.11 intensive atudy of technical sub
ployment bill is supported only byljects needed for professional work in
“pinks and reds”, Representative I industrial and labor relations.
Wright Patman (D, Tex.) above, I Graduates will be qualified for jobs
charged that “every fascist Ameri-1 afi research specialist, analyst, eco-
FrS nomist, junior personnel managers, in-
lenger, he named names with rank I,
Gannett, founder of the Committee on dustnal relations specialists, labor
Constitutional Government, high on union representatives, and for jobs in
his list.—(Federated Pictures). (government.
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Potters Get 2 Weeks' Vacation
Unique Gavel
Presented
Local No. 76
Nominate Officers
At Next Meeting
We have a magnificent service flag
hanging in our hall in commemoration
of the boys in the service, but remem
ber our duties do not stop there.
Let's plan now to give them a real
welcome when they return.
Alphonse Weicorek, Imogene Leavey
and Esabelle Clark were apointed as
a committee to find ways and means
to raise money for the entertainment
fund. They will make their report at
our next meeting so any suggestions
you may care to offer should be turn
ed in before that time.
James Golebiewski has entered the
hospital for an operation. We wish
him a speedy recovery.
The girls in the shop have started
several bowling teams and any girl
wishing to join in the sport should
get in touch with Beatrice Hart. If
these teams measure up to the stan
dard of former years, they will be
more than a match for the male keg
lers.
Nomination of officers for the com
ing term will be held at our first
meeting in December with the election
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SIGN NEW CONTRACT
San Francisco (FP)—The joint Culi
nary Workers Council (AFL has
signed a new 5-year contract with the
Golden Gate Restaurant Association,
representing most of the large restau
rants in San Francisco, which gives a
23% raise in minimum pay.
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House Group Drafting Substitute
For Delayed Full Employment Bill
Washington, D. C.—The House Ex
penditures Committee closed nearly
seven weeks of hearings on “full em
ployment” legislation by appointing a
subcommittee of five which Chairman
Manasco “hopes” will draft some sort
of a compromise measure.
Four of the five have strongly op
posed sections of the three pending
bills, the counterpart of the one origi
nally offered in the Senate, the Sen
ate’s moderated draft and an elabora
tion of the original offered by Repre
sentative La Follette, of Indiana.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach,
apeparing at the final hearing, de
clared that some opponents of the pro
posals did not want full employment,
preferring a pool of idle labor to keep
pressure on wages, and that
contradict themselves in their
ments.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWS SERVICE
Pay, 8-Hour Day And
Female Minimum Wage Rate
The long awaited decision of the National War Labor, 1
Board regarding the controversial issues between the Na
tional Brotherhood of Operative Potters and the United’!
States Potters Association which has held the member
ship throughout the trade in suspense for the past sev
eral months was handed down this week in a War Labor*
Board directive received at Headquarters.
The case has been in the hands of the War Labors
Board since last Feburary, following the last wage con
ference at which the major issues involved were certified
to the War Labor Board when it became apparent that\x
no agreement could be reached in joint negotiations be
tween the two organizations. 1
Because of the nation-wide character of the industry,
the National War Labor Board handled the case instead
of the regional board in Cleveland which usually handles
most disputes in this area and the case was heard before fc
a special panel, comprised of one representative from in
■*dustry, one from labor and/
one from the public. Repre
sentatives from both organ-4
izations appeared before,
the panel ana presented evi
dence as to the merits of
their case.
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Buffalo, N. Y.—William Fietz,
of our newer but progressive members
presented a very unique gavel to Local
No. 76. The gavel was made from the
ties of a railroad built by the French
in 1882 when the Panama Canal first
got underway. It was made of hard
wood and has a beautiful grain. Our
president will have no trouble in
calling for order with this new gavel.
some
argu-
a ruling handed down by the
special panel, the full text of which
was printed in the July 19th issue of
the- Potters Herald, the panel’s fed-*
ommendations provided:
An eight-hour day as the stand
ard day in the industry, with time
and-a-half pay for work in excess of
eight hours.
Five cents an hour on any shift
which runs after 6 p. m.
A 55-cent an hour minimum rate
for female employees.
Two-week vacations with pay for
all employees with five years’ ser
vice or more.
These recommendations, together
with those on other issues, pertaining
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Kromeibein Heads
Brewery Workers
Cincinnati (ILNS). William J.
Kromeibein, since 1941 general corre
sponding-recording secretary of the
International Union of United Brew
ery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink
Workers of America, has been named
by the general executive board of that
organization to succeed General Presi
dent and Secretary-Treasurer Joseph
Obergfell, who died Nov. 2, as general
secretary-treasurer of the internation
al union. The office of general presi
dent was declared vacant until the
next convention of the union, sched
uled to be held in Galveston, Texas, in
September, 1946.
International Organizer Karl Feller
was named general corresponding sec
retary of the union, and Ed Hughlett,
a member of the general executive
board, general recording secretary.
Kromeibein for many years a pro
minent labor leader in Pennsylvania
before his removal to Cincinnati in
1941, resides in Cincinnati. Feller is
a native of Dayton, Ohio he was an
official of the Brewery Workers Union
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President Truman’s continued
sure for action and Secretary
son’s charge last week that he smelled
something like a filibuster against
action in the" committee appeared to
have had some effect, but not much,
Mr. Manascq said: 8
“If the issue had been brought to
a vote today the committee would
have tabled all the pending meaa*„
ures.”
On the subcommittee are Represen
tatives Manasco, chairman Cochran
and Whittington of Mississippi, Dem
ocrats, and Bender of Ohio and Hoff
man of Michigan, Republicans. Only
Mr. Cochran has supported the Presi
dent’s desires on the measure, al
though Mr. Whittington has said that
he would like to see some sort of a
compromise mMffljre.
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