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Thursday, March 6, 1947 Management Can Provide Job Security, Business s Cycle Authority Declares Boston (ILNS). “Guaranteed ^vages may become the battle cry labor in this generation, as the eight-hour day was in the last,” Prof. Joseph L. Snider of the Har vard I)uri:.ess School said here. “Althbugh the guarantee of work and wages has become an impor tant management issue, the great majority of business managers have not given it the attention it deserves,” he added. Prof. Snider called for a “mental readjustment” among businessmen which would involve a “willingness to study the issue aiid to develop a conviction that they must do everything pos sible to increase the regularity of wages.” Declares Plan Feasible Prof. Snider’s conclusions, re sult of two years’ research, have just been published by the Har vard Graduate School of fusiness Administration in a study of “The Guarantee of Work and Wages.” Snider is an authority on the busi ness cycle. His study covers guaranteed OBITUARIES U ELMER L. McCOWAN 'Sebring, Ohio Elmer L. Mc owan, 54, of West Oregon Ave nue, a jiggerman at the French- Saxon Company, died Feb. 25 in the Alliance City Hospital, follow ing an illness of one week. Mr. McCowan was born in Negley March 5, 1893, and resided in Sebring for the past several years. He was affiliated with Local Union 44, National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. He is survived by his wife, Annie McCowan of the home a sister, Mrs. Mamie Straley of Youngstown and three brothers, Richard McCowan of Akron and Henry and Carl Hirch of Detroit, Mich. Funeral services were held from the home by Rev. Paul D. Magnu son, pastor of the Church of Christ. Burial was in Grandview Cemetery. JOSEPH BAKER Richmond, Calif.—Joseph Baker, 64, died Feb. 18 at his home, 521 Eighteenth street, after an ex tended illness. He a native of Stafford sfcfre, England and a sanitary presser by trade, having worked in Kokomo, Ind., for several years., He came to California ‘^?,go and worked in the Standard bufiitary plant here. 25 years He was a member of Local 'Union 89, National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, Richmond Dem ocratic Club, Richmond Lawn Bowling Club, Sons of St. George and St. Edmunds Episcopal Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. V Georgiana Baker a daughter, Mrs. Blanche Martin of Oakland, and two sons, Joseph of Berkley, and William of Richmond, Calif. Funeral services were held from St. Edmunds Episcopal Church with Rev. Karl Markgraf, rector of Holy Trinity Parish, officiating. Burial was in Sunset View Ceme tery. WILLIAM S. GRIMM William S. Grimm, retired pot ter and veteran of World War I, died Mar. 3 in the U. S. Veterans’ Hospital,at Aspinwall, Pa., follow ing a two-year illness. Mr. Grimm, a kilnfireman by trade, retired about two years ago. He was employed last by the New Castle Refractories Co. in Newell, and affiliated with Local Union No. 16, National Brotherhood of Op erative Potters. He served over seas as a member of the 36th Division in World War I. He was a member of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars and the ■^Toose Lodge. Mr. Grimm leaves three sons, Raymond Lee Grimm, Louis Ed ward Grimm, and Virgil Manford Grimm, all of Newell a brother, Salem Grimm, also of Newell three sisters, Mrs. Icie Postleth wait and Mrs. Esther Vaughn of Paden City, W. Va., and Mrs. Alice Precker of, Cleveland, and two grandchildren. The rites were held in the Amer Funeral Home by Rev. Paul F. Obenauf, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Military rites were conducts by the Joint Burial group of district veterans in Lo cust Hill Cemetery. JOHN HENRY TASKER John Henry Tasker, 70, retired spotter, died Mar. 2 in his home, 1751 Dresden avenue, following a long illness. Mr. Tasker was born in East Liverpool and spent his lifetime here. He was a dipper and was em ployed last by the Edwin M. Knowles China Co. He was a mem ber of Local Union 18, National Brotherhood of Operative Potters. He leaves a son, Henry A. Tasker, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Chandler of East Liverpool a sis ter, Mrs. Lou Mosser of Cleveland a lialf-brother, George Tasker of East Liverpool, and a step-daugh- s* wage plans used with varying de grees of success in companies in Cincinnati, Chicago, Worcester, Mass., Milwaukee, Newark, Calif., Decatur, lli., and Troy, N. Y. As the possibilities of the guaranteed annual wage, Prof. Snider concluded: “The managers of American business in general will find that they could easily provide a con siderable degree of employment security. To be sure, most com panies will discover that a wage guarantee of 52 full-time weeks a year to all employees is not pos sible for them. But most com panies will also discover that it would be financially sound for them to offer a guarantee of a considerable number of hours dur ing the year to a considerable pro portion of their employees.” Enthusiasm Held Needed Any guaranteed wage plan to be successful must not guarantee more than the company can give, Snider warned, but on the other hand it must not guarantee less than is judged worth while by the recipients of the plan. An exceed ingly low guarantee, he pointed out, may unsettle rather than re assure the workers. Additional requirements needed in inaugurating a plan successful ly, Snider suggested, are adequate escape clauses which would modify the guarantee if conditions of un bearable financial strain develop, an enthusiasm for the plan on the part of the employer and employee, and a mutual willingness on both sides to compromise for the com mon good. Benefits Seen Widespread “The presence of a guarantee plan has stimulated the manage ment to develop more efficient op erating practices in particular, to achieve greater stability of opera tions,” Snider reports, “and this in turn has brought additional bene fits not only to the company and the workers, but also to suppliers, customers and the community.” Rail Maintenance Union Names Carroll President Detroit. Thomas C. Carroll, whose father and grandfather served as section foremen on the Southern Railroad, and who fol lowed in their footsteps, was elected international president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees at a meeting here in which all grand lodge officers and general chairmen of the Brotherhood from the United States, Canada and Newfoundland participated. He succeeds Elmer E. Milliman, who died suddenly on December 31 while being operated upon for a kidney ailment. His term will run to the next convention in June, 1949. A dramatic sidelight is that Car roll was born in a section house at Donalds, S. C., where his father was a section foreman on the Southern. After graduating from high school, he worked in several crafts on the railroads before shifting to the maintenance of way department. Rail Leaders (Continued From Page One) savings workers accumulated dur ing the war have been depleted. “There must either be an imme diate and substantial reduction in prices which are artificially high, or else workers will find them selves compelled to demand higher wages to maintain purchasing power,” they declared. “If purchasing power is not re stored and if more and more con sumers continue to be driven out of the market by high prices, the result will be a curtailment of production and sharp unemploy ment.” Mr. Harrison presented a writ ten analysis which underlined the issue raised in the discussion. For one thing, it cited official govern ment reports showing that savings, which had been relied upon to bolster the post-war small frac tion of the nation’s high-income families. Buying power of these families can’t maintain “high pro duction and employment.” Furthermore, his analysis stress ed the fact that such price declines as have occurred have been large ly in furs, diamonds and jewelry. “That’s scant comfort for the working people,” Harrison empha sized. He pointed out also that busi ness generally “stole a march on the rest of the community” by raising prices last year far more than enough to cover wage in creases. ter, Leona Mae Tasker of East Liverpool, and two grandchildren. Rites p. m. in by Rev. tor of Church. Grove Cemetery. were held Tuesday at 2 the Martin Funeral Home Frederick T. Gillette, rec St. Stephen’s Episcopal Burial was in Spring City, State- (Continued From Pege OtteJ^ paying teachers decent wages so that they will not be compelled to strike. “A primary responsibility of boards of education is to work out such a program of school financing that teachers may be paid salaries commensurate with their costly university training, their highly skilled work and their value to their community. “Failure of boards of education to -provide adequate salaries for teachers is a fundamental failure of a public agency, and any board which forces teachers to take such drastic action as to strike is seri ously negligent of a public trust. “Frankly, we wonder what is the future of a nation which spends eight times as much on three luxuries—liquor, tobacco and horse-racing—as it spends on edu cation, and then constantly refuses to pay adequate salaries for the education of its children. Buffalo is one of the richest cities in one of the richest states in the nation, and yet we find public school teach ers compelled to strike for an ade quate living wage. “Teachers in New York State, as in many other states, are caught between restrictive legisla tion at both local and state levels so that additional funds are not immediately available to grant sal ary increases which, however, are justly deserved. “The State Legislature has a large part of the responsibility for the strikes because of existing laws which do not provide ade quate state aid and at the same time do not permit local communi ties to raise sufficient funds to pay adequate salaries to teachers and to provide adequate educa tional facilities. Thus, teachers are caught between Scylla, on one hand, and Charybdis on the other. “In a large sense, the teachers of the nation are in part responsi ble for the sad plight of the na tion’s schools. The teachers, over the years, have not been organized in sufficient strength to demand adequate salaries and to protect the schools. The school children have paid a heavy price for the lack of organization on the part of their teachers. “At the beginning of World War II, the American Federation of Labor issued an over-all educa tional program for which affiliat ed unions were urged to press dur ing the war period. This program anticipated the crisis which now faces American education and which advocated better salaries, tenure of office and retirement pro visions. Had the teachers of the nation been adequately organized to carry out this program the pres ent crisis would not have develop ed, and the teachers of Buffalo, St. Paul and other cities would never have been compelled to re sort to strikes.” WHAT NEXT? Successful experiments in tracing schools of herring by means of echo sounding have re cently been made off Sweden’s east coast. Two submarines par ticipated in the search. On the first day on which the method was tried, a fishing boat caught almost 2,000 pounds of herring near the place where the echo sounding apparatus had indi cated the presence of a school. Even schools of fish hiding in depressions in the sea bottom at a depth of up to 1,500 feet were traced. Experiments have also been made on the west coast where a mine sweeper, equipped with periphone and echo sound ing apparatus, has made a sim ilar successful search for her ring. Demand the Union Label. ....... Apprenticethip Programs and Participating Establishments comtmugtim NOMCONSTRUCTION to 10 0 MC. 1, IMS ltC.SI.lM4 PROGRAMS Washington, D. C.—Apprentice ship programs throughout Ameri can industry reached an all-time high in 1946, totalling 16,574, or nearly three times the number at the end of 1945. During the year the number of establishments par ticipating in such programs in creased to 78,753, over 2% times the number in 1945. Apprenticeship programs in the construction industry underwent phenomenal growth, rising 245 per cent. Over 44,940 construction con tractors are now participating in programs. Over 96 per cent of the 44,940 More ’Cubs’ In -5 Building Trades i Washington, D. C.—In spite of a seasonal decline in construction, the number of apprentices in the building trades is increasing, the Apprentice-Training Service, U. S. Department of Labor, announced. The number of construction train ees increased three per cent be tween December and January, al though expenditures for new Cffn struction were lower. 2 At the end of January 91,093 apprentices were recorded, as against 88,347 at the dose of De cember. Reasons for the increase in the off season, given by ATS, were as follows: (1) Service of apprentices is required to complete construction begun earlier in the year (2) Alteration, maintenance and repair work is giving employ ment to many new apprentices (3) Contractors and unions, wi^h an eye on the approaching build ing season, are determined to pro vide an adequate work force by employing and training more ap prentices now. A break-down of the apprentices listed in January follows: Woodworking 34,912 Ehctrical 13,912 Pipe Trades ................ 13,322 Trowel Trades 11,186 Painting 7,409 Sheet Metal 6,449 Others 3,9031 _____________ t: Everybody would like to turn the clock back a couple of decades. Dr. A. A. 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A large percentage of these companies are participating in area-wide programs, while the bal ance have independent programs under which only the apprentices in their own plants are trained. Plants Promised (Continued From Page One) switched to standby oil equipment or artificial gas when the first the recurring cold waves struck February. of in I Demand the Union LabeL L. U. No. 59 "False Face” Bill Would Hit Laws Protecting Labor Washington. Enemies of or ganized labor continue their battle to cripple unions with hostile legis lation. They won one skirmish this week when the House Judiciary Committee always anti-labor reported out a bill introduced by Congressman John W. Gwynne (Rep., Iowa). This measure would narrowly restrict workers’ right to sue em ployers for “portal-to-portal” pay. It would practically nullify the re cent Supreme Court decision up holding that right, under certain conditions. The portal pay ban, however, is merely a false face, behind which hide far more dangerous provi sions of the Gwynne bill. These would nullify the Wage-Hour Act, Walsh-Healey Act and Bacon Davis Act, three laws now provid ing vital protection for workers. Extracts Laws’ Teeth If the bill passes, any employer could avoid punishment under these laws by claiming he acted “in good faith” when he chiseled on wages, hours or forced em ployees to “kick back” part of their pay. The laws’ “teeth” would be further drawn by banning law suits against employers, unless workers begin the suits within one year. At present, a convicted em ployer has to pay twice the amount of money he Under the Gwynne bill, could recover no more amount out of which cheated. FOR PRESIDENT (Vote for One) DUFFY, JAMES BL (Turner) L. U. No. 76 WHIPPLER, NORMAN (Liner) FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER (Vote for One) JORDAN, CHAS. F. (Kilnnian) FOR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT (Vote fui" One) FINLAY. LARRY (Jiggerman) SANDERS, A. J. (Kilnnian) L. U. No. 42 FOR FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) ZIMMERS, CHARLES (Sanitary Caster) chiseled, a worker than the he was Cheaters Can’t Lose In short, employers would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by violating these labor-pro tective laws. We’re saving evtrything now, except broken shoe laces. Sebring, Ohio McGILLIVRAY, FRED (Handler) L. U. No. 10 East Liverpool, Ohio L. U. No. 12 East Liverpool, Ohio WHEATLEY, E. L. (Kilnnian) L. U. No. 9 East Liverpool, Ohio FOR SECOND VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) GARNER, WILLARD (Handler) L. U. No. 10 East Liverpool, Ohio HULL, FRANK (Decorating Kilnnian) L. U. No. 124 East Liverpool, Ohio FOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) FLESCH, NICK (Handler) L. U. No. 16 East SLAVEN, JAMES (Liner) L. U. No. 124 Liverpool, Ohio Liverpool, Ohio .East Salem, Ohio L. U. No. 45 Trenton, N. J. FOR FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) NEWBON, GEORGE H. (Kilnnian) L, U. No. 35 Trenton, N. J. FOR SIXTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for Oue) DIGMAN, GUY (Jiggerman) L. U. No. 12 East Liverpool, Ohio HAMILTON, JOHN W. (Jiggerman) L. U. No. 44 Sebring, Ohio TURNER, GEORGE (Caster) L. U. No. 4 East Liverpool, Ohio FOR SEVENTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) ARMSTRONG, E. C. (Decorating Kilnnian) L. U. No. 121 East Liveriool, Ohio BROWN, LAWRENCE E. (Kilnnian) L. U. No. 9 East Liverpool, Ohio CAMPBELL, FRANK (Jiggerman) J.T U. Np. 122 Cambridge, Ohio THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL,' OHIO• is' Wholesale Food Costs At Post-War Peak Due To Weather, Other Factors Washington, D. C.—Unions ne gotiating wage increases this month have found some support for their requests in the official report of the Labor Department’s report that wholesale food prices have jumped two per cent from January to February. Although retail food prices do not climb quite as rapidly as wholesale costs, some of the eco nomic developments which caused this increase in foods at whole sale, AFL experts analyzing the report said, will also affect the price workers must pay. First, the widespread freeze in southern states has destroyed food crops workers throughout the northeast depend on these crops for an important part of their fresh fruits and vegetables. Prices of fruits and vegetables coming from the south will be higher. Secondly, famine abroad has made it essential to increase wheat shipments from this country, and this has raised the price of wheat. These two developments probably brought somewhat higher food costs for workers in February. The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the report declaring wholesale prices hit a new post-war peak in the week ended February 15, reaching 143.1 per cent of the 1926 price average, said. SAMPLE BALLOT The following is a replica of the official ballot for primary election of National Officers and Dele gates to the American Federation of Labor Convention, which in accordance with law, must be printed in each issue of the Potters Herald during the entire voting period of the primary election. Buffalo, N. Y. L. U. No. 124 East Liverpool, Ohio DESMOND. T. J. (Dipper) L. U. No. 76 Minerva, Ohio DAILEY, HUGH (Decorating Kilnnian) L. U. No. 192 .Sebring, Ohio NEWTON, CHARLES (Glaze Maker) I- U. No. 59 Sebring, Ohio PODEWELS, HARRY L. (Jiggerman) L. U. No. 12 ..... East Liverpool, Ohio FOR EIGHTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) ADAMS, JAMES (Kilnnian) U U. No. 9 East BRINDLEY, HARRY (Dish Maker) L. U. No. 29 ... East CHADWICK, JOSHUA (Jiggennan) L. U. No. 12 East JIV1DEN. FLOYD (Kiln Fireman) SULLIVAN. J. I. (Caster) L. U. No. 70 EDIE. GODFREY (Turner) L. U. No. 44 FERBER. ARTHUR (Caster) PAGE FIVE At that level, its wholesale price index stood 1.6 per cent higher than in mid-January this year, 33.5 per cent higher than the cor responding week a year ago, 66.4 per cent above 1937 and exactly 50 per cent above 1929. The agency said the rise during the week was principally due to higher prices for agricultural com modities, led by grain, livestock, poultry, fruits and vegetables, and cotton. The wholesale index is comput ed from prices for more than 500 commodities. We are equipped render complete Funer al and Ambiance Ser vice, Promptly. MARTIN Funeral Home 145 W. Fifth St PHONE 365 Ohio md IF. Fe. Lieomo MOULDMAKER WHO CAN MODEL, BLOCK, AND CASE SANITARY WARE. EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR RIGHT MAN. ADDRESS: MOULDMAK ER, BOX 752, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO. Liverpool, Ohio Liverpool, Ohio Liverpool, Ohio L. U. No. 136 ........East Liverpool, Ohio .Sebring, Ohio WARD, JAMES (Warehouseman) L. L. No. 86 .....East Liverpool, Ohio OR DELEGATES TO A. F. L. CONVENTIOI (Vote for One West of the Allegheny Mountains) BEVAN. DAVID (Caster) L. U. No. 99 (West) Clarksburg, W. Va. BERRY. WILLIAM (Decorating Kilnnian) L. U. No. 192 (West) Sebring, Ohio BROADBENT, ROY (Kilnman) (West) East Liverpool, Ohio U. No. 9... DUFFY. FRANK L. U. No. 10.. DALE, OSCAR (Kilnnian) K U. No. 76 EDWARDS, ABE (Caster) (Turner) (West) East Liverpool, Ohio Buffalo, N. Y. (West) Minerva, Ohio (West) Sebring, Ohio (West) U U. No. 122 (West) Cambridge, Ohio GRIMM. GEORGE C. (Jiggemian) L. U. No. 6 (West) Wheeling, W. Va. LANNING, GEORGE N. (Jiggennan) K U. No. 12 (West) East Liverpool, Ohio O’DOWD. JOHN (Handler) L. U. No. 113 (West) Los Angeles, Calif. RAWLINGS. C. T. (Kiln Fireman) L. U. No. 51 (West) Canonsburg, I’a. SULLIVAN. O. L. (Kilmiian) L. U. No. 201 (West) Huntington Park, Calif. THOMPSON. JOHN L. (Kilnman) L. U. No. 116 (West) Lincoln, 111. WILLIAMS, HAROLD (liecorator) L. U. No. 124 (West) East Liverpool, Ohio (Vote for One East of the Allegheny Mountains) BAKER. ALBERT (Liner) L. U. No. 35 (East) Princeton, N. J. BLUM. WALTER (Assembler in Shipping Dept.) L. U. No. 49 (East) Trenton, N. J. SIMPSON, JOHN (Sanitary Caster) L. U. No. 45 (East) Trenton, N. J.