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s' -A ■‘i i V 4r ,1 0 M* 2 .r 7 I* 1 Thursday, June 12, 1947 ./ A Jr Washington (LPA)—The news-1 Trint shortage, which has victim ized labor, religious and other smaller papers, exploded into a major wartime scandal last week in: 1—Congressional testimony: 2 —increasing evidences of monopoly practices in Canada and, 8—profi teering in newsprint on an unpre cedented scale. The charges of labor editors .and their publishing plants that profi teering has been the real reason why they have had to cancel is sues or reduce the number of pages were more than verified in last week’s revelations. Newsprint which had a pre-war selling price of $50-a-ton is still selling at $200-a-ton in the black market. (This charge by labor edi tors was admitted last week by the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.) The Wall Street Journal, which recalled that in the 1920-1921 news print shortage, prices went to $250 $300 a ton, declared editorially “that what the Canadians are do ing has all the earmarks of a monopoly arrangement .” More than 80% of all U. S. newsprint this year will come from Canada. The payoff for labor editors who have been subjected to price-goug ing for the past two years came last week when Samuel Galewitz, New York paper dealer, admitted iL.to a special House committee in |K Tvestigating the newsprint shortage, that he made more than $1,000,000 profit on 10,500 tons of newsprint that cost him about $800,000. Galewitz, vice-president of the Clinton Paper Co., turned a beau tiful profit when he bought a total of 10,500 tons of newsprint at $82.50 a ton and then sold it to Wm. K. Friedman, of New York, at $160 a ton. To climax the profi teering deal, Friedman sold the paper to the Miami Herald at $170 to $180 a ton. Members of the Con gressional committee were told by their counsel, however, that the Herald had paid $186 a ton. They estimated that the newsprint pro duced a profit of $103 a ton of $1, 086,750 for the lot. Justice, semi-monthly of the Int’l Ladies Garment Workers-AFL, and other labor papers were jeopardiz- I HIM n W II ttbttOOMMWW OB Wtj THE SUN SHINES—THE GROUND IS WARM it Now is the time to plant U your lawn for a lush carpet u k ing of grass this summer. 1 •f'j Here ^you wiH find the*’ Xit sentials of a fine lawn. Old English Lawn Seed LOMA—The All-Purpose ji Fertilizer JI IS u John, Greta, Betty, Jack i ?-J I 1 V A LABOR PRESS GYPPED BY PROFITEERING IN NEWSPRINT PRICING i?. .i i ft *A •J ft ‘1 WHAT’S A FASCIST? “I wouldn’t know a fascist if I had one by the tail,” s^jd Rep. Richard H. Vail (R., HL), member of the House committee on unAmerican activities, as he announced that fas cism was no menace in the U. S. It took him and another commit tee member just 10 minutes to de cide fascism wasn’t worth an inves tigation. Vail’s the man who re cently called the Taft-Hartley bill a measure “for the emancipation of the man of labor.” (Federated Pictures). ed by the Clinton deals. Francis J. Mclntee, of Consolidated Color Press Inc., of New York, which prints Justice, had previously testi fied that Galewitz at first refused to deliver paper and then billed him at the rate of $115 a ton instead of the mill price of $84 plus $3.50 trucking charge in mid-January. •‘Inquiry of Galewitz,” said Mcln tee, '“resulted in a ‘take it or leave it’ attitude. He stated that inas much as he hud customers willing to pay $200 per ton “I was un reasonable!” After Mclntee sent the Senate Committee on Small Business a letter on his plight, he testified “From that day on I haven’t received a pound of paper from Clinton except that earmark ed for specific issues and billed to my publisher customers. He just cut me off. He told me that he didn’t plan to ship me any more paper.” Galewitz, under Congressional subpoena last week, protested that his million dollar deal wasn’t “prof iteering.” Blandly he told the com mittee “A normal profit is what ever you can get whatever the market will bear.” He was told off by Rep. Brown (R,. Ohio) who charged, “You and I know that $160 a ton was an ex orbitant price, far above the regu lar going price. We think it is time the American people know who is playing the game on the up and up. I think you are not.” Why don’t they put Dunninger on Information, Please? Wanted for a Vitrified China Plant First class Mouldmaker who can block and case and take charge of Mould Shop. Good op portunity for right man. Write giving full particulars to Box 752, East Liverpool, Ohio. ACTUAL charges for 500 cOnsectU tive funerals conducted by the DAWSON Funeral Home are as follows 7' 10% Were Under $150 9% Were Under $800 50% Were Under $500 81% Were Over $500 DflWSOri Funeral Home -S0MUCH.:./onoiita^ ZU .Wot Fifth Strut Phow Mala W Senator Says Veto Certain 1 Makes Prediction 4 After Conferences. Washington (LPA Exclusive)— President Truman will definitely ignore the recommendations of a majority of his cabinet and veto the Taft-Hartley slave-labor bill. That was the flat prediction made here last week by a pro labor Senator following a confer ence with the President. “Truman has already made up his mind,” said the Senator who could not let his name be used. “And you can discount those stories about Truman going to make a ’thorough study’ of the bill as soon as it reaches him officially. He had made a thorough study of it him self even before the House or Sen ate voted on it.” The Senator who went to the White House with a dozen lengthy petitions against the bill by non labor groups thruout his state, de clared, Truman is a man who doesn’t hide his feelings e‘asily. Sometime you can get a warm reception and sometimes it’s cool. He knew what I was going to talk about and his greeting was unusually pleasant, even gay. He was definitely inter ested in the petitions. He was in terested also in my contention that Hartley didn’t know what he was talking about when he said the ma jority of labor was for the bill. And my petitions showed that there’s absolutely no basis for saying that the majority of professional and business people are for the bill.” Truman like Roosevelt has a long memory, the Senator said, and he still thinks that some labor lead ers ganged up on him last year. He hasn’t forgotten that grievance but he still considers himself a good friend of labor and said so, the Senator continued. “There’s one more thing you can put down as a fact,” the Senator declared. “Truman is paying no at tention to the Republican inspired pressure campaign which says, in effect, that he might as well go ahead and sign the bill because or ganized labor will have no where else to go in the next elections. Truman knows without our telling him that if he signs the bill and it becomes a tweedledum-tweedle dee choice between the Republicans and Democrats for labor, well, la bor will stay away from the polls by the millions and that would in sure a clean Republican sweep in Congress and a Taft or Dewey in the White House.” In the House of Representatives nearly a score of Democratic Con gressmen expressed varying de grees of hope and confidence that Truman would veto the bill. Only one House member, however, made the flat prediction that Truman would turn thumbs down. He was the veteran campaigner for labor’s cause, Rep. Adolph Sabath (D., Ill.) who has served longer in Con gress than any other man. During the closing minutes of debate, Sab ath told the crowded House, “I am certain that the President will veto this bill.”1 Make Price (Continued From Pit One) the death of Bro. Ebenezer Wilson on May 21st. He had been off work for about a year but the end came unexpectedly. Our very sin cere sympathy is extended to his wife and family. Flowers were sent from the Contingent Fund and also by those who worked with him. We are sorry to report interest at the meetings has fallen off since the main objective has *been ac hieved for another year. The ma jority of our members feel it is time something should be done about it. Perhaps a little fine for the non-attenders might tend to re lieve the situation, but we would far rather have your presence than your money. William Shingleton and Lester Watson have come to us recently from Mannington, and many new members are being welcomed each week. Milton Guhl, one of our older foremen was retired recently and Bro. Roy Gooch advanced to the foremanship. We wish them both the best we can, a happy retire ment and success in the new posi tion. During July and August you will only be able to attend meet ings twice a month, the second and fourth Friday. Please mark this change on your calendar. The time is drawing near for the election of local officers and it is most important that you do your duty. Two conferees are also elect ed every six months. The local de pends on each one of us for all its activities.—O. C. 45. Members Of 130 (Continued From Page One) and make it a full day at the picnic on Saturday, June 14th. Let’s show the picnic committee that we appreciate their efforts and that we know how to get our “enjoys” out of a picnic. Ah! even now I can smell that special “pic nic coffee” brewing over a wood fire.—0. c. 130. Output Highest Tn Tears The union committeeman, the La bor Director of the National Coal Board for the Area, and a coal face worker spoke together from the same platform along with Mr. Stan Awbery, Member of Parlia ment and chairman of the Trans port & General Workers* Group (Mr. Ernest Bevin’s union) in the House of Commons. t. “We hit our 6-day target in 4*Z days,” said Mr. Harold Heath, the union committeeman at the Whit field Pit, the fifth largest in Brit ain. “A thousand of our men saw ‘The Forgotten Factor’ last Week.” Stating that the new spirit in the mines had not only enabled the miners to exceed their target, but also to give one of the largest pro portional rises in the country. Mr. Tom Collier, Labor Director for the Area, said, “If the Coal Board would send this play round the country, their problems would be at an end. A week ago I told our peo ple that with the help of the spirit of this play the 5-day week would succeed, and that our area would give the country a lead. Now, in 5 days, more coal has come from the pits than in any other week for many years.” Hard Battle Still Ahead This is hearteninng for Prime Minister Attlee and his colleagues who had taken the courageous step of vastly improving the lot of the British miner by first decreasing the working hours and bettering conditions, while desperately need ing increased coal production to save the country. Output is defi nitely going up, but the battle is still far from won. It is a race with time as well as a struggle against nature and human nature. Next winter’s reserve coal sup plies must be increased. This week at a special meeting of the Na tional Joint Advisory Council con sisting of representatives of The British Employers Confederation and the Trade Union Congress, it was made clear that they regard ed the Government’s present target of 200,000,000 tons as too low. The task now is to maintain the new energy and teamwork—and “The Forgotten Factor” is designed for that very job. It shows how a new incentive can be a constant force in the lives of the masses in indus try, and it is doing this with great er effect than speeches or bill boards. Bitterness Of Years Healed Creating scenes unprecedented in the history of the Queen’s Hall in Burslem, where the play was given on the invitation of the National Union of Mineworkers (North Staf fordshire), thousands of miners from 21 pits crammed into every seat and corner of. the building. Union leaders, managers, colliery and Coal Board officials were there all together, with their wives end families. Typical of the entirely new "Out look which came through seeing the play, was the change in one offi cial. The union secretary said of him, “We’d fought each other for 15 years, but now we cooperate in the best way.” Asked if this had happened since he had seen “The THE POTTERS HERALD. EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO .. AA’ AA i. ■.,T London, England Mr. Harold Lockett, president of the National Union of Mineworkers (North Staffordshire Area), announced to an enthusiastic audience here in the Westminster Theater, how the idea of teamwork given in the American MRA play “The Forgot ten Factor” had proved effective in helping British miners break pro duction records during the first his toric week of the Labor Govern ment’s 5-day week. .. “Our miners produced an in crease of 6,067 tons over the pre vious week, despite the fact that they worked one day less,” he de clared amid cheers. “It is most re markable this should occur on the week after ‘The Forgotten Factor’ had been to our coalfield, when somewhere in the region of 7,COO saw the play.” ", y. z"? i'.' ....... WHAT’S SO FUNNY, JOE?—House Speaker Joseph Martin (R., Mass.), wears a big, broad grin as he signs the tax reduction bill be fore sending it on to Pres. Truman for approval. Spawned by the GOP-NAM antilabor alliance-that wrecked OP A aijd dreamed up the slave labor measure, the tax eut bill is of a similar stripe. It helps big business.—(Federated Pictures). British Midlands Miners Top Production Target In First Five-Day Week I I Forgotten Factor,” the secretary replied, “Yes, that’s since I saw the play but more so since he (the official) saw it.” The union secretary’s son had transferred to another pit because he could not get along with the official. Now the official is so changed that the son asked for a transfer back again! Cast Guest Of Miners The miners and colliery officials climaxed the week by having the cast of “Forgotten Factor” as their guests at a special reception. Sup per was prepared and served by the wives of the branch secretaries and managers. Fourteen secretaries of the Miners’ Union were present. Replying to the miners on be half of the cast, Dr. Paul Campbell of Detroit said, “This is the hap piest week I have spent since com ing to Britain a year ago. I have felt within these 5 days that there is hope for this country. People are going short for food today because there is a shortage of caring. “Dr. Buchman, whose work in spired this play you have just seen, says, ‘if everybody cares enough, and everybody shares enough, then everybody will have enough.’ That is the economics of the heart and you have it here. I believe we in this city are on the point of des tiny. We can produce the evidence that can shake the country and the world.” AFL Seafarers Seek Coast Guard Ouster Washington (LPA)—The Seafar ers Int’l Union-A FL last week pre sented Congressional testimony as sailing proposals to extend the con trol of the Coast Guard over mer chant seamen. The SIU’s 90,000 members, who fell under the CG’s jurisdiction during wartime, attacked pending legislation which would empower CG officials to serve as judge and jury in the cases of merchant sea men charged with infractions of regulations. The SIU told Congress that with the end of the war the Navy re turned the Coast Guard to the Treasury Dep’t but the CG refused to turn the Merchant Marine back to the Commerce Dep’t. “There is a very good reason for this attitude,” declared the SIU. During the war, the CG be came top heavy with admirals, cap tains, commanders, and lieutenant commanders. Some of these people are desirous of holding on to their positions, knowing full well they could not get comparable salaries and conditions in civilian life as they receive by being officers in the CG. “More brass in the CG means that they must find some excuse to justify keeping these officers in the service. All this means that the taxpayers will be required to spend unnecessary millions of dollars because not only are these extra officers required, but likewise a full office force must be main tained, such as stenographers and clerks, all of which has heretofore been handled by the Commerce Dep’t at a fraction of what it would cost if the CG took over.” I Our failure to' write’more per sonal letters is due to embarrass ment because our life is so dull— You Can See the Cream ALWAYS USE CREAM TOP Milk Bottles THEY ARE SANITARY Used Exclusively By Golden Stor Dairy Phone 3200 A -7, -r.i Comment On World Events The problem of how to stop Russian Communist aggression is again sharply to the fore as a re sult of the seizure of power in Hungary by a Communist-controll ed government. Basic to checking Communism’s spread is a strong and democratic Germany, a fact re peatedly pointed out in this col umn. Germany’s vital importance in the building of a dam against fur ther Communist advance is set forth in a cogent article by Matt hew Woll, American Federation of Labor vice president and chairman of the AFL International Labor Relations Committee. In a new fea ture starting in the International Free Trade Union News, published by the AFL Free Trade Union Committee, Woll does a fine job of analyzing the key question in world reconstruction—Germany. Woll declares there can be no economic stability in the Western world with the economic recon struction of that part of Europe which has not been over-run by the Russians. “The key to such re construction is the rebuilding of the economy and productive capac ity of Germany,” he says. “Whether a sound approach to Germany’s economic problem will be applied depends primarily on the United States,” Woll empha sizes. “In her present economic plight,” he continues, “Great Brit ain is in no position to bike the inititative. It is high time we real ized that it is in America’s own economic and political interest to achieve the economic reconstruc tion of Germany and Europe. There is no other way to stop the engulf ing tide of totalitarian Commun ism.” Furthermore, Woll points to the all-important fact that “the eco nomic recovery of W’estern and Central Europe is most vital to the prevention of a serious depres sion in the United States.” “A program for the economic re construction of Germany, to be sound, must be based on the prin ciple that this rebuilding shall be done by the Germans themselves and under German leadership,” Woll continues. “Any other ap proach would inevitably mean a struggle between conflicting for eign influences and interests with in the German economy. Such a struggle would prevent rather than promote the reconstruction of Eu rope, and would deeply discourage the German people, who cannot be expected to approve or accept for long a quasi-colonial status.” Woll comes out strongly for an independent democratic government in the part of Germany not oc cupied by the Russians. “The best way to counteract Russian maneuvers,” he says, “the most effective way to insure the necessary economic recovery of Germany and to develop a demo cratic Germany (which will be ca pable of resisting the virus of Communism or any other totalitar ianism) is to take immediate steps for the establishment of a sov ereign German state in the present western zones. “The constitution of this Ger man state should be decided upon by the German people themselves. All attempts to impose upon the German people a solution of the is sue of federalism versus central ism in this state structure should be abandoned and unsound and un democratic. Woll hails the recent action of the American Military Government in revising its policy to provide that the German people should be given primary responsibility for running their own affairs, “in ord er that they may practice and, thereby, learn democracy.” UNION WAR DEAD HONORED New York City (ILNS).—Five hundred members of Knitgoods workers Union, Local 155, Inter national Ladies’ Garment Workers* Union, attended ceremonies at Cooper Union for the unveiling of a plaque in honor of 10 members of the local killed during the war. An Army honor guard from Gov ernors Island was present. The plaque will be placed at the local’s headquarters in Brooklyn. Please don’t rest your weight on my shoulder—I may tumble. Demand For Union Products Relied Upon To Aid Future Progress Of Labor's Cause Organized labor in America, in the face of legislative crimps in its pattern of progress, appears to be turning more and more to coopera tive efforts. The prime basis of cooperation between union members is the in sistent demand by one and all for union-made products and union services of all kinds—including, of course, services in the service trades and in the building trades. This movement is now growing generally among all organized la bor, and several unions—like the AFL’s United Hatters—for one ex ample are spending substantial sums on educational campaigns. Spearhead! z the drive, however, is the Union Label Trades Depart ment of the American Federation of I^abor, under the leadership of I. M. Omburo, and the depart ment’s bartered Label League* in many e n munities, and the various state and city central labor bodies. It is pointed out that about a third of all wage earners are union members and, if these members and their families would always demand union products and union services of all kinds, wk'never making a purchase or ha.. .g a service performed, the effect could be quite helpful to all of organ ized labor. As one 1 al example, wk' could be duplicated in other curn muniti*s, there are in Washington, D. C., metropolitan area about 175 labor organizations, with near ly 200,000 member'. These irfn •ers and their families, it is Fa id, constitute about half of the total population of the Washington area. But, most important, these union members and their families earn and spend over $10,000,000 every week in the Washington area! If all of these peopple would insist upon union-made products and union services of all kinds, ac cepting no substitutes, it is quite evident that this great economic in fluence could be of far-reaching value to the entire labor movement. Slogans Help Drive So, in local communities and na tionally, the educational drive in behalf of union label products and union services is now gaining mo mentum. Aside from the presenta tion of favorable facts to union members, to the general public, to employers in all lines and to mer chants generally, many slogans— most of them originating with the AFL’s Union Label Trades Depart ment—are becoming more familiar —and more meaningful. These include such n s: Buy PAGE FIVB 7PW V. POKED PICKET Accused of hitting a striking member of the Retail Clerks Int’l. Assn. (AFL) while crossing a picketline outside the Los Angeles department store where he’s employed as a minor executive, John Roosevelt, son of FDR, appears at the city attorney’s office. The poked picket wants him charged with assault and battery. —(Federated Pictures). GARMENT WORKERS GET RAISE Boston.—A “first” contract has just been signed here between em ployes of the Warhauser and Frank Co. and members of the In ternational Ladies’ Garment Work ers’ Union (AFL). Across-the board wage increases of 10 percent have been won, a health and vaca tion fund, a standardized work w»-ek, and fringe increases to elimi nate inequities due to the section work system. Uni-r as you get paid Union! and, “Practice what you prea h, de- 5 mand union goods and union serv ives if you desire union wages.” Litera’ly scores of si slogans have came to my attention, but I’lli quote just one more. It ns a play'd on the “Golden Rule” and seems to fit. This is it: “Buy union made\ good and services from others, as* you would have others pay union wages unto you.” RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Whereas, Almighty God in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to take from our midst our friend and fellow worker, Brother Willard Gamble, respected and admired for his fellowship and character, and W’hereas, We, the members of Local Union 144, Cam bridge, Ohio, recognize the loss of this brother and shall cherish and respect the memory of his pleasant manner and as evidence of sympathy and esteem, it is hereby further, Resolved, That we extend our profound sympathy to his family, a copy of this resolution be published in our official journal, The Potters Herald, a copy spread upon the minutes of the Local and a copy sent to the bereaved family. Also that our charter be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days. FRANK CLARK, Recording Secretary, Local Union No. 144. 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