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VOL. ffj, NO. 25
Three apprentices have started
'in the clay shop recently. Wayland
Ramage on a jigger, Willard Rowe,
^handling, and Earl Burson, mould
^making.
Dan Killenger and Albert Reed,
jiggermen, are on sick leave.
Due to a change of heart on the
part of the management or pres
sure from some source, another en
trance is being opened to plant No.
1. This was a controversial issue
last spring. Now it looks as if our
Efforts to reduce the traffic haz
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Charge Company
Uses Thugs To
fight Strikers
Baltimore (LPA) Charges
that “armed company thugs are
now taking over the jurisdiction of
the Baltimore city police” were
made to Maryland’s Gov. Lane last
week as the strike of shipyard
workers here against Bethlehem
Steel neared the end of its fourth
month.
Lane was asked to investigate
the arrests of peaceful pickets on
assault charges. Other pickets were
arrested on charges of inciting to
riot. More than 6000 members of
the Industrial Union of Marine &
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Sailors Union Negotiates
Contract With Closed She
Despite Taft-Hartley law
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(By N. B. O. P. Delecatea)
San Francisco—(ILNS)—Harry Lundeberg, president
of the Seafarers International Union, AFL, this week show
ed how to negotiate a closed-shop and union-hiring-hall con
tract despite the hurdles set up by the Taft-Hartley Act.
In addition, Lundeberg negotiated for the Sailors Union
of the Pacific wage increases (ranging from 8 per cent to 25
per cent and 22 other clauses! representing gains in working
conditions.
Taft App
Much importance from a
Retirement
Plan Aired
At Meeting
Cambridge PotteYS
Show Keen Interest
(Cambridge, Ohio At our last
meeting on October 8th business
was speedily handled until the re
port of the committee on ideas for
«the retirement plan. Then, as the
ideas were read, the members pres
ent came to their feet one after
^another to offer their suggestions
and drew out the meeting to con
siderable length. Rarely does one
see such red hot interest shown
in a new venture.
Two applications for membership
and one reinstatement were read.
jTwo members were suspended for
nonpayment of dues.
■i A letter from the managemoHt ef
«the cafeteria was read urgiM. «m-
^Legionnaire’s Commander Warns
Against Soviets' Expansionist Plan
Cl (By N. B. O. P. Delegate)
San Francisco—James F. O’Neil,
National Commander of the Ameri
can Legion, warned that Commun
ism is “the most virulent threat
ever faced” by this nation.
Speaking before the AFL conven
tion in session here, Mr. O’Neil
charged that Russia “has worked
out a master plan for the expan
sion of Communism that has over
looked no front on which the Am
erican people and every other free
nation can be attacked.”
O’Neil pyaised American labor
^Fyjor providing the munitions and
'^materials of war with which our
gallant forces won brilliant mili
tary victories.
“We have won a military vic
tory,” he said, “but we have not
i won the peace. There is no peace.”
“Freedom is still a mocking myth
to most of the people of this post
war world. Freedom is again under
attack throughout the world. It is
not safe here because an attack on
freedom anywhere on this shrink
ing globe today is a direct threat
to our own liberties. Our free world
is shrinking, month by month, be
fore our eyes.
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Erwin, Tenn.—Local Union 103
held their customary session in the e __
Clinchfield Y. M. C. A. building
with all officers present except
treasurer Bill Campbell who is do-
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national viewpoint is attached
*to the fact that Senator .Robert A.
Taft approved the terms of the con- I
tract. He said it did not violate the I ILPA MEETS—The 36th annual banquet of the inti. Labor Press
terms of the act. It is also signi- I San Francisco’s St. Francis Hotel. Sitting (1. to r.) are Pres. George
ficant that the shipowners on the I Clerks, ILPA Pres. Matthew Woll, ILPA 1st Vice Pres.
Pacific Coast joined with Lunde-1 Martel. Standing are ILPA Sec.
berg in demanding a closed shop I ZantskM of the United Hatters Cap
contract and a union hiring, hall. I 4
Behind the action of Senator Taft IT go V
and the shipowners is a desire to It ©f w^Q|JITw I
join with the SUP in keeping Com- I A Aa
munists out of West Coast ship- IKill5"u
ping. Senator Taft was told Qiat
the Taft-Hartley law makes it.an
The convention action gave the
(Executive Council authority to
(make assessments on affiliated
(unions at the rate of 1 cent
(member per week for a period
(in excess of-26 weeks in any
(year “when the. interests of
In the absence of the chairman |of advancing prices can be found in
of the shop committee who is also |the unprecedented profits of our
working on the night shift, Bro. (great corporations.
John McFadden did a little pinch- Bro. Dave Bevan made a report
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(tee was instructed to canvass the
(shop for funds.
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unfair labor practice for an im- i
ployer to refuse to employ a non- i gan Francisco—The AFL conven
union man, even if he is a Com- Ljon by unanimous vote, increased
mumst. The only way to keep Com- Lbe per capita tax paid by affiliat
munists out was to make it pos- led unions to the American Federa
sible for the Seamen’s Union to po- Lion of Labor and modified the
lice the situation. And both Senator (Executive Council’s power to levy
Taft and the shipowners had con- (assessments by extending the per
fidence in the ability of Lundeberg liod of time within which such a8
and his seamen to do the job. 7 Isessments may be made.
Old Wording Changed I Under the new amendment to the
Of course, the wording of the old IaFL’s constitution the per capita
union shop contract was changed ltax ig established at a flat 3 cents
to make it legal. The old contract I per member per month. This is an
provided that only members of the (increase over the old, base rate and
SUP could be employed. The new Ls payable on a union’s entire mem
contract, just signed, provides that |bership. Under the old tax struc
employiWHtlbe ieWn |fure the rate deereaaed.to Vi ce^ts
to-Mflbra who have worired with |per month for all members of any
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(excess of 200,000.’
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AFL require it,” and when
(capita tax funds are insufficient.
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ing a two-week hitch on right turn.
Bro. F. J. Saunders, delegate to Clarksburg, W. Va.—Bro. Augie
the state federation of labor called (Mazzie gave a “very interesting re
to the attention of the members, (port of the proceedings of the West
the records of Senators McKellar (Virginia State Federation of Labor
and Stewart, who, seem to take (convention at the last meeting of
pride in boasting as friends of the (Local Union 99. The state body
laboring men, but always come (flayed the enemies of labor and
through with their vote to shackle (called for immediate political ac
all labor when any anti-labor bills (tion to oust those men indorsed by
comes before the senate. His re- (labor who failed to come through
marks were straight from the (with their support when the chips
shoulder and I feel sure will be (were down. The report also dealt
remembered by the members when (with the ever increasing eost of liv
the time comes for re-election. (ing and stressed the real causes
whOD
Work in the lining department
(has increased to the extent that it
(has become necessary to put on six
(apprentice liners.
“Already the world has been split It seems as though the bragging
in two. One half is now enslaved, |of Tommy Ward when it comes to
the other is yet free. Communist (topping the maples bore fruit, judg
agents throughout the world, tak- (ing by the 219 and 233 scores of
ing their orders from Moscow, are (last week.
trying to seize control of govern-1 Bro. Ed Davis and Sister Oval
ments and make them subject to (deavenger were reported on the
the will of the Kremlin. Their (sick list. Ed. is a patient in St.
agents are busy right in our midst (Mary’s Hospital while Alva is con
here in America. (valescing at home. A visit to the
“The American Legion at its 29th (shut-ins would be appreciated.
national convention in New York The Local’s sympathies are ex
City pledged itself to an all-out (tended Sister Hattiq Lash in the
effort to stamp out Communism in (death of her husband and Gladys
the United States. I am happy in- |Cook in the death of her mother,
deed, that in the patriotic endeavor The girls at the plant are very
the American Legion can count on (disappointed in the interest being
the 100 percent support and mili- (shown in the bowling league. The
tant backing of the American Fed- |gals bowl every Thursday evening
eration of Labor! (at 7:00 p. m. on the Gore alleys,
“All Americans must stick to- |but to date only half the number
gether to repeal the present threat |who signed up at the start have
of expanding Communism. It is the (made their appearance at the al
most virulent threat ever faced by (leys. A little more interest must
our people. It is far more danger- |be shown or the league will have
ous than Nazism, Fascism and Nip- (to disband.
ponism combined, because more A shop committee report wound
fiendish cunning is to be found ih |UP the business of the evening
the long-range planning of the (with the report showing the com
Kremlin dictators than Hitler, Mus- |mittee are on their toes and ever
solini and Tojo were capable of,
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all I ready to take up* any legitimate
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Labor Papers
Facing New
Price Gouge
Increases Range 4
$5 To $10 A Ton
Washington—(LPA)—Labor edi
tors and the publishers of religious,
fraternal and other smaller papers
who were victimised thru the war
years and after by exorbitant black
market prices on newsprint are due
to get it in the neck again.
New price increases ranging from
$5 to $10 a to are on the way.
These will be piled on the $6 a ton
added last jBpring. As in the
Uutge daily newspaper and maga
zine publishers will get off light
est—getting both discounts and
lower tonnage rates because of the
size of their purchases.
That the new price hikes are in
evitable was admitted last week
both by industry spokesmen and
Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R., Ohio),
chairman of the House Newsprint
& Paper Committee which has just
returned from a Canadian inspec
tion tour.
“A substantial portion of the Ca
nadian industry seems to be plan
ning on a further price increase
effective Jan. 1,” said Brown, add
ing that some sections of the news
print industry thought prices
should be jumped $10 per ton.
How completely berserk news
print prices have gone was report
ed by Sditor & Publisherd, trade
weekly, from Toronto. “The meet
ing here of the U. S. Congress
men, publishers and Canadian
newsprint manufacturers was start
led Tuesday by an announcement
that spot tonnage was being of
fered at $400 per ton,” the story
said.
“Rev. J. P. Randall, representing
the Catholic Press Ass’n, told the
group one of his papers in Indiana,
the Sunday Visitor, had been offer
ed 100 tons at $400 per ton by ‘a
man named Atkinson in Nfew
Brunswick.’
The presumed contract price of
Canadian newsprint in the U. S.
is currently $90 per ton.
There should be nothing of a
more serious nature in the minds
of all when they trek to the polls
on election day, than the urgent
necessity of approving both pro
posals, to maintain adequate schools
for the education of our children.
The essentials of a good school
system are comprised mainly of
two factors—A well-trained, enthu
siastic staff of teachers, and ade
quate schools in which to carry on
an educational program. The pot
ters in this vicinity, as well as the
citizens in general, have
for some time that our
buildings were inadequate
modern educational program. This
fact was further brought to light
in a recent survey by the Bureau
of Educational Research, Ohio
State University. The Survey Staff
made a complete inspection and
known
school
for a
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, October 23, 1947
Uiotniqft CCtk An PAHiiAiJiAK T«
mstor bbtn Art Lonvent on lomes lo viose
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America (AFL) too* place in
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Harrison of the Bro. of Railway
[wers, ILPA 2nd Vice Pres. Frank X.
i Vice Pres. Ruth Tailor, Pres. Max
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Beaver Falls, Pa.—Local Union
33 met in regular session on Oct.
16 with President Leonard Greco,
presiding.
Four applications for honorary
membership were favorably acted
upon and the results forwarded to
headquarters. These include Andy
Ortelt who takes over as assistant
Fredericks who assumes the fore
foreman in the clayshop John
manship in another department,
Gilbert and Mary Herr who are
are leaving the trade to enter the
hotel business in Beaver Falls.
Bill Hammer was granted a with
drawal card and will enroll in a
nearby college to polish up on his
education.
Just a word about our shut-ins—
Walter Ackerman and Richard
Townsend are back at work after
a seige of illness Frank Capo,
former sliphouse employee, is ser
iously ill at his home Bob Cham
bers is up and around following his
discharge from the Deshon Hospi
tal Charles Mowhinney was a re
cent visitor at teh shop although
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Raise O.K.'d By,_
Local Union 44
Sebring, Ohio After hearing
the report from the delgate to the
Ohio State eFderation of Labor
convention, Local Union No. 44
voiced their approval of the action
taken by the delegates in raising
the per capita tax to the state
body. We feel the increase is justi
fied inasmuch as the program out
lined by the state body must have
sufficient revenut to carry on the
work.
The officers of Local Union 44
wish to take this means of express
ing their thanks to the members,
as well as the entire citizenship
of the village for the wonderful
response in an appeal to register
for the coming election on Nov. 4.
With 9® per cent of the voters reg
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SCHOOL LEVY SUPPORT SHOULD
BE A "MUST" FOR EVERY POTTER
Potters in the East Liverpool dis
trict when they go to the polls on
Nov. 4, will be asked to support a
bond issue and tax levy amounting
to $2,855,000 to be used for the
modernization of local schools.
ratings of all nineteen school build
ings. Their ratings included esti
mates as to the condition of toilet
facilities, service rooms, class
rooms, furniture, school sites, safe
ty and general construction.
The question that every potter
has to ask himself is “what kind
of school do I want for my chil
dren?” If you wish the best possi
ble program for your children you
should vote for both of these is
sues. If you are content to have
your child in buildings obsolete and
which are potentially hazardous
and unsanitary you will vote
against it. The cost of the program
appears to be high. It is high. The
reason such a large program must
be undertaken is because in the
last thirty years there has not been
sufficient construction of new
school buildings in the East Liver
pool district to provide for the
needs of its children. Conditions
have reached the point where there
must be a radical change in school
housing in this district for the pro-1
tection of the children. K
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Camden Firm
Issues Plaht
Publication
Employees Receive
Their Pay Weekly
Camden, New Jersey. It has
been some time since your O. C.
from Camden has taken the time
and effort to tell the news from out
New Jersey way. With the vacation
season over and the fishing tales
all told, everyone seems in the
mood to settle down for a period
of continued work until next sum
mer. Needless to say, it is a real
pleasure once moM to be able to
enjoy a one or iwfe weeks’ vaca
tion at whatever one chooses for
his own particular enjoyment Dur
ing the next few months the main
topic of conversation around the
shop will be bowling.
During the spring and summer
quite a few new employees found
work at Camden Pottery and I am
glad to report that although sev
eral were laid off at the end of the
vacation season, work is being
found for a few. It is regrettable
that a few neglected to keep their
dues and assessments paid up be
fore they left and had to be sus
pended at the last local meeting.
They will have to pay their sus
pension fee* if work is found for
them later.
Brother Joseph Booth has been
granted a transfer to L. U. No. 77,
and he is already at work at the
former Bowers Pottery.
Joseph Nizio was suspended at
the last meeting for non-payment
of dues and assessments.
We received the new issue of our
plant magazine recently, “Univer
sal Chatter”. Also, each employee^
was given a copy of the Redland's
California plant magazine: Con
gratalations to Redlands for a well
edited magazine. ’w”
Employees of Camden Pottery
are now receiving their pay weekly
and judging by comment around
the shop are more satisfied than
formerly.
Brother Al Kato is recovering
from an operation for appendicitis
and is expected to return to work
early in November. Brother Stan
ley Sliwa is still on the sick list,
as is also John Lovell and Alfons
Paciocco.
The alternate night-shifts of cast
ers on the benches has been reduc
ed somewhat in recent weeks by
re-arranging stillages, benches, and
skids to utilize all usable floor
space to the best advantage.
Several changes were made re
cently in office personnel, Mr.
Dickey being transferred to New
Castle and Mr. Rogers promoted to
office manager. Stanley Backner
was appointed general manager of
the Camden plant in charge of sales
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Bali Denounced
Editorially For
Labor Press Gag
St. Louis—(LPA) The Taft
Hartley law’s gag on political ex
pression by the labor press and the
interpretation of th& clause by
Sen. Joe Ball (R., Minn.) were
roundly denounced last week by the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Freedom of expression, it seems,
is a matter of who pays for it, ac
cording to Sen. Ball, the paper
pointed out editorially. Ball, the
(editorial noted, replied to wide
spread criticism of the ban on elec
tioneering by the labor press with
this “clarification”:
“The question is involved only
where a union paper is supported
by the union treasury instead of
subscriptions .... We don’t care
who publishes a record on Con
gressmen. They can also publish
resolutions about anyone.” But
what Ball does object to, said the
editorial, is the use of such pub
lications as “political campaign ad
vertisements” at union expense.
“Such bumbling distinctions sim
ply cannot be accepted,” the Post
Dispatch declared. “Full of the
spirit of the 18th century pamph
leteers, the authors of the Consti
tution did not so hedge and hobble
free expression. It makes no dif
ference how publication is finan
ced or distributed, whether it is
sold or given away.
“The attempt to limit the right
of unions to present their case
against an adversary is a glaring
fault of the Taft-Hartley law,” the
editorial concluded, “it needs cor
rection, not justification that can
not justify.”
Violation Of Pacts
Seen £y Union Chief
San Francisco—(ILNS) Vig
orous protest against the 60-day
closing of distilleries was register
ed here by officers of the Distil
lery, Rectifying and Wine Workers’
International Union, in attendance
at the American Federation of La
bor convention. The shutdown is
s&t to begin at midnight Oct. 25.
Joseph O’Neil, general president
of the union, and Joseph M. Jacobs,
union counsel told a news confer
ence that a shutdown would be con
strued a violation of the union’s
contract with employers. This
meant, they said, tlrat they could
bring suit under the Taft-Hartley
Act for damages for breach of con
tract, and they indicated they
would demand “standby pay” for
the workers affected.
In a telegram to President Tru
man, Secretary of Agriculture Clin
ton Anderson, Charles Luckman,
chairman of the Citizens Food Com
mittee and others high in official
position in Washington, the union
executives appealed for a “tempor
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(By N. B. O. P. DeleratM)
San Francisco—Delegates to the
66th convention of the American
Federation of Labor heard graphic,
impressioned accounts of European
conditions and the struggle against
communism. The speakers were Ir
ving Brown, the AFL’s European
representative, and Arnold Zander,
recently returned from the British
Trades Union Congress, whose con
vention he attended as an AFL fra
ternal delegate.
Mr. Brown, who has been an AFL
representative in Europe since the
end of hostilities there, summed up
the situation in a clear statement
of the issues involved. He said:
“The issue in Europe is clear. The
issue is whether Europe shall re
main free or become Russian domi
nated. It is whether Europe shall
become a continent of free labor or
slave labor.”
Calling upon the AFL to continue
to render all the help it can to t)ie
free trade union movements in Eu
rope, Brown declared:
“It is our responsibility and our
job not to let these people down
in Europe who are still fighting in
spite of misery and hunger to re-
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INTERNATIONAL LABOR
iNEWS SERVICE
Accepting reelection as AFL president for the 24th
consecutive term, William Green outlined to the delegates
this program for the future:
“We must forget petty bickering among ourselves. I
plead for unity, for solidarity, and for the complete mobili
zation of all our strdhgth and re
sources in the coming fight.
“If we do, we will win the econo
mic and political battles that we
face in 1948.
“I appeal with all my power to
those who left us to come back to
the American Federation of Labor
and join in a united fight to carry
our great cause to victory.
“We face other major problems.
WON’T COMPLY— Calling the
Taft-Hartley law the “first ugly
savage thrust of fascism in Ameri
cia,” Pres. John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers (AFL) vig
orously attacked those AFL lead
ers wno amended the constitution
to permit compliance with the act.
He refused to be a candidate for
reelection to what he termed
debased executive
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Combat T-H Statute
Green Reelected 24 Term
(Br N. B. O. P. DetecatM)
San Francisco—After having given the officers of the
American Federation of Labor a unanimous mandate to
carry on an all-out political and educational campaign for
the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, the historic 66th con- A
vention of the AFL came to a close.
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We must fight the vicious spiral
of inflation to bring lower prices
and to attain a higher standard of
living. We must fight bigotry, in
tolerance, racial discrimination,
and all those evils which tend to
divide the American workers.”
Also elected unanimously were
Secretary-Treasurer George Meany
and the following members of the
Executive Council. William L.
Hutcheson, Matthew Woll, Joseph
N. Weber, George M. Harrison,
Daniel J. Tobin, Harry C. Bates,
W. D. Mahon, W. C. Birthright,
W. C. Doherty, David Dubinsky,
Charles J. McGowan, Herman L.
Winter, Dan W. Tracy, Mr. Tracy
succeeded John L. Lewis, whose
name was not placed in nominStion
for reelection to the Executrw-*^
Council.
Before adjournment the conven
tion took the following outstand
ing actions. 1—Authorized a vig
orous campaign for repeal of the
Ta ft-Hartley law on these two
through radio programs, newspap
fronts:
(a) An educational campaign ',
er advertisements, and motion pic
tures to inform the American peo
ple, public and union members, how /.
dangerous the law is to the nation.
(b) An active political campaign,
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Postal Workers
Plan Drive For
Wage Increases
Chicago (ILNS) Leo E.
George, president of the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks,
has called an emergency legislative
conference to discuss the serious
economic plight facing postal work
ers. The meeting will be held 'here
Nov. 21 and 22.
The basic problem facing the 4C0
representatives of the 75,000 mem
bers of the AFL union wilT be to
secure pay adjustments in the sec
ond session of the 80th Congress.
Leaders of the union declare that
raises won after long struggles in
1944 and 1945 have been erased fey
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Representatives
Convention Hears
Report On Conditions In Europe
The control that the communists
have gotten in France and Italy in
the trade union movement does not
mean by any single instance that
there is not a very excellent free
trade union opposition and organ
ization that is fighting every min
ute of the day along with those in
western Europe who want to pre
serve the democratic way of life
and a free trade union movement.
I say that above everything else
these forces look to your move
ment. They look to our movement
as a basis upon which they can
eventually win against the opposi
tion forces. For the democratic and
free trade union forces of Europe
the American Federation of Labor
is looked to as an aid and com
fort and is the sole force in the
struggle for a world of peace and
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