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Murray Hits Banning Of
Unions From Atom Plant
Washington (LPA) President*
Philip Murray last week wrote to I security standpoint.
Atomic Energy Commissioner
'David E. Lilienthal protesting the
blacklisting of two CIO unions,
United Electrical Workers and
United Public Workers, from
atomic installations “without prior
consultation with the interested
parties or w’ith responsible officials
of the CIO.”
“I am certainly not unmindful of
the security considerations which
must of necessity be ever pres, nt
in the activities of the Com mis
sion,” Murray stated. “The letters
released by the Commission, how
ever, go far beyond the require
ments of .'t'curity for the opera
tions of the
Commission.”
He added that the Supreme Court
has not yet passed on. the consti
tutionality of the Taft-Hartley af
fidavits which Lilienthal protested
that the two unions had not signed.
“In view of these circumstances,”
he concluded, “I wish to record my
strong objection to the action taken
by the Corrmii -'ion and urge that
the Commission reconsider the de
termination which it has made in
connection with this matter.”
In a reply to Murray, Lilienthal
pointed out that whatever the out
come i£ the Taft-Hartley court
case, the loyalty of the UE officers
involved would still be open to ser
ious
question.
Lilienthal alio replied to UE
Presid-nt Albert Fitzuerald, who
had charged that his lacklisting of
the unions was a political move.
He toll Fitzgerald that his ban was
“in way a reflection upon the
indhi aial members of UE.” Work
ers at the plant, he said, have pass
ed loyalty checks and the Commis
sion believe* that union offi. rs
who negotiate “should be subject
to a comparable scrutiny from the
t*
AEC had ruled that the General
Electric Co. could not recognize
UE as bargaining agent at its new
Knolls atomic power laboratory in
Schenectady, N. Y. Un lees the UE
officers are cleared, Li lien that
warned, the Commission intends to
ban them at other GE installations.
“The assertions in your letter,”
Lilienthal told Fitzgerald, “do not
even begin to answer the serious
question that has been raised con
cerning the absence in various ef
the UE officers of the requisite ad
herence and loyalty to the interests
of the United States. If the officers
of UE desire, the Commission will
afford them every opportunity to
participate in a fuller exploration
of this i sue. It should be under
stood, however, that the AEC would
expect the UE officers to be pre
pared to giye full and candid state
ments concerning present or past
affiliations of any kind with the
Communist Party or Communist
dominated organizations. In addi
tion, the same personnel data will
be requested of the UE officers as
has been furnished by employees
I and by various officers of other un
ions who represent employees
the atomic energy program.”
Money Loaned
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WASHINGTON & BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO
OFFICERS:
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Sample Ballot
The following is a replica of the official ballot lor primary
•lection for delegates to th* American Federation of Labor con
vention. which in accordance with law, must be printed in each
issue of The Potters Herald during the entire voting period of the
primary election.
PRIMARY ELECTION FOR DELEGATES TO THE AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF LABOR CONVENTION
Members when voting shall be required to register their names
on the Roil Books
(Vote for Two)
BARKER. BEN (Jiggernum)
Local Union No. 12
BEATTY, ROBERT (Liner)
Local Union No. 24
BROADBENT. BOY (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 9
BROWN. LAURENCE E. (Kiinman)
Local Union No. 9
COLE. MARTHA
Local Union No. 70
DAILEY. HUGH (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. IIS
DAVIS. CLARENCE (Kilnfireman)
Local Union No. 214
HABENICHT, ALVIN
Local Union No. 149
HV1DEN. ROY (Kilndrawer)
Local Union No. 17
LANNING, GEORGE (Jiggerman)
Local Union No. 12 .. .....
MORGAN. REX B. (Sanitary Caster)
Local Union 99
O'DOWD. JOHN W.
Local Union No. 113. ..!
PENNINGTON. FRED
Local
U No. 113
RIEDEL.
Local
STOVER. ESTEL
Local Union No. 66
SULLIVAN, J. (Caster)
Local Union No. 44*
East Liverpool Ohio
Wellsville, Ohio
East Liverpool Ohio
East Liverpool. Ohio
.. Minerva. Ohio
Sebring, Ohio
Rodlands. Calif.
Ohio
Liverpool,
East
Ohio
Liverpool
East
Liverpool Ohio
East
SWIGER. LEONA (Warehousewoman)
Local Union No. 195 East Liverpool Ohio
WALTEMIRE. GEORGE L. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 66
■PLACE AN (X) IN SQUARE TO LEFT OF NAME FOR WHOM
YOU WISH TO VOTE
Richmond., Calif.
Los Angeles. Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.
WILLIAM (Mouldmaker)
Union No. 22 East Liverpool. Ohio
ROBERTSON, BETTY (Cobi Room)
Local Union No. 148 East Liverpool. Ohio
SALSBERRY. GEORGE (Jiggerman)
Local Union No. 24
Wellsville, Ohio
.. Crooksville, Ohio
Sobring, Ohio
..... Crooksville, Ohio
Good Survey Of Labor
Problems In
Washington (LPA) If your
local union library or public library
hasn’t yet gotten a copy of “Un
ions, Management & the Public”
tell ’em to order one. If fact, if you
have a spare $5 it’s a good addition
to any union officer’s own collec
tion of books.
“Unions, Management & the
Public” is a collection of chapters
from the writings of the keenest
American and European students
of trade union activity. It includes,
too, passages from the speeches
or writings of trade union leaders,
government officials, and employ
ers.
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PAC BACKS BOWLES
Waterbury, Conn. (LPA)—CIO’s
Political Action Committee in Con
necticut is backing Chester Bowles
for Governor and Democratic Con
gressional candidates, Harold Sen
ior, executive secretary, announced
last week. Condemning the record
of the Republican-dominated 80th
Congress, S nior added, “Bowles
will do something about Taft-Hart
ley, the high cost of living, and
minimum wage laws.”
The scissors and paste job was
carefully and imaginatively down
by E. Wight Bakke and Clark Kerr,
both professors of industrial re
lations, both men who appreciate
the importance of free trade un
ions to our democratic way of life.
Harcourt, Brace 4k Co. of New
York is the publisher.
“Development of Unions” is the
title of the first section. After ex
amining thru their authors the rea
sons why workers join unions, and
how unions develop power, the edit
ors discuss the “Response of Man
agement.” The philosophy of busi
nessmen as well as their actual
handling of industrial relations is
described.
A third section describes the
actual process of “Collective Bar
gaining.” It recognizes that the
strike is not something seditious,
but a regular part of the collective
bargaining process when other ave
nues of approach are blocked by
employers. “Terms of the Agree
ment”—what is embodied in col
lective settlements—are next con
sidered.
Finally, Bakke and Kerr provide
a nearly 200-page discussion of the
interest of the public generally in
the policies and the relationships
between unions and business.
AFL Union Spurns
(Continued From Page One)
justice to be made a political foot
ball by an apostle of Joe Stalin.”
The NFLU head recalled that
when Wallace was Secretary of
Agriculture he refused to aid
southern sharecroppers who were
being evicted from their farms,
Wallace avoided even conferring
with the Southern Tenant Farmers
Union, predecessor of the NFLU,
when Mitchell and other represent
atives of the sharecroppers travel
led all the way from Arkansas, to
see him.
Supported by the politically pow
erful Associate Farmers, the Di
Giorgio Corp, has recruited strike
breakers, many of them aliens im
ported from Mexico. The NLRB
has obtained a Taft-Hartley in
junction against the strike, and last
Muy a gunman attempted to assas
inate the strike leaders.
AFL unions thruout California
and all over the country have con
tributed to the support of the
strike, for which such men as for
mer Secretary of Interior Harold
Ickes and Socialist presidential
candidate Norman Thomas have
helped create widespread public
interest.
URGES UNIONIZATION
Saranac Inn, N. Y. (LPA)—Lib
rariahs should unionize to “get
things done faster,” Judge Hubert
Delaney of the Domestic Relations
Court told a meeting of the Ameri
can Library Association here last
v«k. Urging the 54)4) librarians to
tight for higher salaries and better
working conditions from street cor
ners if necessary, he said, “Before
we had unions in this country there
was more violence in industry than
we find today. Unless we band to
gether we get nowheres fast.”
NOTICE KILNMEN
Local Union No. 9 will vote
for delegates to the American
Federation of Labor conven
tion at their next meeting on
Friday evening, Oct. IK All
members are urged to be pre
sent.
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THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
James Stewart, George Montgomery, Dinah Shore, and Bob Hope, pictured above from left to right, are
but a few of the famous Hollywood movie stars who are lending their talents to emphasize to the public the
importance of voting this year. Brief recordings made by the stars will be broadcast over local radio stations
from now until Election Day as an AFL public service to stimulate a big turnout of voters to insure the elec
tion of a truly representative government.
Drive Renewed To
Kill Wages-Hour
Law In Congress
Washington (LPA) The US
Chamber of Commerce has renew
ed its drive to take the heart out
of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
That’s the effect of two decisions
reached last week by its Board of
Directors.
The of voted to “actively
support remedial legislation” which
would seriously alter the wages
& hours law, to get around a Sup
reme Court ruling on “overtime on
overtime.”
However, the Chamber also in
structed its lobbyists not to let the
“overtime on overtime” issue stand
in the way of more sweeping
changes in the law which currently
n-quires a 40c-an-hour wage floor,
and payment of time-and-a-half
rates for hours worked over 40, for
industries in interstate commerce.
The Supreme Court has been
asked to re-hear the “overtime on
overtime” case in which some New
York longshoremen sued for time
and-half pay for hours worked
after 40, even though this was not
the practice established in the un
ion-management contract.
Meanwhile, a Senate Labor Sub
committee headed by Sen. Forrest
Donnell (R., Mo.) is opening hear
ings on the question of changing
the Fair Labor Standards Act here
on Nov. 15.
“We’re going to tell the Donnell
subcommittee that the law ought
to be amended to improve it,” CIO
Counsel Arthur Goldberg told LPA.
“We want the minimum wage set
at $1 an hour. We're opposed to
this attempt to undermine the Fair
Labor Standards Act with so-called
amendments that are designed to
go exactly counter to what the
Supreme Court intended the ruling
to do.
“This is bad legislative practice.
This Supreme Court ruling is no
thing new it reinforces what the
Wages & Hours Administrators
have been doing all along.”
The AFL will certainly appear
before the Donnell subcommittee,
Legislative Representative Walter
Mason said. “We are certainly go
ing to oppose any amendments to
the Fair Labor Standards Act,” he
predicted, especially any coming
from the Chamber of Commerce.
Mason predicted that the amend
ments may take the form of a bill
introduced at the last session by
Sen. Alexander Wiley (R., Wis.)
and Rep. A. L. Goodwin (R.,
Mass.).
These amendments to the law,
under the pretense of “remedying”
the Supreme Court ruling, serious
ly altered the form of the wages
& hours legislation.
Mason pointed out that the Ex
ecutive Council of the AFL at its
last meeting voted to petition the
Supreme Court for a re-hearing of
the longshoremen’s case, and that
AFL Counsel Herbert Thatcher had
filed a brief before the Court be
gan its winter term last week.
HOW ABOUT BIGGEST
ISSUES, GOV. DEWEY?
Washington (LPA)—How many
more startling ideas does GOP
candidate Tom Dewey have in the
back of his head, unmentioned
campaign speeches, but ready
be brought out if he succeeds
reaching the White House?
’"’A*
Ickes Challenges
Candidate Dewey
On Power And Oil
Washington (LPA)—Harold L.
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior un
der FDR, last week asked GOP
presidential candidate Thomas E.
Dewey to clear up his vague stand
on several important issues. Dewey,
to date, has not picked up “the
Ick’s” challenge.
1—Ickes asked the New York
Governor to declare where he stood
on return of tidelands oil rights to
the states. If Dewey acknowledged
that the tidelands rightfully belong
to the Federal government, Ickes
further asked whether the funds
from them should be used to
vide Federal aid to education.
2—Is the little man with
derby for public ownership and
operation of power transmission
lines
3—Does Dewey approve cuts
made in reclamation projects by
the 80th Congress? And if. so,
which ones? “You have sponsored,
enthusiastically and without reser
vation,” Ickes complained, “many
Republican members of the 80th
Congress, whose principal interest
seem to be recklessly to exploit
what remains of our national land
ed estate.”
4—The Old Curmudgeon asked
Dewey whether he thought irrigat
ed lands should be limited to fam
ily-Wzed farms rather than allowed
to Become land monopolies.
pro-
He asked some more questions on
conservation of natural resources.
Dewey's answer to all of them so
far: “No comment!”
Kroll Predicts
Truman -Victory
In Buckeye State
Washington (LPA)—PAC Direc
tor Jack Kroll, himself an Ohioan,
predicted last week that President
Truman will carry the Buckeye
State, with its 25 electoral votes.
Kroll based his prediction upon
reports received from Ohio PAC of
registration in the state’s major
cities. The PAC director pointed
out that GOP nominee Thomas E.
Dewey carried the state by only
12,000 votes in 1944. In that year
100,000 fewer people went to the
polls than in 1940 when President
Roosevelt won the state’s elector
al votes.
State PAC Secretary-Treasurer
William Lavelle reported that reg
istration is at an all time high in
Ohio industrial centers. Cleveland,
for example, is 6000 over its pre
vious record and Cincinnati nearly
36,000. The Akron area exceeds its
former top by 13,000 registered
voters, while both Youngstown and
Toledo are over their old marks by
better than 20,000.
Total registration for the state
may exceed 8,500,000, Lavelle re
ported to Kroll. The old record was
3,319,912, when FDR carried the
state in 1940.
One of PAC’s most effective reg
istration drive stunts was to dis
tribute cards reading “don’t strike
out on election day” to crowds at
the pennant-winning Cleveland In
dian’s baseball stadium. It also per
suaded the brewery that was broad
casting the play-off final games of
the American League team to carry
registration spot announcements as
a part of its program.
The Cleveland Union Leader,
weekly labor paper endorsed by
locals in the area, won praise from
Lavelle for its help in the registra
tion campaign. PAC blockworkers
rang door bells while airplanes
trailed banners over the city.
in
to
in
la-
That’s the question puzzling
bor, publication of the rail unions,
in its leading editorial last week.
Along with the Taft-Hartley law,
labor asks these questions of the
Republican hopeful, as the election
drive moves into the home stretch:
“Where does he stand on hous
ing? Where does he stand on
power? Where docs he stand
on cost of living? Where does
he stand on taxation?”
Fat women are always cooking
sweet things “for the children.”
In Toledo PAC concentrated on
the big plants organized by the
United Auto Workers. Daily motor
cades brought workers to registra
tion offices at the end of the day.
Why not keep quiet intad of
talking all the time and thus add­
ing
to the confusion?
The only sure way to impress
your wife is to do something for
her that you can’t afford.
T-H Law Has Its
Ups And Downs In
Michigan’s Courts
Detroit (LPA)—Enforcement of
all but one section of Michigan’s
little Taft-Hartley law, the Bonine
Tripp act, was resumed by the
state Labor Mediation Board last
week, after the state Supreme
Court clarified an earlier decision
which had branded the entire law
“unconstitutional.”
Unions thruout the state had re
joiced when the court ruled out
that section of the law requiring
circuit judges to serve on arbitra
tion boards for labor-management
disputes in hospitals and public
utilities. The court had declared
that this provision was so enmesh
ed in the law as to make all other
sections unworkable’without it.
The Mediation Board, however,
appealed the ruling and the court
revised its earlier decision so that
the other bad features of the law
still plague Michigan workers and
union leaders. These include: pro
visions regulating mass picketing,
banning jurisdictional strikes, for
bidding picketing at private resid
ences, requiring state-conducted
strike votes, and fines and jail sent
ences for any union member vio
lating these provisions.
Meanwhile, Circuit Court Judge
Theodore J. Richter held the clause
calling for a strike vote rmconstitu
tional. This decision stands until
ruled otherwise by the State Sup
reme Court.
G. Mennen Williams, Democratic
candidate for Governor, who has
both AFL and CIO support, is on
record for complete repeal of the
law, which was passed by a Repub
lican legislature last year.
Merge Threatens
Small Brewers
the
New York (LPA)—The govern
ment should not overlook the dan
gerous trend toward monopoly in
the brewing industry, a representa
tive of the small brewers warned
last week.
John E. O’Neil, general counsel
of the Small Brewers Ass’n told a
meeting of beer wholesalers that
altho twice as much beer is being
produced as in 1933, the number of
breweries in operation has declined
from 696 to 448 during the past
fifteen years.
He said that the same trend to
wards monopoly thru.merger of
small, hard-pressed businesses with
th6 giants in their industries which
the Federal Trade Commission has
noted in the economy as a whole
is prevalent today in the brewing
industry.
The wholesalers were cautioned
that if they don’t help out the small
breweries they too will soon be
come just “hired hands” of the big
beer makers. A virtual monopoly
already exists in the liquor indus
try, and the making of domestic
wines is increasingly in the hands
of a few large grape ranchers,
O’Neil declared.
Excise taxes work against the
small brewer, the distributor and
the public O’Neil explained. The
tax raises the price of the poor
man’s beer, percentage-wise more
than it does that of the so-called
premium beers made by the big
brewing companies.
Soap Makers Favor Big Stores
Washington -LPA)—Charges of
unfair price discrimination were
leveled against three of the largest
soap manufacturing corporations
last week by the Federal Trade
Commission. Lever Brothers, Proc
tor & Gamble, and Colgate-Palm
olive were accused under anti-trust
laws of favoring larger customers.
By granting only to bigger com
panies rebates on products not re
sold before price changes were
made, the corporations have actu
ally been charging small business
men higher prices for similar pro
ducts, FTC states.
We boil at different degrees.
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 42
Salem, Ohio—All members
are requested to be present at
our next regular meeting on
October 18, to vote on asking
referendum on the action of
the 1948 convention in giving
our national officers access to
our resources to defend them
selves in court action, shall be
repealed, and no money shall
be expended to defend any of
ficer without a referendum
vote of the trade.
Robert Morrow, president
P. K. Laughlin, treasurer
R. C. McCoy, vice president
Nellie Jackson,
recording secretary
William Criss,
financial secretary
Al Kenst,. defense secretary
Donald McCoy, inspector
George Lott man, guard
John Ehrhart, statistician
R. H. Whiteleather, trustee
Russ Lottman, trustee
Leona Walter, trustee
Tokyo (LPA)—On the eve of his
departure after three years serv
ice as director of labor education in
Japan, Richard Deverall reviewed
the activities of his branch of Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur’s occupa
tion force and said: “Labor educa
tion will loom as one of the most
constructive contributions to Jap
anese democracy made by the oc
cupation.
The newness of Japanese union
ism, after more than a decade of
totalitarian rule in Nippon, made
the development of educational pro
grams for the labor movement of
even greater importance than else
where, the former United Workers
CIO education director pointed out.
Deverall resigned after Mac
Arthur’s withdrawal of collective
bargaining rights for nearly two
million public employes forced the
resignation of his chief, James Kil
len, vice president of the Int’l Bro
therhood of Pulp, Sulphite & Paper
Mill Workers-AFL. Killen had been
chief of the labor division at Mac
Arthur’s headquarters. The once
waning influence of Communists in
the Japanese unions has increased
since the promulgation of the Mac
Arthur decree.
Unionism itself is a “school of
democracy” in an awakening Japan,
Deverall said. He regretted, how
ever, that some unions which were
subject to Communist control had
refused to adopt a real education
program for their members. In all
Japanese unions preoccupation with
political and ideological questions
has hurt educational efforts, he
said.
However, Deverall was able to
I
Thursday, October 14, 1948
WORKERS EDUCATION PROGRAMS
IMPORTANT TO JAPANESE UNIONS
point to an impressive list of union
educational programs now under
way in Japan.
Deverall spoke of the encourage
ment to democratic trade unionism
which American union men who
have visite’d Japan have rendered.
He mentioned President Willard
Townsend of the United Transport
Service Employes-CIO, Secretary
Treasurer Irving Kuenzli of the
American Federation of Teachers
AFL and Mark Starr, education
director of the Int’l Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union-AFL.
AFL’s MOLDERS UNION
NAMED BARGAINING AGENT
Philadelphia.—By an overwhelm
ing majority, 2,000 men employed
in 28 foundries in this area voted
for the AFL’s Molders and Foundry
Workers Union to represent them
in collective bargaining negotia
tions with the Philadelphia Foun
drymen’s Association.
Demand the Union Label.
DOCTOR SHOES
FOR FOOT
COMFORT
Flexible and
rigid arch
styles In ox
fords and
high shoes.
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