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PAGE TWO #. 1 4 Physicians Lobby Lauds Race-Hater's Attack On Health Insurance Plan Washington (LPA)—The Nat’l Physicians Committee, lobbying front for the American Medical Ass’n, is using propaganda from a notorious race-hating, labor-bait ing, anti-Semite, in the campaign to block health insurance legisla- The newest tool of the medical lobby is Dan Gilbert, discredited super nationalist and erstwhile as sociate of William Dudley Pelley and Gerald Winrod. The Physicians Committee has sent to ministers and doctors thruout the US a four page letter signed by Gilbert and printed under his letterhead spread ing vicious lit's about the health in surance legislation. It begins “Dear Christian Amer ican,” a term often used by the fascist-minded, and continues to lambast health insurance chiefly on the claim that it would endang er religious liberty in America. The national health insurance pro gram recommended by President Truman and now before Congress in two bills, S. 5 and HR 783, has nothing to do with religious liber ty-A- Prize quote from the diatribe is Gilbert’s statement that if health insurance is passed a few bureau crats inevitable “would establish ‘quotas’ for the baby crop in the same way that the Agriculture Dep’t theorists set ‘quotas’ for farm production.” Gilbert urges “Christian believ ers everywhere to work and pray that our beloved land may be de .livered from the blight of this mon strosity of Bolshevik Bureaucracy.” The language is familiar to stud ents of sedition. As disinterested observers have pointed out, the proposed health insurance program is merely an extension of the established American social secur ity system. The Physicians Committee labels this Dan Gilbert letter “one of the few really vital pronouncements of an age,” and asks its corres pondents first to absorb its mean ing, then to discuss it with minis ters and editors of local news papers. It uses its endorsement by the American Medical Association’r House of Delegates to ask for “zero hour contributions” over and above the $25 which the AMA has assessed each of it* members to fight health insurance. Despite the fact that the Physi cians Committee is registered as a lobby under the LaFollette-Mon roney act, and last year reported expenpo?! exceeding those of any other -ingle lobby, it claims to be “a non-political, non-profit organ ization for maintaining ethical and scientific standards and extending medical service to all the people.” A year ago it baldly attempted to bribe the press into joining its attack on health insurance when it announced a contest for cartoon ists. It offered them $3,900 worth of prizes for the best published cartoon against “political distribu tion of health care services in the United States.” This so-called con test was denounced by writers of a)l political complexions, as well as on the floor of the Senate. The use of the Gilbert letter is not the first time that racial hate has figured in the campaign against the health insurance bill. Only a few months ago a vicious and un warranted pamphlet appeared un der the name of an author who claimed to be a reserve officer of w a A Bright Blooming Plant or Cheery Bouquet is the Ideal Valentine GOLDEN’S FLOWERS 137 WEST SIXTH STREET John, Greta, Betty and Jack Witnesses Ready To Testify On New Labor Bill Washington (LPA)—The Senate Labor Committee has set up a stiff schedule for its morning, after noon, and night hearings on the new labor bill this week. Here are the witnesses and the day each is scheduled right up to the last min ute the committee has allowed it self to complete hearings and be ready to present a finished bill for debate on the Senate floor: Monday, Feb. 7, beginning at 9:30 am William H. Davis, former War Labor Board chief Glenn Gardiner, Forstmann Woolen Mills •Walter Muro, former Conciliation Service commissioner Charles G. Nichols, National Retail Dry Goods Ass’n Frank Hunt, of Manning, Maxwell & Moore Co. Tuesday, Feb. 8 A. F. Whitney, president, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Havery Brown, pres ident, Int’l Association of Machin ists Henning W. Prentis, Arm strong Cork Co. Chester Irving, National Lumber Manufacturers Ass’n George Tichy, Timber Pro ducts Manufarturers Ass’n Henry V. Rabouin, Conway’s Express W. T. Gossett, Ford Motor Co. Harry P. Jeffrey, Floremen’s League for Education Carl Brown and Her man W. Booth Jr., Foremen’s Ass’n of America. Wednesday, Feb. 9 Ira Mosher, Nat’l Association of Manufactur ers Herman W. Steinkraus, US Chamber of Commerce Charles E. Wilson, General Electric Co. E. Lawrence Chandler, Engineers Council George B. Logan, inde pendent Arthur Padula, Fairmount Construction Co. of Newark, NJ George B. Christensen, independ ent Paul St. Sure, independent. 'Thursday, Feb. 10 William Green, American Federation of La bor representatives of the United Mine Workers, the National Grange, the American Farm Bur eau Federation, and the Nat’l Council of Farmer Cooperatives James L. Donnelly, Illinois Manu facturers Ass’n James W. Haley, National Coal Ass’n Joseph E. Moody, Southern Coal Producers Ass’n. Wage of Sin {Continued From Page One) chips indirectly help to reduce juvenile delinquency.” The union is taking its chances on a crime wave and continuing to press for an investigation of matter. Money Loaned FOR PURCHASE AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOMES 5% Monthly Reduction The Potters Savings & Loan Co. WASHINGTON 4 BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO OFFICERS: IOHN J. PUBOfTON. ProaidMt ALWYN C. PUB1NTON. Secrwlary CHAS. W. HENDERSHOT, IOS. M. BLAZEB. Treasure* VIm Pzoddeat W. E. DUNLAP, BL Attorney ns i a n a o nwiflitc o a a ihhKiiwhi in its the GET UNION HANDBOOK Tokyo (LPA)—Japanese labor groups will now have reference to William Gomberg’s “Labor Union Manual on Job Evaluation” since the release of a publication trans lation by the Labor College here. Written by an ILGWU director, the manual is the first reference hand book written for unions describing job duties. It will be circulated among labor education classes and trade unions. the United States Army attempt ing to make health insurance some thing of a Jewish plot fomented, of course, in Soviet Russia. The revolt of the decent, rank and file doctors of America against the tone and level to which the battle against health insurance has sunk is rapidly spreading. Whether doctors approve of health insur ance or not, they are disgusted at the Dan Gilbert letter, and at the manner in which the AMA’s House] of Delegates voted to assess each of its members to fight the Pres ident’s Health Program without warning and without discussion of the matter with constituent bodies. I A group of prominent physicians has organized and given notice to the AMA that its members will not' pay their assessments because of opposition to the Association’s tac tics. A letter to this effect was sent to the AMA, along with notice that if it was not printed within two weeks it would be made public. u ano* TRADE NOMINATES MEMBERS FOR BOARD AND A. F. of L. DELEGATES {Continued From Page One) FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT CHARLES ZIMMER Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. EARL CLAWGES Local Union 175, Trenton, N. J. FRED PERDUNN Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J. ALEX YOUNG Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J. GEORGE TURNER Local Union 4, East Liverpool,Ohio WILLIAM HIBBS Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J. ARTHUR DEVLIN....................................Local Union 184, Trenton, N. J. GEORGE SMITH....................................... Local Union 121, Sebring, Ohio HARRY ROBINSON....................................Local Union 50, Camden, N. J. ELIJAH WATSON....................................... Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. T. J. DESMOND ......................................... Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio GUY DIGMAN Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio CLARENCE DAVIS......... :.....................Local Union 214, Redlands, Calif. SIXTH VICE PRESIDENT JAMES GRAFTON BEN BARKER GEORGE TURNER GEORGE SALSBERRY ROY BROADBENT LAURENCE BROWN LEWIS SILLIMAN B. R. (Doc) HAMILTON CHARLES NEWTON .... FLOYD JIVIDEN ROBERT MORROW DOYLE RICHARDSON HAROLD WILLIAMS JAMES COFFEY FLETCHER WILLIAMS FRANK DALES JAMES MOSS .................. NORMAN LANNING P. K. LAUGHLIN WM. STARK GEORGE GROSCROSS .. JOSHUA CHADWICK .... HARRY SNYDER REX B. MORGAN FRANK CAMPBELL JOHN HAMILTON FRANK APPLEGATE ... JAMES TURNER CHARLES COBB Local Union 108, Bedford, Ohio JOSIAH LLEWELYN Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif. WM. CAMPBELL Local Union 103, Erwin, Tenn. SEVENTH VICE PRESIDENT T*J. DESMOND Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio JOSHUA CHADWICK Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio FLOYD JIVIDEN :..Local Lnion 130, East Liverpool, Ohio DAVID BEVAN :...............Local Union 99, Clarksburg, W. Va. JAMES SLAVEN Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio LUTHER HOUGH Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio ROBERT BROWN Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio RAY BLOOR Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio GARLAND GILKINSON Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio RUSSELL BIGGINS Local Union 31, East Palestine, Ohio CHARLES BOSO Local Union 17, East Liverpool, Ohio THOMAS CURLEY Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio FRANK BUEHLER Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio WALTER DANIEL Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio ROBERT MORROW Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio NORMAN BRATT ........................Local Union 24, Wellsville, Ohio W. WILLIARD Local Union 86, East Liverpool, Ohio JAMES WARD Local Union 86, East Liverpool, Ohio JAMES GOUGER Local Union 20, Steubenville, Ohio WM. ASHBAUGH Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio FRANK DALES Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio CLAIR ARMSTRONG Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio HUGH DAILEY*. Local Union 192, Sebring, Ohio WILLIAM BOWMAN Local Union 133, New Castle, Pa. GEORGE GROSSCROSS Local Union 183, Los Angeles, Calif. JOHN HAMILTON Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio J. I. SULLIVAN *.............. Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio JOHN DORFF Local Union 178, Sebring, Ohio HARRY BRINDLEY :.......... Local Union 29, East Liverpool, Ohio CHAS. LARCOMBE Local Union 130, East Liverpool, Ohio GEORGE DOWDEN Local Union 89, Richmond, Calif. O. L. SULLIVAN Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif EVERITT MARSHALL .............Local Unioo 201, Huntington- Park, Calif. EIGHTH VICE PRESIDENT JOSHUA CHADWICK Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio GUY DIGMAN Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio JAMES GRAFTON Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio WM. HAINEY Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio T. J. DESMOND Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio CHAS. F. JORDAN Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio P. K. CALHOUN Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio ROY BROADBENT Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio STANLEY ROSE ............................ Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio THOMAS CURLEY Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio WILLARD GARNER Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio WILLIAM BICKERTON Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio GEORGE BRUNT .............................Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio FRANK BUEHLER Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio JOHN HAMILTON Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio WM. COX Local Union 17, East Liverpool, Ohio HAROLD WEST Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio WALTER DANIEL Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio WILLIAM CRANSTON Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio OSCAR SWAN Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio JAMES COFFEY Local Union 122, Cambridge, Ohio SAM LAWTON Local Union 24, Wellsville, Ohio GEORGE SHEAFFER Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio ED EDGAR Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio FRED GLYNN Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio RUSSELL LOTTMAN Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio DAN KARP Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio ALBERT YOHO Local Union 133, New Castle, Pa. GEORGE. SALSBERRY Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio ROBERT HEATH ERINGTON Local Union 29, East Liverpool, Ohio CLIFFORD WILSON Local Union 130, East Liverpool, Ohio FLOYD LISK Local Union 98, Grafton, W. Va. EARL SIMMONS Local Union 98, Grafton, W. Va. BRADY BOWERSOCK Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif. RAY BYE Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif. DELEGATES TO A. F. of L. CONVENTION GUY DIGMAN TED SELLS ED LANGFORD LOUIS COPPOLA ABE EDWARDS FERN MANDLEY ARTHUR DEVLIN DAVID BEVAN ,..... REX B. MORGAN ALEX YOUNG ............... ROY BROADBENT SIDNEY YOUNG LEWIS SILLMAN JOE ROBINSON LESTER FLU HARTY WILLIAM CRANSTON JACK COOPER* CARL HEINTZ EARL WALTER CLAWGES JOHN MAM RACK JOHN SIMPSON ........................................Local..Union ELIJAH WATSON ROBERT MORRO.W LAURENCE BROWN FRANK HULL RICHARD J. JENKINS........ WM. HALL JOHN W. O’DOWD .................Local FRANK CAMPBELL DAN KILLINGER GEORGE GOPPERT............... R. C. LARKINS GEORGE LANNING.............. JOSEPH BROWN ................... PEARL GANT FRED PENNINGTON CHAS. COBB........................... LAWRENCE GERWATOSK1 CARL MOATS.......................... EARL SIMMONS OSCAR DALE ......................... 0. L. SULLIVAN .................... JOSIAH LLEWELLYN......... REX MORGAN ................ WALTER CLAWGES............ LARRY FINLAY .................... Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio ................ Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio ... Local Union 183, Los Angeles, Calif. ..Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 133, New Castle, Pa. .........Local Union 89, Richmond, Calif. Local Union 122, Cambridge, Ohio ...............Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio ...............Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio ..Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio ..Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio ....Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 175, Trenton, N. J. ...............Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio ..............Local Union 70, Minerva, Ohio ............Local Union 184, Trenton, N. J. ....Local Union 99, Clarksburg, W. Va. ............Local Union 89, Richmond, Calif. ............... Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J. .... Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio ...Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 10, East Liverpool. Ohio ......... Local Union 6, Wheeling, W.‘ Va. .............. Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio ............ Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. Local Union 76, Buffalo, N. Y. Local Union 175, Trenton, N. J. .................. Local Union 51, Canonsburg, Pa. 45, Trenton, N. J. .......................Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. .......................... Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio .............Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio ....... Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio .Local Union 113, Huntington Park, Calif. Local Union 113, Huntington Park, Calif. Union 113, Huntington Park, Calif. .............. Local Union 122, Cambridge, Ohio Local Union 122, Cambridge, Ohio Local Union 22, East Liverpool, Ohio ...................... Local Union 44, Sebring, Ohio Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 35, Trenton, N. J. ......Local Union 130, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 113, Huntington Park, Calif. ^ocal Union 108, Bedford, Ohio Local Union 50, Camden, N. J. Local Union 98, Grafton, W. Va. ................ Local Union 98, Gratton, W. Va. .Local Union 76, Buffalo, N, Y. Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif. Local Union 201, Huntington Park, Calif. .. .Local Union 89, Richmond, Calif. .......Local Union 175, Trenton, N. J. Local Union 12, East Liverpool, Ohio .THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO v J. J, ....Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 24, Wellsville, Ohio ....Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio ....Local Union 9, East Liverpool, Ohio .Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio Local Union 10, East Liverpool, Ohio ............. Local Union 59, Sebring, Ohio ..Local Union 130, East Liverpool, Ohio ..................Local Union 42, Salem, Ohio Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio .Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio ........Local Union 122, Cambridge, Ohio ...Local Union 4, East Liverpool ,Ohio ... Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio ... Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio ....Local Union 4, East Liverpool, Ohio City .j.Z......::.., Trade WM. BERRY ..................... Local Union 192, Sebring, Ohio S'AMBBJi ’DOPY ^,....Local Uniqnrt76, RqftaTo, N. y. LL. WHEATlJCY .....................bocal.Union 9MEast Liverpool, Omo $pRGE SAI^BERRY ............. .'... ^L..:Local Unioit^J, Wellsville, Ohio HAROLD WEST Loeal Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio WALTER DANIEL Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio WALTER FINLAY Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio HAROLD WILLIAMS ............... Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio RUTH BOWERS ........................... Local Union 124, East Liverpool, Ohio JOHN KRESICKI LocalXJnion 45, Trenton, N. J. BERL HENTHORN Local Union 146, Paden City, W. Va. JAMES CUZZLO Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. EDW. L. McDEVITT Local Union 18, East Liverpool, Ohio PAUL VAN FOSSAN...................Local Union 18, East Liverpool, Ohio JAMES WARD .................................Local Union 86, East Liverpool, Ohio W. WILLIARD.................................. Local Union 86, East Liverpool. Ohio FLOYD LISK .............................................Local Union 98, Grafton, W. Va. LELAND QUINN.............................Local Union 31, East Palestine, Ohio HAZEL BROWN ..................................... Local Union 121, Sebripg, Ohio JOE ABRAMS ........................................... Local Union 45, Trenton, N. J. Important Notice To Candidates The members whose names appear in the above list of nominations are requested to use the following blank form in accepting any office for which they have been nominated and forward same to Charles Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer, Box 752, East Liverpool, Ohio, so as to arrive not later than February 19, 1949. Candidates nominated for more than one office shall designate which office they desire to contest for. Candidates are permitted to contest for national office, also delegates to the American Federation of Labor Convention. Nomination Acceptance Blank This is to certify that I have been a member of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters for more than six years and in continuous good standing for at least four years and actively engaged at the trade for one year prior to nomination. I am a member of Local Union No... and it is my desire to accept the nomination for the office of (Give name of office) Signed .................................................................................................... Street Address '.......................................... State ...................................... (Give trade at which you are working) MORE POWER to serve you „. w.. On-the-spo* sketch of construction prog rots at the new 737,390-hortepower Philip Sporn Generating Plant. EVERY year since the end of the war, this company and six others that form the Central System of the American Gas and Electric Company have met greater and greater demands for electricity. Last year’s demands, system-wide, topped them all. They wero double the prewar year of 1939. Yet there has been no power shortage here. What we lack are extra electric generators—we call them “reserve capacity”—to be used in case one or more of our big machines should break down. Before the war, the Central System always had plenty of reserve capacity. In war-time, government restric tions on equipment limited new construction. Since the war, rsanufacturers have not been able to fill our orders fast enough to keep pace with the growing demand for electric power. The result: Our margin between reserve and dbmand is still too close for comfort. mm HUI The Ohio Power Company .r Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Women workers in 1947, exceeding the 16,000,000 mark, accounted for more than 27 percent of all work ers and almost 30 percent of all women in the population, 14 years of age and over, the Women’s Bur eau of the U. S. Labor Department reports. A new handbook on Facts on Women Workers also discloses that the place of one-fifth of the coun try’s married women appears to be outside the home. “In sharp contrast to the popu larly envisioned picture of the ‘average’ family, consisting of father, mother and children, stands the fact that in 1946 over 6,500,000 families had a woman head,” the handbook says. In some 76 pages, the handbook tells how many women are employ ed where they are working the standards of their employment the wages or salaries they make the percentage they form of all work ers the number who are married, single, widowed or divorced, and the econonflc responsibilities they carry in relation to family and other dependents. Discussed also in detail are labor laws for women and laws that govern their political and other status. Until 1900, women constituted less than 20 percent of all workers in the labor force, according to the report, based on census figures. Less than 20 percent of women worked for pay. But in 1947, latest year reported, women in the labor force numbered 16,323,000, consti tuted 27.6 percent of all workers, and 29.8 percent of all women of working age were drawing a pay envelope. Analyzing the economic respon sibilities of women workers, the bureau estimates that 84 of every 100 working women do so to sup port themselves and others. A section of the handbook on II Illi tiiua The Biggest Job We Ever Tackled Thursday, February 10, 1949 Nearly Third of All Women Over 14 found Working For Wages In 1947 STILL SHOPPING FOR AFFILIATION Washington (LPA) The question of affiliation with either AFL or CIO is still be fore the board of Communica tions Workers of America, the currently independent interna tional union in the field. A “fact finding board” which has discussed with both AFL and CIO officials the condi tions uYider which CWA would be received into either national federation meets next week end, and will then present a report to CWA’s board which opens a week-long meeting Feb. 2. The 240,000 members of CWA will then vote in a refer endum on recommendations of the board. A convention action outlined this procedure, and also stipulated the AFL, CIO and remaining independent should be on the ballot. women’s earnings shows that the 1946 median of all women working fulltime was $1,671, and that only about one woman in 10 made as much as $2,500 annually. DOCTOR SHOES FOR FOOT COMFORT Flexible -a’n rigid arch styles In ox fords and high shoes. X-ray Fitting BENDHEIM’S East Sixth Street $305,000,000 CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM Hero's what we have done and what wa aro doing: From their earliest beginnings fifty years ago, the comp.'.'iies in the Central System gre’/ ir.‘i! in 1939 the combined capacity of the electri? generating plants in the system was 1,410,000 horsepower. Since 1939, we have added 1,323,000 horsepower. We have doubled our plant tapacity in a short ton years. In 1947, we launched a $305,000,000 expansion program to add more plants and facilities to* bring more power to serve you and all the rest of our customers. We have 1,106,000 horsepower of w electric plants under construction. All will be com pleted by 1951, some in just a few months from nc«r. These new plants will be additional assurance that in the years to come you will have all the electric power you need without fear. at •t-KGSKC SHWTVf