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VOL. XLII, NO. 46
Uihlein is one of Milwaukee’s
founded the Schlitz Brewery Co. ai
it now. They constitute one of the
For years, Joseph headed the
managed by two brothers. Joseph
policies. He and his children are sti
For years, Joseph has been a
maverick in his class. He has ad
vocated redistribution of wealth,
heavier taxes on the rich, and more
consideration of the welfare of
what he called “das volk”—the
pedple. He insisted the New Deal
didih *t‘$o‘far enough.
14ow he has announced that lip
is resigning his post as'a director
of the. First Wisconsin .National
Bank, one of .the nation’?., 'largest,,
so he could,devote “full time, to ent
epuraging. the prga^u^tiqp ,.. of
white collar workers.”
“I believe that five to shi’million
Americans can better their lot by
joining white collar unions,” he
said. “I hope to do what I can to
encourage this. I am not in it for
honor to myself but only through
a desire to help the working class.”
“I’ve been thinking about this
for years. I began to discover that
a' lot of these people of wealth are
not deserving of what they pos
sess. I found something was wrong
with the wealthy class. I think a
whole lot of them would be better
off if they had to work.”
He revealed he had alraady talk
ed about unionism and pension
plans to President William Green
of the, AFL and Prelident ^ohri L.
Lewife of the Miners, and that he
hopes to confer with President
Philip Murray of the CIO.
Uihlein announced, too, that a
year ago he tried to join the Brew
ery Workers’ Union, but he was
turned down because the union’s
constitution requires that members
must be employed at the craft.
Last week, he stirred a new row
with his brothers at the brewery
when he again proposed that the
Schlitz firm turn 25 cents for every
barrel of beer sold into a welfare
fund for the firm’s 4000 employes.
That would amount to about a mil
lion dollars on the basis of last
year’s sales—or about 1/16 of the
company’s profits.
Uihlein made the proposal pub
lic at a hearing of the Wisconsin
Senate Judiciary Committee, and
his brothers promptly disowned it.
However, Local 9 of the Brewery
Workers, on contract renewal ne
gotiations starting next week, in
tends to take up the idea and ask
for a welfare contribution of at
least 20 cents a barrel. The union
feels that, in view of the publicity,
the company can’t in good grace
refuse to bargain on the issue.
Washington (LPA)—Four of the
i nation’s top labor leaders joined
mXby Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, chair
l^fman of the Senate Labor Commit
tee, sat side by side at a radio
broadcast here last week to level a
broadside dt th£ Taft-Hartley act
and all who are trying to save
some part of it tb punish Ameri
can working men add women even
further than
ready.
MEMBER 5
INTERNATIONAL LABOR
NEWSSERVICE
73-Year-Old Milwaukee
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Millionaire To Devote
Rest Of Life To Labor
Milwaukee. (LPA)—A multi-millionaire Milwaukeean—Joseph E.
Uihlein, 73—captured the nation's headlines this week by announcing
that he intends to spend the remaining years of his lire organizing
white collar workers into unions.
has been done al-
AFL President Wil
CIO Sec’y-Treas.
They were
liam Green,
James B. Carey, speaking for Pres.
Philip Murray, Pres. George M.
Harrison of the Brotherhood of
Railway Clerks, and Pres. Harvey
W. Brown of the Int’l Association
of Machinists.
The five men spoke over the na
tional network of the American
Broadcasting Company Saturday
night (March 12), in a half-hour
program sponsored by the Demo
cratic National Committee.
Sen. Thomas began the program
by quoting from “Business Week”
magazine, of Dec. 18, which assert
ed that “given a few million unem
ployed in America, and given an
administration in Washington
which was not pro-union, the Taft
Hartley Act could conceivably
wreck the labor movement.”
Sen. Thomas commented after
this quotation that it is difficult
for him to believe, in view of what
has happened, that the authors of
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most aristocratic names. A Uihlein
his descendents are the owners of
wealthiest families in the midwest,
irewery. but he retired and now it’s
as clashed with them frequently on
I major stockholders in the brewery,
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FOR POLITICAL UNITY—A. J.
Hayes, president-to-be of Int’l As
sociation of Machinists, is urging
the labor political organizations
active in the November elections
to unite into one group that can
be even more effective in future
j^getiona
Will Near NAM’s
Reasons Why It
Is Not A Lobby
Washington (LPA)—The Nat’l
Association of Manufacturer’s
high-powered legal staff will go
before a three-judge court of Fed
eral judges here soon to explain
on what grounds it believes the
lobbyist registration law is uncon
stitutional.
The NAM, which has been charg
ed by at least three Congressmen
with writing the major portion of
the Taft-Hartley law, filed suit
against the government in January
asserting that Congress did not
intend that the lobbist registration
law should apply to an organiza
tion “whose efforts to influence
legislation are merely incidental
to the purpose for which it is
formed.”
The Justice Dep’t asked several
weeks ago that the NAM suit be
thrown out as completely without
foundation, but the court decided
it would be better in the long run
to hear what the NAM has to say.
Four Labor Leaders Join With
Senator Thomas In T-H Radio Blast
the Taft-Hartley act have a gen
uine regard for the free enterprise
system in this country.
He was followed by Mr. Green,
who pointed out what organized
labor has done to fight communism
in the U.S. and how the American
voters had indicated their disgust
with the T-H act in the last elec
tions. Lincoln once said, Green as
serted, that “whatever hurts labor,
hurts the nation.”
In plain words, Carey asserted,
“the Taft-Hartley law is a loaded
law, which gives all the benefits to
management and it gives all the
difficulties, the burdens, the pen
alties, to the men and women who
work for a living and who join
trade unions to protect their jobs.”
“I don’t knot? of a single instance
where a worker fired his boss be
cause he was active in the Nat’l
Association of Manufacturers or
the Chamber of Commerce,” Carey
said. “I do know of cases when
workers are being discharged or
demoted for union activity. So long
as that continues, a law to protect
the basic rights of workers will be
necessary.”
Brown said that boiled down the
issue of the Thomas bill today is
one of collective bargaining against
individual bargaining. When sup
porters of the T-H law say their
law is a bill of rights for workers,
they
give
mean that the law seeks to
a worker the encouragement
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Salem Local Will
Hold "Hill Billy’
Show On April 6
Salem, Ohio—As this.writer be
gan assembling his notes to com
pile a letter to the ‘Herald’, the
thought comes to mind that it will
not be long until I will have to pre
pare for competitive fish stories
from the Isaac Waltons at our
plant. With work slowing up some
what, it will give our boys an op
portunity to catch up on a sport
that has been sadly neglected
last few years.
the
the
the
Our baseball team that let
potters know they were in
game last year at our national pic
nic, and softball team that won
the city championship in 1948, as
well as two basketball teams, one
playing under the banner of
V.F.W. th$J pnde&up ip the jseihj.
final? at Columbus, also .will b?
coming in the shop with tales that
are‘stretched, liked rubber bands.
Blend thepe in wit^’clay ^tdst and
WC-willfalt agrpp, a is
nqjt the wdrfsi/ji^. -C...
■..At ourdasUmeetiaftwe voted in
the. primary-..for. national officials,
topped off with a lunch and ama
teur contest, with all three going
over big. It seems all our meetings
lately ends up with preparation.
Now we are preparing for a so
called ‘Hill Billy’ show to be held
on April 6 that will be incompar
able. This will be followed by the
super-duper celebration in October,
commemorating our golden anni
versary.
Our shop and health committee
have been doiqg a fine job and de
serve a vote of thanks. A pat on
the back'is also extended our fore
man for his cooperation. —O.C,
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75c Wage Floor
Bill Sent To
House Debate
sev-
Washington (LPA)—After
eral days of hot argument, the
House Labor Committee last week
finally ‘produced the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1949, which will
be debated on the floor next week,
if present plans of the Democratic
leadership go thru.
The new bill would raise the
minimum wage from the present
40c to 75c, would extend the cov
erage of retail establishments to
1,500,000 more workers, would
make it easier for firms with an
nual wage guarantees to comply
with the law, and would center ad
ministration of the wage-hour law
directly uhder the Secretary of
Labor.
The measure is a compromise,
agreed to by the pro-labor Demo
crats in the committee in order to
try to get the votes of their south
ern colleagues. On every close is
sue the vote in committee was 13
to 12, with ailing Rep. Adam Clay
ton Powell (D, NY) sticking thru
the sessions to cast his crucial
vote. Only southerner who voted
for the stronger law was Rep.
Hugo S. Sims (D, S.C.). Despite
several concessions, the solid GOP
bloc was joined by Reps. Wood (D,
Ga.), Barden (D., N. C.) and Lucas
(D, Texas).
In last-mifiute maneuvers the
bill was weakened by a whole ser
ies of exemptions which were put
in to appease the southerners.
While they didn’t cast their Votes
for the bill, the southerners did
succeed in eliminating from the
wages and hours, provisions of the
proposed bill all agricultural work
ers, all executive, administrative or
professional workers and all out
side salesmen, all workers engaged
in “catching, taking, propagating,
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Federal Loan Agency For
Conservation Needed
Washington (LPA)—A broad
conservation program is necessary
unless we are to always have scar­
city prices for some products, the
Public Affairs Institute warned last
week.
In a study called “Qur Conserva
tion Job,” the Institute suggests
the establishment of a National
Resources Corporation that would
make loans to individuals financing
soil conservation, crop work, and
forest conservation. A large-scale,
well-planned job is* necessary, the
report points out, and under the
present system of financing, either
by ordinary loans or by Congress
ional appropriations it is impos
sible.
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Washington (LPA)—HorM
trading between opponents
^roug.^rent. controls and JHkmi
Expediter Tighe Woods showed
last week that the Administration
expected defeat in advance of the
House vote on the rent control bill
reported by the House Banking
Committee.
In the first test vote, the mem
bers of the House narrowly turned
down a proposal by Rep. Jesse
Wolcott (R, Mich.) to continue pre
sent controls, but only for 90 days.
Wolcott had argued that all signs
point to a depression, that in a de
pression there’s more doubling-up
of families and therefore more
vacancies, and that therefore the
housing shortage may end and the
need for rent controls will be over.
The other crucial vote, still to
come, will be over a proposal by
Rep. Paul Brown (D, Ga.), which
was defeated naTrowly. in the
Banking Committee, to write into
the bill an order to the rent con
trol agehey gfcnrantee^ each
landlord a “fair return” on each of
his properties. This would be al
most impossible to administer, ac
cording to Woods.
However, apparently in an effort
to head it off, Woods is circulating
to “doubtful” Congressmen a list
of areas which he intends to decon
trol if the rent law is approved as
reported by the House committee.
More than 100 counties in some
30 states, according to some House
members, are slated for decontrol
if Woods’ “horse-trade” goes thru.
On the Senate side, the rent
control bill was also having a
tough time. Filibustering, southern
Democrats, control the Banking
subcon'irn’flftde bbilSftig hearings on
the measure. Sen. Jpnn .Sparkman
(D, Alh.) asked eacn witness who
appeared befdfre tbeiff if he thought
rent control Was “key” matter.
As eSch replied' yes, Sparkman
would ruefully “explain” that a
little matter of a change in a Sen
ate rule threatened to kill rent
control.
The filibustered were threaten
ing to delay action beyond the
March 31 expiration date of the
present law, but Sen. Francis
Myers (D, Pa.), Democratic whip,
told the committee in a statement
that the real estate lobby has used
the Communists’ tactics to fight
rent control. “Cause confusion,
cause turmoil, throw gimmicks in
the works, sabotage every worth
while proposal, and let’s have dog
eat dog. The Communist party
works that way,” he said. “Doesn’t
the real estate lobby know what
hit them on Nov. 2?” he asked.
Meanwhile, the new “front” for
the real estate lobby, the Nat’l As
sociation of Property Owners, con
tinued to pack the hearing room
with landlords and landladies from
all over the country, carefully
coached and well financed by what
Rep. Adolph Saba th (D, Ill.) charg
ed was a $3,000,000 lobby
EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1949
Executive Board Sets Date For Annual Convention
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FRIENDS OF OLEO—No-one objected to
FRIENDS OF OLEO No-one objected to thebe decorative pickets
outside the building in which the House Agriculture Committee deliber
ated last week on federal laws regulating oleomargarine. The poor
man’s butter—used by an increasing number of families feeling the
pinch of inflation—lost in the Committee, which voted to repeal federal
taxes, but prohibits the transportation of colored oleo, across state
lines. Only 13 states have plants manufacturing colored margarine, so
in the other 35 housewives will have to continue the old bowl-and-spoon
method of preparing the spread.
HORSE-TRADING MARKS
RENT CONTROL BATTLE
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Work Picks Up At
Universal Plant
At Cambridge, Ohio
Cambridge, Ohio—There was a
Small turnout at our last meeting
when we held our primary election
for national officials. This was
probably due to the bad March
weather. John Tdlip, Vice Pres
ident, was in charge of the meet
ing in the absence of Frank Camp
bell, who is in the hospital.
Brother Lawrence Keates of the
W^fare Committee made a report
of the cash donation presented to
a disabled brother, who has been
confined to bed at Coshocton since
last July. A letter of appreciation
from the family thanking the
mem^ujss of Ldcal 122 was read.
The meeting took on the air of
the filibuster in Washington when
someone opened a discussion of
the Potters News which was freely
distributed around the shops. It
was thoroughly cussed and dis
cussed for almost an hour. This
was followed by a nice talk by
Harold West from Local 124. His
remarks were mostly a review of
events in the organization since
the last convention. He deplored
the state of affairs within the or
ganization, especially the court
action involving certain members
and our national officials. He pre
dicted that someday the member
ship would settle affairs at a con
vention and hot by a court action.
The membership is sorely sick of
the whole mess and a squaring1
away would be a welcome relief.
Amen.
ProdUctioh has picked up at the
plants of Universal, especially at
Plant No. 3 where overtime work
is necessary to meet demand.
Business Lobbies
"Worse Than Ever
Washington (LPA)—A persona!
letter from an AFL voter “is worth
a bundle of form letters from pro
fessional labor baiters,” Director
Joseph Keenan of Labor’s League
for Political Education asserted
last week in a special message to
AFL members.
Despite the November election
mandate, Keenan said, “the same
special interest lobbies which con
trolled the 80th Congress are
swamping this Congress with a de
luge of propaganda designed to
mislead Congressmen into thinking
that the American people don’t
want rent control or low cost hous
ing, that Social Security and aid to
education are communistic, that
the Taft-Hartley Act is a fair law.”
Mouldmakers Ask
For Own Local
In Trenton Area
Trenton, N. J.—LoenI Union 45
is ah a five-day week schedule
these days but the officers and
members are meeting on Saturday
afternoon to take care of many
matters, some of which were pro
bably neglected, due to overtime
requirements.
At our meeting on March 11, a
recommendation of the Conference
Committee was accepted by the
local to be presented to the com
pany on the anniversary of our
contract. The date of the anniver
sary in April 29 and any brother
having a grievance to be presented
should see that it is endorsed by
the local immediately.
%The mouldmakeys are petitioning
separate.chapter in the.hope
t^y wilt be* better ’able tp taj^e
earf of their problems if they have
tljeir own local, A resolution of jdis
sffiliation
w^r
The primary election of nation
al' officers aroused very little in
terest in spite of the polls being
opened at 2:30 p. m. to afford all
a chance to register their choice.
It is just as important to cast your
ballot in the primaries as in the
general election. Tellers were
James Acton, Russell Southard and
our two very efficient secretaries.
The general election for national
officials and delegates to the A. F.
of L. convention will be held at our
first meeting in May. Delegates to
the annual convention in Atlantic
City will also be elected on this
date. —O.C.
Representatives of organized
labor will serve on important com
mittees, emphasizing the import
ance of safety education and acci
dent prevention to union men and
women.
SCA Fund Authority
before Senate Now
Washington (LPA) For the
year beginning April 3, the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee last
week authorized appropriation of
as much as $5,580,000,000 for the
European Recovery Program, This
was the amount asked of Congress
by the Economic Cooperation Ad
ministration.
Once the jam caused by the
Dixiecrat-GOP filibuster is cleared
away in the Senate, committee
Chairman Tom Connally (D, Tex.)
predicts quick passage of the Fund
authorization.
NOTICE JIGGERMEN
A special meeting for all
jiggermen working on the
semi-automatic will be held
Sunday, March 20 in Room
No. 3 at national headquarters.
Jiggermen from Wellsville
and East Palestine are re
quested to be present
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Bro, George Copestake retired
recently and rumor has it
Harry Sheppard will follow
this week.
Bro.
suit
and
Vacations start next month
we are informed the company
hopes all employees will have their
full period this year which we hope
will include an extra week for
those with over 10 years service.
Our meetings are well attended
and we have many interesting dis
cussions which should be of inter
est to all members. It is the duty
and privilege of all members to
attend the meetings of their local
union and join in these discussions,
to promote the interests of all.
How about it brothers?
Education Bill
Only One-Third
What Is Needed
Washington (LPA)—The federal
aid to education bill—sponsored by
Sen. Elbert Thomas (D, Utah), and
seven other Democrats and six Re
publicans is inadequate, the
AFL’s Committee on Education as
serted last week.
“Nothing less than a billion dol
lars can begin to do what must be
done,” committee chairman and
AFL Vice-president Matthew Woll
asserted. This contrasts with tho
authorization for $300,000,000 a
year contained in the Thomas-Taft
bill, which is now before the Sen
ate Labor Committee. The Thomas
Taft bill would aim to provide at
least $50 a year for education for
every child in the country, with the
federal government providing no
less than $5 a child, and more for
the poorer states. e
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Pres. Duffy Will
Attend President’s
Safety Conference
President James M. Duffy ann
ounced this week acceptance of an
invitation from President Harry S.
Truman to attend a Conference on
Industrial Safety which opens in
Washington on March 23.
The Brotherhood chief along
with other officials and represent
atives of industry, management
and safety organizations will hear
President Truman personally em
phasize h|s interest in fewer indus
trial accidents and deaths. The
President will make the first ad
dress of the 3-day Conference, call
ed at his request.
The billion dollars, according to
the AFL, is needed for these pur
poses: “1—To raise public school
teachers' salaries. '2—To provide
essentia] services for all children
to protect and promote their health
and welfare. 3—To provide scholar
ships and loans for worthy stud
ents in need thereof, to enable
them to complete their education.
4—To provide aid for a sorely
needed school building program.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
OF OPERATIVE POTTERS'}’
Fifty-Fifth Parley Will
Open Monday, June 27 In
Atlantic City Auditorium
The fifty-fifth annual convention of the National Brotherhood of
Operative Potters will open Monday, June 27, in the convention room
of the Atlantic City Auditorium, located or the famous boardwalk at
the seaside resort. This fact was made town this week following a
meeting of the Executive Board.
The audit 'im has accommodated the conv tion the past four
years and offer_ better facilities, for handling the a:.:.ual parley than any
of the larger hotels which were used in the past .years. The large airy
room used by the potters is extremely popular with the delegates be
cause of the cool breezes and clear v.ew uf the near-by ocean.
INSTEAD OF HARTLEY—Rep.
Peter J. Rodino (D, NJ), the young
attorney who’s in Congress from
Fred Hartley’s old district, told the
House Labor Committee last week
how his constituents repudiated
Hartleyism by a slashing majority
on Nov. 2.
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$2.00 PER YEAR
The delegates as in former years
will no doubt be confronted with
many serious questions to be given
a hearing that will have an import
ant bearing on the running of the
organization.
As provided in section 9 of the
Constitution, local unions through
qut the trade shall elect delegates
it Any bn* ‘stated meeting-in May.
The, Executive Board, it is
thought, will have a short pre-con
vention meeting to take up among
other things, the appointing of the
various committees which will work
together throughout the conven
tion.
The opening session undoubtedly
will be given over to the reading
of the financial statement of the
organization and a complete offic
ers* report.
Members elected to the Execu
tive Board this year will be install
ed at the fifty-fifth annual conven
tion.
Textile Union Ask z
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Quick Repeal OF f1
Taft-Hartley Law
Washington (LPA)—Two major
unions reminded Congress last
week that not only organized labor,
but the great mass of unorganized
working men and women in this
country, and indeed, the American
public as a whole, are impatient
for the quick repeal of the vicious
Taft-Hartley act and the re-enact
ment of the Wagner act with
changes suggested by President
Truman.
The suggestions were made in
letters from the Textile Workers
of America and the Communica
tions Workers of America-Ind.
Both letters attracted attention,
though he House Labor Comniit
tee spent almost all week hearing
representatives of management, all
of whom urged retention of the
T-H act.
John Edelman, of the Textile
Workers, addressed letters to all
members of the House Labor Com
mittee saying his organization was
concerned over the fact that a
number of textile plants are now
giving “questionnaires” to their
employes on what kind of labor
legislation they would like. The
questions are all loaded, Edelman
wrote, and though the union mem
bers who received them know
enough to refuse to answer as ex
pected, the many unorganized
workers are filling them out as
the employer wants andr mailing
them to their congressmen^
“We in organized labor can pro
bably take care of ourselves,” Edel
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Auto Workers’ Summer School
Forecasts Record Enrollment
Milwaukee (ILNS).—The fourth
annual Summer School for Work
ers sponsored by the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, A FL,
will open June 19 at the University
of Wisconsin in the Badger State’s
capital city of Madison. The insti
tute will continue for 2 weeks,
ending July 2.
Courses offered will include
Union Leadership, Collective Bar
gaining, Time.Study, and Advanced
Job Evaluation. This latest course
will be a follow-up to the basic
job evalution classes held during
the 1947 and 1948 institutes. The
wide appeal of the School for
Workers and the ever-increasing
interest in labor education are ex
pected to result in a record enroll
ment at the school this summer.
The labor institute is designed
exclusively for UAW-AFL mem
bers. However, a limited number
of exceptions will be made upon
the proper recommendation from a
UAW-AFL affiliate. There are no
other restrictions on enrollment
and no previous educational qual-
ifications are required. The UAW
AFL has engaged the top labor in
structors in the country to conduct
the classes and give the students
every, opportunity for complete and
accurate participation in the latest
developments in the field of labor.
In addition to the regular study
courses, a varied program of rec
reation and relaxation has been
planned. Students will be housed
in some of the finest university
buildings on the campus, and the
many facilities of the university
placed at their disposal. Madison is
ideally located, surrounded as it
is by beautiful clear, inland lakes,
ideal for bathing, boating and
fishing.
Students may bring their wives
for the entire 2 weeks at a rea
sonable extra charge, and veterans
may attend this school with most
of the cost being covered under
the GI Bill of Rights. Further in
formation on the summer school
may be had by contacting the
UAW-AFL, at 429 West Michigan
Street, Milwaukee 3, Wis.
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