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I ,‘ ^Thursday, March 81, 1949
And Wage Boost For 1,000,000 Workers
Chicago (ILNS). Final terms*—-------------------------- .|
on a wage increase and shortening]
of the work-week benefiting almost
1,000,000 non-operating railroad
workers throughout the nation
were reached here in a settlement
hailed by a union spokesman as the
“most momentous” wage and hour
movement in America’s industry
history.
The settlement, extending the
basic 40-hour week to the railroads
for the first time and ending an
11-month dispute, was worked out
on a formula recommended by a
presidential fact-finding board.
The 40-hour week, at the same
pay the workers receivevd for 48
hours, become effective next Sept.
1, but an additional wage increase
of 7 cents an hour is retroactive to
last Oct. 1. Excepted from the gen
eral terms of the “third-round”
wage boost are the yardmasters,
who will continue on a 6-day week
with an increase of 10 cents an
hour. Also excepted are some 30,
000 employes now on a 7-day week
who will go on a 6-day week Sept.
1 without loss of pay. ^Vbout half
of these are dining car workers.
Overtime After 40 Hours
Overtime in excess of 8 hours in
a day or 40 hours in a week will be
paid generally at the rate of time
and one-half. Although Saturdays
and Sundays will be considered
ordinary work days, the .carriers
must arrange for a maximum num
ber of employes to have those days
off. However, they have the pri
vilege of staggering the work
week where necessary to avoid
overtime rates for those days.
The agreement said the 2 days
are to be given consecutively so
far as practical, but the railroads
have the right to split these days
off under certain circumstances—
generally when penalty overtime
payments otherwise would be un
avoidable.
G. E. Lei’ghty of St. Louis, pres
ident of the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers and one of the nego
tiators, said the recommendations
“discriminated against the yard
masters by not recommending a
shorter work-week for them.”
He added, however, that the
agreement “brings to a successful
conclusion the most momentous
wage and hour movement in rail
road history, or for that matter, in
the history i of American industry.*’
In handing down its recommen
dations, the board said the 40-hour
week is “firmly a part of our na
tional industrial policy,” to which
the railroads “now stand out as a
striking exception.”
One objective of good work is to
receive good wages* Don’t throw
them away on shoddy, non-union
goods!
IT WILL BE A
bigger dollar
LATER ON
That dollar you thoughtlessly
pull from your billfold to spend
now will be a bigger dollar in
the future. Its spending power
can be almost doubled when the
pressure of inflation eases. Now
—more than ever before—is the
time to save your money. Put it
where it will do the greatest
good—come in today and start
a savings account with us.
SAVE now at
First National
Member FDIC
East Liverpool’s Oldest Bank
Phone 914
for happier
SPENDING later
Furniture-- Stoves
Bedding Curtains
Drapery--Rugs--Carpets
Paint—Appliances
Dinner & Cooking Ware
Seven Floors Of Quality Furniture And AU Furnish
Ings To Make A House A Comfortable Home.
Established 1880 East Liverpool, Ohio
Convenient Terms
CROOK’S
THE BEST PLACE TO BUT AFTER ALL”
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Rail Pact Calls For Shorter Work Weekn^^^T'"] Swedish Union I If
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ernor for his explicit endorsement! in the world today.
Professors George S. Counts of
ence as a Communist-conceived
venture. hare a
The Americans for Intellectual [world history.
Freedom called a rival meeting for|
March 26, at Freedom House, to be|
addressed, among others, by Pro-|about it, either,
fessor H. J. Muller of Indiana Uni-1
Browder Charges
Burn Communists
New York (LPA)—The almost- jit js a ghastly business.
Union Heid Hails I TREI Makers Concli,*E
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Ynrk Citv (IT NS) —Davidl®1*8' We know that another
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Dubinsky, president of the Inter-I w in pretty near blast the world to|Labor.
union representatives who are I
national Ladies’ Garment Workers p,eces’ touring the US under the sponsor
Union sent a wire to Gov. Thomasl We know that this treaty haslship of the Economic Cooperation
E. Dewey acclaiming his “clear-|l)een negotiated out of fear that I Administration stopped over ini I
cut and uncompromising stand onl unless we are ready at the drop of
the so-called Cultural and Scienti-Ia ha* Jike,y tear us
of the Americans for Intellectual! The Russian people know only I most unionists support.
He branded as phoney the pro- puppets comes from within Russia. T1.1 se™ce eJaT?a °!L
paganda line of many pro-CP union| If Russia doesn’t start a war|J!’.®,,r ftn.VSS J?dp. JJt”’ u
officials that wage raises should [there will be no war. [Hitherto the NLRB itself has been
come solely out of profits, andj Did ever great nations find them- |Jbe Jud^e of the qualifications of[
must not result in higher prices, [selves in such a position of frus-|th®s® ^?p., ye8,
It is impossible to consistently apdtration, of fear, of helpless waiting C!y“ Service Commission of-| I
ply such a policy, Browder declar-|to see what a powerful fiend might |fc,a Y"°, drafted thq exam is I
ed. While using this line as a|do? [known to be a friend of Denham’s.
weapon in its buttles against such| Never in all recorded history. |®.y irJt®rest’nK coincidence[
union heads as President Joseph) We have among us apologists |. 8 °f"cia‘adyisor from the Amer-
Curran of the Nat’l Maritime) for the soviets who tell us that|’canAss n. .wa* a ^awye^ ybo|
Union and President Michael Quill I Russia will make no war, that werjs bandp anti-union cases before)
of the Transport Workers Union,|are seeing ghosts and hearing ...
the CP raised no objections to its|hobgoblins. But the voice* of auth-| 7hlIe NLRB, experienced ex-11
followers campaigning for wage|ority will come from Russia and|aminers flunked this examina-|
boosts that did involve price in-[from Russia only. |Jlon’, seX®ra* underlings Den-[I
creases in unions which they dom-1 [ham s office, who ve never heard 11
inated, Browder demonstrated. So long as it remains a part of|? caJJ? ?.n “ves were certified
The ex-Stalinist leader also cri-|the communist religion that com-|by .1V1 Service as qualified for[
ticized the CP for not putting for- |munism must conquer the world, ifJexam,ner J0®8- These Denham pro-1
ward an “alternative” to the Mar-[will be as it is now. It cannot bepej?es are *or appointment)
shall plan for European recon-[otherwise. [as replacements for the men facing) 1
struction. He asserted that the only If there is a measure of security|di^?,ssak.
way American workers can be |for freedom it must lie in such a| The 'tnaJ examiners currently 11
wooed away from support of the [document as the Atlantic treaty. |undJ^ "re ”fve never k‘‘en noted) I
Marshall plan is by presenting) Russia, like bullies, seems to un-|a8 ,ends tke *a*X)r movement.[I
them with a better scheme, not [derstand superior force. .ey shown no tendency to I
simply attacking ERP as the Com-| And we have that superior force.tke anti-union quality of)
munists have done. jThe Russian orbit has the edge inPke Taft-Hartley law. For the most)
Hall’s reply side-stepped Browd-[number of population, but we have|par^’ however, they have been)
er’s key statement, that CP policy|the big edge in force. Much of|conscientious and fair minded men[l|
has cost the pro-Communist “left-[Russia’s population can be counted|wbo1 kave enf°rced the Taft-Hart- [l
wingers” in the labor movement las more of a liability than an asset.|Jey ‘awj18 Congress wrote it, and| [I
whatever strength they once had. Well, there it is—awful to con-|J? accordance with their obliga-j
“remp^a^e’ must await the de-,
I jcision of others.
Union Assisting
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fic Conference for World Peace”|t° pieces some bright morning be-1 After acknowledging the cordial
and branding the latter as thepore we are awake. [greetings .that the AFL men gavel
“latest o u n i s propaganda! the Russian people don’tIthem, Strand described the accom-1 I I
stunt on the international level.” I know it. Iplishments of the Swedish labor! I
Dubinsky also thanked the Gov-I There is the most
baffling fact I movement, thru the unions and the!
Convention.
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Freedom, a committee headed bylwhat the soviet government wants I gvald Johansson, chairman of 11|
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them to know. Miners Union, supplemented 11
Columbia University and/Sidney! S° the Russian people undoubt-Igtrand’s speech by explaining thell
Hook of New York University,ledly believe we are war mongerslciose relations between the Swed-11
which has been actively opposingland.that we are uniting a group of I unjons and the Social Demo-11
the Cultural .and Scientific Confer-[nations to tear Russia apart. [cratic Party. He said that the Soc-||
It is an evident fact that we[jai Democrats have 84 members in
situation unique in senate to the Communists’
v three. The cabinet is Social Demo
[cratic, and has the support of the|
versity, leading American genetic-|an7 considerable amount of think-[declared.
ist’and Nobel Prizewinner. ling on their own hook, we don’t| He p^ed out tbat thru com-|
know about that, either. bined uni cooperative and ^i-
There isn’t much we can dolvvorkers who want a democratic [II
planned economy but who have de-1
If the Russian people are doing[cigjve]y rejected Communism, [[II
For the soviet government al- ticaI action Swediah has
lows the outside world to know achieved the hi hest standard of
only what the soviets want the out-| livin in Europe.
side world to know. I
The flow of information both[ 9
ways in controlled or blocked.
I This is censorship at its worst.|NLI10
forgotten former head of the US| People from opinions on the[E£0A
Communist Party, Earl Browder, [basis of what they know, or whatj
came back into the news last week.[they think they know.
Gus Hall, Ohio CP national com- Undoubtedly the average Russ-| Washington (LPA)—The NLRB
mitteeman gave over two editorial lian thinks he knows that we are a[is in a tizzy this week over the
columns in the Daily Worker to an |nation of war ijriongers, because he [probable loss of 15 of its mostj
attack on Browder. The contro-|has no information upon which to [competent trial examiners. Evil
versy has since found its way into [base any other opinion. [genius of the “strictly legal” purge
the columns of regular New York| His government tells him we arejis NLRB General Counsel Robert [I
dailies. |war mongers and he has no way of [Denham, himself a former trial ex-|
Principal target for Hall’s at-[getting any contrary information. |aminer, and one-time friend of|
tack is a Browder pamphlet pub-[j{e is a victim of his government’s[many of |he men he wants to|l
lished in December 1948 called [lies. So are we. [purge.
“The Decline of the Left-Wing in Altho most
American Unionism.”
U| AH Aff*
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[indeed if we waited in helplessness. |*n the trial examiner s reports,
[Even knowing how horrible anoth-|they are crucial figures in al||l
jer war can be, we must nonethe-|^LPP action under any federal) [II
[less do just what we are doing. |labor relations statute. It is even 11
l[ Let us have no weakness aboutPearei that some cases initially II
lour support of the Atlantic treaty.|heard by tbe men losin» their i°bsd III
|lt is a great fist in the face of,|in which decisions not quite to the 11
[those who understand no other|unionrbater8’ lik,n» were rendered,]I
[symbol! |can now be reopened in the courts)II
.... on the plea that decisions of men
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[now labeled “not qualified” are not[
[of them men disabled in combat—jset up an anti-union panel of ex-[
[started to work in custom tailor [aminers which could rob labor of
[shops. They owe their training for [any victory over Tafty-Hartley it)
[this skilled work to a program [scores in Congress.
[launched by the Amalgamated)———
[Clothing Workers of America. [apprentices, earning 80c an hour)))
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The idea of training disabled]—with the federal government,[II
Ivets for skilled custom tailor jobs|under the GI Bill of Rights [l[
(originated with Patrick De Mare,[supplementing their apprentice pay [I
manager of Local 162 and Herman [up to $240 a month for single vet-| l|
iHolzknecht, manager of Local 1 ofjerans, and more for men with de
ACWA. They enlisted the supportjpendents. At the end of four years [l|[
of the New York Board of Educa-[as apprentices, during which time la)
tion and progressive employers injthey’ll have more training—at
planning and carrying thru a 1200[night—the veterans will be quali
hour training program. [fied members of a highly skilled
Having completed this course thejeraft, covered by ACWA’s union
veterans are now working asjwage scale.
THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
Cincinnati (LPA) One nighII
I treaty. I Strand, chairman of .the 1.250,Cool I
We know we are not war mong-lmember Swedish Federation of
war|ish
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There is no reason why the world I members of the five man NLRB I
lare genuinely distressed at the 11
Surely the. soviets haven’t a Iprospect of losing some of their 11
Browder pointed out that the [must undergo another war.
pro-CP elements in the American ...
unions, for all their talk of milit-[thing this nation wants. The soviet |best aides, they have not yet made
ancy” had failed to evolve a pohcyJregime is welcome to keep what it |up their minds as to whether or|
on wages and other union issues |has, except that we would like it |not they can under the law effec-|
substantially different from the|to recover from its bigotry its tively u’p the appeals that the
policy of what Browder calls stupidity and. its hate of all things threatened trial examinerg. are
right and center unions. The ex-|not communist. But we have no|carTying to the civii Service Com-|
pelled Communist functionary de-[idea of forcing that change by [mission II
dared that the actual practices of [violence. Not on your life. .. 11
CP-led unions are nearly identical) The danger to the soviets comesL. Rec®nt,Y’ under the Admmistra-|
with those of “right-wing” unions [from within the borders of Russia, f1?®. Proce.(,ures Act, all NLRB
in similar industries. just as the danger to the soviet P™ exa?iners had Jo undergo a
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trial examiners is not just a|III
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[13 World War II veterans—most jTaft-Hartley, but is designed to)
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FOR PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
DUFFY, JAMES M. (Tumor)
Local Union No. 7*
Loccd Union No. 124 fast Liverpool Ohio,
WHIPPIER. NORMAN (Liner)
Local Union No. 124----- East Liverpool Ohio
FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER
(Vote for One)
CALHOON, P. K. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 9
JONES. ED. J. (Caster)
Local Union No. 44
JORDAN, CHAS. F.
Local Union No. 59.,
PAKER, LAWRENCE F. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 113---------- —Los Angeles.
(Vote for Ono)
CARTWRIGHT, ALFRED R. (Tumor)
Local Union No. 10, ,, East Liverpool Ohio
GARNER. WILLARD (Handler)
Local Union No. 10 ___ East Liverpool Ohio
HULL, FRANK (Decorating Kilmnan)
Local Union No. 124 ... ... .East Liverpool Ohio
WEST. HAROLD (Liner)
Local Union No. 124.
SAMPLE BALLOTr
The following is a replica of the official ballot for primary election of National Of
ficers and Delegates to the American Federation of Labor Convention, which in accord
ance with law, must be printed in each issue of the Potters Herald during the entire vot
ing period of the primary election.
Malo, N. Y.
FINLAY, LABRY (Jiggormtm)
Local Union No. 12------------------Mt Liverpool Ohio
.East Liverpool Ohio
SALSBERRY, GEORGE M. (Jiggorman)
Local Union No. 24 Wellsville,
SHUMAN, LEWIS (Tumor)
Local Union No. 10.
.Sobring, Ohio
Sebring, Ohio
Calif.
Ohio
JEaat Liverpool. Ohio
FOR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
CUBBY, ED. (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 124---------------Eadl Liverpool Ohio
WHEATLEY, E. L. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 8---------.East Liverpool Ohio
FOR SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
font Liverpool Ohio
FOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
ARMSTRONG, CLAIR (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 124 East
BOSSEN. WILLIAM F. (Tumor)
Local Union No. 10 ——East
SLAVEN, JAMES (Liner)
Local Union No. 124..
Liverpool Ohio
Liverpool Ohio
JEaat Liverpool Ohio
FOR FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
PHILLIPS. VERNE D. (Sanitary Caster)
Local Union No. 50 Camdsn,
ZIMMER, CHARLES (Sanitary Caster)
Local Union No. 45
(Vote for Ono)
DEVLIN, ARTHUR (Packer)
Local Union No. 184.... „t,
HIBBS, WILLIAM (Tumor)
Local Union No. 35 ,_
PERDUNN, FRED (Castor)
Local Union No. 35 ....... ,v
FOR SIXTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Voto for One)
APPLEGATE. FRANK M. (Kilnfireman)
Local Union No. 59 Sebring. Ohio
BARKER, BEN. F. (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 12 East Liverpool Ohio
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM J. (Jiggerman)
Local Union No. 183 ,,, Erwin. Tenn.
COFFEY, JAMES (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 122
DALES, FRANK (Castor)
Local Union No. 4 East Liverpool
JHAMUTON. B. R. (Doc)'(Turner)
Local Union No. 10 __East UverpooL
STARK. WILLIAM H*(Kilnman)
Local Union No. 42 _________
SNYDER. HENRY (Sanitary Caster)
N. J.
.Trenton, N. J.
FOR FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT
Trenton, N. J.
.Trenton. N. J.
.Trenton. N. J.
.Cax&bridge, Ohio
JIVIDEN, FLOYD (Kilnfiroman)
Local Union No. 130 fast Liverpool Ohio
LLEWELLYN, JOSIAH (Dipper)
Local Union No. 201 —Huntington Park, CaliL
COBB. CHAS. M. (Dish Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 108
Ohio
Ohio
-Salem, Ohio
Bodford. Ohio
W
FOR SEVENTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
BEVAN, DAVID (Castor)
Local Union No. 89
Clarksburg, W. Va.
BOSO, CHARLES B. (Kilndrawor)
Local Union No. 17 L.._ East Liverpool Ohio
BOWMAN. WILLIAM C. (Sanitary Caster)
Local Union No. 133 New Castle, Pa.
BRATT, NOBMAN H. (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 24. W-H«^He,
CUBLEY. THOMAS A. (Handler)
Local Union No. 10 East Liverpool
DESMOND. T. J. (Dipper)
Local Union No. 70____
DIGMAN. GUY V. (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 12----------- JEast Liverpool
DORFF, JOHN A. (Art War* Castor)
Local Union No. 178
GILKISON, G. E. Sr. (Turner)
Local Union No. 10--------- --------East Liverpool
MORROW, ROBERT (Warehouseman)
Local Union No. 42-------------------------------Salom, Ohio
SULLIVAN, JAMES (Castor)
Local Union No. 44
SULLIVAN, O. L. (Pat) (Kilnman)
Sebring, Ohio
WILLARD, WILBERT (Warehouseman)
Local Union No. 86------------------ East Liverpool Ohio
FOR EIGHTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
BRUNT, GEORGE (Castor)
Local Union No. 4----------- ...East Liverpool Ohio
CHADWICK. JOSHUA (Jiggennan)
Local Union No_ 12 East Liverpool Ohio
DANIEju, WALTER G. (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 124------------------East Liverpool Ohio
HALL, LUTHER (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 12-East Liverpool Ohio
HAMILTON, JOHN W. (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 44 .Sebring, Ohio
LAWTON, SAMUEL (Turner) A
Local Union No. 24
DIGMAN, GUY V. (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 12 East UverpooL
EDWARDS, ABE (Caster)
Local Union No. 70 Minerva.
.Wellovillo, Ohio
LISK, FLOYD (Tally) (Handier)
Local Union No. 98 Grafton. W. Va.
SCHAEFER, GEORGE (Castor)
Local Union No. 4 East Liverpool Ohio
SIMMONS, EARL (Tradanan)
Local Union No. 98 ..............Gcafton, W. Va.
WILSON. CUFFORD (Kilnfiroman)
Local Union No. 130—_________East Liverpool Ohio
FOR DELEGATES TO A. F. L.
CONVENTION
(Vote for One East of the Allegheny Mountain*)
BROWN, JOSEPH D. (Packer)
Local Union No. 35 ..
SIMPSON. JOHN (Caster)
Local Union No. 45
BROWN, HAZEL (Liner)
Local Union No. 121
BROADBENT, BOY (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 9 East Liverpool
CAMPBELL FRANK (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 122 Cambridge.
.Trenton, N. J.
.Trenton. N. J.
(Vote for One West of the Allegheny Mountains)
BERRY, WILLIAM (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 192 _____ Sobring,
GANT. PEARL EDWARD (Kilnfireman)
Local Union No. 130 East UverpooL Ohio
KILUNGER, DAN (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 122
USK. FLOYD (Tally) (Handler)
Local Union No. 98
MAMRACK, JOHN M. (Packer)
Local Union No. 51
MANDLEY, FURM A. (Packer)
Local Union No. 70—_____
McDEVITT. EDW. (Dipper)
Local Union No. 18 East
O'DOWD, JOHN W. (Handler)
Local Union No. 113 Los
PENNINGTON, FRED (Caster)
Local Union No. 113 Los
SELL. THEODORE (Ted) (Jiggennan)
Local Union No. 12 East
VAN FOSSAN PAUL W. (Dipper)
Local Union No. 18 East
sWARD. JAMES (Warehouseman)
Local Union No. 88 East
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Cambridge, Ohio
Grafton, W. V®.
Canonsburg. Pa.
.Minerva. Ohio
Liverpool Ohio
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Liverpool
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