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fiaiwWwllglfiirinniiB 1 ■15 •i* 1 4 i. i- 3 4 i-, I 1 j£, 'k i I I i L/i PAGE TWO *’,!*** v- House Will Soon Vote 0 n Low-Cost Housing Program Washington (LPA)—The House is expected to vote this week to ap prove the full Fair Deal low-cost housing program, thus moving the much needed slum-clearance and home-building plan one step nearer to reality. The House Banking Committee, by a straight party Vote, last week approved the mea sure in a form that is even better than the similar bill passed several weeks earlier by the Senate. The House bill calls for construc tion by local authorities of 1,050, 000 units of low-rent housing, fin anced by one billion dollars in loans from the federal government. It also would make outright grants of another half-billion dollars for planning local slum clearance and carrying out these plans. The whole program of construction and clearance would cover a seven year period, and would be financed over a 40-year period. If approved, it could start July 1 in those cities and towns where there is enabling legislation providing for local hous ing authorities. In addition, the House commit tee voted a provision which would order the federal government to stop selling to private interests the migratory farm labor camps constructed during the days of the Farm Security Administration. The measure before the House differs from the Senate-passed bill in several respects. The Senate ap proved only 810,000 units in six years (providing for the same average rate, but for a shorter period of time.) Limitations on the total that can be provided by the federal government in grants arc set at (16 billion in the House bill and (12,320,000,000 in the Senate measure. Directly after the low-cost mea sures are out of the way, Senate and House Banking Committees are expected to tackle the pro blem of the “middle-income” fam ilies who make up about 40% of the population, and who are now left in a no-man’s land between the low-rent housing and the FHA guaranteed loan program which is primarily for homes costing more than (10,000. More than 30 bills to encourage cooperative ami mutually-owned housing developments for families in this income group have been in troditfad. iota--House, and Senate by members of both parties. The Cooperative Xeague-UBA has as signed an expert in the co-op hous ing field to work full-time with the Congressmen interested in this problem, and both AFL and CIO housing committee officials have been actively working for action on some measure in this session of Congress. Ten Republicans led by Rep. Jacob K. Javits (R, NY) introduc ed one such bill early in January, and more recently Reps. Hugh Mitchell (D, Wash.) and Thomas Burke (D, Ohio) have also intro duced such measures, intended to provide housing for rental or sale to go-op members at a rate of about (40 to (60 a month. Discouraged by such activities, the home-builders’ lobby—which speaks for the builders who would like to continue building (20,000 homes and (125-a-month apart ments—says that “the outlook for a high volume of housing this year is less encouraging” than might be expected from a look at the gen eral financial picture. That’s the view of the Executive Viet*-Pres ident Frank Cortright of the Nat’l Association of Homebuilders. Higher Rents (Continued From Page One) are reported up 30% to 50% since Woods’ order. Largest decontrol action by Woods so far has been the Little Rock, Ark. area. Local reports in dicate that the decontrol will work serious hardship on workers in the rail junction of North Little Rock, and for workers at the Alcoa and Reynolds Metal Co. bauxite opera tions in the adjoining county. The last area rent survey made for Woods’ office, in December 1948, FfcnmnirTidcd that controls be maiijUum-d because there were vir tually no vacancies, and all except one of 108 civic, landlord and other leaders interview said that rents would rise if controls were lifted. Since passage of the 1949 law, and a quick series of decontrol actions that followed within about 10 days, one area rent board has asked that controls be rcimposed. That is for the cities of Winslow and Holbrook, Ariz. Woods turned down the request on the grounds that it was not substantiated. However, he spelled out ut the same time “the principal yard sticks in a recontrol consideration.” These, he said, arc “whether rents have risen substantially since tie control, the extent to which these increases have occurred, and the trend and nature of evictions in the area. The evidence you present should be such us to 4tow that since decontrol, rents have risen Or threatened to rise unreasonably and therefore rent controls should be reestablished.” Giant Kennecott Cooper Corp. Is Defying Gov’t Salt Lake City, Utah (LPA)— When a union turns down an award of a fact-finding board, newspap ers raise the roof, but when an em ployer thumbs his nose at such a board, it’s “no news.” The press has hardly mentioned the fact that the Kennecott Cop per Corp.—biggest copper mining and smelting outfit in the world— has just told a federal fact-finding board to go hang. kennecott did so because the board sustained the claim of the union—in this case the Brotherhood of Ixicomotive Firemen & Engine men. I.ast fall, the Brotherhood stag ed a 103-day strike of its members on the big private railroad which operates in and out of the com pany’s huge open ore pits at Bing ham Canyon near here. At issue was the Brotherhood’s demand for “equal pay for equal work.” That is, it wanted the same pay rates for men on the mine railroad as are received by opera tors on another unit of ,the Kenne cott railroad system, to which cop per ore is relayed for shipment to smelters. The Brotherhood suspended the strike after the company finally agreed to submit the dispute to a three-man fact-finding board nam ed by the US Mediation & Concili ation Service. That board came down with its recommendations last week, sus taining the Brotherhood almost in full. It proposed a pay increase, of (2.71 a day to equalize the rates on the two sections of the railroad. Promptly, the company rejected the award. Its action was denoun ced by the Brotherhood as “inde fensible.” However, before decid ing whether to go on strike again, the union agreed to further medi ation of the dispute. Three-Mile (Continued From Page One) others for a two-week period effec tive with the end of the strike. As Ford plants thruout the coun try shut down due to shortages brought on by the walkout of the Dearborn workers, feelings ran high. Editorials similar to one* in the business publication “Journal of Commerce” which called the strike “another instance of a major union’s attempt to muscle in on management’s rights,” appeared in hundreds of papers thruout the country. The* 15,000-man picket line, how ever, expressed in no uncertain terms the fact that speedup was their concern, and a matter to be? fought for thru their union. “You are striking for the right of a man to be* a human being on the assem bly line,” Reuther told a cheering mass meeting. Crowds were attracted by the parade of workers for three miles past the gray plant walls in the* first strike* at the giant plant since* Ford was organized in 1941. tributions from merchants been pouring in and the first donation wau from the Plant tection Association of America, whose members in the past have be*en distinguished for anti-union activity. Con have cash Pro- Graveyard pickets have hit typical Detroit spring weather (under fifty degrees) and coffee consumption is high. Paper cups alone have cost the union (8C00 so far. The Michigan state Senate has denied welfare aid to Ford strikers, a move which is being protested by Local 660. Meanwhile, layoffs at other auto plants have brought idleness in the industry up to 150,900. Some 22,000 have been laid off at Chrys ler because of parts shortages. It’s interesting that Chrysler bus been working a hurry-Sp 54-hour week instead of the usual 40, followed by a layoff at the same time as the Ford strike. MONUMENT TO DEMOCRACY—TVA’s Cherokee Dam in east Tennessee has done more than Control floods, furnish power, and improve navigation. Along with other TVA projects Cherokee has enriched the lives of the people in the Tennessee Valley and made them active citizens in our democracy. Some Hope Held For FEPC Law In Ohio Senate Columbus, Q. (LPA) After winning in the Ohio House, organ ized labor’s campaign to put over a Fair Employment Practices Act foundered in the Senate last week. By the narrow margin of 17 to 15, the Senate killed the bill in a session marked by bitter argument. The Senate’s 13 Republicans voted to a man against the measure, and they were joined by four Demo crats in scuttling it. A “phony” substitute for crea tion of a commission which would merely seek to “educate” the pub lic regarding the evils of discrim ination was put through. Labor spokesmen declared that some of the lawmakers who voted against the FEPC measure betrayed their own promises made prior to the last election. Some hope was still held out for the measure, however. If, as ex pected, the House rejects the Senate substitute, the issue will then go to a conference of both chambers, out of which .a decent bill might still be salvaged. Employment (Continued From Page One) were greater than the company’s entire wage bill. They called atten tion too to the fact that oil work ers’ productivity has advanced con siderably since prewar days. President O. A. Knight is auth orized to call the committee back into session to formulate wage de mands whenever the time is ripe. With OWIU contracts expiring at widely scattered dates, it’ll be several months before the union will be able to assess how effective its campaign against unemploy ment is. Trenton Local (Continued From Page One) Gacki from the glost end are con valescing and will return to the bench when able. We had a visit from Charles Smith and Harry Naylor who seem to be enjoying retinal life very much. Come again brothers and bring some of the other retired brothers along. Since we are working only four days a week surely there is no ex cuse for absenteeism on Friday nights, so why not get to know your local, its workings and aspir ations. —O.C. 45 Demand the Union Label. •t -s A lA. AiSt. 1 Board Suggests. Rail Express Meo Follow Pattern Washington (LPA)—With Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D, NY) in the chair, a House Labor Subcom mittee began hearings last week on fair employment practices legisla tion. Democratic and Republican Senators were the first witnesses hoard in support of FEPC. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D, Minn.) pointed out that state and municipal FEPC statutes are work ing well in communities with a total population of 50,000,000. He reminded Congressmen that both political parties endorsed a federal FEPC in their 1948 platform. Equal job opportunity for all Americans, like foreign policy, is a proper subject for bipartisan legislative cooperation, he declared. Joining Humphrey in his plea for bipartisan action to redeem campaign pledges was Sen. Irving Ives (R, NY). The New York Re publican added that he thought friends of civil rights measures should concentrate on FEPC this THANK TVA FOR THAT CATCH—Fishing, 1 sport in the Tennessee valley, was very limited 15 years agobefore -------------the Tennessee Valldjr Authority built dams which formed large well-stocked lakes thruout the valley. The fellow here caught these croppie below Watts Bar Dam in Tennessee. THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO Washington (LPA)—A three man Presidential Emergency Board last week recommended for the 60,000 employes of Railway Ex press Agency the same wage and hour settlement ing unions had on the railroads that non-operat earlier agreed to generally, for a 7c an the most popular ars ago ADA Charges Cotton Lobby Bicks Franco hour Oct. with That provides wage increase, retroactive to 1, 1948 and a 40-hour week no reduction in earnings from the present 44-hour schedule -effective September 1, 1949. The Express Agency has been operating on, a 44-hour week while the non-oper ating employes had a 48-hour week. Leaders of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks-AFL, which spear headed the fight for the REA em ployes, were disappointed with the decision because, first, they feel that special circumstances of the Agency justified a larger wage in crease, and second they insisted that the 40-hour week ought to be instituted immediately. In New York City, where Rail way Express workers pounded the pavements for five weeks in a strike for the 40-hour week, union leaders indicated that they expect ed serious dissatisfaction with Presidential board’s findings. the FEPC Hearings Get Under Way Washington (LPA)—Part of the answer at least to the question “Why the sudden Senate interest in Franco Spain?” was furnished last week by the liberal-labor or ganization Americans for Demo cratic Action. ADA Executive Committee Chairman Joseph Rauh charged, in a telegram to Secretary of State Dean Acheson that 20 Senators, “the representatives of the Ameri can cotton interests” have been making a little deal with Franco’s banker to sell Hie US cotton sur plus to the Spanish dictatorship. They met last week on Capitol Hill with Francisco Moreno, pres ident of the Hispano-Americano Bank of Madrid to put the finishing torches on the deal, Rauh declar ed. The projected loan out of which Franco would buy surplus US cot ton would come from the Export Import Bank, and requires State Dep’t approval. ADA pointed out to Acheson that arty recognition of Franco would endanger the “constructive democratic foreign policy” that the US, with the support of liberal and trade union groups both here and abroad, has been developing. It would “clearly bolster the Soviet position.” Recently a newspaper columnist revealed that a large chunk of the (25,000,000 loan which the Chase Nat’l Bank of New York granted the Franco regime has been used for propaganda in the US. Acheson last week told a Senate committee that the US would ab stain from voting on the motion now before the United Nations to revoke that body’s ban on recogni tion of Franco. He said that the democracies of Europe want no part of Spanish fascism, and him self explained that basic freedoms are lacking under Franco tyranny. The US’s abstention from voting on the question was justified by Acheson on the grounds that it’s a European problem. The European nations must “take some steps” to persuade the Spanish government to so alter its ways as to be eligible for readmission into the “family.” Just how this would be done Ache son was unable to say. session of Congress. He suggested that if attention isn’t beamed on onj| major bjll no action in the whole field can be expected. FEPC, with its nation-wide application, is the most important item, Ives de clared. Powell has stated that he expects favorable action on the bill from the full Labor Committee. Two New York Congressmen— Isidore Dollinger (D) and Jack Javits (R) testified on behalf of the measure, stressing the success of New York state’s FEPC law. AFL and CIO spokesmen will speak for FEPC this week. FOR PRESIDENT (Vote for Ono) DUFFY, JAMES M. (Turner) Local Union No. 76 FINLAY, LARRY (Jiggerman) Local Union No. 12 CALHOON. P. K. (Kilnman) Locad Union No. I JORDAN. CHAS. F. (Kilnman) Local Union No. 59 ... Sebring, (Veto for Ono) CURRY, ED. (Decorating Kilnman) Local Union No^l24 WHEATLEY. E. L. (Kilnman) Local Union No. 9 ARMSTRONG. CLAIR (Decorating Kilnman) Local Union No. 124 East Liverpool. SLAVEN, JAMES (Liner) Local Union No. 124.. j.p£ir EVERYBODY’S HAPPY—Movie actress Ilona Massey was raised in one of the countries now behind Stalin’s iron curtain. Recently she declared that she’s plenty glad to be a US citizen now. We’re glad she’s here too. Doctors Will (Continued From Page One) payroll taxes—and inferior medical care for you and your family. Don’t let that happen here.” Boasting about this part of the plan, the Whitakers declare: “It will be doctors half.” the first step in making campaigners in their be- the Whitaker blueprint Also, calls for “mobilizing the strength of the major public organizations”. Farmers’ groups, civic associations, fraternal societies, churches and veterans’ organizations are to be prodded into adopting resolutions opposing health insurance. On top of that, every county medical society is to have a speak ers’ bureau which will supply all sorts of local meetings with speak ers .to lambast health insurance. “We will provide from speeches,” the Whitaker document explains. Press committees of the county societies will “call on all news papers in the county and urge sup port of medicine’s position.” One feature of the Whitaker pro grarp is illuminating. “We do not believe It is sound campaign prac tice to sponsor too many debates,” it stresses. “They make a forum for the opposition.” In other words, the A.M.A. fears to have both sides presented to the public. Other tactics to be pursued arc set forth in the “master plan”. The Whitakers make it clear that, re gardless of traditional medical ethics against publicity and fan fare, the sky will be the limit in this propaganda campaign. SAMPLE BALLOT The following is a replica of the official ballot for primary election of National Officers and Dele gates to the American Federation of Labor Convention, which in accordance with law, must be printed in each issue of the Potters Herald during the entire voting period of the primary election. Buffalo, N. Y. .. East Liverpool, Ohio FOR SECRETARY-TREASURER (Vote for Ono) FOR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Ohio East Liverpool, Ohio East Liverpool, Ohio FOR SECOND VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for Ono) HULL. FRANK (Decorating Kilnman) Local Union No. 124 East Liverpool, WEST. HAROLD (Liner) Loosd Union No. 124 East Liverpool. FOR THIRD VICE ^RESIDENT (Vote for One) FOR FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for Ono) PHILLIPS. VERNE D. (Sanitary Caster) Local Union No. 50 ZIMMER. CHARLES (Sanitary Caster) Local Unica No, 45.. Ohio East Liverpool, Ohio Ohio Ohio .East Liverpool, Ohio N. I. ....Camden, N. J. ..Trenton, 1 A a. Delegates To 1949 Convention Local Union 6, Chinaware, Wheeling, W. —Joe Sluter, George Frederick. Local Union 9, Kilnmen, East Liverpool—Luther Hough, Albert Dray, Roy Broadbent, Laurence Brown. Local Union 12, Jiggermen, East Liverpool—Larry Finlay, Luther Hall, Guy Digman. Local Union 53, Finishers, East Liverpool—Erma Fox, Vida Ben ner. Local Union 59, Kilmen, Dippers and Saggermakers, Sebring, O.— Russell Sanders, Frank Applegate, William Cranston, Clyde E. Booth, Frank Buehler. Local Union 86, Warehousemen, East Liverpool Roland Edgar, Gus Sharkey, Wilford Reeves, Har old Palmer, James Wilson. 98, Chinaware, Va.—Elva Gough, Local Union Grafton, W. Floyd Lisk. 124, Decorators and Local Union Decorating Kilnmen, East Liver pool—E. C. Armstrong, Allan Rose, Walter Daniels, Barbara Walker, Fred Mountford, Norman Whip pier, Anthony Wynn, Geneva Covert, Margaret Curley, Eva Ross. Local Union 130, Kilnfiremen, Helpers and Trackmen, East Liver pool—Arthur Parrish. Local Union 131, Battersout and Mouldrunners, East Liverpool— James Bennett, John Gilmore, Alice Seevers. Local Union 141, Oddmen and Laborers, East Liverpool—Dellwyn S. Fryan. Breakfast Cheer coffee served free at Potters Picnic. PERDUNN, FRED (Castor) Local Union No. 35 v ’r» Dippers, East McDevitt. Mouldmakers, Local Union 18, Liverpool—Edward Local Union 22, East Liverpool—Alfred Ferber. Local Union 42, Generalware, Salem, O.—P. K. Laughlin, Albert Kent, Robert Morrow, William Stark. Local Union 44, Clayworkers, Sebring, O.—John Hamilton, J. I. Sullivan, Phil Schroeder, Carman Workman, Michael Conny, Bruce Miskelly. Thursday, May 19, 1949 IBEW To Build (Continued From Page One) cost their owners cannot be esti mated at the moment, but IBEW members believe it will be at least 40 under current prices for simp lar facilities. Union spokesmen point out that in addition to providing homes for IBEW members the project will give employment to many building trades workers of all crafts at a moment when many of them are under-employed. State Housing Commissioner Herman Stichman lauded the pro ject, and remarked: “Labor will no longer take the blame for high building costs. Working men want housing for themselves and their families at prices they can afford to pay. They have waited too long for homes and now they are out to prove to the public that good homes can be built at reasonable prices if there is a will to do it on the part of all the forces involved in home building.” If IBEW members don’t exercise their priority claims on all the units, some will be available to the general public, with veterans hav ing first crack at them. Mm hi u immam JOHN I. PURJNTON, President ALWYN C. PURINTON, Secretary CHAS. W. HENDERSHOT. IOS. M. BLAZER. Treasurer Vice President W. E. DUNLAP, JR_ Attorney FOR FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) DEVLIN, ARTHUR (Packer) Local Union No. 164.. FOR SIXTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) COFFEY, JAMES (Kilnman) Local Union No. 122 DALES, FRANK (Caster) Local Union No. 4. (Vote for One) BOSO, CHARLES B. (Kilndrawer) Local Union No. 17 East Liverpool, Ohio DESMOND. T. J. (Dipper) Local Union No. 70 Minerva, Ohio FOR EIGHTH VICE PRESIDENT (Vote for One) BRUNT. GEORGE (Caster) Local Union No. 4 SIMPSON, JOHN (Caster) Local Union No. 45 wb n ti-it^ a I 1 i NOW IS THE TIME TO RESEED YOUR LAWN WITH OLD ENGLISH LAWN SEED FROM *, I $ a d,t John, Greta, Betty, Jack Money Loaned FOR PURCHASE AND IMPROVEMENT 5% Monthly Reduction The Potters Savings & Loan Co WASHINGTON A BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL. OHIO OFFICERS: .Trenton, N. J. .Trenton, N. J. Cambridge, Ohio .. East Liverpool. Ohio FOR SEVENTH VICE PRESIDENT East Liverpool. Ohio CHADWICK. JOSHUA (Jiggerman) Local Union No. 12 ______East LiverpooL Ohio DELEGATES TO A. F. CONVENTION (Vote for One—East oi Allegheny Mountains) BROWN. JOSEPH D. (Packer) Local Union No. 35 (Vote for One—West of Allegheny Mountains) BROWN. HAZEL (Liner) Local Union No. 121 CAMPBELL. FRANK (Jiggerman) Local Union No. 122 1 ...Trenton, N. J. .Trenton, N. J. ... Sebring, Ohio Cambridge, Ohio