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Taft-Hartley Contrary To
Papal Teachings On Labor
Catholics Unionists Told
New York City (ILNS).—The
Taft-Hartley Act is contrary to the
principal Papal encyclicals on
later, Ralph Wright, Assistant
Secretary of Labor, declared at the
12th annual communion breakfast
of the Association of Catholic
Trade Unionists. He predicted re
peal of the act and passage of leg
islation containing the essential
provisions advocated by President
Truman and organized labor.
The breakfast, which was attend
ed by 950
persons, celebrated the
18th anniversary of Pope Pius Xi’s
labor encyclical, “Quadragesimo
Anno” (On the Reconstruction of
the Social Order), for which the
association’s award is named, and
the 58th anniversary of Pope Leo
XII’s “Rerum Novaram” (The Con
dition of Labor).
Law
Held “Shackling”
Assistant Secretary Wright, who
is a former secretary of the Allied
Printing ..Trades Council of New
York City} charged that the Taft
Hartley Act had kept labor-man
agement relations constantly un
settled, interfered with union or
ganization and prevented millions
of workers from obtaining “their
inherent rights and privileges.”
“The philosophy behind this law
and the interpretation placed upon
its provisioris by its proponents are
in direct conflict with the encyclic
ads of both Pope Leo XIII and Pope
Pius XI,” he said.
‘“The encyclicals preach the doc
trine concerning the innate right
of the workers to form unions to
protect their rights and legitimate
interest. The shackling provisions
of the Taft-Hartley Act have done
severe damage to union organiza
tion.”
Joseph D. Keenen, director of
Labor’s League for Political Edu
cation, AFL, said that as long as
there was a free labor movement
and a free church, any dictator
would be uneasy.
“More to be feared than com
munism here is a dictatorship of
the right which would attempt and
even temporarily succeed in using
labor and church leaders to gain its
ends,” he added. “We must not as
sume that anything anti-Commun
ist is pro-democratic.”
Asserting that “sometimes we
have cause to wish that the dis
tance between the Pope and the
rest rf the church jyere xiQt
great,” he added:.
“ft is unforturiate that the teach
ings of Pope Leo on labor an* not
more widely known and under
stood than they are. Even the bis
hop! in many instances have not
had occasion to acquaint them
selves with the sociul teachings of
the Pope to the point where they
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Miners Invites
Big Steel To
Discuss Pact
Pittsburgh (LPA)—The United
Mine Workers last week requested
the big steel companies which op
erate their own “captive coal
mines” to discuss provisions of a
new contract.
President John L. Lewis sent the
invitation to the H. C. Frick Coke
Co., owned by US Steel. Frick’s
president, Harry Moses, has usual
ly been the steel companies’ num
ber one spokesman in negotiations
with the UMW.
Meanwhile plans were being com
pleted for the contract talks be
tween the UMW and the Southern
Coal Producers Ass’n. Presidents
of the union’s six southern districts
will meet the operators in Blue
field, W. Va., at the end of this
month.
Observers here commented that
the UMW has apparently decided
to engage more or less simultan
eously in discussions with three
sets of employers—the steel com
panies, the southern mine owners,
and the northern commercial oper
ators—rather than trying to in
volve all of them in the same set
of negotiations.
Meanwhile, coal movements from
mines to industrial consumers,
which have been slow for about &
month, were speeded up last week.
Industry seems to anticipate oper
ators* resistance to union demands
for better wages and pensions, and
stabilized employment thru a short
er work week. It expects a strike.
Confidence Vote
(Continued From Page One)
received than many more volun
teers than necessary came forth.
Bro. Paul Cook made arrangements
for the first group and donated his
blood along with Bros. Lee McGin
nis, Bill Voorhies, Pete Enea,
Charles Brown and John Wilder.
There are still others waiting to
give when necessary and when
word is received another group will
offer their bjood for Bro. Taylor.
The local picnic committee is on
the job and should soon report their
plans for this year’s picnic.
We also hear Hughey Lowe and
‘Woody’ Gallagher with their com
mittees are busy planning another
dinner danee in the near future.
—O.C. 89
give those teachings the emphasis
they deserve.”
Meets has-been!
Meet Mr. Mercery!
The old Romans thought ha
was the messenger of the
gods. With those winged feet
he got around fast, doing
all sorts of useful little jobs
on the way. This Roman
messenger is out of
date now. For speed, you
can’t beat electricity. It’s on
hand 1/10,000,000th of a
second after you flip a switch.
You can’t beat electricity
for usefulness, either. It’s like
an extra pair of hands
for the homemaker-always
ready and witting to
help clean and sew and cook,
do the laundry, make
life easy and healthy and
comfortable. And you can’t
beat electricity for cost!
Just think, one penny’s worth
of electricity will run your
radio for a full evening
or swish the dirt from two
tubs of wash-or tell you
the time for a week. In this
era of sky-high costs, what
other item in your family
budget does so much
tor so little?
MCtew Hayki itari In fha Eltctric Theatre!
Uur it every Sunday, CBS, 9 P.MH EST,
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A T-HARTLEYITES’ NEM
ESIS—Joseph Keenan, director of
the AFL’s political arm—LLPE—
has been keeping a keen eye on
Congressmen who voted against
labor in Taft-Hartley repeal roll
calls. He’s marking them for de
feat at the polls in 1950.
Try To Bankrupt
Daily That Gives
Unions Fair Deal
Flora, Hl. (LPA) Backed
organized labor, the publisher of
local bi-weekly paper is battling an
attempt by a clique of reactionary
business men to exterminate his
paper.
Their target is the “Flora Sen
tinel” and they are attempting to
wipe it out because it has given
labor a fair shake in strike stories
and other news.
The issue is a basic one of “free
dom of the press,” but significantly
no big city papers have gone to bat
for the publisher, Charles A.
Crowder.
However, trade unions in this
community of 6,000—chief among
them, the Shoe Workers, Electrical
Workers, several Railroad Broth
erhoods and Building Trades unions
—are not only backing the publish
er morally, but they are trying to
raise fdnds to save the paper.
The business men resorted to an
unusually low scheme to strangle
the paper. Secretly, from a bank
at a nearby city of Carmi, they
bought up mortgages on the
paper’s presses and other equip
ment, as well as on its building.
Then they sought to foreclose.
They started with the. chattel
mortgage on the equipment, got a
writ of replevin, and had the coun
ty sheriff move in to cart away the
presses. That would have killed the
paper immediately. Publisher
Crowder blocked the move tempor
arily by rushing to court antj ge|r
ting a “stay of execution.”
Crowder took over the paper fivt
years ago and has followed a policy
of giving both sides in labor dis
putes. Also he has backed unions
in organizing efforts.
For doing this, he was repeated
ly threatened by the business men.
Matters came to a head, however,
when members of local 702 of the
Electrical Workers-AFL struck for
recognition at the city-owned elec
tric dtilify.
Business men demanded that the
“Sentinel” denounce the strike and
help to break it. Instead, Crowder
insisted on letting the union give
its side in the paper’s news col
umns. That’s when the mortgage
plot to wreck the publication was
organized.,
Crowder responded by blasting
the “diabolical conspiracy” on the
front pages of his paper. Also he
termed it “one of the most sordid
efforts in history to destroy a
newspaper because we have refus
ed to eliminate strike news from
the Sentinel.”
Crowder declaml he’s prepared
to fight to the finish against being
gagged. Besides resisting the at
tack in the courts, he has appealed
to the citizens of this little town
to make loans to the paper suffic
ient to clean up the mortgages—
a total of $12,500.
Richard F. Lythgoe, assistant
business agent of 1BEW local 702,
declared union members are being
asked to join in making the loans
so as to help save the paper. “We’re
doing all we can to assist the pub
lisher in beating back the attack,”
Lythgoe said.
European Unions
(Continued From Page One)
Major sent all affiliates a lengthy
memorandum summarizing the his
tory of the WFTU. He cited its
opposition to the Marshall plan for
European recovery as the principal
issue which brought home to the
democratic unions of Europe, and
the American CIO, the impossibil
ity of cooperation with Communist
dominated groups.
The bulk of the Communist
strength in the WFTU came from
Soviet Russia, and the satellite
countries, whore union membership
is decreed by the government. This
leads to huge membership figures,
but no freedom of trade union
action, Major emphasized.
Two small Communist-led affil
iates of the FGTB have proclaim
ed, however, their resolve to. stay
in the WFTU when FGTB leaves.
This action, paralleling the similar
threat of President Harry Bridges
of the US Int’l Longshoremen’s
Union-ClO is interpreted here as
indicating ‘Communist determina
tion to maintain WFTU bridge
heads in the western democracies.
Local Union 42, Generalware,
Salem, O.—P. K. Laughlin, Albert
Kenst, Robert Morrow, William
Stark.
Local Union 44, Clayworkers,
Sebring, O.—John Hamilton, J. I.
Sullivan, Phil Schroeder, Carman
Workman, Michael Conny, Bruce
Miskelly.
Local Union 45, Sanitary, Tren
ton, N. J.—George Pearson, Jr.,
Joseph Abrams, George Smith,
Elijah Watson, Lance Ansell.
Local Union 51, Generalware,
Canonsburg, Pa.—Wallace Green,
John Mamrack, C. M. Wright,
Stewart Chambers.
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 70, General ware,
Minerva, O.—Glen Haines, Syl
vanus DeBee, John Rourke, Abe
Edwards.
Local Union 76, Chinaware,
Buffalo, N. Y.—Dorothy Donovan,
Edward Schuster.
Local Vnion 86, Warehousemen,
East Liverpool Roland Edgar,
Gus Sharkey, Wilford Reeves, Har
old Palmer, James Wilson.
Union
Local
THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO
1949 Convention
Local Union 4,- Casters, East Liv
erpool—Fletcher Williams, Garvin
Burgess, George Brunt, Cecil Cal
houn.
Local Union 6, Chinaware,
Wheeling, W. Va.—Joe Slater,
George Frederick.
Local Union 9, Kilnmen, East
Liverpool—Luther Hough, Albert
Dray, Roy Broadbent, Laurence
Brown.
Local Union 10, Turners and
Handlers, East Liverpool—Alfred
Cartwright, Fred H. McGillivray,
Sidney Young.
Local Union 12, Jiggermen, East
Liverpool—Larry Finlay, Luther
Hall, Guy Digman.
Local Union 17, Kilndrawers,
East Liverpool, Charles Boso,
William Cox.
Local Union 18, Dippers, East
Liverpool—Edward McDevitt.
Local Union 22, Mouldmakers,
East Liverpool—Alfred Ferber.
Local Union 24, Chinaware,
Wellsville, O.—Sam Lawton, Ralph
Pickens, George Salsberry, Fred
Leughmyer.
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Local Union’’33£ Chinaware,
Beaver Falls, Pa Bradford M.
Townsend, Lloyd E. Cook, Curtis
W. Hutzley, Chester J. Fisher.
Union 94, Warehouse
East Liverpool—Mary Mc
Mildred Johnson, Dora
Local
women,
Gown,
Koenig.
98, Chinaware,
Va.—Elva Gough,
Grafton, W,
Floyd Lisk.
Local Union
Erwin, Tenn. John McFadden,
Sam Tipton, William Campbell, M.
B. Laws, Elmer Bailey.
103, Generalware,
Generalware,
Willis, Jess
Local .Union 116,
Lincoln, Ill.—Bessie
Sampson, Glen Hale.
General ware
O. Mary
Local Union 121,
Decorators, Sebring,
Ellen Govern,
Thelma Craven.
Inez McGowan,
122, Generalware,
James Coffey,
Local Union
Cambridge, O. uumua wm-jr,
Frank Campbell, George Savage,
Roland Talbott, Dan Killinger.
Local Union 124, Decorators and
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 ahd Trackmen, East Liver
pool—Arthur Parrish.
Local Union 131, Battersout and
Mouldrunners, East Liverpool—
James Bennett, John Gilmore, Alice
Seevers.
Local Union 182, Handle, Camera
and Finishers, East Liverpool—
Opal Landfried.
Ixcal Union 140, Porcelain, East
Liverpool— Lloyd Densmore.
Ixcal Union 141, Oddmen and
Laborers, East Liverpool—Dellwyn
S. Fryan.
Local Union 148, (mixed), East
Liverpool—James F. Barnhart.
Local Union 174, Sanitary, Metu
chen, N. J.—Donley Jones, George
Bondies.
Local Union 175, Sanitary, Tren
ton, N. J.—Louis Coppola, Nicholas
Petro, W. E. Clawges.
Local Union 178, Artware, Se
bring, O.—Leslie Hawk, Harold
Agnew, John Hotchkiss.
Local Union 183, Generalwnre,
Angeles, Calif.—Stanley Lyle.
Local Union 184, Chinaware,
Trenton, N. J.—Arthur Devlin.
I.«os
Local Union 192, Generalware,
Warehousemen, Packers and Dec
orating Kilnmen, Sebring, O.—
Lee Minesingcr, Hugh Dailey.
Local Union 195, Glost Ware
housewomen and Kilndrawers, East
Liverpool—Villa Carraher, Mildred
Ward, Mildred McKenzie.
PETER MAVRIN DEAD
New York (LPA)—The founder
and for many years the leader of
the Catholic Worker Movement,
Peter Maurin, died here this week
at the age of 71. Maurin, who was
well known as a poet and speaker,
founded the Catholic Worker news
paper and set up a chain of Hos
pitality Houses for the poverty
stricken during the early 1930’s.
HERRY
TREB
There are so many things to be
mad about that almost every morn
ing I ask myself what I need to be
mad about today.
I couldn’t get very mad about
the Leo Durocher case and yet a
man’s livelihood was at stake and
the matter was of the utmost im
portance to him. A lot of people
got very mad about it.
Where I live there’s a police de
partment corruption scandal stick
ing its ugly head into the headlines
and I get mad about that every
other morning.
There’s a neighbor whose con
duct I get mad about, oh, perhaps
one morning a week.
Everybody has these local or
purely personal things about which
to get mad.
A lot of people spend so much
time being mad at these local or
personal matters that they don’t
have, much time for being mad
abdut national or international
evils.
Almost every day I get mad
about the Communists and
dirty work at the cross roads.
cal Association because
upon calling President
health insurance bill
medicine, when it isn’t
medicine at all.
their
In that picture there’s only one
smile. That comesf from the fact
that the Reds are so worried about
FBI infiltration that they are put
ting up their own loyalty tests.
That is really sorpething to smile
about.
il get mad at the American Medi
it insists
Truman’s
socialized
socialized
the state-
If it is, then I hazard
meat that most of our health de
partments also are examples of
socialized medicine.
If it is, then our price support
programs for farmers are social
ized forming, which they are not.
It is so easy to pin nasty labels
on things. I get mad about that,
too.
1 get mad about Senator Harry
F. 'Byrd and I think it is an amaz
ing thing that for so many years
he Should have been able to con
trol the politics of Virginia, with
alt of its traditions and its contri
butions to American history and
ipgt'itutions, .It is almost as if Vir
ginia' were a private borough.
f'get mad about the Ku Klux
Klrfn, which evidences its ignor
ance and stupidity by the very
spelling which it uses in its ridi
culous incantations.
It makes me mad to think that
there are American citizens so ut
terly devoid of reason that they
are willing to strut around in bed
sheets and pillow cases, trying to
Scare defenseless colored people.
I get fairly well mad at the var
ious reasons for keeping United
States workers divided into two
Labor Party Is
Confident of 1950
National Election
By DAVID C. WILLIAMS
London (LPA) Conservative
victories in the recent British mun
icipal election do not, observers
here say, indicate that the Labor
party is seriously losing ground,
or that the Tories will win the next
national election.
The losses of Labor are, in fact,
less severe than in the 1947 local
elections. This is all the more re
markable in view of the fact that
the seats Labor was defending this
time were won in the autumn of
1945, when Labor Was flushed With
its first national triumph and the
Tories disheartened and disorgan
ized. These included many wards
which went Labor in 1945 for the
first time tn history.
Another significant point is that
the turnout at the recent local elec
tions was only half the 75% of the
electorate normal for nation elec
tions. Opponents of the Labor ad
ministration turned out in large
numbers to cast a protest vote,
while government supporters,
knowing the life of the regime was
not at stake, stayed at home.
Laborites ate far from complac
ent, however. They believe that
the Conservative party’s machine
is now in better running order than
their own, and they’re losing no
time in tightening up the weak
places in their own party structure.
Both the Communist party and
Sir Oswald Mosely’s fascist move
ment failed to elect a single candi
date in the local elections.
union camps, even though unity
would send a lot of paid officers
out looking for jobs “at the trade”,
if they still remember it.
I get mad at stuffed shirts, of
which there are too many, in too
many places.
I get mad at a lot of preachers
who spend all their time talking
about heaven and hell, while ignor
ing the stink of affairs in this
world and right in their own baili
wicks.
I get mad at our generally in
adequate hospital facilities and I
get especially mad about the ap
palling lack of treatment facilities
for the mentally ill.
I get mad at those who bob up
every now and then with a plan to
restore blue laws in toto, because
of some personal grievance.
A recent radio program showed
us that millions break a law every
day by not destroying the revenue
stamp on cigarette packages. I get
mad because we have too many fool
laws that nobody can remember
all of the time or even most of the
time.
However, every few days I take
a day off and refuse to be mad
about anything at alt.
And those days I generally wind
up by being utterly miserable.
FOR PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
DUFFY, JAMES M. (Turner)
Local Union No. 76
FINLAY. LARRY llin.nwn)
Local Union No. 12
JORDAN. CHAS. F. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 59 Sebring, Ohio
FOR FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One
CURRY, ED. (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 124 East Liverpool,* Ohio
WHEATLEY, E. L. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 9 East Liverpool, Ohio
FOR SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
HULL FRANK (Decorating Kilnman)
Local Union No. 124......—... East Liverpool, Ohio
WEST, HAROLD (Liner)
Local Union No. 124. JEast Liverpool. Ohio
FOR THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote lor One)
ARMSTRONG, CLAIR (Decorating lilamdn)
Local Union No. 124._____ Eatft Liverpool, Ohio
SLAVEN, JAMES (Liner)
Local Union No. 124---------------- JEaet Liverpool, Ohio
FOR FOURTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
PHILLIPS, VERNE D. (Sanitary Caster)
Local Union No. 50
ZIMMER. CHARLES (Sanitary Castor)
Local Union No. 45-----
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..Trenton, N. J.
State-Controlled
Workmen’s Fund
Killed In Mass.
Boston, Mass. (LPA)—One of
the best-heeled insurance lobbies in
the state’s history has defeated
organized labor’§ attempt to estab
lish an exclusive state fund to
handle workmen’s accident compen
sation.
Both the AFL and CIO fought
for the legislation. At present,
workmen’s compensation is in the
hands of private insurance com
panies. Under that system, labor
charged, the insurers have made
huge profits while injured workers
have often had to battle' through
the courts to collect benefits.
Under the slogan of “stop the
profits from human misery and
death,” the labor organizations
campaigned for a non-profit sys
tem run by the state, with prem
iums going for benefits rather than
profits.
However, the insurance lobby
bombarded t^e legislature and the
entire state with propaganda to the
effect that a state system would be
“Socialist” or “Bolshevist.”
Their scare campaign, plus pres
sure tactics on individual solons,
got results. In a vote last week,
the House of Representatives kill
ed the state fund bill by a margin
of 161 to 61.
SERVES MASTER
Boston (LPA) Boston union
ists, who thru their United Labor
Committee have gone into the
courts to contest a general 8% to
20 rent increase in eastern
Massachusetts communities, are
laughing at a strange “coincid
ence.” Paul Blair, who, while on
the staff of Housing Expediter
Tighe Woods made the survey
which resulted in a general ^rent
raise for the greater Boston area,
has switched jobs and is now work
ing for the Boston Apartment
Owners Ass’n.
Breakfast Cheer coffee served
free at Potters Picnic.
Vie* President
SAMPLE BALLOT
The following is a replica of the official ballot for primary election of National Officers and Dele
gates t^ 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 ior One)
CALHOON, P. K. (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 9
East LiverpooL Ohio
DALES, FRANK (Caster)
Local Union No. 4.
Thursday, May 26, 1949
T-H Repeal
(Continued From Page One)
ed amendments which would keep
“Taft-Hartley principles” on the
statute books. CIO declared again
for the Thomas-Lesinski bill “with
out crippling amendments.”
“We are mindful that in the leg
islative process there is room for
alteration in any bill—particularly
one dealing with so complex a pro
blem as labor relations. But we
stand solidly against any changes
which would impose the use of in
junctions to break strikes,”
CIO statement continued.
WASHINGTON & BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO
OFFICERS:
JOHN J. PURINTON. President ALWYN C. PUMNTON, Secretary
JOS. M. BLAZER. Treanrec
W. E. DUNLAP, JR. Attorney
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FOR FIFTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
DEVLIN, ARTHUR (Packer)
Local Union No. 184...
PERDUNN, FRED (Caster)
Local Union No. 35...
FOR SIXTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
COFFEY. JAMES (Kilnman)
Local Union No. 122
FOR SEVENTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for One)
BOSO. CHARLES B. (Kilndrawer)
Local Union No. 17.
DESMOND. T. J. (Dipper)
Local Union No. 70
FOR EIGHTH VICE PRESIDENT
(Vote for Ono)
BRUNT, GEORGE (Castor)
Local Union No. 4
DELEGATES TO A. F. L. CONVENTION
(Vote for One—East of Allegheny Mountains)
BROWN. JOSEPH D. (Packer)
Local Union No. 35..
SIMPSON, JOHN (Caster)
Local Union No. 45
(Vote for One—West of Allegheny Mountains)
BROWN, HAZEL (Liner)
Local Union No. 121
CAMPBELL, FRANK (Jiggorman)
Local Union No. 122-----.
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Both AFL and CIO said
Taft-Hartley can be repealed
session if Congress gets down to
business.
New Utah
(Continued From Page One)
if the company remains tough, the
rail workers will walk out anew.
As the dispute reached a critical
stage, the corporation suddenly
ordered a reduction of its work
week from 48 to 44 hours. It gave
declining business as the reason.
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.. East Liverpool, Ohio
CHADWICK. JOSHUA (Jiggorman)
Local Union No. 12 ^East LiverpooL Ohio
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