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VOL. XLIII, NO. 39
United Mine Workers to appear ui
the Federal District Court of the
District of Columbia Jan. 26 to
lations Board. Penello did not ask[|h
for an immediate restraining order.
At a press conference, Robert N.|
Denham, general counsel for the[T^
NLRB and Penello’s superior,[
stressed this point in talking to re-
porters. It was believed he did not
feel that he could obtain an im-|"
time to eight May,. The order was llfted
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bmediate order.
A minor hitch developed when I WMbinf-ton (LPA)-If, fam
Harry Hull, clerk of the court, k,les wh° W “"t’r a
pointed out that according to civil F»r J™1 "h° m?at
procedure, rales Lewie and the fhe ^etal rent control law al-
UMW should have 20 davs to reply I1""®]1 d'e ,!lln! 30' That 1 ll!c
to a summon, and questioned Judge kojclus.on from a survey of »x
Keech’s authority to curtail that clt,ea «h„era c»n-
referred back to Judge Keech whol°f th(' flty c““n“la- survey
stuck to the original date. 1*“" by the BureaU of Lab"r
The request for an injunction! t?I,s 1CS' ,. m- i. w
was part of a two-pronged assault ”?ual"« Exped.ter Tighe Woods,
launched on Lewis by Denham on mab,"g.tbe aUrvey P?bl‘.C ,an JB’
demand from operators of about S« ,hat fa™r,te devlc? “std
percent of the nation’s bituminous Pera"ad,"« a city goventing body
coal mines On the same dav he I10 pass a decontro1 resolution is to
V [present a pledge from landlords
tice agains^the UUMW president |not to increase rents unreasonably
and t'rX aZunc^^ wb™.tba lid ia tak™
... .. (quoted a report from the Salt
a trial examiner would conduct 1/ .. ..
ILake Tribune confirming the fact
hearings here beginning Feb. 7. L.
Denham and his aides want the |™at such a p'e.dg® ha° been
..... ■. .. from landlords there—not to
injunction to force Lewis and I .a ...
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n the UMW to drop demands that
In the unfair labor practice 1——---------------------------------------
charges Denham contends that the| IVI?W
UMW and Lewis have violated the
Mitchell Heads
Kokomo Potters
Taft-Hartley act by insisting on a Fans Creek, Pa.—The following
union shop in the absence of NLRB [officers were installed at the last
elections, by insisting on one-sided [meeting of Local Union 104: John
provisions in the contract and by [Voyten, president Forrest Ritchey,
engaging in “a coercive work stop-|vjce president Ed. Watson, re
page in the form of a reduction of [cording secretary William Owery,
the period of work from the normal [secretary-treasurer Ange Carra
(Ttt.-s to Page Two) [mella, defense collector Ben Stank
[avich, guard Glenn Benninger, in
[spector John Spryzak, statistic
ian Robert Wallwork, trustee.
brothers will guide the affairs of
i2'h,Y,,ion 26 for the nex‘six
Charles Mitchell, president Ken-ITj
neth Dunn, vice president Harold [.
Snow, financial secretary A. S.
Rutherford, defense secretary Washington (LPA) A biting
Robert Bohannon, recording secre- [attack on the real estate lobby for
tary Albert Tedlock, guard. |its opposition to the cooperative
Bros. Mitchell and Bohannon [housing bill was delivered to the
were named delegates to the sani- [Senate Banking Committee by
tary conference in New York [Walter Reuther, chairman of the
which will draw up plans for con- |CIO Housing Committee. i s
tfticts in the Spring. We hope to [charges that the real estate and
see some real gains for sanitary [mortgage men were misleading the
workers. [public about the bill were seconded
Our loss shop committee which [by Senators John Sparkman (D,
•ras recently organized Ijas func-|Ala.), Paul Douglas (D, Ill.) and
ioned twice, both time quite sue-[Russell Long (D, La.).
cessfully. We look forward to this I Reuther, speaking as president
committee bettering labor-manage- |of the United Auto Workers, urged
ment relations considerably, in that [that “the Senate and House act
better feeling will be brought [very soon so that we can get on
about over protested wpre loss. [with this job of providing decent
about over protested ware loss.
—O.C. 26|housing for every
lily.”
OUSTER OF MINER
USING GAS UPHELD
Marchiando. “A man not only has|ans Committee, had supported $5
the right to protect his job, he has [billion of direct federal loans to
an obligation to himself, his family [so-called veterans’ housing cooper
and his co-workers to protect his|atives—a measure sponsored by
own industry.”' |the American Legion, I
£5^
show cause why an injunction
should not be issued restraining!
them from allegedly violating the|
Taft-Hartley act by indulging in a
three-day week and other practices.
Judge Keech issued his order late| WANTS TO GET IN THE RING—Joseph T. Ferguson, Ohio State
on the afternoon of Jan. 18. v [Auditor, who is campaigning for the Democratic nomination to run
Keech acted on a request from [against Sen. Taft this fall. Ferguson claims he can “beat thfc pants off
John A. Penello, director of the |Bob Taft”, outrunning him by 300,0C0 votes.
Fifth Region of the Nat’l Labor Re-
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raise rents more than 10 per cent.
coal miners to “bargain collective-k
ly in good faith’’ by not insisting 6 ||as*’
on a welfare fund providmg “bene-1 of the ’s
nuw ,mSmbTKOf r?po.nd?n‘ were aifected, rents rose on'the
UMW only,” and by not insisting
I 36 4 cent month
“1 or. meln°r: three out of four tenants paying
Ln aveMge of ’66 8 per Mnt.
only union member, work the HQUaton. T,p decontro||ed
mmea, and to refrain froth “any onIJ ,’9 31 „f the
stnke, work stoppage and/or com ltenants have a|r,.adyhit, witll
certed refusal to perform services’’averagi '413 per cent.
for the coal operators, to further Here jn har5cst hit the
Jhe above demands. (Turn u PMt
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Lawrence Hinderliter, Leslie
[Zerby and John Spryzak were
[named as a shop committee.
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Kokomo, Ind. The following
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Hays Foes of Co-Op Bill
American fam-
The real estate
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The real estate operators and
[bankers, the Auto Workers head
[charged, are interested only in fed
|eral underwriting of homebuilding
Springfield, Ill. (LPA)—The sus-[loans if the bill gives the builders
pension of Charles Waichekauskas, [the right to mulct the people.
56, by the Collinsville local, has [Otherwise, he said, they’ll call fed
been upheld by John Marchiando, |eral aid “socialism,” though actu
president of the Progressive Mine [ally assistance to “'cooperatives
^Workers. The miner plans to heat [would go a long way to prevent
^^kis new house with gas, although [state ownership.
WRe was warned by the local he was| To document his charges, he
violating union by-laws which he [brought in a quotation from testi
himself had helped adopt. Waiche- |mony earlier in the week by Horace
kauskas said he intended to use [Russell of the US Saving^ & Loan
gas because the fumes from the [League, charging that cooperative
coal stoker in his present home [housing was “pure socialism”, that
make his adopted son, Edward, 21,|the co-op housing bill was “intend
violently ill, Edward has rheu-|ed to mislead the American people.”
matic fever. [Last April, Reuther said, the same
“Those miners in Collinsville|men, appearing for the same or
have the true miners’ spirit,” said [ganization before the House Veter-
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AFL Says Unions
Will Use Middle
Income Housing
Washington (LPA)—The Amer
ican Federation of Labor told the
Senate Banking Subcommittee con
sidering the Administration’s mid
dle income housing bill that the
measure was a “milestone in meet
ing the overall housing require
ments of the American people”.
Richard J. Gray, president of the
AFL Building and Construction
Trades Department, testified the
legislation would make 4 ’.3-room
housing units available for buyers
on monthly costs of $55 to $G5,
compared with present costs of
$80-$100.
Forecasting the cooperative
housing bill would permit construc
tion of “extremely attractive and
livable apartment developments at
an average cost in the neighbor
hood of $8000 per unit”, Gray said
the bill would provide for about
250.000 family pnits. He forecast
its success would soon force expan
sion of the program.
“I know from my own intimate
knowledge of the housing needs of
A. F. of L. members throughout
the country”, Gray testified, “that
this program will make it possible
for thousands of union members to
join together to secure decent
Gray testified just after the
Labor Department had officially
announced that 1,019,000 nonfarm
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OFFICERS RETAINED
East Palestine, Ohio—With the
exception of guard, vice president
ami trustee, the following slate of
officers were retained by Local
Union 31 for another term:
Claude Beight, president Leman
Shaffer, vice president Russell
Biggins, financial secretary Esther
i s o n g, assistant secretary
Charles A. Hall, recording secre
tary Leland Quinn, defense secre
tary I^iuren Lipp, treasurer
Lucille Clark, inspector L. S. Mas
on, guard Leman Shaffer, statis
tician Norman Huck, trustee.
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“Mr. Russell was for expending
five billion dollars for a phoney
kind of cooperative housing then,”
Reuther asserted, “but he nqw op
poses spending of less money, not
in direct loans but to underwrite
sound debentures, because this
time it is on a genuinely coopera
tive basis that would give the peo
ple the right to built their own
homes.”
“He stood there naked and un
ashamed,” Reuther said of Russell’s
appearance before the House Vet
erans Committee, where he frankly
conceded that he supported the
Legion bill to block the public
housing bill later approved by Con
gress.
To show that the “pure social
ism” charges were a smokescreen,
Reuther pointed out that John D.
Rockefeller Jr. actively supported
the first co-op housing project in
New York City, and that currently
a group of New York businessmen
and financiers is actively aiding
the Queens View housing coopera
tive there. He listed, such “capit
alists” as Bernard Gimbel (of the
department store of that name),
Beardsley Rumi of Macy’s, and
David Sarnoff of Radio Corpora
tion of America.
Sparkman produced a giant
chart printed by the Nat’l Associa
tion of Real Estate Boards show
ing how cooperative housing plans
could be organized, to demonstrate
that the realtors too at one point
seriously considered the plan as a
method of blocking public low-rent
housing. Reuther added the story
of a conference, requested by Ex
ecutive Vice-president Herbert U.
Nelson of the Nat’l Association of
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Social Security
Payments Up To
$162 Proposed
I) j?o11 cx‘*■5 II va I
ReosDvelt CollegeF
Labor Courses To
ChicQgo» (ILNS). The Labor
Education Division of Roosevelt
College will open it® 1950 winter
term Feb. 6 with a schedule of f.url
8-week evening courses planned in
cooperation with local union
groups. Registration, which is open
to all union men and women re
gardless of previous^ educational
experience, will continue until the
opening of classes, Frank McCall
ister, director, announced.
Offered for the first time, “Eco
nomics for Gaining a Higheri
Standard of Living” will analyze
the effects of the economic policies
of business and government on liv
ing standards including pending
housing, health, social security, and!
tax legislation. I
The Labor Education Division's]
“Labor Journalism Workshop” a!iRo|
will be a new course. The work-|
shop, arranged for writers and|
editors of shop, local, regional, or|
national union publications,
study newswriting techniques
the mechanics of newspaper
duction.
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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, (THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1950
Washington (LPA) Monthly F®"4’J ^ear effect is
pensions for a retired couple rang-14° h® on *h® economy,
ing from $50 to $162 a month, de- |4er.h.°1w his achievement, the
pending on earnings, are asked by [individual todey cannot ope
the CIO in spelling out its social |earn. 1mufh !”.ore than en”lgh 4
security proposals for this session|Prov*de ^,s cury.ent ne®,s an
of Congress. The amounts would at F0* a on retirement,
least double, and perhaps increaselT^r3^Spite 4hete Cr°C^,
even more, the amounts now being [^£9 reP°T4
paid in federal old age insurance [vehicle industry led e en ire
benefits [cession in 1948, with a profit of 25
The Social Security Committee, Per cent- af4e£ taxes, wheivas Jthe
meeting in Washington last week,|\et“rnL1940 was 17.3
voted to propose the new scale ofl^nd was the grea es y
benefits at hearings befpre the th? aut° ind“*try ,n Productlon’
Senate Finance Committee. The ^L,pr? S‘ KQo 5rion
House has already passed a bill.in-1 T,he FTC s4udy ?0V9eKred ‘de
creasing old age and survivors’|41ca^ corporations in 2
benefits, and making other changes dustr,®s’ and sh°wed
in social security coverage and the|4urn (after .taX1eq?n°%8l7Cnn.i 194g
nature of the programs 7 “3 7 J.
Here’s how the proposed pension I adJU8ted to exc u e rep
is to be figured: benefits should beke,®ra!ed, depreclatlon on Postwar
based on the average monthly Fa£dl4,e8 a,.,
wage in the income-earners’ best I. 7^® 4(
five conwcxtive years-with a tb.194’ and 1948 Xd
ceiling income of $4800 a year on [clustering of ra4es r® „hout
which social security taxes would lthe figure of 20 per cent for about
Wh,Ch M0Uld half of the industries studied.”
|The factual report failed to draw
|the odious comparison with 1940—
[but analysis of the figures showed
[that in 1940 only two out of the 25
[industries were in the 25 per cent
[class, and 16 of them were “clust
|ered” around 10 per cent. Highest
Kilndrawers List
Shop Committees
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By DONALD WOODS
Washington (LPA)—One of the
most revealing profit reports ever
published has been issued by the
...JFederal Trade Commission. It dis
[closes that since the war Big Busi*
a jness has been making around 20
p^°'|per cent profit on its invested cap
'i lital, compared with about half that
...[before the war. And that 20 per
’Icent is after taxes.
Courses at Union Halls
“Parliamentary Procedure”
offer practice in conducting union
meetings and effective public
speaking. The course in
Motion Study” will analyze ...
field’s techniques and limitations pave nwned them and have cut so
and study methods of taking stud-Pea.vRy *.n^° Pro^’^s j^at there is
ies taken by management, the sot- |no incent*ve to expand. The figures
ting of time standards, anil other|a^so show that the profit is highest
time and motion factors. ror the biggest companies in each
Iwas around 17 per cent.
In a spirited meeting Jan. 19,1 In other words, the report shows
members of Local Union 17 elected |c]eariy that most of Big Business,
the following officers for the first |which was satisfied to make about
six months of 1950: |10 per cent profit on its invested
Charles Boso, president Kenneth I ital before the war, is now de
McBride, vice president William|man(jing 20 per cent profit on its
Cox, recording secretary James|war.inflated capital structure.
Mercer, financial secretary George The Commi8SjOn reported the in
Davis and Walter Watson, guards. [du8tries showing the greatest in-
The Auditing Committee com-|creaseg in their profit rates be
posed of Bernard Holt, Ray .Green |tween 1940 and 1948 were:
and William Grimm made their re
port and the local is
financial condition. ________
To prepare their officers and
woX/manruS^l^h^wn^XrL. .FIG4HJ F0.lf. LIBKR^ HOUSE RULE—Five Congr s-men n .. strategy in the fight to whip the
tn th«ir IDixiecrat-Republican coalition attempt to change House rules so uat liberal legi .ation can be blocked,
s holarships to their members. The L(,ft to right. Mike Man8field (D Mont) Walter K Grar ,,er (D Utah) Herman P. Eberharter (D, Pa.),
clas es will meet one night eachlChet Holifield (D, Cal.), and John Carroll (D, Col.)
week for 8 weeks.
I The figures give the direct lie to
Time^and |th® shrieks of Big Business that
tfcelthe New Deal and the Fair Deal
The Labor Education Division’s |fie,d« and that the more concen
winter program also will include a|trat®d the control of an industry,
broad program of extension courses phe higher the profit rate. Which
at union halls and other education- [confirms the charges that mono
al programs for local unions. Its|P?Bes or near-monopolies m®an
services are available to unions inPfcher and higher prices for the
securing speakers, films on labor |conaumer’
subjects, and developing special in-1 That 20 per cent is very interest
stitutes and workshops. |ing in view of what Alfred P.
|sioan, Jr., baaed hend_qf General
[Motors, told 500 business leaders
lin New York on Jan. 15, in reveal
ing that his company earned $600,
000,000 profits in 1949—more than
any other company ever made in a
similar period. Despite that, Sloan
wept: “In recent years economic
incentive has been weakened by the
ever-increasing ‘take’ of govern-
Rayon—up from 8.6 to 20.3 per
in a sound lcent
I Petroleum refining—from 6.7 to
The following shop committeesLgf^^’Vent.
were appointed: 2
Hall China—William Grimm. |cent. (Note*to Senator Gillette (D,
I Bread—up from 7.6 to 19.8 per
Grimm. Lent. (Note to Senator Gillette (D,
Edwin M. Knowles Bernard |lowa) wbo bas teen investigating
Bolt. |the increasing spread in food
Laughlins—Ike Hornback, No.lprices. bere’s your answer.)
4 Walter Watson, No. 5 William office and store machines and
Cox, Nos. 6 and 7 George Davis, |devices—up from 13.2 to 23.9 per
No. 8. Lent.
Taylor, Smith A Taylor—Lathe paper and' allied products—up
Stewart. —O.C. 17 |from 9 6 to 18-2 per cent. (Note to
IRep. Celler (D, N.Y.): here is one
of the big reasons for the death’ of
many smaller newspapers.)
NOTICE LOCAL UNION 132
All members who are loaf
ing or behind in their dues are
requested to attend next meet
ing on Feb. 6. By order of
president.
Wool carpets and rugs—up from
8.9 to 17.3 per cent.
Biscuits and crackers—up from
|8.8 to 17 per cent.
\L00k At These Big Business
Profits, Consumers And Weep
Linoleum and felt base—up from
7.5 to 15.4 per cent.
Motor vehicles—up from 17.3 to
25 per cent.
Altogether the Commission
found that in 1948, of the 25 big
industries studied, 12 showed pro
fits around 20 per cent while two
others—motor vehicles and office
equipment were in excess of 23 per
cent. Of the remaining big indus-
Press Ignores
Profit Story
Washington (LPA) A spot
check by Labor Press Association
has disclosed that for the second
time in a single week, the nation’s
daily newspapers have censored or
failed to report a major news story
from Washington of vital interest,
to all American citizens.
The story was a sensational re
port by the Federal Trade Com
miMten disclosing that most of big
business is making a profit of 20
per cent, after all taxes, as com
pared with about half that before
the war. The Federal Trade Com
mission report, one of the most
important profit stories to break
in Washington in many years, was
officially released for Thursday
papers and was available to all
newspapers.
A spot check by Labor Press As
sociation in key cities discloses
that most newspapers ignored the
story entirely. Whether the press
associations carried it, and it was
censored by the papers themselves,
or whether the press associations
also ignored the story, is not yet
disclosed.
The New York Times, which
theoretically publishes all the news
that is fit to print, carried the
sensational profit story on the fin
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Lincoln Says
Break Housin'j
Washington (LPA)—Murray D.
Lincoln, president of the Cooper
ative League of the USA, told a
Senate committee that cooperative
housing under the Administration’s
middle income housing bill could
“break the bottleneck” in housing
just as the Rural Electrification
Act broke the bottleneck in provid
ing electricity to farms.
Strongly backing the middle in
come housing bill, Lincoln told the
Senate Banking Subcommittee
handling it that “the extension of
the REA principle to housing is
the way to provide good, adequate
housing at a reasonable cost to the
middle income families of Amer
ica.”
Lincoln compared the housing
problem today with the problem
of getting electricity to farms back
in 1935 when only 15 per cent of
the farmers had power. Then, he
said, opponents of the rural elec
trification bill contended private
business could handle the problem,
and that the legislation would put
them out of business. Today, he
pointed out, more than 80 per cent
of the farmers have electricity, and
the old line power companies are
still doing business.
The present housing legislation
is similar to the REA, Lincoln said,
in offering cooperatives low inter
est rates based on the cost of the
money to the government. He
strongly urged the committee to
follow the other legislation in an
other respect and set up a separ
ate qgency to handle the coopera
tive housing program.
plea, Lincoln was joined
RL Rev. Msgr. John
of the National Confer-
In this
by the
O’Grady,
tries, three had profit, between 15
and 17 per cent six had 10-15 per
cent, which in 1940 would have
been near the top and only two
had less than 10 per cent.
The only industries showing
lower returns in 1948 than in 1940
were cigars and cigarettes, both of
which have found it difficult to
raise their prices.
The trade commission's statistics
were based on reports from the
companies themselves, adjusted to
uncover hidden profits, of which
there were plenty. The Commission
reported that several companies
had adopted a policy within the
past two years of accelerating de
preciation, which resulted in show
ing less profit in their published
statements than in their reports to
the Treasury.
The Commission studies covered
“a substantial segment of the total
industrial economy” including in
dustries that accounted for half jft
the total assets of alMhamrfaet&r
ing industries, and so were repre
sentative figures.
In a more detailed sfudy/thel
Commission found that in most in
dustries the four biggest com
panies than others in the same in
dustry. This was not so true in
1940.
One of the most significant re
velations in the trade commission
figures was the close parallel be
tween the industries showing high
profits and the industries in which
control is concentrated in a few
companies. This tended to prove
that monopolistic conditions in in-,
dustry are resulting in extremely
high profits at the expense of the
consumers.
The 11 industries in which the
four biggest firms had higher pro
fits in both 1940 and 1948 than
smaller companies, and in which
inum and copper.
Linoleum and felt base.
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Bottleneck
ence of Catholic Charities, and
David L. Krooth, of the National
Housing Conference, who also sup
ported "the administration legisla
tion.
Reporting that FHA officials
throughout the country were “un
sympathetic” toward cooperative
housing, Monsignor O’Grady warn
ed th-t “with the mentality of
FHA officials there is very little
hope for co-operative housing,” so
the ’program should be put under
a new agency.
Father O’Grady said he had
visited many housing projects now
being constructed under current
legislation and had found little
suitable for middle income families.
The homes they are building, he
said, are for families with incomes
above $4800 a year and “they are
not making an effective contribu
tion to the building of homes for
those in the $8000 a year bracket.”
Krooth estimated that coopera
tive housing under the proposed
legislation could cut -$35 a month
from the present cost of housing,
bringing it down within reach of
middle income families. The sav
ings would come, he said, from
lower financing costs and the sav
ings inherent in cooperative hous
ing.
Another strong witness for the
administration bill was Rear Ad
miral Thornton C. Miller, a Navy
chaplain, who presented a dramatic
story of how Navy enlisted men in
crowded southern California had
provided themselves with good
housing through a co-operative.
He stressed the effect of the co
operative effort on the men them
selves, asserting 60 per cent of
them had later become officers.
OFFICIAL ORG
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD
OF OPERATIVE POTTERS
12.00
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““—YEAH
Coshocton Potters
Elect Officers At
The Last Meeting
Coshocton, Ohio—The following
brothers recently transferred their
membership to Local Union 75:
Charles O. Abrams, Crooksville
Roy Haustman, Cambridge Bert
Justinson, Sebring and Raymond
Cowhers, Falls Creek, Pa.
We welcome these new arrivals
and feel sure they will find the
Pope-Gosser China Co. a nice place
to work. We enjoyed steady em
ployment in 1949 and are looking
forward to steady work this year.
New members added to the roll
are George Brush, George L. Wall
er, Emmett Hains, Jr., and Dora
Eileen Carpenter.
Officers for the first six months
of the new year were elected at our
last meeting and are as follows:
James Conner, president Charles
Bennett, vice president Arthur
Howe, recording secretary and
treasurer Hazel Robinson, finan
cial secretary Herman Kratz, de
fense secretary Okey Bontempt,
inspector William Seward, guard
Dean Baumgardner,, trustee.
President Conner appointed the
following as delegates to Coshoc
ton Trades and Labor Council:
Arthur Howe, Charles Bennett, Sr.,
William Barrett, Arthur Jones and
Ed. Smith. —O.C.
Portland, Ore. (LPA)—The man
agement of the Meier 4 Frank de
partment store here stirred up a
city-wide hornet’s nest when they
tried to slap down the Portland
Oregonian, one of the West’s lead
ing newspapers.
Meier A Frank cancelled large
chunks of advertising after the
Oregonian published the news that
an NLRB trial examiner had issued
a decision against the store in an
Unfair labor practice case brought
by the
Oregon
printed
lost no
AFL Retail Clerks. The
Journal, a rival paper,
a less revealing story and
advertising.
When Meier A Frank’s apparent
pressure tactics became known,
the fur began to fly. The Portland
Central Labor Council-AFL passed
two strong resolutions protesting
the store’s action “as an attack on
the free press that strikes at the
very root of democratic govern
ment and a free society.” One re
solution said, “No newspaper is
worthy of the classification as
such which suppresses news of in
terest to its community, particular
ly if such is done to favor an ad
vertiser, thereby attempting to
keep the public in ignorance.” The
Oregonian was commended for its
stand.
The Portland local of the Ameri
can Newspaper Build condemned
Meier A Frank’s “use of economic
pressure” in equally strong langu
age.
The Multnomah County Young
Democrats and Democratic Central
Committee commended the Oregon
ian for printing a story that might
bring reprisals from its largest
advertiser. An official of the Re
tail Clerks said that many labor,
church and civic groups were com
plaining of Meier A Frank’s action.
Aaron Frank, manager of the
store, insisted the advertising
space in the Oregonian was can
celed because cold and snow were
keeping shoppers home. However,
labor unions and others pointed
out that the firm’s advertising was
still being placed in the Journal.
They wondered whether Meier A
Frank considered Journal readers
a hardier breed than the Oregonian
subscribers.
.oca/ Union 195
nstalls Officers
Local Union 195 had a very fine
turnout at their meeting on Jan.
18 when officers for the new term
were installed. Past president
Nellie Reed administered the oath
of obligation.
The various shop committees
made their report and everything
seems to be running along smooth*
ly-
The Auditing Committee made
their report of finding the funds
of the local solvent and recom
mended a vote of thanks for the
secretaries for the fine manner in
which they found the books.
The social committee took over
following the business session and
served a fine lunch, commemorat
ing our ninth anniversary.
Our next meeting will be on
Feb. 1.
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