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w Tt m' PAGE TWO "1 K 4'- »s is f’ I u ■3» I I K I i I 7’ $ I V ff‘' it ”?. i $ ■W i .1! !x- i 'Si 5 I 4 -M I f. I i I 1 & ’. s, 'A a* 1* Correct me if 1 am wrong, but my conclusion is that the main reason most women prefer the com i pany of men is that the men pay the bills. 4 3 Bill After Bitter Fight Washington (LPA)—A bipart isan coalition, led with a firm hand by Sen. Harley Kilgore (D, W. Va.) triumphed in the Senate April 5, Mid after a grueling 13 hours of talk and voting passed a displaced parsons bill which will permit an other 344,000 homeless men, women and children to some to the United States. The measure triumphed over elements led by Sen. Pat Me- McCarran and his supporters had for months used one parliamentary maneuver after another to block the measure, climaxed on the final day by their insistence on voting on more than 130 “perfecting” amendments. All records for the number of roll calls and votes in the history of the Senate were broken, as the relatively solid blocs stayed on the floor steadily. Not wanting to risk missing any of the close votes—from seven to 15 votes was the difference—some of the Senators brought box lunches from home, and others subsisted on food brought up from the Senate rest aurant. Key test came shortly before midnight, by a 49 to 25 vote, when the liberal substitute bill sponsor ed by Kilgore and 17 others was put in place of McCarran’s bill. There were 25 Democrats and 24 Republicans who voted with Kil gore. 'With McCarran were 11 Democrats and 14 Republicans. As approved, the bill is very similar to one already passed by the House, and it is expected that it will shortly be before the Pres ident for his signature. Besides 344,000 DP’s, it will authorize ad mission of 54,744 individuals who have been expelled from central European countries because they are of German ethnic origin, as well as 20,000 war orphans. Sen. Kilgore quoted Philip Mur ray and an A FL executive board resolution passed in February to prove that organized labor endorses the principles of his bill. He also painted out that “both AFL and €W- vigorously oppose the propos ed amendment by Sen. McCarran, to relate the admission of displac ed persons to indices of unemploy ment and housing.” McCarran tried to put over two versions of his formula, one to stop entry of DP’s if the number of unemployed reach ed 4,000,000 and the number of married couples living doubled up reached 2,000,000 the second try raised the jobless figure to 6,000. 000. Both were decisively defeated on roll call votes. Later Sen. Lang er (R, ND) tried again, raising the figure to 10,000,000 unemployed. Ask for Union Labeled merchan dise. WE ARE EQUIPPED TO RENDER COMPLETE FUNERAL AND AMBULANCE SERVICE PROMPTLY MARTIN FUNERAL HOME ?L Bartenders Hold: Behind The Bar N.0 Spot For Ladies 2 The union, which is picVeling Larry’s, contends a woman has no business behind the bar. Dave Siegal, Local 16’s president, fears that setting women to drawing beer and stirring dry martinis would ^encourage prohibitionists and alie nate a great many people and church organizations who would be opposed to conditions that the em ployment of barmaids would pro duce.” Local 16’s officers admit the five lady barkeeps at Larry’s have not been allowed to join the union. Sec retary-Treasurer Joseph Rodriguez says, “We don’t discriminate against women but we know it is not healthy for a woman to be be hind the bar.” He adds that the local has 1000 lady members and has long plumped for equal pay for equal work. But behind the bar is another matter, he says. Mrs. Rose Miller, owner of Larry’s, claims the contract with the union was terminated in 1948. Siegal denies this and says the union will oppose a petition by the owner for a New York State Labor Relations Board election among present employes. The union has ample precedent for its stand. The Supreme Court has upheld a Michigan ban against barmaids in cities of more than 50, 000. Minnesota has a similar law. In 1941, Illinois empowered cities to outlaw female bartending. In Atlantic City, bartenders (male), the Allied Trade Council, the North Side Ministerial Union and the Lic ensed Beverage Association backing an ordinance banning ladies from a place behind the hogany. What’s yours, Doc? IUE Defeats UE In 7 Elections MS LIS Weal Fifth St Phone OHIO end WEST VIRGINIA LICENSE Washington (LPA)—The Inter national Union of Electrical Work ers, has defeated the United Elec trical Workers in seven more NLRB elections. With all but eight eligible workers voting, IUE de feated UE in a collective bargain ing election at the Eagle Lock Co., Terryville, Conn., 253 to 174. IUE said UE concentrated six organiz ers in a house-to-house campaign intimidating older workers, claim ing they would lose their jobs if IUE won. In the Bronx, N. Y., at the Fer rand Optical Co., Local 475 voted 41)0 to 60 in favor of ItJE’s union security clause. Leaders of IUE charged UE representatives urged a “no” vote, which would have de prived employes of union protec tion. In Hartford, Conn., IUE won five and lost one election among work ers of six firms, represented by an amalgamated local. The wins: Fenn Manufacturing Co., Hanson Whitney Co., Hartford Electric Steel Co., Whitlock Manufacturing Co., and the Keeney Manufactur ing Co. The loss to UE was record ed in the Merrow Machine Co. FOR A CHANGE, SERVE BETSY ROSS SLICED VIENNA (Betsy (Ross Enriched with Vitamin and Iron Money Loaned FOR PURCHASE AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOMES 5% Monthly Reduction The Potters Savings & Loan Co. WASHINGTON & BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL. OHIO OFFICERS: JOHN J. PURINTON. President CHAS. W. HENDERSHOT S Vice Pissidsnt inmrimmfwwwrtfTrrttrrTT^ ALWYN C. PURINTON, Secretary JOS. M. BLAZER, Treasurer W. E. DUNLAP. JR. Attorney wr‘‘ V New York (LPA)—Five girls are tending bar at Larry’s on midtown Eighth Avenue, and the Lbcal 16 of the Hotel & Restaurant Work ers-A FL thinks they’ll be the death of the industry. are the ma- a. uf $ NEW CHAIRMAN FOR ADA—Sen. Hubert Humphrey (left), re tiring chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, hands over the reins to new chairman, Francis Biddle, one-time attorney General. ADA delegates to recent convention vowed “to keep aloft the banner of pro gressivism.” ADA Convention Renews Fight For Liberalism Here And Abroad Washington (LPA) Americans------ for Democratic Action, at their an- our own convictions not to be afraid nual convention here, called for a to express and fight for them. renewed all-out fight “to keep aloft the banner of progressivism in America, the only banner under which the free peoples of the world can be rallied against totalitarian ism.” More than 600 delegates from al most 40 states, including many members of Congress and high of ficials of the executive agencies, and representatives of labor and liberal groups, hammered out a series of resolutions and action platforms keyed to this principle. The same theme ran through a series of fighting speeches from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Gov. Ches ter Bowles of Connecticut Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, retiring national chairman Secre tary of Agriculture Brannan and Walter Reuther, president of the UAW. In line with a message from President Truman, the entire con vention was keyed to the import |ance of this year’s congressional elections. The platform declarations close ly paralleled President Truman’s “Fair Deal” program, but the con vention steered clear of any com mitment to the Democratic party. The ADA reaffirmed its “political and organizational independence”, promising to work for the nomina tion ^nd election of candidates from any party “when their records are consistent with the principles of ADA.” Francis Biddle, elected to suc ceed Humphrey as national chair man, interpreted this declaration as a statement that the ADA was “not simply an annex of what is left of the New Deal party.” He said the ADA could have more than one partner, but the Democratic party still was the “senior part ner.” Ono of the hottest floor fights came over this declaration of poli tical indepemience. The political policy commission had proposed a reaffirmation of the 1949 state ment that “cooperation with the Fair Deal elements of the Demo cratic party affords the best oppor tunity for the achievement of lib eral purposes on the national level at this time.” But, led by Gregory J. Bardacke of the Connecticut chapter, and Leo A. Lerner of Chicago, the conven tion majority voted down even this much of a tie-up with the Demo cratic party organization. Over and over again the conven tion responded warmly to speeches defending Secretary of State Dean Acheson, and attacking the Repub lican McCarthys who are trying to smear him. Every convention s eaker denounced the Wisconsin Senator’s campaign to picture lib erals as communists, in an effort to discredit our foreign policy and our government. On motion of Biddl\ the conven tion unanimously adopted a resolu tion commending Acheson and de nouncing “the apparent indiffer ence of the* responsible leaders of the Republican party to the moral and political consequences of a campaign of unscrupulous personal vilification affecting, as it necess arily must, and as its inventors in tend it shall, the confidence of the American people in thcir«govern ment and its highest officers.” In a moving speech to the con vention banquet, Mrs. Roosevelt called for thinking people to stand up and fight for the things they be lieve in without being afraid of the consequences or the criticism that may result. “We must be able to disagree with people anti consider new ideas and not be afraid,” Mrs. Roosevelt said. “The day we are afraid to sit down with someone because five years from now soimtMie mav say wp sat in the. same room with a communist—that day will be a bad day. We must be sure enough of I- Gov. Bowles, in another speech which won warm applause from the convention, called for “fresh think ing on the great issues which are crowding in upon us.” He said the function of ADA was to provide “intellectual leadership” in “facing the problems of today” with “more originality, creativeness, and new ideas.” In opening the convention, Humphrey called upon ADA to “smash the reactionary coalition which now rides high in Congress.” He warned that the Fair Deal pro gram could not be won in Congress “without some reinforcements” for the ADA bloc now in Congress. Walter Reuther wound up the convention with a similar call for a liberal political coalition that can out-organize, out-fight, and out vote the Dixiecrat-Republican coal ition. He- made a special plea for increasingly close AFL-CIO coop eration here as well as in the fotef national field. Secretary Brannan, in a banquet speech, hit at those “of the un scrupulous minority who insist that any course not serving their own immediate interests Is ‘socialism.’ He recalled that “in other times, even public education, free'.delivery of mail, and the income tax have been called ‘socialism’ by those op posing such measures.” Some of the more important actions of the convention were: 1. A directive to ADA officials to set up a separate organization to coordinate the drive for the Brannun farm program. 2. A call for the President to set up a commission to investigate the operation of the loyalty programs, Congressional investigations and unlawful activities of investigative agencies which threaten civil liber ties. 8. A request to the President to propose without delay a program for dealing effectively with unem ployment. 4. A call on the President to veto the Kerr natural gas bill, which was denounced as “the first at tempt of the monopoly interests to buy their way into control of the Fair Deal.” 5. Support of the Lodge-Gossett constitutional amendment to* abo lish the electoral college, provided it also included the Case amend ment to base a Senator’s repre sentation on the number of votes cast, and thus cut the influence of the South. Senator Downey Not A Candidate Washington (LPA)—In the third shift in a few weeks, Sen. Sheri dan Downey (D, Calif.) announced March 29 that he will not be a candidate for re-election because of his health. Downey uiged his friends to support Manchester Boddy, editor of the Los Angeles Times. His doctor advises him that his health prevents his playing an active role in politics during the coming y»»ar, Downey said. The announcement, coming only 21 hours before the final time for filing in the primaries in Califor nia, leaves Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas and Boddy as the leading Democratic contenders against Rrp. Richard Nixion who will run.as a Republican. Because of the Cali fornia system of cross-filing, most candidates will run in both the Democratic and Republican primaries. Consideration for'others delays traffic but permits a few people each day to lii)e out their natural lives. Demand the Union Label. -A .-.A i. ip THE POTTERS HERALD/ EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO k fl HI K Taft Calls Move To Annid Denham’s Job ‘Political’ Washington (LkA)—The reor ganization of the Nat’l Labor Rela tions Board proposed by President Truman along with 20 others was conceived with political motives, Sen. Robert A. Taft (R, Ohio) charged at a Senate hearing on his resolution to disapprove the plan. Taft, at the time he introduced the resolution, also proposed a bill to take most of the functions of the NLRB general counsel, plus some now held by the Board itself, and place them- in a separate federal agency. Truman’s proposal, made in line with recommendations of a task force of the Hoover commission on government reorganization, would have abolished the post of general counsel now filled by Robert Den ham and placed the functions he now performs in the hands of the board itself^ JTaft insisted to the Senate Ex ecutive Expenditures committee that there were only two conflicts between the board and the general counsel—over whether Taft-Hart Ley covered businesses like drug stores and others quite clearly of a local nature, and the conflict over where powers resided. Taft conceded that, last year, he had agreed to a Taft-Hartley amendment which would have .transferred the general counsel’s powers to the chairman, but added that he did it to try to win the votes of Sen. Irving Ives (R, NY) and others for his amendments. Most of Taft’s time was taken up with a denunciation of President Truman’s and the Administration’s recent actions which, Taft declar ed, are intended to “nullify the Taft-Hartley law.” “The President’s course in recent appointments,” he told the Sena tors, “raises the question of wheth er or not he is seeking to have a free and impartial board.” He re ferred to the appointment of Paul Styles (whom he called first a “CIO man” and then “a former member of the Int’l Typographical Union”) as an example of what he meant. He also charged that “ever Since the election, decisions of the bbard have tended to nullify the adt,” and chargtd the Justice Dep’t with negligence. A House Executive Expenditures committee has already rejected a proposal to turn down Truman’s plan. The House has not yet voted. On the Senate side, the committee will hear members of the NLRB and probably Denham, as well as spokesmen for the Nat’l Associa tion of Manufacturers and other anti-labor groups. Under the reor ganization law, unless one house of Congress rejects the proposal within 60 days of April 15, it be comes law. Meanwhile, the House committee in effect approved a proposal to center all responsibility including enforcement of the wage-hour law in the hands of the Secretary of Labor. It had heard Michael Galvin, Undersecretary of Labor, as well as Wage-Hour Administrator John McComb, support the plan. ‘Self-Testing’ Outfit For Specs Assailed By FTC Washington (LPA)—The Feder al Trade Commission has cracked down on a Chicago firm promoting the. sale of eyeglasses through the use of a “self-testing” outfit rep resented as a “sensational device.” The firm and individuals are charg ed with misrepresenting their pro ducts, their professional qualifica tions, and the status of their busi nqgs. The “self-testing” outfit permits a layman to test his own eyes and prescribe corrective lenses. This so called “optometer” says FTC, “is neither scientifically made nor ac curate it can detect and measure nothing more than an error in focus in the case of astigmatism such self-diagnosis would not be beneficial that distribution of this testing outfit, plus the claims made are “a means and instrumentality' potentially dangerous to the health and physical well-being of individ ual members of the public.” The FTC complaint attacks as dticeptive the use of the title “Dr.,” asserts that “free” glasses are not actually free that the “gold plat ed” frames are not actually gqld plated that the sunglass lenses are not breakproof, as represented, nor tbe “biggest value* in the country, as represented nor are the field glasses as represented. Tbe complaint named the firms as Dr. Ritholz & Sons Co. and the Dr. Ritholz Optical Co., also using the trade names of Veterans Em porium, Chicago Goggle Sales Co. and others. AFL LEADER NAMED UNITED STATES MARSHAL San Mateo, Calif. (LPA) Ed ward J. Carrigan, past president of the San Mateo Central Labor Coun cil, has been nominated by Pres ident Truman for the post of US Marshal for Northern California. 5 I fl PROVING HER POINT—Holly wood designer Doris Cagan claims that bras, corsets and girdles can be worn on the outside and made to look like clothes. Here she models one of her “glamour-tops.” BLS Pricing lift New Food Items For Cost Index. Washington (LPA)—The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has finally officially re cognized that American food-buy ing habits may have changed some since the mid 1930’s, and that its Consumer Price Index may not give a true picture of what it costs to live these days. Organized labor has protested for years that the Index did not truly reflect living costs. On April 5, BLS announced it was collecting retail price data on about 110 food items now absent from the index. The prices will be collected as part of a Congress ionally directed revision of the in dex, the bureau explained. Among the new items BLS will include are frozen foods, canned baby foods, prepared flour mixes, perishable fruits and vegetables, beer, wine and whiskey. The bureau will watch prices on these items for 18 months to see how they af fect the cost of living. The index is being revised “so that it will re flect more clearly what consumers are buying today. Present index items include meats* poultry, fish, dairy pro ducts, sugar, fruits, vegetables, bakery products, cereals, fats anti oils. They are priced periodically in 56 large cities. Also in the index are apparel, housefurnishings, rent, fuel and miscellaneous goods and services. The CPI currently bases its find ings on goods and services normal ly bought by consumers in 1935-9. It takes a lot of determination to mess up our own lives and the lives those who depend on us, but ap parently all too many of us can do it. Fully-Funded Pensions Won By UAW At Saginaw I BARBARA BELL PATTERN No. 8239 This beautifully fitting frock for special dress-up wear is up-to-the minute and smart looking. Note the tiny stand-up collar and the criss cross bands of fabric for waist trimming. Pattern No. 3239 is a sew-rite perforated pattern for sizes 12, 14. 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 requires 3% yards of 36-inch fabric. For .this pattern, send 25 cents, in coin’, your name, address, pat tern number and size wanted to Barbara Bell, Labor Press Asso ciation, 1’0 Box 99, Station G, New York 19, N. Y. The Spring and Summer STY LIST is filled with smart new ideas for a wearable spring-into-summer wardrobe. Particular emphasis on fabrics, easy to sew styles, decorat ing ideas—free gift pattern print ed inside the book. 25 cents. Saginaw, Mich. (LPA)—A fully funded pension plan and an insur ance program have been won for 1000 workers at the Lufkin Rule Co. by the United Auto Workers. The agreement meets the 10-cents an-hour pattern established in z substantial section of the industry. The pension will be $100 a month at 65 after 25 years’ service. The company will pay fixed sums into a trust fund, guaranteeing payments to all eligibles the pen sion fund will be administered by a joint board the fund is entirely financed by the company. The company will pay the equiv alent of cents an hour per worker into the fund for every hour worked, including holidays. The payment will continue for the five year Life of the agreement, even though federal social security bene fits may be increased. The com pany will pay another 2^4 cents to ward life insurance, disability and sickness and accident benefits. Workers with less than 25 years service may retire with proportion ately smaller pensions. Workers may stay on the job until they are 68. The cases of those desiring to stay on beyond 68 will be decided through regular contract proce dure. Leonard Woodcock, director of UAW Region ID, headed the nego tiating committee. Serving with him were John Skroeki, president of Local 452, and Don Bauer, chair man of the shop committee. AFL’s RAIL YARDMASTERS DUE TO STRIKE APRIL 12 Chicago (LPA)—After two years of fruitless requests for a five-day week, the Railroad Yardmasters of America-AFL scheduled a strike for April 12, M. G. Schoch, pres ident, announced April 3. Said Schoch: “Following a recommenda tion of an emergency board on Dec. 17, 1948, an agreement was signed on March 19, 1949, estab lishing the five-day week for the employes represented by the othci 15 organizations involved. The yardmasters were excluded from the work week provisions by an obvious mistake of the emergency board.” Once you have given a child a quarter he thinks you’re a cheap skate if ever thereafter you cut him to a dime. Thursday, April 13, 1950 4 Negroes Bowl In ABC Tourney In Minneapolis Minneapolis (LPA) Four Ne groes took part in the annual bowl ing classic sponsored by the Minne apolis Tribune, with 7060 bowlers competing. One finished in the money. The four, accompanied by the president of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Color ed People here, and their legisla tive counsel, appeared, and paid their registration fee. Tourney of ficials held a brief huddle, then ac cepted their fees and- let them bowl. Thus, Negroes competed for the first time along side members of the American Bowling Congress, which has a “male whites only” rule for which it has been attacked in court in several states. The Tribune tourney is scored by he Northwest Bowlers Associa tion, an ABC group. Sports obser vers were divided on whether the action here constituted a precedent. The ABC will hold its convention in Columbus, Ohio, starting May 12, and an effort will be made there to abolish the “male white” rule. (In New York Supreme Court Justice Schrieber reserved decision April 5, on a request to bar the ABC for its racial discrimination, until after the ABC convention, on the promise of ABC officials that the matter will be taken up then.) LABOR MUST GAIN FARM VOTES DUNCAN DECLARES Portland, Ore. (LPA) Labor must increase its efforts to gain the farm vote, Tom Duncan, assist ant director of Labor’s League for Political Education, told a state wide LLPE conference, here. Dun can said “labor faces a different situation in 1950 than that faced in 1948. Labor carried all the cities it can expect to carry in that elec tion. Our job now is to hold those seats and try to make gains in the farm states.” DOCTOR SHOES FOB FOOT COMFORT FLEXIBLE AND BIGID ARCH STYLES Bf OXFORDS AND HIGH SHOES (X-RAY FITTING) CacriM Tha Uaioa Label BENDHEIM’S East Sixth Straat we go as far as the Moon to serve our customers When most' people say they’d “go as far as the moon** to please you, they're talking in. figures of speech. When we say it, wc really mean it. The figures we use are right off the speedometers of our company cars and company trucks. Last year these 891 Ohio Fewer vehicles traveled 10,268,372 miles ... in building and maintaining lines, connecting new customers, answering hurry calls when something needed fixing, on all sorts of trips to help homemakers, farmers, and businessmen get the most out of their electric service. This distance they traveled is equal to twenty-one trips to the moon (and backki and enough nelMtionai mileage to circle the earth nine times at tfce equator. We know that our cars and trucks don’t look like inter planet space ships when you see them on the streets. They’re business-like, work-a-day vehides that you take pretty much for granted. But in running up their astronomical mileage on routine and emergency trips, they arc one of many reasons why you can take four electric service so much for granted, too. 7^ OHIO POWERS »•.