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PAGE TWO Washington (LPA)—Some big industrialists have finally put the finger on the steel industry for its failure to deliver the goods. General Motors President Charles E. Wilson hit a punch like the old-time Joe Louis ones Oct. 26 when he charged the industry does not “have enough confidence in the country to expand adequately.” Since the end of World War II, government economists have been making the same complaint on be half of the American people. When a man like Wilson jumps into the fray on the side opposing them, the steel moguls are in no position to cry ‘‘crackpot New Dealer” as they have been doing all along. They merely try to explain to him, very very publicly, that he’s “mistaken.” Expansion figures most recently ‘put forward by the industry are bigger than ever before, but not big enough. And their arguments against expanding further have an old familiar ring. They cut back after World War II because they said they didn't want to be stuck with a big plant when business conditions returned to “normal.” In 1948, President Truman got tough and warned that if industry didn't build plants, the government would. Shortly after that, they got taken off the hook by an economic recession, that cut the demand for steel. Last July, after the Korean fighting started, the industry an nounced a 6,000,000 ton expansion program. They denied any more would be needed. Then the heat was put on again, and last month they came forth with a “voluntary” program to increase capacity by 10,000,000 tons a year. They are willing to do this, they say, if the government will write off their plant depreciation at the rate of 20 percent a year for five years. (This will save them millions in taxes.) The government is willing. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer has applauded this plan, which will bring the nation’s steel producing capacity to 109,000,000 tons by 1953. Two other govern ment spokesmen, however, Agri culture Undersecretary Clarence J. McCormick and Assistant Interior Secretary C. Girard Davidson, say it's not nearly enough to meet the country's needs. Production the last week in Oct ober broke all records. Mills were operating at 102.5 percent of capa city. Men ami machines continued te be poshed beyond the amount! they were supposed to be able to: turn out. Even at this breakneck speed, steel orders continued to pour in faster than they could be met. The National Production Authority had issued priority orders for defense equipment. It had also earmarked 310,000 tons a month for repair and production of freight cars, and planned to issue similar “DO” orders for oil and gas pipelines'. On Oct. 29, William T. Faricy, president of the Association of American Railroads, warned that the roads will probably ask NPAi for more steel, to build locomotives! and replace rails. Civilian manufacturers can’t get the steel they want. A special subcommittee on pre paredness, headed by Sen. Lyndon Johnston (D, Tex.) is investigating the steel situation. The Senate group is due to issue its report early in December. Demand the Union Label. There IS a DIFFERENCE When ord iq fl-vr ni b.-. as sured of fr-__n !u:y—pin —an added touch of floral design. Ph -i■'» 439 where every order recu.res the individual attention of a floral expert. GOLDEN'S Flowers OLDEST FLORAL SERVICE IN EAST LIVERPOOL Established by CH AL PETERSON-1885 137 WEST SIXTH STREET Phone Main 439 r'...................................................................... 15 pi- ',v i. Steel Moguls Still Johnny One-Note About Shortages Ships Below Union Standard Referee Says San Franeiseo (LPA) Union seamen are eligible for unemploy ment insurance payments even if they refuse jobs on the ships of the Military Sea Transport Service. The reason: MST jobs are sub standard. Decision was handed down by a referee for the Division of Appeals of the San Francisco District of the California Department of Employ ment. The referee reversed an earlier ruling which had gone against the Sailors Union of the Pacific-AFL, a number of whose members were involved. Jobs on the MST ships are not suitable for SUP members, the re feree said, because the SUP men are used to better conditions and pay than the MST offers. The MST is an agency of the US govern ment, charged with the operation of Army and Navy transports. Referee Donald Gilson cited pay differences between SUP contract jobs and MST jobs to support his contention. On an SUP ship, an able bodied seaman can make about $450 a month, he said, while on an MST vessel he can make only about $300. SUP men didn’t have to take the MST jobs because the wages were “substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality,” Gilson wrote. The referee also pointed out that MST authorities failed to survey prevailing wages in private industry, a requirement established by the Federal Class ification Act of 1949 which provides! that the wages of crews on govern ment ships be fixed and adjusted “in accordance with the prevailing rate and practice in the maritime industry” as far as possible. Last such survey was made in 1947-48, Gilson said. Charles P. Scully, at torney for the California Federa tion of Labor, represented the SUP. Stalling Employer Warned By NLRB Los Angeles (LPA)—An em ployer cannot merely go through the motions of bargaining while deep in his heart he has no inten tion of ever coming to an agree ment with a union. That in effect is the ruling of the NLRB against the Gay Paree Undergarment Co. here on charges brought by the AFL lnt’1 Ladies Garment Workers. The Board upheld the contention of Trial Examiner C. W. Whitte more who reported that while the company met with the union and discussed proposals, it waa^ill “sur face bargaining.” “Of course,” the NLRB said, “the act does not compel agree ment, but it does require that both parties enter into negotiations and bargain in good faith ... a pre determination not to make any concession to the union ... is in compatible with a bonafide en deavor to reach an understanding with the chosen representative of employes, and manifests negation of the collective bargaining en visaged by the act.” FISH WORKERS PAY RAISED Monterey, Calif. (ILNS)—Three thousand AFL fish cannery work ers here have won a 12-cent hourly wage increase in a new agreement with the Monterey Fish Processors Association. Demand the Union LabeL DOCTOR SHOES FOR FOOT COMFORT FLEXIBLE AND RIGID ARCH STYLES IN OXFORDS AND HIGH SHOES (X-Ray Fitting) CARRIES THE UNION LABEL BENDHEIM'S East Sixth Street MONEY LOANED FOB PURCHASE AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOMES Per Cent Monthly Reduction The Potters & Co. IOS. BLAZER, Treasurer W.<p></p>Savings jw t'i txt x— -tx *aru.'-xas E. DUNLAP, Ir.,<p></p>Loan ^a^SnesssassesssssssssssssnsitaAaana^MB^ WASHINGTON and BROADWAY EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO OFFICERS: JOHN J. PURINTON, President ALWYN C. PURINTON, Secretary CHAS. W. HENDERSHOT, Vice President Attorney Asia What stirred Buchanan was the charge by his committee’s Repub lican minority that the Public Af fairs Institute, one of the groups investigated by the lobby probers, Was a “pressure group financed by left-wing organizations.” Fact is, the Public Affairs Insti tute, a Washington organization which studies economic and social issues, obtains its principal finan cial backing from the Trainmen, Buchanan points out. In addition, the PAI has obtained support from the Mine Workers, the Typograp hical union, the Teamsters, the Musicians and the Carpenters. None of these unions can be des cribed as “left wing,” Buchanan points out. Tha Republican minority was angered by the interim report is sued by the Lobby Committee’s four-man majority. The report was sharply critical of such groups as the ultra-reactionary Committee for Constitutional Government, whose spokesman refused to iden tify his chief backers. The major-j ity should have pounced on the Public Affhirs Institute too, the GOP members felt. They were especially critical because the PAI was not a registered lobby. But apparently the GOP minor ity didn't pay much attention to Dewey Anderson, PAI director, when he appeared before the com mittee in July, observers here say. Anderson declared he would be per fectly willing to register if the lobby registration law were amend ed to include such research insti tutions as the PAI. In addition, he presented an eloquent plea for leg islation requiring full disclosure of all groups attempting to influence Congress for public opinion. Buchanan makes mincemeat of a charge by the Republican minority that they never had a chance to study the interim report before it was issued. Says Buchanan: “The original draft of this report was submitted to all members of the committee as long ago as last August. It was*discussed in execu tive session, and suggested changes were advanced by both minority and majority members. It is there fore difficult for me to understand what the minority members mean when they say they have not had time to read the report thorough ly.” Republican objectors were Reps. Clarence Brown (Ohio), Charlie Halleck (Ind.), and Joseph O’Hara (Minn.). I4e RAISE AT WRIGHT Woodridge, N. J. (LPA)—A day unauthorized strike ended here with a 14c wage raise for 7000 members of the United Auto Work ers. Workers agreed to new secur ity measures, ami pledged them selves to speed up production to meet defense orders held up by the walkout. ICFTU Spokesman Brussels.—Dhyan Mungate (left), seaman from India, advised by J. H. Oldenbroek, secretary-general International Confederation! of Free Trade Unions, that he has been selected to head the ICFTU information and advisory center in Singapore. Buchanan Says Union Will Resent 'Left Wing' Slur Washington (LPA)—The Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen and the United Mine Workers will be mighty resentful at being called “left wing” organizations, Rep. Frank Buchanan (D, Pa.) believes. Buchanan is chairman of the House Select Committee on Lobbying Ac tivities. "I Was Wrong" Ex-Commie Pens TWU President 17- “UNION MAID* lno' New York (LPA)—Tall and lean Doug Mac Mahon, who has been running a candy store in Brooklyn since the Transport Workers gave him the bounce, is sweet-talking his ex-union buddies now. The former secretary-treasurer who was tossed out by TWU’s 1948 convention because he was an ad mitted Commie wrote last week to Michael J. Quill, TWU president. He said: “I was wrong and you were right. I quit the Communist party a year ago, realizing their policy was one of disrupting the labor movement. If they cbuld not rule then they would ruin. Disrupt jwas the slogan. Wreck was the jgoal.” MacMahon should know. A few years back he denied exactly those charges against the CP. He said, then that he was a member of the ))arty, went to their meetings, and that no such program was ever dis cussed. Now his perspective has chang ed. “The plan (of the Communists) was to discredit any and all gains made and to try and make the workers feel that they were sold out. If the union was wrecked and the men sold out that was too bad. When you take a good look at the Communist policy as 1 have finally done, you see that it iove tails with that of the worst re actionaries in the country.” MacMahon ended by congratulat ing Quill on the union’s “good work” and “militant fight.” THE POTTERS HERALD, EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO IN 4 UNIONISTS GIVE BLOOD VAIN FOR TEAMSTER’S WIFE Miami, Fla. (LPA)—Four fellow teamsters gave blood in a vain ef fort to save the life of Mrs. Mary Morris, 24, wife of a member of the Teamsters’ Union. She died of burns after the oil stove on which she was making breakfast for her two children burst into flames. Roy and Mary Morris had just finished building their own home. Mrs. Morris had put up the rock lath herself, in addition to holding down a job as a stenographer. They had been living in a rented room while working on their home, and had moved in just a few days be fore the tragedy. They had been using a makeshift stove because the recent hurricane delayed in stallation of electricity. Roy’s local is now raising a fund to help him, and Land O’Sun Dair ies, where he works, has promised to triple the sums raised. FACT BOARD ENDS HEARINGS ON RAILWAY EXPRESS New York (LPA)—A President ial fact-finding board has complet ed a two-week hearing on the re cent strike of 3000 Railway Ex press Agency drivers in the New York area. The drivers, members of the AFL Teamsters, are seek ing a 20c wage raise. 'o° Madam, this brush is BOUND to* imnrevw ^our working conditions .. it's Union-Made!' 'Labdr Denounces Longer Work Week Without Overtime Washington (LPA) Organized labor has turned thumbs down on the 45-hour work week proposed by General Motors President C. E. Wilson. Labor is willing and ready to contribute to the defense effort, but industry can afford to pay overtime for the longer work sched ule, labor leaders point out. Wilson’s suggestion that over time pay start at 45 hours during the current emergency, instead of the 40 hours now provided by fed eral law, was offered as one way of solving the manpower shortage. The average work week for the nation’s 12,900,000 production workers has been running well over 41 hours since midsummer. Union spokesmen pointed out that labor Costs drop as the workweek length ens, and pointed to World War II records as proof that even with heavy overtime there is no increase in production costs. An AFL representative recalled that the recent AFL convention in Houston pigeon-holed a resolution for the 30-hour week, as a conces sion to defense needs. United Auto Workers voiced im mediate opposition to the proposal. “There is nothing in the federal wage and hour act or in UAW con tracts to prevent industries from working more than a 40-hour week in order to meet civilian and de fense requirements,” said Secre tary-Treasurer Emil Mazey. “What General Motors President' Wilson proposes is simply that workers should work five hours' more each week without being paid for the overtime as required by law and contract. “The UAW has jointed out twice this month that auto and auto parts manufacturers’ profits have reach ed scandalous proportions. If sus tained overtime becomes necessary certainly those profits are more than enough to meet the bill with out any price increase either to the government or to individual car buyers.” Mazey expressed the opinion that credit restrictions, which have cut car sales steel and other material shortages and lack of defense orders, “all point to layoffs and un employment, and not to a man power shortage—for at least a con siderable time yet.” I The next day, UAW Local 600 reported that Ford Motor Co. plan ned an “immediate” layoff of 15 percent of its 65,000 Rouge plant' workers. In telegrams to President Tru man, NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington, Henry Ford II, and’ UAW President Walter Reuther, the local’s president, Carl Stellate, declared “We are faced with im mediate layoffs of our members because of announced cutbacks in production schedules of auto mobiles.” He urged: Relaxation of one third down, 15-months-to-pay cred it controls expansion of steel cap acity by private firms, with gov ernment steel-making as the alter native an investigation of defense contracts to prevent unemployment in plants now operating determin ation of the scarcity of all essen tial materials greater participa tion of labor in decisions affecting defense and civilian output. Company spokesmen said the layoffs are only temporary, and are due to new-model changeovers. Half GI Homes Bought Without Down Payment Washington (LPA) —Three out of four new homes in nine large- city areas were sold to ex-Gl’s in the latter part of 1949 and half the vets paid nothing down. A report issued by the US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Sta tistics Nov. 1 also shows tnat near ly 40 percent of all new one-family dwelling* were sold without down payments. Down payments of 5 percent or less were made by 70 percent of the vets while the same percentage ofnon-vets put up more than 15 percent. Veterans bought less expensive homes than non-veterans, although “modest” ($7000-$10,000) homes led sales to both groups. Only 15 percent of the houses were bought without Government-aided financ ing. A third of the houses had both an FHA-insured first mortgage and a VA-guaranteed second mort gttgo. The present regulations for Gl loans, requiring down payments of 5 to 45 percent, would have made 90 percent of the purchasers sur veyed put ug larger down pay ments. Sixty percent of the civil ian purchasers using FHA financ ing exclusively would now be re quired to increase their down pay ments or buy less expensive homes. 'Hie cities surveyed, in which 20 percent of all non-farm one-family houses were started in 1949, are Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Washing ton, D. C. Buy Union-Made goods others as you would have pay Union wages unto you! from them But if we want to see the real fatality in compromising with evil —let’s look at the record of the past thirty years. Had Kerensky been backed by the democracies of the world when he attempted to establish a gen uine democracy in Russia, we would not have to face the menace of Communism today. Had we not compromised with Japan over the invasion of Man churia, China would not have been laid waste, and the forest fire otf war might have been averted in the Far East. Had we not compromised with Hitler when he started to rearm and when he began his persecu tions in Germany, and had we not compromised with Mussolini over Ethiopia, there would not have been World War II—at least not then. Ami what might be said regard ing compromise in the cases of Finland, Austria, Czecho-SIocakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Yugo-Slavia, France? Not that we are altogeth er guilty in these cases—but were we altogether guiltless? “The Soviet is the Great Exper iment” “Japan needs to expand” “Hitler is resurrecting Germany” “After all, the Ethiopians are a savage people,” it was said in de fense of our actions. There is scarcely a crisis through which the world has passed in re ceht years but what one or more of the Democracies might have saved the situation. Is it any wonder that the Communists have developed a contempt, for us They have charg ed us with cowardice, with going soft, with lack of heroic spirit. If we are to help save what re mains of civilization, there must be no compromise with evil. That this attitude works has been proven in Korea. Let’s be fair to all—but let’s also be fair to ourselves*—to our standards and our beliefs as a Democracy. Let’s have done for all time with compromise! Tax Boosts Price Of TetevuMOB Sets, Home Freesers Washington (LPA) Prices of television sets and home freezer units went up Nov. 1 when the gov ernment started collecting a 19 percent tax on them. The new tax is 10 percent of the manufacturer’s price to the dealer. The 10 percent tax was not expect ed to mean a 10 percent boost in retail prices, however. The spread between manufacturers’ and retail prices is too great to permit such a rise, it was believed. (A dealer might get $330 for a television set the manufacturer sells for $130. The new tax would be $13, or 10 percent of $130, not 10 percent of the higher figure. Generally there’s a wholesaler be tween the dealer and the manu facturer.) 1^7 German Youth Visit AFL WuNnrtoiv-At'L Presfleht Wffliam dreen I* S»M by Inge Hauptmanns, Dusseldorf, and Miss Ruth Eva Koehn, Berlin, twoi of a group of German- trade union youth leaders to visit AFL head— quarters during s 90-day study tour of United States Others in the photo include AFL International Representatives. George P. Delaney Florian Am met*, Augsburg Karl-Heinz Boesche, Kassel Willy Bopp, Munich Theodor Falk, Georg Gebhardt, Brow Schloenleben, Nuernberg Erich Groha, Schweinfurt-on-Main Adah burt Hoehne, Bremen Eberhard Pomiersld, Schongau. The Fatality Of Compromise By RUTH TAYLOR We are a nice people. Sometimes we are too nice for our own good. We are so imbued with the idea of fair play, and consideration for the other fellow, that we too often— especially when it does not affect directly our own interests—bend over backward in being lenient to ward shortcomings, if not actual ?wrong doing. I A current illustration of that is the way we spring to the defense of criminals—with sentimental pro tests in their behalf. Or our con doning the actions of those who join subversive groups. We say— “They didn’t know.” Well, if they didn’t have any more -tense than to join an organization without in vestigating, then they better see a doctor! We don’t join organizations we don’t know all about! FARM HANDS RACKETEERS PUERTO RICAN GET TAKEN Trenton, N. J. (LPA) The Puerto Rican came to this country this summer to work in the fields have had a lot of trouble. First, thousands of them in Michigan got stuck with low wages and bad working and living conditions. Now, in New Jersey, 100 of them got fleeced of $20 each by two flashily dressed men who guaranteed them jobs at an Illinois steel mill. The money was for transportation. The strang ers showed the farm hands a con tract which ugaranteed them ex emption from military service if they went to ttje mill, which is non existent. The workers had just fin ished harvesting the crop in the Glassboro, N. J. area. BY farm hands who i» .................................................. Wood Refuses To Decontrol Rent In Ponfiac, Mich. Pontiac, Mich. (LPA)—The land lord’s lobby here has been thrown for a loss. On Sept. 25 enough peti tions had been received by Mrs. Ada R. Evans, city clerk, to put the issue of rent decontrol on the Nov. 7 ballot. The next day, the Pontiac City Commission passed a resolu tion ending rent control Dec. 31. But action by Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods is necessary, and on Nov. 2 he refused to act, saying that to act “after petitions from the people had asked to consider the question by referendum would be contrary to the intent of Con gress.” He added that “since the Congress specifically provided for determination of this issue by popular referendum, it can hardly be said that it intended to permit such a determination to be blocked by a subsequent resolution local governing body prior referendum.” (In trolled Napa, Calif. wood, Colo. South Beloit, Ill.) of the to the decon- Washington Woods Hayward, Healdsburg, Oakdale, and Sausalito, Edmonds, Wash. Engle- PROFITS UP 34 PERCENT New York (LPA)—US Steel re ported profits of $178,821,540 for the first nine .months of 1950, against $133,223,409 in the same period in 1?49, a jump of 34 per cent. Third quarter profits were $59,742,302, against $39,171,144 in the third quarter, of 1949. The power to re-arm Thursday, November 9, 1950 If You Can’t Read Maybe You Should Become A Boss America hes power, as never before—electric power so vital in re-arming as well as in meeting today’s record-breaking civilian needs. The business-managed electric companies have been building up the nation’s power supply in history’s greatest industrial expansion program. Take the Amorkan Gas and Electric System for example. It consists of tins com* pany and five affiliated electric companies. There are nine major generating plants with two additional plants under construction, all interconnected with high-voltage transmission lines included in this integrated System. Since 1942, we have increased generating capacity by 1,180,000 kilowatts so that customers of this company and Us affiliates in the System now have nearly twice as eutdt electricity available to them as there was at the time of Pearl Harbor. And the System bus 1,000,000 kilowatts of new capacity coming on the line by the summer of 1953. Of this, 450,000 kilowatts wiH come into service in 1951, another 350,000 in 1952, and 200,000 in 1953—making a total of 3,380,000 kilowatts avail able in the seven-state area the System serves. The record-breaking expansion program that the System companies have com pleted since 1947 has already cost them $267,000,000. Over the next three years an additional $251,009,000 will be spent. All this is being done on their own Initi ative and enterprise and financed entirely by money from investors. Above all, the pouter to reform is backed by the loyalty, skill, and experience of the 12,090 men and women who operate our system. They will never fail thia country in the hour of need. fa. OHIO POWER* New York (LPA)—You’re really going to have to spell things out for your boss if Dr. Murray Lin- V coin Miller is right. Dr. Miller, chief of reading im provement at the Air University, Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Ala., says bosses can’t read much better than “near illiterates.” “When we tested the reading ability of Air Force officers we were shocked,” Dr. Miller told a meeting of the American Manage ment Association here Nov. 1. “But we got over that when we tried the same tests on doctors, lawyers, and business executives— they were even worse.” He said executives read only 300 to 350 words a minute because they still move their lips mentally—they should read 650 words a minute, a speed which can be attained training. These speeds are reached by skimming, and readers remember what they better than slow readers, Dr. Mill er said. with not fast read He suggested reading courses for executives. “They need it most,” he said, “because they need to do more reading and to compre hefcl better.” Must have been thinking about union contracts. LOCKED-OUT TRUCK DRIVERS GET UNEMPLOYMENT PAY Minneapolis, Minn. (LPA)—Un employment benefits will be paid 425 truck drivers who were thrown out of work last summer when 25 trucking firms closed down here. The companies claimed they could not operate because of a strike at two other trucking firms—the drivers said it was a lockout. Vic tor Christgau, director of the Minnesota Division of Employment Security, ruled for the drivers on Oct. 26. His decision may be ap pealed directly to the State Sup reme Court. WE ARE EQUIPPED TOeRENDER COMPLETE FUNERAL AND AMBULANCE SERVICE PROMPTLY MARTIN Funeral Home 145 West Filth St. Phone 365 OHIO and WEST VIRGINIA license...