The Potters Herald, 1951-03-29

Here’s what the Wall St. Journal lar activities and study halls. After reiMirts in a roundup story concern-(that comes the expected four houral ing new community bond issues: (in non-school services. Most teacli teacli“Many - “Many teacli“Many cities, already hard-press-(ers who reiiorted for the study said ed to provide adequate community (that equalized, reasonable work facilities for their expanded post-(loads were preferable to extra pay. war II populations, are staggeringLiccordlng to the NEA. under the impact of new defense! Tlie study also revealed that ex exmobilization - mobilization exmobilization demands. Lerienced teachers find today’s “Particularly hard-hit are those (children present new problems that cities Ln key defense areas. With theladd to the teaching load. This, they influx of workers to defense plants, Isay, is due to the cumulative effect and with reactivation or expansion|»f broken homes, war tensions, fam famof - of famof military camps, cities’ public Bly transiency, lack of parental con conworks - works conworks facilities as well as schoolsftrol, and over-stimulation of enter enterare - are enterare being taxed to cajmcity. Evenltainment mediums. The teachers more pressing is an acute shortage|want more time for individual work of housing.” (with these children.

It is a cry for revolution distribut distributed - ed distributed by the National Labor Union, which is described as an' under underground - ground underground anti-Communist organiza organization. - tion. organization. “Russlari soldier and officer,” the leaflet says across the top. “You hold in your hands a leaflet of the Anti-Bolshevik Revolutionary Staff. Be careful.” Leaflet’s text says, in part: “Why do the conquered Gernjans Jive better than you, the conquer conqueror? - or? conqueror? Because the Soviet government has stolen everything from you, and turned you into a begger. The riches of your land go for the main maintenance - tenance maintenance of Stalinist parasites and informers. for the. preparation of another aggressive war. “Why are you not allowed out of barracks? Why are ybu forbid forbidden - den forbidden to make friends with the Ger Germans? - mans? Germans? Why do our people live as in a prison, fenced off from the world by barbed wire “Because Stalin is afraid you will tell the Germans how you live in the ‘land of socialism achieved/ afraid you will write home about how the workers live abroad, afraid our people will come to understand

Continuing, the leaflet exposes some of the communist propaganda about life in the Soviet Union, as follows: ‘A happy prosperous life’—1 when your old mother has to stand for hours in a queue for bread, when your father on the collective farm is working for Stalin from dawn to dusk without straighten straightening - ing straightening his back. ‘The fight for peace’—means preparation for a new aggressive war. Our people have no need of that war, which can bring us no nothing - thing nothing but new chains, new suffer sufferings, - ings, sufferings, new sacrifices. “Russia needs not war but free freedom - dom freedom through revolution! Russia needs a revolution to free your brothers from the prisons and con concentration - centration concentration camps! Russia needs a revolution to shatter the chains binding the people to their places of work through kolkhozes and stakhanovism! Russia needs a revolution to build a just life of (Ttirw Page Three)

ranged from those of John Edel-1 man, Washington representative of I San Francisco (LPA) Lnited the Textile Workers, who charged (Electrical Workers Local 1412 has housing conditions “are a national (been ordered by a trial examiner of scandal, a sensational disgrace,” to|the National Labor Relations Board those of Rodney M. Lockwood, of|to furnish back pay to three em emDetroit, - Detroit, emDetroit, former president of the|pl°yes who were kept from their National Association of Home [jobs by a IE strike. Builders, who called public housing| The union pulled an eight-day “morally, economically, and poli-(strike at the Gardner Electric Co. tically wrong.” (across the bay in Emeryville, when

Other points in the program in-lreasons for for dis« dis«eluded: - eluded: dis«eluded: adjustment of credit and |’hanever came out. However, in building material restrictions, eli elimination - mination elimination of blighted areas, ap- I'anv ^mantling the finng of three pointment of a national adminis- because they had been expelled trator of defense housing, localf™* the union and therefore were non-partisan bodies to study com-lno longer e gt»e or t»or. e rnunity needs, and ,a combined pro- uniftn ‘"T I gram by public and private build- W th ing agencies for the benefit of the "J™ th% COI!ipuny. American neonle A move to indorse

But out of the meeting, which |the company refused to discharge was called by St. Louis Mayor|the men at UE direction. Joseph M. Darst, came rec'ommen-| UE had a union-shop agreement dations for federal defense hous- (and a seniority clause in its con coning, - ing, coning, and “a decent home in a whole- (tract, but a union shop election had some environment for every Am-(never been held under NLRB aus auserican - erican auserican family.” It also called on all|pices and the contract therefore was groups to unite in a “spirit of tol-(ruled illegal. erance, understanding, and cooper-1 The union refused to testify In ation.” |the case and the behind-the-scenes

The conference was called by the United Labor Policy Commit Committee - tee Committee so that state and local lead leaders - ers leaders could have first-hand the facts of labor’s fight for full-scale rep representation - resentation representation in the mobilization pro program - gram program in the face of entrenched big business. After the conference, the local leaders would be able to speak authoritatively in their own com communities, - munities, communities, the ULPC believed, and would be equipped to rally consum consumers - ers consumers inside and outside labor’s ranks to resist mounting living costs.