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Picketing Erupts in Potter Industry Amid Union Row
About 2,500 idled as potters continue wildcat strike across Ohio River area. Homer Laughlin Co fired five Laborers Local 141 leaders for prior walkout over job classifications, prompting ongoing picketing by workers at East Liverpool and nearby plants in Newell West Virginia. Joseph M Wells Jr said union not condoning picketing and that workers were ordered back to work. Homer Laughlin employs 1,100 with Harker China Taylor Smith and Hall China also affected. A circuit court halt on picketing was obtained for the Newell plant. In Rome a separate note: UAR plans first international film festival next March.
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East Liverpool
Ohio
International Brotherhood of Operative Potters
Ohio River
Wildcat
Homer Laughlin Co
Newell
W.va
Joseph M. Wells Jr
Laughlin
E. L. Wheatley
Potters Union
Wells
Wheatley
Homer Laughlin
Harker China Co
Taylor, Smith & Taylor
Chester