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PAGE TWO Employing Groups Well Represented At Ohio Capitol Eighty-Five Lobbyists Are Registered With Secre tary of State (By Ohio Labor News Service) Columbus, O.—Representatives of employing interests in Ohio compose a major portion of the 85 legislative representatives (lobbyists) who have registered with the Secretary of State as "employed to advocate or oppose measures" in the 93rd General As sefnbly. As usual, a majority of the most active opponents and proponents of bills before the General Assembly arc not registered as lobbyists, including Ellsworth Scott, representative of the coal interests, whose feats of legis lative control in the various General Assemblies have become almost leg endary. The Ohio Chamber of Commerce has six representatives registered, but their supply of non-registered speak ers who appear before Committees of the General Assembly seems inex haustible. Registered representatives of the Ohio Chamber are: L. Brooks Burn side, Westerville, and George S. Chandler, Karl S. Dixon, G. W. Rosen crans, Dr. A. D. Schultz and George J.' O'Brien, Columbus. James L. IS Jappe, is listed as representing the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. Registered lobbyists of the Ohio Manufacturers Association are also small in number, but dozens of speak ers are available when pressure is ex erted, against labor bills in particular. Don K. Martin and Wayne T. Geiss inger, Columbus, are the only regis tered representatives of the Manufac turers Association, f: Other registered representatives and their organizations include: Ohio Railroad Association P. H. Donovan, Lakewood W. J. Mulvi hill, Cincinnati, and J. E. Phillips, West Lafayette. Ohio Firefighters, William T. Lati mer, Lorain. Order of Railway Conductors, C. W. Vance, Columbus. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine ers, S. W. McKee, Alliance. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen William Rasey, Sandusky. Ohio State Federation of Labor Thomas J. Donnelly, Columbus, and Arnold Bill, North Olmstead. Dressmen and Assistants' Union Robert T. Farley, Columbus., State, County,, Municipal Employes Union, John M. Collins, Columbus. Anti-Saloon League of Ohio, Sam uel P. McNaught, Westerville. Buckeye Brewers Association, John D. Marshall and Oscar C. Wagner Cleveland. Petroleum Industry and Petroleum Marketers: John L. Marsh, Youngs town Clyde E. Waillingford, Colum bus Hubert B. Fuller, Cleveland Robert A. Warfel, Columbus. Ohio Association of Commercial Haulers: Elber J. Shover and Frank E. Kirby, Columbus. Ohio League of Women Voters, Miss Ruth S. Cole, Cincinnati. Fraternal Order of Police, Andrew J. I lagan, Cleveland. Retail Grocers, Meat Dealers Homer N. McConkey, Springfield. Gas and Oil Men's Association Frank B. Maullar, Columbus. Ohio Bottlers Association, Jack Meyer, Columbus. Ohio Casualty Insurance Co., B. Lecklider, Hamilton. Ohio State Safety Council, Harold H. Gorman, Cleveland. Ohio State Restaurant Association Robert R. Williams, Columbus. Ohio Education Association: B. A Stevens, Worthington, and Walton Bliss, Columbus. Ohio Good Roads Federation: W A. Alsdorf, Columbus R. C. Culey Columbus Dallas Sullivan, Richwood Ralph W. Sanborn, Columbus Hubert L. Nichol, Columbus. Cuyahoga Tax League, L. A Lakewood. Citizens League of Cleveland, Mayo Fesler, Shaker Heights. Ohio Contractors Association, C. II Duncan, Columbus. Ohio Civil Service Council, Robert T. Mason, Columbus. Ohio Council of Retail Merchants C. E. Dittmer, Columbus Frank I'auly, Columbus George V. Sheridan Columbus. American Steel and Wire Co. Frank R. Fauver, Columbus Howard R. Klepinger, Cleveland. Mahoning Valley Industrial Coun til, Kenneth M. Lloyd, Youngstown Ohio Farm Bureau, Edwin J. Bath Worthington. Ohio Hotels Association: Tfershey Mowery, Columbus, and I'. Grant Sain, Columbus. Deshler-Wallick llo tel, Rodney K. McCollum, Columbus Ohio Printers Federation, R. Reid Vance, Columbus. Wholesale Beer Association, Lewis W. Chester, Columbus. Ohio Laundry Owners, Andrew S Ormsby, Elvria. Association of Dyers and Cleaners Victor L. Keys, Columbus. Ready-Mixed Concrete Association Claude L. Clark, Columbus. Associated Wholesale Food Dis tributurs, Seidell L. Trumbull, Colum bus. State Hospital Servicc A uciations Clare M. Vrooman, Cleveland. City Girl: "What is this stuff that I've just picked'.'" He: "Wow! that's poison ivy!" City Girl- Jjurt get excited. 1 'm not going to eat it." Women of America (Continued From Page One) as to provide jobs and buying power for our unemployed citizens so that they can have their full share of the things they need in order to keep their bodies and souls together. Stimulating production means producing more of the things we make and grow right here in America and not what is grown or produced in other lands. Now this brings me to the big part that the women of America can play in this great campaign to stimulate production and provide jobs for our unemployed. The thirty-five million women in this country, the housewives and shoppers who carry the nation's pocketbook can help to quicken the wheels of production by making a firm resolution to BUY, SO FAR AS IS PRACTICABLE, ONLY PRODUCTS MADE OR GROWN IN AMERICA Now this does not mean that we are asking anyone to foster any prejudices or blind hatreds, or even a boycott against foreign products. It does mean, however, the stimulation of an enlightened self-interest. It means an awakening of a great national social consciousness with relation to our re sponsibility to our more unfortunate itizens who are without employment. It means being PRO-AMERICAN. It means thinking and acting in terms of AMERICA FIRST—which means the nation and all the people. There never has been a more stupid declaration made than that which pro claims that the American people are not buying enough foreign produced articles. This is a most subtle and insidious propaganda which is distinct ly menacing to our own economic wel fare. This is economic treason. For generations our country has been and still is the world's best cus tomer for many foreign products which we do not produce in our own country. Some of these products, such as coffee, tea, spices, tin, rubber, silk are consumed in America in greater quantities than in any other country in the world. The ten million men who ai'e look ing for employment and their twenty million dependents however, are not spending any of their time at after noon teas nor can they refresh them selves with a cup of coffee at each meal. It is more than likely that the coffee grounds are boiled over and over again by the poor housewife Here is one example wherein our un employment situation hurts our trade with South America. The other day we read in the daily press a dispatch from Brazil stating that over 2,000,000 bags of coffee were burned in that country during the first eleven months of last year because they had a surplus crop that cannot be sold. What a paradox Why, we have right here in America the land of most abundant resources and the richest nation in the world thirty million men, women and child ren who are undernourished who could use that coffee if the heads of their families had jobs. Yes, they could use 100,000,000 pounds a year. That would be a per capita consumption of less than four pounds. Many of our country's unemployed are found among workers in lace fac tories, in the match industry in glass pottery and chinaware factories, in the glove and carpet industry in the shoe industry and many other industries that are seriously affected by the llow of cheaply produced products of other lands. But it is not industry alone that is affected by these foreign im ports. The farmers of the nation too, arc affected for we see hams, ha con, sausage and canned meats in great quantities in the food shops throughout the land. No other country in the world i so liberal in its attitude towards im ported merchandise. Many people think that because an article is im ported it is better than that which i produced in our own country. This is a great fallacy. Indeed it is almost near idiocy. I have been frequently asked the question why I, the General Manage of the Charles B. Knox Gelatine Com pany, an institution which it not af fected by foreign imports, should be such an enthusiastic supporter of the BUY AMERICAN idea. Why, we even enjoy a nice export business and sell our products to various countries throughout the world. That is a sim pie question to answer. The ten million men and women out of work and their dependents which means an army of thirty million con sumers are not buying their full share of Knox Gelatine. They are not buy ing their full share of any products whether they be made in England France, Timbuctoo or the U. S. A. But let us find jobs for these people by stimulating the production of the things we make and grow in our own country and then and only then will economic conditions again become nor mal in America. It is most encouraging to me and to my associates in the Made in Amer ica Club to note that each day find more and more womon of America be coming BUY AMERICAN conscious Reports that I receive from various sources in my travels around the country convince me that our efforts arc bearing fruit. Look at the im port figures. For the first time in ten years our export trade will show over a billion dollars in excess of imports Of course this is in dollar value bused cm foreign market prices. If the real American displacement value were shown our foreign trade would be deeply in the red. Note the big decrease in toy im ports from foreign lands. Glass, china ware and pottery ware also shows sub stanti il decreases and this is indeed 4 health.-, wign especially v. lieu v e ice the number of unemployed decreasing along with the decrease in foreign manufactured items. Yes, the women of America are awakening and they are thinking in terms of AMERICA FIRST. I feel the time has come when we all must think in terms of the nation and the welfare of all the people be fore we think of ourselves, our in dustries or our products. It is this realization of a responsibility to my country that prompted me to enroll in the MADE IN AMERICA CLUB and join hands with my fellow Ameri can manufacturers and employers in other lines of industrial endeavor to awaken the citizens of our country to the wisdom of BUYING AMERICAN products. The MADE IN AMERICA CLUB, Inc., is the only movement of its kind that is national in its scope. Its non profit and non-partisan principles ap peal to me and all business men who ars conscious of their responsibility to the nation and the welfare of all the people. Look at England, she has the right idea. Right now, while American ex porting firms are dreaming of in creased sales of their products in Eng land, as a result of the Anglo-Ameri can Treaty, Great Britain is quicken ing her BUY BRITISH campaign. The country is again being Hooded with the slogan "Buy British British Goods are Best" and the Empire Marketing Board is going to leave no stone unturned to impress upon all citizens of the British Empire the wis dom of BUYING BRITISH. In Eng land today you'll find many articles bearing tiny tags "I am British made thank you for Buying Me." Why shouldn't we Americans take a leaf out of England's book on the Buy British and do the same here in America? Well, that is just what we are doing. That is what the MADE IN AMERICA CLUB movement means. We advocate that whenever an article of American make has the same, or as is in most cases, a higher measure of quality in material, design and production as a similar article of a foreign make that we Americans should give preference to the Ameri can Made product. That is common sense. I therefore appeal to the women of America, who spend most of our in come, as well as all citizens, irrespec tive of class, creed or political affili ation to help us put a stop to the in flow of cheaply produced foreign mer chandise, much of which is made un der working conditions and rates of pay that no self respecting American workingman could afford to live. You who give preference to those cheaply low wage produced articles are in juring yourself, your country by mak ing it difficult for Americans who would be employed in.making the sim ilar competitive American article from finding employment. Yes, it is you women of America who can help us find jobs for our un employed citizens. We want you too to think and act in terms of AMERI CA FIRST. We invite you to enroll in the Made in America Club. All we ask of you to become a member is that you sign the Made in America Club BUY AMERICAN pledge. We want all Americans to join the Made in America Club. We want all Americans to Be American—Think American and Buy American! How the Company (Continued From Pago Ono) its employes and to cease from engag ing the services of detective agencie for that purpose. "Of the eighteen cases of alleged discriminatory discharge considered at the Kansas City hearing, the Board upheld the complaint in fourteen and dismissed as to four. The order re quires reinstatement of thirteen dis charged workers with back pay and the transference of one back to his former position. "Kansas City Light & Power Com pany is a Missouri Corporation en gaged in the production and distribu tion of electricity to consumers within an area of 2,5H0 square miles in Mis souri and 1,225 square miles in Kan sas. Its total earnings during 11)30 were $14,808.011.25. It employs ap proximately 1,700 persons. Established Company Union in 1933 "The proposed findings state that the company in 1933 established among its employes a company-domin ated labor organization known as Employes' Representation Plan. Thi Plan continued until the spring of 1937. The company admitted that it had contributed financial support t( it. After the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Act, the company claimed that it abandoned the Plan and that it played no part in the formation of a very similar or ganization known as Association of Employes of Kansas City Power & Light Company, which appeared on the scene immediately thereafter." The proposed findings reject this contcn tion, stating: Continued Scheme Despite Labor Act "The undisputed facts establish that the respondent dominated and inter feted with the formation and adminis tration of the Plan and contributed financial and other support to it. "The respondent's entire course of the conduct, after it realized in April 1937, that it could no longer lawfully continue its participation in the Plan shows that it was the desire and ii tent of the respondent to maintain its domination over the organization rep resenting its employes for the pur poses of collective bargaining by con tinuing the Plan, with certain changes under a new name. Enrolled Detectives as Employes IliL act.. and conduct of the orgai uers and leaders of the Association THE POTTERS HERALD confirm this conclusion. After the de cisions of the Supreme Court in April, 1937, the respondent did not notify the bulk of its employes that it was aban doning the Plan but permitted them to assume that it was still continuing. In contrast to the widespread publicity which it gave the establishment of the Plan among its employers, the re spondent, in a most informal and al most furtive manner gave verbal no tice that it was abandoning the Plan to only a small number of employes who had been employe-representatives under the Plan. These employes played leading parts in transforming the Plan into the Association. The constitution and organizational structure of the Association show that it is a continu ation of the Plan with slight modifi cations. The structure of the Associ ation and the Plan are almost iden tical." The proposed findings state," the Labor Board continued, "that the com pany employed labor spies from the Ahner Detective Agency and the Na tional Detective Agency. These spies were enrolled as regular employes of the company. They joined various la bor organizations of the employes and made reports concerning the member ship and activities of the employes. "The Board finds from evidence at the hearings that in 1!34 Joseph F. Porter, Sr., president of the company, was one of the six incorporators of the Kansas City Citizens' Protective Council, Inc., and that two vice presi dents of the company, Chester Smith and Alec B. Bettis, are mem bers of the Council's Executive Com mittee. This organization, the Board finds placed full-page anti-union ad vertisements in Kansas City news papers and issued bulletins to em ployes urging them to present a united front against the organization of their employes for the purpose of collective bargaining." Aided "Citizens Protective Council The proposed findings concluded: "The purpose of the Council is to discourage the self-organization of employes in Kansas City and its ac tivities, as shown above, are directed toward that end. ... By its connection with and assistance to the Council and by its approval of the activities of the Council designed to dissuade employes in Kansas City from organ izing for the purposes of collective bargaining and to persuade employers in Kansas City to prevent self-organ ization by their employes, the respon dent has shown that its attitude to ward the self-organization of employes is one of aggressive hostility." Big Program To (ContiniJiWHijroin Page One) the Survey said "the time is now ripe for a national effort to reach the high est production levels in history." Four-Point Program Outlined Answering its own question, "What are the next steps to expand produc tion?" the Survey said that "govern ment, business, farmers and labor must work together through "regular channels," and that the problems of getting bank deposits into production must be solved. With regard to replacing govern ment spending with private invest ment, the Survey outlined the follow ing four-point program: 1. An "adequate" nation-wide, low cost housing program, involving "some Federal and local government aid." 2. "Congressional action" as sug gested in the wage parleys last Fall to enable railroads to buy "much needed new equipment." 3. General retooling and re-equip ment of industrial plans "much" of which would automatically follow ex pansion. 4. Purchase of new equipment by utilities and "Federal help" to extend power lines into new areas. Government Aid in Planning Visioned As prerequisites to such a program "business needs the assistance of le islation and planning and some pro grams will require financial aid from the government," the Survey said while "labor needs the assurance that wages will be increased through col lective bargaining as profits rise" and that rising prices will not cancel wage gains. On the international side, the Sur vey said that "war scares have delay ed business expansion this Spring though "optimism continues" and it gives this warning: "We in America need to guard against an pmotional approach to foreign problems, which would mag nify war scares, create hatred and fear, and serve as a background for larg« armament expenditures. "We arc now a world power with full responsibility for weighing con sequences of our declarations and policies upon world peace and wel fare." Insists Work Go (Continued From Pago Ono) will" be made so that a detailed port can be made at the next meeting of the "Buy American" group. We transferred Herbert Ring to I U. 1 and issued a withdrawl card to Virgil Mercer while receiving a trans fer for Norman Vincent and initiating William Allen. Don't fail to attend the next meet ing which will be election night. —O. C. 132 "Remember, my boy," said the el derly relative, "that weulth does not bring happiness." "I don't expect it to," answered the young man. "I merely want it so that I may be able to choose the kind of misery tlut u-. mo^t agrecal'lc t-j i —Pearson's Weekly Relief Was 5% Of (Continued From Page One) to veterans are included in the present compilation as income payments, al though they have previously been ex cluded from national income estimates on the ground that they are compen sation for services rendered before the period in which they were made and social insurance payments are included in the present series as income pay ments, although in estimates of nati onal income they are measured as they flow into, rather than out of, social insurance funds. The figures for relief payments in clude earnings on work programs, payments to recipients of general pub lic relief and of special types of pub lic assistance, and emergency subsis tence payments to farmers. For all categories, figures exclude expenses for administrative purposes and for materials, equipment, and supplies, and certain other expenses incident to the operation of relief programs. The totals for earnings on work programs, it was explained, include earnings on work-relief and adminis trative projects and emergency educa tion and student-aid programs of the Works Progress Administrator, the National Youth Administration, the Civilian Conservative Corps, and other Federal agencies administering work programs at various times and small amounts of earnings on work projects of State and local relief administra toions. Figures for direct relief include pay ments for general public relief other than work relief payments to recipi ents of old-age assistance, aid to de pendent children, and aid to the blind and emergency subsistence payments to farmers. Rowland Shows (Continued From Paae One) much production per hour, per man their length of workday, which I un derstand averages about 12 hours more than makes up this deficit. "I am confident that you are well aware of the necessity of protecting the American wage earner and the manufacturer who pays him his wages, but I thought you would be in terested in having a few statistics that would give you a little familiarity with the problems of the industry." 5-90 All Chairs Filled (Continued From Page One) ate the rating Francis has enabled us to have. Our local wishes to extend its sin cere sympathies to the family of Mat thew Miller of Salem. Brother Matt was well known to quite a few of us and we feel the loss of a true friend and strong advocate of labor in his passing. Quite a bit of sickness has visited our shop this winter. Sister Mildred Roberts is off work with a badly in fected jaw. Ruth McKenzie is able to be out after a serious operation and Anna Scott has been on the sick list since the last of December. Hurry back girls, we miss your chatter. A note of interest to the entire trade is the plea of President Roose velt for a peace contract of the two factions of labor, C. I. O.—A. F. L. I, personally think that the president's plea held a lot of truth and sound log ic and that we, as people of a demo cratic nation should endeavor to affili ate these two organizations into a union of mutual interest and desire. With the rest of the world at dagger points we need unity and strength. We will endeavor to open the polls March 11 at noon for the national primaries. There will be notices post ed if we accomplish this. If not, come out to local Friday night to cast your ballot. In answer to No. 42's request of a few weeks ago, our local has never compensated its president, but we do pay our two secretaries and treasurer. The controversy over the price of the sugar is before the firm and a set tlement is in the offing, we hope. A question of price for finishing em bossed face 7-inch plates is up. Sev eral plants have been contacted for the prevailing price paid. Oh, by the way Brother Don, it is a shame they didn't tell you they moved that road. So sorry.—O. C. 70 "Beg pardon, sir," began the beg gar stopping a suburbanite at the ferry, "can you spare a few cents to help me across the river?" "Haven't you any money at all? inquired the pedestrian. "Not a cent," replied the beggar. "Umph," grunted the pedestrian "then what difference does it make which side of the river vou're on? Special March SALE of LAMPS At Three Magic Prices $7-90 I n i ,ni! cAi Sale starts tomorrow morning and your purchase will be delivered at once—we need the space. Credit Terms May Be Arranged With Small Carrying Charge February Prices In Every Depart ment CROOK'S *9.90 hr( i The cheapest lamp in the lot will sell regularly at $9.90 and the finest one at $17.50. You can figure the saving yourself. Each lamp scientifically designed to give correct direct and indirect light—the styles are up-to-date and they are fitted with sewed silk shades. Thursday, March 2, 1980 NOTICEI Important Announcements of Local Unions are to be found in this Column NOTICE KILNMEN All members of Local Union No. 9 are urged to attend the next meeting to vote at the prim ary election for national officials. The polls will be opened at one p. m. to allow all kilnmen to vote. "BUY AMERICAN" MEETING The East Liverpool "Buy American" Committee will meet in the Brotherhood auditorium Wednesday, March 8, at 7:30. Every member is expected to be present. POSITION WANTED 30 years experience in hand print ing, machine printing, air brush work. Sober and reliable. Box 34, East Liv erpool, Ohio. Wage-Hour Bill Is Killed Without Record of Vote Labor Committee Chairman Steam-Rollers Measure To Its Death (By Ohio Labor News Service) Columbus, O. Arbitrarily disre garding a demand for a roll call vote which would have placed members of the House Labor Committee on record for or against the A. F. of L.-spon sored state wage-hour law, Chairman L. H. Meyers, Lima, declared hearings on the bill "indefinitely postponed" following a voice vote last Wednesday night. The Chairman previously ruled that the motion to indefinitely postpone (kill) the bill, made by Representa tive Guy C. Hiner, Canton, had pre ceded a motion made by Representa tive W. H. Whetro, Ironton, author of the bill, to recommend its passage to the House. Demand for the record roll c$ll vote was made by Representative Whetro and seconded by Representative Jo seph Duffy, Cleveland, but was ig nored by Chairman Meyers who called for a protective voice vote, and prat tically all of the Committee members responded with alacrity. Before placing the question of dis position of the bill before the Com mittee, Chairman Myers remarked that he had a "handfull" of written objections to the bill from employers, and only one telegram from a "so called labor leader" favoring its pass age. He also pointed out to the Com mittee that while only three or four persons, "mostly representatives of organized labor," had favored the bill, the Committee had heard a dozen or more opponents, representing employ ers and employing groups. Chairman Myers then informed the Committee members that they could vote to lay the bill on the table, post pone hearings on it indefinitely, or recommend its passage to the House of Representatives. The mockery of amending the bill before voting to kill it was indulged in by Chairman Myers, who, with Representative Hiner, a leader of the Canton League for Law and Order during recent industrial disputes, was outsponken in opposition to the meas ure throughout the hearings. A poll of the Committee shortly after hearings started on the wage hour bill three weeks ago indicated that not more than four or five favor able votes could be mustered in the 15-member Committee. Chairman Myers was outmancuver ed in his efforts to kill another labor bill creating a state labor relations act when hearings on the wage-hour law were begun. In keeping with a motion adopted at that time, hear ings are now to resume on the labor relations bill. Man: "Do you think you can make a good portrait of my wife?" Artist: "My friend, I can make it so lifelike you'll jump every time you see it."—Typo Graphic. 0 WHY KEEP ON PAYING RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN YOUR OWN HOME FOR THE SAME I E YOUNG REAL ESTATE and Insurance Company 645 Mulberry St. Phones 593—595 East Liverpool, Ohio EAST END. OHIO AVE.—! story 6 room dwelling—Bath, gcto, oloctrir three lar^/c lot.- nunutcu v/alk from Hal! China $200.00 down. $16.00 per month balancc. EAST END. HARVEY AVE.—2 tory 6 room: Bath, ga. elcctric.—$200.00 down. Balance $18.00 per month. WEST END. WEST 8TH ST.—Tv/o otory, 6 roonii:. Bath, gao, clcctji' furnace. Real gor-i bjy at $250.00 down. Balancc $23.00 por month. PLEASANT HEIGHTS.—&-i tory, 6 loomu. Bath, gas, electric, furnace. Iical nice homo for $250.00 down. Salaucs SilL'.OO CSJ siouth.