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FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1929
THE CONVENTION
The district convention of the Inter
national Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employes and Moving Picture Oper
ators of the United States and Can
ada will be held in Hamilton, Ohio
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, June
2, 3 and 4, 1929. The district con
vention which will be held in thi
city comprises the mcynbers of the
above organization in the states of
Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana ami
Ohio. Several hundred delegates wh
usually attend these conventions will
be here to deliberate and consider
vast amount of business which will
be introduced at the convention,
huge gathering of visitors will also
visit our city during the convention
and we are sure that their stay while
here will be made pleasant and noth
ing will be left undone by the local
members to make it such.
Of course it is up to the local mem
bers of the Stage Employes' organiza
tion to do the most of the work and
entertaining, to show the visitors
royal time while here, but they can
not do it all. Help is needed from the
entire ranks of the local labor unions
which they are deserving of and
which they should expect. We are
pleased to state that some of the in
dividual union members have already
promised to assist in opening the con
vention, welcoming the delegates, and
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things to be done. Others may be
asked to do their bit, and if you hap
pen to be one of them and you can
fill the bill, don't refuse, and do your
best to help.
Every now and then the* Press re
ceives a Mysterious communication
from this or that individual asking
that this paper publish something
that the writer is ashamed, afraid
or too cowardly to sign his name to
This paper stands now as it always
has done—to not publish letters of
someone who has an ax to grind, or is
too cowardly to sign his name to a
i
letter himself. At the head of the
editorial column on this page is pub
lished the following: "Whatever i
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ticated by the name and address of
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lication, but as a guarantee of good
faith."
GOVERNOR AIDS COAL-IRON
POLICE
A whirlwind of protest against
Governor Fisher has been raised be
cause of his acceptance of the Mans
field "industrial police" bill and his
rejection of the Musmanno bill, which
would control thugs who are paid by
coal and steel corporations.
The latter bill would limit these
officials to protection of the com
pany's property. The Mansfield bill
that is now law, extends jurisdiction
of the police to the county in which*
they are located.
Churchmen and civic groups joined
labor's campaign to conrtol this pri
vate army. The governor is placed on
the defensive and pleads that
one" asked him to sign the fake bill
He promises to use his executive
power to remedy present conditions
Friends of real control reply that the
question should be solved by govern
ment by law, rather than depend on
the whim of a state executive.
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of
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had to satisfy hundreds of critical eye* and
wxowos, you be mighty careful to see that everything wu
exactly right, wouldn you? You wouldn't take any chancM
with cheap flour, you wouldn't skimp on the more expensive
ingredients.
Our bakers have exactly that task every day: hundreds
©fyloeves to bake, and each one must please the hou*ewif«
WOO buys it. And housewives «ne pleased when they buy
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"Governor Fisher," said Dr. Wil
liam R. Former, of Western Theolog
ical Seminary, "is promising to do
things on his own authority which
should not be left to his authority
even if he has the authority. It looks
like an evasion. The governor has
had the power of regulation which he
claims under the Mansfield bill all
along and has not used it."
The governor named Capt. George
F. Lumb as secretary in charge of the
industrial police." James E. Kelley,
secretary Pennsylvania Federation of
Labor, points out that Lumb headed
the state police during 1905-10. "He
did what the coal companies told him
to do and he will do it again," said
Kelley.
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THE WORLD AND ITS JOYS
AND WOES
Dictator Stalin resigns in Moscow,
with a roaring internal fight on in
the red* ranks. Who knows what may
yet come out of the bolshevist stew
The Mexican rebellion collapses and
a lot of erstwhile bespangled gener
als find the peace of the United States
a wholly acceptable substitute for lost
battlefields
Governor Fisher, in Pennsylvania,
vetoes the Musmanno coal and iron
police bill, which would have undone
some of the wrong done by the Mans
field bill, which enlarges the powers
of these private cops. The govrenor
sends in a veto message that serves
to make matters worse.
The English are nearing an election
and Ramsay MacDonald tells the elec
tors straight out that his party is
seeking, not to reform but to make
the whole works over again.
Textile bosses in Tennessee begin
a period of persecution, hoping to
kind of men that made history at
Valley Forge, at Trenton, Lexington
and Philadelphia!
Who says the world isn't romantic
and thrilling—and sometimes down
right mean and nasty, but neverthe
less moving forward.
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AGAINST POINT SYSTEM
Nation-wide attention is attracted
to the strike of the Boot and Shoe
Workers' Union at the Holter Shoe
Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio. These
shoe workers are striking for an ade
quate wage, and against the point
system by which they are required to
speed up productions for less money
than formerly was paid them. Al
though the members of this local have
been on strike for sometime, they are
staunchly living up to the principles
of unionism, and are firmly united
in their efforts to receive an adjust
ment that will be satisfactory to each
and every one of them before termi
nating the strike. All that is asked
of the public is the moral support
which all union men should gladly
give these shoe workers. Informa
tion has been received relative to this
strike that this firm is losing thou
sands and thousands of dollars week
ly
by being unable to fill orders.
However, it is the belief of the work
s who are striking that the con
stant loss of business will not remun
erate the Holter Shoe Company in
eir unjust demand for a decrease
wage—Chronicle, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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As a result of a supreme court rul
ing given April 22, Harry F. Sinclair,
1 magnate, must go to jail for three
months for refusal to answer ques
tions asked by the senate oil investi
gating committee.
If Harry Sinclair happened to be
a trades unionist and refused to
aflswer questions of the same jjivesti
gating committee, he would have re
reived a present of three years.
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POWER-OWNED NEWSPAPERS
It has been shown before the fed
oral trade commission that the Inter
national Paper & Power Company
owns heavy interests in a dozen or
more newspapers, from Boston to
Chicago.
Company representatives admit
that the 1927 income of the company
which has these great newspaper
holdings was 54 per cent from power,
25 per cent from paper and 24 per
cent from other sources. Others
hold the 1929 income will be shown
as 65 per cent from power.
Power companies, paper companies,
newspapers—what a chain of money
making institutions. And what a de
gradation for newspaperdom, that
once proud office of public trust!
The labor press has come to hold
the fort for freedom of the press
from monopoly control!
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ONE FOR THE JOKE BOOK?
One B. F. West, of Portland, Ore.,
has filed suit for $25,000 damages
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
against the publisher of a non-union
daily paper for failure to keep him
on the payroll "for life" in exchange
for leaving the Typographical Union,
after twenty-seven years' member
ship, at time of a lockout of his
brother members. It is presumed the
complainant lived too long.
The Cherry
rjnr Where with our
K i e a e
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Not so many years ago, as time
goes, folks never thought they would
live in great apartment houses. It
was difficult to picture getting along
without your own back yard and
clothes line.
But the big apartment houses came
and filled up and multiplied, until now
even small towns have modified apart
ment houses. And there are few who
know who lives next door to them.
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break the spirit of rescendants of the l|a^s
However, thus far the apartment
hous has brought no great change in
type of construction. There is no
really new architecture about them.
They are masses of walls and rooms,
all resting on foundatins built as
they have long been built. True, new
materials have come into use and
these have modified the skill reuqired
in building. More and more work is
done in mill and factory and less on
the building site.
Be these things as they may
changes will come. Though nothing
basic has changed about buildings up
to this time, we may look for basic
changes. They are inevitable. Such
[changes as there have been in mate)
an^
workmanship are but lead
'ing up to some sort of climax and
then we shall have really basic
changes in construction.
At the recent meeting of the Amer
ican Institute of Architects a Chica
goan, Buckminster Fuller, exhibited
what he called his dymaxion house—
dymaxion from the words dynamic,
maximum and imension —and in this
there were basic departures. Maybe
this is only a false start, but there
will be a real start sooner or later.
This dymaxion house has pneumatic
floors, translucent walls made from a
milk product, with a framework of in
flated duralumin tubes and the whole
structure hung from a duralumin tri
pod. The house is filled with novel
features, including bookcases that
move so that the shelf desired is al
ways at eye level. Floors are insulat
ed. Soiled clothes go into an electric
washer and come out ready to iron
when needed.
Mr. Fuller says these houses will
cost about $3,000 each on a mass pro
duction basis. Maybe this is all pipe
dream stuff, but there were many
false starts before airplanes flew. The
point is that finally they did fly and
now the sky is full of them.
Nobody is today very sure he will
have the same trade tomorrow. He
may wake up to find his trade taken
away by a new machine. Commis
sioner of Labor Statistics Sewart
points out what happened to the fac
tories that made the old round hose
when the full fashioned hose came in.
They simply went out of business.
Except on small orders the Owens
bottle machine has put the glass
blower ou.t Now paper containers
are coming in for milk and paper
bags replace cotton bags for cement
Machines have long been making
cigars and today the telepgrahpers
are facing the installation of the
printer machine.
If machines are used to lighten the
burdens of the masses they are a
blessing. If they are used to exploit
or discard the masses and to fatten
the dividends of a few they are a
calamity. Something serious will be
sure to happen when the masses have
been pushed just about so far on the
road to desperation. Strange it is
that business doesn't see that.
The human race must learn to make
a blessing out of its mechanical mar
vels. Frozen brains look with horror
on the idea of workingmen having
good pay for short work-days and
work-weeks. For thmeselves they
take all the leisure they can get.
More and more those that have leisure
and a stable place economically use
their leisure wisely. The frozen brains
fear workmen at play, but they should
vastly more fear workmen thrown out
of jobs by machines, unemployed and
desperate for want of wages.
We wander from the talk about
new houses, but it's all in the same
world, all on the same road and with
in the realm of today's issue—shall
we use machines for the benefit of
men, or let machines dominate and
exploit men or throw th?m into the
discard? What is the use of great
heaps of- new products unless the
masses have the combined power to
get them and use them and enjoy
them? Why create for a vanishing
market
Dissention and lack of harmony
handicap the trade union, but co
operation and the union label solidify
it.
"The Moving Finger
CINCINNATI SCHOOL NAMED
IN HONOR OF UNION PIONEER.—
The corner stone of the Heberle
School, on Freeman Avenue, Cincin
noti, Ohio, named in honor of the late
John Heberle, who was a member of
the Teamsters' Union and a leader ip
building up the Cincinnati labor move
ment. was laid on April 26. About
12,000 school children%were present at
the ceremonies.
Telling of the event, The Chronicle,
official organ of the Central Labor
Council, said:
"In the days when labor was creat
ing in Cincinnati one of the greatest
bodies of organized craftsmen in the
country, Heberle was in the forefront.
He seemed almost to live without
sleep, and to be anywhere and* every
where at the same time."
ARPENTERS AND PAINTERS
STRIKE.—The union journeymen car
penters in Plainfield, N. J., struck on
May 1 when the Master Builders' As
sociation refused their demands for
$12 a day and a five-day week.
About Labor Events
Two hundred journeymen painters
of Perth Amboy, Carteret, Wood
bridge and South Amboy, N. J.,' all
members of Local 144 of the Painters
Union quit work when employers re
fused to grant their demands for
wage increase of $2 a day and a five
day week.
MADE LIFE MEM HERS OF ST A
TIONRRY ENGINEERS.—Hugh Mc
Broom, veteran member of Local Un
ion No. 161, International Association
of Machinists, Indianapolis, has been
made a life member of Stationery En
gineers, Local 707, at Houston, Tex
according to word from Mr. McBroom
to labor leaders in Indianapolis. Mr
McBroom was a pioneer member of
the Machinists in Indianapolis, but of
late years has been living at Houston
^although still a member of the In
dianapolis union. He settled in Hous
ton several years ago' and became
chief engineer of the Houston Chron
icle. He has been an efficient member
of .organized labor for forty-one year
and at the age of 72 is^still hale and
going strong for trade unionism.
ENGLISH RAILROAD WORKERS
AGREEMENT.—On April 1 the
agreement recently concluded between
the four principal railroad companie
of England and the National Union of
Railwaymen came into effect for
twelve-month period. The agreement
covers, for the first time, the wages
and conditions affecting the men em
ployed on the companies' services, and
provides, among other things, for
48-hour week, exclusive of meal times
and for a week's holiday on full pay
after a year's service.—Tabloid of In
ternational Labor News, U. S. Depart
ment of Labor.
ELEVEN LABOR DISPUTES SET
TLED.—Twenty-six new labor dis
putes were brought before the United
States Department of Labor for se
Element in the week ended April 27
according to Hugh L. Kerwin, director
of the Conciliation Service.
At the close of the week, there were
a total of 65 strikes before the De
partment awaiting settlement and, in
addition, 24 controversies which had
not reached the strike stage. Eleven
labor disputes were reported to have
been adjusted during the week.
ELECTED HEAD OF PHILADEL
PHIA HOSIERY WORKERS.—At
special meeting of the Philadelph
Branch of the American Federation of
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
Alexander McKeown was unanimously
elected president and business repre
sentative to succeed Gustave Geiges
who has resigned his connection with
the union. Mr. Geiges has for the
past two years served both as presi
dent of the national organization and
the Philadelphia local also. Mr. Mc
Keown will be head of the Philadel
phia organization only—the president
of the national body is still to be
elected.
McKeown has been member of the
National Executive Board of the F£d
eration and a trustee in charge of the
finances of the Federation for some
years. He is a member of the Na
tional Executive Board of the United
Textile Workers of America and an
officer of the Philadelphia Textile Dis
trict Council.
FARM PRICE INDEX DECLINES
—The index of the general level of
farm prices declined two points from
March 15 to April 15, reports the Bu
reau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agricul
ture. At 138 per cent of the pre-war
level on April 15, the index is also
two points lower than a year ago
The decline for month ending April
15 was the result of a general decline
in the farm prices of all crops, live
stock products, eggs, calves and wool
which was only partly offset by in
creases in the prices of hogs, beef cat
tie, sheep, lambs, horses an dchickens
RAILWAY CLERKS FORM BOS
TON CENTRAL BODY.—A commit
tee of 100 members representing the
different crafts making up the
Brotherhood .of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks. Freight Handlers, Ex
press and Station Employes recently
organized the Boston District Organi
Writes"
zation committee. Ten thousand
workers are represented on the com
mittee, which will direct a campaign
to add 25,000 additional members to
the union rolls within an area of 50
miles from Boston.
LABOR'S TICKET WINS DALLAS
CITY ELECTION.—J. Waddy Tate
for mayor and two other candidates
backed by Organized labor in Dallas,
Texas, were victorious at the city
election held April 23. The fight for
the candidates favored by trade union
ists was' waged by the Labor Non
Partisan Political League and the
Dallas Craftsman, of which William
M. Reilly is editor and publisher.
VETERAN NEW YORK LABOR
MAN DEAD.—Homer D. Call, who
served the New York State Federa
tion of Labor as a vice president for
many years, and who became presi
dent on the death of President Daniel
Harris in 1915 and served in that of
fice for one year, died at his home in
Syracuse on April 17. The funeral
was attended by Vice President A. W
Sherman of Syracuse and a large
group of mourning trades unionists
Mr. Call was a veteran of the Civil
War and was 85 at the time of his
death. In 1914 he was elected by the
Legislatyre in joint session as treas
urer of the State of New York, and
served one year. For nearly thirty
years he was international secretary
treasurer of the Butcher Workmen'
International Union, retiring from
that position and all activities in 191G
PEACE CASUALTIES
GREATER THAN WAR
San Francisco.—Industry in Cali
fornia is far more dangerous than
war, according to a report by Will
French, director of the State Depart
ment of Industrial Relations.
There were 1,747 California men
killed and 4,844 wounded in the World
Ambulance Service
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War.5 This total casuality list of
6,591 young ifyen is compared with a
total industrial casualty list of 1,095,
074 in four and one-half years from
1924 to 1928.
The number of deaths in that period
Was 3,107 permanently iYfjtired, 6,
418 temporarily injured. 404, 626, ami
"no disability" injured, 681,923.
VETO STATE MINIMUM LAW
St. Paul, Minn.—Governor Chris
tianson vetoed the state minimum
wage law that would apply to public
work. He suggests that the state
industrial commission Jte empowered
to fix the minimum wage on such
contracts.
The scheme would be favored by
the anti-union Minnesota Employers'
Association.
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