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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929
ASK FIVE-DAY WEEK
Plasterers in Indianapolis and vicin
ity have made a demand for the five
day week contract with the employers
Association. Stipulated in the con
tract is a clause which provides for
the weekly pay on Friday nights. The
Plasterers' Union with four other un
ions of the city have been operating
since May 1 on a five-day schedule but
no permanent contract has been en
tered into. Plumbers, steamfitters
electricians, cement finishers and pain
ters are working five days a week
with Friday as pay day.
President Pearce of the plasters said
if no agreement is reached with the
employers the workers possibly migh^
strike, although just what definite ac
tion would be taken has not yet been
determined. It is believed, however
that the employers will continue the
five-day plan as is now operating and
write it into the contract.
Union leaders say the shorter work
week is at hand and that it will not
be long until it will be as universal
as the eight-hour day.
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MACDONALD TO VISIT U. S.
Organized labor looks with friend
ly eye on the proposed visit to the
United States of J. Ramsay MacDon
aid, labor premier of Great Britain
who plant to come here to discuss re
duction of naval armaments with
President Hoover and other high gov
ernment officials. It is reported from
England that MacDonald will mak
his visit at the end of July, as soon
as Parliament adjourns.
Secretary Frank Morrison, of th
American Federation of Labor, ex
pressed the opinion that the proposed
visit of Premier MacDonald would be
an excellent move in the direction of
a better understanding between the
United States and Great Britain.
added that a getting together of men
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lem leads to a clarification of points
at issue and is therefore to be wel
corned.
He recalled that Mr. MacDonald
was the guest of the Executive Coun
cil of the American Federation of La
bor at a dinner in April, 1927, when
the English labor leader last visited
this country. The dinner was held at
the Hamilton Hotel in Washington
and was attended by about 50 per
sons including the British Ambassa
dor, Secretary of Labor Davis and
many international trade union exec
utives.
NEW PROBLEM FOR LABOR
Only a complacent, non-thinking cit
izen will overlook the revolution now
on in industry.
Attention is again called to thi
silent upheaval by a new progress
which will turn out as much iron in
30 minutes as 350 puddlers can tur
out in an entire day.
The ancient skill of these refiner
of iron is destroyed and they ar
thrown on the streets.
The self-satisfying claim that work
ers can enter other industries will not
suffice. The "other" industries are
also victims of the same revolution.
Even such unskilled callings as road
making and sewer digging is being
done by the machine.
Many of these workers, it is pointei
out, are operating gas service stations
and hot dog stands, but this not ere
ative labor. It is no solution to turn
the nation's wage workers into serv
itors.
We are yet at the threshold of the
automatic-machine age. Inventors and
scientists are ceaseless in their efforts
to develop machinery and processes
that will dispense with human labor
power.
If they fail, grim necessity will
force them to act that unemployment
insurance, old-age pensions and
shorter work week may be assured.
WHAT IS A SUBSIDY?
Suppose a member of Congress
arose in his seat and said:
"Mr. Chairman, home ownership is
a national asset therefore, I move
that the sum of $50,000,000 be appro
priated by Congress to start a na
tional campaign of home building
The money may be loaned up to three
quarters of the construction cost of
each house at the government's low
Boss this
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"tastes, you'd be mighty careful to see that everything was
exactly right, wouldn't you? You wouldn't take any chancw
with cheap flour you wouldn't skimp on the more expensive
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rate of interest provided for by the
Jones-White act. In support of my
resolution I refer you to the recently
enacted Jones-White Merchant Ma
rine Act, which permits the govern
ment to advance to vessel owners an
amount of money equal to three
fourths of the cost of any ship they
propose to build. The Dollar Steam
ship Company is asking the govern
ment for a loan of $50,000,000, under
the act, to build six new passenger
vessels. Other ship owners contem
plate similar action. The United
States Shipping Board has already
voted to loan the Dollar company $1,
125,000 to recondition four
now service.
Would the nation rock with protests
over the evils of "a subsidy that re
places private initiative"?
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TO COUNT UNEMPLOYED
Congress ordered that the next cen
sus include a list of unemployed in
this country. The plan originated in
the Senate, but met strong opposi
tion in the House, where the proposal
was stricken from the census appro
priation bill. It was reinstated by a
majority of one vote after represent
atives of the A. F. of L., urged its im
portance.
It will be the first time such a com
pilation will be made. The A. F.
L., and other advocates of the plan
have repeatedly shown that former
unemployment estimates have been
guesses. The unemployment census
will provide a working basis for any
necessary legislation.
YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN
Here are subjects, any of which
would do for editorial writing, all of
which are important in ways that can
not presently be seen: Henry Ford is
now making all his Fordson tractors
in Ireland and none in Detroit, import
ing those sold in the United States. *s
A girl organist in New York,
thrown out of her job by the sound
pictures, kills herself as a sacrifice to
mechanization. Chevrolet is to
spend three millions for plant addi
tions in Tarrytown, N. Y., once noted
mainly as the home of John D. Rock
efeller, who was himself known in
those days as a malefactor of great
wealth. Fifty-two oil compan
ies are convicted of violating the anti
trust law and the New York Times
puts it back on page 3. Woozy
students capture the University of
Mexico, oldest on the continent, and
fling the red flag over its walls in
token of their imbecility. And
so on. The industrial world is in a
headlong rush, unsure of where it is
going. The political world pret
ty much follows the industrial flag.
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TEN MILLION WILL BUY A LOT
A. R. Graustein, president of the In
ternational Paper & Power Co., has
told the Federal Trade Commission his
company put more than ten million
dollars into newspapers. As anybody
knows, you can get a lot for ten mil
lion dollars and such companies as In
ternational are not planting rolls of
bills around the country just for the
love of seeing who can find it.
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'HE WHO HAS GITS"
The Federal Radio Commission de
nies WCFL, labor's station, its entire
bill or requests. It denies Interna
tional Labor News Service its request
for short wave allocation for news
transmission. It gives the Radio Cor
poration of America ten more wave
lengths, it gives the daily newspaper
brotherhood of a dozen big papers and
press associations a whole group of
waves. As has been said, "He who has
gits."
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SELF PRESERVATION
Everything that lives and breathes,
including mankind, is naturally self
ish man wants more money, mor3
and better clothing, better homes and
better living conditions for himself
and his family. But he doesn't seem
to know just how to get these things
and he just won't do the easy, simple,
right thing to satisfy his selfishness
He has tried wishing, hoping and day
dreaming to satisfy his natural desire
for more and (with the exception of
those who have joined the union) he
finds himself still holding the empty
bag. It is right and proper that he
should have better wages. The low
wage non-unionist is committing u
crime against himself and family by
not doing the only thing that will get
better conditions. Economists, trade
unionists, some manufacturers say the
consuming power of the masses must
be increased, which in plain language
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
means more and better wages, and
labor says the only way to get better
wages is by organization and collec
tive bargaining through the union.
Industries can not continue to prosper
unless the consuming power of the
masses is increased and the only way
this cart be done is for the wage earn
ers to organize in our union, establish
universal, fair bills or wage scales.
Nobody knows this better than the
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vessels
If a member of Congress presented
such a resolution and urged its adop
tion for reasons stated above, what
would happen?
employers of average intelligence.—
Editorial from the Cigar Makers' Of
ficial Journal.
The Cherry
Where with our
K Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Consider for the moment the grave
question of government by private as
sociation.
Hark to a bit of the story of the
American Bar Association, which has
nothing to do with the ancient and
honorable occupation of tending bar,
and of the American Medical Associ
ation.
Under rules laid down by the
American Bar Association, or its
Connecticut representative, the state
of Connecticut declares its purpose
not to admit graduates of certain
schools to practice in that honorable
commonwealth. The schools hit by
the rule are mostly night schools and
it does not appear that their students
are in any way inferior. The main
count against them appears to be their
inabililty to attend some great big
school that operates in the day time
—and costs more money.
The American Bar Association
can and does make the rules under
which it becomes possible or im
possible for a young man to be
come admitted to the bar.
The American Medical Association
no
'ess tightly knit and no less ef-
fective. It is no less hard boiled in
applying discipline, either.
In Chicago there is a medico who
has given a lot of time to a clinic for
poor persons. He advertises this clinic
and it cuts rates to those of small
means.
What the Medical Association has
done to him is enough, for the time
being. He has been read out of the
organization and any medico who is
thrown out like that is nothing less
than in a sweet kettle of eels.
Presumably we have state boards
to regulate the practice of law and the
practice of medicine, just as we have
laws governing the practice of plumb
ing and electric wiring.
But actually the state doesn't gov
ern law and medicine. The two big
associations do it all and he who bucks
them bucks worse than a buzz saw.
The people are slow to tumble to
the power of these two colossal mo
nopolies, though they rant like every
thing when a union gets any real
strength, misunderstanding the dif
ference between the two.
The American Bar Association, not
content with laying the lash on recal
citrant lawyers, is jockeying for
position as boss of the whole business
of law making. Some of its moves
have been only thinly veiled. It would
like to become the Great Umpire of
all things having to do with law and
it would like to bring within the
realm of law a great many thing§ that
others have since time out of mind
fought to keep outside that sticky
realm.
Both organizations bear much
watching. Dr. Harris Fishbein, presi
dent of the Medicos, berates a fellow
doctor for advertising his clinic's
wares—and prices—but he himself
writes daily for the papers, which is
advertising par excellence, if any such
there be.
If by some subtle or other process
both of these arrogant and power
greedy outfits could be given a totally
unprofessional kick in that place than
which no other is so tempting to the
bestower of kicks, it would be well for
the peace and dignity of the United
States and the plain people who are
the inhabitants thereof.
SUFFER LITTLE CHIL
DREN
Calhoun City, Miss., (ILNS).—They
do make things easier for the children
in Mississippi. Early but shorter
hours for Calhoun county school chil
dren next session is the edict of the
county school board. In order that
schools may be dismissed at 1 P. M.,
so the children may help on the farms,
the board ordered class work to be
gin at 7 A. M. The session opens
September 2.
CARPENTERS UNIONIZE
LARGE MICHIGAN PLANT
Grand Rapids, Mich.—The Grand
Rapids Store Equipment Company
signed a union agreement with the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
More than 1,000 local workers are af
fected. The contract includes plants
on the east and west coasts.
PUSSY-FOOT
Tactics Now Used By 'Reds'
Against A. F. of L.
"New York.—The recent meeting of
so-called "progressives" in this city
who plan to meet "the crisis in the
labor movement" is the old game un
der a new name. Joseph Schlossberg
frankly states in a feature article in
Advance, a revolutionary sheet pub
lished by an organization dual to the
legitimate United Garment Worker*
of America.
The writer says this revolt (mean
ing the so-called "progressive
movement) is "almost as old as the
A. F. of L. itself."
"At the beginning," he says, "their
name was 'socialists' or 'revolution
ists,' and the purpose, the dislodging
of the A. F. of L. The Socialist
Trades and Labor Alliance and the
I. W. W. were spectacular move
ments, especially the latter. The term
'revolutionary' is not used now.
The name revolutionist has for the
time being lost its true meaning to
the labor movement."
NAVY COST
Is Burden to Peoples
World
How does it get that way? Be-1$1,170,800,000, in addition to operat
cause it is a very tight, well organized ing costs, in event President Hoover'.-:
syndicate, having a monopoly on the
bar business.
Washington.—The cost of navies is
a heavy burden on nations that is
increasing with every new discovery
in warfare, said Secretary of State
Stimson in a public statement
Even a modern 10,000-ton cruiser
cost more than double the original
cost of the library of congress, he
said. The library ranks first in the
Western hemisphere and third in the
world in the number of volumes. Th
building, located in this city, is one
of the most beautiful in the world.
A modern capital ship, continue,
the secretary, costs between $35,000,
000 and $40,000,000. He said that
the program of the department of
navy for new ships alone will be
naval reduction policy fails.
PEACE OUTLOOK IS
DARK
New York.—The outlook for world
peace is not very hopeful, Dr. Fred
Smith, of the World Alliance for In
ternational Friendship, told educator
sociologists and clergymen in an ad
dress in this city.
"Never since the Armistice ha
peace been so near, so tangible,
easily to be had for the taking," Dt
Smith said. "Yet blunders and mis
understandings, doubts and suspicion?
partial revelations and misplaced sc
crecy have befogged the outlook."
TENTS FOR WORKERS
WHO FACE EVICTION
Boston.—More than 1,000 strikin
textile workers at Newmarket, N. 1
face eviction, and the United Textil
Workers ask local unionists to aid i
providing tents to shelter these woi
ers. They have been on stok
against wage reductions for th)
months.
STATE PENSION BILL
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
Sacramento, Cal.—Governor Younn
signed th£ state pension bill whk
provides that indigent aged persoi
may receive a pension not to exc
$1 a day. One-half of the pension v. i
be payable by the state and the oth
half by the county in which the ben
eficiary resides. The beneficiary mus
be at least 70 years of age, have been
a resident of the state 15 years and
the county one year and without chil
dren or other persons to support him
His property may not exceed $3,000
in value and any outside income must
be counted as a part of the total in
come of $1 a day.
While the act is not wholly satis
factory to old-age pension advocates
they point out that details can
perfected, since the principle is ac
cepted.
WIN FIVE-DAY WEEK
Portsmouth, N. H.—Organized car
penters won their strike for a five-day
week. A 5 per cent wage increase was
also secured.
STUDIO WORKERS GAIN
Los Angeles. Electricians, car
penters, stage mechanics and other
workers employed by the Motion Pic
ture Producers' Association secure
wage increases. Rates are advanced
25 cents a day, and on May 1 next
another 25 cents is added, and so on
until the agreement ends.
FIREMEN JOIN UNION
Omaha, Neb.—The Internatioru
Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilc
issued charters to locals in Akron
and Ashtabula, Ohio Erie, Pa
Sterlington, La. Raceland, Ky. Ch
cago and Hornepayne, Havelock,, Fo
yet and Capreol, Ontario, Canada.
Hoover's administration will not
kill the farmer's hopes evidently.
can still go on bo»m toztam relUd.
CARNIVAL COMPANIES
MAY CARRY DISEASE
Harrisburg, Pa.—Citizens of this
state are warned against the average
type of carnival amusement com
panies by Dr. Edgar S. Everhart, of
the state health department.
These alleged amusement organ
isations which usually work co-oper
tively with some local association in
many instances carry personal suffer
ing from venereal disease,' said Dr.
Everhart. "Progressive and right
thinking communities will eliminate
the demoralizing influences of this
type of so-called commercial amuse
ment by prohibiting them to operate."
"Our prosperity will collapse of its
own weight," says Babson, "unless
our spiritual growth catches up with
our material growth." Evidently the
handicap is too big.
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