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VOL. XXXI. No. 14
Now York City (ILNS)—Fourteen
trade union officials are included in
the membership of the United States
section of an international committee
to combat communism, named this
week by Matthew Woll, as acting
president of the National Civic Fed
eration, pursuant to a resolution
adopted by the federation's executive
committee.
The committee is headed by the
Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, bishop
of the Episcopal Church, New York,
and includes Cardinal Dougherty, of
Philadelphia, and James W. Gerard,
former U. S. ambassador to Germany.
Labor Men on Committee
The fourteen trade unionists are:
J. A. Franklin, president, Interna
tional Brotherhood of Boiler Makers,
Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of
America, Kansas City, Mo.
M. J. Keough, president, Interna
tional Molders' Union, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Joseph P. Ryan, president, Central
Trades and Labor Council, New York
city.
Peter J. Brady, president, Federa
tion Bank and Trust Company, New
York city.
William D. Mahon, president, Amal
gamated Association of Street Rail
way Employes, Detroit, Mich.
Daniel J. Ahearn, president, Allied
Printing Trades Council, New York
city.
Thomas F. McMahon, president,
United Textile Workers of America,
New York city.
James Maloney, president, Glass
Bottle Blowers' Association of United
States and Canada, Philadelphia, Pa.
I. M. Omburn, president, Cigar
Makers' International Union of Amer
ica, Washington, D. C.
Ellis Searles, editor, United Mine
Workers' Journal, Indianapolis, Ind.
Frank H. McCarthy, organizer
Massachusetts Federation of Labor,
Boston, Mass.
W. E. Bryan, general president,
United Leather WiTrkers International
Union, Kansas City, Mo.
Martin Lawlor, secretary andtreas*
urer, United Hatters of North Amer
ica, New York city.
Frank Feeney, president, Interna
tional Union of Elevator Construc
tors, Philadelphia, Pa.
Frankenstein Being Created
"It is clear as the noon-day sun,'
said Mr. Woll in making the list pub
lie, "that the capital of the civilized
nations, their skill and ingenuity, are
being used in helping to create a
Unemployment Studied
By Workers' School
Los Angeles, Calif.—The economic
causes of unemployment and reme
dies for it are being considered by
the Workers' Summer School at Los
Angeles Municipal Camp Seeley in the
San Bernardino National Forest near
here.
"The most vital concern of labor
during the past year has been and is
now the tragic consequences of the
industrial depression, says the state
ment describing the study courses
"Never before have the problems en
tailed in the loss of jobs, part-time
employment, maintenance of wages
our machine civilization and the
ruthless displacement of men by ma
chines, forced their ghastly conse
quences upon labor with the force
they now threaten."
Trade Unionists To Serve on
Committee to Fight Communism
Fourteen Labor Executives Named By Matthew Woll to
Help in World Movement Against Red Menace.
The summer school is under the
direction of the joint committee on
workers' education of the California
State Federation of Labor and the
extension division of the University
of California.
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Frankenstein which, if it contiiiues to
develop and grow, will eventually
crush the existing governments of the
world.
"Are we to remain silent and in
active in such imminent dangers
Are the peoples of the nations of the
world to remain quiescent while the
red monster of Northern Europe is
attempting through the Third Inter
national to provoke and foment every
industrial disorder into a revolution
ary manifestation? Are we silently
to permit the Soviet Russian trade or
ganizations to operate within our
midst and are we to be blind to the
ultimate disastrous consequences
upon our own as well as other mar
kets of the world and the complete
unbalancing of our whole economic
order? Is it not time for the peo
ples of -all democratic and free na
tions of the world to join with one
another in meeting the challenge of
Soviet Russia? Has not the time
come for the people of the civilized
nations of the world to call a halt
upon the onslaught being made upon
free and democratic institutions and
for the safeguarding and perpetuity
of the principles and practices of free
dom
"Could there be a more appropriate
moment than now to inaugurate such
a world movement?"
OWNERS FAIL
To
Keep Agreement
Curtail Mill Output
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To
Greenville, S. C. (ILNS)—The Tex
tile World, organ of the textile man
ufacturers, is shouting in triumph
over what it claims to be the con
summation of the Cotton-Textile In
stitute agreement on curtailing of
production.
Those corporations who adhere to
the Cotton Textile Institute plan
pledge themselves not to employ
women and children on night shifts
in cotton mills, but John A. Peel, or
ganizer for the United Textile Work
ers of America in South Carolina
reports that already mill owners in
this area have begun to "scab it" on
their fellow manufacturers. Plants
that had shut down their night shifts
are now beginning to start up again
one by one, evidently hoping to take
advantage of the slightly better mar
ket conditions created by the reduc
tion of night shift operations in the
industry, as a whole. What does the
Cotton Textile Institute say to this
allegation made by Organizer Peel?
A prompt 'and candid reply is in
order.
Trade unionists insist that night
operation cannot be eradicated by any
voluntary agreement among employ
ers. Even if the agreement not to
employ women and children at night
is lived up to that will not guarantee
cessation of nighttime operation
there is ample adult male labor avail
able under present circumstances to
enable the manufacturers to operate
24 hours a day if they are determined
to do so. It will be necessary to en
act legislation to halt employment of
women and children at night and it
will be necessary to have effective
trade unions among the employes be
fore night shifts are a thing of the
past in the textile industry, which in
its branches—silk, wool, hosiery, etc
—is suffering from chronic overpro
duction due pi-imarily to the ability
of the employers to run night and
day.
The man interested only in himself
is interested in a man of small im
portanee.
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Funeral Directors
ALL WOOL ALL $22.50
Chairs and Tables Rented
17 So. Street
MORE QUALITY
RICHMAN'S CLOTHES
Hamilton, Ohio
Look for 128 High Street Opposite
the Number UNTIL 9 P. M. SATTT?TAY Cotrrt House
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Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Though
President Hoover's plan for suspen
sion of international debts for one
year "has brought a psychological
change that may mark the turning
point toward business improvement,"
winter unemployment this year will
be serious," the monthly survey of
business of the Americas Federation
of Labor warns.
The survey continues to emphasize
that the big danger in the present
situation is wage cutting. It cites re
ports from the department of labor
showing that wage cuts increased in
May, affecting 46,377 workers, the
highest number yet, and goes on to
say:
"Further wage cuts are threatened
in the dull summer months, although
the brightening business outlook will
help to prevent a concerted movement
for wage liquidation. Once started
such a movement could assume the
proportions of an avalanche sweeping
along even those firms which are now
resisting wage reductions. Danger is
not past.
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Special Effort to Maintain Pay Held Essential
Hold Wages, Is Advice
"Wage cuts involve millions of dol
lars loss in buying. Most of them
can be avoided by improving effi
ciency. A special effort to hold wages
in the next two months is essential
to capitalize the recent turn for the
better. Unions thus far have done
much good by preventing or lessening
wage cuts."
Hoover Debt Plan Brings Change for Better, But Winter
Idleness Will Be "Very Serious," A. F. of L. Says.
Discussing loss to labor's buying
power this year, the survey says:
"From unemployment, part time
work and wage cuts in the first half
of 1931 workers have lost over five
billion dollars. Their income is below
the 1929 level by this amount. Work
ers' loss this half year amounts to
one-fifth of the average value of all
retail sales in the aountry in /six
months of 1929—it is more than twice
the value of all our exports in a pros
perous half year. This shows the im
mense loss business has suffered in
the decline of worker' buying.
Guarantee of Jobs Urged
"As well as the five billion dollar
loss in workers' buying power, work
ers are holding even those who have
work fear wage cuts and unemploy
ment. These vast sums could be re
leased for buying by assuring workers
jobs through the winter it would
make a vast difference to business in
the coming months. Most employers
can guarantee work, either part or full
time, for at least a portion of their
force. This would be a practical step
of much significance."
The survey sees definite good re
suiting from President Hoover's debt
proposal. It says:
"The debt plan immediately awak
(i ed a spirit of greater confidence
er the entire world. In this coun
try fundamental business adjustments
had been going quietly ahead for
me time, but pessimism and doubt
i ill paralyzed business. The debt
i'lan has brought a psychological
change that may mark the turning
point toward improvement. Due part
ly to the promise of relief for Eu
rope, partly to constructive develop
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An Obnoxious Weed
ments in business which are now be
coming evident, there is a definite
change for the better in business sen
timent.
Change Already Shown
'This change is already being
shown in many ways. Business men
are more confident in placing orders
stock prices and grain prices have
risen. The secretary of the National
Association of Purchasing Agents re
ports a change in sentiment away
from hand to mouth buying, toward
larger orders for longer periods.
Wholesale prices have risen for two
weeks in succession. Once prices
start definitely upward there may be
a scramble of buying, for stocks are
law and mechants will hurry to take
advantage of low prices.
"These are constructive develop
ments more oi'ders mean more work
for factories and railroads. But it
will probably be some time befoi'e
they bring actual results in generally
increasing production and better em
ployment for workei-s. Meanwhile,
this month and next promise the usual
low summer level of activity and the
usual summer unemployment."
ALL UNION LAWS
STRENGTHENED BY
COURT DECISION
District Appeals Judge Holds
Dissatisfied Members Must
First Seek Relief Under
Rules of Organizations.
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—All in
ternational union laws are strength
ened by a decision just handed down
in the district court of appeals in
suit brought against the late Arthur
M. Huddell, of the International
Union of Operating Engineers.
Henry E. Fish sought an injunc
tion to prevent his suspension by
Huddell, then international president
Fish was business agent of the local
union.
The district supreme court de
cided against Fish, who thereupon
took his case to the court of appeals
The court of appeals has ruled that
relief should have been sought
through the union organization under
its laws. The court further held that
the laws of the union were adequate
for the protection of Fish's interests
Fish had been dismissed from his
position, he asserted, and suspended
for one year. He contended this de
prived him of a living, and alleged
that he could not secure relief under
union laws. This the coui't has de
nied in holding for Huddell and the
international union.
It is pointed out here that every
decision in a clear-cut case ha
brought court rulings that dissatis
fied union members must first seek
relief through their organizations un
der organization law, and that they
cannot come into equity courts with
clean hands until they have exhausted
the union remedies offered.
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Wage Cuts Still Big Danger
To Trade Gains, Labor Warns
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DUST IS SERIOUS
HAZARD
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A large
number of workers in various indus
tries are exposed to serious hazards
resulting from being exposed to dust,
it is shown in a study of industrial
dusts, made by the United States
Public Health Service. The service
lays emphasis on the necessity of re
moving at the sources these dusts,
of which there are many different
kinds.
A large proportion of workers ir
granite cutting plants investigated
developed pulmonary tuberculosis,
and various kinds of dusts in various
quantities were found during th
study to be present in coal mining,
both hard and soft, and in a cement
plant. The dust from silver polish
ing that to which street sweepers are
exposed, and the dust in a cotton plant
were found to be most harmful to
workers, according to a summary of
the results of the study.
"The mitigation of the dust hazard
in industry is primarily a ventilation
problem," the report summary says.
"In many industries steps have been
taken to prevent the escape of dust
into the i*oom by surrounding the ma
chine with a suction hood or other
device that removes the dust as it
forms. This removal of dust at its
source is the most important step to
bo taken."
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 17,1931 ONE DOLLAR PER YEABb
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Big Immigration Drop
During May Is Reported
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
number of immigrant aliens entering
the United States in May dropped 80
per cent in comparison with the total
for May, 1930, the department of la
bor announces.
The department reports that in
May there were admitted 3,799
(1,325 male and 2,474 female) immi
grant aliens, as compared with 19,414
(9,463 male and 9,951 female) in the
same period a year ago, constituting
a decline of 15,615, or 80 per cent.
Only one male immigrant is now com
ing where seven came a year ago the
ation of female immigrants this year
jis to last year is as 1 to 4.
REDSAIDED
In
Chain Store Adopts
Union Labor Policy
San Francisco, Calif.—The S. H.
Ki
•ess and Company, operator of a
chain of five, ten and twenty-five cent
stores, will erect their new store
buildings in Modesto and Sacramento,
Calif., under union labor conditions,
according to a statement by F.
MacDonald, general president of the
Stare Building Trades Council.
In addition to employing union la
bor the company agrees that the con
tractor shall use local contractors and
material men whenever it is practic
able.
Read the Press.
HAMILTON'S GREATEST SALE
Strauss' Semi-Annual
PRESENTS THE MOST
EXTRAORDINARY VALUES
IN YEARS
Men s and Boys Clothing and Furnishings and
Shoes for the Entire Family offered at the
Most Startling Reductions
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Federation Bank and Trust Company, Peter A. Brady,
President, Goes Right Along Paying Regular Divi
dends.
Opposition to Unions,
South is Told
University, Va. (ILNS)—Southern
employers must choose between help
ing "constructively" in the movement
to organize Southern workers under
the American Federation of Labor or
by their opposition incur responsibil
ity for communistic activities which
would be fostered by proposition to
the regular labor movement, R. T.
Sowden, representing the Virginia
State Federation of Labor, told the
round-table. on unemployment at the
University of Virginia Institute.
"The wage earners of the South
must be permitted to organize into
labor unions of the type here dis
cussed, with the program and policies
here announced," Bowden declared,
"or they eventually will organize into
some combination not so treasonable
and fair in its accomplishments.
"Industry in the South has its
choice of assisting in a constructive
co-operative and helpful program, or.
because of its antagonism to this pro
gram, fostering a destructive, non-co
operative and anti-capitalistic move
ment which is both unreliable and
un-American, to say the least."
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New York City (ILNS)—Checks
just been sent out to the stockholders
of the Federation Bank and Trust
Company pile up total dividends of
$515,000 that have been paid since the
largest labor bank opened for busi
ness eight years ago with Samuel
Gompers, Alfred E. Smith, Senator
Royal S. Copeland and Ethel Barry
more at the teller's window making
their first reposits. Since then many
tabor banks have come and gone, but
the Federation Bank, conservatively
managed, has kept on the even tenor
of its way.
Peter J. Brady, its president from
the start, announces that despite the
depression, taxes and overhead and
the amount necessary to put into the
bankn reserve, that business the first
six months of this year has been on
"a most satisfactory basis."
The stock of the bank is paying 6
per cent dividends that iook mighty
goon to 40 international unions, 150
local unions and thousands of trade
unionists in these times when savings
bank depositors are seeing their in
terest cut down to 3 per cent and
less. In the course of the years the
institution has put fifty million dol
lars in building and construction
loans. Its capitalization is $1,500,000.
FARM PRICES
Hit Bottom Lowest in Over
Twenty Years
By RALPH F. COUCH
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The in
dex for their products fell to 80 per
cent of the pre-war price level in
June, touching the lowest point in
more than 20 years. The index is
consti-ucted by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
This figure compares with 123
points in June, 1930, and with 136
points in June, 1929. The price level
of June, 1921, a year of depression
like the present, was 110 points.
The index dropped below the pre
war price level, represented by 100
points, in December, 1930, for the
first time in many years. In that
month it touched 97 points followed
by a drop to 94 points in January,
1931, to 90 points in February, 91
points in March and April, and 8G
points in May.
In constructing the index, the agri
culture department uses reports from
virtually all counties in the United
States. These reports show the prices
actually paid at the farm gate for
grains, fruits and vegetables, meat
animals, dairy and poultry products,
cotton and a long list of miscellaneous
crops. The resulting index figure is
intended to show the general trend
from month to month of all farm
products. The base of 100 points was
assigned to represent prices paid
farmers in the five-year period from
1909 to 1914.
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