The Butler County press. [volume], September 02, 1932, Image 20

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During the present business depres
sion
most college and university pro
fessors have maintained silence from
the point of view of criticizing our
economic order under which employ
ers have thrown over 10,000,000
Workers into the unemployed army
and drastically reduced the wages of
millions more kept at work.
It is therefore refreshing to find
Jft-of. Arthur E. Wood, of the Uni
versity of Michigan, pulling away the
stnoke screen of the apologists and
blurting out the truth that "insecur
ity of the job and low wages are a
normal aspect of industrial sys
tem."
He said that unemployment so
greatly increased during the depres
sion is seriously injuring home secur­
Job Insecurity and Low Wages
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ity, with jobless workers compelled to
ask charity organizations to care for
their families.
Prof. Wood added that "one service
of t.hp present depression will to
throw the high light of criticism upon
an industrial order that makes such
ravages into the family life of the
people."
Criticism amounts to nothing unless
it results in the application of tangi
ble remedies to cure things criticized.
Labor criticizes both normal and
abnormal unemployment and low
wages. Labor also presents remedies
for these evils.
To remedy unemployment, labor
demands that the length of the work
week and work day shall be decreas
ed to whatever extent necessary to
YOU CANNOT
FOOL THE
MR OWNER
In Spite of Sensational Trick
Sales of "Distress Tire Stocks''
Goodrich
Silvertown
SALES INCREASE 59
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Before you buy, see the Safety Silvertown—the tire
which is rapidly becoming the most popular quality tire
in America.
J. C. BAKER
"SUPER-SERVICE STATION"
East Ave. at Edison Phone 4388
provide jobs for all the jobless.
To remedy low wages, labor de
mands that minimum wages shall be
high enough to enable the people to
purchase the output of all the work
ers in all our industries.
The autocrats who own and con
trol industry, if they had the will to
do it, could make labor's job and
wage policies effective in short order.
So fsr they have qsite jescrsiiy re
fused to do so.
Labor refuses to permit charity
standards of existence to be set up
permanently in the United States for
millions of the unemployed.
Labor also refuses to permit the
living standards of those who are em
ployed to be permanently reduced by
part-time work and low pay.
The shorter work week and work
day and higher wages must come. It
is dangerous to put them off too long
The unemployed will not consent to
live forever on the garbage can
standards of public and private char-
lllk
car owners know values. With deaths and
injuries from automobile accidents increasing every year
they know the need for greater tire safety than ever before.
That's why, in spite of the deluge of "free tube", "2
for 1", "gigantic trade-in", and other trick sales of "dis
tress tire stocks", they still prefer Goodrich Safety Sil
vertowns—the Safest Tires Ever Built.
Here's the proof: 59.5% more Silvertowns have been
sold in 1932 than in the same period last year.
Now in the face of trick deals of all types, Goodrich
continues to enable us to meet competition.
Size for Size—Quality for Quality—Goodrich
Will Not Permit Us to Be Undersold
The
Safest
Tire
Ever
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ity. The employers should not wait
until the degredations of millions of
our workers leads them to the bor
derland of revolt.
ROBERT A. ROBARDS
Secretary of Bricklayers' Local
Union No. 11.
HOW BIG IS A MAN?
A man's no bigger than the way
He treats hfs fellow man!
This standard, has his measure been
Since time itself began!
He's measured not by social rank,
When character's the test
Nor by his early pomp or show,
Displaying wealth possessed',
He's measured by his justice, right,
His fairness at his play,
His squareness in all dealings made,
His honest, upright way.
These are his measures, ever near
To serve him when they cau
For man's no bigger than the way
He treats his fellow man.
THE RIGHT OP A MAN
By EDWIN MARKHAM
Out on the roads they have gathered,
a hundred thousand men,
To ask for a hold on life as sure as
the wolf in his den
Their need lies close to the quick of
life as the earth lies close to the
stone
It is as meat to the slender rib, as
marrow to the bone.
They ask but leave for taste of life's
delight,
For a little salt to savor their bread,
for houses water tight
They ask but the right to labor, and
to live by the strength of their
hands,
They who have bodies like knotted
oaks and patience like the sea
sands.
And the right of a man to labor, and
his right to labor in joy,
Not all your laws can strangle that
right nor the gates of hell de
stroy,
For it came with the making of man
and was kneaded into his bones,
And it will stand at the last of things
on the dust of crumbled thrones.
WANTED—A BUSINESS
AGENT
One who is capable of creating jobs
for the membership when there are
none to be had. He must be specially
fitted to have a job ready for a mem
ber when he reports out of work.
He must have ability to defend him
self on all occasions physically and
otherwise. Applicant must have in
fluence to get all members out of
trouble at all times. He must have
sufficient real estate unencumbered
so as to be in a position to sign per
sonal bonds. He should also have suf
ficient ready cash to insure the mem
bership small loans, meals, street car
fare, lodging, cash checks, etc. He
must furnish his own car and a tele
phone in his home, and he must be
available to the membership at all
times. He must keep himself posted
so as to know where every member
can be located on a minute's notice.
He must also be capable of defend
ing a member before all employers
when discharged for a good cause and
force employers to maintain men in
employment. He must be able to cel
lect all wages for members which
conscientious scruples forbid individ
uals to ask for themselves. When
sending members to a. job he should
have sufficient vision to give member
correct number of days of employ
men and amount of overtime that
can't be earned.
He must visit the sick, purchase
tickets for bazaars, raffles, picnics,
dances and all other worthy causes
from his personal funds. He must
keep posted as to the conditions of
work in all cities and be personally
acquainted with all business agents,
so as to insure a transfer being ac
cepted promptly. He will be iheld
responsible for all new members ac
cepted into the local. He must have
a pleasing disposition, keep posted on
the weather conditions so as to tell
in advance whether the sun will shine
and whether it will snow or rain.
He must be up on all current events,
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knw how to get the best results from
radios, automobiles, etc. Salary to
start, $30 a week. If applicant can
have the wages increased for the
membership during his tenure of
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given. He must take any and all in
sults from the members and learn to
like it.—The Lather.
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HAMILTON, OHIO
TO ALL
Stationary Engineers
Not Members of the Union
Local No. 91 bids you a hearty welcome to come into the organization.
Local 91 was the first organization to establish the eight-hour day for
its members in Hamilton. Through its efforts the wages and conditions of its
members have been much bettered. Why not come in and receive some of these
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The conditions enjoyed by Hamilton Stationary Engineers today are the
results of the efforts of our organization.
Again we bid you a hearty welcome.
International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers
Local No. 91,
Stick by your union in good tim*B
and in bad times you can not gff,
protection such as the labor union
offers without some kind of personal
sacrifice.
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