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-VI hL' J.. 5^. Si- k''. £f *f 1' —-oV',?*' I' V VOL. XXXII. No. 22 OS* Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Unem ployment at its peak in August, though with a halt near the July point, a winter of "unthinkable and drastic improvement, was reported by President William Green in the cur rent A. F. of L. statement on the in dustrial situation. "Unemployment in August was at the highest point since depression be gan. Our preliminary estimate for July based on government figures, shows 11,400,000 persons out of work in the United States, and trade union figures for August show no im provement. In July, layoffs for the summer dull season added more than 300,000 to the army of unemployed," said the statement. "With unemployment already more than double that of last year, we face a winter of unthinkable suffering. Be tween now and next January, nearly two million persons must count on losing their jobs in industry and agri culture—if layoffs are no more than normal. This will mean well over 13, 000,000 out of work next winter. Jobs must be created by the million if we are to avoid an unparalelled catas trophe. Even a substantial improve ment in industry could not do more than .scratch the surface of this prob lem. "Taking our union unemployment reports as an indicator of business, the fact that unemployment stopped increasing in August is encouraging, Up to A"6™3*. over 250,000 persons a DELINQUENT' Child Problem Facts of Na tion Sought By Bureau Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Pacts on all child delinqueny throughout the nation are to be gathered and lodged in the U. S. Children's Bureau, De partment of Labor, Carl B. Hyatt, specialist in charge of federal and juvenile relations, announced this week, Child delinquency, recognized as often the result of bad wage and working conditions, Jobless Total For August Is Steady at July Figure President Green Declares Immediate Employment is Vital Winter Will Be One of "Unthinkable Suffering." rates as a -prob lem vital to labor. A program for the national survey is being formulated to cover a period of time necessary to gather material from the 3,000 courts handling juve nile cases. Sees Local Supremacy The bureau is proceeding upon the theory that causes of delinquency are local and that facilities for remedial handling are better in the community than any that could be brought to bear by the federal government, for removal from the scene. It is here, the bureau reasons, that the state or the municipality in as suming the responsibility is able to take advantage of its opportunity with its juvenile system already in operation, and apply it to the federal offender as it would an offender of its local laws or ordinances. The recent nrgnnization of the juve- Men Attention ALL MEN'S WALK-OVER SHOES CARRY THIS LABEL .WORKERS UNION UNIO "AMP Factory Leifheit's Walk-Over Boot Shop 214 High Street Ambulance Service Phone 35 Robert G.T ay lor Mortuary Formerly THE C. W. GATH CO. Funeral Directors month had been joining the jobless army. The check in this rise shows a distinct improvement over each of the two previous depression summers, when unemployment increased in Au gust, but it does not show any more jobs created. Normally industry be gins in August to prepare for the fall busy season, and workers are taken back to their jobs. This year jobs have not increased. Weighted figures from trade unions show the following percentage of membership unemployed in the last four months: May, 22.8 June, 23.6 July, 25.4 first part of August (preliminary), 25.4. "Our estimates of the total num ber out of work in the United States, based on government figures are: January 10,304,000 February 10,533,000 March 10,477,000 April 10,496,000 May 10.818,000 June 11,023,000 July (preliminary) 11,418,000 "Care must be taken not to misin terpret these figures. They do not show any relief from the unemploy ment disaster that has overtaken us. They only show that for one month it has stopped getting worse. Our pre ent unemployment problem, and that we must face for next winter, is be yond anything we have yet known. We can only meet it by taking imme diate action to shorten work hours, create jobs and get men back to work." nile courts of 12 Southern States and the District of Columbia is a progres sive step towards greater unity and co-ordination in handling child delin quents. These states through their association will be in close touch with the juvenile court section of the Chil dren's Bureau. Already between 85 and 95 out standing juvenile courts throughout the nation are sending their statistics regularly to the Children's Bureau. The plan of the bureau to expand its inquiries to cover the entire country will prove invaluable to states and cities dealing with juvenile problems, and especially those connected with federal offenses. Start of Local Facilities The special division of the Chil dren's Bureau wili evaluate local re sources and secure better co-operation with communities in the use of them. Parallel with the movement will be an attempt to develop an educational program, create a better understand ing between the different jurisdictions and bring about contracts which will be salutary to a more equitable and uniform practice among them. At present two states, Connecticut and Utah, submit reports on delin quency cases to the bureau. When the bureau procures facts on child de linquency for the nation as a whole, rather than from isolated or outstand ing areas, the whole problem can be appraised from a national point of view, and a notable achievement shall have resulted. WHAT NEXT? And now comes a new rope, made rf chrome-nickel stainless steel, that resists acids and operates safely in temperatures up to 1650 degrees F. Milwaukee Tarrazzo Union Breaks Wage-Cut Lockout Milwaukee, Wis.—The two weeks' lockout against members of Terrazzo Workers' Union No. 20 and Terrazzo Helpers' Union No. 510, instituted by contractors because the unions refus ed to accept a second wage cut, was ended when the contractors agreed to submit the question to arbitration as provided in the agreements between the unions and the contractors. About 200 union members are affected. The union members contended that the lockout was precipitated when the unions, after accepting a cut of from $1.37% to $1.25 for mechanics, and from 85 cents to 75 cents per hour for helpers in June, refused to accept another cut to $1 for mechanics and 65 cents per hour for helpers after they had signed a one-year agree ment. Chairs and Tables Rented 17 So, Street a (Copyright, W. U. U. rv'-?r •A"? *', 4**SST:l?{r* Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—An im mediate and nation-wide campaign to spread work and thus turn millions of workers back into employment was announced on the heels of President's National Conference of Business and Industrial Committees here, called for the purpose of helping to smash the depression. Immediately upon announcement of the spread-work campaign, which is under chairmanship of Walter Teagle, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Presi dent William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, announced his enthusiastic support of the campaign. Robinson is Chairman The main conference organized un der chairmanship of Henry L. Robin son, of California, who will lead the general campaign for industrial re vival. The Teagle spread-work com mittee is one of a half dozen commit tees named by the conference for specialized work. Chairmen of the other five are Daniel Willard, A. W. Robertson, C. M. Woolley, Owen D. Young and C. H. Miller. The spread -work campaign is announced as a high-pressure, war type drive to induce employers throughout the nation to at once adopt plans to increase the numbers of employed by adopting whatever system seems best adapted to the community and the industry. In its meeting to formulate plans the Teagle group was addressed by Secretary of Labor Doak who em phasized the necessity for readjusting work on a spread-work basis with as little disturbance as possible to the present earnings of those who have jobs. The folly of reducing all to standards of bare necessities was set forth, and it was said to be the view of the entire committee that readjust ment should not be on a basis of cut ting down present earnings of those on payrolls. "It was more like a la bor meeting than a meeting of em ployers," said one who attended. Six Fields of Action The conference laid down a field for each committee, as follows: 1. Making credit available affirma tively. Chairman, Mr. Young. 2. Increased employment on rail roads stimulation through increase of equipment in co-operation with R. F. C. and I. C. C. Chairman, Mr. Willard. 3. Expansion of capital expendi tures for equipment replacement. Chairman, Mr. Robertson. 4. Increasing employment through spread-work or sharing work. Chair man, Mr. Teagle. 5. Stimulating repair and home im provement. Chairman, Mr. Woolley. 6. Assistance for home-owners with maturing mortgages. Chairman, Mr. Miller. Teagle Lays Plans The work of the Teagle sub-cmo mittee will be on a basis of federal reserve district organizations. The whole program of the conference will Safeguard Wage Is Watchword of Campaign Group President's Conference Names Six Aims and Committees —Teagle Heads Work-Sharing Crusade, O. K'd By Green. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1932 Ding, Dong! Ding, Dong! W3% Great Spread-Work Drive Is Launched Entire Nation Focuses on Unemploymen be carried out through the organiza tion of larger committee on the re serve districts and through seeking the co-operation of all groups and agencies. Labor, it is forecasted by some, will play an important part, soon to be revealed in the revival campaign. RAILROADS Have No Short Route To Wage Reduction Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Wheth er the coming president's conference on business revival, scheduled for August 26, will affect in any way the campaign of railroad executives for pay reductions, remains to be seen, but it is evident in any event that pay cut advocates will find no ammu nition to support their cause. Meanwhile railroad unions are making plans to combat the plans of the executives for further reductions, with the complete support of the American Federation of Labor, which holds the proposed wage cuts not only unnecessary, but positively hostile to general industrial recovery. The reduction program, if the roads attempt to go through with it, will be a long road and not an easy one, as a study of the law reveals. If the roads proceed under the law they will have to go the long road indicated in the following six steps set forth in the statutes: (1) Joint conference between agents of both sides in an effort to arrive at an amicable settlement. If this fails (2) A board of mediation may be resorted to in which impartial judges will attempt to present a solution agreeable to both sides. After their judgment has been made known for 30 days, if it is not mutually accept able (3) Arbitration may be requested. by one group and should this be mu tually consented to the judgment of the arbitrators is legally binding Should arbitration be avoided (4) An emergency board may be created by the president of the United States as a fact finding body. There is no legal compulsion for either side to accept the findings of such a board, but (5) The findings of the emergency board are effective in cementing pub lic opinion in favor of that side whose stand is considered to be the most justified by the board, it being the theory that public pressure would force acceptance of the board's de cisions. If this fails (6) Strikes may result unless an agreement is reached in voluntary fashion, but in any event neither side can move until an interim of 30 days elapses after the findings of the emer gency board hav« been reported to the president. TO. RETURN 0f By Milwaukee, Wis. (ILNS)—Branch No. 16, Milwaukee Hosiery Workers, will join with the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor in opposing a petition of the Bear Brand Hosiery Company for a modification of the regulations of the Wisconsin indus trial commission prohibiting night work for women, in a hearing Sep tember 9 in Waupun before the com mission. Twice the commission has denied similar petitions within a few months, on three grounds. That extension of night work for women is unnecessary because neither men nor women are employed full time during the day even in the factories of previous peti tioners that to permit additional work shifts would merely speed up production for a time and result in complete unemployment for later pe riods in the industry and that night work is injurious to the health of women because of the other work wo men so employed formerly did during the day in the home and which is the practice in other states which do not have the socially minded legislation or regulation operating in Wisconsin. Among the four hosiery manufac turers who joined in the first petition a few months ago was the Holeproof Company, Milwaukee. At the very time hearings were held on the peti tion neither male nor female hosiery workers in Milwaukee were working full time. This fact was pointed out by the commission in its order deny ing the petition. The order declared that employment in the factories owned by the petitions had decreased all the way from 22 to 48 per cent from the peak. Apparently, every effort is now be ing made by some Wisconsin firms employing women to break down dur ing this depression time all the pro tective standards built up in this state in previous years. The Board Brand firm is threatening to move out of the state, into Illinois, unless they are permitted to work women until 10 and 11 p. m. In order to arouse the community in favor of their petition, or to scare them into forgetting the welfare of these women and their present or potential children, this firm last week paid off its Beaver Dam factory employes with silver dollars. "Beaver Dam citizens, noting the silver dollars in circulation, will have an object lesson in just what the factory payrolls mean to the city, it is claimed by the sponsors of this move" said a news item commenting on this procedure. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAPHERS POSTPONE 1932 CONVENTION Chicago, HI.—By a referendum vote the members of the Commercial Tele graphers' Union postponed the bien nial convention scheduled to be held September 12, 1932, until economic conditions are stabilized, C. McMa hon, chairman of the general execu tive board, announced. Dp., Swaffem—Everything has its use. I challenge you to tell me a use less article. Small Boy—Well, sir, what about a glass eye at a keyhole? 4 Rich Field. Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Modi fication and repeal forces have before them a lawyer's opinion, the outcome of long inquiry, showing that without any change in the eighteenth amend ment or the Volstead act states can enter the business of manufacturing and selling intoxicating liquor. John F. Finerty, formerly counsel of the United States Railroad Ad ministration, a lawyer of prestige, wrote the brief. His verdict is that the eighteenth amendment extends the police power of the federal gov ernment to the citizens of states, but that it does not touch the states themselves, so that while citizens are forbidden to make or transport liquor, the states are under no such restraint. Finnerty's conclusion is that any state can at any time set up a brew ery or a distillery, or a thousand of them, and proceed with perfect CIVIC FEDERATION FOR SHORTER WEEK New York City (ILNS)—At a meeting of the executive council of the National Civic Federation on Au gust 5, 1932, to consider the indus trial situation, Acting President Mat thew Woll presiding, the following resolutions were unanimously adopt ed: 'Whereas, In the great industrial crisis through which our nation is passing it is essential that every con structive force be mustered into ac tion to the end that industry again may be enabled to furnish employ ment and wages, so that there may be sustenance for our people through the use of buying power, and "Whereas, We regard the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration as an event of transcendent importance, because through its in strumentality industry may avail itself of new credit, which is its life blood, and "Whereas, We regard as likewise of inestimable value the conferences entered into by the president with representative men of industry and public life for the purpose of bring ng into being a shorter work week, be it 'Resolved, That the National Civic Federation tenders its moral support and its active co-operation in the great task of realizing to the full the benefits of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and be it further "Resolved, That in our belief proper judgment and energy in re gard to the develpoment of the pur poses of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the extension of the shorter work week will go far toward restoring to our national industrial, economic and social life the balance which it so sorely needs, and that it is the duty of every American to render every possible measure of co-opera tion to that end." Acting President Woll was author ized to appoint a committee to co operate with the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation in any manner that might seem practicable. $24.75 and up for a 9 12 third" s. ». v i r- V _• -g." *, v1 ^V-» i- ~r ., ,, V Says States May Make Liquof Under Present Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Held No Bar to Rights of Sover eign by Former Railroad Administration Counsel—* Three Governors Reported Considering Entering ONE DOLLAR PER TSAR legality to manufacture brewed or distilled liquors, with noth ing in the constitution to stop them. He points out that legislation does not apply to a sovereign unless the sovereign is named and that congress could not have had in mind the re striction of states because no state was at that time engaged in the man ufacture of liquor. "The very fact that the powers con ferred on the federal government by the amendment were police powers/* Finnerty says, "necessarily excludes any implication that any power was conferred against the states them selves, since police powers are those exercised by a sovereign against its subjects or citizens and since the po lice powers in question were those therefore exclusively exercised by the several states against their "re spective citizens." Legion Favors Flexible Work Week to Make Jobs Indianapolis, Ind.—Mr. Henry L. Stevens, Jr., national commander of the American Legion, said that in complete returns of a poll of Legion posts showed that the members over whelmingly favor a shorter or "flex ible" work week to spread work and increase employment. He stated that if the shorter work week were universally adopted today the more than 11,000,000 jobless would be nearly absorbed in the ranks of the wage earners. He said the Le gion's poll showed that farming dis tricts are in favor of it as strongly as the industrial centers. Lumber Stocks Excessive Continued low production of lum ber and the fact that many mi'Js which are not running are accepting orders, accounts largely for the seem ingly favorable excess of lumber orders over production during the week ended August 13. The figures show orders 25 per cent above pro duction, as given in telegraphic re ports to the National Lumber Man ufacturers' Association from regional manufacturers' associations covering the operations of 638 leading soft wood and hardwood mills. These mills produced 109,299,000 feet and entered orders amounting to 136,144,000 feet. Shipments were 125,634,000 feet, or 15 per cent above production. "HOME LOAN & BUILDING ASSOCIATION, HAMILTON, OHIO Now you don't have to be a HUG EXPERT... 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