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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-
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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