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Entered at the Postofflce at Hamilton, Ohio, aa Second Clan Mail Matter. I saved Waakly at IM ifukii Stroet Telephone ISM luiiltta, Mh Endorsed by the Trade* and Later Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by tho Middletown Tiadee and Laber Council mt Middletown. O FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932 THE WORKER THINKS When the politicians and the can didates wake up they are going to find that the real campaign issue for next fall will not be booze or any one of the half dozen other "issues," but JOBS. The people make the issues in any campaign, and this time it is work. Nothing else. Workers are asking, and more in sistently all the time, "When do we go to work?" Somebody has to answer that ques tion and answer it rightly, if he is to have a look-in as a candidate. Listen in on the conversation of any knot of the jobless, gathered through companionate misery, and you'll hear some real, bedrock talk. They speak a startling language for American citizens, but, brothers, their meaning is unmistakable. The workless are doing more se rious thinking these days than they ever did before. They are desperate for lack of work, for lack of money, for want of food and clothing for themselves and families. Their self respect is rubbed raw, and it bleeds before your eyes as you listen to them and hear them mention bread lines, charity, paupers. Though you are one of them, you can hardly stand and listen as these wage earners beat their fists against the stone wall of futility! These are not normal conditions confronting us, and men under the duress of wolfish want are not normal either. But they are asking ques tions, and somebody will hear the answer at the ballot box. The politicians and the statesmen ought to have an ear to the ground and catch the rumble—they can hear it if they will only listen. That rum ble presages a serious situation for all concerned. A mass of unemployed, destitute men is not a pleasant asset for any nation. The politicians see only votes there, but they will feel the heavy hand later on. The breakdown in our economic organization is virtually complete The old sovereign remedies which we used to rub on the body politica when anything ailed it, from cramps to chilblains, are no longer adequate In fact, they never were adequate, but the nation prospered in spite of them. Now the change is coming—here, in truth. The captains of industry will be relegated to the rear and new ones will take their places. There will be a new deal all around and the workers are going to accept their responsibility—and see to it that others accept theirs. If we ever needed good government we need it now. It is from this source from which help is expected. The men who represent the people and who carry out governmental policies must be conversant with their jobs The voters are going to see to that.— The Joprneymen Barber. ages HOME BUILDING An encouraging sign in the midst of things is that .building operations for the country showed a gain in August over July—not a great gain, but a gain, the rise having beien 4.5 per cent in point of cost. There was an 18.7 per cent rise in the number of operations, the rea sonobviously being the increase in home construction. Every proper means should be taken to encourage home construction, but not to the point of leading fam ilies over their heads, aa has been done in the past. A striking fact in the building sit uation is tha tto a large extent new construction has to compete with con struction that has gone on the auction block. New homes have to compete with homes lost through inability to pay, and the flood of homes going back to mortgage holders is a major issue in itself. Foreclosures run to 75 a week in one medium-sizer city. Families have bought homes, de pending upon future incomes. Loss of jobs has stopped income. Homes go and tragedy is intensified. Home building and home owning is the visible sign of a nation's hope and faith. It ought not be desroyed or even shaken. The new home loan banks have plenty to do, and it is to be hoped they do it. MACHINERY AND PROGRESS When members of organized labor and other forward-looking people protest against machinery in produc tion being used by those who own and control industry to enrich themselves at the expense of the workers, re actionaries often exclaim: "What! Are you opposed to progress?" The reactionaries imply that labor displacing machinery contributes to progress regardless of the inequitable distribution of the economic benefits resulting from its application. The point is considered by Thomas E. Dunwoody, editor of the American Pressman, the official organ of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of America, in the following editorial on "High Speed Short Hours." THE AIMS AND PURPOSES OF OUR MOVEMENT Hie agitation and activity so untiringly carried on by the trade unions has freed the working people of many of their shackles, while insofar as the capitalist state and its economic system are concerned hardly any Changes have taken place. Now as before the individual employer, who lacks fair-mindedness and understanding, opposes the trade union movement and in many instances such opposition is even backed by the organizations to which he belongs. And in this struggle the employer—when confronting the individual employe—always has the upper hand. Their respective inter ests are opposed to each other the employer striving for the lowest possible and long working hours in order to make possible an increase in his rate of profits the worker—on the other hand—seeks to sell the only thing he calls his own—his labor power as long as possible. Economically the employer seems to have the best of the worker the latter is doomed to misery and starvation when work is lacking. Hunger and unemployment have at all times been the most reliable allies of the employers. And to be sure, the unorganized worker feels this economic depend ence he feels himself weak and without a will, readily submitting to the de mands of the employers he becomes more dejected and more indifferent as to the degree of his economic dependence, and the result? Gradual pauperization of the worker and his class. This sad condition usually appears when the worker has failed to real ize his own worth and value when he feels himself isolated and power less. And it is then not only he, who is affected by this pauperization, but also his fellow-workers and their families. And there is only one means to prevent that destiny, namely: The workers must begin to realize their helpless condition, they must separate themselves from the thought of possi ble harmony between capital and labor, and they must defend themselves more energetically against the unbridled exploitation of their labor power. This, however, they are unable to do as individuals. They must unite all of their individual strength, into one solid powerful body in order to enable themselves to confront the power of the employers with an equally strong and united power of their own. Every worker who has grasped the signficance of trade union and economic unity and practices the same, gains thereby in self-confidence and courage. No longer he feels himself isolated and alone, rather as a con fident component part of a community of interests that is ready and pro pared to measure its strength with that of the employers. While organiza tion on the part of the workers naturally tends to increase the tendency of greater resistance on the part of the employers, it makes the latter also to be more careful with reference to their demands upon the worker's labor power, for they realize that no longer can they deal as arbitrarily with an organized body as they were able to deal with an isolated individual. The employer is bound to respect the mass that is being held together by the spirit and feeling of solidarity, and, when demands are submitted to him, he is compelled to carefully weigh and consider, just how far he might be able to go, and in most instances he is compelled to pay due heed to their demands. He knows that when a difficulty arises, the masses stand behind the individual, backing the latter with the united force of the organization. Out of these conditions results the efficiency of the trade union. They assert themselves against any unreasonable detrioration in th wage and working conditions, seeking at all times to create for their members better wage and working conditions. Thus the trade union becomes an essentia! and inevitable means of protection and defense against the economic supremacy of the employers. The worker realizes his power, which he can only find in unity, and the employer realizes that—in order to protect his plant against unneces sary losses as a result of strikes and other cessations of work—he must consent to negotiations and enter into working agreements with the trade unions. No longer do we see the individual worker endeavoring to strike an individual bargain it is the trade union which has assumed this duty for the benefit of all concerned. Efficiently the interests of the workers are being represented by the union, the latter at all times being prepared to utilize every ounce of power at its command in behalf and the interests of the entirety. "High speed machines, new meth ods and types of machines are com ing fast even under present condi tions. "They cannot be stopped, and as long as they represent progress, as long as they serve mankind, no one wants to stop them. "But man was not made to serve the machine. On the contrary, the machine is the creation of man—a vehicle to serve mankind, and it can not be allowed to become anything else. "The machine can only serve society when regulated to do so. "High-speed labor-displacing ma chines make necessary the shorten ing of the work week. "In no other way can be balanced the factors of production and unem ployment, and production and con sumption of the products of the ma chine." Mr. Dunwody is right. There is no progress in the mere invention and introduction of machines that enable one person to produce as much of the good things of life as many persons produced without the machines. Nor is there progress when the benefits of the machines are appropriated, as they have been hitherto and are be ing now, by those who own industry Progress is social, not individual. A NEW PICTURE IN THE EAST Reports have it that Japan is going to quit buying oil for her navy in the United States—will buy it from the soviets instead. At the same time the soviets agree to send a million dollars' worth of oil to Canada, where Andrew Mellon's Aluminum Company will sell it in competition with Amer ican oil. American oil has had hard going for some time. These things will make it harder. Meanwhile both Russia and Japan are seeking to strengthen their international posi tion by the use of oil. The whole course of empire may be changed by these deals. And what will the American far mer say when the soviets begin to pour out a stream of wheat compar able to the stream of oil? Both wheat and oil have begun to flow— just begun. TEE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS These things touch the lives and futures of all men They need to be guarded watched -^rand perl against. SOMETHING TO YELL ABOUT On a wager, one day last week, the first world series fan took his seat at the head of the line, waiting to be the first to enter the grounds* There are always firsts in every line, in foolishmeat weU- in serious pusuits. -—. The man these days Who sets a record to be aimed at is the man to get the first chance to go back to work. The man who can be first to the grocery store with newly earned cash is a man to be envied—and congratu lated. But the first is not enough. What the nation needs is a flood tide run ning toward factory gates, a flood tide of men and women earning money to buy factory prdoucts and farm crops. Ah, that will be some thing to radio the world about! :o: WHERE SHALL THESE MEN GO? Technological unemployment, that cold and unfeeling term used to des ignate the displacement of men by automatic machinery, marches along, juggernaut fashion, even in these de pression times. Now comes figures on what has happened to railroad workers, as the roads go through the motions of starting a new wage-cut movement. And here again the unions build a six-hour day case that cannot be refuted. All over the land men turn toward the shorter day and week as the way out—that and the HIGHER WAGE. Why do employers stand against the logic of the situation? Are they determined |o remain blind? :o: WISDOM We read the declaration of inde pendence every Fourth of July be cause, and only because, the soldiers of Washington made that message good by their blood during the weary years that followed. If, after writing the declaration of independence, the men of '76 had failed with their bod ies to make it good, it would be read now only wiht contempt and derision. —Theodore Roosevelt. FEDERATION NOT PARTISAN, GREEN SAYSJN LETTER Declares Council Ordered "Full and Complete" Non-Partisan ship in Presidential Campaign and Neither Party Is Endorsed Chicago, 111. (ILNS). President William Green of the American Fed eration of Labor has made clear the position of the Federation as to the presidential campaign in a letter, dated September 16, to William L. Hutcheson, general president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and chief of the Republicans labor bureau here. President Hutche son telephoned President Green and President Green's letter is a respons to President Hutcheson's telephoned request for a declaration of policy. President Green's letter follows: "The executive council of the Amer ican Federation of Labor and myself, as president, are committed to the ob servance of a non-partisan political policy during the national political campaign. The executive council em phasized its full and complete adher ence to the non-partisan political policy of the American Federation of Labor at a meeting held in Atlantic City, N. J., beginning July 12, 1932. As president of the American Federa tion of Labor, I regard it as my duty to adhere to and follow a non-partisan political policy. "For this reason neither the execu tive council nor myself has given offi cial endorsement to my political party or to the presidential candidate of any party. I am pleased to send you this information in response to the inquiry which you made by tele phone. "With assurances of kind personal regards and best wishes, I am "Sincerely and fraternally yours William Green, president, American Federation of Labor. "We have been receiving reports from many parts of the country that the position of the federation was being misrepresented,*' said Mr. Hutcheson in a statement acconr pany ing the letter. "Obviously the person best qualified to deny these misrepre sentations is Mr. Green. Thia he has done." EMPLOYERS HAND 7-DAY WEEK TO MAINE TEXTILE WORKERS Watervilli, Me. Officials of the Wyandotte Worsted Company an nounced the inauguration of the sev en-day week on a 24-hour basis to turn out the influx of orders received II Conspirator* By ISABEL WOODMAN WA1TT by UcClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WKU Service) LINDA DEERING knew perfectly well that young man kneeling beside the Siberian iris was no gar dener. He was Mrs. Damon's nephew, who she had heard her Aunt Lily say was handsome as a Greek god. Strange, in all her visits to Middle valley, that this wai the only time their visits had coincided and of course It would happen when Aunt Lily and Mrs. Damon weren't on apeaking terms. Linda glided back and forth In the now hammock, pretending to read. "He's handsomer than any old Greek god," she was thinking. "And the only attractive man I've seen in the valley 1" What right had neighbors to quarrel over a paltry boundary line? She ought, out of loyalty, she supposed, carry on the feud. Well, eren that might be an opening. "What right have you digging up my aunt's iris?" she demanded. And then before he could reply, "Tell your mistress that iris doe« not belong to her." "My mistress!" Matthew Damon grinned, settling back on his heels and appraising the Intruder. "So you think I work here. Well, I do, it ap pears. Aunt Sara finds plenty of odd jobs for me. But as for the Iris, why don't you go tell your mistress to make her old Iris stay on her side of the line?" "My mistress!" Linda flushed scar let. "You needn't think I think you think I'm a hired glrll You know perfectly well who I am." "Sure I do. You're Linda Deerlng, spitfire niece of a spitfire aunt." "Why you 1 Why you! It wasn't Aunt Lily who began this fight It was your own busybody aunt, tearing up Aunt Lily's beautiful iris 1" "Just as I'm doing now," he said coolly trowling under an enormous clump. Linda ran for the house. A moment and she was back, trowel and water ing pot in hand. "Every plant you've torn up goes back," she announced firmly, and proceeded to carry out her threat. Furiously she transplanted what he furiously uprooted. Challenging eyes met challenging eyes, blue to black. The black ones, Linda saw, were laughing at her. "I've heard of folks who couldn't make their eyes behave, but you folks can't even make your garden iris be have. See that that crooked row you're sticking In my aunt's lawn doesn't run all over the place." "Oh, dearl It Is crooked, Isn't it?" Linda mopped her brow with a soil, streaked palm. "Whew! this Is hot work." "I've had about enough of it my self. What say we quit and take a cool spin? Meet me round the corner In ten minutes, so our aunts won't see." Blue eyes smiled at black. "Okay," whispered Linda. Middle valley wasn't going to be so deadly dull after all, Linda decided. Only she and Matt would have to be careful. If his aunt ever found out— well, the old cat might disinherit him. Nor did she wish to curry disfavor with Aunt Lily. Accordingly, Matt and Linda insult ed each other openly over the long row of Siberian iris between the two places, which extended, day by day, even down the back yard, too—Matt digging It up, Linda planting it back. This could not go on forever, but It served for many a date during the next two weeks. They drove Matt's roadster to a nearby pond and went swimming together, sunning them selves on a sandy strip of beach. Al ready they had reached the point where each knew the other was be loved. "H'mph I" grunted Aunt Lily, sur veying the Iris border with satisfac tion, the next morning. "Reckon Sara Damon'll know when she's licked. She and that upstart nephew of hers." Linda blushed guiltily. "Oh, Matt isn't so bad." "Matt! Got to calling him Matt, have you? H'mph!" That afternoon Matt Damon's car took the mountain road. "Linda, see how peaceful It looks down In the valley." "I think it's lovely, Matt, And to think our own aunts hate each oth er! I just can't go on pretending to hate you, Matt I'm going to tell Aunt Lily—" "What, Linda? That you love me and I love you? That we intend to get married this fall, and they can keep their old money and Iris and feud?" Well, back they went, striking while the iron was hot, first Aunt Lily and then Aunt Sara. Then they took the pond road for a nice cool swim. Both aunts had been too stunned with the suddenness of the news to do more than gasp. The love birds flew out before they could say a word Behind her ruffled curtain Lily Deerlng watched them drive away. She took the huge bouquet of Iris from the center of the dining table and trotted across to her neighbor's back door. "Ain't they beautiful! Thanks, Lily Tve missed it so. Say, you've heard the news?" beamed Mrs. Da mon. "Just now. That's why I run In. Ain't it just wonderful, Sara—the finest boy in the world getting the finest girl!" "Grand. You were right, Lily, it worked fine. All young folks need to bring them together is plenty of op position A Leader for oAslc your The Cherry r| V Where with ev Little Hatchet we tell the truth •bout many things, sometime* pro foundly, sometimes flippantly, •emetimea recklessly. £jf Stf The Daily Worker, organ of com munism, has just been going through a spasm of poverty. It has been ap pealing to the faithful to kick in with the coin, so that the presses of bol shevism might be kept going. This is magnificenf It is simply swell foolery. International communism will let its principal organ go on the rocks if and when it can use the money better in some other way. And not until then, dear sirs and ^brothers* Not until then. Mr. Foster goes rampaging over the front page demanding that the faithful reds come across.. And some body comes across, for the Daily Worker marches up to the brink and then does a strategic-retreat to finan cial safety. It is great hokum. Communism has been rather sue cessful in getting the American peo pie to believe all it says. If we marvel at this we must at the same time admit its truth. It is queer, none-the-less, that a movement devoted to destroying America and all free nation*, ad mittedly using every weapon that will lead in that direction, should be ever accused of telling the truth for truth's sake. Chalk this down: The reds never tell the truth for truth's sake. But they do use truth for purposes of de ception, just as they use lies for the same purpose, An incident comes into the rec ord just now to illuminate the child-like hero worship with which American reds regard Moscow. Mos cow is where the great idol of world destruction abides. There is to be found the moloch of bolshevism— there hard by the murder stable of the red spy service, the official execu tioners. There go the faithful to bask in the smeary smile of the great monster. A recent issue of the Daily Worker describes the death of Ryan Walker in Moscow, whither he had gone after having achieved an ambition to be chosen a delegate to the capital of world revolution. Ryan Walker went to Moscow and there he died of double pneumonia. Ryan Walker was, in background thoroughly American. He was a so cialist many years ago. He drew fun ny pictures for the old New York Call. He had a character, one Henry Dubb who made fun of the American Fed eration of Labor and of capitalists MICKIE SAYS- GOME ADVERTISERS PACK TUEIR APS SO PULL OP TV PC THAT TVAEy'RE. HARD TO REAO--\F THOSE FEU-OWS were 20V\P0SERS,TUEV'D WRITE MUSIC WITH NO RESTT* -vexx- US TO make YOUR ad IARjItE EAjOUffH "TO READ easy*leave rr TO us 1 Avwy A SALE SVAF Ktuec SECUt, TH£ .SAUTIMAAL TAUKFIP TOO LQMf iimimwr Henry Dubb was a dubb worker, so Ryan thought. Like Robert Minor, Walker drifted leftward after the war, winding up communist. Sl.'ght, personable, smil ing, he joined the most murderous machine the world has known since the middle ages. At one time, so it is told of him, he thought the revolution so near he stocked his house With food last many months. Wake Up Your Liver Bile —Without Calomel And You'll Jump Out of Bed in the Morning Rurin' to Go If TOO feel sour and sunk and the World lodes punk, don't swallow a lot Of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing gum and expect to maka you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For th«7 can't do it. They only move the bowels and a mere move ment doesn't get at the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling Is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels dally. 'w V" Funny thing -f this implacable movement for war, for revolution, for destruction of all human freedom, snaring into its hideous fold Amer icans who have lived in freedom, who have moved about in freedom, who have benefitted by all of the institu tions of freedom. Ryan Walker owned his home under democracy, and cherished it. But under bolshevism nobody owns a home. There is something hynoptic in this thing, perhaps, for certain types. They are drawn in and they are used, and mayhap they never know into what they are drawn or for just what they are used! And, as the faithful turn toward Mecca, so the faithful turn toward Moscow, in hazy dreams that never can and never will come true. PRINTERS Vote to Establish Five-Day Week January 1 Long Beach, Cal. (ILNS.) By a vote of 76 to 74 the International Typographical Union has voted to es tablish the five-day week. By a vote of 111 to 39 the convention voted that the local unions must ratify or reject the project, this latter motion coming after President Charles P. Howard strongly suggested that course. If ratified the plan is to become ef fective January 1. It will affect 22,000 printers on newspapers. Unions were instructed also to make the five day week operative in job shops wherever possible through negotia tion and contract. Under the five-day plan as adopted by the convention printers would not be allowed to work more than five-day shifts in six and seven-day plants. President Howard was sustained in his fight against curtailment of the powers of the president and the ex ecutive council in acting on appeals from local unions. Chicago was selected as the next convention city. Textile Mills Gain Follows Price Advance By RALPH F. COUCH Cotton textile mills are again in creasing activity following the low point to which the industry descended in July. According to a report just compiled by the U. S. Census, consumption of raw cotton by the mills increased 44 per cent from July to August. The increase has been extended into Sep tember, it is indicated, although no official returns for the current month are yet available. Increased activity by cotton mills tends to improve employment. Nor mally, 422,000 men and women derive their support from this branch of the textile industry. 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