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TERM IN 0. S. F. OF L:
EXTENDED
STANLEY OGG
At the forty-ninth annual conven
tion of the Ohio State Federation of
Labor, which ended in Columbus late
Wednesday ,in recognition of splen
did service the past two years, the
terms of all officers were extended for
a period of three years. Stanley Ogg
has served the federation as one of its
vice presidents many years, begin
ning at seventh, until he is now third
vice president, and with no changes,
by reason of deaths or resignations
on the part of those just ahead of
him, will serve as third vice presi
dent under his present term until
1936. Hamilton organized labor is
pleased at the situation, and extends
congratulations and best wishes to
Stanley.
FORTY-NINTH
Convention of Ohio State
Federation of Labor End
ed—All Officers' Terms
Extended.
After holding one of jttie most im
portant and interesting sessions in
all its long history, the Ohio State
Federation of Labor closed its forty
ninth annual convention late Wed
nesday afternoon in Columbus.
The convention wuold up with the
extension of the terms of all the
present officers for three years. This
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only came about after several hours
of debate and discussion—which at
times waxed rather warm, the oppo
sition being led by Adolph Kummer,
Cincinnati, representing the brewery
workers. Kummer opposed the term
extension on the ground that it was
unconstitutional. However, most of
the Cincinnati delegation supported
the resolution.
The officers whose terms were thus
extended are: President, Harry Mc
Laughlin, Cleveland secretary-treas
urer, Thomas J. Donnelly, Columbus,
and the following seven vice presi
dents: Lee Hall, Columbus W. M.
Morgan, Newark Stanley Ogg, Ham
ilton James F. Malley, Cleveland
M. J. Lyden, Youngstown O. B.
Chapman, Dayton, and Charles Stalf,
Cincinnati.
Two years ago these officers were
elected for a term of three years so
that with the three year extension the
officers' terms will not expire until
1936. These officers constitute the
executive board and it is they who
carry out the policies of the federa
tion, and the delegates made it plain
that it was because of the earnest
efforts of the officers the past two
years and for faithful performance of
duties, that the term extension was
awarded them. The vote on the ex
tension resolution was 89 to 28.
There were many resolutions of im
portance to the movement presented
and .idopted. Among them being in
dorsement of old age pensions, unem
ployment insurance, six-hour work
day, barbers' license bill, more rigid
laws requiring payment of a mini
mum wage on public work contracts,
more stringent banking laws to pro
tect depositors, and greater protec
tion for workers against foreclosure
of home mortgages and garnishee
proceedings, and others which will be
given in detail in next week's Press.
Hamilton was well represented at
the convention. Among others were:
Stanley Ogg, third vice president of
the federation, who represented
Trades Council and Molders' Local
No. 68 George Brandel, Metal Pol
ishers' Local No. 43 Edward Dulli
and Otwell Condon, Milk and Ice
Cream Drivers and Helpers' Union
Chas. Chapen, Carpenters' and Join
ers' Local No. 637 Marion Cum
mins, Electrical Workers' Local No.
648. A number who were not dele
gates also attended from here, and
say the sessions were most interest
ing to them.
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Article No. 2
Unemployment insurance in Europe
began in the nineteenth century with
the out-of-work benefits of the trade
unions, which served the double pur
pose of relief and of maintaining
wages, since the unemployed members
had no temptation to undercut. Mu
tual benefit plans were introduced in
practically all of the industrial coun
tries of Europe, and covered a large
number of skilled workers. These
plans were introduced earlier and
more extensively than in the United
States it must be remembered that
in Europe unions have been longer
established and are much stronger
than they are here.
The "Ghent" system was devised
to encourage the independent union
efforts. Its name is derived from its
origin in Ghent, Belgium, in 1898,
when the city council decided to make
additional payments out of municipal
funds to trade unions or other asso
ciations of workers who paid out
of-work benefits to their members.
Later this plan was extended so that
the provincial and national govern
ments, as well as other cities in Bel
gium, subsidized the insured groups,
and after the war, the whole plan was
unified under a national administra
tion. Similar subsidized systems are
in effect in Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
Finland, France, Holland, Norway,
Spain and in part of Switzerland.
This method of provision against
unemployment has the advantage of
encouraging loyalty to trade unions,
but its defect is in covering only part
of the workers, omitting many in un
skilled trades who probably need it
most. In spite of the strength of
European unions, the total of work
ers so insured in 1930 was estimated
at a little less than three million.
In Belgium and Denmark where it
was especially well developed, it cov
ered only about half of the workers.
The chief interest for us in the
United States is in the suggestion
that our national government might
use the same method to encourage
the passage of state bills, by granting
a subsidy to state funds.
Much more important are the com
pulsory systems operating in twelve
countries and covering about 46,000,
000 workers. These countries, to
gether with the year the insurance
was begun, are as follows: Austria
(1920), Bulgaria (1926), Germany
(1927), Great Britain and Northern
Ireland (1911), Irish Free State
(1920), Italy (1919), Luxemburg
(1921), Poland (1924), Switzerland
(7 cantons or states), Soviet Russia
(1922), Queensland (1922), and Mex
ico (1929).
In this country we hear less criti
cism of "the terrible British dole"
now that we have so many doles of
our own, but the British unemploy
ment insurance—the oldest and most
important—is still misunderstood be
cause it has been so confused with
relief. It began in 1911 as a plan
limited to certain highly seasoned
trades. Premiums were paid by em
ployers, employes and the national
government. During the war years
with practically no unemployment, the
insurance fund accumulated a large
reserve. Then in 1930 the unemploy
ment insurance act was extended to
practically all industrial workers, the
most important exception being ag
riculture. Unfortunately this came at
the beginning of the world-wide de
pression of 1921, and when Great
Britain was in especially serious dif
ficulties of post-war adjustment, for
a good deal of the trade upon which
her industry depended had been lost
during the war years. Unemploy
ment during the 1920's averaged
about double that before the war.
Obviously the government must pro
vide relief, yet under the British law
this could be given only under con
ditions which branded those receiv
ing it as paupers. To avoid this the
government had taken care of the
special need of returning soldiers and
unemployed war workers by "out-of
work donations" paid during 19
months directly after the war and
administei'd by the same state em
ployment offices which administered
the unemployment insurance. These
"donations" corresponded roughly to
a soldiers' bonus but were paid also
to civilians.
A couple of prosperous years fol
lowed the war, and then just as a
large number of workers had been
admitted to the insurance fund and
STATEMENT
Of ownership, management, etc., of
The Butler County Press, published
weekly at Hamilton, Ohio, required by
the act of August 24,1912.
That the names and addresses of
the publishers, editors, managing edi
tor and business managers are
Publishers: Edward E. Weiss and
John F. Mayer, Hamilton, Ohio.
Managing Editor: Fred W. Grad
olph, Hamilton, Ohio.
Business Managers: Edward E.
Weiss and John F. Mayer, Hamilton,
Ohio.
Unemployment Insurance fa Europe
By MARJORIE McFARLANtt
Secretary of the Ohio Committee for Unemployment Insurance
That the known bondholders, mort
gagee and other security holders own
ing or holding 1 per cent or more of
total amount of bonds, mortgages or
other securities are: None.
THE BTJTLER COUNTY PRESFL
the out-of-work donations discontin
ued, the 1921 depression laid its prob
lem on the doorstep of the govern
ment. Under the strict rules of the
insurance fund, an unemployed man
could draw insurance only if he had
made at least ten weekly contribu
tions to the fund, he could draw only
one week's benefit for each five con
contributions, and no more than fift
teen weeks' benefit in any one year.
On this basis very few of the newly
insured workers could qualify for
benefits, yet they must be cared for.
It is easy to say now that this should
have been done separately. At the
time the surplus in the insurance
fund was too tempting and was used
for "extended" benefits (those not due
as real insurance benefits) and when
it was exhausted the government lent
large sums to the insurance fund to
continue. These extended benefits
may properly be called a '"dole'
though no more so than the public
and private charitable relief we have
in this country, and probably they
could be administered at least "as
efficiently through the insurance fund
as by our own methods.
The German unemployment insur
ance act ranks next in importance to
the British. It provides for a fund
made up of contributions from
workers and employers only, though
administered by the government but
there was further provision that when
anyone had exhausted his claim to
insurance benefits he might, if he
were IN NEED, receive [additional
relief benefits out of government
funds. Since the act was passed in
1927 just before the beginning of the
present depression, these additional
benefits have been the means for dis
tribution of relief.
We may criticize the European
systems, but in the end we come up
against the fact that very few Euro
peans—not even conservative em
ployers, certainly not trade unionists
propose to abolish unemployment
insurance though they hope to im
prove it through patient experimen
tation. Its values are too obvious.
Frances Perkins, industrial commis
sioner of New York state, after a
trip to England to observe the in
surance system, remarked how the
very appearance of workers seen on
the street had changed from pre-war
conditions. All seemed better clothed
and fed, and there were no evidence
of desperate poverty. (In their en
thusiasm for balanced budgets our
politicians might remember that
money spent to maintain the health
and decency of working people is not
"wasted.") Moreover, it is constantly
said in Europe and especially in Eng
land that insurance against unem
ployment is insurance against revolu
tion. This may have more meaning
for us in America after we have gone
through another winter of unemploy
ment without insurance. Perhaps
most important of all is the fact that
the insured countries of Europe have
less unemployment than America.
It is impossible to determine the ex
act amount in any country, but it is
at all times higher in the United
States than in Europe, even than in
England, and has apparently reached
more serious proportions during the
depression. For insurance decreases
unemployment and cannot increase it.
In insured countries there are no un
filled jobs and any that are offered
at employment offices are quickly
taken by men "on the dole." Human
nature being variable, one man no
doubt finds a few weeks' employment
with insurance, a tolerable vacation,
but both alike must accept a job un
der decent conditions if it is offered.
So insurance simplifies job filling
though at the same time it prevents
employers from taking advantage of
the workers' need to lower stand
ards.
America has all of European ex
perience from which to learn, and we
ought to be able to devise unemploy
ment insurance plans suited to our
own states and which avoid European
mistakes. For insurance is bound to
come. And since this is so, an im
portant lesson from England and
Germany is that the time to put it
in is just as a depression is coming
to a close, not just before it begins.
That means during the next couple
of years, unless we plan to face the
next depression still unprepared.
The Butler County Press,
Fred W. Gradolph, Editor
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 28th day of September, 1932.
C. M. YOUNG, JR.
Notary Public of Butler County, Ohio.
(My commission expires February
9, 1935.)
Letter Carriers Thank
A. F. of L. For Support
Yakima, Wash.—Meeting in annual
convention at Walla Walla, the
Washington State Association of the
National Association of Letter Car
riers, adopted by unanimous vote res
olutions expressing the appreciation
of the state association for the efforts
of the American Federation of La
bor to maintain the salaries and work
ing standards of federal employes
The convention voted to send a copy
of the resolutions to President Green
of the A. F. of JL
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THE LOWLY BANANA
A Japanese boy, who was learning
English, was told to write a short
thesis on the banana. This It the re*
suit:
"The banana are great remarkable
fruit. He are constructed in the same
architectural style as sausage, differ
ence being skin of sausage are habit
ually consumed, while it Is not advis
able to eat wrapping of banana.
"The banana are held aloft while
consuming sausage are usually left in
reclining position. Sausage depend for
creation on human being or stuffing
machine, while banana are pristine
product, of honorable mother nature.
In case of sausage, both conclusions
are attached to other sausage banana
on other hands are attached on one
end to stem and opposite termination
entirely loose. Finally, banana are
strictly of vegetable kingdom, while
affiliation of sausage often undecided."
MIGHT HAVE KNOWN
Mrs. Henpeck (remlnlscently)—Did
you expect me to accept you the night
you proposed?
Mr. Henpeck—Yes. It was Friday
night the thirteenth of the month.
Your apartment was number thirteen
on the thirteenth floor and the eleva
tor boy who took me up was cross
eyed.
Finality
"How did you come to break off your
engagement to Miss Snowball?" asked
Uncle Moses of a darky.
"In the first place, Uncle Moses, she
wasn't berry young, and she didn't hab
no money, and jawed like d« debbei,
and, secondly, she would not hab me,
and went and married another nlggah,
so I tuk de advice ob my fren's and
jess drapped her."
A Rising Temperature
Things were rather strained between
the two sweethearts.
"Bnt, George, darling," she said, "I
do love you still. You cannot imagine
how warm my love for you to."
George groaned inwardly.
"Oh, but I do, all right,** he re
turned. "I've always noticed how my
money burns when I'm near you."
Spurred On
A veteran traffic officer in Los An
geles has heard some novel excuses
for speeding, but twenty-year-old Paul
ine Bradbury thought up a new one
for his book.
"Well, you see, officer," she ex
plained, "I took off my shoes because
the motor got so hot and 1 guess the
accelerator must have tickled my feet"
PUTTING IT OFF
Mrs. Brown—I wibh you would take
that old pipe out and clean it.
Mr. Brown—Wait till next Monday,
that's wash day.
Only Fault
"Healthy-looking office boy you've
got."
"Yes, he's a good lad. Doesn't
smoke, whistle, gamble or want to go
to football matches."
"You're lucky."
"Oh, he's got one fault He won't
work."
Hazy ImprMtfon
"What's your Idea of true poetry?"
"I haven't any," reylitd Mr. Cum
rox. "According to mother and the
girls, it has to be something I don't
understand, written by somebody
whose name I can't pronounce."—
Washington Star.
Mad With Delight
Bill—Was Edna's father mad at you
when you told him you had married
her secretly?
Jim—I'll say. He nearly shook my
arm off.
Love's Prompting
Magistrate—You admit tearing a
handful of hair from your husband's
head?
Defendant—I wanted to put it in a
locket
Might Have Been Better
Betty Golilust—Did you have a sat
isfactory interview with papa?
Jack Brokelelgh—Not very he said
all he could give us was his consent
The Modern Way
Watt—Your wife is Independent,
isn't she?
Howe—Sure, she is. She goes her
way and I go hers.
SOVIET RAID
On Our Market Described
By Former Official
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Soviet
raiding of the American market was
described here by witnesses appear
ing before the U. S. tariff commission,
with its entire membership of 12 at
tending. The bearing
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United States.
Basil W. Delgass, former vice
president of Amtorg, the soviet offi
cial tr*£i.ng organization in the
United Stutes, testified that he was
ordered to sell in the United States
market at whatever price he could
get.
Delgass testified that he was un
der soviet sentence of death for re
fusing to testify falsely before the
Fish committee which investigated
red propaganda. He said that in his
opinion the soviet five-year plan is
economic and military conflict,"
which he said the reds foresee as in
evitable between ommunism and
non-communist governments.
Newell W. Ellison appeared Ha
counsel for Amtorg.
REPORT SHOWS
PAY CUT RATIO
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—In the
year ending with May there were 337
pay cuts, 14 increases and 33 cases
of no charge, out of 664 cases in
which comparisons were made, the
United States Department of Labor
reports, following a survey of union
wage rates. The report is based on
findings in 20 main occupations in
40 industrial cities.
Union Heads Direct Labor
Bureaus of Three Parties
Chicago.—Presidents of three big
international unions head the labor
divisions of the republican, democratic
and socialist campaign committees.
President William L. Hutcheson, of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America, heads the
republican labor bureau, while Presi
dent Daniel J. Tobin, of the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,
Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of
America, is directing the labor end
of the democratic campaign. Emil
Rieve, president of the Amexican
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, is chairman of the labor
committee for Thomas and Maurer,
composed of trade unionists support
ing the socialist party candidates.
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"The lad who steals a kiss," sayi
romantic Romaine, "shouldn't be
Judged too harshly. It Is best to give
him another chance."
(©, 1(132, Bell Syndicate.)—WNU S«rvlc«.
Toad in Medicines
The Chinese have used the toad for
medicinal purposes for centuries, but
they use him empirically without ex
act knowiedge. Drug stores in China
sell a hard toad cake which, when
ground, Is used externally as a local
anesthetic. The measure is not with
out sense, as the substance does
deaden the sensory nerves. The form
ula for the toad cake is a secret which
all the king's horses and all the king's
men could not drag from Its makers.
Wesley Family
The WTesleys afforded a pretty ex
ample of two qualities linked through
several generations—music and relig
ious fervor. Two of the Wesley grand
fathers were expelled from their bene
fices as nonjurors. Charles and the
great John showed both qualities in a
high degree. Then comes Sebastian,
a great composer of church music. His
son, who died fairly recently, was a
clergyman whose passion was music.
Beautiful Italy
The frultfulness of Italy's meadows
and vineyards, the majesty of her
scenery, the kindness of her inhab
itants and the glory of her sunshine
lure an endless stream of eager seek
ers of beauty. A succession of civil
izations—Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician
and Roman—has left to Italy, from
the snow-clad Alps to the fertile
shores of sunny Sicily, an unimagina
ble wealth of art—churches, palaces,
monuments, paintings, masterpieces of
sculpture—all witnesses of its glori
ous past.—Exchange.
Astounding Fact*
A drop of blood contains three mil
lion red globules, and there are more
germs In the milt of a single codfish
than men in the world. So small is
this germ that one grain of sand is
four million times larger than it. A
hundred threads of the silkworm are
just one-twenty-fifth of an inch thick
when placed side by side, but there
are some metals that can be drawn
out to such a fineness that twelve hun
dred wires are only as thick as a hun»
dred silkworm threads.
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A BOOK REVIEW
By the Rev. Neal D. Newlin,
Minister of the First Congre
gational Church, Hamilton, O.
"Keeper of the Keys,"' bjr Earl
Derr Biggers.
For many of us, there is such a
real fascination in the appearance
of a new "Charlie Chan" story
that all possible engagements are
cancelled while the story is i*ead
with ceaseless attention. This one
ran as a serial in a popular weekly
magazine, and was there conclud
ed late in July.
The new portrayal takes the fa
mous Honolulu detective to the.
lake region bordering California
Nevada. A host of characters are
presented to the reader, but the
principals stand out of a unique
setting. The guilty party (or par
ties) whom it falls upon Chan to
discover might be any of four or
five. The elimination process is so
complicated as to leave you won
dering, even at the end. Your im
agination shifts the guilt from one
to another until the confusion be
comes a galaxy of evidence indis
tinctly pointing to all. But, in the
end, Biggers unravels the circum
stances in an unforgettably clear
exposition.
Like all authors of detective
stories, Chan's ci-eator makes man
slaughter a repeated process. The
reader may feel that some of the
homicides are not required for the
plot. However, there is nothing
gruesome about the story. And the
interpolations of the ancient phil
osophical maxims of the hero's
race is worth many re-readings.
Don't start this book if you expect
to casually peruse it: you will read
it more than once, and regret that
time prevents the memorization
of much of it.
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