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TRADESCOUNCIL
Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council met in regular session Tues
day night, at the labor temple, Presi
dent C. L. Hosea presided. Thirty
delegates were present.
Regular business wis transacted
and minutes of previous meeting
approved
A communication was read from
Wm. Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor. The communica
tion states that the A. F. of L. has
received an invitation from the Con
tinental Congress of Workers and
Farmers for Economic Reconstruc
tion to attend the meeting to be held
in Washington, D. C., May 6 and 7,
1933. Inquiries have been made to the
federation asking if that organization
has endorsed the above organization.
It has not been endorsed by the A. F.
of L. or approved. The federation
will not be represented at the con
gress, and they advise all national,
international, Central Labor Councils
and all organizations affiliated with
the A. F. of L. to refuse to send
delegates. On motion the communica
tion was received and ordered com
plied with.
A communication was read from the
Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and
Beverage Dispensei*s' International
Alliance of Cincinnati, Ohio. The com
munication calls attention to the or
ganization campaign which the or
ganization is putting on in the months
of April and May. They ask the co
operation of Trades Council in their
campaign. On motion the letter was
received and ordered complied with.
Legislative Letter No. 13 from
Thos. J. Donnelly, secretary and leg
islative agent of the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor, was read. One labor
bill was enacted and six are still
pending, and may be passed when the
legislature again convenes, May 15.
A communication was read from
the Uniontown Trades and Labor
Council of Uniontown, Pa., in which
that organization states that the en
amel and radiator plants of the Rich
mond Radiator Company, situated in
that city, have in the past three years
imposed upon their employes treat
ment of an unbearable and oppressive
nature. The employes organized into
the International Brothrehood of
Foundry Employes and then the firm
discharged the officers of the union
for no cause. This action led to a
strike, and the union has placed the
products of this company on the un
fair list. They appeal for the support
of organized labor in their fight
against the Richmond Radiator Com
pany. On motion the same was or-
There are no bargains
in vision. We make
nothing to fit a price.
We make everything to
meet a quality, to
serve its purpose in
the best possible man
ner. Yet our charges
are reasonable. If your
eyes trouble you, con
sult Geo. L. Jacoby,
Optometrist, who is in
charge of our Optical
Department.
R. F. McCOMB
Jeweler
11 South Third St. I
Doris Dunlap
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SATURDAY SPECIALS
FRESH SHOULDER RIBS 1 A_
3 pounds
SMOKED CALA Ql_
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FANCY BOILING BEEP fi 1
Dixie Inn Liquitorium
CHICKEN and STEAK DINNER
GOOD BEER ON TAP
Entertainment
David Webb & Sons
FUNERAL HOME
PHONES 48-78. BOSS AT "D"
Labor has been well fed up on the
saeredness of contracts. A contract
is a contract, and therefore binding.
Morally it is an obligation legally it
can be enforced.
We have been taught that the
whole structure of business relations
and of property rights under our
form of civilization rests upon the
sanctity of contracts. Only a few
years ago the mantle of our courts
was used to give legal sanctity to the
"yellow dog" contract, even though
the "yellow dog" was intended to de
stroy the wage earners' constitutional
rights and make them little less than
industrial serfs.
Every business contract which the
wage earner enters into, is made defi
nitely binding by the law and the
courts. If he borrows money and
gives a note which s a contract to
pay, unless he carries out the terms
of the contract his property will be
taken from him. If there is a mort
gage on his house and he fails to
make payments as specified in the
contract, the mortgage will be fore
closed and his home taken from him.
Home Owners Lose
Within quite recent months a large
number of wage earners buying their
own homes, who had paid within a
few hundred dollars of the amount
they had borrowed, had their homes
sold over their heads and were forced
to lose the thousands of dollars they
had already paid on the loan they had
dered complied with.
Delegates from the Barbers' Local
Union reported the union shops have
revised the price scale as concerns
shaves and hair cuts, the new prices
are 25 cents each.
Machinists report White Star and
Auto Park are union garages.
Milk and ice cream drivers report
the same dairies are unfair.
Painters request a committee to at
tempt to adjust a dispute with the
Ebbinger Grocery, Seventh and Vine
streets, and the Martin Rosenberger
Co. Committtee: Condon, Uterich,
Spaulding.
Plumbers and Plasterers' Unions
report they have started May 1 to in
itiate the six-hour day and five-day
week that practically all of the large
employers have signed agreements.
Stage employes and motion picture
operators report all movie houses
signed up and all operators working.
Legislative committee reported con
cerning their activities and submitted
a letter that has been mailed to the
A. F. of L., 0. .of L., senators and
members of congress.
The letter is in line with Idle sug
gestion made by Hon. E. J. Kuatz,
judge of the common pleas court, in a
talk given to the delegates at a meet
ing of Trades Council a few weeks
ago. Many of our large factories have
transferred or established in Euro
pean and Asiatic countries their fac
tories where labor can be had much
cheaper, and we feel that if their pat
ent rights on such machinery or upon
the output for production of such ma
chinery would be protected only so far
as such machinery is used in this
country, these industries rather than
surrender their patent rights will
abandon their foreign factories and
manufacture their products exclu
sively in the United States and ail
our labor therefore will be benefited.
A committee of the Small Home
and Land Owners' Association of
Butler county, Ohio, have been grant
ed the privilege of addressing the
council at one of the meetings at an
early date.
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CHICAGO MARKET CO.
Corner Front and High Streets Telephone 4506
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When Is a Contract Not a Contract?
By JOHN P. FREY
Secretary-Trcasurer, Metal Trades Department, A. F. of L.
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secured. We are now discovering
that there is a difference at times
between the sanctity of a contract en
tered into between an individual and
a great corporation, and the sanctity
attached to the contract which the
great corporation enters into with an
individual.
When the wage earner takes out
life insurance, a contract is entered
into for certain specified payments
which the insured must make to keep
his policy valid. The insurance com
pany binds itself to pay a specified
amount to the heirs then the insur
ance company's contract with the in
dividual goes farther and provides
that the policy, after a certain num
ber of years, will have a cash surren
der value. The insured can return his
policy to the insurance company, and
the company will then give to the in
sured the amount of money they have
paid in premium plus a small interest.
As a further inducement to secure
policies, the insurance contract with
the individual provides that after he
has paid premiums for a certain
length of time, he may borrow money
from the company, the amount being
determined by the premium pay
ments which have been made. Thou
sands are now discovering that while
their contract with the insurance
company compels them to pay their
premiums on the dates specified or
lose their policy, the insurance com
pany's obligations to meet its part of
the contract can be set aside in fact,
has been voided.
Insurance Holiday Declared
The insurance commissioners of 31
states have declared a holiday for
insurance companies, during which
all cash surrender values and the
making of loans to the insured are
virtually suspended. The insurance
commissioners of the 31 states did
not take this action upon the request
of the policy holders. They did it
to protect the insurance companies
because of a national emergency.
They have pointed out the insur
ance companies' "necessities" and
emphasized the thought that necessity
knows no law, and quite evidently
this is true. The insurance companies'
"necessities" saves them from carry
ing out their contract with the indi
vidual, but the individual's "necessi
ties" do not save them from being
forced to carry out their part of the
contract, which is the legal payment
of premiums.
Of course the insurance companies
are in trouble. They have been large
ly run by the big bankers for the
benefit of the banking magnates.
They have been loaded up with secur
ities, sold to them by these bankers,
and because these securities are not
worth their face value something
must be done to prevent a financial
collapse.
"Little Fellow" Victimized
But why is it that when big busi
ness gets into deep water that the
sanctity of contracts must be waived
on the ground of "necessity," while
the poor devil who works for wages
has to meet the terms of all of his
contractural obligations or suffer the
penalty? Perhaps it is because big
business is better organized and more
in control of public affairs.
If the wage earners had been as
well organized as the insurance com
panies and the bankers had they
given the same intelligent and con
tinuous attention to their interests,
they would be in a position to get a
fifty-fifty break when the time of
"necessity" overtook them.
MERCY NURSES TO
DANCE AND FLAY
At last it is here. But maybe you
don't know what we are talking about!
"It," referred to, is the announcement
giving the date of Mercy's Nurses'
dance and card party. Well, the sus
pense is oved. Tuesday, May 9, is the
date, and Fenmont Center is the place
and Campus Owls Orchestra is to be
the life-injecting group. Don't forget.
Tuesday, May 9. That's next Tuesday.
WILLYS-OVERLAND EMPLOYES
PAID 20 PER CENT OF WAGES
Toledo, Ohio.—By order of the fed
eral court and at the suggestion of
L. A. Miller, receiver for the Willys
Overland Co., bankrupt automobile
manufacturing concern, a 20 per cent
payment, aggregating about $60,000,
was made to employes of the plant
on wages due for the two weeks end
ing February 15.
GOOD BEER KEEPS
DOWN_ARRESTS
Real beer seems to have rather a
soothing effect, contrary to expecta
tion and prediction of some "reform
ers."
According to report made
hy
Her-
schell Haines, police chief's clerk, the
police department made 108 arrests in
April, 15 less than in March and 22
less than in April, 1932.
Let us have more beer and improv
ed conditions*
Leap Y*ar Interval*
Our present (Gregorian) calendar
provides for 97 leap years !n every 400
years, not a leap year every fourth
year. The last year of a century, such
as 1800, 1900, 2000 and 2100, is not
a leap year even though It Is divisible
by four without remainder, unless It
Is also divisible by 400 without re
mainder. Thus 1900 was not a leap
year, while 2000 will be a leap year.
The length of the solar year, or
the time taken for the earth to make a
complete revolution around the sun,
has been found to be 305.24224 days.
If there were 100 leapyears !n every
400 years, that Is, a leap year every
fourth year, the average length of
the year would be 865.26 days, an
error of .00776 day. Under our pres
ent system of 97 leap years every 400
years, the average length of the year
becomes 865.2425, an error of only
.00020 day. This error will take about
3,846 years to amount to one day.
Fiib and Earthquake
Fish were biting well for a party of
New Plymouth fishermen In a launch
In a choppy sea MfP Monkau. Three,
four and five fish at a time were being
hauled in on lines with numerous
hooks. Suddenly the biting ceased.
After vainly fishing for some time the
fishermen returned to New Plymouth,
to discover that an earthquake and
the cessation of biting had coincided
In time. They were not aware of the
earthquake until they went ashore.
The origin of the earthquake is said
to have been under the tea.—Mont
real Herald.
Coinage of Gold
According to the superintendent of
the Philadelphia mint, there Is no
coinage charge imposed by this gov
ernment for coinage of gold. Oold
coins of standard weight contain gold
equal to their face value. There Is
no seigniorage on gold coinage. For
Instance, an eagle of standard weight
weighs 258 grains and contains 232.2
grains of pure gold. The difference
between the weight of coin and weight
of fine gold content is the copper
alloy,
Past* Jewels
Although Imitation jewels have been
made for many centuries, the manufac
ture of paste Jewels has been stimu
lated enormously In modern times. A
special kind of glass, known as
"strass" Is used, which Is made by
fusing white sand, red lead, borax and
several other elements. When colored
gems are desired pieces are crushed
Into a fine powder and coloring sub
stances added, and the mixture is then
fused and anaenled.
LEHIGH VALLEY SILK MILL
EMPLOYES GET WAGE BOOST
Bethlehem, Pa.—A 10 per cent wage
increase was given employes of the
Warren plant of the Lehigh Valley
Silk Mills in the adjointing borough of
Fountain Hill, effective immediately,
according to announcement by T.
N. Gray, general superintendent.
Mayor Bright Blocks Pay
Cut of Richmond Employes
Richmond, Va.—Mayor Fulmer
Bright vetoed a further 15 per cent
cut in the pay of city employes.
In a message accompanying the
veto Mayor Bright told the city coun
cil he hoped Richmond would lead in
the way to early restoration of sal
aries to both city employes and teach
ers, in the face of an almost certain
increase in living costs to follow cur
rency expansion.
World*a Largett Picnic To Be Held
May 30 at Annual SOft-Mile AuloHace
INDIANAPOLIS, IND—Happy spring days are here again and papa,
mania and the family are dusting off their summer clothes, thirst and ap
petites for the world's largest yearly thrill picnic—the annual 500-mile race
at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30.
The dawn gun will open the giant gates through which will stream cars
from every state in the Union with licenses from surrounding states pre
dominating and before race time between 135,000 and 150,000 persons—
the largest sport crowd in America—will occupy the grandstands and the
433 acres of picnic grounds. The 1,000 piece band will parade, 42 snorting
race cars at the hands of the nation's best drivers will start and a day of
relaxation will be on.
Speedway officials predict that never since the good old days—as far
back as the pre-prohibition days of the race of 1916—will such a spirit
of the picnic prevail.
It will be the first holiday of a spring which brings new life and hope
to the country. It will be tne first opportunity to forget a troublesome
winter and look forward to a prosperous summer.
And there will be beer!
It will be back to the happy days such as 1916 when Dario Resta, spec
tacular foreign driver, rode the warm bricks to victory while thousands
of cheering, joyful people toasted his success in cool, sparkling brew.
The 21st annual 500-mile race at Indianapolis this year promises to
be the world's largest and happiest picnic.
1. Air view of the world's largest picnic grounds showing the huge
crowds attending the annual 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way, May 30.
2. Dario Resta, colorful foreigner who won in the good old beer days
of 1916.
3. Scene of the race in the pre-prohibition days of 1916 when bustles,
oil lamps, derby hats and steins were in favor.
4. Ingenius people build their private grandstands atop their cars to
witness the race.
Child Strikers Win Wage
Increase in Allentown
Allentown, Pa.—"Child strikers"
who had picketed the plant of the
Penn Allen Shirt Company for sev
eral weeks, won a 10 per cent pay
increase and union recognition, after
they carried their fight to Governor
Pinchot at Harrisburg, and Mayor
Fred Hart had named a "committee
on sweatshops" to investigate condi
tions.
Between 40 and 50 youthful em
ployes had been peacefully picketing
the plant, complaining that their
wages, mostly paid under "piece
work rates," ranged only from $1
to $3 per week.
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Of all the fool contraptions
That we have upon this earth.
The capitalistic system
A pinch of salt exceeds ita worth.
Trying to make it function
In an economic way—
'Tis like feeding oats to dynamos:
It Just ain't built that way.
Our friend, his nibs, the jackass,
When he eats, knows when he has
had enough.
Not so with financial wizards—
They gorge, and stuff and stuff.
And their belly sticks way out in front
Till they look like a lousy lout.
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And the hamstrung working people
die of hunger—
die of dry rot and gout,
—Robert Limerick.
Vegetable Gardens Provide#
For Unemployed of Ashland
Ashland, Pa.—Unemployed here ar^*.,
clamoring for the opportunity to raisci
their own foodstuffs this summer on
vacant lots leased by the borough td
be converted into garden plots.
According to Dr. L. J. Hoffman
president of the borough council and
treasurer of the local Red Cross, 275
unemployed had applied for ground
allottments even before the arrival
of seed and fertilizer, which will be
provided free at relief headquarters.
He expected this number to be large
ly increased.
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