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FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1933
HERE LIES PROBABLE WOE
If the national industrial recover
act is to function with fairness to all
and malice toward none, then some
thing needs to be done and done
quickly about the method of code
making.
As the matter stands, there is noth
ing labor can do about a code until
it is drafted, docketed and called for
hearing. Then labor can appear and
register its kicks in open hearing
But by the time a code gets to the
hearing stage a great deal of what
may be called congealing has been
done. And the administration itself
has, in a sense, become a partisan of
the code as offered.
Perhaps the nation does not realize
to what extent the administration be
comes party to a code BEFORE
THERE IS ANY HEARING. Here is
the way of it, as it is working in
practice:
An industry begins to work out its
code. If it is a big industry it goes
to Washington to see what about
many things. It finds the deputy ad
ministrator assigned to that industry.
And the deputy administrator sits
in With the industry and helps work
out the code. He must be either more
or less than human if he comes out
of that co-operative eflort without
being partisan to the code he has
helped to draw.
The deputy MAY take advice from
labor in that field, and he may for
get all about labor. Or he may take
labor's advice and then discount it—
KILL IT IN ADVANCE.
Labor's advice was had in themak
ing of the cotton textile code, but
labor had to go in and fight for modi
fication of that code. Labor's advice
was not taken in advance, yet when
labor offered its views in open hear
ings, the deputy administrator said,
"Why, but you were my advisor."
At this hour a deputy is sitting with
the leaders of ths garment industry.
Will he emerge partisan to the code
there prepared? We shall see, but
there is an inescapable presumption
These codes deal with labor. They
fix its hours and its wages, a pair
of fields in which labor has been
mighty jealous.
The result may be happy, all around,
but the method thus far indicates that
very shortly a vredict will have to be
passed in language blunt enough for
even a cavalry officer to understand.
ACCIDENTS WASTE
Under the national industrial re
covery act, the nation is bending every
energy to eliminate overproduction,
cutthroat competition, unemployment
and other industrial wastes. But one
great waste seems to be largely neg
lected in the recovery program. That
is the tremendous waste caused by
industrial accidents, which l»*t year
took some 15,000 lives.
Surely the United States has the
wealth, the intelligence and the will
to virtually eliminafte accidents, at,
least in most industries. It is not
enough to pay insurance to injured
workers and to the wives and chil
dren of victims of fatal accidents The
thing to do is to prevent accidents in
the first place. If this is done, indus
try and the people as a whole will
derive incalculable benefits.
:o:
THE MEN WHO CANT LOSE
The Morgan investigation has re
vealed, among other things, that the
present financial game in Wall street
is so rigged and controlled that the
insiders cannot lose.
After the crash in October, 1929
the House of Morgan joined with some
lesser magnates in what Mr. Whit
ney, of the Morgan firm, called
"rescue squad." They bought stocks
to steady the market. Mr. Whitney
insists that this was done without a
thought of direct profits, that the
sole object was to ease the market
situation. But in the three weeks
that the "rescue squad" worked, buy
ing stocks dumped by hard-pressed or
panic-strickent owners, the House of
Morgan and its allies cleared a profit
of more than a million dollars!
If a combination of financiers can
extract profits out of a crash like
that, and do it while apparently
supporting the market," where is the
limit to their power?
The House of Morgan, with the aid
of its allies of the inner circle of
finance, has, in the first place, first
hand knowledge of all moves made or
soon to be made in the market. It
has access to practically unlimited
pools of liquid capital {and cited It
It has, finally, the power to bludgeon
opposition out of the way, and im
pose its will in the earlier stages of
financial earthquake.
To an appalling degree, it can mark
the wealth and prosperity of the coun
try up or down, and assign the bene
fits of industry to this group or that.
And if the matter does get out of
hand, if the crash goes farther than
was intended, the House of Morgan
and its friends can form a "rescue
squad," and make a million dollars
out of "financial patriotism" in three
weeks!
How long will the American people
allow their lives and fortunes to be
dominated by this irresponsible eco
nomic power?—Labor.
CHILD LABOR KNOCKED AGAIN
The adoption of the child labor
amendment to the federal constitution
by Illinois and Oklahoma brings the
number of states which have approved
it up to fifteen.
With the prohibition of children un
der 16 from employment in the cotton
textile industry included in that in
dustry's fair competition core and
scheduled to go into other industrial
codes, plus the continuing adoption
by states of the child labor amend
ment, the outlook for the entire elim
ination of child labor in the near fu
ture is encouraging.
THE RECOVERY ACT MILL BEGINS TO
GRIND-ORGANIZE!
this tip—the recovery act k grinding, gnuduig hard, and it con
tains more pitfalls than a regiment could watch.
There is for labor just one adequate protection—UNIONS—GREAT
BIG UNIONS—UNIONS THAT ARE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEM
SELVES.
Here is cause for battle and cause for concern:
Big companies—Carnie Steel, Humble Oil, and others—are rushing
company unions into existence THE LAW IS CLEAR, but these corpora
tions hope to beat the law.
The one object in doing that is to beat labor.
The one way to beat that,game is to get unions into the field strong
enough to BEAT THE PLOT.
Of course a test will come before the recovery act administration
probably before the president himself. But the employers will leave no
trick unplayed to build up legal defenses.
The only real reliance for fairness is in UNIONS.
Every trade union officer and member ought to be GETTING NEW
MEMBERS, and forming NEW UNIONS.
The national industrial recovery act can and evidently will bring order
out of chaos. If it doesn't work, then who knows what will come next
Nobody.
And that employers, after the greed they have shown, the wreckage
they have caused, the dirty mess they have made, should try at the outset to
sabotage the new law in one of its most important provisions, is a sign
that THERE MUST BE STERN MEASURES AND STRONG UNIONS
Already we get something of the drift of the recovery act. Already
we see how the good work can come and how somee of the tricks can be
played.
It is so tremendous and so new that to see into every corner and
behind every door is impossible.
A strong labor movement can block any tricks. That's the one feal
instrument for protection in this new world.
Watch Washington like a hawk. Get all the information you can get.
BUT BUILD THE FENCES HIGH AND STRONG AT HOME.
BUILD UNIONS.
There is an elaborate machinery in process of creation.
There are several advisory committees. Nobody yet knows how much
of their advice—if any—will be accepted.
One of these committees—the consumers' committee—is a joke. The
orists, some good, some questionable, had these committees.
Every kind of possibility is in the offing.
BUILD UNIONS.
This is not a matter that can wait. THIS IS A MATTER FOR TODAY
ORGANIZE UNIONS AND DO IT AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED
UPON YOUR SPEED AND SUCCESS.
And it is indeed high time that the
ban on child labor be extended to
every state and territory. Children
are worth too much to our future cit
izenship to have their lives shrivelled
and dwarfed for the benefit of em
ployers who worship profits as their
god regardless of the price paid by
child workers.
TURNING ANOTHER CORNER
Apparently America is turning a
corner in international policy.
Europe has been told, with much
firmness, that the United States in
tends to look after itself and that
there will be no objection if other
nations do likewise.
The change of policy reflected from
the agitated pool of internationalism
in London is of tremendous impor
tance.
Added to the rage expressed by
European politicians at the new
American attitude is the policy laid
down by the secretary of the navy
for the enlargement of the American
navy, long on the downsill slide. The
new navy plans mean work and they
mean something added to American
dignity. They do NOT mean what
the pacifists say they mean.
But one more item must be added
to the list. It is the report that rec
ognition of the soviets is at hand
If that comes, the picture will not
be quite so good. It will not be nearly
so good. It will be mud on the can
vas.
OLD AGE SECURITY
A survey by the American Federa
lion of Labor shows that the enact
ment of an old age pension law by
the Michigan legislature raises to
twenty-five the states which have
sanctioned this legislation. Ten states
have enacted pension laws this year.
The 1933 roll of honor includes Ari
zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana,
Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Oregon and Washington.
A number of legislatures that have
not yet adopted pension legislation
have either discussed it or have in
structed committees to study it. Pen
sion legislation was approved by one
or both houses of the legislature in
seven states, but was not enacted into
law. The twenty-five states with pen
sion laws have a population of 55,
472,000, all of whom will be protected
by old age security when the recent
laws become effective.
This progress of old age security
legislation in the first half of 1933
is encouraging. It gives support to
the belief that the time is not far
distant when the remaining twenty
three states, the Territory of Alaska
and the District of Columbia will ap
prove pensions for the aged so that
every person in the United States will
have the guarantee that declining
years will not contain the specter of
suffering from poverty.
The American Federation of Labor
has actively supported old age secur
ity legislation in every state, and with
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
Its model old age security bill has en
deavored to have pension laws applied
by a state administrative body instead
of local officials.
Much to be regretted, the roll of
honor containing the states having
enacted old age pension laws does
not include Ohio. However, with the
active campaign now being waged
things look very bright for the peo
pie, at the coming November election,
ordering the legislature to enact such
law in this state.
LABOR CONFERENCE
POSTPONES HOURS OF
WORK DISCUSSION
Geneva, Switzerland.—-The Inter
national Labor Conference decided to
place the reduction of hours of work
on the agenda for the 1934 session.
The conference also adopted a res
olution urging the International La
bor Office the best methods to help
Jewish refugees from Germany.
KONERS
Rameses left mummies of himself
all over Egypt
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found In examination pa
per*, essays, etc., by teachers.
The finest animals on earth are
ground mice.
Three birds that have black feath
ers are the crow, raven, and jailbird.
Watered stock Is cows put out to
pasture beside a running stream.
e
Space between the bones la filled
with mucilage.
It Is the duty of the governor to
beg all pardons and fill all the seats
In the house.
The spinal column Is a collection of
bones running up and down your back
and keeps you from being legs clean
up to your neck.
An Oxonian Is a man who drives a
pair of oxes.
list. Boll Syndicate.—WNU Service.
GRAPHIC GOLF
*F«W (SOLflRS
TUB*
STATIC
MAC SMITH.
aooy
TTUKLJY TO
FROM
INS 1G£ OUT.
BRING AROUND THE
LEFT SIDE
ONEfailure
of the most prevalent faults
Is to let the left side turn
around to the right on the backswing.
Even those golfers who do, are often
far short of a complete turn. One
reason for this Is that they want to
guide the stroke and not being con
fident of their swing turn but little.
They take the club back with the cus
tomary wrist and arm movement but
allow the left side to remain where
It was for fear of destroying their
balance. The proper method is to
let the left shoulder turn naturally
as the left arm Is taking the club
back until the backswing Is complete.
In some cases the player's back Is
practically at right angles to the ob
jective. MacDonald Smith affords a
fine example of this turn and at the
top of the swing Is set to hit from
the inside out with perfect balance
and freedom. In this position full use
can be made of the left arm. Smith Is
a firm advocate of a complete pivot
and lays the blame for much of the
slicing on this failure to turn enough.
O. 1*11, Bell Syndicate.--WNU Serrloe.
A
WHY THEY STAYED HOME
s
Airs. Jjm b-~\Vhy do you all sla,)
in
the house so much, Mrs. Brown?
Mrs. Brown—I'll tell you, Mra.
Jones: We pay an enormously high
rent for this house and want to stay
In it enough to get our money's worth,
you see.
WKjr W«|M
Boss—You ask high wages for a
man with no experience.
Applicant—But It Is so much harder
work when you don't know anytMna
about it
"F ooli»hmenlM
By FRED BURROWS
by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service
CAM JACKSON opened the dooriof
the safe slowly, but thankfully. In
the safe was a certain paper. On this
paper appeared the signature of
number of hotheaded young men who,
In the heat of their indignation at
what they considered a wrong dealing
on the part of the government, had
signed this document pledging them
selves to overthrow the government.
Since signing the document the young
men had all seen the error of their
ways. Now they were exceedingly anx
ious to destroy the evidence of their
foolishness. And Jackson, in enter
ing this office and In opening this safe,
was acting for the young men of
whom the main leader was his
younger brother.
The office in which Jackson was now
standing and the safe was now open
Ing were those of Claude Lagrange, a
shyster lawyer, who had been largely
Instrumental In working the young
men up to the point of signing the
paper.
The minute Jackson had opened the
outer door of the safe and then the
thinner door Inside he flashed a pocket
light on the safe's shelves and com
partments. These were filled with pa
pers. Seeing the great quantity of
material he must go through Jackson
Impatiently jerked the papers forth
and began examining them carefully.
At last he found the paper he was
searching for and caught It up with
a sigh of relief.
At this instant a dim figure rose
from a crouching position In front of
the window, flashed a light full on
Jackson and cried:
"Hands up!"
"Walk over to that table In the cen
ter of the room, put that paper In the
center of the table, and then sit down,
but keep your hands up!" went on
the voice.
And now Jackson thrilled to the
sound of the voice. There was no mis
taking the identity of the person Is
suing the voice—it was Clara Fergu
son. a recent newcomer in the city,
with whom Jackson had fallen violent
ly In love and who had told him one
evening not so long ago that she re
ciprocated his affection.
"Clara!" cried Jackson.
"Y—yes, it's me," came Clara's
voice. "Oh, Sam, I'm so sorry it's you.
I've got to—to arrest you!"
"Arrest?" cried Sam. "I don't un
derstand this at all."
"Don't you see?" cried Clara. "I'm
In the federal secret service. The
government heard about this conspir
acy these local young men were
mixed up In and sent me here to find
out all about it."
Clara In the secret service? There
had always been some mystery con
nected with her occupation from the
time she arrived In the city. So she
had been detailed on the case? There
had been rumors of a secret service
agent being on the Job. That was one
of the reasons why the young men
had been so anxious to recover that
damning paper and why Sam, In or
der to keep his younger brother out of
trouble, had volunteered to get it.
Slowly Sam took his seat at the
table, his face blanched, his heart
beating rapidly. As he seated himself
Clara switched on the lights In the
room and then seated herself opposite
him. As she did so Sam threw the
paper to the center of the table in
front of him.
"Clara," said Sam, "this Is a fearful
mess we're In. How can I ever ex
plain the whole thing to you?"
"I'm sorry—dreadfully sorry she
said. "I had no Idea It was going
to be you when I got the tip that the
paper was to be taken from the safe
tonight. But, Sam, I've got to see to
It that you're taken to the proper au
thorities."
"But, Clara," Sam protested, "I'm not
In this thing myself. I simply came
here to get a paper my younger broth
er signed In a moment of foolishness."
"Now we'll have to go," she said.
"Stand up!" she commanded, her voice
strained and husky.
It was while Sam was slowly rising
that an amazing Interruption oc
curred. Through the open window a
bulky woman rushed Into the room.
Sam recognized her at once. She was
Hannah—Clara's colored "Mammy,"
who had come with her to the city.
"What's this hyah foolish ment? Miss
Clara, I done followed you, 'cause I
thinks you-all mlghten get into trou
ble. And I done hear you—I was 11s
tenin' on de tlah escape. And what's
this hyah foollshment, huh?"
As she spoke Mammy caught up the
paper from the center of the table.
Calmly she drew a match from a ca
pacious pocket, struck it and set fire
to the paper.
"Mammy, put that out at once!"
cried Clara angrily.
"Huh, yoah ol' mammy knows what's
bes\" cried Mammy and calmly Ig
nored Clara.
Fascinated, Sam watched the hungry
flames eat up the paper—the only ex
isting evidence of his young brother's
and his brother's hot-headed chums
foolishly planned conspiracy. And as
the last bit of paper was consumed
Sam looked across the table at Clara.
He saw in her eyes a look of inex
pressible relief.
Then Sam went around the table
and caught Clara in his arms. As he
did so he heard Mammy muttering sat
isfiedly to herself.
"Huh, Jes' plain foollshment!" said
llummv.
A Leader for
(j4sl{ Your
THREE THOUSAND
More Workers Join Reading
Hosiery Strike
Reading, Pa. (ILNS)—Striking
hosiery workers were jubilant when
3,000 employes of the big Berkshire
Knitting Mills left their machines and
joined the great walkout here. More
than 8,000 hosiery workers are now
out in a strike that has closed 17
mills and promises a complete shut
down of the industry here.
The strike of the Berkshire Mills
workers climaxed a 20-year fight by
the American Federation of Hosiery
Workers to unionize the plant, said
to be the largest in the industry.
One hundred knitters in the small
Laurel and Gold Seal mills also went
on strike.
Negotiations for settlement of the
strike were deadlocked, with the mill
owners in newspaper advertisements
calling on their employes to return
to work and the union leaders charg
ing that the manufacturers had vio
lated an agreement to recognize the
union.
10,950 IN INDIA PRISONS
FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Simla, India.—The number of per
sons in the prisons of India for civil
disobedience activities numbered
10,950 at the end of April, as against
12,639 at the end of March, accord
ing to figures made public by the
government. Women prisonera num
ber 544.
15 Per Cent Pay Slash
Extended By Roosevelt
Washington.—President Roosevelt
announced that the 15 per cent pay
cut for federal employes would be
continued for the six months ending
December 31, 1933.
Congress gave the president the au
thority to lessen the percentage of the
reduction at the end of six-months
periods if and when the cost of living
increased based on living costs for the
last six months of 1928. It was an
nounced that the findings of the de
partment of labor revealed that the
cost of living figures for the six
months period ending June 30 did not
warrant any change in the 15 per cent
slash.
Governor White Si^ns
Minimum Wage Law
Columbus, Ohio (ILNS)—Governor
George White has signed the mini
mum wage law covering women and
children.
The bill provides for boards func
tioning under the state industrial
commission to establish minimum
wages for women and children in in
dustry in any locality, either on the
commission's own initiative or on
complaint against the wage scale pre
vailing.
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Strange how rough an administra
tion devoted to a New Deal can be.
All in a lifetime, perhaps—and all
in politics, too, maybe.
More than 100 commercial attaches,
mostly hard working folks who
thought they were in a career serv
ice, are told they are fired and have
four
days in which to catch the boat
for home.
Wake
And You 11 Jump Out of Bed
in the Morning Rarin' to Go
If you feel sour and sunk and the
world looks punk, don't swallow a lot
of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative
candy or chewing gum and expect
them to make you suddenly sweet
and buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only
move the bowels and a mere move
ment doesn't get at the cause. The
reuson for your down-and-out feeling
is your liver. It should pour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels
daily.
Most of them have furniture, man#
have children. Four days to clean up
and get out. Tough going. Many had
to sacrifice their belongings for a
song, dump stuff here and there.
Many had to pay servants "discharge
pay-"
"Cost me $800/' one of the crowd
told this writer. But at that, there's
very little complaining. Just the wonr?
derment about where thf aws^ job Uf
coming from.
In Washington the commerce de
partment lets out more than 400.
They, too, wonder where the next job
is coming from. It's all very nice
for Mr. Farley, who can make a lot
of friends by finding other men for
these jobs and for other jobs, but it's
a long ways from Tipperary for those
to whom the can has been tied.
And so, mates, it happens to be a
great world. It is, too, at that. So
many things are doing in so many
directions.
NIRA is working fast to create
employment and raise wages. And
the lawyers of the employers are
burning midnight incandescents try
ing to find loopholes. And labor is
wondering where it gets off.
And ARA, for the farmers, is send
ing its agents through the cotton belt
getting signatures to the crop-reduc
tion program—and one wonders who
is going to stand guard to see that
acreage is held down to the control
limit. Maybe the same fellows who
get the signatures, in which even
their jobs are good "for the dura
tion" of the summer.
And in the corn belt the same thing
will be done, and there will be more
jobs, and the price of hogs is going
up, and wheat is darned near top-side,
and there's really a lot of merriment
in the land, which helps not at all
those who still have no jobs—the
twelve million who don't know where
to turn for food!
On the other hand, Andrew Vol
stead goes sadly out of office, evi
dently disillusioned, saying nothing,
asking only to be let alone. He's
been legal adviser to the prohibition
unit in his district. And now he's
done, which is about the same as the
condition of the "noble experiment"
itself. Very, very interesting world,
for some.
Mr. Otto Kahn, who fools with
grand opera and art between bond
deals, tells Washington all about, and
as he departs the senators and the
lawyers all shake hands and have a
merry time in their farewells.
Mr. Kahn, we gather, is next to
Morgan in the big money game. One
of the signs is his ability to avoid
paying any income tax. And the list
of favorites, just like Morgan had.
And now, children, honesty is the
best policy and makes men—and
women, too—healthy, wealthy and
wise, like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Kahn.
So, early to bed and then up-and-at
'em bright and early.
START
AN
ACCOUNT
WITH
The Home Loan
and Building A'ssn
Third and Court Sts.
WE PAY STATE TAXES
C. J. PARRISH, Secy.
Up Your Liver Bile
—Without Calomel
If thia bill la not flowing truly, your (o||
doesn't digeat. It Juat decay* In the bow«ta.
Gaa bloata up your atomach. You have
thick, bad taate and your braatb la foul, akla
often breaka out in blemlshea. Your h*«4
acbea and you feel down and out. Your whole
aystezu U poisoned.
It tak ee those good old
CARTER'S LITTIJI
LIVER PILLS to get theaa two pounda of b0*
flowing freely and make you feel "up and up."
They contain wonderful, harmleea, gantte
vegetable extract!, amazing whan It comw St
making the bile flow freely.
But don't aak tor liver pllla. Aak for
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FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Jlour
Forty-Five Years
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