Newspaper Page Text
mm. i If Jv r*»^ **w- ***»7 tf4 4 c** V V 1 THE PRESS OFFICIAL OBGAN OF OIGAKIZTOLABOI OF HAMILTON AND VICINITY JSm^ PRISS ASSWf Members Ohio Labor Press Association XHE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO. PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS Subscription Price $1.00 per Tear Payable in Advance We do not bold OWUITC* FEE ALL WORKERS SHOULD ENROLL IN UNIONS The 1933 convention of the Amer ican Federation of Labor emphasized the necessity of 10 per cent organiza tion of working men and women in bona fide unions in order to equip themselves with the machinery neces sary to secure their full rights under the codes of fair competition estab lished by authority of the national in dustrial recovery act. The importance of the convention' admonition is illustrated every day in Washington in the hearings held by the recovery administration on the various codes, as well as in the pro cedure before and after the hearings The codes are practically all drawn up by organizations of employers called trade associations, without con sultation with the employes, organiz ed or unorganized, despite the fact that the labor sections affect very vi tally the welfare of all the workers In actual day to day practice it is a truism evident to all serious-mind ed persons that the labor sections of the codes receive much more consider ation from both employers' represen tatives and recovery administration authorities when the employes cover ed by the codes are effectively organ ized than they do in industries where the employers for years and years have bludgeoned their employes into joining subservient company unions and similar schemes of employer "welfare work." After the codes are signed by the president it is equally apparent, from months of observation, that the labor HOW WOMEN CAN WIN MEN AND MEN WIN The Favor of Other Men Unless two pints of bile juice flow dally from your liver into your bowels, you* food decays In your bowels. This poisons your whole body. Movements get. hard ana constipated. You get yellow tongue, y« low skin. pimpleB, dull eyes, bad breath, iche. You bad taste, havs beco las. sour-i our personal dizziness, healache. You ng, foul amell You have lost become an ugly-looking, foul «me! I, s Tour to run from you. thinkintr peraon. harm. Everybody wants But don't take salts, mineral waters, oils, laxative pills, laxative candles ei}«wlng gums and expect them to get rid ial ly move out the tail end of your bowels ai.d this poison that destroys your persona They can't do it, for they onl} that doesn't take away enough of the de cayed poison. Cosmetics won help at all. Only a free flow of your bile juice will •top triis decay poison in your bowels. The one mild vegetable medicine which starts k free flow of your bile juice is Carter's Little Liver Pills. No caforuel (mercury) n Carter's. Only fine, mild vegetable yo .ki extracts. If you would brinsr back your personal charm to win men, start taking Carter's Little Liver Pills acco-ding to directions today. 261 at drug stores. Refuse "something just as good", for It ma7 gripe, looien teeth or Bcald rectum. Ask for Carter's Little Liver Pills by name •nd gst what you ask for. C)1988,C.M.Co. T'C1^ 1 responsible for any flewa or opinions expressed in the articles Or communications of correspondents. Communications solicited from secretaries all societies and organizations, and should addressed to The Butler County Press, f.» S26 Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio. The publishers reserve the right to reject •ny advertisements at any time. Advertising rates mads known on appli eation. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but •8 a Ruarantee of jrood faith. Subscribers changing their address will please notify this office, giving old and new address to insure regular delivery of paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter. Issued Weekly at 3SC Market Street Telephone ITH Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Middletown, O wtseoiw FRIDAY, MARCH 9,1934 WHY NOT, MR. WEIR? Ernest T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel Corporation, recently defied the National Labor Board and President Roosevelt by refusing to permit the board to supervise an election to choose representatives for col lective bargaining, guaranteed by the national industrial recovery set, by the corporation's 10,000 employes. Now the subversive corporation official, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Pittsburgh, in discussing the unemployment problem an nounces his opposition to the 30-hour week advocated by the American Federation of Labor and even opposes the small reductions in the length of the work week suggested by General Hugh S. Johnson, recovery admin istrator. In this connection a tabloid picture of unemployment in the United States is instructive. According to American Federation of Labor unemployment statistics there were 3,216,000 jobless in January, 1930 7,160,000 in January, 1931 10,197,000 in January, 1932 13,100,000 in January, 1933, and 13,689,000 in March, 1933. During this entire period those who own and control industry, typified by Mr. Weir, did practically nothing to prevent this astounding increase in the number of unemployed. The American Federation of Labor, on the contrary, insisted on shortening the work week to whatever extent neces stary to provide employment* for the jobless, culminating in the declaration of the 1932 convention that the 30-hour week was required to achieve this object. Since March, 1933, toy the expenditure of billions of dollars of federal funds for public works of various sorts, and modest hours reductions in NRA codes, the number without jobs in industrial employment has been reduced to 11,600,000 in January, 1934, with employers just as barren of remedial measures as they were from January, 1930, to March, 1933. sections, according the workers the right of collective bargaining with out employer interference and setting up maximum hours and minimum wage standards, are much more ade quately enforced if the Workers are organized in bona fide trade unions strong enough to fight vigorously every infraction of labor's rights both under the national recovery act and the codes themselves. Workers everywhere should enroll 100 per cent in union saffiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Otherwise the labor guarantees con tained in the recovery act will become just what employers of the Weir and Budd and Ford type desire them to be—mere paper declarations with the workers kept in economic serfdom and unable to maintain their rights under the law. :o: WIPE OUT THE SLUMS Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recent ly told a conference on public hous ing that slum clearance and decent low-cost housing will become a real ity only when property owners who exploit their fellow human beings are made to feel they are bad citizens. Work at good wages for these millions of jobless is the .greatest question before the American people. Our civilization cannot long endure with this huge army of the unemployed and their families reduced to abject poverty and compelled to exist on relief rations which government officials them selves describe as limited to the amount necessary to prevent starvation. Broadly speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt is right but it will take a lot of pub lic opinion to make exploiting land lords reform. There has been some public opinion against slum conditions for a long time, but it has not been strong enough to be effective. Laws aimed at slum conditions will help, though to get real results it is nec essary that public sentiment strongly back them. Labor and other forces opposed to slums must fight for effective laws aimed at the evil and must also keep up a determined campaign to make the public see that slums endanger the nation, that they are breeders of crime, vice, disease and death, and that they have absolutely no place in civilized society. The out-of-works must have jobs. Confronted with this great problem Mr. Weir, at a banquet in Pittsburgh, given by 600 engineers who paid $7 each for their seats, is reported to have said: "If the 30-hour week gives more persons work, why not a 20-hour week or less, which would give even more employment?" iVi RECOVERY AND CONSTRUCTION "Conviction grows," says the Chris tian Science Monitor, "that there can be no thorough-going recovery in the United States unless and until healthy volume of ordinary construe* tion shall have been started." If the 30-hour week will restore to the millions of unemployed their inherent right to earn a living by their labor the query propounded by the chairman of the National Steel Corporation will not require consideration If the 30-hour week does not put the idle millions to work, and if those who own and control industry demonstrate that they are still unable to solve the unemployment problem in some other reasonable way, then the only solution will evidently be further shortening of the hours of work to whatever extent may be required to reduce the jobless army to zero. Mr. Weir asks: "If the 30-hour week gives more persons work, why not the 20-hour week or less, which would give even mode employment.?"" Well why not—if it is necessary to provide work for the workless There are definite signs on the hori zon that the start is not far away. Public works activities have provided great impetus. Various proposals now being considered to make the small home building easier, have created TUT? PTTTT/EVP OnTTMTV PftF.RR justified hopes for achievements in the near future. And, most important of all is the fact that the wage earner finds himself with steadier work at better pay—and is in need of more and better housing. During depression there was a min mum of new residential building, Doubling up of families in small homes was common. Thousands of homes were allowed to fall in disre pair, because of lack of funds, and depression has been abnormallly high. In addition, population changes fires, tornadoes, floods and other ele ments have destroyed multitudes of homes or rendered them useless. Any national movement starts slowly, but accelerates with amazing speed. That will be true of new con struction. The builders and material makers will be called upon to meet increased demand. Labor and tech nical supervision may be at a prem ium. Price rises are unavoidable. The moral is do your building and repair ing now. :o: LABOR COMES FIRST The three vitally important factors in industrial production are labor management and capital. No one of these standing alone can function Labor is first in importance, is nu merically largest, and deserves first consideration. Capital could not even commence, and management could not get to first base, without labor. Capital sits around and does nothing until the hard work and good think ing is done. Without labor there could be no constructive industrial enterprise. But capital gets the cream, manage ment a little of the fat, and labor gets the skimmed milk and the bones. Labor through collective bargain ing in our trade unions proposes to get a fair portion of the joint efforts of labor, capital, and management, conceding always to management and capital its just and fair portions. Such an arrangement will end this depres sion, prevent others, and bring about stabilized prosperity, and a happier and better life for all. Try it it can't be any worse than the old discarded deal.—Cigar Makers' Journal. :o: THOSE BIG SURPLUSES Recent exposure by a senate com mittee of the huge sums loaned by big corporations for Wall street gam bling in 1929 and the even greater sums paid favored corporation ex ecutives in 1929 and succeeding years have made agood many people see light. Of course trade unionists have been pointing out for years the viciousness of big corporation policy in the boom" years—how the piling up of big surpluses contributed to the un balance between production and con sumption, and made the depression inevitable—but it remained for the senate revelations to bring pointed comment from even conservative sources. Such was the comment of the conservative Evening Star of Washington, D. C., which said: 'The country would have been far better off if these huge surpluses had not been permitted to roll up and then to be used to stimulate the gambling fever of the people. The very fact that such surpluses were developed shows that there was a failure to ditribute profits made in the industries to labor and the capi tal which made these industries pos sibl "The huge sums should have been distributed either in wages or in divi dends, or in both, rather than merely amassed and used in Wall street or to pay huge bonuses to certain in dividuals." :o:——— WHAT NEXT? Automobile factories are installing "electric eye forges." When a bar of steel in these electric heating cham bers reaches the desired tempera ture, its color, always the same at that point, affects a photo-electric cell and the bar is automatically removed by machinery set in motion by the cell. :o: WISDOM The aggregate happiness of society is—or ought to be, the end of all gov ernment.—George Washington. :o: Unions Victimized By Calcasieu Paper Co Elizzabeth, La.—Labor officials fa miliar wtih the situation charge that the management of the Calcasieu Paper Company here has pursued policy of victimising trade unions by discharging employes who joined union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. They claim that the company allowed the fore men to canvass from house to hous for membersship in a company union and emphasize the fact that none of the company union employes were re lieved of their jobs. Union officials also point out that the management discharged qualified union workers for alleged incompe tency and other unwarranted reasons and even resorted to reclassification of the employes in an attempt to evade the provisions of the national industrial recovery act. Building Trades Council Founded in Jacksonville Jacksonville, Fla.— The Jackson ville Building Trades Council, which lapsed many years ago, has been re organized and started out in its re invigorated life "by 'undertaking secure collective bargaining con tracts with employers under the NRA code. Jacksonville carpenters' local union voted to stand firmly for a 30-hour week in conformity with the policy of the American Federation of Labor The union is urging a wage rate of$l per hour. Most Famous Midget Gen. Tom Thumb was a well known circus midget whose real name was Charles Heywood Stratton. He was born In Bridgeport, Conn., January 4, 1838, joined the P. T. Barnum shows In 1852 and married Lavinia Warren another midget, In 1863. General Thumb died July 15, 1883. Mrs. Thumb continued with the circus and a few years later married Count Magri, an Italian midget. She died at the advanced age of seventy-eight yn»r 6 6 6 LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS Checks Colds first day, Headaches o Nearalgia in 30 minutes, Malaria in S days. Fine Laxative and Tonic Most Speedy Remedies Known A Leader for cAsk lour The Cherry rp» Where with our |f*pp Little Hatchet we tell the truth about many things, sometimes pro foundly, sometimes flippantly, sometimes recklessly Something has just happened in Washington that ought to make the world take notice. Government has asked everyone to come and tell it what is wrong, right out in public. You tell us when any government ever before asked the population to walk up and kick it in the shins. You tell how many governments today could stand the shock of such full, free and brutal examination and live to the next day. Imagine Mussolini trying it. Or Herr Hitler. Or Stalin, or Kemal, or Juan Vic ents Gomez of Venezuela. A government, or a governmental agency, has to be pretty sound on its pins and pretty responsive to a public need to stand up under such a wallop ing. Hundreds of men and women have got up and said their say about NRA. Johnson has talked back to them, not like a tyrant, but like a man who had just as much right as they to shoot off his face. He has been human en ough to get mad and yammer with the best of them. But there he stands, not a bit weak er, probably stronger. The gavernment said to the people Come look this thing over, raise hell with it, try to find out its weak places so we can make them strong. It is, to get at the nub of it, the most amazing thing ever tried. A stunt like that brings the whole institution a lot nearer the people If you can walk up to a thing and take a sock at it you aren't so very much afraid of it. Well, NRA got socked plenty. Of course NRA has the same power it had before the socking,, but if it weren't pretty sound, would soon fade, like the power of prohibition, under such a rain of blows, The performance was calculated to demonstrate sincerety. There has been a lot of kicking about NRA. So the government said: Let's bring it all outi into the /open an ^onje big fight. RED JACKET COAL POCAHONTAS ANTHRACITE KOPPERS COKE Without sincerety such a perfor mance would be dangerous beyond calcuation. Sincerety has to be take® for granted. The crowd got rough with enthus- iam—the enthusiam of long-held com* plainants at last privileged to say it out in public, Johnson took it and asked for more and enforced bade, not always any too convincingly. ,i Weok spots showed up, as ever£» one, including Johnson, tknew thej^ would. Now, persumably, NRA will take all the complaints home, sift them find out which ones can be used In making NRA a "better agency for national recovery. Perhaps these were the main com plaints: NRA hasn't cut hours enough to re-employ it hasn't raised wages enough to create buying pow er it has kept labor off code author ities it has strengthened the big fel lows and made the weak ones weaker by comparison it has let the con sumer in for stiff er prices, without compensating advantages. Quite a bill of particulars. Quite a bill. As to results, much will depend upon how much fact was piled up by the complainants. There will be some genuine char ges of course. But more than above and beyond that, was the sheer courage of the thing, the frank and unafraid declaration that here is a thing that belongs to the people and consequently they have a right to come up front and say what's on their mind about it. Somehow the talk of dictatorship seems weak after such an amazing spectacle of the strength and char acter of democracy. Where is there another government that could have lived through two such days? You name it—if you can. Edgar K. Wagner FUNERAL DIRECTOR Schwenn Coal Company SEE THE Savage Auto Supply Co. 636-38 Maple Ave. HAMILTON, OHIO Phone 116 David Webb & Sons FUNERAL HOME PHONES 48-78. ROSS AT "D" START AN ACCOUNT WITH The Home Loan and Building A'ssn Third and Court Sts. WE PAY STATE TAXES C. J. PARRISH, Secy. W. H. STEPHAN, Prop. COAL AND 5th and High Streets PHONE 23 For Truck, Tractor & Auto Parts Jwur Forty-Five Years Grocer 5\ o •vjj'vv if COKE #1 -f ii w ll A if i & ,? S J." V