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FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1934
FOOLISH ATLANTIC CITY POLICY
Atlantic City municipal authorities
have apparently ranged themselves
with the anti-union elements of the
country in their opposition' to the
right of labor to organize. They
seem to think they can stop the ir
resistable tide of organization and
have forbidden city firemen to join
the International Association of Fire
Fighters^ As a result, Atlantic City
facta loss of the 1935 American Fed
eration of Labor convention.
Informed of the action of the At
lantic City authorities, President
Green, of the A. F. of L., expressed
surprise that the mayor had taken
the position "that any group of mu
nicipal employes should be denied the
right to organize into a union of their
choice and to enjoy the rights and
privileges of Section 7A the same as
workers in private industry."
"The executive council was consider
ing the advisability of holding the
convention of the federation in Atlan
tic City in 1935 when this matter
came to our attention," Mr. Green
said.
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BUILD INTO PROSPERITY
In a recent editorial, the American
Builder points to the need for stimu
lating home-building as an aid to gen
eral recovery. Sixty per cent of all
urban homes in the country need ex
tensive repairs. Fifty per cent still
lack such essentials to civilized living
as piped hot water, inside flush toil
ets, and central heating systems.
Twenty per cent are badly overcrowd
ed, due to the doubling up of famil
ies. And in rural areas the condition
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of the average home is still worse as
far as comforts and conveniences are
concerned.
It is reliably estimated that the
present housing need totals about
800,000 units. If they could be built
and cost but $3,000 each, a very mod
est estimate even at present low con
struction costs, close to $2,500,000 of
new purchasing power would be re
leased to find its way through a hun
dred industries and trades, and into
the pockets of a legion of workers,
storekeepers, farmers and persons in
all callings. On the average about
$2,000,000,000 of that—eighty per
cent—would go to labor.
It is a significant sign that execu
tives in all lines of industry are con
tinually stressing the need for stim
ulating home-building, as well as
other types of construction. Nothing
would do more to speed (recovery.
"Build ourselves into prosperity" is an
excellent slogan to remember.
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and expect them to make you suddenly iwMt
bed buoyant and full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only mors th*
bowels and a mere movsment doesn't get at
the cause. The reason for your down-and-out
fueling Is your livei. It should Dour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
If this bile is not flowing freely, your food
doesn't digest. It just decays in the bow«ta.
Gas bloats up your stomach. You have A
thick, bad taste and vour breath Is foul.
skin often breaks out in blemishes. Your head
.aches and you feel down and out. Your whole
.system is poisoned.
It takes those good, old CARTER'S
LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
iJound» of bile liowing freely and make you
,if eel "up and up." They contain wonderful,
W»rml*ss, gentle vegetable extracts, amazing
when it cornea to making the bile flow freely.
But don't ask for liver pills. Ask for Carter's
JJttlo Liver Pilla. Look for the name Carter'e
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the national government to bring order out of industrial chaos is of
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to error and in so doing makes way for truth to prevail. However, we have I
learned to our sorrow that criticism can be whollyy destructive when its I
orable place in the procession of things than does he who slyly infers
cism or damns with faint praise and a knowing look. The attitude of the I
seriously when they decry the use of brains in government. In past years
they have decried the fact that those administering governmental affairs
did not have sufficient brains.
REDISTRIBUTION—
WHERE IS IT?
When President Roosevelt as.sumed
office his first announcement was that
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Patriotic Rev'ue
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CRITICISM vs. SNIPING J?*"*?
The world knows that the critic is worthwhile when he calls attention I
effect is to stop all activity and encourage no new line of endeavor to accom-1 Coclidge and Hoover is true of condi
plish the worthwhile purpose of that which was stopped. I tions under Franklin Roosevelt.
Even the outright and destructive critic appears to have a more ft&tf-l
latter is more of the sniping variety. |the
It appears that most o tfhe opposition to the aims and purposes ofl
sniping variety. These snipers offer no constructive criticism, they offer n°Ltwo
substitute plans or programs. They are content to view with alarm. They I |ljc|ccn jn
making. The progress of the world means change. Change can be con
structive or it can be destructive.
There can be little doubt but that the efforts of the national govern*
ment so far have been of the constructive variety. There can be little
doubt but that the attitude of the national administration has been to coax
the business interests into the only line of activity that can bring order out of
chaos. Little or no force has been used and those who have always taken
ppride in the fact that they run things (even though they run things in the
ground) have been asked to continue to run them in a way that would accom
plish industrial betterment rather than industrial stagnation.
Those mediums of publicity which are using the sniping toantg of
criticism are also "dubbing'' the president's advisers "the brain trust." They
decry the use of brains in national government, and in doing so they are
apparently consistent. They are using none themselves. The political oppo
sition to President Roosevelt is offering no substitute plan or program
and in doing so they may be playing smart politics, but they are working to
the detriment of their nation.
The mediums of publicity and public information have always foundl
money to buy every other kind of information they deemed advantageous
are in the same uncompromising position that those in control of things ^i8tril)ution of
always have assumed throughout history when basic changes were in the^^
to the public, so one would assume they could buy the services of «onom,stsl meantime
or others to formulate and propose a program in opposition to that of ther
national administration. Of course, they might be deemed guilty of patroniz
ing a different brand of "brain trust," but, then, few people take them|
Labor has had more cause to criticize the national admin,stratum th.nl cw)perte
have those industrialists who are engaged in sniping or openly blocking
national recovery as planned by the government. Yet, labor has gone along
loyally, attempting to further the national program in every phase wherein
the influence and co-operation of labor can be exerted. Labor's program of
the 30-hour week nationail enforced was sic-etracked for this "if you please"
method of the government through codes, etc# Labor will continue to help
in every way possible, but if and when the NIRA fails, labor will expect
more intense and constructive effort to be exerted and will most certainly
oppose any attempt to return to the era of financial dictatorship which
almost wrecked the entire industrial system of this nation.
RING the whole family to see the
greatest exhibitions of sheep, cat
tle, live stock, poultry and agricultural
products in Ohio's history. Music, fun,
fireworks for everyone. Colossal pa
triotic revue, "Forward! Americal"
with cast of 500, nightly
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That was a good announcement and
also a good idea. But somewhere be
tween the announcement and the pres
ent, like Section 7a of the NIRA, the
redistribution of income got lost in
the shuffle. There is no evidence any
where that those who had little are
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Of course, we know that this is notl
he was going to inaugurate the NewI of the unlimited greed of some Amer
Deal by making possible the redistri-1 ican business men, and their practice
bution of income so that the masses I of the business creed of 'buy in the
may have the wherewithal to buy the I cheapest, and sell in the dearest mar
things our supermechanized industries I ket."
can turn out in such great abundance. Tobacco growers received for their
getting more and those who had too |1932
much are getting less. Large profits
still go to the wealthy and low wages,
among those fortunate enough to be
receiving wages, are still being paid
to the poor.
According to Labor, 337 large in-1
dustrial enterprises, in their reports
of profits for the first six months
of 1934, show a gain of an average I
of 77.7 per cent above the profits |but
for the same period last year. To
carry out the promises of the New
Deal, labor should have gained in
wages for the same period at least
10 per cent.
NATIONAL
SHORTHORN
SHOW
in
front of the grandstand.
invited and expected.
EARL H. HANEFELD,
Director of Agriculture
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months it hasn't made any gain to
speak 0f
g0 that we are right back
started from and what was
conditions under Harding,
There hftVe been many unempl0yed
critl-|put to work.
w&ge level ig
But unless the general
increase(i significantly,
New Deal
fce but
a
phrase of
"back to nor-
"rugged individualism," and
eyery garage and
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pot."
on rQad tQ jts
attainment. And unless steps are
taken to bring a more equitable divi
sion of income, there will be
no
Deal.—The Brewery Worker,
New
OBSTRUCTIVE TACTICS
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The railroads are crying loudly over
the railway pension act and a legal
test of the act's constitutionality is
said to be assured.
In the present temper of America,
such action seems foolish. It would
appear to be the better part of wis
dom for the railroads to give the
pension act a fair trial and see how
it worked out. If it should place too
great a burden on the railroads or
.. have other serious defects, it could
there
is no danger that it will ruin the
railroads.
The nation is in no mood just now
to stand obstructive tactics from the
railroads or other great moneyed in
n terests. It expects business of all
jn the
„New
Dea,.,
and attempts to block the pension act
will not add to the popularity of the
railxoads, which need friends badly in
these days of growing competition
from other means of transportation.
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GREED AT ITS WORST
The record of the tobacco industry
in this country is destined to become
a classic in its perfect illustration
product in 1929 the sum of 286 mil
lion in 1930 the sum of 212 million
in 1931 the sum of 131 million and
in 1932 this was reduced to 107 mil
I lion.
Profits of tobacco manufactures in
1929 amounted to 134 million, while in
their
Profits
were 146 million
In 1929 the number employed in to
bacco manufactures was 116,119 per
sons, and their wages amounted to
94.{j million, while in 1931 the num
ber employed was 99,769, and their
wages amounted to 69.4 million^
In the growing of tobacco the whole
family of the tobacco grower must
work, and the average family income
of tobacco growers in 1929 was $720
fay 1932 had droppe(J
pitiful sum of $250 average family
incomc for the tobacco grower.
In the tobacco factories, the aver
age wage was $815 in 1929 but in
1931 this had been cut to $695.
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HOW THEY DO IT UNDER NRA
Despicable tactics used by some em
ployers to cheat workers out of their
just wages were revealed by Elmer
F. Andrews, New York state indus
tria? commissioner, in issuing a man
|datory order affecting the wages of
women and minors employed in laun
dries throughout the state. The order
brings into force the law's penalties
against laundry owners who fail to
pay the wage rates established under
New York's minimum fair wage law
Promising "jprompt and drastic
action" to compel chiselling employ
ers to obey the law, Commissioner
[Andrews told how underpaid workers
liure victimized.
"In view of the cunning, deceit and
I industrial terrorism existing in many
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of the non-complying plants," An
drews said, "I feel justified in author
izing resolute and, when necessary,
ruthless action to wipe out the chis
ellers# As was brought out abund
antly at public hearings, work
ers have been forced, under threat of
being fined, to become accomplices in
persistent evasion of the law.
"Tneir time clocks have been set
forward in the morning and backward
at night they have been forced to
sign payrolls for two, three and four
dollars more than they received in
wages under the eyes of the employ
er they have been compelled to tell
investigators that false records of
working hours were correct they have
been paid the minimum wage and then
forced to 'kick back' from two to four
dollars of the wages received. Many
workers have given us information
\and evidence of these practices."
The chiselling described by Com
missioner Andrews is not confined to
New York. A small minority of em
ployers are seeking in every state to
evade fair wage provisions of NRA
codes and state laws. Strong trade
unions are the best deterrent of such
mean chiselling, and is one of many
good reasons why fair employers
should support organization of their
employes.
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WISDOM
History shows us that all great
principles, however ardently espoused
for a time, have a tendency to fade
into traditions, to degenerate into
hollow cant, to become words of lit
tie import, and to remain for declam
atio'i when their vital power is gone
—William Ellery Channing.
GROCERS PLAN
FOR PICNIC
At their meeting held in Grocers
hall, Third and Maple avenue, the
Hamilton Retail Grocers' and Meat
Dealers' Association discussed and
shaped up plans for the big annual
picnic. The date was set for Sunday
August 26, and it will be held at the
Butler county fairgrounds.
Richard Graf was named chairman
of the committee, and the following
members were named to assist him
Charles Kirn, Henry Loos, Clarence
Hermann, Charles Brummer, Andrew
Schul. Lee Palmer, Louis Henes, John
Kirk. Russell Dempsey, Cecil Bald
win, Eugene Antes, Edward Probst
and Clarence Rieman.
UNION RECOGNITION WON
BY AFL RUBBER WORKERS
Massillon, Ohio.—The American
Federation of Labor union employes
of the Hankin Rubber Company her
won their strike for recognition of the
union, a 20 per cent wage increase
seniority agreements and a number
of other demands, Coleman Claherty
organizer of the A. F. of L., an
nounced.
PICKETS JAILED BY JUDGE
IN BREAD BUYERS' STRIKE
New York.—Angered by the activi
ties of pickets in connection with
consumers' strike against four bak
eries in the Bronx for alleged price
FRESH SHOULDEH JRIBS
3 pounds
SMOKED CALA
HAMS
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David Webb & Sons
FUNERAL HOME
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boosting. Magistrate Morrisania sens
tenced four men to jail for one daj|.
for disorderly conduct. The strike
started two weeks ago and since theft'
26 persons have been arrested and 1$.
convicted.
im SERVICE
EXAMINATI
The United States Chrtl Servicf
Commission has announced open com
petitive examinations as follows:
Special investigator, $2,900, and in
vestigator, $2,600 a year, alcohol ta*
unit, Bureau of Internal Revenue,
treasury department^
Closing date, August 20, 1934.
Specified experience in the practice
of law, or in investigational or law
enforcement work, is required.
Full information may be obtained
from Stanley B.- Kimble, secretary of
the United States Civil Service Board
of Examiners, at the Hamilton post
office.
The salaries named are subject to ft
deduction of not to exceed 5 per cent
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1935, as a measure of economy, and
also to a deduction of 3% per cent to
ward a retirement annuity.
NAMED TO INDUSTRIAL BOARD
Washington, D.* O.
Arbitration Award
Boosts Mailers' Pay
Cleveland, Ohio (ILNS)—Through
an arbitration award by Judge Man
uel Levine, of the Ohio court of ap
peals, Cleveland Mailers' Union No.
12 has been granted a wage increase
of $3.50 per week. Hours continue at
48 for day and 42 for night work, the
union's request for a 40-hour week be
ing denied. The award was retro
active to October 1, 1933.
Helena Printers
Strike Ended
Helena, Mont. (ILNS)—Striking
printers returned to work at their for
mer wage scale, and publication ftf
Helena's two daily newspapers was
resumed after a two months' suspen
sion. Arbitration of the hourly wage
scale before the International Arbi
tration Board in November was part
of the agreement by which the strike
was ended.
Workers Fight
Company Union
New Orleans (ILNS)—Charges that
a company union had been formed,
given a closed contract and then used
to lower wages, were made by em
ployes of the Mexican Gulf Packing
Company and the G. H. Pelham Pack
ing Company, Pascagoula, Miss., to
the Regional Labor Board. It was
also charged that boys under 16 were
being employed in violation of NRA
code provisions.
Look for the union shop card. You
will find brother unionists in shops
where it is displayed. Pay them a
visit when spending money.
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national recovery administration has
announced the appointment of Jona
than Eddy, New York city, secretary
of the American Newspaper Guild, as
a member of the Newspaper Indus
trial Board, succeeding Shuford Brad
ley Marks, resigned.
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