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i THE PRESS OFFICIAL OltGAN OF 0*GANI«D LABO* OF HAMILTON AND YI&NITT mss |0HI0 LA0*i|i Members Ohio LaW Press Association THE NONPAREIL PRINTING CO PUBLISHERS ANJ) PROPRIETORS Subscription Price $1.00 per Tesr Payable in Advance Wc do not hold ourselves responsible for any views or opinions expressed in ths articles or communications of correspondents. Communications solicited from secretaries of all societies and organizations, and should b# addressed to The Butler County Press, 126 Market Street, Hamilton. Ohio. The publishers reserve the right to reject any advertisements at any time. Advertisins rates mad* known n appli cation. Whatever Is intended for insertion most be authenticated by the nam* and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, bnt as a fruarantee of (rood faith. Subscribers changing their address will please notify this office. Riving old and new address to insnre regular delivery of paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton, Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter. Issaed Weekly at 111 Market Street Telephone 1111 Husilten, Okie Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Trades and Labor Council of Middletown, O. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28,1934 WAGE THEFT BY EMPLOYERS Wage restitutions under NRA now amount to more than $2,500,000 and restitutions, arranged by NRA field offices, are averaging about $75,000 a week. In California two NRA field offices arranged for $63,000 in wage restiutions in the month of November. These restitutions represent the dif ference between what the workers re ceived and what they should have been paid according to the codes un der which their employers operate. In other words, these restitutions rep resent plain robbery of the workers by the employers. This fact should not be forgotten. It is an additional argu ment for strong unions, which are an effective guarantee of code enforce ment. —:o: The merchants of our city report a tremendous Christmas business, espe cially those stores with a line of toys. Is that another sign of depression leaving US? :o: SEARCHLIGHT ON THE AUTO INDUSTRY Testimony of automobile porkers before the president's commission in Detroit recently destroyed any linger ing chance that the public could be made to believe that the auto industry is the "worker's paradise." Those with experience likened it to ail en tirely different place. Auto workers, they said, are speed ed up to the extreme limit of physical endurance, even of the young. Their pay is scanty, and made uncertain by a "bonus system" which the men can not understand. Employment varies from month to month, even from week to week. And over all, there is the shadow of a spy system which Het ternich might have envied. Speed-up in the Ford plant is so severe, witnesses testified, that men frequently spend an hour of their own time in the plant before time to be gin, laying out their materials. Another witness told how, in 1930, 10 men in the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. turned out 100 wire wheels per hour. The next year, the men were speeded up until they had made it 150 wheels an hour. In 1933, 6 men and 4 fours turned out 156 wheels an hour. The wheel that cost the com pany 46 cents in 1930 costs 17 cents now* Nlme dffhe witnesses professed to understand the "group bonus" method of fixing pay in many plants. They said that no one could understand it, except, perhaps, company lawyers with charts of wage payments before them. But all agreed that this scheme of payment was used to enforce and intensify the speed-up. "The bonus system was designed to take men off the payrolls," said one witness. "If the men in the gang in creased their speed, one of them lost his job." "Espionage is so plain that it needs no telling," said a witness. "The so called service men are only spies and stool-pigeons." Another showed how this works. "You rarely find Ford men speaking to each other," he tes tified. "The service men come along in the lunch and say 'move' and the men move." Such a system of driving and spy ing would be damnable, even if well paid. It is not well paid. It never paid the wages that were advertised and every witness before the commis sion told how his wages had dropped from year to year. Only a strong, militant union, back ed by all the influence and power which the federal government can lend, will suffice to make the auto industry human again. Speed the day. o: Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak, Michigan, has incorporat ed the organization he launched, the National Union for Social Justice for all. It is said that several hundred names have been sent in from Butler county. :o COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS At this holiday season when fun and merriment are so much to the fore, it is well to consider the impor tance of public recreation for children as well as adults. Recreation everywhere in the world is a part of life. It is one of the great essentials of balanced existence. Deny it expression, and you have as a re sult, warped and one-sided personal ities. It has been noticed that in some remote mountain regions, there is a large amount of insanity or extreme forms of religious emotionalism bor dering on insanity. And this has been laid to the door of lack of wholesome recreation and social contacts. The support of parks, playgrounds, and community centers, and the pro vision of competent leadership for recreation are a good investment of tax money. For one man who steals because his family is hungry, a dozen boys go wrong because of bad com panionship and lack of a recreational environment. It is natural for every youngster to crave a little adventure. If his community compels him to grow up in a slum, where there are no ade quate playgrounds or other facilities for wholesome adventure, he is likely to satisfy his cravings for activity in ways which are harmful to the com munity. It is the usual custom in Fascist countries to replace the social serv ices by charitable grants the Aus trian Chancellor Schuschnigg there fore is now appealing to the Austrian people for "winter aid"—on the fa mous German model! Such appeals, which only go to show that the gov ernment is itself not able to help the needy, are usually accompanied by some praise of the government for its own very scanty achievements. In this case Schuschnigg has a special achievement to point to, which de serves to be remembered because it shows once again very clearly how little substance there is in many Fas cist assertions. The official appeal says: "The fed eral government has in the past few months done everything to create work and employment, and has in fact been successful in reducing the num ber of unemployed by more than 100,000." In the same issue of the "Reichs post," the government's organ—and actually on the same page—the chan cellor himself writes a note on the "winter aid" in which the reader is astonished to find the following sen tence in italics: "By the middle of October the number of unemployed had fallen to 243,360. If this is com pared with the figure for October 15, 1933, it will be seen that the number of unemployed has fallen by about 34,000." This note happens to speak the truth and is of course Schuschnigg's purely personal remark the official appeal signed by the same gentleman i» aataraUy a government affair, and rm Last night, In summing up the old year, he had come to the conclusion that he was an utter failure, that he might as well discard the idea of be coming a writer. Every story that he had sent out had come back. It was true that a few editors had encour aged him—one of the best known In the country had told him to keep on, that he had a fine literary style. But none of them had kept his offerings. Bob felt that the wisest thing he could do was to chuck the whole thing at the beginning of the New Year. Yet down in his heart he knew that writ ing was a part of him that it would be an almost Impossible task to keep away from the untidy desk back in his den. But he would have to do It, a man couldn't hold a girl to a promise, with nothing to offer her but failure. Bob knew that Dorothy Trent was back of his resolution to quit the writ ing game. He loved Dorothy and she loved him. They had been engaged since their senior year at Northwest ern. It was time that he should say something about marriage It was not fair to hold her as he was doing. He would have to get a position that would enable him to keep a girl like "It Will Be Glorious to Help You Work Out Your Career." Dorothy he couldn't ask her to exist on" the meager pittance he was getting from the Pryor company. He had tak en the Job simply because it gave him so much time for writing, caring noth ing at the time for the small salary and the lack of opportunity that it held. The unhapplness brought by his re solve showed plainly In the weary droop of Bob's shoulders and the tired lines on his boyish face. He found it hard to join in the small talk and fun of the New Year's party that was go ing on. If Dorothy hadn't been so in sistent upon his coming, he would have remained away, for he was in no mood for frivolity. And now, an even deeper bitterness had crept into his heart, as he watched the crowd pay tribute to Everett Elstun, the literary lion of Raymondville. He wondered how Dorothy had got Elstun to her party he was a bit of a recluse and seldom mingled with the crowd. He was surprised as he saw him walking across the room, with an eager look upon his face. "How are you coming with your writing?" he asked. Bob gave a mirthless laugh. 'Tvejust decided that as a writer I'm a pretty good hod-carrier. The fact of the mat ter is, Mr. Elstun, I've made a New Year's resolution to quit." "Giving up in a hurry?" Elstun said, a trifle sharply. "I've been trying for almost two years," Bob answered. "And you think a few hours every now and then for two years should have brought you success? Listen, boy, I was writing full time for more than three years before I got a hint that I wasn't wasting ink." In a moment Bob was confessing his real reason for quitting. Elstun lis tened quietly, then he spoke. "I, too, had that problem," he said. "There was a girl I felt sure she wouldn't be sat isfied with what I had to offer. For tunately, I found out in time she want ed to share my struggles. Maybe the girl you love feels the same way." is everywhere posted up and made public, so that all good Austrians can read it. Nothing is more typical of Fascism and its servants than to find the lie and the confession in the same breath! :o: The mail carriers in Hamilton should receive a vote of thanks for their untiring efforts in delvering the Christmas mail and packages. They well earned their pay this year. :o: The way to fctop reckless automo bile drivers from Injuring and killing people, is a long stretch behind bars. .o: Why sixty, seventy and swrtnetimee eighty miles per hour automobiles speed up and down High streott IHE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS HAPPY and prosperous New Year!" All day the words had been flung at Bob Cam eron everywhere he went tbey echoed in his ears. He wanted to shut them out, to forget that a New Year was beginning. Boh found that Elstun was right Dorothy was aghast at the thought of his giving up the work he loved, or doubting that she would want to share his poverty. "It will be glorious to help you work out your career," she assured him. So a new resolution was made that called for success instead of failure. The New Year was going to brings Bob the acceptances that he craved. G. Western Newspaper Union. ,/ The Cherry IT! Where with our YGG LittU Hatchet we tell the truth about many things, sometimes pro foundly, sometimes flippantly, sometimes recklessly Ponderous people, writing to fill up New Year's editions, already have their columns of historical dope ready. They have picked out all the big things that happened in 1934, which is now about to wrap itself in icy sheets and depart this life. Well, there are plenty of happenings And it isn't true that the world wags along "in the same old way/' It. wags a lot differently. Some of the big things that have happened in 1934 have contributed to the change in the way of wagging, but the things thalt failed) to happen contributed quite as much to the change. The biggest thing that didn't hap pen was that ten million people didn't go back to work and that's the main reason why there isn't any wagging in the same old way and why there is going to be an even greater change in the manner and method of wagging along. Truth is there isn't any more wag ging at all. Wagging is a leisurely process and there isn't any more leis urely process in the business of mov ing along. There's a terrifific rush of speed to day in the readjustment of social, economic and political affairs, even though it may not always seem so. Hold 1934 up against a background of events in, for example, 1900. The speed will be greater. Either 1935 will bring us speed of change that will just about take our breaths away, or else, if there is a slowing in 1935, then 1936 will move fast enough to make up for it. The closing year was full of great events and they were of great im portance, but the things that didn't happen are of equal importance, his torically. Someone ought to make a catalogue of the things that didn't happen. Flash historians—those who get up fast columns of breezy facts— seldom put the weight where it be longs. Fires and calamities and crimes were not the things that marked the course of the race in 1934. They had importance, mostly to those immed iately affected. They didn't do much to social currents or have much bear ing on where the masses will be a year from now, or ten. Whether public enemy No. 1 was slain wasn't of much importance. There was and is more importance in the changing current of causes that RED JACKET COAL POCAHONTAS ANTHRACITE KOPPERS COKE Ambulance Service Phone 35 & & A Leader for v£.'- i-ft- cAsk Your siifes TO OUR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS We Wish You A Very Happy New Yew Thanks for your part in our success. We trust we have merited your support. We hope to be able to serve you even more efficiently during the coming year. Schwenn Coal Company W. 5th and High Streets PHONE 23 Robert G.Taylor Mortuary Formerly THE C. W. GATH CO. Funeral Directors cause or encourage crime. It is interesting that Milwaukee! with perhaps the lowest municipal crime rate,is about the biggest muni cipal spender on education and re creation, and about, the lowest spender on police, courts and jails. New Yorkers and might study Milwaukee. T« the Middle Ages, chausses weft defensive armor for the logs* H. STEPHAN, Prop. COAL AND COKE Chairs and Tables Rented 17 So. Street New Year We Desire To Thank You For your favors of 1933 and couple the wish with the hope that your New Year may be one of continuous happiness. Geier's Bakery 903 Central Ave. Phone 2666 Jlour Forty-Five Years Grocer fr .* •, -i -v- u v AV* 3s"" i -C, «*1 & & & & & & & & & & V $ n- -r%~yit