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Washington.—A compact by repre
sentatives of the United Mine Work
ers of America and bituminous coal
operators to extend the agreement be
tween the union and the operators
and the NRA code provisions govern
ing1 the industry until June 16 avert
ed the threatened strike of airound
400,000 soft coal miners on April 1.
A Last-Minute Truce
Averts National Strike of
Bituminous Coal Miners
The announcement of the plan for
the truce, which was proposed by the
National Industrial Recovery Board,
was made by Donald H. Richberg, act
ing chairman of the board.
Mine Workers* Union and Operators Agree to Recovery
Board Plan for Extending Agreement and Code Wages
and Hours to June
During the period up to June 16
representatives of the United Mine
Workers and the operators will con
tinue negotiations to finalize an agree
ment acceptable to both sides.
Hour and Wage Demand Remains
The deadlock which threatened the
strike on April 1, when the agreement
expired, was caused by the refusal of
the operators to grant the 30-hour
week and certain wage increases de
manded by the miners. John L. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Work
ers, declared the acceptance of the
truce by the union did not indicate that
the shox-ter work week and higher pay
demand had been withdrawn.
Lewis Explains Truce
16—Lewis
Mr. Lewis's statement follows:
"The United Mine Workers of
America acquiesced in this action out
of consideration to the president of the
United States and the NIRB. We have
not in any sense yielded to the coal
operators. It was our purpose to
make a contribution to national in
dustrial stability.
"We agreed with the president and
the NIRB that a national strike in the
bituminous coal industry at this time
would have a far-reaching effect and
many unfavorable repercussions
throughout the whole of our indus
trial and commercial fabric.
Legislation Urged
"We feel that the period of truce
to June 16, will be helpful in clarify
ing the legislative situation as affect
ing the extension of the NRA and
possible special legislation for the bi
tuminous coal industry.
"Without question the coal industry
needs rationalization of its processes
through corrective legislation. This
crisis in the industry, as represented
by a failure to negotiate a new wage
structure, is clearly superinduced by
the complete breakdown of the price
structure and the marketing practices
set up under the NRA.
"If the breathing spell of two and a
half months provided in the settlement
can be utilized by the congress in en
acting corrective legislation and by
the conferes in the negotiation of a
more logical wage agreement than is
now possible, then the action of the
NIRB and the miners and operators
in agreeing to this program, will be
splendidly justified.
Protect the Public
"The public is entitled to protection
from these recurring threats to its
current coal supply and the mine
workers who serve the industry are
entitled to the opportunity to earn
living without being constantly har
assed by the ghastly specter of ever
recurring industrial conflict.
"The action of the president and
the NIRB, under the chairmanship of
Mr. Richberg, was, after all, a most
logical one in consideration of the
responsibilities which they carry and
which now so deeply affect the well
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being and security of every Amer
ican.
"The members of the United Mine
Workers of America are deeply appre
ciative of the contribution which has
been made to their welfare and the en
largement of opportunity which has
been given them by President Roose
velt. In acquiescing to this program
the members of my union are again
expressing in this material and tan
gible way their supreme confidence in
the president and his high qualities
of statesmanship."
MIAMI MAYOR
PUSHES PROJECT
To Aid South American
Trade
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Miami, Fla. (ILNS)—Miami's pro
posal for a permanent Pan American
exposition in that city, to promote
trade between the two Americas
North and South, is being renewed and
pushed under the energetic leadership
of Mayor E. G. Sewell, backed by la
bor. In addition to being a capable
official and a staunch champion of his
community, Mayor Sewell is a staunch
supporter of union labor. In this case
he believes he has a project which
will benefit the whole Western Con
tinent in greater or less degree.
Latin America Approves
Briefly, that project is to build a
permanent exposition hall on a 60
acre island in Biscayne bay, con
nected with the city by a double
causeway. This structure would be
designed basically as a merchandis
ing market an inter-continental show
room and sales office. On display
would be permanent samples of na
tural products of our own country and
the Latin Amexican states, and of all
important manufactures. It would be
a continuous market, where buyers
and sellers from all parts of the two
great continents could meet.
Representatives of 21 Latin Ameri
can countries have expressed their ap
proval of the project the Republic of
Columbia is now working on a dis
play to be placed in Miami and
Puerto Rico plans to send there per
manently the exhibit which it sent to
the fair at Chicago.
Mayor Sewell believes that some
such move is necessary if we are ever
to re-establish the trade between the
United States and the Latin countries
of the continent and the West Indies
and that Miami has great advantages
over any other place for such a proj
ect. Miami is only 2 hours' travel by
air from Cuba, and only 16 hours from
the northern coast of South America
and closer still to the greater part of
this country. No one supposes that
goods exchanged between the tw
Americas will be routed through Mi
ami, but they can be displayed there
and ordered from there.
Tractor, Truck Delco Light Parts
If a Pan American exposition, in
a city more accessible to the vast ter
ritory lying south of the gulf than
any other place in the United States
if this will help even a little to bring
back our dwindling Latin American
trade, it should be worth while.
By buying unfair products, you are
paying a ransom to the foreigners
who are kidnaping your own pros
perity child.
Now is the time to get that Tractor, Truck and Lighting Plant
in shape. We have the Parts and the equipment to do almost anything
you want done in order to put your machinery in shape. Get ready
for 1935 as it is going to be the best year you have had for a long time.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
VOL. XXXV. No. 1 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 12,1935 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
REMEMBER. HER.
HANDIN6 ME THAT
SAMPlB
Francis J. Gorman, first vice presi
dent, signed the letter which does not
convey "any threat Qf immediate
strike," but declares that one must
come unless the evils of the industry
are corrected quickly.
This industry," said Mr. Gorman,
"is striving to pay dividends on
war-time inflation basis and to place
this unbearable strain on the workers
whose wages, under the curtailment
program, will average about $8
week. I ask Americans to contem
plate the degredation of the so-called
Amercian standard of living com
pelled by such a niggardly wage
Bear in imnd that this is the wage of
those who are fortunate enough to
have work.
Will Increase Unemployment
"The curtailment will add mate
rially to the total of our unemployed
which has been tragically high ever
since the depression began. We are
trying to propose methods of bring
ing about a solution of the evils by the
peaceful machinery of negotiation and
intercession of governmental agen
cies. We hope the necessary objec
tives can be reached in that way."
The eight-point program proposed
by the union follows:
1—A thorough and merciless
investigation of this industry, its
capital structure and its meth
ods of operation and of sellinjg.
2—Compulsory elimination of
Obsolete machinery.
3—A 30-hour week.
4—Drastically increased rates
of pay, elimination of the North
South differential and a restora
tion of the differentials between
minimum rates and skilled rates
to their pre-code ratio.
5—Imposition of a new code,
with labor sitting in equal num
bers with employers on the code
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PRESENT EVILS CONTINUE
STRIKE IS HELD CERTAIN
Cure Must Come Speedily or Walkout Cannot Be Long
Delayed, Textile Workers Warn President and Law
makers.
Washington, D. C. (INLS)—De
mand for congressional action in deal
ing with the cotton textile industry,
submission of an eight-point program
ncluding suggestions for reorganiza
tion of the whole industry and demand
for the imposition of a new code to
replace the current code, which the
union contends has been repudiated
by the industry as far as its labor
section is concerned, were all contain
ed in a letter sent to the president, to
all cabinet members, to all members
of the house and senate and to the
chairman of the Textile and National
Labor Relations Boards by the United
Textile Workers of America.
RETIREMENT
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Asked to Act to Remeay
Bai Labor Conditions in Textiles
authority and all subordinate
boards.
6—A joint government labor
management study of marketing
and market extension.
7—Mandatory recognition of
the union wherever the union
can show a majority in member
ship by secret ballot or by union
books.
8—Immediate action by the de
partment of justice to punish
those who violate Textile Labor
Regulations Board orders or Na
tional Labor Relations Board or
ders.
"Since there seems no power out
side of congress able to bring order
into the chaotic house of the vandals
and autocrats of the cotton textile
industry, we now propose and demand
congression action," said Gorman
in ending his letter.
BILL
Supported By Senate—Now
Goes to House
Columbus (Special)—Labor leaders
all over the state are
solid support given the Ohio employes
retirement bill by senators from Ham
ilton county. Senators Edward N
Waldvogel, William E. Handley and
Overton D. Jackson gave the bill sup
port. The bill went over by an over
whelming vote in the senate. It is
now being considered by the house.
The bill, Senate Bill No. 262, has
had the steady backing of labor. The
Ohio Federation of Labor, the railway
brotherhoods, and the Ohio Associa
tion of Firefighters are among those
who have endorsed it.
Thomas J. Donnelly, secretary
treasurer of the Ohio State Federation
of Labor, in his report of labor legis
lation for the last session of the gen
eral assembly, said of the bill, which
then became a law and is now up for
minor amendment: "The bill is in line
with similar laws in nine other states,
and is the result of activities for sev
eral years of the Ohio State Employes
Benevolent Association and the Ohio
Federation of Labor. The state em
ployes deserve a great deal of credit
for the persistent and able work in
bringing the subject of retirement
before the general assembly."
Some people are not particular.
Others look for the union label.
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Now Virtually Finished
Philadelphia (ILNS)—The Carl
Mackler houses are now virtually com
pleted Certain formalities remain to
be completed before the Juniata Park
Housing Corporation, technical own
ers of the hosiery workers' housing
project, take full title to the property
from the government, but for all prac
tical purposes the construction job
is now done.
The one portion of the whole job
that cannot be completed at present
is the planting and landscaping of the
grounds. That work will have to wait
for another month or two.
Building mechanics are out of the
building, except for minor details, and
all four units are ready for occupancy
Tenants are now moving in.
Hundreds of visitors continue to in
spect the project every week-end, and
a constant stream of callers is on
hand day in and day out.
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BELMONT MILL
Told to Rehire Eleven Work
ers
Eleven employes of the Knit Prod
ucts Corporation of Belmont, N. C.,
who struck last September, and have
since been discriminated against by
the mill, are ordered reinstated in
their former positions in a decision
handed down by the National Textile
Labor Relations Board. The 11 em
ployes are Tom McCall, Evelyn Dunn,
Arno O'Neil, William Hamilton, Alva
Watt:?, Huey Sanders, Elsie Sanders,
Ethel Cowen, Norah Dunn, Albert
Wright and Dave Seagle.
In respect to four other complain
ants, the board says that the evidence
does not establish whether they have
been discriminated against by the mill
because of union membership, and
their strike activity, or because of
participation in a crowd described as
unruly and boisterous at the mill
Spates on September 13. The board
mak'*s no finding in respect to them.
They are Otis Dunn, Hester Perry,
Virginia Pope Rozzelle and Mary
Wright.
Restitution of Pay
Made to Mill Workers
Ira L. Pope, of Anniston, Ala., is
awarded the difference between 22%
cents an hour and 31 *,4 cents an hour
for the time in which he was engaged
in hauling roving boxes in the mill
of the Anniston Manufacturing Com
pany. Pope was engaged in such work
over an extended period for approxi
mately 1% hours in each eight-hour
day.
The Barnard Manufacturing Com
pany, of Fall River, Mass., is directed
to reimburse Albert Bigos in the sum
of $19.01, due as back wages.
Henry Rountree, a fireman employ
ed at the JPackson Mill, in Iva, S. C.,
is awarded back pay in the sum of $90
to $100. The mill is also directed to
make restitution of back wages to its
night watchman.
Negro Honored For
Outstanding Bravery
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Presi
dent Roosevelt has sent to Willie Hill,
Negro brakeman of the Louisiana &
Arkansas railroad at Shreveport, La.,
a bronze medal for outstanding brav
ery, combined with super-gymnastics,
upon the cowcatcher of a locomotive.
An elderly white woman, a deaf
mute, walked in front of the engine
and v.ould have been killed had it not
been for Hill.
He crawled to the front of the en
gine, grasped the woman by the waist
and held her with her feet dragging
the ground until the train was
stopped.
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