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HAMILTON GOING
FORWARD
Bids received in the office of City
Manager Russell P. Price pit Monday
afternoon for the purchase of radio
equipment in reorganization plans of
the ploice department, effective when
the new city building is completed,
were less than had been anticipated.
Bids were submitted for equip
ment l'anging from '25-watt to 150
watt power, and for antennae ranging
from 50 feet to 150 feet in height.
The estimated cost on this radio equip
ment was $12,200.
The radio system is to be installed
in connection with the purchase of
six new patrol automobiles, each car
to be equipped with a receiving and
sending set for two-way communica
tion with central station or with other
patrol cars.
Bids were also received Monday
afternoon for the purchase of a new
street sweeper. Two sweepers will
be used in the future instead of one.
Bids for the purchase of the two
pumprs to be placed in the East Ham
ilton and Lindenwald fire houses, were
opened last week. Bids for the new
police patrol cars and the two auto
mobiles for the fire chief and assist
ant fire chief will be received within
the next month.
GEO. BESSELMAN
DIES
Funeral services were held Wednes
day morning in the W. F. Cahill &
Sons funeral home at 8:30 o'clock
for George Besselman, age 67, who
died Monday at Mercy Hospital. Serv
ices followed at St. Mary's Church at
9:00 o'clock. Interment, St. Mary's
Cemetery.
Mr. George Besselman was a mem
ber of several organizations, includ
ing the Eagles, Red Men, Knights of
Columbus, Stove Mounters' Union
Friendship Mutual Aid. He was a
member of St. Mary's Church, and the
Holy Name Society of St. Mary's
Church.
He was for years custodian of the
Eagles' temple, and previously was
employed as a stove molder by the
Estate Stove Company plant. He came
to Hamilton 34 years ago from Vin
cennes, Ind., his birthplace. Mr. Bes
selman would have reached the thirty
first anniversary of the affiliation with
the Eagles, Wednesday.
One brother, Michael Besselman, of
Vincennes, survives him. He arived
late Monday to make arrangements
for the funeral.
READY
ON ROAD WORK
Jobs for skilled mechanics in high
way work" will be available when
the state and the FERA start a sum
mer program of activities on high
ways, Walter A. Betscher, manager
of the Hamilton branch of the Ohio
employment service, announced Tues
day.
'All mechanics skilled in highway
work, ttho wish employment, are re
quested to register applications at the
Hamilton office as soon as possible,
Betscher advises.
"Work will be available for skilled
gradeline operators, crane operators,
grader operators, shovel men and for
other skilled branches of highway
construction work."
COUNCIL MEET
.Building Trades Council met in
regular session with 23 delegates
present. Herman Krueger was seat
ed as delegate, and Business Agent
for Plasterers. In trades report, em
ployment was fair in all crafts.
Building Trades' baseball team is
shaping up fine, and according to
Business Agent Hosea '"is going to
go places."
AWALF RULINGON
CMN LETTERS
Enthusiasm of chain letter buyers
was dampened Tuesday when Ray J.
O'Donnell, assistant United States
district attorney at Columbus,
threatened to prosecute promoters of
chain letters.
O'Connell, according to press dis
patches, has issued instructions to
chain letter establishments "to cease
further activities and to return money
on hand to persons from whom it has
been received."
"You may also advise all persons
whom you may contact," O'Donnell
said, "in connection with this scheme
or enterprise that if it is further per
sisted in, prosecutions will ensue."
The statement from the U. S. dis
trict attorney has not checked the
flow of chain letters here. As $1 and
$5 bills were changing hands, Police
Chief John C. Calhoun marked time
before ordering arrests.
The chief is awaiting a ruling from
Millikin Shotts, city director of law,
who was requested to determine un
der what section of the law, state,
city or federal, action can be taken.
Chief Calhoun said no step can be
made until the ruling is received.
Director of Law Shotts was out of
the city Tuesday.
It was unofficially announced that
circulation of the chain letters is not
a violation of the city code, but that
it may be a violation of state lottery
laws.
EAGLES OUTING
The committee for the Eagles'
annual outing July 4, at the fair
grounds, are rapidly putting the final
touches on arrangements. There will
bo all kinds of amusements all day
and evening dancing, fireworks and
motomcycle races.
The committee expects this to be
the bo.nner outing of its 32 years.
AID FOR THE AGED
With the advent of spring, comes
the question of cultivating a garden to
those residing in rural locations, or
where vacant tracts of fertile land
are available for garden purposes. The
granting of aid to the aged is based
upon the needs of the recipient, and
those who can by their own efforts pro
vide a part of the budget, will be ex
pected to do so. Those who do not
try to help themselves, when this can
be done by raising vegetables, poul
try, etc., may find that, when re
application for aid is made at the end
of each yearly period, the award first
allowed may be reduced or entirely
discontinued.
Awards of aid to the aged are made
for only a 12-month period, and
applicants for renewal of aid must
satisfy the County Boards and investi
gators that they have not neglected to
utilize available methods for helping
themselves. A vegetable garden and
poultry affords a considerable aid to
the food and health requirements of
the needy aged, and those receiving
aid are expected, when health and
strength permits, to avail themselves
of such opportunities as may be avail
able to provide their own living ex
penses.
It is only just and reasonable that
one should first try to help himself
before he is justified in asking the
state to assist him. The law govern
ing aid for the aged was meant to
pi*ovide for those who are unable to
take care of themselves, and that have
no one who by law is charged with
their support and able to help them.
It was not meant to encourage idleness
or in any way to destroy the initiative
of recipients of aid. The amount of
aid granted is to supplement what
the recipient by his own efforts could
add thereto and thus be able to hav«:
a comfortable living.
UNITED STATES
CIVIL SERV
EXAMINATION
The United States Civil Sei'vice
Commission has announced open com
petitive examinations as follows:
Mediator
Applications for the position of me
diator, National Mediation Board,
must be on file with the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D.
not later than June 17,1935.
The entrance salary is $3,800 a
year, subject to a deduction of SV2
per cent toward a retirement annuity
Applicants must show, as a mini
mum, at least five years of respon
sible experience in dealing with la
bor relations and labor agi'eements in
the railroad industry or in other in
dustries, either as representative of a
labor organization or as representa
tive of management, or as mediator
between management and employes
In such capacity the applicant must
have been engaged in making labor
agreements as to wages, hours of
work, and working conditions or in
the interpretation of such agreements
or in the application of such agree
ments to specific situations or in
some combination of such duties.
Experience of applicants must have
demonstrated the ability to prepare
comprehensive detailed reports with
out direct supervision and to present
concise and clear digests of oral 01
written briefs submitted by contend
ing parties in railroad labor disputes
Full information may be obtained
from the secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Exam
iners at the post office or customhouse
in any city which has a post office of
the first or the second class,'"•or from
the United States Civil Service Com
mission, Washington, D. C.
Advertise in The Press.
Rose Lost $569 Per
Second Last May 30
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. —Mauri
Rose finished 27 seconds behind the
500-mile race winner last year and
each one of those precious moments
cost him exactly $569.44 per second.
The pay-off from the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway and accessory and
lap prizes to Wild Bill Cummings,
the winner, was $29,725 exclusive of
future money-earning capacity and
Rose got $14,350 for second place,
a difference of $15,350.
It was the closest finish in the his
tory of the Speedway and Rose is
back this May 30 with a new car—
a faster one, he says, and he hopes
the score will be different.
He will pilot the Four-Wheel-Drive
Special with which Frank Brisko
showed the way for 70 laps in last
year's race.
"No one can be sure he is going
to win," Rose says, "but I know
I
can hit the turns faster, maintain
higher speed, use less gas and rub
ber in the P'our-Wheel drive than I
could in the rear wheel drive I had
a year ago. With this added ad
vantage, I hope to maintain a better
average speed for the 500 miles."
Mauri thinks, too, that a majority
of the field in the annual Decoration
Day race at the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway will be faster this year,
too, and that it is likely Bill Cum
mings' winning speed record will be
broken.
Sees Vital Gains For Labor
In Congress
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
work relief program will be a big
factor in bringing recovery, John M.
Baer, well-known cartoonist and for
mer congressman, predicted at a
question-and-answer broadcast over
Station WEVD in the regular weekly
feature, "The Labor Scene This
Wbek," directed by Chester M. Wright.
Mr. Baer also predicted that labor
will gain much in the way of legis
lation from the present session of con
gress, and that the national industrial
recovery act will be extended.
In answer to Mr. Wright's ques
tion, "When do you think we are go
ing to see a more definite trend toward
recovery?" Mr. Baer replied:
"Today the president made two bil
lion dollars of the work-relief fund
available for public works and en
nounced that this sum would be spent
immediately. This money was alio
rated to highways, roads, streets,
grade crossing elimination, rural re
habilitation and electricfication, hous
ing and various other public works
projects. The Civilian Conservation
Corps also received 300 millions of
1 his sum. This vast amount should
stimulate purchasing power which is
the only solution of our economic
problems."
Dyers' Federation
To Push Union Drive
Paterson, N. J. (ILNS)—The first
annual convention of the Federation
of Silk and Rayon Dyers and Finish
ers of America, affiliated with the
United Textile Workers, ended here
with the re-election of George Bal
danzi, president Frank Benti, vice
president, and Vito Fritz, secretary
treasurer.
The convention was addressed by
International President McMahon
who promised co-operation in oi-gan
izing dyers in New England, and John
Edelman, research director for the
Hosiery Workers' Union.
A campaign to organize silk and
rayon dyeing and finishing workers in
the New England area will be launch
ed at once by the federation.
House Labor Committee
Backs Disputes Measure
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The
house labor committee has voted
unanimously to report favorably the
Wagner-Connery bill reinforcing the
labor guarantees of Section 7-A and
establishing a permanent labor rela
tions board.
The bill as reported by the commit
tee places the labor board under juris
diction of the department of labor
The companion bill in the senate would
make the board entirely independent
of other government agencies.
Chairman William P. Connery, Jr
of the committee, said he would press
for a rule for the bill, insuring early
house consideration.
40-H'r-Week Pact Proposed
For Tex. Electrical Workers
Dallas, Tex. (AFLNS)—At the con
clusion of a conference with represen
tatives of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers and the
Houston and Fort Worth locals held
in the labor temple here, E. D. Martin,
examiner for the national recovery
administration, announced that a ten
tative collective bargaining agree
ment had been reached which would be
forwarded to the NIRA authorities
in Washington.
The agreement provides a five-day
40-hour week with a base wage rate
schedule of $1.25 per hour for fore
men and $1.12% per hour for skilled
workers. Apprentices would receive
62 ¥2 cents the second year and 75
cents the third vear.
RALLY NOW TO
THE UNION LABEL
Unionism means UNITY. It means
solidarity. It means standing to
gether, not merely when the sun
shines, but when battle rages.
Months ago the Tobacco Workers'
International Union asked the labor
press of America to stand with the
union in a fight for the union label on
tobacco products and for a cigarette
tax equalization, so that the union
made 10-cent cigarette can live.
The Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company
and the Brown & Williamson Tobacco
Corporation, both of Louisville, make
union-made 10-cent cigarettes.
These union-made cigarettes are
GOOD cigarettes. All the money goes
into the cigarette none for fancy
wrappings or ballyhoo. Best of all,
they are UNION MADE.
But, the 10-cent cigarette cannot
continue to live unless there is an
equalization of the tax.
Today every package of 20 cigar
ettes pays a tax of SIX cents. That
aves only four cents with which to
pay for making the union-made dime
cigarette.
The poor man's smoke has to bear
a killing burden of taxation.
The UNION and the companies are
seeking an equilization in taxes that
put upon all cigarettes a tax propor
tionate to their selling price. They
ask: WHY SHOULD A DIME CIG
ARETTE PAY AS MUCH TAX AS
A 15-CENT CIGARETTE?
The government of the United
States AGREES WITH THE UNION
AND THE UNION COMPANIES in
the conclusion that there ought to
be an equalization for, if the 10-cent
cigarette has to pass out of existence,
the smokers of 10-cent cigarettes will
turn to the roll-your-own, which pays
a low tax, based on the pound and
the treasury will lose money.
Here comes a UNION, asking all
unions and all labor papers to join
in a fight for the union and for the
product which its members make.
If the 10-cent cigarette dies, then
hundreds upon hundreds of union jobs
will disappear, all the way from fac
tory to counter.
In congress House Resolution 5450
is intended to correct the taxation sit
uation and allow the poor man's smoke
to live.
But, powerful political figures in
congress have not yet seen fit to allow
this bill to even get a hearing, much
less get to the floor.
Every union man can do one thing
and those who smoke can do two
things.
First: Let your senators and your
congressman know that YOU want
action on H. R. 5450.
Second: Buy ONLY union-made cig
arettes, no matter what your price
range. STICK TO THE UNION
PRODUCT and tell the dealer WHY
SAVE THE 10-CENT CIGAR
ette!
New Orleans Labor Blocks
Daylight Saving Time Plan
New Orleans (ILNS)—Organized
labor was victorious in its fight to
restrain Mayor Walmsley and the
Commission Council from putting into
effect daylight saving time in New
Orleans. Opponents, consisting of
the non-union newspapers and golf
addicts, put up a stiff fight, but as
election is in the offing next year, the
mayor thought better of the idea and
suggested that the matter be held in
abeyance until 1936 when the voters
will have an opportunity to decide the
matter at the polls.
When a worker joins a union he
ceases to stand alone in an indus
trial wilderness. He has more than
company he has friends. In 1928
national and international unions in
the United States and Canada paid
$28,813,924.54 in sick benefits, unem
ployment benefits, old age disability
and other benefits and in mortuary
benefits to survivors of deceased
members. Trade unionism fights for
the economic interests of its member
and their families, and IT STANDS
BY THE MAN IN TROUBLE!
STRAIGHT FROM
By STEPHEN M. YOUNG
Congressman-at-Large
Five thousand farmers from prac
tically every state, marched on Wash
ington recently. They came to Wash
ington to express satisfaction with the
AAA and New Deal farm policies.
They swarmed over the White House
lawn. President Roosevelt addressed
the cheering agriculturists. He told
them they still are receiving "insuf
ficient prices," and did they applaud
and cheer! The truth is, this is the
first time in American history that
the American people evidenced grati
tude to their president and to their
congress to the extent of making a
pilgrimage to the country's capital at
their own expense, some coming as
far as two thousand miles, to thank
their congress and their president for
giving them a square deal.
V6- V V
The soldiers' "bonus" struggle has
been most spectacular. Many con
gressmen believe that the "pro-bonus
ers" will master sufficient strength
in the senate to override the presi
dential veto. Their strategy was to
delay matters to give Father Cough
lin more opportunity to call for a
deluge of telegrams to win a few sen
ate votes for the Patman bill. They
caused a delay and Father Coughlin
made the speech. If this strategy does
not succeed, this issue will be com
promised, probably early in 1936.
V & V V
As the general assembly of Ohio is
adjourning without redisricting the
state, it is evident that Ohio citizens
will again elect two congressmen-at
large in 1936. Voters of New York and
Illinois have for many years regularly
elected two congressmen-at-large. This
system has many advantages. For one
thing it provides additional and
greater representation. Every citizen
is represented by three congressmen.
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CCC ''veterans" are taking a page
from the book of ex-service men of the
World War. A movement for a bonus
for the CCC "veterans" is now begin
ning to take definite form. The sol
diers' "bonus" issue has given many
a congressional headache during the
past twenty years. Is it possible that
these CCC "veteran*" will soon have
a lobby of their own advocating a
CCC bonus?
V fr V
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An Ohio congressman, the other
day, received an offer of another job.
The offer was, "As we are letting you
out at the end of your present term,
I am willing to hire you to cut fifty
coid of wood on my farm." The next
letter he opened caused a gasp of
astonishment. It WMS different. Tins
constituent wrote: I am not asking
you for an application or a job for
myself or a friend, or urging you to
vote for or against any legislation
in which I am interested. I don't
want any favor, nor any errands done
I merely want to tell you that I am
well satisfied with you as my con
gressman, and that I am well satis
fied with the way things are going and
desire to entourage you to keep on
working."
Criticizes Ocean Mail Sub
sidies
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A gen
eral criticism of ocean mail subsi
dies, including an assertion that con
tractors have wasted and diverted
funds received from the government,
was contained in a report to President
Roosevelt by Postmaster General
Farley.
Farley recommended ''decided
changes" in the administration of the
subsidy.
"The liberal treatment accorded
to the operators under the ocean mail
contracts have resulted in much waste
and extravagance," Farley told the
president. "Too many of the contrac
tors have diverted these grants or
subsidies, or by whatever name thi§
aid may be called, to other than sound
shipping operations."
JERSEY LABOR
Fights to Curb Injunctions
Trenton, N. J. (ILNS)—Spurred to
new efforts by the passage of the Muir
anti-injunction bill in the New Jersey
assembly, 43 to 9, the organized la
bor movement in the state is now plan
ning a tremendous campaign designed
to force adoption of this legislation
by the state senate.
About 300 representatives of organ
ized labor watched from the galleries
when the bill was voted on.
New Jersey is the one state in the
North that has passed no legislation
in recent years limiting the power of
the courts to issue injunctions in la
bor disputes. Jersey chancery judges
today wield power, actually feudal in
character. The Muir bill would curb
the excesses by judges against labor
union and strikers.
0
The New Jersey Federation of La
bor, together with several active
state-wide bodies in the state such as
the District Council of the American
Federation of Hosiery Workers, the
Dyers' Federation of Paterson, and
many powerful central bodies, have
mobilized for an intensive drive to
force the anti-injunction bill through
the senate before adjournment is
taken.
Recovery Act Extension
Asked By Underwear Firms
By A. P. of L. News Service.
Philadelphia, Pa.—A strong appeal
for the extension of the national in
dustrial recovery act was made by
members of the Underwear Institute
at their annual meeting here. The
action was taken despite considerable
criticism of some features of the NRA
by a number of speakers.
The resolution stated that removal
of the codes at present would "result
in a downward trend in business," and
said that continuance of the NIRA
was asked because "it has beneficially
reduced working hours, increased
wages and eliminated child labor."
Wagner Urges Long Time
National Housing Program
New York City (ILNS)—Sen. Rob
ert Wagner pleaded for "a long-time,
centralzied, and co-ordinated housing
program" in a speech broadcast to
the National Public Housing Confer
ence here.
He advocated a housing program
which would operate in depressions as
well as in good times.
:iIt
should not interfere with legiti
mate private initiative, but at the
same time it should insure low enough
ii.terest rates and other costs to pro
vide comfortable housing for those
who need help most," he said.
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Notice of Hearing
For Parole
Mansfield, Ohio, May 16, 1935.
Willian» Sehmidz, a prisoner now
confined in the Ohio State Reformatory. Mans
field, admitted from Butler county, convicted
.January 24, 1933, of the crime of buryrlury
and parole violation, ind serving a sentence of
1-15 years, is eligible for a hearing before the
luai of Parole. on «i- after .June 1, 1H35.
THK BOARD OF PAROLE,
By J. J. Feeney,
Pnrole and Record Clerk.
SEE US
IF YOU NEED A LOAN
TO
Build—Improve—Buy
YOUR HOME
IJITederal Savingsmi
B|AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
OP HAMILTON
C. J. PARRISH, Secy.
3rd and Court
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WE'LL NOT
FORGET/
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THK liNION LABEL is THE
SYMBOL OF HIGHEST QUALITY
OF
AMERICAN-MADE PRODUCT*.
PATRONIZE BUSINESS PLACES
WHICH DISPLAY THE UNION
LABEL, SHOP CARD K BUTTONS.
UNION LABEL TRADES DEPARTMENT
Am «r loan Federation of Labor Waah., D. C.
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR