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Washington, D. C. '(ILNS)—Na
tional Civil Service Week will be ob
served during the week of January
12 to 18, 1936, making the 53rd an
niversary of the enactment of the
national civil service act, on Janu
ary 16,1883.
The first general recognition of
National Civil Service Week occurred
in January of this year, following a
suggestion by Harry Kranze, man
ager of the Twelfth civil service dis
trict, San Francisco, to President E.
Claude Babcock, of the American
Federation of Government Employes,
of which organization Mr. Kranze is
a member. The federation obtained
the co-operation of the civil service
commission, the National Civil Serv
ice Reform League and other groups
interested in the civil service, and in
spite of the relatively short time af
forded for preparation, the week was
observed on a national scale.
ULTIMATE VICTORY
Seen For Princpiles of NRA
New Orleans (ILNS)—The princi
ples behind NRA and the Blue Eagle,
outlawed by the United States Su
preme Court, were upheld by the Rev.
Charles C. Champman, S.J., professor
of money and banking, at Loyola Uni
versity.
"The principles behind the NRA
will ultimately come back and be put
into effect by the United States," Fa
ther Champman declared-
He said that the trouble with the
NRA was not its object, but the fact
that the federal government through
NRA had attempted to do too much
in a few months, to make a great
change suddenly instead of gradu
ally. The principles of NRA, he
added, had not been set out first by
President Roosevelt or his New Deal
brain trusters, but by industrialists
in 1919. The NRA failed because the
New Deal and its brain trusters at
tempted to put these principles into
effect too abruptly.
All of the 10,000,00(1 unemployed
will never be taken back into the or
dinary industrial employment of the
country, according to Father Champ
man and consequently, the only solu
tion of the problem presented by
them is the continuation of huge pub
lic works- projects upon which they
would be employed and that would
store up wealth for the country. The
present administration's chief fault
has been that its PWA program did
not have the requisite score to suc
ceed as its proponents hoped, he said.
Arbitration Board Finds
Paper Fired Union Men
Newark, N. J. (ILNS)—An arbi
tration committee has ruled that eight
employes dismissed by the Newark
Ledger in November, 1934, were dis
charged because of affiliation with
the Newark Newspaper Guild.
The committee, comprising Circuit
Judge Edwin C. Caffrey, Professor
Edward Fuhlbruegge, of Dana College,
and John J. Clancy, an attorney rep
resenting the newspaper, was set up
last March 28 under an agreement
that ended the Guild strike against the
paper.
Benefits of Merit System To Be
Stressed in Civil Service Week
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The purpose of marking the anni
versary is to bring to the attention
of the American people, through the
schools, the press and other media,
the value of the civil service and the
merit system. Last year, in addresses
and statements, public officials and
friends generally of the merit system,
contrasted the old program of political
spoils with that of the present admin
istration of the government service
by employes qualified for their work
and holding their positions on merit.
Detailed plans for the coming ob
servance will be announced as soon
as they are complete. Already it is
evident that many organizations, both
national and local, will participate in
the event, and the exact scope of this
participation will be made known
shortly, it was said at the headquar
ters of the American Federation of
Government Employes here.
Under the decision, the dismissed
employes are entitled to reinstatement
as of March 28 with pay to May 20
when the Ledger dismissed was dis
missed from trusteeship.
Burlington Engine Workers
Vote Strongly for Walkout
Bjr A. P. of L. News Service.
Chicago (ILNS)—More than 1,700
engineers and firemen of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad voted to
strike if the railroad did not place two
men instead of one in the cabs of their
stream-lined trains and electric
switch engines, it was announced here.
Result of the strike poll taken by the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen were announced by J.
P. Farrell, vice-president of the organ
ization.
More than the required two-thirds
majority of the voters approved the
strike, Farrell said.
The way was left open for further
negotiations with the company. The
vote indicated, however, that the Bur
lington firemen and engineers stand
behind the position taken by their
officials.
A statement issued by Farrell said:
"A favorable vote very largely in
excess of the required two-thirds ma
jority to call a strike has been au
thorized. In a communication just for
warded to the management of the com
pany advice has been given regarding
the result of the vote taken, and also
an expression of our own willingness
to again confer with representatives
of the company for the purpose of
negotiating a satisfactory settlement
of the involved dispute."
PWA Lacks Billion Dollars
To Finance 5,000 Projects
Washington, D. C- (AFLNS)—There
are 5,000 "eligible" PWA applications
on hand which call for $1,000,000,000
in excess of public works administra
tion funds. Secretary of the Interior
Ickes announced. He said "congress
men, governors and committees" were
imperatively asking him to put the
projects through, and added that if
the next congress makes additional ap
propriations for public works, the
ones already approved but held up for
lack of funds will have a preferred
status.
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(Copyright. W. N. U.
The basis for this was quite rightly
recognized to be the sacredness of
the given word, thg principle which
can alone make the life of the in
dividual as of the peoples worthy of
mankind and can assure that collab
oration which is greater than the
mutual desire to annihilate and de
stroy.
As the peace treaty states so re
soundingly, there should be the mu
tual "acceptance of obligations" and
"open, just and honorable relations
between nations-" "The understand
ings of international law" shall fur
ther be established as "the actual rule
of conduct among governments," and
all the signatories shall moreover ob
serve "a scrupulous respect for all
treaty obligations in the dealings of
organized peoples with one another."
The fact that we stand today
before the terrible possibility of
another world war is mainly due
to the breaking of treaties, the
secret diplomacy, and the viola
tion of international law, of jus
tice and honor which has filled
out the years since 1918.
In view of the danger of a fresh
world carnage, the governments
have once again pulled themselves
together to "accept certain obliga
tions." Now it has been determined
in Geneva down to the last detail
how a check is to be put on a
covenant-breaking state. On Novem
ber 18 the provisions laid down
against the aggressor were put into
effect. Once again the agreements
which have been concluded have to
go through the ordeal by fire.
Workers Back League
The workers are not shirking their
part of the responsibility. They have
placed all their force behind the
league, because there exists at the
moment no more effective instrument.
The organized workers have done this,
although they are suffering from no
illusions as to the present composi
tion of the league, and although this
has brought down on them the charge
of "fomenting war" from those who
at every other time incite the peo
ples to war and regard the sword as
law.
Now that various international con
ferences have gone into all the details
of the action, and the method and
scope of the sanctions have been
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VOL. XXXV. No. 36 HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13,1935 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Workers Place
By W. SCHEVENELS
General Secretary of the International
Federation of Trade Unions
Paris.—November 11, 1918, inaug
urated the period of the great reck
oning and the test of all the fine prom
ises with which the governments had
kept their people in the hell of the
trenches for four years. War was to
be abolished in the only effective way
by making it impossible for any ag
gressor to take the offensive.
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made known, the International Fed
ei*ation of Trade Unions again appeals
to its national centers, pointing out
that the time has come for the work
ers of the world to implement their
decisions and to show that, as far as
lies within their power, they will
leave nothing undone in the support
of measures which, if strictly applied,
are bound to mean the end of the war.
Government Action Vital
Everything now depends on whether
the governments treat their decisions
with a "scrupulous respect," for if
they do not, the world is not likely to
give them a third chance to cheat it,
and an inexorable reality will get
them by the throat. The governments
which have signified their adherence
to the sanctions must bear the re
sponsibility if the crumbling ethics
of this world fall to pieces altogether
and the world itself be delivered into
the hands of a horde of irresponsible
adventurers.
0. S. COURT
Hits Prison Goods Act
Nashville, Tenn. (ILNS)—Federal
Judge John J. Gore has issued an in
terlocutory injunction ordering the
Louisville & Nashville, the Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis and the Ten
nessee Central railroads to accept
prison-made shirts for interstate
transportation.
The writ was issued in a case at
tacking the constitutionality of the
Ashurst-Summers act, authorizing
states having laws against the sale
of prison-made goods on the open
marlAt to prohibit shipment into their
borders of such goods.
The injunction was sought by the
Hufiines Shirt Co-, of Nashville.
Judge Gore allowed the injunction,
taking the challenge of the act's con
stiutionality under advisement and
requiring the shirt company to post
a bond of $1,000 in each of the three
cases.
Charles I. Dawson, recently re
signed federal judge of Louisville,
Ky., chief counsel for the Huffines
Co., charged the act is unconstitu
tional.
Wide Variation
In Labor Laws
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Laws
affecting the conditions under which
women may be employed have been
passed by every state in the union—
and no two states have the same
regulations.
This astonishing fact is revealed
in a bulletin just issued by the Wo
men's Bureau of the Department of
Labor. Oregon, New York, Califoiv
nia, Wisconsin and Massachusetts
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have public regulation of hours and
wages and control of working condi
tions. Florida, Iowa and West Vir
ginia require employers to furnish
seats for women workers. Other
states range between these two ex
tremes.
The bulletin states farther that:
Industrial workers have higher sick
and death rates than the rest of the
population.
More than one-eighth of all work
ers lose a week or more from illness
during the year.
There were 1,250,000 industrial ac
cidents in this country in 1933, and
they cost not less than half a billion
dollars.
CONTROL
Of Munitions Taken By
Government
By A. F. of L. News Service.
An important step toward the pre
vention of war was taken on No
vember 30 when the law passed by the
recent session of congress placing the
manufacture and export of arms and
munitions directly under the control
of the federal government became ef
fective.
From that date manufacturers of
these war supplies are compelled to
register with the state department if
they care to continue in business.
Moreover, if they desire to export
arms, ammunition or war implements
they are required to secure a permit
from the state department, with the
provision that export licenses may be
refused when an embargo proclama
tion, like the one the president re
cently issued regarding the shipment
of munitions to Italy or Ethiopia, is
issued.
Munitions manufacturers are re
quired to pay $500 for registration.
Penalties to obtain export licenses in
volves as high as $10,000.
A structural weakness of the muni
tions control plan is the fact that it
does not apply until an embargo has
been declared. Nevertheless, it enables
the government to watch closely the
manufacture and shipment of arms.
It is believed the war inclinations of
many nations will be curbed when they
know they cannot buy munitions in the
United States.
Group Life Insurance
The F. W. Woolworth Company, op
erator of a chain of five and ten cent
stores throughout the United States
and Canada, announces the extension
of its group life insurance phan to
include all employes with one year of
service. Company statisticians said
the new plan would affect about 30,000
employes. The cost is shared by the
company and the employes.
Group life insurance is one of the
many devices developed by anti-union
employers to reduce the independence
of their employes and chain them to
their jobs. Subversive employers be
lieve that resistance to low wages
and long hours will be largely pre
vented if the resistance is accompan
ied by the loss of some element of
security for those who are dependent
upon the workers for a living- Group
life insurance is one of these schemes
to prevent group action for higher
living standards by working men and
women.
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