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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1936
BACKWARD STEP IN INDUSTRY
As inevitable as the movement of a
glacier, apparently, is the trend of
lengthening hours in industry. It ap
pears in reports from Pennsylvania
to California, in the deceptive form
of an apparent increase of payrolls
over and above the inrcease in em
ployment. Here are the figures show
ing the change in the year from Feb­
ruary, 1935, to February, 1936:
Per Cent Change in Employment and
Payrolls—1935 to 1936
Increase
Number of Total
Employes Pay roil
California 2.4 0.5
Pennsylvania 2.1 8.5
It is clear that when the increase ir.
total payrolls is from two to three
times that in number employed, there
has been an increase in hours, with no
corresponding increase in employment.
The California report gives only the
increase in payrolls, as being 4 per
cent. The Pennsylvania report shows
also the increase in cmploye-hotirs"
as being 10.9 per cent fur the year,
and shows also an increase of 1.6
per cent in empl »y«--hours from Jan
uary, 1936, io February. 1930.
Michigan U the exemption. in that
it shows an inerea-" in employment
for all inau.-i rit-s of 4 per cent, but a
reduction it. payrolls of 4.4 p-r cent.
But when we iuo. at the details, wo
discover that the a• immobile indu-iry
is the ir.vs-r: fr»- automobile in
dustry' inc'va-"'i employment by
4.4 per cent in February, ]936, over
February of the year previa-. but
cut wages by 9.2 per cerv. Well, some
body had to furnish i, money for
those handsome n-nds for General
Motors and the them, arid, as
usual, labor was the goat.
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WHY NOT REAL FLOOD CONTROL
Disastrous floods in the eastern
states have again focused public at
tention on flood prevention nad con
trol.
A business publication, citing Mis
sissippi floods from the time of De
Sota to the present, asks why are
great floods still possible after cen
turies of experience. The question
heard after every big flood.
There is only one answer to the ques
tion. The people of the United States
Voters'
The Jehovah Complex of Judges
By GEORGE L. KNAPP
Every opinion delivered by the
supreme court is as positive as if it
came from Sinai. To read these opin
ions, one might think that there was
no more chance of revising the court's
decision than of revamping the Ten
Commandments.
But the facts are somewhat differ
ent. Chief Justice Taney wiped out
all barriers to slavery and where is
slavery now? The American people
abolished it. It took a civil war to do
this, however, and a supreme court
that has to be overruled by a civil
war is rather expensive. A later
supreme court denied the right of the
federal government to levy income
taxes. It took an amendment to the
constitution to overturn that deci
sion but the job was done. And
there are times when the court turns
over of itself.
Burnet vs. Coronado Oil & Gas Co.
(285 U. S. 393), decided April 11,
1932, is an interesting case in itself,
but more interesting for what it
brought out. Oklahoma had leased
some lands to the Coronado, and that
company raked in profits which only
black gold can give. Burnet, com
missioner of internal revenue, assess
ed the Coronado for income and ex
cess profits taxes for 1917, 1918 and
1919.
Company's Claim Upheld
The company went to court, claiming
that it wa-s only an agent of the
state to utilize lands which were dedi
cated to the public schools, and was
therefore exempt from taxation.
By a vote of 5 to 4, the supreme
court upheld this preposterous claim..
Justice Braindeis and Justice Stone
wrote separate dissenting opinions, in
which Justices Cardozo and Roberts
concurred. These dissenters pointed
out that the court was following a
decision rendered in the case of Gil-
have not gone about the business of
flood control and prevention on a scale
sufficiently large. Army engineers
say floods can be curbed, if not en
tirely prevented. Yet the nation, de
spite large sums of money spent on
attempts to harness the Mississippi
and other rivers, has tackled the flood
problem in a half-hearted manner
which has not done away with the
flood danger.
Here is a national task that will
give work to the unemployed for years
to come, and that will be of incal
culable benefit as long as the nation
endures. There is the money, the
equipment, the ability and intelli­
gence to successfully solve the prob
lem. Nothing seems lacking but the
will.
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•Slums do not breed more crime and
immorality than wages which fall be
low decent standards. The two are
rwir. evils that are always found to
L'c'.hei.—New York Times.
WHAT NEXT?
A new electric fan, just put on the
market, is equipped with flexible,
tough, molded-rubber blades that are
peculiarly shaped to give maximum
efficiency, are virtually noiseless in
operation at all speeds and will not
injure fingers or other interfering
objects.
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WISDOM
The mind, when imbued with the
lessons of wisdom, is like a charioteer
for it restrains the desires implanted
in us, and brings us back to virtue.—
Demophilus.
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Minneapolis (ILNS)—Workers ai
the J. R. Clark Wooden Ware and
Lath Company plant, who engaged in
a "sit down" strike for two days
returned to work when the company
agreed to arbitrate the case of a
discharged worker.
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lespie vs. Oklahoma, and that this
decision was wrong and ought to be
reversed.
Justice Brandeis, in three notes to
his dissenting opinion, gives 28 cases
in which the supreme court has over
ruled its own previous decisions. The
mere recital of these cases would
take more space than can be spared
here.
Many Decisions Later "Qualified"
Justice Brandeis also notes 14 cases
in which the supreme court has
strongly "qualified" an earlier deci
sion by a later one. On page 409, he
says in Note 4:
"See Farmers Loan & Trust Co. vs.
Minnesota (280, U. S. 204), overrul
ing Blackstone vs. Miller (188 U. S.,
189). During the 27 years pre
ceding the decision of Farmei*s Loan
& Trust Co., Blackstone vs. Miller
had been cited in this court with ap
proval 15 times."
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l'HE BUTbEK COUNTY PRESS
In less legal language, the su
preme court decided a certain
way in Blackstone vs. Miller,
They held to it for 27 years and
in that time they cited it as au
thority 15 times. And at the end
of that time, they had to reverse
themselves and overrule Jthis
favorite decision when they came
to Farmers Loan and Trust Co. vs.
Minnesota.
If anything will take the halo of
infallibility from the court's head,
that oought to do it.
"Under the rule of Gillespie vs.
Oklahoma," says Justice Brandeis in
his dissenting opinion, "vast private
incomes are being given immunity
from state and federal taxation. 1
agree with Mr. Justice Stone that
that case (Gillespie, etc.) was wrong
ly decided and should be frankly over
ruled. Merely to construe strictly its
doctrine will not adequately protect
the public revenues."
The Cherry
Where with our
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truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Steel is stocking up with guns and
gas masks and clubs and all th
things which was is made.
War is steel's idea of LABOR RE
LATIONS.
Labor relations are the kind of re
lations you kick out, with the injunc
tion, "Don't ever come back."
Steel has been that way ever since
Andrew Carnegie set the pace.
Since Holmstead there has been no
learning about labor in the great
barony of steel.
And the state of Pennsylvania, by
and large, has been the kind of state
willing to abdicate sovereignty to
steel.
Who doesn't remember the coal and
iron police—and the rotton borough
judges
The Nye committee started out to
get facts to bear on neutrality legis
lation and it is winding up in steel.
Neutrality is not exactly the func
tion the state ought to play in the
kind of war that is being planned by
steel.
When guns are bought they are
bought because somebody wants to
have guns for use.
The one purpose of guns is to shoot
bullets that will kill men.
Read elsewhere the figure about
what steel has been buying in the
way of munitions.
So many machine guns, so many re
volvers, so many gas bombs, so many
this, so many that, piling up a war
supply that Emp. Haille Selassie
might well envy.
This is 1936 and that is the way of
the emporers of steel in 1936.
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BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
Civilization progress modern
times—it depends upon the point of
view.
George H. Brandhoff, Chairman.
Fred M. Stitsinger, Clerk.
On its guns the Frick Company gets
"the usual discount," which means it
is a steady customer.
A discount on death.
Frick gets his guns for cash, minus
a discount. No waste there. Good
sound business management. If there
is irony in that, it is the irony of
fact.
Meanwhile it has to be admitted that
labor isn't presenting so very much
of a threat to steel. It isn't breaking
its neck to organize.
Organization is what steel fears.
Steel doesn't want to shoot workers
who go and come about their work,
never talking to any other workers,
or joining with them.
Steel fears it will be confronted
with workers who are organized into
a union, and it is preparing to
SHOOT AT THAT!
That is a very interesting fact, in
1936.
The situation might interest the
National Relations Board, which is
doing its best to keep from- getting
knocked out by the courts.
Gentlemen just like those who are
buying guns to shoot at unions are
firing away in the courts to kill the
Labor Relations Board.
Their idea is to let nothing come
between the baron and his chattels.
It's a great idea. It has been in
the world, in one form or another, for
a long time. Napoleon had it. Musso
lini has it so has Hitler so has Stalin.
What is the essential difference be
tween steel and other dictators?
Some will say, "This can't go on
forever." And that is exactly right.
It can't go on forever. But it can go
on for a long time to come, unless
workers DO get together.
The guns of steel can impede prog
ress but LABOR HAS TO WIN IN
UNITY or forever accept bondage. Of
course labor will win in unity, for
"it can't go on forever."
10 THE POINT
Union Label Paragraphs that
Tell in Few Words How Pur
chasing Power Can Be Used
to Boost Labor Movement and
Restore National Prosperity.
We're "Building Up to An Awful
Let-Down" unless we maintain union
wages, shorten hours and buy union
label goods.
Let's have a new theme song en
titled "Cut the Hours and Not the
Pay."
If we truly desire to recover, we'll
have to discover that union-label buy
ing is the only way.
Man power will not be utilized un
less workers use their buying power.
The stretch-out, speed-up and
"chisel-in" can ail be offset by buying
union-labeled goods.
The union label and the labor union
are the pioneers of higher wages and
shorter hours.
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