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Washington, D. G. (ILNS)—A re view of the first year's work of the National Labor Relations Board re veals that the board has secured agree ments from hundreds of employers to live up to provisions of the national labor relations act, and has secured the reinstatement of 1,429 workers dsieharged for union activity. More than a hundred strikes were settled and 78 threatened strikes averted. When the board began operations a year ago, the first case that it acted on was that of the Pennsylvania Grey hound Lines in Pittsburgh. Since then it has acted in a total of 1,405 cases involving 291,408 workers. (Figures cover the period of October, 1935, to the first of October, 1936). The board has issued a total of 98 decisions. 65 of these were orders on employers to cease and desist from unfair labor practices, each case be ing based on board investigation and findings of fact at a public hearing. 33 Elections Held Thirty-three of the decisions were orders for the holding of secret elec tions to determine employe represen tation in cases where controversy on the subject had arisen. Five board cases are pending in the supreme court. Two of these, the As sociated Press and the Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Com pany, have been accepted for review by the court. There are 13 cases pending in cir cuit court of appeals, either on board petitions to enforce or on employer petitions to review. Hundreds of Employers Agree To Obey National Labor Act The board has finally closed 897 of the total 1,405 cases. Each of these 891 cases was an actual or potential labor dispute, involving either charges of unfair labor practices or contro versies over which group of empolyes had majority representation. 146 of them were dismissed by the board and its regional directors. 298 were with drawn by the petitioners. 369 to Obey Act The largest number of cases in the category, 369, were those closed by agreement of botH management and the workers. It is noteworthy that the closing of each of these 369 cases implies an agreement on the part of Texas Passes Unemploy ment Compensation Act Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Texas has joined the group of states hav ing unemployment compensation laws, the Social Security Board announced. The board was notified that the law, passed recently by the legislature, had been signed by Governor Alfred. This brings to sixteen the number of states providing for the payment of unem ployment benefits—not on a basis of need, but as an earned right—to em ployes who lose their jobs. The Texas law will cover approxi mately a million workers. The law follows the terms of the social secur ity act in its coverage of employers of eight or more, and provides for the usual exemptions, such as agri cultural labor and domestic servants in homes. Taxes for employers will amount to .9 of 1 per cent for 1936 1.8 per cent for 1937 and 2.7 per cent for 1938, 1939,1940 and thereafter a merit rating. There is no tax on the employe in the Texas unemployment compensa tion law. the employer to abide by the pro visions of the act, and likewise that such cases almost without exception were closed while under investiga tion and before the possibility of a formal board complaint, would have brought them to public attention. Fifty-seven elections were held in which 9,713 valid votes were cast. One thousand four hundred and twenty-nine were reinstated after dis criminatory discharges. One hundred and three strike cases were settled and in addition 78 threatened strikes were averted through board action. AUTOMOBILE WORKERS' PICKETS Surround J. I. Case Plants in Fight on Lockout Racine, Wis. (ILNS)—Scuffles be tween police and non-union and union employes of the J. I. Case Company were reported as United Automobile Workers' Union pickets were thrown around the fii-m's three plants in pro test against discharge of about 500 union workers. Union officials said a group of 300 employes who intended to work re turned to their homes after watching the picket line for more than an hour. The picket line was ordered by Homer Martin, international presi dent of the United Automobile Work s' Union. "It is a lockout In effect, although it may not be one technically," Mar tin said, asserting that practically all of the Case Company's nearly 2,000 employes had joined the Automobile Workers' Union. "In the' last few weeks the J. I. Case Company has prosecuted a prac tically 100 per cent lockout of union men for the obvious purpose of break ing the union," Martin said. Labor Confer1 nee Called in Capital Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—The third national conference on labor leg islation, designed to promote improve ments of labor standards through fed eral and state co-operative efforts, will be held in Washington on No vember 9, 10 and 11, Secretary of La bor Frances Perkins announced here. Governors of all states have been asked to send official delegates, in cluding labor commissioners. Private individuals who have special knowl edge of labor problems hav6 been in vited to attend the conference. Secretary Perkins initiated the meetings soon after joining the cabinet. The first session was held in the capital and the second in Ashe ville, N. C. Organize—N O W! By GORDON NYE From coast to coast the word comes that, "Now is the time to organize. To which the logical answer is: "Well, go and organize." If anything is needed today it is more unions—more co-operative effort —more solidarity, greater united action on all fronts to secure a shorter work day with higher pay, to increase purchasing power to avoid another depression. SATURDAY SPECIALS Tender Steak 11 ftc lb. Cube Steak 16c lb. Clabber Girl Baking Powder 2-lb. can 23c CHICAGO MARKET CO. Corner Front and High Streets Telephone 4506 Overhaul That Truck, Tractor, Automobile or Stationary Engine Now Get All Your Parts, Supplies and Service at SAVAGE AUTO SUPPLY CO. 636-640 MAPLE AVE. HAMILTON. OHIO A Home Owned Store Where they have parts for Automobiles, Trucks and Tractors MOTORS REBORED PINS FITTED SLEEVES INSTALLED VOL. XXXVI. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1936 (Copyright, W. N. C. New York City (ILNS)—The up surge of business is so widespread and vigorous that conservative observers are becoming alarmed lest recovery go too fast and too far. Shoe Employment Lags Shoe production is about 4 per cent higher than in 1929, and the output of the year is expected to reach 400, 000,000 pairs. That of 1929 was 365, 000,000 pairs. As in etary case where attention has been paid to this side of the problem, employment is lagging behind production a 3 per cent in crease in workers as against a 4 per cent gain in output. Retail sales of shoes are running from 12 to 20 per cent ahead of those of 1935. Paper production is running 10 to 12 per cent ahead of that of last year, according to Charles H. Boice, secre tary of the American Paper and Pulp Association. Employment in the in dustry, Mr. Boice says, is higher than ever before but he gives no figures that make comparison possible be tween gains in output and gains in jobs. Auto Business Booms Social security legislation is cred ited with the increase in demand for accounting machines, though makers of office machines and furniture are having their best year since 1929. Oil burner manufacturers report demand far ahead of that of a year ago. Sales of electric refrigerators for the home are up 30 per cent from those of 1935. Sales of 23 store chains and two mail order houses lumped together show a gain of more than 14 per cent above those of last year. The auto business, which centers in Detroit, is going in high gear again and 1936 is expected to be the second best year of the industry, 1929 being the first and in that year, a million cars were made for which there proved to be no market. But the industry Unwritten Fiction Business Upsurge Throughout Nation Continues, With Cotton in Lead—1936 Expected to Be Best Year for Auto Trade. The'New York Times, after a pretty complete survey, declared that half a dozen major industries are breaking all previous records on both sales and production. It names cotton goods, leather goods, shoes, paper and rayon as among the industries that are lead ing the procession but adds that there e several others and that chain stores and mailorder houses "are pro ducing new sales peaks weekly." Cotton goods are climbing faster than any other industry. The output of the mills is sold ahead for prac tically the rest of the year, and some mills have already booked orders for 20 per cent or more of the output they expect to make in March, 1937. Cot ton consumption is running 26 per cent ahead of last year cotton mill operations about 22 per cent. Half Dozen Big Industries Setting New High Marks counting on turning out 5,000,000 cars next year. New England, the Middle West and the Pacific coast join in the swelling prosperity chorus. THE CAMPAIGN ENDS But Viceroy is Still Ruler Greatest cigarette discovery since "tailor-made" cigarettes came into use, Viceroy has come into the field to sweep across the country under the union label, the product of the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, makers of Kools, Raleighs and Wings, all carrying three union labels. Viceroy has a filter tip, so that the smoke is filtered and all tobacco is kept from the tongue. This tip is the new cigarette discovei-y. Every smoker who tries Viceroy is driven to take the tip apart to see how the curley-cues got into it. And so it comes out—one long, long strip of crinkled paper, all patented and specially made to actually filter. The political campaign has ended, but Viceroy rides high as a new ruler in the cigarette realm, bearing, of course, the customary three union la bels of the Tobacco Workers' Inter national Union, the International Typographical Union and the Inter national Photo-Engravers' Union. Viceroys have been inti*oduced in a national campaign, winning favor quickly, taking their place beside the other Brown & Williamson brands and the packaged pipe and cigarette tobac cos made by the same firm in its big Louisville plant. Union members know that the phil osophy of unionism is carried in every package that is offered under the union label. CAROLINA LONGSHOREMEN WIN INCREASE IN WAGES Wilmington, N. C. (ILNS)—North Carolina longshoremen and local shippers union have reached an agree ment regarding hours and wages, ef fective November 1. The agreement came after a con ference with federal labor concili ators and labor leaders. Under the agreement, the longshoremen will re ceive a 5 to 10 cent hourly increase plus pay for overtime. TEXTILE WORKERS' PAY RAISED Gadsden, Ala. (ILNS)—Officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, one of the largest textile mills in the nation, have announced a 5 per cent wage increase for all of its 2,100 em ployes. Mounted Cops Held Useful Chiefly in "Mob Control" Ottawa (ILNS)—The chief commis sioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Gen. James MacBrien, says in his annual report: "Mounted men are now chiefly use ful in the control and dispersal of mobs, unlawful assemblies, etc." The "mounties," numbering about 2,500, now have only 266 saddle horses and 388 sled dogs. Their main means of transport are motor cars, motor vessels and airships. FORMERLY VttlM SHORT TIME ONLY ON O O V 'Previous modtus tctodaii ucted at the Hoover factory MODEL 10S $21.45 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR NEW PROFIT-SHARING SCHEME By A. F. of L. News Service. A new profit-sharing scheme, called a "labor dividend plan," has been de vised by the officials of the National Brewing Company of Baltimore for its 200 employes. The workers are paid the current wage scale, the stockhold ers are given 8 per cent dividends and what is left each year will be divided into three equal parts, one part being transferred to reserves (a capital and surplus account owned exclusively by the stockholders), one part to stock holders, and one part to labor, labor's share being called a "labor dividend." An official of the company explains that "the size of the annual dividend of labor, as well as to capital, depends on the earnings of the company. The payment is a businesslike allotment of an earned dividend and has no bonus, Christmas present or 'gift' element." The company, with the usual op timism manifested in connection with profit-sharing schemes, expects the new plan will result in increased ef ficiency and output of the employes and a larger interest by them in the company's problems and financial suc cess. It is interesting to note that the company expects to avoid a certain amount of federal taxes by the plan. Under present federal tax laws payroll costs are exempted from tax asses ments and payments made to workers in the form of dividends are included in these payroll costs. It follows, ac cording to officials of the company, that where earnings are high labor dividends actually will cost only about 50 cents on each dollar distributed, the other 50 cents representing money which would have to be paid in taxes if it were not given to the workers. PENNSYLVANIA EMPLOYMENT RISES Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)—Employ ment in Pennsylvania industries in September was 8.8 per cent higher than in September, 1935, the labor and industry department reports. The payroll expansion was 22.8 per cent. Business is a game in which one trims his friends—his enemies won't let him. Nobody gets trimmed, how ever, when he buys union-made mer chandise. GAI Buy one for full-time use or for the upstairs cleaning. You'll find that these Hoover Specials give as fine service as many a new cleaner. They look like new, too—handsomely restyled by Henry Dreyfuss in gay new color schemes. Completely reconstructed at the Hoover factory, and equipped with new bag, belt, cord and furniture guard— also new ball-bearing beat ing-sweeping brush. Guaran tee is the same as that of standard Hoovers for on© full year. Cleaning Tools for small additional Hfqh in Quaftttf -Low hi MODEL S41 form fly $27.45 %, HOOVER "1 Sp^cud tnevii Moon ncowfiwuCTW tf Ml MOOVt* »AOO*T it fton.A* n twtcn-M cuam CAUTION: Look for thi« numeplate—which otvly gen uine Hoover Special* carry. Do not buy a rebuilt Hoover that does oot have tbic uauicpUte, sum. COURT