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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937
FIVE MORE STATES
In the three days from December 22
to December 24, inclusive, five gov
ernors in five states signed unemploy
ment compensation laws which the
Social Security Board has accepted
as meeting the requirements of the
social security act. The states, with
the number of employes covered by
the law in each, are as follows:
Michigan 1,103,000 workers
Minnesota 325,000 workers
Iowa 268,000 workers
Vermont 49,000 workers
South Dakota.... 48,000 workers
Or, a total of 1,793,000 workers
brought within the scope of unem
ployment benefits in three days. Or
tainly, the speed records of reform
were broken in that stretch.
This makes 35 states which have
enacted unemployment compensation
acts and none of these 35 laws re
quire employe contributions. The
Michigan law sets a maximum unem
ployment benefit of $10 a week—the
highest of any state.
Are the American people determin
ed to bring some sort of security into
the precarious lives of wage earners?
There is probably nothing else on
which they are so firmly set or so
nearly unanimous, except old age secur
ity. Any attempt to turn back on the
trail which the country has taken in
these matters will be overwhelmingly
repudiated by the voters.
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CONCERNING BIG ESTATES
Harry Payne Whitney, New York
banker of Standard Oil affiliations
sportsman and race horse lover, died
in October, 1930. He left an estate
whose net value was stated a few
days ago to be $63,250,000. The fur
ther interesting fact was mentioned
that this estate had increased in value
$4,245,000 since Whitney's death, or
a gain averaging more than $700,000
a year straight through the heart of
the depression.
The fact that a dead millionaire's
millions grow at such a pace is a pretty
complete answer to the claim that
great wealth is the reward of great
personal qualities. Great wealth, nine
teen times out of twenty, is the fruit
of privilege and the Whitney privil
eges were so potent that they went on
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COMMENT
"Ship strike," says a newspaper
headline, "ties up all ships of the
Dollar Lines." Without passing on
the virtues of the ship strike in other
directions, anyone who knows any
thing about the record of the Dollar
family and its allied and associated
interests will chuckle at any of their
minor misfortunes.
For those who do not know or have
forgotten, here are some items culled
from Senator Hugo L. Black's investi
gation of air and ocean mail sub
sidies:
On October 2, 1922, the Dollar in
terests organized a company with a
cash capital of $500, and notes to the
amount of $499,500 given to pay for
the stock. One month later, this $500
company got a contract to "manage"
a government line, the Admiral Ori
ental Mail Line and kept this contract
for three years and five months.
"During this period," says Senator
Black's report, "this $500 company
realized net profits from its operation
of government owned vessels on this
route the sum of $533,713.96. Dur
ing this period, the notes given for
capital stock were retired by dividends
from earnings."
R. Stanley Dollar, head of the house,
for the 10 years from 1923 to 1932,
inclusive, drew salary of $71,948 a
year. He claimed and received a com
mission from buying government
owned ships for his company of $192,
500 in 1924 and claimed and received
in 1925, $281,250. Here is a "swindle
sheet" which R. Stanley Dollar sub
mitted for one month' expenses:
heaping up the fortune after the per
sonality had been entirely withdrawn
There is another interesting side
to this story. The Harry Payne Whit
ney fortune had a net income of more
than $700,000 a year through the de
pression. The Brookings Institution
reports that before the depression, in
the prosperous year of 1929, nearly
6,000,000 families in the United States
had gross incomes of less than $1,000
a year each. The net income of those
G,000,000 families was just about noth
ing at all. Add to these items the fur
ther fact that Harry Payne was by
no means the richest of the Whitneys
that one of this family, Jayne Whit
ney, left a net estate of about $200,
000,000, and you have a fair illustra
tion of the injustice of the present
distribution of the national income.
Is the work of the New Deal fin
ished It's just begun.
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WHAT NEXT?
Concrete houses cast as a single
block (monolithic), developed after
research by the Portland Cement As
sociation, are expected by the asso
ciation to increase the use of cement
Forms are set up with electrical con
duit, plumbing, air-conditioning and
heating pipes and ducts in place,
wide range of finish is possible, and
the cost is reduced, backers of this
method say. Incidentally, it tends to
take the jobs of building trades work
men, a fact apparently ignored by
the cement industry.
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WISDOM
Never attempt to bear more than
one kind of trouble at once. Some
people bear three kinds—all they
have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have.—Everett Hale.
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British Textile Workers
Gain Increase in Wages
Manchester, England (AFLNS)—
Collective bargaining between em
ployers and workers won a peaceful
victory for nearly 120,000 textile
workers in the Lancashire area and
avoided what might have proven a
serious strike by these workers.
Following two conferences between
the Federation of Master Cotton
Spinners and the union of spinners
and cardroom workers, an eleventh
hour settlement, by which the work
ers receive a pay increase amounting
to one shilling and three halfpence
on each pound sterling of their wages
or about 5*4 per cent, while work
ers in the lowest paid brackets won
a 10 per cent increase.
MAYOR AGAIN UNION HEAD
Glace Bay, N. S. (ILNS)—Daniel
William Morrison, mayor of Glace
Bay, was re-elected president of Dis
trict 26, of the United Mine Worker
in recent district annual elections.
Mr. Morrison had a plurality of 1,432
over William Beaton, of Dominion
N. S.
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ON WORLD EVENTS
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iHE BUTbEK COUNTY FKESS
New York and Washington, Janu
ary 5 to February 6, 1929:
Transportation $ 520.50
Hotel New York 2,357.37
Hotel Washington 474.85
Miscellaneous, N. Y. and
Washington 800.00
Total for one month $4,153.22
Julius Boyd, of Pennsylvania, told
the American Historical Society the
marvellous work performed by WPA
workers in gathering archives of
America's early history.
Workers in Arizona had to ride on
horseback thirty miles through the
Grand Canyon to survey the records
of the Supai Indian reservation. Off
the coast of Maine they went out in
boats in rough waters to the light
houses, and in a seaport town the
workers excavated in a dungeon-like
subcellar of a custom house, where
they had to get at the moldy records.
"Almost 4,000,000 linear feet of rec
ords have been listed," Dr. Boyd said,
"enough to fill a single shelf stretch
ing all the way from Providence to
Washington and back."
The coal industry is commonly re
puted to be a sick industry. Perhaps
the following SEC report on the sal
ary list of the Consolidation Coal
Company may explain why: Robert
C. Hill, president and chairman, $6
240 J. Noble Snider, vice president,
$35,000 Malcolm McAvity, vice pres
ident, 28,000 four officers not direc
tors, $80,225 Debevoise, Stevenson
Plimpton & Page, attorneys, $39,000
WASHINGTON UNIONS
List Gains in Many Trades
By A. F. of L. News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Organized la
bor in the District of Columbia, which
has made great strides during the
past year, is reported as continuing
its militant march forward to further
•gains.
Retail Clerks No. 262 has recently
added over 200 new members and at
present is conducting a strike and
picketing Lansburgh & Bro., local
department store.
Hotel and Restaurant Employes
Alliance No. 781 has added nearly
a hundred waitresses to its roster, in
a campaign assisted by Miss Bertha
Carter, international organizer, with
most of the large hotels here now
employing union help throughout
Bartenders No. 75 has secured over
300 members and numerous new
agreements. Barbers No. 239 have
secured over 400 new members, with
the campaign still under way. Many
other locals also report big gains.
The Washington Central Labor
Union the Washington Building
Trades Council and the Washington
Union Label League have all been
active during the past year, the mem
bership of each militontly supporting
every local union that has needed
support, and it is stated that organ
ized labor did not lose a fight in the
District of Columbia during 1936.
Handbook on Union
Methods
New York Cit (ILNS)—'"To build
and to run unions today requires
trained minds," writes Julius Hoch
man, manager of the New York Dress
Joint Board, in the introduction to
"Handbook of Trade Union Methods,'
a 96-page illustrated pamphlet pub
lished by the educational department
of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union. This pamphlet, be
lieved to be the first of its kind, is
based upon talks given at a special
training -for trade union service
course by the heads of the various
departments and union experts, busi
ness agents, shop chairmen and organ
izers, on the basis of their practical
experiences. The teachers included
President David Dubinsky, of the
1LGWU on "Negotiation and En
forcement of Agreements."
French Farmers Strike
In Higher Price Fight
Paris, France.—The French capi
tal's supply of fresh vegetables was
seriously affected when an agricul
tural strike, called by the militant
Peasants' Front, became effective with
the threat that it would become gen
eral unless the farmers get an im
mediate hearing. Too great a differ
ence between prices paid to farmers
by wholesalers and prices charged
retailers was given as the chief com
plaint, although the farmers also de
manded stricter quota control of
foreign fruits and vegetables.
to
all
Memory is a fickle thing. Why not
develop the HABIT of buying union
label goods?
The union label directory is the
shoppers' test guide.
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Here and there will be one loaded
with good luck and good cheer.
But you can bet your last bean it will
be a year of action. It is just natur
ally bound to be an exciting year, full
to the brim of hell-for-leather doings.
It couldn't be a quiet year if it
wanted to.
The good old years seem to be gone
forever. Only maybe they only seem
good because we have forgotten the
tragedies they brought.
The world we knew prior to 1914,
however, really HAS HAS gone and
nothing can ever make the world as
it was in those days.
1914 began the crashing of guns.
In 1917 the United States marched
away to war.
And the world began to concentrate
its genius on building better death
traps—more and more guns and war
ships and gases and all the other
things that wipe people out of exist
ence.
And now that the United States ha^
come back to a point of putting its
mind on how to make life better, the
rest of the world seems to be longing
to go crazy again.
And while we talk peace and try
to think peace, nobody believes us
fully. There's doubt on every hand.
In South America there has just
been a so-called peace conferenc
American delegates have tried to
make the show look as good as possi
ble, but really it wasn't much of a
success. Suspicion is what made it
so.
Of course if everybody else is
termined to go into the suspecting
business, it will be difficult for us not
to do a little suspecting also.
And, to be candid, we DO suspect
We suspect the ambitions of
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we
feu the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
The chariots of the future are
umbling toward us. 1937 is here and
it has a year full of tricks up its sleeve
and in its store houses.
Maybe some of the chariots will be
war chariots. Maybe some of them
will be calamities of peace time.
Hitler
and Mussolini. We suspect the integ
rity of the soviets. We suspect Japan
And there you are. Everybody
It all seems very crazy—and it is.
If there is a balance wheel any
where it must come from labor. But
labor is divided within its house
Busted balance wheels aren't much
good.
But, be all these things as they
may, labor in the United States IS
going forward and with a speed never
known before. It can't help doing that
A year from now a great many things
will be different.
Reactionaries stand with their
backs to the wall saying, "I won't,
but in the end they yield. They al
ways have yielded in the end and
so they will keep on doing.
And when they have all done their
yielding, then what is now liberal will
become reactionary, quite probably.
Because there must always be those
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who stand far apart and call them
selves liberals, or leaders, or whatever
name the times seem to demand.
Again, a year of tremendous excite
ment is now upon us, going by at the
well known rate of 24 hours a day.
WHAT WILL YOU DO THIS YEAR?
SAFETY RULES FOR
MOTOR BUSES
Washington (ILNS)—Regulations
designed to increase safety of oper
ation of inter-state motor buses and
trucks under the 1935 carriers' act
have been announced by the ICC. The
regulations prescribe qualifications
of drivers, basic rules for operating
motor vehicles, requirements as to
parts and accessories deemed neces
sary for safe operation, and rules for
the reporting of accidents.
Chester, Pa. (ILNS)—Striking em
ployes of the Sun Shipbuilding and
Drydock Company returned to work
on December 28.
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lieves everybody—or almost.
We have shouted Happy New Yeai
and we shall not be surprised if there's
a war somewhere tomorrow morning
WE'LL NOT
FORGET/
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Work was resumed after the strik
ers agreed to discuss their differences
with the management at conferences
to be held during the first two weeks
of January. The strike lasted three
weeks.
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NOTICE!
The following individuals have been put on the list
Carpenters' Local Union No. 637 of Hamilton, Ohio, as being
unfair to Organized Labor:
Frank J. and Edward P. Weiss
Arthur W. Huge
Jacob S. Smith
Merle S. Bufler
5th and High Streets PHONE 2S
Robert G.Taylor Mortuary
Formerly
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Funeral Directors
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L. G. and Leo H. Haverland
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