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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937
LABOR WANTS HOUSING
BILL ACTION
Hearings on the Wagner-Steagall
housing bill begin April 14 and, very
appropriately, the first witness being
Senator Wagner.
Labor's approval of this bill and
criticism of all delays in getting it
started are too well known to need
repetition. So are the merits of
huge housing program. One-third of
our population, according to the pres
ident himself, is poorly housed and
somewhat smaller fraction is dis
gracefully housed. No other activity
could set more people at work and
in no other activity would the results
of that work be more valuabple.
But congress needs to display, not
caution, but resolute daring, if it
means to keep a housing program
from being bled to death by land
lords. The real estate gangs will
gather wherever there is a chance of
holding up needed work until Shy
lock has received his pound of flesh
England has a law under which
sium can be condemned, and valued
for use for low rent housing, and for
nothing else. It would be well for
Senator Wagner to call the attention
of the committee to that law.
Support your local labor newspaper
Prove to the merchants that advertis
ing of union label merchandise pays
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PROMOTING INTEREST IN
UNION LABEL
Something out of the ordinary in
promoting interest in buying of union
label goods, with possibilities for use
throughout the nation, has been tried
by the Central Trades and Labor
Council of Parkersburg, West Vir
ginia. The central body held an essay
contest in the senior and junior high
schools of Wood county for the best
essay on "Why We Should Buy Union
Label Products." Prizes amounting
to $120 were offered for the best es
says submitted.
This is the first time the union la
bel has been made a topic for essays
in the schools. It has a two-fold pur
pose. One is to increase interest in
labor unions among the children and
the other is to arouse the interest of
parents in an intensive organizing
campaign for the union label, shop
card and button.
The plan is an example of labor1
continuous campaign in behalf of un
ion label products and se?-vices.
the wishes
So Maude Royden, famous
and can continue."
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Encourage the
A
EAT and DRINK
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Up to date it has not overlooked any I good. And the speedups of the Ford
important bets. But the possibilities!
of trouble in unionizing the Ford
trouble in
part of the
s^0Psare
millionaire several hundred times according to the debates,
Co. will do in any crisis depends on I given his blessing to an appropriation Ias explained the settlement
the whim of one man. |of $400,000 to provide pneumonia se
Henry Ford is 74 years old. He is a I rum free. In New York state alone,
over. He was twice offered a billion! kills over 12,000 persons a year. Se
dollars for his plant and though I rums are known which cut the death-1
competition is much keener in the mo-1 rate more than half but they are so
tor field now than then, the Ford I costly that only the well-to-do can
business, taken together, is worth I afford them from $50 to $200 per
probably not so much less than a bil-1 patient, according to the head of a
lion now. What scores of millions hel hospital, who ought to know.
has piled up outside the business, nol If this is done, it will be one morel
outsider can guess. I step in the socialization of medicine.
I
Call up your neighbors and ask them
to listen in on all union label radio
broadcasts.
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English!
social worker and peace leader, sum- employers who refuse to bargain col
.llectively with their employes
me up her recent coast-to-coast
1,^
speaking tour of the United States.I pourj-
ole of America can keep out of war. I .,
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The CIO may not know it—thoughI the experience would do the workersI Peace terms, said: |of joint relations in industry.
"For the first time a strike has been
successfully consummated against the|
notorious^ ..
I Ford is capable of closing ms plants
indefinitely, even of dismantling
ifhotor industry arel them, rather than submit to what he
greater than those met in dealing withI would call "union dictation." Whether I shoulders," and he warned them
Chrysler, or General Motors, or evenlhe will take that course or not, nolap"nst abusing the sit-down tech
with United States Steel. lone knows least of all Henry Ford.lnilue
Possibilities of trouble not assur-|But the matter will bear close watch
ances of it for the only thing certain| ing.
about the matter is its total uncer
tainty. Like so many decisions of thel The New York legislature is con
supreme court, what the Ford Motor I sidering and Governor Lehman has
pneumonia
The American Medical Association, be-
Ford has made the greatest manu-l ing only a little less conservative than
faeturing success in the history of I the American Bar Association, prob
industry and he has made that suc-|
a
cess quite largely with disregard of I but no one need care for that.
bly will utter loud cries of anguish
or welfare of his employes. I The legislature is on the right
He issued an official declaration that! track. I
wanted to change his models and! warfare."—George Lansbury, Mem-1
told Paul Kellogg, of the Survey, that! ber of Parliament.
AMERICA CAN KEEP OUT
WAR
"I don't believe that war is inevit-
America can
keep out
LABORACT
Victory Hailed By Speaker I
Columbus, Ohio (OLNS)—Speak
ing on the radio broadcast of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, Monday.
able, and I do believe that, if it comes,! evening, April 12, Philip G. Phillips,|
if
she chooses."! regional attorney for the National
Labor Relations Board, lashed out at
there.
Isphere in which civilization remainsl Line, of workers appear daily inI
'the regional offices of the NLRB, At-|
torney Phillips told the radio aud
ience, workers who have committed!
women members of I
a
your family to buy only from firmsl ers by joining or urging others to1
that are "fair." Ask each one to call! join labor organizations for the pur
on their neighbors and in turn urge P°se
W HAT NEXT? the rights of workers under the con
An automatic coal stoker for homel stitution, Attorney Phillips pictured
or factory use may be rolled
away
from the furnace to the coal bin fori
refilling. It is an overhead feed type
and may be used with existing fur-|
naces without alteration.
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Patronize only those firms that dis
play the union label, shop card or
button, and urge all the members of
your family and your friends to do|
the same.
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WISDOM
It is really a strange thing that|
there should not be room enough in
the world for men to live without cut
ting one another's throats.—George
Washington.
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Attend all meetings of your labor I
union and on every appropriate occa-|
sion make a talk for union label goods|
and union services.
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Washington, D. C.
At
Bill Finn's Cafe
FRONT AND COURT STREETS
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
(ILNS)—Thel
the o{ Suprem(
jn
Miss Royden said, "With far-sighted! jty of the Wagner labor disputes act
and strict neutrality laws, strong! as a distinct victory for labor.
enough to withstand the pressure ofl Attorney Phillips pointed out that
any whipped-up war hysteria, the peo- 'he fagner act had been attacked by
upholding the constitutional
I big business, which sought to escape
I its provisions for collective bargam-.
I hope they will. I jng elimination of blacklists, and.
"If war comes the Uid woriu,i guaranteeing employes the right tol
it will mean suicide for our civilization I engage in concerted activities for mu
Let there remain another hem-1 tual aid and protection
of
... As the action of the supreme court
them to do likewise. I ,, ,, ,.
I upholds the principles of collective
fi,,, nu Wnri/i I i ,, Russell Sage Foundation. He was one
crime in the eyes of their employ-1 ,,.
bargaining collectively.
i bargainjngj
an(
guarantees more fully
I the dawn of a new era for labor.
Attorney Phillips urged the adop
tion by the Ohio general assembly of
House Bill No. 196, which is patterned
after the Wagner act. The speaker
declared that the adoption of the
state law would be a great aid in the
speedy arbitration of labor disputes
and controversies in Ohio, and that
the state board would function in co
operation with the NLRB.
Social Security Board announces ap-1 nomic waste that is largely inexcus
proval of the Georgia unemployment! able and which can exert a heavy in
compensation law, bringing the num-|ence on production costs.
ber approved for federal-state co-|
operation to 40.
Mr. Phillips is 9th regional attor-|
ney for the NLRB, with headquarters
at Cincinnati. He also is legal repre-|
sentative for the La Follette civil lib-
erties
investigating committee,
The broadcast was heard over Radiol
Station WHKC, 640 kilocycles, Co-|
lumbus.
Safety Economics
Ohio employers who are today en-1
gaged actively and sincerely in the|
work of preventing accidents are in
fluenced by two considerations—thel
interest they owe to the physical wel
fare of their employes and the neces-l
sity for eliminating a form of eco-|
Ohio employes who are properly I
imbued with the spirit of sfaety will|
accept evidence of the interest of in
dustrial management at its full value I
and co-operate fully and cheerfully in
the carrying out of any measure de
signed for their protection and the
improvement of their physical and|
economic welfare.
It will profit YOU to go along with|
any safety program in your plant.
First Strike Won
By Ford Workers
Kansas City, Mo. (ILNS)—Work
ers went back to work in the Ford
assembly plant on April 5 after a I fellow employers haul them over the
one-day sit-down strike. I coals and tell them to wake up.
Vice President Hall, of the United I Organization work is driving along
Automobile Workers of America, who I every where. There will come a day
came here from Detroit to negotiate I when none will question the rightness
Ford Motor Company."
He told the workers to go back tol
their jobs "without any chips on your
Every time the men evacuate a
plant by court order or are blown
out of it by gas, it's a blow to or-1
ganized labor and the manufacturers! ties to fight yet. But the surround
know it," Hall told a crowd of 2,000ling ring of hostility is not so large—
not by any means.
"Use the sit-down to start yourl
strike and get organized. But as soon
I as you are organized, make it a point a lot to do with coming speed.
to evacuate your plant before the|
court puts you out."
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
01d
the Ford plant dealt with its workers I I but it didn't work. Napoleon had a
as individuals only, and that every I "We live at a time when civilization I great idea, but eventually he had to
policy of the business would be bentI is at the crisis. There is not a man|give it up. Before him, the Caesars
to keep that true. He loathes all I or woman who considers woi'ld prob-l^ad some pretty big ambitions, and III v/SnaulSIl tjr. Jrl. i I&IYtS
labor unions. His wage boost in 19141 lems who does not know that if a| f°r quite a while they ran a really big
was the work of James Couzens. Hel world war breaks out again, civiliza-l show. But eventually they had to call I Oshawa, Ontario (ILNS) The
closed
his plants and left his workers! tion will be completely destroyed.I i" the outposts and admit that the! United Automobile Workers of Amer
to starve or live on charity when he! There is no such thing as civilized!
King Canute had a great idea
e°d
za
The silk industry has employed Leonl
Henderson as a high research man.
Henderson once was a biggie in the
0 TI
3 I o e i e u e n a n o o n e s i n N A
XIn
Then last fall he was with the demo
cratic national committee as a No. 1|
fact-hunter. Darned good one, too.
Liberal, Henderson doubtless hasl
been drawn into the silk industry to
I I o e s e o e a u s e i n u s y o
organization.
Silk has been less reactionary than
most other divisions of the industry.
But there is some significance—if you
can identify it—when any branch of
this benighted industry goes out to
get a man who thinks liberal thoughts
and tries to base action on facts.
There is a strong trend toward lib
eral views in the field of industrial
relations.
The standpatters are not as numer
ous as they used to be. More of their
WHCN POOD FERMENTS AND 6ASCS RISE
TAKE JUST ENOUGH TO ALKALIZE
ACID i.N&.«KTION
Gas is fine in your stove or fur
nace, but it's both painful and
embarassing in your stomach.
Why don't you use Alka-Seltzer
for the relief of ACID INDI
GESTION, Colds, Headache,
Neuralgia, Muscular, Rheum*tie.
Sciatic Pains?
Alka Seltzer la ple&mnt to take and
unusually effective in action not
laxative, not habit forming, doe« not
dspreu the heart.
Ask your druggist.
fit WISE-ALKALIZE
A Leader for
ois/t Your
Many employers who have
stood against unions through all
the years are now wondering
just how it will feel to get their
feet wet. They are inching to
ward the water, knowing they
want it at last, curious as to what
the experience will be like. Not
so afraid any more, but very
curious.
Of course there are plenty of bat-
Labor's own self-discipline will have
There is still something called pub
lic opinion, even though labor makes
up a good part of it.
Public opinion can condemn with
terrible effect, however.
What will public opinion do to the
Pennsylvania farmers who battled
strikers out of the Hershey plant and
then ran up the American flag?
What a travesty that was! Pa
triotic farmers, darlings of the poli
ticians! Running up the flag in vie
tory—because the strike had stopped
their sale of milk to the plant. Ah,
yes, milk white patriots!
Well, you gotta keep your sense of
humor, too, in these hectic days.
Auto Workers Call Strike
had come. I ica called a strike in all Canadian
Henry Ford has made a lot of cars. I plants of General Motors. The Cana
Pretty generally they have been good. I dian company had refused to accept
It has been said that he put the na-|the settlement reached with the pa
tion on wheels. There were those I rent company in the United States
who said "it can't be done" when Ford I About 3,700 of the less than 5,000
started out with big promises of
what
'never" to him in those early
Now Ford says "never" to unioni-| union recognition.
He ought to know better. He
ought to know that "never" is too
long a time for any man to deal
in, or to make promises for. The
longest leases that are permitted
only run for 99 years.
"Never" is just too long. Of course1
the Ford plant will be unionized, if|
it is to run.
I workers in the Canadian plants went
he could do with mass production.! out at once, under strict orders to
He has lived to laugh at those who'"avoid violence in any form."
said
days.
The men demanded a 40-hour week
time and a half for overtime, and
RED JACKET
COAL
POCAHONTAS
ANTHRACITE
KOPPEliS COKE
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
Schwenn Coal Company
Clear your mind for
action.. .get rid of
all the unpleasant
thoughts about bills
you owe.
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Court Orders Sit-Downerg
To Pay $9,825 in Damages
Anderson, Ind. (ILNS)—Damages
of $9,825 were awarded the Aladdin
Industries, Inc., in Madison circuit
court against United Automobile
Workers strikers whose "sit-down''
has closed the Alexandria plant for
weeks.
Judge Charles E. Smith, whose or
ders to evacuate the plant were defied
by the sit-downers for two weeks be
fore they marched out and established
picket lines, assessed $5,000 "jointly
and severally" against the sit-downers
as a whole. There were about 100
W. H. STEPHAN, Prop.
COAL AND COKE
5th and High Streets PHONE 23
Robert G.Taylor Mortuary
Formerly
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Funeral Directors
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cash for other things. Come in anyway...we are
anxious to tell you about our new Step-Down debt
settling plan.. .it's the one payment plan that never
"cramps" you.
CARL W. SANOR, Manager
118 High Street
HAMILTON, OHIO
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of
them.
The remainder of the damages were
apportioned among individual union
leaders.
BIEKER
TAILOR
Maker of
Durable
and
Substantial
Men's and Women's
CLOTHES
Union Label. 324 Maple Ave.
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