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FRIDAY, JULY 30,1937
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE!
Chicago has plumbed new depths in
the official approval of crime. She has
produced a coroner's jury which has
declared that the killing of 10 march
ers by the police on Memorial Day
was "justifiable homicide."
It has been proved that the march
ers were not armed. It has been
proved that no policeman was seri
ously injured in the affair. It has
been proved that women, one of them
a well known social worker, "w
clubbed until unconscious or dazed
and thrust into the patrol wagon with
blood streaming from their heads. It
is known, even to the kind of folk
who serve on coroner's juries in Chi
cago, that the senate civil liberties
committee has in its possession
news film which shows the police to
be wanton, savage aggressors, firing
into the crowd a hundred yards away
and clubbing to death a man who was
caught between police lines.
"Justifiable homicide!" The juror
who joined in that verdict should join
with the police of the Memorial Day
massacre in a petition for the release
of A1 Capone as a much injured, hon
orable and kindly gentleman.
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FIRE IN A POWDER FACTORY
President Roosevelt is getting
twice a day from the state department
reports on the mixup between Japan
and China. If anything specially im
portant happens, news of it goes to
the White House at once. For Presi
dent Roosevelt realizes, what too
many of us do not, that the world may
be set on fire by the fighting now
going on in China.
Japan is playing with fire in a pow
der factory. On the surface of things
she has all the military advantages
She is armed to the teeth while China
hardly is armed at all. She has a uni
fied government control while unit
ed action by the Chinese depends on
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Joe--UNION BAR-Bill
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
age of 6*2 the recognized "father of
radio," and the man who turned wire
less telegraphy from a hope to an
accomplished fact. He was an Italian
citizen, and an Italian marquis. By
blood, he was Italian on his father's
Guglielmo Marconi is dead at the I without gaining a yard. A little later,
people whose breed has lasted for 301
centuries. The Japanese militarists
are playing with fire in a powder
factory. The explosion may rock the|
world but it will destroy them.
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WISDOM
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her
face.
We first endure, then pity, then em
brace.—Pope.
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METAL POLISHERS SIGN UP
THREE CONCERNS IN ERIEl
Erie, Pa. (AFLNS)-Closed shop
agreements were recently negotiated
here by the Metal Polishers' Union
with the Erie Plating Company, the
Crown Plating Company and
American Tinning and Enameling I
Company. The new wage rate is $1,101
per hour.
THE
CASINO CAFE
he captured a hill, which may or may
not be of some strategic importance
but there is no dispute that his gen
eral drive has been stopped in its
tracks.
By the age of 19, he was thinking I sions if Hitler will furnish 5!
about wireless. By 20, he had made it| That is the Nazi and Fascist idea
of "neutrality." It is like their other
ideas, inside out, upside down, more
twisted than a corkscrew,
work over a distance of about two
miles. By 21, he applied for a pat
erst, and got it thus getting ahead
of several people who were working
in the same direction. By 26, he sent
the three dots of the letter "S" of
Morse telegraphy across the ocean
from Cornwall to Newfoundland.
The rest is history which involves
a chief life saver of the sea. and for heavy punishment of officials
agreement between rival leaders and
discordant factions. She has picked
time when the liberal powers are
particularly anxious to avoid war, and
when the Russian government is ob
viously absorbed in internal difficul
ties. But for all that, Japan's brutal
aggression in China is not wise.
There are nearly 400,000,000 Chi
nese. They are perhaps the least mil
itary large people in the world but
they have made good soldiers before
and can do so again. They are divid
ed, but if anything can bring them
together in a fighting unit, it is the
time fights for China and the Chinese.
Japan is guided by military raiders,
longer by real statesmen. No
his country the hatred of 400,000,0001
Coming over the same wires at the
side Scotch-Irish on his mother's,! same time is the report that General
with the Irish-blue eyes seldom seen I Franco has told Mussolini that he,
in pure bred Italians. Just in passing, I Franco, needs 15 divisions of fresh pointments from the lower ranks.
both the Scotch and Irish from which I troops for victory, and that Mussolini
he sprang were whiskey makers. I is ready to furnish 10 of these divi-
It is what might be expected from
movements financed, as both Hitler
and Mussolini were, by the big em-l
many men as well as Marconi. The! power was to smash the labor unions.!
who fail to protect the basic civil
Spanish rebels have been taking a I rights to strike, to picket, to exercise
heavy beating before Madrid. Two I freedom of speech and of assemblage,
weeks ago, the government forces I and to trial by jury."
launched a drive which put a con-1 This is from a Philadelphia "Record
siderable "pocket" in the rebel lines. I editorial on the "justifiable homicide
Franco apparently massed all his bestl verdict of the Chicago coroner's jury
troops on the Madrid front and fori on the Memorial Day massacre. And
four days made incessant attacks labor says Amen.
LABOR PRESS GRGUPl
RE-ELECTS OFFICERS
The officers are: President, C. W.|
Rich, Springfield Tribune vice presi
dent, F. W. Sheridan, Sr., Portsmouth]
Labor Review, and secretary-treas-
way Japan is treating them now. Andlurer, Thomas J. Donnelly, Quarterly!
now, as for thousands of years past,l Bulletin.
Following the imports of the offi
cers and Don Louden, correspondent
for the association, there was a gen
eral discussion of the problems fac-|
statesman, no rational man who knows I jng ^e Lal)0r Press.
anything of history, would bring upon|
Many helpfu su(
va
policies of the association was left!
in the hands of the officers, who also|
function as an executive board.
The conference was addressed byl
President Michael J. Lyden, of the
Ohio State Federation of Labor, who
thanked the association for its co-l
operation with the federation.
Attending the conference were J. F.I
Mayer and E. E. Weiss, Butler County
Press John C. Getreu, Columbus La
bor Tribune Otto Brach, Toledo Union
Leader
ereral
'w Hart^Canto^U^ited
Labor News Clem Hackman, James
Bechtel and James Andreson, Dayton
Labor Union President Rich, Vice
President Sheridan, and Secretary
Treasurer Donnelly.
Representatives of the Potters' Her-1 1 oj. 4?
aid, East Liverpool The Cleveland Ask otUuy OI
Citizen The Zanesville Tribune The
Newark Leader, and the Cincinnati
Chronicle, also members of the As
sociation, were unable to attend thel
conference.
Job Service Fund
Appropriation Cut
Columbus (OLN S) —Funds allotted I
the industrial commission and the de
partment of industrial relations by
thel^ 92nd general assembly in its gen-
appropriation bill for the bir,
enn^a^
were permitted to stand by
Governor Martin L. Davey with but
one minor exception.
An appropriation of $6000 for
equipment for the state employment
service was vetoed by the governor
from the items contained in the bud
get allowances for the department of|
industrial relations,
Jurisdiction over the state employ
ment service passes from the depart
ment of industrial relations to the
unemployment compensation commis
sion on January 1, 1938, and th* nec
essary funds for equipment will prob
ably be provided by a larger appro
priation to the commission.
Labor Laws Effective
Columbus (OLNS)—Four legisla-|
tive acts of the 92nd general assembly I
of interest to organized labor have I
become effective, and two others will
take effect July 31, a check of thel
records in the office of Secretary of|
State William J. Kennedy reveals.
Effective July 19 was an act author-1
izing townships having fire depart
ments to set up a pension system. sim-|
ilar to those in effect in larger com
munities and cities for their fire I
I fighters.
1
An act providing the method by
I which the average weekly wage of an
injured workman shall be computed
and increasing the minimum compen
sation award from $5 to $8 became
effective July 22.
Also effective July 22 were acts
I empowering mine inspectors to close
mines wherein violations of the safety
code and workmen's compensation re
quirements are found, and requiring
the promotion of fire fighters and
policemen by successive grades, elim
inating the possibility of high ap-
Effective July 31 are acts including
silicosis among the occupational di
seases compensable under the Ohio
workmen's compensation law, and ex
empting stationary engineers and
boiler operators from registration re
quirements applying to professional
engineers.
PreSSlIien Report New
ploying interests and is no surprise| Contracts at AkfOIl
to those who know that the first action
dictators
of these two dictators on gaining! Columbus (OLNS)—Leading com-
Titanic carried wireless, and signalled I I have signed agreements with Local
for help while sinking, and the re-l 'What we need is a federal act pro-l 42, Printing Pressmen and Assist
sponse to those signals made wireless! viding for large fines against counties I
merc
er
,gc8tions
were ad-|
nced, and further action on future I
ja] printing companies at Akron
antg Unjon of
North America, Rob-
^. par]ey state organizer for the
international union reports.
Contracts were signed by the Com
mercial Printing Co., Superior Print
ing Co., Danner Press, Inc., Imperial
Printing Co., all of Akron, and the
F. W. Orth Co., Cuyahoga Falls.
Negotiations are being conducted
with nine smaller printing plants,
now operating under verbal agree
ments, according to Organizer Farley.
Ninety-eight per cent of the com
mercial printing companies in Colum
bus are operating under signed agree
ments with Columbus Printing Press
men's Union No. 62, Organizer Fal-
Dayton (OLNS)—All officers of theI ley announces. Contracts were re
Ohio Labor Press Asscoiation, com-1 cently signed with the Southard
posed of editors and publishers ofl ovelty Co., Duplex Service Co., Ohio
bona-fide labor newspapers in thel
state, were re-elected at the second
annual conference of the association,!
held at the Biltmore Hotel here Satur
dya, July 24.
Wax Paper Co., and the Hollenback
Press.
Employers Adopt
"Labor Program"
New Orleans (ILNS)—The manu
facturers' committee of the New Or
leans Association of Commerce at a
special meeting adopted four reso
lutions expressing its policy in cur
rent labor controversies.
Opposition to the Black-Connery
labor standards bill was expressed in
the first.
Endorsement of the Vandenberg bill
to amend the national labor relations
act was
embodied in the second.
The third advocated state legis
lation to incorporate labor unions and
to limit picketing to employes of
plants picketed.
The fourth resolution expressed op
position to the committee for indus
trial organization or any other or
•ganization whose leaders appear to
have a "communistic background.
Sigmund Odenheimer, operator of
the Lane Cotton Mills, who has been
charged formally with discouraging
union organization in his mill, intro
duced the resolution opposing the
John L. Lewis organization.
The Association of Commerce
one of the strongest advocates of the
open shop in the South.
Metal Resources
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Sena
tor George L. Berry, of Tennessee, and
Senator Henry S. Bridges, of New
Hampshire, have introduced a joint
resolution in the senate calling for
the formation of a joint congressional
committee to investigate and study
the natural resources of iron ore and
supplies of iron and steel scrap nec
essary for domestic use. The com
mittee would report by February 1.
Wrecker
Accidents not only wreck bodies but
they wreck hopes and aspirations as
well.
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The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly. .......
There has been a very interesting
development in the house of labor re
cently. The AFofL and the CIO have
agreed not to break each other's
strikes.
Of course this is the sensible thing
to do.
Either side, breaking the other's
strikes would be in a position hard to
defend.
Strikebreaking is a business* that
belongs all on the side of the reac
tionary employer.
Today the decent employers
themselves don't induge in strike
breaking. If there's a strike they
tie up and take a rest until the
issue is settled.
But this measure of tolerance
doesn't mean that the internal war
fare is cooling off any.
On the contrary, it's plenty hot and
active.
Here's an interesting note: Em
ployers are weakening in their de
mand for incorporation of unions.
They've been mooching around, try
ing to figure out a plan but they
aren't having any luck. Instead, they
are finding out that they can't rig up
any bill that would catch unions in
their net without also catching them
selves.
The trap would work both ways.
So, they are taking second thought
about the whole business, saddened
and disappointed by what their law
yers tell them.
Well, it never is easy to rig up
one-way laws.
Of course there will be no let-up
in the effort to hamstring labor, but
one idea seems to be in the ash can
anyway.
In Washington a big fat book has
iUst been published. It is called the
report of the national resources com
mitee, named by the president.
This book tells us what kind of in
ventions are coming and what is go
in-g to be done with some of the in
ventions already in use.
Most folks think, for example, that
the electric eye is just an amusing
little gadget.
Well, this report tells us that
the electric eye will displace a
mission workers.
So, it seems that the electric eye
is going to see a pretty big change
in a great many things. Every time it
takes a look a man loses his job.
Did anybody say the unemployment
problem was almost settled
That's just one item in this fat
and important report.
At the same time the rumors of
war abroad grow hotter.
There WILL be war some day
There MAY be war very soon.
If war starts it probably won't be
long before everybody gets in. It won
be any private war.
And then the world will be all upset.
RED JACKET
COAL
POCAHONTAS
ANTHRACITE
KOPPERS COKE
Anybody who tries to tell us
what kind of a world we will have
ten years hence is only guessing*
Inventions, wars, politics—these
and other things will create our pic
ture for us and no man say say what
it will look like at any future stage
of the great game of life.
All we know is we are on our way—
and not making a very intelligent job
of it as we go along. What energy we
waste in fighting I
LEHMAN DRAWS
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Of
Coil-
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—Gov
ernor Lehman, of New York, has come
in for stinging criticisms at the hands
of many members of congress for his
action in calling upon Senator Wag
ner, of that state, to vote against
the supreme court reorganization
proposal. Senator Wagner has re
plied to the letter with the statement
that he is inclined to examine all
proposals on their merits.
Lehman's utterance came at a cru
cial moment in the efforts of con
gress to effect reorganization as a
result of the death of the late major
ity leader, Joseph T. Robinson, of
Arkansas. Resentment was manifest
ed especially that a governor of a
state should thrust himself in to a fed
eral matter pending before congress.
Assertions were made that the gov
ernor was attempting to take advan
tage of his official position in making
his statement, since such statement
from his as a private citizen would
have passed practically unnoticed.
There is a widespread belief that
the governor was attempting to vent
a petty resentment toward the presi
dent and his program because of in
ternal and local political differences
in the state of New York and in New
York city.
CUMBERLAND VOTES
PICKET REGULATION
Cumberland, Md. (ILNS)—Regu
lation of strike picketing is provided
in an ordinance passed by the city
council. The ordinance was opposed
by labor groups. It is made a viol
ation of city law for an employer
or other person to molest or attempt
to intimidate any picket legally en
titled to be at a so-called "unfair"
establishment, and limits to six the
number of pickets that may be sta
ioned at one industrial gate.
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