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Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 321 Market Street
Telephone 1296 Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15,1937
IN TEN YEARS
"Butler county cannot afford to sac
rifice the lives of 600 more of its citi
zens to tuberculosis in the next ten
years. Yet that is what has happened
in the past ten, and will happen again
in the next ten," said J. A. B. Lovett,
general chairman, speaking to the
Butler County Sanatorium Tuberculo
losis committee, "unless steps are
taken to prevent this great loss of
life."
This is especially significant because
tuberculosis is a preventable disease.
With adequate facilities for the care
of open cases this great toll can be
reduced.
Butler county is the largest of nine
counties in Ohio which are eligible
to build and maintain their own
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ubei
culosis sanatorium.
Mr. Lovett pointed out that the
estimated economic loss from tubercu
losis in Butler county is $320,000 per
year. This loss alone not considering
the physical suffering, mental anguish,
and grief, is reason enough for the
widespread support of the voters on
November 2, when they will be asked
to vote on the bond issue to erect a
tuberculosis sanatorium in Butler
county where we can take care of
our own.
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ONE DAY'S NEWS
In a Labor Board hearing at Steu
benville, Ohio, Andrew Dryzmala tes
tified that he was one of 279 employes
"laid off" by the Wierton Steel Co.
tin mill. His boss told him- that he
was fired because he didn't belong to
an "inside" union.
In a Labor Board hearing at Johns-
What a relief to have bills all paid.
Everything teems brighter. No more
worries altout how to make your pay
check go far enough ... how to tiuo-
age to buy the things you need.
It'i timple enough to banish "'money
blues". Take your own case, for ex*
amplei It may require only a f«w
hundred dollars cash on the new City
Loan step-down payment plan to help
you out of a financial rut and pave
the way to a bank account in your
name. Start at once with enough cash
... 825 to $1000... to square up
carry you through.
and
CARL W. SANOR, Mgr.
118 High St.
Phone 3663 Hamilton, O.
A clever news writer points out
that Justice Black is the only member
of the supreme court who will pay the
government an income tax on his sal
ary. It is true. And the story of how
it came to be true is one of the least
creditable chapters in the history of
the supreme court.
These samples of the industrial
fascism which some sections of big
business are using against its workers
were culled from the dispatches of a
single day. When scoring tyranny
abroad, remember that at home.
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TRUTH ABOUT WAR SHOULD
BE TAUGHT
The National Education Association
believes that improvement in commun
ication, international business rela
tions, and social intercourse have es
tablished common international inter
ests. In view of these actualities, edu
cation should prepare children and
adults for co-operative living in a
community of nations. Children should
be taught the truth about war and its
cost in human life and ideals and in
material wealth.—From the platform
of the National Education Associa
tion.
WISDOM
I have labored carefully not to mock,
lament or execrate, but to understand,
human actions and to this end I have
looked upon passions, not as vices of
human nature, but as properties just
as pertinent to it as are heat, cold,
storm, thunder and the like to the na
ture of the atmosphere.—Spinoza, in
"Ethics."
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WHAT NEXT?
Experiments by French hothouses
cultivating the begonia plant indicate
poison gases may be used to fight
plant diseases. After experimenta
tion, poison gases were found which
killed disease germs but did no injury
to the begonia plants. Gardners wear
masks while applying the gas.
Labor Unity Needed
To Meet War Peril
War clouds are dark and ominous.
There is added need for labor to be
organized and united. The fate of
many nations may be in the balances
and we must be ready to stand shoul
der to shoulder with labor of our other
lands for our common cause—to ad
vance freedom.—From the annual re
port of the executive council, Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
We shall have to go a little ways
back. In Civil War days, there was
a federal income tax, later repealed. In
1894, another income tax law was
passed. It was taken to the federal
courts, and knocked out by the su
preme court in April, 1895. Justice
Field, chief champion of the privil
eges of wealth in those days, raged at
the "usurpation" and "discrimination"
of that law. Justice White defended
it. By the way, this^was one of the
earliest of those famous five to four
decisions.
An amendment authorizing a federal
income tax was passed, and the tax
was levied, and i*aised during the
World War. Then Judge Gore, who
has been granting injunctions against
the TVA, went into court claiming
that congress had no right to tax the
salaries of federal judges. In Evans
town, Pa., James Mark, a union steel
worker, testified that he had been
taken from his hotel room one night
by police to the council chamber of
the city hall. Other policemen brought
in C. W. Jones, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
They were told that unless they left
town, the police would not protect
them from violence.
Daniel Shields, mayor of Johns
town, known to the workers of that
region as "No. 1707," because that
was his number when he was con
fined in the federal penitentiary at
Lorton, Va., said to these union lead
ers:
"You have commited no violation of
law that I know of. But we do not
like the cause you represent, and nei
ther do the citizens of Johnstown."
On his way to speak at a radio sta
tion in Memphis, Tenn., Norman
Smith, an organizer trying to union
ize the Ford plant in that city, was
waylaid and beaten up with pistol
butts and hammers, and had to be
taken to the hospital. This was his
second experience of the sort in two
weeks.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
vs. Gore, 253U.S.245, the supreme
court upheld Gofe. Justices Holmes
and Brandeis dissented, and Holmes
said, in his dissenting opinion:
"I see nothing in the purpose of
this clause of the constitution to in
dicate that judges were to be a privil
iged class, free from bearing their
share of the cost of the institutions
upon which their well being if not thfcir
life depends."
In 1932, congress amended the in
come tax law to provide that presi
dents and federal judges taking office
after that law was passed should pay
regular income taxes. Black is the
first justice of the supreme court and
Roosevelt the first president to come
under this law.
That is just one of the vagaries of
the supreme court in dealing with tax
matters. The ideal tax of the eco
nomic royalists is the general sales
tax, which makes a worker pay taxes
on his overalls while the billionaire
escapes taxes on his yacht. No such
tax can get through congress but
so far as it can, the supreme court has
lightened the tax burdens of the rich
at every possible opportunity.
The Cherry
Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes iippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
Have you ever spread out a hun
dred or more weekly labor papers in
front of you, for a look at the grass
roots of the labor movement?
It's a great idea. Everyone ought
to have the chance to do it.
There's better writing in the labor
papers than there used to be years
ago.
And today there's a note of life and
action that runs all through them and
that makes them exciting and fascin
ating.
In these weekly papers there is the
running story of what's doing.
One thing notable about them is
that their columns are not filled with
a hymn of hate. They are filled with
stories about what is being done to
build.
There are better editorials than
there were years ago. Many of them
rank with the best to be found any
where.
Communities are doing their own
thinking and the labor paper editor
ial reflects the best of that thinking.
A better idea of the multitude of
local problems is gained from the
weekly labor paper than from any
other source. The editorials tackle
those problems and handle them with
skill and thought.
They tackle national problems, too.
But standing out big and bold in
these local papers is the story of a
coast-to-coast determination to organ
ize workers into unions for the sake
of progress for workers.
And the progress, recorded commu
nity by community, is amazing.
America has never seen anything
like it
Here and there a good woman's
page shows up, but by and large la
bor papers find that the economic in
terests of the sexes are alike. The
same principles operate.
But the growing woman's auxiliary
movement may make some change in
the growth of woman's pages. How
ever, even here the work of the women
is in the same economic channel with
the work of the men.
What is known as feature writing
has come to the front in Seven League
boots in the last few years, as far as
labor is concerned.
A number of labor papers have fine
feature stories, locally written.
Their national news service brings
them plenty of national feature
stories.
The main restriction on the enter
prise of local papers is their inability
to hire sufficiently large staffs. Most
papers are still run by one or two
man staffs.
Today, with union memberships
growing hy thousands every day, the
local labor paper stands at the door
way of its greatest opportunity.
The opportunity to spread circula
tion, to become financially strong, to
be able ta"do things," is at hand.
The papers themselves must crack
through the vicious circle which has
been one in which poor papers could
not attract readers and without read
ers they could not become strong pa
pers. That devil has chased himself
around the labor lot for many years.
But persistence and ingenuity are
driving him out of labor publishing
offices.
Labor paper publishing is as nec­
Papers
essary as organizing.
voices, needed always.
America has the greatest labor
press of any nation on earth.
It is growing greater week by week.
It is a thrilling and a fascinating
study.
Spread out a hundred or more of
then* some time and have a look.
Labor Urges Vaca
tions With Pay
Denv,r (ILNS).—Vacations with
pay for all wage earners are strongly
urged in the annual report of the
American Federation of Labor's ex
ecutive council.
"We heartily endorse the efforts of
our member unions to win vacations
with pay, and urge them to -include
a vacation clause in their agreements
whei-ever posible," the council said.
The council reported that 746,893
union members already have vacations
with pay. Of these, 383,000 are em
ployed by federal or state govern
ments and 369,900 are in private in
dustry.
"As modern industrial techniqufs
shorten work time, vacations with pay
should become part of the program
for shortening work hours," the coun
cil declared. "Also they may lessen
seasonal unemployment by substitut
ing paid holidays for a lay-off in dull
seasons."
The council added that 1937 ap
peared to mark the beginning of a
movement for vacations with pay and
that many unions are including paid
vacations in their agreements this
year for the first time.
Metal Trades Council
Is Formed at Lima
Lima (OLNS).—First Metal Trade?
Council ever foi'med in this city re
ceived its charter September 29 from
Alfred T. Murphy, general organizer
for the American Federation of Labor,
as the personal representative of
President William Green.
Organizer Murphy was complimented
for his efforts and activity in behalf
of the American Federation of Labor
in the northwestern section of the
state in a communication from John
P. Frey, head of the metal trades de
partment of the A. F. of L.
Officers of the new council, elect
ed at the meeting, are: President,
Oscar Cole, Boilermakers No. 693
vice president, W. B. Gaberdiel,
Blacksmiths No. 181 recording secre
tary, B. J. Mull, Machinists No. 145
corresponding secretary, W. J. Mur
phy, Blacksmiths No. 181 financial
secretary, L. C. Jackson, Molders No.
159 treasurer, C. C. Allenbaugh, Fed
eral Labor Union No. 20834 sergeant
at-arms, W. T. Dillon, Boilermakers
No. 693, and trustees, Adam Allen,
Machinists No. 145, E. C. Michael,
Molders No. 159, and H. W. Johnson.
Blacksmiths No. 181.
Heads Barber Board
Columbus (OLNS)—Benjamin Bon
tempo, Cleveland, has been elected
president of the Ohio State Board of
Barber Examiners by the other two
members, Paul Flavin, Portsmouth,
and Robert W. Cashen, Waterville.
Flavin was elected secretary.
President Bontempo has been a
member of the board for the past year,
and previous to his appointment was
secretary-treasurer of the Associated
Master Barbers of Ohio. Flavin, a
member of the Journeymen Barbers'
Union, was appointed to the board
two weeks ago.
UNION RATIFIES AGREEMENT
Philadelphia (ILNS).—More than
1,300 members of Local 113, United
Electrical, Radio and Machine Work
ers, CIO affiliate, have ratified an
agreement with the Electric Storage
Battery Co. The 40-hour week was
provided except for workers in the
power plant, who have a 36-hour week.
The union is now the sole representa
tive of watchmen, gang bosses and
salaried employes, as well as of those
who formed its membership before.
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SHORTS
Mr. Justice Black has a Catholic
secretary, a negro messenger also a
Catholic, and a Jewish law clerk. Ra
cial and religious prejudice? Tell it
to the marines—over the telephone,
not at close quarters.
Herbert Hoover and Alf M. Landon
have agreed on telling the republican
party what it should do. Which makes
one think of the three tailors of Too
ley street, who began their proclama
tion: "We, the people of England—
Trimble Hats Are
Now Union Made
New York City (ILNS)—The Unit
ed Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work
ers, Cap and Millinery Workers' In
ternational Union has just made
notable advance by signing an agree
ment with the American Hat Com
pany, of this city, one of the oldest
concerns in the industry and manu
facturer of the Trimble and "Perfek
Felt" hat. Under the agreement the
firm, will operate a union shop for the
first time in its history.
The agreement, arrived at amicably
at conferences in which President Max
Zaritsky, of the international union
and Hugh Glover, local representative
of the international union, represented
the workers, was immediately ratified
by the 300 employes of the firm.
The agreement establishes and in
troduces the principle of arbitration in
the men's hat industry in this city, and
provides ways and means by which
labor and management can co-operate
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Anthracite
Pocahontas
Semet Solvay Coke
WE'LL NOT
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THE C. W. GATH CO.
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resulting
to eliminate strife
labor disputes.
The firm will use the union label ot
the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery
Workers' International Union to indi
cate that the hats manufactured by it
are made under conditions fair to or
ganized labor.
A speaker before a local wow®®
organization was telling about how
careless the men in Persia are with
their wives, and said it was no un
common sight fio see a woman and a
donkey hitched up together. One of
the women in the audience called out:
"That's not unusual—you often see it
over here too."
GEO. KAPPEL
Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
Repairing, Altering, Cleaning, Press
ing, removing wearshine and Relining.
162 N. street. 1787 W. Will call for.
Give estimates and deliver.
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