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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938
HOT FIRE ON SOUTHERN
LOW WAGES
The South is rebelling at last, even
in high places, against its low wage
policy. The fight against starvation
pay has only begun, but ultimate vie
tory for fair pay is sure.
Two significant events mark the
crumbling of Southern sentiment up
holding low pay.
First was the statement of gover
nors of southwestern states, declaring
flatly against low wages and saying
the South wants no labor exploiters.
Second was the blast of Josephus
Daniels against low wages. Mr. Dan
iels, ambassador to Mexico, former
secretary of the navy and newspaper
publisher, is highly respected and his
opinions have much influence.
'It is very shortsighted of the South
to wish to continue low wages," said
Mr. Danicis, among- other things.
Labor, far-sighted employers and
progressive forces everywhere, still
fac-j a long, hard fight against low
pay. And Southern employers mu
be watched to see that they make good
on the fair words of their .v-pokes
men. But a decided step forward ha
been taken in the war for decen
waires.
ACTION TO SPEED PUBLIC
BUILDING
In appearing before the senate
committee investigating unemploy
ment, William. Green pointed out that
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Octavian Goga, new Fascist premier
of Rumania, says that his plan is to
expel from the country more than
500,000 Jews.
It is a fitting and proper statement
for a Fascist to make and the word
"Fascist" in this case usually in
cludes Nazi. For the distinguishing
fact about Fascism and Nazism is
their total lack both of moral sense
and common sense.
Mussolini and Hitler both gained
power by fraud and violence and both
have held it by terrorism and mur
der. The records are clear. Hitler
even 'purged" his own followers of
possible opponents, not by trying them
and proving them, guilty of anything
but by sending bandits to murder
several hundred "suspected" per
sons in one night.
But the lack of common sense is
almost as conspicuous as the lack of
morai sense. Merely noting the fact
that every Fascist regime has lowered
its people's living standards, consider
the utter stupidity of persecutions
like this one promised by Goga.
Every expulsion of a people from
a land has injured the land they left.
Buckle gives dates and itemized
facts to show that the expulsion of
the Moriscoes from Spain completed
the national ruin which began with
the expulsion of the Jews.
Louis XIV drove the Huguenots out
of France—and found that he had
driven out some of the most profitable
manufactures of France with them.
the progress of the U. S. housing au
thority is held up by inability of many
communities to raise 10 per cent of
the cost of housing projects.
Mr. Green made the excellent sug
gestion that the 10 per cent provision
be waived or changed to speed up the
housing program. He told the com
mittee he was informed Senator
Wagner proposed to introduce an
amendment to the housing act dras
tically reducing the requirement for
10 per cent local pai'ticipation in the
cost of public housing.
'In my opinion," the A. of
head said, "this is a very important
amendment—one which should be
given prompt action by congress as
soon as it is introduced. By waiving
the requirement for local participa
tion in the next few years, the public
housing program, would make it pos
sible in a large number of communi
ties to begin building without delay
and to make the program a reality
at a time when the need is greatest."
Housing on a big scale, if pushed
now, can be1 a tremendous factor in
reviving and extending economic re
covery. Organized labor wants every
bstacle to the building program re
moved and favors the proposed Wag
ner amendment.
0:
'Let us hope that the failure to at
tain labor peace will only be tempor
ary, and that, before long, the con
structive elements in both camps will
resume the task of reuniting the war
ring factions and make possible the
consolidation of their forces for a new
period of labor growth and advance
ment."—David Dubinsky.
WHAT NEXT?
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AT 8:45 P.M.
The Long Island railroad is testing
in operation two new all-aluminum
double-decked coaches. The new car
are 80 feet in length, with seats for
136 passengers, as compared to the
standard length of 64 feet, with seats
for 80. The cars have two sets of win
dows, one for upstairs passengers and
one for those below.
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WISDOM
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Peace is better than war, because
in peace the sons bury their fathers
but in war the fathers bury their sons
Nile
Hamilton, Ohio
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The Greeks who were driven from
Asiatic Turkey have made Athens
one of the chief markets in the world
for so-called "Oriental rugs" and
the Jews driven out of Germany form
a majority of the high class German
scientists of this day.
Yet the Rumanian premier is plan
ning to repeat this wicked folly. A
Fascist never learns.
Tamerlane, with his triumphal pyr
amid of 70,000 human skulls at Bagh
dad, wasn't so far removed or so much
ahead of the Japanese at the capture
of Nanking.
The defense of Nanking by the Chi
nese was utterly botched. That now
seems certain. But the Japanese
seem to have seized on the fact that
the Chinese capital was defended at
all as pretext for frightfalness in
tended to cow the Chinese from, mak
ing any further resistance. Not less
that 40,000 Chinese in Nanking were
massacred. Some of these were sol
diers who had thrown down their
arms and thought they had surrend
ered. Many of them were civilians who
never had borne arms. Many of them
were taken from their refuges on the
gorunds of foreign embassies.
The most complete account of these
butcheries was sent to the New York
Times
vby
a seasoned correspondent
who was in Nanking through the
brief siege and afterwards. But it is
corroborated by other accounts and
there seems to be no denial.
—Croesus to Cambyses (Bacon
Apothegms).
The Cherry
P"W Where with our
Jf* Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly
In his Jackson Day speech, Presi
dent Roosevelt had some fun with the
autocratic" minority of business
which he accuses of evil-doing but he
is not wasting time on windy denun
ciation.
He realizes that in the present in
dustrial decline he is up against a
tough situation and he is doing some
thing about it.
To this end, he is conferring wit!
business leaders, labor heads and
others.
And some of the business leaders
he has seen have been among hi
caustic critics. He sees that to get
out of the industrial slough of de
spond, the help of all is necessary
whether or not they agree with him
Last week this column suggested
co-operation between labor, manage
ment and government might help mor
to put men back to work than talk
The president evidently is of the
same mind.
William Green made a clear, con
vincing analysis of the present situ
ation in a statement before a senate
committee investigating unemploj
ment and relief.
He traced the decline and its causes
and outlined the course of action pro
posed by labor.
Mr. Green didn't do any verbal fist
shaking. He knows that won't put
men back to work.
He made constructive suggestions
for dealing with the slump and em
phasized that prompt and effective
action is imperative.
He piked the claim that increased
prices were due alone to wage in
creases and made it plain the Ameri
can Federation o Labor will stand like
a rock against wage cuts.
That Mr. Green understands labor
temper is proved by the stand against
pay slashes taken by unions every
where. They remember the wage cuts
of the 1929 depression years did not
help sick industry and they don't want
any of this fake remedy now.
David Dubinsky's appeal for AFL
10 peace may mean a lot to labor.
It may signal a break in the CIO
front and be the first indication of
an irresistible movement for unity
Dubinsky's statement, blaming the
CIO for failure of the peace negotia
tions, shows decided differences of
opinion within the seceding organiza
tion.
As head of the powerful Interna
uonal Ladies' Garment Workers' Un
ion, Dubinsky has a key position in the
10 and what he says is bc^nd to
have influence.
If his words bring peace, labor and
the nation will have reason to be
thankful.
Labor division is a perilous' thing
in the present state of the nation
md the world.
No man has a mortgage on the
labor movement," Dubinsky said.
The labor movement is not the
property of any individual or gorup,"
he added.
These are the truest words spoken
by any labor man in a long time.
The man or group who fails to heed
the truth of Dubinsky's words is in
for trouble—and plenty of it.
The labor movement exists for the
vast body of its membership and not
for any particular man, men, group
or groups.
Dubinsky had one man in mind
when he made his remark.
But his words apply to any indi
vidual or group in both A. F. of L.
and CIO having aspirations to a
'mortgage" on labor.
American labor is democratic and
has i\o place for a boss or bosses.
Toledo Typos Sue Firm
In Label Controversy
Toledo, Ohio (AFLNS)—John
Froehlich, business agent of the To
ledo Typographical Union, filed suit
in common pleas court here for $1,000
damages and an injunction to prevent
the Ruralist Press and the Commer
cial Printing Company from using a
union label on job work.
In adiition, the court was asked to
have an accounting made of work
turned cut by the shop with a label,
specifically election literature last
October.
Building Service Union
Signs
Up
New York Firm
New York, N. Y. (AFLNS)—Local
Union No. 32-B of the Building Serv
ice Employes' International Union, A
F. of L. affiliate, has secured a union
contract with Franklin Simon & Com
pany, covering service workers at the
firm's 414 Fifth avenue store.
The new contract establishes the 45
hour work week and other benefits
along with nominal wage increases
for about 90 service workers employed
by the firm.
AUTO COMPANIES
Begin to Take On Idle Men
Detroit (ILNS)—The re-employ
ment of laid-off auto workers, begun
by the Hudson Motor Car Co., has
been followed by two of the Bi
Three. The Hudson has about 6,000
men back at work.
Chrysler has given notice that ap
proximately 55,000 persons laid off
when the plants closed December 23
will be back at work soon. This
does not affect the 20,000 other
Chrysler workers who were laid off
earlier in December and during No
vember. First fired, latest hired is
the rule of seniority in the auto in
dustry.
The Ford plant may or may not
take back by January 17 35,000 work
ers laid off shortly before Christmas
The chances seem good that at least
a part of them will be back by that
time. At present, there are about
25,000 men at work at the River
Rouge plant. The normal force there
is about 85,000.
General Motors is still keeping
mum. It has laid off 60,000 men
since October. The Hudson Company
returning workers are getting nearly
full time employment those at the
Chrysler will have 24 hours a week
till demand increase's.
127,922 New York Idle
Get Work on WPA Jobs
New York, N. Y. (AFLNS)—The
important and necessary function
performed by the federal government
in providing work and wages for at
least some of the men and women
whom New Yo^k city employers re
fuse to employ because they cannot
make a profit from their labor is re
vealed in the report by Colonel Bre
hon Somervell, WPA administrator in
this area, that 127,922 of the compul
sory jobless were employed on WPA
projects in Greater New York on De
cember 1.
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SHORTS
German censors have turned back
books containing some of President
Roosevelt's speeches on the ground
that they are "undesirable litera
ture. From a Nazi point of view, they
are right.
Some men are fighting the anti
lynchmg bill &s an invasion of state's
ifrhts. Can you beat that? You
can. Some other opponents say there
is no need of a federal law because
lynchings are gradually declining.
Those lynched during the decline are
not supposed to count.
Lammot du Pont's talk about the
"fog" of uncertainty and his call for
the absolute certainty of business
about what the government will do
in taxing is a family trait. At the
height of the depression, the head of
the du Pont family would not take
the chairmanship of one of Hoover's
elief committees until assured that
there would be no increase in income
taxes.
Bethlehem Steel is putting its men
But there is no mention of cutting
on part time, which means part pay
Charlie Schwab's $150,000 a year, or
Gene Graces's $180,000.
Employers Fired Two
Million in 4 Months
The business recession has resulted
in an estimated increase of unem
ploy ment of about 2,000,000 persons
since the first of last September, with
the possibility of a further addition of
1,000,000 to the army of unemployed
by the last of February.
This estimate was given out by Le
on Henderson,- consulting economist
in advance of senate consideration
of the unemployment situation.
The statement also followed a pre
vious announcement by Harry
Hopkins, WPA administrator, that the
WPA rolls would be expanded to
care of an additional 350,000 un
employed persons.
Amusement Zone
Of New York Fair
Biggest in History
NEW YORK (Special)—
An amuse
ment zone designed to accommodate at
one time the entire population of cities
the size of Akron, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Dallas, Denver or St. Paul will greet the
millions of visitors to the New York
World's Fair 1939, Grover A. Whalen,
president of the Fair corporation, an
nounces.
By far the largest entertainment struc
ture ever constructed, it will contain
enough shows, devices, restaurants, vil
lages, shaded rest spots, secondary streets
and plazas to handle more than 250,000
fun-seekers.
One huge theater-restaurant alone will
have seats for 5,000. Another music audi
torium will seat 2.500. An amphitheater
to contain huge crowds will be built by
the state of New York at a cost of $1,600,
000 erected at the head of one of the
lakes it will be the scene of operas, aqua
tic exhibitions, pageants and other ex
travaganzas.
The visitor to the Fair will walk about
two miles merely to pass through the
amusement section which will be laid out
in the form of an oval loop with no "dead
end" streets.
The 280-acre tract will be divided into
at least thirteen villages or zones and
every concession will conform in design
and atmosphere to the particular zone in
which it is located.
An example will be the "Little Old
New York" village, where the theater
will be a replica of the famous old Park
theater, the principal cafe will duplicate
Steve Brodie's saloon and the attendants
will dress in character. All architecture
will he attuned to that picturesque pe
riod. Admission to the zones will be free,
Alex Kelso Dies Was
Carpenters' Officia
New York, N. Y. (AFLNS)—Alex
Kelso, secretary-treasurer of the New
York District Council of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters jtnd Join
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
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Coal
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ers since 1920, died here December 16,
1937. Mrs. Kelso died a few days be
fore the passing of her husband. Both
were buried at the same time.
Mr. Kelso was a delegate for a
number of years to the annual con
ventions of the American Federation
of Labor and served on different com
mittees.
It was the concensus of opinion
here that in the death of Mr. Kelso
the New York District Council lost
a good worker and a faithful and con
scientious officer.
ama Locomotive Works
Signs 7-Union Contract
Lima (AFLNS)—Following the re
cent decisive victory of American
Federation of Labor Unions, in an
employe election conducted by the
National Labor Relations Board, the
Lima Locomotive Works has signed a
federated trades agreement with
seven A. F. of L. unions.
As a result of the union contract^
workers won a wage increase of ten
per cent, the 8-hour day and 44-hour
work week, with overtime provisions
and other worthwhile gains.
Participating in the benefits secur
ed -were local unions of blacksmiths,
boilermakers, electrical workers, ma
chinists, molders, pattern makers and
a Federal Labor Union, directly char
tered by the A. F. of L., which in
cludes all employes of the big plant
not eligible for craft organization
membership.
East Liverpool Machinists
Cancel CIO Affiliation
East Liverpool, Ohio (AFLNS)—
Growing dissatisfaction on the part of
workers with CIO hot air and limited
progress is held to be reflected in the
action of East Liverpool machinists.
Thoroughly discouraged with the
best conditions they were able to ob
tain as a CIO affiliate, a group of
machinists applied for and were
granted a charter by the International
Association of Machinists, old-estab
lished A. F. of L. union.
Frank Dailey was selected as pres
ident of the new group, with Harry
Holland, recording secretary, and Ira
Garwood, financial secretary. With
formal charter installation set for
January 15, the unionists planned to
make the affair a gala event.
Advertise in The Press.
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