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Wiahington, B- C. (ILNS).—With
John B. Haggerty as president and
with a board of well known labor of
ficials, the Union Labor Hospitaliza
tion Association, Inc., has been
launched here, to operate on a coast
to-coast basis. The association is in
corporated in Washington as a non
profit association without capital
stock.
The hospitalization plan offered is
limited to groups of union members
and their families. Those who are
not union members are not eligible.
The list of officers includes:
President: John B. Haggerty, pres
ident of the Allied Printing Trades
Association, and president of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Book
binders.
Other Officers
Secretary: Chester M. Wright, edi
tor of International Labor News Serv
ice, head of Chester M. Wright and
Associates, deputy international pres
ident of the Commercial Telegraphers
Union of America and author of
"Here Comes Labor."
New Organization Aims To
Provide Hospital Service For
Union Members In Nation
Vice-President: Gilbert E. Hyatt,
former editor and legislative agent,
National Federation of Postoffice
Clerks and for many years secretary
of the A. F. of L. legislative com
mittee.
I. M. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer
of the American Federation of Labor
Union Label Trades Department, is
chairman of the association's advisory
board.
Paul H. Williams, former counsel
for Division 441, Amalgamated Asso
ciation of Street and Electric Railway
and Motor Coach Employes, Des
Moines, is general counsel, while Jo
seph E. Jones, with a record of out
standing success in this field, is in
surance technician.
Union Labor Hospitalization Association, Inc., Has Been
Launched To Operate On Coast-To-Coast Basis-—
I. M. Ornburn Chairman Of Advisory Board.
URGE PRICES STAY
AT NORMAL LEVEL
New York City (ILNS).—The chief
duty of American retail merchants in
the present period of international
tension is to keep prices at normal
levels, Saul Cohn, president of the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa
tion, said here.
Recalling President Roosevelt's
warning against unwarranted price
increases, Cohn told a group of re
tailers assembled at the World's Fair
that they must put their and the
nation's objectives "above partisan
ship."
NO CENSORSHIP
(From Editor and Publisher)
President Roosevelt was well ad
vised in disregarding son Elliott's plea
for a rule against broadcasting of for
eign propaganda. That is now a mat
ter for the individual judgment of
radio operators and they should soon
learn from the audiences whether the
re-broadcast of the short-wave hand
outs is a popular service.
At this writing, we think it is well
Broad Plan Offered
Beneficiaries under the plan ap
proved by the association and now of
fered to labor union memberships,
provides for hospitalization in any
state in the United States or in Can
ada and in any hospital at the direc
tion of the attending doctor, an un
equalled advantage for union mem
bers.
One rate will apply for all union
members—65 cents a month. Fam
ilies also are eligible for hospitaliza
tion coverage.
"Our plan is so far superior to
others I have examined and that have
been examined by our board that it
could be offered only with the under
writing of a strong company backed
by long experience," said a statement
by the officers. "Since our plan is
underwritten by the Mutual Health,
Benefit and Accident Association, of
Omaha, the largest company of its
kind in the world, we feel that we are
placing at the service of organized
labor a benefit unequalled in the field
of protection against the risks of
sickness and accident.
All Hospitals Included
"Those who have examined other
plans will observe the superiority of
our plan. It is astonishing that we
offer hospitalization in any hospital
in the United States and Canada upon
direction of the attending doctor,
while under most plans only a limited
few hospitals are available, with
whole states without any facilities
at all.
"We shall be able to operate in
every state and in Canada. We have
opened offices at 609 Carpenters'
Building, in Washington. We believe
our board of directors, every one with
a magnificient record of service, all
feel a sense of real accomplishment
in now offering this new service to
the labor movement."
that Americans be informed on all
national attempts to influence our
opinions. To date, we have not been
impressed by their efficiency. The
German, Polish, and Italian broad
casts, which are out-and-out propa
ganda, discount the ability of Ameri
cans either to hear other stations or
to read newspapers. The German, es
pecially, has tried clumsily to under
mine American confidence in our
press—even to the extent of quoting
from a non-existent American news
paper. Let's assume the basic intel
ligence of our citizenry, its belief in
our own institutions and news service
—and let's have no censorship of any
kind on this side of the water.
CHICAGO MARKET CO.
Maritime Federation Asks
War Risk Insurance Law
Front and High Sts. Phone 5000
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SPECIALS!
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HOME-SLICED BACON 17k
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San Francisco (ILNS).—The Mari
time Federation of the Pacific has in
structed its Washington legislative
representative to prepare for imme
diate introduction before Congress of
a bill to provide war risk, life and
disability insurance for American sea
men sailing in war zones. Secretary
Bruce Hannon, of the federation, has
written all West Coast Senators and
Congressmen asking support of the
measure.
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State's Deficit In
Columbus, Ohio.—Payment of work
men's compensation to injured state
employes and dependents of workers
killed on state jobs may be terminated
at any time because of the failure of
Ohio General Assemblies to appropri
ate a sufficient contribution to the
public employes' fund to pay claims
allowed by the Industrial Commission.
The state's accumulative deficit is
revealed in the record of awards and
total losses incurred in comparison
with amounts appropriated by Gen
eral Assemblies. Total losses in
curred amounted to $4,183,743 as of
November 1, 1938, while appropria
tions totalled only $3,329,937, leaving
a deficit of $853,806.
The Ninety-Third General Assem
bly, by appropriating only $500,000
for the public employes' fund for the
1939-40 biennium, ignored the com
mission's request for $1,500,000, the
amount necessary to restore the
state's account in the public employes'
fund to near-solvency.
The premium of $500,000 appropri
ated by the Ninety-Second General
Assembly was $300,000 less than the
amount appropriated by the Ninety
First General Assembly, and resulted
in an increase of $266,621 in the defi
cit during the 1937-38 biennium.
With the Ninety-Third General As
sembly following in the footsteps of
its predecessor, the deficit can be ex
pected to reach at least $1,120,427
during the current biennium.
Section 1465-63 provides that in
fixing the amount of contributions to
be made to the public employe fund
by taxing districts of the state, the
amount shall be determined so as ul
timately to establish a solvent public
fund by January 1,1942.
Inasmuch as the state public em
ploye fund is a porition of the public
fund, contributed to by townships and
municipalities, workmen's compensa
tion to state employes is being paid
from reserves set up by the commis
sion for awards allowed but being
paid in installments every two weeks,
and from premiums paid by the town
ships and municipalities.
The Legislature, in 1931, separated
the public employes' fund from the
private employer fund, and payments
to state employes cannot be made
from the private fund.
Commission officials admitted last
week that awards were being allowed
on state employe claims and compen
sation paid contrary to Section 1465
64 of the General Code, which pro
vides:
"In case the General Assembly
does not appropriate the amount
called for by the estimate presented
BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
VOL. XXXIX. No. 25. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Payment Of Workmen's Compensation To Injured State
Employes Jeopardized—General Assembly Ignored
Commission's Request For $1,500,000.
{By Ohio Labor Vtvi Service) 5
Summer Departs
Compensation
Fund Continues To Grow Ohio
Assembles Fail
by the Industrial Commission, and
the amount appropriated has been
applied for losses incurred, no further
disbursements for losses sustained in
subsequent service to the state shall
be made until state funds for that
purpose have been made available as
provided by law."
The accumulative record to Novem
ber 1, 1938, shows that awards
granted prior to that time have ex
ceeded the appropriations provided by
past General Assemblies, and that
current awards are being paid with
out available funds in the state public
employe account in the public fund.
Section 1465-54 provides for setting
aside funds for the creation of a sur
plus to guarantee a solvent fund, but
the failure of General Assemblies to
appropriate sufficient premiums to
absorb the existing deficit has pre
vented application of that section of
the law.
The commission's request for a
premium appropriation of $1,500,000
for the 1939-40 biennium was based
on a total estimated obligation of
$1,773,806 to January 1, 1941, includ
ing the accumulative deficit of $853,
806, which would have left a deficit
of only $273,806 at the end of the
current biennium.
Commission records show that the
deficit in the state's portion of the
public employes' fund is charged di
rectly to the highway department.
The major portion of the accumulated
deficit of the high department oc
curred prior to 1931, as no appropria
tion had been made from highway
funds up to that time to meet work
men's compensation losses of high
way employes.
Officials admit that they are facing
a serious condition of withholding
compensation benefits from state em
ployes or their dependents, not only
from a legal standpoint but also to
enable them to maintain some sem
blance of an actuarilly sound public
employes' fund.
"INSURRECTION" CASE ENDED
New York City (ILNS).—With the
case against the remaining six de
fendants nol prossed, the three-year
old prosecution of a group of Atlanta
residents for violation of the Georgia
insurrection statute has finally come
to an end, the American Civil Liber
ties Union has been informed. Dis
missal of the indictments followed a
formal demand for a trial by counsel
for .the defendants. The case goes
back to 1936 when 18 persons were
arrested in a police raid on a meeting
in a private home on the charge of
"inciting to insurrection." The "evi
dence" against the defendants con­
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(WNU SERVICE)
In Appropriation
sisted of copies of the Southern
Worker, and the Fulton Bag Worker
and the fact that both negro and
white persons were present at the
meeting.
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A. F. L. TO CONTINUE
NON-PARTISAN WAY
Cincinnati (ILNS).—William Green,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, declared here that the fed
eration would continue to follow a
course of "noji-partisan politics."
In a speech before the twenty-sixth
convention of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street, Electric Railway
and Motor Coach Employes of Amer
ica, President Green said any change
from this policy would make the fed
eration a mere appendage of one or
the other major political party.
Three resolutions urging a third
term for President Roosevelt were re
jected by W. D. Mahon, president of
the union, because of this "non-parti
san" policy.
Green attacked John L. Lewis as a
"dictator, a Hitler," and blamed him
for the division within the labor
movement.
The Amalgamated Association cele
brated its forty-seventh anniversary
during its convention here.
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Chicago (ILNS).—The Chicago
Newspaper Guild has been fined $500
on a charge of contempt of court,
Judge John J. Lupe ruling that guild
members had violated an injunction
issued last February by Judge Grover
C. Niemeyer.
The order enjoined the guild, an
affiliate of the C. I. O., from harassing
advertisers or subscribers of the two
Hearst Chicago newspapers, now
combined as The Herald-American.
A strike has been in progress at the
Hearst plant since last December 5.
Judge Lupe said the guild had re
fused to present evidence or to cross
examine witnesses, although it re
ceived an opportunity to do so. He
ruled that there was insufficient evi
dence against the American News
paper Guild, a party defendant.
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