The Butler County press. [volume], October 13, 1939, Image 1

About The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946

Image provided by: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

                
Roosevelt's Labor
Cincinnati (ILNS).—Receipt of an
appeal from President Roosevelt for
unity in the labor movement, criti
cism of the Department of Justice's
anti-trust investigation in the build
ing industry and attacks on the Ten
nessee Valley Authority for alleged
discrimination against labor unions
featured the first week's sessions of
the fifty-ninth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
In a message to the convention,
President Roosevelt declared that la
bor* peace efforts begun last Febru
ary "must be continued until a sound
negotiated basis of peace between
the labor groups is reached and
agreed upon."
He urged the A. F. of L. and the
C. I. O. to end their controversy "in
patriotic service for national unity in
this time of trouble and distress."
Discord Held Peace Menace
"The continued conflict and separa
tion in the labor movement can hardly
be overlooked, in these days, when
discord in any group is so harmful to
world peace," the President said. "We
must adjourn our small grudges, our
differences, and find the way to peace
and good will within our borders in
every department of life. So we be
come a free and fearless nation with
people of all shades of opinion and
walk of life united in common pur
pose to maintain and to practice and
to protect this American way of life."
Roosevelt said the wage earners
and the people as a whole want "an
accord" in the labor movement. He
said he was sending a similar mes
sage to the C. I. 0. convention.
Report Sent to President
William Green, A. F. of L. presi
dent, told the delegates he had re
plied to President Roosevelt in part
by mailing him a copy of the exec
utive council's report upon negotia
tions between the federation and the
C. I. O. in the past year.
"I especially direct your attention
to the last paragraph in that report,"
Green said he told the Chief Ex
ecutive.
The paragraph to which Green re
ferred stated that the A. F. of L.
peace committee "still stands clothed
with authority to function, ready to
resume negotiations when it is af
forded an opportunity to do so."
Criticism of the Justice Depart
ment's anti-trust investigation of
building practices was expressed by
Joseph A. Padway, A. F. of L. gen
eral counsel. He also criticized the
National Labor Relations Board in
sharp terms for alleged bias in favor
of the C. 1.0.
Padway referred to Thurman Ar
nold, in charge of anti-trust division
of the Justice Department, as "this
crusader who has sought and prob
ably procured more indictments
against labor unions than he has
against capital and, industry or other
persons charged with violating the
anti-trust laws."
T. V. A. Hostility Charged
He told the convention that it has
come to such a pass that union agents
are almost afraid to negotiate agree
ments with employers for fear that
they would be charged with conspir
ing to violate the anti-trust laws.
636 Maple Avenur
Unity
Appeal, Charges Against
Agencies Before A.F.L.
Peace Negotiations Must be Continued Until Basis of
Agreement is Reached, President Says—T. V. A.
Attitude Toward Unions is Criticized.
At a meeting of presidents of A. F.
of L. building trades unions, it was
charged that the T. V. A. discourages
mechanics from joining craft unions
and refuses to enter into union shop
agreements. The Building and Con
struction and Metal Trades Depart
ments agreed to investigate the
charges.
John P. Coyne, president of the
Building and Construction Trades De
partment, told the convention that
an A. F. of L. commission would meet
with T. V. A. representatives at Knox
ville or Chattanooga some time be
fore November 1. He said the com
mission would review charges of T.
V. A. workers and decide what action
if any the A. F. of L. would take
against T. V. A.
Specific Allegations Made
T. V. A. workers charged that T.
V. A. officials had refused to nego
tiate with the Tennessee Valley
Trades and Labor Council for adjust
ment of grievances on the ground
that T. V. A. is a government agency.
They said workers had been, advisee
not to join unions or, if they wert
union members, to resign their mem
berships. They charged that T. V. A.
had imposed upon its employes con
ditions similar to the old padrone
system.
"We have been told," Coyne said,
"that conditions on the T. V. A. proj
ects are no better than those in the
U. S. Steel Corporation, that work
men are denied workmen's compensa
tion benefits, that there is no provi
sion for hospitalization and that in
some instances workers must buy
their supplier from T. V. A. commis
saries.
"The T. V. A. officials say that they
can't enter into negotiations for a
union agreement although it is a
Maryland corporation with authority
to make all kinds of contracts and
spend millions of dollars without tell
ing anyone about it. It looks as
though the T. V. A. has outfoxed the
workers."
FALSEHOOD REPEATS ITSELF
New York City (ILNS).—The pub
lishing firm of E. P. Dutton & Com
pany, Inc., reports many rush orders
for Sir Arthur Ponsonby's "Falsehood
in Wartime," a collection of the dis
tortions in truth from 1914 on to the
close of the first World War and
which the firm says offers many strik
ing parallels to the propaganda of
today.
Legion Post Plans
For Armistice Day
David Webb & Sons
FUNERAL KC1E
PHONES 48- 78. ROSS AT "D*
Middletown, Ohio. Although an
other World War is in progress, Mid
dletown American Legion Post will
proceed with plans to observe Armis
tice Day with the same spirit that
marked celebrations of the last 20
years.
Parts for Tractors-Trucks & Autos
INSIST ON GETTING THE BEST
You always get the best at the
Savage Auto Supply Co.
Phone 116
VOL. XXXIX. No. 28. HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939.
T. F. Schraffenberger is chairman
of the committee in charge. Assist
ing him will be Marvin Blankenship,
E. Hajdler, Walter Sheffer, Robert
Boykin, Russell Fraser, S. V. Rogers
and Charles Wilmore.
HAMILTON, OHIO
Vjc-?
(WNU SERVICE)
*1
Cincinnati, O. (ILNS).—Efforts to
bring peace to warring Europe and
fixed determination to stay out of the
war wei-e urged upon the nation by
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, in submitting
its report to the fedei*ation's fifty
ninth annual convention here.
The council's recommendation was
generally looked upon as forecasting
the policy to be adopted by the con
vention.
While emphasizing its keep-out-of
war policy, the council made plain its
abhorrence of all forms of dictator
ship, sharply reiterating previous de
nunciations of Naziism, Fascism and
Communism and recommending con
tinuance of labor's boycott of Japa
nese and Nazi goods and services.
"Dictators who control under these
autocratic forms of government," the
council said, "shape the destinies of
the nations they control and of the
people who are subject to their will.
Dictatorship Means
War, Council Says
"Freedom, democracy and demo
cratic forms of government mean in
ternational peace while dictatorship,
autocracy and totalitarian forms of
government mean war, territorial ag
gression and chaos and confusion in
international relationships."
THE liUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
Report
Executive Body Recommends Maintenance of Strict Neu
trality in "Spirit and Act," in Annual Review Noting
Progress For Organized Labor in Many Fields.
Declaring for mediation efforts and
for keeping the United States out of
the conflict, the council said:
"We are unalterably opposed to our
own nation becoming involved in Eu
ropean conflicts. ... We insist that
our government shall pursue a judi
cious policy, exercising care and cau
tion and a firm determination to
avoid involvement ... in European
wars.
Nation Warned
Of Propaganda
"We favor our nation offering our
mediation services for peace, and
hope that warring nations may be
prevailed upon to accept them. But
with that we refuse to go farther.
"As for our own country, we
demand it stay out of the Euro
pean conflict, maintaining neu
trality in spirit and in act."
America has a responsibility for
peace that "will test our capacity for
self-government," the council de
clared. It added this warning:
"Maintenance of neutrality in t&e
promotion of peace will not be
simple matter but will be complicated
by propaganda and by pleas in the
interests of many causes."
Membership Close
To Record High
"Nevertheless," the council con
tinued, "the American Federation of
Labor believes that at this time we
(tin
Columbus Day
nJ-r'// /,'//
tl
Keep Out Of War, Offer Mediation
In Europe, Urges Labor Council, In
To Convention In Cincinnati
should take a firm stand for peace
and against involvement in European
wars."
Convention delegates pointed out
that the council's report was written
some time ago and that its plea for
mediation efforts was not to be con
strued as supporting in any way Nazi
Germany's forthcoming "peace offen
sive."
In the domestic field, the counci?
reported steady and marked progress
in many A. F. of L. activities.
Noting a gain of 383,267 mem
bers in the year ending August
31, 1939, the council reported the
total membership at 4,006,354,
second only to the all-time peak
membership of 4,078,740 in 1920.
Success of the organizing cam
paign in the last year was reported,
with hundreds of thousands of new
members added, many new agree
ments negotiated between new unions
and employers, bringing wage in
creases, improved working conditions
and economic freedom.
In discussing the subject of wages
and hours, the council declared that
though the "sudden business reces
sion of 1937-1938 threatened serious
and widespread wage cuts, trade
unio'n resistance, together with ad
ministration influences to maintain
wages, effectively checked wage re
ductions.
"We came through this recession
with relatively few wage cuts and
these have in large part been re
stored," the council found.
The council placed the problem of
getting the unemployed back to work
as the nation's "first concern" and
urged co-ordination by all elements in
the country to expand industrial pro
duction and thus end unemployment.
"Our problem is one of management
on a national scale," the council as
serted.
Changes In NLRB
Please Council
Reporting at length on the contro
versy over the National Labor Rela
tions Act and the Wagner Act, the
council held that the basic principles
of the law were sound bift that the
board's "unlimited discretion in ad
ministering the act" was "disheart
ening." However, the council was
gratified to note that "significant
changes" sought by the A. F. of L.
had been made.
The council hailed certain changes
in the board's personnel, in the resig
nation of some trial examiners who
had been accused of bias against the
A. F. of L. and in the fact that no
A. F. of L. contracts had recently
been abrogated by the board.
Continuance of the assessment of 1
cent per month per member for con
tinuation of organization activities
was recommended.
1,945 P. W. A. SCHOOL PROJECTS
Washington (ILNS). Nearly a
half million students have returned to
modern classrooms built with P. W. A.
allotments, Acting Commissioner Col.
E. W. Clark reported. Clark said
that during the past 12 months, 1,946
school projects have been completed
through local participation in the
P. W. A. program.
MEW I940
ct"
M*ird and
t'uin. ,..ory
and
MODEL
1as.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
A STITCHJN TIME
Tuberculosis sneaks up on people
when they are not watching. The
germs that cause the disease get into
the body and people don't know it
until the germs have done a lot of
damage. Then people feel sick and
when they do go to the doctor they
learn that they have advanced tuber
culosis.
The doctor will say, "If you had
come to me six months or a year ago,
we could have caught your tuber
culosis in the early stages." And you
will say, "Six months ago I didn't
really feel sick."
The doctor will then explain that
in the early stage of tuberculosis
there are few or none of the symp
toms or signs that go with advanced
disease, such as the feeling of always
being tired, an irritable temper, loss
of weight, lack of appetite, a cold or
cough that hangs on, pain in the chest
or spitting of blood. You may say,
"Yes, I felt tired all the time, but
paid no attention to it. I coughed a
little, but I thought it was a bad cold."
So, if you notice any of these signs
don't wait go to the doctor or the
clinic for an examination. Better
still, go to the doctor while you feel
in good health and have your chest
X-rayed. Remember, early tubercu
losis often produces no signs of ill
ness yet the X-ray can make it vis
ible long before it can be heard with
a stethoscope. For this reason your
doctor will usually order a chest
X-ray. Early tuberculosis can often
be "seen" with the eye of the X-ray
before it can be "heard" with the ear.
A stitch in time saves nine.
To find tuberculosis really early,
we must look for it before the danger
signs appear. If there is or has been
a case of tuberculosis in your family,
or if you have lived with someone
who had tuberculosis, you should be
on the lookout for it. Those who
have had a contact with the disease,
especially children, should get a tu
berculin test and a chest X-ray to
make sure that they are not sick.
Tuberculosis attacks all ages. It is
still the leading cause of death be
tween the ages of 15 and 45, but many
very old people have it, too, and chil
dren also die from it.
Lose no time in going to a physi
cian when you suspect tuberculosis.
Watch for undiscovered tuberculosis
among the people whom you meet.
Tuberculosis sometimes hides under
the disguise of asthma, bronchitis or
sore throat. Encourage, your friends
to seek medical advice.
Tl
SENSATIONAL
AT
PRICED
nEWA»
e v E S
LOW LEV
se!v.
mod1
1
P?c.i)C
Opera-
tu
only
Also
Sl(-20:
o».v
A
Uo
At*l"hU-
(ttCORO
pLftYtR
Portable. J£St
lU
.in
n
"!!"cr-
A "jg,
TRUccepu^CyJ
Your. nonlesnc
,nsJ-
Siai2-&ch
-A
THIRD
records-
$22.95
A i o
M"
WE CLOSE 6 P. M. SATURDAY
,n
on
iy
S&s.Ssr-
*9-95
Other
from
EASY TERMS|
L2&ERAL
ALLOWANCE
QuoHhj -Low In TVict
COURT