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HENRY NAEGELE, 6
DIES IN MIDDLETOWN
Henry Naegele, age 67,1816 Logan
Avenue, Middletown, died last Satur
day morning at 10 o'clock in the Mid
dletown hospital after a short illness.
He was president of the Naegele
Auer Printing Company, Middletown,
and was a past lieutenant-governor
of the Kiwanis Club. He belonged to
the Eagles and Knights of Pythias
lodges. Through his business and
through his lodge and Kiwartis asso
ciations he was well known in Hamil
ton, whefe his death brings a shock
to many.
He leaves the widow, Mary Naegele,
of Middletown, and two brothers,
Charles and George Naegele, both of
Cincinnati. Mrs. Naegele was Miss
Mary Murphy, of Hamilton.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday at 2 o'clock at the First Pres
byterian Church by Rev. H. H. Jung
Burial was in Woodside Cemetery.
Postal Receipts
Receipts at the Hamilton postoffice I vention of the A. F. of L.
for the first 11 months of 1939 are
$8,112.45 above the figure for the cor
responding period of last year, George I
A. Zettler, acting postmaster, an-|
nounced this week.
The postal receipts to December 1,1
1939, amounted to $219,906.15 in com-|
parison to $211,853.70 for the first 11
months of the previous year.
In November, receipts totalled $22,-1
446.97, a gain of $2,452.09 over No-|
vember, 1938.
To Draw On Taxes
For Subdivisions!
Pending completion of a check of I
the tax books for the last half of I
1938 collection period, subdivisions in
need of funds for operating expenses
may obtain an advance draw against
the final settlement, R. H. Smith, But
ler County auditor, said Monday.
"We are permitted to make such
advances to keep the subdivisions in
.operation until the settlement is
made," he said. He indicated that it
might be three or four weeks before
the distribution is ready.
John W. Schwalm In Censusl
Post Stationed In Dayton|
The Federal Census Bureau Tues-[
day announced the appointment of I
John W. Schwalm, Hamilton, as as
sistant supervisor for the 1940 busi-|
ness and population census in the
Third Ohio Congressional District,
which includes Butler County. Mr.
Schwalm will be stationed at the dis-1
trict office in Dayton which is under
supervision of A1 List.
NEW BEER-LIQUOR PERMITS
David Cralle & Lillian Heer, 427
Baltimore Street, Middletown, D-2.1
Albert Fortner, R. R. 1, Hamilton, D-l.
TRADES COUNCIL
The Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council held a well-attended meeting
Tuesday night, 42 delegates being
present. President Charles Perrint
presided.
The credentials of Merle Augs
purger to represent Electrical Work
ers' Union, No. 648, were read anci
delegate installed. His term is for
12 months.
Minutes of the last meeting wer
read and apaproved.
A Christmas letter was read from
the Union Label Trades Department,
A. F. of L., urging organized labor
to demand the label when making
Christmas purchases.
Communication from the Butlei
County Tuberculosis and Health As
sociation was read, and enclosed wen
two sheets of Christmas Seals. The
council purchased the seals.
A communication was read from
James Myers, industrial secretary foi
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America. He calls atten
tion of having 15 labor represent
atives secure invitation to occupy pul
pits in Cincinnati during the last con
A communication was read from 1
J. Dillon, national chairman of Dis
tillery, Rectifying and Wine Worker
Council, A. F. of L., asking counc
to write five large distillers regard
ing placing the union label on a
their products.
The Detroit Allied Printing Trade
Council calls attention to the Chrys
ler Corporation being unfair to the
printing trades. All their printing is
placed in non-union shops,
A communication from the Interna
tional Union of Operating Engineers,
Washington, D. C., was received and
filed
An appeal from the Salvation Army
was received.
The delegates of the local Bartend
ers' Union reported that the Wilder
Cafe, Benninghofen and Williams
Avenues, which has been on the un
fair list, has changed hands and is
again fail'. Eldon Kelly is the new
proprietor and employs union bar
tenders.
Ed. Dulli reported that some of the
coal dealers claim they have fair driv
ers in order to leave the impression
with customers that they are mem
bers of the Coal Drivers' Union, which
is not true. Dulli informed the dele-
sates that the only firms employing
union drivers are the following:
Schwalm was recommended for thelbut all necessary business was trans-[
appointment by the Butler County I acted.
Democratic Executive Committee!
through Senator A. V. Donahey.
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Coal dealers: Anderson- Shaffer,
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Lingler, Pater's, Rapp and the Valley
Ice and Coal Company.
Transfer companies: Fath Transfer!
Company, City Transfer Company,!
Wirtz Transfer Company, Morris I
Transfer Company, C. & D. Transfer,|
and Haeckl's.
The meeting was of short duration,!
A. F. OF CONDEMNS!
(Continued from page one)
of the building industry when labor
is so completely without voice or re
sponsibility in the obstructing prac
tices.
"This convention expresses to the
public its genuine eagerness for any
and all investigations resulting in the
public being told the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, re
garding the ever present check upon
progress in the building industry,
which is so correctly recognized as
the barometer of national prosperity."
WENNING ELECTED
Walter Wenning was re elected
president of the Liberty Home Asso
ciation for the third consecutive year
last Saturday night at the annual
meeting in headquarters, 740 South!
Seventh Street.
Other officers elected are: vice-pres
ident, Herbert Torge secretary, Rein-|
hold Schwarz financial secretary,
Gerhard Holstein treasurer, Franz
Klaeber trustees, Walter Holland,
Andy Schubert and Carl Schelter.
STRING COLORED LIGHTS
THE BUTEER COUNTYPRES®'-
Cincinnati, O. (OLNS). Funeral
services were held here Saturday, De
cember 2, for Adolph Kummer, 67,
veteran labor leader who died in
Deaconess Hospital, November 29,
after a long illness.
MINNATI LABOR LEADER SUCCUMBS
LEADER IN BREWERY WORKERS' UNION!
The Metal Trades Council, protest
ing the Mark-Time meter was not
union made, threatened a boycott if
they were installed.
Meanwhile, City Councilman David
Levine injected a new angle into the
dispute when he said that "no park
ing meter is 100 per cent union, as
none has an agreement with the
clockmakers' section of the Interna
tional Jewelry Workers' Union, of
which I formerly was international
representative."
Levine said that if the Metal
Trades Council persists in its stand
against the Mark -Time machine
"which will save Seattle the most
money, my union will have yours and
all other meters declared unfair be
cause none uses union clocks, the most
important part of the mechanism."
Oxford, O.—Oxford's High Street I
was transformed this week into an
inviting thoroughfare when workmen
for the village strung Christmas!
lights. Many merchants had previ
ously decorated the fronts of their I
|shops and it is expected that every! Columbus, O. (OLNS).—A balance
store front in the business section will I
Butler County commissioners, in
their final 1939 session, this week au
thorized the payment of $543.75 to
farmers for loss of sheep destroyed
by dogs during the last three months.
Thirty-five claims were filed and
I four were rejected,
Edgar K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
A. F. of L. Auto Workers
Seeking Paid Vacations
Pontiac, Mich. (AFLWNS).—The
Sixth Region District Council of the
United Automobile Workers of Amer
ica, A. F. of L. affiliate, at their reg
ular meeting here voted full support
to a resolution insisting that all fu
ture contracts written between the
union and employers in the sixth re
gion contain a clause providing for
paid vacations.
BIG RESERVE IN
BENEFIT FUND
Qf
be decorated by the end of the week-Jo^o unemployment compensation
PAY SHEEP OWNERS *und
$1223,469,638 was reported in the
as of
fctober
31 by
WSStstk
A I i
Mr. Kummer formerly lived in Hamilton, working at the Cincinnati
Brewing Company. He was a member of Brewers' Local No. 83, and active
in the labor movement of Hamilton.
The services were attended by
President M. J. Lyden, Secretary
Treasurer Thomas J. Donnelly, and
Vice- Presidents Stanley Ogg and
George Suder, representing the ex
ecutive board of the Ohio State Fed
eration of Labor. Records of the fed
eration show that Mr. Kummer at
tended conventions of that organiza
tion as delegate from Brewery Work
ers' Local No. 12 for the past 35 years.
Mr. Kummer represented the Ohio
State Federation of Labor at two con
ventions of the American Federation
Metal Trades Fitfht Use Of
Non-Union Parking Meters
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS). Oppota
tion of the Seattle Metal Trades'
Council to the city's plan to purchase
Mark-Time parking meters probably
will bring a postponement of meter
installation in the city, municipal of
ficers say.
Ad™£lstr£"
tor H. C. Atkinson, with net benefit
payments of $19,935,068 paid to nearly
200,000 different workers during the
first 10 months of 1939.
Total contributions to the fund by
approximately 45,000 Ohio employers
of nearly 1,500,000 covered workers
amounted to $143,404,706 through Oc
tober, the administrator said.
Wages subject to the 2.7 contribu
tion rate of employers of three or
more workers represent .the total
amount of wages including money
wages, tips, gratuities, and cash value
of other remuneration as reported for
each payroll mopt^i by, employers,
of Labor, and was appointed by the
latter organization on one occasion
as fraternal delegate to the Canadian
Labor Congress.
At the time of his death he was
business agent and secretary of Lo
cal 12, secretary of its joint local ex
ecutive board, and a member of the
executive board of the Brewery Work
ers' International Union. He had
been a member of Local 12 for 39
years.
He was president of the Cincinnati
Central Labor Council for 20 terms,
from 1909 to 1912 and from 1917 to
1934.
He is survived by three sons, Au
gust, Max, and R. Harry Kummer,
and six grandchildren, all of Cin
cinnati.
CONTAINER CO. SIGNS
PACT STRIKE ENDED
Agreement Includes Union Recogni
tion and Paid Vacation.
Delair, N. J. (AFLWNS).—Follow
ing a strike of about 700 of their
employes extending over 14 weeks,
the management of the Kieckhefer
Container Company signed an agree
ment with a number of American
Federation of Labor unions carrying
definite benefits, none of which ex
isted before the agreement, for union
members.
The agreement recognized the A.
F. of L. unions as sole bargaining
agents for the employes and, in ad
dition, included the following pro
visions:
One week's vacation with pay time
and one-half for all time over
"r":-'"'rv**a"r' r_'•' "L-"'
eight
hours two hours per day reporting
time guaranteed unless employe
ordered not to report time and oiu
half for working holidays and also n
Sundays except in the case of em
ployes engaged in continuous
"THEY ARE UNION MADE'
Washington, D. C.—The Brown &
Williamson Tobacco Company, Louis
ville, Ky., manufacturer of the Ra
leigh, Kool and Viceroy union-made I
cigarettes, is presenting a nightly fea
ture over the Columbia Broadcasting
System that is rapidly gaining na
tional recognition as a highlight in
the field of news commentation. The
name Paul Sullivan, news commen
tator on the Raleigh cigarette pro
gx-am, sponsored by Brown & Wil
liamson, is becoming as well known
as the expression "Raleigh, the union
made cigarette," according to officials
of the corporation.
N. L.R.B. MACHINISTS' RULING
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). —The
National Labor Relations Board has
announced orders, based upon stipula
tions, directing three Providence, R.
I., automobile dealers to bargain in
dividually, upon request, with the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
Local Number 1017, as the exclusive I
collective bargaining agent of their
employes.
HAMILTON SPECIALS
The switch may be turned on Sat
urday night for Hamilton's Christmas
lighting decorations, C. N. Teaff, di
rector of public utilities, announced
Tuesday.
Installation of Christmas lights on
the municipal building was started
Tuesday, and this task will require
about three days.
The regular meeting of the Hamil
I ton Board of Education was held
Monday night in the school adminis
tration offices with all board members
present.
The monthly medical report was
submitted to the board by Dr. George
Flenner and Miss Eva M. Kriegen
hofer, school physician and nurse, re
spectively. The report disclosed there
was little illness among school chil
dren during November.
The regular meeting of Butler
Aerie, No. 407, Fraternal Order of
Eagles, was held Monday night in the
Eagles' temple, 320 South Second
I Street.
Frank Maus reported on the dis
trict initiation which he, Russell
Schorr and Ray Debolt attended Sun
day in Miamisburg. A fish fry was
planned for December 15.
A membership committee meeting
and an officers' meeting were an
nounced for Friday night at 7 o'clock.
Trustees of the Hamilton police
pension fund for 1940 will be chosen
December 11. Police will vote in
headquarters between 6 a. m. and
6 p. m.
Terms of these board members will
expire: James O'Connor, Joseph Mc
Fall, Oscar Decker, George Van Lieu
and Frank Mayer.
An appeal is made to Hamilton pe
destrians to "drop a bit of loose
change" in the Salvation Army Christ
mas kettles when they appear on the
streets.
More than 400 members attended
the twentieth anniversary meeting of
the Hamilton Woman's City Club
Monday, in the Y. W. C. A.
Fifteen of the original 31 chartei
members were present and described
the first meeting of the club.
Collections of the last half of 1939
personal taxes this week reached
total of $38,710.75, Butler County
Treasurer John W. Wendel an^
nounced. The tax books are sched
uled to close December 20.
Carl Kieser, proprietor of Kieser'i
Bar, 116 South Second Street, has
I completed the remodeling of his place
and it is now one of the best drink
and dine establishments in the city
IA new kitchen with all equipment has
been installed and is now open to the
public. Kieser's Bar is ready to serve
I you with the best of imported and
domestic beers, good liquors, all kinds
of mixed drinks, choice steaks and
special dishes. Tables for ladies is
I another feature of this cafe.
Iron Molders' Union, No. 283, in
formed members this week to stay
out of the Estate Stove Company
plant until further notice.
Red Jacket
Coal
Anthracite
Pocahontas
i
operation five holidays with pay
a
year no work on Saturday afternoon
or night except emergency work:
prompt review of piece rates whin
daily earnings fall below hourly earn
ings a definite guarantee that the
company will not penalize any em
ploye for union or non-union activ
ities a guarantee of existing wage
rates until January, 1940.
Semet-Solvay Coke
DULUTH FIRM SIGNS
OFFICE CONTRACT
(By A. F. of Za. Weekly News Service)
Duluth, Minn.—The Duluth A. F. of
L. Office Employes' Union announced
the negotiation of an agreement with
the Stone- Ordean Wells Company,
calling for a wage increase in addi
tion to restoration of a 9% per cent
pay cut, paid vacations, time and one
half rate for overtime, sick leave with
pay, and dismissal notices of two
weeks.
The contract expires May 1, 1940,
the date of expiration of other union
contracts with the firm, and is re
newable unless reopened on notice of
intention to seek changes by either
party. It is retroactive to October 1.
Employes eligible for membership
the union have joined, and the
firm's warehouse workers and truck
drivers are already organized. Looks
as though the Stone- Ordean Wells
Company is virtually 100 per cent
union shop.
ON DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE
Appointment of Arthur Linkins,
deputy sheriff, to the Butler County
Democratic Executive Committee was
announced this week by Robert Sohn
gen, committee chairman. Linkins is
president of the Middletown Demo
cratic Club. The executive and cen
tral committees indorsed George
Brandhoff for reappointment to the
county board of elections.
FULL CREW ACT KILLED
Philadelphia (ILNS). The State
Supreme Court held the Full Crew
Act, passed by the 1937 legislature,
unconstitutional.
The ruling upheld a similar deci
sion by the Dauphn County courts.
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Practical all-around tailor, would like
to be favored with your patronage, for
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ing, Removing Wearshine and Re
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Acid Indigestion, Gas on Stom
ach, Heartburn, are usually caus
ed by injudicious eating or drink
ing. Try Alka-Seltzer for relief.
Alka-Seltzer also relieves the
distress of Headache, Colds, Neu
ralgia, and Muscular Aches and
Pains, because it contains an an
algesic, (sodium acetyl salicylate).
Ynur srlls Alka-Seltzer in
handy k mr anri b- the glass at
his soda fountain Try it.
Schwenn Coal Company
ADVERTISING
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W. H. STEPHAN, Prop.
COAL AND COKE
Fifth and High Streets PHONE 23
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Bearing the Union Label.
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326 Market St. Phone 1296
Hamilton Ohio