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Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1941.
AGGRESSIVE JOB PROTECTION
Small plants, accounting for more
than 60 per cent of our industrial
workers, "represent the balance of
power in the world conflict," Floyd
B. Odium, head of the OPM Contract
Distribution Division, said recently.
"We will make a vigorous effort to
see that no large order goes to any
firm that does not agree 'to farm out'
a reasonable part of the work," Odium
promised in a speech broadcast from
Washington.
Labor will of course be highly
pleased if the "vigorous effort" prom
ised by Mr. Odium is made and will
be even more pleased if it is success
ful. From the beginning of the de
fense program, the American Federa
tion of Labor has insisted that work
must be spread to small plants.
The Seattle convention took a strong
and constructive stand on the matter,
recommending that any plants not co
operating with the defense program
or refusing to seek defense contracts
be taken over by the government for
defense operation. The convention re
garded pressure of this kind as im
portant to bring many recalcitrant
S E E U S
IF YOU NEED A LOAN
To
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Your Home
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Third and Court Sts.
VOTE 1st
CHOICE FOR
ROBERT TAYLOR
MORTUARY
Formerly
THE C. W. GATH CO.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
Ambulance Service Chairs and Tables Rented
Phone 35 17 So. Street
Another distinguished European la
bor leader .has become a victim of
Nazi barbarity and joined the ranks
of many other labor men who have
perished in Hitler's concentration
camps.
Latest victim is Robert Klein, lead
ing trade unionist of Czechoslovakia
news of whose death in the Buchen
wald concentration camp has just been
received by the International Federa
tion of Trade Unions. The I. F. T. U
says it is known that Klein was meted
out unusually harsh treatment at Bu
chenwald, so much so that, although
he was a powerfully built man in the
early 50's, he has met a martyr's end
In the trade union movement of his
own country and internationally, Klein
was an active and able worker. He
made his organization, that of the non
manual workers, into a modern trade
union and he was particularly inter
ested in social questions like pension
insurance for non-manual workers. To
his efforts was due the introduction
in many districts of the Sunday day
of rest in the retail trade. In eco
nomic matters, he sought to increase
the influence of the trade unions.
Internationally, Klein was active as
a member of the general council of
the International Federation of Trade
Unions. He was also vice-president of
the International Federation of Com
mercial, Clerical and Technical Em
ployes, in which he was an energetic
worker from its formation.
In a tribute to the dead leader, the
I. F. T. U. bulletin says:
"Klein was a modern trade union
ist, to whom the trade unions were
an instrument of rational economic
employers or those doing little to pro
tect workers' jobs into line of an ag
gressive policy for employment pro
tection.
BAD PLAN UP AGAIN
The proposal for hiking social se
curity taxes, to make wage earners
pay perhaps as much as 5 per cent
is up again, quite likely as a "trial
balloon" to test the public's reaction
If the public knows what is good for
it, the proposal will get a hostile re
ception. It is now advanced primarily
as a means of preventing inflation, by
taking the money for taxes that might
otherwise go into the purchase of
goods and products for civilian use.
One of the ideas apparently behind
the scheme is that the wage earner
will be making more while the defense
effort is under way and therefore will
be in a position to pay more in social
security taxes. This ignores the facts
that rising prices may largely nullify
higher pay and that great numbers
of wage earners with fixed salaries
will receive little or nothing in the
way of pay increases. In addition ev
eryone, whether his pay rises, falls or
is stationary, will pay much more in
federal income, sales and other taxes.
Furthermore, as was said editorially
here recently: "To increase social se
curity taxes to prevent inflation or to
help pay for government expenditures
is to attempt to make the security
system serve a purpose for which it
was never intended."
11 ANDREW
ANDREW W. BRUCK
(ANDY)
TOm MEMBER OF
CITY COUNCIL
FORMERLY A MEMBER OF
MACHINISTS' UNION No. 241
and
BARTENDERS' LOCAL No. 169
ALWAYS FAIR TO LABOR
(Political Advertisement)
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
and social progi-ess. First and fore
most, however—and this was the fun
damental impulse for his selfless work
—he was a man who had immeasurable
sympathy with the sufferings of his
fellow men. Many labor officials who
had to flee from the Nazi terror in
Germany and Austria will remember
him with deepest gratitude.
"In numbers of cases, Klein made
superhuman efforts to rescue individ
uals from the horrors of the concen
tration camp. The tragedy of his life
was that he was himself a victim of
the concentration camp. The news of
his martyrdom will strengthen the
wills of those whose cause he so
courageously and indefatigably cham
pioned, to resist the evils of Nazi
ism, and to impel them to action when
the hour strikes. The international
trade union movement will give Rob
ert Klein due honor as one of its best
sons."
Disastrous effect of German occupa
tion of Paris on child welfare is in
dicated by a dispatch reporting that
the child mortality rate in the city
has increased by nearly one-half over
the pre-war normal. The facts are
given in a repoi-t of the public health
council of the Seine Department which
summarized the situation as one of
"prolonged famine."
The council gives the latest death
rate of children under 10 as 45 per
cent above the last five-year average,
while the mortality rate for the total
population rose 9 per cent.
The report predicted one infant in
every 10 born this winter would die
and it introduced "armistice skinni
ness" as a new medical term.
MAINTAIN 40-HOUR WEEK
Thei^ has been talk recently of
lengthening the work week as a meas
ure to speed defense production. No
basis can be found for such a move
at the present time. There are still
4,500,000 unemployed. Several million
more are threatened by priority un
employment, and will be leaving ci
vilian industries to find work in de
fense production. Also, some three
million more persons who do not
usually work for pay can be drawn
into the labor market. With such a
labor reserve, approaching 10,000,000,
this is no time to lengthen work
hours.—American Federation of La
bor.
WHAT NEXT?
Mechanism is about to invade sugar
beet growing. A new beet combine
that does the entire harvesting job,
topping, lifting, and loading the beets,
reducing hand labor to a minimum
has been developed. It is an average
sized machine hauled and powered
from a Diesel tractor. Combines here
tofore developed have been too elab
orate and costly for the average
grower.
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WISDOM
The future of democracy on all con
tinents as well as here in the United
States lies largely in the hands of
labor.—William Green.
THE
CHERRY TREE
Whera with *ar Little Hatchet we tell
the truth abeat Many things, Mtaetunea
profoundly, Haetiau flippantly, Mme
timee recklessly.
War is a fact for the United States.
Some don't think so, but it isn't a
case of thinking. It is a case of fact.
At this writing we have sunk one
German U-boat Germany has crippled
one U. S. destroyer, with loss of 11
men.
Did someone ask when "shooting
war" is to start?
Peace probably will be a long time
coming. Maybe three years maybe
five.
YOU will live a lot harder be
fore it's over.
Things to remember: Taxes will go
up housing will be scarcer *tood will
cost more, but will be available cloth
ing will be available, but will cost
more.
Financially, we have a hard row to
hoe.
But we never looked at the issue
that way. It is liberty against slavery.
Someone once said "there never was
a good war or a bad peace."
The saying became somewhat pop
ular, as half truths often do. It was
the bunk.
ANY peace with Hitler is a bad
peace. Any peace that sells out men's
souls and leaves them spiritually and
physically in bondage is bad peace.
Patrick Henry said it better—said it
as it should be said:
"Give me liberty or give me death."
American workers can be proud that
the American Federation of Labor, in
its Seattle convention, joined with
Patrick Henry. Everything we have
for defense. Hitlerism must be de
stroyed!
Japan will nudge into the mess, too
—maybe has, by now. Japan, looking
for the jackal's way in—biting at the
heels while Hitler engages the front.
Italy and Japan have something in
common. Italy came in when she
thought it was a case of picking up
the wreckage. Italy now would be
very happy to get out.
One would wish the Italian people
could get out—but that Mussolini
could not!
There's an observation about Japan:
The Samurai had a great code of
honor. A man dishonoi-ed chose death
and a particularly torturing death.
But what is one to say about the
honor of Japan today?
The Chinese might have some in
teresting opinions on that score.
Japan, like Italy, is the victim of
ruthless leaders bent on conquest.
Germany—Italy—Japan. While they
stand together the world must link
them together as standing for the
same thing.
That's the way it is. We didn't
make it that way—but we will have
to help unmake it.
The Wheelers, Lindberghs, Nyes,
etci) just haven't made a case, though
they have made a lot of confusion.
But eventually the American people
do their own thinking and make their
own decisions.
It must be evident that the Ameri
can people HAVE made up their mind.
When there is a right thing to do
and a wrong thing, the decision goes
for the right thing.
The time for dissension is past!
—C.M. W.
GREEN URGES POSTAL
EMPLOYE PAY RAISE
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS).—President
William Green of the American Fed
eration of Labor, while supporting a
request of postal employes for wage
increases, told a meeting of the Na
tional Federation of Post Office Clerks
here "there can never be" a strike
against the government by civil service
employes.
American Federation of Labor con
vention resolutions call for a $20-per
month increase or a bonus for gov
ernment workers to meet increased
living costs.
Green declared: "I don't think any
civil service employe who understands
the priceless heritage of liberty, free
dom and justice that is ours ever will
belong to an organization which would
strike against the government. (He
referred to what he said was such
threat by a C. I. O. union.)
"You ought to have had that pay
raise a long time ago," he said. "We
will never fail you. Any member of
Congress who votes against the bill
for civil service pay raises will be
classed as an enemy by the American
Federation of Labor."
Childs Strike Averted
By Wage Increases
New York City (ILNS). Agree
ment on terms of a new contract pro
viding wage increases of $350,000 for
employes of the Childs l-estaurant
chain here averted a threatened strike
of 3,200 workers. Through the efforts
of the State Mediation Board, the pact
was made after ten days of almost
continuous conferences between rep
resentatives of the management and
the Chain Service Restaurant Em
ployes' Union, Local 22, A. F. of L.
The agreement calls for pay in
creases of $2 to $2.50 a week. It will
run for one year.
3,500 Hotel Workers
Win Pay Increases
Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—A strike
of 3,50G employes of 16 leading Wash
ington hotels was averted when rep
resentatives of the Hotel Workers'
Joint Council and the Hotel Owners'
Association reached an agreement in
the office of John R. Steelman, director
of the conciliation service of the De
partment of Labor.
The agreement involved an increase
of $500,000 annually, heaviest being
in the lower brackets.
CONFERENCE VOTES TAX
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS-.—The West
ern Conference of Teamsters, which
has just concluded its annual conven
tion here, will hold its 1942 meeting
in Salt Lake City next June. The pol
icy committee voted a 1-cent per
capita tax monthly to defray expenses
of the gathering.
Advertise in The Press.
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Carpenters Not To Demand
Label During Emergency
Seattle, Wash. (ILNS).—The United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, A. F. of L., will not demand the
brotherhood label on lumber handled
by carpenters during the national de
fense emergency, William Hutcheson,
brotherhood president, declared here.
Hutcheson, here for the American
Federation of Labor convention, also
said that the Carpenters' membership
will not boycott non-A. F. of L. lum
ber products.
SHOE WORKERS' MINIMUM PAY
Washington, D. C.—The Wage and
Hour Division of the U. S. Department
of Labor issued an order, effective No
vember 3, establishing a 40-cent-an
hour minimum wage in the shoe in
dustry.
WAREHOUSE UNIONS IN GAIN
Seattle, Wash. .ILNS-. Reports
made during the recent Western Con
ference of Teamsters indicate that
membership of warehouse unions in
the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters increased more than 50 per
cent in the last year. Report showed
615 new warehouses organized, bring
ing some 4,000 new members into the
Teamsters.
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LIBERTY HOME
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NEVADA STRIKELESS, FOR YEAR
Reno, Nev. (ILNS).—State officials
say that Nevada has a record of not
having one authorized work stoppage
because of striking workers in more
than a year
Make yourself comfortable—if pos
sible.
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K. Wagner
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
SOCIAL and CARD PARTY
Every Friday Night
THE Sl'OT FOR HEAL ENJOYMENT
MOOSE HOME
At 8:45 P. M.
YOUR FIRST-CHOICE VOTE
WILL BE APPRECIATED!
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JOHN A. SCHWALM
CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELECTION
HAMILTON CITY COUNCIL
ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1941
JOHN
A.
Hamilton, Ohio
SCHWALM
Favors the following:
The Charter Form of Government.
Municipal ownership and further improvement of the
City Utility plants, the Gas, Water and Electric plants.
Profits of these plants to be used to lower rates on
Gas, Water and Electricity.
The Federal and State governments taking over the
Conservancy Debt in order to relieve the citizens of
Hamilton of the terrible Conservancy Tax Burden.
More Playgrounds and Swimming Pools in the several
districts of the City for the old and young.
Parks in or adjacent to the City so that the citizens
of Hamilton may enjoy Family Outings and basket
Picnics in the great outdoors.
I solicit your support on the basis of the above platform
To vote for me as your FIRST CHOICE, please be sure to place
a figure 1 (not an X) before my name on the ballot, like this:
JOHN A. SCHWALM
The Schwalm-foiM'ouncil Club George Schuler,
(Political Advertisement)
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