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The Washington times., 1927-05-24

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TO GIVE DINNER
AT COUNTRY CLUB

Mr.. and Mrs. Aksel Wichfeld will
entertain at dinner Saturday even.
ing at the Montgomery Country
Club. They have come to Washing,
ton in connection with the sale OF
their house at 1746 Massachusetts,
Ave-, which was purchased by the
Canadian government for their lie.
cation here. For several years Mr..
and Mrs. Wichfield have been livins
abroad.
*
The Chief Of Staff Of the Army
and Mrs. Charles p. Summerall will
entertain at dinner Saturday eve.
ming in honor Of Mrs. John L.
Hines, wife Of Maj. Gen. John L.
Hines. who is now in command OF
the Preside in San Francisco.
The Chief Of Staff and Mrs. Sum.
neral were the guests in whose
honor Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Charles
NICK. Saltzman entertained at an
The Washington times., 1927-05-24
Go Without Fail
To Juliette AIIen's

at once. The remaining frocks and
coats from a Palm Beach exhibit are
on sale there at perfectly amazing
The Washington times., 1927-05-24
The Cross-Country
Htktn0 TYtb

or any Of the outdoor activities Of
this season are infinitely more sue.
cessful and happy. If your hair Is
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SAIL IN JUNE
FOR EUROPE

Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard B. Jones,
who have been in Kentucky for the
Derby, have returned to their
Washington residence to remain un.
til June 2. They will then leave
for New York and will sail on
June 4 on the Majestic for Europe
to spend the summer abroad. Mr..
and Mrs. Jones are closing their
house here for the summer and are
leaving caretakers In charge at
Audley Farm. their historic old
place near Berryville, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred bennett had
with them over Sunday their
daughter, Mrs. Patton Wise Slemp,
Of Cincinnati.
Mrs. bennett and Mrs. Slemp
left yesterday for New York city to
sail on the Italian line today for
Italy, where they will spend the
summer, dividing their time be.
tween Naples, Rome, Florence,
Venice and the north Italian lakes.
The Washington times., 1927-05-24
The Seoiimmiing Pool
Is Open at Wardman

Park Hotel. and that is not all.
They have a new Coffee Shop, which
Is a wonder. You may sit at tables
The Washington times., 1927-05-24
MoHda Scarves
HGnd-Dyed in CoIors

are in great demand by people
visiting Mr.. Fosters. 1923 Connect.
cut avenue. They are in exquisite
daSiRnS-snnae are hand.
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Clearance Sale
1T Betty HannG'S

today and tomorrow, Everything
in stock left over from spring will
be sold at cost. New summer things
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The Latest
To Arripe

lin the block Of "old.time" firms
just above Dupont Circle is Demonet
Confectioner. You win find Demonet's
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CHILDREN TO FROLIC
AT TWIN OAKS FETE

Entertainment for the children
win be featured at the fete at Twin
Oaks, home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
]. Bell. Keith Merrill, jr., a youth.
ful rabbit merchant, will have on
sale a consignment of Dummies just
received from his fathers farm in
Massachusetts,. And Theodore Til.
Ter, jr., will present his clever
martonette show several times dur.
ing the afternoon.
At the Neighborhood House
booth there will be a profusion of
"Shirobi scarves" in all the fashion.
able color schemes. Mrs. Dabney
Maury and Miss Ruth Stoddard will
be in charge Of the Old English
Flower Shoppe.
The fete, which is being given in
aid Of Neighborhood House, viii
celebrate the twenty-fifth anniyer.
sary OF the institution.
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been In the bottom of your golf
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18

By International Labor News Service
Washington, d. C.-Many weak
trades totally unorganized are work
ing on the basis of the fve-day week
because it is common sense to do so.
The most outstanding example is that
of the shirt ironers, nearly all women,
in Detroit who do not work Sundays
or Mondays, but on the remaining
days work nine hours, or as week.
The laundry workers report nearly 8
per cent of their union membership
has the five-day week of more than
40 hours.
Bakers have only Id per cent of
their members working five days the
year around, but those who do have
this advantage work but 40 hours
a week. Benchmen and oven men in
Brooklyn shops work but five nights
the year around. The paper box in
dustry is poorly organized, but out
of 70 establishments 60 per cent vol
UNFAIRLY work only five days a week.
The larger plants prefer not to start
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
UNION MINERS
Demand Inquiry of Coal
Freight Rates

Indianapolis. - The United Mine
Workers convention favored an in
quiry of freight rates that the inter
state commerce commission has grant
ed to the non-union fields of Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes-
see.
Coal from these fields is shipped
through the union coal fields of Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
to great coal-consuming markets at a
lower freight cost than the union
coal, which is several hundred miles
nearer the consumer, who does not
gain by the preferential rates.
"The policy of the interstate COM
merce commission" the miners con-
vention declared, s'has driven coal pro-
ducers of the four union states out of
their legitimate markets and brought
them to condition of bankruptcy.
'On the other hand, the competing
mines in Kentucky, Virginia, West
Virginia and Tennessee, as result of
special favors, have increased their
production, opened new mines and
thus added to the already demoralized
condition of the industry"
The commission defends it's prefer
entail rates on the ground that the
southern mining is an infant industry.
In denying this statement, the miners
quote from the United States coal
commission that the southern fields
'have been over-developed by this
artificial stimulation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
FEARLESS JUDGE
Hands Detroit Anti-UniOn
Group a Singing

Detroit, Mich.-Judge Edward J.
Jeffries, of the recorders court,
maintained his reputation for fear
lessness when he told the citizens
committee of the board of commerce
that it must not poke its nose" into
functions of public officials.
1t was the sharpest rebuff received
by the board of commerce since these
business men attempted, last fall, to
tell churchmen that representatives of
organized labor should not be per-
mitted to speak in Detroit churches.
Judge Jeffries' ire was aroused
when the case against local trade
union official was called Two attor-
enys stepped before the judge. One
said he represented the unionist, the
other "the citizens committee Of the
board of commerce"
The Judge glowered at the latter,
and asked
''Since when has it become neces-
sary for the people of the state of
Michigan to call upon the board of
commerce for help in the trial of its
cases? What's the matter with the
staff of the prosecuting attorney? Is
it supposed to be capable of taking
care of the business of the people?
'Since when," continued Judge JEFF
fries, "has the board of commerce
assumed the right to poke its nose
into the exclusive business of the
state of Michigan? What right have
you to appear in this case?"
81 am here in behalf of the citizens
committee of the board of com.
merce," the attorney replied meekly
"Well, you can tell your clients that
they are not the people of the state
Of Michigan in this court. Your pres
ence here is an insult. Now you had
better act fast and fade out of the
picture"
Turning to the prosecutor, the court
said:
"What is wrong with your office
Do you have to get help from the
board of commerce? Is the board of
commerce running your office? Get
around there in front, where you be ?
long, in place of the attorney for the
board of commerce, and take care of
the business of the people"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18

By International Labor News Service
indianapolis, Ind.-The anti-unior
propaganda coming out of California
in reference to the strike of the union
carpenters as having tpetered out
and the men returning to work on any
sort Of terms is branded as absolutely
false by officials of the international
Union at headquarters here.
Stories printed in eastern newspa-
pers to the effect that the strike ended
ingloriously for the union are not
borne out by the facts in the case.
The strike, which has entered its
tenth month, may be settled after the
5000 union members in the Bay coun-
ties and San Francisco have voted on
the terms of the settlement now being
negotiated, officials of the Inter
national Union said.
Members of the Industrial Associa-
tion and the officials of the Brother
hool of Carpenters in the affected dis
trict, after a series of conferences,
reached tentative agreement where
in the employers agreed to discontinue
the permit" system if the union off
cials would agree to go out of the
building material business.
Under the permit system work per-
mits were granted to union and non
union workmen alike on a proportion
ate basis. The Brotherhood has es-
tablished material yards and sold ma
terial to employers employing union
carpenters after the Industrial Asso-
citation had compelled material yards
to refuse to sell supplies to contrac-
tors employing union labor The
brotherhood established big yards
and succeeded in protecting its mem
bers in the matter of obtaining en-
ployment.
Under the tentative agreement both
sides will discontinue these practices
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18

ciples embraced in the body of this
constitution"
This particular paragraph, before il
was amended, was usually the subject
of attack by coal operators in dam
age suits against the union, as show
ing the animus behind whatever allie
cations the operators would make in
their complaint, and the pharse, full
social value of their products" would
be quoted in substantiation.
Power to Levy Assessments
The convention also amended sec
tion in the law to give the interna-
tional executive board full power to
levy assessments for any amount and
over any period of time when the ne
cessity for such required, without hav-
ing referendum vote on the subject.
This was done, it was pointed out, to
protect the membership in time of
strike when quick financial aid would
be needed in saving a situation
Severe criticism of the interstate
commerce commission was voiced by
President John L. Lewis in respect to
coal freight rates in the states of
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and other states. He asserted, in a
supplementary report on the subject,
that the primary need of the bitumi-
nous coal industry is stabilization, but
that it could not be obtained because
of the discriminatory freight rates
maintained by the commission affect
ing various coal fields.
Asks Rate Readjustment
Lewis pleaded for scientific read
justment of coal freight rates to rem
edy an evil which he said is response
BILE in large measure for the pres
ent over-development and unbalanced
condition of the industry 1t is admit
ted, he said, that the entire
freight rate structure of the United
States is and always has been, sun
scientific, arbitrary and without any
basis in logic or common sense" The
interstate commerce commission in
stead of correcting this discrimina-
ton, has actually aggravated the evil
by its recent policies, he declared.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18

up the machinery for a half day Sat
urday.
Some union agreements provide for
regular week of more than 40 hours,
divided into five working days, but
permit notifications. In Haverhill,
Mass, which is strongly union, the
shoe workers go to the factories five
days and put in 45 hours work week.
The five-day week either of 40 hours
or more has made little headway in
the lumber industry, pottery works,
coal and metal mining, woolen and
worsted, hosiery and underwear,
slaughtering and meat packing, cot
ton goods, paper and pulp works.
The Ford works are the only large
section of the big automobile indus
try that has accepted the five-day
week as economical. 1t is essentially
a machine process and it is found to
be good sense not to start the machin-
cry unless for steady run Of eight
hours and to shut down for at least
two days week for recuperation of
the workers and for possible repair
of the machines as well.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
San Francisco Carpenters
10 Vote on Agreement for
Ending 10 Months Strike

In addition, the employing contractors
have agreed to an eight-hour day and
an advance in wages of 81 a day, or
from So to SO day, with other union
conditions to obtain. This, in brief,
is the agreement that is to be SUBJ
mitted to the members of the Broth
erhood for their approval or disap-
proval.
Officials of the International Union
said that the ballots for the refer
endum vote were being prepared and
that the vote would be taken as soon
as the ballots were in the hands of the
California officials. Under the laws
of the brotherhood all wage agree
ments must be submitted to a refer
endum before they become active, and
the present case is no exception to
the rule.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
PRISON LABOR
SCORED; "PAPER'
PROFIT SHOWN

Albany, N. Y.-Successful manage
ment of prison industries in Sing
Sing, this state, can be largely dis
counted, says Assemblyman Goodrich
in letter to Governor Smith, follow
ing personal investigation.
Citing the claim that the first three
months of the present fiscal year
showed profit of $4,000 in Sing
Sing, as compared with $4,000 in
1925-26, Mr.. Goodrich says the fig
ures disregard numerous items of ex-
pense. Among them, he says, are
$6,080 for convicts' compensation,
losses of $1,000 through the closing
of the shoe shop, $1,000 for construc-
tions and $4,000 for coal and royalties
on shoe machinery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
Feb. Il Last Date to Make
Subscriptions to Stock Of
Union Labor Insurance Co,

order to permit a number of trade
unions to take the necessary step to
become shareholders and to afford all
unions not yet recorded as sharehold-
ers to become such.
'Inasmuch as the detailed work re-
quired to put the office of the Union
Labor Life Insurance Company upon
an operating basis will require sew
eral weeks and appreciating the con-
stantly increasing interest manifest
ed by organized labor in this insur-
ance enterprise the decision was
reached that the books of stock sub
scription be held open until Monday
evening, February 21, and that no
further subscriptions be received after
that time.
"In view of the foregoing definite
arrangements have been made for the
closing of stock subscriptions and a
definite time has been provided for
the soliciting of insurance and the do
ing of an active insurance service"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
HIGH WAGES
Is Base of Wide Prosperity

New Haven, Conn-"The workers
purchasing power must keep pace
with their increasing power to pro-
duce," said William Green, president
of the A. F. of L., at the Trades Coun-
ell Forum.
"In fact, our wage level should al
ways be above the productivity of in
dustry," the unionist said "The sue
cess and prosperity of our nation must
rest upon the peoples consuming
power"
President Green declared that labor
can not be classed as commodity,
compared with products manufactur-
ed and created by industry. Labor is
life, because workers give their lives
and their minds when they work.
"The objective Of labor is higher
and better life. This purpose can
not be realized except through the
power and influence of collective
action"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18

By International Laber News Service.
Washington, ID. C.-Directors of the
Union Labor Life Insurance Company
have confirmed the appointment of
J. D. Maddrill as vice president and
general manager, and R. B. Robbins
as vice president and actuary.
These are the two principal ap-
pointments for the immediate present
and in the opinion of the directors,
stand as an indication of the type of
experts who will be engaged to oper-
ate union labor's latest and most i'm
portant financial enterprise.
Both Experienced Men
Mr.. Maddrill was born in Nevada in
1880 and received his education in
California, taking his ALB. at the Uni
versity of California in 1903, and his
Phi. d. at the same institution in
1907, later becoming an instructor in
engineering mathematics. From 1913
to 1917 he did special analytic and
editorial work at the home office of
the Travellers Insurance Company for
the actuarial and agency departments.
During the next three years, he helped
organize the program and procedure
of the War Risk Bureau, and made
the actuarial valuations of senate and
house bills for the retirement of
United States civil service employees,
later serving for five years on the
board of consulting actuaries provided
by the existing retirement act. From
1920 to 1925 he carried out reorgani-
zation work for the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers Association Casualty
and Fire Insurance Companies and
was employed in 1925 and 1926 for
the reorganization of the Hartford
Accident and Indemnity Company
home office and agency system of con-
trolls over risk selection.
Mr.. Robbins was born in Indiana in
1886 and received his A. B. and A. M.
degrees from the University of Indi-
ana and his Ph. D. from Harvard in
1914. From that time until 1921,
when he joined the insurance depart
ment of New York as assistant actu-
ary, he taught mathematics success
sively at Harvard, Sheffield Scientific
School at Yale and the University of
Michigan, where he became assistant
professor of actuarial and statistical
mathematics until 1922, when the de-
partment granted him years leave
of absence. Since that time he has
been in charge of the departments
actuarial work in the life insurance
field.
Books Open Until February II
"The board of directors" President
Matthew Woll announced, was i'm
portuned by number of requests to
withhold closing it's stock sales in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
WOMEN'S LAW
ATTACKED; BOSSES
SCARE PUBLIC

Boston.-Organized labor in this
state is aroused by the widespread
attack on the 48-hour law for women
and minors. This is the fourth at.
tempt in as many years that the Ark
wright Club, an organization of tex
tile employers, would nullify the act
Long work-day advocates have pre-
pared the stage by their claims in
mill towns that it is impossible for
New England to compete with the
long-hour system of the South.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
Convention Deals Solar
Plexus Blow to Communists;
Commerce Commission Hit

BY International Labor News Service.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Delegates to the
convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America here gave the scale
committee free rein in negotiating
wage scale with the operators OF
the central competitive field at joint
conference beginning February Ia at
Miami, Fla, on the basis of no reduc-
tion in wages.
The committee in it's report to the
convention recommended an agree
ment to be made for a period of two
years, beginning April l, 1927. In adj
dition the committee recommended
that the convention authorize the ap-
pointment of a policy committee to
be made up of members of the scale
committee of the central competitive
field, three representative from the
resident officers and the members of
outlying districts, the international
the international executive board.
Power Given Policy Committee
The scale committee suggested that
the policy committee be empowered
to take such action for the protection
of the interests of the organization as
circumstances may require. The rec
ommendation was adopted.
Whatever agreement is made with
the operators will, under the recon-
mendations of the scale committee, be
referred to the membership of the
union through referendum vote.
To Gust Communists
Communism, as far as the United
Mine Workers is concerned, was hang
ing on the ropes when the convention
got through with it. Delegates to the
convention dealt it solar plexus
when they adopted an amendment to
the constitution effectually barring
members of that party from belong
ing to the union. The amendment
provides expulsion from the union of
any member convicted in the courts OF
the organization of being a member
of the communist party.
The adoption of the amendment was
the subject of hot debate between a
small minority delegation who argued
that the adoption of such an amend
ment would contravene the rights of a
member of the union to his political
beliefs. 1t was pointed out, however,
that the communist party is not only
political but industrial as well, and as
such is dual organization. The con-
stitution of the United Mine Workers
forbids any member from joining any
dual organization. The new constitu-
tion goes into effect April /.
Preamble Amended
The convention also amended the
preamble of the constitution deleting
the phrase: "full social value of their
product" and substituting, "an equit-
able share of the fruits of their la
bor." The amended paragraph then
reading:
Believing that those whose lot il
is to toll within the earth's recesses
surrounded by peculiar dangers and
deprived Of sunlight and pure air, pro.
ducing the commodity which makes
possible the worlds progress, are en-.
titled to protection and an equitable
share of the fruits of their labor, we
have formed the United Mine Work
ers of America for the purpose Of es-
tablishing. by lawful means, the prin-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
Miners Instruct Scale Committee
Not to Accept Wage Reductions
MINE SYSTEMS DIFFER

indianapolis. = "The problems OF
European mine workers are many anc
are, perhaps, more difficult than
ours" reported delegates from the
United Mine Workers to the Miners
international Federation.
eve do not like to speak in the
spirit of criticism" the report states
''but their sliding scale agreements
bind members Of the European organ
izations eternally to impoverished
conditions of employment and low
wages.
"The antiquated system of mining
together with other difficulties en-
countered in production of coal ma
terially increases the cost of produc-
tom
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
STEREOTYPERS GAIN

Portsmouth,, Ohio. - Stereotypers
employed on local newspapers raised
wages $5 a week. A two-year con-
tract has been signed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-18
The Five-Day Week
Is Coming

The evidence shorter work week adaptable
industry the fact that has been accepted and is operative
lines of This refOrm-the
shorter work WEEKS us"Wlam Green, president
the American Federation of Labor.