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New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY D. uzA

Monday evening. the Hach Male chorus will meet Tuesday evening. the church chctr. Wednesday evening. Lenten serv- ices at 7:A6 o'clock. Thursday evening. Brotherhood meeting. 4 debate will b. held Tt the meeting.
 Friday evening. the choir Of 1850 voices will sing the "Messiah." The concert will begin at : P. m.
 st. Matthew's
 Service in Engiish at .. m.: in German. with holy communion at 10:45 a. m.: confessional service Tt 10 a- m. English Sunday school at 10:s0 a. m. No German Sunday school.
 Midweek Lenten service on Wed nesday in German and on Friday in English at 7:45p. m.
 Rev. A. c. Theodore steege, pas tor of the church, will be in New York on synodical business on Tues day.
 Reformation
 First Sunday in Lent. Holy com- munion at 10 a. m. Sunday school at 11:15 a. m. Services in charge of the Luther league at 7:S0 p. m.
 The Sunday school teachers insti- tute will meet Tuesday evening. These meetings are open to the public.
 The religious school will meet Wednesday and Thursday after noons.
 Lenten services will be held We'd nesday evening at o'clock.
 The choir will meet Friday eve- ming.
 St. Johns (German)
 Sunday, 8:30 a. m.. English confess sional and communion service: 9:30 a. m., Sunday school; 10:45 a. m., German confessional and com- munion service.
 Tuesday. 8 p. m., meeting of the Friendship league.
 Wednesday. 7:30 p. m., German Lenten service.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
ewedltsa ns1llauay

Rev. c. J. Andres superintendent of the Covenant Hsapital sad Hene of Mercy. chieagA lii.. win Dsesch at the services tsmegTow at le;Se a. m. ard ?. m. epsciai nausee hy the church choir. Tue I. P. A vtll have . song service in the aftaruosa at 4:so o'clock.
 The Bethany Bibis olass Will nset on russday night at 1:SS s'elsck: lesson study undss the direction of the pastor. Rev. C. J. Fredsen.
 Midweek service at 7:lt o'clock Thursday evening. Iasssnatsooal Dahse obadsots' Asaa.
 Sunday. to $ ?. m.. volunteer service: S ?. m.. RibIe study at the home of Charles Henry, 33 Dwight street.
 Wednesday. p. m.. praise. pray CT and testimony service.
 Friday. 8 p. m.. Bible study. sub- ject: Acts 15:ll."
 Salvation Army
 Major Axel Beckman of New York. general secretary for the Eastern Scandinavian province of the 6aiva- ton Army, will have charge of serv- ices At the local army hall Sunday morning at II o'clock and at { o'clock in the afternoon. Ensign Carl Fredrickson will preside at s O clock in the evening.
 Town Home
 Charles A. Humphrey will preside at the monthly laymen's meeting at the town homo tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
NONDENOMINATIONAL
 POoe3e'S

- RcopSe's Sunday. 10:16 .. m.. prayer in the ,, pastors study: IF noon. Bible school ! with classes for all ages: 6 p. m.. Young Peoples meeting In charge of the missionary committee. Miss Laura Coates, speaker. Monday, farewell meeting for Mfss Knapp and Miss Rose in the audi torium: Mrs D. Y. Perry. chairman of the committee.
 Tuesday. 8 p. m.. Bible class. studying The Church, the Bride of Christ"
 Wednesday, 2:t5 p. m. children's classes
 Thursday, c:45 p. m.. children's classes: 7:45 p. m.. praise and prayer service.
 Friday. 1880 p. m.. choir rehearsal.
 Emmanuel Gospel
 Sunday. 1O:15 a. m., prayer meet ing in the vestry; 10:45 a. m., ser mon. topic, What Are You Look ing at?" At 12:15 p. m.. Bible study hour: 3 p. m.. Bible class at the home of Ernest Buchart, 16S Stratford road; 2 p. m., Bible class at the home of Mrs. Elsie Meyers, 276 South Main street: 5:45 D. m. senior and junior Young Peoples meeting; p. m., sermon. topic, TT. N. T." Orchestra and girls chorus at the evening service.
 Tuesday. .:soip. m.. ladies' cot tage prayer meeting at the home of Mrs. Albert Chant, 60 Prospect street.
 Wednesday. e:s0 p. m.. religious instruction class at the church: 8 p. m.. Troop No. 2S. B. s. A.. regular meeting in the vestry; 7:45 p. 1n.. cottage prayer meeting at the home of Albert Chant. 60 Prospect street.
 Thursday. 3 p. m.. religious in- struction class at the church; 7:45 p. m.. praise and prayer service at the church.
 Friday ! p. m.. orchestra prac- tice; s D. n., choir rehearsal.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
Christian Scioncc

Sunday service at II .. m., sub ject. Christ JesuA" Sunday school at s:<s .. m.
 Wednesday evening meeting at : o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

day morAing service with sermon by the pastes at II o'clock. subject: 'Children Vindicated." Evening service with sermon at 7:1S o'clock.
 Thursday. 1880 ?. m. Bible study.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
South

Sunday, s:c0 a. m., senior high school, young peoples grades and others; 9:30 a. n.. Italian n-American department of the church school; 1o:3o a. m. worship at the Hunter road branch of the Italian mission. preacher. Rev. Dominic D'Addario; lo:20 a. m.. morning worship. sermon by Rev. George W. c. Hill. D. D.. pastor. Do We Know All?" Ad- dress 10 juniors. Holding On" At l0:4s a. m., beginners department; 12:1o ?. m.. pastors Lenten class: 12:1o p. m.. primary junior and in- termediate departments; 2:3n p. m.. Assyrian worship. sermon by Rev. Elisha F.. Adams. ",rhe Church." the girls chorus will sing: c:3o p. m.. church school at the Hunter road mission; 5 p. m. Italian wor- ship at South church, preacher, Rev. Joseph z. Paladino.
 Monday. e:i5 p. m.. class in Eng
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
St. Marks Episcopal

st. Nark's Episcopal First Sunday in Lent. Holy com munion at 7:30 a. m. Church school at 9:30 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon by the rector at II o'clock. Cantata, From Olivet to Calvary" at 430 p. m.
 Wednesday, holy communion at 9:So a. m. Evening prayer, litany and address at 7:45 o'clock. Friday, Litany at p. m.
 Second Advent
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

Before 1896. England limited the speed of motor vehicles to four miles an hour.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES
 First

First
 Sunday. 10 q. m.. Sunday school; Il a. m.. church kindergarten: Il a. m., morning worship. address by Barclay Acheson. director general of overseas operations for Near East Relief. At 2 p. m., Armenian serv- ice. preacher, Dr. Hadidian: 8 p. m., Bible class for Armenian women: 7:15 p. m., union Lenten evening service at Trinity Methodist church preeher. Rev. Samuel Sutcliffe.
 Tuesday. 6:3O p. m., Mems asso- citation supper meeting. speaker. Robbins E. Stoeckel. state commits sioner of motor vehicles.
 Wednesday, 2:30 ?. m.. sixth grade week day church school; 4:16 p. m., junior choir rehearsal.
 Thursday. 3 p. m., seventh grade week day church school: 4:l5 p. m., Girl Scout meeting.
 Friday, 7:sO p. m.. Boy Scout meeting.
 The Mems Bible class will meet at the close of the morning service. Mir. Greene will continue a Discus sion Of Questions of the Day" The topic will be What About the Prob lem of Disarmament?"
 The minister's Lenten class for young people of the junior and senior high school grades of the church school will meet for the first time during the present Lenten sea- son in the chapel tomorrow after noon. Tho junior high grades will meet in the Mems Bible class room at 5 o'clock. The senior high grades will meet in room IT at 6 o'clock.
 The P'eng,Yu club will meet in the church parlors at 5 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. The chaplain is Miss Thelma Kitson. The speaker is Rabbi Gershon Hadas. who will tell What the Zionists Propose to Do"
 The Young Peoples society will meet at o'clock tomorrow evening in the church parlors. The evenings g program will take the form of de- bate upon the question Resolved, That the U. g. Government is Justi- fled in Maintaining Armed Forces in Nicaragua According to the stimp- son Agreement" The speakers on the affirmative will be Warren Brainerd and Miss Elizabeth Fox; the speakers on the negative Will liam Haswell and Miss Gertrude Gibney.
 A union preparatory service will be held in the South church chapel on Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock. The speaker will he MT. Greene. His subject is "The Portrait of Jesus in the Letters of Paul."
 South
 Sunday, a:c0 a. m., senior high school. young peoples grades and
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25
BAPTIST CHURCHES
 NRsf

E11D4
 Sunday, lO:t5 .. m.. morning serv- ice. sermon by Roy. William Ross subject: "Rebuke and Explanation" : 12:l0 p. m.. Bible school and Broth erhood claAs: 7:1I ?. m.. united service at Trinity Methodist church. preacher. Rev. Samuel Sutcline.
 Monday, 7:Se p. m.. Boy Scouts. Hike on March 3. At ! to s p. m.. teachers conference, supper at 6:15 o'clock.
 Tuesday. 7:46 p. m.. Good VIII Bible class will meet at the home of Mrs. J. T. Barney. 41S Chestnut street.
 Wednesday. 2:so p. m., religious day school.
 Thursday. 7:is p. m., midweek service.
 Friday 10 .. m.. all day sewing meeting for White Cross; 4:15 ?. m., Girl Scouts.
 German
 Sunday school at s:3O 8. m.; serv- ice in English at 10:s0 a. m.: service in German at 11:45 a. m. Both ser- pons will be delivered by Rev. F. Niebuhr of Newark. N. J.
 Monday evening. Girls club meet Ing at the home of Mrs. Judd, 1A0 Bassette street.
 Tuesday. 2:3o p. m., Women's Aid meeting at the home of Mrs. Hol- comb, 90 Commonwealth avenue. Thursday evening, prayer meet ing in English.
 Film (Sedish)
 Sunday. s:45 Q. m.. Bible school and Mems Bible class: II a. m. and 7;30 p. m., sermons by tho pastor. Rev. Axel I. Peterson; 5:30 p. m.. Young Peoples service with address by Edward kissewetter. Wednesday. 8 p. m., the Kings Daughters will meet at the home of Mrs. Joseph Carlson 70 Newington avenue.
 Thursday. $ p. n,.. choir rehearsal. Friday, s p. m., address by mis- sionary from China. Rev. Martin Ekvall.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-25

Sunday school at 10 a. I'll. Sun
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
FOUNDRY WAGES
Gain Between 1925 and 1927

Washington, d. C. Q. L. N. 81
A definite increase of wage rates in
representative foundries and machine
shops was made between 1925 and
1927, according to the biennial wage
study of the industry made by the
bureau of labor statistics, United
States department of labor. In a
summary of the study, the bureau
says in part:
"The principal figures in the report
are average full-time hours per week,
average earnings per hour, and aver
age full-time earnings per week, and
cover 1895 wage earners of AIT
foundries and 86,771 wage earners of
526 machine shops in % states. The
states not included in the report en-
ploy only 3 per cent of the total num-
Der of wage earners in these closely
correlated industries according to the
1925 census of manufacturers. SINH
lar studies were made in 1923 and
1925.
"The averages are for the total
number of employees covered in the
studies in each of the years 1928
1925 and 1927, and are considered full
ly representative Of the wages and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
Union Men Have Advantage
Over Non-Unionists in Hunt
For Jobs, Says U.S.. Bureau

it there is scarcely one American local
union which does not in some form or
other contribute toward the support
of its unemployed members when they
are in need of assistance.
"a member out of work is rarely
turned away from the union without
receiving some assistance. In some
cases it may take the form Of loan
of few dollars, but his union will
rarely allow him to suffer from want.
'The effectiveness of even these in
complete measures is attested to by
the fact, brought out by survey made
by the American Association for La
bor Legislation, that few trade
unionists have to resort to charity in
periods of idleness. Social workers in
various places have testified to this.
"The unions in some industries es-
pecially subject to the evil of unem-
ployment have realized their inability
to cope with the situation alone and
have succeeded in obtaining, by collec-
tive bargaining with the employers, an
unemployment insurance system, with
the idea, first of making the industry
responsible for the unemployment of
the regular workers within it, and,
second, of providing employers with
an incentive for stabilizing the en-
ployment in their plants.
Two Plans Tried
"Plans providing either for unem-
ployment insurance or guaranteed
period of employment have been tried
in one or more markets of the wom-
ems garment industry, the mems
clothing industry, the cloth hat and
cap industry, the felt hat industry and
the wallpaper industry. Only few
such plans are now in operation, but
where such schemes have been sus-
pended this has not been because of
dissatisfaction with the plan but be-
cause of factional difficulties within
the union. The consensus as regards
these plans appears to be that while
unemployment insurance has not re-
suited in decreasing unemployment, it
has been of incalculable benefit in
alleviating the distress attendant upon
it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
Mayor Jimmie" Shows Temper
When Union Men Give Ideas
On Proposed Wage Increase

which had been placed in the current
budget for their benefit
The mayor glared at the delegation
and asked for their spokesman.
Business Manager Speaks
Daniel j. Hauer, business manager
of the local, stepped forward. He
told the mayor that the union thought
the pay increase should be put into
effect at once, that it should be re-
troactive to January /, and that it
should be made fiat percentage raise
distributed evenly among all engi-
neering employees. The union figures
that there is enough for a 25 per cent
increase for all, but many members
are afraid that the department heads
are planning to hand out plums to
favored few, thus cutting down the
scrapings for the majority.
The mayor broke in to tell the en-
gineers that they had no right to be
there, that the matter was not on the
calendar, that he and the board had
always been fair in the matter of sal
aries, and that he was not going to
be stampeded He then ordered the
men back to their work, and the
crowd surged out.
No Threat Intended
The union made a statement after
word saying that the demonstration
was not intended as threat or to
stampede the mayor and board of es-
innate into action. The men simply
wanted to show that they were back
ing up their committee. And despite
the trout" they feel that they have
accomplished what they set out to do.
Salaries in the engineering depart
ments of the city run from 81 $50 to
$4,000, the union says, with the aver
age about $4,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23

Washington, d. C. U. l.. N. 81
How trade unions endeavor to meet
the problem of unemployment
among their members is told by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, United
States department of labor, in re-
port entitled american Trade Unions
and the Problem of Unemployment"
Trade unions seek to provide jobs
for their members by limiting their
membership, by insisting upon equal
division of work among the regular
workers and by helping the workers
who have lost their job to find
another, the report says.
Union Does Best to Help
"When a union member finds him
self out of job he can rely upon his
union to do its best to find another" ]"
says the report, which continues:
"Few international unions maintain
regular employment offices, but there
is hardly local which does not have
some person in touch with conditions
and opportunities in the trade. In
some cases also regular office is
maintained whose sole business it is
to find work for its jobless members.
Many unions, indeed, specify in their
agreements with the employers that
the latter must apply to the union for
men to fill any labor requirements.
"For persons out of employment
through no fault of their own, organ
izations make provision in several
ways, such as the payment of out-of-
work benefits, loans, or relief Only
three international unions are known
to be paying unemployment benefits
at present, though great many have
done so at one time or another and
many local unions still pay such bene-
fits. Loans to needy unemployed
members are made by at least two
national labor organizations.
Union Men Rarely Suffer
Notwithstanding the apparently
slight assistance given by trade unions
to their members, organized workers
who are out of job have an advan.
tage over non-unionists in similar
situation, for, as one investigator put
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23

hours in these industries in each of
these years. The 1923 figures are
drawn from Bulletin No. 632 and those
for 1925 from Bulletin No. 422. The
index numbers were computed from
the averages with the 1923 average
the base of 100 per cent.
Average full-time hours for foun-
dries decreased from 52.4 per week
or an index of 9S.3 in 1925 and to
Sill per cent between 1923 and 1927.
Average earnings per hour in all oc-
cupations combined, increased from
55.8 cents or an index of 100 in 1923
to 81 cents or an index of 1898 in
1925, and to 52.4 cents or an index Of
1118 in 1927. Between 1923 and
1927 earnings per hour increased 11.8
per cent.
Average full-time earnings per
week increased from an index of 100
in 1923 to 1875 in 1925 and to 1921
in 1927. Between 1923 and 1924 full
time earnings per week increased 81
per cent. The increase in full-time
earnings per week was less than the
increase in average earnings per hour
on account of the decrease in average
| full-time hours per week"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23

pany because his wife had told the
senate subcommittee which recently
visited Pricedale, Pa, that her chill
dren were without shoes and stock
ings because there was not sufficient
income to pay for them
Barr was followed by his wife, who
sat at the table with a year-old baby
in her arms. Mrs. Barr stood with
her baby in one hand while she was
sworn. The infant looked around at
the senator's in open-eyed wonder
The mother asserted that the store
keeper had told her once that if she
got shoes he would stop the eats
on me-"
81 got the blame for all this
trouble" she said. "Mr. Brougham
did not say anything to me, but told
the minister about it. You-uns asked
me why my children had no shoes and
! answered. Just as you talked to me
there told you the circumstances of
the children"
Use of Gunmen and Spies Admitted
Out of the mouths of the operators
themselves and their representatives
came some of the most damaging
testimony given SO far against the
mining companies. For example, C.
E. Lesher, executive vice president of
the Pittsburgh Coal Company, a Mel
lon concern, admitted that his COM
pany imported strikebreakers, 40 per
cent of whom were negroes; that the
company had hired hundreds of coal
and iron police and that it hired Pink
erton detectives for spying purposes.
He admitted that the equipment of
the coal and iron police included
whatever policemen require" when
asked if they had revolvers, black
jacks, flashlights, sawed-off shotguns
and tear-gas bombs.
Senator Wheeler introduced let
ter which he said had been written by
j. H. Dunlap to A. j. Green in Kan
sas, in which Dunlap, one of the po-
licemen in the Pittsburgh coal mine
district, said
"You punch men around here with
.38 like you do cattle out there"
In confirmation of the charge of
the United Mine Workers that big
railroads are aiding the coal opera
tors in the conspiracy to destroy the
union three operators accused the
Pennsylvania railroad of refusing to
buy union mined coal.
"Pennsy" Banned Union.Mined Coal
The operators were Thomas Sagle,
general manager Of the Roseville
Coke Company; Chester Penrod, OF
Crooksville, president of the Robin
son Coal Company, and S. H. Rob-
bins, Of Cleveland, president of the
Ohio Coal Operators Association.
Sagle testified that in 1926 Henry
Owens, a purchasing agent for the
Pennsylvania railroad, told him that
his road would not pay him or any
other operator "any price for coal that
justified paying the Jacksonville
union wage scale" Sagle charged
also that the railroad in the same yea,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
Witnesses at Senate Inquiry
Fix Blame on Coal Interests
Company Executives Confirm Charges of Oper-
ator-Railroad Conspiracy to Smash Union;
Subcommittee Makes Scorching Report on
Horrible Conditions in Pa. Bituminous Mines

By international Labor News Service
Washington, d. C.--In the first
week of the senate mine strike inves-
tigation, the miners have marshalled
charge after charge and fact after
fact that point Enthusiastically to the
great coal operators and their rail
road allies as being almost entirely
responsible for the present situation
in the bituminous coal fields. The
operators and their representatives
have tried desperately to dodge re-
sponsibility but the charges brought
against them by the miners union
have not been shaken.
Beginning with President John L.
Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, as
the first witness in the hearing, which
is being held by the senate interstate
commerce committee, the miners
have put witnesses on the stand who
have told story of industrial misery
and oppression almost unparalleled
in America. From these witnesses
have come as damning an Indictment
of industrial leaders as has ever been
made.
Wife Talked, Miner Fired
The committee sessions have been
productive of several dramatic scenes.
One of the tensest was caused by the
appearance of C. E. Barr, a miner,
who testified that he had been dis
charged by the Pittsburgh Coal Com
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
Men Get In Plea

any effort to curb the activities of
this disloyal organization.
The only efforts to rid the Pitts
burgh district "of the most dangerous
organization this country has ever
known" it is asserted, "came from
the striking miners themselves"
Conditions Branded Menace to
Citizenship
Your committee finds the condi-
tions existing in the Pittsburgh dis
trict and other coal fields in the
United States" the report says, "are
of a most serious nature and dan
gerous to the best interest of our
citizenship"