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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
LOOPH0LES In LAW
Benefting the Rich Decried
BY Governor

New York" Justice can be far
more easily secured by the rich than
by the poor" said Governor Roose-
welt in a plea for simplifcation of
legal procedure at the annual dinner
of the Columbia University Law
School
at is laymen and not lawyers who
are bitterly complaining of the cost
illness and slowness of justice" the
governor said.
"We might as we'll admit that there
is a growing and general impression
not only that justice can be far more
easily secured by the rich than by the
poor, but that the defeat of justice
can be secured by 'malefactors of
great wealth We have 50 compli-
Gated our legal machinery as to make
every legal process d matter requir-
ing many hours of study and research
and the highest technical skill before
it can be successfully undertaken.
w ofSe than that. In the eToft TO
fully protect the innocent we have,
incidentally, provided so many meth
DDS of delay, of evasion, of procrasti-
nation, of purely technical ways of
evading the real question of guilt or
innocence as to make it easy for those
of large means, if not to absolutely
shackle justice, at least to shoe her
feet with leaden sandals so that it is
possible to avoid just punishment
for years, if not forever"
Governor Roosevelt declared that
the pruning knife must be used on
these complicated processes without
respect to a hoary tradition merely
because of its age"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
MEXICAN BIRTH
RATE HIGH IN
CALIFORNIA

Sacramento, Calf Mexican births
in this state are increasing at an
alarming rate, according to DR.. Wal
ter NJ. Dickie, head of the California
Bureau of Public Health. This men
ace is only partially offset by the high
death rate among Mexican infants.
This mortality is Is per cent, as
against per cent of other infants.
'Ingress from Mexico is relatively
a simple matter in Southern Califor-
MIA because of climate similarity to
Mexico" said DR.. Dickie, who pointed
out that this immigration is reaching
into the northern section of the state.
Mining, numbering, railroading and
manufacturing industries are held re-
sponsible for the presence of the
growing number of Mexicans.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
UNIONISM
Can't Lose Southern Cam
paign, Says Church
Paper

Washington.-The A. +. of l.. can
not lose in it's effort to organize the
South, according to the National
Catholic Welfare Conference Bulletin.
Even if general organization is not
accomplished" the Bulletin states,
partial success will help these work
crs and in turn will react upon corr
ditions in Northern and Western in
dustiy The Southern mill has long
been drag on the rest of the coun-
tiy, as we'll as the South itself.
"Other workers throughout the
country meet conditions similar to
theirs. But nowhere is there such a
geographical block of factory work
ers so underpaid and so devoid of
organization as those in the hill
towns of the South Atlantic coast.
"The mills in the South are in large
part Northern owned Mills have been
source of cotton and to take advan-
tage of the low wages and long hours
at which the simple people of the
Southern hills have been willing to
work
Trouble in the South has long been
prophesied and Southerners acquaint-
ed with the people at work in the
mills have been declaring that the
long patience of these workers was
to be expected, but that time would
come when they would stand their
condition no longer, and then there
was danger of violence from both
sides unless the mill owners agreed
to the modest demands of the mill
workers.
''To avoid such an outcome, an at
tempt is being made to have a sena
torial investigation of the whole in
dustrial set-up in the Southern cotton
mills. The (Wheeler) bill, providing
for the investigation, has hard sled
ding"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
Union Conference Approves
Plan of Action For Southern
Big Organization Campaign

their efforts under the supervision of
Mr.. Green. To carry out the cam
paign effectively, it was recommended
that President Green appoint COM
mittee Of not more than three to as
sist him in the direction of the cam
paign. 1t was further recommended
that President Green be authorized
to develop an adequate educational
and publicity campaign and consider
the establishment of headquarters in
some Southern city
The conference endorsed another
plan for action by adopting a resolu-
tion inviting the Big Four" railroad
brotherhoods, which are well organ
lied in the South, to cooperate in the
organizing effort
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
DRESSMAKERS
To Strike Against Sweat
shop First of the Year

New York-A strike of $4,000
dressmakers and $4,000 children's
dressmakers the first of the year has
been authorized by the officials of the
international Ladies Garment Work
ers' Union. The union recently won
a pronounced victory in the cloak
trade, and brought anti-union en-
ployes in line.
The dress trade is in a deplorable
condition Women are paid from $l4
to $50 week for dresses worn by
society women. In contrast to these
sweatshops, women in union shops
earn from $25 to $35 for a 42-hour
week.
The unions publicity against sweat
shops seems to have already borne
fruit, as Louis Schwartz, president
Affiliated Dress Manufacturers Asso-
citation, is quoted in the daily press
that he and his associates will be
pleased to begin negotiations with the
union"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
Trade Unions Big Factor
In Winning Women's Labor
Laws, U. S. Bureau Finds

Washington, d. C. (ILNS) = Or.
ganized labor is given credit for being
largely instrumental in securing la.
Dor laws for women in Massachu.
setts New York and California, in a
report just published by the women's
bureau of the United States Depart
ment of Labor In the three states
named the women's bureau has con
Quoted special Investigations of the
history of the laws and of their
effects.
The women's bureau says that the
chief forces that have made for the
passage of women's labor laws in
Massachusetts, New York and Cali
fornia are as follows: The spirit of
the times; social, civic, philanthropic
and church groups; factual studies of
conditions to be remedied by law;
organized labor; factory inspectors
and other officials charged with the
enforcement of labor laws; bureaus
of labor statistics; special legislative
committees or commissions for the
study of labor conditions; governors,
and pioneering employers.
The movement for this type of
legislation did not go along smoothly,
the report points out, but by dogged-
ly perseverance against all odds it
reached coveted goals. Starting with
a limited so hour-week law, a com
plete labor code for women in indus
try was built up gradually in New
York and Massachusetts, while Cali
fornia, benefting by the experience
of other states, covered in two laws
practically the same field. All this
was brought about despite the oppo-
sition encountered at every step from
certain employers who believed such
would doom them to fail
ure, and from the courts on the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
HARRY PARR RETIRES

Toronto, Ontario. = Harry Parr,
well-known trade unionist and long
time member Of the international
Typographical Union, resigned as
foreman of the Evening Star compos-
ing room, following the anniversary
of his 77th birthday. He was a mem
Der of the first board of trustees of
the Union Printers Home at Colo
rado Springs He was given an ova-
ton by printers attending the recent
A. F. of L. convention at dinner
arranged by the local Typographical
Union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29

Chicago ILNS)-Yearning for a
return of the bad old days when
every day was an open season for the
predatory interests to go cunning for
organized labor hereabouts, the local
chapter of the newly organized Sons
of the Wild Jackass, otherwise known
as the Chicago Association of Com
merce, has adopted resolution ad-
vocating revival of the notorious but
defunct citizens committee to enforce
the Lands award, which accomplish
ed so much toward giving Chicago a
bad name throughout the world few
years ago.
THE Chicago Association of Com
merce feels that in all legitimate
ways building in accordance with the
underlying principles of the Lands
award should be encouraged" says
the resolution.
The underlying principles" of the
award are to hamstring the unions so
that they cannot function in the in
terest of the members and to have the
wage scales set by an arbitrary pow
er independent of the unions and of
the contractors.
The action of the Association of
Commerce was taken in view of the
anticipated widespread building oper
ations in Chicago between now and
the opening of the Worlds Fair in
1888.
The Lands award committee Off
months ago when Thomas f.. Dom
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
Chicago Employers Yearn
For Revival of Notorious
Lands Award Committee

nelley, chairman of the committee
threw up the sponge. Donnelley had
troubles of his own as president of
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company,
non-union printing concern, which has
nationwide fight on its hands be-
cause it acquired a $30,000,000 print
ing contract from Sears, Roebuck &
Co. and $15,O0O,O00 contract from
the publishers of the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Plans
for a great campaign of union organ
iZation in the Southern States, back
ed by the entire labor movement of
the nation and guided by central
committee under the supervision of
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, were
approved at big and enthusiastic
conference here of trade union exec
utives representing virtually all the
international and national unions of
the United States.
The same strong determination to
organize the South shown at the To-
ronto convention of the A. F. of L.,
which directed that the campaign be
waged, was manifested at the confer
ence here, which was held at A. f.
of L. headquarters. Speaker after
speaker, representing all sections Of
the country, pledged the support of
his organization to the campaign and
IN rouslng words called upon all trade
unionists to give to their utmost to
make the drive a success.
Southern labor representatives were
as enthusiastic as their Northern
brothers, and pledged the full coop
Grafton Of organized workers in their
part of the country. 1t was brought
out by Secretary Frank Morrison and
others that far from being without
labor organization, the South has
shown steady growth in organiza-
tion for many years and at the pres
ent time, there is a State Federation
of Labor in every Southern State and
hundreds of city central bodies and
thousands of local unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES UNITE
Pueblo, Colo. - Federal employees
organized and are chartered by the
National Federation Of Federal En-
ploYes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
Justice Must Prevail

The keynote of the conference was
struck by President Green in an elo-
quent and stirring address in which
he declared there would be no indus
trial peace in the South until stand
ards of living and working are made
fair, decent and humane Mr.. Green
said he would personally carry the
message of labor to the Southern
workers and pledged his best efforts
to the campaign.
1t was made clear, through the ad-
dresses of the Southern labor repre-
sentatives, that the situation in the
South is direct product of industrial
conditions in the Southern States and
that "labor agitators" have had moth
ing to do with its creation. Strike
after strike was cited in which no
trade union organizer was seen until
after the strike had been called. Con-
ditions of the most extreme exploita-
tion were cited, not in random asser-
tions, but with names dates, and
places-definite, provable cases of al
most unbelievable exploitation of men,
women and children.
T. A. Wilson, president of the North
Carolina State Federati IN; President
Paul j. Aymon and Secretary w. c..
Birthright, of the Tennessee State
Federation, and George L. Googe,
vice president of the Georgia State
Federation, president of the Savannah
central body and A.. F. of L. organ
izer, gave the conference a dramatic
picture Of industrial conditions that
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
BAKERY statesmen GAIN

Denver-Bakery statesmen secured
a wage contract that increases rates
$4 week. The agreement covered
every large wholesale bakery in this
CITY
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-29
Entire Labor Movement Backs
Drive to Aid Workers of South
Washington Meeting Representing Virtually All Nationa
and international Unions, Pledges Enthusiastic Sup
port to Movement

nave driven unorganized workers il
community after community to walk
out, unorganized, unprepared, but de.
termined to get relief through better
conditions. Wages running down tc
little better than So day marked the
bottom of the scale. The 10-hour day
was cited as all too prevalent.
Tells Of General Motors Strike
The textile situation commanded
much attention, but it was not all tex
tiles. In a General Motors plant in
Atlanta, Googe told the conference
600 workers walked out, unorganized
on their own account, and marched to
the labor temple, demanding organi-
zation and help Googe ran through
catalogue of amazing facts Town
after town, plant after plant, revolt
after revolt Aymon followed.
w. c. Birthright told of the action
of President John A. Edgerton, of the
National Association Of Manufacture
ers in sending out letter asking for
great fund to stop trade union or
ganization. He declared reactionary
employers as a unit would fight la
boris work. The notable exceptions,
such as the Charleston, S. c., Cham
Der of Commerce, which backed the
Wheeler resolution for investigation.
were cited by Googe
Evening star., 1929-06-28
he Republican national committee.

the Republican national committee.
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
executive committee of the Democratic
national committee, in the statement
from the committee asserts that:
I'm its appeal for funds to propagate
campaign to combat destructive radi-
cal and un-American propaganda, the
National Republic is carrying on work 1t
began long ago against those flaming
Reds-Borah of Idaho, Norris of
Nebraska, La Toilette of Wisconsin,
Brookhart Of Iowa, Wheeler of Mon
tana and others who have, at times,
revolted against Republican admins
trations.
Whenever the Republican party gets
in trouble over domestic issues 1t be-
comes alarmed about the spread of radi-
calism among our people. just now the
spective tariff bill, with its unconscion-
able increases In everything that makes
up the cost of living. Its enactment
would be the most barefaced violation
of the pledge President Hoover gave in
calling the extra session, which he
specifically announced was for the pur-
pose of effecting farm relief and of
tariff modification only in few cases
where particular industries were de-
pressed because of foreign competition.
The expediency of diverting public att
tention from the intended looting is
obvious; wherefore those eminent, al
truistic and far-seeing statesmen, to-
wit, National Chairman Work Senator
Watson and Representative Will Wood
OF Indiana, and others equally famous
for their unselfish devotion to the pro-
lection of the people, have discovered
that the anarchists are threatening the
Evening star., 1929-06-28
REALTORS HEAR
RURAL LIFE PLAN
Dr.. Mead, Reclamation Com
missioner, Suggests
Settlers Idea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June ga plan for the
rehabilitation Of Southern agriculture
through development Of rural life and
society along lines closely resembling
that established by the early settlers
in New England was placed before the
farm lands division of the National
Association of Realtors today by DR..
Elwood Mead, Federal commissioner of
reclamation.
DR.. Mead Is now at Las Vegas, N.
M, making preliminary investigations
for the Boulder Dam project, and his
paper was presented by his secretary,
Miss Mae Schnurr.
The movement from rural commu-
mites to cities in the South is still
going on" he said, and explained that
the Governments community develop
ment plant represents 10-year study
Of the plan.
THE scheme includes an authoriza-
ton of $12,000,0 900 to be appropriated
by Congress, to enable land to be ac-
quired and one colony established in
each OF 10 Southern States" he con-
tinued. The best minds of rural life
are to be employed to determine the
KIND OF agriculture, the size of farms,
the cooperative for marketing, to en-
able these units to function as the
units of great industries.
Such a scheme would recreate In
tns country a rural life and society
closely resembling that established by
the early settlers of New England.
Their towns did not end with stores.
post oftlce and church, but included
the farms of the surrounding country
These towns were established for
two things, the cultivation of the soils
and the maintenance of an ordered
and religious society. To do this they
selected their members, and then re-
stricted the right to transfer land. No
one was allowed through such transfers
to bring in people who would not main
tain the standards of the community
In this country we have laid the
foundation for making a demonstra-
ton or eXDerinent of this nolicv
Evening star., 1929-06-28

in this country Is to build up organic
communities of healthy, happy Ameri-
cans enjoying an American standard
of living and creating and adding to
the political and economic strength of
our country"
The plan for reconstruction and
reclamation, as DR.. Mead saw it, in
cludes an intelligent survey of the
area under consideration to determine
the kind of agriculture to which 1t is
adapted, the best size farm in that
locality and the formation of co-opera-
tive and other arrangements for mar
keting to enable the communities to
function as the units Of great industries
now function.
CultivatOrs as Owners.
The idea is to have the farms owned
by their cultivatorS and to have them
the size to give employment to the
average farm family.
DR.. Surface discussed ways in which
the Department of Commerce, in ad-
dressing members of the industrial
property division of the national asso-
citation, outlining the numerous scien-
tific studies being made by the Govern
ment, the results of which are valuable
to industrial realtors. DIR. Surface said
the domestic commerce division is de-
voting most of it's energy to the study
of the problems of distribution and
marketing because We believe that
those are the most important prob
lens facing American business today.
1t has frequently been estimated that
from to 10 billions of dollars are
lost each year through avoidable waste
in marketing"
DR.. Surface described the work of the
Commerce Department in promoting
simpl11ed practices and placed his
stamp of approval on high wages. "It
was not many years ago." he said, that
the manufacturer thought the way to
make money was to beat down wages
and thus lower his cost of production.
Today, practically every business man
realizes that high wages are the secret
OF our sustained prosperity in this coun-
try because they create a market for our
products. That market can still further
be expanded by the elimination of
wasteful methods which now absorb too
much of the consumers dollar and do
no one any good
Evening star., 1929-06-28

Homing pigeons have been known to
fnd their home from point 1,500 miles
distant.
Evening star., 1929-06-28

institutions of the United States and
are calling for contri utions to suppress
the red uprising.
Nobody else has been conscious of
any such recrudeScence Of subversive
political doctrines. The Department of
Justice, always eager to make a charge
on the Communist strongholds, has not
made a raid in years. True, Senator
Borah Is still asking for diplomatic
recognition of Russia, to which Henry
Ford is selling $50, 900 900 worth of au-
tomobiles, but just how this presages a
proletarian revolution is not quite clear.
THE fact of the matter is that these
Stand-pat minute men consider every
resistance to the domination of the Gov
ernment by the special and favored in
terests a demonstration of rebellion
against all government"
Evening star., 1929-06-28
TWO .LAB0RERS FREED
BY JUDGE SCHUL DIT
Vagrancy and Intoxication De.
tendants Plead Desire to Reach
Sparrows Point, Md.

Sparrows Point, q suburb Of Balti-
more, will have an influx of laborers,
II Judge Gus A. Schuldt continues to-
days practice of releasing defendants
who wish to 60 there.
William Johnson, charged with
vagrancy, following his arrest yester-
day In an abandoned Government
building, informed the court that he
was on his way to Sparrows Point
having come from Memphis, Tenn, but
had been unable to find the road from
Washington to Baltimore. He was re-
leased on condition that he find the
highway before dark.
Albert Thompson, arrested for intoxi-
cation, next stepped before the court.
He declared that he was from Lynch
burg, Va, and also was on his way to
Sparrows Point. The court remarked
that he believed Thompson had been
listening to Johnson's story but also
released him on condition that he travel
the same road as johnson before night
Both defendants are colored.
Evening star., 1929-06-28
BOARD DISM|SSES
Police OFFICER
Anderson Found Guilty of
PreiudiciaI Conduct, Neglect
of Duty and Disobedience.

Policeman Joseph w. Anderson OF the
from the force by the Police Trial
Board following a trial yesterday on
two charges of conduct prejudicial to
the good order and reputation of the
force, charge of neglect of duty and
a charge of willful disobedience of the
order of superior officer. The Trial
Board found Anderson guilty on all
four charges. Their order of dismissal
must go to the Commissioners for ap-
proval before it becomes final.
The charges started with state
ment made by Anderson before the
Trial Board June to the effect that
officers in the third precinct accepted
graft. He said at the time that the
reason he was in debt, for failure to
pay which he was being tried, was that
he did not take the graft the other
men did
On later investigation at police head
quarters 1t was held that Anderson
had failed to make his charges good
and further had neglected his duty in.
not telling anything he knew about
graft in the precinct station at the
time to his superior officer. He claimed
that he had done so and that Capt.
William G. Stott, in command of the
third precinct, had done nothing about
1t. This Stott denied.
The boards decision indicated that
its members did not consider an afida-
Wit introduced at the trial by Anderson
yesterday sufficient proof of his charges
that brother officers were accepting
graft.
The af1idavit, sworn to by a colored
woman, stated that a third precinct
policeman had accepted protection"
money from the wife of bootlegger in
the makers presence. The bootlegger's
wife was interviewed, however, and de-
MED that she had paid money to any
policeman at any time
Anderson did not take the witness
stand, resting his entire case on the
afidavit and his previous good record
as an off1cer. He was suspended last
Saturday after a clash with Can't. Stott