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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
SENT TO LONDON
Bernard Wait Appointed Treasury
Attache in Charge.

Attache in Charge.
Bernard Wait, who has been deputy
commissioner of customs, has been
transferred to the post of Treasury at
tache in charge at London, England
effective July /, succeeding Charles L.
Turrill, who Is to be called from Lon
don to Washington for assignment in
the United States. Turrill will leave
London when Wait arrives
Wait, prior to his appointment. as
deputy commissioner Of customs, was
stationed in London in charge of the
London Office of the Treasury Depart
ment. to which position he now Is re-
turning.
Thomas ]. German, assistant deputy
commissioner, has been promoted to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01

ordered detached from Nicaraguan
National Guard Detachment.
Col. Frederick L. Bradman, who has
been attached to Quantico, will leave
Hampton Roads about June IA for
Nicaragua.
The goth Marines, which is composed
of 80 per cent of Washingtonians and
which has been in course of formation
for some months, has been organized,
with headquarters at 458 Louisiana
avenue
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-01
WILL ADD TO REPERTOIRE
OF GERMAN PRODUCTION

President of Chicago Civic Opera
Company Makes Announcement
Upon Return From Europe.
CHICAGO, May 81 (P.-The Chicago
Civic Opera Co. will increase its roper
toire of German operas, Samuel insult,
president of the company, announced
Thursday. insult recently returned
from Europe, where he secured a num-
Der of German artists for the Chicago
organization.
In addition to a number of Wagnerian
scores already in the civic operas roper
toire, the company this season will do
die Meistersinger" and Smetana's
Battered Bride" The group last year
did "Lohengrin," "TannhaeuSer, Iris
tan und Isolde" and die Walkuere"
by Wagner; Beethoven's ''Fidelio" and
Der Rosenkavalier" and others.
In a recent week SAILS 1852 bags Of
sugar, valued at $685. 36, were ex-
ported from the Philippines.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
TO COAL POLICE
Ousting if Elected, Pinchot
Is Pledged

Altoona, Pa. ~ Former Governor
Pinchot pledged, at Labor Day
speech here, that if he is elected gov
ernor he will abolish the coal and
iron police system in this state be-
fore July l next year.
He also pledged to urge the next
legislature to enact an old age pen
sion law, and he promised to appoint
a commission on unemployment that
will make recommendation next Jan
uary to the state legislature. He will
appoint the commission before he is
inaugurated. He said he will not wait
for the legislature to act on the coal
and iron police, but will wipe out the
system by the simple eXpedient of
refusing to sign any commission for
the appointment of any of these off
ciais.
Under the law the commissions of
all these special policemen expire with
the passing from office of governor
and new commissions must be issued
by the incoming governor.
Il here repeat to you my pledge,
said Mr.. Pinchot, that if | am elect
ed governor of this state there will
not be, on July /, next year, a single
coal and iron policeman left in Penn
sylvania."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
WORLDWIDE
Is Issue of Idle Wage Work.
ers, Says Stewart

Washington - Governments, en-
ployers and employees in every coun-
try are discussing the unemployment
problem, said Ethelbert Stewart,
United States commissioner of labor
statistics.
Industrial leaders evidently are
being impressed with the fact that
when they turn out a number of
workers their own business will
eventually suffer-" said Mr. Stewart.
"These industrialists are awaken
ing to the knowledge that men who
can not work can not buy, and that
an industry can not produce when it
can not market its goods.
While consideration is being given
various relief measures in the United
States, legislation for unemployment
insurance and other means Of stabil-
ization has not been adopted by the
states.
"The gravity of the unempl ,yment
N many foreign countries
has attracted the attention not only
of governments and statesmen, but
also OF the press, organizations and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
TRADES COUNCIL

The COOPERATIVE Trades and Labor
Council met Tuesday night in regu-
lar session. President Bowers pre-
sided and thirty delegates answered
the roll call.
On motion Brother Heinline, of the
carpenters, was seated as visitor.
Communication from the |. G. A.
Grocery Company, stating that in the
future all sale bills will bear the
union label of Typographical Union.
On motion the same was received.
Karl Brown was seated as dele
gate from Machinists' Union 241.
The various local unions reported
their organizations are in good shape,
but the state of employment in gen
eral is very bad, in fact more men
are out of employment at this time
than ever before.
Legislative committee reported
they had met and expect to have a
large meeting Friday, September 10,
in the large hall, and expect members
from Middletown to be present. The
legislative committee requests the
Press to give them a special notice
on the meeting of that date at the
labor temple.
Andrew Popp, treasurer of the 1929
Labor Day outing committee, made
final report which on motion was
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEE
Will Meet Friday, Septem-
Der 19

The Labor Legislative League
committee, appointed some time ago
to send questionnaires to the differ
ent candidates running for office, an
nounced that they will hold a meet
ing Friday, September 49, The meet
ing will be held in the labor temple
and members from Middletown will
be present. Speakers will be secured
to address the members of the league
on the candidates who have been
nominated for office.
Many of the candidates have filled
out, signed and returned the ques-
tionnaires while a few have not
This meeting will be held for all la
Dor organizations and their members
to attend.
Organized labor should know some
thing concerning the candidates who
are aspiring for the different polit-
ical jobs, and it will be at this meet
ing where they can find it out. Be
there Friday, September 10.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
HOFFMAN GOES
TO PRISON!

Marion, N. C. (ILNS)-Alfred
Hoffman, organizer for the Ameri-
can Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers and the United Tex
tile Workers, convicted after trial
that shocked conscientious people
here, will appear Monday to begin
his years prison sentence.
Hoffman's appearance here follows
refusal of the supreme court to grant
new trial. Indignation has grown
since the action of the supreme court
and the case seems in fair way to
become a cause celebre.
With Hoffman go three local union
men, each sentenced to three months
in the chain gang.
Those who dare speak here are say
ing among themselves that Hoffman
was convicted because the bosses had
reached the conclusion that his organ
izing activity had to be stopped.
Hoffman and the three local men
were convicted on charges of riot.
The trouble involved efforts of a
crowd to prevent the sheriff from
moving furniture back into strike
breakers house from which the
crowd had removed it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
MILWAUKEE, HOSIERY
UNION TURNS DOWN
PROPOSED WAGE CUT
One Reduction Leads to Another,
Workers Declare, Announcing
Intention to Strenuously Re-
sist Employers Move.

Milwaukee, Wis. GLNS)-The Mil
waukee branch of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of l-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers has unanimously rejected a
proposal of the Phoenix and Hole
proof companies for a % per cent
reduction in knitters' wages.
Resolutions were adopted that no
reduction in wages shall be accept
able unless the managements were
willing to sign the new national full
fashioned agreement.
eve believe" said Carl Holderman,
first vice president of the national
federation, that a spirit of co-opera-
ton between employers and the union
in the full-fashioned industry will
solve all problems and that willing
ness to face facts will be mutually
advantageous.
at is to be regretted that some
union employers feel that they should
have reductions below the existing
uniform rate schedules. Such desires
lead to further reductions in wages
and the union intends to resist siren
uously all such efforts on the part Of
individual employers"
Wage reductions in the non-union
Allen-A Co, hosiery manufactures Of
Kenosha, have been reported to Mil
waukee union headquarters. 1t was
also reported that a 20 per cent re-
duction has been decided on by the
non-union Real Silk concern at IN
Ind
Recently Milwaukee employers
stated that they had not lost their
in the theory Of high wages
and that they were reluctantly sub
mitting to a situation which demand
ed wage reductions as a measure of
self f-presery alton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
LOW BUYING POWER
CHECKS UP TREND

Boston.-The First National Bank,
in its summary Of business, agrees
that low wages is behind the depres-
sion.
The bank does not bluntly make
this statement, but dresses the
thought in the lingo of economists:
.The crux Of the present economic
situation IS the lack of proper bal
ance between production and con
sumption and the maladjustment be-
tween the purchasing power Of va
rious classes of producers, agricultur-
al as well as industrial, in practic-
ally all the countries OF the world"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
ORGANIZED LABOR
DEVELOPER OF
CHARACTER

Baltimore. - American rabbis, in
their yearly plea for social justice,
declare that organized labor is per
haps the most potent of all forces for
securing hours and wages requisite
for neutralizing unemployment and
for the civic and spiritual develop
ment of the worker"
The message was issued by the
commission on social justice of the
Central Conference of American Rab-
bis and will be read from Jewish pull
pits.
The conference approves the five
day week and high wages.
IF our constantly improving ma
chinery with its displacement of hu
man workers is not to produce un-
employment before it produces aught
else, not only must the number of
working days a week be reduced,
there must also be a dimunition Of
the number of working hours day
with corresponding increases of wage
rates, enabling all workers to earn
sufficiently" the commission states.
"The issue of organized labor brings
to mind the disheartening develop
ments at Elizabethton, Marion and
Gastonia as we'll as the spirit of So
cial endeavor with which Jewish,
Protestant and Catholic religious
leaders have, during the past year,
joined in applying to the turmoil
their common principles of brotherly
love. 1t is our profound hope that
these principles may soon be accept
ed and applied in the Southern tex
tile situation and in all industry"
The rabbis declare there is weighty
obligation on all citizens to consider
the various expedients that are
deemed helpful. These include plac-
ing children in school rather than in
industry, mothers old-age pensions.
employment exchanges to eliminate
waste; unemployment insurance;
long time planning of public construc-
ton and "ampler educational and in
stitutional care for those temporar-
lily or permanently incapable of
work"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
GROSS EARNINGS
DROP BUT PROF
IT'S INCREASE

Boston, Financial reports of large
corporations for 1880 show that gross
earnings are less than 1929, but net
profits are larger, said State Repre-
sentative Joseph Finnegan in dis
cussing his bill that would create a
commission to investigate causes of
unemployment and recommend rene
dies therefor.
The increased profits this year,
while gross earnings are less, indi-
cate that by constant cutting down
of employees, smaller number are
obliged to do work fomerly done by
a larger number, said the state law
maker.
He declared that unemployment in
this state, instead of diminishing,
seems constantly to grow worse.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
BAD WORK
Conditions Are Best Breed
er For Reds"

Albany, N. Y.-Former Secretary
of State Elihu Roots suggestion that
special federal police force be Gre
ated to fight communists is not fa-
vored by the Paper Makers Journal.
Communists breed under bad work
conditions, and Mr.. Root, "the clev-
crest of corporation lawyers" has
not been conspicuous in leading the
forces of reform to abolish inquities
says this labor journal.
Communism in this country has
never been able to rise above the
rank of second degree nuisance
and it reaches that height only when
the police in our great cities lose
their heads-plus the greed of en-
ployers like Southern textile barons
and the Mellonized coal interests of
Pennsylvania.
"If communism were a menace,
Mr. Root recommends the worst pos
sible way of meeting it. Czarist Rus
STA leaned more heavily on police re-
preston than any other modern state
except, perhaps, kaiserist Prussia.
IF a special Panama police force
had been employed to swat mosqui-
toes, how long would it take to build
the Panama canal?
Mr. Root may know mathematics
to figure it out; we do not. But
when General Gorgas cleaned up the
breeding places of mosquitoes, build
ing the big ditch became an ordinary
engineering job.
Communism breeds in the swamp
of unemployment, the mire of low
wages, the stagnant marsh of indus
trial tyranny. Wipe out these and
the country will automatically become
immune to soviet propaganda"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
WHAT NEXT !?

A new chemical process for sepa-
rating the complete fbrous contents
of flax from the straw has recently
been invented in Germany by Rein
hold Geiss, Of Munich. The flax pro-
duced is soft and lustrous, and while
retaining all its strength twice that
Of cotton) can be produced at 80 per
cent less than the cost Of cotton fibre
The material, fully decorticated and
degummed, can be employed directly
on the ordinary weaving machines in
any cotton mill, and will produce a
linen that is said to be cheaper than
cotton cloth, but of greatly superior
texture and beauty.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
NEW PAY PACT FOR
CHI MUSICIANS

Chicago.-A new wage pact, pro-
viding for the same scale stipulated
under the old contract, has been
agreed upon by the Chicago Fedora
ton of Musicians and the theatre
owners, to go into effect for one year
beginning Labor Day, according to
announcement of James c. Petrillo,
president of the federation.
The agreement affects all union
musicians employed in legitimate or
motion picture theatres in Chicago,
numbering about 900.
The old wage scale for union play
ers, which will be maintained under
the new contract, ranges from $93
to $3.50 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
GLIB TALK
Can't End Capitalist Sys-
tenn, Declares Britisher

Nottingham, England. eff glib
talk could end it, the capitalist sys-
tenn would be finished in a year or
two," said President John Beard, of
the British Trades Union Congress,
in opening the annual conference here
The unionist answered attacks on
the British labor government by the
independent labor party, left wing
of the British labor party. The
"lefts" oppose Premier Macdonald
because he does not install social
ism.
President Beard declared there is
no present substitute for capitalism
He repudiated the "lefts'" slogan
Socialism in our time"
81 am not certain" said Beard
"that there is any kind of organiza-
tion capable of working the change
without tremendous dislocation of the
social and economic life of the ma
ton"
The task of the labor movement,
he said is to build new road for
progress without obstructing traffic
on the old road. He said the "lefts"
are Instructors.
LET us keep the ideals we have
always held, but let US be realistic
with regard to the actual world sit
uation," he said.
The American Federation of Labor
is represented at the trade union con-
ference by Fraternal Delegates John
j. Manning and Thomas E. Maloy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
HOOVER AT A F. OF |.
CONVENTION

President Hoover will address the
convention of the American Fedora
tion of Labor in Boston on October 6,
the same day on which he speaks to
the American Legion convention in
the same city. This will be the first
time a president has addressed an
A. f. of L. convention since Presi-
dent Wilson's notable appearance at
the Buffalo convention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
LABOR DAY IN SOUTH

Birmingham, Ala.-Labor Day was
observed in Southern cities that here
tofore ignored this day, said Paul j.
Smith, chairman A. F. Of L. Southern
organizing campaign.
The educational efforts of organized
labor have acquainted Southern citi-
zens with the purposes of trade
unionism, said Mr.. Smith.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
BILLION FOR BUILDING
URGED TO AID JOBLESS

Buffalo, n. Y-A resolution re-
questing President Hoover to call a
special session Of congress for the
purpose Of appropriating $1,000.000,
900 for public construction to relieve
unemployment was unanimously pass
ed by the State Federation of Labor
convention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12

Henry Hodges, vice president.
Fred Woodrey, recording secretary.
Stanley Ogg, corresponding secre-
tary.
Mabel Warren, financial secretary.
Edward Dulli, treasurer.
Jacob Binotch, doorkeeper.
Andrew Popp, guide.
Robert Service, trustee.
All were unanimously elected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
PARTIAL
PICNIC REPORT

The 1880 picnic committee made a
partial report of the outing, that dis
closed The fact that the outing was
a success from every angle.
Many bills received were ordered
paid, and all of the subcommittee
made reports that were received.
Anyone having bills against the
committee should mail them in
promptly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12

received.
Trustees reported they can reach
no agreement with the parties who
desire to rent the auditorium for
golf course.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-09-12
C.S. BOWERS
Again Elected President OF
Trades COuncil-All Off
GERS Reelected

All the officers who served the CO.
Operative Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil during the past six months were
again nominated and elected to serve
for the ensuing term of six months,
at the meeting held Monday night.
They are:
c. S. Bowers, president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
Famous Cellist to Conduct
New Symphony Orchestra

HANS KINDER, celebrated cellist
and conductor, it is announced, will
conduct the second concert of the newly
organized National Symphony Orches-
ira at Constitution Hall Friday after
noon, March IA, at 4:45 o'clock. Frank
j. Frost, president of the National SYM
phony, has just completed arrangements
with Mr.. Kinder, who appeared Feb
ruary in Washington at Library OF
Congress concert.
This announcement, it is said signal
ICES new policy on the part of Wash
ington's new symphony orchestra,
whereby guest conductors of national
and international reputation will occupy
the conductors stand at future con-
certs OF the orchestra, which made its
initial bow to the music public Of Wash
ington at concert at Constitution Hall
January 81.
The orchestra management also
draws attention to the fact that the sec
ond concert will not be held February
49, as previously announced, owing to
the fact that more time is needed for
the preparation of certain important
symphonic work, which the National
Symphony expects to give at its next
performance.
Although Hans Kinder is best known
as a concert cellist, he has had wide
experience with the baton, particularly
abroad in Rome, Milan, Vienna, Prague,
Paris, Brussels and elsewhere, including
conducting experience with the Phila-
delphia Orchestra in Philadelphia, in
which organization he was, for time,
first ceiliSt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
MISkA WERSON-
yfIower( zzurs)
History of Instruments Used
by Stradivarius Quartet.

THE "Titian" Violin Q715).-This
violin, popularity known as the "Ti-
tian," is, more correctly speaking, the
Comte de Sauzay of Paris. 1t re-
manned in the possession of the De
Sauzay family for many years, but
finally passed into the hands of the
well known Berlin dealer, E. Lachmann,
from whom eventually it was purchased
by Mr.. Zimbalist, who used it in his
concerts until it passed into the Wur-
liter collection.
The Spanish" Violin (1723) re-
gard to the Spanish violin, according
to the Hill certificate, this has been In
the Particle collection since 1895 and
then went to Mr.. Petersen in San Fran
cisco. This instrument was In the pos
session of the governor general of CadiZ
from 1780 to 1900. It was stated then
that it was made Of spruce of the
choicest selection.
The Lord Macdonald" Viola (17O1)
In Hills book it Is stated: I'VE now
come to probably the best known exam
pie of the violas-that named the Lord
Macdonald 1t was brought to Eng
land at the end Of the eighteenth CEN
fury by the Marquis dalla Rosa, and
was subsequently successfully owned by
Lord Macdonald, Mr.. Cooling, the vi
comte de jane and the Due de Cam
poselice. A record in our possession,
made a century ago. gives the date as
of the year 1701, but at some later time
tered to read 1920"
The "Vaslin" Violoncello (1725).-
La Belle Blonde" is magnificent spec
linen. The vicissitudes which this vio-
loncello has experienced are, If rumor
may be trusted, rather extraordinary.
NJ. G. Chanot, ST., violin maker in Paris,
during an excursion to Spain happened
to see the belly Of this bass hanging up
with other odds and ends in the shop
window OF Ortega, fiddle mender in
Madrid. Chanot, who at a glance ap-
preciated its value, went in and bought
1t for about 40 francs. He asked Ortega
where 1t came from and Ortega replied
that he took 1t from an old Violoncello
which q lady of rank residing in the
neighborhood of Madrid had sent to
him to be repaired. AS there were SO
many cracks in the belly, he had sub
stituted for 1t nice new one of his
own making. Chanot carried the belly
away with him to Paris and placed it
among the treasures of his shop. There
1t was seen some time after by Luigi
Tarifio. an enthusiastic italian collector,
who was charmed with it and bought
Ii from Chanot for 1000 francs. Hav-
ing ascertained that the violoncello to
which this fragment originally belonged
was in. the possession of lady living
near Madrid, Tarif1o at once set out to
Spain. Now the lady, when she became
aware that a gentleman had travelled a
long way to look after her old bass with
a. view of purchasing it, thought, of
course, that it must be worth a great
deal Of money. and therefore said that
she had no wish to sell 1t; she would,
however, give it to him for 1000 francs.
Tarifio was only too glad to pay the
sum. and having secured the bass, he
carried it triumphantly to Paris. The
FIRST thing he did was to have the new
belly removed and the old cracked one
reinstated. After its restoration M.
Gallay bought the instrument for 10000
francs.