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from the Territory to find another home.
 This is the faction to which Gardner and Scott made overtures and finally surrendered. Naturally it was not possible for them to obtain it's permission to guarantee to their former supporters they would remove the schools from pol itics, because it looks upon the school system as an important cog in the political machine. So Gard her and Scott jettisoned the issue along with some of their other proclaimed convictions.
 For years officials in charge of administration of AlaSka'S resources and persons and corporations with heavy investments in Alaska indus tries have been the objects of at tacks by faction for which Paul and Steel and men working with them were spokesmen. In the April primary campaign, MT. Rust gard notably, and Gardner as well as he was able, denounced these men by name and condemned them for capital batting practices tend ing to prevent new capital from coming here to develop natural re- sources now wasting away.
 Abandon Practicality
 "Seeking support for the nom nations last Spring, these candi- dates criticised their opponents for a platform plank which promised legislation leaving the fisheries of Alaska open only to bona fide AL askans. In turn they pledged them selves to enact legislation to limit the fisheries to Alaskans so far as practical and legal.
 "In a meeting at Petersburg, par ticipated in by both Gardner and Scott, MT. Rustgard, as spokesman for the candidates brilliantly de- tended the plank of his ticket and riddled that of the opposition which he characterized as not only im- practical and unsound legally, but as insincere. If we want the nat ural resources developed we have to bless and not curse the men who are willing to come here with their money to start the industries and furnished the jobless with jobs.
 Referring specifically to the big gest branch of the fisheries indus try = the salmon fishery = in a speech at Ketchikan delivered from platform on which Gardner and Scott also spoke, he declared:
 "It is absurd to think of pro hibiting canners from importing labor until other industries build up sufficiently to furnish employ ment twelve months year-until 1 we have established labor mar ket. We cannot build prosperous community on one purely seasonal industry. Salmon furnishes em- lployment for fishermen only during about five or six weeks year, and, unless other industries flour ish alongside, labor cannot be ex- pected to sit here during the other ten or eleven months and wait for a job
 He cited the pledge of his own
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A. Steel, ex-member of the com bination whose mantle has de- scended upon MT. Gardner and whose shoes he is apparently seek ing to fill, to come back to Juneau and accept a clerical position.
 Would Restore Hatcheries
 Four years ago, under the lead- ership of Paul, and largely owing to the consistent battle he waged against them, the Territorial hatch cries were discontinued, but not until between $400,000 and $500,00o had been expended on them out Of the Territorial treasury. Now comes the unique proposal, sanctioned by him, too, to restore one of the hatcheries-that at Ketchikan.
 Having gone out of that line of which h cost 1t dearly and had nothing to show therefor, surely disinterested voters can see that this is nothing but another vote-catcher aimed at the
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incalculable injury to our public schools.
 With their co-candidates, Messrs. Gardner and Scott, during the pri- mary campaign, pledged themselves to remedy this error, saying in a signed platform:
 i've believe serious error was committed in making the office of Commissioner of Education elective since it will inevitably bring the school system of the Territory into politics. We will support meas ure to make that office again ap- pomtive'
 Keep Them in Politics
 Nothing could be more explicit. And that promise was accepted without reservation by the voters of the First Division An exam ination of the platform recently made public and signed, not only by Candidates Gardner and Scott, but also by every members of the Republican ticket, Territorial as well as Divisional, reveals the fact that it is startlingly silent on thiss-subject. Beyond advocating a Sltvey of the schools of the Ter ritogy by some competent author ityasMhich merely means another appxDpriation, there is absolutely no mention of Alaskas public school systsn in that rather ridiculous document.
 Apparently as in the case of thesvil of bloc voting, these men witifx an ambition to become law makers, have concluded it is better to make the schools part of their protEtted political machine than it A to make them nonpolitical andenonpartisan, safe and secure from the influence and pressure of willy and self-seeking politicians.
 Capitulation Is Seen
 This abrupt switch on so i'm portant an issue cannot be con- strued except as complete capitu- lation It was through the ma- chinations of the Steel-Paul com bination that the schools of Alaska were thrown into politics. It was at their demand and by their rep resentatives that Lester D. Tender son, for 12 years Commissioner of Education, who created the public school system and put it on the high plane it now occupies, was dismissed from office and driven
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seems that should be the interpre- tation.
 Hence, it must be a pledge that Paul has offered the olive branch to the Bureau of Fisheries; that his fight against what he and his CO., workers have termed King O'Mal- ley's autocratic domination of the Alaska fisheries is at an end; and that from now henceforth MT O. Malley's regulations governing the fisheries of Alaska will be agree able to that faction.
 "The Forest Service, almost as viciously assailed, and the Alaska Game Commission, another target for venomous diatribes, both from the same faction, will be hailed as friend and ally No more will they be accused of expressing the poor, Alaska fisherman and trapper.
 Should Apologize to Governor
 "To make the love feast com
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of party loyalty in an effort to gain this end.
 These are the same men who fought virtually every appointment made by the Governor at the 1929 session of the Alaska Legislature; who blocked the Governors recom- mendations for needful legislation: made pawn of politics out of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines; and on one occa- sion futilely sought to use the courts to upset the existing sys- tenn of Government in Alaska.
 Believes Case Proved
 Under all these circumstances can there be any doubt that the old Steel-Paul faction has swal- lowed up the candidates who last Spring were nominated by Repub- licans as a protest against every thing that the former element stands for in Territorial political life? Of course, not.
 "Of all the pledges made by Messrs. Gardner and Scott in the primary campaign, not one of any importance remains in the platform they are offering to the voters in the general election. Like lambs they have made their beds with the roaring lions of radical ism and discord. I am confident the voters of the First Division will not follow them there"
 .- L .n.. a~ .a Er- 4 [
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MOOSE BASEBALL PLAYERS
 GUEST AT BANQUET FRIDAY

The Moose baseball club, cham pions of the Juneau City League for 1880 under Manager Arthur McKinnon. was the guest last night at a banquet given by the local Moose lodge T. J. Shearer officiated as toastmaster
 Congratulations were extended to Manager McKinnon and his men for their fine record. McKinnop predicted the club would repeat next season.
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Political in Purport

"Of course, the Senate memorial was merely for political purposes. The end of Gov. Parks term was approaching. The President was soon to make an appointment for the position. A nonresident of Alas ka was making an effort to land the berth And these men, who now have the effrontery to fish for the support of loyal administration fol- lowers resort to an empty pledge
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plete these harmonious candidates should wait upon Gov. George A. Parks with a humble apology for the actions of it's spokesmen in the 1929 session of the Alaska LegiS lature
 In the Senate of that session, Senators Will A Steel, whose suc- cessor MT. Gardner, is ambitious to be, Charles Benjamin, Richard N Sundquist, James H. Anderson and Arthur Frame, all members of the dominant faction of the pres ent Republican lineup, forced through a memorial savagely at tacking the Governor, whom it ac- cused of unethically using his of ficial position to defeat legislation. He was accused of political activ- ity,' of threatening the use of his veto power to coerce members, and of commanding the influence Of still other Federal officials to the end. that desirable legislation was made impossible
 "The House of Representatives seeking to counteract any possible effect of this astounding and out rageous memorial, which even it's proponents must have known to be uttprlV false introduced and ma Scafl a resolution commenting Gov. Parks for his fairness, honesty, impartial ity and his outstanding ability. There was just one vote cast against this resolution = that of Grover c. Winn, of Juneau, who is one of the candidates now pledg- ing to support the Hoover admins tration.
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VOTERS BIL K ED BY CANDIDATES, AYERS C0NN0RS
Many Issues Abandoned in First Division by
 Gardner and Scott

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
COLLECTING WAGE CLAIMS

An inquiry has recently been COM
pleted by the United States Bureau
of Laoor Statistics upon the efforts
of state labor offices to enforce pay
ment of wages, which shows that the
machinery of justice in this country
is still far from adequate for collect.
ing wage claims for workers too poor
to pay for counsel. Thus in 1929 in
ID states for which fairly complete
reports were obtained, wage claims
settled only after the intervention OF
state labor officials numbered over
26,690, representing an aggregate col.
lection of more than $1,352,000
While certain labor officials have
effective legal support for the collec.
tion of small wage claims, a number
of offices are greatly hampered by
lack of adequate legislation for such
work. This is situation that needs
remedying.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
THE DANVlLLE TEXTILE STRIKE

ordinary 1t
mpeed
F. convention order special plea for financial
to all affliates and sympathizers.
the union
section these schemes that
ihseparable from autocratc control
Danv the final paernasm has been said Here
elaborate instituted in the South
in its alluring form.
hidden The plot than union 1t
hood enthroned injustice
the
combat
their long experience, made
whom lost their jobs when
they insisted hat company union" live its peense
pedup (strehout) followed the workers
They awok and affiliated the regular
of that organization for months attempted
differences
mill then notified the
governor of Virginia: We ehaven nothing to mediate"
who affect benevolent interest
il whomh they merciessly exploit
will of an industrial olgarch established
Of organ labor in that
Trade unions
Danvile strike ending
Aside humanity this enterprise
they contribute this they
ASST themselves
Aid hungry the best form of insurance
for wage in the South
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1880
CITY EMPLOYEES WITH
A HEART

While we ofttimes take a rap at
some of our city employees because
we think they gave US the worst of
it in computing the gas or electric
bill, or because we think our streets
are not getting the attention we think
they ought to have, or for some other
fancied grievance, we must all take
our hats off to them for the big
hearted action they took last week to
aid the citys unemployed and unfor-
tunate. From the lowliest to THE
highest they have agreed, unani.
mously, to give 21a per cent of their
wages for the ensuing three months
in this aid. 1t is figured the sum sc
gathered will amount to $4,000.
Not with advice nor counsel are
the city employees coming to the
front, but by digging down in their
jeans are they doing it. That is real
ly doing things, especially when it is
considered that many of the city
workers do not receive any more than
they actually need for themselves
Our city employees are certainly de-
serving of much praise-too much
cannot be given them for this won
derful display of generosity. They
lead the way and once more Hamilton
is placed in the front, for where is
there another city where similar
action has been taken on the port OF
its workers?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
FEDERAL FARM
BOARD FAVORS
MEAT PACKERS

Washington Chairman Legge, of
the federal farm board, quoted that
every member of his board favors a
modification of the meat packers
consent decree.
The decree was signed several
years ago by the department of JUS
tice and the Big Four packers, who
now ask that the District of Column
bia supreme court annul the agree
ment, which provides that the meat
packers shall not enter the retail
meat trade.
Organized labor opposes modifica-
tion of the decree. The recent Bos-
ton A. F. of L. convention protested
to President Hoover, the attorney
general and all administrative Of
ficers.
The packers have driven trade
unions from their plants and would
now inonopoljze retail merchandising
of meat.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
EVEN HITS HOOTCH

Uncontrolled competition and the
present economic depression is affect
ing one of North Cardinals most i'm
portant basic industries tilling
and bootlegging, reports Alfred Hoff-
man, Southern organizer for the
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers.
The drop in Wall street is nothing
compared to the drop in liquor prices
in that state, according to Hoffman.
He said the bottom is dropping out,
with fall in the demand for all
forms of hootch. Latest quotations
on the liquor market range as low
as As cents per pint for so-called
"corn liquor" Investigators report
that quotations also range as low as
81 per full half gallon of staple
bootleg.
The average profit on 10-ounce
pints of '1eg" is reported as being
so cents per pint, on the high class
market, as low as 10 cents per pint
on the low class market.
No, we don't know the fare to
North Carolina.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
THE FIVE-DAY WEEK

Ten years ago the fve-day week
was an idea on the half-shell. To-
day it is the accepted schedule for
350,000 union workmen in the build
ing trades, 100000 union workmen in
the automobile industry, approx
mately 100000 workmen in miscel-
laneous trades, and during the sum-
mer months, some 100000 employees
of business offices and shops.
How well has the short week work
ed in practice?
When the National Industrial Con-
ference Board announced the results
of a survey made in 1928 it reported
that 80 out of 94 companies showed
a loss in output, 18 showed a gain,
and DC no change.
The figures show a slight prepon-
derence on the side of q decrease in
production, but the margin is not
large enough to be significant, nor
have enough factories reported fig
ures to make the test decisive.
For American industry as a whole.
the short week is still an experiment
plainly of Importance, with much
to commend it but with certain
doubts to be overcome and with the
point of view of individual employers
varying meantime in keeping with
the results OF their own frst-hand
experience.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

John A. Phillips, of the Pennsyl-
vania State Federation of Labor, in
addressing the Scranton General La
Dor Union, told them that unemploy-
ment insurance, and amendment, to
the state constitution on old age pen
sions, should be part of Pennsyl-
vania's labor legislative program.
Frank Morrison, in his Labor Day
article, also advocates unemploy-
ment insurance. In Labor's Sunday
message, the Federal Council of
Churches in speaking of unemploy-
ment insurance and old age pensions
says that every dictated or religious
imagination and common sense force
them to accept this social obligation
and to urge those in positions of re-
sponsibility to work out it's practical
application. More important than
ever, William Green, appearing be-
fore the legislative senate committee
on the Wagner unemployment bills, in
stressing the misery of unemploy-
ment, stated that if doles was the
cure, then it must be doles.-Metal
Polishers' Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
TOWARD SHORTER woRK-DAY

The American Federation of Labor
has been talking about the shorter
work-day and work-week. 1t has
come out fatty for the five-day week
1t did not set up the fve-hour day
as an immediate and definite goal.
But the federation convention did
boldly mark out a policy that must
lead to drastic action toward reach
ing the number of hours in the work
day.
The executive council is given the
task of making a profound study OF
the question, reporting to the next
convention. This is progress.
Every shortening of the hours oi
work thus far achieved has beer
through organized labor. 1t will con
tinue so. But, whereas in earle,
years human health and welfare was
the main driving cause, today the
machine has come into the situation
to add,a new and powerful argument
for reduction of hours.
The executive council has before i
big job. Unemployment tells u!
something must be done. To do tn,
adequate thing is labor's job. TX
act with wisdom is as necessary a:
to act effectively.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
JOIN THE SO. S. FOR DANvILLE

JOIN THE S. 0. S. FOR DANVILLE
Back of the big Danville strike is
the service of supply-the money and
the food and the clothes and the fuel.
These things flow into Danville out
of the pockets of wage earners
throughout the country.
Workers give because every strike
is the strike of everybody.
Danville is the spearhead of the
Southern campaign.
Every union and every trade union
newspaper office ought to be collect
ing center for Danville, in response
to the official appeal of the American
Federation of Labor.
Danville is looking forward with a
splendid optimism and heroism.
But if food stops, even heroes can
not go on. 1t is the business of those
who can to see tot that the service
of supply does not stop.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07

But when bosses say to the unor-
ganized: "This week wages go down
10 per cent" they go and that's that.
But the grocer and the butcher aud
the clothier feel it Immediately and
then the wholesalers feel it and then
it gets back to the manufacturers
again-arid the wise men at the top
betake themselves once more to the
wailing wall and bemoan the i'm
providence of the working classes.
But at the top there is no suffering.
Nobody is going hungry, or badly
clothed.
What weird mass it all is, any
way.
To scramble along with one less
motor car may be a tough thing, but
to get along with one less meal day
gets right down to the grass roots.
But getting back to higher note
let this be said: Unquestionably
much of this state of depression is a
state of mind. 1t is, to an extent
psychological.
Manufacturers and lots of others
think things are bad and may get
worse and so they hedge. Through
out the nation there is unnecessary
hedging, caused by the fear of what
may happen, but not due to what has
happened.
After all, in most things the hu.
man race has little courage and ever
less imagination.
Too much gloom has been spread
Bad as matters are, they are not as
bad. as most of the psychological
condition surrounding industry ane
commerce. And that's fact.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
PRICE CUTTING OF CHAINS

The governor of Minnesota refers
to price-cutting policies of chain
stores as commercial racketeering.
This sentiment is applauded by
men who class wage earners who cut
living standards as "free and indie
pendent workers"
Certain citizens could not under
stand why organized labor is so re-
sentful against workers who lower
wage rates and debase living stand
ards. These citizens, however, are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

celebration of the founding of the
labor temple in New York city re-
Gently, was the expressed determine
ton on the part of prominent clergy
men represented to form labor
union and be governed in their reli-
gious activities by the established
rules of the union, initiatory steps
already having been taken.
Welcome to the fold, brothers, and
a warm welcome awaits you.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
DENIED PROTECTION
FROM COMPETITION

Sacramento, Gala public utility
which allows its service to run down
until competition knocks at the door"
is not entitled to protection against
competition, according to the state
supreme court.
The ruling upheld an order by the
state railroad commission which per-
mits new ferry line to compete with
an existing ferry line across San
Diego bay between San Diego and
Coronado
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
heCherry
" Where with our
Tree Littn. Hatehst
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Debate RACES as to whether de-
preston has about run its course, OF
whether it has more wallops up it's
sleeve.
Nobody knows, exactly.
Predicting industrial future is nc
more an exact science than is weather
forecasting.l
Best informed persons hold that the
slow upward pull has set in, that ii
will be noticed in some directions this
winter, helped by the artificial
stimulus of the Col. Woods machin-
cry, and will set in with strength in
the spring.
Nothing interests wage earners to-
day one-half as much as the question:
When will there be work TO do?
Tragic business it is that with mil
lions needing things of all kinds, this
industrial system of ours cannot find
the power to turn the wheels to make
them!
n
Snug corporation chiefs sit in
barred offices talking about shutting
down, or about cutting wages, or
about running "open shop"
What sneer is there big enough to
convey the proper amount of con-
tempt for a "big business" that can
do no better than that?
Organized labor offers it's plans, it's
counsel, its cooperation. Reactionary
business men, engaged in looking
backward, reject the proffered help
and call themselves wise.
Not single corporation has yet
been recorded as voluntarily cutting
down the stream of profits flowing
into the pockets of dividend-takers.
That one important step remains to
be taken-and it will probably wait a
long time to come. .
Everyone is willing to let some
other fellow bear the burden.
The masses, broadly speaking, are
not well enough organized to stand
forth and say, thus far and not an
inch farther"
Those that are organized in unions
are protecting themselves with cour-
age and ability.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07

try of the department of agriculture
has resulted in development of a
method by which grain-cured casein,
used in coating highly-finished paper,
of high quality and uniformity may
be produced from SKINNED milk, ac-
cording to information made avail
able on behalf Of the bureau,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07
BIRTH RATE DROPS

Washington nations birth
rate last year was the lowest since
1915, when the registration area was
established, according to the bureau
of census. Infant mortality rate was
the lowest on record. Oregon had the
lowest birth rate and for the sixth
consecutive year had the lowest in
fant mortality rate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-11-07

The butcher, the baker, the restau-
rant, the theatre, the dance hall, the
tailor must all employ union labor
or organized labor must refuse to
patronize them.