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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Two Big Union Garment Firms
To Put Plants on 5-Day Week
Three Thousand Members of United Garment Workers
of America in Six Cities to Work 40 Hours at No
Reduction in Weekly Pay, Beginning with New Year.

New York City (ILNS)-Two more
union manufacturers, employing 5000
members of the United Garment
Workers of America, with factories
in principal cities of the United
States, have announced the 40-hour
work week, with no reduction in the
weekly pay of their employees, both to
go into effect with beginning of the
new year.
To begin the year 1881 with this
good news to the American labor
movement, there had to be trinity.
In this case it happened to be the
H. d. Lee Mercantile Company, man.
ufacturers Of the Lee brand of over
alls, unionalls, play suits and work
shirts, with factories in Kansas City,
Mo-; South Bend, Ind; Trenton, N.
j.; Minneapolis, Mimi, and San Fran
cisco, Cal, employing $500 members
of the United Garment Workers of
America; the R. L. Mcdonald Manu-
featuring Company, st. Joseph, Mo-,
manufacturers Of the Mcdonald brand
of high grade dress shirts, pajamas,
underwear, overails and work shirts,
employing 500 loyal trade unionists,
and the United Garment Workers of
America, ably represented by Presi-
dent T. A. Rickert and General Sec
retary j. L. Wines.
The story would not be complete if
credit were not given to the 5000
members of the union and their eff
cient officers who are affected by this
agreement. Their loyalty to the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Low WAGES
Blamed By Shipstead For
Business Drop

New York.-"Speculation on bor-
rowed money and the small share that
labor receives in the form of wages
were classed as major causes of the
present depression by United States
Senator Shipstead, writing his views
for the Magazine of Wall Street, in a
featured article.
This financial publication explains
that Senator Shipstead's views on the
problems relating to business are
"most significant" as the close divi-
sion between the two old parties
makes him "the most powerful indi-
vidual in congress-"
eve are suffering from undercon-
sumption rather than overproduc-
tion," said Senator Shipstead, in call
ing attention to the need for higher
wages.
"Not enough of the gross income
of the corporations goes back into
iiiiiCdiaCC anu UlOdQiy olSlIipuCGu
dividual income. In other words, the
potential buyers are not adequately
provided with the means of buying.
When the gross amount paid out in
wages decreases as the volume of the
product increases, an impasse is sure
to come.
1t has been recently showroom
trary to what we have all thought
that labor is receiving smaller pro-
portion of the value it assists in
creating than it did 90 years ago.
The corporations are accumulating
too much capital from profits and un-
wisely holding back dividend disburse-
ments. Rich men and corporations
tend to withdraw greater part of their
income from consumptive use than do
average Individuals"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

Not one of the II main industrial di-
visions. showed a net gain for the
month. The chemical, oil and paint
division was holding up better than
the average, showing net loss for
the month of less than per cent, and
total employment only 6 per cent be-
low that of November, 1929.
The stone, clay and glass group
showed good gains in New York city,
but upstate losses caused a drop in
total employment in these industries.
Silk and cotton mills showed further
recovery from their drastic losses
earlier in the year, but other textiles
continued to lose ground.
Virtually every other industry on
the list showed downward trend,
which was especially marked in those
industries whose busy seasons close
in November.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

From these data it will be seen that
disbursements of 1880 exceeded those
of 1929 in all months except Septem-
Der and October.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

ton that provides for every imagin-
able employment.
The executive committee of the as
sociation will present their views to
the carriers, and will attempt to have
it treated on a national scale, as it is
national matter.
The workers are asking for the six
hour day in train and yard service
and the fve-day week for other en-
ployes. Each organization will work
out its especial problems that are in
cidental to the change.
The Association of Railroad Labor
Executives agreed to work with the
railroads on such issues as proper
regulation of highway transportation
by busses and trucks and the elm
ination of subsidized and unfair COM
petition by busses, trucks, pipe lines
and waterways"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Union Holds Firm and No
Strikers Go Back to Mills
Invitation of President Fitzgerald to Return Under "In
dustrial Democracy" Plan Is EmphatcalIy Rejected

ers to return to the mills and ''for-
get It," The next morning armed
police by the score were at the River
side Mills to protect" anyone want
ing to go to work, but nobody went in
except the few roustabouts and the
usual contingent of overseers, second
hands and clerks who are not eligible
to join the union.
At the Dan River Mills, Virginia
soldiers with fixed bayonets acted as
strike deputies and guarded the usual
crowd who enter the mills, but no
strikers entered and few, if any,
skilled workers, either union or nom
union, went to work. The coup was a
signal victory for the union and dis
closed that they were out to win and
would stick until the lower regions
were congested.
No Gain in Mill Force
Since that time the police and mill
tary have been on the job as usual
but the increase in the mills has not
materialized. Mr.. Fitzgerald has
iterated and reiterated that he will
have nothing whatever to do with the
union and will not recognize it under
any condition.
A few nights ago the military or
dered an automobile carrying a man
and woman to halt, as it came down
the highway on the outskirts of
Schoolfield. The car did not halt and
a volley followed the speeding car
Lockwood Pickett, from North Caro-
lima, was perhaps fatally shot. Pick
EFT was rum runner and his car con-
tained so gallons of pre-holiday corn
whiskey
Citizens of Schoolfield in no wise
connected with the operation of the
cotton mills or the textile union are
preparing protest to Gov. Pollard
against promiscuous shooting by sol
diers who are alleged to endanger the
lives of innocent persons through the
use of high-powered army rifles and
steel jacketed bullets. They also pro-
test against the practice of the SOL
diers halting citizens and autos and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
FACTORY JOBS IN
NY. DROP AGAIN
Virtually Every Industry
Shows Slump in
November

Albany, N. Y. ILNS)-Factory
employment in New York state drop
ped 3 per cent from October to No
vember, Industrial Commissioner
Frances Perkins announced today,
basing her statement on reports from
about 1,700 factories which report
regularly to the New York state de-
partment of labor.
A general slackening in activity
was felt throughout the list Of re-
porting factories, which includes con-
Germs in all lines of manufacturing
and located in all parts of the state.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
|PICKETS MAY WALK
But NOT TALK

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-Phila-
delphia cops have decided that it's an
offense to tell workers strike exists
in given shop if those particular
workers don't happen to be working
in the struck mill and are seeking
work there.
The. Master Full Fashioned Hosiery
Shop employees, Third and Somerset
streets, have been out on strike for
several weeks against sweatshop
wages and conditions. This plant is
a small one employing some SO per-
sons, and is located in a large build
ing in the heart of the Kensington
mill district, in which other firms are
also located.
Mrs. Anna Geisinger, woman or
ganizer of the American Federation
of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers,
on the picket line the other morning
told everybody going into the mill
building that there was a strike in
the Master shop. The cops announced
that pickets may only walk and not
talk. Mrs. Geisinger insisted upon
speaking to the workers. She was
run in. Magistrate Lindell discharg-
ed her, but despite the protests of the
unions attorney, Alexander Haig, re-
fused to rebuke the police for making
ing an arrest on such grounds.
The strike at the Master is prac-
tically 100 per cent effective. In the
face of the terrible unemployment in
the industry there have been almost
no strikebreakers at all going into
the shop.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
URGE COMPENSATION
CHANGES IN KANSAS

Topeka, Kan.-Organized labor in
this state urges changes in the work
ers' compensation law. These in
clude better medical provisions, the
right of an injured employe to select
his own doctor and higher weekly
COMPENSATION.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

United Garment Workers Of America
and their employers, helped greatly
to put into effect the 4O-hour work
week in the various cities in which
the H. D. Lee Mercantile Co. and the
R. L. Mcdonald Manufacturing Co.
operate plants.
Companies Are Leaders
The H. D. Lee Mercantile Company
and the R. L. Mcdonald Manufac-
turing Company are leaders and not
followers in the garment industry,
and having once convinced them
selves that the 40-hour week was eco
nomically sound, and humanely just,
they did not hesitate to put it into
effect.
A statement by General President
Rickert and General Secretary Wines
said:
eve sincerely trust and hope that
manufacturers in the garment indus
try in general will see the economic
necessity for this change and the in
terest of the progress of the industry
itself as we'll as the happiness and
beneficial results it will bring to their
employees, so that in the very near
future all people working in the gar
ment industry may be the beneficiaries
of the 4O-hour work week. We also
hope that the actions of the II. D. Lee
Mercantile Company and the R. L.
Mcdonald Manufacturing Company
may also be an influencing factor to-
wards this end to other employers in
the industry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
IMMIGRANTS BANNED

Washington.-A two-year suspen-
sion of all immigration, except rela-
tives who may enter until half of the
existing quota is filled, was approved
by the house immigration committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26

securities outstanding and to the fact
that some corporations have paid divi-
dends out of surpluses accumulated
in previous years.
The record of payments by months
in 1880 compared with 1929 is shown
in the following table in millions of
dnIIarc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-12-26
Another Effort to Break
DanuiLle Walkout Fails

| searching them without provocation.
| According to Richmond advices there
are 485 soldiers on duty in the strike
area at the present time.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
ESCAPES CHAIR
BY CHOKING
Times Staff Photo

oSsINING, N. Y, Sept. ~
GN.S).-For the fifth time in
the 80 years that capital punish
ment has been in effect in New
York, a convict waiting in the
Sing Sing death house had
cheated the chair" today.
Anthony Mortelito, 80, convicted
of killing Principal Keeper Ed
ward Beckwith at Auburn Prison
last fall, strangled himself last
night.
Although a guard was nearby,
Mortelito wound a towel around
his neck, tied it in place with a
shoestring and twisted it until he
had choked out his life. Clothing
concealed the towel and passing
guards thought he was asleep.
A note found in the cell said:
81 am going to die tonight"
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
v. RAPER Held
AT GARY

LEECHBURG, Pa, Sept. q
Q.N.S0 Chief of Police Martin
M. O'Lear and Charles Best, Arm
strong county detective, left here
today by automobile for Gary,
Ind, where Constable william
Raper, of this city, was reported
being held in connection with
the brutal murder of Joseph
Conto, 38, wealthy soft drink
manufacturer.
According to reports here,
Raper denounced his detention
as "frame-up" in a telephone
conversation with Chief O'Lear
from Gary last night.
Questioning of the slain mans
wife, Mrs. Jennie CMnto, was con-
tinued here today pending the
arrival of Raper, who was re-
ported ready to waive extradition
proceedings.
Conto's body was found in a
patch of woodland near here on
Thursday. The top of his head
had been blown off by a shotgun
charge. Police expressed the be-
lief that Conto had been taken
for a ride" and murdered in the
lonely section where his body
was found.
Mrs. Conto, separated from her
husband for the last two months.
had filed a suit for divorce in
Armstrong county courts. The
case had not vet been heard.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
High School Closed
As TOnn Well Dries

BRUNSWICK. Md, Sept. 27.-
The Brunswick High School is
closed today, and it is probable
that the two elementary schools
will be closed in the next few
days. as the city is facing the
most serious water shortage in
its history.
The 5000, ,OOO-gallon reservoir
and the 100000 reserve tank Of
the city have been entirely
emptied and the whole city is de:
pending on the output Of a single
well for its water supply. The
maximum flow of this well is but
$4,000 gallons a day, while the
normal daily consumption OF the
city is more than 100000 gallons.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
Thomas SchaU, Jr.,
SurUiUes Operation

Midshipman Thomas D. Schall,
jr., son Of the blind Senator from
Minnesota, who was injured 10
days ago when his automobile
crashed into truck near River
dale, Md, withstood an operation
performed yesterday at Sibley
Hospital for the removal of a
piece of broken bone from his
right arm! Schall was on the
operating table five hours. The
operation was performed by DR..
Gusts Lee Hall and his assistant,
DR.. Pollard.
Miss Marjorie Krebs, of Balti-
more, who was a passenger in
the midshipman's car, is expected
to return home from Sibley Tues
day.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
WEARY CABINET
READY TOFACE
REICHSTAG
New Bruening Program Seeks
Abolition Of Dole and Raise
In Unemployment Insurance

BERLIN, Sept. ~ G.N.s).
Physically and mentally ex-
hausted from trying all-night
session, Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening and his cabinet today
completed formulation Of the
emergency" financial program
which will be submitted to the
new German Reichstag next
month.
On this program the cabinet
will base It's demand for a vote
Of confidence from a parlia-
mentary body overwhelmingly
hostile to the present minority
government. If the vote is not
forthcoming, President Won Hin.
denberg may assume dictatorial
powers to push the measures
through. 3
Dole To Be Abolished
The program is designed to
cover the expected 1000, ,000, 900
mark deficit now facing. the
country. It Is understood the
cabinet, deciding further raise
in taxes to be impossible, plans
to raise the unemployment In
surance premium from 2 to 61a
per cent, as well as placing a
tax Of S per cent on salaries of
Government employees. The re-
mainder of the needed funds will
be borrowed.
Other measures in the program
are understood to include aboli,
ton Of the dole" and substitu.
ton of municipal labor for all
unemployed.
Meanwhile accusations and
understanding" ran rife, with
FaSciStS, Communists and Social.
lists waging a relentless editorial
battle.
While the Social organ Vor.
waertZ charged Fascists with en-
ticing Communists to join hands
in fomenting a general transpor-
tation strike October 2, the Com.
munist press reported that a Hun
garian representative was consult
ing Adolf Hitler, Fascist chieftain.
with a view to securing his sup
port for the restoration Of the
Hapsburg throne, with Archduke
Otto as king.
HitleriteS Win Braunschweig
It also reported that, Prince
Starhemberg. leader Of the Aus.
trian Heimwehr, was in closest
touch with Hitler through a pri.
vate radio arrangement. The two
men were closely associated be-
fore Hitler was expelled from
Austria in connection with
Fascist activities.
The FaScists captured repre-
sentation today in the second
German state to succumb to their
influence when the bourgeois bloc
Of Braunschweig agreed to invite
participation by national Social
lists in the state government.
The governments majority in
the Diet, however. depends on the
vote Of a single member of the
State party. Braunschweig and
Thuringia, the other Fascist
states, both were noted once for
their radical left governments.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
HEARST ON WRC
NEXT SUNDAY

NEW YORK, Sept. 81 U.S0.
William Randolph Hearst has ae-
cepted the invitation Of M. H.
Aylesworth, president Of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company, to
make his first radio address over
the combined networks of the
National BroadcaSting, Company
Sunday night at 10 o'clock.
About IS stations in the United
States and Canada will be joined
for the broadcast. In addition,
five short-wave transmitters will
be utilized to carry the address to
all parts of the globe.
Mr.. Hearst will be introduced
to the radio audience by Mr..
Aylesworth. The subject of his
address is unknown, but he is ex-
pected to speak for about Is min
uteS.
WRCS will broadcast the pro,
gram in the washington area,
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
'K|DNAP INC TIP
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The Times to get reporters and
photographers on the scene early
and give complete details in the
Home Edition.
Third prize Of IS is awarded for
the tip on the death Of Motorcycle
Policeman F. j. Scoville, Of the
Traffic Bureau. who was killed at
Fifth and @ Streets Northwest.
when struck by a garbage truck.
This tip enabled The Times to
print pictures of the fatal accident
in its late editions.
Where Smaller Prizes Go
Prizes Of 81 each are awarded
for tips on the following stories:
Price Of gasoline drops 2 cents
in the District.
Represen ative David H.
KinchlOe of Kentucky slated for
appointment to q judgeship on
the United States Customs
Court.
SmOkestack of old Govern
ment hotels dynamited to clear
property for development Of
Union Station Plaza.
Charles Auiffre, IL years old,
Of Houston Ave-, Takoma Park,
Nd, injured when boys ex-
plOde dynamite cap near him.
Safe blown at Seventh and G
Streets N. w.
Triple automobile collision at
Fourteenth Street and Ohio
Avenue N. w.
Plague of Moths
Washington visited by plague
of moths, which entirely cover
the fronts Of buildings in down
town section.
Clinton Grim, 21, ShOtOs him.
self at Winchester, Va, in sui
eide attempt.
Charlie Dutridge, II years old,
Of Rollins Fork, Va, accidently
shoots himself fatally while
squirrel hunting.
Two men burned when ex-
plOSiOn occurs in apartment i'm
14OO block Of Columbia Road,
N. w., due to match falling on
floor being cleaned with alcohol.
Punch" pup belonging to
Mrs. Mrgaret Laehr, 1900 block
MOntello Ave. N. E., delights in
stealing rides on BurIeith- -Trini.
dad busses.
Home Raided by Bees
Family Of Henry Schmid in
Bethesda driven from home by
bees, necessitating calling out
Of the fire department to clear
the house Of the inesctS.
Apparently killed by the heat
and drought, tree at Third and
d SITS. N. w., is revived by show.
ers and puts out new leaves.
Girl reported missing from
her home.
Lights in the vicinity of Wis
cOnSin Ave. and Garfield St. N.
w. put out when manhOIe is
blown off by explosion.
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The Washington times., 1930-09-27
PARTIES
FACE FIGHT
BY EAST
Hoover Stand to Guide G. o. p
Convention, But Democrats
Seem Sure of Internal War

With Republican State organi-
cations in the industrial East be,
ginning to follow the Democrats
In opposing the Eighteenth
Amendment, national leaders to-
day saw a decided trend toward
making prohibition the dominant
issue in both major party con-
ventions in the Presidential year
Of 1882.
The action of the New York
State Republican convention in
voting three to one for repeal of
prohibition gave impetus to the
anti-dry movement in the Repub-
lcan party.
Democratic Fight Sure
The Democrats were assured of
q battle over prohibition when
their New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, MaSSa-
chusetts, Delaware, and Mary
land organizations adopted drip
ping wet platforms.
Dry chieftains insisted, how
ever, that the Republican party
will remain faithful to prohibi-
tion, unless the Hoover law ell
forcement commission recon-
mends a drastic change. If such
an eventuality occurs, the drys
were reluctant to predict what
will happen. Democratic dryS
say there will be no change for
years.
Hoover to Guide G. o. P.
One Republican dry observed:
The fight in the Republican
convention will be determined
by President HoOver's attitude.
If he remains alOOf, the drys
will win as usual, since the
wet East will be outnumbered
by the dry South and dry West.
If his commission files wet re-
port in the end and the Presi-
dent leans toward some mOdifi-
cation, the vets will have a
far better chance of winning
and may force some mOdifica-
tion plank in the next Repub-
ican platform"
Victor Seymour. assistant vice
chairman of the Republican ma.
tional senatorial campaign com.
lnittee, in charge Of western re.
gional~ headquarters here, yester-
day telegraphed his resignation to
Senator Frederick Steiwer at Pen
dleton, Ore.
Seymour. Lincoln. Neb., man,
has figured prominently in the in.
vestigation of the Nye senatorial
campaign funds investigating COM
mittee hearing in Nebraska con.
corning the recent Republican
primary there.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
Coed Hikers Caught
On Bridge, / Dead
Other Dying

MUIR, Mich, Sept. II
(T.N.S.).-A railroad hike by
two college goods to save the
sum of railroad fares today
had cost the life Of one Of
them, and may result fatally
for the second girl.
The dead student is Miss
Helen Page, 25, of Elkhart,
Ind, and her companion, who
is near death in a Grand
Rapids hospital, is Edna May
Doyle, 28, of Mishawaka, Ind.
The girls were trapped on a
railroad trestle by a train
and run down.
Thy were hiking from Ber-
rein Springs to this city. Both
were students at the Seventh
Day Adventist College in the
former town, and were work
ing their way through school.
The Washington times., 1930-09-27
Labor Trouble Held
CnuSe Of 3 KILLINGS

NEW YORK, Sept. q QN.S0.
Labor troubles were blamed by
police today for the murder of
two men and wounding of a
third.
Paul Cotreneno, a foreman of
dock Iaborers, was shot and killed
and his companion, Tony Cas-
sano, was wounded as they we're
on the way to attend an Italian
fiesta in Brooklyn. An unidenti-
fled man was found shot SIX
times in tenement. The killers
in both murders escaped.