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New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

all kinds and that, as general rule, payments are made at time of purchases,- whereas formerly it was necessary in many cases to extend credit" -.t,
 He then presented what he said was a striking account" of condi- tions in West Virginia from Josiah Keely, president of the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal company:
 My observation and experience cover only a population of some D. 900 or 6,000 on Cabin Creek, but I am more or less familiar with eco- homie life in the Kanawha Valley generally, which would number a good many more thousand. l should say. even at the present price, not half as much money is being spent for liquor as before. . The pay day lay off when the saloons were here was a rather serious interrup- tion of business both on account of the absence and on account of the day after headaches. We still have considerable absenteeism after pay day, but most of it is 'flivvering.' hunting and shopping, and they come back in fairly good condition. .. Our people are undoubtedly en- toying a period of greater spending for automobiles, radios, washing machines, electric refrigerators. photographs, etc. =. Formerly, the pay day earnings were frequently spent in one night away from the mines (there were no saloons on Cabin Creek), and family destitution on that account was common. Money is still spent unwisely, but, most of the family participate iN one way or other. In the old days some public drunkards were hardly known to have families. but now the family car with all piled in, visits distant friends, or just burns up gas and sees the sights as they go by. There is simply so much difference in favor of prohibition that those of us who like our liquor have to ad- init it.
 General Electric Replies
 "The General Electric company" Crowther continued, sent out for me a. questionnaire of ten of their principal supervisors of labor. all Of whom have had a number of years of experience in their positions, and although the answers diverged on many points, all the answers agreed that the men were spending much less for liquor. A supervisor in one of the larger cities estimated that S200,000 a week was now being talk en home that formerly went into the saloons.
 ''The answers from everywhere in the country are the same-the work ing men are spending little or noth- ing for drink and a great deal on their families. One of the great rail- way systems covering the country west of Chicago made a survey of their men on my behalf and also asked for opinions as to spending for drink in general. The answer they got was unanimous on the point that the amount of money being laid out for liquor did not amount to any thing.
 "The evidence gathered seems to be from a fair cross section of the whole wage earning population of the country. It definitely shows that working men are not buying the high priced bootleg liquor. This means that there has been a diverting of spending money away from liquor. for everyone agrees that the cost of home brew does not amount to any thing in dollars or cents. The money that formerly went for drink is go- ing elsewhere"
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

Jennings.
 Lang, who has a wife and two children, already has two liquor law violations on his record. His latest offense vas transporting liquo- from New Britain to Avon.
 William Stevenu. proprietor of Roby's Tavern, to which Lang was taking the liquor. was found to have a criminal record and his bond WIS increased from Sl.000 to s5,000 after States Attorney Hugh M. AL corn informed the court that he ll- tended placing a more serious charge against the man.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

ization for some time" Mrs. Welles said.
 Expects Growth to Be Slow
 "Of course, it will be some time before Mrs. Robinson's group can enroll as many members as we have"
 Mrs. Welles believes the new or ganization may serve the w. C 1T. U. not only in stimulating renewed &C., tivity by those devoted to tho cause of prohibition. but also in increasing the membership of the dry forces.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
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 ASSAILS PA0NESSA
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called upon the women of New Brit ain to go to the polls and to party caucuses and see that only candi- dates are nominated and elected to office who are in sympathy with the enforcement of and loyal to the laws"
 Mrs. Edward r. Carter was re- elected president of the local branch. Other officers elected were as fol- lows: Vice president, Mrs. Ray C. Young; recording secretary, Mrs. Florence A. kutz: corresponding sec retary, Mrs. A. B. DeYoung, treas- urer, Mrs. A. w. Mason.
 The officers were installed by Mrs. Futile.
 A social tea followed. There was a large attendance, including q mum Der of out of town visitors
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
Employe Under Arrest

Leipsig, March (P)-An cmplov, Of the Reichswehr, German Nation al Guard association, is under ar rest charged with collusion with communists in disappearance last week of 30 machine guns and rifles from the Reichswehr barracks.
 The case is regarded as further eVidence of communist activity within the Reichswehr.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05

10 collect the heavy insurance upon it.
 Although the police were unable to induce Barbero to talk, his en- tire story was unfolded when An tonic Luppino, Luppino's father, learned that his son had been burned to death in the New Haven fire.
 On Wednesday morning shortly before o'clock, Barbero and Lup- pno, in company with two other men who are out of the state, drove from New Britain to New Haven for the purpose of burning the building in which Mrs. Torello lived. Twenty gallons of gasoline were sprinkled through the rooms in the house..
 While Barbero and Luppino were either from point outside of the house or inside, tossed a match into tho gasoline. An explosion followed. The force of 1t knocked Barbero and Luppino down, Barbero falling on top of his friend.
 In flash, the entire interior of the gasoline saturated house was in flames. The clothing of both men took fire. Barbero craWled to a window and managed to climb out but Luppino could not raise him. self from the floor. Barbero, as he got out of the window, stated that he could hear Luppino's means but he could not go back to help him.
 Where the other two men in the party went, Barbero could not say. They apparently had deserted their companions and fled after setting fire to the place.
 Death Anticipated
 Since his arrival at the New Britain General hospital, Barbero has been on the danger list. He has suffered untold torture. Pieces of the flesh on his face, arms and legs have fallen away since last Wednesday and it appeared from the start that death would be the only relief he would be able to sc- cure from his torment.
 Apparently warned of the search the police have started for them, Mezzad esta and Frazzini have both gone into hiding, Repeated visits to their homes by the police have failed of results.
 The death of Barbero makes void a warrant for his arrest which the police were holding. in case he should recover from his burns.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
Smui>c shop faid Case

John MirzIuha pleaded uot guilty 10 the charge Of violation O. lhe liquor law in l Broad street smoke shop and was represented ly Attor- ncy L. J. Colon. The case WAS sot down by the court for trial OH Fri
New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
BARBERO IS DEAD;
 CONFESSES ARSON

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EMIL SHJERDEN QUITS
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ALCOHOL
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New Britain herald., 1930-03-05
Lang Sentenced to Jail

Despite q pl q for clomency nae by Henry $, Walter, an official or the Stanley Works in New Britain, joseph Lang 90 Maple street \ " Britain. was sentenced 10 a year ra jail after pleading guilty to a charge oi transporting liquor in the open ing Of the March criminal session yesterday before Judge Newell $.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Public works and improvements to
cost $1,616,000,000 have been report
ed to the White House by governors
of states cooperating in the prosper
ity campaign initiated by President
Hoover. The greater part of this ex-
penditure is planned for 1880. Some
of the work is largely getting under
way, and more will begin as the build
ing season advances. The total rep
resents complete reports from 81
state and partial reports from IL
| others
Current plans for the developing of
employment possibilities in England,
| as announced from the London dis
trict, include the electrifcation of GER
tain railways between certain points.
the acceleration of work planned by
the post office department, and va
rious road construction activities
which may spread over a period of
four or five years.
Archer A. Landon, Buffalo, N. Y,
business man, who took an active in
terest in the work of trade unions
and who served as labor advisor to
President Wilson during the World
War, died in Buffalo on January 5 at
the age of 81.
Ten of 80 coast guards under
charges of intoxication and stealing
liquor from a seized cargo. pleaded
guilty January 6 at general court
martial in New London, Conn.
In the case of the United Railways
and Electric Company of Baltimore,
Md, which sought TO obtain 1O-cent
fare, the United States supreme
court on January ruled for the COM
pany, holding that Just compensa-
ton for utility requiring prudent
management for efficient public sery-
ice and whose rates are subject to
public regulation IS more than current
interest in mere investment"
The municipal government of Ma
drld, Spain, will soon go into the un-
dertaking business, in direct compe-
tition with private funeral concerns.
IN an endeavor to decrease the cost of
burial.
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters will hold national negro
labor conference in Chicago, January
26-31.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
Low WAGES
OF Husband Drives Married
Women Into Industry

Washington.-Ma married women
are forced into industry by their hus-
bands low wages, declares the United
States Woman's Bureau, in Bulletin
No. rs, just issued. Under the title
'Inadequacy of Mems Wages" the
report states:
''The inability of large number
of men to earn sufficient to cover the
cost of living for the family makes it
necessary for many women, in every
state of the Union, to seek employ
ment and to share with husband and
father in the support of the family.
Undoubtedly it is true that the
degree of this need varies according
to individual standards of living, bas-
ed on the custom, experience or pref
erence of individuals or the practices
of community. However, there are
available the findings of authoritative
studies of the food, shelter and cloth
ing necessary for family of a given
size to meet standard of living be-
low which families in these United
States should not be allowed to fall
or to meet the lower standard below
which no family can fall without de-
terioration.
"In certain lines of work it is i'm
possible for men to earn even the sum
required for this low standard, though
employed full time and for the 81
weeks of the year. And few laborers
or factory workers have employment
the year round"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
NEWS HOUNDS
REWARDED
For Revealing EvasiOns OF
Law in Studio Fire

New York City ILNS)-B. C.
Clarke, former correspondent for In
ternational Labor News Service, who
as such wrote the first ILNS stories
of the Vare-Wilson election contest
in Pennsylvania, and Roger Friend,
reporters for the New York Ameri-
can, were awarded bonuses of $50
each for their work in preventing re-
moval of illegally stored motion pic
ture film from the rui1s IF the Pathe
studio in New York, where 10 per-
sons lost their lives in the recent fire.
Clarke and Friend were working as
part of a watch placed on the studio
by the American on the chance that
movie officials would try to remove
the film which was suspected of be-
ing stored in the cellar Of the build
ing Under New York fire laws no
more than 5000 feet of film can be
kept in studio building without a
special permit unless sprinkler sys-
tenn is installed. The Pathe plant, it
was revealed by the reporters watch
fulness, contained about 100000 feet,
protected neither by permit nor
sprinklers.
AS employees of the Pathe Company
started to remove the film through a
back window, they were discovered
by Clarke and Friend, who called
fireman to the spot. An investipa-
tion by the ploice followed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
CHURCH FINDS
Strikes Due to Revolt OF
Workers, Not "Outside
AgitatOrs"

New York City GLNS)-Textile
mill strikes at Marion, N. c.. were
not due to the influence of "outside
agltators," as charged by mill own
ers, but resulted from "a spontaneous
revolt of the workers in the mills
themselves" the research department
OF the Federal Council of Churches in
America reports. The finding is bas-
ed on an investigation of the strikes
made by the research department.
The commission on oscial service
OF the Federal Council of Churches.
the social action department of the
National Catholic Welfare Council
and the commission on social Justice
of the Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis have joined state
ment urging study of the entire tex
tile industry by the federal govern
ment.
The statement said that "the dis
order and killings which recently have
marked the unrest in the textile in
dustry have appalled, all who accept
the respective ethical teachings of our
religions"
1t condemned the use of violence
IN an industrial controversy and said
that the unrest in the textile areas
had arisen not only from economic
confusion in the industry as whole,
but also from faulty conditions in the
regulations between employers and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
Labor Queries
Questions and Answers on La
Dor: What 1t Has Done; Where
1t Stands on Problems of the
Day; Its Aim and Program;
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized Toilers, etc., etc.

Q.-What is the biggest local trade
union in the United States?
A.-This question was answered
recently by the statement that New
York Typographical Union No. 6,
with membership of more than
10000, is said to be the biggest local
union in America. Now comes L. d.
Bland, editor Of The Union Leader,
Chicago, who writes: "The largest
local trade union in the United States
that we have any knowledge of is
Division 241 of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees of America, in Chicago,
comprising the employees of the Chi
cago surface lines. This local union
has more than $4,000 members"
Q.-Who said: Organization is the
new way of spelling civilization. 1t
is the basis of every trade and every
successful business. Savages never
organize?
A.-Charles Duncan, labor member
of the British parliament.
Q.-What labor radio station is now
Offering free course in radio and
television?
A.-WCFL, 623 South Wabash ave-
nue., Chicago, Ill. The offer is open
to all and is not confined to members
Of unions.
Q.-What was the first state to
pass an old age pension law which is
still in effect?
A.-Montana.
On what industry did machinery
eliminate child labor?
A.-The glass industry. Introduc-
ion of the Owens automatic machine
all work formerly done by
according to the United
State Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17

Q.-What was the first state to
pass an old age pension law which is
still in effect?
A.-Montana.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17

Failure to demand the union label,
shop card and working button brands
us trade union pretenders. Practice
what you preach.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-01-17
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS


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The Washington times., 1930-07-14
The Marry-GO-ROund
BY Helen Rowland.

get the goo off his hands and
rock him to sleep?
viii 1t pull Willie's loose
tooth and darn the holes in his
stockings and tie up his sore
finger, and wash behind his
ears and make him take his
castor oil?
Will it argue with the butcher
about the cuts of meat, and
think up something new or
something different to have for
dinner on Monday? viii it
clean out the refrigerator and
feed the cat and take down
the summer curtains, and mix
the salad dressing, and recover
the porch cushions and rush to
put down the windows when it
rains?
Can you call to it in the
kitchen and say, "Subby! The
waffleS are. burnt and the eggs
were cooked a minute too long
yesterday. And, don't forget
that the JOneSeS are coming 1OT
dinner; so set the table for
seven and put on the mono.
grammed napkins
Nope! For "Subby" or
"Atty" or "sub-atomic energy"
is not a woman! And, when
Professor Eddington says that
this will be "a workleSs world"
he means that it will be a
MANS world. And that man
will loaf from sun to sun, but
"woman's work" will never be
done-unless she does 1t her
self!
And wouldn't that be a sweet
dream, if it could ever come
true?
The Washington times., 1930-07-14

this upheaving. which seems
quite a while.
To Captain Cook is generally
given credit for bringing the
attention Of the world to the
Hawaiian Islands. When Cook
was on his third around-the-
world voyage in the Discovery
in 1778 he found what he called
the Sandwich Islands. He also
found a very hospitable people
inhabiting them, as after the
occupation by the Malayans or
PolyneSians in the Sixth CEN
tury the islands were rediScov-
cred by the Spaniards wH1en a
navigator named Don Juan
Gaetano landed in 1855.
The influence of Captain
Cook and his followers upon the
islanders was not all it should
have been and the evils which
followed led to Cooks death by
violence year after he arrived.
For a long time there was a
myth that Cooks body had been
eaten by cannibals and when
I was a child I remember seeing
a startling picture of Cook in a
boat surrounded by fierce naked
cannihals who, the legend said,
killed and ate him.
The fact is that Cook was
killed by a native following his
high.handed levies upon the
natives and permitting his crew
to indulge in all sorts Of ex.
ceSses at the expense of the
islanders.
The simple islanders wor-
shipped Cook as god when he
landed among them. He and
his followers did about as they
pleased and levied all sorts of
imposts upon the natives and
abused their hospitality in
many ways. They seemed to go
on the assumption that no laws
Of God or man restrained them.
After Cooks death, however,
his crew withdrew from the
island to their ship,
The Washington times., 1930-07-14
Friends

Friends
Do you select your friends be-
cause of their financial or their
social standing, or because of
their real worth?
Isn't it a fact that you try to
be associated with those who
will help you in q social way?
You don't pay much attention
to plain or to intellectual per-
sons.
You never seek those in hum
BILE circumstances, even though
they represent a high type of
man or womanhood.
You want to be seen well
dressed, with those of social
prominence, and you are willing
to make any sacrifice to attain
this sort OF association.
You are even willing to snub
old friends, the tried and txuss
The Washington times., 1930-07-14
By Elsie Robinson

been separated for long inter
walls by your work"
"Well, darling" she said, look
ing at him tenderly, "if I ever
thought there were lapses, ]
thought of the possible reasons
for them, and dismissed them as
not lapses at all. But what l
am thoroughly convinced of IS
this: That, no matter what YOU
may have done in these eight
years, there has been no change
whatever in your love for me.
I KNOW THAT YOU ARE
FAITHFUL TO ME IN THE
ALL IMPORTANT SPIRIT OF
THINGS NO MATTER
WHAT OTHER WOMEN MAY
HAVE BEEN TO YOU, AND
YOU TO THEM, THEY HAVE
IN NO WAY WALKED IN MY
GARDEN. We have kept that
sacred to us. I'm not a fool.
I love you so much and under.
stand you so well, and have
been so close to you all these
years, that I should have known,
I should have felt, If you were
in any way slipping from me.
IF THERE HAVE BEEN
OTHERS, THEY HAVE
STRAN GELY ENOUGH,
BROUGHT Us CLOSER TO-
GETHER."
If you discovered that your
husband had been unfaithful.
could you be loving enough
loyal enough, civilized enough
to say these words which Es-
landa, a negro wife, said to her
negro husband?
Copyright 1880. by King Features
Syndicate, Incl
The Washington times., 1930-07-14

II you discovered that your
husband had been unfaithful-
if you found that in some brief,
shoddy episode, he had forgot
ten his VOWS, what would you
do?
Would you believe his protest
that he loved you all the while?
Would you hate and bear un.
dying grudge. Or despise him
and inflict continual humilia-
ton as punishment? or give
and forget? Well. maybe. Wives
have promised that-and then
made their forgiveness" a con-
slant and corroding torture.
But still other wives have taken
their hard blow with gallant
generosity-and loved all the
more because of the secret
shared. AS Eslanda Robson
did.
All the world knows of Paul
Robson, the great negro singer
: and actor, but few know of the
gentle woman who is his wife
and understanding comrade.
Recently, she has written q
story of paul robson
NEGRO" It is an amazing
record Of the triumph Of art
and personality over bitter
prejudice. But it is an even
greater record of the height
and the breadth and the depth
Of a woman's love. And Es-
landa RobeSon's lovely answer
to her husband, when he ad.
mits his unfaithfulness, should
stand beside Ruth's immortal
cry to Naomi.
She had said that she would
not believe him. unfaithful even
If she had the proofs. He re.
Sented that. He wanted truth
between them. Partly out of
irritation at. what he consid-
cred Impractical 1dealisn-part-
~ out of a brave and honest
1mpulse-he practically tells
her that he has been untrue
to her. Then waits, wonder.
ing If her love is great enough
to stand this cruel challenge.
It is!
"I know what you mean
about your being unfaithful to
me-" she said, "but you don't
know what I mean. So we're
really talking about different
things-aS we often do
You mean that some one may
have fascinated. you and in
terested you tremendously. and
that you consumated that in