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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
A Tough Question.

The Evening Star of January 10,
1885, is authority for the fact that
Baker Judged the ball accurately in
one instance, but almost Immediately
dropped it."
How long" seems to be a fair ques-
ton here, lis almost immediately"
Mansfield says his investigation,
which was almost altogether a file
search, convinced him that Baker chung
to that "hot potato" long enough to
have made a putout had the ball been
q ny in q regular game.
Street made his successful effort
nearly quarter century after Baker.
But Street was eclipsed by still an
other courageous catcher.
On August "a, 1910, Billy Sullivan
OF the Chicago White Sox made three
perfect catches.
Big Ed Walsh and our own DR.. @.
Harris White, now director of physical
education in Washington high schools
and then a famous southpaw pitcher,
were on the throwing end of Sui
hvans performance.
Walsh threw out % balls before Sui
Ivan got hold of one. Then doc"
White relieved Ed. Standing well back
from the window, White put consid-
cradle steam into his losses. Sullivan,
at spot several hundred feet from
the base Of the Monument, caught the
11rst and fifth balls thrown by White.
Sullivan's three catches gave him a
fielding average of about OFT for 80
balls were thrown.
But how you gonna decide that
Baker-Street matter?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

l16IuGEEyt WhSutuB tVhs
Crowder, st. Louis 80.
Hudlin, Cleveland .....
Brown, Washington -.
Terrell, Cleveland .....
Ruling, Boston ........
Uhle, Detroit .........
Herring, Detroit .......
Coffman, st. Louis >. !.
Walberg, Philadelphia.
H1erid, New York -. I.
Grove. PHILADELPHIA 80.
MacFayden, Boston
Gray, st. Louis .......
Hadley, Washington {.
Thomas, Chicago .....
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

mere IL COIIlC0, Z ILL
Hines, Jewell, Ryan = other
members of the washington
club-shout the warning, but Phil
probably doesn't hear. His ball
hawk eyes, too, have picked up
the pellet now arching out into
space and no man ever concen-
trated more earneStly-optically
physically, mentally-than Phil
Baker at this moment; for him a
mistake may mean the end OF all
earthly things.
Lurking in the minds of some Of those
present perhaps is doubt that Baker
will go through with the dangerous
undertaking; that, at the last moment,
he'll quit.
But nothing is farther from the truth.
The big fellow is grinly confident.
And now he's on the move, for the
ball isn't coming down straight. 1t
veers one way and then another, the
plaything of air currents that EDDY
about the giant shaft of masonry. Baker
scurries around in circles trying to keep
directly beneath it.
Phil Is Persistent.
A hundred, perhaps seventy-f1ve feet
from the ground the WnlZZng apple
takes a final eccentric slant and there
IS q mad race between man and ball.
The man loses; he's at least yard
away as, with a whish and thud.
the flight is ended. To Baker a trem-
bling Of the ground Is plainly perceptible
as the sphere strikes. At the moment
of impact It's speed is something like
1877 feet second, or more than two
miles minute.
But Phil is not daunted. He wants
TO try again.
Another ball Is thrown; he misses;
still another and another.
Then
The sphere tears into Bakers great
glove with force that would fell an
ordinary man if he put behind that
glove much of his heft, which Phil did.
A moderately strong hand might have
been shattered. Bakers powerful
ripper completely breaks, the fall, but,
alas, it can't complete the capture.
When Phil Baker dropped the
leather after apparently making clean
catch he created food for an argument
that was to put at loggerheads the
base ball fans Of Washington some As
years later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
Autry, Chicago 49,.

Autry, Chicago ..:....
Hargrave, New York
Cochrane, Philadelphia.
Heving, Boston .......
Berry, Boston .........
Riddle, Chicago .......
Ruel, Washington .....
Manion, st. Louis .....
L. Sewell, Cleveland ..
Hayworth, Detroit .....
Terrell, st. Louis ......
Hargrave, Detroit -.
Dickey, New York see.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27
TWO-WEEK MEET
OPENS TOMORROW
Stake-a-Day Policy Serves to
Attract Smartest Horses
in Training.

Md, April &c.
- The final meet of Mary
| lands Spring racing season
- will open Monday when the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Langdons drubbed st. Paul's in an
insect class game yesterday, Is to 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27

Weather clear; track fast.
Apprentice allowance claimed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10

ers, and of greater advantage to the
public, if many of our manufacturing
plants operated two five-hour shifts
per day, for, as modern industry is
managed, little, if any, confusion and
lost effort would take place by having
one shift of workmen employed five
hours in the forenoon and another
shift five hours in the afternoon. The
two or three short shift plan of oper-
alton during daytime is coming as
certainly as the three eight-hour
shifts displaced the two 12-hour
shifts in continuous production.
Necessitated by Machinery
"It is inevitable that the rapidly in
creasing use of power and the intro
duction of more massive and auto
matte machinery must be accompan-
led by rapid decrease in the length
of the work day and the work week
in many of our industries.
~ IdulCdl ISuuSCiOli tilS tlOuIS VI
labor has become an economic neces-
sity to the producer as well as the
investor and consumer.
"The attitude of employer toward
the age limit of employment has un-
dergone little change. The degree of
unemployment existing during the
year has enabled number of en-
ployers to replace larger number of
older men by younger ones.
"As a result of trade union effort
to deal with the employment problem
for middle aged workmen, and the
public education which has resulted,
there is developing public sentiment
upon the subject which is proving
helpful"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
ORGANIZED
INDUSTRY SHOWS
SHORTEST HOURS

Austin, Textile highly organic
ed printing and publishing industries
in this state have the shortest hours
for both men and women, according
to the biennial report of the Texas
labor department. These industries
also pay the highest yearly wage.
The general average of weekly
hours in other industries is So for
men and 81 for women. Male workers
in hotels and restaurants average 70
hours per week, while beauty par
lors show the longest hours for
women.
Women workers are increasing. A
strong recommendation for mini
mum wage law for women and min
ors is made.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
Hoover and Two Cabinet Chiefs on Big Program
Southern Campaign to Continue to Victory, Green De-
clares in Exclusive Interview; Triumph is Note
Eve of Opening

ed by the president of the United
States on the first day.
"There is no question but that re-
view of the past year and the work
in which the president has been en-
gagged will disclose the fact that or
ganized labor has made substantial
progress. Business of all kinds has
suffered, some very severely. The
American Federation of Labor is in a
sense a business institution and it is
fair to assume it, too, would be af-
fected. But our report shows growth
and progress and therefore will be
most unusual, under the circum-
stances.
Forecasts One of Greatest
Conventions
at is my opinion that we will hold
one of the most interesting and con
structive conventions the American
Federation of Labor has ever held
eve have arranged for the delivery
of a number of addresses by prom
inent people, all of which will be of
educational value.
"We will courageousy face our
problems and our work and | predict
that out of it will come not only re-
affirmation of our traditional policies
but a constructive, militant policy
for the future.
II am confident the convention will
declare in favor of continuing the or
ganizing campaign in the South until
we have completely established con-
tractural relations with the employ
ers there. There Will be no delay or
intermission in the aggressive, intel
ligent campaign which is going for
ward in the industrial sections of the
South"
The declaration for going ahead in
the South is of particular interest
since 1000 textile workers are on
strike in Danville, Va, throwing into
conflict the second largest union
formed south of the Mason and Dixon
line in the big campaign.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
.UJRISTS WOULD
OUTLAW CERTAIN
WAR CONTRACTS

New York.-The international Bar
Association, at its conference here
voted to recommend to the govern
ments of the world as rule of in
ternational law that contracts be-
tween residents of nations at wa,
with each other should be dissolved
at the outbreak of hostilities.
Certain contracts, however, would
be exempt from. the operation of this
proposed international law.
The exceptions affect big business
and international bankers who have
agreements relating to the exploita-
ton of mines, forests and land and
the letting of immovables, or conces-
sions, such as public utility contracts
between individuals or companies on
the one hand, and states or other pub
lie authorities on the other.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
FAKE "UNION"
Rejected By Textile Work.
ers and WalkOut Follows

Danville, va.-More than 1000 en-
ployes of the Riverside and Dan
Riven Cotton Mills suspended work
following management's denial of
their right to organize.
Two injunctions have been issued
against the strikers, who are per-
suading strikebreakers not to enter
the mills. The management claims
the workers were on private property.
Chief of Police Martin said there was
no violence and that warrants should
be sworn against strikers if they
trespassed. The mill management re-
fused to be put in position where
their claim could be denied, so they
rushed to an injunction court.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
Pickings Poor For Allen A
Since Lockout Of Employees
Company Badly Crippled by Loss of Workers and Deser
ton of Executives Resorts to Frequent Cut Rate
Sales in EndeavOr to Recover Lost Ground.

sold by the retailers are subject to
return to the manufacturer
John Brine, former superintendent
of manufacturing and in charge of
sales of the Allen A Company at
Kenosha, and who had been with the
company there for more than 80
years, is now with the Rollins Hosiery
Company of Des Moines, la. He and
other Kenosha capitalists are said to
have invested a half million dollars
in the Des Moines company, which
now is one of the chief competitors
of the Allen A Company.
Other Executives Desert
Chester Allen, brother of Robert
w. Allen, sold his holding in Kenosha
to join Brine at Des Moines, as did
William Mewse, former treasurer of
the Allen A Company. The latest de-
serter from the sinking Allen A ship
at Kenosha is Fred Warren, the pay
master, who has also gone to Des
Moines.
Of the 291 knitters who were locked
out because they had formed branch
of the American Federation of Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and of
the SO girls who walked out in SYM
pathy with them, not one has gone
back to work. Sixty per cent of them
have left Kenosha, while 40 per cent
of them, who cannot leave because of
family ties or for other reasons, are
earning a livelihood at other line of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
Two-Shift, 5-Hour Day Proposed
In Metal Trades Convention
Drastic Change Suggested Advantageous to Employers
and Investors, While Striking Body Blow at I'm
employment.

Boston, Mass. (ILNS) S)-Going the
five-day plan one better, the metal
trades department convention, just
opened here, was urged by its. Off
GERS to support plant for fve-hour
day for men and ten-hour day for
machines.
President James O'Connell and Sec
retary-Treasurer John P. Frey, in
their annual report, recommended the
five-day week as basic, but added the
fve-hour day as a necessity forced
upon employer and employe alike by
the development of automatic ma
chinery.
No Overhead Increase
The suggestion was advanced as
necessitated by the unemployment
situation, leaving the conclusion that
unemployment cannot be remedies eX-
cept by reduction of work-time for
workers, though not necessarily for
machines.
at is estimated" says the report,
"that if our manufacturing establish
ments, with their present use of
power and machinery equipment,
were to operate at full capacity four
hours per day, that the total volume
of production would be greater than
at present.
Overhead costs operate "a hours a
day every day in the year. The enor-
NOUS investment in plants and ma
chinery make it necessary that they
should operate as many hours per day
as possible, so that overhead expenses
and the amount of capital involved
may be reduced.
at would be more profitable to in
vestors, more beneficial to wage earn
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
MILL NIGHT WORK
TO GO in SOUTH
EMPLOYERS AGREE
New Plan, Expected to Help
Relieve Depression in In
dustry, Effective in Octo-
Der, 1t is Reported.
Forecasts One of Greatest
Conventions
By C. S. GARRISON

Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS)-Elimi-
nation of night work in the cotton
mills of the South appears to be a
certainty, according to leaders in the
industry and reports from American
Federation of Labor organizers in
various sections of the South.
While no date has been officially
announced for the termination of
night work, it is authoritatively re-
ported that the new work plan will go
into effect some time in October in
the principal mills.
The action Of the South Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers Association in
Greenville, S. c., a few weeks ago, in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
WHAT NEXT?

Announcement of successful at
tempt to introduce new variety of
sugar cane has been made in India
by government officials. The cane is
a cross between ordinary sugar cane
and jowar, rapidly growing indigo
nous grain plant. At the end of five
months, says the announcement, this
new hybrid has matured, which is
much less time than is required by
the ordinary sugar cane, and analysis
has shown that its sugar content is
the same as in ordinary sugar cane.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10

These mills attracted nationwide
attention after the World War by
their establishment Of a company
union" called industrial demo
cracy"
Opposition to the scheme increased
and the workers organized local of
United Textile Workers, affiliated to
A. F. of L.
Victimization of employees, and re-
peated refusals of management to
mediate differences resulted in the
general walkout. The workers had
previously voted 95 per cent to strike
as last resort, and work suspension
followed refusal of Fl. r. Fitzgerald
president OF the mills, to treat with
representatives of the United States
department of labor.
Wages have been cut and workers
are speeded up, while the industrial
democracy" scheme smothered pro-
tests. Despite unanimous opposition
to this company union" Fitzgerald
insists it meets every trade union re-
quirement.
Francis J. German, international
vice president United Textile Work
ers, is advising the workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
BUSINESS MEN
COPY LABOR'S
VETO METHOD

Baltimore.-Small grocery store
owners have copied organized labor's
plan of asking candidates for public
office for their views on remedial
legislation.
The grocery men face chain store
competition and ask the candidates
for governor how they stand on the
question. The replies are being for
warded to all members of the gro
GERS association.
This query system IS now gener-
ally accepted by the public, but il
was denounced as "intimimdation'
when first used by organized labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
SOUTHERN WORKERS
FIGHT "YELLOW DOG"

High Point, N. C.-Workers en-
ployed by the Tomlinson Manufac-
turing Company refuse to sign the
yellow dog"
Unrest is increased by attempts to
install a stretch-out system that
forces each worker to double his out
put while wages are reduced.
The company refused to arbitrate
the dispute and pleaded that they and
their employees can adjust differences.
The workers accepted the suggestion
and appointed committee to wait on
President Tomlinson. That gentle
man, however, changed his mind and
refused to receive them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
Sales More Frequent Now

For quite some time past the Allen
A Company has found it necessary to
stage these discount sales five and
six times year, the goods being fur
nished from the Allen A plants at
Kenosha, Wis, and at Bennington,
vt. The next sale will be from Octo
Der Is to 20, it is said. Goods not
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT

Boston, Mass, October 8 (ILNS)-
Despite a year of battle against un-
employment, a year of tragic lean
ness after more than a decade of
comparative fatness-the American
Federation of Labor came into Boston
to open it's sessions Monday morning
on something approaching the crest
of a wave.
Looking forward with an eagerness
backed by a variety of expectations to
the address of President Hoover on
Monday, the convention feels unem-
ployment to be the biggest issue of
the day. 1t is the ranking issue and
every ear was attuned to catch what
the President had to say by way of
prediction and program. Nobody can
tell this convention much about what
has happened, but delegates hope to
learn something of what may happen.
Faces Big Issues With Note
of Triumph
The convention comes on crest
it is fair to say that in view of the
fact that during year of bitter un-
employment suffering membership
has grown and the number of dele
gates passes any figure of recent
years.
Graphing with titanic issues-un-
employment, the injunction, the yell
low dog contract and a political cam
paign-the convention looks forward
to a program of notable addresses
led by the president, but including
names that would make any program
notable in the absence of the chief
of state.
1t is clear in advance that the
whole drive of the convention will be
in the direction of dealing with un-
employment as an industrial and not
a political issue and that every effort
will be made to work out construc-
tiva program for stabilization of en-
ployment and sustained wages as
against compulsory state insurance.
Noted Men Bring on Great Program
The scheduled program will bring
the following noted speakers to the
A. F. of L. platform, following the
president:
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley;
United States Senator Robert F
Wagner; His Eminence Cardinal
O'Connell; Dean Charles n. Lathrop
National Council, Protestant Episco-
pal Church; John P. O'Connell, sec
retary, Salem Sheeting Workers
local union, and J. Foster Smith
speaking for the Naumkeag labor
management cooperation develop
ment; Lieut.. Col. C. B. Ross, U. S. A.,
and the British fraternal delegates.
Unemployment Leads List of Grave
Issues
"Our convention is meeting at a
time when there is great suffering
from widespread unemployment" said
said President Green in an interview
for ILNS and this newspaper. Be-
cause of this fact the subject of un-
employment will be uppermost in the
minds of officers and delegates. No
doubt the delegates await with eager
anticipation the address to be deliver
4
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
HOFFMAN RELEASED

Asheville, N. c. (ILNS) - Alfred
Hoffman, organizer for the Amer
ican Federation of Full Fashioned
Hosiery Workers, who was sentenced
to term in Jail at Marion, follow
ing a farcical trial, has been released
and is now here. Three Marion tex
tile strikers who We're sentenced with
Hoffman are still imprisoned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10

Chicago (ILNS)-Robert w. Allen
New York capitalist, has learned
that he did not do such a wonderful
thing when he ordered the lockout OF
291 knitters of the Allen A Company
of Kenosha, Wis, February Is, 1928
His production and financial organi-
cations badly crippled and facing the
vigorous competition of his former
chief executives, who have deserted
him and joined forces with a rival
corporation, he now resorts to fire.
quent cut rates of hosiery and under
wear in an endeavor to recover lost
ground.
Prior to the lockout it was the prac-
tice of the Allen A Company to stage
an "Allen A Week" once a year to
enlarge the market for the hosiery
and underwear products of the cor
poration. During these periods 20
per cent discount was made to deal
ers, who in turn passed it on to the
customers with a view of introducing
the products to a larger number of
persons.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10

Whlch IL was agreed that it was best
for the industry to abandon night
work for an indefinite period of time.
has set other state associations act
ing in helping to stabilize the indus
try
Move to Help Trade
Manufacturers of print cloth and
narrow sheeting have decided among
themselves to take the step as rapidly
as the various mills can adjust them
selves to the situation, it is said. T.
M. Marchant, president of the South
Carolina association, is quoted as say
ing that night workers thrown out of
employment would be taken care Of"
although he did not specify in what
manner.
There is strong sentiment in the
industrial South for the abolition of
night work in the textile mills for a
period of time in order TO relieve the
depression in the industry Some of
the mill owners go so far as to say
that night work will be permanently
eliminated. This is especially true in
respect to the employment of women
and children at night in the mills, a
situation which President William
Green condemned as unnecessary and
economically and socially unsound
Complain of Hardship
In answer to this some manufac-
turers say that such action would
work hardship on a large number
of employees and on the manufacture
ers themselves. 1t is pointed out
however, that three shifts of work
ers at eight hours each would remedy
this Situation" and enormously bet.
ter the condition of the workers, whq
now work 10 to II hours day.
Reports from organizers of the
American Federation of Labor at
Greensboro, N. c., say that the mills
IN that city are preparing to abandon
night work. Mills in most of the tex
tile sections of the South have been
running three days and three nights
a week. Under plan being consid-
cred by some of the mills a six-day
week would be inaugurated with the
day and night shifts alternating week
about, thus giving each the same
working time the workers have been
having under curtailed working time
now in effect.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-10-10
A. F. of L. Convention Faces
Unemployment AS Supreme Issue

which it was agreed that it was best
for the industry to abandon night
work for an indefinite period of time,
has set other state associations act
ing in helping to stabilize the indus
trv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-23

England's average weekly payments
on unemployed BENEFITS now are
$500, 900.