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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
RAPID INCREASE
in UNEMPLOYMENT
SEEMS CHECKED
Slight Improvement in Feb
ruary, but President Green
Warns Against Wage Cuts
Reported to be Gaining.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS-Reports
on wages and employment in January
and February received by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor give both a
note of encouragement and a signal
of danger, according to President
William Green, of the federation
Commenting on the report, Mr..
Green said:
"Our reports from trade unions
show that the rapid increase of un-
employment was apparently checked
in February, but at the same time
comes report from the department
of labor that wage cuts in January
were nearly three times as numerous
and affected nearly twice as many
employees as in any month since the
depression began. In January, 335 of
the firms reporting to the department
of labor reduced wages, and the cuts
affected $4,000 employees; the largest
number of firms reducing in any pre-
vious month was 1873 in August
affecting 24,729 employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
War on Labor Declared
Big Boost to Communism
A. F. of L. Head in Cleveland to Back Union Walters
Points Out Unreasonable Attitude and Tactics of
Some Employers Tend to Develop Rebellion Toward
Society

Cleveland, o. (ILNS)-Unreason
able attitudes on the part of some
employers, as exemplified by the war
waged on union walters and waitress
es by the big Cleveland hotels, are
giving a powerful boost to commun-
ism in the United States, President
William Green, of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, declared here in an
address delivered in behalf of the
locked-out union workers.
Union walters and mattresses, mem
bers of the Hotel and Restaurant En-
ployes' and Beverage Dispensers In
ternational Alliance were locked out
last July when they refused to sign
yellow dog" contracts. Union mu-
sicians and engineers walked out in
support of the culinary workers. Since
then, city officials and numerous
prominent citizens have endeavored to
settle the trouble by arbitration, but
the hotel managements stubbornly re-
fuse to discuss the matter.
Everywhere we hear business men
discussing in apprehensive tones the
soviet menace" President Green be-
gan. "Now let me point out some
thing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13

1t is just such an attitude as that
of the Cleveland hotels, just such un-
reasonable tactics that tend to develop
the communist spirit.
"It makes men rebel against the
social order that allows employees of
many years standing to be cast out
of their jobs because they refuse to
sign contracts that would leave them
helpless and prey to whatever con-
ditions might be brought into exist
ence.
"Let me tell you," the labor leader
went on, 'that the old Russian aris-
tocracy would be greatly pleased if it
could deal with trades unions now."
Discussing the unemployment prob
lem, Green said the federation is
giving more thought to this question
than to any other because it is an
absolute necessity for US to prevent
any recurrence of such a situation as
that we are passing out of now"
Green said substantial progress is
being made by labor in organization
of textile workers in the South, but
that the field there "is difficult to
conquer because of the activity of
communism in ground made fertile
by poor living conditions"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13

be some help from the Bennett fund,
that that, unfortunately, is loaded
down with charges that makes any
considerable amount of relief out of
the question.
"What / have said applies only to
the editorial departments. From what
/ have heard, there are more cases
and as bad in the mechanical depart
ments. The spirit of the men is splen-
did. There is no complaining, no kick
ing. They have to man taken it or
the chin as though they liked it.
"The position of the other papers is
not favorable to the absorption of
many men. The attitude of their man.
ayers is something that makes one
proud of his kind. IN each and every
case that / know of-and / have been
in fairly close touch-they are trying
to stretch appropriations and make
places, most difficult thing in the
face of dwindling revenues"
Ad Branded False
A Scripps-Howard advertisement to
the effect that the Pulitzers are giving
former employees three months salary
is branded as deliberately false" by
World employees.
The Telegram printed story under
that heading on Saturday. Later it
was killed, but early this week it was
reprinted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13

Washington, D. c. ULNS)-Four
bills of outstanding Importance to la
Dor were passed by both houses of
congress before final adjournment by
time limitation this week.
Of these three were signed at ad-
journment, while one remained for
presidential action.
Two of the winning bills affect
thousands of wage earners in gov
ernment service throughout the coun-
try. One gives postal workers the
44-hour week, while the other gives
the Saturday half holiday to all other
government employees, including me-
chanics employed in naval yards and
arsenals throughout the nation.
Prevailing Pay Bill Passes
A third of the winning quartet es-
tablishes the local prevailing wage as
the wage to be paid by all contrac-
tors on government work. While the
bill passed and signed was not labor's
bill, but was a purely administration
measure, sponsored by an inter-
departmental agreement, carrying no
penalty and not going into effect for
80 days after passage, it's sponsors
say it will remedy the evil. If it ac-
complishes that purpose it will end
wage-cutting scandal that has swept
government work from coast to coast.
The labor movement regarded the
measure as in any event step IN
the right direction" and did not op-
pose it's passage, knowing it was "this
bill or nothing" as Secretary of La
Dor Doak virtually put it.
The bills named in the foregoing
were signed by President Hoover.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13

taking no the old workers as fast as
the mill could be put in readiness for
operation, would be continued, with
out reference to the union member
ship of the workers.
Miss Matilda Lindsay, who has been
here throughout the life of the union,
is attending a conference of the
Women's National Trade Union
League at Greensboro, N. c., this
weekend. This conference is with
special reference to labor conditions
throughout the South, having NOM
Der of Southern speakers. Miss Eliz-
abeth Christman, national secretary
of the league, will also attend the con-
ference during its closing days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
WORLD employees,
OUT OF WORK, in
DESPERATE PLIGHT
Many Face Almost Hopeless
Future, With Jobs Scarce
as Other Papers Face
Dwindling Revenues.

New York City (ILNS)-John J..
Leary, Jr., industrial editor of the
World until it's sale to Scripps-
Howard interests, known to trade
unionists throughout the United
States and Canada and member of
the executive committee of Interna-
tional Labor News Service, has, since
the wreck of the World, been de-
voting his time to the work of help
ing to place members of the World
stats.
Leary, at his residence in the Aber-
deem Hotel, where he will continue to
live, discussed the situation resulting
from the sale of the World papers.
The Times, Leary says, can take on
few of the World men. The Tribune,
though "well loaded" is taking on
quite a number. The Hearst papers
have not taken any.
"Some of the cases that we are try
ing to take care of are, frankly, des-
perate," said Leary, discussing the
situation among editorial men.
Two Desperate Cases
"Thus: A copy reader, competent,
clean, and steady. In poor health
himself. Has four small children, one
just out of hospital. Another child
expected in two months. Has had an
unusual amount of sickness in the
family and is fiat broke. Save for
two weeks salary coming to him out
of the $500,0O0 set aside by the Pull
itzers, he has nothing in sight.
Nothing here.
Personal appeals to papers in city
where he comes from shows nothing
there for him.
again a photographer in the serv-
ice of the paper 80 years. An excep-
tionally able man in his time. Para
lyzed for two years and on half
salary Has neither funds nor friends
who can help. All ahead of him at
present is Welfare Island.
Others Hit Hard
"There are several such cases that
are only less serious. What we can
do for them is a problem. There may
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
WESTERN BUSI-
NESS MEN OPPOSE
LOWERING WAGE

San Francisco = The California
State Chamber of Commerce declar-
ed against wage reductions. Similar
action at the recent conventions of
Associated General Contractors in
this city is approved.
The Chamber of Commerce "de-
plores as economically unsound any
lowering of wages or exploitation of
labor in this period of unemploy-
ment," and pledges its support to all
efforts to maintain a living wage for
construction labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
BANKER WINS
PRESIDENCY OF
DANVILLE Mill
Pritchett Chosen By Direc-
tors to Succeed Late Harry
Fitzgerald ;CompanyLaw-
yer Named Assistant.

Danville, Va. (ILNS)-At meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Riverside and Dan River Cotton
Mills, President Pritchett, of the
First National Bank of Danville, was
elected president of the mill com
pany, with Malcolm K. Harris, mill
lawyer, as assistant to the president.
Pritchett succeeds the late Harrison
r. Fitzgerald.
There has been no announcement of
any change in the labor policy of the
company, and it is assumed that the
policy which had been established, of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
No Significant Gain

although our figures show check
in the rise of unemployment, there
has been no significant Improvement
as yet. Betterment is not likely to
come for several months. Last year
March and April were the months of
highest relief needs, when more famil-
les were dependent on charity than in
the earlier winter months. Our esi-
mate of the number out of work, bas-
ed on reports from unions and on
government figures, is $4,000 in
January (revised figure) and 5,770,000
in February. This figure does not in
clude office workers or farm labor,
and therefore does not account for the
thousands of farm workers who have
been focking to the cities and will be
dependent on city relief for some
time.
Efforts to provide work for the un-
employed and relief for those who
cannot find work are of most urgent
Importance in the next two months.
There is tendency to imagine that
the need is over, and to let relief
funds run out Suffering in March
will probably be worse than in any
previous month because workers re-
sources are exhausted with the long
duration of unemployment"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
Rush of War Veterans to Borrow
On Bonuses Shows Many in Want

This movement to reduce wages at
the very moment when business de-
preston appears to be reaching bot
tom is most untimely. Wage reduc-
tions did not cure business depres-
sion in 1921. Depression lasted IL
months after the liquidation of labor,
A prominent industrial executive
says, A general reduction of wages
would set back the impending re-
covery by at least two years
Pay Cuts Undermine Standards
Wage reductions are not like price
cuts, for workers are human beings.
Reduce their incomes and you cut
away the market for industry's prod
uct. More than this-you undermine
social standards and eventually de-
grade human life. Already workers
have borne the brunt of the depres-
sion with losses from short time work
and unemployment, with hunger,
willy lllilCoo, puySlSdi aiid iiclltdA
degeneration. Workers incomes to-
day are 81 per cent below the level
in factories and II per cent below on
railroads. Wage cuts project these
losses into the future, asd lower liv-
ing standards and buying power for
long time to come. Have the warn
ings been in vain? If wage cuts con-
tinue, we will limit our ability to pull
up quickly from this depression.
"The federation unemployment re-
port this month adds weight to the
evidence that we have reached the
bottom of depression. Reports from
2,192 unions with 100000 members
show a decrease in unemployment
affecting Z of l per cent of the mem
bership in the first half of February.
Our weighter figure for the per cent
out of work in January was 1913, in
the first half of February, 1911. This
is the first check in the rapid rise of
unemployment since October. Now,
with this first suggestion of improve
ment, is no time to cut wages. Work
ars' buying power will be an impor-
tant factor in developing the spring
seasonal advance into sustained re-
covery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
Four Pro-Labor Measures Go
Through as Congress Quits
Half Day Saturday Won BY Government Workers
Prevailing Wage Law Promises End of Wage Slash
ing Scandal.

The fourth important labor meas
ure to win was the Wagner bill for a
national system of unemployment
agencies, in cooperation with the
states. The bill was before the presi-
dent as this was written Another
Wagner bill, providing for advance
planning of public works, was signed
by the president some weeks ago
Still another Wagner bill, for the col
lection of more complete labor sta
tistics, was signed last year.
Labor Bills Lost
Losses of labor measures in con-
gress included:
Failure to consider the anti-injunc-
tion bill.
Failure of the Vestal copyright bill,
sought by group of international
unions, in cooperation with others.
Failure of the Kendall bill. This
was bill to give treasury depart
ment officials the language which
they said they needed to stop the
importation of products of convict and
forced labor.
The Muscle Shoals bill, adopted by
both houses but vetoed by the presi-
dent. The senate failed in an attempt
to pass the measure over Mr.. Hoover's
veto.
The amendment to the radio bill to
give labor cleared channel was lost
in the jam at the close of the session.
Other bills favored by labor but
lost in the last minute jam were the
immigration bill and the Jones ma
ternity aid bill. The alien seamen's
bill was also lost.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
By JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago (ILNS)-The tens of thou.
sands of World War veterans who
stood in line in "sets of fours" from
early morning until late at night the
day following the final passage of the
so-called bonus loan bill, awaiting
their turn to apply for loan, and
who have since beseiged the regional
offices of the veterans bureau in great
numbers, was a thunderous answer
to the assertion of President Hoover
in his veto message that only a small
number of the veterans were in want
and that these were being cared for
by the various communities.
President Hoover took pride in
pointing to the fact that only a small
fraction of the total number of vet
erans were living on charity. 1t was
alleged at the white house that only
10000 Chicago veterans had applied
for charity this winter, and, along
with similarly situated veterans in
other parts of the country, that these
were being "adequately "cared for. y
The Adequate" Care
If lining up in a dark alley in a
slum neighborhood night after night
in order to obtain bowl of soup and
some bread, or pan of hash or beans,
followed by flop with good chance
of becoming lousy, and then to be
routed out at 5 o'clock in the morn
ing and served past called oatmeal,
some bread and imitation coffee, and
then to tramp aimlessly about all day
if that be adequately" taken care
of, then the president of the United
States is right.
The "chow" being dished out does
MT come within a mile or two of reg
ular army "chow" and the flops are
far from what they ought to be.
If the breaking up of homes, the
placing of children in orphan asy-
lums, the mother in poorhouse or on
cheap job, while the father sleeps
in a flop joint operated by the char
ity trust-if that means being "ade-
quately" cared for, then the president
is right again.
Men Long Out of Work
D.oa;lo,o+ uoox,ox, c+ro.cod +Lo e. IA
, that a majority of the veterans are
able bodied and able to take care OF
themselves. Anyone viewing the lines
of men outside of the various places
designated as application centers for
loans could see that readily. The
trouble is that these men have beer
out of work for months and months
their savings gone and their credit
exhausted. The 10000 in Chicago who
have applied for charity does not in
clude all of those who are in need
Other thousands have managed to get
by without appealing to the charity
trust. The loans now applied for will
when received, stave off this neces-
sity for few weeks longer.
Of course the war veterans who are
wage earners are on all fours with all
other wage earners. All have endur-
ed the same hardships, with the diff
ference that the war veterans are now
able to collect some of the wages
due them since the close of the war
President Hoover made the strange
statement in his veto message that it
meant the veterans would be borrow
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
Presidents Assertion That Only Few Need Help
Disproved by Many Thousands Who Seek
Loans Immediately Following Passage Of Loan
Bill in Congress.

| ing on an insurance policy. The pieces
of paper which the veterans hold are
called adjusted compensation Ger.
tificates." That is a rather fancy
name, but each certificate is an ac.
acknowledgement by the government that
it did not pay the soldiers enough
wages during the war and promising
that each soldier will be paid 81 a
day additional for each day served on
this side of the water and $1.25 day
additional for each day served in
Europe. The certificates call for pay
ment in 1945, by which time many
thousands of the veterans will be
dead.
Interest to Eat Up Pay Due
The government now says that the
veterans can borrow one-half of the
wages due and pay Az per cent COM
pound interest on the loan. This in
terest rate will just about eat up the
balance of the wages due by 1945.
This is a slick arrangement and is in
line with other bunko schemes that
congress has sawed off on the vet
Grams in the past.
1t would be interesting to know how
much pressure the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers and the big
financial interests of the country
brought to bear upon President
Hoover to induce him to send that
very peculiar veto message to con-
gress. 1t is a certainty that the hun
dreds of millions of dollars now be-
ing loaned to the war veterans is a
serious interference with the plans of
the "open shoppers" to slash wages,
and it is reasonable to assume that
the resistance to the passage of the
bill was very largely inspired by
those interests.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
WORTHLESS PAY STUDY
APPROVED BY SENATE

Washington.-Th senate approved
Mr.. Wagner's resolution for spe-
cial committee to make an investiga-
ton of unemployment insurance.
The committee is instructed to re-
port to the senate next December on
American and foreign experience with
both public and private unemploy-
ment insurance systems and the re-
suits achieved by each.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
GERMAN UNIONISTS
WANT 40-HOUR WEEK

Berlain-A reduction of the work
week to 40 hours was urged by Ger
man trade unionists who conferred
with President Won Hindenberg on
unemployment and high costs of
living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-13
UPHOLD PRIMARY PLAN

Indianapolis state senate de-
feated a proposal to substitute the
old-time political convention for the
primary election system.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-12

In a close and interesting game of basketball last evening in the Juneau high school gymnasium, Douglas alumnae defeated Juneau high school girls by a score of 20 to 19. The local maids rallied in the last quarter, but their efforts fell just short of victory.
 The scoring by quarters follows:
 First Quarter = R. Fraser of Douglas fouled Ulrich of Juneau Whittier converted, scoring the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-12
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NO. 3ZSZ-A
 In the District Court for the Ter
 ritory of Alaska, Division Num-
 Der One, at Juneau.
 UNITED STATES OF, AMERICA.
 ex rel o. M OLSON, Plaintiff, vs.
 N. P. SEVERN CO, a co-part-
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 SEVERN and ALFRED N. SEV-
 ERIN; THE CONTINEN NTAL
 CASUALTY COMPANY, a cor-
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 SON, Defendants.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that o. M. OLSON, as plaintiff, has filed a suit in the above en- titled court against the above en- titled defendants under the pro- visions of Sec. 27O, Title 40, U. s. Code to collect the sum of $1440.7 .72, together with an attorneys fee of $20000 and interest and costs, for labor and materials used in the construction of the Federal and Territorial Building at Juneau, AL aska All persons having similar claims against the above named defendants under the said statute may appear and intervene in said above entitled action at any time within three months from and after the date of the last publica- ton of this notice as herein below set forth.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, De- cember 10, 1931. % s@ tSeaD JOHN H. DUNN, Clerk of the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division
 No. One. Aa First publication, Dec. 12, 1881. Last publication, Dec. 26, 1881.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-12-12
ATTENTION MAsoNs

There will be q Stated Com munication of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147, F. 8s A. M. at the Masonic Temple Monday evening, Dec 14th at 7:30 o'clock. Election of officers and balloting. All Masons urged to Be present. By order of the W. M. J. w. LEVERS,
 adv. yss Secretary.