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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-07
u. S. AIDS CITIZEN
IN PARAGUAY JAIL
Asuncion Charge Declares
Case of John K. Wright
in Staying Broken.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. June 6.-John 3.
Faust, charge d'affaires at Asuncion,
Paraguay, who sailed for the United
States aboard the American Legion to-
day, said that the case Of John x.
Francis Wright, an American being held
in Asuncion by the police. had been
taken up with the Paraguayan authori-
ties
Wright has been awaiting trial in
connection with q shooting in Novem
Der. 1929. He was arrested after shots
had been fired at the automobile OF an
Asuncion business man, whose compan-
ion was killed. The man who fired
the shots was arrested and told police
that Wright had hired him to kill the
owner of the automobile.
Mr.. Faust recently reported to the
Department of State here that Wright's
attorney presented q motion equivalent
to dismissal Of the case. This motion
was expected to be passed upon soon.
The man reported killed was a Mr.
Macdonald, British subject.
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Holder of Speed Mark to Australia
Takes Opposite Route.

I,YMPNE. England. June R.-
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er of the speed record for . fight from
England to Australia of 9 days hours
and 20 minutes. yesterday smashed the
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ton.
Landing here yesterday evening, he
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IL days, knocking one day on the pre-
vious record held by Wing Comdr.
Charles Kingsford-Smith.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
UNITED STATES FACTORIES
IN FOREIGN LANDS

In a survey of American indus
trial establishments abroad, the New
York Trust Companw estimates that
American capitalists now contro
more than 1000 branch factories ir
foreign countries.
The factories were located abroad
the survey says, to avoid United
States tariff rates. 1t should have
added that one of the major purposes
vas also to enable the American own
ers to employ low-wage foreign work
ers whose entrance into the United
States was and is barred by the i'm
migration restriction law.
The survey claims that the intro
duction by our capitalists of Amer
lean labor methods-by which is
meant time and motion study sys-
TENS, bonus schemes, and other de-
vices to screw larger amount of
work out of labor-increases the pro-
ductivity of the foreign workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27

ter industrial firms are engaged in
the experiment, which is known as the
Rochester unemployment benefit plan,
but which seems to be system of
creating reserves for unemployment.
No benefits will be paid under the
plan before 1888. However, it is said
that all the companies entering into
the plan have made special efforts
to maintain their working forces by
beginning building and repair pro-
grams, reducing working hours to
spread the work, and other methods.
The fund from which the benefits,
equal to so per cent of wages, but
not to exceed $22.5O week, will be
payable, will be made up by annual
appropriations of each company up
to per cent Of payroll. Benefits
will be paid to maximum of Is
weeks, depending upon length of
service. In the case of prolonged un-
employment, the fund will be replen-
ished by an assessment Of / per cent
laid upon all employees not receiving
| benefits.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
STATE FREE EMPLOYMENT
AGENCIES

The average cost to the California
worker for each job received through
private employment agency during
the fiscal years 1928-29 and 1929-3O
was SALT, according to the biennial
report of the state division Of labor
statistics and law enforcement. If the
295,385 workers who received jobs
free of charge through the state
offices were obliged to secure them
through the private agencies, the ag-
gregate cost to the workers would
have been s1,231 755. This amount,
therefore, may be taken to represent
the savings of the workers of the
state, as the result of the state free
employment agencies.
All of which is strong argument
for establishment of state employ
ment agencies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27

1t also states that because of
American labor methods of forcing
larger output from labor, wage
standards are being raised and living
conditions bettered" in foreign coun-
tries so fortunate as to have been
dosed with United States factories.
From one end of Europe to the
other there has been for a definite
period determined and frequently
successful move among employers to
reduce wages.
In some countries the wage slashes
are effected by government decree.
In other countries the same re-
suit is achieved by sectional and gen.
eral lockouts. In still other unsuc-
cessful strikes bring the same result.
Throughout Europe the organized
labor movement has been engaged
for years in bitter fight to main
tain the living standards of the work
ers against the determination of en-
ployers to drive wages down to the
subsistence point.
In view of these well-known facts
it is not inappropriate to ask the
author of the New York Trust Com
| pany's survey where he obtained the
| information which warranted the
statement that wage standards ano
living conditions are being raised" il
foreign countries either as the result
of planting American-owned factories
three or for any other reason.
The exhibition of any industria.
country in the world today with ris.
ing wage standards and rising living
standards of the workers would be a
most imposing spectacle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
BIG BUSINESS MEN

Three items in the same days
news:
John d. Rockefeller gives hall
million to unemployment relief;
2-Peter De Vito is found not guilty
of making illegal deductions from his
income tax returns; 3-The elder
Rockefeller departs for Florida.
The elder Rockefeller built Stand
ard Oil. The younger Rockefeller is
a power in Standard Oil.
Standard Oil began and grew by
ruthless methods. Ivy Lee has tried
to convince US that there has been
change, and in many respects there
has been change.
But, enter Mr.. De Vito. What does
he do, besides get into court?
Mr. De Vito has been big-time
strikebreaker.
In his income tax case some figures
came out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

Standard Oil of New York paid Mr.
De Vito 100000 for 'strikebreaking
So, $500,O00 from Rockefeller for
the unemployed; 100000 to Mr.. De
Vito from Standard Oil to force
strikers into unemployment.
American Can paid Mr.. De Vito
$168,00O, N. T. Sweezy's Son & Co
paid him $34,000-but Standard Oil
was a real Client" with voucher
in evidence in court showing $500, ,0OO
paid to him.
De Vito seems to have been right
hand man for Standard Oil of New
York. Did Mr.. Rockefeller stand fan
to the left so as not to know what
the right-hand man did?
However that may be, strikebreak.
ing is big business, like Standard
Oil; and big business seems to pay
it's right-hand smashers of heads il
big bills.
Trade unionism, observing the
price paid to enforce slavery, car
only tighten its belt and organize
more strongly.
Mr.. Rockefeller built a grea
church in New York. He does no
take Mr.. DeVito to that church Will
him Sunday mornings. Strikebreak
| ing is weekday business.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council Of Middletswn. D.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1881
OBSERVE THE RAILROADS

Railroads may have some defending
to do if they carry their idea abou
wage cutting far enough.
A good many years have passet
since any real undertaking has beer
done. but Mr.. Theodore Dresser, dig.
ging facts for national weekly
comes near doing a bit of it.
Industry controls 13 railroad com.
panies, he tells US. Families like the
Van Swearingen, Vanderbilt, Baker
Harkness, Hartman, James, Fahne-
stock and Widner families, control 18,
other railroads control IS, while in
vestment trusts control six.
We find that PIG railroad directors
also hold a total of 2,298 other direc-
torships in corporations other than
subsidiaries. Of these 336 are for
banks and trust companies, 210 for
investment trusts, and 284 for indus
trial corporations.
Moreover, while the railroads are
crying about bus competition, they
are heavy owners of bus lines, with
the Pennsylvania leading through its
Greyhound organization.
There is the beginning of a sus-
picion that the railroads have some
thing the matter with them besides
the general depression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27

wages are not raised during the boom
in accordance with increased produc-
tion, Congressman Clyde Kelly, of
Pittsburg, Pa, addressed 200 en-
ployes of the New Orleans post office,
while stopping off in New Orleans as
guest of Postmaster w. L. S. Gordon.
"By failing to boost wages, busi-
ness failed to provide the increased
purchasing power necessary to cope
with increased productions" Kelly
said
Kelly, who is member or the post
office committee of the house of rep
resentatives, said that bill which he
will strive to. put through the next
, congress provides for improvements
in provisions made for post office sub
stitutes. He declared that the $780,
100000 deficit in postal receipts will
not be met by boosting rates on first
class mail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
A NEW UNEMPLOYED BENEFIT

An experiment which may throw
light on the feasibility of establish
ing privately managed systems for
unemployed workers is being set up
in Rochester, N. Y. Fourteen Roches-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
WISDOM

Differences of opinion, when per-
mitted to purify themselves by free
discussion, are but as clouds over
spreading our land transiently and
leaving our horizon more bright and
serene-Thomas jefferson.
y
Hunger ought to be considered a
crime.-Anatole France.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-27
BLAMES BIG BIZ
FOR SLUMP

New Orleans (ILNS)-Declaring
big business is wholly to blame for
the economic depression because
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
BR|DGEENEM|ES
YULE FRIENDS

NEW YORK. Dec. "a GNS0.
The four players in the marathon
contract bridge tournament got
up from their table early today,
shook Ghands all around, wished
one another the compliments Of
the season, and parted until the
day after Christmas.
For Ely Culbertson and his
partner, Theodore A. Lightner,
there was nothing to mar the
camaraderie of the pre-holiday
farewell, for few moments be-
fore they had laid down their
cards after eight rubbers of play,
14,525 points ahead of Sidney
Lenz and Oswald Jacoby.
A preponderance of powerful
cards and almost alright bidding
enabled the approach-forc n g
team to take six of the rubbers
played last night for a new gain
of $500 points.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
T FREAK M|SHAP
JA|LS TWO

NEW YORK, Dec. "a G.N.S).
Two men were under arrest to-
day in connection with New York's
strangest subway accident, in
which so men, women and chill
dren were injured. Eighteen OF
those hurt were in hospitals, six
in a critical condition.
The tragedy resulted when
heavy railroad ties from a speed
ing work car were catapulted into
a crowd of $50 Christmas shop
pers at the Newkirk station,
Brooklyn.
Michael Taboo, AZ. Jersey City,
motorman of the work train, and
Thomas Biesty, 80, track division
foreman, were arrested on charges
of felonious assault.
Police, the district attorneys
office, and officials of the transit
commission were still at a loss to
account for the cause of the
accident.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
'POPEYE' To CO
On THE AIR

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-E. c..
segar and "Popeye," his cartoon
creation, which has been ad-
judged the all American comic
character choice for 1881, will be
features of the National Weekly
Radio Revue" on the WE coast
to-coast network Sunday evening,
it was announced today.
It will be the first radio appear.
ance of both Mr.. Segar and
"Popeye."
The revue will go on the air at
8:15 p. M, Eastern standard
time, and will be heard through
stations in Baltimore, New York,
Boston, Springfield, Mass; St.
Louis, Rochester, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Chicago, Kansas City, Denver,
Salt Lake City, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle
and Spokane.
Other features of the revue will
be John B. Kennedy, dramatiza-
ton of an episode in the life of
Stain, Russian dictator, and
musical SpecialtieS.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
SUBMAR|NER RUM
RACKET Barred

DETROIT, Dec. "a G.N.S0
An ingenious submarine liquor
runway between the United
States and Canada, capable Of
carrying 40 cases of liquor an
hour, was disclosed today in a
raid by customs agents.
Robert Thompson, member Of
the customs border patrol raiding
party, described the device as
the most elaborate and deceptive
unearthed in this district.
A torpedo-shaped container,
propelled by powerful motor,
followed a mile-long cable
stretched across the Detroit River
from Canada to Peche Island.
Moonlight betrayed the rum
runners, Thompson said, as an
empty container, returning to
the Canadian side, rippled the
waters surface.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
Ak
DROPS JAN. :. .

Proceeding on the old Jackson
ian theory that Ito the victors be.
long the spoils," the Democrats
of the House will swing the az
upon the official necks of 400 or
more Republican appointees on
January /.
Many of these luckless EN-
ployeS have received their notices
of separation from the House pay
roll; others have heard by Capt.
tol grapevine" that they are to
go. Quite a number are in key
positions" oldtimers who know
the ropes and nowadays are re-
tanned only to train the "rookie"
Democrats who are to succeed
them.
awhile, Representative
James McClintic CD, Oklahoma,
chairman of the majority patron
age committee, denied today Re.
publican allegations that the hol-
day spirit has been violated by
discharging employees on the eve
of Christmas. Specifically, Mr..
McClintic Indignantly denied that
the House telephone service has
been impaired by the discharge
of experienced operators who
have been on the switchboard
during the long Republican
regime. He said:
1.-THE telephone jobs will be
divided; seven Democrats and
seven Republicans"
A number of Democratic ap-
pointees took over Republican
jobs on December Is, which was
what the Republicans expected,
when they lost control of the
House after approximately IL
years. A few Republicans will
stay on after the holiday re-
cess, but there'll be a general
housecleaning January !, Just
after the Republican appointees
get their final pay checks.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
REVISION
Of WAGE Law

Declaring the prevailing wage"
law passed by Congress last year
prevented slavery on many big
Federal contracting jobs, Repre-
sentative Robert L. Bacon (R9 OF
New York today disclosed plans
to strengthen the wage mainte-
nance plan.
The Administration will attempt
to close loop-holes in the law by
writing new clauses in contracts.
Under the measure, contractors
on Federal buildings are required
to pay the prevailing wage of the
community. The law was passed
in an effort to halt wholesale
cutting of wages.
Plans to tighten up the con-
tracts were discussed at a meet
ing of 80 Government officials
concerned with the letting of con-
tracts, with Secretary of Labor
Doak, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Heath and Bacon par
ticipating.
The wage law has aroused the
opposition of many contractors
and suggestions for its repeal
have been made,
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
CLUE AIDS
POLICE HUNT
K|DNAPER
Detectives Shield Identity of
Man Held for GriIIing
In Child'S Death

GIN GIN N Att, Dec. "a
(I.N.S.) - Lacking all other
definite clues, police today re-
lied upon a slim, black belt
to help them locate the fiend
who murdered 6-year-old Mar
ian Mclean after attacking
her.
The belt-the kind worn by
little girls-was found in posses
sion of one of three suspects held
by the authorities for question
ing. Police shielded the name Of
the suspect in whose possession
the belt was found.
The threat of mob violence,
arising ever since little Marian's
body was discovered in a tene-
ment basement, has not subsidized
and police feared premature
demonstrations should they di-
vulge information.
However, the name of one of
the trio called for questioning
was known. He is Charles BiSch-
off, 45-year-old shoemaker, in
whose tenement home the slain
girls body was found. He and
his wife have been subjected to
hours of questioning.
Police concentrated their efforts
today to determine whether the
owner of the black belt was
Marian. If that can be estah
lished, the authorities declared
the crime will be solved.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
Button in Holy Land
To Start Carlton
In New York

.JERUSAL EN-, Dec. "a GN.S0.
BY means of wireless, the bells
of st. Thomas Church in New
York will be rung. from the
ancient Church of the Nativity
in Bethlehem at midnight
(E. S. T0 tonight.
Arrangements for the bell
ringing were made by the Rev.
DR.. Brooks. pastor of st.
Thomas. The current will be
carried over a land line to
Abuzabal and from there car
ried by radio to New York,
where it will start operation of
the st. Thomas carlton.
Canon Charles T. Bridgeman,
American priest Of st. Georges
Cathedral here, will press the
button in Bethlehem starting
the carlton and ushering in
Christmas in the United States.
The carlton concert will be
broadcast throughout America.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
SOLDIER BONUS
PARADE FEB. 4

Petitions for immediate pay
ment of the soldiers bonus, to be
presented to Congress February
4, in a gigantic march on the
Capitol by World War veterans,
will be received and the marchers
will be given police protection.
This was indicated yesterday
with permission granted by Fed
eral and District officials.
In granting permission for the
rally on the Capitol grounds,
Vice President Curtis declared he
would gladly consent, provided
the marchers carried no objec-
tionable banners.
The veterans will be unmolested
If they are orderly and do not at
tempt to introduce communistic
propaganda, John H. Fahey. ma
tional legislative chairman of the
Army and Navy Union, declared
yesterday.
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford,
Chief of Police, agreed to give the
marcherS a police escort as they
parade along Pennsylvania Avenue
en- route to the Capitol.
The delegation will be met on
the steps of the Capitol by Rep
resentatives Wright Patman, of
Texas; John w. Mccormack and
William P. Connery. jr.. of Mas.
sachusetts. and John E. Rankin
of Mississippi, all former service
men.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
SETS
OFF VOLCANO

HONOLULU. T. H., Dec. "a
GN.S0. - Following violent
earthquake, Kilauea Volcano on
the island of Hawaii erupted to-
day, frightening residents as 40
fountains of red hot lava poured
across "the pit of everlasting
fire"
The earthquake was the most
severe Hawaii had experienced
in years. It rocked the, island.
At least four fountains of flame
spurted $50 to 200 feet in the air
from the volcaco.
Fumes hung in dense clouds
about the rim Of the crater and
authorities warned natives and
visitors of the danger Of ap-
preaching too close.
DR.. T. A. Jaggar, volcanologiSt,
was making observations on the
island of Hawaii yesterday and
was returning to Honolulu when
he learned that the volcano had
erupted. He returned to Kilauea
to make further studies.
The Washington times., 1931-12-24
TIL VATICAN
BODY FOUND

VATICAN CITY, Dec. "a U.N.SO
After an all-night search, the
body of the fifth victim of the
Vatican library disaster was re-
covered today.
The five were killed when the
roof of the library collapsed Tues
day.
Under the glare Of SearchlightS.
more than 100 workmen dug with
shovels and picks throughout the
night.
Another crew of workmen Ia
bored at snoring up the walls OF
the library to prevent a further
collapse.
The accident resulted in the
loss Of $4,000 valuable volumes
and documents.