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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
UNION OFFICIALS
FAVOR PLAN FOR
MONDAY HOLIDAYS
Special Day of Rest in Chi
cago for Three Months
Proposed to Relieve I'm
employment Situation.

Chicago (ILNS)-A proposal tc
have the city council or the mayor
of Chicago issue a proclamation de-
claring Monday of each week a legal
holiday for a period of 90 days in
order to relieve the unemployment
situation is being seriously consid-
cred.
Legal minds say that an act of the
state legislature will be necessary
before this can be done. The legis-
lature is in special session and the
call included unemployment. If the
matter should go to the legislature
it is probable that an effort will be
made to have the governor issue a
proclamation covering the entire
state of Illinois.
The idea originated with James Nc
Keown, chairman of the out-of-work
benefit committee of Chicago Typo
graphical Union No. Is, who drew UP
a tentative resolution covering the
subject. The proposed resolution was
then submitted to John Fitzpatrick
president of the Chicago Federation
of Labor; Victor A Olander, secre-
tary of the Illinois State Federation
of Labor; Alderman James Wallen
chairman of the unemployment com.
mittee of the city council, and others
all of whom have expressed them.
selves as favorably disposed toward
the idea.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Failure to Raise Duties Keeps
Labor Idle, Tariff Board Told

blown glassware either be increased
the full fifty per cent, or that you
recommend the issuance of an order
by President Hoover that all blown
glassware hereafter imported be duti-
able at the present tariff rates-on
the basis of American selling prices
which the tariff act of 1880 author
ICES you to do.
"William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
radio address last Sunday night, as
serting that unemployment is the
most vital problem before our coun-
try, said:
The most practical and construc-
tive way to deal with unemployment
is the creation of work opportuni-
ties
"This commission has the power to
provide some of these employment
opportunities and to relieve much of
the present distress by recommends
ing at once adequate tariff rates on
blown glassware, rates which will
afford employment opportunities for
our workers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Big New York Labor Union
Drive May Become National
Radio Newspaper Publicity and Other Means Used to
Advance Trade Union Social and Economic Program

Albany. N. Y. (ILNS)-A big
union organization campaign has
been opened in New York state with
mass meetings, radio addresses and
other means of spreading labor's mes
sage being planned for 33 cities. The
campaign is expected to be extended
to neighboring states and ultimately
it is hoped to make it a nationwide
drive.
William Collins, general organizer
of the American Federation of Labor,
acting under the direction of Presi-
dent William Green, has charge of the
campaign, in which the State Fedora
tions of Labor and local labor bodies
are cooperating. Opened at New
burgh on November 4, the campaign
will close with a meeting at Bingham
ton on January 8.
Labor speakers and organizers will
arrive in the cities on the afternoon
of the day on which meeting is
scheduled. If local radio facilities are
available, 10-minute addresses on the
social and industrial programs of the
American Federation of Labor will be
made. Specially prepared leaflets will
be distributed at the meetings, which
are expected to be rousing affairs,
with big attendances and plenty of
enthusiasm. Adequate advance pub
licity for the meetings will be given.
To Stress Labor's Program
Labor's program for dealing with
the present emergency will be stress
ed during the campaign, the follow
ing nine points being brought out by
the speakers:
/. Maintain wages. 2. Shorten work
hours. 3. Assure employment to
minimum work forces. 4. Each en-
ployer to take on additional workers.
5. Create work through public build
ing. g. Strengthen employment agen-
cies. Z. Keep young persons in school
to prevent their taking jobs from men
mad women. 8. Preference for work
ers with dependents 9. Financial
relief from public and private funds.
Campaign Stirs Interest
The series of educational mass
meetings expected to prove of great
interest and value to the local labor
movements and to the communities
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
EXTEND DRIVE FOR
AGED PENSIONS

New York City (ILNS)-A nation
wide movement by political, religious,
labor and educational leaders and
groups to extend the benefits of old
age security throughout the 43
states has crystallized as result of
the pensioning of the record number
of $4,000 INDECENT aged under pension
laws in II states and the growing
conviction that pensions are the least
costly of all methods of caring for the
aged poor, according to d nation wide
survey conducted by the American
Association for old age security.
UNITED States senators and repre-
sentatives, the American Federation
of Labor and its AZ affiliated state
federations, church leaders and edu-
Gators, and scores of newspapers of
all shades of opinion are pressing for
such legislation as particularly bene-
fetal in time of economic crisis and
unemployment Distress" the research
department declared, adding:
"The American Federation of La
Dor, which has drafted model pen
sion bill to be sponsored by the State
Federations throughout the country,
is taking practical steps to advance
old age security. As a result, efforts
of labor organizations in this direc-
ton have everywhere teen intensi-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Master Bakers Cut Pay Despite
Promise to Hoover Committee
Both Wages and Employment Reduced All Over Conti-
nent Union Headquarters Reports, Though One
Firm Maintains Force and Establishes Five-Day
Week at Union Scale

Chicago (ILNS)-The headquarters
of the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union in Chicago would be
glad were there substance to the
promises of maintenance of both
wages and employment made by the
American Bakers Association, as
given out in a statement to the press
by President Hoover's Uunemploy-
Commission at Washington, D. c.,
October go The facts, however, point
to a contrary condition Of affairs.
"The American Bakers Association
no doubt means well, but it does not
seem to have much control over its
members" said Charles F. Hohmann,
international corresponding secretary
Of the union, in an interview with
International Labor News Service.
Master bakers have been cutting
wages all over the continent. Hardly
a day passes that do not receive one
or more letters from local unions
telling Of accomplished or contem-
plated wage cuts. We are advising
local unions to make as good bar
gains as they can and to await a
return of better times to recover lost
ground We do not believe at this
time and thereby accentuate the un-
employment situation.
every cloud has a silver lining,
however," said Mr.. Hohmann. "For
example, there is the Bradford Bak-
ing Company of Los Angeles, Calf
which instead of laying off men, has
put its rather large force on five
day week basis without any cut in
the union wage scale. 1t gives us
more than ordinary pleasure and sat-
isfaction to be able to make public
the humane attitude of the Bradford
Company, with which we have had
the most pleasant contractural rela-
tions for many years"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Campaign Stirs Interest

The series of educational mass
expected to prove of great
interest and value to the local labor
and to the communities
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20

as whole. Favorable reports on
meetings already held have been re-
ceived at State Federations of Labor
headquarters here and requests for
information are being received from
all over the state and other states.
Reports from American Federation of
Labor headquarters in Washington
show that the New York campaign is
being watched with close interest and
it is indicated similar campaigns will
be carried on in other states of the
northeast part of the country, with
the aim Of extending the state drives
into nationwide organization eff
fort in the coming year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20

"We ask, without hesitation, and
we believe we are entitled to your
compliance with our request on the
basis of facts easily ascertained, or
in your possession, that you recon-
mend to the president that duties on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Chicago Teamsters' Head
Murdered by Racketeers

Chicago, Ill. (ILNS) = Timothy
Lynch, secretary of the West Subur-
ban Teamsters' Union, was killed on
his own doorstep by volley of shot
gun slugs fired from a curtained auto
mobile containing several men who
drove past his home in haywood.
Lynch was so years old
A group of racketeers have been
attempting to supplant Lynch's union
with one of their own, it is said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20

Waldorf Astoria, New York city, Sc
cured from leading American manu-
facturers and American distributors
its compliments of blown glassware.
| need not emphasize the fact that
such an order with conditions pre-
vailing as they have for the past year
was eagerly sought by every Amer
ican manufacturer regardless of his
attitude toward our organization.
With business at a standstill, | have
reason to believe that the prices of
fered by American manufacturers
were but slightly above their actual
production costs. Yet, with this hotel
willing, as their attitude indicated
when they asked for prices of Amer
lean manufacturers to purchase the
products of American labor, if such
could be secured in competition with
the products of foreign labor at or
about the same price, they found after
all prices had been submitted by
American manufacturers and repre-
sentative importers that they could
secure the products of foreign labor
at saving of approximately twenty
five per cent to thirty per cent, al
lowing glassware a substantial profit.
They naturally purchased the product
of foreign labor and made a saving
of several thousand dollars.
"This in only one of many instances
which might be cited.
"Our membership during the past
year has been employed, as whole
not much more than thirty per cent
of the time.
FThe wages of our workers are
from two to three times the wages
paid to foreign workers in foreign
plants for similar work, and / wish
to say that our wages are none too
high as for the year ending June,
1881, they averaged less than $31 per
week.
Commission Has Power to Aid
sit is common knowledge that in
many European plants where blown
glass is made that blowing glass con-
stitutes only one of the products pro-
duced in such factories. Under such
conditions we presume that it will
take time to work out the exact labor
and other costs of producing blown
glassware in such factories.
''In the meantime the American
blown glass workers unemployed to
an extent of from sixty to seventy
per cent will continue to be deprived
of employment and employment OPP
portunity; the community in which
they live will be deprived of the pur-
chasing and consuming value which
these workers would have were they
gainfully employed.
"Your commission has the power,
on the facts apparent and in your
possession, to relieve much of the
unemployment which exists today by
recommending to the president tariff
rates which will provide employment
opportunities for American workers.
Increase of Duties Asked
"We ask, without hesitation, and
we believe we are entitled to your
compliance with our request on the
basis of facts easily ascertained, or
in your possession, that you recon-
mend to the president that duties on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20

Organization provides for an order
ly development of workers who are
free from the employers persuasion
and dictation. When the workers are
organized, they acquire independence
and demand just treatment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-11-20
Flint Glass Workers Union Charges Commission
With Responsibility for Much Of Present Un-
employment and Asks That Adequate Rates
Be Promptly Imposed on Glassware.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Charg-
ing the tariff commission with re-
sponsibility for much present unem-
ployment and pointing to cases where
low-wage European competition had
robbed American industry of output
and employment, Joseph Gillooly,
vice president of the American Flint
Workers Union, this week pointed
out to the commission in a hearing
certain definite measures by which
employment could be increased.
Stating that the membership of his
own organization is and has been
from 60 to 70 per cent unemployed,
Vice President Gillooly submitted a
tabulation of American and foreign
wages, showing that American work
ers at wages that are "none too high"
have to compete with those whose
wages in no case amount to SO per
cent of the American rates and in
some cases are less than 25 per cent
of United States wages. American
wages this year average $30.96, he
said, while in 1929 the average was
$37.14.
Commission Hesitates to Act
Mr. Gillooly said in part:
"Your commission has been en-
trusted and empowered by congress
to carry out the intent of congress
as specified in the purpose of the
tariff act of 1880, namely, TO Pro-
tect American Labor
'For the past year or more honest,
Industrious American industrial work
ers have been unable to secure en-
ployment due to the apparent hesi-
fancy of your commission to recon-
mend tariff rates which would permit
the products of American labor to be
sold in the American market in fair
competition with the products of
foreign labor.
"Our petition for increased tariff
duties has been under consideration
by your commission since June, 1880.
Zone Outstanding Obligation
"With all due respect for the limi-
tations placed upon your commission,
yet there is one outstanding obliga
ton, as we understand it, and that
is that you are empowered and privi-
legged by action of congress to recon-
mend tariff rates which will permit
the products of American labor to be
sold in the American market in COM
petition with the products of foreign
labor.
"Your commission is in possession
of exhibits of blown glassware, for
eign and domestic, such as goblets,
tumblers, water bottles, oil bottles
ETC., which make it obvious to any
body that the foreign production cost,
plus the present inadequate tariff
rates gives the products of foreign
labor an undue price advantage in
the American market in competition
with the products of American labor.
"The products fo foreign labor, es-
pecially blown glassware, are today
permitted entry on the payment of
tariff duties which are less than that
which they paid under the 1922 act.
Big Hotel Buys Foreign Glass
Within the past few months one
of the largest hotels in America, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
GANDHI NOT EAGER
TO LEAVE PRISON
Desires All Imprisoned Members Of
National Congress Be
Given Freedom.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
POONA, India, January IS Sunday
Millions of Indians are excited over
the prospective release of Mahatma
Gandhi from prison today or soon af-
terward, but the Nationalist generals
sima himself apparently is unconcerned.
Those who saw him yesterday say
Gandhi showed no enthusiasm over his
prospective release, perhaps, it was
said, because he is not eager to leave
jail unless all imprisoned members of
the All-Indian National Congress are
treated likewise.
In the meantime the Mahatma Is
said not to have started packing, so II
Is believed here he may not finally leave
the gates Of Yeroda prison for "a hours
after definite orders for his freedom
arrive. He has many books and other
effects to gather up
Great crowds of Nationalist assem-
bled as near the prison as the authori-
ties would permit yesterday, hoping to
witness the departure of their leader
but as 1t became uncertain just when
he would get out, the throngS diSSi-
pated soon after nightfall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
SAYS LAW BROKEN
IN DAVIS CAMPAIGN
Senator Nye Expresses 0pin-
ion Statute on Handling
Funds Was Violated.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Belief that officers of the Davis
Brown Campaign Committee had broken
State laws was expressed yesterday by
Chairman Nye of the Senate Campaign
Funds Committee in virtually ending
the Pennsylvania election inquiry.
Nye, who wants to unseat Senator
Davis, said he felt statutes requiring
committee treasurers to handle all CAM
paign funds had not been complied with
by officers of the Campaign Committee
Nye read the law on this point after
Samuel M. Vauclain, treasurer of the
committee which conducted the CAM
paign for Senator Davis and Francis
Skunk Brown, defeated in the race for
Governor, had testified $65,700 had
been received and expended by officers
other than himself.
Meant to Hide Nothing.
The North Dakota Senator asked
Vauclain if this were not clear viola
ton Of the law. Vauclain replied he
was not q lawyer and did not know.
He added that while he "hesitated" to
include the $65,700 in his campaign
report because the money was handled
by others, he did so in the belief the
two men were of unquestioned integrity.
"There was no inclination to con-
ceal anything" he said.
Bernard Myers of Lancaster, chair
man of the committee, and william r.
Douglas of Camp Hill, one of the man.
ayers, were named by Vauclain as those
who handled the additional funds. He
said it was possible they received and
disburSed the funds during his many
absences from the Office.
Douglas corroborated this.
"Vauclain was away from his ONCE
often" he testified. ~The county chair
man would come in from upstate and
Meyers and I would sit down with
them and figure out how much money
could be legitimately used and then
go out and try to get it."
Didn't Include Bills.
Nye said the Vauclain report to his
committee showed expenditures Of
S129, 693, or $4,000 less than that re-
ported to the State.
Vauclain said the $129, 693 was all the
expenditures he knew of up to the
day he appeared before the Nye Com
mittee. He did not include unpaid bills
because he was not asked for these,
he said.
The $4,000 included the $65, 700
expenditure and over 100000 in UNI
paid bills. In the $65,7OO was included
a $4,000 loan from Charles B. Hall,
Philadelphia councilman, and several
contributions from William S. Ware,
who was denied a seat by the Senate
because of excessive expenditures in
1925.
Douglas and several other witnesses
told of Davis popularity and said the
fight was concentrated on the governor
ship
Douglas said, I'VE had seven candi-
dates on the ticket and if one-seventh
of the expense of the ticket were
charged to Davis it would do him an
Injustice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
PEN WOMEN HEAR
VARIED PROGRAM
Learn of Africa, Development Of
Washington, Old Age, Cuba
and Arabia.

Africa, the development Of Washing
ton, the value Of old age, Cuba and
Arabia were the diversified topics
touched upon at the celebrity break
fast Of the National League Of Ameri-
can Pen Women held yesterday at the
Willard Hotel.
Up-to-date art galleries. universities,
charming homes and manners and Gus
toms that compare favorably with those
Of the best cities Of Europe and
America now exist in Africa, Eric Hen
dirk Louw. Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the Union
Of South Africa, told the gathering.
Giving his first speech in Washing
ton in two years, Maj Gen. John A.
Lejeune, the retired former comman-
dant of the U. S. Marine Corps, who
Is now superintendent of the Virginia
Military Institute, said one of the
wasteful tendencies of the present day
is that of casting into the discard men
who have passed middle age.
Washington needs ample playground
and recreational facilities, as do other
cities, so that youth might have oppor-
tunity for healthful exercise, essential
to proper development, Lieut.. Col. U. 8.
Grand, Sd, director Of public build
ings and public parks, said in the
course Of an address devoted to plans
for the Identification Of washington.
Non-interference by the United
States in the internal affairs Of Cuba
was urged by DR.. Thomas H. Healy,
associate professor In international law
and foreign relations at Georgetown
University.
Ameen Rehani Of New York declared
there is more security in Arabia today
than In some Of the larger American
cities.
Travels in Yucatan formed the basis
Of an address by Mrs. M. Mathis Of
Stamford, Conn, while Miss Florence
e. Ward, national chairman of the
Club House Committee of the Pen
Women, briefly discussed plans for the
future club house on the site Of the
Southworth Cottage, in Georgetown,
overlooking the Potomac River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
STUDENT VIEWPOINTS
WEIGH WITH EDUCATORS
determination Suggestions Declare
Interest of Enrolled Personal
Fundamental Element.
BY the Associated Press.

WINTER PARK, Fla, January a.
Student points of view and student de-
mands scored heavily in the final re-
port which Is American educators,
meeting at Rollins College, handed to
President Hamilton Holt today as their
idea of how to modernize college cur
ricula.
Presented in the form Of six sub
committee reports, findings of the con-
ference laid down general principles
forecasting sweeping changes in COL
lege courses.
Interest on the part Of the student
was listed as the fundamental element
upon which building and adminiStra-
ton of any statement of education
must be based
Liberal arts colleges were warned
that the important role they have
played in cultural life will be lost and
they themselves cease to survive unless
they learn to harmonic increasing con-
f1ict between vocation and culture.
Teachers were REDEEMED as persons
who should not be completely controlled
by law and bureaucratic regulations to
the destruction of their own best quail
tiles, but who should be free, intelli-
gent and unafraid in the adventure of
civilization"