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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
AUTO INJURIES FATAL
Penn Professor succumbs to Hurts
Received in Crash.

LAS VEGAS, N. Mex, September 10
R,-Austin Tappan Wright, -, pro-
lessor Of law at the University Of Penn
syIvania, died in hospital here yester-
day from injuries received In an auto
mobile accident at Berual, N. Mex,
Thursday.
Prof. Wright and his 16-year-old SON
were en- route from California to their
home. In Philadelphia. when their car
skidded on the wet highway and plunged
into an arroyo.
Mrs. Wright and three Of the children
are en- route to Las Vegas from Santa
Barbara, Calf. to claim the body.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Labor Committee to Press
Dry Act Modification Driue
Action of A. F. of L. Convention Seen as Man
date to Work Harder Than Ever For Honest
Definition By Congress Of Intoxicating Bever-
age, Officers Declare.

Vancouver, B. C. (ILNS)-The
most intensive campaign it has un-
dertaken will soon be started. La
boris national committee for modif-
cation of the Volstead act announces
in statement signed by President
Matthew Woll and Secretary l. NJ
Ornburn. The statement says
'The vote of the American Fedora
ton of Labor convention in approving
the action of the executive council in
setting up the committee and the ac-
tivities of the committee we accept as
orders to work even harder than we
have for real temperance, for law and
order and the protection of public
morals and health
"The order is the more emphatic
in that there were but one or two
votes in opposition to endorsement of
the work, although there was repre-
sented in the convention all shades of
opinion, ranging from those who have
been sincere upholders of the theory
of prohibition up to men who have
argued for full and complete repudi-
alton of the eighteenth amendment
and all it stands for.
Committee Solidly Backed
For the common good individuals
submerged their opinions in recogni-
ton of the splendid work that is be-
ing done and placed labor solidly be-
hind its committee.
Naturally the members of the COM
mittee are highly pleased by the action
of the convention and the support of
organized labor everywhere just as
we have been highly pleased by the
letters from men and women not in
the labor movement, hundreds of
whom formerly advocated and sup
ported the program of the Anti
Saloon League, which have flooded
our headquarters in the Carpenters
building, Washington, D. c.
"We expect that the action of the
convention will result in even greater
cooperation from men and women in
and out of the labor movement, or
ganized and unorganized.
Only Practical Method Offered
at is significant of the movement
that persons and organizations who
were primarily interested in the re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act are advising US
that we have offered the only prac-
tical method of returning to sanity
and the road to real temperance
blocked by the law as it now stands,
and opening the way to providing
work for hundreds of thousands of
men and hundreds of millions of dol
lars for the treasury and at the same
time increased respect for law and
order.
''There have been those who fear
full of the progress we are making
have sought our defeat by raising the
cry that modification of the Volstead
act as urged by our committee and
the American Federation of Labor
will bring back the old saloon and all
it's attendant evils. We have no hesi-
tation in saying that if that were
true, and those who raise that cry
know that it is untrue, such condi-
tion would be 100 per cent better
than now prevails.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
La Toilette Asks Public
Works For Idle Relief

Champaign, ILL.," "The government
should exercise all the power it
grasped during the war" to bring re-
habilitation from the economic de-
preston, United States Senator La
Toilette, of Wisconsin, told a Uni
versity of Illinois audience here.
eff the purchasing power of the
people is to be restored, we must have
a comprehensive program on the part
of the federal government which will
help in fighting the depression" the
Wisconsin progressive said. "This
program should include a tremendous
public works bill 1t should include
also a plan for the stabilization of
industry and legislation to afford re-
lief to farmers"
The senator said he believed Presi-
dent Hoover's plan for a credit cor
poration to liquidate banks frozen as
sets was good in that it postpones
additional bank failures, but that he
does mot regard it as solution for
the economic situation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Hosiery Strikers in Tent
Colony Push Union Drive
New Jersey Workers Seek to Organize Plant Moved to
Pennsylvania in Effort to Dodge National Agreement.

Philadelphia, Pa. (ILNS)-Striking
hosiery workers from the Clifton and
Bloomfield, N. j., plants of the Inter
state Hosiery concern are now en-
camped at Chalfont, Pa, five miles
from Lansdale, and have launched an
organization drive directed especially
against the Lansdale plant of the In
terstate Company.
Employees of the Interstate Mills in
New Jersey have been on strike for
the past month. The strikers claim
that the firm was moving machines
from New Jersey to the non-union
plants in Lansdale, where the corpo-
ration is now building new 100000
finishing plant. The Interstate re-
fused to sign the national labor agree
, ment which would oblige unionization
of the Lansdale plant. Last year the
two mills were operated as union mills
and though the union sought to have
the firm permit organization of the
Lansdale shop it was found that a de-
feet in the former edition of the labor
contract enabled the manufacturer to
avoid this obligation The present
agreement was carefully drawn so as
to make it impossible for any signator
to refuse to unionize subsidiary con-
Germ owned or controlled by union
employer.
The efforts of the organization com
mittee will be strengthened by the re-
cent decision in Norristown of Judge
Corson in the Montgomery county
courts, who reversed the disorderly
conduct charges against speakers who
attempted to address union meet
ing in Lansdale last spring, but were
prevented from SO doing by the Lans-
police broke up and prevented in va
rious ways the organizers holding
meetings in that borough and ap-
pealed to the court for ruling as to
their rights in the matter. On two
occasions Gov. Pinchot wrote to the
Lansdale apthorities requesting the
officials to cease interfering with the
rights of free speech of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers. Judge Corson, however, did
not make direct ruling, although at
torneys for the federation claim that
this decision amounted to the same
thing, and that the organization is
able to go ahead and hold meetings in
the borough.
The tent colony which the strikers
have erected saves expensive board
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Pay of Other Workers Cut

Workers who made less than the
average wage will now put in50 hours
to the week where they have been
putting in 40 hours. Their weekly pay
will show up smaller than when they
worked only four days a week
, Employees in the weave room at
White Oak, who are required to oper-
ate 18 looms each, say that they have
had cut of two cents on each cut of
cloth turned out, or a reduction of Sc
cents a day, since each loom is cal
culated to turn out cut of cloth a
day. A 10 per cent cut has been added
for good measure, according to sew
eral of the weavers.
Just what success the organizers
for the red National Textile Workers
Union will have in rallying the dis
satisfied workers to their standard is
matter of conjecture as yet The
management adopted the hard-boiled
and comewhat effective policy last
year in dealing with the United Tex
tile Workers of America of summar-
lily firing and evicting every employe
found to be affiliated with the union.
1t is to be expected that they will
pursue an identical policy in dealing
with workers who are unfortunate
enough To hacoma nrOSeIytas of the
red organization.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Farm Pay at Lowest
Point in Is Years

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Farm
wages on October ! were the lowest
since 1916, according to the Bureau
of Agricultural Economics index.
They were 113 per cent of the 1910
Is pre-war average on October l as
compared with $50 on October l
year ago. The bureau says that the
usual upward seasonal average from
January to October has been revers-
ed this year, and the index of wages
fell from 129 on January l, 1929, to
113 on October l, 1881.
Despite the decline in wages the
supply of farm labor is reported to be
113 per cent of normal and the de-
mand for labor SO per cent of nor
NAL. The decline in wages from a
year ago is stated to be general in all
classes of farm help.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
PAINTERS
Win Hearing in High Court !;
Right to Decline Work
Is Issue

Washington, d. G. (ILNS)--A vic
tory that may lead to one of the most
important labor decisions yet render
ed by the United States supreme court
was scored here this week when that
tribunal granted write of certiorari
to Painters District Council No. ID,
Chicago, in the case brought against
it by the government for alleged
action in restraint of trade
The case came up from the North
ern division of Illinois district court
where Judge Walter c. Lindley had
decided against the union. The case
involved the finishing of ready made
kitchen cabinets. The union con-
tended that these cabinets, which were
interstate commerce articles, should
be set in place with only protecting
coat of paint and should be finished
on the job. The factory desired to
ship them completely finished and the
government charged that the unions
refusal to do other work in buildings
wherein cabinets were installed COM
pletely finished constituted undue re-
straint of trade
Granting of the writ of certiorari
means that the supreme court will
hear the case on it's merits, giving the
union a chance to establish the merit
of its position before this tribunal.
Had the writ been denied the lower
court would have been sustained and
the case would have meen closed. The
union now has its day in the supreme
court.
The electrical workers did not fare
so we'll. Its local Union No. 134, Chi
cago, appealed in the noted Western
Union case, but the supreme court
denied writ of certiorari, sustaining
Circuit Judge Evans in his injunction
against the union. The case involved
refusal of union electricians to work
where non-union Western Union en-
ployes were at work installing call
boxes.
At the same time the supreme
court sustained the Indiana special
tax on chain stores, vindicating the
right of states to reasonably tax such
chains.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Southern Edison Gives
Employees 5-Day Week

Los Angeles, Calif.-The Southern
California Edison Company has plac-
ed its employees on a five-day week,
according to statement by John R.
Miller, chairman of the board. Miller
says the shorter work week provides
jobs for 500 employees who otherwise
would have been discharged.
The five-day week order does not
increase wage rates. Consequently the
earnings of the employees are reduced
approximately per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30

and hotel bills and enables the work
ers to do big job of union propo-
ganda at minimum expense. Ex-
army and navy cooks in charge Of the
camp kitchen figure they feed the
strikers first rate meals for less than
Is cents per man per meal. Food and
gasoline are practically the only ex-
pense of operating the camp.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
LEADER IN DRIVE
FOR CHARITY CUTS
EMPLOYEES WAGES
Rhode Island Workers Must
Seek Aid From COmmun-
ity Fund Unless Pay Slash
Is Rescinded.

Providence, R. l. (ILNS)-Efforts
to obtain from Stephen O. Metcalf,
president of the Manskuck Co. and
chairman of the initial gifts commit
tee of the Providence community
fund, response to the request of the
Rhode Island Textile Council, that he
adjust recent 10 per cent wage cut
in his mill, proved unavailing.
Whether Metcalf was informed of
the terms of a resolution passed by
the council in behalf of 10000 organ
lied operatives in Rhode Island, point
ing out that the community fund will
be called on to aid many Manskuck
employees unless action is taken to re-
verse the wage cut, could not be
learned.
The council also called on United
States Senator Jesse H. Metcalf to
give evidence of his support of the
Hoover wage maintenance policy by
causing cancellations of the 10 per
cent cut in pay at the Manskuck
plant, which his family controls.
Senator Asked to Investigate
Delegates to the council from 21
local unions affiliated with the United
Textile Workers of America, repre-
senting organized operatives in Rhode
Island, asked Senator Metcalf, who,
they said, made large contributions to
state institutions, to study conditions
at the Manskuck plant. Such study,
the council said, might return to the
workers the amount which was taken
from their pay envelopes"
The council after hearing reports
from the Manskuck plant decided to
call meetings of the workers for the
purpose of organization. First Vice
President Francis j. German, who
headed a delegation of Lawrence,
Mass, strikers to the meeting, said
organizers in Massachusetts would be
sent to aid in the Manskuck cam
paign He said the operatives at the
Manskuck plant received 20 per cent
less in wages than any other plant
doing similar work in New England.
The council decided to call series
of meetings of the operatives of the
mills where wages have been reduced
and to perfect a complete organiza-
tion before taking any drastic action.
Statewide Drive Planned
First Vice President German said
the organization campaign would be
statewide, and that when the time
was opportune the unions would act.
The plan of action, he said, would be
handled Systematically and under the
supervision of the local leaders.
The council endorsed the strike in
Lawrence and began collection of
strike funds which will be sent to
George F. Gildea, treasurer of the
Lawrence Central Trades and Labor
Union, the only authorized agent to
receive strike funds.
Edward Callaghan, general organ
| izer of the full fashioned hosiery
workers of Philadelphia, spoke at the
meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Red Organizers Rush to Cone
Mills Following Wage Cuts
Communists Seek to Profit From Unrest Stirred By Pay
Slashes Which Nulfy Lengthenng of Work Week.

Greensboro, N. G. (ILNS)-In-
creased sales that have necessitated
abandoning the four-day week for the
fve-day week and wage cuts that rob
the weekly pay envelop of the extra
days pay have brought organizers Of
the red National Textile Workers
Union with cries of "Strike!" to the
giant Cone cotton mills here.
The Proximity Manufacturing Com
pany operates the largest denim mills
in the world, and the increased work
ing schedule has just been put into
effect in the White Oak and Proxim-
ity Cotton Mills, where a majority of
the approximately $500 employees are
working The five-day schedule has
been in effect in the Proximity Print
Works and the Revolution Mills for
some time.
Accompanying the extension of the
work week, the company announced
that it would resume charges for
house rent and lights and water. Such
charges did not apply as long as the
mills operated on schedule of three
or four days to the week.
Cone Explains Cuts
Bernard M. Cone, president of the
big mill system, has stated that the
wage cuts, which have not been hori-
zontal, but which appears to average
10 per cent, could not be avoided be-
cause of low market prices. He re-
minds the public that the cuts are not
so bad after all, since the dollar will
buy considerably more today than it
would a year ago. Then he adds the
time-worn solace offered by mill
barons Of the South to their impov-
erished workers: "Half loaf is bet
ter than no bread"
Mill officials have insisted that the
increase of one day in the working
week will result in fuller pay envel-
opes despite the cuts, which apply
to all employees from the office staff
on down through all departments of
the mills. They point out that the
biggest cuts have been made in the
cases of those receiving the highest
pay.
A survey indicates that few of
the workers who have been getting
more than the average wage will re-
ceive amounts ranging from few
cents to dollar, and in a few cases
to about two dollars more for their
extra days work. Those who have
been getting about the average wage,
and they are large portion of the
workers, will break just about even.
In other words, after the charges for
house rent, lights, and water have
been deducted from what is left after
the wage reduction, their pay check
for the five days toll in the mills will
be almost exactly what it was for
four days work, before the new order
became operative.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
WHAT NEXT?

A nocturnal sundial, using light in
stead of shadow to tell the time and
expanded to relatively gigantic pro-
portions, is to be installed by the mu-
nicipality of Guayaquill, Republic of
Ecuador The light source will be an
electric searchlight which, revolving
once every IL hours, will indicate the
time by Illuminating surrounding
landmarks at the same time each
night
A cracker of "vest-pocket size"
which is said to supply the staple ele-
ments in the human diet, has been
developed at the Ohio State Univer-
sity. 1t is composed of wheat and
milk, and is very dry and compact,
making it capable of being kept over
long period of time. 1t is salted and
has the taste of wholewheat bread.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30

The man who enjoys the benefits
secured through organization is Sc
curing benefits under false pretenses
when he fails to demand union goods
and union service when spending his
money.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-30
Saloon Won't Return

However, all who approach the
question with an open mind know
that there is no possibility of the
saloon returning. Our program does
not contemplate the return of the
saloon. We do not want the saloon.
Nor do we want to take from the
national government control over the
manufacture and sale of the matted
beverages we ask to be made legal.
"Then, too, all of our states would
have authority and power to enact
such additional laws as will make i'm
possible the licensing of any saloon
or other place for the sale of matted
beverages of the alcoholic content
urged by the American Federation of
Lamor and our committee.
Indeed, the method of preventing
the return of the saloon and other
obnoxious means of sale could be most
effectually controlled and prevented
by returning the enforcing authority
where it properly belongs-to the
states and communities directly af-
fected, and which, as matters now
stand, cannot protect themselves,
large and expensive though the fed
eral army of agents provacateurs
may be.
Great Opposition Expected
"We realize, of course, that we will
continue to face great opposition;
much of that will come from honest,
God-fearing men and women who do
not realize what so-called prohibition
means, who do not know its fearful
effect upon public morals and public
morale. We respect that opposition
for we can reason with it. Much more
will come from professional and ia
natical vets who decline to acknow-
edge what they see and who will seek
to injure us with abuse. Yet more will
/ come from the army of gangsters
whose sources of wealth our activi-
ties endanger and whose only argu-
ments are threats of force
"The abuse of the one small group,
the threats of the army of gangsters,
we will ignore. We will not reply in
kind to the fanatic; we cannot reply
in kind to his more violent associate.
eve will continue to appeal to the
reasonable man and woman who be-
lieves in law and order and public
morality, and who is willing to hon
estly face facts, confident that in so
doing we will secure that which we
ask-an honest definition from con-
gress of what actually constitutes an
Intoxicating beverage"
The Washington times., 1931-12-30
Collegiate Group
Discusses Sports
Relationships

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Con'
structive discussions of accom-
plishments and plans for future
achievements will mark the an.
nual convention of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
which opened today.
A round table discussion on the
relations between intramural and
intercollegiate sports will begin
the convention activities. DR.. Ed.
gar Fauver, of Wesleyan, will
conduct the session.
Walter r. Okeson, commits
sioner of Eastern football Off
cials, will conduct a conference
on the athletic budget which will
deal especially with means of ad-
justing athletic programs to meet
the budget.
Among the speakers at the con-
vention will be DR.. Charles w.
Kennedy, Princeton, president of
the association; John L. Grit.
fifth, athletic commissioner of TIE
Western Conference; F.. H. Still,
headmaSter of Kent School, and
Thomas s. Gates, president Nni,
verSity of Pennsylvania.
The Washington times., 1931-12-30
Virginia State Pin
Tourney Winners

MEN
Team
Schwartz Bakery, Alexandria. 1854;
Health Center. Alexandria, Lei.
G. r. Carper and G. P. Stultz
(Roanoke). 716; S. G. Lindamond and
r. l.. Huffman CRoanoke). 700: H.
Francis and o. Neblett (Richmond),
6s5.
Singles
William Inge. Richmond. 4O6: o.
Swain, Alexandria, S75; Astor Clarke
Clarendon, $50.
All-Events
o. Swain, Alexandria, 1911; W. Inge
(Richmond),a 1889.
Mixed Doubles
o. Swain and Mildred Miskelly, sci.
WOMEN
Team
Burke & Co., Norfolk. 1901: Alex
andria Health Center. Alexandria, 1850.
Doubles
Nina Lins and Katherine Wall. Nor
folk. sos; D. Keel and NJ. Stapleton,
Norfolk, SIS.
Singles
N Lins. Norfolk, sSS; x. Wall. Nor
folk. S1S; F. Wessman. Norfolk, 297
All Events
K. Wall, Norfolk, 944; N. Lins, Nor
folk, 934
The Washington times., 1931-12-30
Stevens Succeeds
MeehQn as Grid
Coaches Preru

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-Dr.
Marvin A. Stevens, head coach
of Yale. today succeeded "Chick"
Meehan, former New York Uni
versity mentor, as president of
the American Football Coaches
Association.
DR.. Stevens was elected at a
meeting of sthe association yes
terday. Other officers named
were: Dan E. McGugin, Wander
bilt. first vice president; Dana x.
Bible. Nebraska, second vice presi,
dent: w. H. Coewell, New Hamp-
shire, secretary-treaSurer: B. w.
Bierman, Minnesota; Eddie Casey,
Harvard; Harry Kipke, Michigan,
and Harry Stuhldreher, Villanova,
trustees.
The third vice president will be
the coach elected to the preSi-
dency of the Pacific Coast ASSo-
citation.
Meehan, new coach at Manhat-
tan, was made an honorary life
member.