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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-15
PERSONALS


Mesdames I. p. Bourne, Fannie
Bowers and Grayson Allen were
visitors in Mercedes Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. p. Nelson and
daughters, Helen Ruth and Nor
ma Mae we're La Feria callers
wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Olee Lowry ana
sons, Bobbie Lawrence and Olee,
Jr., returned Monday from a visit
with relatives IN Wimberly.
Klemann Watson spent several
days this week in San Benito with
relatives.
j. l.. Hanning returned Sunday
from a visit 70 Howe. Texas, and
was accompanied home by his
children. Marguerite and James
Leslie. Mrs. Hanning and Nh. and
Mrs. Z. A. Hanning.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. O. Bourne and
children Of Santa Rosa were call
ers here Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert RAY and
children. Elton and Catherine and
"A. M. Deyo returned Tuesday from
Corpus Christi where they spent
the weekend.
Marvin Hale returned home
MctRday from a visit with rela-
tiyes neal Fl. Worth and in Okla
horna.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-15
Gil CLUB MEETS

The All Canning club met Tues
day with Miss Ada Bess S%tallings.
The afternoon was spent discuss
ing ways of canning tomatoes. Re-
freshments Of cake and tea were
served to Miss Ophelia Estell Of
Raymondville and Birdie Mae and
Lillian Woods. Marion Gustafson.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-15
Employment
HELP WANTED

W~ANTED-Lady to work in home
and care for two small children.
American preferred. Call 1901. P88
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-15

FITCH APARTMENTS. Five rooms.
three bed capacity. Cool Apt. PR
Eidaire. gas. bath. hot and cold
water furnished Also efficiency ap-
artments. For summer rates Phone
$50. Oi77
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
SENSE ON WAGES

employers
depression emphacally
which
by Mr. Reginald McKenna chairman of the
Wage in Britain that
brought the deprecated
level commodity prices
Wages they say
drastcay to
of the Bank England recently urged
manufacturing countries chiefly at the
until the of finished goods brought down
distressing level of agricultural prices.
this theory maintains that it is supreme
downward adjustment of
prices materials
insists the policy of working for
commodity ultimate economic collapse holds
maintained and that the combined efforts of everyone
commodity the present level
either in Great Britain the
United States against policy of cutting
employment the purchasing of the
their purchasing the larger
their ability goods which other people produce
automatically that the purchasing of the masses OF
people depends they paid low their ability
purchase SMALL and the less goods they buy the less employ
ment is for millions who produce the goods
plain Yet there shortsghted employers
with the theory that the main thing
industrial wholesale reductions and
reduction in the purchasing OF the masses
Wage reducing in the United States
out of wadng clothes the employers
applied their theory millions workers ultimately 60ooOOo
reducing their purchasing nothing They
placing thousands part time In add-
and part workers
EMPLOYERS the purchasing and
lowered the millions workers and their fam
lies But business depression does show
tangible signs of recovery
The lesson is clear The way the
which parazng the entire world IS to increase
rather than living standards of the masses
Wages must not be cut
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
SOUTHERN TEXTILE IGNORANCE

The Southern Textile Worker, .
which probably is entirely in harmony
with what reader of this newspa-
per calls San orgy of wage cutting"
at Union, S. c., makes the ridiculous
assertion that neither the American
Federation of Labor nor the United
Textile Workers protested against
communism until the red National
Textile Union was formed. The truth
is, as trade unionists know, that the
whole American labor movement has
fought communism and communists
from the very outset and wrote into
it's original philosophy the principles
that put trade unionism and commu-
nism at opposite poles in the social
structure.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
JUST COMMON SENSE

Senator James Couzens says that
if the 100000 workers who are now
employed were guaranteed that there
will be no cut in wages ard that they
will be continued in steady employ
ment, these same workers would not
have a tendency to keep boarding
their money in the banks. They would
spend more of their money and there
by lessen these trying times.
These workers are doing nothing
but what good sense calls for under
the present uncertain conditions. The
Federationist believes that none have
right to hoard their money. It's
this boarding and cutting down that's
put business where it is today. We
sure believe in consistent saving, but
not in the denial of anything that is
essential If most of us just figured
the right way of spending wisely and
saving the same way, our problems
of today would soon be solved.
We believe that most of our en-
ployers are doing their best in trying
to keep their employees at work. Few
are contemplating any cuts in wages.
The fact is that wages are now too
low in some instances, and entirely
too high in other instances. The big
thing of all times is to have wages
secure and in conjunction with pro-
duction. You know, it all hinges down
to just plain, ordinary common sense.
This common sense on the part of
all will help turn the trick and solve
our present conditions.-The Fedora
ZIONIST.
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worth their par, the rest ranging from
somewhat shaky to absolutely worth
less. Much of the trouble is that the
bonds were issued on projects that
did not warrant the issue. Great
masses of these bonds are held IN
small denominations by men and
women who have saved the money
penny by penny. 1t seems to the Press
that anybody who is looking for
good scandal might stop and examine
this situation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
ANOTHER BATTLE TO BE
FOUGHT

Chairman Fletcher, of the tariff
commission, has announced that he
will resign this fall, instead of hold
ing through his entire term. That
will necessitate a refill appointment
and already there is great clamor
from those who want the products of
low-wage European labor dumped in
free competition with the products
of American labor.
1t is to be hoped that President
Hoover will refuse to yield to the
band of wage-cutters who are already
besieging him for what they call a
low tariff man.
Our immigration laws bar the low
wage worker from coming here, but
there are plenty who would like to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
AS THE NEW EXECUTIVE"
SEES 1T

Score another for labor's case
against laundering management and
high finance.
"We've got to devise way of pro-
tecting the wage-earning consumer
against these fluctuations Of over
supply and under demand or he'll
seek a way of his own"
So writes Leon Kelley, secretary Of
FISHER, Farnsworth & Co., in Print
ers' Ink Monthly, taking for his text
one of Roy Dickinson's twelve points
for management, promulgated in the
pages of the same magazine for
April.
Kelly lands hard. He says the re-
dictionaries do not realize chow much
their own position has changed" The
"new executive" Kelley thinks, is of
a new breed, actually understanding
that if the economic order is to work
at all it must work to the advantage
of all. Hear him say:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
Endorsed by the Trades and Labsr
Council Of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the Middletewn Trades
and Labsr Council Of Middletswn. O..
FRIDAY, AUGUST IA, 1881
CARRYING ON!

"Oh, what's the use? There's no
work, and what good can come from
my going to meetings and continuing
my activities in the labor movement ?"
This remark is frequently heard by
trade unionists from those who are
losing heart as the result of being out
of work. They don't realize that con-
ditions are bound to improve some
time, and that their losing interest
in the movement may mean the loss
of conditions which they helped to
establish.
We all realize that present en-
ployment conditions are most dis
heartening, but we do know that it
is most unwise for any member of a
trade union to relax in his activities
during such periods as we are now
going through.
If for no other reason than to de-
monstrate our determination to hold
on to what we've got, it is most i'm
portant that every person who carries
trade union card should not only
attend union meetings regularly, but
should be more alert than ever in
carrying on the activities which are
SO necessary for the welfare and sue
cess of our movement.
The present is no time for anyone
to ''lie down on the job" While the
present depression is lasting much
longer than was expected, we are all
hoping the end will come soon. In the
meantime, all must buckle down with
a strong determination to maintain
present established conditions.
This positively cannot be done un-
less we show a determined front. and
by this means make known to those
who would destroy present standards
that our opposition is backed by a
strong, well-balanced and aggressive
organization.
To successfully meet this opposi-
tion, officers of central bodies and To-
cal unions must have the undivided
support of every one of their mem
bers, and the best way to do this is
to attend meetings regularly, and to
give unstintingly of their time and
efforts toward making a success of
all trade union activities.
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"The best informed men of this
new school are reviewing the last
quarter-century along the following
lines:
Eve established high American
standard of living for the consumer
We supplied him with wages suffi-
cient to enjoy that standard. We took
back his wages selling him our wares
up to the hilt. We went even fur
ther and financed his purchases
against wages as yet unpaid. We
turned the whirligig of trade at high
pressure. The result we called pros
perity. On the other hand we encour-
aged our engineers to produce more
at less cost, and faster. Soon these
clever fellows, the engineers, were
producing more than we needed. So
naturally, the production line had to
slow up, and that deprived the con-
sumer of large part of the wages
he was earning, in turn depriving US
of customers"
Mr.. Kelly says the new execu.
tives see that this is all wrong-as
of course, it is.
| 1t will never be right unless an6
until management ceases to be a die
| tatorial function. 1t will never bt
right unless and until there is ma
chinery that permits democratic ex
preston effectively, so that ten mer
cannot say to ten thousand, "that fol
you."
The faster and the more fully or
ganized labor comes to play it's full
and proper title, the sooner we shall
be on the road to no more depres
sions.
Autocratic control of industry ha
convicted itself enough.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
REDUCE DIVIDENDS
Hold Wages, Says Industrial
Efficiency Expert

New York. will come
to America at once if all manufac-
turers were to adopt the wages pol
icy of the directors of the United
States Steel Corporation when they
decided to cut dividends rather than
wages, is the opinion of Douglas S.
Keogh, president of the Charles E.
Bedaux Company, of New York, a
concern which specializes in indus
trial efficiency systems.
'News of the steel corporation S
decision may cause an unfavorable
reaction in some quarters" said Mr..
Keogh, "but it will certainly win the
unqualified approval of labor every
where and of the management in a
great many industrial plants which
have struggled to maintain wage
scales even at the cost of reduced
stockholders dividends and lower
executive salaries.
"The decision tacitly adopts the eco
nomic policy which recognizes that
the wage-earning class comprises the
bulk of the nations purchasing
power. Under this policy, any cur
tailment of the purchasing power OF
the wage earners inevitably results
in shrinking the consumer-market
for all the products of this mass pro-
duction age we live in.
Management in many industries
has been fighting the battle of the
wage Garner, and in doing so has re-
sisted strong pressure on the part OF
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14
INSURANCE AT COST
FURNISHED BY UNION

Cleveland, Ohio.-The Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen has increased
its rates on life insurance for its
members So per thousand dollars of
insurance carried. The beneficiary
assessment plan is used. Policies are
written from $70O to $4,000, with the
cost per month running from 95 cents
for $500 to $3.50 for $4,000.
"The Brotherhood insurance and
pension plans are written at cost"
declares the Railroad Trainman.
'They are free from the burden of
high salaries, spacious and expensive
offices, bonuses, etc., and are not re-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14

stockholders. The temptation to
weaken and cut wages in order to
curry the favor Of stockholders has
been strong. The action of the direc-
tors of the steel corporation there
fore establishes precedent in key
industry, which lends to the manage
ment of smaller industries some
much-needed moral support.
.'if Il stockholders in all our indus
tries will consent to accept smaller
dividends on their invested capital,
and thus make possible the fullest
employment of our wage earning
class at the best rates, industry can
affor to pay, then the depression
will be short lived and America will
soon find itself on the high road to
nrosperity"
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7heCherry
" Where with ear
Tree L,..n. y, !. a.ssAss ..s
about many things. sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes hippantly,
sometimes recklessly. .......

In much older times kings could
send armies to death. The will of one
man held supreme sway over many
thousands. We look back on those old
days and think we do things much
better.
Henry Ford has announced that
very shortly he will shut his great
plant. He decides, all by himself,
whether there shall be work or not
and thousands take the consequences.
Because we still have in industry
the autocracy we formerly had in po-
litical affairs, industrial emperors
hold unlimited sway over the lives
and fortunes of thousands.
The other day other thousands held
their breaths while handful of men
decided whether or not wages would
be cut for the employees of the United
States Steel Corporation.
Picture herald coming to the door
at the close of the deliberation and
signalling thumbs up" That is about
what it amounted to. 1t could as
easily have been thumbs down."
1t was different in Chicago when
wages of elevated railway employees
were in question. Representatives Of
workers and employees sat down to-
gether and deliberated.
At the end of those negotiations
everybody came out and signalIed
thumbs up" for both sides.
In steel there was an order. In
Chicago there was an agreement.
Of course the emperors and the
satraps don't want any change. The
oligarchies want things to remain as
they are.
But the human race needs little
more of the business of democratic
conduct in these things.
mo wage fixing without represen-
tation" is as good as mo taxation
without representation" and the prin-
ciple is about the same in both cases.
Does anybody doubt that the coal
industry would be in better shape if
the mine owners, instead of oppos-
ing organization, had worked with the
United Mine Workers, urging a con-
stant development of interest in COM
mon problems, encouraging co-opera-
ton and the assumption of response
bility?
To call those men "mine operators"
is a good deal of a joke just now.
They are mine owners, but whole
lot of them are operating nothing.
Many of them haven't much in their
heads but an ache and they don't
know what caused it.
1t has taken long time to explode
the myth about Henry Ford. At last
it has come out that he is no wizard.
There is nothing super-human about
him. He has certain high capabilities
relating to automobile production, but
he has shown that he is not fit to rule
people.
No man is.
People have got to learn how to
govern themselves-how to protect
themselves. The first step toward
that goal is organization.
How can any wage Garner observe
the Ford plant in comparison with a
well unionized industry, like the Chi
cago elevated lines, and remain
man?
The non-union man really forfeits
his citizenship rights in industry!
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see his product coming. They want
his cheap output, whether he makes
it in Europe or not. And they seem
to be ignorant enough to want the
effect it will have on American labor.
We find the big business institution,
known as Scripps- Howard newspa-
pers, just now leading this clamor
for more competition between our
standards and the low-wage Euro
pean standards. They want a low
tariff man to succeed Fletcher.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-14

WHAT DOES BOND" MEAN?
1t is reported that out of ten bill
lion dollars worth of real estate
bonds hoated, only four billions are
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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-03
Quotations

MY chief concern Is not with the
young flapper. but the adult flop
per.
DIR. Daniel "A. Polling. president
OF the United Society Of Chris
tian Endeavor.
My political ideal is democracy.
Dr. Albert Einstein-
You must prepare to choose
either living for time. or living for
time plus eternity.
Rev. DR.. David DeForest Burrell.
One doesn't mind hot weather II
one expects IL.
.Mr', Dolly oaf
Married persons do not pet
enough.
DR.. David Vaughn.
7 believe I can take credit for
the racket game i'm Chicago. i
believe that the people thank me
for the fact that gang killings here
are probably n thing Of the past.
Even inmates OF homes for he
feeble-mlnded ought 10 know that
the prosperity OF the United states
is dependent upon world trade.
Thomas I'll. ChadbOurne. corpora
ton counsel.
we are part XII the general
scheme or "A splendid universe.
DIR. Harlow Shapley. astronomer.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-03
~ IT, THE
Anniversary

On Sept. 3. 1917. the Russians
abandoned Riga and Germans en-
tered and occupied the city with
out resistance
On this date also Germans con-
Quoted an air raid over England,
killing 1O8 persons and in1uring on.
The raid was n complete surprise.
President Wilson welcomed SOL
diers OF the National Army into
the nations services on this date
He addressed q message TO the
saying. You are undertaking. u
great duty. The heart OF the
whole country is with you.
For this great war draws lin
all together. makes US all COM
rades and brothers. rs all true
Americans felt themselves 90 be
when we first made good our ma
tional independence"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-03

kSEEzRS
TEXAS TOPICS
~ THE POLITICAL ANALYST

By The ID
AUSTIN. Sept. 3.-This Is sup
posed to be the way IN which East
Texas martial law will be tapered
off:
When the railroad commission
writes an order. after the deluge Of
testimony, governing East Texas
production. Gov. Sterling will take
the order and embody It into mar
tial law by rewriting the military
orders.
That will make Ii a part OF the
subject matter to be enforced by
military authority. rather than
through civil writs.
Apparently that will keep IL be-
yond the reach OF state court ac-
ton. Whether ii could be reached
BY a federal court. once IN effect,
has not been determined.
The order will mean lifting the
drastic degree for a complete shut
down OF the field. II will substitute
the daily production Of such limit
for the field or per well as decided
on by the railroad commission
somewhere between 100000 and
$4,000 barrels daily OF oil.
Instead OF preventing the pro-
duction OF oil, troops then will be
in charge of producing oil: and the
general attorney for the Texas
company. as military commander
OF the area. will have to see to II
that the least OF the independents
is given. BY his own orders. equal
opportunities with the Texas and
other companies.
When production Is allowed. I'M
der either military or civil power.
the state will not be able 10 limit
1t t. part Of the wells; but al wells
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and without any limits upon the
range OF questions.
AT least three-fifths the time II
spent In the hearing was wholly
wasted. The case was put on in less
tnan half a day. so far as useful
informsrion was concerned; and
the quibbling OF technicians and
lawyers over theoretical intangibles
merely obscured the moiety OF es-
sential fact required for the order
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-03

The law Is n statewide law. and
there seems to be no particular
reason why the railroad commits
SION would lot have TO require
evidence for each field. TO enforce
IL. just as much 50 as IN the East
Texas field where there could have
been no violations. because no wells
were open.