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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-27
Raymondville Is,
Stuart Place 0


RAYMONDVILLE. Sept. 26.-The
Raymondville Bearcats came alive
In the second half here Friday 70
pound their way TO a 1870 victory
over the Stuart Place Tigers.
After battling TO a scoreless tie
for two quarters, Raymondville be-
gan a drive in the third quarter
which resulted in a touchdown. Long
end runs accounted for the market.
The Bearcsss scored again in the
same quarter as the result OF o
fumbied punt.
Stunrt Place bucked up In the
final period and put on several sus-
tanned crives but failed 70 score.
The starting line-ups:
Stuart Place Raym0ndvilie--
Milk ~.s.. q ) . . . = : IQAtCl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18

To make the punishment fit the
crime, pestiferous honkers should be
confined in a boiler factory for life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
DISCUSS JOBLESS
AT PRINCETON

Princeton, N. J.-Representatives
of thirty nationally known industrial
corporations and educational institu-
tions will discuss employment stabil-
ization, unemployment relief, indus
trial pensions, and ''employe repre-
sentation" at the summer conference
course in industrial relations at the
Princeton Graduate School here from
September 21 to September &c, under
the auspices of the industrial rela-
tions section of Princeton University
"Employe representation" is a term
used by employer-economists to de-
scribe the employer-conceived and
employer-controlled anti-union scheme
which labor calls the company
union"
The conference will not be open tc
the public.
The companies which will be rep.
resented include the U. S. Steel Cor
poraton, General Electric Company
Eastman Kodak Company, Westing
house Electric & Manufacturing
Company, Standard Oil Company Of
New Jersey, Standard Oil Company Of
New York, Standard Oil Company o,
Pennsylvania, International Harves
ter Company, Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
He's Living Proof Age
Ably Serves Industry

Cincinnati, O. (ILNS)-American
industry stood rebuked today in the
record of William Rother, pilot of
Big Four Engine No. 6401, who re-
signed under pension rules of the
road after 81 continuous years of
service as railroad engineer. AL
though 70 years old, he is as alert,
mentally keen and physically efficient
for his task as men half his age
a living reply to the stock argument
of industry of recent years, that
younger men are needed in the mod
ern scheme to carry on the active
tasks of life.
Rother started "railroading" in
1880 for the Big Four railway at
Cincinnati. For the last ten years he
was on the nnati-Indianapolis
run. For several years prior to his
service here he was with the old
Maryland Cincinnati railroad. His
father, Edward Rother, was engineer
for that road for As years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
REVOLUTION
I'm France Prevented By
Unions and JObless
Insurance

Trade unions and unemployment
insurance are the stabilizing factors
in the economic and political life of
Europe today.
This was the conclusion of Karl
Pribram, professor of economics and
political science of the University of
Frankfort, Germany, in a discussion
of the economic background of unem-
ployment at a recent session of the
Norman Waite Harris Foundation at
the University of Chicago.
Professor Pribram declared that
unemployment during the present de-
preston "has attained proportions
which it certainly never reached be-
fore" He said that according to con-
servative estimates there were 5,000,-
900 unemployed workers in the world
in the autumn of 1929. BY the mid
die of 1880 the number had increased
to 100000, and at the end of 1890
the jobless reached the stupendous
figure of from 100000 to 22,000,-
00O
1t is almost miracle that the sit
uation has not led to grave social dis
turbances in many European coun-
tries," he declared.
"Next to the strength of the gov
ernmental organization, the two main
factors that have so far prevented
social upheaval are unemployment re-
lief, which has saved large masses OF
the population from despair and in
surrection, and the influence of the
trade unions, which are more and
more bound to become conservative
pillars of the existing economic sys.
tem."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
WAGE CUTS
Opposed BY German Labor
Minister; Outlines
Idle Relief

Frankfort-on-M Main, Germany. -
emphatically reject the viewpoint
which regards an attack on wages as
the panacea for recovery of German
economy" Adam Stegerwald, German
minister of labor, told the General
Trades Union Congress in speech
outlining the attitude of the German
government toward various industrial
questions affecting the workers.
Abandonment of compulsory arbi-
tration and Cancellation in labor dis
putes," he added, ''is likewise out of
the question, with no statutory change
in that direction contemplated"
He said the grave problem is the
continued depletion of the social in
surance fund, which makes it ques-
tionable whether this, together with
an emergency tax, can carry the un-
employed through the winter. But he
assured the congress that as long as
the present government is in office
Jile uGlsOSL pOSSlDlc Will DS iOiiC loi
the workless and the core of the Ger
man social insurance scheme will be
maintained"
On government measures for relief
of the unemployed, the minister said:
81 calculate that the reich and the
communes will have to provide 2,O00,-
100000 marks ($480,0 0,000) between
now and the end of March. Of that
amount 500,000,000 will go for rent
and 80 per cent of the remainder for
food and coal.
"Now the consumer often pays
double what is received by the pro-
ducer. This practice cannot be kept
up next winter in respect to the work
less, for whom arrangements must
be made enabling them to procure
daily necessities at reduced prices"
Special winter measures under con-
sideration by the government, Herr
Stegerwald said, include reduction in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Wagner Urges Spending Two
Billion to Create More Jobs
New York Senator Advocates Huge u. S. Building Pro-
gram, Better Child Labor Laws and Dry Act Modi-
fcatiOn.

Syracuse, N. Y. (ILNS)-Demand
that the federal government embark
at once upon building program to
give work to at least one million men
was voiced by Senator Robert f. Wag
ner in the principal Labor Day adj
dress at the New York State Fair
here. Senator Wagner urged that a
bond issue of $4,000, 100000 be foated
to finance the proposed construction
program.
Wagner advocated withdrawal of a
million children under 16 years of
age who are holding jobs which ought
to be filled by their fathers, their
elder brothers and sisters" by
strengthening legislation to keep the
children in school and having indus
try itself realize the wrong done the
child and the adult both by these
children working.
Modification of the Volstead act
within the limits of the constitution,
with an expected substantial addition
to employment was cited as third
measure of relief, and erection of a
nationwide system of employment
Offices conducted in cooperation with
the states" as fourth.
Emergency Here, He Says
The $2,000,000, 900 construction pro-
gram, he said, should be the very
minimum.
"These are not ordinary times;
these are days of emergency" Sem
ator Wagner said. "In 1917 we learn
ed how to inject speed into planning.
1t is unlikely that we have already
forgotten that lesson in 1881.
"There are highways to be repay
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18

working hours as far as possible
without damaging production of ex-
ports; periodic interchange of en-
ployed workers and the workless to
distribute the burden of unemploy-
ment more evenly and SO far as it
can be done without reducing eff
cheney or increasing insurance costs
installation of kitchens in the larger
towns, and investigating to what ex-
tent payment in kind could be intro
duced.
The congress closed with a ring
ing declaration by Chairman Brandes
that the proceedings were an indict-
ment of the capitalist system and the
leaders responsible for that system
The congress has 100000 mem
bers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
,JOBLESS' WAGES TN
new YORK CITY

New York-Wages for persons
taken from the unemployed army and
given part-time work in the borough
of Richmond under the emergency
employment fund of New York city
are paid from $3.50 a day for ordi-
nary labor to 81 day for electri-
clans, $12 for carpenters and plumb
ers and $14 for plasterers.
These figures were developed in an
investigation of the charge that the
emergency fund was being used to
hire women and young men who had
no need of relief.
The wage rate for most of those on
the emergency payroll is $3.50 day
for two days a week, instead of three
days at SIS as in other boroughs. 1t
was charged that women carried on
the records as cleaners were kept on
three-day week at $3.50 a day after
men on the payroll had been reduced
to two days.
Borough President Lynch admitted
there had been some variation in the
number of days work given to women
and men per week, but that all OF
them had at last been placed on the
two-day week. He said the shorter
schedule was adopted to conserve the
emergency appropriation and also be-
cause he believed it was unwise te
afford too much relief, since it en-.
couraged men to remain on the city
payroll rather than seek other jobs
He said many complaints had beer
received because of the wage cut tc
two days week, but explained the
unemployment fund was so low it was
even necessary to dock emergency
gangs when it rains in order to make
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Canadian Liquor System
Here Would Yield Income
OF $50 Millions Yearly

Ottawa (ILNS)-A yield of around
$750,000,000 for public purposes
might be expected if all of the United
States adopted state control of the
liquor traffic on the Canadian model.
Eight of the nine Canadian prov
inces have liquor control boards, and
they contribute to the provincial rev.
enues about $30,000,00O a year. The
Dominion government levies excise
and custom taxes and a sale tax
amounting to another $30,0O0,00O.
The total contribution Of the liquor
business to the public revenues-not
counting taxes paid to municipalities
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Employees Of Big Eastern City
In Line to Get Five-Day Week

the appropriation last that much
longer.
The men employed as emergency
laborers, Lynch continued, have been
used almost exclusively on the repair
of dirt roads, of which there are ap-
proximately 81 miles in Richmond
county. He added that because road
repairing is hard labor he believed
that all the men accepting it were
driven to do so by need of money.
The merchants on the emergency
payroll are paid the higher scAa6h&es
because of the prevailing wage rate
law which requires the city to take
them from the civil service lists il
possible
Lynch explained that many of the
women on the emergency payroll
live in good homes, which they own,
but they can't eat the houses"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18

ed, widened and Strengthened. Hun
dreds of river and harbor projects are
in the approved list. There are large
federal zones which require refores-
tation.
Favorable Time for Borrowing
"We shall be told that the federal
government has not the money to en-
gage upon this program. The federal
government can borrow the money.
It's credit is at the peak. Interest
rates have rarely been lower.
The banks are glutted with idle
funds that ought to be busy creating
employment. 1t would be boon to
the entire country to cause this frozen
capital to flow freely once again in
the channels of trade.
"Never in its history has our gov
,rnment had occasion to borrow
money for more economic reasons and
for loftier purposes.
Can We Let Idle Starve?
Eve shall probably be told that the
federal government cannot afford to
spend that money. Let me ask in re-
turn, can we let American men and
women who are out of work starve :?
And since maintain them we must
and we shall, can we afford to let their
labor go irretrievably to waste? To
permit that to happen would be the
grossest form of national extrava-
gance, the only course that we can
not afford.
"The pith of the proposal is: That
the federal government proceed at
once to provide direct employment to
at least million men. 1t can and it
should be done"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18

runs to approximately S60,000,000
annually.
The population of the United States
is about 121A times that of Canada.
And 1914 times $60,00000O is $780,
100000, the amount of public revenues
the United States might expect to OBJ
tain from the adoption of the Cana
dian system of liquor control, assum-
ing similar drinking habits.
The liquor control system in all the
provinces recognizes local option. The
liquor boards may not open stores in
a community unless the municipal
council and rate-payers authorize
them to do so, though the resident Of
a dry community may receive certain
quantities of liquor by mail or ex-
press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Mayor Curley Tells Labor Meeting 1000 Will
Begin Plan January in Boston in Effort to
Increase Employment.

Boston, Mass. ILNS)-In a Labor
Day speech before the Central Labor
Union, Mayor Curley announced that
1000 city employees will go on five
day working week beginning next
January l, in an effort to bring the
shorter week to municipal workers in
other cities and thus increase employ
ment The mayor said the fve-day
week here will add about 800 work
ers to the city payroll.
Thirteen thousand employees in the
Boston fire and police departments,
the schools, city hospitals will not be
included in the five-day week.
"The five-day week is here" Curley
told the labor meeting 1--WE are go
ing to institute it in Boston in Jan
uary, and we hope the example set
by the city may be generally accepted
by every other community in Amer
lea
No Other Answer
There is no other answer if the
inventive genius of the American
nation robs the people of America of
100000 opportunities for a live
lihood in ten years. If, as the econo-
mists state, in the next ten years
100000 more opportunities will van
ish, there is only one answer, and that
is the adoption of the five-day week
"You increase the number of en-
ployes by 16 per cent, and you offset
the vanishing job
Mayor Curley praised the accom-
plishments of the American Fedora
tion of Labor in supporting the work
day and week, and in having passed
labor legislation. He discussed how
other countries have dealt with unem-
ployment and declared that the five
day week is the answer to the prob
lem. After pointing out how ma
chinery is displacing men, the mayor
said:
"It is a serious situation. Nobody
wants the dole. But you have only
two choices, either work and wages
for the American people or the dole
And we believe in work and wages
hope the president of the United
States is listening in. I hope he
realizes what we believe in. We are
interested in America. We want il
to prosper and are willing to die foi
it, but we believe it is the duty of oui
government to provide for this un
precedented situation that obtains il
America.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
New Ford Policy Hit AS
Hostile to Truck Grower

Shreveport, La. ILNS) = Henry
Ford's recent announcement to his
employees that he will give no job
to any man who does not have a gar
den, has drawn strong protest from
Harry D. Wilson, Louisiana state
agricultural commissioner. Should
such a policy be generally practiced
the truck farmer would be put out
of business, Mr.. Wilson declared in
letter to Mr. Ford, which he made
public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Curley Com

Mayor Curley's announcement of
the fve-day week for municipal en-
ployes was enthusiastically applauded
and he has since received many mes
sages of congratulation. Matthew
Wall, vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, telegraphed him
as follows:
"Hon. James M. Curley,
"City Hall,
Boston, Mass.
Your decision announced Labor
Day to have city employees working
five-day week beginning January next
as a practical means to relieve unem-
ployment is the most progressive ac-
tion yet taken anywhere in dealing
with this unfortunate situation. The
people of your city and state and of
our nation may we'll feel proud of
your constructive vision, your out
standing courage and your ready re-
spouse to meet human requirements.
This act toward humanity is in keep
ing with traditions of the early Bay
state colony. Your practical response
to labor's appeal and your determi-
nation to set an example for all other
employers to government as
we'll as private-gives hope and en-
enlargement to all
MATTHEW WOLL,
president, Union Labor Life Insur-
ance Company; Vice President,
American Federation of Labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
N. 7. Printers Extend
Unemployment Relief

New York.-Unemployed members
of Typographical Union No. will
continue to receive jobless relief un-
til after Christmas, Alexander Hew-
son, president of the union, announc-
ed. The decision was reached by
referendum which showed 4,069 votes
for and 3,206 against continuing the
aid.
The union has more than 11,000
members, of which approximately
300 are receiving unemployment
benefits. Since September, 1880, the
iobless members of the union have
received 81 ,423,653.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Labor Must BE Helped

'sIt is unfair to permit organized
labor to continue planning for the en-
tire 122 millions of people in America.
1t is too big job. This job should
be the concern of every individual in
America Religious, financial, labor
and educational organizations should
all come together with common pur-
pose, single proposition, work and
wages for the people of America.
"a $5,000,0O0,00O program is what
is needed. We did not hesitate at
30,000,000,000 during the World
War. We have an economic war here
and during the two years it has been
in progress we have not nationally
spent one dollar to settle it. Let
congress assemble and appropriate
Sc, ,000, 100000 SO that no one will be
out of employment during the coming
winter"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-18
Loves Legacy

"Hey!" cried Satan to the new ar
rival, you act as if you owned this
dump"
Il do. My wife gave it to me-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-13
JUNE 19, 1881

finish many Of the projects which
previous governments had started.
and pay up debts inherited from
them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-13
Two Voyages Are Lure to
u. S. VaCationiStS
This Year,

The Great Lakes Transit Corpo-
ration offers voyagers their choice
Of two cruises this year. The lux
urious steamships Octorara and
Juniata will be in the Bufalo-Du-
luth service exclusively, while their
sister ship Tionesta will be in the
Buffalo Chicago-Nlilwa service,
making the famous Lake Michigan
loop"
In the Buffalo, Duluth cruise there
will be frequent sailings, with week
ly SailingS on the Buffalo Chicago
Milwaukee route.
The Buffalo-Duluth voyage allows
day in Buffalo, sailing in the
early evening. The first port Of
call is Cleveland, thence to Detroit.
Mackinac island, next port of call,
varies the sightseers interest. Here
romance, legend and history are
quantity blended and preserved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-13
SPAIN, LOOKING
FOR MIRACLE,I is
DISAPPOINTED
Republic Has Its Troubles,
but Through No Fault of
Its Own.
BY WILLIAM III. LANDER
United Press STAFF Correspondent

MADRID, June 13-The second
Spanish republic Sunday completed
its second month Of existence in
the midst of the political campaign
preceding general elections which
will take place in fortnight.
The republics second month was
not as undisturbed as its first. The
situation created by the burning Of
ccnventS and monaSteries, and in
some places of churches on May IL,
II and Is, showed that there was
a big element in the country which
thought that the republic was not
radical enough, while the reaction to
that was a manifestation OF a big
sector of opinion which desired the
government to slow down on its
church policy.
The financial and economic diff
culties of the republic increased
through no fault of its own. Dur
ing the last years Of the dictator
ship, and then the last months of
monarchy, business was handi-
capped greatly by the atmosphere
of uncertainty.
But now that the republic is two
months DID, many who expected it
to solve all their troubles already
are disappointed.
Besides the few cases of laborers
who thought they never would have
to work any more, there is small
army Of overburdened taxpayers,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-13
LAKE CRUISES BID
FOR TRAVEL FAVOR

Leaving Mackinac, the travellers
pass through the 500 locks, on to
Houghton, the great copper center,
and to Duluth, gateway to the west.
The Buffalo Chicago Milwaukee
cruise follows the same course to
Mackinac where the Tionesta points
into Lake Michigan, reaching Chi
cago at in the afternoon and al
lowing full eight hours for bust
ness or sightseeing. After the next
morning stop at Milwaukee, the
ship retraces its course to NTackinac
and back to Buffalo.
The ships are so large that there
is no vibration. Restful sleep and
relaxation, deck games, dancing,
music and happy companionship
are promised. The cuisine is I'M
surpassed and the service is based
upon many years experience cater
ing to eXacting travellers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-13
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

year. will be found among the rail
trips this summer. This year such
tickets will be honored leaving on
Saturday or Tuesday and will be
good for stopover at practically all
points.
The st. Lawrence region, Mon
treal and Quebec, with their quaint
mixture of medieval and modern
life and methods should have a
large share of Hoosier visitors.
Bermuda Beckons
The two most prominently new
features of eastern travel this year
are the tour to Bermuda and the
tour Of "Historyland." Bermuda
beckonS with the lowest composite
all-expense rate ever offered.
Bermuda visitors will be treated
to a summer climate of approx
mately "a degrees. The History
land Tour" provides a scenic and
educational trip through the cradle
of our nation, Washington, D. c.,
and historical sites in the Virginias.
Vests Call Persists
And now the west-glamorous
and glorious as ever with Colorado,
the National parks, Yellowstone
particularly, and the great Pacific
coast-Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Portland, Seattle and the Canadian
Rockies has flung its call to
Hoosiers. Rates to the west have
been arranged so as to permit as
short or as long trip as is desired.
An itinerary can be made up to
include the Grand Canyon or yell
lowstone together with the coast
cities Of Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco, Portland, Seattle and the at
fractions Of Salt Lake City, Den
yer and Colorado Springs.
Details Gladly Supplied
There are short trips galore on
the transportation market, including
the Great lakes boat lines.
Indianapolis affords informed rep
resentativeS of all branches of
transportation. Bank and indie
pendent travel agencies, airport
officials, motor bus representatives
and steam railroad passenger and
ticket forces are all well prepared
to serve vacationists.