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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Rat Hunter Shoots Foot

Shooting rats in his back yard at
726 East st. Clair street, Wednes-
day. Walter tastes. Is, forgot to let
down the hammer on his .22-caliber
rifle and shot himself through the
foot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
RULES AGAINST CANNON
By United Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The
senate campaign funds investigat-
ing committee, fortified by favor
able court ruling, prepared today to
press its inquiry into the 1928 presi-
Dental election activities of Bishop
James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South:
The churchman's lawyers we're
drafting an appeal from the ruling
Of Justice Joseph w. Cox, District
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
Two County Outings Planned

Former Orange and Crawford
county residents will hold their an
nual reunion Sunday afternoon at
Brookside park. Arthur T. May
field is president and Owen C. Boyd
secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
COUNCIL SCANS
COUNTY'S ROAD
WASTE PLANS
Gravel Fund May Be Pared
to Prevent So-CaIIed
Squandering.

Attention of Marion county coun-
cilmen was focused today upon
commissioners plans for huge road
expenditures, as the council began
its study Of 1892 budget requests.
Unless the council pares the 1882
Tree gravel road fund request of
commissioners, between $4,000 and
$4,000 of the taxpayers money may
be spent unnecessarily, John Shear
er, minority board member, has
charged.
First Of a series of meetings to
be held by the council before it APP
proves the budget, Sept. 8, was held
Wednesday night at the county
auditors Office.
Pledged TO Economy
The council is pledged to econo-
my, with the task of keeping the
1882 budget within the 1881 figure.
Proposed undergraduates labeled
as wasteful by Shearer, may be
slashed to a minimum by the coun-
Gil.
Commissioners George Snider and
Dow Vorhies vigorously are defend
ing increases in the road budget,
which would raise the road levy
from the road superintendent esti-
mate of accent to l cent.
Dsregarding taxpayers requests
for lower budgets, Commissioners
Snider and Vorhies, according to
their budget requests, want to spend
an extra $4,000 next year on a
tar-gravel road building scheme.
Councilmen may force commits
sioners to buy gravel for 20 cents
from local pits, instead of paying
contractors 90 cents yard, it ap-
peaped today.
Board Cuts Are Likely
Some counties of the state are
obtaining gravel as low as 1917
cents yard, it is claimed.
Charles Mann, county road SUI
perintendent, with whom the COM
missioners do not agree, stated re-
Gently the county could obtain "all
the gravel it wants for 20 cents a
yard"
Should the council fail to prune
the road fund from the $188,509, re-
quested by commissioners, to the
Sl49,595, estimated by Mann, the
state tax board may make the cuts.
The tax board has final ruling on
all tax levies.
The Democratic council, however,
firmly has declared each member
Will live up to his campaign pledge
OF economy in government and
lower taxes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-13
POOR AID DEBTS
TO BRING LARGE
TAX INCREASES
Wayne, Perry and Center
townships Will Be
Hit Hardest.

Payment Of poor relief debts,
which hang like heavy anchors upon
the county treasury. will cause large
increases in three townships tax
rates for 1882, County Auditor Harry
Dunn stated today.
Increases ranging from sc TO lis
cents will be necessary in Wayne,
Perry, and Center townships.
Levies for 1882 merely will pay
debts already incurred, while poor
relief expenditures for the coming
year must be financed by bond is
sues.
This cycle Of ref1nancing for poor
relief may keep the county in debt
for several years, it is said.
Wayne Levy to Raise
Wayne township must raise its
rate for the poor budget from IL
to Is cents, because Of an alarm
inb decrease in taxable property,
Dunn stated.
The Wayne rate in indianapolis
will be approximately $3.ol and out
side the city the levy will be about
$182.
These rates are based on assump
ton, Dunn said, that city, school,
county and state tax rates remain
the same as the 1881 figures.
Perry township must increase its
rate 81 cents, while the Center rate
for poor relief will be cents, as
compared with "a cents for last
year. Warren township will show
a decrease.
Some Miss Levies
Poor relief levies will not be nee
essary in Pike and Franklin town
ships next year, Dunn said.
Other township relief levieS COM
pared with 1881 levies follow: De-
catur, 1882, 81 cents, and 1881, 9
mills; Lawrence, 1882, IL and 1881,
IL cents; Warren, 1882, cent, and
1881, 215 cents, and Washington,
1881, cent, and 1881, mills.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
Kentucky Mine Strike Follows
Failure to Disarm Mine Guards
Workers in Harlan County Quit Work When Agreement
Signed Between Representatives of Union and Gov
is Not Observed-Troops Sent in at Citizens
Request.

Indianapolis (ILNS)-Reports to
headquarters of the United Mine
Workers here say that miners have
quit work at five Harlan county, KY,
mines in protest against failure to
disarm mine guards.
Local union leaders had announced
that the men would strike if the state
troops which were sent here last week
did not eliminate the guards. They
referred to the signed statement,
given out last week at meeting be-
tween union leaders and representa-
tives of Gov. Elem D. Sampson, which
provided for disarming of the mine
guards to prevent further outbreaks
in the labor dispute which had cost
five lives and destruction of much
property.
Mine owners tried to get the COVER
nor to send troops to protect their
property, but the head of the Ken
lucky state government said that only
on petition of the people would he
resort to such move. He sent the
troops when residents of Harland
county asked for them.
Representative of Gov. Sampson
and labor leaders met and signed an
agreement asking the governor to or
der out the troops.
William Turnblazer, president of
the United Mine Workers in Kentucky
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
PEQUOT MILLS
House in Salem Now Com
munity Center

Salem, Mass. (ILNS)-The Pequot
House, reproduction of 17th CEN
tury American home constructed by
Pequot Mills, Salem, as part of Sa-
lem's observance of the establishment
of Massachusetts Bay Colony last
year, has since become the community
house of the city. Since October va
rious organizations have held meet
ings in this quaint setting.
More than $4,000 persons from va
rious sections of the world have writ
ten their names in the guest book
since the opening of the house last
July. Many of these have also taken
advantage of the management's invi-
tation to inspect the mills and to see
cotton in the process of manufacture
from the opening of the bale to the
packaging of the well-known union
made Pequot sheets and pillow-cases.
The plant, which is one of New Eng
lands industrial show places, is the
largest of it's kind in existence. The
corporation is one of the oldest, being
now in its 92nd year.
Pequot Mills holds a unique posi-
tin in the industry because of its re-
lations with organized labor The
company was the first to cooperate
with union labor in the installation of
a so-called labor extension plan,
through agreement between the man.
agement and the United Textile
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
PICKETING UPHELD
BY FEDERAL COURT

Philadelphia.-"Union men have a
right to appeal to the public for sup
port of their cause" said Federal
District Judge Kirkpatrick in dismiss
ing an application for an injunction
against moton picture operators who
have been replaced by non-unionists.
The court, however, ordered that
pickets be limited to two persons at
each theatre.
"The general effect of picketing is
to reduce patronage" said the court
in ruling that this in itself is not un-
lawful.
81 cannot find any element Of
threat or coercion in anything the de-
PENDANTS said or did" declared the
court.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

"The council holds that the action
of these employing interests is indie
fensible both from an ethical and
economic point of view.
Buying Power Must Be Developed
Everyone knows that what we
need is restoration of buying power
and the preservation of the American
standard of living. Apparently, those
employers who would attempt to en-
force reductions in wages think only
in terms of increased production. How
they expect to market goods produced
when they lessen or destroy the al
ready limited purchasing power of
millions of people has not yet been
explained. What the country needs is
the development of buying power, not
productive power. The executive COM
mittee of the American Federation of
Labor is of the opinion that the Sc
rious unemployment situation which
uOW plCNallo Idiio lOI vi coIlS Solioio-
GRAFTON and drastic action. 1t firmly
believes that the wage cutting policy
urged by certain banking interests
and certain employers should be
effectively stopped
GAS usual labor must be depended
upon to save the situation and pre-
vent the further imposition of injus-
tice. For this reason the executive
council calls upon labor, organized
and unorganized, to resist wage re-
ductions. The executive council pro-
poses to appeal to the workers to
stand firmly in opposition to wage
reductions. The council will urge
working men and women, both organ
lied and unorganized, to resist to the
fullest extent any and all attempts
to reduce wages and lower American
living standards. In urging that
workers take this position the coun-
Gil is inspired by firm conviction
that it is only step from reductions
in wages to continuous, permanent
unemployment"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
Miners Slowly Starving
In Alabama Coal Fields
Delegation of Unemployed Makes Plea for Help Telling Of
Terrible Plight of Many Thousands Thrown Out of
Work by Closing of Mines-Shutdowns Deprive Rail
road Men and Others of Job.

being thrown to chickens in the yard.
A graphic account was given by one
of the miners of how he had kept his
family from starvation on $3.50 per
week for two years. He said, 81 have
tried to figure out some way of
getting through, and keeping honest,
but / don't know of any,"
Pellagra and tuberculosis are one
grave result of the terrible conditions
in the mining districts. Medical men
say that undernourishment of chill
dren and grown people is followed by
attacks of these two dread diseases,
and it is more prevalent now than for
many years. Food is the principal
topic of conversation. Where and how
to get it occupies the minds and at
tention of nearly everyone. Clothing
seems secondary; in fact shoes are a
luxury that cannot be afforded, as
some of the children are barefooted
all the time. Corn meal and plain
side bacon, in many cases corn meal
bread and water, with little lard,
is the staple diet.
Collection Taken Up
AS a result of the visit to the
county board of commissioners a col
lection was taken up, the county
board giving one hundred dollars. At
torney Mathews gave $40 and Con-
gresham George Huddleston, who ap-
peared with the delegation, gave $40.
A total of $155 was raised, which was
turned over to the Red Cross to buy
food for these workers. Under the
law the board of commissioners were
unable to do anything for them in the
way of work, as the money available
was budgeted, and as revenues had
greatly decreased it was necessary to
retrench in every line.
Conditions such as above pictured
prevail all through the mining dis
tricts of this state Miners are slowly
starving, and hardships and privation
amounting to practical starvation
prevail everywhere.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
Bankers Violate Pledge
To President is Charge
Situation Critical and Drastic Action is Required to Up
hold Purchasing Power of Nation, Executive Council
Declares in Stirring Call to Arms.

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-A call
to all American wage earners to "re-
sist to the fullest extent" the wage
reduction campaign of big bankers
was issued here this week by the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor.
No such battle cry has been sound
ed since the days Immediately after
the war, when a postwar wage cut
ting fever attacked employers.
The council points out that it is
"only a step from reductions in
wages to continuous, permanent un-
employment" and it declares that
what the country needs is buying
power, not productive power.
Declaration Emphatic Call to Arms
The councils declaration is clearly
a call to arms of the most emphatic,
drastic nature, clearly joining the
issue of maintenance of American
living standards. Big bankers are
squarely accused of playing false to
promises made in the presidents con-
ference on unemployment.
''The executive council, in giving
consideration to number of admin
istrative problems, says the official
text of the declaration, gave special
attention to the unemployment stu
ton and to the attempt which appar-
emily certain banking interests and
certain employers are making to
bring about a general reduction in
wages. Obviously, the situation is Sc
rious. Unemployment has steadily in
creased. The stress of almost two
years of increasing unemployment is
being more keenly felt. Suffering and
distress prevails while social unrest
is steadily increasing. There are
strong indications that we are facing
third winter of distressing unem-
ployment.
Assault on Purchasing Power
Notwithstanding this loss of earn
ing power on the part of millions of
working men and women, number
of employers are attempting to fur
ther reduce the purchasing power of
the masses of the people through the
imposition of wage reductions. The
Goodyear and Goodrich tire COM
panies have announced substantial
reductions in wages. This signifi-
cant fact related to this proposed
reduction in wages is that automo-
bile and automobile tire manufacture
ing industries must depend upon a
high purchasing power on the part
of the masses of the people if mar
ket is to be found for their products.
How these industries can find mar
ket for their products if the buying
power of the people is still further
lowered is difficult to understand.
"The council believes that a wage
cutting policy will positively contrib
ute toward a continuation of the ex-
listing unemployment situation. The
policy pursued by certain banking in
terests and employers of labor in at
tempting to enforce reductions in
wages constitutes a public violation
of the understanding reached at the
presidents conference.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
BY J. B. WOOD

Birmingham, Ala. (ILNS)-As a
result of the unemployment situation
in Alabama, thousands of miners are
almost absolutely unemployed in the
mines of the Birmingham district,
and while few of them are given
one or two days work week, it is
. insufficient to even feed the women
and children who are suffering for
the commonest necessities of life.
A delegation of about twenty
miners from the northern section of
jefferson county appeared before the
board of county commissioners and
depicted the terrible conditions under
which they are existing. These min
ers had been employed by one of the
coal operators, and given one or two
days per week until the company was
forced to suspend operations.
The delegation appealed to the
county commissioners for work of any
kind to enable them to feed their
hungry wives and children. The
county board was asked to provide
work on road building, repairs, or
any sort of work. 1t was stated by
the leaders Of the delegation that
they had been given two or three days
work a week for the past two years,
and had been existing on what they
earned, but that the company had
been forced to shut down the mines
for lack of business, and they were
absolutely without work and food of
the commonest sort.
Can't Live on Hope
1t was said that the local Red Cross
had given some relief, but not enough.
Garden seeds had been distributed to
some of the miners, but as one speak
er expressed it, "We can't live on the
hopes of having turnip greens some
day. We don't want pie and steak,
we want jobs to earn money for
little meal and lard"
1t was asserted that daughter OF
one of the miners had asked for feed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
UNIONS SPURN
PAY REDUCTIONS
Organized Workers Ada
mant in Refusal to Accept
2O% Cut Proposed by En-
plOyers' Association.

Indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)-Arbi-
tration advances made by the Asso-
ciated Construction Employers have
been spurned by various labor crafts
in this city which do not have to deal
directly with this group and which
have begun wage scale conferences
with employing master craftsmen
directly.
Labor groups are adamant in their
refusal to accept the 20 per cent re-
duction in wages proposed by the
association, and even the four groups
which must deal directly with the or
ganization have signified their refusal
to accept the reduction. The iron
workers. cement finishers, carpenters
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

and Tennessee; Lawrence Duryear,
national representative of the union,
and Peter Campbell, representing the
Kentucky State Federation of Labor,
met with Russell o. Miller and Cor
bett L. Gullett, representatives of the
governor, and signed the following
agreement:
In the interests of citizens of Har-
Ian and Bell counties, we hereby re-
quest that Gov. Sampson send suffi-
cient soldiers to these counties to
preserve order.
"We also desire and insist that no
transportation of outside or foreign
labor be sent into Harlan and Bell
counties while the troops are in the
field, and for the duration of martial
law
"The miners of these counties are
without food and shelter, and some
arrangement will have to be made to
take care of the situation.
AiiS iiiiAioio haNS Iile AlSHt VI iISt
assemblage and the right to join and
solicit members for their organization
and we agree that all meetings shall
be held in the daytime. We agree that
all mine guards be disarmed and their
commissions revoked. We, the under
signed, agree to cooperate in the
fullest extent to bring about a settle
ment of these conditions at the
earliest possible time"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
Labor Injunction Plan
Not Written Into Law

Lansing, Mich.-Anti-union inter-
ests in this state failed to write a
regulation labor injunction into the
Michigan criminal code.
Picketing would be outlawed and
any attempt to influence others not to
patronize or trade with an unfair en-
ployer would be classed as mis-
demeanor.
The proposal sounds like the out
burst of labor injunction judge. The
only difference would be that if the
measure was written into law a de-
nial of fundamental rights would be
legalized and a jury would convict
instead of an equity court.
The judiciary committee of the
senate rejected the proposal.
Work divided is in that manner
hortened.-Martial.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22

Workers of America. The results of
this plan are being seen in the lower
ing of production costs and the main
tenance of the wages of skilled work
ers who are the highest paid in any
mill of the kind.
The treasurer, Ernest N. Hood, is
an advocate of nationwide 48-hour
week. This, he believes, could serve
as a basis for activity to further les
sen the number of working hours
which would be a means of meeting
the changed conditions which are the
result of tremendous progress in ma
chine efficiency, and would help pre-
vent unemployment in the future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
Resist Pay Reductions "7o the
Utmost" is A. F. L. Battle Call
To All American Wage Workers

and hosting engineers are the crafts
directly affected.
Officials say that in the past the
craftsmen have met directly with the
employers and have made their wage
agreements in that manner. The AS
sociated Employers is a comparatively
new organization, and has attempted
to set aside this custom and make the
agreements directly with the crafts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
IDLE INSURANCE
LOOMS

Washinfton.-If men are not put to
work, unemployment insurance in
some form is inevitable, declared
Dean Wallace B. Donham, of Har-
ward University, at the annual meet
ing of the International Chamber of
Commerce.
Unemployment of millions of men
as a result of failure to control the
effects of machinery and mass pro-
duction is challenge to western
civilization, he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
RESIST WAGE CUTS

Allentown, Pa.-More than a score
of silk mills in this area are strike
bound because workers refuse to ac-
cept wage cuts. The strike is the
first large disturbance of major i'm
portance in this city for So years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-05-22
STATE COMPENSATION LOST

Boston.-Organized labor lost its
fight in the state legislature to have
Massachusetts set up a state work
mems compensation fund. Private in
surance companies were massed
against the plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
BISHOP TO SPEAK
AT j. OF M. RITES
Mcdowell of Methodist EpiS-
CopaI Church to Address An
nuaI Religious Exercises.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpdbCn 10 Inc OtaIs
COLLEGE PARK, Md, March H.
Bishop William F. Mcdowell of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Wash
ington will speak tomorrow morning at
11:15 o'clock at the closing services of
the annual religious exercises being held
at the University of Maryland. The
exercises are being neld in Ritchie
Gymnasium
DR.. Henry H. Crane, pastor of the
Elm Park Methodist Church of Scran-
ton, Pa, spoke twice at the opening
day exercises yesterday, in the after
noon and evening, and was to continue
his talks today.
There are hundred mental and
moral towards TO one physical coward,
DR.. Crane declared in the course of his
addresses yesterday.
DR.. Crane named right thinking, right
living, right dealing and right belief
as the four fundamentals to be fol-
lowed if the right kind of life is to
be led.
"A person who continually thinks
wrong things eventually will commit
wrong deeds, and practically all our
wrong acts have grown out of state
of mind that may have long preceded
the actual happening" he asserted
He declared that animositieS, individ-
ual and national, were the direct result
of inability to think and reason things
out and to deal fairly and that war was
an insult to intelligence.
DR.. RAYMOND Allen Pearson, president
of the university. in introducing DR..
Crane brought out that the visitor was
an aIl-American basket ball player, a
tennis star and foot ball manager dur
ing his college days.
Rev. Herman Mckay, pastor of Union
Methodist Episcopal Church of Wash
ington; Rev. Ronalds Taylor, rector of
ST. Andrews Episcopal Church of Col
lege Park; Rev. G. I. Flory, pastor Of
the Hyattsville Methodist Episcopal
Church; Rev. B. A. Matzen, pastor of
Berwyn Presbyterian Church; Rev. B.
P. Robertson, pastor of the Hyattsville
Baptist Church. and Rev. S. H. Korn-
mann, pastor of ST. Stephens Evangeli-
cal Church of Hyattsville, assisted in
the services.
Music for all of the gatherings was
furnished by the University of Mary
land Student Orchestra.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-17
VET WINS CASE

The Veterans Bureau lost another
case today when jury in Circuit Di-
vision /, before Justice Stafford. rem
dered verdict for compensation in
favor of John H. Laird, jr., now resid-
ing in Kankakee. III. The jury de-
liberated less than half an hour, al
though the trial had occupied week.
Laird was in the 77th Field Artillery
and was hurt when horse was shot
under him during the Meuse- Argonne
offensive and he was rendered uncon-
scious by the shell explosion. He had
entered the Army from Vandalia, MO.
Attorneys Robert H. Mcneil and
Warren z. Miller appeared for the
veteran.