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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04

| ly. On farms, the number laid off by
the first of November was less than
usual. Thus the total increase in un-
employment by the first part of No
| vember was less than usual Thus
the total increase in unemployment
by the first part of November was
less than expected by about 100000
persons.
"This check in industrial unempIoy-
| ment may be due largely to efforts to
keep men at work. 1t is worthy of
note, especially since trade and indus
try were declining during October,
that it has been possible to prevent
employment from declining corre-
spondingly. Since our figures are
based on reports from trade unions,
this has doubtless been due also to
the efforts of unions to provide for
their members. There have been only
| five other months since October, 1929,
when unemployment did not increase
Il
more than normally.
Idle May Reach 100000
Although this brightens the future
outlook little, it does not alter the
fact that the present unemployment
crisis will far exceed any we have ex-
perienced in this or any other depres-
sion in recent years. Already there
are 100000 out of work. Unemploy-
men in industry increased by 10000
last month, and 100000 were laid off
on farms (the usual November layoff
is 480,000).
"If unemployment increases as
much in the next two months as it
did in the years 1923 and 1929, on the
average, we may expect from 100000
to 100000 to be laid off from farms
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
new FILM
Shows How Machines Take
Jobs of Women Workers

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Eco-
nomic planning as an important fac
tor in keeping chronological changes
in industry from adding to unem-
ployment, is advocated in a new mo-
ton picture just released by the
Women's Bureau, U. S. Department
of Labor.
The film, entitled '4Behind the
Scenes in the Machine Age" shows
how modern machines are taking the
place of human ands and turning out
more goods in the making of many
everyday things, such as silk hose,
books, cigars, automobile cushions,
sterile bandages, and so on.
In a series of factory scenes with
the regular women employees busy at
their jobs, contrast is given between
hand and machine processes for pro-
ducing the same article. Definite
facts and figures tell the story OF
how machines increase output and
decrease the number of workers.
For example, IL girls formerly
packed $1,000 boxes of cereal day;
a machine with five girls now turns
out the same amount. In gathering
pages for books 20 girls used to do
by hand what six girls with the help
of machine produce today. In cigar
making a machine with four opera
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04

the trial, such a trial cannot be had
for at least eight weeks. In the mean
while, our local must stand by, with
our hands tied by this iniquitous
judicial order, while the plaintiff is
deliberately destroying our union.
Famous Decision Ignored
"When the court of appeals wrote
its famous decision in the Exchange
Bakery and Restaurant VS.. Rifkin
case, it was heralded as decisive
victory for labor throughout the
United States. What good, however,
is this decision of the court of ap-
peals if it is not followed by the lower
courts? Apparently, all that it is
now necessary for an employer to do,
to get an injunction against labor
union, is to concoct few lies in the
form of an affidavit, get the right
kind of a lawyer, who, in turn, has
convenient judge pass upon the appli-
cation, and sweeping injunction fol-
lows.
Frankly, we have done all that we,
as a single labor union, can do. The
principle involved in the case is one
SO importan t that organized labor
must take it up and make an issue
of it"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04

tors takes the place of Is hand
workers.
Animated cartoons form an effec-
tive feature of the film and reveal va
rious conditions in industry making
for human waste, with it's widespread
effects. Such causes of waste as hunt
ing for jobs, occasional misfits,
long hours, low wages, poor working
conditions, unemployment, industrial
injuries and diseases are pointed out
as weak links in the industrial chain.
The efficacy of such measures as q
short workday, living wage, we'll
ventilated workrooms, good lighting
and seating, sanitary drinking and
washing facilities, and safety-first
equipment and program in maintain
ing the health and efficiency of women
workers is interestingly portrayed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
Red Plans to Capitalize
Negro Discomfort Barred
Secretary of National Association for Advancement of
Colored People Reveals How Communists Take Ad-
vantage of Scottsboro Case to Bamboozle Negroes
Into Embracing Revolutionary Doctrines

New York City (ILNS)-Carefully
laid plans by the communists to capi-
talize negro discomfort in America
are exposed in "The Negro and the
Communists" detailed narrative of
the Scottsboro case, written by Wal
ter White, secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, and published in the
forthcoming December Harper's
Monthly Magazine Mr. White three
times visited Alabama in the course
of organizing the defense for the con-
victed boys.
The article sets forth in narrative
form all the known events Of the
freight train ride in Alabama, during
which fight occurred between white
and colored boys, and following which
nine colored boys were railroaded to
death sentences for alleged criminal
assaults upon two white girls riding
the train in mems clothing.
The mob hysteria surrounding the
trial is described, and the early steps
taken by the N. A. A. c. P. members
and members of the Chattanooga In
terdenominationa Ministers Alliance
to furnish a stop-gap defense at the
first trial.
Reds Capitalize Case
But then, says Mr.. White, with a
blare of trumpets the communists
seized upon the Scottsboro convict
tions." The communist program to
capitalize discomfort among negroes
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
Unemployment May Reach 100000 in January
and Relief Funds Are Totally Inadequate,
President Green Warns

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Re-
ports received from trade unions by
the American Federation of Labor
show that unemployment in industry
has reached new peak, though en-
couragement is seen in the fact that
unemployment in November increased
no more than is usual during this
month.
Trade union weighted figures for
the first part of November show 20
per cent out of work, as compared
with 1913 per cent in January, last
year, the highest unemployment since
last May. The weighted figures are
as follows: August, 1872 per cent out
of work; September, 1914 per cent;
October, 1875 per cent (revised); No
vember preliminary, 20 per cent.
Commenting on the report, Presi-
dent Green, of the A. F. of L., said
that the present unemployment crisis
will far exceed that experienced at
any time in recent years and warned
that relief funds are totally made
quate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04

Lumbering is Finland's most i'm
portant industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
To Discuss Cause of Slump


New York City QLNS)-Econo-
mists, bankers, government officials
and business and industrial leaders
will discuss the causes of the pres
ent world depression with the view
of offering recommendations for the
sterilization of business and industry
through scientific planning, iat the
annual fall meeting of the Taylor So
ciety here, December 2, 8 and d. Hans
Mars, head of the management sec
ton, National Labor Council, Vienna,
Austria, will be one of the interna-
tional groups to address the confer
ence.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04

had been outlined in resolutions il
Moscow in 1928. And the resulting
struggle he calls "the most notable
test of strength to date between those
who seek justice for the negro
through American forms of govern
ment and those who seek to spread
communist propaganda amongAmeri
can negroes"
The ensuing tactics of the commu-
nists, including Misrepresentation OF
the N A. A. c. P. as traitors" anC
sin alliance with the lyncher bosses,
attempts to break up N. A. A. C. P
meetings, and offers of money to ne
gro editors to boost communist meet
ings, are fully recounted
Justice Only Antidote
The article closes with a warning
to America that "there is but one ef-
fective and intelligent way in which
to counteract communist efforts
among negroes, and that is a "dras-
tic revision of the almost chronic
American Indifference to the negros
plight"
"Give him jobs, decent living con-
ditions, and homes," writes Mr.. White
assure him of justice in the courts
and protection of life and property in
Mississippi as well as in New York.
Put an end to fragrant and unchecked
disregard of the negro's constitutional
right to vote. In brief, the only
antidote to the spread among doc
InpIcI i,1ctioo ~
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
Employment on Highways
Reported Well Maintained

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Work-
ers employed on state highways fell
off from $4,000 to 100000 in Octo-
Der, but the decline is seen as un-
usually small in comparison with the
ordinary seasonal decrease, the Pres
ident's Organization for Unemploy-
ment Relief reports.
The report said that the last three
months of the year show sharp drops
in the letting of contracts as we'll as
employment on state highways, but
reports received by the presidents
organization show that the states are
continuing to make contracts and
give employment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
One Encouraging Fact

Zone encouraging fact appears
from our weighted figures: Unem-
ployment in November has increased
no more than is usual at this season,
even in the most prosperous year, y
President Green said. He continued:
"In October also, the increase in in
dustrial unemployment was no more
than seasonal. Thus for two months
in succession it appears that the alb
normal rise of unemployment has
been checked. This is the first time
since February that unemployment
has not increased more than normal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
A. F. Of L. Report Shows Total
OF Unemployed at New Peak

and industries in December and from
100000 to 100000 in January. I'm
less these layoffs can be prevented
by increased efforts to keep men at
work, some 100000 persons will be
out of work by January.
Relief Funds Inadequate
"As yet relief funds at hand are
totally inadequate to meet the need.
Although the community chest drive
has brought in IA per cent more than
year ago, only $36,00O,000 are on
hand, and we are told that 70 per
cent of this will be needed for the
normal expense of the community or
ganizations. Thus only 80 per cent,
or $11, 100000 is available for the un-
employed. Compare this with the Sill
00,000,000 that wage earners have
lost this year. Relief available is only
one one-hundredth of their loss. 1t
is impossible for families to exist on
one one-hundredth of their normal in
come. The result is already manifest
in cases of undernourishment and
starvation in our hospitals, in children
who are born without the energy to
develop into normal human beings" ;"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
Judge Deprives Millinery
Unionists Of Strike Rights
New York City Court Prohibits Picketng of Hat Shops
Teing Hands of Workers in Vital Struggle

New York City (ILNS)-A sweep
ing injunction, which virtually takes
away all rights of trade union in a
strike, has been issued by Supreme
Court Judge John E. Mcclellan
against Millinery Workers Unions "a
and az of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Mil
linery Workers international Union.
In the last 18 months, the millinery
unions here have been forced to call
strikes against number of manufac-
turers who have taken advantage of
the depression to weed out union
workers and conduct "open shops. y
In almost every case, injunctions were
issued, which, while hampering the
unions, permitted them to continue
lawful picketing.
Recently the unions called a strike
against New Yorker Hats, Inc, re-
organization of former union firm,
following systematic discharge of
union workers. The same attorney
who had been successful in obtaining
injunctions for the employers applied
for an injunction in this strike. De-
spite affdavits showing conclusively
that the firm had conspired to dis
charge union help and had broken
every promise made to union officials
and also showing that the union had
never intimidated, threatened or
abused the firms employees, Judge Nc
Geehan granted an injunction pro-
hibiting the unions from picketing the
hat firms two shops.
Union Rights Taken Away
Union attorneys asked the judge to
modify the injunction to permit at
least one picket in front of each shop,
but he denied the request. An appli-
cation was made for stay to the
appellate division, but this was like
wise denied.
Discussing the case, Nathaniel
Spector, manager of Local "a, said:
What is organized labor going to
do about this? What has happened
to our locals can happen to any one of
the thousands of locals here in the
city of New York. While we will
probably be able to win this case on
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-04
WHAT NEXT?

Invention of a device which elm
mates carbon monoxide fumes from
automobile exhausts is announced by
w. Gordon Marsh, of Toronto. Pro-
fessor A. E. Smith, assistant profes-
sor of chemical engineering at the
University of Toronto, after an anal
ysis of a sample taken from car
fitted with the device, reports that
carbon monoxide had been almost
completely eliminated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
Quantities Limited

whom Burbank took in charge as his protege, on his place just south east of here has planted abnormal ly small peach seeds, the discovery and gift of a Fresno well driller.
 The gift pits are about the size of a cherry stone. From it Henderson hopes to develop eventually the peach that was the object of many plant experiments by Burbank.
 Henderson already has many new plant developments to his credit. Among them are several varieties of the hibiscus that will live in a tenn perate climate. One is of the flaming red color that gave the tropical plant its name, the flaming hibiscus. Another Is orchid and a third is a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
Uncle Rays
 Corner
FLAMES. SMOKE AND
 "SMOG"

If a water glass is placed over a small, lighted candle, the flame will go out within a second or so. This points out an important fact. a flame needs gas in order to burn.
 The air contains gas of several kinds, and one kind is oxygen. If all the oxygen is taken from the air around a candle, it will not burn.
 The fact that flame needs a gas to feed on, has led men to find one fairly good method of fighting an oil we'll fire. By placing large bells over the flames, fire-fighters have been able to put out more than one serious fire of that type.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23

You we heard about the takes, lend the wakes Commissioner Jim Phelan has conceived the happy forming walking cub Jim figures that the IT. B. M wouldn't half B. M if he'd only walk instead of ride sedan. Walking, Jim, means health. You sick hobo and all know that hoboes do plenty of walking. healthy look their complexion, red cheeks they And look the malmen the anee milk Why do all the ladies fall in love with milk men And the men? I'll tell It's their complex only walk but they climb stairs advo cate order make walking This club will fill long felt Each member will a eeuod button which will appear these words We Walk. Of when member gets bus train he will have the button and slip his pocket But this matter" Jim looked his watch. It the supper hou With ehy goodbye for which the popular commissioner noted he stepped into his sedan and started for home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
OUR DAILY NEWS LETTER

Hollywood.-There won't be 8 man in "Women Like Men," a pie ture now in production.
 And there will be no cursing, yet it is a story of war. Girls must not forget they are girls. Women Like Men" is based on the experi- ences in the ambulance corps of nine girls. How different from other war pictures; none of the trenzied cursing of soldiers near death; instead, clever repartee and dialogue.
 Here are the nine girls:
 EVELYN BRENT-the lead. A girl who knows what she wants in life and goes after it.
 LILLIAN TASHMAN-the vamp: Ihree divorced husbands at home
 LOUISE FAZENDA-the com edlan: Just girl from Kansas look ing for a love affair in France.
 JUNE CLYDE-the sweet pir,. Dainty and not strong enough to en. joy the hardships of war,
 IRENE RICH-the captain of the group: Capable. ''-o
 TWO TWINS-Girls from New Yet to be chosen.
 SNOOPY-the trouble maker. yet to be chosen.
 SOUIHERN GIRL~just a type: ., The director of the picture is Will nam Beaudine. The company pro. ducing it is Liberty Pictures. Bea,1- dine also is associate producer.
 How I'm going to handle so much temperament, l don't know" Beau aine laughed. "I am hanging up a pig whip on the seat and the first one of those girls who needs it is going to get it."
 He said that not a male face will be seen in Women Like Men n'
 Yet there will be romance: The marching feet belonging to so1diars. hands reaching across No Mans Land.
 think we are going to have d great picture" Beaudine said. 'The pupllc fixes the unusual. The pie lures made with no women in tho cast have been successful. We feel sure this one will, too,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23

range of the earth's gravity. When smoke goes up, it comes down soon- CT or later.
 Smoke does a great deal to bring On rain, for it mixes with water va DOT in the air. Smoke also does much to bring on fogs. In Pittsburgh the people talk about "smog" This is a thick fog, filled with soot. "Smog" also visits other large cities. It is so heavy that one could almost cut it with knife.
 If coal burning increases in amount during the coming years, large cities may become even worse in this respect. Efforts are being made, however, to cut down the smoke evil by using "smoke consum- CTS"
 Another way we may prevent the | air from containing too much | smoke is by the use of cleaner fuels. | Oil is fairly clean fuel; and still better will be the use of electric power for heating as well as light ing. Water power can be used to q much greater extent. for making l electricity.
 Tomorrow - A Little Saturday Talk.
 UNCLE RAY. Organize branch of Uncle Rays Scrapbook Club in your neighbor- hood. For illustrated Directions Leafiet and 1891 Membership Certi- ficate send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Uncle Ray.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
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week days pent up in lath and plas- ter-tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks"
 
 And so it is to this day. Now they are penned in giants of steel and stone. The rigging is gone and now the giant prows of great liners be- come the objects of awe. The very people you are likely to meet few hours later, stepping and showing in subways the very people you will shove off the curbstone later as you hurry through Broadway to q the | ater.
 Yes, for few moments every so often, most New Workers are re- minded that, after all, they are | islanders.
 | GILBERT SWAN,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23

New York.-We who write of a kaleidoscopic New York-a New York of transient fads and foods, of high life and low life, of playwrights and actors and singers and artists and writers, of fame that is born and dies overnight
 We have a way of forgetting the rivers that run to. the sea just out side the islands rim; of forgetting that an island has to be surrounded by water, even as the geography taught us at a very early age.
 And then the Manhattan that was Manhattan comes stepping out of the past, dressed in the architecture of another century.
 Hanover Square. Whitehall and Pearl streets. And what was once Coentis Slip. Ancient slate roofs, appearing picturesquely be- tween modern and unromantic square brick warehouses. The site of Captain Kidd's one- time residence before he left his beautiful wife to venture forth on a London made racket which wound him up in a moose.
 And then, along the cobbled wa terfront, where the shops are for all the world like the country stores of our youths. Shops where you can get anything and everything from a collar button and gum drops. {. And here you'll find the sailors of the world, hastily laying in supplies before taking to the sea again.
 And so to the Battery, which never wants for a crowd. Always, ill weather or fair, tired city dwellers come as near the edge of the water as they may and look hungrily out upon 1t.
 All this occurred to me this cold night, when with pipe and muted radio I turned again to Melville and "Moby Dick" and began to read.
 "Go from Corlears Hook to Coen- tis slip on a dreamy Sabbath after noon, and from there to Whitehall northward. There now is your in- sular city of Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian Isles by coral reefs-commerce surrounds it with your surf. Right and left the srteets take you to the waterfront. Its extreme downtown is the Battery, where that noble mole is washed by the waves, and cooled by breeZes . Look at the crowd of water gaZers there.
 What do you see? Posted like silent sentinels all around the town stand sousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed upon ocean rev. cries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier heads; some looking over the bull warks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging as though trying to get a still better seaward peep.
 But they are all landsmen; of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
LAST NIGHT WITH LORD BYRON
(Said he to me:)

"I come from yon celestial realm of rest, In answer to your spirituallstic quest; But all who've known my fate must quite agree: This whirling rock is abode for me. You press for guiding word or two How can I set down laws never knewt Don't quote me, for authortys not mine; But just for you I'll leave parting line Young man, take my advice, have done with rhymes; They find no place in these-Ah!-gr -grumbllng times In Poesy you can't other labors shirk- If out of funds, you must find other work. E en if, in writing, all you seek IS fame Beware how vulgar critics scathe new name; Oft they belttle true inspired verse When their best efforts damned sight worse. You ask me of the loves had of old I'll answer with question just as bold: Would you divuge the secrets of your heart! If so in Passions pageant, whats YOUR part Lies filled with crushing hatefew friends are true All can't be pleased whatever you may do. List not to sage, or babbling pedagogue; Take Love where CT 'tis found-een in dog,
 Amateur Medium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
I O. i

Judge MeGrath will interested in this The Thieves Market Mexico City become public garden In five centuries the Aztec playground the palace of emperor, Monezuma notorious market place frequented by fences and squad public market It IS the spot where unhappy held prisoner by the Spaniards addressed his infurd people begged submit Cortes
 stone by of his subjects struck him and he died three days m Judge MeGrah will be interested in reading this be- eaus he visited the Thieves Market his trip Mex ico..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23

Cornuoopia cuppngs: To Greta: enjoyed your Thought did extremely we'll with the wordage. gauge tracks and Washington park recalls advance section France during the Frank Greens of Waterbury during composition assuring The old Brass city coming smiling through The Grand bank hustled down Barney terday and whispered something in Bneys Barney wig gd those shoulders of his and wshng Grand Sh-h he had guard the transfer of money from bury Waterbury National And how Barney guard the old coin of the realm.