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The Kusko times., 1932-09-17
FLAT AND IDITAROD

FLAT. Sept. 29.-The Sea Wolf ar- rived wikh the last mail of the sea- son, about forty sacks. rOn rising water if made fast trip from Holy Cross
 The weather n the Flat district during the past few days has been like winter, with about two or three inches of new snow on the ground and falling temperatures. Miners are coming Tn fast.
 He (as his wife is packmg): T don't think you ought to wear that bathing suit, Helen.''
 She: But, dear, I have to-you know how strict they are at the bearhesA"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16

but under the law can do nothing
about the situation.
At this time the Eisner plant has
$4,000 veterans administration
contract to supply some 65 hospitals
and soldiers home. 1t has contract
to make 10000 army breeches at sc
cents a pair and 10000 coats at $1.63
each, the total for the contract being
S24,732.
A campaign is being waged to COM
pei the government to cease doing
any of it's own work, which would
throw all army clothing contracts into
the market subject to such conditions
as those existing in the Eisner plant.
Sigmund Eisner is reputed to have be-
come extremely wealthy as the result
of repeated contracts for army uni
forms and other clothing supplies.
There is a possibility that efforts
may be made to enact legislation stip-
ulating conditions that may be in
cluded in contracts in order to force
the payment of better wages. Un-
ionization cannot be compelled by law
and contracts must be let to the low
est bidder, but conditions can be stip-
ulated that will prevent sweatshop
wages, as has been done in the emer-
gency relief act, labor representa-
tives point out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
Unparalleled Opportunity For
Vast Rebuilding Is Just Ahead
Great Obstacles to Regeneration Declared Being Moved
Out of Pathway, While Huge Enterprises in Building
and Manufacturing Await Courage Recovery Signs
Called Evident

outgrown factory plants, which should
have been torn down years and years
ago, are still found at every turn
There is no overbuilt condition; there
are not too many houses, stores,
schools or churches.
Accumulation of Rebuilding
The railroads after two years of
inactivity have an accumulation of re-
building and rehabilitation on their
hands. The manufacturer who is
wide-awake enough to replace his OBJ
solete plant has large opportunity
and market before him; if he waits,
he will have largely missed his
chance.
Quality is just as great a factor
in goods today as it was before the
depression. Many firms that slashed
wages are trying to sell at low prices
to attract buyers with reduced in
comes, and are bringing throat
competition into the situation. The
markets have quantities of cheap and
shoddy goods, but there is probably
a lot of grief in store for these prod
ucts.
Good prices based on good qualities
can be obtained today, because the
country is full of sound and legitimate
firms anxious to perform good work
at prices that are the lowest consist
ent with quality.
High Quality Today's Need
Business and industry should avoid
settling down to mere mass produc-
tion, and turn it's attention to goods
of quality and measure supply by
demand. There is every indication
that the day of mere mass production
is gone from American industry and
will not return. Business men of con-
structive foresight have learned well
its ruinous lesson of depression and
economic breakdown.
People should be put to work and
at wages at which they can maintain
their standards of living. Progressive
towns and cities all over the country
could realize this, and are taking ad-
vantage of the large opportunity in
the business and industrial field, and
to march in the front rank of recov-
cry. And recovery is much nearer
than a great many people seem to
realize.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16

Washington, D. C. ILNS)-Wets
have been sweeping the political
boards with broom that has left
few dry candidates in the ring, among
those who are now members of con-
gress and who have sought re-elec-
ton.
Labor's national committee for
modification of the Volstead act has
been campaigning hard against dry
congressman who have sought re-
election. 1t has laid plans for con-
tinuance of strenuous campaign ac-
tivities until the last vote is counted.
Meanwhile it is counting the drys that
fall.
Thus far only nine wet members of
the present congress have been de-
feated and none are known to have
been replaced by dry candidates.
However, % drys have been defeated
in primary election campaigns. In
some of the districts nomination is
the equivalent of election and it is al
ready possible to count definitely a
marked shift of power in the next
congress.
Lame Ducks" Will Shift
More than that, labor's committee,
in the opinion of its officers, can
count on many changes in the "lame
duck" session, for hold-over congress-
men and "lame ducks" alike will be
inclined to listen to the verdict of the
electorate Moreover, after the cleo
tion they will be warranted in stand
ing on the 1882 platforms, which al
low members of both parties to rad
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
Labor Day Finds Fl I Trade Unions
Rallied to Fight For Cure
Depression Is Held Needless in Coming Era-Meetings
Throughout Nation View Unemployment Peak AS
Demanding Immediate Action-Hope in Ascendancy.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-With
Labor Day once more written into
history, "the tumult and the shout
ing" all over, trade union officials are
taking stock of the coming fall.
Labor Day celebrations the country
over took on new spirit, reports
here show. There was sharp and
often bitter appraisal of industrial
conditions, sprinkled with generous
hopes for immediate improvement.
Trade union leaders, through the
United States and Canada, delivered
addresses, many having radio hook
ups.
Leading the hosts of labor, Presi-
dent William Green, Of the A. F. of
L., expressed the conviction that un-
less there is immediate large-scale re-
covery in employment, the winter,
with double last years unemployed,
will be one of unexampled suffering
on every hand.
Factors for Improvement
Several factors are looked to for
new employment. One is the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, with
its ability to at once finance self
liquidating projects that may furnish
on-the-job work for 100000 and for
more than that number in manufac-
turing and supply industries. An
other is the presidents conference
committee, led by Walter C. Teagle,
for the shorter work week. Numbers
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
Drys Go Out in Flood
OF Wet Primary Votes

Twenty Eight Defeated Thus Far, Marking Wide Change
in Next Congress-Lame Duck Session to See Switch
of Votes Result Of Electoral Decisions Platforms
and Conditions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
CANADA LINKED TO
U. S. in FORTUNES

Toronto, Can. (ILNS)-American
indastrialists, crossing the line with
great army of branch plants, car
ried to Canada the labor policies Of
the United States, declared John P.
Frey, A. F. of L. metal trades de-
partment, secretarytreasurer, in a
Labor Day address here, dealing with
the international relationships of the
two countries.
"The flow of travel between the two
countries, the flow of capital, the es-
tablishing of American branch plants
in Canada, the contact between the
bankers Of the two countries, the in
PRODUCTION of similar methods and
processes in agriculture and manufac-
turing, the similarity in industrial
policy, the employing attitude towards
labor" says Frey, "has made it more
and more necessary that the workmen
of both countries facing similar prob
lens, should strengthen their inter-
national trade unions.
"In large measure the financial,
commercial and industrial problems
of both countries have a similar char
acter and entail similar results. No
major problems affecting the wage
earners of one country can develop
without vitally affecting the other.
"Both countries at one time opened
their doors to indiscriminate immigra-
ton. Both offered inducements to i'm
migrants, and this policy was the re-
suit of similar purpose. Both coun-
tries have learned the common lesson
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16

that no immigration policy is sound
which permits immigrants to arrive
at periods when the workmen already
here are unemployed in large num-
bers. Both have learned that no i'm
migration policy is industrially, So
cially or politically safe which per-
mits the general instrusion of the less
assimilable races with their lower
standards of living, and the difficulty
they experience in abandoning the
traditions, antagonisms, customs
and viewpoints they have inherited.
"The prosperity or depression ex-
isting in one country, Immediately re-
fleets itself across the international
boundary line When serious unem-
ployment exists on one side, it is cer-
tain to intrude it's baleful influence
upon the other.
"In common, both countries enjoyed
a few years of hectic prosperity since
the World War. At present both are
experiencing far-reaching suffering
because of an unprecedented depres-
sion.
"The internal causes for this de-
preston are largely identical. 1t is
the result of practically the same in
dustrial and financial policies. In one
respect you have Jared better. Your
banking system has proven the firmer
foundation upon which it rested. Your
savings have not vanished because of
bank failures. But the business
stagnation, with the industrial, social
and POLITICAL dangers involved, are af-
fecting both nations alike"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
Jobless Storm Philadelphia
Unemployment Relief Office

Observation-Disclosures of men
men and women, many of them carry
ing children, crowded the rooms and
jammed the sidewalks around the ap-
plication headquarters of the Phila-
delphia county emergency relief COM
mittee when the headquarters were
opened to take applications under the
new state fund for the relief of the
jobless.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
WAGNER ASKS
Why Mills Hold Back Big
Work Program

New York City (ILNS)-Undue de-
lay in putting a 1922, 100000 gov
ernment building program into action
is charged by United States Senator
Robert F. Wagner in letter to Sec
retary of the Treasury Ogden Mills
at Washington. Senator Wagner
wrote:
"Under date of July 80 ! inquired
of you concerning the progress made
under the relief and construction act
in making employment available by
means of it's 332,000,0O0 federal
construction program. / addressed
similar inquiries to the other execu-
tive officers who are charged under
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
STARVATION
Wages Paid Makers of US.
Army Uniforms

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-While
the emergency relief act specifies the
30-hour week and road work must be
paid for at not less than 80 cents an
hour, army uniforms and pajamas for
hospitalized soldiers are being made
at wages that run as low as 1896
week, and range on up to $13, ac-
cording to pay slips submitted to the
war department here
The Sigmund Eisner plant at Red
Bank, N j., has the contract under
which these wages are paid. Active
management of the plant is said to
be in the hands of a son, Benjamin
Eisner.
The Eisner plant is one of the
largest uniform factories in the coun-
try. Most of the war uniforms were
made by Eisner and contracts have
been going to Eisner ever since. AS
sistant Secretary of War Payne says
the war department frowns upon
sweatshop conditions and low wages,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
American Labor in Fighting
Spirit, Franklin Declares

Newcastle, Eng. A. Franklin,
fraternal delegate Of the American
Federation of Labor to the British
Trades Union Congress, told the con-
gress that although the United States
probably was suffering more severely
from unemployment than Great Brit
ain, the American labor movement
was not discouraged and would con-
tinue it's fight against the imposition
Of unfair conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
BY R. C. CLARKE


Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Work
in vast quantities is waiting to be
done in this country, and business and
industry have an opportunity now to
go ahead with reasonable certainty
and assurance and regain momentum.
The country is in need of manufactur-
ed goods and the people are in need
of work.
Everywhere business and industrial
leaders have an unparalleled oppor-
tunity to take up their tasks and go
ahead with them. They have had
ample time to look over their field
and map their course The effects of
depression can be removed now as
easily as they can at any time in the
future.
Stocks of goods and the supply of
merchandise are at the lowest ebb
they have been in years. Goods are
moving slowly only because of reduc-
ed buying power, and with the credit
resources that have become available
during the summer, nothing is to be
gained by undue hesitancy and wait
ing other than a continuation of the
sweeping losses that have been suf-
fered through lost wages, reduced
buying power and lessened consump-
tion of goods.
Obstacles Are Disappearing
Business men have been standing
still in the face of what they describ-
ed as appalling handicaps-scarcity
of capital, failing banks, uncertainty
in legislation, soaring taxes, and sur
pluses Of unconsumed goods.
Most Of these obstacles, with the
exception of high taxes, have largely
disappeared Bank failures have be-
come inconsequential; no legislation
is in immediate prospect which may
cause worry to any industrial leader.
The surpluses of goods no longer
exist. Banks have adequate funds to
assist industry to a start in every
producing center. People are in need
of supplies which they will buy just
as soon as they have the resources
in wages to do so.
New times are ahead, but how
quickly business and industry regain
momentum will be gagged largely by
the energy and virility of the men
at the helm. Some of today's prob
lens will quickly vanish when the
minds of the people and the credit
resources are focused upon creative
activities and there is will and de-
termination to bring things back to a
normal balance.
The road along which industry will
go ahead is as old as industry itself,
but it is doubtful if the country will
return to exactly the same conditions
as before the depression. That has
not been the history of other depres-
sions. The country will face new con-
ditions, new demands and new oppor-
tunities.
In looking over the country there
are to be seen everywhere in large
and small towns developments that
remain to be swept away with the
approach of new conditions. Ancient
pavements, obsolete buildings, and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16

of private organizations are at work,
also, including the New York Adver-
tising Club, with it's labor-manage-
ment proposal, endorsed by labor.
For the most part Labor Day cele-
brations took on the grimness Of de-
termination that relief must come.
And there were plenty of cor else"
predictions. workers are becoming
realists," said Secretary Frank Nor
rison. "They no longer accept the
doctrine that man is not responsible
for these conditions"
Hope Through Clouds
There was general fervor, for or
ganizing effort in almost all Labor
Day addresses.
1t was the darkest Labor Day in
decades, perhaps the darkest of all,
with unemployment at it's peak and
with remedial measures not yet reg
istering their effect in definite terms
of jobs.
But fair summary would be that,
despite the dark hour of the present
day, the movement looked hopefully
forward from it's Labor Day vantage
point, determined that every possible
contribution of vision, wisdom and de-
termination must be made by labor
toward sound recovery. This, it was
said repeatedly, must be not mere
palliative; it must be recovery such
as will insure against repetition of
this depression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
Work in Vast Quantities
Waits For The ReuiuaL

that law with the execution of some
portion of the construction program.
'Under date of August you very
kindly wrote me giving me your as
surance that there would be no undue
delay in the determination of the
places where construction was recon-
mended and in the certifcation re-
specting availability of funds for the
prosecution of the program. / ac-
cepted your assurance.
Work Not Begun
"To date, however, as far as | am
aware, work has not yet begun upon
the projects enumerated in the relief
and construction act. Forty-two days
have already elapsed since congress
passed that law. 1t seems to me that
undue delay has already been suf-
fered.
"The delay in your certifying that
funds are available or can be obtained
on reasonable terms is holding up not
only that portion of the program
which is in the control of the secre-
tary of the treasury, but also prof.
ects in charge of other departments,
altogether to a total of $186,000, 900,
which would go long way in foster
ing revival of business and in pro-
viding the desperately needed employ
ment. To illustrate what l have in
mind | quote from letter from the
secretary of war wherein he says:
The war department is prepared to
approve the actual allotment of funds
to river and harbor and food-control
projects as soon as the decision is
made as to the availability of the
funds
Waiting for Mills
''In my judgment the departments
are in error in holding up the work
until the secretary of the treasury
issues his certificate. The plain mean
ing of the law is that the work shall
go forward unless the secretary of
the treasury certifies to the president
that the amount necessary for such
expenditure is not available and can
not be obtained upon reasonable
terms Be that as it may, it is none
theless a fact that the departments
are waiting for the certificate of the
secretary of the treasury at time
when the utmost speed in launching
the work is vital.
"The American people today are in
a mood which is very conductive to a
return of confidence. The renewal of
confidence, however, can only be safe
ly built upon a solid foundation of en-
ployment. If the employment oppor-
tunities provided by the belief and
construction act are frittered away
you will find, fear, that the present
signs of recovery may prove de-
lusion.
Assurances Were Given
"Those of us who had part in the
drafting of the relief and construc-
tion act were given every assurance
by the executive departments that the
designated projects were ready to go
forward Additional means for ex-
pedition were provided in the act it
self, all for the single purpose of
giving an immediate impulse to busi-
ness and employment. therefore
take the liberty to urge you to take
immediate action to release the con-
struction program so that it may per-
form the salutary work for which it
was intended"
Mills Says mo Cash"
Secretary Mills has responded that
the program will be launched as soon
as the money can be found. He said
that estimates have been requested
from the departments which are to
Continued in next column)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
WHAT NEXT?

There's now a new chemical treat
ment to render bituminous coal SCOT
less, dustless, smokeless, clinkerless,
yielding more heat units per dollar
than coke.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16
MUSICIANS REJECT CUT

Edward Canavan, president Of Lo-
cal 802, American Federation of Mu-
sicians, announced the union had re-
jected proposal of the League of
New York Theatres in the pay scale.
The contract has another year to run.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-16

ically shift their position. Actually,
labor holds, the platforms will COM
mand a shift of position, even in the
'lame duck" session
In view of the fact that action on
modification, or on repeal, must come
from congress the congressional
situation is all-important. But la
boris committee believes it can count
now the defeat of enough unyielding
drys to bring about modification, more
than possibly in the 'lame duck" ses-
sion this winter.
Fastening to Safety
Labor's committee on modification
frankly comedies that some of the
drys who have lost have been replaced
on the ticket by other drys, but
careful check of nominated candi-
dates shows this to have been the case
in only scattering few districts.
Candidates are in most cases hasten
ing to safety in their party platforms
and they are likewise fastening to
put themselves in line with popular
feeling on the subject.
Another factor counted on for as
sistance in the modification move this
winter is the economic situation.
There is believed to be every prospect
of another treasury deficit and con-
sequent tremendous pressure upon
for new sources Of revenue.
The inclination to turn toward the
revenue waiting to be reaped through
will, it is expected, be
much greater in the next session.
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Continued from preceding column)
undertake building work and that as
soon as they are received ruling
will be made. He said that, as he
reads the law, his approval is neces-
sary, which centers responsibility
definitely, when the estimates reach
his office.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21

Bring your stock to ,Westport.
The shipping association ships
every Monday.
Miss Alice Hoth, Is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Kenneth Sheets.
Leo Lardy was business caller
here Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Frederick en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Buch-
holz. Mrs. e. H. Pfeninger Mrs. A.
Hermanson and Vera, and Mrs. L.
]. Hamilton Sunday evening.
Mrs. Kenneth Sheets and Dorlin,
and Miss Alice Hoth, spent Sunday
at the Hoth home.
Mr.. Pickett, Stuart and Kata.
crime, Adrain and Vera Herman
sc1, and Gordon Pfeninger attend,
ell the basket ball game between
Willard and Grey Eagle last Friday
night.
Billy Simpson is able to be up
town again after being laid up for
=. week with sore foot.
Misses Emma Hines and Elsie
Parker spent Sunday at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Schaub called
on Mrs. Prosser, Mrs. WEIGH and
Mrs. Hines Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. M. E. Hines was on the sick
list last week.
Eldoris Hoth spent Wednesday
right with Mable Close.
Glen Hamilton spent Tuesday
night at Lee Hamiltons.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
Gamble Stores Report
Increased Sales for 1881
Strong Newspaper Advertising
Campaign Credited With Much
of This Years Success

Gamble Stores, operating l62
Auto Supply, Radio and Sporting
Goods stores in the nine North and
Middle Western states report ex-
ceptional progress during the year
of 1881. Dividend checks totaling
S142,O 900 were mailed out on jan
uary LIST to over 1000 stockholders
who live in the communities served
by Gamble Stores.
These dividends included the
regular quarterly dividend Of Gam
ble's TO Preferred Stock also a
Common Stock, dividend Of $1.60
per share. This Common Stock
dividend in addition to $50 per
share paid last July bringing the
total for the year to 500 per share,
as against $1.40 per share paid in
1880.
Officials Of the company state
that this remarkable record is due
to the aggressive sales campaign
carried on during 1881, a strong
newspaper advertising campaign
and a sincere effort to offer mer-
chandise at the lowest possible
prices, attracting a great many
new customers.
Plans for next year include a
moderate expansion program de-