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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Electrical Workers
Former Official Dead

Boston, Mass. (ILNS)-Peter w.
Collins, former secretary of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, died on April 25 at the age
of Sd. He was born in Chelsea, Mass,
March A, 1878.
Mr. Collins was initiated Septem-
Der 25, 1901, in Local Union No. 103,
international Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, Boston, and has been
a member continuously since that
time. He was elected international
secretary of the l. B. E. w. at the
Louisville convention, September
1905, and served until July, 1912.
He was a brilliant orator and was
known all over the United States for
his gifts as speaker. He was a lee
turer for the Knights of Columbus
and the National Catholic Welfare
Council, and the author of books.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

ment is chiefly caused by undercon-
sumption, and that underconsumption
is caused by low wages. This is an
economic fact, and supplies in all
countries including our own. Con-
sumption must keep pace with pro-
duction or we shall have periodic de-
preston and millions Of jobless idle
workers.
The really effective remedy is
organization. Reducing wages will
not solve the problem now confront
ing us. If we are to return to stabil-
lied permanent prosperity we must
raise wages and reduce working time
Protection of our institutions, eco,
nomic liberty, and justice demand that
industrial workers and their employ
ers must organize and cooperate.
Organize and coordinate before j
is too late!-Cigar Maker.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Senator Wagner Endorses
Unemployment Insurance

Washington.-In an individual re-
port of the special senate committee
to investigate methods to alleviate
unemployment, Senator Wagner, OF
New York, recommended compulsory
unemployment insurance or wage re-
serves to be regulated under state
authority.
Senator Wagner pointed out that
his plan does not mean that the states
must. operate the insurance systems
or even contribute to them, but thai
"the employer is under statutory OBJ
legation to provide insurance or re
serves to protect his employe!
against stated period of unemploy
ment." Under his scheme the fedora
government would contribute by al
lowing employers to deduct from thei
income tax a portion of their pay
ments into the unemployment re
serves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Seats No,U Selling
For 5OO-Mile Race

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. - With
more drivers on hand earlier than
ever before and with race fans pur-
chasing their seats with spirited agil-
ity, there is every indication that the
Twentieth international 500-mile
race at the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way, May 80, will be the most i'm
portant of all the thrilling events in
this spectacular and inspiring classic.
Juan Gaudino, South American
champion, already is here with his
car, spending more time learning the
way around the tricky Speedway
corners than he is learning the Ian
guage of the land. 'If / can win
the race speaking Spanish" he re-
lates through an interpreter, "I'll
spend the prize money in English" !"
Gaudino is very popular with the
American drivers.
Louis Schneider, last years race
winner, is at the track with his Bowes
Seal Fast Special and will make
every attempt to do that which never
before has been done-win two 500
mile races in succession.
Billy Arnold, 1880 American cham
pion, has entered and will have his
car here again this year. He was
leading the race with less than thirty
laps to go last year when an acci-
dent sent him out Of the race.
Several factories are making en-
tries Of teams under their own names
this year.
Railroads are planning excursions
with attractive rates--to Indianap-
oils at race time. Tickets are now
on sale at 444 North Capitol Ave-
nue., Indianapolis, and T. E. "Pop"
Myers, genial general manager Of the
track asserts that mail orders re-
ceive the same prompt attention that
customers receive when they pur-
chase their tickets in person at the
Speedway Office"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
RADICAL JOBLESS
MAKE DEMANDS

Boston.-Approximately 500 unem-
ployed demonstrators from various
sections of Massachusetts marched to
the heavily guarded state house and
sent delegation to confer with Gas
par C. Bacon, president of the state
senate, relative to their request for
the convening of special session of
the legislature to enact unemploy-
ment relief legislation.
Their resolutions prepared for Gov.
Ely asked unemployment insurance
at the expense of the employers and
state government; immediate relief at
the rate of SIS a week, to be paid
pending the passage of the insurance
measures, this money to be raised by
reducing the salaries of all state off
cials to $4,000 a year, by transfer
ring all funds now used for military
and police purposes, and by suspend
J ing payment of state debts to bank.
ers, etc.
The unemployment relief program
also included state construction
program providing for tearing down
all slum dwellings and replacing then
with decent homes to be rented a
low cost, and entirely free to tn,
unemployed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
BANDITS

The cause of organized bands oi
rowing bandits" had its inception ir
perpetual unemployment. We al
know that the present depression and
its millions of unemployed is world.
wide. We read that organized bands
of bandits" are most active in
China. We know that wages in China
are frightfully low, that they are
among the lowest of oriental wages
Unemployment is greatest in low
wage-paying countries, and in many
of them has become permanent fix
ture. These permanently jobless
masses, unable to make a living by
honest toll, become ready recruits for
the rowing band of jobless bandits. ]"
Some writer's who have visited
Mexico in the past make bold to say
that most of the so-called bandit"
gangs of that unhappy country were
such because poverty caused perpet-
ual unemployment.
Everybody knows that unemploy-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
ADVERTISE AGAINST WAR

Bruce Barton, author and advertis
ing man, makes the interesting pro
posal that the United States govern.
ment spend $50,000,000 year to ad
vertise against war. He would make
the fund available by reducing the
total cost of the army and navy
per cent, exclusive of non-miliary
activities in the war department. His
anti-war advertising would appear
largely in American publications, anc
also in the leading daily papers Of
European capitals. The campaign
would attack war and its evils from
every angle. ''Let US advertise this
HE'LL" he says.
Well, why not? AS Mr.. Barton
points out, Americans are long on
talk but short on cash in promoting
peace. Why not spend to promote
peace only a tiny fraction of what
we spend on war, and show some real
earnestness in fighting the hell that
is war?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
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about many things. sometimes pre-
fsundly, sometimes Aippantly,
Sometimes recklessly. .......

Charlie Schwab is the funny face,
for sure.
Here he makes a speech, this rich
fellow does, in which he says what
we need is to get to work and sweat.
Yes, isn't that fine? Isn't Charlie
the wisenheimer
That's all we need--just to get to
work and raise sweat.
Eight millions of Americans would
just like to have the chance to do
that.
Eight millions would like the chance
to raise a sweat and earn some money.
Charlie says that's all they need,
but they KNOW they need it-BUT
FIRST OF ALL THEY HAVE TO
GET THE CHANCE.
They tramp around for months and
they hand Charlie Schwab a sneer as
they say, Yeah, try and get it!
Yes, they need a chance to RAISE a
sweat, but TRY AND GET 1T!
Charlie goes on to say there are
no rich in this country any more, at
all, at all.
What line of tripe!
No rich! No Rockefellers, no Nor
gans, no Kahns, yes, and maybe no
Schwabs?
What is this steel magnate hand
ing us?
Where does bird get off at with
prattle like that?
/ All WE need to do to get rid Of our
troubles is to raise a sweat, and there
are no rich any more?
They have called people crazy for q
lot less than that.
AS the weeks roll by it becomes
clearer and clearer that those who
have financial and industrial power
have no sense. They don't know what
is going on and they don't know wha
is in the wind.
1t requires lot of hunting arount
to find more stupidity than the higl
and mighty ones are showing in thi
crisis.
Put this down: Right now thos
that HAVE are getting more ever,
. day.
The few big ones are getting big
ger The little ones are being washe
out and somebody has to get tina
which is washed out. And they do
Schwab probably was resorting t
bunk, hoping to make the miserabl
ones feel less miserable.
1t doesn't work
j, It's no go.
: We aren't being fooled today a
much as we were being fooled thre
years ago.
There are plenty of men in bu/
ness, industry and finance who Sc
and admit the truth Their number
G grow.
In their midst this Charlie Schwa
! looms up like a jackass and may th
f jackass forgive the comparison.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
WHAT KIND OF LABOR
MOVEMENT7

From time to time big business men
have professed-if not friendship-at
least civic interest in the American
Federation of Labor, it's philosophy,
its methodology, it's aspirations and
aims. Yet to this date, this interest
has never gone beyond professed
status, and in some instances the in
terest has taken on hypocritical air,
inasmuch as big business men have
professed an olive branch in public
and carried on in secret legal, finan-
cial and propaganda drive against the
labor movement and all it stands for
One would think in this time of
unrest that big business men would
take a more thoughtful attitude to-
ward the whole question of industrial
relations. What kind of labor move
ment do they want in this country I?
What do we see? We see wholesale
wage cuts. We see no constructive
effort to create jobs. We see no les
sening of the anti-union activities of
such bodies as the League for Indus
trial Rights, and the American plan.
We see no disposition to stop the
poison work of spies, stool-pigeons
agents provocateur, and such creators
of industrial bitterness.
Perhaps big business men do not
want a constructive labor movement
in this country. Perhaps they want
curtailed production, sabotage, and
all the other accoutrements of class
| warfare.
If they were wise they would act
| differently. For there is going to be
labor movement in this country. II
it is not one kind, it is going to be
another. If it is not the kind thai
contributes to American technology
it will be the kind that thwarts it.
Electrical Workers Journal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
CHALLENGE WAGE CUTS

AS delay in the upswing in busi-
ness continues the hazards for labor
standards increase. Industries are
everywhere looking for sources of
revenues to maintain dividends. Wage
earners should be on guard to pro-
tect their incomes against further
invasions Further reductions in
wage rates at the present time would
be most unfortunate and would tend
to offset the efforts of the govern
ment to create better business con-
ditions.
Congress has enacted legislation to
make credit available for banks and
industries, and to provide for federal
reserve banks secondary reserves for
issuing reserve notes. AS a result
the credit contraction policies have
relaxed, bond prices have risen, stock
prices have developed strength, price
decline is less rapid. Some companies
are beginning to write down stock
values on their books, thus eliminat-
ing inflated values. When business
sets its house in order, the mainte-
nance of buying power is of growing
Importance. Unless consumers are
financed to buy the output of indus
tries, the warehouses and retail
shelves are soon overstocked.
Wage earners and small-salaried
persons constitute 80 per cent of re-
tail customers. They have respon-
sibility to help maintain buying pow
er by keeping their own incomes sta
BILE. Wage earners must be a self
directing agency if they art to help
maintain the balance for prosperity.
1t is their industrial and public duty
to challenge all wage cuts proposals.
Wage earners not only have a
right to a voice in determining their
share of the return on the products
they helped to produce, but they have
right to know for what purpose
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Endorsed by the Trades and Labsr
Council Of Hamilton. Ohie
Endorsed by the Middletewn Trades
and Labor Council Of Middletswn. Q.
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1882
OBSERVE THE STOCK EXCHANGE

Defenders of the Stock Exchange
explain that it is necessary that there
be market for stocks and bonds.
There is no need to quibble with
the idea that there must be a market
But it has become clear beyond dis
pute that there does not have to be
the kind of market that trades in
stocks for the purpose of robbing the
nation
Recent revelations, if they were
needed, prove beyond cavil that the
present Stock Exchange is a national
menace, that it has contributed enor-
mously to the increasing density OF
depression, that it has, in plain
words, been a den of thieves and 9
place if iniquity.
Four months ago in an article this
paper said, "Close the Stock Ex-
change"
1t was contended that the Stock
Exchange was pounding stock prices
down, down, down to ever lower levels
throwing the nation into further de-
spair and disorder
Is there today any doubt about the
truth of that assertion?
The buying and selling of stocks
does not have to stop, any more than
the buying and selling of real estate
or dried prunes has to stop.
But it is, in all earnestness, about
time that the nation stepped in tc
stop rigging and gambling in the
ownership of its industries.
The Stock Exchange can be re.
formed, but no reform of consequence
has yet taken place.
Congress, on the basis of it's owr
evidence, must very soon, if it is hon.
est about it, either require drastic
reform, or else do that reforming
itself.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
WAGE CUT REDUCES
BUYING POWER
By HON. CLYDE KELLY
Member of Congress from Pennsyl
yania

(From a speech in opposition to
the bill, sponsored by the economy
committee of the house of represen-
tatives, which sought to impose an
IL per cent pay reduction on federal
employees receiving more than $1,000
per year,
have returned this morning after
a campaign in my own district, once
the workshop of the world, work
shop that was filled with competent,
willing workers. The mills are still
there, able to produce abundantly, but
thousands of workers are unemploy-
ed because there is no purchasing
power left among the people. There
fore the mills cannot be set to the
task of production.
Now, you come here and ask that
the United States government accept
the counsel of defeat, embrace the
cult of despair and say, "We are ir
VIC swamp iioWt VIC iAoo9 SO oOWi
farther STILL" My friends, there is
no bottom to these quicksands. Make
this IL per cent cut now, and yol
cannot stop there. You will have tt
cut again in the future.
Instead, l want to urge the spiri
of the message General Foch sent il
the darkest days of the World War
With darkness and discouragemen
around him he sent a telegram t.
Paris which ought to be in the minds
of all of US today. He said
my center gives way, my right
recedes; the situation is excel
lent, | shall attack"
Let us end these policies which be
token defeat and despair. Let us sto]
retreat and go forward. Let u
attack this depression instead of sur
rendering to it,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
d. of C.. Commissioners Send
Wage Rate Dispute to Court

Washington. - The commissioners
of the District of Columbia declined
to continue the adjustment of dis
putes over prevailing wage rates be-
tween organized workers and contrac-
tors on public work for the district,
and told the Building Trades Council
it could take it's complaint against
A. Lloyd Goode, Inc, of Charlotte,
N. c., contractor erecting public
school building, to the courts. The
council claimed number of workmen
had not been paid the prevailing wage
in accordance with the Bacon-Kelly
law.
Previous wage complaints of this
character We're settled by District
officials, and the contractors were
forced to pay the workmen the differ
ence between what they had received
and the prevailing wage for the dis
trict.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

modify prices make for lower wages
and more unemployment, though a
great many workers do not see that.
AS for foreign trade, altogether
too much is made of that. The great
est market Americans have is in the
United States and that always will
be the case.
For permanent cure of unemploy-
ment we must have greatly short
ened work week. Right now we need
35-hour week.
The American Federation of Labor
properly and wisely points out that
the depression has speeded up the
use of machinery, so that at the end
of the depression there will be more
PERMANENT unemployment thar
ever.
Not only must there be a shorter
work-week now, but there must be
an acknowledged policy of continu-
ously shortening the work week and
of continually readjusting ALL wages
UPWARD, if there is to be permanent
cure for unemployment.
Stupidity still rules in most of the
employing world. But by next winter
the whole charity mechanism will
break down. If there is any sound
sense among Americas leaders they
will labor as they have never labored
before to bring about sound cure be-
fore that breakdown comes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Furloughs for Wives Whose
Husbands Work Criticized

Observation-Disclosures of the Ma
tional Woman's party condemned the
action of President Willard, of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad for issuing
instructions that married women en-
ployes whose husbands are working
should be furloughed. The resolution
asked Willard to reconsider the
action, which was described as "sex
discrimination against married WON
en-"
The resolution also condemned a
similar proposal now pending in con-
gress with regard to married women
in the federal service The party Off
cials believe the policy will promote
immortality and break up the homes
affected
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
WOULD Use
u. S. Money For Labor
Displacing Machinery

Washington, D. e. (ILNS)-Here's
pretty near the classic example OF
how the next depression is now in the
making.
A big railroad, which must for the
moment be anonymous, applied to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
for a loan Of three million dollars.
The railroad proposed to apply
half of this loan to retirement OF
money borrowed from banks and
which the banks demanded-matured
bond issues, in other words.
The railroad proposed to use the
remaining half-a million and half
dollars-in installing machinery
equipment which would enable 14O
men to do the work now done by
400 men!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Most Accidents Causing
Blindness Preventable


New York City ILNS).-Indus-
trial accidents are probably the chief
cause of blindness, it is stated in the
annual report of the National Society
for the Prevention of Blindness, made
public by Lewis H. Carris, managing
director, who asserts that most of
them are preventable.
'It is estimated" the report says,
chat in American industry more than
1000 workmen lose one or both eyes,
100000 minor eye injuries are re-
ceived, and approximately $50,000,0 600
is wasted in time lost, compensation
and medical bills each year"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
Missouri Congressman Will
Back Dry Act Modification

Springfield, Mo. (ILNS)-Of 13
representatives in congress at large
to be elected by Missouri this fall, a
majority will be friends of labor and
will favor modification of the Vol
stead act, according to present indi-
cations. Organized labor, represent
ed by the Missouri State Federation
of Labor, R. T. Wood, president, is
watching the congressional situation
closely, and will give strong support
to candidates who favor dry act
modification and other labor policies.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
81, ,5OO,OOO,OOO Public Works
Loan Urged By Contractors

Washington.-The governing board
of the Associated General Contrac-
tors of America recommends a ST.
500,000,000 federal bond issue, the
proceeds of which would be lent at
cost to states, cities and other civic
agencies for the construction of pub
lie improvements.
A productive reconstruction work
corporation" to be created by legis-
lation, would administer the bond
issue proceeds.
The governing board reached the
conclusion that many states and les
ser civic agencies are willing but un-
able to finance work-creating i'm
provements, and that they will do so
provided they can raise loans at low
interest rates. 1t is believed the credT
of the federal government is impreg-
nable enough to enable it to float the
loan at low interest rate.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

any reductions in their wages are to
be used. Wage earners have right
to know how the directors have dis
posed of the resources of the indus
try. They have a right to propose
other economies as substitutes for
pay cuts. Effective and insistent use
of facts for their own protection, is
the first defense against wage cuts
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
CURE UNEMPLOYMENT NOW

All talk of curing unem ployment
by legislation or by mysterious
methods of credit expansion, revival
of foreign trade and such devices are
just sheer bunk.
There are measures that will help
great deal, some of them legisla-
tive.
1t is sure thing that falling COM
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
WHAT NEXT?

A new device recently demonstrat-
ed vacuum cleans" the hole in rock
drilling and removes the silica dust,
so dangerous to the lungs of rock
drillers. The cost of installation is
offset by increased drilling speed and
the sale of the collected silica dust
which has several commercial uses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

Perhaps the League of Nations will
not seriously object to all that fight
ing in Manchuria SO long as the Jap
anese do not call it war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

Wiseacre-Haven't I always given
you my salary check the first of
every month?
Mrs. Wiseacre-Yes, but you never
told me you got paid on the first and
fifteenth, you embezzler.-Statesman.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

Psychologists should invent name
for the complex which makes politi-
clans willing to spend half million
dollars for a senate seat that pays
only sixty thousand for a six-year
term.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13

Why should Chicago be broke?
1t looks like the windy city could
raise the dust.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-05-13
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The girl friend says she's got the
hives and now all she needs is the
"bee's knees"
tG. 1892. Bell Syndicate )-WNU Service.
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