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Evening star., 1932-10-16

marked crime increase in the section
While no statistics on the number OF
crimes committed in the area before
and since the merger are available. he
said he is convinced there has been
little, if any. change in conditions.
Edwards View Similar.
"If there is any crime increase" he
declared. 1t is slight. and the depres-
sion, rather than the combination o.
the two precincts, probably is re-
sponsible."
A similar view is taken by Inspector
L. l. H. Edwards. to whom the resolu-
ton forwarded to Gen. Glassford was
referred.
IF there had been any marked crime
increase" he said. L would have no
ticed it. because my Office is sort OF
clearing house for crime reports from
all the precincts. Thus far We have
found no reason to act on the organl-
zation'S resolution. and no such acton
is contemplated at present
Meanwhile plans to carry on the bat
tie for increased police protection are
scheduled for discussion wednesday
night, when the association holds its
first meeting of the season.
The precincts were combined In con-
nection with the establishment OF the
present inspection district system. The
second and eighth precincts also were
merged, as were the first and slxth.
Evening star., 1932-10-16
WOMAN SUFFERS INJURY
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Mrs. Anna Booth of Greater Capt.
tol Heights, Md, Is Taken
to Hospital.

Mrs Anna Booth At. of Greater
Capitol Heights Md, was severely cut
and bruised shortly before midnight
last night when the automobile in which
she was riding was struck by Wash
ington, Baltimore & Annapolis Elec-
trio Railway train at the crossing on
Benning road northeast.
She was taken to Casualty Hospital.
where she was treated and admitted
for observation. Her condition was not
believed to be serious.
The automobile was operated by the
womans husband, William C.. Booth,
So, who escaped injury. Arthur Miller
was the motorman.
Evening star., 1932-10-16
AUTO OWNERS URGED
TO LOCK PARKED CARS
Glassford Seeks Cooperation to
Reduce Thefts Now Running
as High as Is Day.

Automobile owners were appealed 10
last night by Superintendent of Police
Glassford to lock parked cars in order
to reduce thefts which are now running
as high as Is a day.
In many cases the cars stolen, Gen.
Glassford said, are those parked With
out being locked, a condition which en-
courages theft and puts temptation in
the path of young joy-riders.
"The man who leaves his car un-
locked" Gen Glassford declared, con-
tributes to Juvenile delinquency, in ad-
dition to being criminally negligible.
Such a man would not leave a large
sum of money unprotected on the pub
lie streets, and yet he will park ma
chine in which he has an investment
of several hundred dollars or more
without taking the trouble to lock 1t"
Evening star., 1932-10-16
$40 DEPOSIT FORFEITED
Colored Man Fails to Answer News
paper Theft Charge.

William Ray, colored. arrested for
taking a newspaper from an honor sys-
tenn rack, failed to appear in Police
Court yesterday and forfeited $40 col
lateral
A route inspector said he saw Ray
take a paper from a rack at New York
and New Jersey avenues without paying
for it. When he attempted to ques-
ton the man, the latter is said to have
run into an apartment house nearby,
where he is janitor, and locked himself
in a basement storeroom.
The inspector called police, but 1t
took them nearly an hour to get Ray
out. The owner of the building finally
arrived and ordered the janitor to open
the door.
Evening star., 1932-10-16
Firemen Appeal for $500.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. October Is
(SpeciaD An appeal for $500 to help
meet payment on its pumper has been
broadcast in letter by the Upper Marl-
boro Volunteer Fire Department. The
letter points out the department owes
approximately S2,700 and has equipment
valued at $4,000.
Evening star., 1932-10-16
CRASH VICTIM SUES
Post Office Department Employs
Asks $25 900 Damages.

Kenneth Gardner, a special delivery
carrier of the United States Post Office
Department, filed suit in the District
Supreme Court yesterday for $25,000
damages against John c. Bruce, 1920
T street, on account of injuries claimed
to have been sustained by him in an
automobile accident.
In his complaint Gardner informed
the court that on August 4. while he
was driving through the Union Sta
ton Plaza on his motor cycle, Bruce
collided with him. He claims he s,ls-
tanned a broken back and will be dis
abled permanently. Attorney Godfrey
L. Hanter appeared for the plaintiff.
Evening star., 1932-10-16

gress, under present plan, when it con-
VeneS III December.
The formal plan in its present form
calls for slicing away part Of the mound
of earth a. the foot Of the Washing
ton Monument so as to make it svmetri-
cal in appearance. The engineers be-
lieve. however that this proceeding
might make the Washington Monument
topple over as it Is resting-not as is
popularly believed on bed rock-but is
erected on a bed of clay and gravel
ANY interference with the equilibrium
of this bed of blush clay and gravel
might cause the whole mass to slip.
The formal design as now exhibited,
directs quantity Of grading around the
base of the shaft.
The informal scheme. in which the
trees would not be placed in exact
geometric positions. calls for little if
any regarding and can he done with
out endangering the safety of the Mon
ument The formal plan suggests a
small retaining wall near the base OF
the Monument.
Sponsors of the formal treatment are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Work Drive Puts Five Idle
Back on Job Every Minute
Downward Trend of Employment at Last Checked and
Slight Improvement Recorded, Total of Workers
Reemployed in Big National Campaign Passes
100000 Mark.

growth of unemployment for Feb
ruary, the latest month tabulated and
given wide publicity, do not reflect
the present situation.
Definite Trend Upward
War Against Depression statisti-
clans this week indicated a definite
stop in the growth of unemployment
and definite trend the other way.
The labor press section in the di-
vision of labor, War Against De-
preston, checked with the United
States Department of Labor and
found that the department of labor
also records this week "a slight up
ward trend of employment" If this
advantage can be maintained, the
turn seems to have arrived. One fac
tor that will have much to do with
maintaining this trend is stability of
employment, new and old. Stability
can be maintained if employers do
not lay off men, while the new proc
ess of hiring is on the upgrade.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
OHIO MINERS
Make Strong Fight on Dras-
tic Wage Cut

Athens, Ohio (ILNS)-The spirit
of unionism has fared up again
among the coal miners of Ohio, with
the result that several thousand are
on strike against 25 per cent wage
reduction which the operators put in
effect on March /. Ohio was the
birthplace of the United Mine Work
ers of America, and for many years
the state was 104 per cent organized.
But in 1927 the coal operators of
Ohio refused longer to recognize the
union. They reduced wages time
after time, destroyed all working con-
ditions, refused to allow checkweigh-
men on their tipples, compelled their
employees to trade at company stores,
and secured court injunctions to pro-
tect them in their campaign of star
vation and misery. While the trade
union spirit still filled their hearts,
the men were unable to assert them
selves, because of existing economic
conditions. But when the operators
announced fresh reduction of 25 per
cent the men revolted and refused to
submit any longer. They voluntarily
went on strike, with the declaration
that ''we may as well starve idle as
starve working"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Prohibition Not In 1t

When Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
author Of the bill and chairman of the
conferees, called the report before the
senate, Senator Bingham, of Connect
ic,lt, inquired whether the conferees
had yielded to the house in excepting
prohibition eases from contempt cases
designated in the bill as it left the
senate.
Senator Norris explained that pro-
hibition cases are not affected by the
language in the bill, though origin
ally all contempt cases had been in
cluded.
Organized labor is rejoicing over
the victory for the bill, which came at
the end of 14-year fight for legisla-
tion to curb the injunction.
Hailed as Great Victory
It is the general view that victory
for the bill ranks ahead of anything
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
FUR WORKERS
Hold Hours, Wages and
Work Conditions

New York City ILNS)-Announce-
ment is made at the New York Offices
of the American Federation of Labor,
1440 Broadway, that a collective
agreement has been renewed by the
American Federation of Labor and
the International Fur Workers
Union of the United States and Can
ada and it's affiliated New York To-
Gals, with the Associated Fur Coat
and Trimming Manufacturers, Inc,
and the New York Fur Trimming
Manufacturers, Inc.
The agreement, which has existed
in the trade for many years, has been
renewed for a period of two years,
with no changes in hours, wages, and
working conditions. A similar agree
ment with the United Fur Manufac-
turers Association is awaiting the sig
natures of the parties. Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the American
Federation, issued the following
statement in connection with the sign
ing of these agreements:
"For the past several years the
American Federation of Labor, at the
insistence and request of its affiliated
International Fur Workers Union OF
the United States and Canada, has
actively participated and been party
to agreements with organized manu-
facturers.
GAS in the past five years, the
American Federation of Labor will
to work while they belong to the
back all its labor unions in their right
American Federation of Labor, unmo
Tested by 'gorillas' hired by the com
munists. The American Federation
of Labor is likewise bending all it:
energies to make it possible for the
fur workers unions to maintain the
conditions secured by these agree
ments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Anti-lnjunction Bill Deadly
Blow to Famous ''Yellow Dog
INADEQUATE PAY
And Idleness, Called Big
Crime Causes

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Un-
ployment, low wages, haphazard
work, "blind-alley" jobs, lack of vo-
cational guidance, and lack of proper
recreational facilities are cited as
important factors contributing to
crime in 1881. by the National Pro-
baton Associations Year Book.
The National Probation Association
is an association made up of juvenile
court judges, probation officers, psy-
chiatrists, criminologists, and others
interested in the treatment and pre-
vention of crime in the United States.
Economic stability and security"
states the Year Book, "are two of
the greatest safeguards to orderly
life. The experiences encountered in
1881 have not only made social work
ers, business men and economists con-
scious of the havoc which lack of Sc
curity can bring to all classes but
have made them realize that some
thing must be done to eliminate wide
spread unemployment in the future
Unemployment and inadequate wages
are paid for by each community in
terms of dependency, delinquency
disease and related social problems.
Lack of sufficient regular family
income to insure health and at least
a minimum of decency and comfort
are cited first in list of causes con.
tributing largely to crime and delin
quency last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01

Wage earners will rejoice when a
condition has been obtained where
they can enter into a closer relation
ship and cooperation with their en-
ployers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Bills Foes Seek Delay
MINERS STRIKE
In Pennsy Field Declared
Illegal By United Mine
Workers

Scranton, Pa. (ILNS)-Internal
political troubles in the Scranton and
Shamokin anthracite districts of the
United Mine Workers of America
broke out again when a group of in
surgent members called an outlaw
strike of miners in violation of the
policies and laws of the union. These
insurgent leaders took advantage of
the fact that there is much unem-
ployment in the anthracite field and
based their strike upon the issue of
equalization of work" Several coal
companies closed down certain of
their mines and concentrated their
production at other mines, thus MAX
ing large number of men idle. In
surgent leaders insisted that these
companies operate all of their mines
and divide the available work among
all of them.
The United Mine Workers of
America declared that this demand
was illegal and violation of the con-
tract between the union and the coal
companies. There is no provision in
the contract that gives the union the
right to dictate to the companies how
many mines they shall operate. When
the insurgents demanded that the dis
trict officials compel the companies to
accede to the demand for equalization
of work the officials refused to vio-
late the contract. AS a result the out
law strike was called. Statements
were issued by the union officials ex-
planning the true situation.
Strike Doomed to Failure
For the first few days of the strike
the :nsurgent leaders succeeded in in
ducing several thousand men to quit
work, and there was considerable vio-
lence and disorder. Many arrests
were made of insurgent strikers who
sought to prevent union men from
continuing at work. However, it was
not long until the strike began to fail
Hundreds of men returned to work
and it was reported that nearly al
were ready to go back to the pits as
soon as they felt safe from assault
and intimidation. Indications are that
the outlaw strike will gradually pete,
out. 1t had no chance in the first
place to succeed.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea has a 40-year record of strict ad.
herence to it's contracts. 1t has hae
many strikes, but never strike il
violation of a contract.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Measure to Kill Over Million of "Slave" Contracts
Bill to Make Inunctons By the Hundreds Ineffective
Even Though Writs Still Clutter Up Statute Books.

that has been gained since Woodrow
Wilson signed the La Toilette sea-
mems act, although some incline to
date it, in point of Importance, from
the signing of the Clayton act.
"The Clayton act brought relief for
about three years, until the supreme
court began to pull its teeth" said
Frank Morrison, secretary of the A.
F. of L.
"Will not this new freedom give
great impetus to organizing work -
Secretary Morrison was asked.
'In my opinion it will" he said.
"And this will be particularly true,
think, in the case of the miners,
where organization work in some
states has been absolutely forbidden
by court decree"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
BAKERS UNION
Offers to Make Bread From
Farm Board Wheat
For Needy

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
Union, in a telegram to President
William Green, of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, has offered the serv-
ices of its members in making bread
from Federal Farm Board wheat for
the country's needy.
The telegram, signed by Charles
F. Hohmann, secretary of the inter-
national union, and the other officers
said:
with reference to the legislation
passed by congress directing the
United States Farm Board to dis
tribute forty million bushels of sur
plus wheat among the needy unem-
ployed and, as we understood, it is
provided in this legislation that this
distribution be in the form of bread,
therefore the Bakers international
Union offers theirs and their local
unions services in effectively and
practically carrying out free of cost
this legislation, and will use our in
fiuence with our union employers ac-
cordingly. We authorize and request
you to transmit this information to
the properly constituted authorities
the United States Farm Board and
the Red Cross"
Mr.. Green announced that the offer
Of the organized bakers was promptly
transmitted to the representatives of
the Farm Board and the American
Red Cross.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
By CHESTER NJ. WRIGHT

New York City (ILNS)-United
action for employment is putting un-
employed Americans back in jobs at
the rate of five every minute of
every "a hours!
That computation was announced
at headquarters of the War Against
Depression here today as the total
employed since February Is passed
we'll over the 100000 mark.
The campaign, jointly sponsored by
the American Federation of Labor
the American Legion, the Association
of National Advertisers and the
Legion Auxiliary, has reached third
of the way to its goal, which is the
finding Of jobs for a million Amer
leans now unemployed.
The rate maintained since the cam
paign began figures out at 5.8 jobs
found every minute.
Five Idle Placed Per Minute
Headquarters suggests that those
who do not believe the campaign de-
serves support do this:
"Take out your watch and OBJ
serve the second hand while it
goes once around. In that span
of go seconds, while you have
looked, more than five workers
have passed from unemployment
to employment. Any thing that
can change depression into social
health at that rate deserves sup
port"
Here's another example of the
speed of the campaign: Utica, n. Y.
in six days raised four million dollars
to be paid in wages to workers now
unemployed.
New Cities Join Campaign
Cities are joining in the organiza.
ton of local campaigns at a growing
rate. The last available days report
showed 81 new cities reporting, with
campaigns under way and men anc
women going back to work.
In addition, the reporting of {
third of million workers returned tx
employment is backed up in its impli
cations by the further fact that the
downward trend of the unemployment
curve at last has been stopped.
Unemployment has been checked
The trend is slightly toward improve
ment. Official figures released by the
department of labor, showing {
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Four Held in COnspir-
acy Plot to Murder
Trade Union Official

Washington.-U. S. Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage held for the
grand jury four men and woman
charged with conspiracy to commit
murder in connection with an alleged
plot to assassinate Charles A. Haury,
supervisor of the local union of the
International Union of Operating En-
gineers.
The defendants, George MacSullen.
Ed Johnson, Walter Reed, his wife,
Mrs. Kaye Reed, and Burt Carpenter,
were charged by police to have plot
ted the assassination Of Haury on two
separate occasions. Johnson entered
plea of guilty.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
By CHESTER NJ. WRIGHT


New York City (ILNS)-One and
quarter million yellow dog contracts
will be knocked out for the count if
and when labor's anti-injunction bill
becomes law.
This probably will rate as the great
est slaughter of contracts ever known
in human history. 1t will free more
men and women from bondage than
ever were freed at one stroke in all
world history.
AS a matter of fact the number
probably will be greater than a mil
lion and a quarter. 1t may run mil
lion and half or even two millions.
John P. Frey's careful computation
in 1923 put the number of yellow dog
contracts at million and quarter
and Frey believes the number has in
creased materially since then.
InjunctiOns Made TOOthless
More than that, the new measure
will upset and up-end the whole legal
structure built up by employers
through the courts.
Injunctions by the hundreds will go
into the ash can, as far as their effec-
tiveness is concerned. Little has been
said about the sweeping destruction
of these measures of restraint and
enslavement, but the destruction will
be enormous. The nation will, with
one stroke of pen, reverse its whole
structure relating to the legal rela-
tions of employers and workers and
to the legal relation between the state
| and workers.
To Continue on Books
| Lawyers who have been consulted
offer this explanation of the future
status of the hordes of existing per-
manent injunctions:
The courts will regard them as con-
| tinuing in existence, and as matter
of legal record they will continue on
the books.
But, alleged violations will be tried
under the new law, and the new law
will nullify the penalties, so there will
be no offense and the injunctions will
be mere dead letters to clutter the
records. The life of these ancient
pests, remnants of an outworn con.
ception, will be shells without life
threats without force. They will be
in effect, dead, gone to some dark
and musty Valhalla of relics of mans
barbarity to man.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
American Farmers in Debt
Thirteen Billion Dollars

Washington-Th total indebted
ness of farmers in the United States
was estimated to be $13,0O0,0 900
by A. C. Williams, member of the
Federal Farm Loan Board
Of this amount $4,000, 100000 rep
resents loans secured by farm mort
cages.
Congress recently appropriated an
additional $125 100000 of new capi-
tai for federal land banks, more than
half of which has already been
loaned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01
Ohio Coal Operators Ask
Antipicketing Injunction

Athens, Ohio.-Mine operators in
the Hooking Valley coal district at
tempted to mobilize the courts to
break the miners strike which has
held over 5000 miners from the pits
since February l.
The Sunday Greek Coal Company
petitioned the Athens county common
pleas court for an injunction restrain
ing the United Mine Workers of
America from picketing the struck
mines. The company officials resur-
rected the traditional charges of al
legged trespassing on company prop
erty and intimidating employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-04-01

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Fed-
eral legislation for regulation Of the
bituminous coal industry is the only
method by which the coal business
can be stabilized and saved from ut
ter ruin.
This was the statement made not
only by representatives of the United
Mine Workers of America, but by
prominent coal operators to the SUBJ
committee of the senate committee
on mines and mining which is holding
hearings on the Davis-Kelly coal reg
ulation bill.
The Davis Kelly bill proposes to
establish system under which all
corporations that mine or ship coal in
interstate commerce shall be required
to take out a federal license. Under
such license such companies could
then organize selling pools, and regu-
late and limit production to corre-
spond with demand. Cut-throat COM
petition among coal companies, which
has been and still is one of the major
evils of the coal business, would thus
be eliminated.
Miners Rights Recognized
The bill also would give miners the
right to organize and bargain collec-
lively with their employers through
representatives of their own choosing.
Coal companies taking out license
would be prohibited from discharging
an employe for joining the union.
Howard Showalter and John H.
Hatfield, large West Virginia opera
tors, told the subcommittee they fa-
vor the passage of the Davis-Kelly
bill, because it affords the only possi-
BILE remedy to save the sick industry.
j. B. Hosford, head of large coal
company in the Pittsburgh field, made
similar statement. He said moth
ing except government regulation
would do any good.
"What is the lowest wage that is
being paid to coal miners in the
Pittsburgh field?" Hosford was
asked.
~ have heard of men who get as
little as dollar a day." was his
amazing answer.
Green Urges Bill
In strong plea for the bill, Presi-
dent William Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, told the sub
committee that conditions among the
miners "are not living-just exist
ing"
more children are starving
among mining communities than
anywhere in the country as re-
suit of present economic condi-
ditions in the industry" he said.
Edmond D. Campbell, Washington
attorney, testified that congress can
constitutionally regulated coal cor
porations operating in interstate
commerce. Campbell, who investi-
gated constitutional phases of pro-
posed federal regulation of the coal
industry for the John Hays Hammond
commission in 1923, said that the
Davis Kelly bill is entirely constitu.