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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-12
Chapter Fl
HOLIDAY FROM FLYING

JENNY set her lips and unlocked
81 the door
There was no SQUIRTING behind ii
this time-Eddie eagerly faced her:
color was in his face and light in his
yes. Except for the bandages, he
looked, for this moment, the big, con-
fident, rather dense Eddie-the WON
DER 'bird-man' who had held Georg-.
les love. Jenny's heart ached for him.
"She-had to dash straight off. On
business" she said slowly; and added,
hoping that she might be given the
blame-"Perhaps I made a mistake;
| told her you were asleep"
AND she went away?"
AT Jenny nod, ne sat down again
in the battered old chair. When she
removed the wreckage of the first
cup of coffee from the floor and
poured him a second, she looked at
him timidly.
II wasn't asleep exactly" he said,
after a gulp of coffee. Il sort Of
collapsed My nerves seem a bit up
set. / get unable to move, even when
/ want to- say, Jen, this coffee is
coffee. Got any more?"
PLENTY" She poured 1t, her heart
a little lighter. He refused to believe
apparently, that it was she who had
kept George from him; but he was
not angry with George, either, for
going away without a goodbye. Or
was he angry? He looked unusually
thotful.
when George gets back he said
suddenly, there's no reason why she
and | shouldn't have cur honeymoon
and then settle down somewhere. Is
there? After all, she was only going
to keep on with this job of hers until
| got back from Mexico-and l shan't
be going to Mexico now"
Don't you think" she ventured
that just because you can't go to
Mexico, George had better hold or
to her job for a time? Then you
| could keep your money-some of your
money" she amended hastily as his
frown deepened-"until you're flying
again or-or doing something else. In
the meantime you could rest and gel
your nerves back to normal. o need
a holiday badly"
YES" lie agreed. II need a holiday
from flying. That's all a holiday
He caught at her arm-his own shak-
ing. George seemed to slip from his
mind. "'They can't expect me to fly
the Old Mar tonight when | need
holiday so darn badly, can they?"
MIR. Matching is going by train
Jenny treasured him. Then she gasp
ed at an excuse for George tina
ought, she felt, to have occurred t
her before. MIR. Matching came lr
with George just now, Eddie, ant
waited to take her in his car !
! refused to open this door and let hin
talk to you;and so George couldn'
get in either
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Locked the Odd Man out, did
your Eddie threw his head back
and gave his old, familiar roar of
laughter. Marvellous kid! Go on, let's
hear about it,"
She let him near about 1t. She
made quite an amusing yarn Of 1t,
in the end, and while she paused
to let him laugh over the invitation
to dinner, she again heard a plane go
over the building, But Eddie, i'm
mensely amused by her encounter
aware; and she felt more hopeful
about him. If he could be kept inter-
esteG in other things for a while,
he would surely recover!
And so on Wednesday evening,
Cinderella goes to the ball." she con
cluded lightly. I'm a silver dress and
silver slippers, all given her by her
fairy god-mother."
"Georgie?"
George"
The lighter left his face. He be-
gan to rub his knee with his hand. an
action she ~distinctively dreaded. She
was Just going to say Don't
worry!" when he said 1t.
mo use my worrying, | s'pose.
Things'n come straight. And, anyway
it's all my fault for playing the fool
with that car yesterday. Bit of a
miracle you weren't either of you kill
led. George always said | was no
good on the road. BY the way" the
rubbing hand clenched as he turned
piteous eyes upon Jenny-"you won't
tell her will you?'
Tell her what, Eddie?" Jenny
asked.
why, that I got nervy about
II "a 1A.A 49, AI.1 AaAattnn an 70
me-and about the l6ea of going up
myself"
Il certainly won't tell her If you
don't want me to-"
Thanks. l don't fancy George will
have much use for me now, you see.'
His tone troubled her.
81 think you're wrong. George
| told me herself that she cares more
about you than about her job"
"She hasn't said that since" he
pointed to his bandages.
"She has she hast" Jenny was
triumphant. " She told me just now,
while she was hurting her things to-
gether to go away. And she doesn't
say such things lightly. Only, you
see, Eddie, she's more practical and
far-sighted than you or 1; she loves
iyou 80 much that she wants you to
/ be quite free Of worries while you're
having your holiday. She said that
too. That's why she's determined to
hold her job until you're flying again
or until" She hesitated over the
alternative as she had done before.
"Or until you're doing something else
instead"
He grinned willy and she knew
he wanted to say that there was
nothing he could do but fly. But
he went on grinning crookedly at
her ana presently he remarked.
You're a good kid. l say, Jen-
it's funny, but l feel better-steadier
when you're around. Kind of sooth-
ing you are. Wonder If you could
pull me round in timer
Jenny flushed with pleasure. She
looked into the big, bandaged, visit
full face - and then her W went
down upon her outspread arms and
she was crying as 'she had not cried
for years.
She felt Eddie lowering above her,
concerned ana sheepish.
With a great effort Jenny control
led herself and sat up.
Nobody has ever really needed me
before, in all my life. People always
seem toto be going away-and leav-
ing me gaping after them" Her
Continued on Page 81
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Solution
of
last
Thursday
Puzzle

DO the only thing | can and earn, earn
earn!'
The at the door was re-
peated and George pushed her way
out.
Jenny, gazing after her, saw hat
outside the front door stood o short,
slightly stopped man with close-set
eyes. He took the suitcase n the
door closed. Presently, from the street
below, came the sound of a big car
sliding into speed.
Jenny picked up the key from
where it had fallen to the floor and
went slowy to the kitchen. AT any
rate, she hot i~rrelevantly, Eddie
need not be locked In any longer
THE next moment she heard his
voice.
Georgia? Girl, darling, Is it you?'
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Chapter 20
BLUFFING?

ssTM just remembering that / am
Il supposed TO have got married yes
terday- that's what Mr.. Matching
meant, Of course" Jenny said. THAT
what he did when he was "a and a
day"
Doesn't matter" answered Georg-
lie. I'm not being Jealous now, hon.
estly-but I don't think he believes
you married Ed at all. He thinks
he knows, somehow, it was me-"
"But then"
He knows it was I. (Think I'll hay We
to take a special grammar course ag-
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-12

SYNOPSIS. One day with
Garth Aveney. whom she loves,
although she thinks he likes
her cousin George, is all Jenny
Revell hopes for before she emit
ers upon a strange deception.
She is going TO pretend she has
married Eddie Townsend, for
George loses her job If discover
ed 10 be Eddie's wife
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
EVICTIONS
OF Workers Families In
Textile Strike Continue

New York City (ILNS)-Declaring
that the United Textile Workers ex-
ecutive board at its meeting here in
September will be asked by him to
increase its organizing activity in the
South, President Thomas F. Mahon
has given International Labor News
Service a review of the current stu
alton in the Southern area.
''The strike in the Horse Greek
valley" President Mahon said
(which included the mills of Langley,
Clearwater and Bath, S. c., was set
tied some time ago, with the mill offil
cials publicly proclaiming that no dis
elimination would take place, and up
to this writing / believe they have
lived up to their promise. The Lang
ley mills, where the strike occurred,
hasn't started up, as yet, due to lack
of orders, or so the company officials
state. The other two mills are run
ming.
"The cause of the strike was the
changing of styles on one class of
work to another, with insufficient
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29

concerns during the day and cut off
the power SO that every plant in High
Point is idle.
Whole Region Affected
The revolt quickly spread to Thom-
asville, Lexington and Kernesville,
where many furniture and woodwork
plants are located. Numbers of plants
in smaller places all through this Sec
ton have since joined the walkout.
1t is regarded as probable that the
big industries at Burlington, Green's
boro, Durham and Winston Salem
will be involved, as drastic wage cuts
have been made in practically all of
them within recent weeks. Versions
of the stretch-out have been inaugu-
rated in number of the textile mills
at Greensboro, Burlington and Dur
ham during recent weeks
Reynolds Plant Guarded
At Winston-Salem extensive pre-
cautions have been taken by officials
of the giant R. j. Reynolds tobacco
factories to prevent walkout of their
workers. That the concern expects
trouble is indicated by the large num-
Der of extra guards on duty.
Communists do not figure in the
uprising, which is unparalleled in
North Carolina's industrial history,
except in the imaginative minds of
industrial captains and law enforce
ment officers. Some of them are be-
coming greatly alarmed over the part
the dreaded "reds" are playing in the
general strike against wages that viii!
not support 'life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness" even on modest
proportions.
The men and women who toll have
revolted against wage cuts, and when
$4,000 in one locality take that stand
something is bound to happen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
BOTH POLITICAL
Planks Disappoint Labor
Council Reports

Atlantic City (ILNS)-Naming /;
non-partisan political campaign com
mittee to have charge of labor's pc
litical work in coming campaign, the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, in session here
refused, as forecast, to approve tht
platform or presidential candidates O.
either party, issued score on plat
forms, and laid plans for intensiv,
campaigns against certain bitterl,
hostile congressional candidates.
Green Heads Committee
The non-partisan political commit
| tee is: President William Green, Sec
retary Frank Morrison, Martin F
Ryan, Matthew Woll and Thomas A
Rickert, the three latter being vice
presidents of the federation. Thi.
committee will, as an initial step, fur
nish political records to unions
,, throughout the country.
President Green said:
eve have compared the platform!
of both parties and compared then
with our own recommendations. We
are considerably disappointed, a:
neither covered our proposals as fully
completely and definitely as we hat
expected. The fact that a number Of
our proposals were not incorporated
by either party was also disappoint
ment.
Political Freedom Assured
A statement issued by Presiden
Green for the council said that "tht
American Federation of Labor ha:
found from experience that the bes'
interests of it's entire membership
have been protected and conserved
through a strict adherence to a non
partisan political policy" 1t con
tinued:
! lie WiSdOiil VI SuII dSIiOI 10 SlCCl
ly apparent when it is considered tha
the American Federation Of Labor i.
composed of men and women who en-
tertain different political opinions
They are not required to become
identified with or to support any po
litical party when they become mem
bers of the American Federation O.
Labor"
The council, President Green said
twill wait with very great interest
the declarations of the presidential
candidates, "reserving to ourselves ;
final decision regarding our futur'
policy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
Labor Plans Great SH-Hour Day
And Fiive-Day Week Campaign

price list to meet the new fabric con-
structions.
"The strike in the Arcadia Mills, a
few miles from Spartanburg, S. c.,
was caused by wholesale discrimina-
tion because of workers joining our
organization, although some weeks
prior to the strike Mr.. Lignon, the
president of the company, declared to
John A. Peel, our organizer, that no
determinations would take place
Since the strike started, which, by the
way, involves about $50 people, evic-
tions have taken PLACES in number
THE governor of the state has or.
dered what the South Carolinians cal
the road police to strike duty. Al
the request of the company officials
this was done, and the sheriff of the
county has sworn in a lot of deputy
sheriffs.
at is reported that two thugs have
likewise been imported into the little
community, for the purpose of Great
ing chaos.
"Organizer Peel was arrested on a
trumped-up charge. He is now out
on $1,000 bail, provided by the presi-
dent of the Central Labor Union of
Spartanburg, who was discharged
from his work in Spartanburg when
it was found out that he had gone
bonds for Mr. Peel"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
MODIFICATION
In Sight, Survey Shows La
Dor Committee

Atlantic City (ILNS) = Meeting
here to prepare a report for its mem
bership, the executive committee of
labor's national committee for modi-
fication of the Volstead act surveyed
the entire field, INCLUDING political
platforms and the work of the recent
ed that the executive committee found
the situation decidedly encouraging,
and the report to be made will be
one of gratifying progress.
1t was noted that the final vote in
the senate, taken just two days be-
fore he meeting here, fell only wo
votes short of two-thirds of those
voting in the senate.
Political platforms were examined
by the executive committee and re-
port on the platforms and on the po-
litical outlook will be conveyed to
the membership, which includes affil-
lated national and international
unions.
Chairman Matthew Woll submitted
detailed statement of work done.
The other officers did likewise, laying
before the membership elaborate
campaign plans which were ratified
The general opinion was that modi-
fication can be achieved at an early
date and that modification is the i'm
mediate and paramount issue in rela-
ton to prohibition. The trend toward
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
was fully examined, but it was
brought out that much time may pass
before repeal can be accomplished and
that relief is essential at once, max
ing modification an even more impor-
tant issue than it has been.
1t can be said that every vote or
modification has been recorded sc
that the position of every senator and
congressman can be made known
without delay to every constituent in
every state and district.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
GREAT CHANGE
In Work Hours During Past
Century

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Eco-
nomic history shows that although
the United States has been forced to
stand up under 10 major financial
panics and depressions in the last 90
years, wage earners have been sue
cessful in steadily increasing wage
scales and reducing hours of labor in
the same period.
The 4-hour week that was in oper-
alton generally in 1929 represents a
reduction of nearly one-half in the
length of the wage earner's work day.
In 1840, the average working week
was 81 hours, and in 1912 in was SO
hours. To the workman of 1882 this
may seem almost incredible. A his
tory of wages and hours of labor
from colonial days compiled by the
U. S. Department of Labor show that
common laborers in Massachusetts
worked these hours. Some grand
fathers of wage earners Of today can
remember working more than 20
hours weekly.
In 1851 the work week was reduced
generally throughout the United
States to 63 hours. Hours of labor
remained above 60 hours weekly until
1898, when the record drops to SO
hours. The 55-hour week began to
appear soon after 1900, but it was
not until 1907 that the hours were re-
duced still farther to 48 hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
UTILITIES
And Banks Top List in Profit
Flow

New York City (ILNS)-Public
utilities and banks continue to shell
out" the dividends, these two groups
paying the top rates, while railroads
are among the hardest hit, in point
of payments to stockholders.
Meanwhile banks have not hesitat-
ed to cut wages of employees.
The average cash dividend paid by
utilities on June 80 was 254 share,
according to a compilation by Moody's
Investors Service. This compares with
a peak rate of $305 a share paid by
the utilities in February, 1881. The
new rate shows a reduction of 16.7
per cent from the peak rate.
Railroad shares show the largest
proportion of reduction. The peak
rate for rails averaged 1921 a share
and was recorded in September, 1880.
The disbursements made as of June
80 this year averaged SLIP a share
and that is cut of 80 per cent from
the peak rate. The peak rate of the
railroads was the second highest.
Banking corporations show the
highest peak rate, $3.50 share
which was paid in July, 1880. The
current average rate is $4.79 a share
reduction of 26.3 per cent.
Insurance company securities show
reduction from a peak rate aver
aging $500 share in June, 1880, to
1921 share this year. The rate OF
reduction is thus shown as 35.8 per
cent. Industrial corporations paid ar
average of $272 per share as a peak
in December, 1929, but the average is
now down to S101 a share, drop Of
62.9 per cent.
The average for all corporations
was $3.06 share on disbursement of
March, 1880, and now stands at $1.36
share.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
Great Piedmont Dazed As
Fifty Thousand Strike

UnOrganized Quit Over Wide Area Fighting Pay Cut
Scores of Plants Forced Into dleness in Spontaneous
Uprsing-Great R. J. Reynolds Plant Puts on Extra
Guards.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
By STAFF CORRESPONDENT

High Point, N. C. (ILNS)-Labol
in the great industries of Piedmont
North Carolina, may be cheap, as the
writer's of the nation have long her
aided, but it is no longer contented
Two years of frequent reductions ir
its meager wages have precipitated
Q rebellion of labor that has stopped
the wheels of hundreds of factories
in the heart of the industrial Pied
mont and is causing sober thought in
the executive chambers of the nation
al government.
And the revolt, apparently leader
less and unorganized, is spreading.
The demonstration, which has
brought perhaps $4,000 men and
women out of the factories where
they have been wont to toll long
hours for slim pay, has been remark
ably free from disorder The workers
themselves have exhibited a good
natured spirit, but they mean busi-
ness about not going back and about
keeping the plants shut until orders
for new pay cuts are rescinded.
State Watches Closely
In the meantime, on the fringe of
the scene of revolt stand the minions
of law and order and government,
ready to take a hand should the city
authorities send the word.
Extra deputies have been sworn in
by sheriffs. An air of suspense per-
vades official circles.
The protest against wage cuts
started among several hundred hos
iery workers Monday of last week.
The boarders led the walk-out Many
of them are members of the United
Textile Workers of America. Tues
day morning found the furniture
plants joining the walkout. Groups
of workers entered other industrial
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
Nonpartisan Political Policy
To Be Continued By A. F. Of L.
Executive Council of Federation Says Experience Con-
firms Wisdom of Such ActiOn-Party Platforms and
Records of Candidates Will Be Studied.

eve anticipate that they will ex-
press their opinions regarding the Sc
rious economic condition which pre-
walls throughout the nation, and will
amplify the declarations of the plat
forms of the political parties relating
to labor and labor questions.
1--WE will await, with very great
interest, the expression of each of
the candidates, reserving to ourselves
final decision regarding our future
policy during the remainder of the
campaign.
an conformity with this declara-
ton and decision of the executive
council, the nonpartisan political
committee of the American Fedora
tion of Labor is instructed to COM
municate with national and interna-
tional unions, State Federations of
Labor, central bodies and directly
chartered local unions, transmitting
to them copies of the platforms of
the two political parties and the rec
ords of the candidates for the presi-
dency of the United States, together
with copy of this declaration.
Furthermore, the records of cam
didates for the United States senate
in the different states and candidates
for the house Of representatives shall
be supplied for general distribution
throughout the different states and
congressional districts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
Only Route Leading to Prosperity
A. F. OF L. Executive Council Maps Fight Starting Will
Demand for National Conference Called By Presiden

wages must be constantly adjusted
and readjusted to industrial condi-
tions, so that depression shall not
again occur.
Congress Is Denounced
The session of congress just closed
was plentifully denounced as having
failed of its duty. The relief measure
enacted was denounced as wholly in
adequate. The report of the U. S.
Council of Personnel Administration,
recommending the five-day week for
federal workers, was praised highly
and Mr.. Green gave President Hoo
yer the major portion of credit for
the achievement. eve regard this
action on the part of the government
as recognition of very vital eco
nomic and social reform for which
organized labor has contended for
many years." Mr. Green declared. at
will have a very helpful effect on the
efforts organized labor is putting
forth to have the five-day week estab-
lished in private industry. | regard
this action as a great step forward
in the establishment of the universal
five-day week"
Scores Gag Ruling
President Green was equally vigor-
Gus in denouncing the order of the
civil service commission forbidding
federal employees from participating
in politics, declaring that if the order
were enforced, or if an effort should
be made toward its enforcement a
congressional investigation would be
demanded.
The protest grew out of the ruling
Of the civil service commission and
Postmaster General Brown in ruling
that President w. M. Collins, of the
Railway Mail Association, has no
right to furnish to his members an
analysis of the votes of congressman.
This autocratic civil service ruling is
going to get a genuine test in the
interest of citizenship rights for civil
service employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-07-29
Green Reports Progress
On G0mpers Memorial

Atlantic City, n j. William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, reported to the
executive council of the federation in
session here that Robert J. Aitken, of
New York, the sculptor commissioned
to fashion the $4,000 Samuel Com
pers memorial, had made considerable
progress on the work. The memorial
will be unveiled in Washington in
October. 1888.