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Evening star., 1932-05-27
Grain Market
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. May 27.-Unoficial esti-
mates that the United States would have
a carryover Of 400,000,0OO bushels CT
wheat on July / had bearish effect
late today
A wheat carryover of that size would
be IS .000, 900 bushels more than was the
case year previous Many traders were
inclined to take pre-holiday attitude
pending monthly private crop sum-
maries due early next week.
Wheat closed unstable, % to "a under
yesterdays finish; corn unchanged to
4 to as lower; oats unchanged to Il
up, and provisions unchanged to a rise
Evening star., 1932-05-27
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, May 81 R)-Following
is the complete official list OF transac-
tions in stocks on the Chicago Stock
EychanQe today.
Evening star., 1932-05-27
BALTIMORE STOCKS.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE. May 81

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE. May 81
SaleS STOCKS. Last sales.
s. Arundel Corpnra' ion ........... II
36 Atlantic Coast Line Conn. II
Is Black & Dec'ler com ........... ?
100 Commercial C~edt com .....,.. "a
AZ Consolidated Gae com asa
"nsolidat Gas s., cum Dfd A. %
a. Emerson Brrmn-Solt7er A com. "a
? Fidelity & Deposit Co.......... 20
e Houston Oil pfd fd................ 3
Aaryland Cesusltv Co. ......... .?94
~ Now ap,ete-dan, Gas Co . "a
Pa wpter & Power. 3o",
oU S Fidelity & Guaranty. ..~... 2'S
BONDS
1o00 United Rwy Elec lst 4s..... 1874
0e8 United Rwy & Elec IS 1919. l534
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15

preston resulting from general
wage cutting.
Furthermore, it should be recogniz-
ed that the rank and file of public
employees did not receive pay in
creases during the boom years after
the war at all comparable with the
increases given to the workers in
commerce and industry. A large per-
centage are still under the maximums
that have been set for years and many
still at the minimums. For instance
there are scores of clerks and stem
ographers who are receiving $50 q
month who are so capable that, had
they entered private employment
they would now be earning much
more. Many are donating definite
percentage of their salaries to relief
agencies.
The reduction of salaries of the
rank and file of public employees
clerks, teachers, police, firemen, etc
not only is short-sighted and un.
sound economic policy that would en-
courage general wage cutting ane
therefore delay the stabilization OF
prices so essential to business recov-
cry, but an unfair one that woulc
adversely affect the morale of the
personnel.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
PRESSMEN'S UNION
HEADS REELECTED

Pressmen's Home, Tenn. (ILNS)-
Headquarters of the International
Printing Pressmen and Assistants
Union of North America announces
reelection of George L. Berry as
president and other officers for four
year terms.
On final returns, all officers were
renominated, which constitutes cleo
tion without opposition, the announce
ment said,
Vice presidents reelected are Will
liam H. McHugh, Kansas City; Shu-
ford B. Marks, Chicago; P. j..
O'Donnell, Detroit, Mich, and George
R. Brunei, Montreal, Canada.
Joseph c. Orr, Pressmen's Home,
was reelected secretary-treasurer.
. Home and school trustees included
Norbert Berger, Buffalo, N Y; Otto
Huber, Denver; James H. Brooks,
Portland, Oregon; E. Curtis White,
Indianapolis; j. Herbert de la Rosa.
San Francisco; R. A. Dickson, Wash
ington, D. c.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
HALF-THOUSAND
Labor Laws Enacted Dur.
ing Past Year

New York City (ILNS)-More than
500 laws for the benefit of the wage
earners were enacted in 1881, accord
ing to a summary by the American
Association for Labor Legislation.
Five more states adopted old age
pension laws, bringing the total of
those abolishing the poorhouse to IL.
In addition four other states took
steps looking to old age pension laws,
two advancing constitutional amend
ments to permit such legislation and
two others appointing commissions to
study the subject. Six states
strengthened or supplemented exist
ing laws during the year.
Following passage of the Wagner
act for advance planning of public
works eight states created commits
sions to investigate the subject. Six
states made provisions for additional
state employment offices. Six states
provided for more strict regulation of
fee-charging employment agencies
Many states passed laws providing
direct assistance to the unemployed
and expansion of public works.
Wisconsin adopted a labor code
which provides for freedom of collec
tive bargaining, bans yellow dog con
tracts and strictly limits labor injunc.
tions. Arizona, Colorado, Ohio anc
Oregon similarly banned yellow dog
contracts, and Pennsylvania restrict
ed labor injunctions.
Numerous states made their work
mems compensation acts more liberal
New Mexico created state labor de.
partment for the first time, and
Georgia and North Carolina reorgan-
lied their labor departments to pro-
vide more efficient administration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
SHORT Mill WEEK
Held Imperiled BY "Unso-
cial Practices" of Few

New York City (ILNS)-If few
mills continue to operate at night
there will be an end to the construc-
tive cooperation now said to be pre-
vailing in the textile industry, George
A. Sloan, president of the Cotton
Textile Institute, declared in letter
to Walter S. Clifford, head of the
Presidents Organization on Unem-
ployment Relief.
Sloan told Clifford that few mills,
practicing "uneconomic and unsocial
policies" have ignored recommended
tions to shorten the work week and
eliminate night work for women and
minors. He contended that the short
work week has been widely adopted
and that "a per cent of the industry
is not employing women and minors
at night.
"You can well appreciate the feel
ing that such action arouses in some
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
By JOSEPH A. WISE

Chicago (ILNS)-To the man OF
the street in Chicago it seems that
there is something cock-eyed anc
screwy with the administration of the
federal law in this vicinity.
One day Federal Judge Charles E
Woodward sells the entire assets OF
the defunct brokerage house Of H. O.
Stone & Co. for $137,500 Several
thousand creditors, having claims ag.
gregating $14,500,0OO, will get moth.
ing, it was announced. Nothing was
said in reference to prosecution, de-
spite the fact that the lurid and SEN
sational career of the wrecked firm
involved the sale of $30,O00,000 ir
bonds later found to be of little OF
no value.
The following evening band OF
husky federal agents swooped down
on a night club and pinched Texas
Guinan and her 'little girls" wher
two quarts of bourbon were found or
the premises. Furnishings alleged to
be worth $4,000 were destroyed OF
carted off, it is said.
1t is current gossip along the Chi
cago Rialto and among local poll
ticians that La Guinan was raided be-
cause she had been wisecracking
against President Hoover in her radio
broadcasts.
Bank LOOters Still at Large
Boss bankers of La Sale street
hired armored trucks and hundreds OF
armed men to aid in looting neigh
borhocd banks of millions upon mil
lions of dollars in cash and securities
last June. Hundreds of thousands OF
honest, Woodworking, thrifty citizens
were plunged into poverty through
these high-handed operations. The
culprits are still at large.
The average man or woman in this
town finds it hard to understand why
it is no crime for the wolves of La
Sale street to rob million citizens
of their hard-earned savings, and yet
is terrible crime, to be avenged with
the utmost rigor of the law, wher
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15

mill centers where the workers have
meager employment or no work at
all" he wrote.
Moreover" he added, "this prac-
tice of excessive operation is leading
to unrest and encouragement on the
part of the more enlightened mill ex-
ecutives, who have been striving to
promote the industry's welfare, to
stabilize employment, and thus to
minimize distress.
IF few mills persist in practicing
uneconomic and unsocial policies
Thereby preventing the much desired
spread of unemployment this type of
destructive leadership undoubtedly
will be followed by others with the
inevitable recurrence of the peaks of
overproduction and the valleys of un-
employment that have made cotton
textile conditions in this respect so
difficult in years gone by"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
PAY CUTS
Prolong Hard Times, Labor
Commissioner Declares

BY COL. CHARLES R. BLUNT
Commissioner of Labor of New Jersey
The question of the advisability of
reducing the salaries of public en-
ployes-national state, county and
municipal-should be considered in
two ways: AS broad economic ques-
tion of public policy.
Early in the present extended pc
riod of depression / took stand
against wage cuts. 1t is my firm
belief that while the average sum in
the pay envelopes Of wage earners
is on the decline the end of the de-
preston will not be in sight.
For wage cuts enter into prices
and only hand-to-mouth buying for
bare current needs will be the order
of the day, from the smallest retail
purchase to the largest wholesale and
Industrial orders, until those respon-
sible for the family pocketbooks and
factory budgets are convinced that
prices are at rockbottom and will
henceforth advance, however slowly.
Therefore, every employer who puts
a wage cut into effect is helping to
lengthen the depression as well as
reducing aggregate purchasing power
which also affects business conditions
Impetus will be given to general
wage cutting if governmental units
start reducing salaries. This would
certainly extend the period during
which public funds must be used fol
relief of the unemployed. 1t is very
probable that the money saved BY
salary reductions would not equal the
extra amounts that would be required
by the extension of the period of de.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15

With 80 per cent idle in December,
unemployment among trade unionists
has reached a new peak, the Amer
ican Federation of Labor reports.
The figure is the highest in the four
years the federation has been COM
piling monthly unemployment rec
ords.
Trade union unemployment is re-
vealed as increasing even more from
November to December than in the
serious unemployment crisis of last
winter. A statement issued at A. F..
of l.. headquarters said:
"Our preliminary weighted figures
for the first part of December show
an increase of II per cent in the
membership unemployed, compared to
Z per cent last year. This is large
increase, and if taken as representa-
tive of all workers in industry, it
means that from November l to De-
cember /, $4,000 persons were laid
off. This increase in unemployment
serious as it was, however, was not
larger than in any year since 1928 and
1929 In agriculture, the layoffs last
month were larger than in any year
since 1925. In all about 100000 per-
sons lost their jobs on farms.
Million More J0bless
"Thus in this one month alone,
nearly one million have been added to
the number out of work. We cannot
think of this crisis with equinamity,
knowing the suffering it means and
knowing that thousands of children
will come through this winter per-
manently handicapped from hunger,
undernourishment and illness. Funds
in the Golfers of charity organizations
are not enough. They will have to be
supplemented by municipal finances.
Unions are urged to do all in their
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
WHAT NEXT?

A new aluminium rail hopper car
has just been built for the Aluminium
Co. of America which is sal dto have
21 200 pounds in weight and to have
lower maintenance costs than steel
cars, due to the non-corrosive quail
ties of aluminium. The car, Of 70-tor
capacity, is on the pattern of steel
car, but its body and underframe are
of aluminium alloy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15

Employment is the only cure for
unemployment. Yet the bald fact re-
means that regardless of whatever
Improvement may occur in general
business conditions, we are entering
the third winter of severe unemploy-
ment without seeing put into actual
operation any statesmanlike or con-
structive program to provide work for
any but a small minority of the idle.
Public Works Urged
"We believe that immediate and
adequate appropriations should be
made available by national as well as
local governments for such needed
and useful public works as road con-
struction, development of parks, elm
ination of grade crossings, flood con-
troll projects, reforestation, and the
clearing of slum areas in our cities.
If such governmental program be
undertaken now, we will face the
months that lie ahead with prospects
of work for large number of the
unemployed and consequently in
creased purchasing power which will
stimulate all business. The economic
wisdom of this proposal has been at
tested by leading economists.
eve note with satisfaction the ten
dency to institute shorter work day
and week without reduction in wages
in the effort to solve the problem OF
chronological unemployment.
Social Insurane Asked
"Society's responsibility for the
| preservation of human values in in.
| dustrial life makes the principle Of
| social insurance, particularly insur.
ance against unemployment and want
in old age, an indispensable part OF
sound social policy and the most self.
respecting form of relief We pro
test against the misleading use of the
word dole to describe systems OF
unemployment insurance.
eve affirm our belief in the neces.
sity of more equitable distribution
of wealth and income which woult
increase purchasing power and tenc
to balance production and consump
tion. We, therefore, particularly de-
plore indiscriminate wage cuts at this
time as socially unjust and tending tc
intensity bitterness and industrial un
rest, and still further to lower the
purchasing power of the masses.
Planning Advocated
"We hold that it is now time that
the engineering principle Of planning
which has been so successfully intro
duced into individual factories shoult
be extended to the control of entirs
industries and of industry in general
The suggestions made by Mr.. GerarG
Swope are welcome indication of the
awareness of some of our industria
| leaders of the necessity for some kline
of economic planning. Participation
of labor through representatives 0.
their own choosing and an equitable
| distribution of wealth and incom,
should be incorporated in any form O
national planning and control
"The principle Of cooperative plan
ming must be extended also to worlt
economic relations including balance.
of production, consumption and ex
change, access to raw materials, ques
tions of tariffs, movement Of gold, in
tergovernmental war debts, and th
economic waste Of armaments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
Uncle Sam Hounds E'Booties"
AS Bank Looters Go Scot Free
Man in Street Unable to Understand Why Federal Gov
ernment DevOtes So Much Energy to Little Liquor
Sellers While Big "Publc Enemies Escape Pun
ishment

Tex Guinan and her gang manufac.
ture little synthetic joy to cheer ur
the people Of Chicago whom the inter
national bankers (and not Tex) have
played for suckers.
The man on the street is of the
opinion that Uncle Sam and the state
of Illinois could with great profit join
in emptying the prisons of Volstead
law violators and fill the vacated cells
with La Sale street bankers and
brokers. A bootlegger is white
winged angel Of virtue in comparison
with a bank looter.
Closing Follows Opening
An international trade union officer
tells of an interesting happening in
his home neighborhood in this city.
Officers of three little banks
thought it would be great idea to
pool their resources and have one big
bank. This was done. There was q
grand opening, with flowers and
music and much good fellowship on q
Saturday night and a grand closing
on Monday morning. This new ar
rangement did not suit the''big shots
of La Sale street, and the wrecking
crew was put on the job.
A big, powerful banker can stick
up little banker and rob him of all
he has and get away with it. Federal
agents, working in conjunction with
Illinois police officers, can and do vio-
late the sanctity of home, under au-
thority of the search and seizure law
of this state, upon the mere suspicion
that there is bottle of hooch on the
premises.
public Enemies" High Up
In the face of this paradoxical con-
dition of law enforcement, there is
much hypocritical wonderment in
high places over disrespect for the
law and the courts.
The most dangerous public ene-
mics" are not to be found in the un-
derworld. The public enemies" high
in the financial and industrial world
are very largely responsible for the
heavy flow of recruits to the under
world.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
Joint Statement Urges Necessity Of Higher Wages
Protestant Catholic and Jewish Organizations Declare
Relief is Not Enough and Demand Adoption of
Heroic Measures.

New York City (ILNS)-Calling
for "heroic measures" to meet the
menace of unemployment, bodies rep
resenting the Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish religions, in joint statement,
deplore pay cuts, declare their belief
in the necessity of higher wages and
call upon national and local govern
ments to inaugurate and push pro
grams of road construction and other
public works. Employment is the
only cure for unemployment" it is
asserted.
The statement approves the ten
dency to institute the shorter work
week and day without wage reduc-
tions, and endorses the principle Of
economic planning. Labor should par
ticipate in any system of national
planning and control, the statement
says.
Statement Held Important
The social service commission of
the Federal Councils of the Churches
of Christ in America, the department
of social action of the National Cath
olic Welfare Conference, and the So
cial justice commission of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis is
sued the statement Representatives
of the three organizations, Protest
ant, Catholic and Jewish, Rev. James
Myers, Rev. R. A. MCGOWAN and
Rabbi Edward L. Israel, interpreted
the statement as having extraordi-
nary significance and profund public
import. They said that the unpara-
lelleled human need of the present
winter and the urgency of adequate
steps not only for relief but for con-
structive economic reorganization had
impelled the three organizations tc
adopt the exceptional procedure Of
drafting and issuing joint declara-
ton on phases of the relief, reduction
and prevention of unemployment.
"Relief Not Enough"
The present document is the first
joint statement of the three organiza-
tions on the subject. The statement
follows:
ssThe commission on the church anc
special service of the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America
and the social action department Of
the National Catholic Welfare Con.
ference and the social justice com
mission of the Central Conference Of
American Rabbis heartily commend
the movement for relief Of the victims
of unemployment and feel assured
that all faiths may be counted upor
for generous support of unemploy
ment relief this winter as in the past
but at the same time they express
their conviction that relief is no
enough. The very assistance o.
church forces in immediate relief
measures makes increasingly impera
tive their moral duty to challenge the
social injustices which have made re
lief necessary. We must recognize
that the community relief plans as a
present proposed or even supplement
tary federal appropriations which i
seems to us will be needed to meet the
problem of unemployment, are in eff
feet nothing but a temporary dole-s
palliative, not solution. Such reliel
| is in fact grossly inadequate to pre-
vent tragic decentralization of indi
vidual and family life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
ldleness Grows Among Trade
Unionists at New High Record
Thirty Per Cent Unemployed in December, American
Federation of Labor Monthly Report Reveals.

power to get immediate action for
relief.
"Our weighted figures show 21.8 per
cent of our own membership out of
work, the highest figure ever reached
in the four years of our records. This
compare with 1876 per cent out of
work in December last year. 1t is
even higher than at the peak of last
winters unemployment in January,
1881, when only 1913 per cent were
out. Unemployment is especially
serious in the six following indus
tries, where over 35 per cent are out
of work: Building $50 per cent) mu-
sicians (53 per cent?; clothing and
fertile trades (44 per cent?; manufac-
turing (37 per cent?; water transport
(37 per cent?; metal trades (35 per
cent?.
Situation Grows Worse
Unemployment on railroads has
risen steadily since May; in service
industries the increases have been
continual since August But for the
last month the greatest increases in
the number out of work We're in cloth
ing trades, manufacturing, among
musicians and in building trades.
Only three cities report any improve
ment in the employment situation;
19 show conditions worse than last
month, and in II of these the increase
was quite large"
The federation figures for per cent
of union members unemployed in De-
cember are:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15
Nations Three Great Church
Bodies Deplore Pay Slashes
Heroic Measures" Imperative

Unemployment is so devastating
IN its physical, mental and moral con-
sequences that the present conditions
constitute to our mind national and
international emergency which calls
for courageous social action and the
adoption of heroic measures adequate
to the gravity of the situation"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-01-15

Europe i'll at slump in tourist trade.
If we haven't the money we can't
come across.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-11-25
Kappa Phi Sigma
Luncheon Is Held Here

Miss Beulah Dove entertained the
members of Kappa Phi Sigma at a
delightfully."- appointed luncheon al
her home in Rockville.
The invited guests were: Mrs. Ed
gar Reed, Mrs. Ben Lanier, Mrs.
FCullum Barnsley, Mrs. Norman
Became, Mrs. Harry Hoskinson, Mrs.
Stella Martz, Mrs. Dan Louthan,
Mrs. Edwin Frye, Mrs. Davis Clag-
gett, Mrs. Otis Watkins, Mrs. Nor
man ingalls,, Mrs. Guy Watkins, Mrs.
Frank Higgins, Mrs. C. A. Groshorn,
Mrs. Leslie Cochran, Mrs. Norman
Ward, Mrs. A. Violet, Mrs. Jesse
Floyd, Mrs. John England, Mrs. Ella
Armstrong, Mrs. Porter Ward, Mrs.
Myrtle Brown, of Washington,
Misses Catherine Smith, Urna Poole,
Nellie Long, Daisy Magruder and
Mrs. Helen MaRett, Of Washington,
d. C.