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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

of the plight of labor under the oper-
alton of currency imitation and the
enactment of the agricultural bill.
Labor realizes that an acute stu
alton is being developed as result of
these economic, financial and legisla-
tive proposals. Government workers
who are passing thruogh a period of
wage defation and of increasing un-
employment, through dismissals from
the service and impending dismissals,
have had no opportunity to readjust
themselves to their changed financial
and economic status.
Part-Time Toilers Worst Hit
"The effect of these proposed
changes upon the millions of part
time workers will be most injurious
Part time work means part-time pay.
They have already suffered a double
reduction part of which is reflected
in reduced wages and the other part
in reduced working time. An increase
in commodity prices will add very
difficulties of the group of working
men and women.
"The millions who are unemployed
will also be seriously effected. I'm
less the relief allowance now being
made by relief agencies is increased
proportionate with the increase in
commodity prices the relief agencies
will be compelled to substantially re-
duce and in many instances withhold
the very small amount of relief now
being distributed among those who are
dependent and suffering. The prob
lem of supplying relief to the mil
lions who are in dire need has become
one of the most serious problems
facing our people.
Wages Must Rise First
GAS matter of sound public policy,
as well as of justice, an increase in
wages should precede an increase in
commodity prices. Unless this is done
the consuming power of the people
will be lowered rather than increased
through the adoption of a policy of
currency imitation.
"The members of the executive
council are determined to safeguard
the interests of the wage earners by
insisting upon increases in wages i'm
mediately. The deleterious effect of
currency imitation upon the social and
economic life of working people can
only be offset through increases in
wages and through an increase in
mass purchasing power throughout
the nation.
"We propose to call upon labor to
begin the figh Immediately for wage
increases and to use such legitimate
influence and power as may be at
their command to bring about the
restoration of the buying power of
the masses of the people"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
STOCK MARKET
Activity Provides Work For
Long Idle Telegraphers

New York City (ILNS)-Renewed
activity in the stock market is bring
ing back men who have in many cases
been idle as long as two years.
Some of Americas most skilled
Morse telegraphers are going back to
work in brokerage shops.
Some of these men show up at
division headquarters plainly showing
the loss Of weight and the lines of
worry. They show up, too, in clothes
that are worn and often patched,
eager for a call to work trick.
If they are called at all it means
a minimum Of $10-more money than
many Of them have seen in months.
In New York alone many men are
again f1inging orders over the wires
at rate as high as 400 an hour
men who haven't touched key since
the great deflation came. They know
all about "defation."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

THOSE golfers who And their hands
L and wrists tire quickly after 4 few
holes Of golf might try duplicating
Sarazen's method Of Strengthening
these members. Gene lately has en-
ployed 4 80 ounce driver In practice
which has added endurance and power
to his arms and fingers. Az 4 result
he was as fresh during the flnishing
rounds of the British and American
opens as he was at the start; az his
low scores for these rounds reveal.
Swung like a weight, the heavy club
adds smoothness to the swing for 1t
must be swung evenly. There 10 little
chance for stab. Later, using his
regular clubs which felt light In his
hands, Sarazen was able to add con-
siderable yardags to his tee shots.
It also helped his touch and swing
with the shorter shots for II gave
him q better conception and control
Of power In the hands ana wrists.
.. 1883. Bell syndioats.-wru ssrvios
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Green and Swope Advocate
Bill For Thirty-Hour Week
House Committee Told Work Hours Must Be Reduced
Citing Increasing Unemployment, Labor Head En-
phaszes Need of Passing Restrictive Legislation.

Washington, d. c. (ILNS)-Repre-
sentatives of organized industry and
organized labor stood shoulder to
shoulder in urging restrictive meas
ures to curb unemployment, increase
the buying and consuming power of
the nation, and establish a minimum
base under the wages of women and
children employed in industry.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Gerard Swope, president of the Cen
eral Electric Company, defined before
the house labor committee the steps
in connection with the pending Black
restriction of hours bill through which
industrial balance and equilibrium
may in their judgment be restored.
Mr.. Green favored reduction of
hours of employment, and also sug-
gested that controlled production be
undertaken "as an experiment" He
expressed his opposition to govern
ment controlled and fixed wages, ex-
cept as minimum for women and
children.
Mr.. Swope said that his company
with 10000 employees is operating now
on less than 30 hours of work week
for each employe.
Swope For Minimum Wage
I'VE have spread out the work, T"
he continued, land each employe is
at least able to take care of his fam
ily. | favor minimum wage for
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

women and children, and | think it
should apply as well to unskilled la
Dor. | think if minimums for each
of them is established, the wages of
more skilled classes of labor will take
care of themselves"
Mr.. Swope asserted that the most
serious threat to American industry
at the moment is the importation of
foreign goods as a result of depre-
ciated currencies of other countries.
II do not think" he added, "that re-
duction of hours of work in other
countries would make much differ
ence. A Japanese laborer turning out
1000 or 1000 machine made articles
in day is paid from three to six
cents day. The element of labor
cost in each one of those articles is
so small that it makes little differ
ence whether he is paid his present
wage or twice his present wage, or
whether his hours of labor are ex-
tended or reduced"
Mr.. Swope pointed out that the
severe difficulty confronting 'big
industry" in this country today is the
small and more or less irresponsible
employer who has reduced his wages
and number of employees to the low
est possible point, and has under
cut both wages and prices of those
industries which have sought to keep
men employed and assist them in sur
viving the depression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
BY B. C. CLARKE

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Unpre-
dented powers in the federal govern
ment to control private industry, in
cluding regulation and restriction of
hours of labor, the fixing of minimum
wages, and supervision of production
and marketing in interstate COM
merce, were urged this week by Sec
retary of Labor Frances Perkins be-
fore the house committee on labor.
Miss Perkins appeared in support of
her substitute measure for the Black
restriction of hours bill, which has
already passed the senate.
Interested auditors sitting just be-
hind Miss Perkins as she spoke to
the committee were Mrs. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt and Miss Ishbel
Mcdonald, daughter Of Prime Minis
ter Ramsey Mcdonald, of Great
Britain.
Miss Perkins said that her substi-
tute bill is intended to increase en-
ployment and the volume Of goods
moving in interstate commerce, and
should be considered as an effort to
increase work and the total purchas-
ing power of American communities.
"There has been great shrinkage
in goods moving in interstate COM
merce," said Miss Perkins, land due,
| think, to the decline in the purchas-
ing power of the people. An increase
in this purchasing power is the key
to economic recovery"
She cited the decline in the car
loading of railroads and other statis-
tics to indicate the fluctuations in in
dustrial activity during the depression
as compared with the years prior to
1880. Total earnings of the people,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Jersey Governor Asks State
Milk Board to Fix Prices

Trenton, N. J.-Governor Moore in
a special message asked the legisla-
ture to hurry the creation of state
board to control the New Jersey milk
industry, with an investment of $75,-
100000 and an annual output of $22,-
100000, imperiled, he says, by price
war and the passage recently of a
price control measure in the neighbor
state of New York.
Milk prices in New Jersey, Cover
nor Moore says, have fallen below the
cost of production, and he fears fur
ther declines will be caused by
flood of milk from other states.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Miss Perkins Urges Proposed
Labor Bill as Employment Aid
Secretary of Labor Defends Plan to Give Unprecedented
Power to Government for Control of Hours, Wages,
and PrOductOn-Insists Working Time Must Be Cut.

she said, have fallen more than en-
ployment, indicating that wage
slashing epidemics over the country
have taken heavy toll in purchasing
power.
She~did not attribute, the decline in
wage levels to the large and represen-
tive employers in various industries,
but pointed out that they have been
victims with the general public of the
unscrupulous and selfish employers
hanging generally on the fringe of
industry and ruthlessly slashing
wages regardless of the effect upon
buying power or the economic well-be-
ing of the nation.
Wage levels today as result of
wage slashing efforts, she insisted,
have fallen below reasonable stand
ards of compensation and living. She
expressed the belief that normal
standards and levels of wages upon
which restoration of buying power
depends can be accomplished only
through the agency of governmental
power.
Hours of labor, she insisted, must
be reduced, but based on sliding
scale, with $50 hours as the basic
figure. In some instances, she con-
tinued, skilled or 'key" employers
would work larger number of hours
in order that other employees might
have 80 hours of work.
Hours of employment have in
creased, and wage levels have declin-
ed more, in those industries in which
employees are not organized, or have
had no opportunity for organization,
than in industries where labor unions
and principles of collective bargaining
are in operation, she said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Three-Day Celebration
of Markham's Birthday

New York City (ILNS)-Edwin
Markham, noted poet and author of
"The Man With the Hoe" celebrated
his 81st birthday on April % by
speaking at All Souls Universalist
Church, Brooklyn. The address open
ed three-day celebration in Mark
hams honor in New York and Brook
lyn. He received hundreds Of con-
gratulatory kilograms, among them
one from President Roosevelt, who
said: "Best wishes to you, Edwin
Markham, poet of the people, on your
81st birthday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

ganized as Chapter 140 of the Asso-
ciated Master BARRIERS of America.
The master BARRIERS have refused to
display the union shop card, pay the
union scale of wages or in any way
recognize the union. The union asks
all trade unionists to patronize only
shops showing the union shop card,
which is in five colors. Visiting trade
unionists are urged to give a wide
berth to "open shop" beauty and bar
ber shops, list of which can be OBJ
tanned from union headquarters, 3745
West Pine Boulevard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

ing of rayon and other synthetic
yarns to 20 per cent in mems cloth
ing.
The decreases in women's average
weekly earnings in manufacturing in
dustries between December, 1881, and
December, 1882, was 16 per cent in
New Yorkf and 26 per cent in Hi
nois Since for the same period mems
earnings in manufacturing had drop
ped 13 per cent in New York and 19
per cent in Illinois, women had suf-
fered greater losses.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Executive Council Urges
Workers to Demand More Paw
Wage Farmers to Be Vicmized if Prices Rise and Wages
Remain Stationary at Present Levels Labor Points
Out

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Organ-
lied labor is determined to safeguard
sisting upon immediate increases in
wages as prices rise with initiation OF
the currency, the executive council OF
the American Federation of Labor
in session at Washington, declared
''The deleterious effect of currency
imitation upon the social and economic
life of working people can only be
Offset through increases in wages and
through an increase in mass purchas-
ing power throughout the nation,
the executive council said.
Gas a matter of sound public pol
icy, as we'll as of justice, an increase
in wages should precede an increase
in commodity prices" the council fur
ther said. "Unless this is done the
consuming power of the people will
be lowered rather than increased
through the adoption of policy of
currency initiation"
Imitation Policy Assailed
The declaration of the council
placed the A. F. of L. as squarely op-
posed to the administration farm
bill and currency imitation policy un-
less wages also rise. The declaration
in full, as announced by President
William Green, follows:
"The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor is
fully appreciative of the fact that the
new policy of currency imitation just
announced by the administration is
matter of moment and of grave I'M
portance to labor. In operation ii
will seriously affect the economic and
social welfare of the masses of the
people. An increase in the price OF
articles which enter into living costs
is bound to follow the Inauguration of
currency imitation. In fact, the pri-
mary purpose of initiation is to ele-
vate price levels and to increase
commodity prices.
obviously, labor will be at de-
cided disadvantage if commodity
prices increase and wages remain
stationary at the depressed level tc
which they have been forced through
the pusuit of wage defiation policy
The buying power of the masses OF
the people has been greatly reduced
through the imposition of reductions
in wages. 1t has already reached the
point where the workers are unable
to buy either in quantity or in fire.
quency.
Buying Power Further Menaced
eff prices are to be driven upward
through currency imitation the very
limited buying power of the masses
of the people will be further curtail-
ed. This is especially true because il
is reasonable to conclude that the
price Of the necessities of life will
increase under the inspiration and in.
fluence of currency imitation.
when there is added to this plan
the further proposal to increase the
price of agricultural products through
the imposition of tax to be collected
by professors of farm products, which
will add very greatly to an increase
in the cost of living of the masses OF
the people, we have a full realization
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
FACTORY WOMEN
Now Earn Less Than Living
Pay, Probe Shows

Washington, d. c. (lLNS)-Ihe
average factory woman who still has
a job today is earning less than a
living wage, Mary Anderson, director
of the Women's Burean, United States
Department of Labor, declared.
even before the depression many
women failed to earn enough to live
on" she said, "but today more and
more women are falling into this
plight, as result not only of part
time schedule in many plants, but
of heavy cuts in rates"
Miss Anderson's statement was
based on facts as to the weeks earn
ings of women in various industries
and localities in 1881 or 1882, col
lected by the Women's Bureau and
other agencies.
Figures Tell Story
Typical figures cited for full-time
women workers investigated by the
Women's Bureau were the medians of
$1O.4O for women in Texas industries;
of $965 and $1295, respectively, for
women in South Carolina ndMaine
cotton mills: of between $5 and $6
for women who had put in over 48
hours of work in certain runaway
garment factories in Connecticut, as
against $14.05 for women with rec
ord of 30 hours or more in all the
Connecticut clothing plants studied.
"These wages seem shockingly
low when it is realized that in
each case half the women re-
ceived less than the median speci-
fed" Miss Anderson explained.
Moreover, they represent higher
pay than the average woman at
present in such factories in these
states can expect, since she is
not likely to secure full weeks
work"
A fairer picture of women's earn
ings in industry, in Miss Anderson's
opinion, is the median for all women
included in a survey, irrespective of
the hours worked. In Texas, for ex-
ample, median of only SITS for a
representative week was found for
the total number of women investi-
gated-over $4,000 in the 270 fac
tories, stores and laundries visited in
1882.
Sweatshop Pay Spreads
Recent data from Louisiana: and
Georgia factories making mems work
clothing also reflect the spread OF
sweatshop wages. The following
medians for a representative week
were reported: $500 for 600 women
in New Orleans; $3.50 for 1900 wo-
men in Atlanta, Savannah and Macon;
$6.7O for 1,5O0 women in other
Georgia towns. In firms paying the
lowest wages in this last group, were
so women for whom the median was
only $2.95.
Serious declines in women's earn
ings in the past two years are re-
vealed by information from several
other sources. Seven special indus
tries surveyed by the Federal Bureau
of Labor Statistics show decreases in
women's earnings from 1880 to 1882,
ranging from Ia per cent in the max
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
LABOR PAPER 26 YEARS OLD

Minneapolis, MINI. (ILNS)-The
Labor Review, which is
owned and operated by the labor
movemente of Minneapolis, is cele-
brating its Goth anniversary. 1t was
one of the first labor publications
to be owned by the labor movement
instead of private individual.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Wages Must Go Up to Offset
Initiation, A. F. OF L. Declares

Spencer was an organizer and later
general secretary of the United AS
sociation of Plumbers and Steam
Filters of the United States and
Canada. He was born in Canada, but
spent most of his life in the United
States. He leaves son and daughter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
St. Louis Union BARRIERS
Fight "Open Shop" Drive

St. Louis, Mo. (ILNS)-Beauty
Culturists' and BARRIERS Local No.
102, Journeymen BARRIERS Interna-
tional Union of America, is fighting
against an 'open shop" campaign de-
clared by the employing BARRIERS, or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05
Labor Executive
Dies Suddenly

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Wil-
liam ]. Spencer, long secretary
treasurer of the building trades de-
partment of the American Federation
of Labor, died suddenly on April "a
at his home in Wheatland, Md. He
was 65 years old.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-05

| have learned by experience that
it costs something to speak out, but
the man who maintains an interested
and pusilanimous reticence is not a
faithful servant.-Farrar.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
5000 MEMS SHIRTS

look at this for bgan Fast good quality oadoth shirts
eah Colarachd white
Neckband style in white Sizes 1872 to 18-Street Floor
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
CANADA HALTS
TOUR GOUG|NG

QUEBEC.-Partly as the result
Of an educational campaign car.
ried on by provincial hotel of
ficials, and partly because of the
depression, United States tourists
are no longer being "gouged" by
hotelkeepers in the province of
Quebec, and numerous instances
are cited of tourists being able to
obtain sleeping accommodation
for as little as so cents in country
places, and breakfast for 35 cents.
Formerly tourists were charged
as much as the traffic could bear,
even in Quebec and Montreal, it
being figured that even if they
paid through the nose, the hotel
keeper would be the gamer, since
they might never return.
Educational methods, however,
have changed all this, together
with warnings that if such prac-
tices were followed, beer and
wine licenses, one of the main
sources of revenue in big cities,
would be Cancelled.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
.LEH|GH HONORS
D,C.STUDENTS

Two Washingtonians, William
A. johnson and J. M. Clark, stu
dents at Lehigh University, Beth
lehem, Pa, have been honored at
the annual Founders Day cere-
mony.
Four honorary degrees were
conferred upon Johnson, one of
the highest ranking students at
the university.
The awards to Johnson includ-
ed: Wilbur scholarship for the
best sophomore record, medal for
mathematics efficiency, medal for
work in metallurgical engineering
and medal for general sophomore
honors. The latter medal was
awarded to Clark also.
The exercises were in memory
of the schools founder, the late
Judge Asa Packer.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Cries of Victim
Frighten Off Thug

A colored thug was frightened
away last night by the calls of his
victim for help, it was reported
to police today by Harry Selinger:
700 block Allison St., N. w. Sell
niger said the man, armed with a
pistol. stopped him at New Hamp-
shire Ave. and Princeton Place
N. w., and ordered him to put up
his hands. Instead Selinger yelled
for help and the would be robber
field in an automobile.
Jordan c. Bergens, colored, 900
block P st. N. W., was held up
last night by three colored men
who overpowered him in the 1900
block Ninth st. N. w., and took
86 cents from his pockets.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
Broken Hip in Fall
Fatal to Vets Wife

Her hip fractured when her
cane caught in her slipper and
threw her to the ground, Mrs.
Jennie Smith, 81, Of Colonial
Beach, died yesterday in Gal
linger Hospital.
Mrs. Smith came to Washing
ton in July to be near her hus-
band, who is i'll at Soldiers
Home, and was staying at the
home of Mrs. Millie Boyden, 1900
block Quincy st. N. w., where
she suffered the fatal fall July g..
She was taken to Gallinger after
treatment at Garfield Hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-10-05
JOHNSON SPURS
CAMPAIGN To
BUY NOW
Universal Service


Advertise, and help the public
find the goods it needs, is the
message to industry today from
Hugh s. johnson, Recovery Ad-
nninistrator.
Citing statistics which prove
beyond all doubt that costs are
rising all along the line, the ad-
ministrator emphasized now is
the time to buy" and urged CO.
operation in the buying campaign
launched by the Hearst news
papers and taken up by the NRA.
Pay Rolls Up
johnson said factory employ
ment was up "a per cent during
August, compared with August,
1882; payrolls 40 per cent; steel
ingot production 245 per cent,
while business failures decreased
47 per cent. He said:
V1CW tACSC uCNCAOP~
ments, we believe that the Op-
perfume moment is at hand
for American industry to bend
every effort toward increased
sales.
"In order to increase sales
ut the present moment, we be-
lieve that two courses of ac-
tiOn are absolutely essential.
They are: First, give the pub
lie attractive, up-tO-date mer-
chandise, fairly priced, and,
second, aggreSSively promote
your products to the public.
FOR TRANSIT DRIVE
american industry must
help the public to find the
goods it needs. The modern
method is advertising. The
American public looks to adver-
4ising for news of good mer-
ehandise and good values"
Meanwhile the transit indus
try was enlisted to aid the cam
paign.
The message will be brought to
the 100000 riders of electric
railways and motor busses by card
displays in the $4,000 convey
ances. The campaign will get
under way Monday with the pro-
gram utilizing all media to in
duce the consumer to BUY Now"
to his own advantage.