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Evening star., 1933-12-26
Heart Attack Is Fatal.

Edward c. Walker, SO, found uncon-
scious in the basement of his home at
719 First street about 4:30 o'clock this
morning by his daughter, Miss Rose
Walker, was pronounced dead on ar
rival of a physician from Emergency
Hospital. Walker had been treated for
heart trouble recently
Evening star., 1933-12-26
PAGEANT TO BE REPEATED
Neighborhood House Pupils to
Give THE Nativity"

"The Nativity" presented last week
by pupils of the Neighborhood House
Music School, 470 N street southwest,
will be repeated Thursday at pm,
upon request, it was announced today
Mrs. Walter Bruce Howe is sponsor
of the music school. Miss Dorothy
Dixon Wright will direct the perform
ance. Percy Lee Atherton and Miss
Mary L. McQuade will receive the guests
on behalf of the Music Committee.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
CHILDREN TO PRESENT
"A LITTLE GRAY LADY"
Pupils of Estelle Allen Studios
will Give Christmas Play
Tonight.

"A Little Gray Lady," Christmas
play for children, will be presented by
the children Of the Estelle Allen Studios
at o'clock tonight In the studios, at
2l09 8 street.
Telling the story Of the dreams Of a
child who has been cross all day, the
various episodes, excepting a single
group of dance numbers, have been ar
ranged by the child players themselves
The participating children range from
to IL years Of age.
The young players include Mary God
dard, Betty Brine, June Robbins. Joan
Laporte, Edith johnson, Ruth Johnson
Wallace Nye. Phillip Warren, Clara
Alexander, Virginia Buford and Mar
garet West.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Colored Man Stabbed in Side.

Jerome Carter. colored, %. of the
1900 block Of Ninth street. was treated
at Providence Hospital last night for a
stab wound in his left side. Carter told
police he was stabbed by an unidentified
individual while asleep in house in the
900 block of Fourth street southeast.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Youth Knocked Off Bicycle.

Charles Rice, IA, of 3138 q street,
received an injury to his knee about
$50 last night when knocked off his
bicycle in the 1900 block of street
as result of a collision with an auto
mobile. He was given first aid at
GEORGETOWN Hospital and taken home.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Manger Fire May Be Fatal.

CINCINNATI. December 26 (P.-
Cotton used in a reproduction of a crib
with the Christ Child in the manger
ignited and set fire yesterday which
caused burns to Enrico Laza, As, which
may prove fatal.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
PLAN REUNION TONIGHT
Young People of Bnai Synagogue
to Hear Entertainers.

The Young Peoples League Of the
Bnai Israel Synagogue will hold a re-
union and party at Fourteenth and
Emerson streets at $50 o'clock tonight
An entertainment program will be
given by Lillian Conn. THE Three
Aces" Milton Levy and Sol Orleans
Refreshments will be served.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
CAPITALISTIC
Interests Back Fascism,
British Labor Told

London.-A solemn warning against
the danger of Fascism and a call tc
organized labor to fight the danger
with all the vigor and strength at its
command, were features of the pres
ident's address delivered by A. G
Walkden at the Trades Union Con
gress in Brighton.
Pointing out that the destruction
of freedom and democracy in Ger
many by the HitIerites is not an ex-
ceptional or isolated incident, Walk
den declared that evidence was ac-
cumulating to show that in many
countries there are ruthless and pow
erful influences at work with the same
end in view
"In my deliberate judgment" the
speaker said, organized labor is
faced now with a determined attempt
on the part of those who felt their
power slipping away from them to re
establish their dominance both in
politics and industry.
Democracy is assailed because it
was succeeding, not because it has
failed Political relationships have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

Give all thy terrors to the wind
Homer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

Life is measured by its attitude
rather than by its length.-Anon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
Proof of NRA Labor Section Evasion
Laid Before Recovery Administrator
UNION GROWTH
Bringing New Spirit To
Industrial Towns

Reading, Pa.-Union organization
is making gains in Pennsylvania not
thought possible few years ago and
IS rapidly changing the atmosphere
of the smaller industrial cities and
towns. Towns which have during the
past recade been absolutely closed to
union organizers, which have beer
rotten boroughs" in the political
sense, and which have been completely
feardominated in every department
of social activity, especially religious
and educational, are now almost over
night becoming new and interesting
communities.
With progress in union organization
the whole attitude of local police and
local authorities is changing Preach
ers, teachers and local business men
are developing the courage to express
their sympathies for the worker Per-
sons of independence, the man or girl
who refused to conform, were, in the
past, driven out of these towns either
by boredom or intimidation This
breaking of economic barriers must
spell a new sort of social and polit-
ical life for millions of wage earners
hitherto held down to a status which
was virtually feudal in all important
respects.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
LOCAL AGENCIES
Blamed By 1ckes For Public
Work Delays

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Reply-
ing to charges that the public works
program is not providing employment
with sufficient speed, Secretary of the
Interior Ickes, public works admins
traitor, told reporters "the major de
lays now are caused by the inability
of local agencies to put to work the
money we have already allotted"
"Some of these delays" he declared,
"are the result of political sniping
and others are due to the negligence
of municipalities in making applica-
tons"
Secretary Ickes denied emphatically
that there is bureaucracy or red tape
in the public works administration.
Referring to the charges that the
public works program is not putting
men to work, he said he was not going
to take this criticism Sitting down"
II have taken the telephone in hand
mySe1, ne auueu, III an attempt 10
stimulate public works in localities
which apparently were unable to get
them under way"
Public works officials say that out
side interferences are holding up
work. They class these as political
efforts to cause uneconomic expendi-
lures, inefficient applications, dilatory
tactics by recipients of funds in let
ting contracts, attempts of contrac-
tors to eliminate competitive bid
ding, failure of many communities to
find out what information and action
is required by the public works ad-
ministration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Labor
won sweeping victory as President
Roosevelt, signing the bituminous
coal code, eliminated clause "inter-
preting" Section Ia Of the recovery
act. Under the code, the entire soft
coal industry will be unionized.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, and
President John L. Lewis, of the
United Mine Workers of America, had
vigorously attacked the clause which
President Roosevelt eliminated.
The president declared clauses such
as the one to which labor objected
'led to confusion and misunderstand-
ing" and SHOULD not be incorporated
in codes of fair competition"
Labor Board Halts Code
Following the signing of the code,
the NRA Labor Advisory Board met
and statements were issued by Leo
w dStiiiS 1o eioii ihSAiy KIN
Green and Lewis.
II am glad that the long struggle
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica for recognition has at last been
successful through the orderly proc
esses of the NRA," said DR. Wolman.
THE United Mine Workers of
America will accept the code and
make every possible contribution to
make it effective" Lewis said.
"The American Federation of Labor
will cooperate with the United Mine
Workers of America in making the
code effective" said Green. "We are
especially pleased to note that Para
graph B of Article of the code has
been eliminated We construe this to
mean that Schedule B has been elm
mated entirely from the code.
Union Recognition Provided
The code provides for recognition
of the United Mine Workers, includ-
ing unionization of Southern West
Virginia and other adjacent fields 1t
is hailed as the greatest victory for
the miners union in many years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
Predict Biggest A. F. Of L.
Convention Since 1917
Great Meeting To Center Main Attention on NRA Dele
gates to Plan Strengthening of Recovery Act to Bring
More Employment.

Washington, D. C. ILNS)-With
another half million members to the
million already added, by the time its
convention opens here on October 2,
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, fore
cast the largest convention held since
N'aodrow Wilson addressed the war
time convention IN Buffalo in 1917.
eve hall have some important
revelations - make to the conven-
tion," President Green said. sour
executive council has just ad-
journed after having been in session
10 days, preparing its annSal report.
We have gone over the entire situa
ton, both as to organization of wol X
ers and the operation of the national
industrial recovery act.
Labor Not to be Stopped
81 want to make it clear, as our
councils report will make it clear,
that the American Federation Of
Labor is going to organize the un-
organized. By that l mean two
things:
First It is not going to be
stopped in its energetic and
sweeping campaign to bring
workers into unions throughout
the nation.
Second. It is going to con-
tinue to be, as it has been for
more than half a century, the
recognized, all-embracing spokes
man for American labor. That
means there is no room in the
United States for any other labor
movement.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

Washington, - Unmistakable proof
| that great corporations are striving
to defeat the collective bargaining
section of the national Industrial re-
covery act has been laid before Gen
Hugh S. Johnson, recovery admins
traitor, by President William Green,
of the American Federation of Labor.
Material submitted to General
johnson included two-score or more
of documents, which President Green
declared constituted definite evil
dence of astonishing evasions of the
law by great employers, some of them
SO bold and hostile to the letter and
spirit of the law that | am certain
the administrator must take immedi-
ate and drastic action"
Dupont Plan is Typical
Among the documents were many
that show that corporations are form
ing or seeking to form company un-
ions and to force their employees to
join Typical of the company union"
schemes was one submitted to it's
employees by the E. l. Dupont de
Nemours and Company of Delaware
and subsidiary companies. The plan,
as detailed in a pamphlet, provides for
the election of 'works councils" in
each plant, consisting of representa-
tives appointed by the management
an equal number of representatives
elected by the employees, a chairman
elected by and from the membership
of the works council" and a secre-
tary named by the management but
having no vote.
The Dupont plan sets forth that the
company shall provide suitable
places for meetings of the works
council and its committees" Another
provision says that employees attend
ing meetings of the "works council"
or any of its committees shall receive
their regular pay while absent from
work, "for such time as they are nee
essarily absent from work for these
purposes.
Plans Violate Law
"These provisions" President Green
said, together with that for company
representatives on the works coun-
cils,' brand them as in no sence bona
fide employe representation, and at
variance with the collective bargain
ing section of the recovery act. The
law in Section Ia guarantees the
right of employees to Organize and
bargain collectively through represen-
tatives of their own choosing and
further provides that they shall be
free from interference, restraint OF
coercion of employers of labor OF
their agents, in the designation of
such representatives.
A plan of "employe representation
proposed by the Mellon n-dominated
Aluminium Company of America and
its subsidiary companies is very sim
! liar to the Dupont plan. Works
councils" set up under the plan would
be composed of selected representa-
tives of the employees and an equal
number of appointed representatives
of the company. AS in the Dupont
plan, the Aluminium Company speci-
fies that the company shall provide
meeting places for the works coun-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
Labor Wins Big Victory
As Coal Code Is Signed
Unionizaton of All Buminous Fields Assured; Follow
ing Labor Heads Protest President Eliminates
Clause interpreting" Collective Bargaining Pro-
vision.

Machinery for the settlement of
labor disputes within the industry is
provided in the code. Trade terms
and equitable practices designed to
benefit operators, miners and the pub
lis are included.
Other terms of the code are: Maxi
mum working week of 40 hours, with
no employe permitted to work in ex-
cess of eight hours in one day
whether on tonnage or piece-work
basis. Exception is made for acci-
dents and emergencies. Compensa-
tion basis is minimum rate for inside
skilled labor, and rate for outside
common labor. Basic rate for Illinois
is SIS and $4.
Persons Under II Barred
Tonnage basis and miner compensa-
tion is on basis of either 1000 or
2,240 tons, as may be agreed, with
miners entitled to own checkweigh-
man. Miners to be paid in lawful
money or par check at option of op-
orators, with any deductions, if not
matter of agreement, to be in con-
formity with rules and regulations
prescribed by administrator. En-
ployes other than maintenance and
supervisory forces not to be required
to live in company owned houses, or
to trade at company owned stores.
No person under II years may be en-
ployed in a mine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

arisen in an attempt to stay its on
ward march Behind those dictator
ships capitalist interests seek to en-
trench themselves afresh Let me
point out to any who may doubt the
capitalistic connection with the new
tyranny that the first act of Fascism
is to suppress trade unionism, and the
next step is to destroy the political
organization of labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

You say you are union man; but
do you spend the money you earn
under union conditions for union
conditions for union-made commodi-
ties and the patronage of union
places ?--Conscience.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
President Green, of American Federation of
Labor, Presenting Mass of Documentary Evi-
dence Of Plain Violation of Spirit and Letter
of Law, Expresses Confidence General John
son Will Take Drastic Action.

ellis" and shall pay employees for the
time spent at meetings.
Schemes Forced on Workers
Plans similar to the two just men
toned and included in the documents
were offered by Remington Rand, Inc.
llion, N. Y; Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company, RCA Victor Company
Camden, N. j., and many others.
Evidence that company union"
plans are being forced on workers was
offered by letter to employees of the
Lamson & Sessions Company, Kent,
Ohio, manufacturers of bolts and nuts.
On the letterhead of the company
George S. Case, president, wrote
These officers consider that an en-
ploye representation plan is now de-
sirable and will inaugurate such a
plan August L." No mention is made
of consulting the employees on the es-
tablishment of the plan.
Tire Company DEGREES Council
The same kind of move was made
by the Pharis Tire & Rubber Com
pany, Newark, Ohio, whose general
manager, in statement to employees,
said:
"A few months ago we investigated
the factory council idea of the Unit
ed Rubber Company plant at De
troit, and have now practically COM
pleted similar plan for the opera
tors of our company /. The plan is
now used to perfection in many large
rubber and automotive industries and
is daily gaining merit"
Commenting further on the mate
rial submitted to, General Johnson
President Green said
"The documents offer clear evidence
that employers all over the nation
are doing their best to encourage a
spurious form of "employe represent
tation.' Most of the plans provide
for company representation on the
joint committees or councils. They
also provide that the committees or
councils shall meet on company prop
erty, during working hours ,and that
/ employees attending shall be paid for
their time.
Plans Branded Frauds
"Of course no real trade union
would do business that way Trade
unions meet outside working hours.
They do not meet on company prop
erty. There are no Representatives of
the employers present at these meet
ings.
ct is absurd to think that en-
ployes are organized of their own
free will, as provided for in Section
Ia of the recovery act, when they
meet under conditions established by
the company union plans. The EN-
ploye representation plans are frauds
from start to finish and labor holds
they are in direct violation of the law
We shall continue to fight, them
pointing out that they have nothing
in common with trade unions organ
lied by voluntary action of the
workers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
Code Proves Benefit
To Overworked Scribe

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Louis
Stark is the labor reporter for the
New York Times He put in 80 hours
of overtime trying to keep up with the
quick changes in the coal code nego-
tiations, thinking nothing of it. Re-
porters have always been accustom-
ed to long hours and take them as
matter of fact, when big story is
breaking. But the Times is evidently
living up to its promise under the
blanket code 1t Informed Stark he
would have to take a l2-day layoff,
with pay. Whereat great is the Won
derment of newspaper writer's.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29
WAGE INCREASE
ENDS SHOE STRIK E

Carthage, Mo.-An agreement to
give 200 women workers of the Carmo
Shoe Company here 32R per cent
increase over wages in effect prior to
August 3, when the presidents re-
employment agreement became effec-
tive ended a strike Of 500 workers in
the plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

I'm our convention we shall have
delegates representative of all of the
workers, elected and responsible only
to the membership of labor unions
The voice Of labor will be heard on
every vital public issue. However,
our main attention will be centered
upon hte recovery act in an effort
to strengthen its operation so as to
produce more employment and more
purchasing power"
Act Must Succeed
I'VE have no unduly optimistic pic
ture of the benefits of the recovery
act in terms of new employment up
to this time, but it is clear that the
recovery act is sound in principle
shat it has started the nation on the
upw2rd swing, and that it must sue
ceed, 70. the reason that its failure
means a Chaos that the nation can
not stand.
Not only are we co2cerned as to
reduction of work-hours pei week to
a level lower than the average thus
far fixed in codes, both temporary anu
permanent, and as to higher wage
levels than the average thus far es-
tablished, but we are concerned about
the question of adequate representa-
tion of labor in machinery created un-
der codes. Our convention may be
expected to express itself emphatic
ally on this question of representation
and to demand that in all of the new
machinery of industrial government
labor be represented by men of its
own choosing, as matter of right
and not as matter of privilege"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-09-29

| attempt a different work; but
there is no excellence without diff
culty.-Ovid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
AVOID POLITICS.
is ROOSEvELT'S
RELIEF WARNING
Some Sections Coming Hat
in Hand for Funds,
Says President.
BY RUBY A. BLACK
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt Friday called for a
greater effort on the part of the
public in bringing relief to the I'M
employed
At the same time, he warned that
there are many areas mingling the
relief question with politics and then
coming to the federal government
that in hand" seeking federal funds.
The Presidents remarks, in which
he sounded a hopeful note of i'm
proved economic conditions, we're
made on the White House lawn to
officials of the 1888 mobilization for
human needs conference.
He pointed out that it was first
the duty of private citizens and pri-
vate agencies to assist the destitute.
That failing, the cities must step in,
then the state and finally the
federal government, he said.
"It is the inherent duty of the
federal government to keep people
from starving" Mr.. Roosevelt said,
explaining however, that because
the federal government provided
funds, there should be no lessening
of effort on the part of others.
There are some areas that have
not done their share in meeting the
relief problem" he said. They have
come hat in hand asking relief of
the federal government. There are
some states and some municipalities
where relief has been mixed with
politics, some states where the legis-
latures have been thinking in politi-
cal terms and not in human terms.
There are some cities spending
for political purposes instead of the
purposes of human need. Those
cases, however, I am happy to say,
are diminishing, not because we are
welding the big stick, but because
we are making our objections clear. ="
THE people" the President added,
also are making u clear that the
communities and states must play
ball"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
HURRIES HOME
FROM SCHOOL
TO FIND DEATH
Boy, IL, Discovers Suicide
of Grandmother in
Locked Home.

Julius Scomolya, IL, Of 3010 West
Tenth street, hurried from the Holy
Trinity school Friday.
Grandma" Komenda, II, was
cooking dinner. That was enough
to hurry home for. He almost could
smell that dinner cooking.
Grandma" had been living with
his father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Scomolya of Hunglan
extraction.
Hurry" he called to his chum
julius Kocsik. 3006 West Tenth
street, I'm hungry. Grandmas
cooking my dinner
The boys ran. The Kocsik boy
turned into his home.
julius tried to open the front door
of his home. 1t was locked. He
Smelled something Food! MOL
Something different
He battered open a basement win
dow. He crawled in and upstairs
sitting by the stove. was Grandma.
No dinner cooked. The gas jets
were wide open. The windows
closed. The fumes stifled the boy.
He turned off the gas jets. He
opened the windows and doors. He
tried to resuscitate Grandma. He
called to his chum the Kocsik boy to
call police
He tried to revive her. Police
came.
Your grandma is dead" said a
kindly copper to the boy who went
without his dinner.