davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Well COn,pLetiOns
Increased in July

During July there were 1886
oil wells completed east of the
Rocky Mountains with a daily
initial production of 198,207 bar
rels, an increase of 149 in the
number of wells and an increase
of 47,283 barrels in production
as compared with June. There
were 235 dry holes drilled and
rs gas wells completed.
The Texas Gulf Central area
supplied the major part of the
new output. At the end of the
month there were 2,421 rigs
building and wells drilling.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Frenzied Grain Plunger
Planning Comeback

NEW YORK, Aug. 8 G.N.SO.
Planning a comeback. DR.. E. A.
Crawford, spectacular grain
plunger who three weeks ago had
millions in paper profits and now
faces bankruptcy, is offering his
creditors IS per cent in cash
within 80 days, another 25 per
cent within a year, and the re-
manning so per cent within three
years.
Although the one-time country
physician was credited with hold
ing 40,00O,0O0 bushels of grains
shortly before the crash last
month, and with a fortune Of
$15,000,000 exclusive of pap0'
profits, his liquid assets now
amount to only $1,2O0,000, against
which are unpaid claims OF
$2,0OO,OOO.
A general meeting of CraWford'S
creditors has been called gor late
today in the Bar Association
Building to consider his proposal.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
U.S.. Bank CLedrings
Decrease for Week

Bank clearings for the week
ended August 2 fell off about
$600,O00,OO0 from the preceding
weeks total, but continued to
make a better showing than for
the same period of 1882.
The aggregate for leading cities
in the United States, as reported
to Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, was
$4,897, SOL, 900, showing an in
crease of O9 per cent over all
year. At New York City, clear
ings were $3,437,315, 900, a decline
of 0.3 per cent.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
3 Il. S. Issues Far
ODerSubscribed

Subscriptions to the August Is
offering of $5OO,OOO.0OO eight-year
3 per cent Treasury bonds ag-
gregated more than 5000, ,OOO, 900.
Subscriptions to $350,000,000
15s per cent Treasury notes ma
turing August l, 1885, totaled
more than 100000, 900.
Bids for the $75, 100000 91-day
Treasury bills offered last Thurs
day totaled 1858, $4,000, of which
5,679,000 were accepted.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Bits OF Better
Trade News

World cotton use in past
IL months highest since
1929-30. Wages raised IL
per cent by Western Electric
Company. Steel ingOt pro-
duction in July highest in
30 months. Third quarter
auto net seen best since 1928
United Carbon quadruples
previous June quarter profit
=. American ThermOs June
quarter net up more than
half. Orders placed for 141
tank and fruit cars. Gen
eral Motors salaries raised 10
per cent. Weeks business
failures nearly halved from
year ago.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
TRADE MARKING
-amMr "a RHFIR1 q.
TIME, IS VIEW !.

In its weekly summary of the
general business situation, the
Standard Statistics Company, OF
New York, currently comments:
Business, while holding a
large portion of the gains of
the past few months, is gen,
orally marking time awaiting
tangible evidence of success in
the nationwide drive to mObiI-
iZe industry under the blanket
recovery code.
ut is too early to attempt
to gauge the detailed effects Of
this huge experiment upon sub
sequent industrial operations.
If successful, however, it could
not help but result in a sharp
gain in the aggregate of bust.
ness activity.
THE fact that there has
been no marked slowing down
as the codes take effect is en-.
cOuraging evidence of the in
herent strength of the present
revival"
The increase in total industrial
production during July, as esti-
mated from preliminary data, ID
being we'll sustained by actual re-
suits. The Standard States
Company index of such activity
now stands at 94.6 for July, as
compared with 88.9 for June and
$50 for July, 1882.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Baltimore and Ohio
LO0dinQS Up in JULU

Cars loaded and received from
connections by the Baltimore &
Ohio during July totaled 1885,
497, compared with 170,258 in
June and 1885 in July, 1882,
an increase of 25,239 and 62,141
cars respectively.
The daily average rate was
1920 cars, an increase of 1872
over June and 2,486 above July,
1882.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Usual Dividend Paid
Bv General Motors

Directors of General Motors
Corporation have declared on the
outstanding common stock quar-
terly dividend of 25 cents share,
payable September IL. to stock
holders of record August II.
In addition, the regular quar-
terry dividend of $1.25 a share
was declared on the SIS preferred
stock, payable November /, to
stockholders of record October 9.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Potomac Insurance
Reflects Directors

Stockholders of Potomac Insur-
ance Co. at their 102d annual
meeting reelected as directors A.
A. Hoehling, Charles E. Hood, o.
H. P. johnson, Thomas C. Moore,
F. Norie-Mi S. Norie-Miller,
C. F.. R. Ogilby, Alexander K.
Phillips, Frederick Richardson
and George w. White.
The company has a paid-in
capital of $50O,000, a surplus to
policy-holders of $1,855,415 and
assets total $3,622,267, officials
announced.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Formula Offered
For Dollar Crude

Dollar oil would be an assured
fact before the end of August, &C
cording to the T. S. Hose review
of the petroleum situation, if a
simple formula were followed and
agreed to by all concerned. The
formula suggested follows:
Hot oil' must be stopped and
100000 barrels a day cut from
East Texas allowableS.
The major companies should
agree not to import any more oil
into the country for two and one
half years.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Union Central Life
Insurance Up Here

The E. C. Brashears agency,
Washington branch of the Union
Central Life of Cincinnati, reports
an increase of Ill per cent in net
paid-for business for July over
June.
Applications for new business
also showed an increase.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
KeLUinGtOr Reports
Bio Gain in BackLOQ

Kelvinator Corporation reports
untitled orders on hand are more
than five times the number on
hand at the same time last year.
H. w. Burritt, vice president in
charge of sales, said shipments
for the first nine months of
Kelvinator'S fiscal year already
have run more than 40 per cent
ahead of shipments for the entire
preceding year. July shipments
were $50 per cent of shipments
for the corresponding month of
1892.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
BitlIn1inOus Output
Hi0h AbOUe Year AGO

Production of soft coal during
the week ended July 90 is esti-
mated at 7,550,000 net tons, an
increase of $4,000 tons, or 4.6
per cent, over the preceding week.
This total compares with 4,637,-
600 tons produced in the cores
ponding 1882 week, according to
the Commerce Department.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Dividend Increased
BU Auto Supply Firm

Directors of Western Auto Sup
ply Company, of Kansas City,
Mo-. have declared a quarterly
dividend of so cents per share on
both the Glass "a" and B" COM
mon stocks. payable September l,
to stockholders of record All
gust 10.
This represents an increase of
IS cents over the previous pay
ment of 25 cents a share made
on June /.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Murphy July Sales
20 Per Cent Hinher

July sales OF G.. C. Murphy Co.
totaled $1,8O4,118. or a gain of
29.4 per cent over the $1,394,115
reported in July last year.
Sales for the six months aggre-
gated $10,568,965, comparing with
$9,679,479 in the like months last
year, an increase of go per cent.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Refrigerator Sales
Inn. Y. Increased

Electric refrigeration bureau of
Edison Electric Institute reports
36,223 household electric refriger-
ators were sold in New York
State in June, comparing with
31,035 in May and 42,297 in
June last year.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
SHIP INCOME RISES

June net income of Eeastern
Steamship Lines was $183,022
after taxes and charges, as
against a net income of $98,596
in June last year.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
Commodity Price
Index Off in Week

Wholesale commodity price in
dex of the National Fertilizer
Association last week declined to
67.2 from 67.5 week ago, it was
announced from Washington
Yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
CRUDE OUTPUT HIGHER

California crude oil output dur
ing the week ended August av-
eraged $4,000 barrels daily, up
7450 over the preceding week, it
was announced yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
RAILWAYS OF MEXICO

BY presidential decree rates for
passenger travel on National Rail-
ways of Mexico have been iTls
creased 6l2 per cent. .
The Washington times., 1933-08-08
NEW YORK CURB LIST

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r"Es' r"fs o SG"n' ss s 3St 3s}s g : 3ss 3s
Reynolds Inv .........
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RoSSia Intl corp ..... = IS u
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st Regis Pap ........ 5
SChenley Distill ...... 8 y 50Hl 3t
Selected Indus ........ 2l2 ga "a
Shattuck DEM Min.... rs SIS 3h
Shawinigan w Pow %. Il q 177 TN
Sherwin Williams ..... %S$s 1885 3SS
Singer MFG ..........I14O I14O i14O
So cal Ed pf A...... 25!s 25h 2SA
Southland Royalty .... as AZ AZ
SID Inyestg pfd ...... 30 90 20
st Oil Of Ind ........ 2S& 2S1s 2Sh
stand Silv Lead..,.. i Il
Sterling PrOds ....., 56i2 Sc 56
Swift Internal ...... SIS 23lt 2%A
Swift & co ncW,.... 1Sl2l l7Hsl INA
Tlmna Elec ........ 28 % e
Tastyeast y .. ...... ~ IL 1B
Teck Hughes G...... 5% 5"i 53
Transront Air Trans. SO 3% 3&
Union Gas Can...,... so 50 5A
United corp war..... 2ls 312 344
United DIV DookS.... 3is 3ls 3ls
Ttd Drug Co,.........| 9L2 9l2 9la
United Founders Corp. 174 IA ia
United Gas ...... Az 4h
United Gas war......l 11sI Ia Us
Initnd Lap A........ 5L IA 5L
United I.EP cv pfd 90 % %
United Molassrs ..... 81 rs %A
I'td NJ RR&Can..... 90 I2O2 2O2
L Finishing ......... AZ Az 4h
l. S 4 Int ScC.......l IA ia IA
L Radiator. ....., 2k "a IN
United Verde EXt.....
Ttn Equities pr....... a A "A
Ttilit p & l. pf....... 16 IS Is,
Wick Chemical .,.... 30ai 3O% 30&
Walker G & Worts... 41at 50 4Ot
Wenden Cop'r ........ 3-1G 3-16I 3-f6
WILLOW Cafe ....... 34 %ls 3h
Wright Harg Mincs...l 6A 6h
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

STATEMENT

Following it's custom of nearly
thirty years, the National Child La
Dor Committee has designated the
weekend of January 27-29 as the per-
iod for the observance of Child La
Dor Day. This year the occasion
should be one of rejoicing for the
child labor victories gained through
the industrial codes, tempered by the
knowledge that hundreds of thousands
of children engaged in industrialized
agriculture, domestic service, and GER
tain forms of industrial home work
and street trades are not protected by
any code.
1t is estimated that the industrial
codes have released 100000 children
under Is years from industry. An
other 10000 boys and girls 16 to 1e
years have been removed from espec-
tally hazardous work. On the other
hand there are still approximately
100000 children under 16 years work
ing in occupations not covered by
codes. These children are employed
largely in industrialized agriculture,
such as the production of sugar beets,
cotton, tobacco, and truck farm prod
ucts, in street trades, especially news
paper selling, and in domestic service.
Those interested in child labor
should pledge themselves to the pro-
lection Of these forgotten children, as
well as to renewing efforts to make
permanent through state and federal
Legislation the advances which the
Recovery Program have brought.
THERE MUST BE NO RETURN
TO CHILD LABOR WHEN THE
CODES EXPIRE IN 1885.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

PROTEST CODE

The Allied Printing Trades Council
has entered a strong protest against
the proposed code for the various
branches of the printing industry.
This protest is presented in a 44-page
booklet which goes into detail on each
section of the proposed code. In brief
the reasons for Union opposition are
as follows;
The proposed code is not represent
tative of the majority of the Employ
ers' opinion.
The 40-hour week will not absorb
the unemployed in the printing Indus
try as the printing industry has long
ago adopted the 40-hour week in most
printing centers. Under the present
short week So per cent of the men in
the industry are unemployed and %
per cent are working a 40-hour week,
leaving only 16 per cent working more
than 40 hours. The Council opposes
the wage scales of the code because
they make a difference between
wages of men and women; because no
minimum is set for skilled workers,
and lastly because the scale of I'M
skilled workers is now higher than
that proposed in the code.
AS a substitute the Council pro-
poses a 32-hour week with a S9-hour
scale. This makes a reduction of ~
hours of labor and 5 hours in wages.
1t demands the same scale for male
and female labor and no reduction in
the pay of unskilled labor. These
proposals are in entire harmony with
the ideal of the NRA and should meet
no opposition from employers who are
sincere in seeking a way out of the
depression.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
100000 GET JOBS; PRICE BOOSTS
PREVENTS HIGHER LIVING STANDARDS

ing power over industry's product has
increased 20.5 per cent.
Unemployment was still d%ecreas-
ing in October, according to trade
union figures, which showed 21.9 per
cent Of the membership out of work
in early October, compared to 22.5 in
September.
"Retail buying by wage earners has
increased, and trade is well above the
early part of the year, although high
er prices brought a decline in Septem-
Der.
"When workers are sure of their
jobs and when their debts are cleared,
the new buying power will come into
effect.
Opening of closed banks and guar
antee of bank deposits will release
further buying power"
NRA Wage Reductions.
On the subject of wages under the
fair practice codes, the survey says;
"NRA wages have not brought high
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

er living standards to the average
worker. A 6 per cent increase in
wages has been eaten up in an 8.5
per cent increase in living costs and
he finds his real monthly income in
September actually below March by
2.3 per cent.
"Some codes have reduced minimum
wage rates below those actually in
force in the industry, as in silk; in
other cases, employers have reduced
their higher paid workers to raise the
low-paid group.
"Thus better paid workers where
there were no unions have lost under
codes, while the minimum group has
made progress. Other benefits are
more general. Hours are shorter, men
are going back to work.
"The worker knows, however, that
wage and hour scales are not perma-
nent; for wages must be adjusted up
ward as prices rise, hours downward
as machinery shortens work time"
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
MINERS BACK ANTI GARNISHMENT
LEGISLATION
Central Council Endorses Miners Resolution

Duncan also asked that reports of vio-
lations be made through union, when
possible, rather than through individ-
uals. Such reports should be handed
to members of the committee. All re-
ports are acted upon secretly by the
committee and the activities of the
committee are kept from the public
to protect innocent employers.
Clerks Waiting for GrOcers' Code.
Frank Shay, member Of the Com
pliance Board and Delegate from the
Clerks Union, reported that their I'M
ion was waiting until codes were
adopted to apply to all eleven branch
es of their union. The major code
yet to be adopted is one applying to
grocer clerks. When this code is
adopted the Clerks will open negotia-
tions with the employers to apply
code laws to industry instead of the
Union Agreement, especially in re-
gard to hours of labor. Shay reports
that the textile stores are very favor
able to the new code rulings. These
stores have already posted their hours
of store operation and have left them
as before. Shay announced that one
industry has approached the Clerks
about cutting wages to the minimum
allowed by the code of that industry
which is some 90 per cent less than
the present scale. The Clerks stated
that they would not sanction such a
emf
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
A. F. OF l.. BUSINESS SURVEY CLAIMS FAIR
PRACTICE CODES REDUCE THE MINIMUM
WAGES, WHILE BOSSES SLASH HIGHER
PAID UNORGANIZED WORKERS.

WASHINGTON.-Presiden Roose-
velt's Unemployment Agreement and
the direction over those who own and
control industry exercised by the Gov
eminent in fair practice codes estab-
lished under the National Recovery
Act have put four million jobless men
and women back to work, according to
the monthly survey of business issued
by the American Federation of Labor.
One million seven hundred thousand
Of the four million went on the pay
rolls during July and September, in
creasing by 8 per cent the buying
power of the Nations employees.
On the other hand, the survey de-
clares manufacturers, merchants and
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
SHARECROPPERS
IN CAROLINA
ORGANIZE

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-(FP)--Share-
troopers near Charlotte are secretly
organizing community leagues to bet
ter their condition. With the federal
governments acreage reduction pro-
gram for next year, they fear they
will be showed off the land, cr at best
left on small plots to starve. Already
some troopers have failed to get cot
ton land and have spent the year tend
ing 8 to 5-acre garden patches. Some
got jobs picking cotton at 40c to SOC
per 100 pounds, but such work lasts
only a few weeks.
Just across the line in South Car
olina we found a cropper's family
that had had only SO worth of gro
ceries advanced them all year. They
had had $40 credit from last years
crop; so with less than $50 they had
to feed a family Of 10. No wonder
the little girls could not even find cot
ton rags to hang round themselves
when we asked to take their picture.
The common furnishing" given by
landlords to troopers we talked with
was $50 for the growing season of
five months for cotton, tobacco and
peanuts (the latter along the Virgin
ia-North Carolina line). This was a
maximum credit for food and clothes,
regardless of how many mouths there
were to feed )or bodies to cover in the
troopers family.
There's going to be a fight for
bread" declared one colored cropper.
He had heard of the S~harecroppers'
Union of Alabama and its struggle
for more furnishing.
Everyone is crying broke. Most
troopers work Is to 20 acres to a
horse and most have only one horse
or mule. The more they work the less
they get, | figure. Around here we
give a third of the cotton and a fourth
of the corr for share to the landlord.
Lots give half, because they have no
stock. Some few works on sure
(share) rent: if you don't get yourn,
the landlord gets hisn, mostly two
bales for each horse. A lot of land
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

At the last meeting of the Central
Council, Butte Miners Union No. 1,
presented a resolution, adopted by
that organization, backing the anti
garnishment legislation to come be-
fore the special session of the legis-
lature. This legislation, if passed,
would declare a moratorium on pres
ent debts and would prevent the part
time worker from garnishment of the
small wages he receives. The Council
unanimously endorsed the resolution.
Pete 0'COnnOr Endorsed.
The Council endorsed the appoint
ment of Pete O'Connor for the posi-
ton of liquor vender for Butte. O'Con-
nor is a member of the Transfers
Union and a former member of the
Clerks Union and has received the en-
dorsement of both these organzia-
lions.
Compliance Board Active.
Ed Duncan, one of the two labor
members on the Compliance Board an
nounced that the Board is meeting
regularly and taking into serious con-
sideration all reports of violations of
the Presidents unemployment Agree
ment. Duncan stated that this Board
had nothing to do with the enforce
ment Of permanent codes. Its job is
to see that those industries for which
no code has been adopted lived up to
the agreement they signed to obtain
the eagle, until their code is adopted.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

others who determine prices have
boosted the cost of living so drastical-
ly that "NRA wages have not brought
higher living standards to the average
worker"
The increase in employment, the
survey says, was brought about "by
shortening work time by five hours
per week through voluntary agree
ments and raising wages 2 cents per
hour.
Labor Department records for in
dustry generally show average hours
shortened from 43 to SS a week, aver
age earnings raised from 1913 to 51.5
cents per hour. Workers total buy
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
Wisconsin Jobless Insur.
ance Not Good Model,
Commons Says

MADISON, Wis.-(FP)-The Wis
consin unemployment insurance law,
which goes in effect next July, is not
a safe model for other states, Prof.
John R. Commons who helped to frame
the statute, tells Federated Press. The
reasin is, he says, that labor has to
be fully experienced to maintain its
rights under the Wisconsin law and
this experience may be lacking in
other states.
lords claim they can't furnish no more,
and still some won't give more than
an acre for garden"
A white cropper beyond Emporia,
Va, toward Norfolk, said his land
lord let him put in five acres of gar
den this year, including potatoes, sor-
ghum and roasting ears. Three Ne
gro troopers worked other pieces of
the same landlords plantation. The
group were grinding their sorghum
together and jointly boiling up their
molasses in a hollow neal the road.
"No one hardly ever gets out clear,
cropping" was almost always the an
swer to our question if they made
anything the year before on their
crops.
An old Negro woman who was
washing clothes beside her cabin told
US that she and her son had just
moved from Mecklenburg county, of
which Charlotte is county seat. Their
last landlords, a widow and her son,
had claimed 5000 debt after the crop
pers worked on the land nine years.
So the white landlords took the crop
per's mule. Then the son claimed the
cows, too.
81 told him I'd see him dead and
down yonder before he could have my
cows!" declared the woman.
But she doesn't expect to get clear
of debt for several years now, because
they had to borrow from the new
landlord to buy a mule.
We saw troopers in several places
riding to town in rickety carts be-
hind a slow Flooding OK.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
HOW COMMONWEALTH, THE LABOR
COLLEGE DIFFERS

Unlike other colleges, Common
wealth, the labor college, at Mena,
Ark:
Does Not Have.
l.. Examinations.
2. Grades.
3. Chapel.
A. Collegiate atmosphere.
8. A hat scrap, cane rush, or other
traditional mauling party.
6. Professors.
z. Board bills.
8. Student job problems.
g.. Prerequisites.
10. Required class attendance.
IL. Roll-eall.
IL. Military training.
10. Fraternities and %sororities.
IA. Athletic teams.
15. Frosh hazing.
16. Degrees.
II. A stadium.
10. Silk stockings, lip stick, and
French heels.
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
Are There Friendly
Strikes, These Days?

WASHINGTON--(FP)- Secretary
Of Labor Perkins has reported that
1888 is seeing fewer strikes than the
year 1921, and hence there is no rea-
son for anxiety over the strike news.
Her figures are: strikes and lockouts
in the 6 summer months of 1921
l,435; same period in 1933-900; num-
Der Of workers involved in the 1921
troubles-895 900; in 19a3-584,000
The New York Anaalist replies that
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16
President Green Presents A. F. of L. Charter to the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers

WASHINGTON-The final act in
granting an American Federation of
Labor charter to the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America took
place in the A. F. of L. headquarters
here.
President Green presented the char
ter to Sidney Hillman, general presi-
dent of the Amalgated, in the pre-
sence of Joseph Schlossberg, general
secretary-treasurer, and the general
Montana labor news., 1933-11-16

Does Have.
l.. Students who mean business.
2. Freedom of thought.
8. A cause to serve-labor.
A.. Hogs, mules, cows and chickens.
5. Square dances.
6. Instructors who are also stu
dents.
Z. Food cooked by faculty members
and students.
8. Jobs for everyone, including fac
ulty members.
8. Campus democracy.
10. A purpose.
II. Good labor library.
12. Wood chopping contests.
10. Sense of humor.
IA. A productive farm.
Is. An "Ol swimmin' hole"
16. Pluck, s~elf-reliance.
II. Mountain valley location.
IS. Overalls, shorts and soft shirts.