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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
OLD AGE PENSIONS
Are In Danger, Epstein
Says

New York-Charging that ma
tion-wide campaign is in full swing
to repeal most of our labor and social
legislation, Abraham Epstein, Sec
retary of the American Association
for old age security, issued an appeal
to the friends of old age pensions to
organize to fight "the notification Of
all that has been built up in the Unit
ed States through a generation OF
effort"
In the Old Age Security Herald
the organ of the association, Mr.
Epstein said the reactionary> propa-
ganda has so intimated our legisla-
tors that social legislation now or
the statute books is in danger of re-
peal by the legislatures now in ses-
sion.
Mr.. Epstein criticized a number OF
governors who in their campaigns
made innumerable promises about
caring for the destitute aged, but who
he alleged, have repudiated their
promises. Governor Ely, of Massa-
chusetts; Governor Cross of Connect
icut; Governor Moore, of New Jer-
sey, and Governor White, of Ohio
were mentioned as having lost much
of their campaign sympathy for old
age security measures.
Pointing out that the entire cost
Of the old age pension system in New
York state was only $3.50 year for
each owner of $4,000 worth of as
sessed property, Mr.. Epstein claimed
the support of only half the present
pensioners through almshouses or
charity would have cost more than
the present expenditures.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
MINIMUM
Pay Law Urged For Women
and Minors

Boston, Mass. - Stabilizing the
American social order by "the greater
protection of our workers and further
reduction of the working day" was
urged by the Interstate Conference
on Labor Laws in an extensive pro-
gram of humane" labor measures to
be submitted to the governors and
legislatures of nine industrial states.
The conference went on record as
favoring the establishment of mini
mum standards of working conditions
and mandatory minimum wage laws
for women and minors in industry
in every state.
The conference also recommended
legislation to provide for ''the elimi-
nation of night work for women en-
ployed in manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries between the hours Of
p. m. and "a M" with certain ex-
ceptions, and elimination of work for
women in mercantile establishments,
hotels and restaurants between 10
p. m. and a. M"
Another recommendation adopted
proposed minimum age of 16 years
during school hours for employment
at any occupation, and of Ia years
outside of school hours, with compul-
sorry school attendance standards
amended to meet these requirements;
and employment certificates for all
minors under 18 years, including proof
of age, promise of employment, des-
ignation of occupation and hours of
work, and physical examination.
The recommendation on hours of
labor and working conditions for
women were prepared by committee
headed by Miss Frances Perkins, New
York state industrial commissioner.
The states represented at the con-
ference were Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Maryland, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Penn
sylvania and Rhode Island.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Miami, Fla (ILNS)-City of SUM-
shine, tourists and sharp contrasts,
Miami presents something unique in
American cities in this year of un-
employment.
The tourist business this year,
strangely, is really good. Some say it
isn't, but best reports are that it is
better than last year. Some people
seem to have the money.
One union has lost nearly 500 men,
bers, but the bricklayers have actually
gained. Wage rates have held up
well, though plenty ara unemployed.
Plenty and more than plenty.
Horse racing and dog racing bring
out througs and money rolls easy.
One dog track on recent night ad-
mitted 10000 and turned away big
overflow Hialeah, most beautiful of
horse race tracks, draws well, with
capacity throngs Wednesdays and
Saturdays. The state got more than
$4,000 in tax money on tickets and
mutuels from Hialeah's first seven
days of operation.
The usual fight is on as to how wide
open Miami Beach is to be. Clash
ing interests range around the issue
of where and how the tourist money
is to be spent. If the gambling money
stays at the beach it naturally will
not go to the races-and maybe vice
versa.
By and large the eighteenth
amendment has been pretty well
repealed where the high rollers
roll
Unions, taking life seriously, are
busy rolling letters into Washington
in support of the La Follette-Costigan
bill. Unions, unlike tourists, do not
run away when winter ends. They
face the non-tourist summer.
Meanwhile, entirely aside from the
glamor of resortdom, two tides of in
comers keep drifting in. Cubans form
one tide, fleeing from the dread
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Wealthy Flaunt Riches
In Face of Miamii's Idle
Plenty of Unemployment in City of Contrasts, Where
Money Rolls Easy We-to-Do Gamble and Make
Merry-Two Incoming Tides Bring Refugees From
Machado Tyranny and Struggled Chinese

scourge of Machado. Fifteen came
in in a small boat, half famished, a
few days ago U. S. immigration off.
GERS promptly paroled them in Gus
tody of Cuban refugee headquarters
Mr.. Machado must paw the air
when he learns that while one
branch of the U. S. government,
the state department, accords
him all the honors of president,
another branch, the labor depart
ment, takes in his enemies, treats
them kindly, and sees that they
don't get sent back to Cuba.
Refugee headquarters on Northeast
First avenue consist of two rather
barren rooms. Here refugees congre-
gate, the more fortunate looking out
for the less fortunate. Octovio Sci
gle, once prosperous automobile
agency owner in Havana, is on the
job most of the time. Big men drift
in-men who once had power and
place; and alongside them come
youngsters, college boys-all out
casts, with their lives forfeit should
they set foot in Cuba. "Stick around
says Uncle Sam. "Stick around and
thumb your nose at the butcher in
Havana"
Nineteen separate and distinct
and futile-efforts on Machado's life
are reported by Cubans recently ar
rived.
The other tide coming in brings
Chinese. There are tales of a ring
which will guarantee to transport a
man from China and land him safe
ly for $1,000. But there are other
tales of piles of bones at the bottom
of the sea, from which the yellowskin
has disappeared. Proof of this ne
farious business is hard to get, but
Miamians believe there is a regular
traffic from Havana to Miami, with
as many Cinnamon going overheard
into the water as ever are landed.
Miami is in all respects unlike other
cities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Morrison Links Prosperity With
Thirty-Hour Week and Jobs For All

give serious consideration to the hu-
man element in industry in addition
to the money interests involved, we
may look forward with hope to sta
bilizing industry on a basis that will
not only take US out of this slough of
despond,' but will make for perma
nent prosperity never before real
ized."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Speaks With Authority

Senator Murdoch is chairman of the
running trades schedule committee,
and evidently had authority for his
statement that the railway companies
would have been content with renew
ing last years agreement if the banks
had not insisted on further 10 per
cent reduction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
A. F. Of L. Secretary Says Reduction in Hours
Must Not Carry Wage Cuts--Captains of In
dustry Blamed For Depression --Labor's Buy
ing Power Must Be Restored By Providing
Work For All the Jobless

Washington.-The six-hour day and
five-day week without reduction in
pay, and jobs for millions of unem-
ployed, were stressed as the funda.
mental measures to restore prosperity
by Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, in a
radio talk here over Station VOL.
Mr.. Morrison said:
What are the prospects for pros
perity? When will it return to all of
the citizens of our country? When
shall we walk out of this prolonged
depression that has recruited an army
of from 100000 to 100000 work
less men and women? These are some
of the questions that we hear on every
side.
81 am certain that prosperity will
return. 1t will return when the mil
lions of those who are now unem-
ployed secure work and again become
purchasers and consumers of what
they produce.
Prosperity will return to the peo-
pie of this nation when we have es-
tablished in every industry shorter
work day and a shorter work week
without a reduction in pay for the
workers of our country.
Unemployment Situation
peoples of every country, includ-
ing our own, are wrestling at this
moment with an unemployment stu
alton more severe and tragic than
anything that has ever been expe-
rienced before.
"We are the richest country in the
world in natural resources. We have
the capacity to produce more food and
more clothing and other necessities OF
life than any other nation, but not
withstanding these facts, we are now
facing a problem of feeding, clothing
and furnishing shelter to more than
IL 100000 unemployed, and in addi-
ton those who are dependent upon
them.
$50 far, it has been beyond the
power and ability of the states, cities
and communities to meet the needs OF
the ever increasing numbers Of oul
unemployed, and today doubt and fear
are in the minds and hearts of ouI
unemployed that even the federal
government may fail them in this
their hour of greatest need.
Business Depression
"The present depression forecast its
shadow in 1929. During that year the
American Federation Of Labor gave
support to legislation introduced by
Senator Wagner, of New York, which
had for its object provisions to ascer-
tain the actual number of unemploy-
ed, as well as to make provision for
public works which would give en-
ployment to labor, such program to
be put into effect as temporary
measure until a permanent solution
Of the unemployment problem could
be reached Congress did not consider
the situation serious enough to enact
legislation in time to bear fruit before
the depressed trade conditions were
upon US in full. force.
Public Works Program
"The public works program, which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17

| At this writing the running trades
are considering what they will do
about the notice of second 10 per
cent cut. Other departments of rail-
way employees have agreements end
ing in the summer, and if the pres
ent move succeeds may also be asked
to accept second cut
In the house of commons, even
more stormy scenes were provoked by
a resolution of J. S. Wordsworth,
leader of the Cooperative Common
wealth Federation, urging the setting
up of a cooperative commonwealth
in which all the natural resources
and the socially necessary machinery
of production will be used in the in
terests of the people and not for the
benefit of the few. Referring to
speech in Toronto in which Premier
Bennett called for "the iron heel of
ruthlessness" against the new feder-
alton, Wordsworth said that the
prime minister's statement was
clearly seditious in that it was advo-
cacy of the use of force.
Bitter Debate Follows
A bitter debate continued for two
days. The tories claimed that the
substitution of cooperation for COM
petition could not be accomplished
under the constitution, that it would
interfere with the privilege of men of
ability to accumulate great fortunes
and that would not help the poor to
get rich anyway. 1t was not cap
italism but democracy that is on trial,
they said, and all the talk Of the
need Of industrial democracy in order
to assure the successful working of
political democracy was but radical
iargon that no honest and intelligent
workers would ever give heed to.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Thirty-Hour Week

"The following bill is being con-
sidered in committee of both houses
of congress at the present time, the
house committee reporting it favor
ably with but one vote against it:
"'That no article or commodity
shall be shipped, transported, or
delivered in interstate or foreign
commerce, which was produced
or manufactured in any mine,
quarry, mill, cannery, workshop,
factory, or manufacturing estab-
lishment situated in the United
States, in which any person was
employed or permitted to work
more than five days in any week
or more than six hours. in any
day."
"The immediate and practical rem
edy for unemployment is the inaug-
uration of shorter work day and a
shorter work week in industry.
"The trade union movement through
its struggles has made tremendous
contribution to the social and indus
trial life of our country by organiz-
ing wage workers and thereby plac-
ing them in position to lift them
ing them in position to lift from the
back of labor the burdens it has car
ried and which it will contiue to carry
where workers are unorganized and
defenseless.
Human Element in Industry
sWhen employers and captains of
industry have as broad vision as
has been demonstrated by labor and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17

in the price for the work fixed by
the contract, the project costing more
in proportion than the bridge work
done at Punta Gorda by the state of
Florida, where mechanics were paid
the prevailing wage rate. The con-
tractors, he pointed out, come in
from other states.
The officials of the Central Labor
Union were instructed to take the
matter up with the American Fedora
ton of Labor to see if something
could not be done to stop this lower
ing of living standards in the South.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17

Walker and Nesbit Head Illinois
Miners.-John H. Walker and Walter
T. Nesbit were reelected president
and secretary treasurer of the Illi-
nois branch of the United Mine Work
ers of America.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Public Works Program

"The public works program, which
has been placed in effect, has been un-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17
Unemployment Insurance

"The American Federation of Labor
convention at Cincinnati declared in
favor of the adoption of compulsory
unemployment insurance by states
and in favor of the five-day week and
the shorter work day. Since that
time, the membership of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union has voted
in favor of and put in force on the
first of January of this year five
day week in all newspapers for its
members and authorized the officers
of the |. T. u. to use their best en-
deavors to have established in all
book and job offices throughout the
United States and Canada five-day
week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-17

questionably of aid, but the whole
situation shows an absolute lack of
wisdom and foresight on the part of
the captains of industry, as we'll as
those responsible for the enactment
of legislation calculated to be of great
public benefit.
"It is not necessary to refer to the
magnitude of the depression which
has been felt by every element of our
population. The buying power of the
people has been checked and reduc-
ed. The vicious effects of the depres-
sion have been increased.
"There is only one way by which
this depression can be checked and
business conditions returned to nor
NAL, and that is by restoring workers
to industry, giving them an earning
capacity which will Immediately re-
fleet itself in the stimulation of mar
kets.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
than 100000 because Of the mis-
placed comma.

Business sentiment In the prairie
provinces and border cities OF Canada
Is showing Improvement.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
INHABITANTS BACK
OLD AGE PENSIONS
Association Indorses Bills
! Proposed by Copeland
and Black.

Old age pensions in the District, as
proposed In bills by Senator Royal S.
Copeland and Representative Loring
Black. were indorsed by the Associa-
ticn of Oldest Inhabitants of the Dis
trict of Columbia at a meeting last
night in old Union Engine House,
Nineteenth and H streets.
Two new mementoes were presented
to the association last night by A. II.
Price. 1924 Massachusetts, avenue
northeast, through James F. Duhamel.
They were a copy of the first edition
of the New York Herald, dated May
6. 1885. and a copy of the June u,
1882, edition of the Philadelphia North
American and U. S. Gazette, with rules
turned in mourning for the death OF
Henry Clay.
Lectures on Washington.
The speaker on last nights program
was Joseph I. Keefer, who presented
an address, illustrated by lantern slides,
on George Washington and Sulgrave
Manor" The address went back to the
ancestral homes of the Washington
family in England, showing pictures OF
the vicinity from which the family
came, and dealt at great length on the
historic Virginia and nearby sections
with which George Washington and his
relatives and friends were identified.
A paper on the Credit Mobilier
financial agency which constructed the
Union Pacific Railway, and the investi-
CATION which exposed it, was presented
by Mr.. Duhamel He drew parallel
between its activities and investigation
and those of the present House OF
Morgan.
New Members Elected.
John Claggett Proctor, vice presi-
dent of the organization, who presided
last night, was chosen by the associa-
tion to represent it on District Fourth
of July celebration committee.
New members elected last night were
Jefferson Middleton, M. Leroy Goh, w.
H. Yerkes, DR.. Clarence A. Weaver
and Dr. j. Rozier Biggs.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
Births Reported.

Patrick II. and Margaret N. Moran; boy.
William S. and Margaret @. Ford, boy.
Carlo and Adeline E. Ailara, boy;
Frank j. and Evelyn M. Barley, boy.
Robert L. and Elizabeth Taylor, boy.
Wilbur E and Dorothy Fookes; boy.
Joseph and Nina Cossavella. girl:
Hiram w. and Ruth l.. Lyon, girl.
Arthur w and Thelma L. Gawen, girl.
Clarence B. and Helen K. Green, girl.
James and Mary Kinard, boy.
Walter and Josephine Smith, boy.
George W. and Catherine e. Cant, ooy.,
Adam and Nettie Horn, boy.
Gr1ver and Clarissa Davis, boy.
Thomas r. and Corinne Byrd, boy.
Alonzo and Carrie Sharps, girl;
Alonzo and T. E. Bohannon, girl.
Louis and Kathleen Harris, girl.
Greed and Mary Martin. girl twins.
John II. and Mary E. Grinage, girl.
william and Eva Cook. girl.
John and Ruth WormSley. girl.
Thomas and Barbara Epps. girl;
Ernest and Martha Boston, girl.
Louis and Josephine Marshall, girl.
Jack E. and Mary j. Coleman, girl.
Lewis and Lucille M. Daniels, girl.
Olive G. and Grace Twyman, girl.
William R. and Edith M. Newman, girl.
Erskin and Hazel Kennedy, boy.
Theodore r. and Ellen Timus, boy.
John s. and Mabelda Wilson. boy;
Gaines E. and Charlotte Walker, boy.
Graham D. and Dorothy F. Gordon, boy.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
HEADS STATE SOCIETY

DR.. w. j. Davis was elected presi-
dent of the New York State Society
Tuesday night at a meeting in the
Shoreham Hotel.
Other officers elected are Lamar Har-
ris, vice president; Mrs. May D. Light
foot, second vice president; Leona
Decker, third vice president; Pauline B
Paro, secretary; c. M. Little, treasurer;
Miss Estelle Douglas, historian, and as
trustees Of the society, Representatives
John Taber and John j. Boylan of New
York, Morris E. Sands, Gabriel Murphy
Walter D. Sutclinfe and William F.
Richard.
Arrangements were made for series
Of dances to be given at the Willard
Hotel during the season.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
Deaths Reported.

william E. Clark, s5. 1929 lockwood
Mary S. Campbell. 70. 31os Mount Pleas
Martina waple, rs, West Clifton Terrace
John O'Connell, II, United States Soioiers
Antonio D. Ambrosio, II, Garfield Hos
Mary r. Melvin. 20. 5000 -31st ST..
John r Phelps. 81, 712 Jefferson st.
Frank A. Knowles, 62, tuberculosis Hos
Martha o. Cochrane. 50. 1741 A St. Sc.
Moilie Inseoe, SO, Gallinger Hospital.
Andrew Gleeson, 81, tuberculosis HOS
Melvin E. Cooper. So. 606 F St. NE.
ella 3, Miller, AZ. Sibley Hospital.
Eunice r. Boorman, Al, 21o Ritten-
James waIlay, 80, Emergency Hospital,
Eddie Stinckrans, 33, Gallinger Hospital!
Eleanor B. Boyle, 2s. 1923 Columbia rd.
Milton Connor, %, Georgetown Hospital
Frances Flynn. II, Garfield Hospital.
Infant of Hiram W. and Ruth Lyon
National Homeopathic Hospital.
Hattie Taylor, ~, Freedmen'S Hospltal.
James Lewis, 63, Emergency Hospital.
Winnie Robinson, 55. 1884 Sth st.
John Aaron, "a, 227 Az st. sw.
Gussie Green, 90, 500 Goth st, ne.
Fred Davis, so, Gallinger Hospital.
Luther Sellman, As, GEORGETOWN Hospital
James Page, 33. 445 Franklin ST.
Lawrence Young, 80, 225 O'Neal CT. s.W
Ruth Dent, %, Gallinger Hospital,
Thelma Fletcher, 4, Gallinger Hospital.
Infant June Jeffreys. Children's Hospital.
Evening star., 1933-06-08

for railroad problems. He helped draft
the railroad reorganization bill, an ad-
ministration measure requiring, with
other things, Federal co-ordinator OF
railroads with regional co-ordinators
working under him. What Mr.. Berle
does in the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation is to pass on railroad loans
and general policies. He spends most
of the time in New York, where he talks
to the railroad heads and comes down
here one or two days week to wind
I'D the policies and work on railroad
legislation He is counsel for the Re-
construction Finance Corporation in the
New York district. In his office in
Washington he is assisted by John Bar
riger of the firm of Calvin Bullock Of
New York.
Fond Of Fishing.
To this dynamic person, who seems
equally at ease talking, writing, lectur-
ing or organizing, work per Sc Is a
pleasure. His amusements are fishing
and mountain climbing, but it would be
impossible to imagine him happy in
either Mr.. Moley's present demand for
q shack In the mountains where he
could sleep and watch the sun rise or
in the hammock under the apple tree
where Prof. Tugwell could willingly
Evening star., 1933-06-08
Helps Draft Railroad Bill.

Last Summer his schedule expanded
to serve as a member of the research
staff of Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign and
this Winter, before he was appointed
assistant to the director of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, he was
on the Presidents unofficial committee
Evening star., 1933-06-08

while away many hours. Mr.. Berle IS
as full Of perpetual motion as the sea.
Put him on a desert island and he would
not be found leaning against palm tree
chewing on a straw. In no time he
would have the natives cutting trans
portation lines through the thickets,
drafting legislative programs and pos
sibly Willing away tropical evenings with
discussions on corporate law.
Evening star., 1933-06-08
SYKES HEADS AMERICAN
DELEGATION TO MEXICO
Radio Commission Chairman Will
Head Group at Conference
on July 10.

BY the Associated Press.
Eugene o. Sykes, chairman of the
Federal Radio Commission, was named
yesterday to head the American dele
CATION to the North American Radio
Conference scheduled to open July 1C
at Mexico City.
The other delegates will be Repre-
sentative Schuyler Otis Bland, Demo
crat. of Virginia, and Roy. T. Davis
American minister to Panama.
A small staff of advisers, still un-
named, will accompany the delegation
State Department announcement
said.
Evening star., 1933-06-08

Department ut first ruled against this
contention, but later reversed its de-
already paid by importers. Congress
corrected the error on May 6. 1874 In
the meantime the Government lost more
Evening star., 1933-06-08
The Cost of a Stray Comma.

In the framing of the tariff act OF
June 6, 1872, it was intended to include
on the free list fruit plants. tropical
and semi-tropical for the purpose OF
propagation and cultivation" A clerk
Evening star., 1933-06-08

in copying the bill misplaced the COM
ma, making the passage read fruit,
plants tropical and semi-tropical," etc.
Many importers naturally contended
that all tropical and semi-tropical fruit
was on the free list. The Treasury
Evening star., 1933-06-08
Disabled Veteran Dies.

SILVER CITY, New Mexico, June 8
OPT. Arbuth Black, disabled war
veteran of Uniontown, Pa, died here
Yesterday. Black, a captain in the
World War, is survived by his widow,
who will take his body to Uniontown
for burial.