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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Chamber Of Commerce Asked
To Back Labor's Wage Policy
Special Committee Recommends That Business Increase
Pay of Workers to Permit Consuming Power to Keep
Pace With Advances in Productive Capacity of In
dustry.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Organ-
lied labor's contention that the wages
of the toilers must be advanced in
proportion to industry's increasing
power of production is upheld in the
report recommended to the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States by
special committee headed by P. W..
Litchfeld, of Akron, Ohio, president
Of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company.
"The gains accruing to business en-
terprises from increases in produc-
tivity and in technical efficiency
should, when realized" the committee
said, "be shared with consumers in
the form Of lower prices and with
wage earners in the form of advances
in the earnings of those contributing
to these gains.
with due allowance for
changes in the cost of living,
business enterprises should pc
riodically adjust wage and salary
rates in such a manner as to as
sure that the resultant earnings
of their employees will be at least
sufficient to permit their consum-
ing power to keep pace with ad-
vances in the productive capacity
of the various branches of indus
try and commerce"
The committee advocated a maxi
mum 40-hour week during the present
emergency and while warning against
setting up measures as temporary ex-
pedients if they threaten to have
lasting effects, emphasized the desir-
ability of the "share work" principle
under conditions such as now exist.
"Officials of the government in all
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

it's branches should take suitable ac-
ton to bring about the most equit-
able division of work among govern
ment employees" the report added
Other recommendations of the
committee include:
Business enterprises should per-
manently follow the policy of utilizing
flexible working schedules, and when
ever major chronological changes in
production methods are introduced,
should make such adjustments in
hours of work and in the reallocation
of trained employees, as will permit
the retention of the maximum number
of workers consistent with the attain
ment of legitimate economics of oper-
alton.
"The wages paid to employees dur
ing periods Of full-time employment
should be sufficient to permit them to
accumulate reserves to meet the con-
tingncies of unemployment, illness
and old age, and the accumulation OF
such reserves should be facilitated by
employers through the establishment
of sound employe thrift and benefit
plans"
The report opposed any legislation
to fix maximum hours of work or
minimum wages to "apply uniformly
to all wage earners in every branch
of industry and commerce." arguing
there is necessity for variations. 1t
favored, however, voluntary agree
ments, under supervision of some
agency of the government, which
would be empowered to restrain vio-
lations.
The report will come before the an
nual meeting of the chamber in
Washington in May.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
BILL OFFERED
To Set Up Colonies to Abb
sorb JObless Army

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-How
the Llano cooperative colony at
Newellano, La, substitutes self-help for
charity was told by George T. Picket,
general manager Of the colony, at a
meeting in All Souls Church here.
Mr.. Pickett outlined the history OF
the colony, now 19 years old, and de-
scribed its activities.
Mr.. Pickett announced that bill
for absorbing the unemployed army,
along the lines of the Llano colony.
had been introduced in congress and
that much interest had been shown
in the plan. He said that the Llano
colonists see no hope for the absorp-
ton of the vast numbers Of the unem-
ployed into the regular channels of
manufacture, agriculture and COM
mrece, and believe the plan proposed
in the bill offers practical method
of enabling the unemployed to take
care of themselves.
The measure is entitled "A bill for
the purpose of providing industrial
and agricultural communities for abb
sorbing the unemployed citizen of the
u. S. and for issuance of self-liquid-
ating bonds for the establishment
thereof" The bill provides for the
setting up of a national corporation
to establish series of communities
throughout the country, and to secure
land, housing, machinery and other
equipment for the colonies. Products
of the colonies would be used only
for the consumption Of residents OF
the colonies, except when the COM
modities could be exchanged at fair
market value for commodities needed
in the colonies. The bill specifies that
the working time Of colonists should
not exceed 80 working hours per week,
except where agreements for addi-
tional time should be agreed upon be-
tween colonists and the local manage
ments.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
new SOCIAL
System Must Come, Declare
N. Y. MethOdists

ew York City (ILNS)-The present
system must be changed or set aside
so that the needs of all can be met,
the bath annual session Of the New
York Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church declared in a re-
port attacking social injustice.
Our present debacle, in which mil
lions are impoverished in the midst
OF plenty, marks out existing economic
order as the supreme paganism Of our
day." the report says. 1t continues:
THAT society be planned primarily
for the welfare of human beings is
economically and morally sound. We
face the old problem of Transforming
the world while living in it. Any
society that cannot contrive to pro-
vide at least minimum standard of
decency for all its members stands
self-condemned. 1t is our conviction
that industry based solely upon the
profit motive is doomed. The least
definition with which the Christian
conscience can be satisfied is that
society is an organized cooperation
for providing the largest possible
measure of life for the greatest num-
Der.
"The present system, which permits
private hands to manipulate for profit
the processes which are vital to the
economic well-being of all our people,
must be set aside or so fundamentally
changed that the chief end of our
economic activity shall be to meet the
needs of ALL"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

surplus while millions are in want.
The government should borrow from
those who will lend, and take from
those who will not lend, all the money
necessary to put millions Of men to
work now. We should be done with
vacillation and delay, land do this
first thing first.
when the owners of private prop
erty are incapable Of providing work
ers with work or consumers with nec-
essary goods and services, there is no
choice left to government for the
people except to take over property
and operate it for the benefit of all.
The railroads today give an example
of the failure and incapacity of ppri-
vate ownership Of an essential in
dustry.
Railroad owners are now propos-
ing to deprive thousands of commu-
mites of service, to deprive several
hundred thousands workers of work
and wages, to destroy billions of dol
lars in property values in order that
they may make unjust profits out Of
consolidated monopoly of main line
railroads. The people of the United
States will not tolerate private mo-
nopoly of railway transportation un-
red any dictatorship subservient to
Wall street bankers. If the days Of
competition are ended, then the only
monopoly control which the people
Will tolerate is actual and direct con-
troll by the government"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

and salary cuts in industry-United
States Steel Immediately announced
another salary cut; Public Service
Corporation of New Jersey cut wages
and salaries 10 per cent. Wage cuts
mean further price declines, rent de-
clines, more liquidation, still lower
levels of business and of living.
"The only way out of this
downward spiral is a vigorous
government program to get in
dustry to work again and men
back at their normal job produc-
ing and distributing goods.
Our unemployment reports show
72 per cent out of work in building,
so per cent in manufacturing, 40 per
cent in metal trades, 48 per cent in
water transport, 81 per cent still out
Of work in clothing, although this is
almost the peak of the spring season,
80 per cent in motion pictures and
theatres, % per cent in printing
where unemployment in March is
normally 5 per cent.
"The figure of 267 per cent out of
work in the country as a whole
weighted fgure) compares with a
normal 8.5 per cent for March Six
teen of our "a cities report an in
crease in unemployment in March,
only 6 report any general gain"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Atlanta Organized Labor
Opposes Retail Sales Tax

Atlanta, Ga.--The Atlanta FEEDER
alton of Trades declared its vigorous
opposition to measures proposing
general retail sales tax now before
the Georgia general assembly ano
urged the State Federation of Labor
to work against the measure.
The sales tax, the resolution adopt
ed by the central body said, is con-
trary to the fundamental policy of
taxation that those best able to pay
should bear the most expense of gov
ernment.
The resolution was introduced by
John Scott, vice president of the
central body.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Railroad Labor Flags
Dictatorship Proposal
Union Representatives Condemn Work and Wage Cuts
and Declare Government Must Act at Once to Give
Millions of Men Employment-Drect Government
Control of Rail Lines is Advocated.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Mili-
tant opposition to reducing work,
cutting wages or railroad consolida-
tions that deprive workers Of jobs
was voiced by the Railway Labor Ex-
ecutives' Association, representing 21
railroad labor organizations, at a
meeting in Washington.
The railroad labor executives
scored the railroads as an example
Of the failure and incapacity" of pri-
vate ownership of an essential indus
try and said the only monopoly of the
railroads which the people will toler-
ate is "actual and direct control by
the government"
Economy" which means lower
wages was fiayed in statement
by the labor men which said:
every measure of so-called econ
omy' which reduces the total income
Of the wage earners brings nearer
the day when millions of dispossessed,
destitute and desperate people will be
goaded into seizing the food, cloth
ing and shelter to which they have a
right by the supreme law of self-pres-
ervation."
"No government or private em-
ployer has the right today to take
away Jobs or wages necessary to keep
human beings alive and healthy, with
out accepting responsibility for sup
plying new means of support" the
statement continued.
"No man who has more than he
needs has a right today to hoard his
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Rhode Island Labor Backs
Locked-Out Pawtucket Typos

Pawtucket, r. I.-All Rhode Island
labor rallied in support Of members
of Typographical Union No. 212 who
were locked out early in March by the
Pawtucket Times. The lockout is re-
garded as the opening move in an
attack on union conditions in news
paper publishing plants throughout
Rhode Island and New England. The
printers were locked out by the Times
in an attempt to establish the "open
shop" in the papers composing room.
Contractual relations between the
union and the Times existed for
many years previous to the lockout.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
New Jersey Governor Backs
WOmen's 44-HOur Week Law

Trenton, N. J.-In a letter to Emil
Rieve, president of the American
Federation Of Full Fashioned Hos
iery Workers, Gov. A. Harry Moore
promised to support 44-hour week
law for women in industry. Women in
industrial and mercantile establish
ments now work Sd hours a week in
New Jersey. A 44-hour week bill is
now before the state senate committee
on labor and is being strongly sup
,orted by New Jersey labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
LONG WEEK
Comes Back Under Ruling
of Attorney General

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)--The
five-day week has passed out of gov
ernment work.
Just when shortening of the work
week is most imperative, the govern
ment has put it out of business.
This week the navy department
went back to the 51a day week.
All civilian employees Of the navy
returned to the long week, which
means employees in all navy yards
and other navy operations.
The abandonment of the 5-day week
by the navy followed many confer
ences and efforts to find way to con-
tinue the short week.
Comptroller McCarl landed the first
blow, as has so often happened.
Finally the attorney general was
called upon for an opinion. It is said
the administration asked the attorney
general to be diligent in the search
for way to continue the 5-day week.
But the attorney general finally ruled
that the new economy act left no al
tentative. The law that cut wages
heightened the work day for the naval
employees.
The navy was the second depart
ment to sink the 5-day week. The
first, incongrously enough, was the
department of labor, under the direc-
tion Of Secretary Perkins.
The 5-day week has gone out of
government service, and it will not
return unless and until congress
orders its return.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Hitler Aims to Crush
TOilers, British La
Dor Party's Warning

London, - In warning England
against Fascism, the British labor
party said of the situation in Ger
many:
"Do not think the Jewish boycott of
which you hear so much in the cap
italist press is the whole story. What
is going on in Germany is deliberate
attempt to suppress, by all the forces
of reaction of which the Nazis form
the spearhead, every form Of work
ing class activity"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
Studio Pay Cuts Restored

New York.-Salaries reduced early
in March have been fully restored at
the studios, exchanges and New York
offices of Columbia Pictures, Colum-
bia announces. The cut, amounting to
25 and SO per cent, went into effect
at all major studios for an eight
week period, beginning March 8.
After temporary lull in activity,
production schedules have been re-
sumed in the Hollywood studios and
as a result, Columbia has restored
salaries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

Railroad workers last year accepted
a 10 per cent reduction in pay, which
was extended this year to October 81,
with the right granted for either side
to move for change in the agreement
as early as June Is. The railroads are
seeking an additional 10 per cent
cut
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14
A. F. of L. Estimates March Jobless
Total at Over Thirteen Million
Increase Shows New Rising
Trend in Unemployment
President Green Warns Latest Gain Number of Idle Is
Particularly Seriousness Defation Continuing

Washington, D. c. QLNS)-Unem-
ployment increased in February and
March, and it is estimated the total
out of work in March was more than
100000, President William Green,
of the American Federation of La
Dor, announced in a summary of re-
ports received from affiliated trade
unions.
The increase in March was partic-
ularly serious, as it shows new
downward trend in employment,
President Green said. He declared
that the latest government pay cuts
have started wage and salary cuts in
industry and that "defiation policies"
have the upper hand "As long as
defation continues, we cannot hope
to get out of this depression" he
said
Unemployment increased in Feb
ruary, according to the federation
estimate based on government fig
ures, and reports from trade unions
show a still further increase in the
month of March," Mr.. Green said in
his summary. He continued:
"Our estimate for January showed
1921 900 out of work (revised fig-
ure) and in February unemployment
increased to 12,9S0,000 preliminary
figure). March reports from unions
show another increase, from $50 per
cent of the membership out of work
in February to 26.7 per cent in March
weighted figures). If the increase
in unemployment for the country as
whole was Of the same proportions
as in trade unions, some 100000 more
lost their jobs in March, bringing the
total out Of work in March we'll over
100000.
March Increase Serious
Increasing unemployment at this
time of year when industry usually
takes on more workers for the spring
busy season means that buying power
is cut still more, dehation is going
still further, larger number still
are dependent on charity.
"This increase in March is particu-
larly serious since it shows a new
rising trend in unemployment. Last
fall this rising trend had been
checked, and the increase in unem-
ployment was less than seasonal. But
this spring there is counter-seasonal
trend mad unemployment is definitely
rising again. The far-reaching con-
sequences of this new increase cannot
be overlooked. 1t means the be-
ginning Of new downward trend.
"As long as dehation continues we
cannot hope to get out of this de-
preston. Continuing defiation means
continuing destruction of our human
resources and our economic institu-
tions.2 Millions are going back to the
primitive life Of two centuries ago,
and as their standard of living is re-
duced to starvation levels, industry
cuts its activity and it's earning
power until it can no longer make
payment on debts.
Deaation Means Ruin
IF dehation is carried to it's limit,
our present civilization will be de-
stroyed. Yet defation policies have
the upper hand. The government
salary cut has already started wage
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

Gently said he had delayed prosecu-
ton of Hartman at the request of the
department of justice under the Hoo
yer administration, to give an oppor-
tunity to straighten out the banks
affairs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

Good Judgment hasn't much value
unless you make use of it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-04-14

IF defation is carried to it's limit,
our present civilization will be de-
stroyed. Yet defation policies have
the upper hand. The government
salary cut has already started wage
Evening star., 1933-11-04
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
SEATTLE, November 4.-The United
States Navy has completed preliminary
tests Of fantastic robot diving bell
represented yesterday as able to plunge
into the ocean, pick up dime or IS
foot locomotive crane, and carry work.
ers into depths heretofore beyond reach.
The pear-shaped, two-armed contri-
vance, invented by E. j. Romano OF
Seattle, is radically different in dimen
sions, outlines, graphing hooks and
lights from ordinary diving apparatus
Ralph S. Fleming. vice president in
charge of operations of the Salvage Co.,
operating the robot off Puget Sound.
said it has been manipulated more than
$50 feet under water. and tested 20
withstand pressure deeper than 1,5o0
feet. in contrast to the 1o0-foot opera
tions of average divers in old-style
equipment.
Naval tests were made by Comdr H.
E. Saunders of the battle force; Lieut..
| Comdr. Henry Hartley, submarine div
! ing expert and commander OF the U.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
4O-yEAR WORKERS
/. LIMIT TO Be AIRED
Civil Service Commission to
Hear Opposition of Sec
rotary Perkins.

The controversial employment age
limit ruling Of the Civil Service Com.
mission is due for an airing Monday
when Secretary of Labor Perkins ex-
poets to confer with the commission.
ers preparatory to making a recon-
mendation to President Roosevelt or
whether the new policy should bt
abandoned.
The President called upon Miss Per
kins for this study. and at her ofnce
IL was said she planned to see the clvl
service commissioners Monday
Miss Perkins has expressed her op'
position to the change, which princi
paIly affects applicants for typist
stenographic positions, by reducing tn
maximum age for entrance into tn
Government service from so to 30 years
The commission has steadfastly defend
ed its course in the face of fire from
official quarters, but doubtless woult
make any modification to conform Il
administration ideas.
Representative Opposed.
Another critic Of the ruling is dis
closed by q statement from Representa-
tive Mary Norton of New Jersey, Demo
cratic chairman of the District Com
mittee, who expresses herself a.
strongly opposed" to the 40-year limit
The best work not only in this coun
try but throughout the world. ant
throughout history. has been done b.
rrny,1an-oftpr fhaV hQVj
passed 40 years." she said. There il
no reason why any man or woman
should be excluded from the public
service if qualified to pass competitive
examination, merely on account o
being 40 years of age. They are ther
best qualified both by age and expert
ence and mature judgment to give tn
Government superior service in any ca
pacity.
THE Government should not set sucf
standards for private industry to fol
low, and should not broadcast to the
world that an applicant seeking to carr
his living is unfit at that age. Th
Government should set an example
rather, of appreciation of the fact tina
good Judgment through mature though
and skill and through experience coun
for much more than the quickness o.
impetuous youth
Case Develops.
While it has been emphasized previ
ously the new age limits will not oper
ate to bar promotions or transfers
they do set up lower maximums a
which Government employees may ente
open competitive examinations fo
higher-grade work. putting them in thi
respect on the same basis as outsiders
A case of this nature alreadv ha
been developed. In this. woman com
planned to the American Federation o
Government Employees that although
She had been employed in the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing for IL years
she was denied entranc, to an opei
competitive examination for f1at-bet
bookkeeping ma chine operator becaus
she is AZ years old, and the limit there
formerly SO, has been dropped to 50.
Evening star., 1933-11-04
u. S. MAY VOID GREEK
EXTRADITION TREATY
Action Considered Following Fail
ure to Secure Return of
insult.
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Government was understood to-
day to be contemplating instructing its
Minister at Athens to renounce the ex-
tradition treaty with Greece as a result
of the two failures to extradite. Samuel
insult
It was indicated at the State Depart
ment this Government feels the extra
dition treaty is useless to the United
States because the Greek authorities
have twice denied insult applications.
Expectations were that cablcgram
stating this Governments position will
20 forward Immediately to the Minister,
Lincoln MacVeigh.
Remuneration of the treaty, if carried
out as reported, was interpreted in some
quarters as meaning the dropping OF
the insult case since its definite term.
ination would remove international
machinery for returning insult to this
country.