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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
Illinois Labor Makes
Big Legislative Gains
Minimum Wage and Anti Yellow Dog Contracts Bills
Passed, Child Labor Amendment Adopted, Work
mems Compensation Act Improved and Other lmpor-
tant Laws Enacted-Olander Leads Labor Fight.

Chicago ULNS)-The Illinois State
Federation of Labor, R. G. Soder-
strom, Streator, president, and Victor
A. Olander Chicago, secretary-treas-
urer, made substantial gains with
its legislative program at the recent
session of the Illinois general assem-
bly,. Outstanding among the bills and
resolutions passed were ratification of
the child labor amendment to the
federal constitution, anti-yellow dog
contract bill and minimum wage law
for women and children.
"The outlook was discouraging up
to ten days prior to adjournment" F"
said Secretary Oleander, "but the Illi-
nois State Federation of Labor per-
sisted in it's efforts to secure favor
able action on the various bills in the
interest of the workers of the state,
Notwithstanding the fact that most
observers considered the situation to
be virtually hopeless. The result was
most gratifying, and indicated that
the officers Of the federation had
acted wisely in maneuvering num-
ber of bills out of committee, regard
less of the lateness of the session"
The fight for ratification of the
child labor amendment was spec
tacular in the extreme. One resolu-
tion for ratification having been voted
down earlier in the session, another
resolution was brought out of COM
mittee in the dying hours of the leg
islature and under high pressure was
jammed through despite the walls of
anguish arising from the opposition.
Much of the credit for the success
full denouement is given to Secretary
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
TENT MAKERS
Plan For Thirty-six Hour
Week

Chicago.-Representatives of tent
and awning manufacturers at a meet
ing here completed fair competition
code for the industry on the basis of
minimum wages of from $3.50 to $18
week, with a 36-hour maximum
work week.
James McGregor, of st. Paul, sec
retary of the association, said the
code had already been presented to
General Hugh S. Johnson, admins
traitor of the national industrial re-
covery act. He added that if the in
dustry ratified the 36-hour week it
would employ $4,000 men. Mr.. Nc
Gregor made no mention of having
consulted the employees of the tent
and awning manufacturers in deter
mining the minimum weekly wage
rate.
Evidently the manufacturers re-
sponsible for the $3.50 to $18 mini
mum weekly wage did not have in
view a very high standard of living
for their employees. Professor Paul HI.
Nystrom, of Columbia University, in
his book, Economies of Consump-
tion,' made a study to determine the
amount necessary to buy a decent liv-
ing for workers family of five in
1929. An adjustment of Professors
Nystrom's data with living costs of
December, 1882, fixes $31 week as
the minimum necessary to support a
family of five in health and efficiency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
STRIKE TIES UP
STUDIOS

Hollywood, Calf. QLNS)-P Produc-
ton of three pictures was halted at
the Columbia studios by a strike of
union workers.
A sympathetic walkout of electri-
clans, cameramen, propertymen and
other craftsmen followed a strike of
sound technicians.
The dispute involved classification
of the studio as ''independent" or q
member of the Motion Picture Pro-
ducers and Distributors of America,
Inc, of which Will II. Hays is presi-
dent Different wage scales prevail
in the two classifications.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21

Olander and his two-fisted methods.
The usually calm and suave Olander
dumfounded state political leaders
when he went into action with his
plain sailor language and table
pounding with his fists, not to men,
tion certain important door which
he crashed.
Among the bills enacted, not al
ready mentioned, were the following
Improving workmen's compensation
act.
Housing bill and companion meas
ures.
Defining so-called salary or wage
purchases as loans under the small
loan act and thus virtually outlawing
the nefarious loan shark business
which has been conducted by the So
called salary purchasing agencies.
Authorizing municipalities to apply
for grants and make contracts under
the industrial recovery act in accord
with the limitations of that act pro-
viding for the thirty-hour week and
adequate wages.
Limiting the working hours of bus
and truck drivers on the state high
ways.
Safeguarding mothers pensions by
providing for separate mothers pen
sion fund.
Re-establishing the Buy Illinois
Products Commission.
Accepting provisions of the federal
act providing for the establishment of
national employment system.
The egg Gamblers BILL
Appreciation of $25,O00,000 for
emergency unemployment relief.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
G. 1888. Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,
WNU Service
HOME WAS DIFFERENT

Young Eric was invited to tea
party.
The following day his mother
learned that he had been the best be-
haved child at the table. He was, In
fact, regarded as model of good be-
havior for other children to follow.
II was very pleased to hear that you
were good boy at the party" mother
Informed him.
"Oh, mother" murmured the boy. II
needn't behave like that at home,
need IT'-Boston Herald.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
American Federation Of Labor Warns Wages
Must Keep Pace With Rising Prices to Assure
Stable Foundation For Continued Improve
ment in Business and Industry.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Pres.
ent industrial gains are largely spec
ulative and carry a threat to recov-
cry unless wages rise rapidly, the
American Federation of Labor warns
in its monthly survey of business.
Industrial activity has made 9
spectacular increase in the last three
months; but when the figures are
analyzed it is clear that much of the
present feverish activity is specu-
lative," the federation says. 1t con-
tinues:
"That is, wholesalers and retail
ers know that when the agricultural
processing taxes go into effect and
industrial codes begin operating un-
der the recovery act, prices will rise
and they want to get in ahead of
price increases.
"Thus in cotton goods, shoes, to-
bacco, activity has jumped up to the
1929 level; cotton shipments have
tripled in the last three months.
Steel Orders Soar
Similarly, in steel, there has been
sudden hurrying up of orders, and
steel operations have increased 253
per cent from March a to June "a
from Is to So per cent of capacity.
"Yet the industry's largest Gus
tomers-building and railroads
are not undertaking any expan-
sion programs which could up
hold this increase
Thus industry and trade are buy
ing against the future; stores are
stocking up their empty shelves;
plants are ordering raw materials
sometimes for as far ahead as the
first of next year and are laying in
supplies of steel for repairs"
Consumers Stock Up
The federation adds that consum-
ers likewise are getting ready for
price increases, as shown by gains in
automobile sales and department store
business. even the building indus
try at last began to show signs of
life in the first of June, and contracts
increased more than the seasonal
amount. Industrial production as a
whole increased, 34.6 per cent from
March to June"
The federation goes on to point
out that these gains have far out
stripped buying power. Workers in
comes increased only Z per cent from
March to May, its statistics showed,
while factory production jumped SGT
per cent.
Production in many of the con-
sumner industries is at 1929 levels, but
workers buying power is still 56.7
per cent below 1929," it is declared.
"It may be justifable at the start of
the recovery to stock up shelves at
this amazing rate, but unless workers
income catches up quickly when in
dustrial codes go in force, we shall
find ourselves driven to imitation to
keep up prices"
Observers Declared Skeptical
Business observers are skeptical
about the future because they do not
yet see foundation of buying power
and are unceratin whether the present
improvement can last beyond few
months" the statement said. "There
is only one way to assure this found
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
War Soon on Industries
Failing to Submit Codes
Hold Outs" Face Decisive Action BY Administration;
Cotton Textile Code, Marking Big Progress i'll Back
ward Industry, Only Code Adopted to Date.

mendous advance for that hitherto
cut-throat, low-wage industry. In
many mill towns new kind of life
and new kind of freedom will begin
at once.
Wages GO up, not only for the low
est paid, but for all. The minimum,
S12 in the South, $l3 in the North,
will be applied at once and all wagee
higher up will be stepped up accord
ingly. Maintenance crews will get
time and half for overtime, a new
thing in the mills. Child labor is
abolished.
Overproduction Checked
Increased productivity can be had
only by special consent. The stretch
out study, under Leslie l.. Frey as
technical adviser, will be finished be-
fore the code becomes operative, to
further check avaricious motives.
But the textile code is the only
code thus far agreed upon and no
hearing date has been set for any
other. There are plenty of codes on
file, but they are from the smaller
industries which the administration
does not want to handle until the
''big ten" major industries are coded
and operating on a shorter work-week
and higher wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21

shall not remain on continuous duty
for more than twelve hours, and that
driver who has been on continuous
duty for twelve hours must be allowed
at least eight hours for relaxation
and rest. The law also stipulates that
no driver shall be permitted to remain
on duty for more than sixteen hours
in any twenty-four hour period, and
that ten-ohur period off duty must
be granted to a driver who has work
ed sixteen hours
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21

German will attend conferences of
woolen and worsted workers in New
England and Pennsylvania before GO
ing to Washington. He said that from
all reports in the woolen and worsted
industry, it appears that 80 hours
work and no more than two shifts
would be the logical work week.
James Starr, secretary treasurer of
the organization, reported that new
members are coming into the union
from all parts of the country and the
union is finding it extremely difficult
to provide organizers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
Doubtful

Binks-Oh, / guess your rich aunt
will remember you. You made a big
hit with her by going into mourning
when her cat diedl
Jinks-True, but listen; now the
other relatives accuse me of poisoning
the cat to get the opportunity. Brook
lyn Eagle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
Gains Made Held Speculative;
NeW Buying Power Also Urged

1t is evident that the maximum of
$3.50 to $18 per week proposed by
those who own and control the tent
and awning industry is so far below
the Nystrom standard that many ele-
ments of health and decency for fam
lilies compelled to live on it would
have to be sacrificed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21

ton: for industry voluntarily to limit
proflts until workers are back at work
at living wage. This is the corner
stone of the administrations recovery
program. Will industry support the
president ?"
The survey lays great stress on the
necessity of wage increases to keep
pace with rising prices. 1t declares
the codes set up under the recovery
act must provide for constant re-
adjustment of wages"
Unless wages rise in proportion as
prices and productivity increase, the
minimum will soon become a poverty
wage" the survey says. ALREADY
from March to May, prices of food
have increased per cent while wages
gained only per cent If an indus
try is permitted to fix wages, its price
increases should also bear a direct re-
lation to wage increases"
Labor Representation Urged
The survey advocates labor repre-
sentation on continuing committees
created by industrial codes. "If the
committee represents both the worker
and the management, those who di-
rect production and selling, and those
who are the producing workers and
who consume, then it may become an
instrument for balancing production
and consumption. If labor is not pres
ent, there is real danger that the code
might be used to limit production and
consumption and industry would be
geared downward instead of upward"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-21
Rhode Island Regulates
Hours of Truck Drivers

Province, R. |. (ILNS)-A law
passed by the Rhode Island legisla-
ture stipulates that driver of a
motor truck or public service vehicle
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08

somewhat impatiently, II want Miss
Daniels"
I managed to splutter that he was
speaking to Miss Daniels.
"Please come in to see me this aft
ernoon, If possible" he said, and this
I promised to do.
I was so excited I could have
yelled, but on top Of this excitement
came the realization that had moth
ing to wear. How many times have
women been in this situation.
A hasty survey Of the house re-
vealed nothing in my wardrobe, but
the luck had changed, for mother had
just bought a light afternoon frock.
Without any debate whatsoever I
grabbed that and put it on. Then I
found that l needed slippers. Another
problem, but still another search and
I found a pair in the wardrobe Of
my aunt who was visiting us at the
time. These were appropriated in
like manner and set out for the In
terview.
LIZ uldAO q AOA6 0bOAJ oAVAbs l 6OS
the contract as Harold Lloyd's lead
ing lady.
Sitting in the producers Office
awaiting an appointment is not the
most pleasant thing in the world for.
in the majority of cases. the wait is
a long one. It seemed to me that I
sat there fully eight hours, although
In reality, as I afterward learned, it
was close to two.
really had no idea what sort Of a
proposition would be offered me so I
was mentally concocting stories re-
lating to my capabilities. my expert
ence and so forth. In addition to this
had done up my hair in such way
that added several years to my APP
pearance and this was helped out by
the long skirt on the dress and the
high heels.
Finally was admitted into the pri-
vate office Of the manager. He was
very kind and cordial but was so
scared I couldn't say a word. l just
mumbled something incoherent and
stared. All of the fine stories ! had
made up went out Of my mind in
flash.
He asked me to stand in one corner
of the room and then to walk to and
fro across the floor which l did.
With a puzzled look he said:
"H'm, I thought you were much
younger, Miss Daniels"
All my hopes went out the window.
Here I had tried to look older and
that was the very thing he didn't
want.
/ couldn't say anything for a mo-
ment but realizing that something
must be done started to take down
my hair and dress it as 1 had been
in the habit Of doing. can see the
expression on that mans face even
to this day. He was absolutely dunn
founded.
When l had finished and given him
an opportunity of seeing how l looked,
he smiled.
After a bit of questioning he ap-
peared satisfied and offered me con-
tract as leading lady to Harold Lloyd.
WNU Service
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
REAL (ESTATE) BARGAIN

Customer-That lot you sold me in
Venice Gables is three feet under
water.
Real Estate Agent-That's splen-
did. I'm glad to hear it. Let me
congratulate you!
Customer-C Congratulate nothing !
/ want my money back.
Agent-Oh, don't throw up such a
bargain as that. / can sell you q
canoe for only $40 and you can enjoy
all the delights of boating without
going off your own property. Think
of it Pathfinder Magazine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
Howl Broke Into
PThe Movies r
RY RERE DANIELS
coowight by Hal {. Herman

MY ABILITY to fitch an afternoon
Iva dress and pair of high heeled
slippers enabled me to ''crash the
gate" in motion pictures.
AS matter Of fact, I had played
around motion picture sets while
child in company with my mother,
when she took fling at the screen,
and occasionally was given just
bit by a kind-hearted director, but
my first real opportunity was given
me because l borrowed" the dress
and the slippers.
things looked rather black. / was liv-
ing with my mother again after three
years of school and the financial sit
uation of the Daniels was far from
being pleasant. Mother had been
playing bits now and then, and on
this particular afternoon, was out on
location with company. leaving me
to my resources. had wanted to
help but the goddess of luck and the
casting directors ignored me COM
pletely. My name was known to few
Of them but the securing of job was
another thing.
Suddenly the telephone rang. 1t
was Harold Lloyd's manager with the
information that he would like to see
Mrs. Daniels.
''Mrs. Daniels is not in" replied.
'Not Mrs. Daniels" he went on
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08

Horizontal.
1-Where Easter eggs are alleged
to come from
EnEystical Interpretation of the
Scriptures among Jewish rab-
bis
13-Dig
14-Make happy
16-Conjunction
1S-Midday
10-Absence of anything
20-NOte Of musical scale
21-Deface
2S-Had faith I'm
25-Father (COM.)
26-Ship's prison
2S-BelOnSing to yOu
29-Part of the ear
8O-Fabulist Of note
82-One (French)
SS-COurage
34-Lattice work
86-WOod lice
8S-ExceedingIy small part Of mat
ter
Sentative metal
4O-Mar
44-Bravery
4S-Whistles
49-Same as 80 horizontal
51-SwOrd
oz-OVerhnSty In action
53-Sacred song or poem
5S-Shakespearean king
58-Beverage
67-Clattered
B9-One of the words you use when
singing n song OF which you
don't know all the words
6O-Additi0n to q letter
O1-ThrOw
82-News article one paragraph long
04-R0adway (abbr.)
0S-Paintfng dealing with everyday
life
60-FeeI
OS-One who makes n sacrifice to q
principle
60-Meeting place
Vertical.
2-COmmercial notice (abbr.)
3-Nickname OF famous printer
4-Stain
S-Dentine composing elephants
tusks
6-Thin, slender
z-Places in the middle (var. sD.D
S-WoOd of the agallOch
9-Fetter
1O-COnsumed
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
CAP AA
AND ~
BE Ii i
(EY
WINGS

''Is your family going to be active
In society?'
Il suppose So" answered Senator
Sorghum. "You can't expect them to
deny themselves the same pleasures
that they enjoy at home"
"Will you become a social butterfly
yourself?"
'No. I'll keep working hard and try
to fly high enough to get into the
airplane class."-Washington Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
No Tagging Veteran

Betty on visit to her aunt, being
offered some leftover fragments,
politely declined them.
"Why. dear, don't you like tur-
key?" inquired her aunt.
"Only when it's new" said Betty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
With a Few Old shoes

Spinster-So the waiter says to
me, "How would you like your rice?"
Friend-Yes, dearie, go on.
Spinster-S0 says wistfully,
Thrown at me, big boy"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
Proof Of Progress

Briggs-Well, the world seems to
move faster all the time, doesn't it?
Griggs-Nonsense During the
Revolutionary war they had minute
men-but during the World war we
had four-minute men.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08

Mean q Fortune
"My daughters music lessons means
a fortune to me-"
"How is that?"
"They enable me to buy the neigh
bors' houses at half price."-Gazzet.
tino Illustrate.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08
Businesslike Ghost

Guest of the Housewife the
deuce are you?
Burglar am the ghost that's
roamed this house for 600 years.
Where do they keep the silver?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-09-08

11-French article
1z-Fight
15-FrOlic1
17-ScarceP
2O-W0rk
22-GO mp
24-SOurce OF heat
2S-LonS stick
27-BiblicaI giant
2o-Of or pertaining to the side
S1-Schemes
33-Deformity I'm which foot -
grown inward
35-Legal combination (abbr.)
37-Card game
4O-NarrOw pieces Of flexible mafee
41-Pieces of hot fuel
42-Flower
43-GroOm
44-One who plays q stringed I'M
strument
45-EncOurage
46-COg wheels
4Z-Mistakes I'm printing
5O-ROdcnt
Seward on a blow
54-Automatic registering inStruA
57-PersOn of small stature
5S-Contradict
61-Obj. Of she
63-Writings (abbr.)
65-SOuthern state (abbr.)
67-AAd (French)
Solution will appear I'm next issue
Evening star., 1933-01-05
DISTRICT HORSE SHOWl
WILL START ON MAY 1O)
National Capital Exhibition to Be
Held Again at Brad
ley Farms.

The National Capital Horse Show of
1888 will be held at Bradley Farms,
Md. May 10 to 13, inclusive, 1t was
announced yesterday at meeting OF
the Association of American Horse
Shows in New York.
Virtually ell the exhibitions tradi-
tionally of interest to the show stables
in Washington. Virginia and Maryland
applied again this year for dates. The
Philadelphia annual will take place
May 3-6, the week before Washington's
leading horse event of the year occurs.
After the National Capital will come
Atlantic City on May 1920 and VIII
mington from May 1920, and then
the famous Devon Fair on May 24-30
The National Horse Show in Madison
Square Garden, New York, will be
November 814. other exhibitions which
usually draw entries from this area are
Bryn Mawr, September 27-30; Mont
pelier, Va, october 81, and the Wis
sahickon meet. which will take four
days this season instead Of three as
in 1882.
Evening star., 1933-01-05
Chic, August 20. Covers to North
BEND 0hin

Chic, August 20. Covers to North
Bend, Ohio.
Chester A. Arthur, Fairfield. VT, Oc-
tober 5. Covers to Fairfield, VT.
Grover Cleveland, Caldwell, n. j.
March 18. Covers tc Caldwell, N. J.
william Mckinley, Niles, Ohio, Janu-
ary 2e. Covers to Niles, Ohio.
Theodore Roosevelt, New York City
October 81. Covers to New York City
william Howard Taft, Cincinnati
Ohio, September 8. Covers to Cincin-
natl, Ohio
woodrow Wilson, staunton, Va. De-
cember 28. Covers to Staunton, Va.
Warren G. Harding, Corsica, Ohio,
November 2. Covers to Marion, Ohio.
Calvin Coolidge, Plymouth, VT, July
4. Covers to Plymouth, VT.
Herbert C. Hoover, West Branch,
Iowa, August 10. Covers to West
Branch, Iowa.
Post Offices Lacking.
1T is not always possible to have a
cover mailed at the place of BIRTH" Mr..
CowleS explained, because frequently
there is no post Office there. In that
event covers should be sent to the post
office in the State of birth which has
beer named in honor of the President
THE collection of presidential covers
should he started, if possible, at the
new year Those wishing to begin at
once should send cover for President
Fillmore to the postmaster at Fillmore,
N. Y, in time for mailing January 7,
1888. The President Mckinley cover
should be sent to the postmaster at
Niles, Ohio, in time for cancellation
January 20, 1888. In each case. of
course, instructions about mailing
should be inclosed. Each cover must
be completely prepaid. Each letter to
the postmasters concerned also must be
prepaid"
, Mr.. Cowles said that a special cachet
was used in commemoration of Presi-
dent Andrew Johnson on covers mailed
at Raleigh, N. c., December 20. The
Evening star., 1933-01-05
Minute Mysteries
SOLUTION TO THE PROFES-
SOR INVESTIGATES.
(See Page ga,

Towers could not have seen,
through the cellar window, the
bracelet lying on the ground. The
condition of the weedy. neglected
grounds would have made this
ir1possible-especially on q dull
day.
THE CURIOUS, QUESTION
ING EYE THAT PLUCRS THE
HEART OF EVERY MYSTERY.
-Grenpille MeIlen.
Evening star., 1933-01-05
MAIL LOSS CLUES SLIM
Inspectors Hunt Minneapolis Rob-
bers-Loot Exceeds 100000.

MINNEAPOLIS, January 5 Up. -.
Postal inspectors sought today to trace
meager clues left by bandits who stole
three mail pouches containing cash and
negotiable securities totaling well above
100000 frcm a depot Tuesday night.
w. N. Hughes, chief postal inspector,
said a partial check-up of the sacks
contents revealed the cash loss was
about 100000 He said the exact
amount of negotiable securities and
bond coupons in the loot would not be
known for some time.
Federal Reserve bank paper was re-
ported to be in the pouches stolen.