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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Low PAY FOE
Appointed Labor Secretary
By Gov. PinchOt

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)-Follow-
ing the resignation of DR.. A. M.
Northrup, state secretary of labor
and industry, Gov Pinchot dismissed
DR.. Northrup and appointed Miss
Charlotte E. Carr, foe of the sweat
shop and low wages, in his place.
DR.. Northrup had made his resig-
nation effective August l. In his let
ter of resignation, he accused Miss
Carr, who was director of the Bureau
of Inspection in the labor depart
ment, of fomenting strikes. There
are reported to be 100 strikes, involv-
ing some 10000 workers, under way
in Pennsylvania. Ninety strikes have
been called since July l. DIR. North
rup also charged that Miss Carr had
been virtually in charge of the labor
department.
Miss Carr, who is 43, is a native
of Dayton, Ohio. She has vigorously
fought low wages in Pennsylvania in
dustry. She was formerly acting
director of the Women's Bureau of
the New York state labor department.
In appointing Miss Carr to succeed
DR.. Northrup, Gov. Pinchot declared
she was eminently fitted for the
position.
The full fashioned hosiery industry
is the one affected most by current
walkouts. 1t was estimated that
$4,000 hosiery workers were on strike,
about IL 900 of them in Berks county,
where 1900 or 1000 employees in
clothing and pretzel factories also are
out.
Since July /, new strikes in hosiery,
silk and textile mills have numbered
forty-two. In the clothing industry
eighteen plants have been closed and
the strikers number between 1000
and 5000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
KEEP ON ORGANIZING

The duty of the moment is to
ORGANIZE.
A lot of questions under the indus
trial recovery act remain to be cleared
up, but one thing is sure: The wage
Garner has no voice unless he is or
ganized
And the job of organizing is up to
the workers themselves.
Nobody is going to hand labor any
thing on platter. Labor has it's own
mission, it's own responsibilities and
it's own DUTY TO ITSELF.
Go forth, all wage earners, and
ORGANIZE IN UNIONS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
TEXTILE WORKERS
ORGANIZE

Bangor, Pa. (ILNS)-More than
900 textile workers, including hos
iery mill employees, have been union
lied in this immediate area in the
last 80 days, it is announced by Carl
Holderman, of the American Fedora
ton of Full Fashioned Hosiery Work
ers. In addition a United Textile
Workers Local Union of Jersey Knit
Cloth Workers in three local mills
has been formed, and this industry is
now 100 per cent unionized here. Silk
and miscellaneous textile crafts in
smaller plants have been unionized
also. The moment for organization
and textiles is now spreading into
other local industries which have
hitherto been entirely non-union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
BUYING MUST BE INCREASED

One of the primary purposes OF
the national industrial recovery act
is to increase national buying. If
minimum wage scales proposed for
recovery codes are too low to accom-
plish this intent of the act, they
might as we'll not be set at all. Short
sighted employers seeking to hold
wages down under the act would do
well to get this idea through their
heads without delay.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
SETTING JOHNSON STRAIGHT

Brig. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, recov-
cry administrator, keeps harping on
the theme that the recovery act isn't
for the purpose of organizing labor
and that his administration will give
all abor-organized and unorganized,
a square deal. Looks very much like
telling men they don't have to organ
ize.
Well, the truth is, they DO have
to organize if they are going to fully
benefit under the recovery act. And
it is about time Gen. Johnson harped
on some other string. Here's why:
Under the recovery act ONLY mini
mum wages are set. All above that
must be fixed by negotiation between
employees and employers.
They cannot negotiate now any
more than they could year ago,
UNLESS they are organized in REAL
UNIONS.
Gen. Johnson can't give an unor-
ganized worker square deal, or any
other kind of deal, and he ought to
know it. He can only give some help
to those in the lowest wage level. And
as to hours, if the cotton code 4O-hour
week is to be an example, great
many unions beat that mark long ago.
Gen. Johnson may mean well
enough, but it isn't what he means
that counts; it's what happens.
Unions are the workers first need
today. To join should be his first duty
to himself, his family and his fellow
workers.-Ex.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Banks Galore Still Closed


Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Thou-
sands of banks are still closed, tying
up billions of dollars, though the ma
tional banking holiday was declared
at an end more than four months
ago. Latest treasury department fig
ures show that on July 8 there We're
976 national banks still unlicensed,
with deposits of $1,O90,088,010 as of
last December 81. Figures on other
unlicensed banks were as follows
1T belonging to the federal reserve
system other than national banks
deposits of 1912 100000; 2,O16 federal
reserve non-member banks, deposits
of $1,O72, 1888, 900.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

competition code submitted to the
national recovery administration by
committee representing 85 per cent of
the lumber barons exempt that indus
try from the pride category.
The lumber barons want forty
eight hour maximum work week with
minimum weekly wage rate of
$1,000, or 221a cents an hour.
Their demand ruffled the usually
suave personality of Hugh HI. john
son, the recovery administrator, who
said:
"a forty -eight-hour week is so long
| wouldn't even consider it. 1t is up
to the lumber industry to make out
it's case, but 22h cents an hour is
far below what | regard as neces-
sary minimum wage"
General Johnson added that these
hours of work and minimum wages
"are wholly unacceptable and will in
no case be approved"
Thereupon John d. Tenant, of
Longview, Wash, chairman of the
lumber industry's emergency national
committee which framed the code
jumped into the limelight to defend
| his committees long hours and low
wages. He said that in cases where
the code called for forty -eight-hour
week the past normal working time
was sixty hours or more, and that the
minimum wage of 221a cents an hour
represented an increase from the
present prevailing wage of liz cents
an hour.
| Sixty hours week at liz cents an
hour paid lumber workers in the past
and PRESENT. Forty-eight hours a
week at 221a cents an hour proposed
for the future!
Evidently the poet who wrote
america the Beautiful" could not
have had for her inspiration the eco
nomic conditions of the 100000 men
normally employed by those who own
and control the lumber industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

Now, there's the matter of dead
cats. Dead cats undoubtedly are un-
pleasant things to have around.
Dead cats are even unpleasant to
write about, even in an improperly
constructed sentence
Dead cats in the back yard, or in
the gutter, or on the roof, are un-
pleasant enough.
But dead cats in the air-there's
something to conjure with.
And especially if the air is to be
full of dead cats.
Particularly the whole thing brings
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Wake UP Your Liver Bile
Without CaIomeI

II this bile ID not flowing fresAy. your
food doesn't digest. II just decays tn IL
bowels. Gas blosts up your stox,Ash You
have thick, bad taste and yoW hssaeA
is foul. skin often breaks out Ia hism-
ishes. Your head aches and you feel down
and out. Your whole system q poisoned.
1t takes those good. old CARRIERS
LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get these two
pounds of bile flowing freely and make
you feel ''up and up." They contain Won
derfui, harmless. gentle vegetable sx-
tracts. amazing when 1t comes to making
the bile how freely.
But don't ask for liver pills. Ask for
Carter's Little Liver Pills. Look for IL
name Carriers Little Liver Pulls on ths
red lsi,el. Resent substitzts. 2Ss n
drug stores Cl9sl G. II. Co.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

investigation of the low wages paid
messenger boys by the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph companies.
A motion unanimously adopted by
the council calls upon the federal
government under the industrial re-
covery act to investigate the low
wages being paid by the telegraph
companies to messenger boys and
other employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
question of whose cats.

up the question OF whose cats.
And who is there that keeps cats
enough so that the air may be full
of them when dead?
True, there are nocturnal hours
when it seems as if there were catN
enough, in all conscience, to fill the
air, dead or alive.
But the better vision offered by
daylight seldom reveals such pie
thora of cats.
However, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson,
the grim -visaged administrator OF
MIRA, promises us the air will soon
be full of dead cats. His words, ex-
actly.
Now, ladies and gentlemen of the
citizenry, there is something to con-
template.
If we can only behold an atmos-
phere surcharged with the presence
of the right kind of dead cats--the
right breed, perhaps-there will be
great multitudes who will join in
when the band strikes up, MIRA, my
God, to Thee"
If the air can be sprinkled plen-
tifully with the dead cats of the steel
trust, the oil trust, the Morgan En-
pire and a few more like them, that
will be something to write home
about. All, then, "rell it not in Gath;
publish it now in the streets of Aske-
lon," but wire it to the home folks.
Now of course what Gen. Johnson
meant was that before long the at
mosphere is going to become filled
with fight and that somebody is 60
ing to get beautifully and plentifully
licked.
That sounds like good news, be-
cause it is clear that the general has
no intention of being the one to be
licked. He intends to go the limit to
enforce the law and see to it that
those opposing it furnish the dead
cats, or shall we say, furnish the cats
which are to become dead, sufficiently
to fill the air.
The remark was, perhaps, pass
| ing fash-but it was seemingly
most illuminating flash. 1t may turn
out to have been one of those remarks
| more Illuminating than book OF
deep stuff.
Feline density in the air is some
thing to contemplate. It's one of
| those pungent remarks, like don't
| monkey with the buzz saw" 1t inti-
mates that there is day ahead when
recalcitrants will be called to stand
forth and face bare fists to knock
out.
/ Clearly something like that has to
come Greed has never yet surrend-
cred in good grace. 1t has always
been nasty right down to the last
line of the last verse of the last
chapter.
There is little reason to expect that
it has changed its ways.
It's cats will probably be as putrid
as ever, when dead, but when dead
they can be properly inferred, with
out epitaph-and we can then look
| forward to air fit to breathe, air
that smells like freedom, with new
cleanliness and wholesomeness. Let
it rain dead cats
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Tormey Elected Firemen
And Oilers Secretary

Chicago, Ill.-The general execu-
tive board of the international Bro
therhood of Firemen and Oilers Sc
lected Robert j. Tormey, of Chicago,
ILL.,, to be secretary-treasurer of the
organization for the three-year term
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Joseph w. Morton, which
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
And You'll Jump Out of Bed
in the Morning Rarin' to Go

If you feel sour and sunk and
the world looks punk, don't swal-
low a lot Of salts, mineral water,
oil, laxative candy or chewing
gum and expect them to make you
suddenly sweet and buoyant and
full of sunshine.
For they can't do it. They only
move the bowels and mere move
ment doesn't get at the cause. The
reason for your down-and-out
feeling is your liver. 1t should
pour out two pounds Of liquid bile
into your bowels daily.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
More Pay For
Glove Workers

Gloversville, N. w. (ILNS)-The
schedule committee of the National
Association Of Glove Manufacturers
and the scale committee of the Glove
Workers Union have made a tenta-
tive agreement whereby glove prices
will be increased Is per cent, with
resultant wage increases. The amount
of the contemplated wage increase
was not made public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
WHY THEY ARE so CHEAP

One reason for the low figures on
the price tags of Porto Rican baby
dresses, table linen, and underwear in
present-day shops is found in a recent
report of the Porto Rican labor de-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
WISDOM

There is no defeat except in no
longer trying. There is no defeat
save from within, no really insur-
mountable barrier, save our own in
herent weakness of purpose.-Elbert
Hubbard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
AND THIS is AMERICA

In general, American institutions
are the pride of Americans. But the
wages and hours in the lumber indus
try revealed in connection with the fair
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS

occurred during the recent conven-
tion of the Firemen and Oilers at
Boston, Mass. Mr.. Tormey is one of
the three international auditors of the
union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Probe of Messenger
Boys Pay is Asked

Minneapolis (ILNS)-The city
council has acted to bring about an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the MiddletOwn Trades
and Labor Council of MiddletOwn, O.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30
TODAY'S WEATHER

ern Jamaica with some indi-
cations of recurring to the north
east.
Pressure is moderately high
this morning over most sections
east of the Mississippi River. ex-
cept in central and southern Flor
ida, and low from the Plains
States westward, and over the
upper Mississippi Valley. There
have been showers during the
last "a hours in southern and
northern Florida, being heavy in
the extreme northwest portion,
and rains have occurred on the
Pacific coast from San Francisco
northward. and in Montana Tenn
peratures have risen in most sec
tons from the Plains States east
ward, and are generally above
normal this morning throughout
the country. except in the Middle
and North Atlantic States
G. S. KENNEDY,
Official in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30
BUILDING BOOM GETS STARTED

Figures show that the long awaited
residential construction boom IS. beginning
to make Itself felt, During the first half
5f August, construction of this type, as re-
ported to F...W. Dodge Corporation, total
ed $1O,s7S.0O0, as against 1882, 300 for
the same period last year--a gain of %
percent This marked the fourth consec-
alive month IN which advances were made
over the comparable months in 1882.
For number of years there has been
= definite home shortage IN America--for
at least three of those years building was
virtually at q standstill, and existing strsic-
lures were subjected til more than usual
depreciation, because of inattention to
needed repairs. This wasn't due to lack
of desire. It was due principally to lack
Of funIs in thousands OF families, and due
to. q psychology of fear that prevented
Others. having ample funds, from spending.
The first class Is returning to its jobs now,
and regular pay envelopes are brought
home on Saturday nights. The second il
discovering that rising prices vim shortly
make it impossible to obtain new buildings
or to improve old ones at bargain prices.
And both classes are going into the market
for better living quarters. Still another
beneficial influence Il the Home Owners
Loan Corporation. which makes possible
home financing that could not otherwise
be obtained.
Yes. there's every indication that
we're on the verge Of major building re-
yivai that win be particularly striking in
the residential field All who can should aid
the relief program BY taking advantage OF
low prices for land and material. -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30
WEATHER FORECAST

Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy
with occasional rain tonight and
Tuesday; fresh northeast and
east winds, strong at times.
Florida: Cloudy with oc-
casional rain tonight and Tues
day.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
Fresh northeast and east winds
strong at times over south pof-
ton; weather overcast with oc-
casiohal rain tonight and Tues
day.
East Gulf: Fresh northeast and
east winds, possibly strong at
times over southeast portion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

1t is said that the average tax
pay takes little interest in mu-
nicipai affairs; that they are in
different regarding questions
which have d vital bearing on their
welfare. That allegation is. to a
certain extent, true.
The taxpayer is apathetic when
municipal affairs are concerned.
They do not attend meetings of
the city fathers and do not insist
that all city financial and other
conditions be published in the ad-
yertising columns of the news
papers regularly SO they can dis
cuss among themselves and take up
with the city officials questions in
which they have a general interest.
City officials should do their
best to get the taxpayers together
and explain what is being done
and what they expect to do. BY
so doing, they would interest the
people in their own affairs and
encourage them to play their part
in the development of the city.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

Jonah. professor of broom, calisthen-
les. says he likes all the candidates. and
that to prove his impArtiality. he's going
to vote for all Of them.-Th Sunday Star
Jonah evidently has been bamboozling the
editor OF The Star for the above statement
attributed to The professor" does not
square with the interview printed In The
Citizen that he would vote for the men who
offered the fewest simoleons as he cofsid-
cred them the least violators of the law. No
telling. though. Jonah may have been
spoofing The Citizen scribe.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30
MORAL COLLAPSE OF MIAMI
tPhiladelpnia Record


The Record has no time for pessimists
who blame the depression ON the moral col
lapse of America.
The moral fiber or America is as fun
damentally fine today as it was IN the time
of the founders. The depr ,ssion IS due to.
economic mistakes.
But III fairness to the pessiniistic moral
lists, we must call attention to the most fla
grant ana open moral degeneration of a
community in the history Of this country.
Governor David Sholtz, of Florida, has
just dismissed the high sheriff of Dade
County miami and Miami Beach) for
mental Instability
That tory was dutifully printed in the
controlled press of Miami, with hypocriti-
cal attempts to justify the Governors out
rageous action.
Everyone in Miami knows the real
story. Sheriff Dan Hardie' has been one
Of Miarni's few honest police officials in
generation. He had the courage and
ability to drive out the Al Capone gang,
dry-cleaning racketeers and other under
world vermin that threatened the decency
ard prosperity Of that resort section
His name came prominently before the
country last winter when he captured and
later executed zangara, attempted assassin
Of President Roosevelt, murderer of Mayor
Cermak, of Chicago.
Dan Hardie comes of Frontier stock, a
typical old-fashioned sheriff who goes out
alone and gets his man." Would that we
had 5000 Dan Hardies to do the same job
for the 5000 counties in the United States.
But so low is the mentality. as well as
the morality, Of the political gang which
afflicts Miami, that they have the effront-
cry to dismiss this brave officer on trivial
charges.
= Hardie's chief offense. was honesty in
office. BY Diminishing him, Governor Sholtz
proves himself either fool or a knave.
We had thought that Miami and Mi
ami Beach had won expiration from further
suffering by an unusual series Of catastro-
.phies: First rail embargo; then collapse
sof the. real estate boom; then series of
bank failures, topped off by destructive
hurricane.
But now. on the eve Of its comeback,
il is afflicted BY 4 mitch more sinister ca
tastrophe than any that have gone before.
That the many influential Miami
property owners, throughout the United
States, will stand by, while bunch of
cheap racketeefs ruin this community, is
hard to believe. If they do, this degrad-
ing action Of Governor Sholtz will be of
more than local significance. 1t will mean
that the rich, pIeasure-loving class which
goes to Florida for winter recreation, has
lost all interest in decency and justice, ac-
cofdina to American standards.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

The Miami-Key West oversee bridge.
. $4,000, 900 project. which seemed hope
less only 4 few weeks back when public
works engineers turned thumbs down. hes
been miraculously revived Whirl.gir's
Washington operative learns. This doesn't
necessarily mean the deal IS going through.
but il viii at least be dragged from the
pigeonhole and given review. Public
Works Committeeman Burwell and Enei-
neer Cotton are said to have persuaded the
government engineers to take smother look
when they visited Washington recently
with Governor Shcltz. who put in hearty
plug for the bridge project. Whirlisig'
III Miami News.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

per to those who do not receive Il.
The customer il entitled TO good
service and the circulation mama
ger win appreciate prompt report
Of any discourteous treatment,
lAsenesa Of delivery 81 inattention
from the carrier.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

The Reichstag Fire appears to have
some of the elements Of the famous Gun
powder Plot. No one has yet been able
to prove that Cecil ruler Of England and
his agents provocateurs were not at the
bottom of the whole business. Cecil was GER
tainly capable of It; OF Of anything.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30
Mrs. Hortense K. Wells, q Tampa

Democratic national committeewoman who
is expected to go into the primary next
year as candidate for the United States
Senate against Senator Park Trammell. and
4 host Ct others. anxious to get the Job.
Mrs. Wells has declined to comment other
than to say Il win have formal and def
mite statement as to my candidacy in due
time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

s.Why make it possible for man to
live until he il 30 If his brains die at 7O7''
asks DR.. Charles Mayo. For that matter.
why make it possible for 4 man, whose
brains died at 90, to live to 70?-The Buff
falo Times.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-10-30

North Carolina and South Carolina
voted wet on the same day. We trust the
governors Of those two states will soon get
their long delayed drinks. tt certainly
was d long time between drinks.