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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
CERMAK'S BODY IS
TAKEN TO CHICAGO

CHICAGO. March s.-(UP).-.
Under somber skies the body OF
Mayor Anton ]. Cermak was
brought to Chicago today.
Over $4,000 people were at the
station on the arrival. and a pub
lie funeral on Friday morning Will
be held at the Chicago Stadium.
Burial will take place Immediate
~ afterward.
The body will lie in state to-
morrow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
ENTERTAINS RUTH
TEAM BEAUTIFULLY

Mrs. G. ]. Vile entertained the
members of the Ruth team of the
Philathea class delightfully."- at her
home last evening. The appoint
ments were suggestive of st. Pat
rick's day. Games were enjoyed
as well as contests. In the latter
prizes went to Mesdames W. P,
Whitmire, W. B. Sinclair and c.
w. Davis. A sweet course was
served later to II members and
three visitors.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
PPCUlaL.
PARAGRAPH

The many friends of Mrs. Joe
Brown are pleased to know she
Is at home at the home Of her
brother, Odell Brock, 221 Third
avenue, after the arrival OF a
baby daughter, born at the
Mountain Home Sanitarium.
Mrs. r. C. Jordan and chill
dren returned to Winston-Salem
Tuesday after spending a few
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
SMALL, FIRE DAMAGE
AT HOME OF MAYOR

The fire department answered
a call about $50 o'clock last
night at the home of Mayor A.
". Edwards on Ninth avenue
west.
A small blaze catching from
the furnace did small damage.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
.BREVARD JURORS
ELECT OFFICERS

BREVARD, March s. Especially.
Class officers elected by the
junior class of Brevard high
school include: Mack Allison,
presidents. Margaret Fullbright,
vice president; James Deayer,
secretary, and Edgar Lofts,
treasurer. Plans have been per-
fected by the class for staging
of the annual junior-senior ban
quet during the last part Of
March.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
PLAN LIQUOR DRIVE

WASHINGTON, March 8. (UP(.
Prohibition Director Woodcock
announced today that the pro-
hibition bureau immediately
would shift the concentration OF
its activities from speakeasies to
sources of supply.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
SOLONS DEFER WORK
ON FUNDING BILLS

RALEIGH. March s.-(UP).-
Governor Ehringhaus today sent
a message to the general assem-
bly, recommending that considera-
ton of finance and appropriations
bills be postponed for a brief time
and said he desired to address the
assembly jointly at an early time.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
"Unlueky" Days

Ancient belief classed August 8
and Is as unlucky days. and put an
extra ban on the second Sunday in
August as being the day on which
Sodom and Gomorrah were de-
stroyed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
coSTON ON RADIO

]. c. Coston will be on the
radio from Asheville studio,
WWNC, Thursday night from 8:45
D. m. to 9 p. M. with a request
program, consisting of songs per-
tanning to repentance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
LOVELY LITTLE BRIDGE

Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Barber en-
tertained informally at two tables
of bridge on Monday evening in
honor of Mrs. Ben Carr. OF
Marion, who was the guest Of Mr.,
and Mrs. Roy Keith. The honoree
was presented with a little gift
and at the close of the delightful
evening salad course was served.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
SEPARATED FOR FIRST TIME

WEST STOCKBRIDGE. Mass.
CUP).-When William Doughty
went to Pittsfield recently to
visit relatives it marked the first
time that ne and his wife had
been separated overnight since
they were married 33 years ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
CHILDBIRTH LEFT u!
THIN, WORN, Nfp1vSas'

"After birth of my baby ,
thin, nervous, rundown =
bottle, of Vinol (iror u" y
helped. 1t gave me e.. q
needed weight" Mrs, y STe; !!
stone. The Justus Pharo,r..,,,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
'cHINk' ARRESTED >,

PASADENA, Cal. IN,
Fined $40 for SELLING VIZ
tickets, Louis Gee, cbi,..
follwoed to his alundrv 81
arrested 20 minutes H., ~
the same offense. Thu
fine was 500. .
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
PHILATHEA SEWING
CIRCLE TO MEET

The Philathea sewing circle will
meet with Miss Georgia Rector on
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock
This will be an important and in
teresting session.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08
YOUNG PEOPLES
BRANCH MEETING

The Young Peoples branch of
the fwomen's Christian Temper
ahee Union will meet tomorrow
(Thursday) evening at 8 O'Clock
at the Baptist church house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08

There is no sub,tih,.
newspaper advert;,;,."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08

land section. was in tbi.N
on business recently q
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-08

There is no substitute for
Newspaper advertising. =
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
By B. C. CLARKE

Washington, D. c. QLNS)-With
self-regulation in industry as the key
note, the special committee headed by
Senator Wagner, of New York, en-
gagged in drafting a national recov-
ery' act that may be substitute
for the Black 30-hour bill and the
proposals of Secretary of Labor Per-
kins for governmental dictatorship
in industry, is continuing its ses-
sions.
Secrecy covers the deliberations of
the committee, although it is known
that one of the detectives which it
hopes to attain with the measure is to
afford employment by next September
to 100000 of the approximately
15,O00,00 idle men and women of the
nation.
1t is understood that intimations
have been conveyed to the committee
from within cabinet circles that the
functions of labor leaders as sta
bilizing influence in industry should
for the time being be exercised or
at least directed by the government
itself, and possibly best by the de-
partment of labor.
Industry will be asked through this
bill to suppress it's own unfair prac-
tices and throat-cutting competition,
and to conform to such practices as
will prevent large over-production,
wage slashing, and the employment
of children. AS nearly as can be as
certained, a 30-hour provision for in
dustry will not be included in the new
bill
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
N. Y. Employment
Higher in April

Albany, N. Y. QLNS)-Employ-
ment and payrolls in New York state
factories showed recovery in April
from the unfavorable effects of the
previous months banking holiday, In
dustrial Commissioner Elmer F. An
drews reports. The volume of en-
ployment increased 27 per cent over
March, while total wage payments
were "A per cent higher. Normally,
seasonal declines occur during April
in both employment and payrolls.
As compared with year ago, the
number of employed factory workers
was 11.3 per cent lower, and the to-
tai amount of wages paid out was 20
per cent less.
The upward movement was not gen.
eral. Six major industry groups had
increases in employment, while five
showed decreases. Numerous firms
were reporting their normal seasonal
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
DOZEN BIG
Business Chiefs Reported
Facing Indictment

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
underground" which carries so much
advance information that later be-
comes first page news is cracking
with a tremendous sensation in these
Washington days.
Twelve men of tremendous power
in American business and finance are
scheduled to be indicted by the fed
eral government, following testimony
before the senate banking investiga-
tors.
The parade of witnesses headed by
j. P. Morgan and his 20 partners is
about to start.
1t is reported that 200 leading
fnanciers and business big shots are
due to sit in the blistering senate
committee seat, and the dozen to be
indicted, "if indictments can possibly
be found" are included in the men
who will form this big parade.
If the talk is true, Teapot Dome
will become a little thing by COM
parison.
But there are those who look
at the power of big business and
then whisper gently, don't count
your indictments until they are
voted"
But the program seems certainly
to call for a sensational lot of indict-
ments and for a grand effort to land
some big fish in prison.
Perhaps the test of power between
government in Washington and gov
ernment in Wall street lies in this
impending conflict.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
American Government to Register Protest
Against Ruthless Nazi Drive to Suppress
Trade Union Movement, A. F. Of L. Head Says
in Flaying Terreristic Campaign.

bers of the German trade unions in
the terrific, destructive and humiliat-
ing experience which they are forced
to undergo, and we protest vigor-
ously and unitedly against the action
of the Hitler government in the ex-
ercise of its dictatorial powers over
the trade unions and the officers of
the trade unions.
u. S. Labor to Protest
"The Hitler government has
aroused a feeling of antagonism
among the masses of the people of
the United States. The American
Federation of Labor will register its
protest with the American govern
ment against the destructive, dicta-
torial and indefensible acts of the
Hitler government toward the work
ing men and women identified with
the trade union movement of Ger
many.
Regardless of the methods en-
ployed, the destruction of the trade
union movement of Germany by sheer
repressive tactics resorted to by the
Hitler government, we are confident,
knowing the German working people
as we do, that they cannot crush the
spirit of trade unionism, nor do we
believe the German workers will sur
render to the decree of an autocrat
whose evident purpose is to maintain
control of the German nation
through the exercise of military
power and autocratic DEGREES.
"The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor, which
just concluded its meeting, directed
the officers of the American Fedora
tion of Labor to secure full informa-
ton regarding the destruction of the
trade union movement in Germany,
and to extend to the German trade
unionists all support possible"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19

Despite the fact that the six-hour
shift caused pay cuts in more than
three-fourths Of the cases, it still was
preferred to the eight-hour shift by
TIT per cent of all the women who
had worked under both schedules.
The reasons most often given by the
women who liked the shorter work
day were the increased time available
for home duties and for leisure, and
the fact that they were less tired at
the close of the day. The principal
reason cited in favor of the longer
day by those who preferred eight
hours was the higher pay possible.
Over one-half of the as women who
did not like the shorter schedule were
on the evening and night shifts. Also,
some dissatifaction may be account
ed for by the fact that under the
eight-hour shift the hourly rates in
the evening and at night were lit
tie higher than those of the day shift,
while under the six-hour system the
rates were made the same, for the
same work, on all the shifts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
GOVERNORS WIFE
Aids Strikers By Joining
Pickets

Allentown, Pa. (ILNS)-Mrs. Gift
ford Pinchot, wife of the governor of
Pennsylvania, gave militant support
to the fight against bad working con-
ditions by joining the picket lines of
young workers here and in North
ampton who are striking against
sweatshop wages and hours.
Mrs. Pinchot first visited North
ampton, where she was cheered by
400 strikers, most of whom were
girls between 13 and 18. After greet
ing the strikers leader, she headed
the pickets in march seven times
around the d. and d. Shirt Company
factory.
Arriving here, she joined boy and
girl pickets around the Morris
Freezer factory, focal point of the
Allentown strike. Asked how Gov
ernor Pinchot regarded her decision to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
STRIKE
OF Columbia River Fisher.
men Spreads Out

Astoria, Oregon.-The strike of the
Columbia river fisherman and cannery
workers entered the second week OF
the new packing season yesterday
with no signs of settlement, but, on
the contrary, indications that it was
spreading over the coastal area into
the north
Plants on Columbia river are, of
course, suspended, after packing a
little fish that had been caught in
the first few days of the season up
the river.
The cannery workers are out in
sympathy with the fishermen, and the
compromise offered by the packers
was rejected.
The fishermen have demanded s
cents pound for raw stock, as against
6 cents paid last year. The COM
promise was believed to have been
z cents, which would have permitted
an opening of $1.75. Coast on fancy
halves. If the packers are forced to
yield in full, and this is not unlikely,
the opening on fancy halves will be
So, coast.
Brokers here are being posted about
developments on the river every day,
Reports coming from the northwest
have indicated the spread of the
trouble up to Puget Sound.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
WOMEN WORKERS
Employers, For Six-Hour
WOrkday

Washington, ID. G. (INLS-The six
hour working day is favored by the
management of well-known plant
and the majority of it's women work
ers, an investigation by the Women's
Bureau of the u. S. Department of
Labor reveals.
The plant had operated on three
eight-hour shifts until December,
1880. The change to four siX-hour
shifts at this time was made as an
attempt to increase employment by
shortening hours and as part of a
reorganizing program. More women
were taken on as result of the
change, the increase from a short
time before to a short time after be-
ing as much as per cent At the
same time, women's hourly rates
increased 121a per cent, to be fol-
lowed year later with a like in
crease, so that the total hourly pay
was 25 per cent higher at the time
of the bureau study than it had been
under the eight-hour basis. No lunch
period or rest time was allowed under
the new schedule, although short re-
lief periods were given when desired.
Advantages of the change reported
by management include the following:
Increased daily production from the
plant as an operating unit; decreased
overhead; increased return from cap
ital invested in plant and machin-
cry; opportunity of reorganizing the
working force, and elimination Of
cafeteria expense.
A clear Indication of how the wom-
an workers felt about the six-hour
day was ascertained by Women's
Bureau agents who visited ABA wom-
en- to inquire about the effect of the
shorter hours on their earnings, their
home life and their leisure activi-
ties. Of the women visited, only 265
had worked at this plant under both
hour schedules.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
Gov. Lehman Signs Three
Prevailing Wage Bills

Albany, NJ Y.-Governor Lehman
has signed three bills strengthening
existing laws relating to payment of
prevailing wage rates on public
works.
One provides that municipal and
state contracts shall include a clause
specifying the prevailing rate Of
wages to be paid on each job.
Another bill provides that all con-
tracts for state, county, town and
village highways must state the
minimum hourly wage to be paid.
The third bill provides that in
sparsely settled areas where there are
no workers of the type for which the
rate is to be established the fiscal
agent may take the rate for the first
large civil DIVISION" which might be
a city or an entire county.
Suhceriha far the pracs
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
President Asks Immediate
Steps For Raise in Wages
Roosevelt Calls Business Chiefs to Increase Employees
Pay in Conformity with Rise i'll Commodity Prices.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Imme-
ciate steps to raise wages and sal
aries of workers, increase the num-
Der of the employed, and to check
the devastating effects that have re-
suited from the wage slashing cpl
denies in business and industry the
last two years, were asked by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in addressing the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States at the
annual dinner in Washington.
At the same time the president
indicated that his administration is
definitely aiming at not only higher
wage scales, but to government
supervised control of production and
competition.
Placing emphasis upon the need for
higher wage scales and better paid
workers, the president said:
at is essential, as matter of ma
tional justice, that the wage scale
should be brought back to meet the
cost of living and that this process
should begin now and not later"
In making three requests to the
business men of the country, he con-
tinued:
"Past experience indicates that
when the price level begins to rise
after long period Of declining COM
modify prices, wages which have been
previously curtailed lag behind the
rise in the price level.
"That result has in the past i'm
posed upon those who labor an unfair
burden; has prevented their just and
equitable share in the profits of in
dustry and has limited the purchasing
power of the overwhelming majority
of our population.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19

81, therefore, ask you who represent
in all probability the majority of the
employers of the nation, to refrain
from further reduction in the wages
of your employees, and ask you also
to increase your wage scales in con-
formity with and simultaneous with
the rise of the level of commodity
prices in so far as this lies within
your power"
The president urged the business
leaders to join together within their
own industries in bringing order out
of chaos; and not to wait for the urge
of government action to stir them. He
said the industrial system has de-
generated into one of the highest dis
order, and that restoration depends
upon the willingness OF industrial
leaders to cooperate with one another
and willingness also to cooperate
with the government.
He pointed out that in almost every
industry, an overwhelming majority
of employers "are wholly willing to
work together to prevent overproduc-
ton, to prevent unfair wages, to elm
mate improper working conditions" !"
Yet, he said, in the past these OBJ
jectives have been prevented from at
tainment by small majority of en-
ployers.
The small and largely irresponsi-
ble units-the sweatshops, the small
factory owner and the little pro-
ducer-who can make the loudest
noise when they feel they are inn
pose upon, but who are the first to
slash wages, cut prices, prolong hours
and increase production, he indicated,
are productive of unfair practices
that are contrary to sound public
policy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
Workers Strike
At Pequ0t Mills

Salem, Mass. (ILNS)-In protest
against the demands of the manage
ment that they operate "a looms each
instead of 20, nearly 1000 textile
workers employed by the Pequot Mills
went on strike. The Pequot Mills is
100 per cent union mill, manufac-
turing the well-known Pequot sheet
and pillow cases. The Pequot en-
ployes are members of the United
Textile Workers of America.
If the 24-loom system were adopted
about 10 operators would be thrown
out of work, the workers say.
The Danvers Bleachery at Peabody
was affected by the strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19

march with the pickets, she said he
thought it was "fine."
Mrs. Pinchot decided to show her
support of the strikers, following
hearing of the governors commission
investigating sweatshop conditions in
needlecraft factories in the Lehigh
valley Girls and boys charger they
received as little as 81 cents a week
for long hours spent in insanitary
factories. Girls testified they were
subjected to improper advances fom
some employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
STRIKING KNITTERS WIN
DEMANDS

Sherburne, N. Y.-One hundred and
fifty strikers at Sherburne branch of
the Utica Knitting Co., won impor-
tant demands from the company and
returned to work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
Missouri Overall Workers
Strike Against Wage Cut

Lebanon, Mo.-Around 800 en-
ployes of the Rice-Stix overall and
shirt factory here struck in protest
against a new production system
which speed-up industrial engineers
were seeking to INSTALL Representa-
tives of the strikers claimed the sys-
tenn would result in wage cut. E.
R. Freeze, manager, said it was des-
ignated to "equalize" wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
President Green Denounces
Hitler BlolUs at German Labor

declines. The reopening of plants
which had suffered either partial or
complete shutdowns in March, how
ever, more than Offset the seasonal
influences.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19
Proposed Legislation Spells
Doom Of Old Economic System
National Recovery Act and Other Bills Before Congress
Mean End of "Individualsm" and Industry and Set
ting Up of New Order, Supervised and Regulated
BY Government.

In the meantime, the house COM
mittee on labor has continued its re-
port on the Black and Connery go
hour bills, and is preparing report
on them for the house. While these
bills do not appear to have the sane
tion of the white house, there is a
growing indication that the Black bill,
which has already been passed by the
senate, may be passed by the house
and sent to the president for his sig
nature.
Industry is quite insistent that with
reasonable assistance by the govern
ment, it shall be given an opportunity
to undertake its own housecleaning,
and restore order from the chaos of
the last two or three years. Efforts
are being made to have the antitrust
laws modified by the proposed new
measure that is being drafted to an
extent that will permit degree Of
cooperation, and will serve only to
restrict monopoly and prevent arbi
trary and undue price fixing.
Regardless of what measure is
passed by congress, it is clear that
an old economic order is passing, and
that a new system is rising in it's
place-a system that does away in
large measure with rugged individual
ism in industry, with production
and peaks and valleys in commerce
and trade, and installs in its place a
system supervised by the government,
and regulated as to practices, hours
Of operation and production.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-05-19

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-De-
.nouncing the Hitler governments
campaign to destroy the German la
Dor movement as obstructive, dicta-
torial and indefensible," President
William Green, Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, declared that Amer
lean workers would protest to the
American government against the
Nazi campaign and would give all
possible support to the German work
ers.
Mr.. Green expressed confidence that
the spirit of German trade unionism
would not be crushed and that the
German working people would not
surrender to the autocratic rule OF
Hitler. He announced that the
executive council Of the A. F. of l..
had received from confidential sources
in Germany information that the Hit
Ter regime is suppressing the free
tfaQe unions III Tie HioSl luIiiico9 way
and went on to say:
"The offices and the administra-
ton of the German trades unions have
been taken over by the Hitler author
tiles. Without warning, their offices
were raided, their property confis-
Gated, the elected officers were ar
rested and representatives of the Hit
Ter government placed in full control.
All of this was done without warning
and without due process of law
through the exercise of force.
'sThe last semblance of voluntary,
free, independent trade unionism IN
Germany has been brutally wiped
out.