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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-22
Another Thursday!

THIS year, according to the Ola
l. Farmers Almanac, Jan. Will
fall on 4 Thursday, and this VIII
be the Seth Thursday on when
Risko has fought Maloney. Tues
dav is the favorite day for these TWO
Young fellows to battle each other
there being IS Tuesdays on when
they have scuff;ed. though the Ola
Farmers Almanac. Tor some Pc
culiar reason, says nothing about
tnEt
Pisko will fight MalOney TINS
wear lust - days before Septua'
geSima Sunday. Il movable feast.
The earth at that time, Of course.
will be in Perihelion. distant from
the Sun exactly 91,3++.000 miles.
The Sun may be regarded as very
fortunate in being that far away
from the scene OF the RiSko. Ma
loney fight. but is not so lucky as
il could be if the fight were being
Nold after July 5. because the eartil
.-"n will ha in AnhaliOn and dlS'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-22

It's an Ancient Boast
The first woman who really and
truthfully could say that she got all
her gowns from Paris was Helen of
Troy.-Punch Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Denver Lockout Employers
Hit With Contempt Charge

Denver.-Two labor lockout ex-
perts, Harry Huffman and j. H. Dek-
kerfi responsible for the idleness of
numbers of union theatre employees
here, are by way of tasting some of
the medicine more usually handed out
by courts to organized labor than to
satraps of the organized employers.
Judge Starkweather in district
court has cited them to show cause
why they should not be punished for
contempt, because of their failure to
heed the order of another court up
holding the jurisdiction of the state
industrial commission over theatres.
The commission held that Huffman
and Decker had violated the law by
locking out their employees without
having given proper notice of pro-
posed changes in working conditions.
The theatre managers, represented
by high priced lawyers, contended
that the commission has jurisdiction
only over industries charged with pub
lie interest, and that theatres are not
so affected.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Department of Labor
May Lose Under New Law
Recovery Act Seems Likely to Cut Functions Indus
tries Come Under Scope of Sweeping Measure.

Washington, d. G. (ILNS)-That
the department of labor will lose some
of its important functions when the
national industrial recovery act takes
effect seems certain.
As industries come under control
of the administration and are liccens-
ed, all of their problems, including
their labor problems, come under the
authority of the administration to be
headed by Brig. Gen. Hugh Johnson.
1t is held by authorities that even
conciliation in such industries will
come under the new set-up-if there
is any conciliation to be done.
The new law may even affect the
Women's Bureau, though to a lesser
degree, it is held, though this bureau
doubtless will find full load of work
in industries that lag at the end of
the procession coming under the new
act
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Houston Garment Workers
Open Union Shirt Factory

Houston, Tex-Organized workers
here have established factory MAX
ing to order union label dress shirts,
and leaders of the enterprise express
confidence that friends throughout the
state will be glad of the opportunity
to buy garments made in Texas at
fair wages and under proper working
conditions in preference to all others.
Their product will be known as the
"Foursome" brand. Orders are on
hand to keep the present force work
ing several months, but it is proposed
to expand as rapidly as possible, and
ultimately to put their product on sale
everywhere in the state. 1t is the
only union shirt factory in Texas,
and said to be the only one south of
Cincinnati.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
CHICAGO MEANS
War to Finish to Gust Ban
dts From Unions

Chicago (ILNS)-Labor means its
declaration of war on racketeers. The
fight in on; when it stops racketeers
will have not even a toehold in the
ranks of labor.
So said Edward N. Nockels, veteran
secretary of the Chicago Federation
of Labor.
"The American Federation of Labor
and the Chicago Federation of Labor
have joined in this campaign" said
Nockels. president Green is with us,
Victor Olander is in the fight. SO is
President John Fitzpatrick and SO
am /.
"The teamsters have cleaned out
the racketeers. President Dan Tobin
is in dead earnest.
II know there may be casualties
Some labor men may be lost to us,
but we are going through. Gangdom
is savage and Desperate. Labor is
determined"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
IS TECHNOCRACY
COMING BACK 5?

New York City (ILNS)-Maintain-
ing that membership, with dues
ranging from ST to 500 year, is
growing throughout the country,
Howard Scott, technocracy chef, de-
clares he will soon "stand the world
on it's ear" with a new announce
ment.
Scott, fired from Columbia Univer-
sity, operates in little office at 57th
street and Madison avenue, drifting
down to Greenwich Village now and
then for relaxation.
Our economic system has broken
down and everyone knows it" he caid.
"It broke down because it was built
on the basis of an ever increasing
debt"
Scott, idealist, making no profit
out of his work, is convinced a tech
nocratic system is coming and be-
fore him there is always heaped a
mass of charts, graphs and figures
which he indicates as proof that he
and his associates are right about
the whole question.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Public Opinion Defied

Such revival in business as has
tken plcae in the last eight weeks
has merely inspired them to re-entel
the old fortified trenches and bomb
proof dug outs, and from these
strongholds to defy an equitable re-
covery program as we'll as the arous-
ed and enraged temper of the coun-
try.
Commodity prices are going UP
and costs of living are rising-faster
and much more than wage scales
Under the program of these reaction
ary groups the gap would be widened
to intolerable proportions, with high
prices and huge profits to themselves
but with constantly narrowing living
conditions for the producers of their
wealth.
Higher prices are "priming the in
dustrial machine" they insist, but
they are bending their utmost effort
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
BIG SCALE
MObilizing to Provide Re-
creation For Idle

New York City (ILNS)-Convinced
that no work and no play make Jack
an even duller boy, American cities
have organized activities for the free
time of the unemployed on nation
wide scale. The present mobilization
to fight the demoralizing forces of
idleness is comparable to the COM
munity cooperation of war days in
providing recreation for soldiers and
sailors, says the National Recreation
Association, which has just published
u pamphlet giving suggestions for the
constructive use of enforced leisure.
"The exercise of imagination, in
genuity and courage are yielding re-
markable results in many places" the
association states. "Volunteer leader
ship is available now as at no time
since the war. Alert communities
are using schools, churches, garages,
warehouses, vacant residences and
other existing facilities as recreation
centers Committees appointed ex-
clusively for the emergency relief of
unemployment have been led inevi-
tably to realize that morale building
activities are an essential part of the
unemployment problem"
The demand on public recreation
facilities has increased tremendously
during the past few years, cities re-
port. The extension of regular rec
reation programs to serve all citizens
has proved a sounder plan than to
segregrate unemployed for their lei
sure programs.
Some of the activities communities
provide are gymnasiums, games, gar
dening, handcraft, reading, study
coures community parties and
dances dramatics music and free
tickets to entertainments. Family
recreation has been fostered by sug-
gesting games and activities for the
home through the newspapers radio
and special bulletins. The unem-
ployed have helped to develop their
own recreation rooms and play
grounds, sometimes without pay and
sometimes as emergency work paid
for relief funds.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Tacoma Teamsters Walk Out
In Protest Against Wage Cut

Tacoma, Wash.-Arbitrary wage
slashes, enforced by 10 members of
the Truck Owners Association, in
Guiding the Yellow Cab Co., while
board of arbitration actually was in
session trying to settle the dispute,
compelled walkout by self-respect-
ing members of Teamsters' and
Chauffeurs' Union, Local No. 313,
here
Twelve members of the owners as
sociation refused to join in the tyr
annical wage slash, and continued do
ing business with the union pending
resumption of the arbitration, tempo
rarily interrupted by the action of
the recalcitrant owners.
The Yellow Cab Company reduced
the wage for 91a hour day to 81,
from $3 Truck drivers wereslashed
to SO and $3.50 from $4.75 and $525,
respectively, for an eight-hour day.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
SANDWICH GIRLS
Paid AS Low AS Fifty-Nine
Cents Per Day

Detroit, Mich.-The Bungalow Sand
wich Shops, operating three places
here, is charged by the Detroit La
Dor News with inaugurating the So
called commission basis of paying en-
ployes, with wages as low as SO cents
a day.
The plan called for the setting aside
of 20 per cent of the gross proceeds
TO pay the help, to be divided accord
ing to previous wages, with an in
crease promised as business picked
up. The employees knew that business
had increased, and demanded the
promised pay boost, which the man
ager refused.
Some of the girls walked out with
pay checks for $3.70 for five days
work, with rs cents deducted for clean
uniforms, which left them $295, OF
So cents day.
The Labor News also charges that
although the state law limits the
work week for women to 81 hours
the employees of this concern were
compelled to work nine hours a day
for six days week and three hours
on their day off.
The manager refused to let the girls
examine the concerns books to see
whether they were fairly paid &C.
cording to the 20 per cent commits.
sion scheme.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
BIG SWINDLE
Gains Caused By Depres-
sion, Report Shows

New York City (ILNS)-The de-
preston is responsible for sharp
increase in the world suicide record
it is revealed by figures made public
by Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician
in The Spectator, an insurance pub
lication.
Many countries had new high sui
eide marks in 1882, while in the Unit
ed States about $4,000 persons COM
mitted suicide, as against 20,088 in
1881. The rate for 100 American cit
les rose from 20.5 per 100000 in 1881
to 213 in 1882
Great increases were shown in some
cities. In Montgomery, Ala, the fig
ure went from 80 in 1881 to PAT in
1892; in Lansing, Mich, from l6.1 to
30.1; in Lancaster, Pa, from 1877 to
293. The rate increased in Washing
ton, D. c., from 24.6 to 30.2.
Hoffman's figures show that the
United States occupies about an aver
age position among the chief nations
The rate in suicidal frequency ranges
from 3.3 per 100000 in the Irish Free
State to 34.5 in Austria.
In commenting on his figures, Hoff
man says, "There is need in every
large city of consulting office Civ
ing advice to would-be suicides" and
says that the situation "imperatively
demands drastic social interference il
much more substantial rise tC
higher figures is to be avoided"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

general manager of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy rairoad, it is ex-
pected the railroad unions will soon
be served with a demand for a 20
per cent cut in pay Under an agree
ment between the railroads and the
unions, the notice may be served on
June Is, but new railroad legislation
may cause a change in the date.
A 10 per cent reduction in railroad
workers wages has been in effect
since February l, 1882, having been
extended last December to next No
vember L. The proposed 20 per cent
reduction, which the railroad work
ers have announced they will oppose
with every means at their command,
would apply to basic rates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

yet brought to light in Pennsylvania
were uncovered when $50 employees of
the J. B. Maimon clothing factory
went on strike here.
Herbert Payne and Charles Phelps,
of the Hosiery Workers Union, who
investigated the Boyertown situation,
report that when an analysis of wages
was made after the walkout, it was
found that more than half of the
strikers had been earning less than
So per week. A number of strikers,
Payne declared, had actually been
averaging SIS for two weeks wage or
$3.50 per week. Among the workers
drawing these wretched wages were
heads of families.
One case reported was that of a
woman with five children to support
who was receiving less than $3.50 for
full Sd hours of labor in the Mai
mon plant Most of the adult women
in the plant were working because
their husbands were unemployed. Re-
lief grants were required to supple
ment starvation earnings.
Evidence is being gathered by local
authorities regarding immoral condi-
ditions which the Maimon plant boss
es were able to impose on the girls
because of the low wage conditions
Foremen swore at the workers and
abused them, the strikers charge.
Business people, including local
Chamber of Commerce authorities, are
backing the strikers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

There is good deal of belief that
the labor department will become
more or less what might be termed
welfare department under the new
conditions, granting, of course, that
the recovery bill is enacted Enact
ment, however, is considered certain.
The immigration inspection service
already has been practically abol-
ished.
One large new function will be
added, however The employment
service created by the Wagner act
will be administered under Secretary
Perkins.
But the scope and nature of the
department of labor will be in all
probability vastly changed when the
recovery bill is signed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Roosevelt Signs Wagner
Bill For New Job Service
System Providing for Cooperation of State and Federal
Governments, to Be Put in Operation at Once.

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has signed the Wag-
ner bill creating a new United States
Employment Service, to be conducted
by the cooperative action of the
state and federal governments.
The president signed the bill in the
presence of Senator Wagner, of New
York, who introduced the measure in
two sessions of congress; Secretary
of Labor Perkins and Representative
Peyser, of New York.
The new service, which supple
ments similar service which has
been maintained by the department
of labor for Is years, will be put into
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Slump Causes Big Drop in
Law Schools Attendance

New York City (ILNS)-The de-
preston has reduced the attendance
at degree e-conferring law schools in
the United States 15 per cent, it is
revealed in the annual review of legal
education issued by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. The review reports that
attendance was cut from 46,397 in the
fall of 1928 to 39,417 in the fall of
1881.
The decrease in law students was
especially marked in New York city
and vicinity. The total dropped from
12,346 in 1923 to 1928 in 1881, de-
crease of 5,123.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Labor Girds to Play Proper
Part Under Coming New Order

However we'll the Roosevelt adj
ministration may meet and resist the
concerted onslaught of selfish inter
ests to both shape policies and to con-
troll the operation of the new act re-
mains to be seen. Administrative
spokesmen are actively alive to the
condition, and fully realize that the
presidents experiment in industrial
recovery, and its consequences to the
political fortunes of his party, are
closely tied to the outcome, and will
probably be the pivot on which the
congressional elections next year will
hinge.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
HUNDREDS OUT OF WORK
AS COPPER NINE SHUTS DOWN

Superior, Ariz.-The mine and
plants of Magma Copper Company
will close indefinitely on July /,
throwing several hundred men out of
employment, according to a notice
signed by William Koerner, general
manager, and posted at mine, mill and
smelter.
The Magma Company is an exam
pie of absentee ownership, all Off
GERS and directors except the manager
being listed as residents of New York
city.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

operation at once. Headquarters will
be established in the department of
labor under the control of director.
The Wagner act authorizes an APP
preparation of $1,5OO,OO0 for the next
fiscal year, and $4,000,000 annually
for each year thereafter. Federal
agencies will be established in each
state to cooperate with state agen-
cies. The funds are to be allotted to
the states on the basis of population,
but each state must match the federal
appropriation to reap any benefit.
Seventy-five per cent of the funds
will go to the states.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Plans of Small But Powerful Interests Seeking
10 Control Operation of New Law to Bring
Crucial Test in Contest Between Administra-
ton and Business.

to destroying the purchasing power
upon which the machine must depend
Manufacturers Lead Fight
Out in the front line trenches and
leading in the fight is the National
| Association of Manufacturers, seek
| ing to safeguard rich profits for
themselves, but to annihilate the pro-
vision of the law which would protect
the wages and working conditions of
their employees.
Closely joined with them is the Ma
tional Coal Association-a mere
weakened remnant and fragment of
the powerful organization of II years
ago, when John D. A. Morrow di-
rected its destinies. Palpably lacking
in leadership and representing only a
small segment of the coal industry,
it is giving its pitiful need of en-
couragement to the reactionary in
terests in other industries to weaken
or destroy the safeguards for en-
ployes.
Standing in the offng, and trying
hard not to join openly in the wreck
ing movement, is the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States,
which did valiant lip service in the
early stages of the depression to the
effort to maintain the status quo in
wages and employment, and stealth
| lily encouraged wage slashing under
the cloak of economic readjustment. y
This economic readjustment gave
unemployment one of its downhill
shoves that changed a mild depres-
sion into a major economic cataclysm.
Packing of Board Planned
In futherance of the efforts of the
bosses of industry to control the gov
ernments economic policy is the con-
certed design to pack" the personnel
of the Federal Control Board with
appointees sympathetic to their pur-
poses. Manufacturing interests have
already selected their representa-.
tives" for places on the boards staff
and through process of trading ir
support, are mobilizing the backing
| for their appointment.
In the forefront of candidates fol
such jobs is Gen. Brice P. Disque
president of the Anthracite Institute
and seeking to head the coal division
AS a brigadier general during the
World War, General Disque had di-
rection of the largely futile effort ir
the Northwest to get out fir timber
for airplane construction, and is now
head of one of the largest organi.
cations of coal operators.
: General Disque has recently been II
Washington actively campaigning fol
himself, and urging his competency
upon the spokesmen of other indus.
trial interests. He has been looked
upon as warm republican partisan
Chamber Seeks "Pie"
/ The United States Chamber 0.
Commerce is angling for a large slice
political pie, with well-known bally
hooists and propagandists pushed in
to outstanding positions where they
can smite the tom-tom and swat the
hew-hog, and otherwise shout the
praises of big business and spread 6
coating of palaver over such malodor
Gus conditions as may arise.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

Washington, d. c. ILNS)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration will
face major showdown and probably
its first crucial test with industrial
and business interests of the country
as soon as the national indutrial re-
covery act is put into operation, ac-
cording to multiplying signs as the
stage is set for the new experiment.
Small but powerful groups in the
trade association set-up have massed
solidly in opposition to the labor and
licensing provisions of the new meas
ure, and are seeking through exer-
ton of their influence, and the nam
ing of their friends to positions in
the board organization, to control the
administration of the law.
These groups, covering almost the
whole range of trade association and
Chamber of Commerce influence, are
reaching out for all possible benefits
to themselves from the operation of
the law, but steadfastly opposing the
advantages that would accrue under
it to workers and wage earners. They
want the matter of relations with en-
ployes left entirely with themselves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Railroads to Demand
20 Per Cent Wage Cut

Chicago (ILNS)-As a result of
a meeting here of management
committee headed by W. r. Thiehoff
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16
Bosses Learn Nothing

1t is the old and time-worn story
of entrenched industrial bossism-
which has learned nothing with sue
ceeding generation - standing for
adequate wages, decent working con-
ditions and reasonable standards of
living for everyone except their own
employees.
They realize that the work
ers of the nation compose the col
lective buying and consuming
power, but they want industries
other than their own to adhere
to adequate wages and fair
working conditions, which they
admit are essential to good war
kets and prosperous conditions.
The dangerously stagnant condition
of the country, the menacing unem-
ployment situation, and the posi-
bility of another winter as critical
and heart breaking for idle men and
women as have been the last two
winters, mean nothing to them in THEN
effort to control the operation of the
new law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-06-16

to destroying the purchasing power
upon which the machine must depend.
The Washington times., 1933-06-05
RECE|VERSH|PS
PERIL TO BANKS

Pressure is being brought to
bear to bring the stock suhScrip-
ton campaign of the new Ham
ilton Bank to an early close.
Efforts to procure the required
$1,O0O,O00 capital and $4,000 sur
plus by last Saturday failed and
an intensive effort is under way
to wind up the drive this week.
Unless depositorS respond more
readily than they have to "inl
mediately subscribe at least 10
per cent of their deposits "a
receivership may be anticipated" d"
according to letters which have
been sent to District National Bank
depositors.
The same condition applies to
each of the seven banks which
are participating in the merger,
according to officials of the new
bank.
More than $75O,OOO of the re-
quired amount has been reported
subscribed. Through the new
bank it is proposed to release so
per cent of deposits at an early
date.
An orchestra will enliven the
mass meeting of depositors of the
United States Bank, called by
Col. Wade H. Cooper, president
anad majority stockholder, for to-
night to decide the future Of that
bank. The meeting is to be in
the Olympic Theater on U Street,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth