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The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Best Teams Are Among List
of Defeated---Dave Walsh
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH


NEW YORK Nov. 81 (INs)-The records in the
will say only that Michigan its fourth successive Big
Ten championship Saturday, by beating Northwestern
ID to @ o finish with seven victories and one tie
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
Students Attitude to Aid
c.. w. Against Kansas

George Washington University University of Kansas
Griffith Stadium. Saturday afternoon kickoff o'clock
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
FOURTH RACE
Six FurlOnEs

256s-Mint Mission (Thurber) ..... 1OI
2563-Aunt Flor mo boy) .......... 1O3
256O-Pova (GilberO .........,.... ITO
2564-Pompestian (Mills) ........... 113
2561-Sainted (Robertson) .......... 113
2562-Chance Flight (Tipton). LOG
2565-Legionary (Madely). ......... los
2563-Zipalong Humphrey ........ 10G
2566-Roy Valet q. Smith, ........ Ill
2576-Happy Go (Cruz) .......... 113
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
FIFTH RACE
One Mile and a Sixteenth

2576-Integrity (GilberD ........... ia
2577-Jodhpur q. Smith) .......... 112
EASTWARD In Chanery (BelaskD.. Ill
2579-Chatterfol (No boy) .......... 108
257l-Don Pedro mo boy) .....,... ia
1573-Backgammon (Fallon) ....... 100
2570-PrinCe Tokalon (Tipton) ...... liz
1374-Charlie X (Young) ........... 112
29l2-Momo (Meade) ............... 107
257S-Live One (MattiolD ........... 116
The Washington times., 1933-11-27
BOWIE ENTRIES
FOR TUESDAY

FIRST RACE-Maiden two-year- Odds;
MARYLAND bred; purse, $500; furlongs.
Can't Remembering BUNGALOW .......104
Manager Bill....107i Bell Man. lO$
Troyer ...'''.''IIgySs MluValleS ''''''AO0
<rSSETS&n RACE-Two year olds !;
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
Direct Relief Bill
Favorably Reported
Organized Labor Wins Point in Battle For Nationwide
Federal Unemployment Aid as La Toilette -COstgan
Measure is Given Backing of Senate Manuf actures
Committee

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
La Follette-C Costigan unemployment
relief bill, which is strongly support
ed by organized labor, was favorably
reported to the senate on January 26
by the committee on manufactures.
Only two votes were cast in the
committee against the bill, it is said.
The vote was taken privately in ex-
ecutive session and was not made pub
lie. Senators La Toilette, of Wiscon-
sin, and Costigan, of Colorado, spon-
sors of the measure, and a large
group of senators believe it will pass
the upper house. A vote is expected
before March a.
The bill, which provides $500,000.-
900 for direct relief, was amended in
it's administrative provisions by the
manufacturers committee, but there
was no change in the total sum named
or in the provision that 40 per cent of
the total appropriated should be ap-
portioned among the states in pro-
portion to population, with go per cent
withheld for apportionment on the
basis of actual federal funds for di-
rect relief.
An emergency relief board will be
set UP to handle the funds, by pro-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10

vision of the measure, which further
provides that the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation raise the money
by the sale of it's bonds. Adopting
the suggestion of Senator Wagner, Of
New York, the manufactures commit
tee stipulated that the relief board
include one member specially qualified
in relief work.
Another amendment provides that
$15,O00,O0O of the relief money be
appropriated among states for the
care and rehabilitation of young men
and boys forced into a wandering ex-
itsence by the depression. This amend
ment was advocated by both Senator
Wagner and Senator Cutting, Of New
Mexico.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, other
representatives of the federation and
representatives Of railroad labor ap-
peared before the manufactures COM
mittee in behalf of the La Toilette
Costigan bill during hearings on the
measure. The A. F. of L. and rail-
road labor recently conferred on
rampaign in support of the bill and
great nationwide drive will be waged
to put it through congress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
Thirty-Hour Week Measure
Approved By House Committee
Early Action Sought Proposal to Ban Goods Made By
Labor Working Over Six-Hour Day, Five-Day Week.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
house labor committee on January 81
approved and ordered favorably re-
ported the Connery five-day week,
six-hour day bill. A similar measure,
the Black bill, is pending before the
senate judiciary committee. Both
bills are supported by organized la
Dor.
Representative Edward L. Stokes,
of Pennsylvania, was the only member
of the labor committee to vote
against the bill. Chairman William P.
Connery, Jr., of Massachusetts, chair
man of the committee, said that he
would seek an early vote on the
measure.
The bill forbids transportation in
interstate or foreign commerce of GER
tain goods produced by persons work
ing more than five days week or six
hours day. The full text of the
measure follows:
"Be it enacted, that no article
or commodity shall be shipped,
transported, or delivered in in
terstate or foreign commerce,
which was produced or manufac-
tured in any mine, quarry, mill,
cannery, workshop, factory, or
manufacturing establishment sit
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
SENATE ORDERS
SLUMP PROBE

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-By
unanimous vote, the senate on Jan
uary 26 passed resolution directing
its committee on finance to make an
investigation of present economic
problems in the United States. The
resolution was introduced by Senator
Pat Harrison, of Mississippi.
The text of the resolution follows:
Resolved, that the committee on
finance, or any duly authorized SUBJ
committee thereof, is authorized and
directed to make an investigation and
study of the present economic prob
lens of the United States with the
particular object of obtaining the
views of such economists, financiers,
and other persons as in the opinion
of the committee may be able to offer
constructive suggestions with respect
to the solution of such problems"
Senator Harrison believes that re-
suits of the inquiry will be of value
to congress in passing legislation de-
signed to solve problems growing out
Of the depression. 1t is his intention
that labor representatives, social
workers, financiers, farm advisers,
trade and finance experts and repre-
sentatives of agencies making studies
of present conditions be called before
the committee.
The Washington bureau of the New
York Times said that the senate's
favorable action on the Harrison reso-
luton introduced by the probable
chairman Of the finance committee in
the new congress was looked upon
here as furnishing stop-gap for in
fiation legislation during the re-
mainder of the "lame duck" session.
can indication that economic legisla-
tion would be kept in rather conserva-
tive hands in the immediate future
was also seen," the Times bureau
added.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10

So who wouldn't laugh to be told
to go to prison to learn some lessons
in the control of production and dis
tributin of goods? Yet it is no laugh
ing matter. Every state government
in this country has for many years
been trying to develop it's prison in
dustries in accordance with accepted
economic and humanitarian principles.
The American experiment in prison,
where it is possible to impose rules
and regulations as stringent as those
of Stain, has shown promise here and
there. 1t has been going on long
enough to develop principles of man.
agement acceptable to organized la
Dor, organized manufacturers and the
public
But the politicians who run the
prisons do not stick to principlse.
Therefore, the Hawes-Cooper act was
passed by congress in 1929 and effec-
tive in 1884 to help establish one prin-
ciple-that prison-made products
shall not be sold on the open market
in unfair competition with free labor
and free industry.
The campaign now going on to get
supporting legislation for the Hawes-
Cooper act in each state is worth
watching-and worth supporting. But
don't overlook the idea that these pri-
son factories may become valuable
laboratories demonstrating among
other things how to make the supply
of goods fit the demand. And that's
what everybody wants to know.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
FARMERS
Revolt Ends Forced Sale Of
Farms

Des Moines, Iowa (ILNS)-Alarm-
ed by the farmers revolt against
forced sales of land, the big insurance
companies of the nation have declared
a moratorium on farm foreclosures.
Insurance companies, with the New
York Life in the lead, first announced
that they would suspend all foreclos-
ures on owner occupied farms in
Iowa, pending action by the state
legislature to aid the mortgage-rid-
den farmers. This action was soon
followed by a moratorium to cover
the United States and Canada.
Leadership in the movement to
make the moratorium nationwide was
taken by the great Prudential Insur-
ance Company of Newark, N. ]. This
company is the largest single holder
of farm mortgages in the country,
having had approximately S209,248,-
600 invested in farm mortgages at
the end of 1881 The Association of
Life Insurance Presidents estimates
that the total of farm mortgages out
standing in the hands of the life in
surance companies at the end of 1882
was nearly $1,700,0 100000.
1t is expected that the action of
the insurance companies will mean
that for the time being virtually all
foreclosures on farm property occu-
pied by the owner will cease.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
Big Banks Use Industry Strangle
Hold to Force Pay Cuts, Frey Charges

Frey said he was attempting to
show "the complete tie-up between
private banks, commercial banks and
the marvellous structure of holding
companies over the producing utility
corporations.
"The wealth produced by these
companies, instead of going into
lower rates or to the producing
company, is lost in the maze Of
these holding companies"
Asserting that the practice of hav-
ing directors of the large banks sit on
the boards of other banks and indus
trial corporations was growing. Frey
cited Is New York banks whose di-
rectors, he said, held 1852 director
ships in 1899; 1926 in 1913, and 5,325
in 1881.
Frey's testimony was based on a
nine-month investigation of New York
banker control of industry, which he
told the committee was used to fight
Improvement of working conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
WORK FOR IDLE IS
BIGGEST PROBLEM

The all important problem con-
fronting our people which must be
solved, is procuring immediate and
steady work for the millions Of un-
employed persons.
Charity at its best is only a by
product of our social system, but there
is grave danger of it's permanancy if
matters are allowed to drift too long.
For three years public and private
charity have been depended upon to
care for those who are idle through
no fault of their own. How much
longer is this to continue?
Officialdom throughout the country
as well as the alleged Captains of
Industry have no program to relieve
the horrible conditions existing, and
the only hopeful sign of relief is that
proposed by the American labor move
ment.
Our demand for a shorter workday
and shorter workweek, with no re-
duction in wages is basically sound,
and goes right to the root of the evil.
Sharing work has, undoubtedly, aided
great minority of workers, but it
has not changed the basic conditions
particle, as the purchase power has
not been increased, that is, there has,
been no more money to be expended.
If the millions who are yet working
nine and ten hours day, six days
week, could have their week shorten
ed to thirty hours, without reduction
in pay, and other millions employed
at the same wages and hours, what
taking up of slack there fould be,
to the ultimate benefit of all con-
cerned
Union men and women who are still
working have an obligation which
they should not shirk, especially in
these times. Thousands of our broth
ers and sisters are either working
short time or are unemployed simply
because of our Indifference. Our fail
ure to demand union goods and union
services when spending money is a
grave injustice to them, as many of
them would now be working if we
all did our duty and refused to spend
money earned under union conditions
except for union labeled merchandise
and union services.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
AMERICAN
Prices Urged as Basis For
Tariff Rates

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Ap-
pearing before the United States
tariff commission and the house ways
and means committee, representatives
of labor and industry urged that the
values of imported goods subject to
duty be assessed on the basis of
American valuation or American SELL
ing price instead of the foreign val
uation.
Immediate action was described as
urgently needed because of depreci-
ated foreign currencies and declining
foreign wage scales.
Supporting the proposal for chang
ing valuation methods, Matthew Woll,
president of Americas Wage Earn
ers' Protective Conference and vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor, declared that products are
being dumped into the American mar
ket at prices which are less than
American labor costs of producing
like and similar articles. All duties
should be levied on the basis of Amer
lean valuation to provide employment
opportunities for millions of Amer
ica's unemployed, he said
Asiatic Goods Welcomed
"Under the foreign valuation prin-
oipJo ,uo oouptaruopo tho acta b1;c bad
national policy as it pertains to
Asiatic coolie labor" Woll asserted.
eve have excluded Asiatics because
American labor could not compete
with this character of labor and re-
tain our standards of living. While
we are excluding Asiatics we well
come their products in that we have a
tariff policy which favors the products
of Asiatics in preference to all other
nationals and at the expense of both
American and European workers"
After showing that present tariff
duties in many instances are Of no
protection whatever to American
workers, because of the depreciation
of foreign money, Woll declared that
the only fair and equitable policy is
to have the importers of foreign
goods or articles pay duties on the
basis of the value of the articles in
the American market where they are
offered for sale and where they now
often displace the products of Amer
ican workers.
u. S. Labor Not Protected
Michael J. Flynn, executive secre-
tary of Americas Wage Farmers Pro-
tective Conference, said there was "a
feeling among American workers that
the government is falling down in
protecting them against the products
of low wage foreign nations.
"Unless some change is soon
made we will have situation in
this country which you or l do
not want to picture" he added.
Industry, through representatives
of several trade bodies, also urged
that import duties be levied on the
basis of American valuation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
BIG STEEL
Concerns Cut Pay in Fabri.
eating Plants

New York City (ILNS)-Wage cuts
in the steel industry continue. The
latest cuts were made by the Amer
lean Bridge Company, a subsidiary
of the great and wealthy United
States Steel Corporation, and the Nc
Clintic- Marshall Company, subsid-
iary of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora
ton.
The American Bridge Company has
reduced wages in some of its plants
25 per cent, while the McClinticM Mar
shall Company has lowered pay from
20 to % per cent. Both companies
are in the fabricating end of the in
dustry and do not produce raw steel.
Spokesman Of the two companies
explained" that the wage rates in
the fabricating plants fuctuate in or
der to meet competitive bases of costs
in the various districts. In most
cases, the initial reductions were made
by smaller fabricator sin the same
field, it was said.
Eugene G. Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Company, declared that
the reduction by McClintic- Marshall
was an isolated case. Wage rates
paid by the smalled fabricating COM
panies, he said, have drifted substan-
tally lower, making it necessary for
McClintic- Marshall to take such ac-
ton.
"This reduction has no relation at
all to the rates of pay of the Beth
lehem Corporation in tn esteel indus
try proper" he said. "We have moth
ing in mind with respect to any gen
eral wage revision.
mind you, l am not saying any
thing about the future, but nothing is
being done in that directio now nor
is anything contemplated. We have
no plans whatever for a reduction"
Advertise in The Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
Free Return Trip Favored
For Unemployed Filipinos

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-The
house committee on immigration and
naturalization recently ordered fa-
vorable report to the house on the
Dickstein resolution to provide for
transportation of unemployed Fill
pinos in financial distress back to the
Philippine Islands at government ex-
pense. At the hearings on the bill,
estimates of the number who would
take advantage of the offer varied
from 5000 to 10000. The measure
provides for repatriation only for
those willing to go.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10

uated in the United States or in
any foreign country in which any
person was employed or per-
mitted to work in the production
of such article or commodity
more than FIVE days in any week
or more than six hours in any
day; provided, that this section
shall not apply to commodities or
articles produced or manufactured
before the enactment of this act.
"Section 2. Any person who
knowingly ships, transports, or
delivers, or causes to be shipped,
transported, or delivered in inter-
state commerce, any commodities
or articles contrary to the pro-
visions of section / of this act
shall be punished by fine of not
less than $1,000 or by imprison-
ment for not more than three
months or by both such fine and
Imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court"
During extensive hearings on the
bill, President William Green
f the American Federation of Labor
nd other spokesmen for organized la.
or appeared in behalf of the pro-
osal.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
PRISON
Industries May Give Valua-
BILE Lesson in Economics
By OLIVER HOYEM

Economists, sociologists and those
who must write about something for
a living have not found the Soviet
Russian fve-year plan much to write
home about.
The theories of the technocrats, the
inflationists, and the debt cancella-
tionists have given the commentators
no simpler lessons they could pass on
to an anxious public.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
Other Powerful Banks


In addition to the eight dominant
banks, Frey mentioned "a other
banks whose directors, he said, hold
$3.50 directorships.
To show the dominant position held
by private bankers in the affairs of
commercial banks, Frey said private
banking houses held directorships in
commercial banks as follows:
Brown Bros, Hartman & Co., IA.
Dillon-Reed Co., 9.
Goldman Sachs, 5.
Kissel Kennecutt & Co., 2.
Hallgarten & Co., 2.
Kuhn-Loeb & Co., d.
Lodenburg Thalman, 1.
Lee Higginson G. Co., 6.
j. P. Morgan & Co., II.
j. Henry Schroeder Banking Cor
poration, a.
j. and w. Seligman & Co., 4.
Speyer & Co., 8.
White, Weld & Co., 4.
These directorships, Frey added, in
terlock $50 that while Morgan has no
directors in Chase, they sit with di-
rectors of Chase, who are also direc-
tors of Morgan banks"
Tie Between Banks
HTo or;,yo ~, ;1l,,e+ro+;or of boX
these private banks tie up with the
commercial banks and through them
with other banks and corporations, y
Frey said, "the Chase National has
on it's board representatives of seven
of these private banking houses"
He listed the seven as Dillon-Reed
Goldman n-Sachs, Kuhn-Loeb, Lee Hig-
ginson, j. H. Schroeder, J. and w.
Seligman and White, Weld.
"The directors of Chase" he said,
"hold SO directorships in other com
mercial banks, 262 in miscellaneous
corporations, 80 in 55 insurance COM
panies, including 6 of "a directors of
the Metropolitan Life; 263 in manu-
featuring corporations, 1873 in trans
portation companies, chiefly rail
roads, and 73 in public utilities, max
ing total of 855."
/ Wiggin. Pay Cut Leader
Frey said that Albert H. Wiggin
| former chairman of Chase Bank
twas the first banker to demand that
wages be reduced" and that his in
fluence spread to other bankers.
'Wiggin, he charged, threatened a
large publishing house that it would
lose advertising in it's magazine if it
did not abandon an editorial policy
favoring maintenance of wage levels
He listed banks, insurance COM
panies and railroads in which Chase
directors were represented, and noted
| that Wiggin was director of sew
eral railroads and that other Chase
directors were represented on most
of the boards of the big railroad sys.
TENS.
Directors of the National City
Bank, Frey testified, hold director.
ships on 20 railroads.
| Active in Utilities
"The principal activity of Nationa
City," he added, "is not so much ir
railroads as in public utilities. There
they hold 115."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-02-10
EIGHT NEW YORK GROUPS
DICTATE WORK CONDITIONS
Directorates Give Great Financial nsttu-
tions Industrial "Strangle Hold" Senate Committee
Is Told.

Washington, D. c. (LNS)-Eight
big commercial banks in New York
virtually control industry and through
this control absolutely dictate labor
conditions, John P. Frey, secretary
treasurer of the metal trades depart
ment, American Federation of Labor,
charged in highly sensational testi-
mony before the senate subcommittee
considering the Black 30-hour week
bill.
Big bankers have a "strangle
hold" on industry and are using their
power to force wage reductions in
every part of the nation, Frey de-
clared, in backing up charges often
made by organized labor
"Had the bankers been opposed to
the demand for wage reduction on the
railroads, there would have been no
such reductions" the witness told the
committee.
"If the bankers demanded the re-
duction the railroads had no alterna-
tive except to accept" he added.
Citing an illustration of the power
Of the banking groups over wages,
Frey directed attention to a state
ment issued by James A. Farrell, for
mer president of the United States
Steel Corporation, opposing cuts in
wages as economically unsound.
Morgan Power in Steel
j. P' Morgan" he said, "is chair
man of the board Of directors of
United States Steel and his company
is deeply interested in the corpora
tion.
"Not long after Farrelps statement,
he resigned as president and imme-
diately steel reduced wages"
Two Morgan partners, Thomas w.
Lamont and James Spencer Morgan,
Jr., We're also directors of United
States Steel, Frey said. He went
through the list of directors, showing
the membership of each on the boards
of other banks and industrial con-
Germs.
Banks for Pay Cuts, Black Says
Senator Hugo l.. Black, of Ala
bama, sponsor of the 30-hour bill, was
deeply impressed by Frey's testimony
and said that the evidence was devel-
oping before the committee that the
eight banks named by Frey have ex-
tended their control to every industry
| in America, that they are demanding
that wages be cut and are opposing
keeping men on the payroll.
The eight controlling banks named
by Frey were the Bank of America
National Association, Bank of Man
haitian Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co..
Chase National Bank, Chemical Bank
& Trust Co., Guarantee Trust Co..
National City Bank and New York
Trust Co.
The $40 directors of these eight
banks hold directorships in 3,741
banks, insurance companies, public
utilities and other enterprises, he
said, listing 287 directorships in in.
surance companies, $40 in other
banks, 521 in public utilities, 846 ir
manufacturing concerns, 585 in rail
road, steamship and other transpor.
tation companies and 120 in othe,
corporations.