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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Provisions in Electrical
Code Opposed By Labor
Unions Ask Higher Wages Shorter Hours Than Proposed
By Manufacturers -Shipbuilding Code Also Opposed

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-As the
hearing on the electrical industry code
began before w. L. Allen, deputy ad-
ministrator Of the national industrial
recovery act, labor sharply assailed
the code and asked higher wages and
shorter hours than proposed by the
manufacturers.
The code proposed 35 cents an hour
and a 36-hour week for workers in
processing products and $l4 weekly
and a 40-hour week for other en-
ployes.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, through Charles
d. Keaveney,, vice president, and
Charles L. Reed, assistant to the
president, asked for 90 cents an hour
for skilled workers, proportionate in
creases for piece work and 30-hour
week.
The electrical workers representa-
tives declared that the code is badly
confused, being "a legal tangle with
many words such as former Chief
Justice Taft described as weasel
words" They argued that the pro-
posed minimum wage was too low,
that the maximum hours were too
high to reabsorb the idle workers and
that omissions from the code were
more important and significant than
the code itself.
The $14 minimum wage in an in
dustry as profitable as the electrical
manufacturing industry was denounc-
ed as anti-social, and the unions rep
resentatives added: eff the recovery
administration saw fit to establish a
S12 and $13 minimum wage in the
cotton textile industry, the requested
Sl4 minimum in the electrical manu-
featuring industry must be regarded
as a makeshift, representing no ad-
vance at ALL"
Reed and Keaveney declared that
the reabsorption of the displaced
workers in the electrical industry
could be accomplished only by a IL
hour week but accepted the 3o-hour
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
|. /. u. Brands Importation
OF Strikebreakers During
Negotiations AS Act Of War

Indianapolis (ILNS) - Importation
of strikebreakers to a city in which
negotiations with employers are be-
ing conducted will henceforth be re-
garded as declaration of war by the
International Typographical Union.
The unions stand was set forth in
the following resolution adopted by
the executive council, meeting in
headquarters here:
Whereas, The International Typo
praphical Union has made every rea-
sonable effort during a most trying
period to maintain harmony in the
printing industry by negotiation and
Cancellation of differences, and arbi-
tration where Cancellation failed; and
Whereas, Members have continued
to perform their duties under status
quo conditions pending settlement of
differences both as regards new con-
tracts; and,
Whereas, In the face of fullest CO.
operation publishers in some cities
have engaged the so-called open shop
division of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association, which trans
ported large crews of professional
strikebreakers from city to city dur
ing negotiations for the purpose of in
timidation; and,
Whereas, In some instances these
professional strikebreakers have been
imported to force wage reductions
and changes in conditions where there
are nnexnired contracts in existence
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
st. Louis Labor Begins
City-Wide Union Drive

st. Louis, Mo. (ILNS)-A great
city-wide campaign to organize all
wage earners in st. Louis and enable
them to secure the full benefits of
codes drawn up under the provisions
of the national industrial recovery
act has been launched by st. Louis
labor A general campaign commit
tee representing the organized trades
has been named to direct the cam
paign and is hard at work.
The paramount objects of the cam
paign are sci forth in ten-point pro-
gram which outlines hour, wage and
working conditions to be covered in
codes to be prepared by the unions.
One point stressed is that the six
hour day and five-day week must be
adopted in the codes, but wages must
not be reduced below what is now
being paid.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
New York Unemployed
Get $4,000 Free Suits

New York.-A heavy demand has
been made on the stock of 27,0OO wool
en- suits being distributed by the
emergency unemployment relief com
mittee, Frank Kidde, chairman of the
food and clothing division of the
committee, announced.
He spoke highly of the quality of
the suits which were produced from
cloth contributed by the Red Cross
and were manufactured in the plants
of manufacturers who donated their
equipment. The workers engaged in
the production were garment workers
who would otherwise have been un-
employed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Organized Labor Enrolls Big
Number in Great Union Drive

Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers of
America has % strikes in operation,
according to the official list in the
Boilermakers' Journal.
Nearly half of these anti-union es-
tabhshments are on the Pacific coast,
and the others are scattered eastward
as far as Washington, D. c., where
two shops are posted as unfair, and
from Minneapolis in the North to
New Orleans in the South. All these
strikes are for the maintenance of
union wages and working conditions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Centralia Prisoner ParOled

Olympia, Wash. (ILNS) = Britt
Smith, former secretary of the Indus
trial Workers of the World in Cen
tralia, sentenced to twenty to
forty years for murder on charges
growing out of the Armistic Day
clash between l. w. w. members and
American Legionnaires in 1919, has
been paroled as promised by Gov.
Clarence D. Martin. Ray Becker, the
last of the eight I. w. w. prisoners,
refuses to accept parole. He holds
out for commutation of sentence,
maintaining that parole implies an
admission of guilt.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
Jobless Swamp Clinics

New York City (ILNS)-Because
of the great number of unemployed
persons and members of their famil-
les applying for treatment at health
department clinics and health stations
an increase in the departments facil-
tiles is imperative, DR.. Shirley w.
Wynbe, health commissioner, de-
clares. He estimated attendance at
these centers had jumped "A per cent
in the first six months of this year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

week as standard. Fred Hewitt, of
the International Association of Ma
chinists, called wages as proposed in
the code entirely too low to allow a
decent living wage"
Harry Stephenson, of the Interna-
tional Molders' Union, asked $38
wage and six-hour day with not more
than 80 hours week.
Labor and industry brought out
sharp disagreements in the hearing
on the shipbuilding and ship repair
code which started with Deputy Ad-
ministrator Arthur d. Whiteside
presiding.
Homer Ferguson, president, New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
Co., said he thought 80 cents would be
fair minimum wage rate for South
ern yards. He said that if the pro-
posed 80 cents minimum wage were
enacted it would almost double the
scale now existing and damage the
small shipyards.
Labor disagreed with labor pro-
visional code and asked for a $25 per
week minimum wage rate and a 30
hour week with not more than six
hours per day and five days per week.
No overtime to be allowed except in
maintenance and repair personnel and
then only in extreme emergency. All
overtime would be paid at double time
rates.
John P. Frey, secretary treasurer
of metal trades department of the
A. F. of L., submitted statement
on the wage levels of navy yards,
saying that the navy yards had been
placed in the position of both an en-
ployer of labor in competition with
private industry and as department
of the government pleading economy
in labor costs of naval vessels" He
requested that there be no differen-
tial in wage rates in North and
South, claiming that this would be
equivalent to placing an export tax
on the products of some states, with
an unfair advantage to other states.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

and arbitration agreements in effect;
and,
Whereas, The presence of profes-
sional strikebreaking crews is not con-
ducive to harmonious negotiations es-
sential to recognition of mutually Of
interest upon which all wage agree
ments should be based; now, there
fore, be it
Resolved, That from and after this
date the importation of strikebreak-
ers into any jurisdiction where con-
tract are being negotiated, or wage
adjustments are under consideration,
will be considered as an unfriendly
act on the part of employers and
virtual declaration of industrial war,
and that the International Typograph-
ical Union will consider importation
of strikebreakers under such condi-
tions as justification for immediate
withdrawal, without notice, of the
members of this organization in the
employ of publishers or employers
guilty of such overt act; and, be it
further
Resolved, That a publisher or en-
ployer operating in more than one
city, who violates an existing contract
or arbitration agreement and locks
out the members Of this union, shall
be considered to have sacrificed his
right to protection under contracts
which may be in effect in other cities
in which he operates.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

Washington, ID. G. (ILNS)-De-
spite attempts to intimidate workers
in basic industries from unionizing
under the provisions of the national
industrial recovery act, the American
Federation Of Labor and affiliated
unions are enrolling thousands of new
members weekly in a great nation
wide organization campaign.
AS organized labor's drive gains
impetus, big "open shop" industries
are using every resource to roll up
large memberships in company
unions" as fast as possible. A test of
strength between the bona fide unions
and the company unions" will come
at public hearings before the recov-
cry administration officials, who will
be called upon to determine which
represents the workers.
American Federation of Labor
headquarters in Washington are the
center of the great organization cam
paign. Reporting directly to head
quarters are 1900 volunteer organ
izers, assisted by paid organizers in
every part of the United States. Or
ganizers for 108 national and inter
national unions are cooperating IN
the drive. Each of these organiza-
tions has from five to fifty paid or
ganizers and hundreds of volunteer
organizers.
State, Central Bodies Help
Organizers work in cooperation
with committees of the State Fedora
tions of Labor and the 1,6l7 central
bodies in the cities. More than 27 900
local unions are also helping in the
drive.
Discussing the campaign, Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, said that organ
izers are at work in coal, steel, oil,
rubber, electrical manufacturing, au-
as we'll as in many other industries.
To date, the best results have been
reported in the coal industry where
thousands of new members have en-
rolled in the United Mine Workers of
America. But great gains are being
made in other industries, it is known.
Letters Show Progress
An idea of the progress now being
made was given by Secretary Nor
rison, in telling of the reports re-
ceived daily at his office. Picking up
letter after letter at random, he read
reports of organizers, requests for in
formation, offers of voluntary assist
ance and applications for charters.
"Here is report from union Off
Ger who says that 10000 steel and
plateglass workers have been organ
lied within radius of ten miles of
New Kensington, Pa" he said.
Here is report of the organizing
of 10000 workers in the Interna-
tional Union of Mine, Mill and
Smelter Workers.
"a federal charter has been issued
to the United Rubber Workers Union
at Cleveland.
Auto Workers Ask Charter
Here are more applications for
federal charters from automobile and
rubber workers in Detroit, Flint, Pom
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28
BOilerMakers Strike
Against % Concerns

Kansas City, Kans.-The Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Boilermakers,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

Wyomissing, the knitting mill strikes
were joined by several hundred me-
chanics from the Textile Machine
Works, manufacturers of the machin-
cry that makes the stockings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-28

Here are more applications for
federal charters from automobile and
rubber workers in Detroit, Flint, Pom
Evening star., 1933-09-15
POORER WARDS PROVED
BETTER IN PAYING TAXES
Baltimore Check Shows Those
Who Have Had Less Always
Are Less in Arrears.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, September 15.-The
so-called poorer" wards of Baltimore
have better taxpayers than the wards
containing the better class homes, &C.
cording to Thomas c. Young, city COL
lector
Giving the details of outstanding real
estate taxes for 1888, a table prepared
by Young shows the poorer" wards
have smaller percentage Of uncollect-
ed taxes than the richer wards. Un-
collected taxes as Of July 81 totaled
IS, ,998, ,998.68.
The fourth ward, on the Baltimore
harbor front, shows the lowest percent
age of delinquencies-17 per cent. The
highest-1 per cents in the nine
teenth ward, in the western section oi
the city.
Evening star., 1933-09-15


decision of the wind to blow
If there was no alternative for
i Miss Ferguson there was none
for Vernon, either. He attempt
cd to explain that to Dodd, who led
him out on deck to try to reason with
him.
TITS probably incomprehensible to
you" Vernon explained patiently. I
wouldn't have understood 1t myself yes
terday. But this is the hour and this
is the girl I've been waiting for All
the rest was just preparation AS soon
as I saw her I knew it. You know
the old poem about Opportunity and
Shakespeares tide in the affairs of
men? Well this is my tide and I'm
going with 1t out to sea. For me to
90 anywhere save where this girl goes
would be to deny fate, destiny, what
ever it was that brought us down to
this lonely wharf tonight"
What do you mean us? Nothing
brung me down here but taxicab and
I wish one was going to take me back
to a nice warm bed
Perhaps 1t wouldn't be wise for you
to go along?"
wise? 1t amt question Of wisdom;
its a question of safety: If Mabel got
home and found out that I had gone
cruising unchaperoned on a strange
yacht with even Scarecrow in petit
coats she'd be getting her acquittal
from a jury inside of six months. The
only thing that worries me is what to
do about you. My duty is to go home,
where my wife and family expects to
find me. but I've got to get you out of
the middle of this brainstorm. too.
some way"
mo chance, Dodd You know
couldn't let this girl put out to sea all
alone and ever forgive myself for it aft
erward"
1T isn't as if she was bearcat for
looks" Dodd mused. Il suppose if it
was Mabel"
There. you see, you've reasoned it
out for me. If it was Mabel you'd go
and I'd return to my house or the club
Now I'm going to go and you-"
But. Vern, this jane isn't Mabel"
"Of course not"
"She might even marry you for your
money"
How could she if she doesn't know
I've got any. She's the first girl 1 ever
met who might like me regardless Of
trimmings. I know that's lot to ex-
pect Besides, whether she has, any in
terest in me or not doesn't enter into
the case Something tells me to horn
in on this party. You can kid me all
yOu lIhc UuI 1 VI OO ~ dIly way. i hllOW
I'm a joke myself but I can't laugh it
off"
oppose something happened to
yor9"
up ose it did. That's what I'm 60
ing TO My nearest relatives are cousins
and they probably wouldn't grieve very
long if L stepped out without leaving
sn' hers nearer than themselves. No
be VS. going to worry much about me-"
You lie like a gentleman and golf
er. I'm going to worry
Vernon was silent. Then, Il forgot.
Dodd. 1t does happen that we're pretty
close to one another, aren't We? I'll tell
you what. III wire you from the first
port we touch. Our destination can't
be very far away because this is gas
cline cruiser and probably doesn't carry
more than three or four hundred gall
Ions at the most. If you don't hear
from me soon you can send Terry after
me"
Since when has a Rolls become a
sea-going bus -
Never mind about what he comes
in Terry will find me and give me
decent burial even if he doesn't arrive
in time for anything else" Vernon
Mebee laughed. What we're so lugu-
Evening star., 1933-09-15
ISlAnD GIRL
W FRANK r. ADAMS

brious about don't know. This prob
ably is only q picnic"
"You know darn we'll it isn't. Boats
are tempermental things and there
something that isn't right about this
one. You've felt it yourself. Look here.
Dodd stepped over to the single life
boat which was swung amidships on
the port side. He pushed his finger
against the planking and it went
through. "The wood is rotten. This
scow was built before you were born
and it hasn't been painted since the
Spanish War"
Probably the hull is all right"
And then again probably it isn't"
"It doesn't make any difference:
can't let that girl go anywhere that l
don't dare follow"
why not? There's thousands of girls
in trouble in this world and you don't
have to go around risking your fool
neck just to help them"
But this is different, Dodd. This
girl is different"
"Bosh, they're all alike"
And some funny trick Of destiny
brought me down here.
Bunk! It was the radio. And des-
tiny doesn't take wireless into account
But Dodd had no further arguments
W OllCl k112ybO0yy CfCAA q 0AaAAS SA oAAA
would have recognized that Vernon had
hypnotized himself into a frame OF
mind from which it would be tmpos-
sible to dynamite him with reasons. He
had booked himself for the venture and
there wasn't any use wasting breath
trying to disSuade him.
Their conversation was brought to an
end by an abrupt series of explosions
below decks the noise Of an old-faSh-
ioned marine motor which has been
tormented into activity.
"All ashore that's going ashore de-
clared Miss Ferguson emerging from
the companionwaY and taking off a
pair of gloves which she had evidently
worn for her bout with the engine.
Wait. I'll cast Off" Vernon ran for
ward to the bow line.
The old yacht began to swing out at
an angle to the pier.
Then you're going?" questioned
Evening star., 1933-09-15

SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALLMENTS.
Vernon Mabee, wealthy young New Yorker
sishs for adventure, but can hnd no suita.
BE outlet which viii give hi him the deSirsdd sire
Speed. Vernon deplores the lack of romance
in the world The friends see an a1d old man man
Old man are are put to fight 'Vern and podd
the radio comes a description Of missing
man, who fits the description OF the friends,
ind. Vern and Dodd summon taxi and
depart for the. address eivenL3ths yacht
Wings, at the foot Of pier in Yonkers:
They find three other old men ahead of
them an in helpless condition. A girl in. IN.
forms the reScuerS that none OF the three
Is her father. Warner Ferguson. The old
man found by Vern and Dodd proves to
be the missing person. The girl searches
his pockets and accuses Vern and Dodd
Of robbng him. Convinced of their hon.
esty. she saws her father has gambed awav
ali her money. Her crew has deserted be-
cause of not being paic, but she says 1t
is Imperative that she be outside of Sandy
Hook before daylight. Sensing mystery and
adventure. Vern volunteers to ship aboard
the yacht
Evening star., 1933-09-15

Dodd In an agony Of indecision a. 10
what he should do.
Eyes, and SO are you unless you
Jump" Vernon returned.
Dodd wavered and jumped. "Good-
by, Vern, hope you recover"
Vern let 60 the stern line, too. TIN
going for homeopathy" he returned.
The distance between the boat and
the shore widened. Dodd stood waving
his hat.
The morning mist creeping in from
the sea blotted him out.
(To Be Continued.)
Evening star., 1933-09-15
Wasp Causes Fatal Wreck.

BISCAY. MINI. LR-A wasp stung
Waldo Boys while he was driving car.
Result:
He lost control of the car and Ralph
Schuyeiller Of Rutland. s. Oak. was
killed and Mrs. Jennie Boys of OShawa.
Mimi, suffered a skull fracture. Boys
escaped with a cut and bruise.
Evening star., 1933-09-15
Prussia Repeals Blue Law.

BERLIN R.-An obsolete law Of
1915 prohibiting the dangerous prac-
tice Of smoking tobacco IN the public
streets" on penalty OF q two-thaler
(about $3.50 fine, was rescinded by
order of the Prussian ministry of the
interior. BY the old law an "informer"
Of the offense was rewarded with half
the penalty,
Evening star., 1933-09-15

alopecia areata (baldness IN spots) or
q general rundown condition, which
might lead to nervous disease. Ultra
violet rays and other therapeutical
treatments, the speaker aid, had been
months when they are unable to get
much outdoor recreation.
Evening star., 1933-09-15
RAY CURES RATED BEST
FOR HICCOUGH VICTIMS
spotty Baldness Also Yields Most
Readily to Therapeutic Rem
edy, Says Expert.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, September 15.-Hiccoughs
regardless of how contracted, can be
controlled and eliminated by o treat
ment by a physical therapeutist, Dr.
Arthur N. Schanche Of Iowa State Col
lege of Ames, Iowa, said in an address
prepared for delivery today before the
American College Of Physical Therapy
He said the same thing was true Of
Evening star., 1933-09-15

Use Canoe on Globe Trip.
Kenneth Savage and Cecil Edgar have
left Stretford, England. In a 14-foot
canoe for a voyage around the world.
Evening star., 1933-09-15
INSTALLMENT v

"HE decision was as simple as the
decision of the wind to blow.
If there was no alternative for
i Miss Ferguson there was none
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-05-12
By RAYMOND CHAPTER [Iuited Press Staff COrreSDOndent

9Y S4ZfA1 1LAe United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, May 12- (UP) The once-popular practice of wealthy men of selling securities to register losses in order to re- duce their income taxes was under fire again today as it became known that the department of Jus tice was inquiring into unofficial charges that Andrew w. Mellon, secretary of the treasury under three president, evaded taxes by this system.
 Mellon's case is one of a num- ber now under investigation, At torney General Homer Cummings revealed. Mellon, it was charged. registered a $6,700,000 paper loss by selling securities to his own companies.
 chairman of the National City Bank, is on trial in New York on charges of evading income taxes by selling stocks to his wife in transaction which the government alleges was not bona-fide sale.
 Names of others whose income tax returns are being investigated were not disclosed.
 The small, mild hammered, silver haired Mellon, one of the richest men in the United States, was. for a decade the idol of American business men. Recently he was in Washington and conferred half an hour with President Roosevelt and also at the department of justice. At that time it was denied he had been discussing income tax mat ters.
 The practice of selling securities in order to register losses for in- come tax purposes was widespread in the years before depression set in seriously.