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The Kusko times., 1933-02-25

SEATTLE.-Four husky Washing ton football players stood by today, ready to offer blood for a transfuslon in event it is needed to save the life of Evan Lee, 80, father of Harold Lee, Washington basketball ace. Neg ley Englund, Hurley Deroin, Robert ingram and Romeo Lauzon, gridsters, offered blood.
The Kusko times., 1933-02-25

for brief visit.
 George w. Clyde is today arrival
The Kusko times., 1933-02-25

cHICAGO.-Roy Cotton, weather observer, nosed his open cockpit plane to 1S,Oe0 feet above the city today and then, with the wind at 80 miles an hour and the temperature recorded 4 below zero, the motor sputtered ana died. I the open cockpit the pilot s hands were nearly frozen, but he kept under control. As he reached lower levels the wind slackened and the
 speed of his unpowered increased as the plane came down in a suburb. The ship landed head-on into a. network of wires. Both wings were stripped from the plane, b tuthe wires so broke she fall that it dropped easily to the pavement. . Cotton nwas unhurt.
The Kusko times., 1933-02-25

LOS Sitting, just sit ting, brought legal troubles to pretty Vera Casady today. Mrs. Casady IS a bank sitter. A bank sitter is one who sits in a bank until money IS paid. In this case Mrs. Casady claimed that her husband, Wayne Casady, cashier of the Wiltshire Ma tional Bank, owed her s3,o00 in back alimony. Because he wouldn't pay it she has been sitting insidet he front door of the bank for four days. The bank claims she has become nuls- anee and secured an injunction to prevent her from continuing her seated campaign.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
FIRST MINIMUM
PAY SET IN N. Y.

New York City (ILNS)-The first
wage order to be issued under New
York's state minimum fair wage act
became effective October 2, setting
the minimum rates which may be paid
to women and minors employed in
laundry occupations.
The minimum rates established is
81 cents an hour in the New York city
area and 271@ cents an hour for the
remainder of the state. A bonus of
10 per cent on the hourly rate must
be added to the minimum rate for
short working time. Overtime beyond
45 hours must be paid for at the rate
of time and half for those earning
the minimum.
In approving the recommendation
of the wage board, Industrial Com
missioner Andrews said, 81 feel that
the minimum rates established for
laundry work are by no means as high
as might be desired at the present
time, but it must be remembered that
even these rates will mean an increase
in wages for more than 80 per cent of
the women employed in laundries in
New York state"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Workers Called Upon to Rally
To Defense of Public Schools
A. F. OF L. Executive Committee Alarming Situation,
With Free Educational System Passing, and Urges
Federal Government Aid to Help States Maintain
Schools.

"At time when industry is being
asked to maintain a living wage;
when minima for wages are set in all
crafts with additional graduated in
crements for those who merit them,
it is sad commentary to note that
the legal minimum salary of teachers
is being reduced to a new low Level" "
The report pleads for the main
tenance of kindergartens, stress
ing the Importance of kindergar-
ten education and training for
young children.
SIN the face of current economies
local school systems are being forced
to affect so-called economies. These
so-called economies are all too often
forms of tragic waste. The kinder
garten is reported as one of the three
services most frequently curtailed or
eliminated from the public school due
to the present budget cuts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Fuller Unionization Urged
To Defeat Code Chiselers

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-More
complete organization of workers to
keep "chiselers" from evading NRA
codes was advocated before the an
nual convention of the union label
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor by John J. Man
ming, secretary-treasurer.
"While giving support to the ma
tional recovery act" he said, 1--WE
should not permit ourselves to be de-
luded into believing that it will be
cure-all, nor should we think that be-
cause of its enactment by congress
we can afford to depend upon it solely
as a medium for our advancement,
without any further effort on our part
to remedy long-standing industrial
injustices.
That there will be bootlegging and
cheating goes without saying. To
minimize this great danger we must
redouble our efforts to organize all
entitled to membership in our
unions"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
HOSIERY WORKERS
FLOCK TO UNION

High Point, N. C. ILNS)-The
seamless hosiery workers of North
Carolina are focking under the ban
ner of the American Federation of
Hosiery Workers.
Betrayed by the Vaccinations of
the mill owners and their company
union, the Industrial Workers Asso-
citation organized by the notorious D.
V. Bradley, the seamless hosiery
workers have appealed to Lawrence
Hogan, representative of the fedora
ton or organize them.
In two weeks more seamless work
ers have applied here for union mem
bership than have ever signed up in
the state, Hogan reported. Mass
meetings are held daily at mill gates
during the noon hour, where it is ap-
parent, Hogan said, that interest in
the union is increasing tremendously.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Labor Program Is Essential to
Recovery, Miss Perkins Declares

unions and labor groups proposed
that the convention ask President
Roosevelt for speedier spread of the
public works program or removal of
the officials in charge of it. Their
resolution said that through the lax
ity or the ineffciency of those in
trusted with the expenditure" of the
$3,300,00O,000 public works fund,
thousands of industrial workers 'are
in suffering and want" 1t added:
Resolved, That this convention ap-
peal to the president for the removal
of those public officials who,
either through their ineffciency, are
responsible for much of the present
unemployment :. unless those now in
charge can show their willingness to
carry out the intent of congress-"
Boycott of German Goods Sought
Delegated from the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers asked a boycott
by American workers against German
goods as a protest against the Hitler
regime. Another resolution asked
fight by labor against Fascism in
Germany and against any Fascist
tendencies in the United States.
Other resolutions propose labor
representation on all recovery act
boards and agencies, prohibition of
Filipino immigration, federal aid to
the states for public schools, employ
ment of Negro labor organizers by the
A. F. of L., legislation to prevent the
transportation of strike breakers and
legislation granting the vote to resi-
dents of the District of Columbia.
The convention has 566 delegates in
attendance, one of the largest num-
ber in its history.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Green Advocates Workers
Strike as Last Resort
A. F. of L. Head Urges Toers to Make Full Use of NRA
Labor Agencies Before Calling Walkout

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Urg-
ing workers throughout the country
to make a full use of the National
Labor Board and of it's state labor
boards as rapidly as they are created,
President William Green forwarded
advice to all organized workers on the
question of strikes. His advice to
labor organizations was intended to
produce results without undue waste
of effort" and to lay before unions a
course of action which he describes
as fitted to the needs of the New
Deal and to its machinery"
"There has been much discussion of
the place of the strike in the scheme
of things brought about by the New
Deal" President Green said in his
message to workers." 1t is advisable
to deal with this situation with COM
plete frankness.
"The right to strike is funda-
mental. 1t is legally and morally
right. The right is an inherent
personal right.
"The workers cannot and must not
be called upon by anyone to surrender
the right to strike. 1t is an absolute
and unqualified right.
Urges Sound Judgment
Possession of a right does not
mean that it must be used without
discretion. Rights prove most valu-
able when used with sound judgment
and exercised only when necessary.
"The right to strike involves so
many serious considerations that it
ought to be utilized only as last re-
sort.
To-day wage earners are organiz-
ing at tremendous rate. They realize
their new freedom and they seek re-
dress for ancient wrongs. The mil
fancy of the great masses of wage
earners, after three years of suffering
is mazing. 1t is a tribute to their
character and it testifies to the fact
that they know the meaning of life in
a democracy. 1t is one of the most
significant signs in America today.
This militancy should be interpreted
as evidence of deep faith in the future
bring to all full realization of social
and economic betterment | freely
admit that glory in the fighting
spirit of working people.
Counsels Use of Caution
But it seems opportune to counsel
conservation of effort and wisdom in
all our actions. Through the admins
tration of the national industrial re-
covery act instrumentalities have
been created for the adjustment of in
dustrial differences. Among these is
the National Labor Board, for the
consideration and settlement of griev-
aces. As rapidly as possible state
and local boards will be created. Not
all of this can be done in a day.
Il urge all workers who have griev-
ances to make use of the instrument
talities now available before resorting
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-Fa
lie school facilities and the slashing
of teachers salaries "paint the pic
ture of the passing of the free pub
lie school," the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor
declares in it's report to the fifty-third
annual convention of the federation
in Washington.
CharacteriZing the present school
situation as alarming" and tragic"
the council calls for labor to make the
fight of it's life in defense of the
American public school system
1--WE cannot simply sit by and watch
the passing of the free public school
which organized labor more than any
other agency in this country helped to
establish" the report says.
Federal Aid Urged
Federal aid for the schools is
strongly urged eve do not deny
local and state responsibility We in
sist on it. But while we may be argu-
ing on state capacity to meet these
social obligations, the point is that
they are not being met" the report
says. 1t continues:
"The nations responsibility is
clearly set out; for the boys and girls
today denied an education in any one
state may migrate into another state,
and these become social burdens to
people who may have expended wisely
and we'll for their public schools. Just
as the state established state aid for
educational work to handicapped local
communities, so today the call is be-
ing made that the federal govern
ment aid the handicapped states in
maintaining the free public school,"
Salary Cuts Condemned
The report points out that teachers
pay has been drastically cut in the
last two years, and says the figures
tell the tale of the direst sort of pow
erty for one group of workers-the
teachers. 1t adds:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

vide the consumption power of wage
earners of one industry of the capital
industries with mass production pro-
grams in some consumption goods in
dustries.
Labor Program Essential
"As nation we are recognizing
that programs long thought of as
merely labor welfare, such as short
hours, higher wages and voice in the
terms anr conditions of work are real
ly essential economic factors for re-
covery. These are provided for in
varying degrees in the codes of the
different industries. The opportunity
Of collective bargaining is likewise
established. Child labor is abolished.
Certainly these are great gains for
labor in the test to adjust our indus
trial life to the patterns of democracy
and the needs of new day."
The secretary announced that en-
ployment and payrolls showed an in
crease again in September, continuing
the gains which have been in evidence
since April, and she said there is a
reasonable hope" that there will be
further gains between now and next
March.
She warned, however, that the bat
tie was not yet won, saying: eve can
not fool ourselves that all is WE'LL be-
cause for five successive months there
has been an improvement. There is
still long, long way to 60"
Sees Rout of Depression
Miss Perkins declared there was
new spirit of unity and action abroad
in the land "The worker, the en-
ployer and the consumer are united at
last in cooperating in drive against
the forces which have brought want,
despair and misery into so many
homes in the last few years." she
added. "Such concerted attack, if it
continues with patience and intelli-
gence, can hardly fail of its objec-
tive"
The speaker said that the depart
ment of labor would exert every effort
to safeguard the interests of labor.
"The department" she said, is dedi-
Gated to the service of the working
people of America and is being ad-
ministered for their economic ad-
vancement."
To help labor solve its problem of
improving conditions of the workers,
her department, the secretary said, is
establishing a division of Labor
Service and Labor Standards" whose
function will be to study and make
public information on the problems of
industrial health and safety, of inse-
curity, wages, working hours, hous-
ing, education and many other fac
tors which affect the workers life.
Secretary Thanks A. F. of l..
In ending her address, Secretary
Perkins pledged every resource of her
department to the wage earners of
the nation. She thanked the A. F.
of L., in her name and that of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, for its hearty CO.
operation in the recovery program,
and said the workers will make a
significant and constructive contribu-
tion to the life of the nation.
More than 100 resolutions have been
introduced in the convention. Ten
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

to the extreme action of striking. If
there is failure to secure redress
through these agencies, the right to
strike certainly remains open as an
instrument of last resort. 1t may not
be amiss also to counsel unorganized
workers to use calm judgment and
great caution in resorting to strikes
without organization and without dis
cipline. Employers are being disci-
plined and are learning lessons in
these new times. Let the workers
gain discipline early and learn their
lessons WELL"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Chinese Cotton Mill Strike
Ended by Arrest of Leaders

Tientsin, China - The Western
method of using government violence
to end strikes was used here to dis
cipline 5000 employees of the Yu
Yuan Cotton Mil Company, a joint
Chino-Chinese concern, who walked
out in protest over the work condi-
tions imposed by the cotton capital
lists.
Two days after the walkout General
Yu Hauch-chung, chairman of the
Hopei provincial government, arrest
ed 70 mill hands whom mill officials
charged with ''instigating" the en-
ployes to strike.
With such a large number of their
leaders removed and more arrests
the employees gave up the
struggle and returned to work with
out amelioration of the oppressive
which inspired the protest.
To see what is right and not to do
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Railroad Workers Favor
Strike Against Pay Cut

Montreal (ILNS)-Train service
workers throughout Canada employ
ed by the Canadian Pacific and Ca
madam National railroads have voted
to authorize union leaders to call a
strike against the second 10 per cent
cut in the basic wage rate. The vote
showed a substantial majority in fa-
vor Of a strike. The total number
of men affected is about $4,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13
Tells Convention Standards
Must Go Ever Upward
Secretary Says Labor is Integral Part of Modern State
Hailing A. F. of L. Cooperation in MIRA

Washington, d. c. (ILNS)-Higher
and higher wage and working stand
ards are essential to economic bal
ance and must come, Frances Perkins,
secretary of labor, told the annual
convention of the American Fedora
tion of Labor here. The delegates
gave Miss Perkins warm welcome
and applause was frequent and en-
thusiastic during her address.
'We cannot stop with the present
minimum wages and maximum hours
of labor" Miss Perkins said. "We
must go on with unified purpose to
an ever-improving standard of living
and assurance of economic security
for all our people and sufficient leis-
ure to enable us to enjoy the bless
ings which our resources and our
equipment can make available to all
of us.
"These things can be achieved if
industry recognizes that workers
must receive increased wages and
shorter hours of work in fair proper
ton as profits increase. This will con-
tinue to be essential to economic bal
ance. The wage earners and farmers
make up the bulk of the nations pur-
chasing power. 1t has been estimated
that more than two-thirds of the
goods disposed of in America are
bought by those whose incomes are
less than $4,000 year, and the pos
sibilities are almost limitless for fur
ther expansion of this market if the
total amount going to wages in this
group is steadily increased; employ
ment, management and investors will
make their income from increased
volume.
Must Stabilize Employment
Certainly we cannot have the pur-
chasing power necessary to balance
our production capacity, unless we de-
velop opportunities for work and
wages, stabilize the employment of
wage earners and create opportuni-
ties for leisure. These are the object
ives of the national recovery act for
the common benefit. 1t is designed to
increase purchasing power, put the
idle back to work and protct the rights
Of self organization and collective
bargaining for all employees"
Miss Perkins paid high tribute to
the American Federation of Labor
and its principles, and hailed it's pro-
gram as essential to economic recov-
cry.
"The 83rd annual convention of
your organization" she said, thanks
to the vision and courage Of President
Roosevelt in making possible the ma
tional recovery act, sees labor as an
integral part of our modern state.
The act includes among it's basic ideas
the idea that employers have a GER
tain public responsibility in the con-
duct of their industries. Wage earn
ers are factor in formulating these
policies of public responsibilities, and
wages earners are to be permitted to
make constructive contribution to
solving the economic problems that
confront the United States of America
on the industrial front. These are
common problems; how to balance
production with necessary consump-
tion market; in general, how to pros
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-10-13

To see what is right and not to do
it, is want of ourage-Hugo.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-28
Names OF Uncles
Got Him Nothing

RALEIGH, Oct. 2S.-(UP).-
There's nothing in a name for d.
E. Henderson, North Carolina dry
leader.
He said yesterday he had been
named originally for nine of his
uncles. His multiple monicker
was: Jackson Ezekiel Davis James
Nathaniel Sylvester William Ed
ward Demosthenes Henderson.
"All l ever got from those nine
uncles," he said, "was five dol
lars, so | dropped all but two of
the names"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-28


ing taxes and assessments, the
land described in said deed Of
trust, to-wit:
The following described piece
and parcel Of land, situate, lying
and being in Hendersonville
township, County of Henderson,
and State of North Carolina
Being all those lots and dwelling
known as the R. G.. Rand prop
erty on the east side of the old
Spartanburg highway. Beginning
at a stake on the east side of the
highway, the GULL southwest cor
ner. and runs north SIS degrees
east with Guill's line 17S feet to
a stake: thence south 33 degrees
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-28
NOTICE OF SALE

On account Of default in pay
ment Of debt secured by deed of
trust with power Of sale from
Flat Rock Development Company,
recorded in book 107, page 1852,
Henderson county mortgage rec
ords, the undersigned trustee
named in said deed of trust will
on Saturday, Nov. rs, 1888, at
IL o'clock noon at the Henderson
county courthouse door in Hen
Jacksonville. North Carolina, sell
at public auction to the highest
cash bidder, subject to outstand-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-28

30 minutes east 244.5 feet TO q
stake in a new street; thence
south Sc degrees west ITS feet
to a stake in the margin on the
highway: thence with the high
way north 33 degrees 80 minutes
west 178 feet to the beginning,
and being same land premises
conveyed bv R. G. Rand to the
Flat Rock Development Company
as shown by deed recorded IN
book -, page -, RECORDS OIL
deeds for Henderson county,
North Carolina.
October 25, 1888.
G. H. VALENTINE, Trustee.
10-28-Sat-4tp.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-28
Would Restore
Pc. Dept. Wage
Employees Will Work for
This Next Session

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. (UP).
Organized labor of the postal
service looked ahead to the bus
lest winter in its history as plans
were made to petition the coming
session Of congress for restora-
ton of postal employees salary
cuts and other privileges revoked
under economy legislation.
Besides the plea to congress
labor leaders are formulating a
strenuous campaign against the
announced policy of Postmaster
General Farley to put the service
on self sustaining basis. They
hold this can not be accomplished
without curtailing expenses and
thus rendering the service made
Quate.
M. T. Finnan. secretary of the
National Association of Letter
Carriers, asserts that "any at
tempt to put the postal service
on a self sustaining basis is not
only a false concept, but wrong
in principle and practice"
LOW DEFICIT
Other leaders point out that
although, with few exceptions,
the postoffice department never
has yielded a surplus, its deficits
amount to less than 2.5 per cent
of federal expenditures.
With regard to the restoration
of original equipment allowance
for rural carriers. the admins
tratiop already has pledged its
support in the next congress and
raised the allowance substantially
for four months starting in No
vember.
Asserting that postal employees
always have been underpaid, Fin
nan said, "even before the days
of the depression no other occu-
patton suffered so great loss in
purchasing power as the postal
service"
Leaders assert that abolition
of automatic promotions under
the economy act have resulted in
wage cuts from Fl to 26 per cent
instead Of the supposed 10 per
cent.
RECOMMENDATIONS
PLANNED
Some of the following recon-
mendations will be made to con-
gress by labor:
ONE-Discontinuance of the
present Is per cent pay cut and
restoration Of letter carriers sal
aries to at feast the $1,000 an
TWO-Automatic advances in
pay should be restored to en-
ployes in the grade to which they
are properly entitled; and restora-
ton of promotions should be re-
troactive, thus returningu to en-
ployes all money "unjustly" taken
from them.
THREE-Legislation to grant
substitutes minimum work
week; sick and annual leave; a
refund to substitutes of all mon
les deducted from their pay UNI
der the economy act Of June 80,
1882; and appointment to regu-
lar clerkship after sc calendar
months of service.
In addition labor will strive
for recognition of a bill which
has been introduced in the senate
by Senator LaFollette, Republi-
can, Wisconsin, providing service
increases in pay for postal en-
ployes. 1t provides for:
A 500 annual guarantee in
addition to base pay after 10
years of service and an addition
al 500 annually for each sue
ceeding five-year period.