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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
MOLDERS' JOURNAL
EDITOR IS DEAD

Cincinnati, Ohio NS)-Robert
Mccoy, editor of the International
Molders' Journal, died at the Good
Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Of
complications arising from an asth-
matte attack. Burial took place in
Pittsburgh.
Mccoy was born in Murphreesboro,
Tenn, February %, 1872. He began
his apprenticeship as a stove molder
at Nashville, Tenn, for the company
of Phillips & Buttorff. He was initial
ed by Molders' Union No. So in 1896.
After working in the South a num-
Der of years, Mccoy became inter
ested in companies in Ohio and Penn
sylvania. At the convention of the
International Molders' Union in Mil
waukee in 1907 he was elected mem
ber of the executive board. He was
elected business agent of the con-
ference board in 1924 When John P.
Frey resigned as editor of the In
ternational Molders' Journal in 1927,
Mccoy was elected to take his place.
The convention in 1923 reelected him
and he remained in that office until
his death.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
THROUGH A
Wmans Eyes
BY JEAN NEWTON
ON FAITHFULNESS In
MARRIAGE

TN VARIOUS forums now they are
seriously discussing the question
started by woman lecturer recently,
as TO whether faithfulness is necessary
In marriage People are not only sug-
gesting, but advancing arguments to
prove that monogamy 10 going out of
date. that we should change the ideas
and the laws which require that one
man and one woman remain faithful
TO each other.
They are doing most of the talking,
and what they say 10 well publieiged.
Perhaps the millions who do not agree
with them feel that their viewpoint Ia
80 obvious that 1t needs no publieiz-
ing. But the other day something well
worth passing on was offered on the
subject In lecture given at Teachers
college, in New York, by DR.. Henry
Neumann, In which he said: THE
greatest need is neither for more
liberty nor for stricter divorce laws,
but rather higher grade Of person
ality and all that develops such inner
excellence"
To question or change our present
standards In marriage, he said, would
be revising laws from the viewpoint OF
those who have failed. Whereas the
great need today Is training OF
people who respect the highest and
best In others and themselves and
want to live up to It.
Getting down to concrete cases, men
and women fail in other things no less
than In marriage. Many fall In bust
ness. But we do not consider chang
ing the rules and standards OF busi-
ness procedure to make their failure
look like success? Men and women
fail In honor AS Doctor Neumann
pointed out, they lie and cheat. But
would we consider holding up to our
children a standard of honor which 1t
would be easier to meet2 Yet that
ia exactly what those are doing who
are quibbling over the question OF
homogeneous marriage, or 30 1t seems
to me. What do my readers think
about itf
g. 1888. Bsil syndioats.-wNU Service.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
MOVIE CONCERN
STRICTLY UNION

st. Petersburg, Fla.-The Aubrey
Kennedy Production Company, mo-
tion picture firm, recently won to this
city from a number of hot competi-
tors and now expanding rapidly, has
entered into wage and working agree
ments with five local union crafts,
it is announced by V. S. Herring,
president of Central Labor Union.
Contracts were signed with locals
of the International Association of
Theatrical Employees, the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners, the
Painters, Paperhangers and Decora-
tors, and the Electrical Workers. A
contract pending with the Brick Ma
sons, Plasterers and Tile Settlers will
make the Kennedy organization 100
per cent unioniZed.
Aubrey Kennedy, pioneering the
motion picture industry in Florida,
took over Weedon's Island here last
February and started to convert the
old st. Reno Clubhouse into a studio.
Work has been continuous since and
now production is under way on
Chloe" starring Olive Borden, un-
der the direction of Marshall Neilan,
famous wherever pictures are shown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
FORTY-HOUR
Week Would Be Blow To
Recovery Act

New York.-With the majority of
business executives reconciled to a
thirty-five or thirty-six hour week, ac-
ceptance by the government of the
cotton textile industry's program for
a forty y-hour week would be "se-
we're blow" to the success of the ma
tional industrial recovery act, Sol. A.
Herzog, counsel to number of trade
associations and to the Congress of
Industries, declared here.
Since the major industries will set
the pace for the smaller groups, he
added, very few trades would accept
week shorter than forty hours if
the textile code is approved by the
federal administrator.
At the same time, Mr.. Herzog ex-
pressed the opinion that the minimum
wages of $12 for the South and $13
for the North were too low, pointing
out that the minimum wage for wom-
en- in Massachusetts mills is now
$3.50. f
Most industries are anxious to grant
labor generous terms, he declared, and
are thinking in terms of around SIC
for minimum wages, rather than the
SIP and $l3 proposed by the cotton
goods group.
"Since this industry's code is the
first to be submitted to Washington"
Mr.. HerZog continued, land has been
widely publicized, the government
attitude on it is Of the utmost impor-
tance. If the administration desires
to have the aims of the recovery act
fulfilled, it must see to it that the
major industries are not granted too
much leeway."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
Relief Administrator Bans
Use Of Federal Funds to
Subsidize Starvation Paw

Washington, d. c. (ILNS)-Fol-
lowing statement by Harry L. Hop
kins, federal emergency relief admin
traitor, that federal relief funds will
not be used to enable employers to
pay starvation wages, the Reading,
Pa, branch Of the American Fed
Grafton of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers wrote to Hopkins protesting
against what the union termed "pay-
ing subsidies from relief funds fur
nished by the federal authorities to
assist the E. Richard Meinig hosiery
mills in Reading to continue opera
tions."
John w. Edelman, editor of the
Hosiery Worker, in the communica-
tion to Hopkins urged that an imme-
diate investigation be made of charges
relating to the Meinig mill 1t is con-
tended that the Meinig Company has
not paid wages to its help for sew
eral weeks past and that relief funds
have been advanced to a number of
employees on behalf of the hosiery
concern. 1t is charged that this COM
pany has for the past six months
been constantly in arrears in wage
payments to its employees and that
on some occasions as much as six
weeks pay was due individuals.
SweatshOps Subsidized
"Sweatshops are being subsidized
through issuance of relief funds to
employees unable to live on the paltry
earnings made in the shop, mill or
mine," Edelman said "This has been
common practice in Pennsylvania
for the past year or more. 1t is some
thing new, however, to assist a manu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
TRANSFERS WIN
AGAINST PAY CUT

Tacoma, Wash.-Members of Team
sters' and Chauffeurs' Union, Local
No. 3l3, won their militant wage cut
strike against the nine taxi and
trucking concerns comprising the
Truck Owners Association here. The
men walked out when the association
imposed an arbitrary wage cut after
having broken off arbitration pro-
ceedings provided for in the agree
ment with the union.
Following the walkout the Tacoma
Central Labor Council placed the
Truck Owners Association on organ
lied labor's "We don't patronize"
list.
The settlement provided that the
men should return to work on the
same wage schedules as prevailed be-
fore the walkout There were few
minor adjustments in helpers scales.
The settlement was brought about by
the intervention Of Ernie c. Marsh,
representing the conciliation service
of the U. S. Department of Labor at
Washington, and Will Coates, labor
commissioner of the Washington state
department of labor and industries.
Representatives of the truck own
ers went into the first arbitration
meetings with the threat that unless
their proposed wage cut was accepted
by the teamsters by certain date
the negotiations would be abruptly
ended. They were surprised that this
threat did not COW the teamsters into
calm submission, and were doubly
surprised when the teamsters met the
cut with a walkout.
"Once again." declares the Tacoma
Labor Advocate, "unionism, labor SOL
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
Textile Code Wage Rate Increased
Two Dollars By Fight of Union

ing that there is a difference. That
there may be difference in the
amount that will sustain animal life
we concede, but we are engaged here
in decreeing something more than a
mere animal life. The past differ
entail has been much wider than that
now proposed. Rather than stop at
point so near equality, why shall
we not go the whole route to full
equality?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14

facturer who doesn't pay wages regu-
larly by loaning food orders to his
help. If this practice is not quickly
checked the many other manufactur-
ers in this state who are paying
wages when they feel like it, although
their mills are running regularly, will
seek similar assistance from the gov
ernment"
In telling of plans of his admins
tration, Hopkins laid stress on the as
sertion that federal relief funds will
not become involved in any situation
where employers pay their workers
starvation wages and expect them to
get the difference from relief agen-
cies"
Numerous instances have come to
his attention, Hopkins said, where
employers have approached relief
agencies with the idea that they were
cut-rate employment agencies where
workers could be obtained at less than
a self-supporting wage.
''This is asking public relief mon
eys to subsidize industrial wages" he
declared. Il am thankful that in none
of the instances that came to my at
tention did the relief agencies enter
tain such a proposition. There is
much satisfaction in realizing that the
great majority Of industrial employ
ers believe in paying living wage.
| want the relief-giving agencies to
know that wherever they come under
the federal emergency relief admin
istration | back them wholeheartedly
in turning down any such attempts
to take advantage of human dis
tress."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14

The first draft of the code provided
rates of $40 and S11. Hours in
Southern mills have run to sixty and
even sixtyfour; wages have been as
low as $3.50 per week.
Faults remain in the code. In par
ticular, carders are not affected and
yard workers and cleaners are omit
ted. But office employees will get the
benefit of the forty-hour week after
July 80.
Union Opposes Code
A memorandum in opposition to the
code submitted by the cotton textile
industry was presented by President
Thomas f. Mcmahon and Secretary
Treasurer James Starr, of the United
Textile Workers, with counsel;
Chester NJ Wright, John A. Beck and
Leslie L. Frey, of Chester M. Wright
and Associates. The memorandum
follows in part:
"If we were free to assume that
the national industrial recovery act
is intended merely as the commence
ment of what we may term an inch
ing along process toward somewhat
more desirable condition, then we
might assume that the code as offer
ed by the Cotton Textile Industry is
acceptable. We are not free to as
sumo it. 1t cannot be assumed.
"On the contrary, it must be ac-
cepted as fact that the national in
dustrial recovery act is intended to
create prosperous nation of pros
porous people who have work from
which they may earn at least sus-
tanning wage and from which they
may derive a purchasing power suf-
ficient to continue all American in
dustry in full and prosperuos opera
ton
Therefore we have to oppose the
propositions relating to hours of work
and to wages as set forth in the code
now under consideration.
Forty Hour Week Unacceptable
Gas to hours of labor:
"We cannot accept a work week of
forty hours. We oppose it on several
grounds. There must be work week
suited not only to the physical ca
pacity of the workers, but suited to
, the national economy.
"The work week in the textile in
dustry has constituted a national
shame, as conceded by some of the
progressively inclined elements in the
industry. What, then, is proper
work week? A proper work week
we submit, is week of not more than
thirty-five hours.
"The adoption of thirty-five-hour
week would operate to provide EN-
ployment for all those previously and
| normally engaged in the industry
without the creation of backlog anC
at the same time provide for the alb.
sorption of further substantial mum.
ber of persons in the industry as con.
sumption requirements increase.
Wage Differential Hit
Further, we cannot agree to the
fixing of a differential between the
minimum wage in the North and ir
the South. The only defense for such
a differential is past bad practice anG
a fancied difference in the cost of liv.
ing. We find no authority for agree.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
Marine Unions in Merger


New York City (ILNS)-The Nep-
tune Association and the Ocean Asso-
citation of Marine Engineers, the two
leading organizations of officers of
the merchant marine, have amalga-
mated as the United Lincensed Of
ficers' Association. The new organi-
zation has a membership of about
1000 men. About $500 men are said
to be eligible to membership, but are
now members of other organizatinos
which have not accepted the invita-
tion of the association to merge
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14

dustries, Gen. Johnson will be able to
restrict himself to the narrow limits
of the hearings upon the proposed
cotton textile code, and to refrain
from entering into consideration of
matters that bear directly upon price
fixing in the consuming field and to
prevent a general application of the
"stretch-out" system in industries as
result of higher levels of minimum
wages.
Some Pressing Problems
Questions of foreign competition
and adequate tariff protection against
inundations of cheaply made products
from other countries are pressing for
some decision. If importations Of
cheap products should rapidly i'll
crease under the operations of the
proposed codes, the administration
would be confronted with a tariff
problem that would thrust the sue
cess of it's whole program of indus
trial stabilization into the balance. 1t
is admitted that the protection afford
ed today against the products of
countries with greatly deprecated
currencies is wholly inadequate, and
that rising level of commodity
prices in this country would invite
ctill laroar onuc iopp,aptS from, such
countries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
WORK ON COMPERS
MEMORIAL BEGINS

Washington, d. C. ULNS)-Con-
struction of the foundation of the
memorial to the late Samuel Com
pers, which will be dedicated at the
A. F. of L. convention here October
2 will begin Immediately. The con-
tract has been let to a Washington
firm.
The memorial to the founder and
former president of the American
Federation of Labor is being complet-
ed in New York and will be ready
for the dedication ceremonies the first
week in October.
The call for the convention which
will convene at the Willard Hotel,
will be issued late in August, ac-
cording to Frank Morrison, secretary
of the federation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14
Fast Action Is Needed to
Stop Stretch Out Plan
Committee Headed By Robert Bruere Has Pivotal Job
and Prepares for Immediate Action Through Survey.

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-The
cotton textile code, covering the
largest manufacturing industry in
America, now virtually approved by
Gen. Johnson. administrator of the
national industrial recovery act,
raises wages, cuts hours and does
many other things, including the
freeing of labor from company un-
ions.
One hole remains in the code, tenn
porarily. 1t broke out during the
hearings when the United Textile
Workers pointed out that the danger
of the stretch-out system and the
damage it could do to the workers if
not remedied u. S. Senator Byrnes
in special plea asked for some action
to stop the stretch-out and Admin
istrator Johnson acted at once, direct
ing that a committee be named to
proceed to the making of survey
and recommendations The labor ad-
visory committee appointed George L.
Berry as its representative on the
stretch-out committee. The employ
ers named Robert Geer, big mill own
er. Robert Bruere was named chair
man.
To Plug Bad Hole
1t is understood the survey will
proceed at once. A report must be
made by July IL, effective date for
the code. This committee and its
agents is charged with the job of
plugging the hole left by the mill
owners in their code. 1t is under
stood that the findings turned in by
the Bruere committee will in all prob
ability be made part of the code.
Whether that hole is to be plugged
is for the moment squarely up to
Robert Bruere, chairman of the COM
mittee named by Gen. Johnson to
head a special committee to survey
that system in operation. Bruere, as
sociate editor of the Survey and long
known as leader in uplift circles,
is the personal choice of DR.. Leo
Wolman, chairman of the labor ad-
visory committee.
The danger lies at this point: If
mill owners are allowed to make un-
limited use of the stretch-out system
they can, by that device wreck much
of the advantage gained by the short
ening of work hours and the raising
of minimum rates of pay.
Provisions of Code
The minimum scale set in the new
code calls for bottom wage of $12
in Southern mills and S13 in Northern
mills. The work week is to be forty
hours, but machines may run eighty
hours.
No minors under 16 may be en-
ployed, and thus, at one stroke, the
textile industry is freed of child la
bora century of battle is ended.
Uniform cost accounting is to be
established, additional machinery may
be installed only upon certificate of
public necessity and tribunals are to
be established within the industry to
regulate trade practices. The right to
organize and bargain collectively is
guaranteed.
Real Gains Made
The wage is not what the union de-
manded, but it is q material gain
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idarity, has revealed its power to pro-
tect the working standards of the
membership"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14

More than 100000 tons of fer
tilizer, worth over $2OO0OO,OOO are
produced yearly in the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1933-07-14

you ask me what we will have next
if this doesn't work, hesitate to
think"
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Real Gains Made

The wage is not what the union de-
manded, but it is a material gain.
Evening star., 1933-04-18

to see them. Now they are coming by
the hundreds and bringing the letters
with them. l would be glad to visit
with all of them and to grant all their
requests, but, unfortunately, there are
only "a hours to a day, and the appli-
cants outnumber the jobs 10 to L.
Some time I may tell you the rest Of
the political story but tonight it is the
Postmaster General talking, so I will
get back to his immediate sphere.
First let me make a salesman's talk.
We want more trade. With our estab-
lishment we could handle twice the
volume of business without additional
cost The more business we get, the
less we will have to charge for 1t, so
hope the distributors of bread and milk,
the gas companies and the power COM
panies, the mail order people, the
newspapers and magazines and folks
generally will let us handle their no
tices and bills and advertisements in
stead of using their own messengers.
We are geared up to give them better
service than they can provide for them
selves, for, let me tell you. the post
Office is an efficient establishment
manned by experts who have been
thoroughly trained through the years.
l am new to my office, but not so new
Evening star., 1933-04-18
S1.65 and $3.50 Fancy

Neckband and ar-attached; 2
collars to match. Madras and broad
cloth. (Some whites.)
Evening star., 1933-04-18
During the current fiscal year things

During the current fiscal year things
in the Post Once Department are
looking up . bit, the toboganning of
the revenue has been checked by the
increased postage rates and the postal
receipts for the present year will be
approximately the same as last years
figure Of $588,000.0 900. On the other
hand, there has been q substantial re-
duction in costs of operation as the
result Of the economy legislation en-
acted by Congress year ago, and ex-
penditures will be about $50 600, 900
less than during the fiscal year 1892
This will mean a postal deficit for the
current year Of about $72, 1000, 900. COM
pared with a deficit of $153 1000, 900 a
year ago.
Seventy-two million dollars. there
fore, is the approximate measure of
the departments operating problem for
the fiscal year. which will begin July
Evening star., 1933-04-18

tain . standard Of efficiency in de-
livering the mails, but have little
doubt that pretty nearly every post
master in the country knows better
than We can know where improvement
II possible in his own bailiwick. We
intend to avail ourselves to the fullest
extent Of this reservoir Of post office
wisdom. We have now in the depart
ment headquarters q suggestion box
and am taking. this occasion to ask
every post office force, every carrier
and everybody else with special knowl-
edge to mail to the Postmaster Gen.
eral care of the Suggestion Box. what
ever he sees that would improve serv-
ice, or would help in the economy
campaign.
Now let me give you some figures, so
that you may know where we are, how
we got there and what Is being done
to restore the post offlce to the dignity
Evening star., 1933-04-18
of lf-supportins branch Of the Gov

Of q self supporting branch OF the Gov
ernment:
Postal volume was at its peak during
the fiscal year 1880, when the depart
ments revenues reached the sum Of
sos, 100000. In 1881 the revenues de-
clined to 1856, 100000 and In 1882 to
$685., 900, ,000- loss Of $117.000,000 by
comparison with the peak of 1880. But
during these years the postal expendi-
lures virtually stood still. In 1880 ex-
penditures for strictly postal purposes
amounted to SITS, 100000 In 1882 they
were $751, 100000. In other words. to
meet a loss of revenue amounting to
Silt, 100000, the postal expenditures
were reduced by only $24,000000 be-
tween 1880 and 1882 This. Of course,
provides the explanation for the un-
precedented postal deflcit. which last
year had to be paid out Of the general
Treasury.