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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
Declaring Industry Can't Absorb Unemployed, Labor
Head Urges Passage of $4,000, 900 Measure and
Declares Government Has Responsibility of Putting
Idle Millions to Work

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Warn-
ing that "hungry men are dangerous
the American Federation of Labor,
men," President William Green, of
strongly urged passage of the La
Toilette $1O,OOO,OO0,0 public works
bill to give work to the unemployed.
Appearing before members of the
senate committee on education and
labor, President Green said that the
hope that industry will be able, within
the near future, to carry the entire
burden of recovery, had broken down.
Green pictured the NRA and AAA.
as having failed to "put back to work
in industry the vast number of un-
employed" He added that purchasing
power had not been raised to the level
hoped for last June.
"The estimate of unemployment for
April shows well over 100000 men
and women still out of work." the la
Dor head said. "Yet we are in pc
riod of peak employment in many of
the major industries, and most esti-
mates show there will be substantial
declines during the next few months"
Urging appropriation of the $1O,-
900 100000 authorized in the La Foil
cite bill, Green said:
"The government has practical
as well as moral responsibility to
continue provisions for these millions
of unemployed through program OF
public works"
While Green indicated the NRA had
brought about some unemployment,
he said it was "all too obvious that
the codes have failed to do what was
expected of them, in putting people
back to work, nor can we hope for
any considerable amount of increased
employment in that portion OF indus
try for which codes are still to be
adopted"
Industry" he pointed out, mas peen
unwilling to shorten the hours OF Ia
Dor sufficiently to absorb a really
significant number of unemployed.
He said that from October, 1888, to
the end of April, 1884, production had
increased by about III per cent, but
that the total employment gain had
been only 1.5 per cent.
"We cannot, therefore" ne said,
slook to private industry for q solu-
ton of our problem" He said it was
primarily in the heavy or capital
goods industry that the NRA has
failed to stimulate production. He
expressed the opinion that expendi-
lures would stimulate demand for
heavy goods.
President Green predicted long
period when there would be large un-
employment unless further and dras-
tic reductions in the hours of work
are made"
eve must look forward for some
time at least" he said, ITO govern
ment provision for this vast supply
of surplus labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
PLANNING
For Future Is Urgent
Need, Labor Declares

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-Plan-
ming for the future to bring economic
balance and to give wage earners en-
ployment and keep them at work, is
imperatively needed, the American
Federation of Labor emphasizes it's
current survey Of business.
Figures on relief payments in re-
cent months show the urgent need of
a definite plan which will put work.
ers back to their normal task Of earn
ing an income by production and serv-
ice in industry" the federation says.
1t continues:
Increasing production should cre-
ate jobs; increased corporation earn
ing power should furnish income for
larger number of workers. In
March, 1884, there were 100000
families on relief rolls, and 100000
100000 who had been taken off re-
lief rolls and given work under
CWA. That is, the total number in
need was between 4,510,000 and s.
100000. This is considerable increase
over March year ago when the num-
Der on relief was 4,560,000.
with business activity increasing,
production increasing, profits increas-
ing, this rise in the number on relief
is matter of the most urgent con-
Germ to us all.
''To bring these families back to
self-support, to provide consuming
power adequate to keep our industries
and farms in production, requires
definite planning for the future Shall
we plan to consume what we produce
and provide a place in producing in
dustry for all who want work? Or
shall we drift without genertl plan,
supporting several million families on
relief, ploughing cotton under, slaugh-
tering surplus meat animals, operat-
ing our factories at half capacity?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

Trenton, N. sJ.--In q decision not
able for it's clarity the New Jersey
court Of errors and appeals ruled that
former Vice Chancellor John j. Fallon
twas clearly in error" in granting in
junction against agents of the Amer
ican Federation of Silk Workers, an
affiliate Of the American Federation
of Labor, restraining employees Of the
plant from striking and prohibiting
them and operatives Of the union
from participating in and encourage
ing picketing.
Interprets Section IA
In modifying the injunction, the
court interpreted the collective bar
gaining and labor organizing provi-
sions Of the national Industrial re-
covery act to embrace peaceful pick
eting and orderly strikes.
The company closed its plant last
September, alleging it was forced to
do so because of "disorderly picket
ing" resulting from demands for in
creased pay.
The vice chancellor, the court held,
evolved an Interpretation of the re-
covery act that the silk union could
not participate in the dispute because
only employees of the company were
recognized under the collective bar
gaining clause.
This conclusion, the opinion said,
"makes the individual plant the unit
for collective bargaining and denies
all non-employes, termed informed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

dlers,, the right of participation in
such endeavors."
NRA Does Not Bar Strikes
Many of the plants employees were
members of the union, which, the
court points out, was IAN affiliate of
the American Federation of Labor, a
responsible labor organization with
nationwide jurisdiction.
'The Interpretation of the act" the
opinion continued, adopted by the
vice chancellor would outlaw this
organization and prevent the affilia-
tion Of the individual unions with a
body organized to promote the COM
mon aims and purposes.
"We do not find expressed in the re-
covery act congressional purpose
to deprive the employees of the right
to strike, whereas here, their demand
for wage increase is not complied
with.
Picketing Is Lawful
"The right to organize and bargain
collectively connates the right to
strike.
"The right to strike includes the
right to use peaceable and lawful
means to induce present employees
and expectant employees to poin the
ranks.
"Picketing is lawful if it. does not
have an immediate tendency to intim-
idation of the other party to the con-
troversy."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
SIX-HOUR DAY
Without Pay Cut Is Urged
BY Norris

Harrisburg Pa.-A vigorous de-
mand for the six-hour day without
a corresponding reduction in earn
ings and the enactment of inheritance
tax laws as a method to redistribute
the wealth of the nation, which has
been largely pocketed by the pluto
Gratis of various types, characterized
the address here by Senator George
w. Norris, of Nebraska, in support
of the campaign of Governor Pinchot,
for election to the United States SEN
ate.
Discussing economic maladjust-
ments which progressives are seeking
to correct, Senator Norris condemned
those who would do nothing about
them.
"We have man in the white house
who is trying to do something about
them," the senator said. "He is do
ing it with wonderful courage and he
is accomplishing great things.
II am not in favor of standing idly
by and seeing our civilization go down
to ruin.
"If you look down the past, of his
tory, you will find it lined with tomb
stones because greedy men ground the
people down to poverty.
IF we don't want to see that, we
ought to see to it that our laws are
made by men who do not believe in
that philosophy"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
3 Workers Escape Death
In Coal Mine Fire Trap

Linton, Ind.-Eight miners escaped
from the Little Betty coal mine near
here after being trapped in the pit
for two hours by fire that destroyed
the surface buildings The men crop
ed through the darkened pit to the
.manway, an emergency exit, and
made their way to the surface, 400
feet from the tipple where the fire
was raging.
An explosion at this mine in JAN
uary, 1881, took toll Of % lives.
Although warned by that disastrous
explosion, the management seems to
have taken bur little precaution since
then to protect the lives of the min
+ers against the dangers to life and
limb caused by preventable fires.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

Advertise in The Press.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

troduced in the house by Represen-
tative Edward A. Kenney, of New
Jersey.
Claiming that Communism, Fas-
cism and Bolshevism" has been charg-
ed to many teachers, Mr.. Kenney de-
clared that Congress should send out
it's message to the states and terri
tories of the Union that it stands
back of them in perpetuating the
principles of the constitution"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

Green pointed out that despite the
fact there were over 4,000,0 900 on the
CWA payrolls in January, with 3OO,-
900 under UWA, 100000 families,
representing 100000 people We're
son the government relief rolls"
with this record of the past
year," he said, "do we dare to say
that public works shall not be con-
tinued and shall not be increased?"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
Green Supports La Toilette Bill
For Great Public Works Program
rs MILLIONS
ASKED FOR SCHOOLS

Washington, D. G.. (ILNS)A bill to
provide a federal appropriation of
$75,000,000 next year for grade and
high schools, drawn up by a house
education subcommittee has been in
troduced by Representative Douglass,
of Massachusetts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
TEXAS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Houston, Tex. (ILNS)-Four thou
sand longshoremen Of Houston, Gal
weston, Texas City, Corpus Christi
and the Sabine port district went on
strike in their wage dispute with
steamship operators. The strike CEN
tered in Houston.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - ]. w.
"Jigger" Johnson, colorful riding me-
chanic, will leave his chewing tobacco
in the pits when he rides in the 500
mile race this year. It almost cost
his driver victory in q previous con-
test.
Johnson, short, wiry chap as
nervous as bucket Of worms, will
sit beside pilot A. B. deacon" Litz
in the Decoration Day classic at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May
80.
It was back in 1891 that "Jigger"
left off tobacco-chewing while at
work. He was riding with Louis
Schneider. Billy Arnold had been
leading all day and setting his usual
terrific pace. At 400 miles Billy
went through the wall and shortly
aftsrward Tony Gulotta, who had
succeeded Arnold as leader, spun in
the oil Of the Arnold wreck and went
out Of the race. Shortly afterward
Schneider found himself out front,
headed for victory. He steadied
down to a safe pace which would
bring him in.
digger" elated with the pros
poets, popped a nibble Of tobacco
into his mouth. Shortly afterward,
. few drops Of the brown juice
smeared Schneider's goggles. It
looked like oil.
"What's leaking! What's leak
ingv screamed Schneider, reaching
for the breaks, prepared to stop.
"Just my mouth" replied Gig
ger"
Schneider's discourse on chewing
tobacco Immediately after the race
was not recorded.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
Teachers Oath to Uphold
u. S. Constitution Urged

Washington.-A resolution requir-
ing all teachers and employees of the
public school system to swear anegi-
ance to the u. S.. constitution was in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-05-18
Strike Right Upheld By
New Jersey High Court

Decision Declares Strikes and Pcketng Are Valid Exer
else of Lab0rs Rights Under Section IA of Recovery
Act and VOids Injunction of Former Vice Chancellor
Fallon Restraining Silk Workers. Union from Using
Them.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
By United Press

Threats of major strikes in the
steel and textile industries affect
ing 100000 workers directly and
100000 indirectly added today to
the labor difficulties bcsetting NRA.
Steel workers, scheduled to hold
convention June 10, are ready to
strike June Is "to help the Pres
idento force a conference between
the iron and steel institute and un-
ion representatives. The union
wants recognition and collective
bargaining.
More than quarter million tex
tile workers threaten to walk out
Monday unless the NRA modifies
order curtailing operations in the
textile industry 25 per cent.
The textile industry, one of the
first to feel the benefits of in
creased employment, now finds it
self in the position of having to
accept governmental limitation of
production. Administrator Hugh
S. johnson was to confer today
with Thomas F. McMahon, pres
ident of the United Textile Work
ers in an effort to avert the strike.
Other developments:
TOLEDO, O.-Central Labor un-
ion appealed to President Roose-
velt to take hand in strike at
Electric Auto-Lite plant; state Of
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
FIVE LITTLE DIONNES GET HELP
Neighborhood Mothers Answer Call To Aid
In Caring For Quintuplets

NORTH BAY, Ont, Jun ell. WP)
"A corps of wet nurses arrived at
the Dionne farmhouse today where
five tiny human mites, born in one
childbed to the amazement of the
world IS scientists, flourished in an
old-fashioned hot water incubator.
DR.. H. A. Dafoe, who attended
the extraordinary sccouchement of
Mrs. Olivia Dionne, ordered the
quintuplet girls on a natural diet
The wet nurses came from the
neighborhood. Human milk came
from Chicago Heretofore the ba-
bies had received milk mixed with
corn syrup through an eye drop
per.
DR.. Dafoe weighed the babies
when they were taken out of the
incubator for feeding and found
that the largest weighed one and
quarter pounds. The others
were only slightly smaller. The
babies weighed little more at
birth.
Although approximately on e
month premature, DR.. Dafoe believ-
all had excellent chances to live.
He found the organs and functions
of all the babies sound.
DR.. Dafoe, typical country
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
MIDDLE WEST
. MAY GET RAIN
Hope Held Out For Relief From
Intensive Hot Spell Which Has
Ruined Crops.
By FRED MYERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 1.-Hazing skies
and falling temperatures in the far
northwest today promised relief
within "a hours from five-day
heat wave such as the United
States has experienced only once
or twice before.
Distinctly lower TEMPERATURES
we're predicted in the Upper Mis-
siSsippi and Lower Missouri valleys
where thermometers yesterday reg
istered as high as Ill degrees.
Unsettled atmospheric conditions
over most of the great drought
region brought a possibility OF
showers.
The promise of imminent relief
brought little joy to farmers of the
1894 imiddlewestern "desert, -
where five rainless months climax
ed by days of blazing heat have
brought ruin to scores of thousands
of families.
An almost unhoped for wheat
price-September futures closed at
$1.0aas yesterday on the Chicago
board of trade-was only a satire
to tillers of thousands of square
miles of wheatland who expect lit
tie, if any, wheat.
George E. Farrell of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration
estimated that wheat fields are be-
ing abandoned to the extent OF
l 100000 bushels daily.
Mo v.lro NJ noy,H
Growers of corn, oats. rye, bar
ley, maize-virtually every staple OF
the world IS richest agricultural
region-were almost as direly af-
fected.
While the government moved to
buy and slaughter 100000 head of
starving cattle-approximately one
fifth of the northwest IS supply
shippers poured hogs and cattle in
to the principal markets in unend-
ing streams.
The Chicago market for hogs and
pigs virtually was demoralized by
unprecedented influx of animals
for which feed could not be found.
Hottest spot in the United States
yesterday was Lamont, Ia, with
III degrees-an all time record.
Schools were dismissed in Des
Moipes, Minneapolis and many
smaller cities as claSSrooms be-
came unbearable.
Fifty of 100000 children who took
advantage of free admittance to
the World IS fair despite the heat
were treated for heat exhaustion.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01

doctor, was smiling and enthusiast
tic although he had been up most
of the night at another farmhouse,
delivering baby. His pockets
were stuffed. with letters and tel
egrams from medical men in all
parts of the world propounding
questions concerning the quintu-
plets. Only a few cases CT quintu-
plets are recorded in medical his
tory and none survived longer than
a few hours after birth.
He was positive the babies we're
identical, not fraternal. He thought
that if they survived three weeks
it could be safely said they would
have the same chance to live as
baby born under usual circum-
stances
The Dionne quintuplets will new
er know which is the oldest.
The infants were not tagged
when they were born because DR..
Dafce who attended them was SO
busy and so amazed.
AS result no one knows which
was born first, nod the order in
which any CT the others was born.
Now they are all tagged with their
names
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
SANITY TEST
PLANNED FOR
ALAMEDA VE 7

ALAMENA, CAL, June l. U.P)-
Benjamin Franklin Bennett, un-
employed mechanic who yesterday
startled the city with a weird sui
eide scheme, today ruefully oc-
cupied a room in the Alameda
county hospital awaiting an in
sanity test.
Bennett was lured from his dyn-
amite-filled automobile by police
who for more than "a hours kept
vigil-from a distance-over the
parked car. BY promising Bennett
$4,000 and job police finally per-
suaded the mechanic to disconnect
copper wires with which he threat
ened to contact TINT and dynamite
in the automobile.
When the $4,000 was not forth
coming and no immediate job
was in sight, Bennett declared po-
lice had "gypped" him. He said he
planned to go on a hunger strike.
District Attorney Earl Warren
said the insanity charge was placed
against Bennett to determine his
exact condition.
Hes suffering from a mental
condition which certainly requires
treatment" Warren said. Whether
or not he is permanently deranged,
we are not in a position to say. We
are charging him with insanity in
order to make an examination and
give him treatment"
Bennett, war veteran, said he
planned the suicide because he was
respondent over three years of
II was driven to desperation"
Bennett said. MY wife and three
kiddies were starving"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
TAKES STAND
IN MESSAGE
To CONGRESS
Expects Debtors To Show Full
Understanding Of Americas
Attitude.
NO LEGISLATION URGED
Use Being Made OF Available
Resources Will Be Weighed In
Any Discussions.

WASHINGTON, June l. 0IP =
A warning to war debtors that the
United States would be swayed in
Judging war debt problems by the
extent to which debtors diverted
their national resources to expen-
dltures on ornaments and other
unproductive purposes was uttered
today by President Roosevelt in a
message to congress.
Mr.. Roosevelts message die not
recommend legislation.
The message went to Capitol
Hill as 13 foreign debtors pre-
pared to pay or default an ag-
gregate installment of S714,674,-
1919 due June Is.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the United
States would continue to expect
debtors to SHOW full understand
ing of the American attitude on
this debt question" He followed
Immediately with the warning re-
garding diversion of expenditures
THE people of the debtor nations
will also bear in mind" the mes
sage continued, "the fact that the
American people are certain to be
swayed by the use which debtor
countries make of their available re-
sources = whether such resources
would be applied for the purpose of
recovery as well as for the reason
able payment of the debt owed to
the citizens of the United States,
Nf = IT,
nationalistic expenditure or like
purposes"
Reference to reasonable pay
ment" Immediately raised the ques-
ton here whether Mr. Roosevelt
foresaw a general scaling down of
debts or whether he intended to
accept token payments June Is.
THE American people," he said,
would not be disposed to place
an impossible burden upon their
debtors, but are, nevertheless, in
just position to ask that sub
stantial sacrifice be made to meet
these debts"
Stresses Peoples Part
The President throughout en-
phasized that the debt actually
was owed to the people of the
United States and that any re-
duction in payments must add to
the burden of the American tax
payer
1T is for these reasons" the
message continued, that the Amer
ican people have felt that their
debtors were called upon to make
(Con;inued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
Shut-Ins To Be
GiUer FLotUers

Annual shut-in day, sponsored by
the members OF the Florists Tele-
graph Delivery association. will be
held on June TO- according to in
formation received by Mrs. c. j
Ritz, local chairman.
Florists throughout the nation on
June 10 send flowers to these shut
Inns, and Ritz Flower Shop and
Strickler Posy shop are planning
to send flowers in this city.
They ask that organizations and
others who know of shut-ins send
in their names so that they may
be sent flowers Sunday morning.
Last year rs bouquets were sent
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
NOTED FILM
ACTOR DEAD

HOLLYWOOD, June /. U.P)-
Lew Cody, one of the film colony's
best known characters, died quiet
ly in his sleep yesterday.
1t was a commonplace end for
one who so thoroughly represent
ed Hollywood.
Cody was found by a servant
who went into his bedroom to call
him for dinner. Physicians said he
had been dead eight or 10 hours.
He had suffered heart attack.
In pair of gaudy purple pa
jamas, Cody, his usual immaculate
self, his mustache waxed to its
proper tension. was stretched across
the bed. Servants said he was
Cody alive except his face was
black"
Cody was one of the liveliest of
lively Hollywood characters, bon
vivant. His house offered the best
cocktails-and he never turned
one down. He was an ardent box
ing fan. A broken down-"broke"-
actor was his first concern. Cody,
perhaps, was the most conspicuous
illustration of the "Hollywood-be-
fore-Will Hays"
Hays tanned Hollywood. He made
its actors and actresses turn con-
servative. But Hays never tanned
Cody, nor a group that Cody played
with, including Frank Mayo, Jack
Pickford and Norman Kerry.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-01
STRONG GUARD
KEEPS WATCH
ON president

WORCESTER, Mass, June l. U.P)
Because of rumors of plot to
bomb President Roosevelt's train,
an extraordinary guard was thrown
around the railroad yards today
when the train arrived from New
York.
Authorities said they had discov-
cred no foundation for the rumors.
Apparently they were baseless. Still
rs additional policemen were as
signed to guard the Presidents spe-
cial car and Is state policemen
were to accompany him to Groton
later today where they will witness
exercises for the graduating class of
Groton school, of which Mr.. Roose-
velt's youngest son is a member.
Mr.. Roosevelt was accompanied
by Mrs, Roosevelt, their son,
James, and daughter, Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Dali.