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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14

ment Of it's irnperious and arbitrary
character" he said. "But manage
ment knows some things now that it
didn't appear to know a week ago. It
knows, for one thing, that mills do
not run without workers, and it knows
that the United Textile Workers of
America are an organized body OF
men and women who have discipline,
who have definite aims and who are
determined to achieve those aims.
"The president has acted out of a
spirit of helpfulness and because of
his genuine concern for the welfare
of the workers. We know that. We
are following program which we
believe best calculated to aid the
president in his heroic efforts to bring
about real recovery, and / think the
president will fully appreciate that
fact.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14
HOSIERY UNION
REVIEWS CONTRACT

Philadelphia, Pa.-Officials of the
American Federation of Hosiery
Workers announced that the fedora
tion had agreed to renew the existing
national contract with members of
the Fashioned Hosiery Manufac-
turers of America, Inc, for another
year beginning September l.
The new agreement calls for pay
ment of the same wage rates as dur
ing the last year by this group of
union employers, but the contract has
a clause in it which gives the workers
the right to petition for advances in
the event of important changes in the
cost of living. Union headquarters
claim more manufacturers are party
to the contract than last year, and
that about 10000 workers are affected
The watchword of organized labo,
should be, "Seek the union label when
buying anything large or small"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14

who are idle or dependent upon public
support. The American Federation OF
Labor will appeal to the federal gov
ernment to accept this plan in order OF
adequately meet the relief needs OF
the coming winter"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14

for substantial reduction in the
number Of hours worked per day and
the number of days worked per week
1t is unthinkable that the nation
would choose to feed, clothe and care
for approximately 100000 idle
workers and their dependents, who,
conservatively estimated, would num-
Der 40,O0O,0OO people.
"Such a condition would constitute
menace to the existing social order
and would be fraught with most
threatening consequences. Why, then
quibble about the remedy which should
be applied?
Labor -Displacing Machinery Makes
3O-Hour Week Necessary
"Is it not clear that as result of
machine displacement and an increase
in Individual and industrial efficiency
the hours of labor must be reduced sc
that the amount of work available
may be equitably distributed and those
who are able and willing to work
accorded an opportunity to do SO?
The maximum work week established
in practically all the industrial codes
of fair practice is 40 hours. Only in
limited number of industries is the
work week fixed at figure below 40
Labor opposed in every instance the
establishment of the long work week
in the industrial codes of fair prac-
tice.
s'The attitude of labor has been fully
vindicated. The army of working peo-
pie in the United States cannot be en-
ployed upon 40-hour work week ba
sis. The hours must be less and the
codes must be reduced accordingly il
unemployment is to be overcome.
Higher Wages
"The nation must make it's choice il
this economic matter. 1t is either
mounting unemployment with all it!
tragic consequences or shorter hours
and higher wages for all. It is thu
opinion of the representatives of la
Dor and many outstanding economist
as we'll as many enlightened and pro
/ gressive employers that industry ant
the nation must accept and apply tn
six-hour day and the five-day weel
as real remedy for unemployment.
Employers Block Industrial Activit.
Mr.. Green also stressed the fac
that by refusing to extend the opera
tion of their plants those who own ant
control industry bar the unemployed
from jobs, and thus continue the bust
ness depression with it's disastrou
results for all the people.
Associated with the opposition O.
employers Of labor to the exercise O.
the right by their employees to organ
ize into bona fide trade unions," h
said, is a manifest state of min,
which restrains them from venturinl
into the fields Of industrial enterpris
and from stimulating and encouraging
industrial activity. They complain
about so-called repressive Legislation
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14
30-Hour Week Necessary to Provide
Work for Jobless, Green Declares

which they allege interferes with the
sale of legitimate securities and the
development of adequate credit. They
seem to lack confidence and faith in
the future and in the orderly processes
of economic determination.
Labor cannot accept this attitude
of employers as being well founded.
1t is based upon false concept and is
constructed as a refusal on the part of
those employers who assume such a
position to recognize the passing of
the old order and the coming of the
new.
Private Industry Must Serve
the People
"The change which has taken place
should be accepted by the business and
employing interests of the nation as
definite, fixed and as a part of the
new order. Business policies should be
adjusted so that they will conform
to the requirements of the existing
situation and the nations new econom-
ic policy.
at is the opinion of labor that un-
less those who own and control pri-
vate enterprise adjust themselves to
and accept the facts incident to the
change which has taken place, the peo-
pie through their own government
will find way by which they can re-
quire private industry to serve tbs
needs of all the people"
Direct Relief for JObless
AS essential measures for the re-
lief of the jobless army, Mr.. Greer
recommended the restoration of the
civil works projects, abandoned by
the government months ago, and di-
dect relief payments to the destitute
He said:
''The American Federation of Labor
urges and recommends that the fed
eral government include as part Of
| it's huge relief program an accelera
ton of public works activities, the
restoration of the CWA program ant
the mobilization of public support fol
the modernization, renovizing ant
building program provided for in th'
federal housing administration bette
housing program.
| Running parallel with this activit.
there should be plan of direct relic
payments adequate and sufficient t,
supply the elemental needs of thos
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14
of President Says Codes Must Be Revised on Short
Week Basis-Urges Restoration of Civil Works
Projects and Demands Direct Government Relief Pay
ments to Voorhees,

BY A. F. of L. Weekly News Service.
The imperative necessity of making
the 30-hour week compulsory for all
industry by NRA codes of fair prac-
tice, and the equally imperative neces-
sity for direct relief payments by the
government to 100000 unemployed
and their 4O,OOO,O0O dependents, were
among the high points in the Labor
Day address delivered by William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, at Wichita
Kans., under the auspices of the Wich-
ita Trades and Labor Assembly and
the American Legion.
Mr.. Green said, in part:
"The primary purpose of the ma
tional recovery act was to create en-
ployment opportunities and restore
buying power among the masses OF
the people" by means of industrial
codes providing for reduction in the
number of hours worked per day and
the number of days worked per week
and for increase in wages" Contend
ing that the fair practice codes, most
of which provide the 40-hour week
have not achieved these results, Mr.
Green said:
100000 Industrial Workers
Are Idle
"While substantial progress has
been made in reducing unemployment
there remains much to be accomplish
ed before the primary purpose Of the
national recovery act is fully real.
lied. Labor emphasized this fact dur.
ing all the code making experiences Of
the past year, for work opportunities
can only be created for the army
of unemployed by reducing the mum
ber of hours worked per day and ths
number of days worked per week ant
through an increase in the buying
power of the masses of the people
The amount of work available must b,
adequately distributed if idle worker
are to be employed and the nation!
| buying market enlarged.
In 1888 when the change in tn,
administration Of the government
took place, approximately 100000
were unemployed. Since that tim
the number of the workers has beel
reduced to 1O,772,O0O. Out of thi
10,772,0 900 who are without industria
employment 2,131, 900 have been em
ployed on emergency governmen
work, 8,641,000 are absolutely idle
without employment of any kind what
soever.
Work or Government Support for
100000
This, of course, serves to empha
size the task which lies ahead. Th
nation must choose between the main
tenance of this large army Of unem
ployed as a part of our government
relief program and further revision
of the labor sections of the indus
trial codes Of fair practice providin,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14
Peace Officers Criticized

I'VE are deeply concerned about
violence in the strike. There has been
an appalling breakdown on the part of
those who should be peace officers.
They have either lost their heads or
they have gone completely over to the
service of mill management, like mer-
cenaries."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14

until October /, when an additional
2R per cent will be restored. This 7h
per cent total restoration is to con-
tinue until January 1, 1886, when
another 21a per cent is to be added
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-09-14
Chicago Traction Workers
Ready for General Strike

Chicago (ILNS)-Representatives
of $4,000 street car operators have
empowered officers of their union to
order a sympathetic strike with bus
drivers of the Chicago Motor Coach
Co. Speakers said 5000 elevated work
would follow suit.
At the same time the street car
men began accumulation of fund to
prosecute the strike, approving an
Immediate so cent assessment on
each member.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
Finding Romance

The word romance" is a strange one. It usually conjures up visions of men who live lives of danger and action = soldiers, cowboys, explorers, sailors, and so on; too often we forget that the greatest romance of all is sometimes to be found in life which, to all outward seeming, is prosalc and uneventful. One is reminded of this by news of the recent death of Dr William , Campbell Posey, noted Pennsylvania opthalmologist.
 Dr Posey spent his life combating dis eases of the eye; and short time before his death he wrote short article for "The Sight-Saving Review" telling of the TO- nance he had found in the long fight to keep people from losing their eyesight. He told of the German physician, 150 years ago, who first suspected that infection Tn child's eyes at birth could be the cause Of blindness, and who vainly tried to persuade his colleagues of the truth of his theory. He had no success.
 Physicians kept on explaining to har- Rssed parents that their children had lost their sight because of peculiar atmos- pheric conditions, cold drafts, unbalanced conditions in the alimentary canal, and the like = and newborn children kept on be- ing stricken with blindness. Then Dr Posey went on to carry the story down through the years. He told how the old German doctor was vindicated, some 80 years later, when another German doc tor showed the world how to save the sight of thousands of infants annually by dropping per cent solution of silver nitrate into the eyes of newborn babies.
 He told how other specialists devised equipment to make happier and easier the lives of people born with weak or defective ayes; how special methods of care and training were drawn up to fit those who did lose their sight for useful, normal existence; how hospitals and clinics were founded to prevent blindness; how means were found of preventing many injuries to the eyes; how vast mass of knowledge of diseases of the eye was compiled, to make the task of saving eyesight progress sively easier
 And in all of this Dr Posey found an absorbingly romantic story as the rest of us can do, also, if we get rid of our preconceived notions about what romance really is. In the age-old struggle to make the hard lot of human being a little brighter and happier there is romance enough to satisfy the most ardent. All we need is someone like Dr Posey to make us see it..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
MT. Alcorn And J. Henry

The nomination of States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn for governor by the republicans, with the consent and approval of J. Henry Roraback, provides most interesting study to students of political strategy in the State of Connecticut. We can almost reason out the nomination, so far as the chairman is concerned. MT Roraback's position is at stake this year, and should the republicans be defeated, the ordinary and proper thing for the we'll known leader to do would be to resign. Twice Governor Cross has carried the state and MT Roraback has been the republican chairman all of those years. We feel that the Lieutenant Governor, Roy c. Wilcox, was the real choice of the chairman and his followers. He would have preferred the Meriden man, we think.
 But don't you see the desperate situa- ton of the renowned republican leader. He wants to get the small towns back into the. republican column. No one, he thought, could do it better than MT Alcorn. If the people of these towns want a good republican law enforcer, and one who will compare with Governor Cross III carrying out their ideas, why not pick MT Alcorn and run him for the governorshlp! True, MT Alcorn has been distasteful to the republican machine for some time, but if he can win, why not nominate him, said J. Henry t ohimself? Anyway, It is a chance he must take to bring the party back where it was and continue him as the National committeeman and State chairman.
 < MT Roraback is clever politician and he looks ahead. Defeat this year would force his retirement, we believe, from the leadership. He wouldn't dare to continue with such record of losses as he has suffered during the past few years, even after his recent reelection. Governor Crossrs excellent record and his popular ity with the good thinking people of the state, in city and town, we feel, will again bring him victory next November. MT Alcorn has been an excellent States At torney, but we doubt if the people of the State are willing at this time at least, to have it's State government headed by any one other than MT Cross.
 Incidentally, may we say that the nom nation of MT Alcorn should mean his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
A Book a Day
Max Miller Writes
 Another Good Book
By BRUCE CAPTION

Max Miller has told us about his job as waterfront reporter, ana about his childhood in a northwest coast lumber town; now, in The Second House from the Corner. he tells of his experiences as a suburban householder.
 Once again he makes a book out of the materials that most of us never think twice about-the little incidents of everyday life that are utterly insignificant until you look at them in just the right way when they suddenly become mysterious signs and portents which somehow cast light on the whole riddle of human existence.
 He builds house. chats amiably with his neighbors, looks dispas- sionately at the obnoxious human beings who pop to the surface at a bathing beach, helps rescue cab in cruiser that has gone adrift, day dreams on the empty sands, lends money to an old college chum, undergoes an operation at d hospital, wonders if his wife is go- ing to present him with son an.l heir; does, in short, the inconse- quential things that all the rest of us do, and contrives to reveal them, in carefully written prose, as events of significance.
 Just what the trick of it is know not. It is matter of the eye and the hand. probably; he sees things more directly than the rest of us, and, knows how to put his findings down on paper mora skillfully.
 Whatever 1t may be, he has written another noteworthy book - detached, ironic, unconditional ans eminently readable. Published by Dutton, the book Is priced at $2.5O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15

sedan. Despite feline rumors to the contrary she is a perfectly natural blonde, using no doctor ing on her hair whatsoever.
 AGITATED
 High command of the Army and Navy is greatly agitated over the private report that Clark Howell Atlanta publisher chairman of the Presidents Avi- ation Investigating Commission, has become convinced that an independent. unified military air corps is preferable to the exist ing system of separate units. Howell is said to have reached his conclusion as a result of aeronautics, from which he has B. Parks recent renominatiOn victory established unique Ar kansas primary record. It marked the fourth consecutive time he has defeated the same man, Wade Kitchen, a World war veteran who claims Parks is not the veterans friend. Parks now becomes chairman of the House subcommittee on War De- partment appropriations When Senator Bill Borah re- turns to the Capital this fall he will resume his daily horseback ride. Ordered by his doctors last year to abandon this life long exercise, the Idahoan feels sufficiently recovered to resume his bridle-path jaunts.
 MYSTERY MAN"
 Sir Basil Zarahoff, inter- national arms trafficker, may be mystery man. in Europe, but to Stephen Raushenbush, pipe smoking chief investigator of the senate munitions probers, he is ''just garrulous old letter writ err. The mass of sensational correspondence uncovered by Raushenbush is a never-ending source of amazement to the members of the committee. They are surprised that in view of the threat of a congressional in- quiry the arms and munitions makers did not "bathe" their files in advance The EZRA is one of the lowest paid governmental bodies. Few ? of it's employees receive over $4,000; $2,40O year is high salary. .. Indiana's publicity-minded Congresswoman Virginia Jenckes misses no bets to play up to the home folks. She buys all her wearing apparel in Terre Hautc, her home town, and sees to 1t that merchants and voters know about 1t.
 BRANCH BANKING
 Burly Representative Henry B. Steaga1l, Alabama's chairman of the House Banking commit tee, has notified colleagues that next session he plans to offer legislation curbing branch bank ing, and requiring all banks to become members of the Federal Reserve System Big Jim Farley and his postal aides ought to get together and de- eide just who is determining policy in the department. When Jim took office he announced
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
So They Say

The strikes are the sign of the awakening of the working class. Labor has arisen from inertia. They are the rumblings of the storm to come. Emma Goldman, anarchist.
 Banks are altogether too liquid. If they can find sound loans, they should make them. We can't have recovery unless loans made. Chairman Leo T. Crowley of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
 star or executive Is worth as much as the public can be led to think he is worth by paying to see his offerings. -Sol Rosenblatt MIRA division administrator of the film code.
 The world now is not mentally attuned to the theater.
 Max Reinhardt, famous German producer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
THE ALCORN LEAD" (New Britain Heraldl

The lead of pledged delegates secured by States Attorney Alcorn as d result of the primaries is a paper lead only. It is so small-- less than two score-taht 1t repre- sents only five per cent of the GOA delegates to the party's state con vention. The five per cent repre- sent only the pledged delegates.
 Y The battle for the gubernatorial nomination between Alcorn and nomination between Alcorn and Lieut.. Gov. Roy c. Wilcox will nar- row down to 9 spirited fight, all signs pointing to the likelihood that the Meriden man will remain nthe fight to the finish. He has 2 good chance despite the slight lead of Alcorn in pledged delegates, these coming from Hartford.
 As an aid to Governor Cross. the lieutenant governor has gained the confidence of evirtually all the political fans in the state.
 Wilcox looked like a sure winner of the nomination until Alcorn stepped into the ring. The incident possibly can lead to a little friction: and at least Wilcox should be en- couraged to remain on the firing line regardless of the outlook of line regardless of the outlook at momentary intervals.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15
ChuckleCorner
FILLING THE BILL An., un Un,.r

FILLING THE BILL
 By Jo Kerr
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 I've first class license for fire man and engineer, obtained from my cousin who as<retired. l can fire anything or anybody. Am good chauffeur and air pilot, going or coming. Can officiate in edify- ing style at serious occasions or glad. And can go days without sleep, having the happy faculty or snoozing while at work.
 Can do things on a violin or a piano-standing up or lying down. Can play the bones in a manner that would put to shame any skei- eton that ever rattled in your clos ct.
 Am a man of high character, having been born on the top floor of 30-story building.
 However, I've still lot to learn. being but twenty years old, And married only twice.
 Speak quickly if you want me. I'm straining at the leash.
 Yours hopefully. JO KERR. P. S. Front vieM in full dress or pajamas, $500. Side or rear, $2.50. In action, $9.75.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15

that he welcomed criticism from postal employees. Recently, however, when William F. Hall. a substitute clerk of z years service in St Louis post office, wrote a letter to a local news paper criticising postal adminis- tration, w. Rufus Jackson, act ing St Louis postmaster, prompt ly ordered him suspended Miss c. l.. Torrey, slender brown eyed scientist on the staff of the Federal Bureau of Standards, has handled more radium than was ever handled by the late Madame Curie. who discovered the element. In the 12 years Miss Torrey has been with the gov ernment she has inspected close to 80 grams of the precious sub- stance. Throughout her life time Madame Curie never ham dled over 2 or three grams.
 CONSTITUTION DAY
 The recent1y-organized Na- tional Constitution Day Commit tee, which plans to stage ''con- vention" in Philadelphia Septem- Der IT, is making a desperate, and so far unsuccessful, attempt to get a prominent democrat on its program. To date it's only speakers are republicans and anti administrationites, chief among them, Philadelphia's Tory Republican Representative James B. Beck, Col Robert R. Me- Cormick. publisher of the Chi cago Tribune, and National Com mander Edward A. Hayes, of the American Legion a bitter critic of the president .. John Car ter. AAA research expert, more widely known as Jay Franklin, an anonymous author of "The New Dealers" has a new char acterization for his boss, Secre- tary Wallace "Henry Wallace" says Carter. "comes closer to being an American Confucius than any man of our time, and Confucius-be 1t re- membered--laid the ethical and pragmatic foundations for the most stable agarian economy the world has ever known"
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