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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
HITLER WEAKENS
AS German Workers Gain
Little Lost Power

By A. F. of L. News Service
Berlin-An ordinance has been is
sued by Chancellor Hitler, re-defning
the purpose of the Labor Front,
which absorbed labor unions and en-
ployers' organizations in Germany
which is regarded as at least slight
gain for working people.
Some believe the American
workers boycott of German goods
in protest against prohibition of
German labor unions, prompted
the ordinance, but it is not Off
ciaily admitted.
The decisive features of the new
ordinance are:
First-The labor front, which seized
hundreds of millions of marks in prop
erty and cash of the labor unions, has
seized the property of the employers
association. The associations helc
considerable real estate and some un
doubtedly had considerable funds, al
though some associations might have
succeeded in disposing of their cash
beforehand.
Second-The labor front was ap
pointed the arbiter in all labor dis
putes. According to the ordinance, il
,c ou,,yocaJ ~ sacc,,Yo 10 box, ,,oono =,
find an adjustment between the justi
fed interests of all concerned in con
formity with national socialist prin
ciples."
The second feature is more impor
tant than the first. BY it the role Of
arbiter in all labor disputes goes tt
an organization in which 95 per cen
of the members are workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
Federal Workers Announce
Drive For Higher Pay
Criticize Delay Until July in Restoring Salary Cut and
Declare Justice Calls for Substantial Pay Increases.

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-An-
nouncement by President Roosevelt
that the next federal budget would
provide for restoration on July 1, 1885
of the per cent pay cut, was criticized
by organized federal workers, who de-
clared they would press for salary in
creases all along the line.
Disappointment was expressed by
spokesmen Of the federal workers be-
cause the presidents announcement
failed to assure restoration of the
pay cut on January /, when the next
six-month pay adjustment period un-
der the economy act falls due.
The president said he expected the
price level to rise sufficiently before
July / to justify full restoration OF
pay to federal workers. He indicated
he did not believe the increases would
be evident soon enough to justify re-
storing the pay cut by January /.
Living Cost Index Hit
Following the White House an
nouncement, made at a press confer
ence, E. Claude Babcock, president OF
the American Federation of Federal
Employees, affiliated with the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, criticized the
labor department formula for arriv-
ing at the living cost index, which is
the determining factor in restoration
of federal workers pay.
'sI think labor department statistic
ians will admit that it is not fair
method Babcock said. "a reliable
picture of prices today will show that
full restoration is more than war
ranted.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09

GAS these prices advance, it
amounts to further pay cut for
federal employees, who have to pay
that much more out of their pocket
for everyday expenses. Only a sub
stantial increase will help remedy that
injustice"
President Babcock said his organ
ization will work for new pay in
creases. He said workers not only
will ask for Is per cent increases in
all grades, but where this raise falls
between existing grades, the salary
would be lifted to the next highest
established level, so as not to upset
unduly the present system of classi-
fication.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
LIVING
Standards Sink Despite Bus
mess Gain

Ottawa (ILNS)-Despite the busi-
ness recovery in Canada, the standard
of living as measured by the consump-
tion of food and clothing continues to
sink, according to official indexes. For
the first eight months of this year the
average monthly index of the retail
sales of groceries and meats was three
per cent greater than during the like
period last year, while the index Of
retail prices of food stuffs was up 10.7
per cent. This indicates II. per cent
decline in the consumption of meats
and groceries (including green gro
ceries).
The index of clothing store sales for
the first eight months of this year
was only one-half of one per cent
greater than in the like period last
year, while the index of clothing prices
was up about per cent. This indi-
Gates per cent decline in the guam
tity purchase of clothing.
Other statistics indicate a or
per cent decline in the consumption of
fish from both coasts though as in the
case of other vital necessities the con-
sumers paid more money than last
year.
The indices of business which during
the summer maintained the levels
reached in the spring have more re-
Gently shown a downward trend. En-
ployment, after a moderate mid-sum-
mer expansion, is again shrinking.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
(The First of a Series)
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

Oy 0EOhIL IL. AIN AK
The busiest and most successful
chiselers in American industry are the
Big Four companies which have SO
tremendous grip on the tobacco indus
try Of the country: American To-
bacco, R. j. Reynolds, Liggett & Me-
yrs, and P. Lorillard.
In most industries, the domi-
nant group chisels it's workers
and the consuming public. The
Big Four do both, and they have
special chisel worked out for the
farmers and another for the to-
bacco dealers AS his neighbors
said of the old time miser, "they
don't let nothin' git away from
them"
Take the labor chiseling first.
The Big Four, or at least the larg-
est three of them, have made from
$1,000 to $4,000 net profits from each
worker in their employ for many
years. This is a perfectly astounding
statement, but here are the figures
for it, taken from Moody's reports
on which every financier relies.
Reynolds Record
For four years, from 1880 to 1888
both years included, the R. j. Reynolds
Tobacco Company has paid $50, 10000
of dividends each year. They reported
these figures themselves. And-agair
according to themselves-they haG
10000 employees. There is good reason
to believe that this number is consid-
erably greater than the number OF
workers actually employed; but let it
stand, and take your pencil.
You will need less than two minutes
to figure out that R. j. Reynolds, fol
four years, all of them depression
years, has made an average of $1,50(
a year profit out of each of it's work
ers. If anything like this is known il
any other large industry, it has escap
ed fairly careful search.
R. J. Reynolds, by the way, is 6
company of especial interest to all la
Dor. S. Clay Williams, vice presiden,
of that company, is now member 0.
the National Industrial Recovery
Board, formed to take the place o.
General Johnson. just why he was put
in that position, unless it was argued
that his part in the management of {
company enjoying such prosperit,
through the worlds worst depression
made him eligible, is not known.
American Tobacco
The American Tobacco Compan,
dividends have not followed so smooth
a course. Still, it did fairly we'll. II
the four years, 1880 to 1888, both in
cluded, it paid $122,551, ,977 in divi
dends; an average Of $50, 1894 /
year. Since American Tobacco claim.
$4,000 employees, the actual dividend.
which it paid itself out of their worl
comes to $1,s26 year per employe.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
WORKS BOTH WAYS

Anent the charge of some industrial
andbanker barons that the government
is interfering with business, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace said:
The United States has suffered fully
as much in the past from the private
regulation of government as it has
from the government regulation OF
husiueas."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
First Prize For Gouging Of Labor
Goes to Giant Tobacco Companies
Big Four Revealed Most Successful Chiseers in Amer
lean Industry, With Employees Farmers Retail Dealers
and Public All Victims of Industrys Greed for Profit.

But the balance available for
dividends by American Tobacco in
1881 was $46,19O,0OO. In other
words, American Tobacco cleared
a trifle over $4,000 net profit on
each of it's workers that year, but
instead of paying it all out in divi-
dends, sizable sum went to sur
plus.
Liggett & Myers
Liggett & Myers do not make
quite so good a showing-though i
would be called bowling success il
most industries outside of tobacco
Their dividends for the four years
were $77,970,241; and since they, too
claim 10000 workers, this comes to
paltry 1914 a year distributed from
the work of each employe. But Lig
gett & Myers in those same four year
collected about $10,OOO,0OO in proft
which they did not pay out in divi
dends. 1t is still in the till.
Lorillard Payment
P. Lorillard, smallest of the Bis
Four, has also system of divident
payments which is somewhat compli
Gated. In the four years 1880 to 1888
it's profits available for dividends wer,
$15,396,O00, and if it had the 600,
workers it claimed, it's profits from
them were limited to $644 apiece.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
Fined For Calling
Workers "Scabs'

New Haven, Conn. (ILNS)-Hold-
ing that the use of the word "scab" in
addressing workers is breach of the
peace, Judge Larash, of the West Ha-
ven town court, fined Leonard j
Greene $40 and costs. The state charg-
ed Greene used the word in addressing
employees Of the American Mills Com
pany.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
PARK-TO-PARK
ROAD WILL BE
ROUTED SOON
Battle of Location Will Be
Fought in Baltimore
This Week

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The
question of whether the twenty
million dollar Allegheny parkway
from the Shenandoah to the
Smoky Mountain National park
shall swing around through East
ern Tennessee via. Greenville,
and end at Gatlinburg, Tenn, or
90 directly through North Caro-
lima, will be fought out in Baltl-
more this week.
Since the funds for what is to
be the nations most picturesque
driveway, and one of the most
enchanting in the world, are pro-
vided by the public works admin
istration, the question has shifted
to that body.
The tenth region of the public
works administration comprises
Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee,
West Virginia, the Carolinas,
Florida and Alabama. The re-
gional director is George l.. Rad
cliffef, prominent Baltimore at
torney and banker. He has named
William Strouse, one of his aids,
to hear contending sides, and
make a report to him.
Already George Stephens OF
Asheville, and Q. Gilkey of Mar
ion, have been in Washington all
week comforting with Representa-
tive Weaver of Asheville, with a
view Of presenting the North
Carolina side.
The North Carolina route would
pass through Ashe county, and
thence via. Grandfather's Noun
tain, Linville Falls and Mt,
Mitchell, following tracery at
an elevation of 5000 to $500
feet, and by the base of Mount
Mitchell which towers GIL feet
above sea level, and which is the
highest peak east of the Missis'
sippi river.
From Mt. Mitchell the route
would proceed along the Crag;
gies, pass between Asheville and
Hendersonville, by Pisgah ano
over the Balsam range to Scoco
Continued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
NRA STUDYING
PRICE FIXING
That and Labor Protection
Taken up Before Code
Hearings Are Begun
By C. c. NICOLET
;taJ Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. CUP).
The recovery administration IS
making a determined. though
carefully unballyhooed effort to
clear up two of its greatest prob
lens before all codes are reopen
ed for revision at public hearings
late in February.
The two problems are:
l. Price fixing.
2. Labor protection.
In addition, rumors are circu-
lating, in gathering places fire.
ouented by NRA employees, of I'M
pending scandals and shakeups
within the recovery adminlstra-
ton. Friction between influen-
tial NRA officials, drawn from
industry and NRA employees with
definite left-wing inclinations is
approaching "a point where pubic
accusations of unfairress in in
dustrial administration are almost
due.
NRA has faded from the Wash
ington spotlight since gold and
congress became centers OF inter-
est. but with the code revision
hearings this month the recovery
administration will come into It's
own again. The staff is trying
to get the mud off the uniforms
before the inspection starts.
The latest public manifestation
of this policy was an ambiguous
and complicated statement on
price fixing issued by NRA last
night, the highlight of which was
a cautious suggestion that some
machinery was needed for con-
sidering complaints against prof.
iteering. A thorough study OF
price regulation was proposed
with the admission that INSULT
Gent data is at hand to Justify
formulation of a general policy,
though price fixing has been the
subject of constant and at times
debate within the administration
for months.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05

Avalanches And
Storms Cause 20
Deaths In Italy
Mountain Villages Crushed
by Slides; Troops Are
Called Out

ROME, Feb. 5.-UP).-Rag-
ing snowstorms in some places
and torrential rains in others
brought avalanches. landslides AMI
disastrous floods to mountains in
the region along the Adriatic.
Twenty are known dead and So
were injured.
Ten persons were killed and 40
injured in huge avalanche which
started Saturday afternoon. and
buried the hamlet of Villadi-Mez-
re, near Bolognola, in Macerata
province. Many houses We're
crushed.
Eight were known to have been
killed when another avalanche
crashed down over the hamlet of
Monte Ribbiano, in Ascola prov
ince. The damage was heavy. Fiji
teen were injured there.
The authorities ordered troops
to the scene of the crushed ham
lets. The army details were Joined
bv Fascist militiamen. students,
and citizens. all hurrying toward
the towns on skis, but the going
was slow.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
Ring And Mat
Tourney Set For
Wednesday Eve
Will Be Benefit for the
City Junior High School
Class Funds

4 boxing and wrestling tourna-
snt will be held in the city
!mnaSlum on Wednesday night
~ Inc benefit of the junior
me bouts are we'll matched and
boys taking part are in good
touuIuOn. Most of them have
[I! working Out under the di-
ss-On Of Bill Keeling, we'll
FnS SV local boxer.
AOSt Of the participants have
~; ~ IN the ring before and a
Sa-cIasS fight entertainment is
t tT<a'ed. Hudie Quarles will meet
p pUOq m the semi-final match.
Su@''eS IS a brother of the south
h. h. conference champion, and
I'M sJyu IS a brother of a navy
IT, $n'ec who won every champion
,sa, ilgnt ne entered in four
~ nay Gilmer and Don Parker
+ - !, oe matched in the main bout
!, 'Ie evening. Parker is known
+ al, MS speed and has a good bit
s,e e@perlence. Gilmer, who came
go rom Greenville Is months
H. t. Won the C.M.T.C. champion
On T IN the 135-pound class in
90 n number of other bouts have
IN planned and in all there
= 0e eight matches on the card.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
ANTI-JEWISH
MOVE IN PARIS
Politician Starts Paper and
Praises Prescription
Drive by Hitler

PARIS, Feb. 5. (UP).-An anti,
semitic movement was Launched
in France Sunday with the publ,
cation of a newspaper called
L'antijuif (the Anti-Jew), edited
by Francois Launay, anti-Jewlsh
candidate for parliament in the
last elections.
The new publication announc-
ed that it does not attack the
Jews for religious reasons, but
because they are assuming con-
troll of French industry, the press.
literature and the liberal profess
sions. 1t pointed out that the
late Alexander Sacha Stavisky,
director of the defunct Credit
Municipal Bayonne which he loot
ed, was Jew.
"Hitler's first act after assum-
ing power was to prescribe the
Jews from Germany" L'Antijuif
commented. eff only for that,
the German people owe him
eternal recognition" -4L 80.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
Death Calls Mrs.
Flora E. Lewis
At Sanitariunl
Wisconsin Woman Con.
nected With Establish
ment for Six Years

Mrs. Flora E. Lewis died at her
home at the Mountain Sanitarium
on Sunday afternoon. For the
past six years Mrs. Lewis had
been connected with the Noun
tain Sanitarium.
Funeral services were held in
the chapel at the Sanitarium this
afternoon at 8 o'clock and the
body will be taken to Albany,
Wis, for burial.
Mrs. Lewis was formerly Miss
Flora Templeton. She was born
at Sturgeon Bay. Wis, in 1890.
She married Jesse E. Lewis of
Albany, Wis, in 1913. Mr.. Lewis
died in 1927. w,4' @
She is survived by son, Har-
land Clifford Lewis, now in school
at Madison, Tenn. ellll'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
FEAR CONFLICT BY
PRINCE AND CHANCELLOR

INNSBRUCK, Austria. Feb. Is.
(UP).-Open conflict between
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss
and Prince Ernst Won Starhem-
berg, leader of the Semi-Fascist
Heimwehr (home guard) was
feared today as a result of Won
Starhemberg's criticizing the Dol
lfuss regime.
chancellor Dollfuss is the
right man," Won Starhembcrg
said, "but his measures are sabo-
tagged by his encourage"
He declared that Emmerich
Czermak, former minister Of edu-
cation and one of Dollfuss' clos
est advisers, must go or che
Heimwehr will be unable longer
to support the government"
Czermak recently published a
book recommending a workable
law for Jews in Austria.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
APPEAL MADE
T0LEACUE BY
VIENNA TODAY
Absorption by Germany Is
Feared; New German
Law Provides for This
STARHEMBERG HITS
DOLLFUSS FOLLOWING

VIENNA, Feb. 5.-(UP).-The
cabinet today decided to unani-
mously appeal to the League Of
Nations for assistance in the dis
pute between Austria and Ger
many and prevent Nazi absorp-
ton of Austria. 1t is first plan
ned to ask England, France and
Italy to protest to Germany.
GENEVA, Feb. 5.-(UP).-An
appeal by Austria for intercession
by the League of Nations in the
Austro- German dispute over Nazi
activities with Germany's alleged
aid will be laid before the league
today, it was reported in well-in-
formed quarters here last night.
Prior to the projected council
session, it was generally believed
that France, Great Britain and
Italy would do their combined ut
most to reach a private diplomatic
settlement. These powers have
indicated recently that they would
be prepaid to stand back of Aus
tria in demanding that alleged
German Nazi activities seeking to
undermine the regime of Chanccl-
lor Engelbert Dollfuss in Vienna
be halted Immediately.
Informal representations already
have been made in Berlin on
Austria's behalf, in an effort Of
the former allied powers to pre-
vent Germany's absorbing Aus
tria into her new greater Nazi
state" .......
Chancellor Adolf Hitler recent
ly declared that Germany mad no
designs on Austria at present, but
intimated that he considered Aus
tria eventually should join Ger
many as a means of strengthen
ing the Germanic race as arbiter
of peace on the continent.
In fact, in the new German
law abolishing the 16 historic
Teutonic states within the Ger
man federation, welded by Bis
marck, Is provinces are substi-
tuted-there is the added UNDER
stood provision that Austria
eventually is to become the "l4th
German province.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
LINDRERGH OBSERVES
HIS BIND BIRTHDAY

ENGLEWOOD, N. j.. Feb. 5.
CUP). - Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh observed his 32nd birthday
anniversary quietly with Mrs.
Lindbergh. his son John and his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Dwight w.
Morrow, at the latter's home here
Sunday. g,
The aviator received several
congratulatory messages. There
was no birthday party.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
LONDONERS PROFIT
Is MILLIONS In GOLD

LONDON, Feb. 5.-(UP),:-
President Roosevelt's gold policy
has netted approximately $780,
900, 900 in profits in the last three
days to London holders of god
shares. it was estimated today. -,
Herbert Latilla. chairman OF
three gold mining companies. and
his associates were said to have
made a profit of about SIS, OOO,-
900.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
NEGROES ELECTRoCUTED

NASHVILLE, Feb. 5-IUPJ---
Two negroes were electrocuted at
the state penitentiary today: Both
confessed their crimes just before
diving. Joe Emory, 80, of Knox
Vile was allowed a fve-minute
long distance telephone converse
ton with his mother before cleo,
trocution. Emory was convicted
of killing his wife. He died while
negro Legionnaires were appeal
ing to Governor McAlister for a
ten-day" stay. James Swami. 20,
the other negro, was convicted Of
killing a white woman. l.--I
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
DEAD DRIVER AND
TAXI RECOVERED

NEW YORK, Feb. supp.
New York's taxi strike took a
grim turn Sunday when marine
police dragged taxicab from the
East river with the dead driver at
the wheel.
Police said there was no evil
dence directly connecting the
death of Owen Quinn, the driver:
with the strike of thousands OF
cabmen who had warned all drlv-
ers off the street, damaging hum
dreds of independent cabs and
beating at least one driver over
the weekend.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
In Group IN
|C|UNTY AIDS
RELIEF work
|ooOsors $50 Home Gar
Hans. Thousands Of Cans
Of Food Put up
hum DETECTIVES ARE
EFARING REALIZATION

,,r,r,orv of the work accom-
/, - nv the $40 Year Farm
RI,snS" committee N in Henderson
ian INST ;"sr completed, shows that
post s1 oS SnE2e,1I not only for this
peen V SHt definite progress has
B Bsar made Dpi toward the final goal
P {ewar5 i'- which this committee is
korking. ~ 1o23 three
. /, ~ ;.., iTs ~ we're outlined in the
PeO OISgittSs plans fer the twelve 'Se
fan,5s They were: Relief work
H. ,OI'r rssbabiTtation Of the poor
ts nu the raising Of foodstutfs
t rrOaS" to last throughout the
<Esr. the % ORGANIZATION aI1iz of at least
q, c octiye community clubs m
rec .o|ntv and. organization OF
Grange chapter 4ho
Nlr,ost with the start OF the
a''''G ySs SO Year committee
,nd Itself absorbed with the
scrt Of and Incorporated into the
gn IN ~, DE- organization for car
mo opt relief and rehabilitation
,rS along with the county COM
f;sSiorers and welfare officer and
H. Red Gross. Reports of the
kork done BY its members through
lis set-up show a prodigious ac-
mpliShment.
ljnder its first objective, G. d.
$site chairman. assisted by E. I.
Prisbee one of the vocational ag-
riculture teachers in the county,
ma other members of the $40
Year Farm Plan committee. held
20 group meetings in different
parts of the county. At these
meetings all persons who were on
relief work were called together,
! survey made of the number In
zach family. aScertaining whether
and was available for raising the
eGuired amount of foodstuffs;
,lans were worked out to secure
round. tools. seeds. fertilizers, as
veil as for the necessary blowing
0 be done. Completing this sur
ey. materials and tools were Sc
ured. and a total of $50 indi-
idual gardens. in every section
{ the county were laid out, plant
lgs made to fit the needs of eacn
amily with fOllOw-up supervision
S to cultivation and spraying.
.fter the commissioners had en-
lOyed supervisors to carry out
he work in gardening, ten meez-
lgS were held with these men, IN
their activities.
The county commissioners de-
Oted about 90 acres near town
0 the community gardens, and
SSiStance was given in superviS-
lg these. Through this supervi-
ion, with labor furnished by re-
ef funds on these gardens, the
Ounty authorities grew between
90 and 1000 bushels of Irish
otatOeS. a good supply of sweet
OtatOes. cabbage and corn, to be
tilted as food for needy persons
\ the different communities dur
~ the winter. Between 500 and
10 cans of tomatoes grown in
nese community gardens were
AIMED, under the supervision of
tContinued on page four)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-05
BALKANS PACT OF
AMITY Is INITIALED

BELGRADE. Jugoslavia. Feb.
5-(UP).-The foreign ministers
of Roumania,, Greece. Jugoslavia
and Turkey last night initiated the
new Balkan pact of amity and CO.
operation. ------