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The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29
RumOrs And Reality Gathered Fr0n. This Sporting World
 By JOHN A. CLUNEY
The Grist or Athletic Contest
Thanksgiving Leftovers

Coach Bill SchoheId, as usual, plenty modest taking the rap for some of the Crosby losses and score less ties by saying that he believed he brought the boys along too fast Breaks of the game spoiled two Crosby wins while New Britan'S class is completely conceded by the Crosby mentor However the boys were pSyco- logically right for the Wby game" element which for their sakes that they at least of their ob jectve games" was the way Schoeld commented on the Crosby victory As for Wlbys Paul Devino, the Crosby coach had nothing but the highest praise.
 Eddie Bradley's field generalship slick from the
 first whistle his selection of plays seemed to get com Plete cooperation from the line and backs throughout the contest Next season, young Bradley ought to be among the states brainest quarterbacks and best of al praise will not effect his skull york; off the field.
 Nutmeg" Pete, that mysterious Wiby character, left after the first ha disappointed was he with the Wby play and the lack of d exhibited m by too much for the 'b1ue bes he calls the Blue and White gridders The Old Grad, who, like myself, pre- dcted scoreless tie in the mud, was the hunt for Pete right after the second Crosby touchdown but Pete was on the way home thinking about the millions of words he wasted in Wnbys behalf.
 And one couldn't blame Pete either for the lstless play of the team msnamed Wildcats heart-rend- ing, to Wby supporters They about as wild" as
 chocolate nut sundae, and like Max Baer before he met Joe Louis were licked before they could get started
 Naugatuck also wound up disastrous season, talk ing 13-0 licking their own field from Ansonia but that or less expected but they went down fight ing hey always dol, which is why the Wilby players might better have been at that game instead of at Ham, lton park, trying to initiate football team that nurtured into state of mental ethargy the back of "cream-puff" schedule ala N. U.
 Ike Kern's 100 yard punt for what the radio de- Scriber said worlds record, had all the boys in father today talking about the Colgate-Brown game yesterday.
 Bill Tato and Jack White, two of the states best duckpin bowerS will have real competition from Tony 1annarone and Bill Dente Sunday afternoon at Genot alleys, the match to be aired over WATR from 2:3O o'clock on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29

brilliant fullback play on Gopher teams.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29

And couldn't blame Pete, either, for the istless play of the team misnamed Wildcats heart-rend- ing to Wiby supporters They about wild" chocolate nut sllndae and like Max Baer before he met Joe Louis licked before they could get started
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29

High singie-A. Roden, i2e. Tigh three Osborn. 335.
 I1igh team-Dc Dcpghnuts, 420. High totai-Dolg lghnuts, zlso.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29

Ike Kerns 100 yard punt for what the radio de- scriber said worlds record, had all the boys in father today talking about the Colgate-Brow game yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-29

Utah IA, Utah State IA.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
Pay in Tobacco Stemmeries So Low
Workers Are Forced on Relief Rolls
Traimen Win
Wage Increase

Los Angeles (ILNS)-Danger of a
strike of 5000 far western railroad
trainmen vanished with settlement
of wage dispute between employees
and officials of the Pacific Electric
Interurban Railway, providing wage
increases ranging from to % cents
an hour.
Union trainmen representing all
railroads operating in Los Angeles
had voted authority for a sympathy
strike should employees of the Pacific
Electric Interurban System walk out.
D. A. Mackenzie, of Cleveland, inter
national vice president of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, was given
authority to call out trainmen of the
Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, and
Santa Fe lines at any time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
Canada Woolworth Chain
Cut Pay Despite Big Profit
Royal Commission Investigating Business Practices Told
Sales Fell Off and Orders Came from New York Head
quarters to Smash Women's Wages, Though Net Prof
it's Ran to 20 Per Cent.

submitted a 45,000-word brief, de-
Tending chain store practices. He
contended the chain stores had bene-
fitted consumers by reducing prices,
and providing fresher, newer and
higher quality goods. An average
family of four persons could now buy
groceries and meats for $12 week
in the chain stores of Canada.
'sIf it's costs $12 week to buy
meat and groceries, how do the
chains expect their employees to
live when the average wage is
less than $12?" Sam Factor,
M. p, asked.
MANY of the employees of the
chains in the lower wage scales are
unmarried" Johnston replied. 'sThe
chains hope to be able to increase
wages"
s'In the most prosperous times Can
ada ever knew, your wages were abso-
lutely rotten" Factor said.
Johnston contended that chain store
wages were higher than in other
branches of merchandising.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
BILL IS DRAFTED
TO END PAY CUTS
in u. S. SERVICE
Measure Proposed by Labor
Conference Would Restore
All Wages, Salaries and
Allowances by January l.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-The
drafting committee of the American
Federation of Labor Wage Restora-
ton Conference has drafted propos-
ed bill restoring all wages, salaries
and allowances as of January /, 1885.
Section l of the bill restores wages
and salaries as of January 1.
Section 2 restores all travelling and
!, other allowances.
Section restores the classification
acts for departmental employees to
effectiveness.
Section a removes all existing linn
itations on promotions.
The drafting committee consists of
Edward J. Gainor, president, and
NJ. t. Finnan, secretary, National
Association of Letter Carriers; Leo
E. George, president, National Fed
GRAFTON of Post Office Clerks; S. P.
Meadows, legislative representative,
L VI LIZ, IN. alias,
District No. "A, International Asso-
citation of Machinists; Frank Cole
man, secretary, Washington Central
Labor Union; William M. Collins,
president, Railway Mail Association;
E. c. Babcock, president, American
Federation of Government Employees,
and James A. Farquharson, legisla-
tive representative, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
w. c. flushing, legislative repre-
sentative of the American Federation
Of Labor, and Gilbert E. Hyatt, legis-
lative representative of the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks,
are ex offcio members, as chairman
and secretary, respectively, of the A.
F. Of L. Wage Restoration Confer
ence.
| A meeting of the full conference
will be held in the near future to make
plans as to the campaign.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
Decrease i'm Factory
Employment Reported

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-Fac-
tory employment decreased 10 per
cent from October to November, and
payrolls 2. per cent, the labor de-
partment reported.
Secretary Perkins, however, takes
consolation in the fact the November
employment recession was the small
est reported for that month since 1892
and the payroll decline the smallest
since 1925.
With these gains partially offset
ting losses in other fields, the net de
crease in industrial employment fol
the month was estimated at $4,000
and the weekly payroll decline al
$3,915,000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
PRINTERS
40-Hour Limit For
Work Week

Indianapolis (ILNS)-The referen-
dunn providing that no subordinate
union shall make work contract in
excess of 40 hours week has been
approved by vote of 21,914 to 21,857,
Secretary Woodruff Randolph an
nounced.
BY the same vote the international
authorized local unions to levy up to
3 per cent of wages for unemploy-
ment relief, as against the previous
limit of / per cent.
The union also accepted, 24,277 to
4,450, an amendment to it's constitu-
tion to include a form of charters
which will be granted the local units.
A proposal to increase the salaries
Of the first and second vice presidents
of the organization was defeated by
vote of 1874 to 1880
Regarding the work week, Secre-
tary Randolph explained that under
the existing system local unions in
newspaper Offices were limited to a
maximum of 48 hours week while
those in commercial printing plants
had the 40-hour maximum, but most
newspaper unions had been operating
on 45-hour week basis.
The proposition on the work week
was as follows:
"To amend Artile IL of the gen
eral laws to provide that no subor-
dinate union shall make contract fol
work week in excess of 40 hours;
prohibiting a member from holding
situation obligating him to work IL
excess of 40 hours; to provide that
in offices where the regular day
shift exceeds six hours and forty min
utes no member shall work more thar
five shifts in financial week when {
substitute is available; to permit spe
cial assessments for out-of work relic.
| by a vote of the local unions of no
more than per cent on earnings"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
By GEORGE L. KNAPP

A story that ought to go on the
front page of every metropolitan daily
paper came out the other day when
the Women's Bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor published its report on
hours and earnings in tobacco stem
meries. More than 10 per cent of the
5,125 workers whose payrolls were
examined were getting less than $5
per week; and for a considerably
larger number Of these workers, the
week was 55 hours long.
Stemming often called stripping,
though the two processes are some
what different-is separating the to-
bacco leaf from the stem, and is car
ried on by all branches of the tobacco
industry. This survey covers stem
meries operated by Z cigarette fac
tories, 3 plants making chewing to-
bacco, and 3 dealers or iobbers who
stem the tobacco when they buy from
the growers before selling it to fac
tories or the foreign trade. The ci
garette factories studied employed
1890 workers in their stemming
plants, chewing tobacco factories EN-
ployed 418 in this work, and dealers
TIT.
Dealer Plant Conditions Worst
Conditions in the plants operated
| by dealers were the worst of all. O
the unlucky workers in these plant:
2.2 per cent averaged less than
| s cents per hour;
| Ia per cent got less than 10
| cents per hour;
| 52.1 per cent got less than IL
cents per hour.
s7.6 per cent, roughly, 7 per-
sons out of every s, got less than
Is cents per hour.
The stemmeries of dealers run s.
hours per week.
/ ClSdTGGte 1dCbOIISS lHahS q oOliS
what better showing-for a reaso
which will be given later; but Will
these firms joined the presidents re
employment agreement of 1885
which fixed the minimum wage of 2
cents per hour, almost one-third 0
the workers in these cigarette plant
failed to reach this minimum. Hour
in the cigarette stemmeries were usu
ally 40 per week.
Miserable Weekly Earnings
| Turning to weekly earnings, an
taking together all plants covered, tn
survey shows that
10.7 per cent earned less than
| SIS per week;
16.7 per cent earned So but less
| than So;
212 per cent earned So but less
| than $40;
i 38 per cent earned $40, but less
than $12;
IL per cent earned $12 but less
than SIS; and
1 Only 1.3 per cent of the entire
number--13 persons out of every
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
More Than One-Tenth of Stemmery Employees Receive
Less Than S4 Weekly, Women's Bureau Study Reveals

1,000-got more than SIS week.
Speaking about buying power
YET EVEN THIS SURVEY BY
THE WOMEN'S BUREAU DOES
NOT SHOW QUITE THE DEPTH
OF THE GOUGING WHICH WAS
REVEALED BY INQUIRIES AND
EVENTS WHICH NEVER GET RE-
PORTED IN THE PRESS. FOUR
HUNDRED FAMILIES IN WIN
STON SALEM, WHOSE SOCIAL
ED BREAD WINNERS ARE
WORKING IN THE r. j. REY-
NOLDS STEMMING PLANTS, ARE
LIK EWISE ON RELIEF. A DELE
CATION WENT TO THE MAYOR A
FEW DAYS AGO TO TELL HIM
THIS-AND HE MED
THAT PEOPLE WITH JOBS
OUGHT NOT TO BE ON RELIEF!
THEY HAD TO BRING HIM THE
PAY ENVELOPES, MARKED WITH
s4, S5 AND Sc A WEEK TO MAKE
HIM UNDERSTAND THE SITUA-
TION IN HIS OWN TOWN.
Practically all the stemmers who
work by hand are on piece work. The
one union factory in the region stud
led pays 1925 cents per pound. The
| non-union factories in the same re-
gion pay 4.5 to 5 pents per pound;
rarely a little more. The figures on
non-union plants are not official; but
common report on this point agrees
| too closely to be far wrong.
Union Doubled Pay
| Not often has union been able to
double the pay of it's members but
this appears to be one of the times.
Union workers hold that the Won
|! ems Bureau made a mistake in put
| ting union and non-union plants to-
gether. When one plant pays double
the scale of all the rest, the average
does not correctly represent the facts
about either side.
1t may be mentioned here that
stemmers firmly believe that the
scales of most plants are fixed
i They are paid by the weight of stems
which they take out of the tobacco
and the statement is frequently made
that the foreman make up their pay
by short rt-weighing the stemmers.
No Excuse For Low Pay
The report of the bureau shows
conclusively that there is no excuse
whatever for these cruelty low wages
1t says:
In one plant, the average weekly
wage was $1082 per person for tn,
unit of over 1000 employees engaged
in the preparation of tobacco leaf
stripping, inside trucking, blending
stemming, picking, searching, sweep
ing, etc. During the week, this stem
merry produced something over 5000,
900 pounds of strips, or enough to
bacco for billion cigarettes.
"The labor cost of these operation
was less than a penny pound of pre-
pared tobacco, or less than ON
MILL per package Of 20 cigarettes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04

Ottawa (ILNS)-F. w. Woolworth's
1856 stores in Canada cut wages 10
per cent in 1882, though in that year
they showed gross profits of 70 per
cent and paid dividends of 20.5 per
cent, L. J. Harrington, Canadian gen
eral manager, told the royal commits
sion investigating business practices.
s.All through the depression, in
cluding the worst year, 1882, the
Woolworth Canadian Corporation has
shown net profits of 20 per cent or
more" said the commission counsel.
"Why should women's wages have
been cut to an average of $1O.80 per
week, and some to Sc or ST."
.Well, sales fell off, and we got
orders from New York to cut wages. !"
"Yet, the net profits in 1888 m
creased to 21.5 per cent. Shouldn't
YOU have restored the wage cut?"
II suppose we should have"
In the five years 1929-33, profits OF
the Canadian Woolworth stores paid
over to New York aggregated Sill
193. 900. The New York office assess
ed the Canadian corporation an aver
age of over $540,000 year for man
agerial service. 1t, however, returned
an average of over 100000 a year to
the Canadian executives.
Consideration of Wages Promised
Harrington said he would take up
the question of paying higher wages
with his directors.
Chairman Kennedy said lifting
large sums out of the country for
managerial services raises question,
and we should consider what should
be done about it.
Morley Smith, president Of Domln-
ion Stores, said his corporation was
paying as high wages as they could
afford. He was informed that the
auditors reports showed that his
wage rates were as bad as in the
other claims, and that his corporation
had slashed wages when it was pay
ing dividends of "a per cent.
"Well, that is not dividend to
boast about"
Defends Weighing Practice
Dominion Stores has more branches
than any other chain system. Over
70 per cent of it's capital was sup
piled by New York.
Mr.. Smith wanted the weights and
measures act amended to conform to
general business practice. 1t was, he
contended, the general practice to
weigh the container along with the
goods.
"Why should short-weighting the
public be legalized?'
'sWell, it is the general practice
Supervisor Jack Smith, OF Domln-
ion Stores, emphatically denied that
there was short-weighing of custom.
ers.
Defends Chain Stores
J. G. Johnson, secretary OF the
Canadian Chain Store Association
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
RETAIL CLERKS PAY DROPS

Washington.-The annual pay en-
velope for the workers employed in
retail stores totals 1926 less now
than in 1929, according to state
ment of the Census Bureau. Average
earnings dropped from s1,312 in 1919,
to 1886 in 1888. Full time employees
decreased from 3,833,581 to 2,7o3,325
during the same period.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-01-04
NOT TO ABANDON
NRA LABOR CLAUSES

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-The ad-
ministration has no thought of aban-
doning steps taken under NRA such
as the child labor clause, minimum
wage and other provisions affecting
the workers welfare, President
Roosevelt told newspaper representa-
tives at White House press confer
ence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Terror RACES
Over Cub a

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 1.-THE
lackey government of Cuba today
began to carry out the Wall Street
mandate to crush all working class
leadership here by ordering the
editorial board Of the magazine
'Masas" to appear tomorrow before
Emergency Tribunal No. /, on the
charge of conducting a Communist
publication
This tribunal, equivalent. to a
court martial, is prepared, reports
state, to deal out unusually savage
sentences to all editors of the maya :
zine. These are: Doctor Juan Mari
nello. the most popular intellectual
in Cuba, professor in the Normal
School and editor of the working
class newspaper, La Palabra"; Re-
gino Pedroso, the greatest proleta-
rian poet of Cuba; joaquin Cardoso,
anti-imperialist fighter, who was a
delegate to the Second Congress
Against War and Fascism in. the
United States, held in Chicago; and
Jose Manuel Waldo Rodriguez, we'll
known intellectual.
During the past few days the
Emergency Tribunal has handed
down sentences up to one year to
individuals merely charged with
reading this publication.
Marinello being the editor. All
workers organizations are urged to
protest the savage terror by send
ing kilograms to Preside Mendi-
eta, Havana, Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
New Rift Seen
In S. p. Ranks

A sharp rift in the leading ranks
of the Socialist Party is revealed by
the Socialist New Leader" this
week in a statement by its editor
ial board which announces that
Norman Thomas has withdrawn his
usual weekly column from the
paper.
Strongly limiting that Thomas is
working toward separate news
paper, the boards statement says,
I'VE regret Comrade Thomas deci-
sion to withdraw his column. That
it should have been made Just as
the Militant group is considering
establishing weekly newspaper In
opposition to the New Leader may
be more than coincidence"
The rift revolves around dis
pute between the Indiana State or
ganization and the National Execu-
tive Committee of which Thomas is
a member. The Indiana group had
taken action to withdraw from the
Socialist Party because of the party
memberships recent approval, in
a referendum vote, of the Declara-
ton of Principles as the party pro-
gram. The National Executive Of
flee then ordered the Indiana
group to give up all its records to
the national body. Thomas criti-
cised the manner in which the New
Leader had handled this fight, and
James Oneal, editor, had replied
that Thomas was using his Office
to promote his own faction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
FIGHT
ON u. s. S. R.
is ASSAILED
Plans Are Rushed for
Mass Demonstration
at Garden

One hundred and fifty thousand
copies OF new broadside were is
sued on Saturday morning by the
Friends of the Soviet Union to rally
thousands of New York workers to
the mass demonstration next Mon
day evening at Madison Square
Garden. The broadside calls for the
defense of the Soviet Union, now
facing a greater threat of war since
the breaking off of U. S.-Soviet
trade negotiations by the State De-
partment.
The demonstration next Monday
evening will mass the strength of
the workers of this city in solidarity
with the workers and farmers of
the Soviet Union, and protest
against the action of the United
States Government, which has, by
breaking off trade negotiations, de-
MED employment and jobs to 400, 900
American workers.
Lundeen to Speak
Heading the list of speakers at
the demonstration will be Congress-
man Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota,
sponsor of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, H. R. 1927 A
mass movement Of tremendous pro-
portions has sprung to the support
Of this bill, fighting for its passage
in Congress, and thousands of New
York worker who are backing H. r.
1927 are expected to attend the
mass demonstration.
Other speakers will include James
Waterman Wise, editor Of "Opin-
ion;" Corliss Lamont, author of
Russia Day by Day" and "On I'm
Outstanding Soviet Russia" ]. B.
Matthews, Professor Charles Kuntz
and DR.. Reuben Young. Other ma
tionally prominent speakers will
represent labor. professional, reli-
gious and cultural organizations.
War Threatens U.S.S.R.
Pointing out that the breaking
off of negotiations strengthens Jap
anese mllitarism in its war plans
against the U.S.S.R,, the F.S.U.
broadside carries the headline. War
Threatens US.S.R." An editorial
entitled Driving Toward War"
Continued on Page q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
MINE STRIKE
is OUTLAWED
Amended Injunction
Bars All Strike Activity
at Glen Alden
Especial to the Daily WORKER

Wilkes BARRE, Pa, Feb. IT,
Judge w. A. Valentine of Luzerne
County Court amended the injunc-
ton against the United Anthracite
Miners of Pennsylvania, yesterday
to include an order that the officials
of the union must Immediately call
off the Glen Alden Coal Company
strike. The injunction, which has
been in effect since Feb. S, barred
picketing or any other strike activ-
ity including the holding of meet
ings in any of the towns where the
company's properties are located.
This is the first time on record
that such an order was issued by a
county court. The injunction in it's
final form was Immediately served
upon the officials of the union.
The grievance board of the Glen
Alden miners met for half hour,
OuO pOSbpOllCo dCbIUIl vi bIlc IIldbJ6I
until Monday afternoon. TIL e
miners are aroused against the VAL
antine order and will meet it with
still greater strike activity, and ef-
forts to spread the strike to other
regions.
Frank Petrowsky, of Larksville,
one of the two strikers murdered
Thursday, will be buried tomor-
row. Thousands of miners will at
tend his funeral.
The Communist Party, pointing
to the serious situation facing all
miners in the Anthracite, calls for
unity of the miners of both unions
to defeat the injunction through
mass picketing and demonstrations.
The Glen Alden Company has
declared two-day work holiday in
order to be able to send its fore
men to the houses of the miners to
solicit scabs. Miners living in COM
pany houses are receiving eviction
notices if they refuse to go to work.