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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-11
FRAUD CLAIMED
ON 500 BALLOTS
IN n. Y. RECHECK
Overtime and Holiday
Work Inks Counters

NEW YORK, Nov. II G.N.SO.
New York's ballot box scandal
sizzled anew today with announce.
ment that 500 fraudulent ballots
had been discovered in the first
batch rechecked since the count
began of results in the election for
the new city council.
The frauds were found in the
Bronx in a check of the first TO-
900 ballots impounded under a
Supreme Court order in that
borough.
awhile the canvassers,
ordered to work an extra hour,
angrily threatened to stage a sit
down strike. Their aggraVation
was increased when they were
ordered to report today, a holiday.
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Newspaper Delivery
Drivers on Strike

Claiming that the newspaper
has been loath to consider a con-
tract with them, SO drivers Of de-
livery trucks on the Evening Star
are on strike.
Members of the International
Brotherhood of Transfers, Chauf.
feurS, Stablemen and Helpers, Lo.
cal Union No. COS, an AFL affiliate,
the men are said by the business
agent of the group, Robert C. Les
ter, to represent all the regular
drivers.
They are asking, Lester declares,
for hours to be reduced to 48 or
so a week. Wage increases rang
ing from 5 to 80 per cent are also
demanded, the business agent
says.
The walkout impeded distribu.
ton of the Star on Tuesday. Radio
announcements, sponsored by the
management, explained the situa-
ton prevented rural subscribers
from getting their papers in the
normal way. Since that time,
Lester claims the city delivery men
have joined the Walkout.
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STUDENTS STRIKE

KEYP0RT, N. J., Nov. II (I.N.S.)
A board of education ruling end
ing interscholastic sports competi,
ton also brought a schoolless day
for 800 Of Keyport's 423 high school
students.
Third and fourth year students
refused to enter class rooms after
the board ruling had been an
nounced and first and second year
students later joined the strike
which produced a parade and all
the trimmings.
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British Seamen
Strike Suddenly

NEW YORK, Nov. II G.N.SJ.
Protesting against the "ill treat
ment" of Seamen aboard a sister
ship, about 470 British crew mem.
bers of two FurnessBermuda lin
ers staged a surprise strike.
The walkouts were called aboard
the Queen of Bermuda, scheduled
to have left for Boston on an
exhibition trip tonight, and the
liner Nerissa, which was to have
sailed for the West Indies this
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Alliance No. 781, together with the
various divisions, all affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Two of the allied bodies-Bar-
tenders "Old IS" and the locals of
cooks, kitchen help, walters and
waitresSeS-have been under con-
tract with the Hamilton and sew
eral other hotels here for some
time. Certain service workers,
however, such as maids, doormen,
elevator operators and hello girls"
have been laggard in banding to-
gether or seeking to bargain col
lectively.
Union officials say that, now the
Hamilton is organized, requests
for contracts will be made at the
other two Washington hotels
under Manager management, the
Hay-AdamS House and the Annap-
oils. The drive will then be ex-
tended to every hotel in the city.
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Transfer Firm Signs
Union Contract

Speaking of the teamsters, their
local officials say they won a
signal victory last week when
their strike at the Merchants
Transfer and Storage Company
was settled.
Lasting for several weeks, the
refusal of $50 men to drive the
firms trucks attracted quite bit
Of attention in the newspapers.
Settlement came last Saturday,
when a contract was signed with
Local No. sos.
The agreement provides a wage
boost OF 80 per cent, a closed shop
and reduction of working hours
from anything" to 81 3 week,
according to Robert C. Lester.
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CLIO Men Indicted
In Mail Delay Case

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. II &C.
TP.SO.-Federal action against
alleged obstruction of United
States mail delivery at a strike
bound steel plant here last sum-
mer has resulted in indictment
of three unioniSts of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization by
a Federal grand jury. Those fac
ing the serious charge of mail
interference are Gabriel Muellner,
Ralph Gindlesperger and John
DIE KonSki, all Of Pittsburgh.
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TWO 70 SPEAK

J. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and DR.. Thomas Parran, jr., sur
geon general of the United States
Public Health Service, will ad-
dress the Association Of Life In
surance Presidents in New York,
December 2 and 3.
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w. 3. WARNER TO TALK

William B. Warner, president Of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, will discuss the indus
trial viewpoint on the wage. and
hour bill at a luncheon at the
National Press Club today at 1890
N m
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u ETN0 NIEVTINO'
1t is the Hotel Hamilton, which
has long catered to the trade of
labor and is repaying its patronage
by fair dealing with organizations
of its workers own choosing. In
this case the organization is Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Local
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U. S. Sends Britain Shipment Of Gold

When the Aquitania sails from.
New York today, it will carry an
additional shipment Of 100000
In gold for Great Britain, the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-11

Albert Dennis has a strong and
pleasant presence over the ether
=. On the Labor News Review"
of course, Saturday night program
over WJSV Charles B. Nc
CloSky, business agent Of Bakery
and Confectionery Workers Local
Union, No. 118, will be guest star
on the broadcast day after to.
morrow at 7:45 p. m.
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DEMAND
BIC APPLE and
OTHER RIGHTS
MustaChes, Beer Coats
Also at Issue

KEARNY, N. j.. Nov. II GIN.
S0.-A strange "bill Of rights"
was in the hands Of Kearny's
high school administration today
and on its disposition hung the
question Of whether the student
body would strike.
Campus leaders whipped the
bill into shape after a torch-light
procession with liberal dashes of
oratory.
WANT BIG APPLE"
It demands among other things;
the right to include the big
apple" and "truckin' at school
dances, the right Of male stud.
ents to grow mustacheS and wear
beer jackets to class, right to
organize a student council and
finally, demand for larger quarters
for the student body which now
crowds the building.
Principal George c. Mankey
agreed that a student council
would be set up as soon as possible,
added that this body would have
to pass on the big apple" question
for to himself and most of the fac.
ulty q t'big apple" was something
that grew on a tree.
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Treasury disclosed last night. This
is in line with the TreaSurys poll
icy Of cooperating with Britain
and France in maintaining stable
currency.
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All Employees of Hamilton Hotel Reported
Unionized; Newspaper Delivery
Drivers Out on Strike

Devoted to the interests of labor in the District of
Columbia this column appears every Thursday. NeWs
items intended for publication here should be mailed
time to reach the Labor News Editor by of the
preceding Wednesday.
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By THE LABOR NEWS EDITOR

At least of Washngons hostelries is completely
unonzed from bottomand that includes every employee
from the behop the culinary artist who prepares
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THE DALLAS PARK

--desiFabls hotel rooms. Roof sun bsfhjAg n
storiss' penthouse. n. r. WhsIan, v. P. { Ma
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MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA
MILDRED LEE APIS.
MIAMI, FLORm.

80 west 18Th ST., Miami Beach, Fla. one and
two bedroom apts., completely furnished, SSasSnSI
rates from S5OO.O0. Selected clientele.
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currency,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-15
Listen, World!
BIZ Elsie Robinson
TroubIe-A Privilege or a Pes

Irouble-A privilege or rest!
TRoUBLEi No use kidding yourself that you can duck it.
i You may read How-to-Be-H Happy book daily and fol-
low all the ruesyet Life will continue to be the same old
pain-in the-neck
However there's way of beating the rap"if you're
enough to take it, plan by which you turn any
trouble however big black, into lasting profit In
terested! Then come along
Troube-a said beore-crashes party So whatf
How you going to take it when it crashes yoursH
There just two ways You can take it PERSONALLY
MPERSONALLY
YOU CAN REGARD 1T AS PURELY PRIVATE MIS-
FORTUNE
OR YOU CAN ACCEPT IT AS AN ADMISSION TICKET
INTO LARGER, WISER LIFE.
The vicious thing about Trouble isn't the trouble efbut
the way take it.
If you take trouble personally, there's simply end to
the Cain it raise For you Immediately add to the ogi
nal Trouble lot of reactions which shouldn't into the
picture at all You add SefPity and Resentment and
Fear in every form. Worst of ALL you add Egotsm.
You refuse realize that thousands of other human beings
have had exactly the misfortune. You DON'T WANT
to realize this You want feel that YOUR misfortune
the crueles blow on earth that has suffered
you suffering.
In time ALL your Trouble becomes an obsesson which
bos out all other considerations You lose your
ton your of values You isolate yourself become
impossible to approach Presently you begin use your
Trouble abb to escape things you wish do
of obtaining attention consideration you
would not otherwise receive Trouble has become racket
1T HAS MADE HEEL OUT OF A ONCE DECENT HUMAN
BEING.
This not vague theory, but grim reality We all know
people who have made racket out of their Grief Loss Our
sonaly until they could not take it otherwise until be-
came Frankensten which DESTROYED them THE DISTANCE
BETWEEN A FIT OF POUTS AND A PADDED CELL IS
FAR SHORTER THAN YOU IMAGINE!
That's the first the easiest the way to take
Trouble. But there's another way whch-beeve it not
turns Trouble into privilege instead of pest.
You want to know wider life don't your You envy those
sophisticated people whose spirits home any trail
You wish that you might share their exquisite poise and
troll. You may. And Trouble is your chance
For Trouble isn't merely individual misery it also
initiation into the Big Game 1t is challenge the
proof of whathaveyou Nor is Trouble accident 1t
normal part of growth cutting teeth growing
regular chin instead of baby dmples And you
Der ths-THE WORLD is YOURS.
For nothing gives power and poe quickly thoroughly
spell of misery CALAMITY borne Nothing opens the door
Of experience to you so surely binds fellow
to completely mastered grief For if you
member the sting your agony yet translate that sting
into terms of universal misery you hold the key which will
unlock every heart earth.
GRIEF is THE GREAT LEVELER :. THE GREAT
EDUCATOR. j
IF YOU CAN TAKE GRIEF IN YOUR STRIDE AS ALI
NORMAL GROWING CREATURES DO, YOU'LL NOT ONLY
GAIN CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN CHILDISHNESS BUT
YOU'LL HAVE THE BULGE ON ALL THE OTHER CRY
BABIES.
Copyright,
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There is now a general bedlam
of talk that the handwriting on
the wall has come too close for
the comfort of those who are
still on their feet and an imme-
diate adjournment is pressing.
Two avenues are open-an ad-
journment until next January
or a recess until fall.
THE ONE FACT that added
to the stunning blow dealt mem
bers of the Senate by the Ma
jority Leaders death Is the
monumental restraint he ex-
hibited during debate.
Senator Robinson has always
been a rough and tumble de-
batter. He was easy to anger
and the picture Of him shouting
in his resonant voice while he
flayed the atmosphere with
clenched fists and stamping
foot has been frequent.
One incident during the recent
debate gives an insight on the
raging turmoil within that he
kept down so admirably. He
engaged in a verbal clash with
Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney
in which he kept asking ques-
ton after question. Slyly he
kept insisting that the Senator
from wyoming couldn't answer
the questions.
In good-humored repartee
Senator O'Mahoney declared
that he was ready to answer
the Senator's questions on the
floor Of the Senate or else
where.
Walking toward his opponent
Senator Robinson dropped his
hands on the shoulders OF Sena-
tor Kenneth Mcclellan who sat
beside him. Senator Mcclellan
was shaking with laughter.
The tense situation eaSed con-
siderably when the leader re
marked that he didn't think it
was necessary to go outside to
settle the argument but the
questions could be answered
quite nicely on the floor.
Although it was evident that
q physical encounter was far
from the mind Of Senator O'Ma'
honey the incident did much
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case. He ought to know. He
is one of the great adventures
of MODERN times. No young fell
low, with the fire of youth in
his veins. mind you, but a tried
and true veteran of the silent
white North, which proves the
worth of a man down to his last
ounce. For Captain Bob is
mighty close to so, and though
youths fire may have dwindled
some, ambition hasn't, or energy.
He sailed away on a little mite
of a fishing schooner. only a
hundred feet from tiller to bow.
spirit, a two-master, painted
black, with broad white stripe,
so people will know her when
they meet up with her on the
high seas. Captain Bartlett goes
adVenturing again for the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History
and the Smithsonian Institution,
to observe weather and water
conditions.
With the Cap'n is his brother,
Bill, as first mate, along with
a paid crew of eight and bunch
of college students who are pay
ing a thousand dollars apiece
for a taste of high adventure.
At so, or around there, Bob
Bartlett is SQUAT and solid, 210
pounds of Newfoundland muscle
and Drawn, and wise in the
ways of the bitter north. He
has been going down to sea for
more than 40 years. Twelve
times he's been shipwrecked
and four times crushed in the
ice. And in his quaint speech that
savorS both burr and brogue,
he'll tell you:
II do love the sea as . dog
loves its master, in spite Of the
ClOutS he gives it."
They go back a long way, the
Bartlett breed Of Newfoundland
ers. They were fishing for cod
off the Grand Banks when
Thomas Jefferson was President
of the United States. Bob was
hunting seal when he was II.
In 1909 he accompanied Comdr.
Robert E. Peary to within a
hundred miles of the North
Pole. And when the Com
mander picked Matt Henson, a
Negro member. of the crew, to
make the final dash with him..
it was all right with Cap'n Bart
lett. Some of his friends
grumbled. but Bob silenced
them.
'T'm a better sailor than
Matt" said he, "but Mats q
better dOg-driver. The Com
mander knows his business"
He's never married, always the
hard.boiled bachelor.
Women" says he, with q
twinkle in his blue eye, sure,
and they break the heart OF
you"
So there he goes, his sails al
ready horiZon-down, and gooo
luck go with him, a man OF
heart and mind, navigating clear
and wide of all the WEAKNESSES
Of this troubled world.
,CcOrSrigtt, 1897. by.K1ns Features :
0ynAtsAtss 1naGl n
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New Neutrality Program

TENIE situation in China is also throwing light
l. NEUTRALITY PROGRAM
Our national policy gives the President power to say bel
geren nations may buy in America only by paying cash for
the goods and taking them away in their ships.
We call that "ash and carry neutrality and sincerely hope
it will KEEP Us OUT OF WAR.
War between China and Japan would show us HOW IT
WORKS.
Japan having money and ships would obtain In America
unlimited supplies of goods permitted to be sodfoodsuffs
and cotton for example, which essential materials
China, having neither money Ships would probably
GET NOTHING
With material thus available to Japan ard
NOT TO CHINA would be virtually participating the
war ON THE SIDE OF THE STRONGER NATION
Which brings up against the fact that this kind of
tray the of America works the advantage
STRONG nations and to the disadvantage of WEAK nations
We should realize than that best chance of
staying neutral is in impregnable NATIONAL DEFENSE
capable convincing other nations that the risk of
against us is NOT NORTH TAKING. A.
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Uncle Sam AT Home"

DREsIDENT ROOSEVELT chose appropriate time to
reiterate the determination of the Government to place
its agencies in modern aforementioned buildings when
he spoke the laying of the cornerstone of the Apex
Building
Scheduled to be occupied by the Federal Trade Com
mission the Apex Building will bring to virtual completion
the great Constitution Avenue triangle of Government
structures.
There will remain however several gaps in the planned
triangle but the words of the President speaking IAN
oldashoned business man. give promise that these will be
filled and that other structures necessary put all Gov
eminent agencies in modern homes will shortly be planned
and built.
As evidence of the necessity of carrying out thorough
Government building program in Washington, President
Roosevelt cited the fact that the War Department at pres
ent is spread among eighteen buildings
He could have cited many other instances showing that
departments and smaller units of the Government
similarly situated.
Any businessman, though not of the odfashioned
type that Mr. Roosevelt procams himself to be- the
nefcency and likely to be incident to this condition.
SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICE REQUIRES THAT THE
GOVERNMENT MAKE AN INVESTMENT IN BUILD
NGS IN ORDER THAT IT MAY SAVE ON RENTALS
AND ON THE REPAIR BILLS OF THE RAPIDLY DE-
TERIoRATNG TEMPORARY" BUILDINGS IN WHICH
MANY GOVERNMENT BUREAUS ARE HOUSED
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not progress, to identify organ
lied labor with an organized
labor party.
Wherever trade unions tried
to go beyond their legitimate
fight for the economic welfare
of the workers and formed the
basis for labor parties, there
labor found that there is no way
of serving two masters with i'm
punity.
Only they who live in the
past can regard labor as a class
apart in this intricate and inter.
dependent civilization of ours.
Only they who adhere to thee,
ries antedating the machine age
can draw an imaginary line Of
class division in the most ad.
vanced nation in the world. q
nation developed by men who
escaped from class warfare.
X i X
The policy of American organ
lied labor has from the very be.
ginning been not to become en-"
tangled with political parties.
Only under such a policy can
labor retain its right to freedom
of action.
The psychology of American
labor has always been indistin-
guishable from that of any other
element of the population.
The American worker has
never been servile. and always
felt the equal of the capitalist or
the professional person.
American labor did not need
any class emancipation, and that
is why it never formed any sub
stantial political party Of its
own.
Today attempts are being
made to introduce into the camp
Of American labor the European
political jugglery which has re.
suited in the return of the work.
ing masses Of the greater part
of the Old World to the dark
ages.
They who would build a ma
tional labor party in the United
States are parroting the catch
phrases of a bankrupt yester-
year. They speak the language
of progressiveS, but their hands
do the work of reactionaries.
They may promise the workers
a new freedom, even as their
fellow-agitators promised it to
the European masses, but they
will give them A NEW BOND
AGE.
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to enliven the debate and show
how bitterly the fight was be-
ing pushed.
ONE OF THE MEN on the
Hill who will miss the Leader
perhaps the most of all will be
Colonel Edwin Alexander Hal
sey, Secretary of the Senate.
Senator Robinson used the
Secretary's office as his lunch
con place and for conferences
that really directed Senate &C.
ton. He could be found there on
numerous occasions surrounded
by his lieutenants and it was
known as a cooling-off place
and a stronghold Of strategy
ever since the session began.
AN EXAMPLE of the pressure
that was brought to bear on the
deadlock held so tightly on the
Supreme Court debate was evil
denced the day before the Ma
jority Leader died.
A. E. Chaffee, reading clerk
of the House of Representatives,
was kept waiting in the ante
room 10 minutes while Senators
debated whether he could be al
lowed to present message from
the House of Representatives.
The fight had centered around
how far a Senator addressing
the body could yield without
yielding the floor. Finally, how
ever. Mr.. Chaffee was allowed
to enter and present his mes
sage.
TT WAS NOT at all a ques-
ton of childiShneSS on the part
of the Senators who SO Strin-
gently watched this situation
but an actual fact that one
moment of relaxation might
have upset the whole apple cart.
1t is to be recalled that dur
ing a filibuster carried on by
the late Huey Long he asked
for a quorum call. AS the names
were being read he stepped from
the floor into the cloakroom. I'm
mediately an opponent gained
recognition and put over his
point that in leaving the floor,
even though the roll was being
called, Senator Long lost his
+ right to continue the debate,
\ X x
STRANGE ENOUGH but the
old Supreme Court Chamber in
the Capitol, which has been the
cynosure of all visiting tourists
because of the Senae debate, has
been closed these days while the
debates are going on.
/ And the crowds have been so
big that the elevators in the
Capitol do not go any further
than the second floor, making
visitors walk up to the gallery if
they can get up. Usually the line
extends down the steps and
around into the corridors.