davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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Power of Nepotisn Is Denied
By Schools Official in List
McQueeney, Superintendent of Custo'
dians, Declares He Only Receives
Job Applications.

acute need for custodians in 1891. died
in the service after At years in it.
My younger brother had been a GUS
todian 81 years when he died.
Four Are Sons of Brothers.
Four OF the eight nephews in the
school service charged to McQueeney
are sons Of the two brothers. The
other four are sons Of two Of his three
sisters. He acquired three more con-
nections with the District government
by his own marriage, two Of his wife's
sisters being teachers and a brother
later becoming custodian at local
high school. A niece married and
her husband, connected with another
branch OF the District government,
was also listed as a relative of the
custodian chief
IT there's any blame" said NC
Queeney, II am perfectly willing to
take it. But frankly I don't under
stand it. There's no law affecting us
that I know of which limits the num-
Der Of related people in the District
government If they possess the quail
fications necessary for the job and are
appointed by the regular appointing
power"
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not appear where might cause dlm
demand products
roughly 10 cent lower employing
volume OK gooos
paving heml weekly check
All behind the figures as lar as ny
the country or h FARMER
much higher income
year.
fail find in the figures the crisis whch
with the past the President
demand for goods
the bidding OF prices TO
merely show prices continuing
to a a gait.
s54 cent of 1926 second
March, 86l then 872
which really started last Fall
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versity. He taught economics at the
University OF Missouri. In 1918 he came
to Washington as statistician under
Hoover in the Food Administration to
find out how many laborers would be
available to harvest the Governments
extensive wartime wheat fields. For
six months he was a special expert on
the War Industries Board Subee-
quently he returned to the teaching
profession at the University Of Michi-
gan. In 1922 he was one Of the origi-
nal staff members Of the Brookings
Institute. They loaned Lubin as ad-
wiser to the Senate Committee on
Education and Labor. He sponsored
unemployment insurance at this time.
Since 1888 he has headed the Labor
Statistics Bureau, and has effectively
lived down brain truster" grouping,
through quiet and efficient admins
trative ability.
Commissioner Lubin's facts and flg-
ures are very much in the public eye
these days Of strikes and rumors Of
strikes From New York to San Fran
cisco the telephone rings constantly
seeking labor data. There is obvi-
ously a cooperative spirit abroad IN
the country. Employers have volun-
tarily submitted data on conditions in
80 industries. Both Mr.. Lewis and
Mr.. Green have the capitalism psy-
chology," Lubin says, and went to
work together to defeat Communism
and Fascism. Muddling through on a
guess work economic program gets
business nowhere, Mr. Lubin thinks.
If we had known the facts in 1927
the depression might have not borne
down on us so heavily.
Briefly this data that the commits
sioner dispenses gratis" includes i'm
portant figures on employment and
paw rolls with Illuminating gains and
losses reported in each. In December,
1896, factory employment rose SO per
cent and pay rolls 15.5 among about
SO manufacturing industries and l6
non-manufacturing, a scope large
enough to be representative. Since
1888 industry RAD taken on 6,ooo,ooo
workers.
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posal to change the Supreme Couft,
to the proposals to amend the Con-
stitution. The bearing Of the decision
on these matters may not really De
as vital as discussion will make 1t
seem. But for several days following
the Wagner act decision there Will be
the kind of discussion that followed
the decision OF last week on the mini
mum wage act of Washington State.
The central purpose of the Wagner
act is to legalize the principle OF
collective bargaining by labor, and to
safeguard labor in the practice OF II.
To that end the act requires that
employers shall bargain collectively
with their workers. 1t forbids en-
ployers to interfere with the organiZa-
ton of unions, or to discriminate
against members of them. Under the
act, when a majority of the workers
in a plant have joined one union, or
have otherwise selected representa-
tives, then the employer must bargain
with those representatives exclusively.
There can be only one bargaining
union in each plant.
Board Can Hold Elections.
For administering the act a Ma
tional Labor Relations Board" is set
up This board is an official Gov
eminent body. Among other func-
tions, the board can hold elections IN
factories to determine which of two
or more unions is to represent the
workers. When workers or unions
have occasion to complain against an
employer, they make their complaint
to this board Thereupon the board
holds hearings, takes testimony, and
hands down a decision. Ordinarily
the decision is an order to the en-
ployer that he shall re-employ dis
charged men, or bargain collectively
with a specific union, or do whatever
else the board thinks should be done.
II an employer fails to do what the
National Labor Relations Board Or
ders, then the board can go before a
United States Court and ask the court
to require the employer to carry out
the boards order 1t Is in this way,
the cases now before the Supreme
Court have come up. There are five
Of them. The cases have different
sets of facts.
For describing what the Wagner
act is, help may be had by outlining,
very sketchily, one Of the five cases
the court is about to decide The case
Of the Jones & Iaughlin Steel Corp.
may be taken as typical. The facts
as given here are taken from the
brief of Attorney General Cummings
representing the National Labor Re-
lations Board before the Supreme
Court.
Union Complained to Board.
Certain workers at one of the Jones
& Laughlin plants, acting through
their local union. complained to the
Labor Board that Jones g. Laughlin
had discharged or denoted employees
because they had joined the union,
in order to discourage membership
therein" Jones & Laughlin re-
piled that the discharge and demo-
tions had been made because Of in
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people prolific
hard Spanish culture civilized
oo
to be
the R. A the honest effort to the
of the companies and the
n1ouldy uestg of burden certain sections
dire1ted
Tam order police at7oc7v because
murdered by extremists to scutt the
policy
haze Caribbean.
of the Frank Murphy
Maverick could suggest some one
ability
Washington
Canada would be ideally
the Latin division OF the
Gov
like Chardon former
1879
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great sugar dominate the political and economic life "
that lovely island
personal friend Of long standing Dr. Gruenng
Mexico clsao1ng eoor
boh but with the best intentions
succeeded In their assignment snuo oe
removed from Rcan picture without delay
the popular and cne1 OF ne Puerto
Nationalist The crime was
he unoeHooo
liked people The Nationalist asta
by the murder
Of Riggs feeling which reconstruction plan
and New Deals a Washington had engendered
succeeding For the police ynched the
the police saton-an ofnca crime
which victim Of the assassination
that could have established political
desperate action
treat rough" has been the W'nhp-G7uenane
poicv They the hands OF the Nationalist
dded OF the Puerto Rican leaders
had favored cooperation utth the
When the Gouernor re-
already authorized oy the MAJOR OF
into nercusaoy ooodv
collision.
which under protective sugar
greater population tan can
Capital in Puerto Fcan sugar
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RAILROADS DRAFTING
EMPLOYE AID PLAN
Labor Negotiators Join in At
tempt to Provide New
System.
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Informed officials said yesterday
railroad officials and labor negotiators
are trying to draft a broad new sys-
team of unemployment compensation
for the Nations 100000 rail workers.
The program is being formulated in
conjunction with a voluntary rail
pension system, officials said. 1t would
lift the railroads out Of the unemploy-
ment benefit system embodied in the
social security act.
Committees representing rail man
agement and labor recently announced
agreement on a new pension plan to
be operated under the Railroad Re-
tirement Board The Treasury raised
objections, however, contending tax
ing provisions were not adequate.
The program is being restudied BY
Treasury, Retirement Board, railroad
and rail union representatives.
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Dispensing patronage to the faith
full is by no means unknown to the
American system Of government. but
it is hard to be charged with pack
ing" the District government with
relatives when you haven't the power
to appoint them if you wanted to.
That's how it appears, at any rate,
to William McQueeney, superln-
tendent of public school custodians,
who was cited in the report to the
House Subcommittee on Appropria-
tions as having Is of his family in the
employ OF the District
yes" chuckled McQueeney, who
entered the custodial service some
46 years ago and has been superin-
tendent since 1881, you might think
1 was running small spoils system
here"
It would appear from his title,
he went on, that he was appointive
power for janitors and could dis
tribute positions at will.
Actually" he said, "a custodial
appointment is long process cul-
minating in the Board Of Education.
Applications are made through me.
I send them to the first assistant
superintendent in charge Of the
business office, who sees the candi-
dates and makes recommendations to
the superintendent. DR.. Ballou then
presents them for investigation by
the Personnel Committee Of the
Board Of Education, which then makes
recommendations to the board"
Many Took Exams.
Speaking of his Is relatives, many
by marriage, McQueeney said that
anyhow nearly half Of them were in
the service before he was made Gus
todian superintendent even If that
position had carried the appointive
power-and what's more, many Of
those got their jobs through competi-
tive examination or through appoint
ment from a rated list.
IF I were a really good nepotist
would certainly have taken care Of
my immediate family, don't you
think?" he continued, pointing out
that none Of his large family was
in any way connected with the gov
ernment
II guess it's just a case Of family
interest in a certain field that made
them want to get into the school sys-
tem," he said. s'My brother Hugh, 1T
whose request entered the system
at a $500 . year janitor because Of IN
Evening star., 1937-04-03
WOMEN IN POLITICS

TOPEKA, Kans., April {P.-The
hand that rocks the Grade Is extend
ing its sway in KanSas-more women
are going in for politics.
Following a precedent set last year
by New Albany-where 100 per cent
''petticoat" administration won Office
five smaller cities have all-women
tickets for April municipal elections
In Nashville, Kans., every candidate
on both tickets is woman Burl-
mgame, Ford and Cherokee have all
women tickets opposing men. New
iAlbany's feminine incumbents are unj
opposed for reelection. II
Evening star., 1937-04-03
News Behind the News
March Industrial Production, at 119, Equals That
for Boom Year of 1929.
BY PAUL MALLON.


Industrial poduc-
which happens to be the
boom year. The figure
for 30 but 1t based
private estimate which has proved uncanny accurate in
the the closest possible unofficial
This everything is back to the leuel OF the
hoodoo but that the oue OF factory goods being
turned out at that peak rate
Employment ~ points below 1929 of o points de-
of l5 OF freight loadns of % and
building off So
freight oadngs building therefore, still far deficient
significance
loading godbad old while
Evening star., 1937-04-03
STEAMSHIP LINES BILL
SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT
Private Management Extension
Beyond Marine Act Deadline
Becomes Law.

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt signed yesterday
a bill authorizing the Maritime Com
mission to extend the private manage
ment OF i've Government-owned
steamship lines beyond the deadline
originally set by the 1896 merchant
marine act.
Operation Of the lines by private
management was ordered discontinued
in favor Of . charter system by June
20, 1887, under the merchant marine
act. The new bill permitted the
commission to continue the existing
arrangement as long as advantage
ous," terminating 1t "as soon as prac-
ticable" after December 81.
The companies involved are the
American Pioneer Lines, the America
France Line, American Hampton
Roads Line Yankee Line, the Oriole
Line and American Republics Lines.
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RUPT uRED

NOW GET BLESSED RELIEF with amss-
ing. modern invention. boon to mankind.
No harsh steel bands. back-pads nimv
elastic belts. leg-strsps. Neat comfortable.
sanitary, durable. Unlike anything else you
ever saw. Pronounced BY users the
greatest achievement Of all times"
Don't say cts no use" Get conyincins
FREE TRIAL. Make every conceivA6ie test.
then decide. The surprise Of Lifetime
awaits you Just ask the desk clerk for M.
Watson at the Houston Hotel. Washintton:
Monday and Tuesday. April ana Q: irom
10 to IL Am. and to and to p:m.
II ,ou cannot cali write for fe literature
2OA. FAULTLESS APPL1ANCrCO.. AaVef-
hill. AaSS.
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Labor Debate Not Over
New Phase of Commotion Due to Start With
Decision on Wagner Act.

efficiency and violation Of the COM
panys rules" j.
Apparently the question Of fact thus
brought up was never tried out. The
, company did not present testimony.
Apparently the company preferred to
base its contest on the constitution
atty of the Wagner act.
The National Labor Relations Board
held that 10 Of the IL workers had
been discharged because Of their
union activity" The board ordered
the company to "reinstate with back
pay the 10 men" and to cease from
discouraging membership in the
union" Then the board asked the
United States Court to require the
company to do what the board had
ordered it to do. From the lower
court the case came up to the Su-
preme Court.
The Supreme Court decisions, when
they come, will have their greatest
importance In what the court says
about the distinction between "in-
terstate commerce" and, on the other
hand, commerce within single State,
"intrastate commerce" The Consti-
tuition says that Congress can legis-
late only about the former, Inter
state commerce" The court in the
past has interpreted this in a way
which President Roosevelt regards as
too strict. The New Deal would like to
have Congress permitted to legislate
on practically all commerce, business
and industry. as the N. R. A. statute
tried to do.
Wide Range In Five Cases.
AS respects interstate commerce, the
five cases before the court present
a wide range. The Jones g. Laugh
lin case is that of a steel nanufac-
products outside. The case Of the
Washington. Virginia g. Maryland
Coach Co. is that of bus company
which crosses State lines. The case
Of the Associated Press is that Of
an organization which operates both
locally within a State and also across
State lines. The cases Of the Frue-
ilo0l Ian w. hio eAiS
Harry Marks Clothing Co. are those
of manufacturers within State.
From this variety of conditions the
court might hand down different de-
cisions on the different cases.
Aside from presenting the court
with occasion to state its position
either its old position or new one
about what constitutes interstate COM
merce, the decisions on the Wagner
act will not have great influence. The
current commotion about labor ques-
tions has passed into a new phase.
The Wagner act. though passed as
recently as July S, 1885, is more or
less historical with respect to labor
questions The act had practically no
part in the recent labor incidents in
Michigan. Almost all thoughtful per-
sons on both sides of the question
believe that in the light Of the recent
sit down" strikes. new legislation
will be necessary to define both the
rights and the responsibilities Of both
labor and employer.
(Copyright, 1877
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tHN people VINO
have facts don't
60 astray."
Com missioner
Lubin, youngish,
5 h o r t, nervous,
competent, h as
not strayed very
far from facts
throughout h is
career as teacher,
adviser, statlsti-
cia n, economic
expert. Born In
worcester, Mass,
he had his early
education there
and Af rlork IJpf-
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poets the decision
next M on d a y,
though, of course,
it may not come
until later.
T he decision,
W h e n ver it
comes, will deal
directly with the
constitutionality
Of the Wagner
act. But indi-
rectly it will, in
public discussion,
have q relation
to Sit d o W n"
strikes, to Mr..
Rooseyelt's pro-
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

TIME next phase Of the commo-
ton in which America Is in
volved will begin when the
L Supreme Court hands down its
decision on the national labor rela-
tions act, frequently called the "Wag-
ner act" Much of Washington ex-
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be an executive ,
legislative and
judicial branch
and that each
shall be permit
ted to function
" / t h c ut hin
d r an e either
from any other
branch or any
other group or
interest.
The State Of
Michigan today
is without a re-
publican form OF
government be-
cause the courts
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March factory output was accomplished amid
sideways labor gymnastics Slkes
continuously since the n OF e year. e
they haven stopped the general rising tide
figures that hape been turned
out than last there oeTe
and Chyser produced heauy uhen Genera
General Motors hun1ned Dhen Ch1ye'
uas out any the end OF March,
climbing slowly ano
March electrical po"
running more
practically the peak OF 1879 steers
old capacity increased more
COAL but eec-
expansion py 1actIy
roll jump in February said by the Government
represent total rolls and not que 70 wage m
statistics
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We, the People
Failure of Gen. Blanton Winship and DR.. Ernest
Gruening in Puerto Rico Charged.
by JAY FRANKLIN,

police political parade in the
wounding Nationalist demonstrators
unconditional independence The Governor Of
Winshipand director OF the
vision of Of the
ter-D resign at result Of
this scandal they voluntarily President should
their designations.
be
falling territory converted 1.-The Ireland Of
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IS mainly AIntrICdH anu IS uI1eo0eo
through such institutions as the
National City Bank and the Bank
of Nova Scotia. The sugar estates
have been built up in violation of
the organic law which limits cor
porate ownership to maximum OF
500 acres of land, and the profits
Of the industry are retained in the
United States. In addition, tariff
protected prices for manufactured
Evening star., 1937-04-03

HE opinions OF the aers this their not
necessarily Stars. Such opinions presented In
The Stars effort to giue all sides questions of interest to its
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1937-04-03

roll expansion was nOteu III II III
dustries out of 80 surveyed in Feb
ruary.
Unemployment was likewise gen.
erally distributed through the fac
tory world.
If this Is true, it means a wider
distribution Of purchasing power to
sustain the recovery. The people
generally will have more money to
absorb the increased production OF
+Lo Foctorios The Y,rice level does
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no one expects building to be
resumed on a mad 1929 over-ex-
pansion scale any time soon.
Note-In March, 1929. produc-
ton was also exactly ll9. 1t
reached high Of l25 In June and
ended the year at l03, the col
lapse starting in July.
The situation Is reduced to num-
bers in the following chart. The
figures are those officially used by
the Government, except the last
Evening star., 1937-04-03
CONFEDERATE VET DIES
Gen. Alfred Aver, 80, Last In
County to Pass On.

OCAL.A, Fla, April (P.-Gen. Al
fred Aver, 80, Marion County's only
remaining Confederate veteran, died
here today after q brief illness.
He was Marion County tax assessor
for one 2O-year period and previously
had served as a Representative In tho
Florida Legislature. ~
Born at Barnwell, s. c., Aver left
the South Carolina Military Academy
when be was 1s years old to Join the
Confederate Army.
He was a former commander OF the
Florida Brigade Of the United Con-
federate Veterans
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which estimated The figures are adjusted 1or sea-
selected
existing the selected normal is the average
the ndces except prices which are
on population since s23-25
is not the hglres)
Evening star., 1937-04-03
An American
You Should
Know
1sador Lubin Declares
Facts Can Keep u. S.
From Straying.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

Y1TH more and more strikers
M either walking out or sit
v v ting down, it is evident
that we must get down to
bare bones" or facts Isador Lubin,
commissioner Of the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics, Department Of Labor, says
that his fundamental philosophy Is
Evening star., 1937-04-03

the Caribbean"-thew weak spot in
our "good-neighbor" policy" in
Latin America and discredit to
our national program for peace
full readjustment and reform.
These words are written with
a heavy heart. I share some OF
the responsibility for setting up
the Puerto Rico Reconstruction
Administration under which the
New Deal undertook to cure the
.v,,e NJ ahssntee canitalism in the
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republican form of government"
What is meant by republican
form of government is that there shall
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u. S. Duty to
Act Seen in
Michigan
Constitution Guarantee
to States Is Held
Operative.

BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
~HE Constitution of the United
States prescribes that the
United States shall guarantee
Evening star., 1937-10-03
ROUGH TINE NAbS
LAUREL FEATURE
Beats High Fleet by Half
Length in Capital-Runs
Near Track Mark.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASeOclate0 FreSs.
LAUREL, Md, October Trough
Time, chestnut 3-year-old sprinter,
won the 6-furlong Capital Handicap,
inaugural feature Of the 25-day meet
ing here. today by half . length to
earn $7,075 for his owner, j. Y. Christ
mas.
The son Of Grand Time-Sand Trap,
broke in fifth position in TIE field of
II. He moved up steadily under the
careful handling Of Jockey Kenny Nc
Combs.
Outrun at the start by Speed to
Spare, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's entry,
he took command at the first turn
when Speed to Spare slowed up.
High Fleet Gets Place.
HIGH FLEET, A. j. Joyner's highly
regarded little filly. gained grad
ually through the stretch, but couldn't
overtake Rough Time.
Go Home, Maemere Farms entry,
coupled with Tranquility Farms Capt.
Cal as the field, moved up willingly
In the final test after dropping back
at the break, and took show position.
The pre-race favorite of many, H.
p. Headley's Preeminent, got away
ninth and couldn't make up the deficit,
taking fourth. Deliberator, Everglades
Stable, finished fifth.
The victory Of Rough Time, steadied
along by Jockey McCombs, returned
So for holders Of 50 win tickets, 1920
and $500.
Evening star., 1937-10-03
Belmont Park
Results
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
..rd; rdik;sT RACE-Pgrse. $1,000: class d
Drndssrp s,ys.Fooids and sP; furlcn.s
Hesdin Home NonEden) 81 III
Bohs Boys tArcaro) I-2
Stocks. lie KNIGHT.
plechase Handicap; purse, siO.OO0 added
Ssfsa-f'es Sssior sex.r. aed ft,,s 1pi about miles
femasee (Bauman) 2-5 I-S
AoPd1n Pf@e rSwn S!1os ssBeilhouso a-i
National Anthem. Beiimsn. bGalsse.
b-Greentree Stable entry.
arER RAcEmrnr:e' I57ian1 $1,000; maiden
Alps Gonxden) s.b ,-1o IA
Stage Hand (Stout) So 6-S
Lourdes (Arcaro) IA
Also ranEP!ay Gold, War Bridge. Lon.
gallant. War PERIL dBonnie Sea. On the
d-Ran second, but was disqualified.
.afoSd: FoURra EAcE1rss Futgrity; purse,
dMenow tKurtsinger) 0-5 I-2 I-s
cIiEer tRcbertson) Is i-S
Also ran-aDauber.. dBosrbon King,
Chez k.s ssuT brs.st Sstt dn.S SDiGn FL BS ,Ths
Ridge. '"e' '"o"n'"'n
a-C. v. whitney entry.
eSbeIair Stud and WheatIey Stable
and O. Phipps entry.
c-Milky Way Farm entry
d-H. P. Headley entry.
Cup; purse. $4,000 added; 3-year.oids smS
up; 2 miles.
Firethorn (H. Richards) lilo out out
Count Arthur tBalaskD ant "ut
Moonton UOngdcn) c1s
Time. 1926.
(Only three RAM
SIXTH RACE-Class Handicap: nurse.
~ 200 added: 3-year-olds and up; IIx
miles. '' ~
Gean Canach (Arcaro) Al 7-5 Ak
Two Bob (Kurtsinger) So IA
Star Shaved (Peters) ia
Time, 1:5O.
Also ran-Sun Port, Count Stone and
Aerrymaker.