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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18
Thorough Investigation of Fatal Memorial Day
Clash Demanded as Eighth Victim of Cops
Dies -Thirty-nne Sit Downers Sentenced On
Contempt of Court Charges.

Chicago (ILNS)-Three pieces of
strike news occurring in this city have
more than ordinary interest.
Otis Jones, 43 years old, shot in the
spine on Memorial Day, has died. He
was the eighth victim of the shooting
up by the police of a peaceable march
of Republic Steel Corporation strik-
ers who carried no arms but Amer
lean flags.
The Chicago Federation Of
Churches has adopted resolution, de
nying that there was "any provoca-
tion for the use of extreme violence
and gunfire by the police" on this
occasion; and demanding a thorough
investigation by city, state and fed
eral authorities, to the end that those
responsible for illegal acts and un-
necessary violence may be prosecuted
or disciplined as the evidence may
require"
Church Eyewitnesses to Clash
DR.. A. w. Palmer, president of the
federation, said, in releasing this reso-
luton:
Three members of the Commits
sion on Church and Industry and five
students from Chicago Theological
Seminary were eyewitnesses, and our
resolution is based on their testi-
mony
Judge Theodore Forby, of the Lake
county circuit court, has sentenced
SO men to pay fines and serve terms
in jail for contempt of court in the
sitroWn strike in the Fansteel Metal
lurgical Corporation plant last Feb
ruary. Meyer Adelman, organizer for
the steel workers organizing COM
mittee, was sentenced to pay $1,000
fine and seve months in Jail. Others
received lesser sentences and fines.
Judge Denounces Strikers
Judge Forbys remarks when pass
ing these sentences were extremely
bitter. He denounced sitdown strikes,
the CIO, "the perverted uinds of So
called organizers, sent by subversive
designers to foment trouble" He de-
clared that John Bertha, investigator
for the La Toilette civil liberties COM
mittee, was in contempt of court, but
did not impose any sentence upon
him.
Sentences were not passed on 35
strikers who have since gone back to
work in the plant. Judge Forby said
he would decide on their punishment
later.
All told, 90 men have been put on
trial for contempt of court, though
the total working force of Fansteel
| is only $50.
Paul Glaser, attorney for the de-
fense, moved to dismiss the charges,
holding that the court had no juris-
diction since the Fansteel Corporation
had violated every provision of the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18
Cement Workers Win Pay
Increase Pact in Utica

Utica, I'll (AFLNS)-W Wage increas-
es ranging from 5 to per cent, install
lation of. a check off system and
the revision Of hours for which over
time is charged are included in a new
agreement negotiated by officials of
United Cement Workers Local No.
20266 of Utica with the Utica Hy-
draulic Cement Company.
The per cent increase goes to en-
ployes working in the mill and the
z per cent increase to those employed
in the company's quarry.
The contract provides that time
and one-half wages shall start after
eigh hours compared with nine hours
in the old agreement.
There is also a provision stipulat-
ing that in case conditions warrant
the wages section may be re-opened
within the next six months for the
purpose of considering additional
wage increases.
Toney Gallo, secretary-treasurer of
the National Council of United Ce-
ment Workers, assisted the local union
in it's negotiations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18
For Anti-Child Labor Law

Washington, D. C. (ILNs) s)-Joseph
T. Robinson, of Aransas, majority
leader, told the senate that he had mo
doubt" that the supreme court would
now uphold a ban on child labor such
as was invalidated by the tribunal
in 1918.
Robinson, discussing the child labor
ban in the proposed labor standards
measure, recalled his role in handling
the earlier child-labor measure.
4 have not the slightest doubt"
he added incidentally, that there
would be favorable decision on that
child labor act if it were reconsidered
by the court today"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18
Chicago Churches Assail Police
For Shooting Of Steel Strikers
SIT DOWN STRIKE SETTLED

Easton, Pa. (ILNs)-Two hundred
sitdown strikers vacated the plant Of
the Dixie-Vortex Co., paper cup man
ufactmers, after officials agreed to
drop injunction proceedings and con-
sented to an election amnog the 800
workers to determine representation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18
Wagner lndicts Tobacco
Big Four Bad Example
For Business to Follow

Four actually made net profits greater
than their labor costs and the cost of
their raw materials; more profits
than they paid to the farmers for
raising tobacco and to the workers
for manufacturing it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18

Washington, D. c. ILNS)-Only
now and then do the proven first rank
ers in economics and social better
ments devote their brains to the study
and presentation of the case against
tobacco magnates. But Robert F.
Wagner, senator from New York, and
first rank student and thinker on
any subject he tackles, has done this.
In recent article in the New York
Times magazine, Senator Wagner
picked out the dominant members of
the tobacco industry as horrible ex-
amples of how business ought not to
be conducted. Here are a few bits
from his statements:
In the tobacco industry, 153,00,-
600 cigars and cigarettes are now
being manufactured annually for
every 100,000,000 that were made
each year during the period 1923-25.
"But despite this huge increase
of So per cent in production, there
are only 81 workers in the in
dustry for every 100 employed in
that earlier period. Thirty per
cent have been thrown out of
work.
Only Owners Benefit
Instead of benefting by this
amazing chronological advance, the
average full time employee who has
kept his job is receiving a wage 20
per cent below the 1923-25 level The
consumer is paying the same old
price for his smoke-or a little more.
"Who have benefited? The own
ers and the owners alone"
The only error that Senator Wagner
made in that article was in Jumping
all tobacco manufacturers together.
In reality, what he said about wages
applies to something over 80 per cent
of the cigarette industry, and not to
the rest
Some Firms Fair to Labor
There are tobacco manufacturing
firms which deal with unions, pay
union wages, and never think of do
ing anything else. Makers of 10 cent
packages of cigarettes are in this de-
cent, union dealing group.
But the Big Four tobacco companies,
inheritors of that Buck" Duke mono
poly which the supreme court 27 years
ago dissolved so tenderly that the dis
solving added to the profits of those
who had been combined-they deserve
every criticism that Wagner passed
upon them-and more.
The Big Four are the only modern
business of large size that ever paid
rottener wages than the needle trades.
Investigations conducted by the
department of labor-shoWed work
ing tobacco stemmers on relief be-
cause they couldn't make enough
money stemming tobacco to live on.
Thrived on Depression
ODStINcIS III f1AIlSd oOIllC yCdiS aSo
noted that when the rinderpest killed
the settlers cattle and much of the
game, the vultures thrived and grew
fat. When the depression killed or
binary business in this country, the
Big Four, with true vultureine adapt
iveness, thrived more and grew fatter.
The biggest profits the Big Four ever
reaped came in those dreadful years.
when labor could be hired for starva-
tion wages, when farmers did not get
enough for their tobacco to pay for
the fertilizer bought to raise it.
Many millions of dollars in those
bitter years were distributed as
bonuses" to the insiders of the Big
Four. And in 1882, which was the
bottom Of the depression, the Big
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18

national relations act. The motion
was denied, but an appeal will be
taken.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-06-18

Fight chiselers and wage-cutters by
spending your union-earned money for
union-made products.
Evening star., 1937-12-05

"Well, now, we can't have anything
like that happen,' said the famous
Rough Rider Gust fix your shutter
and take your picture. These folks will
be glad to wait, | know"
The crowd sensed a human drama
was going on and cheered. The young
man tinkered his camera into shape
and got his picture.
Teddy" stuckouthishand. "Shake,"
he said to the youth, "and send me
print, won't your"
One time l took two-hour taxi
ride with the greatest tenor of all,
Caruso. A more genial or deferential
soul you never met anywhere.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is one of
the kindest and most modest of men.
Henry Ford is genial and unassuming.
Eugene V. Debs was humble almost to
the point of timidity. Arthur H. Comp
ton, the renowned scientist, puts you
at ease at once by his simplicity.
Ever meet Charles M. Schwab? You
want to call him "Charlie" after the
first ten minutes. On the golden ami
versary of his first job he said: "To
me, friends are more important than
simply success in business. believe
in humanity first, efficiency second"
Schwab once came to the aid of
boyhood friend who, as bank presi-
dent, faced prison on an embezzlement
charge. Hearing of the trial, Schwab
cancelled all his appointments and
rushed to the witness stand.
"He didn't mean to do it, ""Charlie"
told the court. "And if you'll turn him
loose, I'll see that no depositor loses
cent"
Samuel Gompers, for forty-four
wears the car of American labor and
every inch fighter, was yet human all
the way through. Gompers died in 1924
and as his funeral train paused at
little town in Missouri two old Irish
women laid bunch of wildAowers on
his casket. A scrap of paper, tied into
the bouquet, said "Our Sam"
Hard-boiledness is disappearing be-
cause it doesn't pay and isn't human.
We're waking up to the fact that "Do
unto others as you would have Others
do unto YOU" is about the most prac-
tical working formula there is.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
stiff upper lip and don't
be afraid to be hard boiled.
~ Remember, personalities
L.o M rI,oo =, k,,c;ooee -

A successful business man pound
ed that into my brain a quarter of
century ago when was his office boy.
admit that ruthlessness was the
accepted order of the day when savage
competition was supposed to be the
only law of life for industry; but l
deny it was the most successful proce-
dure in the long run even then, and
most certainly it is not now.
As a matter of fact, hardness more
and more signifies failure. The driver
doesn't get half as far as the leader.
Twenty years of newspaper report
ing, in which | have interviewed hum
dreds of the smallest of the small fry
and the biggest of the big fry, have
convinced me. that you can almost
measure the success of individuals by
their humanness.
The hardest individual ever con-
tacted was a deputy coroner. think
he never was more than deputy.
On the other hand, those who took
time to be human, and yet reached the
top, are legion.
One of our veteran Chicago news
paper photographers, who covered"
the Galveston food, the San Francisco
fire and other notable events, still feels
the inspiration of kindly act more
than thirty years ago by the late Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
"Teddy," who had captivated the
whole nation, was getting off boat at
St. Louis.
A reception committee of notables,
all a-jitter, waited to greet him. In front
of them was the usual battery of news
paper cameramen. Roosevelt grinned his
famous grin obligingly for the photog-
raphers.
Suddenly one of them cried out:
"Oh, lust a minute! Please, Mr..
President!
"What's the matter, my boy" asked
"Teddy," noticing the youth of the
photographer.
'My shutters on the bum and if |
don't get your picture | may lose my
jobp' the youngster said.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
Snotches

F YOU visit the "Town of To-
morrow" exhibit at the New
York Worlds Fair in 1889, you
will see a squad of industrious
laborers working away on an un-
finished house. Nothing peculiar
about that. But come back the
next day, the day after in
short, every day for couple of
weeks. Then you will begin to
doubt your own sanity, for the
laborers will be working just as
hard and the house will still be in
the same state of incompletion.
The secret is that all building
done during the day will be un-
done in the night. The object -
to show just what materials will
20 into the house of tomorrow
and just how they will be put
there. If foreman should forget
and allow the house to be finished
it would ruin the whole point -
and he'd probably be fired for
incompetency!
NExT Thursday one of the Oldest
weekly newspapers in America,
"The Washington County Post,
will celebrate its one hundred
and 6ftieth birthday. Editor and
owner is Charles J. Stevenson.
He bought the "Pcss" in 1884,
after he had discovered that one
Of his great-great-grandfathers,
on his mothers side, was its foun-
der, and another great-great-
grandfather, on his fathers side,
had been one of its former edi-
tors. Much of the old wooden
type used to announce the death
of. George Washington will be
used in printing the gala birthday
edition.
Among the many claims to
distinction of "The Washington
County Post" - which is pub
lished at Cambridge, New York
is that it issued the first
"extra'' ever published by any
paper. The "extra" came out on
February21, 1872, and announced
the hot news that on January 81
President Madison had sent
message to Congress which had
been followed by declaration of
war against England. 1t took three
weeks for the news to percolate
from Washington, the capital, to
Washington County. M.
Evening star., 1937-12-05
THIS WEEK
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by R. W. DAWSON
Cover Design by Emery Clarke
Evening star., 1937-12-05
Pre-Niews
Magazine Ssefio"

kIDNAPING, as a major racket,
has become virtually extinct -
but the conditions which made
kidnapping possible are still with
us.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, makes that alarming state
ment in the next article in his inn
portant series on the truth about
crime in America and how to con-
troll it.
The communities in which local
conditions protected the kidnaper
are now being sought out by
major gangsters of all kinds, says
the boss of the G-Men, and until
those conditions are corrected
America cannot win the war
against crime.
The defeat of kidnapping was
achieved with the help of law
abiding citizens over the entire '
country. The public again must
join the battle, says Mr.. Hoover,
before the rest of the crime army
can be routed.
Will you enlist in this citizens
war against crime? Then send for
the primer on crime control, for
which Mr.. Hoover has written an
Introductory article. 1t will be
sent to you free; simply write to
THIS WEEK Magazine, in care of
this newspaper, giving your name
and address.
And be sure to read Mr..
Hoover's article next week:
AFTER KIDNAPPING - WHAT!
Evening star., 1937-03-09

1882.
That the Democrats would gain new
seats in Congress in 1884.
That ALT M. Landon would be the
1896 Republican candidate.
That President Roosevelt would be
reelected.
His method
Percentage of Vote Decisive.
when you begin to forecast elec-
tions, pluralities mean little. It's the
percentage of the vote the party polled
that counts" he once said.
Politics is a matter of geography"
Once, at least, Hurja underesti-
mated the Democratic strength. The
day before the 1886 election he showed
friends ''peSsimist's poll' giving 1854
"sure" electoral votes to Roosevelt and
167 to Landon.
Actually the President received all
but eight-a figure which Farley hit
upon in his own prediction.
Keeps Attitude Impersonal.
The robust, heavy jawed Finn ap-
Piled to politics the same impersonal
attitude, fortified by myriad graphs
and charts, which he learned in
analyzing mines and oil properties
In Texas and later on Wall Street.
Once the 1882 election was won,
he became Farley's right-hand man,
handling patronage affairs in the Re-
construction Finance Corp. and later
in the Interior Department and the
Public Works Administration.
Hurja went into the statistical busi-
ness and thence into politics through
newspaper work in Texas. His COL
lection Of 200 portraits of Andrew
jackson is his greatest pride.
Evening star., 1937-03-09
ATLAS TACK STOCK
DEALS DESCRIBED
Member of Stock Exchange Says
He Was Advised to Cover
Short Position


~ the Associated Press.
A specialist in Atlas Tack Corp
stock told the Securities Commission
today he covered his short position in
that security in 1885 upon the advice
Of associates in the Stock Exchange
firm of W. E. Hutton & Co.
Resuming its hearing on charges
that the Hutton firm manipulated Tack
stock, the commission called as its
first witness Thomas Sloan Young,
member of the New York Stock Ex-
change since 1928, and one of several
specialists in the stock.
Young said activity in the issue was
very dull from January to November
l. 1895, but unusual activity" ap-
peared on November Is, the date on
which the commission charges ma
nipulation of the stock began. He testi-
fled he could not understand this ac-
tivity, which caused rise of 21a points
during the day, and that he took
short" position on 1900 shares.
Later. he said, Carroll v. Geran,
floor member of the Hutton firm, told
him new interests had bought into the
corporation and that prospects were
good for increased business from the
motor industry. Geran advised him
to cover his short position, he said.
Evening star., 1937-03-09

services 10 james
A. Farley In 1882,
said he would
quit polite S
within 90 d avs.
Friends reported
he would go to
work for a New
York ins urance
firm.
Hurja achieved
q reputation as q
political analyst
by predicting:
That Franklin
D. RoOS cit
would win in
JoQC
Evening star., 1937-03-09
HURJA TO RETURN
T0BUS|NESS POST
Will Quit Politics Within so
DAYS to Go With InSur-
anCe Firm.

~ the Associated Press.
Emil Hurja, who called the turn on
three elections for the Democratic
National Committee, is going back to
private business.
The gentle voiced expert in prophecy
and patronage, who volunteered his
Evening star., 1937-03-09

Japan's bicycle trust has issued a
pamphlet claiming that its IS ma
chimes will last six or seven years.
Evening star., 1937-03-09
PATENT Flowers, soc

Coy little noseeoys with field-fower
briIIionce-o glossy flash Of color for
your suit lapel, your hat, your coot
collar, your frock!
Evening star., 1937-03-09
PATENT Belts, ST

Marking slim woistlines with q eleom
Of ooIor-in every width from narrow
tubes to tWo-inch beltsl In oImost
every conceivable color-l8 in all,
including black, white, postels, coro-
notion shodes and high shades!
Evening star., 1937-03-09

New ones making q brilliant entrance
every day! Tailored bags with zip
per pockets-Top-hondIe pouches
Bock-strop frame pouches-Duchess
vonities! And whot coIors! Royol
blue, pink, yellow, green, red earth,
beige, grey, white, red, navy, brown.
black!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-12-03
SIXTH ATTEMPT

A sixth time Joe went down.
I'll explain to him." Don said
impatiently.
He jumped from the safe, dry
platform, down to the rock at the
top of the falls from which Joe
took off.
Il say, can't let this sort OF
thing be shown as my work." he
said in the English accent he was
now affecting. Put more pep in
to it, old fellow. My public de-
mands dash, you know"
Joe stood there, with his teeth
chattering, and listened while Don
explained at length about his pub
lie. Then Joe said YEARLY:
DO it yourself"
; And he gave Don a gentle but
efficient push. Dorinda saw her
, brothers long legs shoot in the
air then disappear in foam.
! She didn't worry about him. He
] was good swimmer. But for Joe
it meant, of course, his job. She
? Jumped down to the rock.
A I don't blame you a Bit" she
e said. He deserved it. And I
won't let him fire you"
Joe stopped his teeth chattering
long enough to answer.
r. I'm sorry lost my temper. I've
!. been wanting to take a punch at
T. him for weeks, but I laid off be-
J. cauSe-well, for your sake. You're
% his sister. and"
# And what?" Dorinda asked,
- breathleSsly.
~ And like you better than any
~ giri I've ever met" Joe blurted.
+ / know you couldn't be bothered
!, with me when I was only a
II standin.
e Il wouldn't have the nerve to
n tell you now, except that I landed
q that camera Job. I go to work at
r. it Monday"
CIhe Endl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-12-03

Cast of Characters in
"The Celebrity's Sister"
DON, a handsome, conceited
kid who finally crashes
stardom in Hollywood.
DORINDA, Don's sister, who
plays second fiddle to her
handsome brother.
JOE, Don'S stand-in.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-12-03
"THe CSIebrlty,S Sister,
Bv ROBERTA YATES

liver since Dornda could remember people had cultivated
u her because of Even in kindergarten little girls had
given her freely of their opop and though neither they
Dornda realized this early they were movated by
make friends with her handsome brother
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-12-03

It wasn't. It was only a differ
ence of personnel. Instead of in
fatuated girls and would-be foot
ball players, she found herself cul
tivated by actors, writer's, thu
thousand and one hangers-on o
the screen world. She wondeet
why she didn't just give up tina
silly hope Of being liked for hel
self alone.
Joe Trent gave her a big thrill
at first. She met him at a larg,
studio party and he danced will
her three times before he founc
out that she was Don's sister
Then he gave her sheepish grin