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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Taxpayers Vote Factory
For Making of Hosiery

Durant, Miss. (ILNs)-The tax
payers of Durant will build a $4,000
factory to go, indirectly, into the
hosiery making business. The city,
voting a bond issue for that amount,
was the first TO take advantage of
Governor Hugh Whites plan for in
dustrializing the state. Under the
program, cities or counties may vote
bond issues to build factories and then
lease or rent them to manufacturing
companies.
II believe other cities will soon fol-
low suit" Governor White said. Du-
rant approved the bond issue by vote
of $50 to 19. The factory will be
leased Ito the Durant Manufacturing
Company for a period Of 25 years
and will employ $50 persons in max
| ing 5,760 pairs of hose weekly.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Lower Minimum Asked
In Wash-Healey Act

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)- -Secre-
tary Of Labor Perkins has announced
that she will advocate amendment and
broadening of the Walsh-H -Healy act
by reducing from $4,000 to $4,000
the size Of government contracts to
which it applies.
Miss Perkins presented figures
showing $50 contracts worth $27, $780,
600 had been awarded under the act
during the three months ended De-
cember % but said this consisted of
only so per cent Of government sup
ply contracts during this period.
She said there ought to be a much
lower limit than $4,000 in order to
make the act more effective and that
Sen. David |. Walsh of Massachusetts,
was about to introduce a bill to that
effect
She said the act was likely to have
the effect Of raising prevailing wages
in some areas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Connery Seeks Probe
OF Radio Trust Charge

Washington, d. G. (ILNS)-Chair-
man William P. Connery, Jr., of the
house labor committee, has introduced
a resolution to appoint a seven
member house committee to investi-
gate charges of monopoly in the radio
broadcasting field.
The resolution empowers a thorough
investigation into charges of irreg-
ularities in or pertaining to the mo-
nopoly'' in radio arising from the 1884
federal communications act, Con-
merry said. During the past year, |
have received hundreds of complaints
against alleged monopoly" he added.
Under terms of the resolution, the
speaker would appoint the committee,
which would have broad powers to
subpoena records and witnesses and
report its findings with recommends
tions for corrective legislation. if
needed
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Machine Politics Scheme
To Win Grip on Social
Security Act Assistance
Various Forms of Help Given Under Federal Law Falling
Into Hands of Local Bosses, Who Anticipate Rich
Pickings and Plan to Further Extend Control

Other schemes afoot would permit
employers with private schemes for
old age retirement to be exempt from
the terms of the social security act,
and to provide such benefits to their
workers on the employers own terms.
Tightening of Law Probable
Labor leaders in Washington realize
that an energetic fight is ahead of the
industrial workers of the country if
the benefits of the social security act
are to be preserved intact, and the
law made a success without falling
under the control of machine politics
in the industrial states. To this end it
is likely that congress will give atten-
tion to tightening up the social Sc
curity mechanism in Washington and
revamping some of the vital and es-
sential features of it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Steel Workers Ask Voice
In Pay, Work Conditions

Indiana Harbor, Ind. (ILNS) I'm
ion steel workers of two states have
sent letter to President Roosevelt,
to congress, to the supreme court and
the NLRB, demanding that they be
given a share in determining their
wages, hours and working conditions
The letter issued from a convention
Of delegates claiming to represent 81
union lodges Of 100000 steel and fab
ricating plant employees affiliated with
the committee on industrial organi-
zation in Milwaukee, Chicago, Wauke-
gan, H., Chicago Heights, Gary, Ind,
and Indiana Harbor.
Calling the steel mills employe rep
resentative plan "a device of, by and
for the industry ITSELF the letter said
I'VE, together with the owners of this
industry, shall have the say to how
many hours of labor per day we shall
perform, what our compensation shall
be and under what conditions we shall
work"
The letter asked its recipients Ito
assist US in bringing peace and tran
guilty to steel workers"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29

puued out long leather strap, about
21a inches wide, ri Of an inch thick
and perhaps 312 feet long. They stop
ped the car. They stripped all my
clothing off, ripping the pants into two
pieces, and left me in my trunks and
socks. Williams threw me over
on my face, and started fogging me
with this strap that had seen.
Assailants Not Arrested
Well, | became unconscious after a
few licks. | counted about Is Iicks.
They rolled me over on my back, one
hit me in mouth with a blackjack
and another kicked me in the stomach,
rolled me over and started IN again.
became unconscious"
He was alone when he wakened. He
staggered to a house, whose owner
gave him some trousers and took him
to where he could get treatment. He
identified positively two Of the men
who beat him, and the third was made
certain-but none of them We're even
arrested.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
LABOR MARCHES ON

"The American Federation of Labor
issued more charters for December,
1886, than were issued in any one
month since August, 1884," said Frank
Morrison, federation secretary treas
urer, in reporting a membership of
3,675,376 last December, an increase
of 1,548,58O over the membership for
the year ending August 81, 1888
Employees of the Pearl Harbor
Naval Station, Honolulu, have been
granted metal trades council local
charter by the metal trades depart
ment, American Federation of Labor
This brings into the metal trades
department the employe groups of all
naval stations and yards.
With the backing of Labor's Non
Partisan League, workers in the big
oil plants of the Standard Oil Com
pany and Tide Water Oil Company
at Bayonne, n j., are taking action
for affliation with the International
Association of Oil Field, Gas Well
and Refinery Workers.
American Federation of Labor or
ganizers have launched a campaign
for unionization Of all retail store
workers in the Dorchester and Rox-
bury districts of Boston Men and
women workers are included in the
campaign.
In drive to raise its membership
to a quarter million, the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union is
using varied methods. It's educa-
tional department caters for 10000 of
its members by classes ranging from
tap dancing to the production of the
three-act play, John Wexley's "Steep'
in addition to study classes in social
science. Numerous publications in
clude Handbook of Trade Union
Methods" and Mother Goose Goes
Union" "a trade union revision of the
well known jingles).
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Phonograh Music
For "Sit-DOwners''

New York City (ILNS)-The edu-
cational department of the Interna
tional Ladies' Garment Workers I'm
ion sent a quantity of the victrola rec
ords to Detroit to the educational de-
partment of the United Automobile
Workers, in order to liven the vigils
of the sit-down strikers in the auto
plants. The records contain 13 well
known labor songs and were used by
the Rubber Workers Union at Akron
during strikes there.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
TWO OUT OF FIVE
Farms Declared Run By
Tenants

Washington, D. S. (ILNS)-Light
on the farm tenancy evil was given
by Conrad T. Taeuber, of the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics, in
an address at Fairfax Hall College,
Waynesboro, Va. Two out of five
farms in the United States are being
operated by tenants, Taeuber declared.
In some areas of the cotton and corn
belts, he said that nine out of ten
farms are operated by tenants. In the
South, more than one-third of all ten
ants and more than half Of the Negro
tenants are share croppers.
There are more White than Negro
share troopers in the South" said
Taeuber, in pointing out relationships
between croppers and other farm
workers. The share cropper,' he ex-
planned, "is really laborer who fur
nishes his labor and that of his fam
lily in exchange for share of the
crop
Discussing rural poverty,
Taeuber cited some startling
facts. He said that "a recent sur
vey Of share croppers showed
an average net income per family
of 1912 for the year or ST. per
person. In one small area it
dropped to $38 per person, or
slightly more than 10 cents
day"
The speaker charged that neither
tenancy nor ownership has been well
managed in this country. Tenants
have to shift too often when they do
move, they lose everything they may
have contributed to capital investment
in the enterprise"
Small owners, he said, frequently
are no better off. The mortgage i'm
poses fixed charges, and often price
declines confront them with foreclo-
sure.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Private Utilities Blamed
For Lack Of Farm Service

Chicago (ILNs) Refusal Of pri-
vate utility corporations to serve
farm areas has left the U. S. motor
iously behind other civilized nations
in making electricity available to its
farmers" REA Administrator Cooks
charged here
While 80 per cent of Frances rural
communities are served by electricity,
less than 100000 Of 6,800,0O0 farms in
the U. S. in 1885 were supplied with
electricity by either privately or pub
licly owned utilities, he told the Amer
lean Economic Association.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Ma-
chine politics is casting an envlous
eye at the social security act, and
preparing for an incursion into the
rich domain afforded by the aid that
is made available to the states by the
federal government under this act.
Such aid includes grants for public
assistance to aged people, scheme
of unemployment compression, aid to
sick and dependent children and for
certain forms of vocational training,
Sometimes the grants are outright,
and again they must be matched by
the states.
But in some of the big states of the
East various forms of this aid are fall
ing into net of machine politics and
control of local political bosses. The
condition may even break the record
of the Harry Hopkins set-up in the
season just after the 1884 strike of
the United Textile Workers, when
hundreds of strikers, denied their jobs
again, found control of the local relief
situation lodged tightly in the fists of
the local mill bosses.
Politics Menace Law
Thousands of mill workers who had
been on strike, with their families,
went through desperate winter of
starvation as mill bosses ordered their
names kept off the local relief rolls.
Thus it is that machine politics is
casting a sinister shadow across the
entire scheme of federal-state aid as
provided for in the social security act.
The presumption under the federal
and state laws is that a state or
county agency charged with the task
of making an impartial examination
of each applicants case, will render a
decision based on the applicants merit
and need In every case the individual
applicant, whether an elderly person
in need or a helpless mother with de-
pendent children, must pass muster
before a state created agency.
Bosses Sway Decisions
But this is not proving to be the
case every time. The evidence is ac-
cumulating that in some localities such
applications are being granted pri-
marily at the behest of some local
political mogul.
Movements are afoot in some Of the
states to amend the federal social
security law in a manner that will
load up the lists of persons in accepted
industries with farm workers and cas-
ual laborers. Such workers do not
come under the provisions of the law
now, and their inclusion, it is felt,
would thrown an additional load upon
industrial employees and their en-
ployers to carry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
Victim of Alabama Reactionaries
Tells Story of Barbarous Attack
To Senate Investigating Committee

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)- The
La Toilette civil liberties committee
probably had the most exciting ses-
sions of its life when the witness
stand was occupied by Joseph S. Gel
ders, fogged half to death by the
self-styled champions of law and order
at Birmingham, Alabama, last fall.
Gelders is a middle aged man, who
interrupted his schooling to enlist dur
ing the war, though he never got to
France. After the war, he was var
ously occupied for time; then went
back to college, worked his way
through to masters degree, and was
assistant professor of physics at the
University of Alabama in Birming-
ham. He was the southern represent
ative of the national committee for
the defense of political prisoners.
He brought to the stand sheaf of
affdayits Of workers, from share
troopers to hod carriers, men and
women, who had been beaten up or
otherwise maltreated by company
guards or police in the South, as evi-
dence that some such organization as
that to which he belonged was needed
in that region His own difficulties
came as a result of his efforts in be-
half of lack Rarton
Given Stiff Sentence
Barton, recently out of the sana-
torium for tuberculosis, is a commu-
mist; but the communist party is a
legal organization in Alabama. He
was arrested for the crime" of hav-
ing communist literature in his pos
pession.
Can you name the publications
that they called communist" asked
Senator Thomas.
Eyes, sir" said Barton. "The Ma
ton, the New Republic, several copies
of paper called the Labor Advocate,
an A. F. of L. publication in Birming-
ham,"
For this he was sentenced to 100
days at hard labor and 500 fine,
which he was to work out at the rate
of so cents day. He worked at first
with iron shackles on his legs, walk
ing Ia miles day in them, till his legs
became infected and he was unable
to work. Gelders was trying to get
him liberated or transferred to the
sanitorium. He went to see Arthur
Green, an official of the Bessemer
| Cutoff, a separate municipal juris-
diction. Green told him that "all lead
ers in that A. F. of L. are commu-
nists," that "the T. C. |. Tennessee
Coal & Iron Coz controls Bessemer,"
and that he had better get out of
town.
Gelders Brutally Beaten
Shortly afterward, on the night of
September %, Gelders was attacked
and beaten up by three men, thrown
into an auto, in which he was taken
to lonely place, being kicked fre-
quently the while.
"As we were going down that road
testified Gelders, "a man named Will
liams who was sitting just above me,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29
ERIE RUBBER WORKERS
STRIKE FOR MORE PAY

Erie, Pa. (ILNs)-striking work
ers affiliated with the United Rubber
Workers of America closed the Con-
tinental Rubber Works on January IS,
demanding union recognition and a
pay increase.
The TO union men who went on a
strike demanded pay increase of
from 6 to 10 cents an hour.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-29

The life of labor unions depends
upon a healthy diet of union labels,
shop cards and buttons.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
E L1sTA DE CoNTRI-

REYENTES PARA T. FREN-
ITS POPULAR ESPANOL
La gaceta., 1937-01-13

bardearon aver, en- Malaga, ell
edificio Fiel consulate ingles y
una propiedad de un americana.
Intervinieron en- ell bombardeo
ell crucero Canarias y ell acora-
zado Espana, causando la muer
te a mas de>100 personals.
Persiguieron los barcos fas-
cistas al vapore mercante Ar-s
ma Mendi, que sc dirigia a Ma
laga desde ~Santander, pero no
pudieron apresarlo. Ell vapor
encall6 en- Torres Molinos.
Uno o mas barcos rebeldes
hicieron disparos sobre Valen-
cha, causando danos de impor-
tancia. Dicese que ell crucero
Canarias era ell buque principal
en- Ell ataque.
Los barcos leales respondie-
ron al fuego durante mas de 20
minutes.
Han sido fusilados en- Bilbao
por mandar informe a los fas-
cistas, Bernabe Aguirre v Fe-
Xix Ruiz.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
OREGON Y SU FEUDAL
LEY DE
CRIMINAL
Ell ga fdmOs0 case
de Dirk de Jonge

Portland, enero 13.-El fallo
de la corte suprema de los Esta-
dos Unidos en- ell case de Dirk
de Jonge ha resucitado la vieja
controversial legislativa entire
los defensores Y enemigos de la
llamada ley de sindicalismo cri-
minal.
La sentenl,ia del mas alto tri-
bunal de la naci6n deja sin efec
to la sentencia de Z amos impues
ia a Jonge porque habia toma-
do parte en- I'm mitin del parti-
do Comunista, al cual pertene-
ce. Anteriormente ell tribunal
supreme del estado habfa man.
tenido la constitucionalidad de
la ley.
Interviniendo en- la politica
con caracter reaccionario, la
Legion Americana venfa apo
yando la ley, que era combat
da por la Federation Obrera del
Estado y Ia Granja del Estado.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13

rPatrone's Bakery; La Carioca
Cafe; Petralia Barberfa; David
Gonzalez; Pedro Guerra Filling
Sta; Puleo Grocery; Puleo
Feed Store; j. and P. Grocery
Delgado's Dept Store; ~ Bien
P1blico DrrgStors%M ano y
Puleo Cafe; MistIetta Grocery;
Lombardia Grocery; Aglianos
Fish Market; Capitano's Gro
Gerry; Ell Future Obrero; Pace
Vinagre, Barberfa; Sardinas
Filling Station; Hernandez Gro
Gerry; Jose Rosado; Juan Las
Sus; Jose Franco; Liberty Max
'Argintar; Greco's, Inc; La
France; Ray Mesquida; lCuer-
'vo's Cafe; Margarita Store; Ma
rie's Beauty Parlor.
Con 80 cts.: Casino Barberia.
Con Is cts: Tom McAnn; De
Elio ;Melchor de la Parte; Ma
nuel Diaz; Broadway Barberfa ;
Ell Palacio; De Luxe Bakery;
Spoto y Castellano; Latin-Ame-
rican Furniture; Flores Store;
italian American Emp. Barbe-
ria de Pedrito; Jose Fuentes;
D. Silva; Isidro Casalin; A.
rMontero; Delgado's Famous CT
gar; Jose Tejido Grocery; Felo
Barberia; Richards Barberfa;
Spoto Shoe Shop; Cusumano
Grocery; Eagle Filling Station;
Eagle Shoe Shop; Ell Frente
Popular Grocery; West Tampa
Poultry; ?. Velo; Ell Cometa
Grocery; La Habanera Botica /;
Charles Place; Amorelli Shoe
Shop; Ferlita Grocery; Econo-
mical Shoe Shop; A.ByC. Cafe;
G. G. Grocery; Tony Tomassi-
no; Ramon Cigarran; Rosendo
Martinez; EugeRio Canil; Adol
TO Fernandez; Nicolas Herman
dez; West Tampa Tren de La
La gaceta., 1937-01-13

/ Contribuy6 con $1,000: Jo-
sc Suarez Fernandez.
Con $500: Franklin Mems
Shop.
Con $500: Luciano Lopez,
Fernandez y Garcia; Lido Ca
fe; Cafe Columbia Eerreteria
de Spicola, Inc; Gold Lion
Rakry; ". Rey Grocery.
Con $500: Antonio Lopez,
nevero; Manue. 8ouza Rodri-
guez; Guillermo Alvarez; Ma
nuel Fojo; Anto0io Vale; A
malio Munoz Mendoza; Fer
Hnandez y Vega; Mueblerfa de
Juan Baamonde; Naviera1
fee Mills; Florentin9 Fernan-
,dez; Fonte Poultry; La Regu-
ladora Coffee Mills; American
Spanish Cafe; Adolf Marti-
nez Groerys@Vicenta leone
Bros. Grocery q Flo
raj; E. M. Car 10y; Ha
bana Grocery Aleman Ferre-
terra; Cooperative La Nuova
Vita; Royal Lunch; West Tam
pa Bakery; Victor Fernandez;
Polo Norte Cafe; Optimo Res
t%aurant; Main y Armenia Fill
ing Station; Jack Pote Cafe;
Bronx Bar Cafe; 4th of July
Cafe; Eagle Drug Store; Ata
lanta Restaurant; Diaz Restau;
rant; Bernardo Tomas; Coope
rativa La Familiar; Ell Segun'
do Progreso; Ideal Coffee
Mills; Sastrerfa ell Encanto;
Express Cafe; Ell Buen Gusto
Restaurant.
Con SO cts: C.. Miravalles;
Francisco Palleiro; Two Bros.
Bakery; ~Latin-American Res
taurant; Mario's Service Sta;
The Friend Club; La Flor Gro
Gerry; Espina Feed Store; Sal
cines y Lopez; La Nina Groce-
ry; Bombero Grocery; La Po-
pular Bakery; fremont Cafe;
Breton Drug Store; Bisagra
Cafe; Franklin st. Restaurant;
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
Cr6ese que ell mando' fascist

Cr6ese que ell mando' fascista
reconcentrafa ahora sus esfuer-
EOS en- ell proposito de aisiar Ell
Escorial, importante poblaci6n
de enaceA30 millas de Madrid.
Los contraataques de las mi
ll:ias y las brigadas i~nternacio-
males Sc llevaron a termino des-
de Ell Escorial a Las Rozas y
Aravaca, incluyendo Pozuelo de
Alarc6n Y Ell Plantio.
Otras poblaciones de la pro-
vincia de Guadalajara han cal
do EN- poder de los soldados lea
les.
Ell gobierno ingles, segun un
despacho de Londres, rehus6 a.
yer la petici6n rusa de que su
ascuadra Sc encargue de vigilar
la navegaci6n neutral.
Una demanda de Italia so
IRE $500, O0O,O 900 depositados
N bancos extranjeros a nembre
de partlculares, con ell fin de
protegerlos de la rapina fascis-
ia, ha sido preSentada al comite
de no-intervencion, que la estu-
diara. Italia cree que csc dine
70 no debe ser tocado hasta que
termine la guerra civil espafo-
la. La intenci6n de Mussolini es
quitarle recursos al gobierno
leal.
Los rebeldes, por medic de
sus barcos y la aviaci6n, bonn
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
En- la legislature de 1886 ell

En- la leglSla@lra ue 1859 FL
senador Zimmerman present6
un proyecto de ley para abolir
esa legislation reaccionaria, pc
70 su proposition fue derrota-
da, por % votoS contra Z.
Frente a su derrota en- ell tri-
bunal supreme de la naci6n, los
partidarios de esa ley piensan
presentar otra medida en- la We
nidera legislature.
Ell mas imp0rtante lperi6dico
del estado, ell Portland Orego-
MAN, republican,, dice que la
pini6n de la Lorte suprema, sien
do ponente ell magistrate pre-
sidente Hughes, debiera llevar
a los legislatures a anular esa
ley. Aseglrase que ell principal
obstaculo a la demanda 10 es ell
gobernador Martin, que Sc We
MIA negando a conceder a Jonge
I'm indulto.
AsegGrase gu dentro de pocas
semanas ell estado de Washing
ton anulara su ley de sindicalis-
me criminal, que es similar a la
de Oregon.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
DEL

Dicen de Marsella que ha lie
gado ALI ell vapor Tormontane
con I'm cargamento de ORC, pro-
'piedad del gobierno republica-
no de Espana, valuado EN- $21,-
252, 1000. Sc llev6 ell dinero a la
sucursal del Banco de Francia
en- esa ciudad.
Mas tarde Sc lie transportara
a Paris y quedara a disposition
del gobierno de Valencia.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13


vado; O. Perdig6n Coffee Mil |;
Mi5tretta Grocery; West Tam
pa Zapateria; Salom0n Store;
Nick Genex; Charles Place; La
Ha'sanera Grocery; Selestinp
Diaz.
Con Is cts: Amorell Store
Tony's Market; Henry Clay;
1884 7th Ave.
Con 10 cts: Monte Bros.
Benny Brocery; Riverside Shoe
Shop; Manolo Place; Mistretta
Grocery; Columbia Bakery.
IL de Enero, 1887.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
LAS MILICIAS REPUBLICA-
MAS HAN OCUPADO r
~POBLACIONES EN- Qua
DALAJARA
Bombardearon los facciosos a
Malaga y Valencia

Madrid, eneros13--La ofen-
silva de la stropas leales ha te-
nido I'm complete exito, seg1n
las notfcias oficiales, y los fac
ciosos han sido echados de las
posiciones que habfan tornado.
Esto significa, en- opinion del
mando leal, que la capital no
caera.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13
CELEBRARA N DE
ELECCIONES LA UNION
DE ESCOGEDORES

El venidero jueves celebrara
junta general extraordinaria de
elecciones zen ell Centre Obrero,
la Union de Escogedores Alta.
A las 8 de la nd1he comenZa-
ra la reunion, segun ell secreta-
rio. Suplicase la asistencia de
todos los escogedores.
La gaceta., 1937-01-13

Especial para Hall
BESIDE 35 centavos por
yarda cuadrada.
Pequehas alfombras
de 10 cts. para arriba