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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07
FITZGERALD HEADS MASTER PLUMBERS
Christopher Braun Retir. ing President Given Vote
 of Thanks for Efforts

Christopher Braun retired as president of tho Waterbury Master Plumbers Association last night at c banquet in Phil Becker's Grill.
 Patrick J. Fitzgerald Was elected to succeed MT. Braun, who has been president for the past two years, Other officers named are:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07

won for her Q wide circle of friends
 She Is survived by her husband; on infant daughter; her parents, George and Helen (BelD Trainor; one brother, George Trainor; and c sister, Miss Dorothy Trainor, all of this city.
 The funeral will Do held from the Mulyille Funeral Home, 270 West Main street on Thursday morning with services ct i0:30 o'clock. Tho burial will Do in new St. Joseph's cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07

financial secretary, William Gar rity: treasurer, John Gill and recording secretary, Julius Reichen- bach. state President George Wigglesworth of Naugatuck at- tended the session. The nominating committee consisted of James Lowe and John Fahy.
 Progress of the association, along the lines of membership and union activities was proclaimed by the members. A vote of thanks was given the retiring president, Chris topher Braun for his splendid efforts on behalf of the organiza- ton,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07
ANDREW MAKARY'S CASE IS POSTPONED
Bank Street Man Faces
 Charge of Liquor Law r Violation

Andrew Makary, ~, of 787 Bank street, charged with violation of the state liquor lew, was given Q con- tinuance to Dec. ii when arraigned in city court today.
 A continuance to Monday was given Charles Chamberlain, 20, of Watertown, charged with violating the rules of the road.
 A continuance to the 20th was given Joseph OConnor, 3e, of 45 Williams street, charged with evad- ing responsibility and reckless driv- ing.
 A continuance to Jan. 8 was given Leo Mangini, IS, of a Toros ave- nue, charged with failure to grant the right of way.
 A continuance to Monday waS given Vito Congero, 10, of 90 Rail- road Hill street, charged with Vio- lating the rules of the road,
 A continuance to tho 20th was given Joseph Therrien, g, of 66 Johnson street, charged with violat- ing the rules of the road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07
sTEAMsHIP BEGINS s4TH YEAR

Melbourne (UP)-The Edina, one Of the oldest steamships in the world, has just begun It's e4th year Of service on Port Phillip bay. Il served as c troop ship in the cri' mean war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07

The monthly meeting of the Holy Name society of St. Thomas church will take place tonight at the parish hall at 6 o'clock at which time Rev. Joseph Donnelly. chaplain will show motion pictures pertaining to "The Life of Christ" Sergeant Bernard Burns, chair man of the smoker committee, will report on progress made thus far In regards to arrangements for the affair In January.
 Leo Conway will preside at the business meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07

members of the Waterbury fire dc. partment.
 Funeral arrangements will be an- rounced later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-07
DTIlTII NOTICE

BIRTH NOTICE THOMPsON-A son, born Dec. 9th, 1887, nt St. Mary's Hospital, to pr. and Mrs. l.. 10. Thompson, Of W4. terford, Conn. Mrs. Thompson ih the former Miss Marion Rooves of Waterbury.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY u, 1887
AN OUTRAGEOUS INJUNCTION

The General Motors injunction is
sued by Judge Paul V. Gadola at
Flint, Mich, is an unwarranted usur-
patton of authority, and vicious IN
vasion of personal liberty.
Injunction proceedings are not IN
law, strictly so-called. They are pro
ceedings in equity. One of the first
requirements in equity proceedings IS
that the complainant must come into
court with clean hands, free from
any taint Of the lawlessness with
which he charges others.
General Motors did not come into
court with clean hands. 1t had vio-
lated the law by refusing to obey the
national labor relations act. On that
ground alone, the injunction should
have been denied.
Next, the standing explanation
excuse-for injunctions is that with
out them, the complainant will suffer
irreparable property damage. It
there is one thing more than another
that a sit-down strike does not do,
it is damage property. The General
Motors plants were not damaged. No
body, until the injunction was asked,
even pretended that the property was
damaged.
The right of peaceful picketing has
been upheld in many courts. Judge
Gadola trampled on that right. He
ordered the strikers and the union
officials to:
Absolutely desist and refrain
from picketing the premises of the
plaintiff, of lettering at or near
the approaches of the factory build
ings of said plants, or upon the pub
lie streets and highways leading to
said plants
In other words, Judge Gadola not
only denied the strikers the right to
picket, but undertook to control the
highways and streets of that whole
section of Michigan.
This injunction should be fought in
the higher courts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
SAFETY CORNER"

First aid and accident prevention
go hand in hand. The possibility of
infection makes the slightest injury
potention lost-time accident, and
may result in blood poisoning and
death.
No matter how healthy you are,
you cannot afford to take chances with
infection. 1t is not sign of bravery
to display Indifference to small in
juries.
Also remember that first aid is
only for the immediate care of the
injury while awaiting the attention
of a physician.
Here are few simple but IRON
clad rules to follow:
If injured, stop what you are do
ing long enough to get the RIGHT
KIND of first aid treatment.
Never permit anyone but doctor
or specialist, or an authorized nurse
to remove foreign particles from youl
eyes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
The Tall Stories Of ran'ther Bones

Bones. "He stood about. six inches
too closet when he larruped one with
a whip, and one of her heels caught
him fair on the side of the head, jest
back o. the temple. Knocked him gal
ley west, of course; but that wasn't
the worst of it. The calk O. that mules
shoe just peeled slice right out O.
Andy's skull and laid it back jest
hangin' by the scalp at the top; an
purity nigh a handuful of his brains
run out on the snow.
IF that had happened way out in
the woods, / reckon he'd of been a
goner. But so be it come off right
next to the bunkhouse. The cook come
runnin' to see what we was yellin
about, an when he see what had hap.
Ipened an them brains run out on the
snow, L" fix him!' he says, let me
tend to him!' he says.
eve was all willin. Cookie rur
into his kitchen an come out with {
kettle in one hand an a ladle in tht
other. He'd been mixin' batter fo
pancakes. He poured some of tha
batter into Andy's head where th
brains had run out, an fitted the piec,
of skull back in place. told yuh i
was hangin' by the scalp at the top
An then him an me, we put ban
Idage around Andy's head an carrie,
him to his bunk"
"How long did it take him to die 2
asked the foreman.
"Die?" said Gran-ther Bones. N,
didn't die. Batter took the place O
brains, just like you'd expect of
foreman. The only difference we no
ticed after a few weeks was that h,
had a lettle better manners"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
STATE LABOR ACT
DRAWN
By O.S. f. of L. Fashioned
After MIR Law

(By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio.-A bill establish
ing the fundamental principle that
workers have the right to organize in
unions of their own choosing and
vesting an administrative board with
broad powers to enforce its provisions
has been introduced in the house of
representatives.
Drawn by the Ohio State Fedora
ton of Labor, the bill was introduced
in the house last week by Represen-
tative w. H. Whetro, Lawrence coun-
ty, at the request of Thomas j. DON
nelly, legislative agent and secretary
treasurer of the federation.
The bill, identified as H. B. No. 1876,
proposes to establish an Ohio Labor
Relations Board with full powers of
investigation and inquiry to deal with
subjects of an intra-state character,
and is fashioned after the Wagner
Connery national labor relations act.
1t has been assigned to the house
committee on labor for consideration.
The bill outlaws company unions"
and guarantees workers the right of
self organization and to form labor
organizations free from any control,
domination or assistance from their
employers.
The board of three, appointed by
the governor, is given power to en-
force the principles of the measure
by defining certain actions as unfair
labor practices.
Defined in the bill as unfair labor
practices are:
1. Any interference with right OF
| employees to form organizations OF
their own to bargain collectively with
their employer.
2. To spy upon or keep under sur
veillance directly or indirectly any
activities of employees in connection
with labor organization.
3. To distribute or circularize any
black list of members of a labor or
ganization or to inform any person
of the membership of any one in 8
labor organization for the purpose Of
preventing workers from obtaining
or retaining employment.
a. To any way demand or interfere
with the formation, existence or ad
ministration of any labor organiza
tion or employees association.
5. To refuse to bargain collectively
with representatives Of employees.
| 6. To discharge or otherwise dis
criminate against an employe because
of membership in a union or labo
organization.
The board has the power to author
ize, in given case wherein a dispute
arises, what labor organization ant
what persons are the representative.
of the employees by taking a secre
ballot of employees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
Fraternally yours,
JULIUS J. UHLMANN,
Hearings on Minimum Wage
In 2 Bay State Industries

Eoston (ILNS)-Public hearings
were held at the state house in Bos-
ton, on recommendations for rates of
pay for women and minors employed
IN the brush and women's clothing in
dustries in Massachusetts, there rates
haveing been previously approved by
the Massachusetts minimum wage
commission. The approved rates for
the brush industry are "a to 321a
cents per hour. The approved rates
for the women's clothing industry are
20 to 35 cents per hour. The approval
in each case by the state minimum
wage commission was provisional.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
Glass Workers Strike
Ended By Wage Increase

Toledo (ILNS)-The six-weeks-old
Libbey- Ford Glass Company
strike was settled on January 27.
Company and union representatives
signed an agreement providing an
eight-cent-a hour increase to all
workers. Seven thousand workers
had been idle in the plant here and in
suburban Rossford, Ottawa, ILL.,,
Charleston, w. Va, and Shreveport,
La. The wage increase is expected to
add approximately $98O,OO0 annually
to the company payroll.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
ARTHUR E. HOLDER DEAD

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-Arthur
E. Holder, well known pioneer in the
American labor movement, died on
January 6 at Lake Wales, Fla. He was
66. He was a member of the concil-
iation service of the department Of la
Dor from 1925 to 1884, when he left to
make his home in Florida. Holder,
who was born in Wales, served as leg
islative representative of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, 1906-07.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
New Brains For the Foreman


1t was rainy day, and the fore
man of a gang working on bridge
near by had come into the store, and
held forth on the trials of a boss,
and how nobly he had borne them for
the better part of two hours. Gran
'ther Bones had listened with the rest,
but now he knocked the ashes out of
his pipe, sucked the stem few
times, and raised his high-pitched
voice:
yep. A boss is like to have some
troubles, though, gin'rully speakin',
he passes most of 'em along.
puts me in mind O. Andy Ket-
chunl, my boss the winter | worked in
the woods up moth. Andy had heap
o. troubles, an when they didn't
come, he jest went out an hunted 'em
First week we was in camp. one OF
the men bruk his leg, an Andy had tc
send two men an a team to take hin
out to the settlements. He jest stewec
all the time they was gone about how
it was interferin' with the work. The1
some o. the meat he'd brung turnet
bad, an he had to send down fo.
another supply-when every maj
around hos got an ak handy, you go
to feed 'em right, anyways. Thel
one of the bosses up an died; an ther'
was fire that we put out all right
but it took half the gang day t.
patch up the bunkhouse afterwards
An then, he had case o bad judg
ment."
"What was that? ?" someone asked
"He din't guess right on the lengtl
of mules hind legs" said Gran'the
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7heCherry
" Where with our
Tree li's,s j, = IA Hs,ssss ,:s st
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Families -so-called great families.
Look:
Morgan Rockefeller - Dupont
Mellon.
Dynasties of wealth, power, pride,
arrogance.
Their main interests:
Morgan: steel, railroads.
Mellon: Aluminium, oil.
Rockefeller: Oil, philanthropy"
Dupont: Munitions, cellulose, au-
tomobiles.
All have their pivotal banks, too.
And they interlock into hundreds
of enterprises.
There is no such amazing picture
in any other nation.
These men have been accustomed to
being above government.
An army of errand boys run
around and carry out the policies of
these four Industrial kings, En-
perors is a better word.
There are the Morgan partners.
Morgan makes and unmakes partners
at will. They are the voice of Mar
gan.
Alfred p Sloan heads General Mo-
tors and Knudsen does a great deal
of talking. But the voice of Dupont is
the final voice of authority.
So it is with Mellon and Rockefeller.
And all of them have their pub
licity and public relations men,
looking to see how the four en-
perors can be made to look right
eous in the public eye.
Nobody knows much about how
these men talk in private, what they
really think, or what they tell their
wives over the dinner table.
Their policies and determinations
affect millions. Sometimes it seems
as if even the might of a nations
government is insufficient to over
come their anti-social operations.
Of course there are other big
names. There are other men who con-
troll great wealth and who have great
power.
Ford, for example.
But there are no other men who
are SO greatly and so truly the mas
ters of domains that affect the cur
rents of national life.
These four-they are the monarchs
of money and industry who do not
seem to know how to live without
putting their backs against the tide
Of progress.
These four men typify and person
Iify the thing that America is trying
to put away, the thing America is
trying to escape and overcome and
get away from.
The policies supported by these
louI HaeH are LHe reason we haQ 10
have a New Deal.
And it will take all the strength
and force and ingenuity Of the New
Deal to ride in victory over the re-
action o. the Four Horsemen Of Re
action
RI
If you take the Hindenberg line Of
anti-unionists you can see built into
it the will and determination of these
four men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
ANOTHER MILITARY DICTA-
TORSHIP

The military clique has won out in
Japan. It is true that General Haya-
shi, who heads the new cabinet, is
not one of the most violent of the
military group; but it is enough that
he belongs to it, and that his ap-
pointment is satisfactory to it. The
popular parties which made such a
brave showing in the diet have not a
single representative in the cabinet.
The industrial magnates Of Japan,
protesting against constantly increas-
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They are its architects.

They are its architects.
There is here something for Amer
lea to think about.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt de-
nounced economic royalists he named
no names-but here are the emporers
of all that regiment of royalists who
would have in America an industrial
and financial despotism, without any
of the impulse of democracy in its
structure
just four families of human beings.
Four out of millions. But THE four
that ride over the millions.
Democracy must overcome despot.
ism or become submerged by it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
WHAT NEXT?
in Germany

A new competitor for board floor
ing has made its appearance in hard
wood floors of two-inch pieces in a
basket-weave pattern which are made
into grilled sections two by six feet
that may be quickly and economically
laid over old floors. The blocks COM
posing the sections are fve-six-
teenths of an inch thick. Sections are
laid with adhesive.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
FARM PAY HIGHER

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-Farm
wages averaged 103 per cent of their
pre-war level at the beginning of this
year, compared with an index of 81
a year earlier, the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics reported The in
dex is now the highest since 1881.
Farm wages declined in the last
quarter of 1886 but not as much as is
usual at that season.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-02-12
TO MEMBERS
OF Organized Labor Every
where

You are hereby notified that the
controversy heretofore pending be-
tween District No. s, International
Association of Machinists and Tool
and Die Makers, Local No. 113, part
of the Metal Trades Council of Chi
lcago, and the General Household
Utilities Company, manufacturers of
Grunow Radios and Grunow refriger-
ators, has been amicably settled to
the satisfaction of both parties. We
have every confidence that our future
relations with this company will be
pleasant and that we have established
a very satisfactory working agree
ment between our union and the COM
pany.
We ask you to give Grunow prod
ucts your endorsement and remove
their name from the "Unfair" and 1--WE
DO Not Patronize" lists Immediately.
| You are requested to kindly post
copies of this notice in your local
meeting hall, as well as to notify the
local labor press to publish this notice
in prominent place in their respect
i've papers.
/ Thanking you for your kind CO.
operation, we remain,
Fraternally yours,
JULIUS J. UHLMANN,
Sec'y-Treas.
Metal Trades Council of Chicago,
Business representative, Machinists'
Union, District No. 8.
This letter is approved and en-
dorsed by the Metal Trades Council of
Chicago.
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WISDOM

The measure Of mans life is the
well spending of it, and not the
length-Pl Plutarch.
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ing taxes, have been cowed to silent
acceptance Of the program of over
topping armament.
In word, the reconstructed Japan
ese government is entirely fit to be
an ally of Adolf Hitler, as provided
in the recent treaty between Berlin
and Toxic. The japanese made a
much harder struggle against mill
tary dictatorship than the Germans
did; but it has come to the same end.
The japanese diet at least debated
things; the German reichstag passed
all the bills which Hitler laid before
them unanimously and in seven min
utes. But military rule is probably
quite as firmly seated in Japan as
in Germany.
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Comparatively Speaking

1t is better to have whole hands and
happiness than compensation and
sympathy.
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Council of Hamilton, Ohio
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If you take the Hindenberg line Of
anti-unionists you can see built into
it the will and determination of these
four men.
Evening star., 1937-12-11
OIL FIRMS DEFEND
GAS PRICES QUOTED
Contended Figures Accurately
Represented Sales to Jobless
in Open Markets.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, Dec. 1.-THE
tenth week of the trial Of the Federal
Governments gasoline price fixing
case ended today with counsel for the
Is defendant major Oil companies
seeking to show that published QUO
tations in 1885 and 1896 accurately
represented refinery sales to jobbers
in the open market.
The indictment On which the ma ior
companies are being tried alleges
that quotations. on which the ma jor
companies contracts with the jobbers
are based, reflected the independent
refiners' sales to major companies
rather than open sales to jobbers.
The prosecution contends the quo
tations were affected by the major
companies buying prices. which are
alleged to have been high and arbi-
trary as part of q conspiracy
c. A. Carlson. an accountant for
the Gushing (Okla) refining and
Gasoline Co., testified today his firm
sold Is per cent of its 1884 output
to the ma jor companies as compared
with 10 per cent in 1885, and 13 per
cent in 1886
In cross-examination he said the
company sold SO tank cars of gasoline
to the Shell Petroleum Corp, one Of
the defendants, in 1894; ITS cars in
1885. and 40 in 1886. Then in re-
direct questioning, he said the COM
peny's entire sales to the majors in
1884 totaled about 82,5OO barrels and
in 1895 totaled 81, 900 barrels.
Evening star., 1937-12-11

docking eftward suddeny)-Why I did, and Of
it's
Reporer-Wer, did
Mr. fstH looking lettWard
making this old copitahstic job
take the railroads.
bondholders but have it
Mr.. sin looking leftward)Wel think a
rible
country the the
the common
might find ourselves with the problem
aren't all
Reporter-You naturalization.
M fgancing to the right Dih horor-Heapens hop
think such things?
need higher railroad my
friend, Jesse c.
country BY persuadn0 the Interstate
up this rate increase petition right muuing
Reporter don't naturalization?
Mr. x docking leftward)-Well I s
hat when of these
lona ones like railroads and ask
anyway. ~
Reporer-Did hear use the word monopoly
Mr. tglancng We should
not talk
the important thing shift
men VIII end this recession the way recession
depression. - '
Reporter thought believed prices we're
MI tWa-eyed-Yes (GanCng heyllp
naturally Shaking his head moment looking left
Waro no. don't that monopostic
pice-fxng practices.
Mr. K (stin looking lefward-Is hard friend
ooph