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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Institutes Arranged

Columbus (OLNS)-The workings
of the Ohio unemployment compensa-
tion law will be explained by one OF
the members Of the Ohio unemploy-
men compensation commission at So
cial Security Institutes arranged IN
three cities next week.
Institutes will be held in Youngs-
town, July 26; Springfield, July ~,
and Cincinnati, July 28, under the
direction of representatives OF the So
cial Security Board at Washington.
These Institutes are arranged Tor
the purpose Of acquainting the gen
eral public with the functions OF the
various branches of the social secur-
I ity program, and are staged in cities
requesting them.
The Ohio unemployment compensa-
tion commission is composed Of Chair
man Charles Leasure, public repre-
sentative; Will 7. Roberts, labor rep
resentative, and Walter Mackey, EN-
ployer representative. Fred /. Biech-
ele is executive director for the COM
mission.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
CANADIAN
PAPER COMPANIES
Give Wage Increases OF 8 To
10 Cents

Montreal (ILNS)--The corporate
state legislation of Quebec's union ma
tional government has been invoked
by four large English and Canadian
owned paper companies, Anglo
Canadian, Consolidated, Lake st. John
and Paper Co. They have conceded
wage increases of s to 10 cents an
hour, making the basic rate 40 cents
an hour for mill workers.
''There has always been a threat of
trouble because the men belonged to
either international or local unions"
said spokesman Of the companies.
"By going under the government act
and dealing directly with the men,
and having the agreement ratified by
order-in-council, the probability of fu-
ture trouble is minimized. If en-
ployers and employees work together
we can, by taking advantage of the
act, have in Quebec the greatest in
dustrial peace of any country in the
world"
What collective bargaining was
done was with representatives of em-
ployes hastily organized to select rep
resentatives, and declared a "bona
ide" union by the provincial minister
of labor.
Arbitration growing out of the re
cent strike in the Montreal dress man
ufacturing industry has set new min
imum wage rates, involving in some
cases increases of 10 per cent. The
new rates include: operators anc
sample makers 361a cents an houl
and SIG weekly; wrappers "a cents anc
SIS; finishers 281a cents and $3.50;
male pressers 541a cents and S2400t
female pressers 361a cents and SIG
general hands 25 cents and S11.
The heretofore competing organiza
tions, the Dress Manufacturers Guild
and the Canadian Dress Manufactur.
ers' Associations, have combined anC
will ask that these rates be enforced
by law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23

agencies dominated by the company
AS result. many of the employees
have worked in this plant for years
and are now in the red to the com
pany.
81 know of one man who has worked
there Is years, doesn't receive cent
of cash pay, and owes the company
money today"
State Senator Mason G. Owlett is
named as lobbyist for the corporation
The leather workers are on strike;
19 of them have been thrown in jail
on charges which Hayden declares are
trumped up; and he and his witnesses
avowed that veritable reign of ter
ror is being staged in this field BY
company thugs and local officials who
are under company control.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Higher Pay Strike Won
By Telephone Operators

Eighty-seven switchboard operators
employed by the Warren Telephone
Company Of Warren, Ohio, recently
won an eight-hour strike for wage
increases and improved work condi-
tions. The operators were members
of the International Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers.
Shortly after 10000 instruments in
Warren were silenced, Ralph Mater
company manager, said that the com
pany had granted SO per cent of the
operators wage increase demands and
had agreed to pay the other SO pei
cent if the Ohio Public Utilities Com
mission would allow rate rise The
operators returned to work on this
basis.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23

aLaR Rientao will bear the union Label
of the organized cigar makers.
r. E. Van Horn, international pres
ident of the Cigar Makers lnterna-
tional Union of America, stated that
these brands add to long list OF
union made cigars which can be pur-
chased in every locality and urged
labor unionists to give as much puD-
licity as possible to all union lapei
cigars. !.
/. M. Ornburn, former president oil
the Cigar Makers International
Union, and now the secretary-treas-
urer of the union label trades de-
partment, urges all members OF or
ganized labor to smoke only union
mades" and to get their friends to
always ask for union label brands.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
WORKS
Is Years; Gets No Pay

Harrisburg, Pa. fILNS) This state
capital is still gasping in angry amaze
ment at the story Of man who work
ed Is years for one firm, and never
drew dollar Of pay
He worked for the E. H. Ellison Co.
which operates a huge tannery in
Tioga county, at Elkland. Elkland is
company town, with company
store at which the workers must
trade, whether they wish to or not; a
company doctor, and a number of
other devices for reducing wage
workers to virtual slavery
But Pennsylvania has a new Bu-
reau Of Civil Rights and Public In
formation, result oi recent reforms !;
and Harold v. Hayden, national or
ganizer for the Leather Workers
Union, took account Of that fact. He
took witnesses and went to Gov.
Earle's office with charges against the
company which revealed conditions
almost unbelievable"
"The men are compelled to trade
with a company controlled store" he
said, "and receive medical aid and
other necessary services through
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
FRIDAY, JULY %, 1897
THE HENRY FORD MYTH

The NLRB hearing now going on in
Detroit may make the American peo-
pie understand that Henry Ford is
not a somewhat queer philanthropist;
but one of the most capricious of in
dustrial overlords. Service men" in
the Ford plant, are charged with hav-
ing criminal records. One of them
has testified that he was ordered to
beat up anyone trying to distribute
union literature; and another that he
was told to kick OUT the plant work
ers found to be pro-union.
Aside from the anti-union craze,
men are said to have actually been
fired for speaking to each other in
the plant.
Much Of this is history to persons
who have studied Ford methods. A
book printed five years ago told the
story now being heard on the witness
stand. That book speaks of the hor-
rible psychological effect of the spy
system which permeates every nook
and Granny at the River Rouge" The
book says Of these workers: Hour
after hour, day after day, they re-
peat the same simple operation, plac-
ing crank shaft on a conveyor hook,
for instance. They become so habit
uated to it that they can and do per-
form it with their eyes shut They
have no need for consciousness. Their
muscles move, though their brans are
dead.
"They must not speak word to
the man next to them. They must not
rest for an instant. If their machine
ceases to produce, a bell rings out and
foreman comes running"
Perhaps, with an official stamp on
such testimony, the myth Of Henry
Ford viii disappear.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
GREEN MAY SPEAK
AT DAYTON MEETING
Broadcast Opening Session
State Labor Convention
(By Ohio Labor News service)

by Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus. President Wilham Green
Of the American Federation of Labor
has been invited to make the princi-
pal address at the opening session Of
the 53rd annual convention Of the
Ohio State Federation Of Labor al
the Biltmore Hotel, Dayton, the week
of July 26, Thomas j. Donnelly, sec
retary-treasurer of the State Fedora
ton, announced last week.
Plans are also being made to broad
cast the opening sessions of the con-
vention over a Dayton radio station,
with the possibility of chain hookup
with other radio stations in the state,
Secretary Donnelly announced. A more
detailed announcement Of this plan
will be made when arrangements are
completed.
Spencer Miller, Jr., director, Work
ers' Education Bureau of America,
who will be the principal speaker at
conference on workers education
to be held Monday evening, July 26,
in conjunction with the convention,
will be invited to address the conven-
tion proper
At Springfield last year, Mr. Miller's
address to the convention of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor was re-
ceived with acclaim and a resolution
adopted to have the speech printed in
pamphlet form for distribution to the
entire membership of the federation.
Indications point to a greater num-
Der Of accredited representatives Of
labor onions affiliated with the fed
Grafton in attendance this year than
last, despite the fact that 81 local un-
ions were dissociated from the Ohio
State Federation Of Labor, June 26,
1887, because Of their support Of the
Go.
Secretary Donnelly estimates that
between 400 and 500 delegates, alter
mates and visitors will have register
ed at the convention headquarters in
the Biltmore Hotel before the con-
vention headquarters in the Biltmore
Hotel before the convention gets down
to the serious business at hand.
A delegation of more than 100 Gin
cinnati trade unionists under the
leadership Of President Jack Hurst,
Of the Central Labor Council, will rep
resent that city in the convention,
according to reports.
Similar interest in the convention is
being evidenced by trade unionists
throughout the state, as many impor-
tant problems confronting the state
labor movement will be considered
and action taken at this convention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Kewanee Boiler Corporation
Agree To Closed Shop

Kenwanee, I'll. (AFLNS)-A union
shop agreement providing that every
employe must be member of the
American Federation of Labor unions
has been negotiated with the Kewanee
Boiler Corporation.
Union officials report that about
$50 members Of the Boiler Makers
Union and around $50 members of
the Molders' Union are employed in
the plant.
The workers employed by the COM
pany repudiated the G. |. o. and
joined the American Federation of
Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
LAYS CORNERSTONE

Telling those near him that he had
his union card in his pocket, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Monday, scooped up
a trowel full Of mortar, and laid the
corner stone Of the new federal trade
commission building, Washington, D.
G. It is called the Apex building, be
cause it fills the triangle made by
Pennsylvania and Constitution ave
nues.
Most of the great federal commits
sions," said the president, were set
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Four Building Trades
Councils Established

Building Trades Councils have been
established in Fremont, Bowling
Green, and Tiffn, Ohio, and Monroe,
Michigan, by the organizing commit
tee Of the Toledo Building Trades
Council
The Fremont council started off
with 325 members, Monroe with $50
and Bowling Green with 280, making
total Of 855 new members in these
towns. In Tiffn more than 100 men
had signed up when the application
for charter was sent to the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23

up in the belief that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth pound of cure
Prevention of unfair business prac-
tices is generally better than punish
ments administered afterwards.
"The vision of Woodrow Wilson has
been vindicated again"
The federal trade commission was
created at the express urgency Of
President Wilson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Union Label Carried
By New Cigar Brands

Washington, D. C.-The union label
trades department of the American
Federation of Labor announced that
the Cooney Bayer Cigar Company of
Fort Wayne, Ind, has signed an
agreement with the Cigar Makers In
ternational Union Of America. The
factory is completely unionized and
the new brands, Lady Wayne" !"
"Coony's Broadleaf," "Win Croft" and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
WHEELBARROW STRIKE

The manufacture of wheelbarrows,
which also is located in Lansing, Mich,
by concern which has pioneered
rubber tires on it's wheelbarrows, has
now also been dignifed by strike
of its own. The Automobile Workers
Union is also officiating in this strike
charging the company with Placing
irritating obstacles in the path O
collective bargaining
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
LACK OF UNION LABEL
Bellies FRIENDSHIP PLEA

Toronto (ILNS)-The sympathetic
attitude Of the Ontario conservative
party to organized labor is the sub
ject Of brochure issued by the party
campaign committee. The brochure
does not show a. union label or the
name of the printer. Union men are
returning it with observations on one
way to prove sincerity.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
WHAT NEXT?

Impossible as it may seem to de-
velop brand new uses for Cellophane
E. /. DUPONT de Nemours & Co., Will
mington, Del, reports that its yer
satile material is being used success
fully in the restoration of damaged
or completely absent ear drums. The
film used to take the place of the
natural eardrum is only o00o88 in
thick.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
TheCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pre-
foundly, sometimes Gippantly,
sometimes recklessly.


itself into lot of tangles these days.
One day there are reports that the
Russians and the Japanese are taking
pot shots at each other and the next
day it's the Chinese and the japanese.
Nobody knows whether the war in
Spain is a war between groups of
Spaniards, or between Spaniards and
Africans, or between Italy and Rus
sia, or who fits where or why.
The world is going through pretty
painful process, trying to wiggle and
squirm out of lot Of old clothes into
some new ones-and it seems to have
no very clear idea what kind of new
ones it wants.
To quote Shakespeare, ''it's mess
or maybe it was Doc. Townsend who
said it.
Speaking of Doe Townsend, what a
| skyrocket he turned out to be. Up
high, down hard.
A lot of folks have described that
beautiful arc before and the Doc isn't
the last one. There will be others tc
follow suit.
The laws of physics seem to apply
in the realm of economics as well as
in the realm of solids. Perhaps
that's because there are so many sol
ids in the realm of economics.
Who knows?
Our own labor movement isn't SC
very different from the surrounding
world.
We may find some repetition OF
other history before we get through
with that, too.
Well, in the end, or somewhere near
the end, people may find out what
! they want and maybe they'll get it.
There's talk of a third federation.
/ Maybe you didn't know that.
/ Well, why not? Why shouldn't
there be somebody to follow the ex-
ample?
The suspicion is that somehow, by
some funny business, employers are
seeking to federate their pet unions
into something like company-unior
federation.
You thought company unions were
"out?"
i Well, brother, not yet. Not yet. The
breed persists, though the form
changes somewhat.
It's maybe a cockeyed world, but its
the one we live in.
There are so many things wrong
with the way organizing work is be
/ ing carried on that the doors are wide
open for funny business.
AS a matter of fact the wonder is
that SO many join unions.
But it is NO wonder that so many
don't stick. Or don't know what to dc
when they get in, or what it's al
about, or why the world isn't going
to shower benefits all over the place
right off the bat.
Oh well, the world moves along
and perhaps that's enough. 1t moves
/ And it remains the truth that the story
Of the world, by and large, from the
start to now, is one of rather steady
human progress.
When we remember that for many
centuries men reaped grain with
sickles, and that the whole modern
machinery plant came within about
I 200 years, with its real development
a matter Of the last half century OF
less, maybe it's a good idea to curh
impatience.
And yet, impatience of foolishness
does seem a rather healthy thing after
! all
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
WISDOM

A lifetime of happiness! No man
alive could bear it: it would be hell
on earth, George Bernard Shaw
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23
Strikebreakers Sit Down

A unique strike recently occurred
in Nova Scotia when 70 strikebreak
ers deposed a group Of highway
workers from their jobs near New
Glasgow and then resorted to a sit
down strike Of their own.
The highway workers walked out
demanding an increase of three cents
per hour to their 27 cents per hour,
but had returned to work when the
strikebreakers arrived on the scene.
The strikebreakers ordered the reg
ular workers to the side of the road,
and then sat down under two steam
shovels, thus preventing any further
work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23

Permanent prosperity will come
when the consuming public buys only
union label products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-07-23

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Telephone 1925 Hamilton. Ohio
Evening star., 1937-11-11

diminish. The need is evidenced by
the fact that the peace-time work load
is being met only by resort to two
and three shifts in many of the impor-
tant shops. This is of consequence
in that, if facilities are so limited that
shifts are necessary for the peace
time work load, there exists no ready
means of expansion in an emergency"
Delays Corrected.
Under the head Of progress" Ad-
miral Bowen said:
THE studies begun by the bureau
have been continued and amplified.
The navy yards and the bureau, as a
result, have been able to coordinate
their efforts in procuring and designing
machinery for new construction ac-
cording to the predetermined program
established Causes of delay are now
definitely traceable to their source
and in the great majority Of cases
have been removed. Attack is how
being made on the fundamental causes
OF delay which are slowly being elimi-
mated. Follow-ups on delayed mate
rials or plans have become routine
function resulting in materials being
delivered more in accordance with their
contract delivery dates and the volume
Of correspondence with navy yards
considerably reduced"
Evening star., 1937-11-11

to be the occasion for civic and state
ceremonies The airport is to be dedi-
Gated officially before the end of the
year
The new Baltimore airport is being
constructed by reclaiming 800 acres
Of land from Baltimore Harbor.
Bulkheads were constructed and 49,
100000 cubic yards of fill have been
poured into the area. Runways for
land planes and permanent buildings
for public hangers and administra-
ton offices will be completed next
year, Flying boat terminal facilities
have been provided for the Bermuda
service. The airport is miles by
motor boat and miles by main
highway from the heart of Baltimore.
by building its airport at tide
water" the Baltimore Association Of
Commerce explained, Baltimore has
become the only city on the Atlantic
Coast with modern municipal air
port for both land and sea planes"
In the effort to build up an inter-
national and coastwise flying boat
service heavier -thsn-air craft in for
eign or coastwise commerce have been
specifically exempted from Maryland
taxation.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
BALTIMORE PLANE
TERMINAL READY
City Launches Campaign to
Make 1t Key Airhase on
Middle Coast.

With construction of its new S.
100000 air terminal nearing compile
ton and plans completed for the
transfer there from New York of the
American terminal of Pan-American
Airways and British Imperial Air
ways, Baltimore has launched a CAM
paign intended to make that city the
most important air base along the
Middle Atlantic Coast.
The Baltimore campaign, in view of
the lack in Washington of adequate
air transport facilities, is regarded
as likely to cut strongly into the VOL
ume of air transportation handled in
the future in the National Capital.
The joint Pan-American-B British air
service between the United States and
Bermuda is to be transferred to the
new Baltimore base Sunday This
route is the first leg of proposed trans
Atlantic air service, to be opened next
spring.
All Baltimore land plane service will
be transferred to the new airport
next year. Arrival of the first Ber-
muda clipper in Baltimore Sunday is
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Drexel Alumni to Dine.

Herman v. Schreiber, 1907 Hunt
ington street NV, is member of
the committee sponsoring a dinner
at the Penn Athletic Club in Phila-
delphia Monday for alumni of Drexel
Institute of Technology who have been
out of college 25 years or more. Other
Washington alumni plan to attend.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
TO MEET
New Association to Elect Officer

Tonight.
Great Predictions and Their Full
ailments" will be the subject Of a
talk by Ernest A. Grant at the WASH
ington Astrological Association meet
ing at 8 o'clock tonight in the Ra-
leigh Hotel 1t is planned to- adopt
a constitution AMI elect officers for
the newly formed organization at this
meeting.
A technical discussion on astrology
and an open forum will be held. The
meeting is open to the public.
Evening star., 1937-11-11
NAVY ENGINEERING.
NEEDS ARE C|TED|
Rear Admiral Bowen Calls
for Additional Repair
Facilities.

The inadequacy of funds for full
maintenance and the difficulty of
preparing machinery estimates for new
construction were cited today by Rear
Admiral Harold @. Bowen, chief Of
the Bureau of Engineering, Navy De-
partment, in his annual report to
Secretary Swanson.
"In the opinion of this bureau, the
repair facilities afloat are now operat-
ing at the limit of their capacity and,
to prevent retrogression, additional
facilities or additional funds for Navy
Yard work are in order" Admiral
Bowen wrote.
"The most difficult task of the
bureau at present is preparation of
machinery estimates for new construc-
ton. The estimates are based on a
very brief skeletal outline of a con-
templated new vessels characteristics.
In the face of rising price trends, the
bureau has found preparation of its
own cost indices necessary and also
curves showing relative cost values of
different items of machinery such as
turbines as compared with some STAN
dard unit as horsepower. These curves
have permitted more accurate and
rapid computation of machinery cost
and better predictions as to probale
cost at projected future dates"
Diesel Engines Added.
Admiral Bowen declared "the Diesel
ization of power-boat machinery, of
major Importance because Of the elm
ination of the great fire hazard in the
use of gasoline engines, has progressed
materially during the year. All new
ships going into commission have been
so equipped
The chief of the Bureau of Engineer
ing said satisfactory progress has
been made in the construction of the
new radio receiving station at Chelten-
ham, Md, and it is expected the station
will be commissioned by January,
1888"
The need for tools, Admiral Bowen
said, continues to grow rather than
Evening star., 1937-11-11
Australia Wheat.

Australia harvested over 100000
900 bushels of wheat this year.
The Washington times., 1937-04-16

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