The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-12-24
SOLONS FLAY
MILITIA Use
Heed LabOr's Protests of
Misuse of Ohio National
Guardsmen

| (By Ohio Labor News Service)
Columbus, Ohio-Labor's protests
of the misuse of the Ohio National
| Guard duting labor disputes was
voiced by forty-two members of the
House of Representatives last week
when they supported an amendment
to strike out 100000 appropriation
to the militia, included in the sup
Elementary appropriations bill
The amendment, offered by Rep
resentative John T. Hewitt, Youngs-
town, was defeated by vote of az
to So, but not before W. H. Whetro,
Chairman of the House Labor Com
mittee and general organizer for
the A. F. of L., other members of the
Labor bloc and members friendly to
the cause of labor, assailed the cir
cumstances which made the additional
appropriation for militia necessary.
"The American Federation of Labor
Labor are not opposing the use of the
militia when necessity demands it, !"
Whetro declared, "but those two or
carnations are opposed to the misuse
of the National Guard, as has beer
the case recently, when organized
workers contemplate or call strike
CL - 1 ~. L. ,lo,y
ers collapse"
Meanwhile, the legislative mill Of
the special session continued to grind
slowly, as the solons consider 1873 pro-
posals placed before them, with sew
eral measures of interest to labor fig
uring in the actions of the General
Assembly
The proposed $12,500,000 building
program appeared to be doomed un-
less some method other than the re-
enactment of the utility excise tax
is found for financing it, inasmuch
as that tax has been made part of
the financial plan of a relief measure
recommended for adoption by the
House of Representatives
An amendment to a bill designed
to improve sales tax collections on
| out of-state sales was supported by
| Secretary Treasurer Thomas j Dom
nelly Of the Ohio State Federation Of
Labor. The amendment exempts sales
of ships or vessels to be used principal
| ly in interstate and foreign commerce,
and repairs, alterations, fuel and
lubricants for such ships, and was
approved by the House Taxation Com
mittee.
Secretary Donnelly pointed out that
inclusion of ship building and repair
ing as subject to the sales tax would
cripple that important Ohio industry
which now provides an estimated two
million dollar annual payroll.
Approved by the House of Repre-
sentatives last week in addition to the
supplementary appropriations bill was
measure providing a retirement
system for county and municipal EN-
ployes not included in any other re-
tirement system.
introduced in the House were meas
ures proposing amendment Of the
states housing law to conform with
the Wagner-Steagall Federal Act;
Creating a nine-member commits
sion to study ways and means of re-
habiliting the visual and physically
handicapped;
Appropriating $4,000 to the De
partment of Welfare to conduct
census of the physically handicapped
in the state between the ages Of Is and
IS.
In the Senate, a measure was in
troduced which would require the pay
ment of a uniform wage scale to en-
ployes Of the highway department
for particular types of work
Party and faction leaders in both
branches of the Assembly were rapid
lily approaching the point where an
agreeable relief plan for 1888 probab
| ~ containing $3.50 matching clause,
would be presented to the Legislators
| for action