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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30

O1Q QG04AlAACs
We got big laugh last week
outta Luke RAIDER, the Lake Street
evangelist who raped "Father" Di-
vine. The Rev. RAIDER could not I'M
derstand how white people could
worship a Negro as tits reported
he used the offensive epithet n-r)
God. There are a lot of people who
can't understand why Jesus Christ
had to be Jewish. In fact, there are
those who would deny that fact.
:. Not that we think that Divine
is anything else but a religious
faker, but we do get a laugh out
of a fellow like RAIDER rapping a
fellow evangelist like Divine. The
humor is obvious to those who have
followed the careers of both men.
Of course, Divine is a "big timer"
and the local Rev. is just a kero-
sene circuiter.
We imagine that there is a slight
twinge of jealousy in those rei-
gious racketeers who are not able
to reach the position of the Father
Divines and the Annie McPhersons.
Divine has been lucky that he
has gotten so far without being
jailed or framed. Not that he is
necessarily doing anything unlaw-
full, but because he has dared to
play Messiah to thousands of
whites as well as blacks. It's all
right for Negroes to worship a
black man, but please don't let
white folk get to doing the same
thing. Brother Divine will find this
out, if he hasn't as yet. One thing
about the good brother is that he
does feed his flock, that's more
than Brother RAIDER does.
The little lady who bombarded
her former hubby with glasses and
other handy feminine implements
of husband warfare, in a night
spot two weeks ago, told her
friends she just "boiled over" and
couldn't help herself. We believe
you, chile. Tommy Douglas
and his gang Of young musicians
will swing on down at the Rainbow
Gardens, May "a. We haven't
heard them, but they tell US that
Gordon Parks Savoy Orchestra is
a bunch of swinging cats which is
the musicians way of saying they
are "red hot. All the talk
about the offays paying only 35c
to hear Fletcher Henderson, is so
much moonshine. The whites paid
6Oc. In Chicago, st. Louis and
Kansas City, which are not out of
the way stations, as are the Twin
Towns, the sepians gladly pay
from 90c to $1.00 to hear the top
bands. Cedric Adams was off
when he said, in last Monday
nights Minneapolis Star, that Duke
Ellington was coming to the Min
neapois Hennepin Orpheum in
June. Fact of the matter is, as we
announced several weeks ago in
this column, Cab Galloway and his
gang are scheduled for the Or
pheum beginning June 4. Adams
is all wrong. AND the band won't
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30
ST. PAUL CLASSIFIED

General hauling, ashes removed. Prices
reasonable. Elkhurst OSSS. A. L. Preston.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30
Twin Town Talk

An those Twin TOwne who thought had abandoned and u
tied ship especially those who phond find why this column
did last When old Twin doesn't
show it's simply because he that be- think there
thing important to in this sheet else fail make the
oldde
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30

Herbert Howell of Sumner
Sweet Shop can make better cOf-
fee than any woman in the Twin
Cities.-Adv.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30

You Can Always Enjoy Yourself at
ELKS REST
148 Hyland Minneapolis
Cafe In Connection
Open House Saturday
Night Each Week
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30

Tommy Douglas and his Great
Band, Rainbow Gardens, May "a.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30
By Jimmy Lee

The Twin Cities Golf Club will hold the first
morning. May 2ndpay being held St.
meeting will be held Immediately after the
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-04-30
ROOMS FOR RENT

Furnished large fine housekeeping front
room. married couple, rent reasonable. AT
LANTTC 7546.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
LABOR HEAD ASKS
WAR AGAINST CIO

Lowell, Mass. (ILNS) - President
John F. Gatelee of the Massachusetts,
State Federation of Labor, opening
the Federation's 52nd convention here,
promised a militant membership cam
paign in mass industries by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, and urged
the convention to fight the "rebellious
and insidious' Committee for Indus
trial Organization.
Gatelee described the ousting a
fortnight ago of 49 Massachusetts To-
Gals affiliated with the G. |. O. as only
"a warning of declaration Of war"
Between communism and the fas-
cism exemplified in the Johnstown
Citizens committee, the A. F. of L.
must march down the middle and up
hold American ideals" Gatelee said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
British Labor Action
Keeps Wages on Rise

London Through trade union action
or through the operation Of union
agreements and arrangements made
by joint bodies, some 100000 work
people have received increases in the
first half of this year in their weekly
full-time wage rates amounting to ap-
proximately f413,000 a week.
In June there was an increase Of
about $4,000 in the weekly full-time
rates Of 684,0oo workpeople.
The net increase in weekly wage
rates in the first six months of last
year was f274,45O, affecting about
2,011,000 workers.
On the other hand, there was a
three-point rise in the cost of living
index in June. The index number on
July stood at 55 per cent above the
level of July, 1914, as compared with
81 per cent in the previous month. The
cost of living index has risen II points
since July last year. Food prices are
rising more rapidly than the general
cost Of living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
Apprenticeship Council
Begins Work in Indiana

Indianapolis, Ind. (AFLNs.) - The
Indiana Apprenticeship Council re-
Gently organized by the Indiana di-
vision of labor, is seeking a state-ap-
proved apprentice system for the
plumbing and printing trades as an
immediate objective, with similar sys-
TENS for other trades to follow, partic-
ularly in the building, machine and
service industries.
The council is composed of represen-
tatives of industry, the general public
and labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
and surrounded it with unquestioned
safety. Nothing less will keep faith
with the workers who are paying this
fund from their pay envelopes.
SAYS PEACE" DEPARTMENTS
NEEDED

If international strife is to be abol-
ished, then the nations of the world
must establish departments of peace,
and not departments of war, in the
view of DR.. C. Macfie Campbell, pro-
fessor Of psychiatry at Harvard uni
versity, who spoke recently at con-
vention of the American Psychiatric
Association, in Pittsburgh.
We have departments Of health, not
disease; departments of education, not
ignorance, he pointed out Similarly,
we ought to have peace departments,
not war departments, he contended.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
WHAT NEXT?

An Illinois inventor has obtained
a patent on a revolutionary cotton
picking machine which utilizes the
electric eye or photo-eleetric cell,
to select only fully ripened bolls for
automatic plucking The inventor,
Charles H. White, Moline, H., has al
ready assigned his patent to manu-
turer of agricultural machinery. By
use of the photo-electric cell, patent
office experts said, White has over
come a major defect found in earlier
cotton-picking devices. The defect is
lack Of selectivity.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13

of invasion, war cannot be declared
until the question has been submitted
to the people of the United States and
by them in national refer
endum.
The resolutio unanimously adopted
by the Chicago Federation of Labor
stated: "It seems but fair that those
people of the United States who in the
last analysis are called upon to bear
the financial burdens entailed by war
fare generally, to endure the suffer
ing and privations, sacrifice Of health,
wealth, life and limb, should have the
opportunity to determine the need or
the desirability of future wars"
A copy of the resolution was sent to
President Roosevelt and to Congress
man Louis Ludlow of Indiana, the
author of the measure.
The Washington State Federation
of Teachers in supporting Ludlow's
proposal for war referendum as
serted, "We believe that congress in
the past has declared war when the
majority of people were opposed to
such action"
The proposed referendum is being
supported by groups of the Railroad
Brotherhoods and other unions, by
state farm organizations, church
bodies and others.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
Protective Committees"
That Don't Protect
(By Louis Guenther in The Financia
World

World
For years the formation Of protec-
tive committees has been a profitable
Wall Street racket for the legal pro-
fession and a coterie Of self-appointed
property salvagers. While it would
not be fair to file blanket indict-
ment against all such committees,
nevertheless, there have been many
which deservedly can be severely crit
icized for malfeasance of their trusts.
Congress cannot take quick enough
action to assure the fulfillment of the
protection to stricken investors which
a protective committee is supposed to
provide, instead Of serving as it so
often does now, as a feed bag for fees
for lawyers and committeeman. When
we see admitted that a Kruger &
Toll protective committee voted itself
a fee Of $290.000, an amount equaling
a third of the deposits of securities
it obtained, it only goes to show how
much the system can be abused. If
there is one class Of security holders
who should be free from exploitation
it is those who have lost a substantial
part Of their investments through
bankruptcies and are trying to salvage
what remains. That is the implied
purpose of protective committee
They should be placed under legal
supervision as quickly as possible
This is the only effective way to pre-
vent the exploitation Of stricken in
vestors in the future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
lIORE LABOR SUPPORT
FOR WAR BALLOT BILL

Chicago Federation and Washington
State Teachers Back Measure for
National Referendum on War De-
claratiOns.
Washington, D. G. (ILNs) The
Chicago Federation of Labor and the
Washington State Federation of
Teachers have recently added their
support to the Ludlow amendment
which provides that except in the case
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
WORKERS INSURANCE
RATES ARE REDUCED
WOrkmen's Com p en- S a.
ton Fund Status Revealed
BY Annual Report

Columbus, O. (OLNS)-A general
level reduction of 3.4 per cent is al
lowed Ohio employers in the annual
revision of state insurance fund rates,
announced last week by the Industrial
Commission.
Effective July |, 1887, the reduction
is greater than that allowed last year,
although Ohio workers received an es-
timated per cent increase in benefits
through amendments to the workmen's
compensation law, secured during the
regular session of the 92nd General
Assembly through the efforts of the
Ohio State Federation Of Labor.
Although many factors are respon-
sible for the reduction in rates, A. d..
Caddell, secretary of the Industrial
Commission, declared that increased
safety practices on the part of the
workers and regular use and inspection
of safeguards played prominent part
in making the downward revision pos
sible.
All classifications did not receive a
reduction in rate, as those classified
tions that have developed an adverse
trend in their accident cost experience
must receive an increase in rate, the
report points out. Those classified
tions receiving decrease in rate have
| shown favorable trend IN such a sub
stantial amount as to more than off
| set the expected increased benefit
| cost.
The Ohio fund is by far the largest
| insurer of workmen's compensation il
the country, according to the report
It's workmen's compensation benefits
totalling $12,922,515 paid during the
past year and claims reserve of Sal,
361 ,927.81 is higher than that of any
other private insurance company o.
state fund.
| The dependents of over 2,200 EN-
ployees killed in industry, 5000 EN-
ployees permanently and totally dis
abled, as we'll as over 10000 othe
employees with lesser injuries are re
ceiving and will continue to receive bi
weekly payments of compensation an;
their medical benefits from this re
serve of SAL 1,361 ,927.81 over perio,
of many years.
The fund issues over 10000 check
aggregating total of half a million
dollars every two weeks to pay bene
fits due injured workers and their de
pendents.
While the amount of receipt
reached new all-time high recor
in 1886, the number of employers in
sured in the fund at the close of 1913
was the greatest ever attained, tn
, employers paying premium to the fun
having reached total of 1852, a
increase of per cent during the year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13

The most definite way to settle
labor disputes is to stop buying un-
fair products.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton. Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1887
SECURITY FOR OLD.AGE
BENEFIT FUND

Security for Social Security has be-
come an outstanding question with the
increasing discussion Of the status Of
the reserve fund underlying the old
age retirement program of the federal
government. Wage earners this year
aer paying one per cent Of their earn
ings into the federal treasury as their
part in building up the retirement fund
that will be theirs in monthly install
ments when they reach the age Of 65
Their employers are paying in the
same amount, too.
But, on the statement of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, this payroll
money is going into the general fund
of the treasury, and is being spent on
the day-to-day costs Of government
Into the retirement fund are going
bonds Of the government, which would
seem to mean that the treasury is
using one debt to pile up another debt
and that the hope of workers for a
retirement benefit when they reach
IS viii rest solely upon the condition
at that time of the general fund Of the
treasury and its ability to meet its
obligations.
This is a flimsy and unsatisfactory
premise upon which to rest the old age
retirement program The intervention
of war in the years to come, or the re-
currence of depression, might easily
create condition in which it would be
impossible for the treasury to pay
these benefits from its current funds,
or to realize the face value of the
bonds that had been put into the re-
serve.
Manifestly this reserve should be
surrounded by every safeguard that
it is possible for the treasury to use.
To say that future monthly benefits
are to be regarded as just another
of the treasury's debts and depen-
dent for payment upon the condition
Of its general fund, is to nullify the
basic principle Of sound finance in this
program, and move it into the area of
gambling and speculation.
Congress has not acted to remedy
this situation at this session, but it is
one Of the first things that should
have attention in the next session.
Neither the administration nor con-
gress will have performed their mani
fest duties, or given to the workers Of
the country the security to which they
are entitled with each pay day deduc-
ton, until they have placed this re-
serve fund on basis independent Of
the varying fortunes Of the treasury
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13

Organized and affiliated with the
Fascist party, but having no political
or military functions, Fascist women,
100000 strong, are leading In health
protection throughout Italy, In edu-
cational activities and In all matters
pertaining to the betterment of Italian
home life.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-08-13
TheCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
O~ we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes Aippantly,
sometimes recklessly. -.

Funny about reporters and news
papers, the way they get all mixed up
at times.
Same reporters that used columns to
razz William Green now say mighty
nice things about him, because they
know he was the man who prevented
the wage -and-hour bill from going to
the slaughter house.
One coumnist says it took courage
to do what Bill Green did.
Now whatever may be said about
Bill Greenland something can be
said about everybody-anyone who
knows him at all knows that lack
of courage is not one of his
weaknesses.
Bill Green doesn't go out hunting
flights, he doesn't like to fight; but
above all things, he isn't afraid to
fight. He has what it takes when he
has to fight.
And those who have fought him
know plenty about that.
One Of the babies shooting at Green
| is Haywood Broun.
Broun, as some people know, is pres
ident of the Newspaper Guild.
Broun uses his syndicated column
for shooting at folks he doesn't like.
How long his publishers will allow
him to waddle around swiping people
right and left on personal scores re
mains to be seen.
Broun says Green is one of those
characters nobody would believe coulc
exist
Now why should any intelligent per
son say anything as foolish as that?
Or is Broun intelligent?
Of course, there's battle on in th
ranks of labor And, of course, it's
hot and heavy battle.
But must grown persons lose al
sense of balance and of decency be
cause there's war on?
Once Mr. Broun came very politel
to Mr. Green. He wanted help.
He didn't then write any mast,
things about Mr.. Green.
Mr.. Green hasn't changed.
The same thing goes the other wa
around.
Why smear nasty words over Joh
Lewis
Why let this thing get personal a
all?
There are some people who resen
the saying of untrue things and the
resent them all the more when the
are said to help win fight.
If the fight rests on such insan
things, then surely there's nothin
worth fighting about and everybod
better go home and go to sleep.
If there is any real issue it won
be long before nobody will remembe
what the issue is.
All they know is that so-and-so sal
so-and-so is a so-and-so and that the
are supposed to be mad about it.
Well, is that worth splitting move
ment over?
This column would like to see
partisans take their stand on is
sues. 1t would like to see people
state the issues.
Every leader who is now a leade
has long been leader and his char
acter is known.
The Green of today is the sam
Green who has held the job for som
thirteen years.
He is an honorable man and hi
enemies know that as well as hi
friends.
Why not fight this thing out on a
honorable and decent basis?
. The most definite way to sett
labor disputes is to stop buying III
fair products.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
States Prison
Population Has
Shown Increase
First Six Months Show 318
More Prisoners Than
Last Years Record

Raleigh. Aug. 4.-North Caro-
lina's prison population for the
first six months of the calendar
year showed an increase of 318
prisoners compared to the same
period year ago, according to a
report issued recer ly by w. C.
Ezell, Director of the Division of
Institutions and Correction Of the
State Board of Charities and
Public Walfare.
The total number of incarcera-
tion3 on June 80 of this year was
9,050 in the Central Prison at
Raleigh and The prison camps
scattered throughout the state.
This number was 1882 on June
80, 1886.
The report also shows that on
June 80, 1887, there was a total
of 1912 inmates of mental in
stitutions in The state, as COM
pated to 6,608 OF June 80, 1886,
an increase of 464.
Physical detectives in state
maintained institutions on June
80 numbered 638, an increase of
five over the number recorded on
June 80 a year ago.
A decrease of two was shown
in institutions for the aged, WI. h
the Confederate Soldiers Home
at Raleigh having seven. three
less than a year ago, and the
Confederate Women's Home at
Fayetteville 43, one more than on
June 80, 1886.
A total of 955 juvenile delin-
quer.s, an increase of 81 over the
previous year, were in state in
Stitutions on June 80, 1887.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05
Coastal Highway
Association Will
Meet August Il
Salisbury, Maryland, Will
Have Visitors From
Many Cities

Charleston, Aug. 4.-MembelS
from at least 25 cities in Florida.
Georgia. South Carolina. North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware will attend the annual
meeting of the Ocean Highway
association at Salisbury, Mary
land, on August II. Indications
are that this will be the mCst i'm
portant meeting in the associa-
tion'S three-year history.
L. Harrell Siau of Georgetown,
S. c.. association president, will
preside, and headquarters will be
at the Wicomoco hotel, whose
manager, Richard T. Pillsbury, is
is association vice-president for
Maryland and Delaware.
The official program includes
NEE, ing of the executive COM
mittee, an as5ociation luncheon
with the general business meet
ing in the afternoon. The annual
banquet will be held in the even
ing, followed by an entertain
ment program at Ocean City,
nearby beach resort.
The Ocean Highway AsSocia-
ton is a non profit cooperative
organization Incorporated and
chartered under the laws of Del
aware for the purpose of promot-
ing advertising and improving a
designated linking of modern
highway along the South Allan
tic coast between New York and
Jacksonville. .Ehe astociations
route is known as The fastest
route from northern pines to
southern palms.
Cities that are expected to be
represented at the Salisbury
meeting include Jacksonville,
Florida; Savannah, and Sea Is
land Beach in Georgia; Beaufort,
Charleston. Georgetown and
Myrtle Beach in SoT.h Carolina
Wilmington, Jacksonville, New
Bern, Washington, Edenton and
Elizabeth City in North Carolina
Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Old
Point Comfort, Cape Charles, Ac-
comac and Onley in Virginia
Pocomoke City, Princess Anne
and Salisbury in Maryland also
Camden, Dover and New Castle in
Delaware and a number of other
points on the Ocean Highway.
The daily independent., 1937-08-05

And News Men
In Tough Spot
Get Little Consideration
From Japanese In
War Arena

Peiping, Thursday, Aug. 4-(U.R
Two Americans, an Italian and
a German were mauled by jap
anese military patrols late yes
'.erday according to embassy re-
ports today. The Americans are
Sheridan Fahnestock, described
as a New York writer who con-
tributes to the travel section Of
the Herald Tribune, and Mrs. Joy
Lacks, a photographer.
Fahnestock was hit three times
in the face when he attempted to
photograph Japanese military
parade passing the hotel De
Pekin on the edge of the diplo-
matte quarter.
Mrs. Lacks was pushed aside
and the lenses of her camera
covered.
The counsellor Of the Italian
embassy was jC3tled while walking
on the poo grounds of the en-
bassy quarter.
He poir.ed to the Italian flag
on the adjacent Italian embassy
and when Japanese soldiers con-
tinued to threaten him called out
a detachment of marines from the
embassy guard.
The japanese withdrew after
an interpreter had explained that
the Italian was in international
territory.
The German attacked is Wal
ter Bosshard, a press photo
grapher, who was said by the
Japanese TO have violated their
regulations regarding military
areas.
None Of the foreigners was ser
iously hurt.
The japanese military threat
ened % bar photographers from
all areas of Peiping outside the
embassy quarters.