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The Washington times., 1938-10-06
BALLOT FIRST,
JOBS SECOND,
MARYLAND TOLD
Patronage Must Wait
Election Result
BY THEODORE HUNTLEY

This is for Maryland readers
only, but if Virginia and West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania politicians
and job-hunters want to read it,
there's nothing to stop them. It's
Jim Farley'S answer to questions
as to when those jobs are to be
filled-and it's the final answer:
Not until after the elections"
AS to how soon after the elec-
tionS there is no answer. Nor is
there one as to whose recommen-
dations will govern the appoint
mentS when made.
NO U. S. JOBS
Sunny Jim Farley, in Washing
ton for only day before going
to New York to run the State and
national campaigns from there
between now and November. made
it perfectly clear at his first press
conference since last winter, that
he's not going to get himself mixed
up in any patronage feuds before
the campaigns are over. Also un-
| 1880 Z ACo4AC4J 1tOOoCNS1b LeAAOO AAab-
ters in his own hands, without con-
sulting his chief job dispenser, no
vacancies Of consequence on the
Federal pay roll will be filled any
where.
That leaves undecided in Mary
land the appointments Of
/. A United States attorney in
Baltimore, to the job now held by
Holdover Bernard Flynn, Tyd-
ings selection when first ap-
pointed several years ago, who
was quiet as a mouse in the
Maryland purge campaign.
u. 8. MARSHAL
2. A new United States marshal
in Baltimore, if one is to be named
to replace August Klecka, who
came out for Tydings in the
Maryland primary. thereby incur
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3 AirlineS
EndSpeed
Rivalry

Three major airlineS have
agreed to end speed competi-
tlon on their tranScOntinental
schedules as q safety meas
ure, it was announced follow
ing q meeting of executive
operators of all airlineS with
the newly created safety
board Of the Civil Aero
nauticS Authority.
At the same time, the CAA
told the operators it had ap-
proved the mediate purchase
and installation of several
radio direction finding sta
tiOns. The direction finding
stations, through trianguIa.
ton, will be used to locate
for their own pilots planes
which have "lOSt' the radio
beams.
Thus, in areas where static
interfereS with the beam,
another hazard to flying will
be eliminated.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

high. And even more de-
pressing are the so-called audi
ence-participation wrang es
with their artificial giggling-
Mysteries. Three shows worth
q second visit, Missouri Leg
end" II Married an Angel"
and "Hellzapoppin".. Despite
the hackneyed siInile, william
Beebe manages to endow his
deep-Sea fish with almost hui
man warmth in his new book,
"Zaca Venture. To those
who protest that the younger
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

reptitiously somewhere up on Washington Heights.
AL the Broadway mob-and Of period when
Broadway was Broadway-went to the Polo
Grounds to sit in the old frame stand in the
lee Of Coogans Bluffs and cheer for the Giants
and Johnny McGraw He was a great fellow
about Broadway, that McGraw. He had bill
lard academy on the Big Street and he was al
ways around with horse owners and jockeys and
actors and playrights and high rollers and hot
sports generally.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

off the track and our space
petered out before we could
get back on the rails again.
Well, a matter Of 80 years
back, come this very World
Series, the press box at the
Polo Grounds was on the field
level in back of the home plate
and not far from the Giants
bench and in those days the
Giants were the favorite flock
of all the big towners and the
Yankees were just some fel-
lows playing practically sur
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Jesse Owens Paid
$4,000 by COP.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 6.-The
Republican National Com
mittee paid Jesse Owens, Ne
gro Olympic track star, $751;
900 in 1896 to stump the
country for ALI M. LandOn's
presidential candidacy.
Internal Revenue agents
seeking him today to serve o
$746.59 tax lien for nonpay-
ment on a $40, 900 income in
1885 said that they learned
he is supposed to be Operat-
ing a pig farm near SOlOn,
Ohio.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

retired as Fourth Corps Area
commander after 43 years Of
service in the Army.
Upon retirement. the general
issued a statement, which, in
brief, warned against crack-pot
theories of government; against
a public apathy for a creeping
Federal bureaucracy; against
the expansion Of the theory
that the Government will take
care Of everyone, regardless;
that were the civil standards
Of the nation as high as the
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Saws BOake Carte,

was better man anyway and long his friend.
and finally that as private citizen, he disagreed
with many Of the things done in the name Of
democracy"
General Moseley is speaking as private citizen,
after his retirement from 4S years Of service un-
der MANY acknowledgements and Re
publican alike.
Mr.. Woodring is unfair to a conscientious
Army officer and one Of the keenest students
Of social trends and problems in either civil or
military life in America, when he cites dis
loyalty"
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And So 1t Happened

An eminent actor Of the period was occupy
"A ing the chair that Hughy felt he was en-.
titled to, but when Hughy courteously pressed
his claim the actor told him, with gestures to
begone. Hughy solved the problem by sitting
on the actor all through the now historic game.
Hughy afterwards said he never encountered
softer seat because part Of the time he was
sitting on the actors head.
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Moseley's Temperate Reply

DEFENDING himself, Moseley in most tenn
~ perate reply pointed out he served in the
War Department in previous Administrations;
that this removed him from consideration as
candidate for chief Of staff; that his remain
ing time in the Army was too short for the
period Of service required by regulations for
CHEZ Of staff: that the present chief Of staff
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
GIodioli Instead of Orchids

GI0dioH Instead of Orchids
TWO more candidates for toast-ofthe-town con-
test df anyone wants to run one). Helen
Claire, the drawly garrulous honeychile and spit
fire in kiss the Boys Goodbye" and Yvonne
Bouvier, Gallo chanteuse, now current at the
Restaurant de la Paix in the ST. Moritz With
typical French frugality, this young woman in
stead of buying orchids, has stalk Of gladioli
delivered daily (price 10 10 81 cents) and, clip
ping off the blossoms arranges them in orchid
formation on bosom and in hair. Katharine
Cornell is building herself into a legend with
the Garbo method )-aloofness.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06


THE mere record Of the mans long service Of
43 years to the nation makes the charge that
he is disloyal Irresponsible It is hard to asso
ciate such irresponsibility Mr.. Woodring,
who is at heart most fair man.
1t is more than pity that man Of Wood
rings calber should be required to defend the
political party that put him in power to smear
an honest. fortnight soldier.
Since when has it been a national theory
that a retired soldier owes loyalty to a Presi-
dent, who is a party politician. ahead Of the
nation?
Since when has it been a national theory that
the Federal Government should use an officers
retirement as club to silence any criticism that
officer might make as a private citizen? Per
haps the purge idea is now to be expanded
to include retired officers of the services.
The Woodring inference encourages the re-
luctant belief that the implications and the warn
ing contained in the Moseley statement were
warranted
Copyright Ledger Syndicate)
(Boake Carter's opinions are his own and not
necessarily those Of The Washington TImesJ
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
The Brighter Side ByDamonRunyon

Copyright 1885, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
International Copyright and All Other Rights Reserved
VXTE mentioned the Base Ball Writers Associa-
w ton of America yesterday and meant to
tell you how it all started, but we got plumb
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

CASUAL FRAGMENTS: I am beginning to
weary Of moronic quizzes conducted over the
air. with the exception of Clifton Fadiman's
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
Effective War Antidote

HAVEN'T seen Floyd Gibbons in many months
IA nor Bob Ripley either. Time was when
would bump into one or the other, but never to-
gether, at the larger restaurants or smaller night
clubs. Playwright tProducer Marc Connolly and
suaVe-minstrel Dwight Fiske are often mistaken
for each other / wonder if more effective war
antidote than the four-power pact wouldn't be
league composed of veterans blinded or crippled
in the last World War Among the country's
women Backgammon champions is Mrs. Jack
Warner who put me in my place by beating me
six games to nothing.
NHoREoGRAPHER GEORGE BAL4ANCHINE
~ and Composer Vernon Duke are q Damon
and Pythias twain. Balanchine is never with
out a small pocket copy Of Goethes Faust"
He told me (and why should doubt him) that
whenever he is in sunken mood, q reading Of
the second act lifts him.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
''But''- Is

TWO Army men have had an argument.
l. One is Harry Woodring, Secretary Of War.
The other is Mai. Gen. Van Horn Moseley just
The Washington times., 1938-10-06
LeaUe Box to Tourists

LeaUe Box to Tourists
EVENTUALLY, however, even the New York
- writer's commenced to feel that the visitors
were rather overriding the things, but they could
not think of anything to do about it then. They
just took to sitting back in the stand and taking
their notes of the game there, leaving the press
box chairs to the tourists.
Then along came the play-off game between
the Giants and the Chicago Cubs of the period
who had wound up the league race in tie, a
closer finish than the current Cubs have just
undergone, and with the play-off game also
came the famous Hughy Fullerton-a lean, lank
saturnine Chicago baseball writer.
Anyway, Hughy came to New York covering the
play-off game for his Chicago paper-the game
and the championship being eventually won by
the Cubs, in case you are curious. The excite
ment over the pastime was enormous and every
inch Of space in the old Polo rounds was occu-
pied, so the only place the baseball writers
could go was in the press box. Not many Of
them got in there, however, as the seats had
been seized upon early by non-writers.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

liked to sit as close to the Giants bench as pos
sible, so they could give Johnny McGraw and
his ball tossers the smile and the salve that
Broadway always had on tap for winner-and
still has-and more and more they began en-
croaching upon the press box, and taking the
base ball writer's chairs.
The Washington times., 1938-10-06

Roosevelts are over-pubcized, retort on behalf
Of colleagues that their combined lineage has
not reached the space lured by Windsor when
he was Prince of Wales and falling off horses
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
ROOSEVELT ASKS
FOR LABOR PEACE

Houston (ILNS). President Roose-
welt, in a letter to the A. +. of L. con-
vention here, appealed to the factions
of organized labor to make peace,
warning that continued strife lis
bound to injure the workers them
selves"
In a message addressed to William
Green, read at the second days ses-
sion of the convention, the President
said he hoped that the A. F. of L. meet
ing twill leave open every possible
door of access to peace and progress
in the affairs of organized labor"
Without referring directly to the
C. /. O., the message said:
aIf leaders of organized labor can
make and keep the peace between va
rious opinions and factions within the
labor group itself, it will vastly in
crease the prestige of labor with the
country and prevent the reaction
which otherwise is bound to injure the
workers themselves
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Study Before
Action Is Urged

Some types of legislation are neces-
sary, President Woll stated, but these
should be carefully scrutinized to make
sure that they did not infringe on
fundamental rights.
Judge Joseph Padway, council of the
A. f. of L., summarized the action of
the three conventions and the adj
dresses Of the officials as follows:
1T was the clear thought that what
ever advantages might have come
from paternalistic legislation are
dearly bought at the expense Of fun
damental constitutional rights. If leg
islation must be had for the enforce
ment of rights, that is one thing. But
to barter the rights and privileges of
voluntary and democratic bargaining
for the shelter of government protec-
tion is to invite that same govern
ment, under whatever administration,
to encroach upon the liberties and per-
negatives which must, in a democracy,
be preserved for the citizen, as an in
dividual or in association through
trade unions, with his fellows"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Green Says Causes OF
Fear Might Be Removed

On the general attitude toward leg
islation, President Green stated that
1--WE have an abundance of capital;
we have millions of trained workers
eager for employment in private in
dustry; we have trained and expert
enced management. What this is our
trouble? If it is fear, then the causes
of that fear should be removed. We
must recapture the spirit of adventure
which has characterized American
business and the American people"
In his stirring declaration for
shorter hours and higher wages,
President Green used, among
other illustrations, that of two
pictures of telephone exchange.
One, before complete mechanical
tion, showed hundreds of girls at
work. The other, after such mech
anization. did not reveal single
worker.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
By GILBERT E. HYATT

Houston, Tex. (ILNS) The key
note of the ffty-eighth annual conven-
tion of the American Federation Of
Labor will be opposition to further
legislation of paternahstic character.
Legislation already enacted must be
amended, in some cases drastically so,
for the protection of democratic and
voluntary functions of collective bar
gaining.
This was the unanimous tone of the
three big department conventions,
those of the Building, Metal and Label
Trades 1t was the dominant note in
the speeches of President Green and
of department Presidents Joseph A.
McInerney, Building Trades; John P.
Frey, Metal Trades, and Matthew
Woll, Label Trades.
Behind this is the practically unani-
nous action of every state federation
of labor convention.
Labor will turn it's efforts away
from legislation, except SO far as
amendment of existing law is
necessary, to the fundamental and
traditional A. F. of L. policies of
shorter hours and higher wages as
the only solution of unemploy-
ment, whether the result of tech
biological advances or of industrial
depression.
The major objective for this end
will be the 30-hour week and the FIVE
hour day "and at once"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Renewed Emphasis On Economic Action
To Win Labor's Demands Forecast
By A. F. Of L. Department Meetings

President Woll of the Label Trades,
urged a return to the traditional poll
cies of the A. F. of L. as expounded
by Samuel Gompers. Labor cannot
trust its future to political control.
For myself. / have always felt that
there is an extreme danger in a great
deal Of the legislation that labor is
unconsciously backing" he said
Developments abroad clearly indi-
cate the fallacy Of trusting everything
to political control"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Walsh Healey Act
Broadening Is Asked

About the only piece of legislation
to escape criticism was the Walsh
Healey Act providing prevailing wages
and working conditions on government
contracts. The department conven-
tions went on record as approving this
law but as advocating the broadening
Of its base to include contracts as low
as $4,000
Significant Of the temper of the
A. f. of l.. convention is the fact that
Nathan Straus, Director, u S. Hous-
ing Authority was an invited guest
while President Green assured the de-
partmental conventions by advance
wire from Washington that no repre-
sentative of the N. L. r. B. would be
SO honored.
Also, the Building Trades, conven-
tion unanimously passed slashing
resolution condemning Donald Wake
field Smiths reappointment to the
N. L. r. B. and calling upon the A. F.
of l.. to make known its objection by
wire to senators now seeking re-elec-
tion and to all members of the Senate.
Blocking Smiths confirmation by the
Senate is, of course, the object.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Keynote OF Three Conventions Is Opposition To Further
Paternalistc Observation-Disclosures Amendments
To Legislation Seen.

Congress for amendments which will
make impossible the assumption of
power to invalidate agreements and
assume the functions belonging to es-
tablished unions with existing con-
tractual relations"
With respect to the Housing Act,
President Green stated that it needed
amendment in the direction of greater
fiexibility in order to facilitate the re-
sumption of building construction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

Unskilled labor in the auto industry
gets more pay per hour than the av-
erage railroad pay, skilled and un-
skilled together.
Early in his opening statement, Mr.
Davis quoted the words of Judge Cald-
well of the Federal District of Ne
braska, in answering the plea of the
receiver of the Union Pacific that
wages be cut SO that interest and div
idends could be paid Judge Caldwell
said, in part:
''The employees, with families to sup
port, are seldom more than few
days wages in advance of want. !. s.
THEY MUST BE PAID FAIR
WAGES, THOUGH NO DIVIDENDS
ARE PAID ON THE STOCK AND
NO INTEREST PAID ON THE
BONDS"
To Show Banker Control
Those words were uttered by Judge
Caldwell in 1895, 45 years ago, but it
is doubtful any words which fit the
case better have been uttered since.
Davis promised that:
I'VE will show you the devious
trail of banker control Of the rail
roads, and will show you the looting
of American railroad systems by the
financial houses of Morgan and Com
pany, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and
other investment bankers"
Wages Cut, Salaries Boosted
Contrasting wage cuts with salary
boosts, Mr.. Davis said:
''The record of the Pennsyl-
vania shows that 72 officials of
this powerful railroad have re-
ceived increased salaries. All but
one of them received increases of
Is per cent or more; many of the
increases being 27 to Al per cent
and one of them 663s per cent.
'This was the president of the rail
road, who was receiving 100000
year, and whose salary was increased
$4,000 to total of 100000"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Conventions Report
Big Gains

In another respect, the three de-
partmental conventions followed the
pattern of the state federation con-
ventions. All were larger than before
All were enthusiastic All were char
acterized by reports of the subordi-
nate unions of increased membership
For example, Secretary Andrew My
rup of the Bakers proudly stated a
tripled membership. This was count
cred by the Retail Clerks by boast
of quintupled growth.
Those unions which did not an
nounce membership gains all reported
improved conditions. This applied
even to the Building Trades, hardest
hit Of all by unemployment. Another
example was the Musicians, under the
lash of mechanization and canned
music" The report of President
Weber Of the Musicians was that the
highest wages in the history of the
industry were now in force. Union
regulations have, to great extent,
mitigated the effects of transcript
tions programs" and other mechanical
devices for the elimination of the hu-
man element in the profession.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
"Maladministration'
OF Labor Act Scored

Speaking before the Building and
Label Trades conventions, President
Green praised the National Labor Re-
lations Act, but emphatically con-
demned the "maladministration" of
the law. The law, he said, provided
for collective bargaining but the man
ner in which this mandate had been
administered struck at the funda-
mentals of the American Federation
Of Labor.
I'VE cannot accept that sort Of ad-
ministration of this very splendid la
Dor act" he declared. I'VE will GO to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Al. OF |. UNIONS
REVEAL GROWTH
in CONVENTION
Sixty-Three Unions Attend Houston
Meeting With Increased Delegate
Representation.

Houston, Tex. (ILNS). Out of 102
national and international unions, 63
come to this fifty eighth convention of
the American Federation Of Labor
with increased representation, based
on per capita tax payments. The
roster of delegates reveals interesting
facts concerning the approximately 25
per cent growth set forth in the ex-
ecutive council report.
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Stablemen
is now entitled to 1902 votes as COM
pared with 2,109 at the last conven-
tion. In this, the Teamsters have
nosed out the Carpenters as the big
gest union inasmuch as the latter
union still holds to the 5000 votes
cast by it in the last two conventions.
Outstanding Gains
Some of the other outstanding ex-
amples of increased representation
are: the Bakery and Confectionery
Workers, from 1926 to 621 votes; Struc-
tural Iron Workers, from 227 to 413;
Building Service Employees, from 42O
to 658; Cleaning and Dyehouse Work
ers (frst appearing last year as ma
tional union), from 48 to 159; Retail
Clerks, from 1875 to 467; Flint Glass
Workers, from So to 179; Machinists,
from 1880 to 1901; Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen, from 800 to 521;
Papermakers, from 157 to 800; Teach
ers, from 154 to 221.
City central bodies now have 1872
votes as compared with 735 last year.
Directly affiliated local and federal
unions show an increase from 1925
to 2314.
New Mine Union Present
The only union to show marked de-
crease was the international Seamen's
Union with only % votes now as COM
pared with 142 last year. This is, OF
EOQIoC3 d iCIlSNSiOii VI eiiS w PiSASpiS
confusion in the entire maritime in
dustry.
Another notable switch is the pres
ence of the Progressive Mine Workers,
with $50 votes for its first appearance
in the A. F. of L. convention roster,
as contrasted with the traditional
1000 votes formerly swung by the
United Mine Workers.
While the sweep of union growth
embraces, with few exceptions, the en-
tire range of A. F. of l.. membership
probably the most notable gains were
made in what can be called the "serv-
ice industries" such as the Bakers
Teamsters, Meat Cutters, Retail
Clerks, etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
SILK INDUSTRY

Washington, D. c.. The first meet
ing of No. / Industries Committee, Of
the Fair Labor Standards Administra-
ton, Textiles" met October II for
organization purposes.