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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-05

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
SOUTHERN LABOR
PRAISED FOR FAIR
TAX LEGISLATION

Washington, d. C. (ILNS).-"ln-
stead of remaining Americas No. !
economic problem, the South may have
already started a move that will make
it Americas No. l economic blessing.
Spirit and energy driving steps by
organized workers in the South to help
bring sanity into state and federal tax
problems are already aroused. Prac-
tical steps and proposal for working
plan have been outlined. If the move
begun in the Southeast should spread
as it's merit deserves, only national
good can result"
That was the comment of |. M. Orn-
burn, secretary treasurer OF the a. r.
of L. Union Label Trades Department,
on the special tax report just released
by the Florida Federation of Labor,
A. f. of l.. affiliate, and subsequent
proposal of state labor officials in the
southeastern states to form council
of tax committees already authorized
by state bodies in seven states in that
area.
'eWhen the Florida federation points
out in its committee report that the
success Of today's recovery program
depends upon the fairness Of tax plans
enacted by the state legislatures meet
ing this winter and spring and also by
the national congress, believe the
situation is rightly stated, Mr.. Orn-
burn continued.
Wage earners pay nearly all
the taxes, in the last analysis.
Florida tax students have not
rested with a mere barring of i'm
minent dangers arising out of in
definite continuation of present
top-heavy plans that draw too
heavily upon the standard of liv-
ing and discourage capital that
| ought to be providing more en-
ployment.
"Of all the tax protests and so-called
remedies proclaimed by various groups
and interests, this is the first one |
| have seen that also carried construc-
tive suggestions for steps to be taken
to safeguard the present economic tax
balance while specified steps are taken
which will eventually lead to less
harmful levies, fewer attempts to mis-
use the taxing power as a method of
inficting punishment, better govern
ment, and more adequate collections"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

service for people with income of
$4,000 year is single or $1,000 or less
a year if married.
1t shows progress-of lop-sided,
hesitating kind; but still progress. But
it does absolutely nothing to meet the
suit filed against the society, nor to
right the serious wrong of closing the
hospitals to physicians who are fur
nishing prepaid medical care already.
Group Health, Inc, was formed by the
employees of the Home Owners Loan
Corporation. The doctors it engaged
were men of frst-class medical train
ing, years of practice, and had access
to all the hospitals in the nations
capital.
Now, they are barred from access to
all hospitals in the nations capital be-
cause the District Medical Society OBJ
jects to GROUP practice" That is
what the suit is about.
The doctrine of proper medical care
for all is growing and spreading--but
not SO fast as it should.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Green Urges Seating

President Green urged endorsement
of the credentials committees report.
He said that the federation is mot
generating" Bakers union for fail
ing to pay the assessment, but eau
toned that "our enemies would be
only too pleased to see us bar these
delegates"
eve are not going to be so foolish
in these days when dual movement
is seeking to destroy our unions, to
drive the |. T. u. out of the A. F. of L."
There was roar of "aye" and only
one or two weak mays" when the
question was put
The warning to Canadian labor to
cease harboring G. |. O. unions was
given by President Green, in respond
ing to an address by William G. Rus
sell, fraternal delegate of the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada. Green
sharply criticized the C. l. 0. and said:
Either the G. |. 0. unions must get
out (of the Canadian organization or
we will get out"
Must Take Stand
'The Trades and Labor Congress
cannot be for the A. F. of L. and
against it."
The Canadian labor body has been
working for unity between the A. F.
of L. and c. |. O. and at its recent con-
vention instructed its executive off
GERS to continue peace efforts.
Governor Richard Leche of Lou
isiana aroused great enthuliasm by a
spirited defense of President Roose-
yelt's social and economic detectives
Leche said Mr.. Roosevelt was 100
per cent right" when he described the
South as the nations No. / economic
problem. He went beyond the chief
executives description and said that
"the Mason-Dixon line has been the
Chinese wall which has prevented the
South from coming into its own"
Champions Wage Hour Law
Leche said that since 1860 we have
had white slavery in the South and
said that Roosevelt's minimum wage
and maximum hour law is the "sec-
ond emancipation proclamation look
ing toward freeing white labor in the
South" This law, he said, was made
necessary by "chiseling business men.
The governor praised the A. F. of L.
as the "bulwark against attacks by
those who would oppress labor" and
recounted how he once settled a rail
road strike in his state by keeping
leaders of both factions locked up in a
hotel room for 16 hours, feeding them
only soft drinks and hamburgers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Marching Men
(The Journal of Electrical Workers.

(The Journal of Electrical Workers.
Buffalo saw 10000 trade unionists
march enthusiastically for labor in
August. 1t was the biggest parade in
that city's history, the most colorful,
and the most indicative of purpose
and intelligent massed force. Why
did these men march? Merely as a
symbol of the vehement single purpose
of the New York Federation of Labor
to defend what it has unioniza-
tion, democratic procedure and liberty.
The parade served notice upon all
enemies of labor-the Bourbon on the
right and the Bourbon on the left
that, instead Of weakening, the Amer
ican labor movement is stronger than
ever for the virtues that make it
strong: voluntary cooperation, intelli-
gent tactics, sincere democracy, and
the ever present right steadily to i'm
prove the lot of wage earners.
Those muddleheads who thought the
federation was a push-over, are now
aware, that bona fide trade unionists
have a stake in bona fide trade union
ism that they do not propose to sur
render.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

President Roosevelt further said, ac-
cording to the same account, that he is
thinking seriously of asking the next
Congress to establish Department of
Transportation to take the place of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. Ru-
mors that the President was far from
satisfied with the work of the |. C. G..
have been going round Washington for
years; suggestions have been made
from outside sources that both trans
portation and communications should
be represented in the Presidents Cab
met; but this tale as it comes is new.
Take map of Europe and draw two
lines across it. One runs from the
English Channel at a point in France
near the Belgian frontier to another
point in France near the Italian
frontier on the Mediterranean. The
other runs from the Gulf of Riga
that southeast projection of the Baltic
to about the middle of the Black Sea
The countries between these lines are
Netherlands, Belgium, a slice OF
France containing the French iron
mines, Denmark, Germany, Switzer-
land, Italy, Hungary, all the Balkan
states, Poland, and slice of Russia
including the Ukraine, one of the
great grain fields of the world
That is rough outline of the "Mit.
tel Europa" which Prussian enthus
lasts hoped to bring under the do
minion of Berlin before and during
the World War 1t is rough outline
too, Of the dominion which Hitler ha.
told the world he was aiming at-ant
toward which he has just made lone
stride in his grab of Czechoslovakiai
territory. Keep it in mind for furthel
| foreign news.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

Word has come out in Washington,
not official, but bearing strong evi-
dence of official consent to its publi-
cation, that President Roosevelt talked
like Dutch uncle" to the represen-
tatives of railroad management in his
last conference with them and the
railroad labor leaders.
He said the wage cut proposed was
utterly unsound and vicious, and
would solve nothing if it went through.
On the contrary, it was sure to be fol
lowed by widespread slashing OF
wages in other industries; and that
there could not be surer way to start
another recession, bound to affect the
world as well as the United States.
.What you've got to do,' says one
report of the scathing lecture, "is to
put your financial house in order. That
will help you out of your troubles;
this wage cut won't"
As a sample of bad financing, he salo
that his grandfather bought some rail
road bonds 75 years ago-and they're
still in the family deposit box.
Railroad financiers, he said, with The
help, of course, of railroad lawyers
have been interested solely in draining
off the profits of the steel highways
He demanded fatty to know whether
the railroad arrangements were read.
to give up their wage cut, and joil
labor and the government to work ou
program of railroad rehabilitation.
Nothing was said by the President
according to this account-that ha
not not been said so times before, an
nothing that can be contradicted. Blu
statements like these are much NOR
weighty when they come from tn
| White House.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
FRIDAY, OCTOBER IA, 1888.
A CHALLENGE TO ALL LABOR

NJ W. Clement, president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, came before
the Presidents Emergency Board
supposedly to give evidence. Instead
of giving evidence, he gave the board
and any rail workers present an AFRO
giant, hectoring lecture. He accused
the railroad unions of trying to get
an ''unregulated monopoly" He de-
clared that wages had to be cut in
time of depression and he brushed
aside the claims of railroad workers
with these words:
Take it all in all, job for job, where
ever railroad labor works, it works
under the best conditions and pay of
labor throughout the country. And
the jobs are sought after"
The contention that railroad labor
gets the best pay throughout the coun-
try is a fake which was exploded long
ago. Maintenance of way men on the
railroads get among the lowest wages
paid in this country; and it was shown
as long ago as the shopmen's strike
in 1922 that railroad shops pay smaller
wages than shops requiring equal skill
in other industries.
Mr.. Clements TRADE is a challenge
not only to rail labor but to all labor.
When he demanded that rail workers
must accept the principle that wage
reductions were essential in times of
depression" he proclaimed, in effect,
that the rights Of capital are superior
to those Of labor And that is some
thing which labor never will admit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
Speed On Housing
Projects Is Urged

Washington, D. G. (ILNS) .-Ad-
dressing the American Federation of
Housing Authorities here, Admins
TRAITOR Straus of the United States
Housing Authority urged local hous-
ing officials to speed up their develop
ments to put men to work. He rec
commended the coupling of ''imagin-
ative planning" with cautious admin
istration.
But the other purpose is to put
men to work as quickly as possible to
reinforce the trend toward economic
revival Straus said And this
means that we must work with speed
as well as care"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
A. #. OF l.. WINS BARGAINING
RIGHTS FOR EMPLOYEES OF
THREE HUB NEWSPAPERS

Washington, d. G. (ILNS).-The
National Labor Relations Board has
certified an American Federation OF
Labor union as bargaining agent for
editorial employees Of the Boston Daily
Record, the Boston Evening American
and the Boston Sunday Advertiser.
The A. F. of LIS American Fedora
tion of Newspaper Writers, Reporters
and Editorial Workers, Federal Local
No. 432, won sole bargaining rights
for editorial employees of all three pa
pers, when it polled 1852 to % for the
Newspaper Guild of Boston.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
SHORTS

How long will it take American fin
anciers to learn that wage cuts are
not help to prosperity?
Thousands of Sudeten Germans who
are not nazis are fleeing to Prague
to escape from Herr Hitler's Glib
Grafton"
To shut out all newsboys under Ia
years violates the old American ira
dition that one should start at the
bottom early, and climb. AL Capone,
now, was a newsboy at 8 years; and
see how he climbed
A company has applied to the Fed
eral Power Commission for leave to
build and operate 1,500 miles of pipe
line to take natural gas from Wy
oming and Montana to towns and
cities in the Dakotas and Minnesota. If
railroad bankers run true to form,
they will object because this may in
terfere with the railroad coal traffic
~
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
SOMEWHAT TARDY PROGRESS

The Medical Society of the District
of Columbia is responding but oh,
how slowly to the suit against it in
the federal courts for monopolistic
practices, and the example set to it by
Group Health, Inc, of the Home
Owners Loan Corporation. 1t has
come out with a plan" which IN
cludes @domiciliary care Of the indi-
gent at government expense; and
proposing a system of prepaid medical
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
WHAT NEXT?

A Louisiana planter has made a
sugar cane harvesting machine that
is reported to have been successfully
demonstrated. In a two-day test, the
machine, powered by an ordinary trac-
tor, cut through field of 12-foot cane
topping, stripping and punching the
stalks at the rate Of a ton every three
or four minutes-the work of about
SO men.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

motive is tough critter, able to stand
a lot of butting.
Motorists, however, continue to try
conclusions with railroad trains. II
they live, which isn't often, they real
ize they have shown bad judgment.
They keep right on trying, despite
the odds against them Why! ASK
something easy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
WISDOM

Straight from the Mighty Bow this
truth is driven,
They fail, and they alone, who have
not striven.
Clarence Urmy.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

Heavy thinkers who write for the
highbrow magazines have been enjoy
ing themselves for months by prophe
sying the early decline and virtual
death of the American Federation of
Labor.
They have another guess coming.
Their predictions must be revised.
The decline" and "death" must be
set ahead quite bit.
A. F. of L. is very much alive.
Reports of it's early dissolution are
much exaggerated.
Might be better for the prophets to
fix the date at some indefinite time in
the distant future, after present gen.
erations are gone.
That would be safer, as far as their
regulations for prophecy is concerned.
Fact of the matter is, the A. F. OF l..
is stronger than ever, in membership,
power and influence, as was convinc-
ingly set forth at the Houston con-
vention.
Membership was reported at five
million and growing.
A great deal of the gain-762, ,154 to
be exact-took place in the year end
ing August 81, 1888, which included
months of the depression.
To increase union membership sub
stantially in hard times has been
thought to be difficult, if not inn
possible.
But the A. F. of L. did the "im-
possible"
Organization was pushed in many
fields
eve have organized many thou
sands of workers in industries where
! before existed" the federation's ex-
ecutive council told the convention,
naming industries and giving details.
This column has commented before
on union progress, made despite un-
favorable conditions of the last twelve
months.
New contracts, increasing or main
tanning pay, membership gains, new
headquarters buildings and other
marks of progress were cited.
Reports made public at Houston con-
firm and amplify the gains
No organization in comatose con-
dition could have made them.
A F. of L. is going places, dole
ful predictions of its enemies not
withstanding.
1t is not perfect by any means. II
has It's faults and shortcomings. 1t is
open to improvement. But it is alive
and kicking and is driving ahead
toward better and better America.
United States has many weeks
celebrating this and that such as
"Child Health Week." 'Fire Proven
ton Week." etc
Latest is "Fish Week." celebrated
for the first time this year.
Promoters of the event, the Ma
tional Fisheries Committee, say fish.
ing was the first American industry
They point to fishing activities of the
first New England settlers as proof
Of the statement.
For decades, fishing was a premier
New England industry.
In late years, it has experienced diff
ficulties.
Hence "Fish Week." in an endeavol
to boom use of fish.
Fish has food merit and is cheaper
than most meat. Here's hoping tn,
fish industry and it's workers will b,
benefited from the week"
Incidentally, the day may soon com,
when fish bear the union label. Fisl
workers of San Diego, Cal, are nov
labelling fish they handle.
/ Auto drivers who try to butt rail
road trains off the tracks always fail
Like the buffaloes which made sim
liar attempts in the early days o
Western railroading, they find loco
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14

Auto drivers who try to butt rail-
road trains off the tracks always fail
Like the buffaloes which made SIM
liar attempts in the early days of
Western railroading, they find loco
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
A.F. OF |. BACKS
RAIL LABOR'S FIGHT
ON WAGE CUT
Full Support Promised If Strike Is
Necessary. I. U. Delegation Is
Seated On Probation"

Houston, Tex. (ILNS).-Full sup
port to railroad labor in it's fight
against the proposed Is per cent wage
cut was pledged by the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, in fifty-eighth an
nual convention here.
The pledge was one of the highlights
Of action taken at the first week of
the convention Other highlights were
seating of delegates of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union, vigorous
denunciation by William Green of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
tion and warning to the Canadian la
Dor movement that it must oust G. |. O.
unions if it wished to continue fra
ternal relations with the A. F. of L.
There was not dissenting vote
when the convention approved mes
sage sent by President Green to
George M. Harrison, chairman of the
Railway Labor Executives Associa-
ton, promising full assistance in the
event of rail strike.
Support of 100000 Pledged
''The membership of the A f. of l..
is firmly convinced that reduction in
wages Of railroad workers would
greatly njure business, labor and ag-
riculture," the message said. 1T would
reduce purchasing power and thus add
to our nations economic distress.
I'VE pledge to the railroad workers
the full support of 100000 members
of the federation in the fight you and
your associates are making against a
wage reduction. We will stand with
you. We will support you to the full
extent of our resources in the event
you are compelled to engage in a
strike"
Delegates of the Typographical
Union were seated on probation" in
the expectation that differences be-
tween it and the federation will be
adjusted.
l. T. u. To Take Vote
The Typographical Union has been
at odds with the parent organization
over an assessment imposed at the
A. F. of L. convention in Denver last
year for organization purposes. The
assessment was rejected in referen-
dunn last spring on the ground that
funds raised thereby were to be used
to fight another union.
The credentials committee recon-
mended that the typographical dele
gates headed by neWly-elected Presi-
dent Claude NJ Baker be seated on
the basis of Bakers plea that new
referendum on the assessment issue
will be held Immediately and that re-
lection of the delegates credentials
would not solve the problem.
In letter to the executive council
and in speech before the convention,
Baker forecast that the typographical
workers would vote to pay the assess
ment and remain in the federation. If
the referendum fails, he said, 1--WE will
be out of the federation until such
time comes that we can come back in
good standing"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1938-10-14
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The Washington times., 1938-03-11

as house guest of the family of
the Chilean Ambassador), who
perhaps was more interested in
Cuban rumbas than in Russian
Ballet. Manuel Trucco squirrel her,
and he has gained IL pounds since
he came back from his rest in
Florida Ruthie Dove with
Carlos Ortiz de Zevallos, of the
Peruvian Embassy Slow-mov-
ing Caroline Cecil and Tommie
(Tommie e, Tommie, Tommie
Whoops) Adams =. That was at
mite, but at the cocktail hour, in
the lounge of the Mayflower, you
could have seen lovely lover of
the dance Austine Mcdonnell and
Larry Draper" Baker Lila
Savoy, Senator Townsend's daugh-
ter, president of the Daughters of
the Senate, and her husband,
Prev Jack Stafford, still sun
burned and full of memories of
Miami and White Russians
Marchese Benedetto Capo-
mazza, of the Italian Embassy,
will give another dinner tonight,
before the Friday Supper Club
.. Did you know that one of the
best radio announcers in the
United States is Lisa Sergio, of
Florence, Italy? She was an un-
known announcer in Rome, but
when she arrived in America, sew
eral months ago, the great Gugli-
elmo Marconi called up the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company from
Italy and asked that she be given
an addition. He died the next day,
but he had already given us Lisa
Sergio.
The Washington times., 1938-03-11
Club Plans
Tea Today

: The program for the Wom-
ems Congressional Club tea to-
day. will be a travelogue of Ha-
wai, five reels in sound and
colcr, Those at the tea table
will be, Mrs. John McSWeeney,
Mrs. Wilburn Cartwright, Mrs.
John j. Cochran, and Mrs.
Charles H. Leavy.
On the hospitality committee
are Mrs. Albert E. Carter, Mrs.
Alfred j. Elliott and Mrs. Frank
z. Hook.
Musicale Hostess
Mrs. James Roosevelt. mother
of the President, will give a
musicale for a small group Of
friends this evening at her
home in New York City. The
artists will be Ardelle Hookins,
flute: Eudice Shapiro, violin,
and virginia Majewski, viola.
Son Born
MFR. and Mrs. Louis B. Arnold,
of University Park, Md, are re-
ceiving congratulations upon the
birth of q son at Garfield HoSpi-
tai on March 4.
4 4
Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Pratt,
of Atlanta, Ca, are staying at
the Hay-AdamS House.
\
Representative c. Arthur An
derson, Of Lemay, st. Louis
county, Mo-, has moved to
Wardman Park Hotel, where he
has taken an apartment and
win make his home for the re-
naainder Of the session.