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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
DEPT. HEAD FIGHTS
new BUDGET CUTS

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS).-Frieda S.
Miller, state industrial commissioners,
has sent in vigorous protest against
the proposed cut in state labor de-
partment budget. Pointing out that
there is direct cut in the amount
that is devoted to inspection for
safety, and that some decidedly haz-
ardous jobs of large size are on hand,
she says:
at took Triangle fire to establish
proper safety standards and inspec-
ton of factories in New York state.
/ trust it will not take a similar ca
tastrophe, three decades later, to pre-
serve these safeguards. The loss of
$4,000 for inspection appropriations
certainly puts them in jeopardy"
Under the stat tie law, wage board
set minimum wage rates. Thirty diff
ferent industries are asking for these
boards; employers as well as workers,
for every kind of chiseling is used.
The cut in the appropriation will let
most of the chiseling go on.
"Workmen's compensation means
money to keep families together, chill
dren in school, rent paid, necessities
provided, while worker, sick or in
jured because of conditions of his en-
ployment, is recuperating to go back
to work. One hundred seventy-nine
thousand, nine hundred seventy-seven
dollars out of our compensation budget
means fewer hearings, delayed claims,
Illustration of the purpose of the law"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05

For maintenance of interstate traf-
fic, and the mails
Came then the legal right of col
lective bargaining
Implying free choice of bargaining
representatives on each side
Which Chief Justice Hughes then
named, property right
Having equal standing with prop
erty right in rails and rolling stock
But this would never have been
discerned-
Had there not been. back of it, the
democratic right of citizens
Then came Great Darkness of De-
preston
Under cover of which the Chiselers
piled their tools
Slicing off layers of life from help
less hungry ones
Deepening the gloom, challenging
every right of labor
Adding predatory instincts to pow
ers of industrial autocrats-
When the Wagner Act gave legal
backing to labor unions
That democratic implement brought
light and clarity, and peace
Destroyed totalitarian privileges in
industry and commerce
Being justified by the necessities
of the situation"-
Still, some men say: Protect the
employer, the autocrat"-
Give him an inside tract, to tell the
unions what to do, and when.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
LEWIS NAMED TO
MEDIATION BOARD

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has told former Con-
gressman David j. Lewis of Maryland
that he will be named to the National
Mediation Board in place of DIR. Will
liam M. Leiserson, who is going to
the N. L. R. b.
Lewis is one of the stanchest lib
erals in public life, and has been so
since long before the term of New
Deal came around; and stanch sup
porter of labor He was born near
Osceola, Pa, son of a coal miner. They
are having hard times in schools in
the coal counties of that state just
nom; but "Davy John" learned to read
in Sunday school. But few men in
Congress can match him in the de-
tailed exactness of his learning.
After several terms in Congress,
during which he was champion of the
parcel post, he was put on the tariff
commission by President Wilson.
Lewis term expired during the Cool
idge administration; Lewis refused to
sign a resignation in advance, which
Coolidge required; and though given
a reappointment between sessions, his
name was not sent back to the Senate
when that body convened again. His
district sent him back to the House,
but the state did not send him to the
Senate.
Lewis confounded many who OBJ
jected to reform legislation, such as
that prohibiting child labor. "My
grandfather went into the coal mines
in Wales at the age of 7 years." he
says, my father at 8, and | went into
the coal mines of Pennsylvania at the
age of g. That's two years gain in
three generations-ra SLOW"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
Officers Arrange For
A. F. of L. Convention

Cincinnati, o. (OLNS). - Prelim-
mary arrangements for the American
Federation of Labor's 1889 convention
here the first week of October were
made last week by two A. F. of L. Of
ficers in a visit to this city.
Frank Morrison, secretary-treas-
urer of the A. F. of L., and John P.
Frey, head of it's Metal Trades De-
partment, conferred with local labor
leaders on the convention. Special
departments of the A. F. of L. are to
meet here the last week of Septem-
ber, prior to the opening of the full
convention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. = Kelly is
hot this year!
That's the word that comes from
the famous fridge route" in sunny
California that sets hearts in the
Italian colony palpitating and means
that Kelly Petillo, colorful little
Italian who won the 1885 classic at
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is
about ready to give a new motor
terrific beating in preparation for
the annual 500-mile race on May 80.
He drives his car at least 20 miles
faster than it will rum" the old TIM
ers say of Petillo who is the hardest.
toughest driver to race at the ia
nous Hoosier oval in many day.
Asking no quarter and generally
getting none, the cocky little Italian
fills the stands when ne is ready to
qualify and is always considered
hot" and ready to win the big event.
He will arrive early with a new
motor in his well-tried racing car.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
SHORTS

The second richest state in the
Union boasted last week because the
number of it's people on direct relief
had dropped" to 743,907.
There were 49 personal incomes Of
$1,000,000 or more registered in this
country in 1887. 1t would be interest
ing to know how many persons with
such incomes are among those guar
anteeing to pay the expenses of 10000
child refugees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
'Then gently scan
your brother man.
"Then gently scan
your brother man" :
BY Mr.. MOdestus-


Judge Taft said it:
Labor unions were organized
Out of the necessities of the sit
uation--
A single empfoye was helpless in
dealing with an employer
In nation, basing its institutions
on democratic ideas
That situation becomes intolerable-
That is why there have come to be
legal recognitions-
Of the citizenship factor, in indus
trial relations
Employers are autocrats-
They can't help themselves
Except by introducing some demo-
cratic function
Into the relationship between the
power to hire and fire
And the lone workman who must
have the job in order to live
This was demanded years by the
unaided power of the workers
At cost of blood, of lives, of pain
and misery, facing terror
They took the only road to certainty
of life and worthwhile living
They gathered together, binding
into ono ctrand of vo,uar
Their puny privilege of quitting the
job
Called it STRIKE and made of
that holy work
Over against the unholy name of
"scab"-
Pinned on the traitor to his fell
lows
The strike-breaker-
But this idea of democratic action,
by workers
Had an inherent kinship to the
American pattern of ideas
Cutting across old ideas of property
rights and property powers
Which accounts for an anomaly in
American law
Known as the "Norris-La Guardia
Act
Forbidding federal court to grant
an injunction in labor controversy
So that a strike could not be de-
feated by choking out the life of
union
This did not yet give to labor unions
any property right
But it did allow the privilege of
existence
Living unions, with power to
strike
Could make effective demands for
contracts
Bargaining rights for the union
members
Rights which had no meaning, in
terms of one man
Collective bargaining, therefore,
came as the logical sequence
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
se Pafronize Hamilton Industries gs
ORGANIZED LABOR AND THEIR FRIENDS

The annual death toll from tuber-
culosis in the United States would be
250000 if the death rate of the early
19O0's still prevailed. Under present
mortality conditions, the annual death
toll is about 10000.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05

DROP IN STATE RELIEF ROLLS
Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS) .-Pennsyl-
yania's direct relief rolls fell to
743,9O7 persons on April Is. This is
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05
Roster Of Organizations
LABOR UNIONS


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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05

1t should be noted, however, that not
all persons taken off relief have Sc
cured private jobs. They are in the
minority.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-05-05

a drop of 1861 in a week, and of ap-
$1,000 since the February
peak Of relief. The cost of state re-
lief has dropped about 1896 week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
New England Printers
Demand Labor Unity

Lawrence, Mass. ILNS) The New
England conference of typographical
unions, in thirtieth annual meeting
here, unanimously adopted a resolu-
tion urging and demanding" that the
A. F. of L. and the C. |. o. begin peace
negotiations Immediately.
The resolution asked that the two
factions conclude a peace that will
bring unity and stability to the labor
movement in the United States"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
MOONEY NJURINC
LABOR MOVEMENT,
INSTITUTE Is TOLD

Camp Tamiment, Pa. (ILNS). -
Tom Mooney is under Communist in
fiuences and his conduct since his re-
lease from prison has been one OF the
"great tragedies of the labor move
ment, DIR. Leon NJ. Birkhead told the
Tamiment Economic and Social In
stitute. DR.. Birkhead is national di-
rector of the Friends of Democracy,
an organization formed recently to
fight Fascism and Communism.
Mooney recently charged in a radio
address that the Friends of Democ-
racy is Fascist" organization.
"There is no doubt in my mind"
Mooney said, "but that this (the
Friends of Democracy is one of the
innumerable potential Fascist organ
izations that are springing up all
over America also asserting his be-
lief that the Friends of Democracy
"are anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and
anti-foreign."
Called irresponsible
Deviating from his address, which
was directed against all forms of
totalitarianism, to reply to Mooney,
DR.. Birkhead called attention to the
officers of his organization, whose
names, he said, speak for themselves,
and assailed Mooney as ''irresponsi-
ble."
"Mooney's irresponsible statement
confirms my tragic disappointment in
him, along with that of many Others"
DR.. Birkhead said 81 worked for his
release from San Quentin prison, ar
ranged meetings and spoke for him
throughout the country. His conduct
now is one of the great tragedies of
the contemporary labor movement.
mooney is being guided in his
statements and activities by Com
munist influence. Mooney has
done nothing but make irrespon-
sible statements since he has
come out of San Quentin. 1t is
my opinion, as well as that of
many others, that he has consid-
erably embarrassed the labor
movement.
"The Friends of Democracy is op-
posed vigorously to anti-democratic
propaganda both from the extreme
right and from the extreme left. Tom
Mooney has attacked our organiza-
tion apparently at the behest of those
who do not like our classification of
Communist propaganda with Nazi and
Fascist propaganda, all anti-demo-
cratic in character. The method of
his speech is the same as that used
by Nazi and Communist speakers.
"He links names that stand for
democracy with those of enemies of
democracy and tries to pin the Fascist
label on those who oppose Commun-
ism. Father Coughlin uses Nazi hand
outs. Mooney uses Communist hand
outs"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
State Grange Declares
Policy Of Sympathy
With Organized Labor

Vancouver, Wash. (ILNS). - The
Washington State Grange, in prece-
dent-breaking resolution, has declared
its policy to be "one of sympathetic
relationship with organized labor"
The resolution added, however, that
the Grange is obliged to look with
great concern on some of labor's lead
ership and stated that "if selfishness
or greed prevail in labor's leadership,
the Grange will be forced to fight its
own fight and protect farmers and the
Grange program whenever they are
threatened"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
"Then gently scan
your brother man" =
BY Mr.. MOdestus-

by Mr.. M0destus-
Free Land!
What a safety valve that was
An open door, for the unafraid-
Way out, for the rebellious indi-
viduals--
Think of it!
In less than a year, you could save
enough
To buy 80 acres of the finest land
in the world
From your Uncle Sam, who got it
cheap from France, and Spain
Be your own boss; own the land
you lived on
Milk your own cows; plow and reap
your own corn
Expand your illusions about inde-
pendence--
When free land was gone
When "free men" wandered from
state to state
Looking for lost Eldorados, in min
ing and harvest camps
Then came labor unions, refuge of
rebels
Rugged individuals organized Pop
ulist Parties
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07

Free Silver banners foated their
wlil-o' 'the-Wisps-
Men found that they had to be So
cial beings, like it or not
Organized Socialist clubs, branches
parties
Found their lost freedoms piled up
in millions
Imposed income taxes in order to
"divide up" again
Free Land:-
Bred free thinking
Stamped nations psychology
Built a system of economics and
philosophy
Inspired poets, novelists, artists,
statesmen
And then vanished
But free ideas
Grown on the long miles of free
land
Had now to be thrashed out and
separated
Chaf, barren of nourishment. but
part of the growth
Became illusions, but would not
vanish and disappear
Useful illusions, perpetuated by
press and pulpit
Sacred now, inherited from the IA
theirs of old
Embalmed in university founda-
tions and manifold books
Utopias now ancient, caught up and
put into credos-
Apotheosis of freedoms now hid
den in histories
Political sacraments, for the hiding
OF legal skulduggery-
But the kernels Of freedom
Stripped now of the isolaring
chaffs of raw individualism-
Remained to those who could mas
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07

The hardest job Of all is trying to
look busy when you are not.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
SO Patronize Hamilton Industries 9s
CRAB MEAT PICKERs STRIKE

New Orleans (ILNS).-Girl crab
meat pickers struck for an increase
of one cent pound-fve cents, at the
Lakeside Fishery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07
Roster Of OrQani3ations
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS


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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07

ter the lessons thus taught
Who could remember the meanings
of Magma Carta and Bill of Rights
That free men can remain free
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07

/ Only when they are free in associa-
ton
Multiply the powers Of their lib
erty-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-07-07

Give free men geometric ratios
for their potencies-
By the magic of organization
Growing out of agreement
Eliminating differences
In essential union
Free land made freemen--
Then, when machines came, spewed
them out again
Drove them together, to master
now the techniques of liberty
In the new freedom required
Freedom to use the machines
AS we'll as free land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
SCORING GOES
 FROM HIGH AND
 LOW FOR BOWLS

Keeping all their team scores well over the 800 notch the Professors took the first two games of their match with the Accountants at the Elks Club last night.
 Second high score went to Mrs. Lavenik who was only nosed out by two-man combination of Radde and Hendricks playing on her side.
 Other high individual count was marked by R. Ward of the Account ants
 Final pin count was 2503 to 2434 for the losers.
 Keeping all games within the middle range the Architects and Judges rolled out some close con- tests albeit the scores were not too exciting. Last two games went to the Architects, the final one by a mar gin of 10 pins.
 Only bowler to poke his nose above the 800 mark was Stevens of the Judiciary.
 Following are the scores of last nights games:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
PUNCHED HITS
 BRING WIN FOR
 EMIL'S BOWERS

Although the Juneau Florist trio kept above the 500 team mark they dropped two games to Emil's boys who punched their hits in the first and last games. The flower team kept on an even keel, chalking a sos, 5O1, 503 for the three stanzas. Middle episode was theirs due to a 584 score posted by the winners.
 High game went to Emil Galao who fell only eight points short of the coveted 600 individual tally.
 Alt Heidelberg started off with a real burst in their match with the Brunswick club. They tobagonned 100 points in the second game which turned out to be the only one where they stacked on the short end.
 Best individual score the bowlers could furnish was 517 by Hildinger.
 Games scheduled for tonight: 7:30 p.m., Seven One Seven vs. Rainier Beer; 8:30 pm, Three Bullets vs. A-J- Mill.
 Following are the scores of last nights games:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
SKI CLUB WILL GIVE ANNUAL
 DINNER-DANCE
Scottish Rite Temple Be- IeCted as Scene for A.
 fair February q

Announcement was made today ol the annual dinner-dance of the Ju- neau Ski Club, which will be an ev- ent on the evening of February ~, at the Scottish Rite Temple.
 A program is being planned as entertainment following the ban quet, with dancing in the ballroom from 10 until 12 o'clock, for which Wesley Barrett and his orchestra will provide the music.
 The ticket sale started yesterday with Ernie Parsons and Bob Kim ball in charge of reservations. Tick cts are on sale at the Alaska Elec- trio Light and Power Co.,, office, and members are urged to purchase their places in advance as no tickets will be sold at the door Reservations VIII not be received after February 23
 Non- member guests will be well come, but due to limited space, the ticket sale up to Thursday night Will be limited to club members and their partners (who may be non-mem- berS).
 Fred Ball, entertainment chair man, is in charge of arrangements for the occasion, and is being assist ed by members of his committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21

 Will Gel
 New Bid

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 21-Although their spring training season begins in less than two weeks, the St. Louis Cardinals still have some im- portant business ahead-getting Joe Medwick satisfied for 1889.
 Whats more, the Cardinals have not even sent their star slugger a contract yet, Vice-President and General Manager Branch Hickey said.
 Well have to get around to that very soon now Hickey said He de- nied the club had talked terms with Medwick before the outfielder left for Florida several weeks ago.
 Last year Medwick was signed to contract at St. Petersburg, Fal., by President Sam Breadon just as the Cards training season was get ting under way. The Cardinals train at St. Petersburg again this year.
 Rickey again denied that the talk ing of a job associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers m inor league clubs by his son, Branch Hickey, Jr.. indicated there was any friction within the Cards official family.
 Nuts, he asserted. "The boy join ed the Brooklyn club because he got a better job there than was available with the Cardinals. It probably was better for him to get out from under my thumb"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-21
By DILLON GRAHAM

AP Feature ServIce Sports Writer
 NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Credit for the years smartest piece of match making should go to the business managers of the Phillies and the Browns.
 Without benefit of trumpeting and ballyhoo, they've gone along in tehir own quiet, secretive way-the Browns and Phillies are used to travelling alone and scheduled what might well be the bboby cham pionship of the major leagues.
 The astute business manager of the Philadelphia Phillies has book ed 13 spring exhibition games in Texas with the Browns. The equally astute business manager of the St. Louis Browns has done ditto, or vice versa. as it is sometimes loosely expressed.
 Ties Are Out
 They arranged an odd number of games so there would be no pos sibility of draw.
 Their selectioin of l3 games was probably based on the theory that if the best team played a seven game limit in the World Series, the customers should get at least twice as much for their money in booby championship.
 It is quite possible that in some quarters there might spring sug- gestion for a bit of reverse English on the same theory, these dissen- ters contending the series should definitely be held to three games. with no extra chukkers allowed because of chronic insomnia, dis temper or milkmaid's knee.
 The prospect of beating anyone will be a delightful novelty for either the Browns or the Phillies. And joy will reign supreme if, by any chance, one or the other should make runaway of the series.
 The thought of either the Browns or the Phillies making a runaway of anything is beyond the pale of imagination. So cross out the re- mark on the ground that it is ir- relevant. disturbing and made Of cheesecloth.
 Before heat wave of indigna-