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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

Haven, have announced that they will
try cut in round-trip fares to see II
they can win passenger traffic back
to the rails. Most travel, they say,
is round-trip travel. The present 21s
cents mile for coach fare and 3
cents for Pullman fare is not getting
them anything which is what the
&C. C. told them it would do. They
have fixed up a complicated system
of reductions which at the top will
save the passenger 80 per cent; but
which the average passenger cannot
and will not figure out.
President Fairfax brought back
passenger traffic to the Southern rail
way system by straight fare cuts; and
most of the rest of the roads followed
his example. But the railroads are
not governed by railroad men. They
are governed by fnanciers; and fin
ancier is the least teachable creature
out of the asylums.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Southern Granite Center
Is 100 Per Cent Union

Elberton, Ga. (ILNS).-This gran
ite center of the South is 100 per cent
union now, this condition being real
lied when agreements were signed
between the Elberton branch of the
Granite Cutters International Asso-
citation and the Comolli Granite Cor
poration and the City Quarries Cor
poration. Agreements were signed
last year fer two years by all other
granite concerns in Elberton. The
two companies above named have been
organized and started operations since
that time, and their addition to those
already under agreement make this
center 100 per cent union.
This brings to 80 the number of
monumental granite corporations in
Georgia working under agreements
with the Granite Cutters Union, with
union shop conditions and a dollar an
hour minimum pay, with 40hour
week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
James j. Lands To Hear
Case Against Bridges

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-S Sec
retary of Labor Perkins has chosen
James M. Lands as trial examiner to
hear deportation charges against
Harry Bridges, c. o. maritime
leader on the Pacific coast and an
Australian by birth. The hearing was
set for June &c, at San Francisco.
Lands was born in Tokyo, Japan,
the son of missionary parents. He
graduated at the top of the Harvard
Law School in 1925, and was re-
warded by being clerk to Justice
Brandeis for year. He was one of
the brain trusters"; served on the
Federal Trade Commission, was chair
man of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and quit Washington to
become dean of the Harvard Law
School, where he is now.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
SPEED Is RELATIVE

"Speed is relative and even Is miles
an hour may be very dangerous un-
der certain conditions" says the
Washington Safety Society. For
example, you are travelling Is miles
an hour on street where there are
parked cars along the way. There is
always the possibility that child may
pop out from behind one of those cars.
When that happens you cannot stop
in time.
''It may be that under such circum-
stances the driver will not be pun
ished But he'll always know this:
that if he had been travelling at a
slower rate of speed some little boy
wouldn't be in the hospital or the
cemetery"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
April Jobs And PayrOlls
Are Above 1893 Figures

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Total
non-agricultural employment declined
10000 from mid March to mid-April,
but an increase of more than 900
was shown in fields other than btu
minous mining, Secretary of Labor
Perkins reported.
She said the mine stoppage in the
first part of April affected 100000
workers and nullified the gain of
100000 which otherwiwse would have
been reported Despite the pro-
nounced decrease in coal mining en-
ployment, approximately $4,000 more
workers were employed in non-agri-
cultural industries in April, 1889, than
in the same month last year.
The non-agricultural employment
index for April stood at 91.3 for the
1923-25 average, 6.5 per cent above
the figure for the same month last
year. The payroll index, which stood
85, was 1879 per cent above the April
level of 1888.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
AMENDED LABOR ACT
MENACE TO WORKERS

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS).-Amend-
ments to the State Labor Relations
Act are even more drastic than pre-
vious accounts had indicated. Not
only are the orders of the labor board
absolutely subject to a member Of
Gov. James cabinet; but direct cur
tailment of labor's rights are involved.
The check-off, which is a feature
in many labor contracts, can be
adopted only by two proceedings.
First, there must be a majority secret
vote of the union, and second, each
member of the union whose dues are
to be checked off must give permis-
sion in writing that this be done.
What labor leaders themselves
think of the measure may be judged
from their statements. James L. Nc
Dewitt, president of the State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, says:
"The State Labor Act is now really
a criminal code. The new bill just
about nullifies the Labor Relations
Act. There was no justification for
these sweeping changes"
Patrick T. Pagan, a district presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers
says: "The bill destroys every vestige
of advance that has been made by
the workers in this state"
And former Lieut. Gov Thomas
Kennedy put in words what seems tc
be the prevailing fear in all labor
circles in the state:
''The act as amended is an invita-
tion to non-union, sweatshop employ.
ers to return to PENNSYLVANIA"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Committee Recommends
Minimum Textile Pay

Washington, D. c. (ILNS) An in
dustry committee has recommended to
Wage-Hour Administrator Andrews
that minimum wages of 321a cents per
hour be established for 650,000 textile
workers.
The committee was authorized un-
der the Fair Labor Standards Act to
propose minimum rates for employees
engaged in the manufacture Of cot
ton, silk, rayon, and other textiles.
The wage-hour division estimated
that 175,000 workers would receive
wage increases if the committee s
recommendation are carried out. Of
these, approximately 125,000 are en-
ployed in the manufacture of cotton
goods.
Andrews set public hearings on the
recommendation for June 19 at
Washington and June 26 at Atlanta,
Georgia.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

That federal legislation, such as the
Wages and Hours Act, may serve as
an incentive to the states for higher
administrative standards and greater
uniformity in their minimum wage
legislation, is one of the conclusions
reached in a recent study of nine ma
tional systems of minimum wage leg
islation just issued by the Interna-
tional Labor Office under the title,
"The Minimum Wage: An Interna-
tional Survey"
In discussing the two types of
minimum wage legislation in this
country federal and state-the re-
port finds in this situation oppor-
tunity for coordination of effort in
the matter of enforcement. 1t points
out that uniformity in legislative ma
chinery and general coordination of
procedure do not necessarily imply
the possibility or the desirability of
identical action in each state. A cer-
tain amount of variation is. inevitable
in order to meet conditions peculiar
to different environments. The re-
port suggests that more feasible
aim than identity of action would be
the establishment in each state of
minima which would constitute a
genuine improvement over existing
conditions and afford protection to the
greatest possible number of persons.
The monograph on the United
States reviews the history of mini
mum wage legislation in this country,
discusses federal and state regula-
tion of wages, the constitutionality of
such legislation, present administra-
tion and practice; and surveys the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Loss Low in P WA.
LOANS, ICKES SAYS

Washington, D. C. ILNS).--only
four-fifths of one per cent of all Pub
lie Works Administration loans nave
resulted in loss, Secretary OF the In
terror Ickes told House approprla-
tions subcommittee.
"That's marvellous record" COM
mented Chairman Edward I. Taylor
who told about the testimony a1ter
the hearing. Taylor added that the
amount totaled about S5,0OO,OOO, but
that the P. w. A. meanwhile had made
$12,0O0,O00 clear.
Ickes was questioned about bill
bv Rep. Joe Starnes to appropriate
$5OO,OO0,00O for the P. W.. A. and
make it permanent agency.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

results of such legislation as well as
presenting the outlook for the future.
The other monographs in the study
deal with Australia, Belgium, Czecho-
slovakia, France, Great Britain, Ire
land, New Zealand and Peru. Each
gives a description of the develop
ment and present status of minimum
wage legislation with an account of
it's application and reference to re-
cent developments. This is followed
by brief statement of some of the
major problems of administration and
a summary of results achieved in
each country.
Wage regulation, as used in the
study, refers to the establishment OF
legally enforceable rates of minimum
wages by the government which sets
a minimum level of protection below
which, in the interest of the public,
wages are not allowed to fall.
French Socialists have had enough
of Communist "co-operation, which
they have found by sad experience is
cooperation only on Communist
terms. At the recent Socialist party
congress in Nantes, the delegates, by
vote of nearly five to one, again de-
feated yearly efforts of left-wing ele-
ments to bring about party co-opera-
tion with Communist groups.
The vote definitely forbade French
Socialists to join in such Communist
groups as Friends of Soviet Russia,
International Red Aid, and peace and
liberty groups.
Socialists, with 14S deputies, are
the largest single party in the Cham
Der of Deputies of 610 members. The
Communists hold 72 seats.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
7heCherry
- Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pre-
fsundly. Sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Why not world economic confer
ence in an effort to make beginning
at settling issues that now threaten
war?
1t would be in line with modern
procedure for settling disputes in the
industrial world.
When organized workers and en-
ployers disagree over economic mat
ters, such as wages, they don't rush
headlong into war They sit down
at the conference table and talk the
thing over.
They don't always reach an agree
ment, but even when they don't, the
conferences serve to clear the air, to
promote understanding by each side
of the others problems and troubles.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1889.
A FIVE-YEAR RECORD
UNDER T. V. A.

The T. V. A. has a letter from one
of its customers, the Alcorn Electric
Power Association, which is of inter
est to everyone who is trying to bet
ter the condition of workers by i'm
proving living conditions as well as
by raising wages. Stripped to the
bone, here are some of the facts:
In 1884, the Alcorn had 1,542 Gus
toners; now it has 2,641. 1t started
with u miles of rural lines; now it
has 20. The average household rate
in that territory when the co-opera-
tive began was 5.37 cents per XVIII;
now it is 16 per XVIII AS a natural
result of this rate slash, the average
household which was using electric
current at all in 1884 was using an
average of 40 XVIII. per month. Now
it uses 174 XVIII. per month.
The difference IN comfort of living
of average workers shown by these
figures is startling. But there is more
to tell. The Alcorn Association had
to go in debt $188,317. 1t has paid
off every dollar-to the iva. 1t
has paid all taxes required from a
private power company, carried all
forms of insurance known to protect
the public, employees and business;
and the net value of its property is
above $27o,0OO.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
Injunction To Be Appealed
Against Shoppers Legaue

Newark, N. J. (ILNS).-In de-
fense of the right peacefully to pub
lish opinions, the American Civil Lib
critics Union has come to the aid of
the New Jersey League of Women
Shoppers in their contest OF Chan
Gerry Court supplementary prelimi-
nary injunction restraining the
leagues members from picketing and
distributing leaflets before shoe
store in Newark.
The temporary injunction followed
similar court order forbidding pick
eting by the United Retail Employees
of Newark &C. l. o. on the ground
that it's strike was legally terminated
with the replacement of striking en-
ployes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
WHAT NEXT?
cemetery.

A new type of road, for use of mo-
torcades, is being tested in Italy. The
road has raised concrete strip down
the center, which engages guide
wheels under trailers drawn by a
truck. A truck and seven trailers re-
Gently made a test run on the road.
1t is reported that by use of the new
highway, one truck can haul large
number of trailers at cheaper cost
than by rail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
APRIL PRODUCTION FALLS

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)-shut-
downs at bituminous coal mines and
reduction of activity in textile mills
was chiefly responsible for a sharp
decline in industrial production dur
ing April, the board of governors of
the Federal Reserve System reported
AT the same time, Secretary Hopkins
said that reports from 20,492 indie
pendent retail stores show that their
sales increased 2 per cent during April
over the corresponding month last
year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
LEVY TAXES TO FINANCE
INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION

Washington, D. CAS- means Of
new industry and enter
prise, four American cities have ap-
propriated funds or levied special
taxes to establish municipal and in
dustrial promotion departments, the
international City Managers Asso-
citation of Chicago reported recently.
The cities are Buffalo, N. Y, Pitts
burg, Kan, Covington, KY, and San
Antonio, Texas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

Talking things over has a calming
effect.
In a large proportion of cases, la
bor- management conferences come to
an agreement, usually by process
of compromise.
Succeed or fail, the conferences do
no harm.
A world economic conference could
hardly do any harm, might do lot
of good.
John G.. Winant, first American di-
rector of the International Labor Of
fee, is one of those who sees a world
economic conference as worth trying.
In his initial report to the Interna-
tional Labor Conference opening at
Geneva on June 8, he suggests the
possibility new chance for security
and peace may be nearer than the
| world dares hope.
| Pointing out that the invitation of
President Roosevelt to a general eco
nomic conference still stands, Direc-
tor Winant expresses the hope that
an exchange of views by the nations
may pave the way toward the per-
manent peace desired by the nations
of the world now gripped by fear
of war.
Winant reiterates previous l. L. O..
warnings against the disastrous eff
| feet of the present armament race.
"Rearmament," he says, Cannot
continue at the present rate of ac-
celeration without eventually absorb
| ing so much of the national income of
many countries as will prove intol-
cradle A point may come when de-
fense expenditures will cause actual
starvation in the lower income
groups"
| Those who believe the totalitarian
nations can be met only with force of
course scoff at proposals for world
economic conference.
| They deride the proposals at every
turn and talk only course that leads
| to war-a war which would solve
nothing and mean world ruin.
They say the so called shave not"
nations would make impossible terri
torial and other demands.
What if they did? At least this
would let the whole world know eX-
actly what the "have nots" are trying
to get.
Chances are that the 'have nots"
would talk big and make plenty of
demands but in the end accept much
less than they asked.
Removal of some world barriers to
trade might easily be agreed upon at
world conference.
This would be a step away from
war and toward peace.
The Society of Friends (Quakers)
in Great Britain recently said in an
appeal to the nation
"The peace of Europe cannot be
attained by extending the system of
pitting military power against mill
tary power, but only in the genuine
meeting of the needs of nations in a
just sharing of resources"
"a just sharing of resources" may
be an unattainable ideal at this stage
of the worlds evolution but it would
be mark to shoot at-a mark or goal
that a world economic conference
would be compelled to keep in mind.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09
WISDOM

Tyrants have not yet discovered any
chains that can fetter the mind
C. c. Cotton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of MiddIetown, O.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-06-09

Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-31

and Lester Hurley and wife, Dali
sy Hurley, Dennis Hurley, Wilma
Hurley, and Belle Hurley.
You and each of you are here
by notified that an action as
above entitled has been COM
mended in the Superior Court of
Ashe County for the purpose of
selling lands of the estate of w.
A. Hurley, deceased, to create as
sets to pay debts and for division.
You will also take notice that
you are required to appear at
the office of the Clerk of Super
ior Court of Ashe County in the
courthouse at jefferson, North
Carolina, on or before the 9Th
day of October, 1889, and an
swer or demur to the petition in
said proceedings, or the petition
er will apply to the Court for the
relief sought in the petition.
This 18th day of August, 1899.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
8-24-4T Clerk Superior Court
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-31
NOTICE OF SALE
IN THE SUPERIOR COUR'

! IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
! BEFORE THE CLERK
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
S. C. ARNOLD. ADMINISTRA-
TOR OF WILLIAM J. ROARK,
DECEASED
VS.
ELVIRA ROARK, HARVEY RO-
ARK, BESSIE ROBERTS AND
HUSBAND, GIDEON ROBERTS,
MINNIE MULLIS AND HUS-
HUSBAND. CICERO MULLIS
MAE ROARK AND ED ROARK
Under and by virtue of order
Of Superior Court of Ashe Coun-
ty made in the above-entitled
cause, the undersigned Commits
sioner will, on the 9th day Of
September, 1889, at one Cd O.
clock P. NJ, at the courthouse
door in jefferson, North Carroll
ma, offer for sale, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following de-
scribed real estate, to-wit:
Lying and being in Ashe Coun-
ty, North Carolina, Creston
Township, on the waters of Ben
BoWlin Creek, adjoining the
lands of David Roark and others
and bounded as follows:
BEGINNING on a stake in
road at White oak, John Law
rence's corner; running West 915
poles to a stake at bar post in
front of house; thence with line
of No. l, North 81 West 35 poles
to a stake, corner of No. l; thence
North 2312 East 20 poles to a
chestnut oak, Jesse Roark'S cor
ner; thence North IS West with
said line Is poles to a chestnut;
thence North % East AZ poles to
a chestnut; thence North IS East
II poles to a sugar in Latham's
line; thence South % East with
Latham's line q poles to a white
oak; thence West IL poles to a
small white oak; thence South 8
East about 40 poles to a maple at
rock cliff; thence South IS East
70 poles to a large chestnut
stump at road; thence with road
South "a West 10 poles to the be-
ginning, containing GA acres,
more or less.
The above tract being sold
subject to the dover right of Ell
vira Roark.
This August 9, 1889.
w. B. AUSTIN,
0-l7-4T Commissioner.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-31
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as admins
traitor of the estate of Elihu A.
Mcneil, deceased, late of Ashe
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceas-
ed to exhibit them to the under
signed at Jefferson, N. c., on or
before the 21st day of August,
1910, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This the 21st day of August,
1889.
w. E. McNeill, Administrator
of Elihu A. Nc
Neill, Deceased.
8-24-6t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-31

erior court of Ashe County,
North Carolina, to distribute the
surplus of proceeds of sale un-
der deed of trust; and the said
defendants will further take no.
tice that he is required to appear
at the office of the clerk OF the
superior court of said county IN
the courthouse in Jefferson
North Carolina, within ten days
after the 10th day of Sept. 1889
and answer or demur to the COM
plant in said action, or the PLAIN
tiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said COM
plant.
]. D. Stansberry, Clerk of the
Superior Court of Ashe County,
North Carolina.
This the q day of August, 1889
8-24-4T
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-08-31
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY

By virtue of a power of sale
contained in a certain deed of
trust, executed on the 10Th day of
December, 1885, by w. T. Gam
bill and wife, to T. c. Bowie, Jr.,
Trustee for the First National
Bank of West jefferson, which
deed of trust is duly recorded in
the office of the Register of
Deeds of Ashe County, in Book
q, page 258, to which deed of
trust and record thereof refer
ence is hereby made, default hav-
ing been made in the payment of
said deed of trust, and at the in
stance and request of the cestui
que trust and by order of Court,
I, T. c. Bowie, Jr., Trustee, will
sell for cash to the highest bid
der at the courthouse door in JEFF
ferson, N. c., at one o'clock P.
NJ, on the 18th day of September,
1889, the following described pro-
perty tO-Wit:
FIRST TRACT: Being special
ly described in a deed from Jes-
sic Dixon to w. T. Gambill, dat
ed January 9, 1919, recorded in
the office of the Register of
Deeds of Ashe County, in Book
XII, page 231 to 234, to which
deed and record thereof reference
is hereby made for a complete
description of the property here
in conveyed. This deed of trust
is given subject to a farm loan
, of Federal Land Bank of ColuH-
bia, S. c.
There is, however, about II
acres of the above described
tract which lies on the west side
| of the Northfork of New River,
which is not included in the farm
loan, and this deed of trust is in
tended to be the second deed of
trust on all the property describ-
ed in said deed upon which the
Federal Land Bank has the first
deed of trust and the first deed
of trust upon the II acres not in
cluded in the Federal Land Bank
deed of trust.
SECOND TRACT: Lying and
being in Ashe County, North Car
| DINA, and specifically described
in a deed from T. c. Bowie, TruS-