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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01

STATUTES authorizing the establishment Of
~ minimum wages for women workers are
among the commendable features of State pro-
tective legislation. The rates set by minimum
wage boards are not high. In some instances they
seem to be far below the rates sufficient to insure
the enjoyment of decent living standards.
Despite the modesty of these standards, there
are still many employers who seek to victimize
women workers by imposing lower wages than
those fixed by statutory authority. Ohio is not i'm
mune from the despicable actions of these public
enemies. During the first quarter of 1889 the
minimum wage division Of the Department of In
dustrial Relations of that State prosecuted fifty
four employers for violation of the minimum wage
law, twentythree cases being criminal actions and
civil actions for recovery of pay due the
victims of the wage chiSelerS. The minimum wage
division secured $9,S63.96 in back wages due en-
ployes in the dry cleaning, laundry, food and lodg
ing industries in which mandatory orders design
atng minimum wages for women are in force.
One of these wage chiselers, the operator Of
"a chain of dry cleaning establishments in several
Ohio cities, fined 500 by Municipal Judge
Merritt f.. Schlafman of Dayton. Confronted with
the fact that the minimum wage division had filed
a number of complaints against the defendant for
violation of the minimum wage rates, Judge
Schlafman, before prOnOuncing sentence, rebuked
her in strong language for her evident determn-
alton to pay her women employees less than liv-
ing wage despite the State statute prohibiting
such procedure.
Pointing out that compliance with the Ohio
minimum wage law for women was an evidence of
good citizenship Judge Schlafman said:
"ln this country we live, as a rule, under very
fair and very decent conditions Most of US are
happy to be living here, rather than some place
else in the world. After all, it is privilege to be
in this country doing business here, but that right
only exists long you are a good citizen and
abide by and conform to these laws.
"You will have to abide by these laws. If you
want to get ahead in competition with the rest Of
the people in the same business, you will have to
do it by other means. Use your ingenuity in the
proper channels, not by violation of the laws.
g" Your ability to take advantage of them
(women empoyes) has come too easy, but you will
difficult row to hoe. You might as well decide that
you intend to do business in the proper manner" :"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
N. Y. Craftsmen Finulize
Wage Rdise Agreement

New York, n. Y. (AFLWNS).-Of-
ficials Of the "Guild-Local &C" of the
international Federation of Tech
n C a Engineers, Architects and
Draftsmens Unions, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor, an
nounced the finalizing of a closed
shop contract with Ferdinand Muller,
artistic metals specialists.
In addition to wage increases rang
ing from $40 to SIS weekly the agree
ment requires that all employees shall
be hired through the union and iden-
tilted by the current membership card
and provides for vacations; II legal
holidays and sick leave with pay; the
five-day, 40hour week of eight hours
per day; time and one-half for over
time on week days including Satur-
days; double time for overtime on
Sundays and holidays; maximum of
Is work hours overtime allowed per
week; no work on Labor Day; two
weeks notice Of termination of en-
ployment by either party in the case
of those employed a year or over,
otherwise only one weeks notice is
to be given.
The salary under the new agree
ment is: Over $40 per week for squad
bosses; 500 for Senior-A; $50 for
Senior-B; $50 for Juniors; $40 for
Sub-Juniors; $50 for Apprentices.
Negotiations for the agreement
were conducted by J. Lawrence RAIN
lSt
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
TWO SUPREME COURT WILLS

vNI1ERE have been two rather remarkable Su-
/, preme Court wills in Washington; those of
Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benjamin n CardoZo.
Both left fortunes large enough to show they were
perfectly competent to manage their own financial
affairs. Both were staunch liberals; both support
ed laws giving better chances to labor neither had
children.
Justice Holmes left about $50O,O0O. He pro-
vided for his nephew for some friends and as
socations; and left full half of the total to Uncle
Sam, with no restrictions.
Justice Cardozo left about $328,OO0 He left
$75 900 to the faithful housekeeper who took care
of his sisters and himself, $4,000 to the Fedora
tion for the support of Jewish philanthropies,
$1,000 to a hospital and 18S,S22-more than half
the total-to Columbia University.
Somehow, those wills seem appropriate to the
men and their careers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
CONXICTEDI

A. Padway, counsel of the American Fedora
tion of Labor before the Senate Committee ON
Education and Labor in favor of the amendments
to the National Labor Relations Act proposed by
the American Federation Of Labor, a number of
other representatives Of A. f. of l.. unions laid be-
fore the committee after case in which the
Labor Board arbitrarily decided against the Amer
jean Federation Of Labor and in favor of the c. l..
o.
John p. Frey, president of the Metal Trades
Department of the American Federation of La
Dor, gave undeniable testimony relative to the
anita. +. of l.. and proc. l. O. policy of the La
Dor Board in connection with the metal trades
UNIONS
Frank Fenton, director of organization of the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
FINANCE INDUSTRIAL
PROMOTION

Washington, d. CAS- a means of
attracting new industry and enter
prise, four American cities have ap-
propriated funds or levied special tax
es to establish municipal and indus
trial promotion departments, the In
ternational City Managers Association
of Chicago, reported recently. The
cities are Buffalo, N Y, Pittsburgh,
Kan, Covington, Ky. and San Antonio,
Texas.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
WHAT NEXT?


A device that may enable fiers
to detect objects in the path of
airplanes as far as II miles away
was recently displayed at Floyd
Bennett Field, New York, by the
SensytrOl Corporation, whose en-
gineers made it. 1t sends out
micrO-wave beam and employees a
revolutionary concept in the field
of electricity, according to Harry
Dickens, chief engineer.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
LABELLING BILL REPORTED OUT

Washington, d. C.-The Senate In
terstate and Foreign Commerce Com
mittee this week reported out the
Schwartz wool labelling bill, requiring
labelling of garments so as to disclose
the use of reclaimed wool and other
substitutes for new wool. A. F. of L..
organizations are supporting this bill
as protection to workers as con-
sumers as we'll as producers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
On Capitol Hill
BY GEORGE L. KNAPP


dent Roosevelt's speech to the retail
has served notice on the re-
dictionary crusade now in progress that
the President is not going to back
down on work relief, on taxes, or on
spending, and that he means to help
small business in every way that he
can. 1t clears the political air, as moth
ing else could do.
The campaign for social and eco
nomic reform is going on. The cam
paign to give small business a chance
to grow, best expressed so far in the
bill introduced by Senator Mead of
New York, is going on. The efforts
to end the regime in which, in a
country of boundless natural resources
and high working capacity, one third
of the population remains ill-fed, ILL
clad, ill-housed, will continue.
X X X
A number of dramatic events show
ing up in several different parts of the
country have their roots right here in
Washington.
In New York, Martin T. Manton,
formerly Judge of the U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals of that circuit, re-
signed his office on the direct demand
of Frank Murphy, Attorney General
of the United States. Manton is now
on trial for being merchant of JUS
tice," for soliciting and collecting
bribes-and three Of his co-defendants
have pleaded guilty.
In Kansas City, Thomas J. Pend
ergast, boss Of the city for % years,
was scoffing at being prosecuted until
Frank Murphy came to Washington.
He has pleaded guilty to a charge Of
cheating on income taxes, drawn a
sentence of Is months in prison, and
other indictments are against him.
And these are just two of several in
stances.
Murphy was denounced as being
"too friendly to labor" when nomin-
ated. But the Department of Justice
has taken on new vitality since he
came.
X X X
Owen d. Young, chairman of the
General Electric Co. plainly shocked
the monopoly committee by some of
his recent testimony before it, and
quite as plainly, made no friends for
himself or his doctrines in the ranks
of labor. Here is one paragraph that
must be quoted.
Zone cannot look at the history of
the General Electric Co. and of the
electric industry in general without
realizing the tremendous benefit which
came from the terrific and painful
purge of the panic of 1893. THERE
WAS NO ARTIFICIAL EFFORT
THEN TO ALLEVIATE THE I'M
PACT OF THE ECONOMIC DE-
PRESTON. The result was that both
the utilities and the manufacturing in
dustries came out with sounder cap
ital structure and with more competent
and aggressive leadership than could
possibly have existed under the old
regime"
The only possible meaning of the
capitalized sentence is that the crash
of 1929 should have been allowed to
run its course, like that of 1893. No
artificial effort" should have been
made to check bankruptcy or "alle-
viatc" starvation. Hoover's RFC was
wrong; Roosevelt's WPA to help the
hungry earn a meal is madness.
That is what that sentence means
if it means anything. There are plenty
of other sentences in the same testi-
mony that mean the same thing, in
longer words. With millions of work
ers still unemployed, what is labor's
opinion of Mr.. Young's calm claim to
be guide to the United States gov
ernment ?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
AFL MINERS WIN STRIKE

Gillespie, Ill. ULNS).-A strike of
1000 miners employed in four Su-
perior Coal Company mines was end
ed after company officials agreed to
miners demands to divide available
work among the miners. The strike
was voted by members of Progressive
Mine Workers of America Local No.
/, A. +. of l.. affiliate.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
BAKERY RANKS INCREASED

Washington, ID. C.-Thirteen hun
,dred biscuit and cracker workers of
Philadelphia have become members of
the Bakery and Confectionery Work
|ers' international Union of America,
according to reports from that organ
Iization. The workers were formerly
members of an American Federation
Iof Labor Federal Union. The group
was given Charter 492.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
Truths Poudered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. WHAT WILL YOU BID?
= ARE YOU READY TO BUY?
. CHANCE ON SURE THING?
. AFTER WORLD
LEADERSHIP?

Gentlemen!
What will you bid?
You are offered Capital Goods
Durable goods, lasting from three
to twenty years
Goods in the form of machines, ma
terials, equipments
Goods essential for the making of
Consumers Goods
Goods necessary for carrying on
modern American civilization
Goods of the finest materials in the
world
Made by the highest type of HUI
man skill
Invented by brains produced in the
worlds mechanical centers-
Outcome of science and art combin-
ed in miraculous manners
Equipments which cut labor costs
While increasing outputs per unit of
Investors!
Are you ready to buy?
Now is the time to put that idle
capital to work
Here is the greatest chance for rug
ged adventurers ever seem
Your grandfathers preferred far
horizons of the frontier
To the known and guarded precincts
Of the old home TOWN.
They paid out good cash for Con-
estoga wagons and oxen
To find the new places and expert
ences-
Took wives and children and prop
critics along
Threw away old connections and
family ties
TO build new country and new
type of people
To breed the sort of men you are
supposed to be-
What will you bid today?
X X X
Gamblers and Gentlemen!
You want chance at Sure Thing :?
Why not get in now on the ground
floor of the new age?
You are being offered such Capital
Goods as the world never saw before
What if you have lot of 2O-year
old junk
Tied up in some ancient castle of
a factory house
Calling for long hours of labor to
turn out little product
Wasting material and labor in un-
happy competition
Compelling you to take pieces out
of your workers hides
Instead Of meeting business ahead
of the mark
With really modern goods and mod
ern service?
You are wasting your own life
Holding back the procession of natl
onal advance
TO say nothing of losing the respect
of the nation
Fortefiting the place of leadership
Which Americans should be able to
hold
Americans!
VloG dIC yOu DluulIS lOI w VI III
Leadership?
Why sentence your material capaci-
ties to service with out-of-d date ma
chimes?
Why are you trying to compete with
inferior nations
On the basis of ancient machines
you sold them long ago
You need not compete with cheap
and ignorant labor
If you will use your own brains
And the product of the brains of a
nation
And get this:
These machines are for sale
To somebody
America is going to use the best
equipment that can be had
And it is up to somebody to fall
in line
What do you bid?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
X. X. EMPLOYMENT UP

Washington, ID. c. (AF'LWNS).-A
slight increase in the number of work
|ers employed by class one railroads
was reported by the Interstate Com
Imerce Commission. The number of
,employes Ill mid-April was 950,1oo,
an increase of 0.24 per cent over the
total at mid March.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01

Tad is Wellsville boy who has
made an excellent name for himself
during the past couple of years. He
is scheduled to meet Al Sayers of
Chester in the final bout on the Pot
ters Picnic card which starts at 1880
p. M.
The amateur card arranged for this
years outing promises to be the best
yet presented.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01

The Metropolitan Police Boys Club of Wash,
ington, ID. c., now has a membership Of 10000
Before the club was organized 393 boys were al
rested in year for olfenses. Last year there
only 92 arrests. As result Of it's success the In
ternationa Association of Chiefs Of Police has
adopted the system.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-06-01
WISDOM
sAAa*3x..e:*s.a:-%ssss.

Rest is a fine medicine; let your
stomach rest, ye dyseptics; let
your brain rest, you wcaricd and
worried men of business; let your
limbs rest, ye children Of toll.
Carlyle.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

home of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
G. A. Quasi.
Mrs. Slaybaugh retuned to hei
home in Yellepit last Saturday, aft
er spending few days, caring foI
her sister, Mrs. Harry Higley, who
was brought from the Pasco hospi-
tai last week. Mrs. Higley is get
ting along nicely, but must re-
main in bed another week.
Friends of Mrs. Forrest Gragg will
be pleased to know that she is
steadily improving and is able to
sit up q little each day. Her
daughter, Mrs. Bill Birdsan of Yak
ina is caring for her.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Meyer, j. G.
Walker and Mrs. Emma Higley of
Kennewick spent Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Higley
and family.
Miss Lucy Helm was brought
home Sunday from the Pasco hospi-
tai, where she was a patient a few
days last week.
Miss Viola Foraker, who has been
confined to her bed the past six
weeks, is able to be up a little
while each day now and her many
friends wish her a speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grin Beinhart of
the Riverrooad have recently pur-
chased the old Frank Trimbie home
on the Highlands. The Mills place
on the Riverroad, which they are
vacating, has been bought by Mr..
and Mrs. Houston Of Pasco. Mr..
Houston is with the Pacific Power
and Light Company.
Mrs. Jay Perry entertained the
st. Paul's Episcopal Guild at her
home on the Highlands last week.
Ten members were present. The
mex meeting will be at the home
of Mrs. e. c. Tweet on Thursday,
February 10th.
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tangibles which now escape all state
taxes. Sylvester asks why should
not those best able to pay be requir-
ed by law to tote fair with the 43
percent who are less able and who
now pay it all. The state tax COM
mission consisting of the most able
and experienced men in the state are
now reporting measure which will
will give sufficient revenue to care
for our schools, cities and education
and do this without burdening any
one. Sylvester's measure will tax
over-large wealth and ease UP on
the small owner and place 1t down
among the eager buyers OF consum-
er goods thus starting a rapid cir
culation Of money which always
causes all kinds Of business to
awaken into new life and then good
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

Mis- Louise Samsel is reported a
getting along nicely. following ar
appendicitis operation at the Pasce
hospital last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Morgan accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hughes Of East Kennewick and
Mrs. Bud Shields, motored to Pros
ser Monday evening, where they at
tended open meeting of the Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs at which
time the grand officers were pres
ent.
Charles Lewis, who has been
quite i'll, following an appendicitis
operation in the Pasco hospital, is
much improved at this writing and
expects to be brot to his home the
later part Of this week.
Mrs. Martha Murray, state pres
ident Of WC.T.U. of Spokane is a
house guest a few days this week
of Mrs. Bruce Lampson.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Woods mo-
tored to Yakima Sunday to visit
their little granddaughter, Baby
Mardelle Stowe, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Stowe, who has
been quite i'll but is now improving.
They were accompanied as far as
ToppeniSh by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Lampson and family, who spent the
day with relatives.
Highlanders are reminded that
the Courier-Reporter Silver Sales
Slip campaign ends Saturday, Feb.
18th and all slips dated that day
will be accepted up until noon on
Monday, February 18th, so please
get your slips in by Saturday eve
ming.
Leonard Taylor, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Taylor of the West Highlands,
is a patient at the Pasco hospital
suffering from blood poison of the
hand, caused from a scratch, which
he received while boxing.
The Misses Irene, Diana and
Ruth and Master Floyd Cooper of
Pasco were all-day guests of Miss
Ellen Morrison Sunday.
Miss Irene and Arthur Williams
spent last Friday as guests of
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Quasi.
Mrs. VIM. Frazier, Mrs. Marty
Aiken and Mr.. and Mrs. Lren Boies
visited last week with Mrs. Wallace
Lane, who has been quite Ill.
Mrs. Wallace Lane returned to
her home Friday evening after
spending week In bed, at the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09
Annual Highland
Birthday Party
Set for Feb. 24th

Announcement has been made
that the Annual Highlands George
Washington Birthday Dinner will
be held Friday evening, February
24at $50 o'clock at the Highland
clubhouse. The food committee for
the evening is as follows: Mrs. r. W..
Woods, Mrs. Guy Story, Mrs. Bur-
dette Boies, Mrs. Durham, Mrs. w.
bennett, Mrs. Joe Watkins and Mrs.
C.. H. Meyers. The table committee
consists of Mrs. N. L. Foraker, Mrs.
Pete Erickson and Mrs. Frank Davis.
Each family attending is asked to
bring enough meat sandwiches for
their family, two dishes to pass (if
family is extra large one, please
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

profits flow where the stream -.
dried up. WS
We are all requested to write q.
mediately to every legislator a ~.
ask them to boost Sylvester, s a,o
and companion bills rais,na ul
revenue. The bills now passsa 1ae
the senate reyiyeS the pauper !. y
OF 1854. This backward sta,, ~S
blemish on the name for mns. :
state can be stopped IL we tats ~
mediate action. m'
w. G. D: RANDOLPH
Richland, wasb
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

Highland All Girls, who feel vel
repaid for their efforts, as they
cleaned seven dollars and ten cents
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Smeltzer were
Sunday dinner guests at the home
of their daughter, Mrs. Paul Pasche
and family.
Mrs. Guy Story, Mrs. Ellen Lape
and Mrs. H. w. Withers, were High
land Ladies, who assisted Mrs. Lee
Lampson at her home Wednesday
evening in entertaining at Wo-
mans club benefit card party.
Miss Jane Nagley, who has been
employed in Cashmere during the
fall and winter, has returned to the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Nagley for an indefinite stay.
The Highland Bridge Club is
meeting today for a 1870 dessert
luncheon at the home of Mrs. Ber-
tina Simsen.
Mrs. Henry Liebel received word
Tuesday that her mother, Mrs. Bur-
ris, who has been quite i'll at her
home at Grants Pass, Oregon, is
slowly improving.
Mrs. Harvey Ray is confined to
her bed this week with intestinal
flu.
Mrs. H. w. Withers entertained
the Kennewick Needle Club at her
home last Friday afternoon. A
1:3O dessert luncheon was served to
nineteen members. Mrs. j. G. Har-
dy was guest of the club. The
next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. Hugh Copeland in
Kennewick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Ray motored to
Washtucna last Friday, where they
attended the funeral of friends.
Mr.. Rhinehart, who passed away
at his home in Dayton and Mrs.
Helme, who died last week in Pasco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Watkins called
Sunday afternoon on Mrs. Forrest
Gragg, who is convalescing at her
home on the South Highlands.
There will be q grange card
party at the Highland clubhouse on
Friday evening, February 10th at
1880. Bridge, pinochle and Five
hundred will be in play. with prizes
for each. Refreshments will be serv-
ed at the close OF the evening. AL
charge Of 10 cents will be asked and
everyone is welcome to come.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Preston and
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Campbell at
ended q Sunday evening dinner
'arty at the Harry Benson home In |
finley.
Mendel Gragg Is out Of school
his week ON account Of illness.
e. G. LapeI was q business visitor
q Prosser and Mabton last Thurs
lay.
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Communicated

Extreme haste in passing pension
legislation at Olympia has resulted
in numerically cutting what little
allowance the present law has allow
ed. To the cry "Have mercy on the
poor taxpayers, don't ask him to
pay any more!" Speaker Sylvester
answers that we will get the money
from those who do not now pay
taxes, namely the owners Of 81 per-
cent Of the wealth of this state, in
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

bring extra large dishes) pickles
and pie. Coffee and cream will be
furnished by the Woman,s Club. A
musical program will follow, also a
play will be given followed by dane
Ing. All Highlanders are cordially
invited to come and have good
time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-02-09

Entire Nous met at the homs :,
Mrs. F. F. eBste Tuesday aftern,.Oal
with Mrs. A. T. Belair winning h,ss
honors and Mrs. w. s. Wasbhu1a
second.