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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
UNION PACT FOR
HOTEL WORKERS

New York City (ILNS).-A union
shop agreement has been reached be-
tween the Hotel Association, repre-
senting 100 hotels of this city, and the
New York Hotel Trades Council, rep
resenting six American Federation of
Labor locals with about 10000 mem
bers. The agreement is the climax of
nearly years negotiations, and is to
run to January 81, 1912.
Several management representatives
quit the conference in protest during
the five hours which it lasted.
The agreement provided, in addi-
tion to the union shop, higher mini
mum wage scales, horizontal pay in
crease of 81 week for those unaf-
fected by the new minimums, paid va
cations, the check off, and mediation
and arbitration of disputes.
All non-union members must enroll
in the union within 80 days after the
agreement becomes effective, and new
employees must be unionized within Is
days. James A. Mccartney, executive
secretary of the association, said, how
ever, that individual hotels would not
be bound by the agreement unless the
union can prove that it has majority
of members in those hotels.
The following weekly minimums are
provided:
Walters, SO; mattresses, $3.50; chefs,
$45 to $50; elevator operators, SIT to
$19; maintenance workers, $25 to $50;
engineers, $50 to $40; telephone op-
orators, S18; bellboys, S4 to $11; house
men, $18; chambermaids, $3.50 to
$14.50; and bartenders, S30
The wage variants in the separate
categories are based on three classifi-
cations provided for in the contract.
The hotel classifcations are transient,
seni-transient and resident
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
Tolerance Essence Of
Democracy

(From the brief filed in the case of
Mayor Hague of Jersey City by the
Special Committee on the Bill OF
Rights of the American Bar ASSN
1t is because of the striking ex-
ample of ruthless tolerance afforded
by this case that it is SO significant
for the future of American civil rights.
For tolerance is of the essence of the
American system and of the American
way of life-not only tolerance in re-
ligion, but also tolerance in matters
Of political, economic and social be-
lief; tolerance not only of views that
we can approve, but also (as Mr. JUS
tice Holmes himself said) of views
that we hate; tolerance not only of
views that accord with our interests
but also of views that are inimical to
our interests.
In the long run, system of govern
ment and a way of life resting, as ours
does, on the consent of the majority
can survive only if we support toler-
ance and free discussion within wide
limits. The law alone cannot instill
that degree of tolerance on which our
institutions rest. Only education and
widespread understanding of the es-
sentials of free government can do
that. But the courts can, in concrete
cases, aid in preserving free institu-
tions by forbidding definite acts that
suppress lawful expression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
CURES CHEAPER THAN
FUNERALS

Paul de Kruif, undoubtedly the most
widely read of popular writer's on med
ical subjects, is calling on Congress to
save at least $4,000 human lives now
being snuffed out in this country by
pneumonia each year His figure is
modest. More than 100000 persons
die of pneumonia in this land each
year; and curative serums have been
worked out for two types of the dis
ease which kill about half the total
number Of victims.
The trouble is that a doctor cannot
tell the type Of the disease by bed
side diagnosis. That is strictly lab
oratory job, though quick one. There
is not one laboratory of that sort in
the country where 20 are needed, and
the serum for a single case costs from
$25 to SIS. Paul de Kruif's pertinent
question, "is an American life worth
1852" is one that must be answered
by an extension of public medicine.
It will cost something to establish
laboratories accessible to the whole
population, each with a store of the
serums known furnished free, and an
attendant to diagnose from the sputum
which one is required. But after all,
the cure would be cheaper than the
unnecessary funerals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
Quakers To Direct
Relief In Germany

Philadelphia (ILNS). - DR.. Rufus
NJ. Jones of the three Quakers who re-
Gently went to Germany to find out
what could be done for the prosecuted
Jews of that country, says that the
American Friends Service Committee
has received permission to operate a
relief agency in Germany. Two or
more Quaker commissioners will go
there to supervise the expenditure of
relief funds raised in America. They
will aid the prosecuted, whether Chris
tians or Jews.
At the same time, announcement
was made of an agreement between
Nazi authorities and the American
British French Intergovernmental
Refugee Committee, which will at
tempt the evacuation of 100000 Jews
from Germany
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
In THE NEWS
ELLEN S. WOODWARD

Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward, newly-ap-
pointed member of the Social Security
Board, has been working with the re-
lief agencies of the federal govern
ment ever since they were organized
in 1888. She went with the Works
Progress Administration when it was
created in 1885, in July BY March
of the next year, she had half mil
lion needy women working on projects
of community value.
The w. P. A. biography of Mrs.
Woodward doesn't say how old she is,
though she has son in business in
California. But her hair is still red,
and the figures already given show
that she has the capacity for getting
things done that frequently goes with
red hair.
But those figures are just starter.
In July, 1886, her jurisdiction was ex-
panded to take in art, music, theatre
and writing programs. AT their peak,
these projects employed 100000 men
and women. Mrs. Woodward always
has insisted that wages and hours
should be specified in terms of people,
not in terms of sex.
During her administration of the
nursing and public health work,
100000 people have received medical
attention, 100000 have been immu-
nized against contagious diseases such
as typhoid and diphtheria, and 10000
have had their teeth treated-or
pulled.
Not to mention the works of art,
music and drama that have been pro-
duced under Mrs. Woodward's admin
| istration, and the $500 travelling Ii
braries going by truck, auto, horse
back and boat to our remoter regions.
One live wire has gone to the Social
Security Board
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
WHAT NEXT?

Two processes for virtually elm
mating reflection from glass and SC
making it next to invisible, have re-
Gently been developed An invisible
film coating about four-millionths OF
an inch permits the glass to transmit
more than 80 per cent of light. AS .
result, there is next to no reflection
and show case glass, windows and ever
glass eyes appear not to exist, it is
reported.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
w. p. A. REPAIRS THOUSANDS
OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Washington, D. c. ILNS) - The
Works Progress Administration fin
ished 1927 public buildings and en-
larged and repaired 5,125 more be-
tween July / and November l of 1898.
These include many schools, gym
nasiums and grandstands.
"These structures" said Col. F. C.
Harrington, now administrator of the
w. P. A., represent only a small part
of what the American public is get
ting for its work relief money. The
present report does not cover the tan
gible assets created by highway con-
struction, water supply and santa
ton, conservation work and many
types of public recreational facilities" "
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
GETTING TO BE A HABIT

The National Mediation Board con-
tinues the almost perfect functioning
that has almost become a habit. In
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1888
the one which its last report covers,
no labor dispute which interrupted rail
or airline service are listed Collective
bargaining in the air transport indus
try went ahead fast in those II
months; IA labor agreements covering
rates of pay, rules, and working con-
ditions of airline employees were filed.
And the two rail settlements effected
in the last half Of 1887, getting and
512 cents increase of pay per hour for
practically the entire working force,
affected more employees, more carriers,
and larger sum in adjustments, than
any other case mediated since the Rail
way Labor Act was passed in 1926.
In industry as in international af-
fairs, peace honorable peace, costs
much less than war. The Railway La
Dor Act has given the country II years
of experience in that line.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
1888 STRIKE TOTAL CUT
IN HALF FROM 1897, SAYS
MADDEN, n. l.. r. B. HEAD

Columbus, o. (ILNS).- Strikes in
1888 were half as numerous as in 1897
and involved only one-third as many
workers, N. L. r. B. Chairman Madden
told members of the American Poliit-
ical Science Association.
Madden pointed out that 1888 was
the first full year of operation under
the labor act as legislation of unques'
toned constitutionality.
"As a result of vigorous organiza
tion campaigns and under the protec
tion of the act the two great labor or.
ganizations claim about eight millior
members, as against less than three
million in 1884, Madden said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

directed mobs. He was not denied the
right to earn his living merely because
he was Jew. He was not sent to a
concentration camp to be starved and
beaten till he wanted to die. He lived,
under calling restrictions but safely,
taught Hebrew and watched over his
son; until that son had become mu-
steal prodigy; and then, the door to
the outer world was open.
1t is the intolerable cruelty of the
Nazi prosecutions, unmatched in So
called civilized lands for hundreds of
years, that has shocked and disgusted
the American people until Hitler has
few friends in this country.
An interesting item of foreign news
came recently from Tunis, which the
Italian Fascists want to take from
France. Natives and French colonists
turned out in droves to cheer Daladier
for answering that France would re-
main in Tunis. But the most inter
esting part of this is that it fits in per-
fectly with the colonial records of two
nations-and only two.
No colony of France or the Neither
lands has broken away of itself. All
Spanish colonies which had a chance
have done this; our forebears revolted
from Britain; Canada had a rebellion
and then and afterwards Britain made
up her mind to let her white colonies
act as free nations.
But the French colonies of Canada
and Louisiana, though wrenched away
still retain the French impress, espe.
cially in Canada. The Dutch colonists
Of South Africa, handed over to Brit
ain, emigrated north to found free
states of their own; and Dutch BLOOD
and language still dominate South
| Africa.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
w. p. A. Checks Rolls
For Eligibles To
Jobless Benefits

Columbus, o. (OLNS) - Detailed
cooperation between the state w. P. A.
and the Unemployment Compensation
Commission has greatly facilitated
the determination of the number of
w. P. A. workers eligible to receive
unemployment compensation after
January l, w. t. Roberts, labor mem
Der of the commission, announced last
week
W.P. A. officials have conducted a
statewide survey of all persons on its
rolls who have worked in any of 20
weeks during the past year for COW
cred employer
When W. P. A. worker is found to
be eligible for unemployment benefits,
he will be permitted to file his claim
with the commission, and if the claim
is approved, he will be allowed to con-
tinue on the w. P. A. rolls during the
three weeks waiting period.
At the end of the three weeks pc
riod the worker may be dropped from
w. P. A. rolls and start receiving
weekly benefits from the commission.
Procedure covering the official ham
ding of w. P. A. workers claims and
weekly benefits provides for copy of
his benefit check to be delivered to the
state relief director to be forwarded
to the appropriate relief agency for
weekly investigation with local relief
rolls
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1889.
THE COSTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT

The latest issue of the A. F. of l..
Survey of Business says a mouthful
in the middle of one paragraph:
"Workers' chief loss in the 1937-38
recession has been in unemployment,
for there have been relatively few
wage cuts"
The increased power of labor unions,
aided by the Wagner Labor Relations
Act, accounts for the relatively few
wage cuts" But the loss from unem-
ployment is terrific, and labor has no
real control over that Steel payrolls,
for example, dropped from $40 1856, 900
in April, 1887, to $32, $4,000 in Feb
ruary, 1888.
The first thing many big industries
think of when the outlook is unsatis-
factory is not to widen the market
by lowering prices but to cut down
production by laying off workers.
Throughout Big Business, the cost of
management's bad guesses is all too
frequently taken out of the workers
pay envelopes-and no cure for that
has yet been proposed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
SUPREME COURT
RULES AGAINST
FORD COMPANY

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). = The
Supreme Court, rejecting contentious
of the Ford Motor Company, ruled
that Circuit Courts of Appeals may
remand N L. r. B. cases to the labor
board for further proceedings at any
time
The N. L. R. B. had investigated
charges of unfair labor practices by
the Ford Motor Company, at the River
Rouge plant, these practices including
the beating of 13 union organizers
who tried to pass union leaflets at the
entrance of the plant. 1t found the
Ford plant guilty, ordered it to cease
and desist; and the Ford Company ap-
pealed to the Federal Circuit Court of
the Sixth Circuit, as provided by law.
Then came the Stockyards case, in
which the court held that a ruling of
the Department of Agriculture was
not valid because of the omission of
certain SIepS III une proceeding. LIE
N. L. r. B. asked the Circuit Court to
remand the case to the board, that it
might comply with this latest ruling.
The court granted the remand; and
the Ford Company contended that this
remand was illegal, and appealed to
the Supreme Court 1t is this appeal
that the court turned down.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
Union Pact Protects
Older Workers

Cincinnati (ILNS).-A union con-
tract, containing clause to protect
jobs of older workers, has been signed
by the Associated Electric Contractors
of Cincinnati and the international
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
The pact, effective one year, pro-
vides that every sixth man in shop
or on a job be not less than so years
old.
Elmer T. Baur of the Baur Electric
Company, chairman of the Contrac-
tors Labor Committee and sigma
tory to the contract, termed the clause
"very commendable" and expressed
hope it would succeed in practice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13

Mischa Elman, one of the world S
foremost half dozen violinists and
many music lovers would say one of
the foremost three, is giving a series
of concerts in 25 cities from coast to
coast, beginning January 21 in New
York. They will be known as the
Mischa Elman Nonsectarian Refugee
Concerts; and Mischa does not get a
dollar of the proceeds. These go to
three committees in this country to
help the prosecuted refugees from
Germany; Catholic, Jewish and Prot
estant.
1t is at once an appealing and an
appalling story; appealing, because
one does not often see a great artist
give practically years use of his
genius to a great and noble cause;
appalling, that the need of such a gift
should be shrieking aloud in the middle
years of the twentieth century.
MlSClid ElllldH 10 ITO Stranger W It.
strictions on his race. He is Rus
sian Jew. In the days of Czardom, his
father took him to st. Petersburg to
enter him in the conservatory. But
hotels in St. Petersburg then barred
Jews; and Mischa was too young to
leave alone The elder Elman prob
ably did not often walk the streets at
night or sleep on a park bench, as the
story goes; but it was some time be-
fore he got special permission to live
in the Czarist capital while his son
was in the music school
Yet the persecution which Mischa
remembers so keenly was mild anc
gentle to that inflicted by the Naz
government on the refugees whom he
is helping so generously. His father
was not half killed by government.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
A. F. OF L. CENTRAL
LABOR UNION FORMED
AT WINFIELD, LA.

Winfield, La. (AFLWNS). - Nine
locals affiliated with American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor national and interna-
tional unions have formed Central
Labor Union here and applied for a
charter. E. H. Williams, president Of
the Louisiana State Federation of La
Dor, assisted the local unions in estab-
fishing the central body.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
GEO. KAPPEL

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
TheCherry
." Where with our
roo Little Hatchet we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly. Sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Report of Dies committee is subject
of hot and heavy argument. Discus
sion will continue for long time.
Trust the Communists for that.
Reds and their friends have been
hammering committee ever since it
began it's investigation of un-Ameri-
can activities.
Some non-Reds apparently fooled by
Communist clamor have joined in the
outcry against the committee.
Nazis and Fascists don't like the
committee any better than the Reds
but are laying low and not saying
| much.
Reds have sought vociferously from
the beginning to discredit the commit
tee and its inquiry.
Dies committee has made some mis-
| takes, done some fool things Many
congressional committees do. Dies
committee has probably been unfair
in some instances and it has given un-
due weight to the words of some whose
words deserved scant notice.
The committee, however, has painted
a picture of subversive activities that
informed persons know is largely true
to facts.
| One criticism sure to be reiterated
is that the committee discovered the
obvious
There is truth in that Trade union
lists have long known the Communists
were seeking to seize control of the
labor movement, as the committee
finds. The labor press has given pub
licity to this phase of Communist ac-
| tivity ever since the Communist move
ment first invaded the United States,
20 or more years ago.
But while the committee has
told much that is obvious to those
who have followed subversive
movements in America, the situa-
tiOn is not so well known to the
! great mass of people.
The report will serve to make the ac-
| tivities of the Communists, as we'll as
those of the Fascists and Nazis, bet
| ter known and understood
While the Dies committee has fallen
far short of the highest wisdom, it has
not offended as some congressional in
vestigating committees have
1t has not violated constitutional
rights, in the spirit if not in the letter,
as some congressional committees
have
Conduct of some committees has
aroused support for corporate inter
ests accused of wrongdoing. That is
not because folks believe corporations
are angels of light but because they
don't like to see foul means used in
any fight.
1t will be bad for the nation if it
ever forsakes it's ideals of fair play.
| Public officials are wise not to for
get good public policy just because
they get in fight. Better to lose
than to win by hitting foul blow.
The world needs to concentrate on
one job-how to make life safe and
happy, with a full measure of COM
pensation.
Largely that seems to mean,
how to make machines serve, not
rule; or, how to make the benefits
of machines generally available,
not available to only few.
America is thinking lot about this.
The whole world needs to think about
| it and do something about it.
Solution of the problem would do a
lot to make the going tough for Nazi-
ism, Fascism and Communism.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
WISDOM

The reformer thinks it his duty to
make others better. It is not His
duty is to make himself better and
others happier, if Robert
Louis Stevenson.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1939-01-13
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MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT EGGS.

Recent research by food chemists re-
veal helpful information on the use of
eggs.
For example, you may not realize that
temperature has much to do with how
an egg separates and how the white
whips. If the egg is old-juSt out of
the refrigerator can separate the
white from the yolk more easily. But
if you want to whip the white, let it
stand on the kitchen table awhile to
take the chill off, for egg whites whip
more easily when they are at room
temperature" The time of whipping
the whites is important too. If they
are to hold their air bubbles while you
fold them into cake mixture, and later
during heating, they must not be
stretched too thin by over-heating. You
should whip them until they are stiff
but not dry.
A beater with thin blade or wire
makes fine foam, heavy wire makes
a coarse foam.
If even a small amount of fat gets
into the white of egg, it won't beat up
stiff, so be sure your beaten is free
of any oil or fat and that no particles
of yolk get in with the white Yolks
contain fat.
Eva L. Blair.