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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18

A compulsory automobile tn- spection bill was reported favorably in the house today by the motor vehicles committee and tabled for printing on the calendar.
 It provides an annual assessment of fifty cents on each registered car to pay for an increase of 50 state policemen to be assigned perma- nently to highway safety patrol; es- tablishment of at least one lane in each county for voluntary inspec- tions, and authority for state police to compel inspection of automobiles with defective equipment.
 The system would replace the compulsory inspections, which were abandoned March when mainte- nance funds were exhausted.
 Military Reorganization
 Hartford, Conn, May 18.-(UP)- The legislative reorganization com- mittee today voted favorable report on a military reorganization bill which specified an eight-year term for the state adjutant general at a salary of $750O yearly.
 At present, the adjutant general, commander of the states military forces, serves for life and gets $600u. The assistant adjutant general, un- der terms of the bill, would be raised fro $3500 to $4000 and would serve for eight years instead of life
 The measure would abolish the state armory board and the armory board inspector. The quarter master general would take over these duties. The office of deputy quarter-master general would be created to assist in administration. A salary of $4000 a year was specified.
 The bill was drawn by the legisla- tive council during the term of for mer Gov. Cross. The reorganization committee made extensive changes, however.
 The bill would create military council comprising the adjutant general, the quartermaster general, and commanding officers of each regiment and of the naval militia. This group would confer with the national guard head on policy.
 The measure stipulated specific reasons for removal of the adjutant general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-05-18
SHOTS FIRED IN
 HARLAN COUNTY
fired from rifles, shotguns and re volverS.

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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
First Wage-Hour
VioIu+or Is jailed

Elkins, w. Va. OLNS).-Federal
Judge William E. Baker recently or
dered trouser manufacturer jailed
for six months for failing to comply
with the wage-Hour law.
Sanford Lerner, the defendant, was
the first person to be sentenced to
Jail under the act, Government coun-
sci said
Lerner is vice president, and general
manager of the Standard Trouser
Company, Buckhannon, w. Va, and
an official of the Crown Trouser Com
pany, Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The order of the court stipulated
that if at any time during the six
months Lerner should make payments
of $3,152.23 the Government contend
ed were due his employees, he would
be released.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
TRIAL BY NERVES

THE grim struggle in Europe between the dem
ocratic and fascist countries is now being
spoken of as trial by nerves. The struggle in
the labor movement in America may also be apty
spoken of as trial by nerves. That side will win
that has the greatest nerve reserve and it may be
supposed that the greatest nerve reserve will be
with the side that has the deepest conviction OF
being right. We have little doubt that in the case
of the labor world it is the American Federation
of Labor. Everyone knows that the A. F. of l.. is
not perfect organization, but it has long strug-
gled for better living for workers in America 1t
has kept it's hands clear of conspiracy, secretive
ness, underground conniving and hypocrisy. One
reason why the A. F. of l.. is belittled by soft in
tellectuas is that everybody knows all about the
A. F. of l.. 1t has concealed nothing. 1t is not a
revolutionary movement in the sense of the story
books but profound drive Of workers for indus
trial citizenship. Moreover, the A. F. of l.. lies
closer to democratic life than the G. l. O. 1t
smacks nothing of totalitarianism. 1t belongs tC
America and so long as American institutions en-
dure it will have sound place within the nation
If American institutions disappear, the A. F. of L.
will go down with it. Let not the enemy of the A
F. of l.. believe that the men heading these organ
izations are soft. They will be found adamant in
opposing any introduction of totalitarianism in
this country and they are willing to rest their al
on this principle and go down with it.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31

effectiveness of the law was materially lessened
lby the $4,000 limit. The Senate bill amended the
act in this respect by providing that all contracts
|costing in excess of 81 900 shall come under the
provisions of the law It also required subcontrac
tors and contracts for services and the construc-
|tion of ships and floating equipment to comply
with the law.
In addition, the Senate bill contained an amend
ment barring from bidding on government con-
tracts employers found guilty by appropriate fed
eral courts of violating the provisions of the Nat
ional Labor Relations Act, which guarantees
working men and women the rights to organize
n unions of their own choice and select represen-
satives for collective bargaining purposes, and
prohibit employers from interfering with these
lights.
After thorough discussion the bill amending
the Walsh-Heaey Act was passed by the Senate
on July 18th without dissenting VOTE 1t was
referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary
on July 18th, where it was entombed.
In urging the Senate to enact the bill, Senator
Walsh of Massachusetts said:
"We making effort to provide that when
the Government itself spends the taxpayers
money, even if it costs little more, sweatshops
and chselers and crooked business establishments
shall not get contracts but employers who main
tain decent conditions for their workers shall be
rewarded with contracts"
All progressive citizens are deeply disappointed
lin the action of the House of Representatives in
not subscribing to the ethical and constructive
policy so trenchantly expressed by Senator Walsh
and expediting through the avenues of parlia-
mentary procedure the bill designed to withdraw
Federal financial support from wage and hour
chiseing employers and award government con-
tracts to employers who maintain decent wages,
hours, and work conditions for their employees.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
L.U.86 Corresponds
With Stockton, Cal.
Worehousemen are Pleased
With Interest Shown BY
Local No. III

Local Union No. sc met in regular
session August 2S with a shortage on
officers and members. Too bad the
boys can't get out to local and help
take care of the problems which come
up from time to time. Now that fall
weather is close everyone try and
make it point to attend the meet
ings.
We had some recent correspondence
with Local Union No. I'll, Stockton,
California and were quite pleased
with the interest shown by these men,
bers, also the request made by them.
We would like to hear from this To-
cal any time they feel they like writ
ing.
1t is reported that Brother For
roster doesn't have the mule to cut
his grass, but all the same it shouldn't
keep him from attending the local
meetings.-O. c. sc.
- . -.- - --.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
WAGE -CHISEl.ING EMPLOYERS RETAIN
RIGHT TO GRAB GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

THE entire labor movement of the United States
and all other progressive groups are profound
ly dissatisfied with the failure of the House of
Representatives to consider and enact the bill
passed by the Senate amending in vital respects
the Healey Public Contracts Act which be-
came part Of federal statutes in 1886.
The Walsh-Healey Act was designed to pre-
vent the expenditure of government funds for
supplies manufactured by concerns which impose
ployes. TO establish this commendabe purpose
the act required firms holding government con-
tracts to apply the eght-hour day and five-day
week. pay prevailing wage rates as determined by
the Secretary of Labor, ban child labor and the
labor Of convcts, and provide sanitary plants and
decent surroundings.
The 1886 act was applicable to contracts in
volving the purchase of $4,000 OF more of sup
plies. Experience indicated that the scope and
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
AGE OF UNREASON

DOSSIBLY in no period in history-certanly in
no period of American history-has emotion
|controlled conduct more, and reason less. To
be sure, men always live by feeling rather than
Thought but advances in civilization are made in
lagos of moderation, when men rise above primi-
tive passions, and formulate new programs, and
new constitutions. The American constitution,
surely one of the great documents of history, is
the product of men of great intellectual stature,
profoundly conceived, grounded in experience and
fact. The encyclopedias of France, who preceded
the revolution, were philosophers and scholars.
That revolutionary period was an age of reason !;
land in America, more sane balanced, reflective,
versatile man ever lived and worked than the
revolutionary Thomas jefferson.
In contrast our own age is an age of organized
Iemotion. Fascsm and communism are not in any
sense an organized body of political thought, but
ia system of practical revolutionary procedure of
|anti-social intent. These movements power sup
Ierstiton with scientific dynamics
Fortunately for the United States, and other
Idemocracies, democracy is equipped with shock
Iabsorbers to withstand the assaults of unreason.
How long, however, even democracy can withstand
the blows of superstition, lying propaganda, as
sertive selfishness and greed remains to be seen.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
WORKERS GET UNION
SHOP AGREEMENT

Seattle, Wash. QLNS).-The Lum-
Der and Sawmill Workers. union,
affiliated with the A. F. of L., recently
signed union shop agreement with
the Pope and Talbot Lumber Com
pany, which ranks second in the lum-
ber industry in the number of men
employed and the daily output of lum-
ber.
The pact provides that unskilled la
Dor shall be paid 621a cents per hour,
with semi-skilled and skilled workmen
receiving proportionately higher pay.
Regular hours of labor are to be 40
hours per week, consisting Of five
eight-hour days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
FROM EUROPE

TRAVELLERS from Italy and Switzerland bring
interesting tidngs. The italian population is
restive. 1t does not like to have Italy become a
province of the German state. They feel that Hit
er has too large a stake in Italy and they resent
the presence of German drill sergeants and gen
erals in their own country.
story popular with Italians illustrates this
point of view. His flunkies say to him: Master
lit is not raining" Mussoni replies "But it is
raining in Berlin
Across the borders of Italy in Switzerland
there is terrific wartime preparation. 1t is note
worthy that is most hostile to Germany and Hit
lerism. The German-speaking Swiss, long -prac-
ticed in the ways of democracy, despise with con-
the autocracy of der fuehrer
Switzerland will defend to its last drop of blood
travellers say their borders from invasion either
10y Italy or Germany
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
CLERKS TO MEET IN COLUMBUS

Columbus, O. (OLNS). - Regular
seml-annual convention of District
Three, Retail Clerks International Pro-
tective Association, embracing all
Ohio Unions of the A. +. of l.. affili-
ate, will be held at the Neil House
here September 10.
c. c. Coulter, Lafayette, Indiana,
international secretary-treasurer of
the Clerks Union, and other labor of
ficials will attend and address the con-
ventlon. Action demanding establish
ment of a minimum wage for women
and minors in the retail industry in
Ohio IS expected to be taken by the
convention.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
CHILD LABOR PROVISIONS
WAGE-HOUR ACT APPLY TO
SEA FOOD PACKING ETC,

Washington, D. G. QLNS).-Kath-
arine F. Lenroot, chief of the Labor
Departments Children's Bureau, has
ruled that the child labor provisions of
the Wage-Hour Act apply to sea food
picking, packing and processing plants.
The child labor law prohibits en-
ployment of children under 16 years
of age.
At the same time, Wage-Hour Ad-
ministrator Andrews extended the
temporary and partial exemption for
handicapped workers in sheltered
workshops, which are institutions
conducted on non-proft charitable
basis to rehabilitate handicapped per-
sons.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
CHAIN GROCERY SALES UP go

Washington, D. C.-Daily average
sales of chain grocery stores for July
were about per cent larger in dollar
volume than in July, 1888, and higher
than for any July since 1929, the Com
merce Department has announced.
Sales declined from June by about the
usual seasonal amount, placing the
seasonally adjusted index for July at
1916 per cent, compared with 99.3 per
cent in June, based on the 1929-31
average. Sales for the first seven
months were about per cent above
the corresponding period of 1888.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MR.. MQDESTUS
. FRONT!
. WHY FIGHT!
y POOR POLAND!
= ANARCHY

FRONT!
Hitler-Stalin front
Nazi-Communist-F Fascist front
To be signed, sealed and delivered
In History's docket of memorable
scraps of paper
How Trotsky must be laughing
If Kaiser Wilhelm can still think
A penny for his thoughts
x X X
Hitler don't want to fight Stalin-
He just wants to talk about him
loosely
Which is provided for, doubtless
Tacitly, or otherwise, in the Mos.
COW Pact
1t is doubtful whether Hitler wants
to fight anybody
Has he not firmly declared: "I am
not a coward"-
That being established by the rock
of GermanBavarian words
Why fight?
A Polish German non-aggressior
pact there was
Good for ten years or more, on con.
ditions-
When, just in case, there came a
British-Polish mutual defense pact
The PIG Pact was dissolved in a
flood of hot German words
You must remember, it is not all
just matter of Danzig-
For there was the corridor, taken
from Germany
By Wilson, Lloyd George, Tiger.
Mongol- -Clemenceau-
Given to Poland, along with Rus.
sian Poland and Warsaw
Plus Silesian Poland from old Aus
tria-
an Austria ?)-
(Do you remember that there was
Concerning which there might be q
common appetite
AS between Stalin-G -Gregorian- Rus.
sian, and Hitler-Bavarian- -Teuton-
With reslicing of an old mess OF
pottage-
Poor Poland!
Who starved her coal miners
Until they staged sit-down strikes
underground
Breadless-
Stain once gave the United States
pact
Agreeing that no attacks on Amer
lean institutions
Shcr1I fro,~> Co,,:oI
administration
Which agreement was recognized by
using on it
Hammer and sickle of the Comm
tern
Resulting in withdrawal of Ameri.
can ambassador to Leningrad-
And so-remembering that History
after all
Does really repeat itself, in stutter.
ing fashion
We may view, through this per.
spective-
Non-aggression pacts, originating
in Moscow
Bearing signature by authority OF
Hitler
x X x
Anarchy
Whose philosophy was first stated
by American John Turner
Accepted, in principle, by many
leading Americans
At one time or another
Being a creed processing the use
leSsness Of Law
Appears thus now again in the do
main of international Law
Which is largely composed of agree
ments between nations
How effective do you expect thi:
StalinHitler thing to be?
Do you think it represents today
The true intentions of either Ger
man or Russian peoples?
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31

More than 5000 theatres in the United
States show sound films. The country with the
next highest figure has only 5,271 theatres of this
type, and many of these are dependent on Ameri-
can films
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
WISDOM

don't care who you are-if you
perform any service that is of
benefit to someone else, you are
sure to gain magnificently because
of the effOrt.-GeOrge Matthew
Adams.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31
WHAT NEXT?

Use of X-rays on cheese for the
first time and discovery that they
photograph the flavor and tell
what makes it, is the latest an
nOunCcment.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31

pound of coffee costing 23 cents in the United
States would cost Sl25 In Germany and about II
dollars in Russia.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-08-31

Always Demand the Union Label.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-07
INJURIES FATAL
To MILLWORKER

Eatonyflls residents Saturday
incurred The loss Of weli-known
member os the community. Will
lam Lsmkc. 55-ycar-oh niilwsight
and resident for over 10 years,
who ~aa fatally Injured in an acct
dent At TIE Ea,onyiile Lumber
company
Lemke saccumbed TO his injuries
Friday afternoon at the Mary
Bridge hospital here, almost -
hours after he was rushed 10 TIA
coma In an ambulance
The veteran millworker's chest
was crushed and both legs were
broken. In addition, he suffered
internal injuries when his clothing
caught In a fiywheel and pulled
him into the whirling machinery.
he was working on the long table
where lumber Il graded and sorted
when the ehain-drive mechanism
caught him. according 10 reports
received here
Lemke. who was an assistant
miliwright at the time OF his
death. Is survived by his widow
at Eatonville and by a son and
daughter. His body was removed
to Eatonyille mortuary. where
services viii be announced.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-07
BONNEVIllE'S
POWER BOUGHT

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-07

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-07
GARDEN CLUBS
MEET TUESDAY

a.. tlAknoa - tn psninsals
D&ssasn club ~sti nsss Tuesday
afs~sssnon 81 th* hnssss e Mrs
Antene ksf2EnAtieh Mrs lee
0sss~nla wsll have charge ~ the
rtoxr~m ~hieh ali feature shs
|t0pse. ~Fxsl rlsnslnE 81 taray
Annuais ant ths roll cali. What
Il po n oetohxr In the Garden =
The AmAsear Garden clnh will
meet Tuesday sftsrnaon al the
eiuhhoase. vita Mrs {. 4 shaw
~ ho~ts.s. Al o'eiock luncheoa
Mr. ieo par&als viii have charge
~ the study hour.
John Paul Jonss lodge No. All.
y a A. NJ. viii hold stated COM
munle.tlon Tuesday evening At the
lodge roosns In Community hall.
Peninsula Pomona Grange No.
90 has Postponed ia October meet.
ing until Oct IL by order Of the
worthy master. Elmer s. Olson.
Tho ladies auxiliaftcn Ia PENN.
sula pos, No. %. American Legion.
and Herman uddsnberg post No.
1854. v v. ". combined Friday
evening 10 honor Mrs Joe Parker
BY shower at the home OF Mrs.
John Murphy. Mira Murphy Is .
past president Of both auxiliaries
and Mrs. Parker IA n membsr Of
both.
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c. P. s. FRhTS
GET RECRUITS

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Houston. John Hins. Herman Klei-
nsr. James Ira. kAhlef Lallebsrg.
Donald AunSon. Theodore Picard.
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wessgats. sherman whippls and
Harry Willard.
Sigma zets Epsilon. Robert Ben
natts, Jack Davis. Robert He'd
berg, Frank Lowe. Robert May
eumocr. Bob Parker. William
Schroeder. James Van Camp. Nor
man Walker. James Walter. George
Watts. Emery Watts. Harry Wer-
biskey, Robert Zile. Norman Burke,
Vincent Lucich and William Moore.
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son. Thomas Barker. Walter Hall
len. Robert Hamilton. Charles Hin,
Roland Lutz, Walter Olson. Lloyd
Morse. Richard Palmer. Bert Pol
ing. James shuster. Harry Wilson
and James York.
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Keith DeFolo. David Harris. Earl
Manlock. Gerald Mckenzie, Robert
Shaw and Donald Somers.
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PEDESTRIANS SUING
DRIVER FOR $l0,3S7

A personal injury suit for slo.-
ss7.s5 was filed in Pierce county
superior court Saturday as an out
growth of an accident last June
l6 when Lars Schay. Tacoma
longshoreman. and Mrs. Schay
were hit by an automobile as they
walked across Pacific ave. at So.
saith st
The Sehays charge the driver.
Police Sgt. E. f. Ellis. with fail
ing TO stop for the blinker light
over that intersection. Compen-
sation for working time lost and
damaged clothing is asked, in ad-
dition to the general damages
from sprains. bruises. shock and
conclusions claimed suffered by
both Mr.. and Mrs. Schay.
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Traffic Argument
Leads to Arrest

~ etiampkinx 10 srtsis . trsf-
fse sExunsss ~ sas-mansuvsrlnx
anpehsr driver. Owen W. SMITH
III No i,sh a.. faced = reckless
Grsving charge saturday.
D1rerrcyexs offAcer HAgsdcrn
w~a CHASING Smiths car u -
~ ,. b. n olxtA are. Friday AZ
tesnnon whnn IL latter cut in
front ~ ano<her machine near
A1nns ~. with IL apparent In
ten<kon - fprcing q % ~ curb.
n nscoad driver damned On his
brakos. nArsu~ly avsrting an aoci-
asat. Haesdorn stopped snith at
prectnr ~
n 1rtssr satd h. had cut IN
t<unt q II other machine In re-
1n1lafton Tar IN argument between
u drivers = ssw minutes before II
olxth and Tacoma aves- Hsxsdorn
It'd him 10 explain the rest Of thu
erguneaf 70 IL judge