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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
Results Shown in Efforts of O. S. F. of L. and Eagles to In
crease Old-Age Pensions in Ohio-Believe Governor
Will Call Special Session for Increases and Relief

or an increase of 20 per cent over the
same week of 1888.
With this neat surplus in the state
treasury along with the prospect of
continued business improvement it is
felt that it is easily possible for the
state to finance the increase in pen
sions to the needy aged Of the state
also to adequately finance relief needs.
Legislative leaders are said to be
favorable to a special session for the
purpose of increasing the old-age pen
sions inasmuch as the federal govern
ment will finance half of the increased
cost The consensus of opinion is
that it should be called early in Feb
ruary.
However, the final decision rests
with Governor Bricker. He is the only
person who can convoke a special ses-
sion and he must specify in his cal
the subjects to be considered.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
ROBERT FECHNER

He Stunned the limelight He never
sought personal credit or publicity.
He went early to his office and often
out into the field.
The American public knew little
about Robert Fechner, the man. But
that public knows much about, and
heartily approves, the Civilian Con-
seryation Corps which he directed for
nearly seven years without once sub
jecting the program or its admins
tration to serious criticism. One can
not help but think that more of the
New Deal would have succeeded had
more of its agencies been entrusted
to selfless administrators.
Let US hope, for the future of the
C. G. c., that President Roosevelt can
find a successor of similar mold
Washington Daily News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12

Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia, contending the board had
no authority to certify a union as
agent for unit larger than that en-
bracing single employer. In an
swer, the board contended the A. F.
of L. had no right to appeal a GER
tifcation. The labor act appeals only
from "fnal ORDERS" it said, and
designation of a union amounts only
to a certifcation of the fact that that
union has a majority. 1t is not
"final" within the meaning of the
law, it was contended.
The N. L. R. B. defended the geo.
graphic unit, arguing that waterfront
employers on the west negotiate
through a coast-wide association and
that workers have been striving for
a similar organization. The law, it
said, affords the board the power to
recognize that fact.
Orders "Not Subject to Review"
In a third case, the court, acting
in a labor dispute at the Jackson,
Mich, plant of the Consumers Power
Company, ruled again that federal
courts have no authority to review
N. L. R. B. employe election orders.
Justice Stone, who wrote the opin-
ion, based his ruling in the case on
the reasoning of the longshoremen's
case and said:
"The direction for an election is but
a part of the representation proceed
ing and is no more subject to review
under Section 10 than is a certifica-
tion which is the final step in such a
proceeding and which we have just
held Congress has excluded from the
review afforded by that subdivision"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
COLUMBUS TO AID
In ATHENS RELIEF

Columbus, o. (OLNS). - With a
controversy raging between state and
local officials over the relief situation
in Athens County and threats of call
ing upon the federal government to
set up soup kitchens in the county,
the State Highway Department this
week is taking cognizance of the sit
uation and is planning to put several
hundred idle men to work on highway
projects.
The plans include bridge jobs at
Amesville and sidewalk construction
at Stewart and the Plains. Street
work is also being started at Nelson
vile and as further aid in the relief
situation in the county the highway
department is planning to issue requi-
sitions for brick which will enable the
Hooking Valley Brick Company plant
to resume operations employing 100
men.
AS in the Cleveland situation, state
welfare officials insist that money
can be raised within the county for
emergency relief. Many of those on
relief in the county are miners out
of employment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
RULES BRIDGES
NO COMMUNIST

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Harry
R. Bridges has been cleared of
charge that he is a member of or af-
filiated with the Communist party.
The ruling, made by Dean James
M. Lands of Harvard Law School,
who was designated by Secretary of
Labor Perkins as special trial exam
iner to hear the case, has the effect of
recommending cancellation Of the de-
portation warrant issued by the Fed
eral immigration Service against
Bridges on March 2, 1888. The immi-
grafton service had sought to deport
Bridges as an undesirable alien to his
native Australia.
Lands found that the evidence pro-
duced by the government "does not
permit the finding that q. Bridges
is either member of the Communist
party or affiliated with that party"
New York City (ILNS).-President
William Green of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor said here that the
decision of James M. Lands clearing
Harry Bridges, West Coast C. o.
leader, of charges of membership in
the Communist party, 'is not in ac-
cord with the facts"
Everybody knows Harry Bridges
is a Communist" Green said. He
declined further comment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
Green Begins Sixteenth
Term AS A. f. L. Chief

(By a. E. of L. Weekly News service)
Washington, D. William Green
began his sixteenth year as president
of the American Federation of Labor
on January /, 1910
In December, 1924, he was appointed
president of the American Federation
of Labor by the A. F. of L. executive
council following the death of Sam
uel Gompers, and was elected presi-
dent by the 1925 A. F. of L. conven-
ton. Since 1925 he has been elected
president every year without opposi-
ton.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
UniOnizatiOn Would Aid
Agricultural Workers

Philadelphia (ILNS) .-Unionization
of farm labor as possible solution
to Americas agricultural ills was
urged by DR.. Lowry Nelson of the
University of Minnesota.
In an address before the American
Farm Economic Society here, DR.. Mel
son asserted that unemployment, ex-
cessive migration and low wages have
demoralized the farm worker" and
advocated that they also be included
in social security and old-age pension
provisions.
"Unionization of farm labor, coupled
with collective bargaining, would aid
materially in improving the lot of the
workers, particularly in such areas as
California and the farm regions along
the Atlantic seaboard," he said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
(By Ohio Labor News service)

Columbus, Ohio.-Joint efforts of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor
and the Fraternal Order of Eagles in
Ohio to bring about special session
of the Legislature for the purpose of
increasing old-age pensions in Ohio
and making needed changes in the
administration of the law, are show
ing results.
Since the first of the year sentiment
has been increasing in the capitol for
a special session and it is believed
that the governor will now consider
issuing call for special session for
pension increases and possibly for re-
lief and one or two other specific pur-
poses.
For months the chief executive has
turned deaf ear to the demands of
cities, Cleveland and Toledo in par
ticular, that he call special session
to deal with the relief problem, in
sisting that this should be dealt with
as local problem.
Executive boards of the federation
and the Fraternal Order of Eagles
have been in close touch with the sit
uation and are to meet in Columbus
again January 10 to receive report
from the joint committee appointed
several weeks ago to study the situa-
tion and recommend plan of pro-
cedure.
Senator Horace Keifer, of Spring
field, who has handled much of the
old-age pension legislation for the
two groups, has been authorized to
prepare specific amendments to the
aid for the aged law which will be
proposed.
Briefly these amendments include
increasing the maximum monthly
pensions from $50 to $40 month, in
conformity with the recent amend
ments to the federal Social Security
Act and placing the department under
the management and control of a
council of five instead of the State
| Welfare Department.
While there has been more or les.
discussion as to what the actual bal
ance of the states general fund is al
the close of the year, tentative figures
compiled by the governors finance di
rector disclose a $2,425,0O0 surplus.
Treasurer Of State Don HI. Ebright
reports receipts from the sales ia,
for the year 1889 to December 23 OF
$45, 1856, ,796.17 or an increase of II
per cent over the amount collected fol
the same period in 1888.
| At this rate of increase sales tas
revenues for the whole year may ex.
ceed forty-six million dollars, sur.
passing the previous estimates which
placed income from this source al
forty-fve million dollars for the year
Sales tax receipts for the week end.
! ing December % were Stats, 1883
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
Morrison Becomes
Sec.-Treas. Emeritus
(ny A. F. of L. weekly News service)

(By A. z. of L. Weekly News service)
Washington, d. Crank Morri-
son assumed the Office of secretary
treasurer emeritus of the American
Federation of Labor here on January
1, 1910.
After having served 80 years as
secretary and four years as secretary
treasurer of the American Federation
of Labor, Mr.. Morrison declined to be
a candidate for reelection at the 1889
convention. The convention there
upon created the Office of secretary
treasurer emeritus of the American
Federation of Labor and unanimously
elected Mr.. Morrison to fill the office
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
A FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Finland is fighting for her very life,
for liberty, for freedom, for all the
ideals she shares with the United
States. Her ardent hope for the fu-
ture is everlasting peace and the right
for every nation to live harmoniously
in peaceful cooperation with other
nations of the world -Hjalmar j.
Procope, Finland's Minister to United
States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
Supreme Court Upholds Labor
Board In Longshoremen Case;
Get Nod In Various Decisions
Authority of Labor Board Upheld by Highest Tribunal
Court Overrules A. F. of LIS Arguments in Favor of
Labor Boards Interpretation of the Labor Law.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
authority of the National Labor Re-
lations Board was upheld by the Su-
preme Court in three important deci-
sions, all of which were unanimous.
In one decision, the court upheld the
N L. R. B. in it's case against the Falk
Corporation, Milwaukee, holding that
a lower court was without power to
alter an order calling for an election
among company employees.
The board had ordered an election
in which unions affiliated with the G.
l. o. and the A. F. of l.. would par
ticipate but from which an independ-
ent union, allegedly formed under
company domination, was eliminated.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Ap-
peals upheld the charges of unfair
labor practices against the Falk con-
Germ, but ordered that the independent
union be placed on the ballot.
Decision Against A. f. of l..
The court ruled in the Pacific Coast
longshoremen's case that the A. F.
of L. has no right under the Labor
Relations Act to attack in court the
designation of a c. |. O. union as rep
resentative of some $4,000 Pacific
Coast waterfront workers.
The court held that when the N. l.
R. B. certified the G. l. o. Interna-
tional Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's Union as representative
of Pacific Coast waterfront workers
the A. F. of L., under the labor act
had no recourse but to accept the
finding.
The court rejected the arguments
of the A. F. of L. and upheld the
boards Interpretation of the labor
law.
The act, the court said, bars exam.
nation by the courts of board election
orders.
No Ruling on Methods
The court did not rule directly or
the merits or demerits of the boards
methods of conducting elections.
"The conclusion is unavoidable thai
Congress, as the result of deliberate
choice Of conflicting policies, has eX
cluded representation certifications o1
the board from the review by fedora
appellate courts authorized by The
Wagner act except in the circum
stances specified in 9(d) of the act,
the court said.
at seems to be thought that thi:
failure to provide for court review
is productive of peculiar hardships
which were perhaps not foreseen il
cases where the interests of riva
unions are affected. But these arr
arguments to be addressed to Con
gress and not the courts. The argu
ment too that Congress has infringet
due process by withholding from fed
eIdl dppelldIS Soul 70 Jul iouieoioi
which they never possessed is SINH
larly without force"
Longshoremen's Case History
June 20, 1888, after finding tina
1857 longshoremen out of 1850 o.
the coast desired the Internationa
Longshoremens and Warehousemen'
Union, c. l. o., the board determine
that a bargaining unit covering
geographic area was the most likel
to be effective in the interest of labo
and certified the /. L. w. u. as repre-
sentative for virtually all West Coas
workers.
The A. F. of L. appealed to tn
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
Special Session OF Legislature Is
Urged; Labor And Eagles Demand
Action On Old-Age Pension Law

food stores no longer presents legal
controversy for decision.
Inasmuch as the A. F. of L. unions
now have bargaining contract with
the stores, the question before the
court is pointless, the court decided
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-01-12
NO LEGAL CONTROVERSY

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). - The
Supreme Court declared the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor appeal seek
ing to set aside an injunction barring
it from picketing three Philadelphia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21

had to block off the roads in hopeless traffic jam of thousands of cars as other thousands stood cheering by the road side and even knelt to pray in thanks giving.
 True, they loved Huey Long at first. He was vulgar and he was stormy; he promised to free the people from oppres- sion. But he seized more and more power until he became himself the oppresSor. He followed the dictum of Lord Acton that "all power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" Then came the reckoning, then came the grim stack of dishes in the kitchen sink Louisiana confrontS with dismay and sorrow the aftermath of it's experiment in the "effi- ciency of dictatorship"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
Will Cost Money

After reading the ordinance proposed at an aldermanic meeting Monday night which would set the city up in the rub bish-collection business it can readily be seen why there has been some opposition expressed to the idea right along. It's not project that can be taken over by the city without mourning considerable expense Installation of the system, which now seems practically assured, will necessitate appropriation of consider able sum of money in the 1941 budget and ensuing ones.
 Everyone seems to be pretty well con- vinced that the city can afford to take on this additional burden and that it will be well rewarded with it's efforts to abol ish all promiscuous dumping of rubbish at spots not sanctioned by the Health Department With the city collecting trash from residences all through the township there is no need of anyone sneaki1g up to his neighbor's property under cover of darkness and dumping theron choice accumulation of paper, cans, ashes, and even garbage.
 At least we are sure that this current evil should be speedily eliminated. As to the need of the general public cooperat- ing in rubbish collections it goes with out saying that if they don't the system is not going to prove of any more bene- fit than our present one. And inasmuch as all taxpayers will be assessed their share of the removal costs by the addl- tional appropriation it certainly be- hooves each and every one of us to show as much aid as possible so that this service may be carried on as economically as humanly possible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
Sunset on Venus

The scientific mind is well known to have a quality of detachment, and the absent-minded professor is favorite comic character The world is large. There is room in it for great many worries. There is room also for those whose ab- sorption with their normal concerns is so great as to shut out that world The collector of butterflies wings or postage stamps, the student of Parliament in the time of Cromwell, or the man intent on bowling perfect game, goes right ahead as though nothing were happening.
 Perhaps that is just as we'll. It is these little alterations that show the rest of us that life goes on will go on, despite everything that can be done to stop it. Out near Pasadena, Calif, four earnest young scientists have just completed a set of photographs of the sunset on Venus. There are sunsets here, too, in the sky, and on the earth, and in the spirit. But perhaps sunsets on Venus are important, also. The young men reported that the pictures indicated that they are having violent weather up there, too,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
A Thought for Today
Slow But Sure

Developments among Democrats ot Connecticut this week reveal once again that of all the Democrats to occupy pub lie spotlight in the last decade Dr. Will bur L. Cross, four-times governor and retired Yale University professor, easily tops them all We don't know whether or not he will me nominated at the party convention in New Haven Saturday, but if he does lose the nomination, 1t won't be runaway for Public Works Commis- sioner Robert A. Hurley unless Cross SUD- porters feel they are beaten and release their delegates.
 But it's been very noticeable this week that there is a slow but sure rallying of party forces from many sections of the state to the support of the ex-governor. We don't think this can be regarded as hostility towards Commissioner Hurley, but it may be taken as an indication of feeling around the state that the leader ship of his drive for the nomination can be questioned. At any rate it is appar- ent that the early claim of Hurley land slide now seems bit premature.
 Of course anything can happen at a convention. While delegates will trek in- to New Haven Friday convinced, perhaps, that they are going to vote for this or that candidate, before the next morning delegation leaders may have shifted their allegiance into another column Much happens after the first night falls on a political convention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21

and the grass finally covered the bare places.
 God will stand our cutting cor- ners just SO long. After while He will put a thornberry bush on the corners to keep us on the straight and narrow. A man may dissipate for while with apparent impunity; some day the distress which fol- lows such abuse will become so acute that he will have to choose between discipline or increasing distress.
 Eventually all evil produces pain and all mistakes brings forth an- noyance and trouble. If We will not learn by council, God will teach us by dicipline. II we will not learn by our minds. eventually we must learn through our skins. When the wisdom of friends and the warning of God have failed to keep us straight. God resorts to a thornberry bush that we cut the corners no more.
 All Rights Reserved-Bahson News
 Paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
White Light on Huey Long Myth

In spite of everything, misty myth has clung to the memory of Huey Long. The canebrake fuehrer was so plcCur- esque, so fascinating a figure, that even after his melodramatic death, some people persisted in regarding him as sort of political Robin Hood who used the technique of Jesse James, but who some how did it all for the people. Long ruth leSSly rode down every veStige of orderly constitutional rights in Louisiana, but some people still retained lingering af-' lection for his swash5uckling manner, and insisted that he was, after all, on the right side.
 Advent of the Sam Jones regime to power in Louisiana has provided the white light in which the last Shreds of this myth are vanishing. Bruce Cation, NEA Service Washington correspondent, in recent able survey of the stack of dirty dishes the Jones regime found in the Louisiana sink has destroyed that myth forever. It is now clear beyond any doubt that the people of the state were not only ridden rough-shod, deprived of their rights, but robbed blind and left in a desperate financial condition by the man who always told them he was doing it all for their sweet sake.
 Outsiders had the idea that, whatever they thought of the crude and overbear- ing Louisiana boss-man, the people in the remote parishes loved him as one of their own How much truth there was to this part of the Long legend is shown by Cat toms report. He tells of little upstate town in which somebody started an auto parade to celebrate the defeat of the Long machine. As 1t passed from town to town 1t grew in length, and finally state police
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21

But when Committee members began probing the Stam- Harri- son bill they discovered that far from producing S4O0,000 it would tap armament profits only for around ,000,O0O-less than half the Treasury figure.
 But even this, apparently, did not satisfy certain business ele- ments. For the National Defense Commission named an advisory committee of $1-a-year men to study the problem. This group has now urged revisions in the Stam- m-Harrison bill aiming to whittle it down even below $19,- 100000.
 But when the Committee tried to get the CommissOn to ap- prove its report, fireworks broke loose.
 BriStling with anger, Labor Commissioner Sidney Hillman de- clared that he would not be party " ollJ dOICAilpb CO uSC tnc COun- try's need for defense to make profits for a few individuals" He denounced the report in scathing terms and demanded its rejec- tion.
 To his support came Donald Nelson, former executive of Sears, ROebuck, now U. S. Procurement Director; also Chester Davis, Fed eral Reserve Board member and agricultural spokesman on the Defense Commission. Both de- clared that if the man power of the nation was to be cOnscripted, capital, too, had to make sac- rifices.
 When the shooting was over the Defense Commission unanimously ditched the $1-a-year mems re- port. What the next more of the tax sharpshooters will be remains to be seen.
 Copyright, 1940, by United Featur Syndicate, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-21
In Today's Mail

3. "'Y' secretary backs" The man seems to be speaking not as an in- dividual but for all whom the "Y' represents. O. K?
 Let us take the first item. Now, it appears to me that this is the first recent foreign affair that the "Y" has come out" on and I am wondering where the "" was for the past ten years during which time more people have starved and have been killed than this world dreams of. As, say, am merely wondering.
 To the second point, Bundles for Britain" Is there not couched therein the inference that Britains are the only mortals in need of bun- dles and that if there are other such people, then the bundles are not for them since they are not Britains? Now, I'm not concerned with what the persons who made up the slogan think; I am only looking at those three words and at the ordinary run of mortal whose thinking is quite paralyzed in the presence of nicely turned out slo- gan.
 I thought that "Britainism" as well as "Hitlerism" was on trial and feel that in these days to call any human being a German, Italian, or Britain would be a grave error as the leaders of these people have stolen these terms to serve the devil with. They have drummed Raceism into their unsuspecting