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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-08-09

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

unity within the ranks of labor itself
unity in the rank and file and unity
in the leadership. Without this unity
victory for organized labor will be
questionable.
In these days and hours of lightning
and devastating developments labor
will do well to establish as its watch
ward: Beware. In the name of ma
tional emergency and national defense
the enemies of labor will undoubtedly
try to defeat labor indirectly where
they have not been successful with
frontal attacks. For these enemies
of labor patriotism will merely serve
as the fleece to cover up their won
selfish designs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
MEMORIAL SERVICES
FOR EMMA GOLDMAN

New York City (ILNS).-The mem
ory of Emma Goldman, famous an
archist. who died in Toronto on May
Ia, was honored at memorial meet
ing held at Town Hall by a group OF
friends and associates.
Miss Goldman's career and achieve
ments in furthering philosophic an
archism were reviewed by a hall
dozen speakers, who described her
principles as the antithesis OF those
that have plunged Europe into the
present war.
The speakers included Norman
Thomas, Socialist Presidential candl-
date; Roger Baldwin, director OF the
Civil Liberties Union; John Haynes
Holmes, Rose Pescotta, vice-presldent
of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, and others. Leonard
D. Abbott presided. One thousand
persons attended the meeting.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
WE DARE NOT SHUT THEM OUT

1t is quite true that the unemployed
need from us, and have right to ask
from US, human mercy and democratic
Justice. But that is not the end of the
matter. We need to have the prod
ucts of our farms and factories con-
sumed, and that cannot be done with
out providing work and wages to the
unemployed.
Quite aside from all considerations
of humanity and justice, we cannot
afford to let the unemployed go hum
CRY, houseless and in rags. We need
to bring them back into our economic
system-we dare not shut them out
Mrs. Florence Kerr, assistant commits
sioner, Work Projects Administration.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
REARMAMENT
WON'T SOLVE
UNEMPLOYMENT
Speakers at Interfaith Conference on
Unemployment Warn.

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). 80 Re-
armament won't solve the unemploy-
ment problem of the United States
unless the nation spends money on the
scale of Nazi Germany, speakers at
the Interfaith Conference on Unem-
ployment warned The conference was
called by Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish organizations.
Cost of adequate defense, said Ar
thur Dunn, New York lawyer, might
run up to 100000, 100000.
at is my belief that if we prepare
in any manner like the Hitler war
machine" said Dunn, "there will be
no unemployment in our country
within shirt time. But it will cost
us 100000, 0,000."
Moreover, Dunn added, 10000, 900
persons are already at work on the
present defense program and after
it's over we may have 20,000,000 job
less instead of the present 100000.
Sharp Business Gain Foreseen
Director Leonard Kuvin Of the Di-
vision of Industrial Economics, Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board,
New York, reported that that organ
ization estimates the total present un-
employment in the United States at
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

100000. He said he wouldn't be
surprised if U. S. business activity
should soon increase 45 per cent,
climbing to within 20 per cent of the
1929 average, raising the standard of
living and reducing the number of un-
employed to about 10 per cent above
that of 1929.
"And | hope this won't be through
war activity" he added
"On the ability of the American
people to end unemployment depends
the future course of our nation and
the very survival of our democratic
institutions" George Meany, secre-
tary-treasurer of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor told the conference.
Labor Program Presented
Meany presented program to end
the "idleness of workers, machines
and capital" The program called for
long range planning of public works
with immediate priority to national
defense needs; expansion of slum
clearance and low-rent housing pro-
grams, with special attention to the
construction of dwellings for indus
trial workers which could be used
after the emergency.
Meany suggested that the federal
government should insure long term
loans made by private institutions for
productive expansion. TIE become eli
gible for such loans firms should be
compelled to agree to maintain min
imum wage and maximum hour
standards through collective bargain
ing, Meany said.
The A. F. of l.. official also pro-
posed maintenance of the minimum
wage and hour standards and i'm
provement Of wage and hour stand
ards through collective bargaining
He denounced lowering of labor
standards, saying:
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
FRIDAY, JUNE IA, 1910.
CONSTRUCTIVE UNION SERVICE

A fine example of constructive union
service is that of the union owned and
operated traction system of Wheeling,
West Virginia.
In 1881 the Wheeling street railway
system faced receivedship and sale as
junk. The operating company had
spent $10,000,000 in a vain attempt to
save it. Today, thanks to the enter
prise and ability of its union employees,
the system operates 72 electric cars
over so miles of track and owns 81
buses to serve a population of 100000
in Wheeling and surrounding West
Virginia and Ohio communities.
The employees, members of Division
103, Amalgamated Association of
Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees of America, put 10
per cent or more Of their pay into a
'job-saving" fund and bid success
fully for the traction property when
it was sold two years later. Within
two years they paid off the balance
and became full-fedged owners, form
ing their own Cooperative Transit
Company to hold and operate the
system.
The company is not paying divi-
dends but it is providing jobs for its
employees and furnishing Wheeling
with good transportation two-fold
service of which the employees have a
right to be proud.
How the Wheeling workers rescued
the traction system and are running
it is told in the June issue of the Mo-
torman, Conductor and Motor Coach
Operator, official organ Of the Anal
gamated Association. The story shows
what organized workers can do in the
face of adverse circumstances. 1t re-
fleets credit on union workers and
should be widely known.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
LABOR UNDER FIRE

1t is an axiom in the whole struggle
of the labor movement that when the
going is toughest and the restrictions
are most rigid all of organized labor
as one man straightens it's collective
back and FORCES ahead to new gains
and new liberties. Labor in the past
has always beat back fierce attacks to
its hard-earned social mad economic
gains with fiercer counter-attacks.
All of these victories, however,
have in the most part been based upon
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

Issued Weekly at s2s Market Street
Telephone 1896 Hamilton, Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

oIn the presence of an immense re-
serve of unemployed workers there IS
no justification for the weakening OIL
the existing statutory standards oil
hours of work. Maximum hour re-
ouirements under our laws allow great
tiexibility and none of these laws
places rigid limit on the length OF
the work-week or work-day.
"Both the Fair Labor Standards
Act and the Walsh -Healey Public Con-
tracts Act merely require that over
time compensation be paid for exces-
sively long hours of employment. La
bor believes that these laws do pro-
vide the necessary basic standards OF
determining the length OF the work
week in industry"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

Mr.. Dubinsky left it, in company with
the host of banner-carriers who then
rallied around Mr.. Lewis.
Maybe Mr.. Dubinsky didn't know
it at that time and that he has since
learned the facts of life from West
brook Pegler and young Mr.. Dewey.
Nobody today can deny that racke-
teers are allowed to function in Sc
verely limited group of unions.
But anyone who takes the trouble
can read the A. F. of l.. constitution
and discover the very limited powers
of the A. F. of L. The basis of its
existence is VOLUNTARISM- which
Mr.. Dubinsky knows, just as Mr.. Hill
man knows and just as Mr.. Lewis
knows.
Samuel Gompers used to say, over
and over again, that it was better to
suffer temporarily from the weak
nesses and evils Of humanity rather
than give up the freedom which they
transgressed.
He used to hold that voluntarism
was more important than system of
compulsion under which punishment
of evil might be swifter, but under
which liberty of action would dis
appear.
1t may be that the A. F. of L. will
have to prepare for sterner discipline
which means an amended constitution
creating more central authority. But
that will not come easily, for no.
where is voluntarism more jealously
guarded.
There are courts enough and laws
enough for every last offense, if they
could be used.
1t seems that they are being used
too, which may cure all the evils of
which anyone knows.
But the best guarantee of clean
unions is an alert membership,
ready to go to bat in behalf of
cleanliness and decency.
Let membership assert itself suffi-
GENTLY and there will not be much
trouble.
The preponderance of cleanliness
would seem to have some bearing or
the truth of that assumption.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
7heCherry
" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet We
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
fOundly. Sometimes fiippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Before the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union convention
in New York voted to rejoin the
American Federation of Labor, Mr..
David Dubinsky laid down three con-
ditions for reaffiliation.
The able IL G. w. u. head asked
abolition of the special A. F. of L. as
sessment of j cent month, end to the
power of the executive council to sus-
pend unions and, least important of
all, expulsion of racketeers.
Mr.. Dubinsky got what he asked
for, except in the matter of chasing
out the racketeers, vague and amor
phous demand, which opens some in
teresting chains of thought.
Mr.. Dubinsky and his splendid l. l..
G. W. u. didn't leave the A. F. of L.
on account of the presence of racke-
teers. He left to follow Mr.. John L.
Lewis banners into the field of seces-
sion, or whatever you want to call the
creation of a dual movement.
Mr.. Dubinsky has said and undoubt-
edly with the utmost sincerity, that
when he joined Mr.. Lewis in creating
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization he didn't contemplate going as
far as secession, but the secession
came anyway, although some point
out that it came via expulsion. Be
that as it may, dualism came and to-
day we have two armies, arrayed in
battle.
Mr.. Dubinsky remained with the c..
/. o. after dualism had set in. He was
given grand kicking around by Mr.
Lewis, who took the /. L. G. w. u.
checks, but didn't let Mr.. Dubinsky
have any "say" in what was done with
the money. Ultimately Mr.. Dubinsky
got tired of that and withdrew from
the C. 10.
Mr.. Dubinsky is one of the best
executives in the whole labor move
ment-one of the best leaders. He has
a host Of personal friends and his
fair for publicity has worked to the
great advantage of the I. L. G. w. u.
But the A. F. Of L. today is just
about as 1t was when Mr.. Dubinsky
left it. If there are racketeers today,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

Bad housing, stark need, widespread
unemployment menace national de-
tense, more and more voices are point
ing out today, even amid the clamor
for rearmament. While heartily sup
porting the emergency national de-
fense program, organized labor has
steadfastly pointed out that improve
ment of domestic economic conditions
is line of defense that can't be neg
lected without danger.
All during the depression, labor
strongly emphasized good housing as
a bulwark of recovery and national
security and supported the slum-clear-
ance and low-rent housing program
of the United States Housing Au-
thority since it's creation two and a
half years ago.
The part of the u. S. H. A. in ma
tional defense was recently clearly set
forth by the authority's administrator,
Nathan Straus. What he said is OF
especial interest when the question of
national defense is so much to the
fore.
Answering the question, does the
u. S. H. A. program aid national de-
fense, Administrator Straus told an
audience at Utica, N. Y, gathered at
dedication exercise for a u. S. II. A.
aided low-rent housing project:
"People constitute the very basis OF
national defense. The mechanical en-
gines of war can serve no purpose un-
less they are backed by men ano
women determined to protect THEN
homes and able, because of strong
bodies and sound minds, effectively tt
carry out that determination.
eve need factories to build ma.
chimes of defense. We need gooe
homes to build human beings, sounc
in character and strong in body. They
are the first line and the last line OF
the defense of the nation.
'There is need in Europe of mir
acle, magic bullet to end the war. lr
America, we have forged a magic bul.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

let that is winning another war. 1t is
the war against the slums and the
magic bullet is the u. S. H. A."
Approximately 100000 Danish-born
Americans and some 100000 Ameri-
cans of Danish parentage who live in
the United States are deeply con-
cerned over the plight of democratic
Denmark. The American friends of
Danish Freedom and Democracy, with
headquarters at 420 Lexington Ave-
nue., in New York City, has become
focal point for expression of friend
ship toward the Danish cause.
Denmark is the only nation outside
of the United States where the Fourth
of July is celebrated each year. The
ceremony takes place in Rebild Ma
tional Park, which was donated to
Denmark % years ago by Danish sons
and daughters in the United States.
The reason for such a gift can be un
derstood when it is known that nine
out of ten emigrating Danes have be-
come Americans.
Thousands of Danes have come to
America since the middle of the last
century. Most of them have become
industrious farmers in the Middle
West. Many have become educators,
and a large number have adopted
skilled trades, arts and crafts, and
still others are sailors. Large num-
bers have made their homes in Illi-
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braska, New York, and California.
Their culture has enriched the COM
munities where they have settled.
Some, like Jacob Riis, the humani-
tartan; Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor;
and Niels Poulsen, philanthropist,
have become well known for their
achievements in art, science, and edu-
cation. But the greatest number of
all these useful citizens have quietly
carried on the traditional freedom and
culture which is now endangered by
Nazi rule in Denmark.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
WHAT NEXT?

Discovery of an electrostatic proc
ess in recovering iron ore from low
grade ore deposits is reported by the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacture
ing Company. Pointing out that un-
der present methods of recovery COM
mercialsiron ore must contain at least
so per cent iron to justify it's trans
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

let that is winning another war. 1t is
the war against the slums and the
magic bullet is the u. S. H. A."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

portation and use, G. w. Penney, re-
search scientist, said experiments with
the new process indicated that an
appreciable percentage of iron still
remaining in discarded ore can be eco
nomically separated"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
WISDOM

Every man / meet is in some ways
my superior; and in that can learn
of him.-Emerson.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Budapest Warns Writers
AGAINST Anti-Axis News
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Aug. 1.-The For
eign Office Press Bureau warned
foreign newspaper correspondents
today against reporting news which
is either against Germany or italy
or which is in opposition with known
political principles and policies of
the axis"
Diplomatic sources interpreted the
prohibition as frank move to fit
Hungarian censorship into accord
with the censorships Of the Rome
Berlin partners.
The Foreign Office statement, read
by telephone to the correspondents,
warned them ito avoid every sucn
report which tries to contrast diff
ferences between the axis and Rus
sia or which seeks to show that the
axis is endeavoring to subjugate
smaller nations"
The statement, explaining the in
functions, specifically mentioned
that "it is essential" to avoid report
ing that Germany is planning The
territorial division of Slovakia.'
Reports such as these are not
true" the voice continued, "and are
the product of enemy propaganda"
Use Of the word enemy puzzled
foreign observers since Hungary is
officially neutral.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
WilIkie to Give Roosevelt
CONSUMPTION Views, if Asked
6. O.. P. Nominee Ready to Answer,
But Spurns Individual Challenges

tends to speak on the question
of conscription very clearly and spe-
ciflcally in my acceptance speech" F"
Then he added his determination
not to anticipate that speech unless
the President should ask for his
views.
A message of support was received
today from Mrs. Dwight c. Morrow,
widow of the financier and former
New Jersey Senator, who wired:
Your nomination was hearten-
ing thing in these difficult days.
May your courage and wisdom serve
us in the White House
The vacation headquarters of the
Republican nominee also was cheered
today by the word that the Tulsa
World, which has supported the New
Deal, is announcing its support Of
Mr. Willkie in today's issue. Eugene
Lorton, publisher of the paper,
called on Mr.. Willkie this morning.
Queried on reports that a repre-
sentative of the administration had
sought his views on the adviSability
of selling American destroyers to
England, Mr.. Willkie said that, so
far as he knows, the administra-
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Nozi, Prisoner of War, Praises Fair Play
After Escape to U. S. From British Ship

questioned him during an interview
at the Consulate.
A machinist's mate, he said he
was in British prison camp at
Manchester four months before he
was loaded on prison ship bound
for Canada. He could tell by the
sun that the course was west
ward, and he. bided his time until
he saw land. .
Then, that night, when 1t was
dark, I wriggled through a port
hole" he continued calmly. Il did
it alone, with no help or conniv-
ance. It was a tight At going
through, but I wore only short, thin
pants and on my feet sneakers.
II went through headfirst;; that
was the worst, for when my head
was through I could not know If
some guard was seeing my feet
and coming to stop me-"
After he reached land, he said,
he hid in some woods and waited
for the sun, so as to take his
bearings. Living on blackberries
and wild strawberries, he pressed
southwark, ever fearful that he
would be picked up by the enemy,
because I know only two or three
English words"
He was seen at one farmhouse,
but the occupants spoke only
French, and he used his meager
English vocabulary in such a way
that they did not suspect him and
gave him food.
II had no way to tell when I was
(see WAR PRISONER, Page A-30
Evening star., 1940-08-02
By the Associated Press.


BOSTON, Aug. IA Nazi U-boat
crewman, recounting the story of
how he wriggled through the port
hole of British prison ship in the
st. Lawrence River July Is and SUBJ
sequently escaped into the United
States, praised American fair play
today.
Recalling that immigration au-
thorities, who took him into custody
when they found him trudging down
a road in Northern Maine, required
him to appear in Federal District
Court in Bangor, Walther Kurt
Reich, 23-year-old survivor Of a
sunken German submarine, de-
clared:
There again saw how fair are
Americans in treatment of persons.
I asked to communicate with my
consul and at once they permitted
it. The United States examiner at
Bangor examined the law of the
case and now here am in Boston" !"
He is under the supervision of
the German Consulate, which posted
bond for him, since he has yet to
deal with immigration authorities,
who regard him as an alien with
out passport or proper visa, despite
the fact that under international
law a prisoner of war who escapes
to a neutral country becomes free.
He is the first prisoner of war known
to have escaped to this country.
Mr.. Reich, slim and blond, his
feet hlistered by four days and i've
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Traffic Victim Dies
After Waiting Nearly
Hour for Ambulance
Five Urgent Coils Made
While Injured Man
Lay on Pavement
picture on Page A-3.)
picture on Page A-3)

A 62-year-old man who lay by
his wrecked automobile for IS min
utes while waiting for an ambulance
to respond to five urgent calls, died
today less than three hours alter
being admitted to Casualty Hos
pital.
The victim was William E
Greaves, 1919 Twentieth street NE
He received head injuries, in
ternal injuries and a broken right
arm in a collision of his automoDlle
and a bus at Twenty -secona and
Quincy streets NE. SIS
There was no indication, however,
that Mr.. Greaves would have sur
vived even if he had been rushed
Immediately to hospital.
Immediately after Mr.. Greaves'
death, Inspector L. I. H. Edwards,
acting superintendent of police, said
he would ask for a full report on
the accident from Capt. Oscar j.
Letterman of No. IL precinct.
Wife Comforts Him.
DR.. Frank r. Shea. 4100 Twenty
second street NE, who treated Mr.
Greaves at the scene, said he had
advised police not to move him in
scout car or patrol wagon, which
were at the scene.
The wife of the injured man, Mrs
Emma Greaves, summoned from
home, comforted him at least 4C
Evening star., 1940-08-02
BY J. A. O'LEARY,

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo,
Aug. 2.-Wendell L. Willkie said to-
DAY that if President Roosevelt
sought his views on any current sub
ject he would "be glad to answer" :"
but held firmly to his decision not
to answer challenges from individ-
uals on compulsory military training
or other national issues until he
makes his formal speech accepting
the Republican nomination.
Friends interpreted his statement
as being based on the theory that
he is running only against Mr..
Roosevelt and that if he began
answering individual challenges
from other men in public life he
would have no time for anything
else.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of
Montana, publicly called on Mr..
Willkie last week to make known
his position toward the military
training bill now pending in Con-
gress.
Asked by newsmen today if he
was ready to discuss the training
bill, Mr.. Willkie replied that he in