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Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
OXFORD JUNIORS HONOR
FAITHFUL SECRETARY

Oxford, July 2O.-J. NJ. Pagan, who
has completed 20 years aS recording
secretary Of the Granville Council Of
the Junior Order, United American
Mechanics, was presented Il gold
medal at recent meeting by Judge
Ben K. Lassi1cr in behalf OF the
council members.
Also, officers for the present term
were installed as follows: b. ID.
Bum, councillor; the Rev. G. Van
Stephens, vice councillor: J. b. Bad
gett, chaplain: r. p. Cunningham
recording secretary: b. l.. Wilson,
assistant recording secretary: If. T.
Cmrin, financial secretary: S. M
Clark, warden: r. y. Clark. con-
ductor, l.. J. YanCey and 7. f.. How
ard. scntinelS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
Stocks In Slow
Session Today

New York. July 20.--(AP)- The
buyu.s -.. ..>,; TOO feeble to count
for much in today'S stock market
and leading issues generally follow
ed narrowly irregular lower route.
Price changes on the whole. how
ever. were meaningless because Of the
continued SlackneSS Of dealings. The
turnover of about 10000 shares was
one of the smallest for Saturday in
more than ayear.
Brokers still blamed apathy MAIN
~ on the reluctance of speculative
forces 4 take decisive position
pending the next major European
,,-l,. move
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
HIGH TEMPERATE
FRIDAY 99.5 DEGREES

4 maximum temperate nj
o9.5 degrees was registered ..rn
Friday afternoon. aCcUrd.r 60
official readings Tor tas .. =.
Weather Bureau. THIS Va. 1hr
peak for me season thm> 3.. Nn
statistics were avaiihaIc 'ur ..f,
afternoon. but some th0ueij that
the maximum must hiy" .rn
higher than on Friday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
STEVENS WILL PRESIDE
OVER GRANVILLE

Oxford. July 20.-lNl'
Henry l.. Stevens Of W.
preside over the July r"g
Vile County Superior Govt
ing Monday morning at ~
will be the first visit in F..
capacity as Judge.
Both criminal and cir.. "
be disposed Of during IL
William H. Mumdock. .olr
prosecute the docket, via
not contain many cases.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
Wife Preservers

If cigarets or tobacco in boxes or TINS
dry out before they can be used saturate
q small piece Of blotting paper with gISc'
crime and put it in the container. Inc
glvccrinc ahsorbs and retains moisture
and the tobacco will stay fresh and MOST
LONGER.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20

When the war is over the Germans
will probably again say they were
deceived by their rulers and their
inevitable fate too hard and unde-
serving to bear: but the philosopher
knows that "a people who could be
so easily deceived once deserves 10
be deceived again."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
Cotton Closes
l To Lower

New York. July 20.-(AP)-Cot-
ton futures opened | to 8 lower.
Futures closed to > lower, mid
ding spot 1915, eff 3.
Nau. contrast.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-20
Closing Grain

True liberty does not depend on
the absence of legislation, but on the
comprchen&ivencSs and reasonable
ness of life itself.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
GREEN URGES LABOR
IN FIGHT FOR HIGHER
AND HIGHER WAGES

Washington, D. G. (ILNS).-A fight
for wages increases was urged by
President William Green Of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, in address
ing the twenty-first convention of the
international Union of Operating En-
gineers here.
Matthew Woll, A. F. of L. vice
president, also addressed the conven-
ton and urged labor to consider uti-
lizing its economic power to stop ship
ments of war materials from the
United States to Germany by way of
neutral countries.
Green asked A. F. of L. unions to
take a firm stand against pay cuts
and to flight to raise those wages to
scale higher and higher" He criti-
cized industries (which attach impor-
tance only to production" and reiter-
ated labor's stand for a six-hour day
and five-day week to put the unem-
ployed to work.
The A. f. of L. head praised Presi-
dent Roosevelt for his foreign policy
and declared that labor would do all
in it's power to avoid involvement in
the European war. He placed blame
for the war on Dictator Hitler and
Dictator Stain as we'll" and added:
"But regardless of where our senti-
ments naturally lie, the labor move
ment is dead set against our nation
ever becoming involved in the Euro
pean conflict"
Woll said that the United States
should not join in the war but should
give all assistance "short of war" to
England and France. He pointed to
large increase Of various articles ex-
ported to some European countries
and said exporters now shipping such
materials abroad should cease doing
SO and if they did not then organized
labor Should consider going one step
further and withhold manufacturing
and transporting such material"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
POLL TAX ABOLITION
URGED BY A. F. OF |.

Washington, D. C.-Full support by
the American Federation of Labor
for the bill introduced by Represent
ative Lee Geyer of California to make
it unlawful to require the payment Of
poll tax as a prerequisite for voting
was expressed by Paul Scharrenberg,
A. F. of L. representative, at the
hearing held by the House judiciary
committee on the measure. Citing
statistics to prove that the poll tax
in eight states deprives thousands of
poor citizens from voting, Mr.. Schar-
renberg said:
"There was time in the history
of our country when countless chill
dren were too poor to attend school.
Today, poverty is no longer an ex-
cuse for non-attendance at school, but
millions of American citizens in eight
Southern states are denied the right
to cast their vote because they are
too poor. Surely the evidence is over
whelming that the poll tax require
ment is deliberately intended to dis
franchise the poor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19

of the labor struggle involving the
A. F. of L. unions and Remington
Rand, Inc.
"The stipulation provides merely
for the disestablishment of company
dominated unions which were an out
growth of the 1896 strike. The COM
pany has agreed to do what the N. L.
R. B. would ultimately have ordered
it to do. There remain other labor
controversies between the company
and the A. F. of l.. unions which it is
hoped may be settled by amicable
negotiations.
Until other pending disputes are
settled and a collective bargaining
agreement is effected concerning
wages, hours and working conditions
we are not ready to say that the com
pany has changed it's present labor
policy.
'The A. F. Of l.. stands ready now
to negotiate complete settlement il
the company is SO disposed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
N. ]. Clio IGNORES
LEWIS; BACKS F.D.R.

Newark, N. 1.-THE C. l. o. Labor's
Non-Partisan League of New Jersey
rejected the advice of John L. Lewis,
chairman of the league, and went on
record in favor of a third term for
Roosevelt.
The initiative in the revolt against
Mr.. Lewis was taken by New Jersey
locals of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers and the Textile Workers
Union, both G. |. O. affiliates. In re-
sponse to their demand the conven-
ton adopted a resolution declaring
that Mr.. Roosevelt had put social
decency, economic fair play and demo
cratic principles above the ties OF
traditional political partisanship" and
that he had done more than "any
other person in contemporary Ameri-
can history to move forward and on
ward the frontiers of social prog.
ress."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
N. Y. HOTEL STRIKE
VICTORY FOR UNION

New York City (ILNS).-The long
est strike of workers against a hotel
in the history of New York City was
ended April 8, when settlement of
the 3-months-old walk-out was af-
fected between the management of
the Hotel Governor Clinton and the
New York Hotel Trades Council, A.
F. of L.
Under the terms of the settlement
the hotel has extended recognition to
the union and is re-employing strik-
ers ON terms satisfactory to the union
Starting March 20, 1889, over re-
fusal of the management to enter into
collective bargaining, the strike was
brought to an end through the inter
vention of Father John P. Boland
chairman of the State Labor Rela-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
Indications Point Strongly to Backing of Administration
Forces in House and Senate-Green Says Amendments
Have Support of American Federation of Labor.

act from which the entire nation has
suffered. In no way does the bill
weaken or impair the fundamental
principles of the act. We, therefore,
call on all our affiliated organizations
throughout the country, to register
their support of this measure"
Anticipating that the chief opposi-
tion would be launched against the
"craft unit" amendment which was
taken from the New York Act, Sec
retary- Treasurer Meany declared in
his letter to Mrs. Norton:
"The New York State Labor Rela-
tions Board has disposed of 4,76O
cases up to April l, 1910. The rec
ord shows that in not single one of
those cases has the C. |. 0. protested
against the operation of the so-called
craft unit provision. The record
further shows that there has not been
one single contest of this particular
provision of the New York State Act
either before the board or in the
courts during this period of time,
Finally, the record shows that al
though the legislature has met at
least once each year since 1887, no
one has ever attempted to amend or
alter this provision.
Compare this record of peaceful,
just and efficient handling of the col
lective bargaining unit question under
the New York State Act and the ar
bitrary, unjust and bungling admins
tration of the same problem under the
present National Labor Relations
Board. Such comparison makes the
imperative need for your amendment
obvious.
"The CLIO. and it's sympathizers
can shout from the housetops but they
cannot change the facts. And these
facts make their opposition to you,
amendment appear ridiculous"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
Second Shock Coming

'The harvest will remain a hand
operation requiring large numbers of
seasonal laborers until mechanical
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
Norton Amendments To Labor
Act Muster Strong Support In
Congress; Mobilize For Action

tions Board.
1t was expected that negotiations
toward the signing of complete
union agreement would take place
shortly between the union and the
hotel owners.
A 20-hour militant picket line had
been maintained in front of the hotel
by the strikers ever since $50 of the
hotel workers walked out last year.
Shortly afterward the musicians be-
longing to Local 802, American Fed
Grafton of Musicians, struck in SYM
pathy with the hotel workers.
The New York Hotel Trades Coun-
Gil, composed of five A. F. of L. unions
in the hotel field, already has signed
contracts with nearly 100 New York
hotels.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19

Washington, D. C.-Friends of the
National Labor Relations Act rolled
up strong support in Congress this
week for the Norton amendments,
approved by the House Labor Com
mittee and endorsed by the American
Federation of Labor.
The bill will have the backing of
administration forces in the House
and Senate, it was strongly indicated.
The only voices raised in opposi-
tion to the measure were those of the
CLIO. and certain employer minded
newspapers.
President William Green declared
the Norton amendments have the
"wholehearted support" of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. He sent
out a call to all A. F. Of L. affiliates
to appeal to their Representatives in
Congress for the prompt enactment
of the bill. First to respond with a
100 per cent endorsement of the
amendments was the international
Association of Machinists.
Challenging the charges of the c.
/. O. that the. so-called "craft unit
provision in the Norton bill would
"carve up" industrial unions, Secre-
tary- Treasurer George Meany of the
A. F. of L. disclosed in letter to Mrs.
Mary Norton, chairman of the House
Labor Committee, that it was taken
word for word from the New York
State Labor Relations Act which has
operated satisfactorily to both A. F.
of L. and C. /. o. unions in the En-
pire State.
The Norton bill contains four
simple amendments to the N. l.. R. A.,
which provide:
/. Increase of the Labor Boards
membership from three to five by the
appointment of two additional mem
bers by the President. This will
change the complexion of the present
unfair board and bring about better
and fairer administration.
2. That "in any case where the
majority of employees of a particular
craft so decide, the board shall desig.
nate such craft as unit appropriate
for the purpose of collective bargain
ing" This will enable workers tx
choose their own bargaining unit il
each case instead of having the board
impose it's wishes on the workers. L
does not bar workers from choosing
industrial units.
g. That employers have the right
to petition the board for an election
when they are caught in the middle
of a dispute between contestinl
unions. This is only fair.
A. That collective bargaining con
tracts, when entered into, shall re
main in force for at least year.
President Green said:
'sThese amendments will provide ;
cure for the maladministration of tn,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
Basic Changes In Agriculture
Bring Labor Strife On Western
Farms, Finding OF Committee
Publication of Public Affairs Committee, "Adrift the
Land" Warns of Impending Conditions = Written
by Authority on Agriculture Labor Problems.

mercial basis" Dr. Taylor adds, "but
when this occurs, the mobile labor re-
serves required by semi-mechaniza-
tion will sustain a second shock. Their
present displacement from the land
will be followed by the loss of even
the seasonal jobs which now remain" !"
Along with mechanization has come
a rapid development of large farming
which has destroyed the traditional
basis of American agriculture.
"The great strikes which period
ically wrack the agricultural indus
try of California and Arizona" DR..
Taylor declares, "are not strikes be-
tween the ordinary American farmer
and his hired man. They are rather
struggles between individuals or COR
porations, who are more properly
called agricultural employers and
the workers they employ for particu-
lar specialized operations"
Big Employers Predominant
The industrialized pattern of agri-
culture, especially in the fruit, vege-
table, cotton, and speciality crops, is
among the factors which distinguish
these agricultural labor conflicts from
ordinary farm labor disputes. Large
employing units, heavily dependent
on gangs of seasonal laborers to har-
vest their highly commercialized
crops, predominant" in these fields.
"Adrift on the Land" is the forty
second in a series of factual, popular,
1O-cent pamphlets published by the
Public Affairs Committee, 80 Rookie
feller Plaza, New York City. The
American News Company has taken
$4,000 copies for sale on newsstands.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
RAND ENDS nine
COMPANY UNIONS
Labor Board Agreement is Victory for
A. f. of LIS FOur-Ye Struggle.

New York, N. Y.-Partial settle
ment of the four-year- controversy
between Remington Rand, Inc, $780,
100000 corporation, and group of
American Federation of Labor unions
was announced by Mrs. Gilmore M.
Herrick, regional director of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board.
Six thousand workers are affected
by the agreement brought about by
Mrs. Herrick The company will dis
establish nine associations charac-
terized as company unions in six
plants. The company undertakes also
not to discourage membership or ac-
tivity in unions of the A. F. of l..
or of any other labor organization.
Nineteen A. F. of L. unions combined
i nthe Remington Rand Joint Pro-
tective Board of the District Council
of Office Equipment Workers are COW
cred by the agreement.
The settlement provides also for
arbitration of seven discharges, some
of which date back to January, 1887
David A. Morse, formerly regional
attorney for the National Labor Re-
lations Board, will be the arbitrator.
Vincent Scamperino, attorney for
the A. F. of L. unions involved, is
sued the following statement:
"The stipulation of settlement
reached marks the end of one phase
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
LADIES' GARMENT LOCAL
VOTES 4 TO l FOR A. f. l.

New York, N. Y.-Local No. 155 of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union voted A to l in favor
of proposal that the union reaffiliate
with the American Federation of La
Dor. The election was on the specific
question of whether the union should
return to the A. F. of L., and Local
155, the Knit Goods Workers Divi-
sion, was the first to ballot.
The IL G. w. u. joined the G. |. O.
in 1885, but later withdrew and has
operated Independently since then.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19

New York City (ILNS) A warn
ing lest the conditions depicted in the
book and the film, "The Grapes of
WRATH" become much more wide
spread than at present is contained in
pamphlet, "Adrift on the Land"
latest publication of the Public Af-
fairs Committee.
"Adrift on the Land" was written
by Paul S. Taylor, professor of eco
nomics at the University of Califor-
MIA, leading authority on agricul-
tural labor problems.
"The march of power farming in
cotton" DIR. Taylor says, 6. is
feeding the steady westward-fowing
stream of refugees who will join the
mass of rowing labor from Arizona to
Washington. (.
'The invasion of southern cotton
culture by power farming is well
under way in important areas. It's
progress is 'spotty,' but the pattern of
social and economic effects which it
produces is already clear-fewer fam
lily farms, larger farms operated by
wage labor, dependence on mobile la
Dor reserves to meet seasonal peak
demands for cotton choppers and pick
ers. These reserves are being re-
cruited largely from families who,
until recently, were tenants, croppers,
or laborers on the plantations, but who
are having the ground cut from under
them.
Second Shock Coming
"The harvest will remain a hand
operation requiring large numbers of
seasonal laborers until mechanical
pickers become available on a COM
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-04-19
STRIKE CLOSES STOVE PLANTS

Seattle, Wash. (ILNS).-A strike
of union polishers and buffers closed
two stove factories here and one in
Everett. About IT'S men were made
idle, including molders and stove
mounters. The strikers asked wage
increase from 80 cents an hour to 81.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Germany Accuses Allies
OF Oil SABOTAGE Plot

BERLIN, July S (P).-Germany
published today three more alleged
French documents of the new Nazi
White Book" purporting to show
that the Allies had planned to de-
stroy Soviet Russian oil fields this
summer to further the war on Ger
many.
Seven previous alleged documents,
Which the official German news
agency, DNB, said were seized by
German troops in France, we're de-
clared to have shown that the Allies
planned to cut of the Reich's ore
and oil sources and entangle neu-
trails in the war.
Daladier Note Revealed.
The first of three issued yesterday
was described as a hand-Written
note by former French Premier
Edouard Daladier, dated January
19, requesting Generalissimo Maui
rice Gamelin and Admiral Jean
Darlan to compose a memorandum
about possible intervention for de-
struction of Russian oil fields"
Another alleged document dealt
with French and British air forces
and reported their general stats in
accord, as of April 5, on a joint oper-
alton against Russia's Batum and
Baku oil reflneries and port facilities
In the Caucasus.
Date for Attack Set.
The third of this series and the
ninth alleged document thus far
published embraces a letter sup
posedly sent by Generalissimo Max
ime Weygand to Gen. Gamelin and
Air Force Gen. Vuillemin April II
scheduling operations to begin at
the end of June or early in July.
Later the Germans appended four
more documents purported to be
kilograms from Gen. Gamelin to
British Prime Minister Churchill
during the early days of the Nazi
drive through the West, urging i'm
mediate dispatch of 10 British air
squadrons to relieve pressure on the
Allied armies.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Father Stays Daughter,
Shoots Self, in Convent
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VALHALLA, N. Y, July 5.-Jo-
seph Moshell, AZ, wounded and still
in his American Legion uniform,
! was held today on charges of first
degree murder in the Staying of his
daughter Melba, IS, before the hor-
rifled gaze of the sister superior in
the Episcopal Convent OF st. Mary's
in the Field.
State troopers, who found Moshell
on the floor of the convent room
yesterday with a self inflicted bull
let over his heart but still conscious,
said he operated a chain of three
dry-cleaning establishments in Phil
adelphia.
Sergt. John A. Gafney of the
troopers said Moshell entered the
convent with box of candy, asked
for his daughter and when she en-
tered the room drew his revolver.
Sergt. Gafney said Moshell then shot
her through the heart and right side
and turned the gun on himself, while
the sister superior, Sister Celestine,
fed to call the police.
Troopers said that the girl was
committed by Juvenile Court to an
institution in Philadelphia and re-
moved on June 6 to the convent
when she complained that her IA
ther was Fostering" her. They
said the father had insisted in fire.
quent telephone calls that the girl
return to Philadelphia and that she
had refused.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
Defense Not Directed
Against Nazis, Says
Communist Paper
British and French Press
Accused Of Attempt
To Prejudice Relations
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July 5.-Pravda, Com
nunist party organ, said today
Soviet defense preparations and the
actions of the Red Army in the
northwest, west and south were di-
rected against plans OF the British
French war mongers" and were not
directed against Germany.
Pravdas comment was inspired by
publication in it and other Moscow
papers, including the government
paper Izvestia, of excerpts of al
legged French documents in the
latest German white book pur-
porting to show plans to attack
Russia's oil fields.
Izvestia said in part:
These documents prove once
more how justified was the Soviet
Union when it based its foreign
policy on efforts to strengthen its
defense in the north and south
and to strengthen its positions on
the frontiers with Finland, the
Baltic states, Rumania, Turkey. etc.
THE British and French press
never ceased and are not ceasing
to circulate rumors to the effect
that measures of the U. S. S. R.
IN Finland, the Baltic states and on
the western frontiers constitute a
menace to Germany The purpose
OF these provocators is clear:
First, they futilely attempt to
prejudice German-Soviet relations
clearly and solidly defined by
treaties existing between the U. S.
s. r. and Germany:
Second, this SANDER is to serve
as a smokescreen for anti-Soviet
Vaccinations by the authors of
these rumors themselves.
The documents of the sixth white
book show with full clarity how wise
and timely were the defense meas
ures of the U. s. S. R. aimed to
thwart anti-Soviet plans of the
British French imperialists."
Pravda, in the same vein. said
Soviet measures were not directed
against Germany.
Evening star., 1940-07-05
28, 1872 Cases Handled
By N. |. R. B. in 5 Years
BY the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
The National Labor Relations
Board announced yesterday, on its
9th anniversary, that it had ham
died a total Of 28,132 cases, involv-
ing 6,140,000 workers, since it was
established. OF these. 25,030 cases
have been closed, 1t said.
Ninety = two per cent of the
closed cases were disposed of
through agreement of employer and
employe representatives, dismissal
by the board or withdrawal by the
complaining union or individual"
the announcement said.
THE remaining per cent were
closed in some other way, includ-
ing compliance, certification, inter-
mediate report Of no violation and
cease and desist orders"