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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-01-11

Judge Robert v. Ochs Of Red
wood county is attending state
convention of judges of probate at
Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis. 1t
opened Wednesday and viii con-
tinue through today.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
Senator James M Mead of New York i'm Letter Chair
Elbert d. Thomas Outlines Facts of Resolution
"Still Much to be Accomplished for Older Workers."

fields of education, social service, in
dustry, labor and government. They
found that there was ample evidence
of serious situation among persons
over 45, and that it is precisely dur
ing the middle years of life that
workers acquire the heaviest family
responsibilities, and their lack of en-
ployment means both deprivation and
added burdens for the young.
"My bill, S. 1904, relating to the
age requirements for persons in the
classified civil service, was passed by
the Senate this session, in an effort to
alleviate conditions for older workers
in the Civil Service.
"There is still much to be accom-
plished for the older workers in pri-
vate industry. When they are dis
placed whether by lay-offs, techno-
logical unemployment, mergers, shut
downs or other causes-they find real
difficulty in securing unemployment y
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
GENERAL 10 PER
CENT RAISE WOULD
BRING PROSPERITY
/. M. Ornburn Declares in Broadcast
Over Columbia System.

Pittsburgh, Pa. (ILNS). - Urging
wage increases to offset reductions in
government spending, l. M Ornburn,
secretary y-treasurer of the Union La
bel Trades Department, American
Federation of Labor, said here that
the business recession this spring was
caused by the governments curtail-
ment of over one-half billion dollars
in it's spending program.
Ornburn spoke over the Columbia
Broadcasting System from Station
WAS.
"If business desires to curb govern
ment spending," Ornburn said, at
must substitute consumer buying
power for the deficit caused through
government economies. Employers
must increase the income of wage
earners all along the line to maintain
an economic balance. An increase in
wages of ten per cent all along the
line would restore normal prosperity.
In addition, by balancing the human
budget, it would not be necessary to
increase taxes. In all probability the
present tax rates could be reduced be-
cause of this increased amount of in
come.
"This balancing of the human
budget would increase purchasing
power to such a degree that business
and industry would be far more pros
porous than it is now. The only other
solution is for business to reduce
prices without reducing wages. This
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
PURCHASING POWER
OF WORKERS KEY TO
RISE In EMPLOYMENT
Finding of American Federations of
Labor in Latest Survey.

Washington, d. c.. (ILNS) High
workers income has helped in main
tanning and increasing employment
in the face of falling industrial pro-
duction, the American Federation of
Labor reports in making public it's
latest unemployment survey, cover
ing March.
Labor has long held to the prin-
ciple that high wages create new
business and what is happening now
shows the truth of this principle, the
federation says.
The federation remarks that the
survey is of particular interest this
month and goes on to explain as fol-
lows:
"First, it shows that 100000 more
persons were at work in March, 1910,
than in March, 1939 This gain more
than offsets the increase in working
population, so that unemployment has
been reduced from 10,902,000 in
March, 1889, to l0,34S,0OO IN March,
1910. Total employment in March,
1910, was 43,511 900 as compared to
az, ,387 900 in March, 1889, and 49,
218,000 in February, 1940
Retail Sales Increase
Secondly, increased buying power
of workers and farmers has definitely
been responsible for the maintenance
of employment this year in the face
of declining industrial production. 1t
is significant that, from February to
March, while employment in factories
fell off by $4,000 due to declining pro-
duction levels, gains in farm employ
ment and in retail trade greatly ex-
ceeded those of last year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
Senator Mead Asks Early Hearings
On Bill to Investigate Problems
OF Older Workers Denied Jobs

would give the consumers dollar
greater purchasing power and also be
equivalent to an increase in wages.
"There would be no difficulty in
obtaining full recovery for Amer
lea if workers actually received
an amount in adequate wages to
buy all the necessities of life. 1t
would create sufficient new jobs
to put the ten million unemployed
to work.
''No expert, whether he be states
man or economist, has yet come forth
with any plan for national recovery
which is as feasible a program as
that of the American Federation of
Labor. The formula is simple one
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10

1t is to increase wages and to reduce
working hours.
Zone thing is certain. If private
industry does not devise means of
raising purchasing power and
employing the millions of idle work
ers, government spending will con-
tinue. Taxes, and interest on debts,
will increase. 1t is serious situation
because the failure of our economic
system spells the end of represent
ative government itself. When that
fails our nation may go the way of
European nations which have adopted
various freak isms'."
Ornburn strongly urged purchase
of union label products and services
to increase national buying power
and raise standards of living.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
Union President Denounces Communists
Refuses to Accept Reelection
As Head Of Negro Congress
A. Philip Randolph Quits Presidency and Denounces Com
munism and Soviet Union Dictatorship in Scathing
Terms-Max Yergan of New York Named.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). = A.
Philip Randolph, president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,
A. F. of L. affiliate, has quit the presi-
dency of the National Negro Congress
because of it's acceptance of financial
support from Communists and the C.
10.
Randolph, at the third meeting of
the congress here, refused reelection
and denounced Communism and the
Soviet Union dictatorship in scathing
terms. He told the congress he be-
lieved it should be dependent on re-
sources supplied by the negro people
alone" and added:
"The ground for my belief is that
history shows that where you get your
money you also get your ideas and
control"
Max Yergan of New York was
named president without opposition.
Earlier the congress condemned
President Roosevelt's foreign policy
after Kissing and booing the negro
president of the Government EN-
ployes' Union, who had defended the
Chief Executive.
C.I.O o. Invitation Accepted
Randolph's announcement came after
the congress had accepted, over his
protests, the invitation of President
John r. lewis of the C.. I. O. to enter
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10

into a working agreement with La
step toward possible participation in
a third party movement if the Demo-
cratic and Republican presidential
nominees and platforms were not sat
isfactory.
Randolph said that the agreement
would split the "mass action of this
congress-" adding that he would be
just as opposed to tying up with the
A. F. of L.
He took exception to defense of
Russia by the body's secretary, John
P. Davis Of Washington, and de-
nounced the Soviet Union as a "dic-
tatorship" and "imperialistic power.
DenOunces Communist Party
Randolph vigorously condemned the
American Communist party, declaring
it is not primarily concerned about
the negro or labor in America but
with serving the interests Oh OOViet
Russia.
"The negroes do not reject the Com
munist party because it is revolution
ary or radical, or because of it's al
legged extremism," he declared. They
reject it because it is controlled and
dominated by a foreign state, whose
policy may or may not be in the in
terests of the United States or the
negro people,"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
TEXTILE WORKERS
FOR A.F.L. UNION

Milltown, N. B. (ILNS).-Although
the voting was completely under COM
pany auspices, and on company bal
lot, the result of referendum among
employees of the Canadian Cottons
Company cotton and rayon mill here
was overwhelmingly in favor of plant
unionization.
The vote had been called to deter
mine if the new local of the United
Textile Workers Federal Union, A. F.
of L., would prevail, or if there would
be an open shop. Of the total vote,
586 were in favor of the union, 81
for non-union, and ballots spoiled
and thus rejected.
Not voting were foremen, sub-fore-
men, overseers, office help, etc.
Under an agreement between the
local and the company negotiated at
the Montreal head offices Of the COM
pany, at the conclusion of a four
weeks strike, the local becomes the
bargaining agency for the employees
who voted for the union. Also, under
the agreement, the company is to
officially recognize the new local, and
negotiations are to be started toward
improved wage and working condi-
tions. The local is now preparing its
case for contract providing better
wages and shorter hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) In con-
nection with the observance of Ma
tional Employment Week, Senator
James M. Mead of New York asked
early hearings on his bill to investi-
gate the problem caused by the diff
ficulty of older workers in finding en-
ployment. He urged that the prob
lem be squarely faced and that ev-
erything possible be done to correct
existing evils.
Mead's request for hearings on his
bill was made in letter to Chairman
Ebert d. Thomas of the Senate Edu-
cation and Labor Committee. He
wrote in part:
"My Dear Chairman:
"As sponsor of S. j. Res 80, which
has been referred to the Committee
on Education and Labor, | wish to
call your attention to some pertinent
facts.
"The purposes of this resolution
are as follows:
81. To direct the Secretary of
Labor to investigate and report
to Congress upon:
"a. The nature and effect of
any economic conditions or statu-
tory provisions which may tend
to produce unfair or inequitable
discrimination on the basis of
age in obtaining and retaining
employment in public service or
private industry.
''b. The extent to which age is
a factor in determining the eff
ficiency of men and women en-
gagged in such public service and
private industry.
&c. The effect of pension sys-
TENS and group and workmen's
compensation insurance upon the
employment of the older worker.
Subject vitality Important
"The subject coming within the
scope of this resolution is one of
utmost Importance, not only to the
persons affected thereby, but to the
country as whole.
"In 1888, Committee on Employ
ment Problems of Older Workers
was appointed by the Secretary of
Labor to inquire into the basis for
the apparent prejudice against older
persons in finding employment, to in
quire into the basis for the apparent
prejudice against older applicants,
and to suggest possible remedies.
That committee made report in
March, 1889, and it pointed out that
it was without means to make origi-
nal field surveys, but had to rely
principally upon available informa-
tion, including statistical data, 1887
Census of Unemployment, and GER
tain studies made by the Works
Progress Administration.
Serious Problem Found
"The committee was comprised of
men and women outstanding in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10

'In retail stores, $4,000 were
added to payrolls in March, 1910
compared to $4,000 last March, and
total retail employment exceeded last
year by more than 215,000
"The early Easter date advanced
the spring season somewhat, but this
gain is due chiefly to the higher level
of retail sales, which are running
some 8 per cent above last year
(January and February. Workers
buying power in the first quarter OF
1910 has been above last year by
$519,000,000 or 40 per cent, and this
with increased farm buying accounts
for the higher level of retail sales.
New Demand Created
"For the first quarter of 1910, while
production industries have reduced
their volumes to compensate for the
slight overproduction of last fall
workers and farmers have bought off
the stocks of goods in retail stores
and created a new demand That is
why business observers are now point
ing out that inventories of goods have
been reduced since last December and
new orders are coming through to
factories. These new orders, together
with foreign buying, have already
checked the downward trend of pro-
duction.
"Thus we see in operation the eco
nomic principle which labor has been
declaring for years: High workers. in
come creates new business. Hourly
wage rates have been held at high
levels throughout the 1888 recession,
and this year they have increased fur
ther, to l per cent above last year
This slight raise, together with in
creased employment is creating the
buying power to which industry re-
spends. The outlook is for increasing
business volumes and employment in
May and in the third quarter"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
800 DANBURY HATTERS STRIKE

Danbury, Conn. (ILNS). - Three
hundred union employees Of the NAL
lory Hat Company's plant went on
strike when the management posted
notices of wage cuts. Union spokes-
men said the reductions ranged from
Is to 65 per cent, according to the
type of work. They declared the ay-
erage income of the hatters was only
$40 a week.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10


Man: Do you think you can make
a good portrait of my wife?
Artist: My friend, | can make it
so lifelike you'll jump every time you
see it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10
AUTO DEATHS UP AGAIN

Chicago (ILNS). - Highway acci-
dents killed 1900 persons in the
United States during the first three
months of 1910, the National Safety
Council reports. This was an in
crease of 45O, or per cent, from the
corresponding period last year. In
March, 2,440 persons were killed in
traffic, 220 more than for March, 1889.
1t was the sixth consecutive month
to bring more of such deaths than
the same month of the preceding year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-05-10

negro people.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
TtaIO

Meanwhile, the Italians had
begged down in Egypt. They had
invaded the land of the Pharos from
their own Lybian colony, next door.
and were proceeding along the
coast. Their ultimate objective was
the Suez canal, England's trap-door
at the eastern end Of the Mediter-
ranean. But, it appears, the Italians
did not do so we'll. The Germans
began to take over the direction Of
the Egyptian campaign. It was ru-
mored that the Nazis would winter
in Egypt" while the Goering flying
circus continued to make Hitler-hash
out Of London. It was believed that
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
in the ne,vs

committed suicide. He did this by
drinking the contents of vial he
had carried with him for years. He
was-the story goes-trapped by the
dread Nazi Gestapo in Paris. That's
war.
q, Constance Bennett, who used to
be the local prom queen when your
commentator was in Princeton, flew
to Reno to divorce Marquis Henri
de La Falaise, for alleged cruelty"
They were married nine years ago,
and have been separated for sew
eral years. The marquis had been
wed to Glorious Gloria Swanson.
Connie Gas the boys used to call
herr was the sex" of the wealthy
Phil Plant Of New York. Meanwhile,
Joan Blondell and Dick Powell (real-
ly married came out in strong
Hollywood picture which showed
(very strongly indeed the tradition
al Hollywood disapproval of divorce.
This did not deter Miss Bennett, and
just few others.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
THE WAR:
Whither, Hitler?

1t really looked as if the German
invasion of England was called Off
for the season. The fogs were get
ting worse, and the channel was get
ting stormier. The German flat
boats along the Franco-Flemish
coastline had taken an awful ham,
mering from the royal air force, and
that seemed to be that.
The 1ow-down was simply this:
The Germans had gone through
France, like knife through a hunk
of over-ripe cheese. It surprised ev-
erybody, including the Germans
themselves They had expected vic
tory-but only after a much harder
fight than they got. Hence, when
they landed on the French and
Flemish coasts, they were far, far
ahead of schedule, and totally I'M
prepared for any proper invasion of
the British isles, The net result has
been the aerial duel that has ragged
all over western Europe. The ham
mer of Thor is battering the British
anvil, but to what ultimate purpose,
none can tell.
But if invasion of England was
not under way, Hitler's troops were
by no means idle. For from Bucha-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
N A M E S

G, Admiral Sir Edward Radcliffe
Garth Russell Evans, Welshman,
and a great naval hero of the first
World war, became housing and
shelter dictator of London, where
German air raids have made hous-
ing and shelter vital things. Evans
has also been president of Aber-
deem university, and top-commander
of the Australian navy.
q, Colonel and Mrs. Indy Lind
bergh gathered in fourth child.
This was their very first daughter.
Their other two surviving children
are Jon Morrow l.. and Land Nor
row L. Little Land was born in Lon
don in 1887. Indy is good isola-
zionist, while his mother-in-law-
Dwight MorrOw's Widows an in
terventionizer. Mrs. Lindy's brand
new book, ''The Wave of the Flu
ture," is just Quits her third.
q, Ernst Weiss, the well-known
Czechoslovak novelist, winner Of the
Olympia prize for literature in 1882,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17

In charge of Uncle Sans important
Caribbean "Cibraltar" is Edmund L.
Daley, recently elevated to the rank
of major general in charge OF the de-
partn,ent of Puerto Rico. Var in
Europe and Developments about the
Caribbean nations has put this vital
gateway to the Panama canal on a
virtual ,Uar footing. Daley formerly
commanded the coast artillery in Ne,u
England.
army received no less than "a old
American tanks, which were shipped
over on flat-cars, to Camp Borden,
Ontario. The Canadians have got
ten hold of no less than 200 Yankee
combat cars" as tanks are called
officially. These tanks are six-ton-
ners, lightly armed, and built in the
period of 1921.
Most of the German tanks are
Suhls, made in central Thuringia.
It was an old Jewish concern. The
French tanks were chiefly Renaults,
the Italian tanks were Flats, and
the British machines (mostly lost at
Dunkirk) were products of the Birm-
ingham Small Arms company, COM
monty known as B. S. A. A large
part of the new American tankage
will be Chrysler-builts. Russian
tanks are B. S. AS, or else come
from the Red Putilov works in Len
ingrad.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17

if the Germans really went to work
in Egypt, they would perhaps clean
up the place, and the Suez canal,
too. Egypt itself, supposedly an
English ally, like Turkey, another
English ally, continued to be neu-
trail.
Aero
The royal air force, outnumbered
3 to l in planes, and to in pilots,
continued to get in some terrific wal
lops at Berlin. They drove 1900, 600
Berliners underground, time and
again. Just the same, the royal air
force pilots (who had to fight per-
haps IL times per week. were get
ting tired. Their Teuto-opponents
had "trade-union" flying hours of
only once or twice per week, with
plenty of rest in between.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
by Roger Shaw

school. Just how hard the parents
beat the offspring, nobody seemed to
know. Two other boys, implicated
in the great eggy putsch, escaped
the corporal punishment of the luck
less trio afore mentioned.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
NEVILLE:
Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain finally left
the British cabinet. Winston Church
ill had taken away his premiership
last May, but Chamberlain pale
ghost had fingered on in the cabi-
net. Then Chamberlain had a Sc
rious operation, for an intestinal OBJ
struction, and his health visib1y
slowed up after that. His retire
ment had been expected for some
time. Chamberlain was also the Of
fetal leader of the powerful Conserv-
ative party, which has a heavy ma
jority in parliament. This had been
an added tower of strength to the
so-called "great appeaser."
Chamberlain and Churchill had al
ways been unfriendly. The former
was typical Nineteenth-centu
Victorian (rather of the tory
type) while the other tends to be a
dashing, reckless cross between the
Eighteenth and the Twentieth GEN.
turtles (more the aristo-democratic
liberal type). Churchill used to
call Chamberlain $50 the story goes)
1.-THE undertaken from Birming-
ham,"
Labor
Ernest Bevins, a radical Labor
man, was admitted to the inner Brit
ish war cabinet. Bevins had been
the engineering brain behind the ter
rifle British general strike, back in
1926, which very nearly succeeded.
His executive, driving genius has
been an important factor in the pres
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
CAMPAIGN:
Roughage

ROUgnUge
One metal wastepaper basket
Three eggs
Melons and/or tomatoes
One stone, via a dining-car win
dow.
These were the tributes of certain
enthusiastic New Dealers to Willkie.
who was transforming around in
Michigan. Detroit, especially, proved
itself Rooseveltian, tough, and exu-
berant in its proletarian fervor, and
in its roughhouse tactics.
Mr.. Roosevelt and Boss Flynn, the
Democratic campaign manager,
were quick to repudiate such be-
havior, and they were courteous and
correct in their sporting attitude.
But it showed a significant thing,
alas and alack. The wave of I'M
thinking brutality which is sweeping
the world, has its echoes even in
the United States. The Detroit in
cidents seemed un-American, but
they did not seem un-totalitarian,
somehow. Willlie took the matter
in spirit Of good hurnor.
Sidelight
This sidelight might well be la
belled "ouch." It hurt. Three of the
Michigan egg-throwers contra Will
kie. were young lads of IS or 16.
They came from Pontiac, and they
evidently took after big chief Pom
tiac. who panicked plenty Of YAM
KEGS in his time. The juvenile court
judge sentenced the three laddies
to "a good old-fashioned whipping"
Juvenile authorities offered to do the
triple-job, but the stoical parents
volunteered to do it themselves.
Then the guilty were to write apollo
gies. to be read in person before
the student body of the Pontiac high
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-10-17
ASIA:
Trouble ahead?

Events in the Orient worried U. S.
State Department officials to the
point of informing consulates in
China, Manchukuo, French-Indo-
China and Japan, that American
citizens within those territories
should return to this country as soon
as possible. Especial emphasis was
placed on the early departure of all
women and children and men in
non-essential posts.
Approximately 5000 white Amer
leans live within the affected zone,
plus some 1000 Chinese-Americans
and REPRESENTATIONS.