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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
URGES SUPPORT
OF LABOR PRESS

New Orleans ILNS). - Increased
support for the bona fide labor press
is urged by the Executive Council of
the American Federation of Labor in
it's report to the federation's sixtieth
annual convention. The council says:
"The labor press, especially that
part of it which has embraced the
philosophy Of the American Fedora
tion of Labor has rendered most val
liable service to the federation and
its membership. We trust that our
labor publications, loyal supporters of
the American Federation of Labor,
will be given increased support by the
membership of the federation and all
their friends in every locality where
bona fide labor paper is published.
"The Executive Council expresses
it's deep appreciation of the loyal sup
port of the labor press and pledges
to it the continued assistance of the
officers and members of the American
Federation OF, Labor and all its con-
stituent organizations"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
LABOR CONFERENCE
Is SET FOR DEC. 9.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
seventh national conference on labor
legislation, scheduled to begin in
Washington on November IL, has been
postponed until December 9, the De-
partment of Labor announced. The
conference is held annually at the call
of the Secretary of Labor.
Verne A. thinner, director of the
Division of Labor Standards, who is
in charge of arrangements for the
meeting, explained the conference was
postponed because many state labor
officials were planning to attend other
meetings in connection with the con-
ventions of the American Federation
of Labor and the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations.
Governors of approximately 40
states and territories will be repre-
sented at the December conference. In
addition to reviewing the programs
of state labor legislation, the meeting
will discuss the integration of state
labor regulations with the national de-
Tense program.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Secretary Perkins Sees
100000 Job Increase

New York City (ILNS) Jobs for
100000 to 100000 men and women
will be created by the national de-
Tense program, Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins predicted here.
The job increase in 1941 will rep
resent the largest employment gain
the nation has ever experienced in a
similar period, Miss Perkins said,
"The payrolls of defense workers
will bring about increased employ
ment in automobile and furniture fac
tories, in textile mills and clothing
factories, in wholesale and retail
stores and in many other consumer
and service lines," the Secretary de-
clared.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Green Tells AFL Convention
President Wants Committees
To Meet In New Peace Effort
President Green Says Federation Dsavows Responsibility
for Disunity in Organized Labor-A F. of L. Ready
to Meet With c. @. Any Time Any Place.

him at the White House in Wash
ington, there to receive his assurances
of good will and cooperation. And
it appears to me the moral strength
of such a beginning would naturally
reflect itself all through the honest
and sincere negotiations"
Labor Cooperating, He Says
Emphasizing labor's support in
fullest measure of the policy of all
material aid to Great Britain short
of war, Green said the workers of
this country were cooperating in "a
most wonderful way" in the national
defense program and that the only
thing they asked in return was pres
ervation of the standards built up by
labor.
Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of
War, told the convention that labor
would have to make sacrifices in the
national emergency along with the
rest of the population. He declared,
however, that the right OF workers to
collective bargaining through repre-
sentatives of their own choice would
be carefully protected.
A. F. of L. Help Praised
Secretary Stimson warmly praised
the A. F. of L. for it's cooperation
in the entire defense program. He
said his respect for the patriotism of
the Federation had been established
by it's cooperation with the govern
ment in the World War and that the
same kind of cooperation was now
being given the War Department by
A. F. of L. leaders and members.
Governor Sam H. Jones of Louis
lana told the delegates he regarded
the A. F. of l.. as "all that is best
and healthiest in organized labor"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Labor MigratiOns Hit

Columbus, Ohio. - The Ohio State
Employment Service warned that la
Dor migration to the sites of major
national defense construction jobs in
Ohio have resulted in thousands of
disappointments and tend to create Sc
rious community problems at such GEN.
ters. The bureau renewed it's request
that workers seeking such jobs regis
ter first at their local employment Sc
curity center, thus avoiding "fruitless
migration, with disappointments at
the employment gate"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29

istration in itself constituted a war
like act, left signed statements to this
effect with an assistant United States
attorney at the local place of regis
tration. Nor can their sincerity of
purpose be suspect-surely this was
demonstrated by their willingness to
go to Jail for their convictions,
In the circumstances the sentence
of year in prison seems unneces-
sarily harsh, 1t is possible, of course,
that the sentence was passed as an
example as well as a punishment for
the act itself. But first case, as this
was, might have called for suspended
sentence, without fear that the divin-
ity students action would invite imi-
tation.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Guild Group Starts
New Anti-Red Paper

Los Angeles (ILNS). - The Guild
American, a new publication pledged
to "hreak the Communist party line
in the American Newspaper Guild"
has been started here, the first issue
having appeared on November 6,
The Guild American Is a four-page
paper of the same size as the Guild
Reporter, official organ of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild. The new pub
lication is issued by the Guild Ameri-
can Committee, which says it has en-
rolled nearly 100 members in two
weeks,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29

New Orleans (ILNS).-Opening the
sixtieth annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor, Presi-
dent William Green told the delegates
that President Roosevelt had made a
new effort to bring unity in the labor
movement. The Chief Executive,
Green said, has asked that committees
representing the A. F. of L. and the
C.I. o. meet with him at the White
House to resume peace negotiations.
Reiterating that the A. F. of L. is
ready to meet the C. /. o. committee
at any time and anywhere, President
Green summarized the Federation's S
plan of settling the controversy be-
tween the rival labor organizations
and added:
eve in the Federation disavow re-
sponsibility for the disunity in organ
lied labor"
Ready to Meet
"We want to settle our differences
in the American way-around the
conference table. Our peace commit
tee is waiting to meet with the one
from the rebel organization.
"The reason there has been no
meeting is that the chairman of the
rebel organization would not permit
a committee from the c. l. o. to meet
with our committee"
Telling the convention of President
Roosevelt's move for labor peace,
Green said
''The President of the United
States is willing to help us and as
sist us, and he has asked if these
committees can be assembled and put
to work that they meet with him first
of all and explore the situation with
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
TROUBL EAHEAD

Unless carefully-laid plans are put
into effect to the end that non-arma-
ment industries will be able to fill the
gap when armament activities are
tapered off, the chances are that the
armament boom will be merely the
prelude te another severe depression
with its attendant phenomena of idle
men, idle machines and idle capital
Murray Shields, economist, Irving
Trust Company, New York, in Forbes
Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
New Organizations
Show Expansion

Show Expansion
Showing expansion, coming of new
industries, passing of something of
the old character of the Federation,
there are these new or nearly new
bodies:
Chemical Workers Union; Ameri-
can Editorial Association Opposing
the CIO Newspaper Guild; Agricul-
tural, Cannery and Citrus Workers;
Aluminium Workers Council; Distil-
lery Workers Council; Grain Proc
essors' Council; Fabricated Metal
Council; Cement, Lime and Gypsum
Workers international Union. In the
year, 13l groups not eligible to any
international have been chartered.
The council reports the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union back home and expects the
international Typographical Union to
return during this convention, as the
result of scheduled conferences.
Council Asks End
OF Assessment
The council recommends that the
one-cent assessment be abolished and
that the future per capita tax be 2
cents, thus holding the revenue up,
but abolishing the tax, which was the
pretext on which the 1T. U. went out.
Amendments governing expulsions
also are proposed, so that expulsions
could come only by majority conven-
tion vote, except when two or more
internationals are caught setting up
dual movement Gas in case of the
CIO), when the council would have
power to expel, subject to next con-
vention vote
Hope for labor peace is seen here
at this early hour, only on the condi-
tion that John L. Lewis will quit or
be ousted from leadership of the
CIO. Even if he is ousted from that
job, there is no real hope for peace
while, as head of the Miners, he is
able to dominate the CIO. But per-
haps the decisive news on that point
must come from Atlantic City.
Convention to Oppose
Lower Standards
Returning to defense operations,
the council reports and the conven-
tion will confirm, that there must be
no reduction of living standards be-
cause of defense. Government figures
and reports are used at length to
support this position. Looking ahead,
that policy appears, necessarily, to
mean battles for wage advances in
many industries, if indicated increases
in cost of living materialize How
ever, by and large the dominant wish
here appears to be for the highest
possible degree of industrial peace
for the sake of defense progress.
There are no changes of policy in
dicated in sections on such govern
mental agencies as NLRB, Fair Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
AFL Council Outlines Policies For
Another Year OF Progress; Open
Meeting With Record Membership

Standards Act, United States Hous-
ing Authority and the general social
security field. The report was writ
ten, of course, before the appointment
of DR.. Mills as NLRB chairman to
succeed j. Warren Madden.
Continued on page two)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
TO FIT THE CRIME

(From the Washington Post)
There was nothing secretive or cow
ardly in the action of the eight New
York theological students who re-
fused to register for the draft. The
young men, all of whom held that reg
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-11-29
Annual Executive Council Report Condemns Racketeer
ing Vigorously Champions Defense Program, Hits
Any Lowering of Living Standards.
BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT

New Orleans, La (ILNS).-As the
American Federation of Labor opens
it's biggest of all conventions here,
with a membership that runs over
four and a quarter millions to top the
mark set in the heydey just after the
World War, there isn't an issue that
will strike a spark on raise blister
anywhere.
The 194-page report of the Exec
utive Council is filled with a record
of work done and with recommends
tions that form a platform of con-
struetive future efforts, Tried poll
eies are followed, Those who know
the pathway of the federation of the
past year know, by merely extending
that pathway, what will be the main
line of policies during the year to
come.
Strong Declaration
On Racketeering
which new developments may bring
new types of action, though the basic
policies are fixed. Two of those are
national defense and racketeering,
On racketeering, the councils dec
laration is the longest and possibly
the strongest ever made, but it doesn't
actually mean anything. The ques-
tion of autonomy rises up and there
it stands, To worry those who may
be nervous about that little issue, it
can be reported that there are GER
tain undereover efforts under way
that MAY lead to something a bit
more emphatic than Is now in the
record. There may be bit of an out
burst on the floor here, but that isn't
likely to be the end Of it. That's all
that can be reported at this time.
As for defense, the councils report
Is vigorously pro-defense, pro-British,
Hemisphere defense--it goes all
the way.
Serious View Taken
On War Outlook
Relative to Pan-American Fedora
tion of Labor, there is strong dec
laration of the bigger Importance of
that agency; plans for future efforts
are left in the hands of President
Green and Vice-President Woll. Later
here a meeting of the Pan-American
Federation executive committee will
be held. There is chan .e that the
government may step out before long
to inspire renewed efforts through the
Pan-American Federation, but when
that happens, if it happens, it prob
ably will not be in the newspapers.
Councils report is serious about the
war outlook, but you don't hear much
about it among delegates. Little evil
dence of any feeling that war is near
at hand for the United States.
Actual membership Of the Fedora
ton, ,247, ,443.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20
MISTLETOE AND HOLLY

Two pounds Brazil Nuts. new
crop, 2Sc; Mixed Nuts, zoe h.; Cal
ifornia Walnuts, zoe h.; Oregon
White Meat Walnuts, soc; five
pound box Christmas Chocolates,
75c; Oranges, $3.50 box; Tanger-
ines, 12c doz. Open every evening.
ERNEST w. MILLER
1913 South Potomac st.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20
FATALITIES UP

Motor carrier fatalities rose 20.2
per. cent in 1889. Common and
contract motor carriers report A.
766 accidents last year, resulting
I'm property damage of $2,956, 536.
Persons killed in accidents re-
ported by common and contract
carriers to the Interstate Commerce
Commission was POP per cent
greater in 1899 than in 1888 and
the number of accidents reported
was 25.6 per cent greater, accord
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20
AnN1OGryNr'y N0te


"This anniversary
comes at a time when
the world is in dire
trouble. n DO dy is
likely to feel very gay
about the international
situation today or about
the role W hich this
Nation may soon be
called upon to play in
it. Some comfort may
be taken, however, in
the knowledge that,
with all the other prob
lens hanging over us,
the country is not also
laboring under the I'M
enforceable, fanatical
law that was repealed
seven years ago.
The foregoing pas
sage from the Baltimore
Evening Sun of Dec
ember 5th refers, Of
course, to the seventh
anniversary of Repeal.
Association OF
| MARYLAND DISTILLERS
g. ALLIED INDUSTRIE les
| MERCANTILE TRUST BLDG BALTIMORE, MD
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20

ANNUAL -
ScHINDEL ROHRER & co.
CONCERT HOUR OF
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC
TUESDAY, DECEMBER "a
OVER WEI
CHS TO ZOO p. M.
X
Organist: Malcolm 3. Hutto
Pianist, Miss Rebecca A. Foltz
Violnists: CouIbourne Jones and
Philip 3. Station
Celloist: Bernard w. Siegert :.
Soprano: Helen BraIy Elliott
PROGRAM:
Come All Ye Faithful
Concert Group
20, Holy Night"
Mrs. Elliott
I'VE Three Kings of Orient Are"
Concert Group
"Andante ReligiOso"
Mr. Jones
The First Noel"
Concert Group
"Gesu Bambino"
Mrs. Elliott
"Hark. the Herald Angels Sing"
Concert Group
Alteration"
Mr.. Jones
s'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
Concert Group
ave Maria"
Mrs. Elliott, accompanied by Mr..
Jones and Mr.. Hutto
Gloria in Excelsis'
Concert Group
20 Little Town of Bethlehem"
Mrs. Elliott and Group
Joy to the World"
Group
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20

Ringgold. was one of a number of
contestants receiving a money prize
offered by the Waynesboro Motor
Club for planting flowers and shrubs
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20
the highway.

tAAN
The following won prizes at State
Line. Pa: J. J. Baker, Mrs. r. H.
Bowders, Mrs. B. Bowders, Mrs.
2. c. Brewbaker, Mrs. Noah Brech-
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20

bel, Mrs. Daniel Hartle. Mrs. John
Hamsher, the Misses Rooms, Mrs.
Guy C. Johnson and Mrs. C. c.
Statler.
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20

ing to an analysis of motor carrier
accidents last year just published
by the Bureau Of Motor Carriers
The Hagerstown globe. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943, 1940-12-20

READ THE GLOBE ADDS!
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09

Mrs E. NJ Campbell, who was
taken to Bishop Rowe Hospital on
February ?, is reported improving,
and all her friends are hoping to
see her around again soon
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
KETgHIKAN TAKES
BASKET SERIES
FROM WRANGELI

Ketchikan took two out Of three
basketball games from Wrangell HI
here this week. The First city quint
shared the opener Monday % to Is
and the Wioves came back Tuesday
to take the lead all the way and
emerge on the victorious end of a
27 to 81 score. Wednesdays final
tilt went to the Bears handily BY a
score of 80 to 16.
The Ketchikan party came up
Sunday evening on the Coast Guard
cutter Cyane and returned on the
same vessel Wednesday night. In
the party We're Jack Van Glider, Jim
Hodgman, John Ellis. Howard Mat
tison, Joe Bolduc. Harry Newell,
Henry and Tom Llanos, Ralph Bar
tholomew, manager; Manuel Vera
cheer leader; Bill Ledbetter, assis-
tant manager, and Clarence Henning
coach.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
HOPPIN EN- ROUTE
TO WASHINGTON ON
G A A PROBLEMS

Marshall Hoppin. superintendent
of Always in Alaska for the Civil
Aeronautics Authority, was aboard
the steamer Alaska Monday south
bound, en- route TO Washington,D.C.
to report on the progress of CAA
work thus far in the Territory and
make recommendations for further
development. He expects to be gone
several weeks.
Among the matters which will be
taken up in connection with appro-
priations sought of $14,o00,000 for
further work. including the con
struction of the airports, will be the
establishment of further navigation
aids and air facilities in Southeast
Alaska. Wrangell is being considered
as a possible site for an intermedi-
ate field. IN the Interior one inter
mediate field already is underway
at Talkeetna and plans are virtually
completed for others at Kodiak and
Tolovana, Hoppin said.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09

Eddie Arola, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Arola, arrived home last week
on the North Coast from California
where the family has been vacation
ing during the winter.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
WIDE INTEREST SHOWN
IN COMMUNITY ORCI

The Community orchestra recent
y organized is progressing with
considerable success. New members
have Joined and other younger play
ers are looking forward to Joining
when they progress a little farther
with their studies.
The present membership consists
of the following: Miss Helen John
son. pianist. Miss Geneyieye May
berry, Ray Nichols, Miss Rachael
Wadsworth, Bill Eastaugh, yiolins;
Lew Williams, Jr., Rhoda Hanford
elarinets; Virgil Neyman, Robert
Skinner, Roger Larsen, saXophones;
Robert Peterson, baritone; Leon
Weis, Vernon Weis, Val Ferguson,
trumpets: Dwight Bushey, from
bone
All members of the orchestra join
in sincerely inviting any member OF
the community VINO is interested in
music and plays an instrument to
come up to the rehearsals which
are held at the school, starting at
six o'clock sharp Saturday even
ings.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
ARNOLD PRUssIs TO
1--we m sEATTL

Details of the wedding OF Mr.. Ar
mold Prussi and Miss Vivian Close,
both former Wrangell residents, have
been received here by Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Prussi, parents OF the
groom.
The well known young couple
was married in Seattle on January
IL by the Rev. Bopell and they have
taken an apartment in the Broadway
district.
Mr.. Prussf is employed in the Of
flee of the Boeing Aircraft Co. and
Miss Close, whose parents are Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Close of Wrangel,
is employed in the ARB office in Sc
attic. She is a graduate of Wrangell
High School, being born and raised
here, and was one OF the most pop
ular members OF the younger set be
fore leaving for Seattle to live.
The bride and groom have had as
their guest the past few weeks, the
brides mother who attended the
wedding and is returning to Wran-
CELL shortly.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
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EBKS NOTES
By the Publicity Chairman

= X X X 4 K X x X x
Oar Smith, chairman of the Elks
committee which is TO give the
card party on next Thursday night
for the benefit Of the local hospital,
reports that he anticipates a large
attendance at that party.
He wishes to remind the public
that the party is to be in the nature
of a "basket social. Each lady will
bring a basket lunch for two, of
course. Each gentlemen will bid for
his lunch and the accompanying
lady, or vice versa.
For those who wish to indulge,
Oar and his committee will be pre-
pared for the playing Of Bingo after
cards and basket lunch. The proceeds
from Bingo will also go to the hos
pital.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
CHURCH BENEFIT
PARTY GIVEN At
COULTER HOME

Mrs. Harry Coulter and Mrs John
Coulter were hostesses for a benefit
card party last night given at the
Harry Coulter home Proceeds went
for the Episcopal Church.
Six tables were in play and Mrs
e. MeCauley won the high score
prize for the ladies. Mrs. Ben Eng
dal the low and Mrs. Chef Steears
the travelling prize. The ladies
prizes were donated by Mrs Belle
Mcbride of The Mode.
DR.. E. ]. Wheeler won the high
score prize for men and Frank Win
ston, low Tallies were donated by
Mrs ]. II. Wheeler of Wheeler Drug
Co.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
TINY BOY H0MEWARD
BOUND FEB.

The Tiny Boy. owned by Capt
and Mrs. Henry Bowman, and re-
ported to have left Seattle last Mon
day for Wrangell will not leave
there until the 18th according to
word received here this week.
Aboard her for the return trip be
sides the Bowmans will be Mr.. and
Mrs. John Wellman who are return
ing from a vacation spent in Seat
lie
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09

NUPTIALS FRIDAY

The wedding of Miss Margaret
Patricia Ferguson and Mr.. Gordon
Peterson will take place at st. Phil
ip's Church at o'clock, Friday eve
ming, February 18th. No invitations
are being sent out but all friends are
cordially invited to witness the cere-
mony, and a reception will take
place at the parsonage Immediately
after the ceremony.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
MRS. JOHNSON VISITING
WHITEHEADS IN JUNEAU

Mrs. NJ. 0. Johnson lett on the
Mount Mckinley last Monday even
ing for Juneau. She will visit her
daughter and son-in-Iaw DR.. and
Mrs. W. NJ. Whitehead and their
family. Mrs. Johnson will be gone
about two months.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09
MERCHANTS WIN

Last Friday night the Wrangell
Merchants took the Wrangell Insti-
tute Tigers in a fast and thrilling
basketball fight with a score OF Al
to "a. This makes one game each for
the local teams and they will meet
again for the final game in the
series in about two weeks to fight
it out for City Championship.
Tonight and tomorrow night the
Petersburg Vikings will meet the In
stitute Tigers in the local gym in
what promises to be another hard
fought battle. The Petersburg Vi
kings are in top position for the
Southeast Alaska Championship.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-02-09

Lincoln Day national missions
service will be held at the Presby-
terrain church at IL o'clock Sunday
morning, followed by Sunday SHOOT
at noon. Pictures will be shown at
the evening seyice in conjunction
with the sermon. Due to the illness
of the Rev. Peterson, Brig. Gilling-
ham will conduct the services.