davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-10-24

and small business, is way up above
the level Of 1882, and on much
sounder footing than it was even
in the '20s.
Do you need figures to prove it?
Our national income has nearly
doubled since 1927, from 80 billions
If you consider the lower cost OF
living today, the national income
is even higher now than in the
great boom year of 1929.
In the 10 years before the crash
of 1929. the years of the so-called
prosperity boom. bank failures aver
aged over 600 a year. The number
of bank failures last year was only
AZ. Ten OF these were under Fed
eral deposit insurance set up by this
administration, and in these 10
banks, SO per cent Of the deposi-
tors did not lose a dollar.
During this administration the
total number of bank failures for
the entire seven years was less than
the number Of bank failures in any
single one Of the preceding 10 years
And yet there are some banks
now using money to advertise, or to
send letters to their depositors, hint
ing that unless this administration
is defeated, the deposits of their
banks will be in danger. This is
sheer intimidation to blackjack the
election, and to return the flnan-
cial control Of the Government to
the very forces which had nearly
wrecked the Nation.
Now as to corporation profits.
They were minus quantity in
1882. Corporations as whole
showed losses of almost four billion
dollars that year. By now, eight
years later, that deficit has been
wiped out and corporations are re-
porting profits of four billion dollars
a year.
Output Of Factories and Mines
13 Per Cent Above 1929.
And yet they say this admins
tration prevents profits and stiles
business.
If it is true that the New Deal
Is the enemy of business. and that
the Republican leaders, who brought
business to the brink of ruin in 1882,
are the friends of business-then I
can only say that American busi-
ness should continue to be saved
from its friends.
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statement made by the Republicans
in this campaign, that this admin
istration has not added one private
job since 1888. This statement Of
theirs can only be branded as a
deliberate misstatement Of fact. And
I now SO brand it.
Specific improvements
For Workers in Years.
Let us call the roll OF some Of the
specific improvements in the lot Of
the working men and women that
have come about during the past
eight years.
More than $4,000, 900 employees are
now members of the old age pension
system. An additional 1900, 900
men and women, over IS years Of
age. are now receiving cash grants
each month.
Twenty nine million employees
have been brought under the pro-
lection Of unemployment insurance.
Collective bargaining has been
guaranteed.
A minimum wage has been estab-
ushed.
A maximum workweek Of 40 hours
has been fixed, with provisions for
time and a half for overtime.
Child labor has been outlawed.
The average hourly earnings of
factory workers were Sc cents in the
boom year Of 1929. In February,
1888. they had dropped to As cents.
They are now ST cents-not only
higher than in 1893, but, mark you,
nearly II cents per hour bigger than
in 1929 itself,
to s5,000,000,000 per year by 1882.
In 1910, the factory pay rolls are
running at the rate of $4,000, ,000,-
900.
And we must not forget that the
cost Of living is today % per cent
lower than it was In 1929. That
means something to the American
family.
An equally objectionable falsifi-
cation about our economy is made
when the Republican leaders talk
about American business-how it
cannot make a profit, how little
confidence it has in this admins
tration, and how this administra-
ton hates business.
We know, if we but look at the
record, that American business, big
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The output Of our factories and
mines is now almost 13 per cent
greater than at the peak of 1894
1929, mind you, not 1882. 1t is aC
the highest level ever recorded.
We have passed the time when
the prosperity of the Nation is
measured in terms of the stock
ticker. We know that the wellbeing
of people is measured by the
manner in which they live, by the
security which they feel in the
future.
For the American people as
whole-the great body of its citizens
the standard of living has in
creased we'll above that of 1929.
We do not advertise "a chicken in
every pot" or two cars in every
garage" We know 1t Is more i'm
portant that the American people
this year are building more homes,
are buying more pairs of shoes, more
washing machines, more electric re-
frigerators, more electric current,
more textile products, than tn tho
boom year Of 1929.
This year there will be placed on
the tables Of America far more
butter, more cheese, more meat,
more canned goods-more food than
in the luxurious year Of 1929.
Last Sunday morning had to
laugh when read the following in
the financial section of the New
York TimeS-a paDer which Is re.
puted not to love me too much. This
is what an editor of the financial
page of the New York Times said:
I quote, The Federal Reserve Board
IN the week added another point to.
its index of production for Septem-
Der, and the figure now stands at
1875, or 1872 per cent above the 1929
average" Mind you, not the 1892
average but the 1929 average. 7
quote further: Dreams of business
fiat on it's back must come from
smoking campaign cigars or else the
speakers are talking about some
other country"
Wouldn't it be nice if the editorial
writer's of the Times could get ac-
quainted with their own business
experts?
Youth Has Vital Interest
In Americas Recovery.
Every single man, woman and
child has a vital interest In this
recovery. But if it can be said to
Continued on Page B-14)
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these misstatements, and the
facts which refute them.
Truthful campaign discussion OF
public issues Is essential to the
American form of government; but
wilful Misrepresentation of fact has
no place during election time or
any other time. For example. there
can be no objection to any party or
any candidate urging that the un-
developed water power Of this
Nation should be harnessed by
private utility companies rather
than by the Government itself; or
that the Social Security law should
be repealed, or that the truth-in-
Securities Act should be abrogated.
But it is entirely a different thing
for any party or any candidate to
state, for example, that the Presi-
dent of the United States tele-
phoned to Mussolini and Hitler to
sell Czecho- -Slovakia down the river:
or that the unfortunate unem-
ployed of the Nation are going to
be driven into concentration camps:
or that the Social Security funds Of
the Nation will not be in existence
when the workers Of today become
old enough to apply for them; or
that the election of the present
Government means the end Of
American democracy within four
years. They know that all of these
statements are false.
Techniques of Dictator
Propaganda Imported.
Certain techniques of propaganda
created and developed in dictator
countries have been imported into
this campaign. 1t is the very simple
technique of repeating and re-
peating falsehoods, with the idea
that by constant repetition and with
no contradiction, the misstatementS
will finally come to be believed
DictatorS have had great success
In using this technique, but only
because they were able to control
the press and radio, and to stifle
all opposition. That is why I can
not bring myself to believe that in
a democracy like ours, where the
radio and a part of the press remain
open to both sides, repetition of
deliberate misstatements will ever
prevail.
I make the charge now that these
falsif1cations are being spread for
the purpose of filling the minds and
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any shape or form. direct or indi-
rect, with any other government, or
any other nation in any part Of the
world, to involve this Nation In any
war or for any other purpose.
The desperation Of partisans who
can invent secret treaties drives
them to try to deceive our people in
other ways. Consider, for example,
the false charge they make that our
whole industrial system is pros
trate-that business is stifed and
can make no profits.
New Leadership Provided
In Depths Of Depression.
The American people have not for
gotten the condition Of the United
States in 1892 We all remember the
failures of banks, the bread lines Of
starving men and women, the youth
of the country riding around in
freight cars, the farm foreclosures,
the home foreclosures, the bank
ruptcy and the panic.
At the very hour of complete COL
lapse, the American people called
for new leadership. That leadership,
this administration and q Demo-
cratic Congress supplied.
Government, no longer callous to
suffering, moved swiftly to end dis
tress, to halt depression, to secure
more social and economic justice
for all
The very same men who must bear
the responsibility for the inaction
of those days are the ones who now
dare falsely to state that we are all
still in the depth of the depression
into which they plunged us; that
we have prevented the country
from recovering, and that 1t is
headed for the chaos of bank
ruptcy They have even gone to
the extent of stating that this ad-
ministration has not made one man
a job.
say that those statements are
false. I say that the figures Of en-
ployment. Of production. OF earn
ings, of general business activity
all prove that they are false.
The tears for the laboring man
and woman now being shed in this
campaign come from those same
Republican leaders who had their
chance to prove their love for labor
in 1932-and missed 1t.
Back In 1882. these leaders were
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~ the Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. "a
FOLLOWING is the prepared teri OF
President Rooseuelt's address last
night in Convention all:
Last July stated the plain OBJ
vious fact to the national conven-
ton of my party: That the pressure
Of national defense work and the
conduct of foreign affairs would
not allow me to conduct any cam
paign In the accepted definition
Of that term.
Since July, hardly day or night
has passed when some crisis, or
some possibility Of crisis in world
affairs, has not called for my per-
sonal conference with the Secre-
tary Of State or other officials of
the Government.
With every passing day has come
some urgent problem in connection
with our swift production for de-
fense. and our mastering Of the re-
sources of the Nation.
Therefore, it is essential to ad-
here to the rule never to be more
than IL hours distant from WASH
1ngton.
But last July also said this to
the Chicago convention: "I shall
never be loath to call the atten-
ton of the Nation to deliberate or
unwilling falsifications of fact,
which are sometimes made by DO
htical candidates"
More Than Hpeeches Needed
To Discuss All Misstatements.
The time has come to do just that.
This night and four other nights,
I am taking time to point out to
the American people what the more
fantastic misstatements of this cam
paign have been. I emphasize the
words more fantastic" because it
would take 365 nights to discuss all
Of them.
All of these misstatements cannot
possibly be what I called last July,
"unwitting falsifications" of fact;
many of them must be deliberate
3alsif1cations" Of fact.
The young people who are at
tending dinners in every State of
the Union tonight know that they
are already part Of the whole
economic and social life of the
Nation. I am particularly glad to
discuss with them-and with you
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Some of these are: the passage of the
levy will make sure the continued OPP
Grafton of the tuberculosis clinic,
where from 80 to 40 patients are eX-
amined weekly by a tuberculosis spe-
cialist; active tuberculosis cases can
be sent to tuberculosis sanatoria where
they will get adequate care, and re-
moval from the home will assure the
check of the spread of infection to
other members of their families.
Fifty-six new cases of tuberculosis
were discovered at the tuberculosis
clinic during the first six months of
1910. More are being diagnosed each
week, and it is expected that at the
end of the year more than one thou
sand persons will pass through the
clinic for chest examinations.
A vote 'for" the levy means added
health protection to every man,
women, and child in the entire county.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
BAR clio. PICKETS
in SAN FRANCISCO

San Francisco (ILNS).-In a tenn
porary restraining order, Superior
Judge 7. L. Fitzpatrick on October 16
prohibited picketing of the liner Pres
ident Taft by G. l. o. unionists. The
picketing previously resulted in
clash between A. F. of L. and CLIO.
members.
The Waterfront Employers Asso-
citation asked for the order, pointing
out that supplies for American armed
forces in the Pacific were to be loaded
on the ship and that full passenger
list waited for her in the Orient, from
which Americans are fleeing.
Earlier Harry Lundeberg, head of
the A. F. of L. Sailors Union of the
Pacific, led seamen through the picket
line to continue work on the ship
which the pickets say they should be
doing. Seventy policemen were on
hand
Lundeberg's jaw was broken in four
places and tooth knocked out when
he led flying wedge of sailors
through the picketing scalers and
painters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
RAIL LABOR OPPOSED
TO REORGANIZATION

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). - The
Railway Labor Executives Associa-
tion, representing all railroad labor,
has urged the Interstate Commerce
Commission to reject an amended plan
of reorganization for the Minneapolis
& ST. Paul Railroad, which has been
bankrupt for many years. The COM
mission turned thumbs down on a pre-
vious plan because it called for divi-
sion Of the railroad into two systems.
In brief filed with the commission,
the labor executives said the pending
plan eliminates some minor objec-
tions," but it called these improve
ments mere sugar-coating for the pill"
The same bitter dose is still sought
to be administered through the divi-
sion of the existing road into two
parts, the stronger of which is to be
divorced from any obligation to sup
port the weaker" the brief added.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25

Washington, d. C.-The Executive
Council of the American Federation
of Labor elected Harvey w. Brown,
president of the international Asso-
citation Of Machinists, and William c..
Birthright, president of the Journey
men Barbers' International Union, to
fill the two vacancies on the council.
Before adjourning its annual fall
session, the council completed its re-
port for the year 1910 which will be
presented to the sixtieth annual Amer
lean Federation of Labor convention
in New Orleans, November IS.
This report will relate the achieve
ments of labor during the past twelve
months, analyze domestic and world
developments affecting the members
of the American Federation of Labor
and make recommendations to the
convention for action to protect the
future interests of organized labor.
The new members of the Executive
Council took part in its final sessions
and were welcomed by their col
leagues. Mr.. Brown becomes the four
teenth vice e-president of the A. F. of L..
and Mr.. Birthright the fifteen vice
president. Mr.. Brown takes the seat
made vacant by the resignation of Ar
thur o. Wharton, whom he also sue
ceeded as president of the Machinists.
Mr.. Birthright replaces the late John
Coefield.
President William Green at press
conference disclosed that he had sub
mitted report on the National La
Dor Relations Board to the Executive
Council and that it had voted to op-
pose the reappointment of Chairman
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
Ohio State Fair Enters
S10,562 In Loss Column

Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State
Fair operated at loss of $10,562 this
year, according to a preliminary re-
port to Joseph T. Ferguson, state au-
ditor, by Examiner Paul R. O'Brien.
The report listed receipts of $780,
7S7 and expenditures of $208,350, not
including an appropriation of $48,141
for maintenance, which would bring
the operating loss to $58,7 Receipts
included $92,705 at the gates, $14,0d1
at the grandstand, $10,179 at the coli
scum, and $35, 1922 from concessions.
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Name Brown and Birthright
To Fill z Vacancies Existing
In Council; Report Submitted
President Green Announces Decision to Oppose Madden
for Reappontment to BOard-Sir Walter Citrine
Accepts Invitation to Address Convention.

J. Warren Madden. Although Mr..
Madden's term of office expired last
August, President Roosevelt has not
filled the vacancy as yet and it is not
expected he will do so until after the
national elections. 1t is considered
very unlikely that the President will
reappoint Mr.. Madden, especially
since it appears a majority of the
members of the Senate will vote
against confirming him. Mr.. Green
announced that the Executive Council
voted to oppose Madden's confirma-
ticn, should he be reappointed.
1t was also disclosed at the press
conference that Sir Walter Citrine,
British trades union leader, has ac-
cepted an invitation from Mr.. Green
to come to this country and address
the American Federation of Labor's
convention.
Citrine will give the convention a
first-hand report on the war situation
in Great Britain, especially as it af-
fects labor. He will describe the ex-
tent to which organized labor is par
ticipating in the government and in
defense efforts.
Details as to the time and place OF
Citrine's arrival have been withheld
because of the war censorship and
because of the danger involved. II
was recalled that the British frater-
nal delegate to the recent Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress conven-
tion in Vancouver lost his life when
the ship bearing him to this side OF
the Atlantic was torpedoed by Nazi
submarine in mid-ocean,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
President Green Calls Attention New Provision Appear
ing in Union Agreements Underlying Principle is
That Workers Have Right to Their Jobs.

Washington, d. C.-In letter sent
to all directly affiliated unions, Presi-
dent Green of the American Fedora
tion of Labor called attention to new
provision appearing in union agree
ments which safeguards workers
rights in their jobs under defense or
war conditions. The underlying prin-
ciple in all cases is that workers have
a right to their jobs, and rights in
their jobs, which the duties required
of all citizens should in no way nullify.
"Let me urge all unions to remem-
Der that collective bargaining is and
should be held to be an inalienable
right-the right of contract" Presi-
dent Green said. "Whether in peace
or in war, free workers have the right
to contract stipulating terms and
conditions under which work shall take
place-the contract to be negotiated
jointly by management and workers.
There is nothing in war situation
which makes it necessary for any
union to forego its right to collective
bargaining,
Every directly affiliated local union
should urge provisions safeguarding
seniority of workers called to military
service as one of your proposals when
you negotiate your next agreement"
President Green included in his let
ter the following examples of war
service clauses in agreements show
ing how unions have protected their
members;
Federal Labor Union 21-111, of Jer
sey City in agreement with Briktex
Company of Kearny, New Jersey:
"This agreement is made as of
July 18, 1910, and shall continue to
and expire on January /, 1912. 1t is
agreed, however, that in the event
the United States declares war and
the living expenses substantially rise,
then the union shall have a right to
reopen the wage question and if no
agreement is reached thereon, then
same shall be submitted to arbitration
as provided for herein"
Federal Labor Union 1898, Bir-
mingham, Alabama, and Birmingham
Water Works Company:
Employees who are members OF
| the National Guard or any military
or naval reserve corps and who are
ordered to report for compulsory duty
for encampments, training periods
cruises or other similar compulsory
attendance requiring them to be alb
sent from their regular work, may be
excused from their regular work ac-
cording to the following;
81. Two weeks absence will be
granted within any year during which
time the company shall reimburse the
employe for any deficiency in his pay
received from any military or naval
service under his regular rate of pay
| "2. (a) Any absence for more than
! two weeks within a year shall be
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
PHYSICIANS ACTIVE
in LEVY CAMP AICN::
FOR" VOTE ASKED

The active participation of Butler
County physicians in the tax levy cam
paign of the Butler County Tubercu-
losis and Health Association began
this week when pamphlets, posters,
and window stickers were delivered to
their offices for distribution. DR., Azel
Ames, chairman of the tuberculosis
Tax Levy Campaign Committee, an
nounced the distribution to members
of the medical society for their use in
informing their patients of the i'm
portance of the passage of the tax
levy.
The successful passage of the quar-
ter-mill levy, which will produce $42,-
500, will insure the operation of But
Ter County's tuberculosis clinic for a
period of three years and pay for the
cost of hospitalizing tuberculosis cases
not now cared for because of lack OF
funds, according to DR.. Ames.
The campaign for the support Of the
levy will move into high gear this
week as work of the tax levy COM
mittee includes in addition to coop
Grafton with the physicians, the use
of movies, leaflets, posters, and speak
ers before clubs and organizations.
In appealing to the public for sup
port of the levy, the tax levy commit
tee points to certain facts with which
the public should become familiar
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charged to the employees accrued va
cation so long as any vacation exists.
"(b) If absent for more than two
weeks indicated in item l plus the
entire vacation allowance, such alb
sence shall be on the employees own
time.
SO. Any attendance at citizens
military training camp which is en-
tirely voluntary on the part of the
employe shall only be authorized by
specific approval of the manager of
the company. If authorized, the time
absent from regular work shall be
charged to accrued vacation time.
Any time in excess of accrued vaca-
tion time shall be considered as time
off"
Optical Workers. Federal Labor
Union 1879, Rochester, N. Y, and
Projection Optics Company of Roches-
ter:
SIN the event of war of the United
States government, any member of
Federal Labor Union No. 1859 en-
tering into any branch of the United
States government service shall re-
tain his seniority rights with the en-
ployer,"
Flour and Feed Mill Workers Union
21762, Beardstown, H., and Schultz,
Baujan & Company illinois plant)
"The company agrees that should
this country become involved in war
and any employees are required to
leave for service of the country, the
Jobs of such men will be available
upon their return, and their seniority
shall be retained. The union agrees
that the company shall have the right
to dismiss any employees subsequently
hired to replace those in service in
order to make jobs for former en-
ployes absent in the service of the
country"
Smith Steel Workers. Federal La
Dor Union 1906, Milwaukee, and A.
o. Smith Corporation:
"Any employee called into active
military service or who in time of
war volunteers into the armed forces
of the United States government or
is drafted by the federal government
shall be given leave of absence for
and will accumulate seniority during
such period of service. At the termi-
nation of his service he will be re-
employed provided he Is not dishon-
orably discharged and is physically
able to do available work in line with
his seniority at the current rate for
such work and provided he reports
within sixty (6O) days within the date
Of his discharge"
Federal Labor Union 20553, Louis
vile, Kentucky, and Shannon Bed
Manufacturing Company:
"In the event that the United States
should become involved in the present
war, it is expressly agreed that all
wage rates and schedules shall be sub
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25

Schoolboy's definition of hypo-
crite: "a kid who comes to school wild
a smile on his face"