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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
RESOLUTION NO. 1857

Declaring it necessary to improve Day
ton Street Alley, from Tenth Street to
Eleventh Street, said Dayton Street
Alley being the first alley south OF
Dayton Street, in the Fourth Ward of
the City of Hamilton, Ohio, by grading
and paving the roadway thereof with
a permanent material such as con-
crete brick, asphalt, asphaltic con-
crete Warrenite bitulithic, or any
other type of material as may be de-
termined.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29

dience.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
Legal Advertisements

mately paid, and also determining to
proceed with the issuing of said bonds
in one lot and without issuing notes
in anticipation thereof
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29

Mar. 291t
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29

time.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-27
British Jewry Aids the Fight For

"By his prompt action he saved
many lives, and showed COM
plete disregard for his personal
safety"
The recital of exploits such as
these constitute sufficient ans
wer to ill-infOrmed sneers against
the Jewish contribution to the war
effort.
Many Anglo-Jewish notables are
now serving in the armed forces
of the Crown. Lt.-Col. the Mar
ouis of Reading, formerly of the
Inns of Court (T.A. Reserve Of
ficers) is with the Auxiliary Mill
tary Pioneer Corps; he was active
in the development of the Corps,
and was personally responsible for
the setting up of the machinery
which has enabled so many refu-
gees to join it. Major the Lord Ma
than of Churt is Welfare OFFICER
of the Eastern Command and Lon
don District, as well as being
Chairman of the National De-
tense Public Interest Committee,
Hon. Colonel of the 33rd Anti
Aircraft Battery, and Deputy
Lieutenant and Justice of the
Peace for the County of London.
It was Lord Nathan of Churt who
organized the series of luncheons
at the Dorchester Hotel which pro-
vided Ministers with a suitable
platform for public pronounce
ments in connection with the war.
Lieut.. the Hon. Even E. S. Mon
tagu, brother of Lord SWaythling,
who has been for a number of
years Treasurer of the United
Synagogue, is a Staff Officer in
the Royal Naval Volunteer Re-
serve. And this by no means eX-
hausts the list of figures we'll
known in Anglo-Jewry who now
wear uniform.
In civil defense also, Jews have
done and are doing their full
share. The great majority of AR.
p. Wardens in the East End of
London are JeWS-in most cases
unpaid, by the way. There are
also many Jews in the Auxiliary
Fire Service and in the Auxiliary
Police. Among the members of
the Home Guard, too, Jews are
playing their part, although the
regulation that debars from this
body all those who cannot show
that both their parents were Brit
ish born has naturally prevented
from serving many Jews who were
anxious to do so. In other branch
es of the civil defense as well,
there have been cases of Jews who
were doing excellent work but are
now, because of tn rigid interpre-
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-27

Some misconceptiOn in regard
to the Jewish effort arose some
time ago in consequence of the
publication in the press of the
wholly unauthorized statement
that only 243 Jews were to be
found among those serving in the
British Expeditionary Force in
France. These figures, for which
no warrant was ever produced, in
any case purported to give the
numbers only Of those soldiers who
had on joining the army regis
tered as being Of the Jewish faith.
Many Jews failed to do so, be-
lieving that by registering as
members of another faith they
would receive less harsh treatment
in the event of their becoming
prisoners of war Even in the last
war, when there was less reason to
fear anti-Jewish discrimination on
the part of the enemy, the Rev.
Michail Adler, then Senior Jewish
Chaplain to the Forces, discov-
cred at least a thousand Jews who
had been registered as belonging
to other creeds.
The fact that CONSUMPTION is in
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-27

force in England makes IL, 10 say
the least, improbable that English
Jews in the services should be pro-
portionately less numerous than
their fellOw-citizens of other
creeds. They were certainly not
so in the last war, in which 5O,OOO
Jews served the British Forces,
producing five V.C.'s, 40 D.S.O's,
and more than 1,5OO minor dec
OratiOns. In this war, the Senior
Jewish Chaplain to the Forces,
Dayan Nj. GOliOp, has already been
in touch with thousands of Jews,
of both sexes, serving their coun-
try in one branch or other OF the
war effort.
No details can, of course, be
given of the participation of Jew
ish soldiers in specific engage
ments; but it is known that large
contingents Of troops drawn from
the East End of London fought in
the actions in Norway, and that at
Narvik Jewish soldiers were
among those who bore the brunt
of the fighting.
Definite figures will probably
not be available until after the
war, and even the task of making
an estimate is rendered difficult
by the fact that many serving
Jews bear names that give no hint
of their origin, so that unless they
have been registered as such there
is no means of knowing that their
achievements may properly be
credited to the Jewish war effort.
Neither Captain Reynolds, OF the
New Zealand Medical Corps, who
received the Military Cross, nor
Lieut.. Shaw, of the Royal Fusi-
Tiers, who was similarly decorated,
would by their names alone be rec
Ognized as Jews; and there are
probably many cases where acts
of bravery have been performed
by Jews whom their comrades
have not known as Jews.
For these reasons, no full list is
available Of decorations conferred
upon Jews, but in addition to these
already mentioned, Distinguished
Flying Crosses have been won by
Pilot Officers Marcus Kramer and
William H. Nelson. The latter Of
ficer, who comes from Montreal,
has twice received the congratu-
lations of the King.
The official announcement des-
cribing the exploits for which Cap
tain Reynolds was decorated may
again be quoted. "ThrOughOut the
whole of the Dunkirk operations"
it says, Captain Reynolds ex-
ample of GOODNESS and self-cOntrOI
under fire was great asset to his
battalion. On the night of June
1-2, the enemy shelIed the Mole at
Dunkirk on which were cOncen-
tratiOnS of British and French
troops. Captain Reynolds obtained
carrying parties to move the
wounded, first to the beach and
then to the ambuIances. AltOgeth-
err he dealt with some two dozen
wounded and accompanied them to
the advance dressing station,
where he worked all through the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-27
Democracy
By CHARLES SOLOMON
LONDON

Although no official figures available concerning the
rarcpatiOn of British in the struggle against Hitler
ISM there can doubt that this is scale fully pro-
pOrtionate to their numerical strength.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09

revoke the unions charter unless it
complies with the order. He said that
the union, by re-electing LAMA to the
union post, had violated instructions
transmitted to it some time ago by
Collins.
Local 1875 is a federal union, un-
der direct control of the A. F. of L.
The charters of such unions may be
revoked or suspended under powers
given to the A. F. of L. president.
LAMA, one of the organizers of the
union, became its business agent un-
der an A. F. of L. charter issued in
1919. He served two years in federal
prison at Milan, Mich, on charges
growing out of protection" racket
at New York's Fulton Fish Market.
He and others were accused of hiring
thugs to enforce an interstate fish
monopoly through a so-called watch
man and Patrol Association"
LAMA was tried on an antitrust
charge and received one of the heav-
lest sentences ever imposed in an anti
trust case when he and 81 other de-
PENDANTS were sentenced on December
8, 1885, by Federal Judge Julian w.
Mack.
Judge Mack sentenced LAMA to
serve two years in prison and to pay
a fine of $4,000. At the same time
he imposed lesser sentences upon two
of Lanza's henchmen, Joe Lappi and
Louis Palermo. The latter, who dis
appeared after he had pleaded to the
antitrust indictment, was sentenced
to year in prison, and Lappi to six
months.
The remaining defendants, includ-
ing twenty-five corporations and the
Fish Workers Union of Greater New
York and vicinity, had fines imposed
upon them ranging from $10O for the
union to 1000 for the Fish Credit As
sociation, Inc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
TWO ANSWERS

Undoubtedly some behind-th times
industrial leaders are taking advan-
tage of public feeling over the war
and national defense to create distrust
and prejudice against labor unions.
The plan is to label every move on
the part of the unions to better the
conditions of the workers as subver-
sive. Suspicious are aroused against
union officials and members who take
an active part in moving toward bet
ter wages, shorter hours and improved
working conditions.
There are two answers to this con-
dition-possibly the answer are rolled
into one: Organize, organize and or
ganize! Then remind your Senators
and Representative who are running
for reelection that they are going to
be judged by their voting record where
labor questions have been involved.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Fresno Bakers Union Rules
Against Drinking On Job

Fresno, Calf. (ILNS).-The exec
utive board of Bakery Workers Union,
Local 43, voted fine on one of their
members for "being drunk on the job"
In accord with the rules and regula-
tions of the Bakers Union member
cannot work under an intoxicated con-
dition.
Local 43 is of the opinion that it
should protect the employer in all
cases where production and efficiency
are involved. Business Agent Baugh-
man preferred the charges, and de-
clared "that violations of the drink
ing rule would be strictly enforced
as the union is operating under a
union shop agreement and it is the
duty of the organization to furnish
the employers with capable employees
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Dubinsky Denies Union
Caused Alpena Shutdown

New York, N. president David
Dubinsky of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers. Union, denied the
statement issued by the Alpena Gar
ment Company, Alpena, Mich, that
the unions demands for union recog-
milton and better work conditions were
responsible for the decision of the
company to close down it's four cot
ton dress factories in Alpena, Rogers
City, Onoway and Cheboygan, Mich
Blaming the management for the
shutdown, Mr.. Dubinsky said "the
enormous overhead and the heavy
drawings of the various executives
and directors and the money drained
out of the business when it made
profits are responsible for the closing
of the plants"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1910.
LABOR REPRESENTATION AGAIN


This paper recently commented on
the need for labor representation on
all boards and agencies dealing with
wage earners and their interests. The
editorial dealt particularly with the
Importance of labor representation in
activities coming under the national
defense program. Labor officials in
Washington see this point as calling
for increasing emphasis.
1t is not enough, the labor men say,
to have labor representatives such as
Dan w. Tracy and Sidney Hillman in
high places. Labor representative in
key Washington positions can do much
toward getting an adequate "say" for
the workers in defense and other gov
ernment boards and agencies. But in
the very nature of their duties, they
can know little of what is going on in
the myriad state and local boards and
agencies throughout the nation.
Labor men and women know what
is going on in their localities, they
know their own people, their problems
and perplexities and are in a position
to adequately safeguard the interests
of wage earners. They can do what
officials at Washington, no matter how
well intentioned, can never do.
A moments thought will show
that labor representation in every
agency, from the top to the bottom, is
an urgent requirement and one that
labor will have to keep pounding away
at in order to obtain.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
WHAT NEXT?

What is believed to be the first
bomb-proof shelter manufactured in
the United States, designed for sale
to Americans, is now being displayed
by a builder in Quincy, Mass. Like
popular English models, the shelter is
of quarter-inch reinforced steel, will
not withstand a direct hit, but will
offer protection from flying debris.
Mass production, soon to be under
way, will keep the price down to
around S100.-Forbes Magazine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Wage-HOur Act Chief
Backs 4O-HOur Week

New Orleans (ILNS).-Col Philip
Fleming, national hour and wage act
administrator, said here that he be-
lieved the United States should con-
form to the 40-hour week in it's ma
tional defense program.
The 40-hour week goes into effect
October "a under the wage-hour act.
The shorter week will relieve unem-
ployment and promote efficiency, said
Col. Fleming. He characterized as
nonsense" the charge that the 40
hour week law in France was respon-
sible for the French defeat and pointed
out that the French law was nothing
like ours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Flint Glass Wage
Parleys To Begin

Atlantic City, N. J. (ILNS).-The
annual collective bargaining confer
ences between employers in the flint
glass industry and the American Flint
Glass Workers Union opened here
with the workers asking pay increases
The present contract expires Sep
tember 2. The workers have requested
pay increases as high as 80 per cent
in some departments of the industry
and two weeks vacation with pay
The manufacturers told the union rep
resentatives that this was impossible
Negotiations are expected to last sew
eral days.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Labor Gains Are Won
At Conference Table

Port Angeles, Wash. (ILNS). -
Meyer Lewis, organizational director
of the American Federation of Labor
in IL Western states, told the Wash
ington State Federation Of Labor con-
vention here that ''for every strike
we settle there are thousands of con-
tracts signed over conference table.
Lewis declared real union leadership
today doesn't mean taking the men
out on the street-there is ability
when they can be kept off the street.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS

Drastic alterations made in the or
ganization and duties of British local
governments as a result of the British
defense program are outlined in a re-
port released by the American Mu-
nicipal Association.
Materials "that seem most perti-
nent to the problems that American
local government may be called upon
to solve" were compiled by the asso-
citation from British local government
journals, in response to queries from
American municipal officials regard
ing their possible role in the defense
program of this country.
Long before the war came, the pre-
paredness program alone had dis
turbed more or less seriously the nor
NAL functioning of every municipal
department in Britain. During the
war months the pressure grew in
creasingly heavy.
Finance officers had to contend with
the demand for economy, the order to
cease borrowing, the rise in costs of
materials and the drop in tax revenue
y
Officials responsible for recruiting
personnel found their difficulties mul,
tiplied- by the loss of municipal
employees to the armed forces; second
by the demand for expansion of all de.
partments assisting in civil defense.
Police officers had to deal with sabo
tage, organize air raid protection, con
troll traffic during blackouts. Fire de
partments established auxiliary corps
equipped new stations and developed
emergency water supplies.
City engineers took over the job o
building air raid shelters in publ
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Battleship Boiler Plant
Workers Gain Pay Boost

Barberton, Ohio.-A new agreement
negotiated by A. F. of L. Federal Lo-
cal 20186 with Babcock and Wilcox
Company here, largest manufactures
of boilers for battleships, settled
three-day strike of 1000 workers who
returned to their jobs with a three
cent hourly wage increase, improved
vacation schedules and stronger SEMI
ority provisions. Union officials an
nounced that adjustment of wage diff
ferentials among certain categories of
workers will be made following a
study of cost of living figures by
joint union-employer committee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Communist Doctrine Held
AS Subtle Trap For Negro

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - Con-
demning Communism, DR.. Ralph j.
Bunche of Howard University declared
the Communist doctrine is misleading
and is a subtle trap for the negro be-
cause it is always tied with the shift
ing opportunism of Soviet Russia. He
spoke at summer school conference
on "Needs of Negro Youth"
DR.. Bunche held tie-up with Com
munism would be racial suicide and
denounced Fascism as anathema to
the negro. He urged study of the
work and ideals of democracy at negro
universities.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09

ployes' Union No. 21666, American
Federation Of Labor. The board also
ordered the paper to offer reinstate-
ment to five employees found to have
been discriminatory discharged be-
cause of union activities.
simultaneously the board dismissed
complaints that the company discrim-
inatorily discharged four other men;
interfered with employe rights by
causing the arrest of the president Of
the union, and permitted and encour.
aged a petition urging members te
withdraw from the union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Claims For Injury
On Increase In Ohio

Columbus, Ohio.-The Division OF
Safety and Hygiene, Industrial COM
mission of Ohio, reported that 1929
injury and occupational disease claims
were filed with the commission in May,
an increase of 988 over the preceding
month. The increase was said to re-
fleet a gradual expansion of employ
ment, especially in the heavy indus
tries. Included in the claims were 81
for deaths, decrease of Is over April.
Machinery led in accident causes, CIV
ing rise to 1928 claims, including four
fatals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09

Write to your Senators and Repre-
sentatives and to the candidates for
such places. Tell them about the sub
versive actions being taken by employ
ers who try to take advantage of war
hysteria to direct suspicion and hatred
toward labor unions. Put them on
their notice that their attitude now
will determine whether they are sent
to Washington for the next term.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
A COURSE IN FREEDOM
(From the New York Times)

(fTOm Lne New Ork I1meS)
When the New York schools open
next fall the Board of Regents will be
obligated, under the McCaffrey Act,
passed at the last session of the Leg
islature, to establish ''Bill of Rights
Week." during which an effort will be
made to instill into the minds of pu-
pills "the purpose, meaning and i'm
portance of the Bill of Rights in the
Federal and State Constitutions.
1t seems strange that there could
be any public school in the United
States, especially in the state of New
York, in which this lesson is not i'm
pressed upon all students. Doubtless
it has been in most schools and by
multitude of devoted teachers. But it
is worth while concentrating on it for
a week. There is abundant material
in each days newspapers to dramatize
the meaning, for each of us and all of
US, of the basic rights.
Perhaps the essential lesson is
that freedom does not exist all by
itself, in vacuum, without hu-
man effort. 1t has to be main
tained.
1t our youngsters can be fired with
real enthusiasm to maintain it, Mr..
McCaffrey's idea will be fruitful.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09

places, of training demolition and res
cue squads, and of protecting munich
pal utilities and other property from
air raids.
Welfare programs had to be adj
justed to the rise in the cost of living.
Public housing authorities faced new
rent collection worries. Public health
officers, besides mobilizing hospital
and frst-aid services, were concerned
with the spread of diseases which
arise from population movement and
congregation.
All departments of local govern
ment collaborated with the national
officials in the vast program of evac-
uation-moving 100000 persons in
three days in September, 1889, and q
smaller number in June, 1910.
Finally, there was a whole series Of
new duties thrust on cities and coun.
ties-registration of all civilians, foot
rationing, and food production il
parks and on vacant land.
Even the structure of British loca
government was modified. The ira
ditional administration by group O:
council committees was supplanted il
some cities by a single emergenc.
committee and a controller, and mu
nicipal elections were suspended b.
Parliament until after the war.
The basis of the British grant-in
aid system--that local governmen
must make some contribution to eacl
aided activity-was abandoned, an
many emergency measures were fl
nanced by 100 per cent grants fror
| the national treasury.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
Railroad Opposes Ban
On Engineers Age

Albany, N. Y. (ILNS).-A recon-
mendation by the Public Service Com
mission that railroad engineers more
than 60 years of age be barred was
opposed by the New York Central
Railroad on the ground that the mat
ter is beyond state jurisdiction.
Give G. Handy, general attorney
for the railroad, contended at hear
ing that the recommendation would
violate contracts between the company
and Engineer Brotherhoods under the
Federal Railway Labor Act.
The commission postponed positive
action. It's recommendation was based
on report of it's chief engineer, NAL
colin c. Cleveland, attributing the dis
astrous Little Falls wreck to exces-
sive speed and possible mental confu-
sion on the part of the 67-year-old en-
gineer, j. S. Earl, killed in the acci-
dent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
GREEN ACTS TO
GUST EX-C0NVICT
AS UNION HEAD

New York City (ILNS).-President
William Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has directed the i'm
mediate removal of Joseph (Socks)
LAMA, eA-convict, as business agent
of the United Sea Food Workers
Union, Local 1875. He telegraphed
instructions to William Collins, New
York A. F. of l.. representative, to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
PAPER ORDERED
TO REHIRE FIVE

Washington, D. C. (ILNS). - The
National Labor Relations Board has
ordered the Los Angeles Examiner,
published by Hearst Publications, Inc,
to cease discouraging membership in
the Newspaper Circulators, Wholesale
Distributors and Miscellaneous En-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
A. F. OF L. CONVENTION INVITED

Port Angeles, Wash. (ILNS).-An
invitation to the American Federation
of Labor to hold its 1941 convention
in Seattle was extended here by the
Washington State Federation of La
Dor at it's annual convention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
CRAFTSMANSHIP

There is need at this moment for an
exercise of craftsmanship, among
those qualified to lead American
thought, as high and unselfish as that
which presided at the birth of our
country Harold L. Ickes, Secretary
of the Interior.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-08-09
WISDODM

War is the most wicked, wasteful,
stupid, cowardly and unchristian ac-
tivity of the human race.-Dr. Charles
M. Sheldon.