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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
NLRB ISSUES COMPLAINT

New Orleans (ILNS). = The re-
gional board of the National Labor
Relations Board has issued complaint
against the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company in which vio-
lation of the Wagner Labor Act is
charged. The International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers accuses the
company Of sponsoring company
union in nine southern states. There
are about $4,000 employees in the area.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
international Association Of
Machinists Adopts Program
for Elimination of Strikes
Executive Council of l. A. M Assemblies at Washington
in Bi-annual SessiOn-Outines Procedure to be Fol
lowed in Settlement of All Disagreements

The full text of the resolution
adopted by the Machinists, in which
the three-point program for the elm
ination of strikes on defense work is
set forth, follows:
Resolution
Whereas, for many years it has been
the policy of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists not to resort to
strikes until all peaceful means for
settling differences with management
have been exhausted and an oppor-
tunity given to the Bureau of Con-
ciliation, United States Department of
Labor to settle the dispute, therefore
be it
RESOLVED that during the present
national defense program it is the
position of the international Associa-
ton Of Machinists whenever members
of the association are employed in
plants or on jobs in which national
defense contracts are involved, any
differences arising with management
which cannot be settled by direct con-
ference shall be treated as follows:
The Bureau of Cancellation, U. S.
Department of Labor, shall be called
upon to mediate such differences. If
mediation does not effect an early set
tlement, the director general, Office
of Production Management, shall be
requested to intervene at the earliest
possible date to the end that there may
be settlement mutually acceptable.
If no settlement by such means can be
effected, and if the grievance involves
issues other than work, jurisdiction or
workers rights as set forth in the
National Labor Relations Act, the
grievance shall be arbitrated, provided
the employer is sincerely cooperating
to effect settlement and is not re-
sorting to coercion or intimidation in
an effort to weaken or destroy union
ism in his plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21

The executive council of the Inter
national Association of Machinists, as
sembled at Washington, D. c., for its
bi-annual session on March IL, adopted
a three-point program to eliminate
strikes of it's members on national de-
fense projects or in plants doing ma
tional defense work.
The plan provided that whenever a
controversy arises in plant, on a
project, or job which affects the ma
tional defense program that cannot be
settled in conference between the rep
resentatives of the employer and the
employees, the following procedure
shall be followed:
/. Mediation shall be invoked by
calling upon the United States Bureau
of Cancellation to attempt a settle
ment.
2. If the Cancellation Bureau, after
being given a fair opportunity, does
not succeed in adjusting the differ
ences, the director general of the Of
flee of Production Management will
be asked to intervene for the purpose
of effecting settlement.
8. Should the efforts of the director
general of the Office of Production
Management also fail to bring about
a settlement that is mutually accept
able, the union will agree to submit
the issues in the controversy to arbi-
tration. The only limitations placed on
the offer to arbitrate are in controver-
sizes where the issues involve en-
croachments on the work jurisdiction
of the international Association of Ma
chinists, or compromise the rights OF
workers set forth in the National La
Dor Relations Act; and in cases where
the employer takes advantage of the
time delay to practice intimidation
and coercion on his employees in an ef-
fort to weaken or destroy the union
in his plant.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
u. S. Court Upholds
Validity Of Poll Tax

Cincinnati, Ohio.-The constitutions
ality of a poll tax levied by the State
of Tennessee was upheld here in a
decision by the sixth U. S. Circuit
Court of Appeals.
"The right to vote is political
right, which the people of state may
appropriately condition through fun
damental law or legislation" wrote
Judge Xenophon Hicks. 'The provi-
sions requiring payment of the tax
as prerequisite to voting do not so
much connote levy as they do an
effective method of collection"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
President of American Federation of Labor Throws Full
Support of Organization Behind Teachers-Asks All
Teachers Unions to Vote for Locals Expulsion.

New York City (ILNS).-W William
Green has thrown the full support of
the American Federation Of Labor be-
hind the executive council of the
American Federation of Teachers in
it's move to revoke the charters of two
locals here and one in Philadelphia on
charges that they are under Com
munist domination.
Green appealed to the membership
of the teachers unions throughout the
nation to vote for expulsion of the
three locals in the referendum ordered
by the executive council. He declared
it would be a "sorry day" for the
cause of unionism among teachers if
the attempt to "clean house" did not
succeed.
owe stand shoulder to shoulder
with the executive council in urging
that the charters of these locals be
revoked" Green declared. "The teach
ers of this country will not join a
union that is influenced in any way
by the Communist philosophy"
Central Body Acts
His statement, made by telephone
from his Office in Washington, fol-
lowed adoption by the Central Trades
and Labor Council in this city of a
resolution backing the movement to
oust the two New York units-the
Teachers Union, Local S, and the Col
lege Teachers Union, Local 537-and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21

pledging aid to the parent union in
building new locals among teachers
here.
To combat the argument of Locals
5 and 537 that their passing would
leave the staffs of the New York
schools and colleges without any eff
fective spokesman in opposing budget
and salary cuts, the executive council
of the A. F. of t. and the Workers.
Education Bureau of America have
called a conference here for March %.
Woll and Watt to Speak
The meeting, which has been en-
dorsed by the Central Trades and
Labor Council, will lay plans for ex-
pansion of educational facilities and
will criticize economy maniacs seek
ing to chisel at the expense of the
schools" according to Mark Starr, a
vice-president of the A. F. of T., who
is in active charge of arrangements
for the conference.
Among those who have tentatively
accepted places on the speaking pro-
gram, he announced, were Professors
William H. Fitzpatrick and Harold O.
Rugg, Matthew Woll, vice president
of the A. F. of L.; Robert j. Watt,
international representative of the A.
F. of L., and Spencer Miller, Jr., di-
rector of the Workers Education Bu-
reau.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
Green Asks Teachers Union to
Back Effort to Revoke Charters
of Three Locals as Communists

The New York State Department of
Labor's index of factory employment,
based on the 1925-27 average as 100,
rose to 1868, the highest point reached
since March, 1924. The corresponding
payroll index, at 1924, was higher
than that for any month since Oc-
tober. 1920.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21
NEWSPAPERS MERGE, MEN OUT

New Orleans (ILNS).-The Morn
ing Tribune, tabloid, has consolidated
with The Item, owned by the same
firm. About 20 printers and members
of the editorial force are affected.
This leaves the Times-P -Picayune mas
ter of the morning field and the States
and Item in the afternoon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-21

emergency" wage adjustments after
the passing of the Neutrality Act
The closed shops have been retained
and greater responsibility as regards
communications permitted in all con-
tracts. The agreements do not affect
the war bonus rates which apply on
the base rates.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
ACCIDENT

Zion Lutheran church: Sunday
school at $50. Service at 1920.
Church of the Brethren: Sunday
school at $780, Service at 1920.
st. Paul's Lutheran church: Sunday
school at $50; worship at 10:45.
st. Johns Lutheran church (Cove):
Worship at $3.50; Sunday school at
1890.
On Friday evening the Luther
League society of St. Paul's Lutheran
church will meet at the parsonage.
On Thursday afternoon an interest
ing assembly was given at the Acct
dent school with Miss Louise Dillon
in charge. The assembly included a
play, an Broadcasting Studio"
given by the junior and senior girls.
Mr.. B. O. Aiken attended meeting
of high school principals at Oakland
on Wednesday evening.
The marriage of Margaret Schmale,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Schmale, of Accident, and Orlando
Hetrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Hetrick, of the Cove, took place in
Cumberland on December 10. Rev.
Won Speckleson, pastor, officiated
From there they took a trip, spending
several days at Washington. Upon
their return, they went to housekeep-
ing at the home of Harry HENDERSON.
Mr.. Ross Speicher attended a Farm
Bureau convention at Baltimore sew
eral days last week.
Mrs Deleon Rush and family visit
ed Mrs. James McGettigan over the
weekend.
Mrs. Melvin Kesner and daughter,
Ethel Gail, spent the weekend at
Frostburg.
Mr.. Glenn Keller spent the week
end with Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Keller.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. C. Snyder were Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bushman and Leanna, Selma
Miller, August Neil and DR.. G. F.
Snyder, Cumberland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
AURORA-EGLON

Mr.. and Mrs. Wayne Fike and baby
were victims of an auto accident
which occurred on Route PIG last Sat
urday night when their car skidded
and hit tree. Mrs. Fike, the only one
injured, suffered from numerous
decorations about the face.
A quiet wedding took place last
Wednesday, January Is, at the Red
House parsonage when Miss Gladys
Evans became the bride of Milford
Hauser, Rev. Jones reading the cere-
mony. Mrs. Hauser is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Evans, of
Horseshoe Run, and the groom is q
son of Mr.. and Mrs. R. G. Hauser, of
Stemple Ridge. The couple will make
their home in Akron, Ohio, where the
groom is employed.
Word has been received by relatives
here that DR.. Earl Haas, Cincinnati,
Ohio, who has been in a critical con-
dition for quite some time, is at pres
ent slightly improved DR.. Haas was
formerly of this community.
Friends and relatives here are sad
dened by news of the accident in
which Walter D. Trenton, of Peters
burg, was fatally injured. His auto
mobile was struck by a train three
miles out of Petersburg last Friday,
January II, as he was returning from
work The victim passed away Sun
day, January 10, without having re-
gained consciousness.
Robert J. Stanton, of Oakland, was
a business caller in Aurora and Eglon
last Friday.
Lloyd Harsh returned Saturday
from a three weeks visit with a
daughter, Mrs. Anna Cook, at Glen
co, Pa. Mr.. Harsh is now past SO
years of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Teets, of King
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

Mrs. Fred Peddicord, and was taken
i'll at their home last week
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Nine and
children, of Philadelphia, are guests
of Mrs. Mines parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. V. Schaeffer.
Mrs. C. o. Thayer is i'll at her home
with an attack of influenza.
Mr.. E. C. Kelley, veteran retired
railroader, was honored on January
II with a chicken dinner. MI. Kelley
was celebrating his 9th birthday.
j. P. McWilliams, junior forester
of the CCC, is quite ill at his home
here with influenza.
The Mt. Lake Park PIT. A. will
hold their annual bingo and card
party this year on February 7. Off
GERS in charge are Mrs. Darwin Mar
tin, president; Mrs. William McRobie,
vice-president; Mrs. Mabel Brock,
treasurer, and Mrs Samuel Cole, sec
rotary.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Groves are
moving this week into an apartment
of Mrs. Darwin Martins. Mrs. Groves
is the former Miss Beulah Kahl, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Kahl.
Harry Turney is i'll at his home
with influenza.
j. w. Williams, who is in Baltimore
with the Federal Housing Project,
spent Sunday here with his family.
Mrs. Mason Calls and daughter
Mary Anne have returned home from
visit to Fairmont.
Announcement has been made of
the marriage of Miss Eleanor Zim-
norman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Zimmerman, to Erwin Liller, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Liller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Kiser have
taken an apartment in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Myers.
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
MT. LAKE PARK

Golfers for January 18th carries
the story of pilot from the Mont
gomery (Ala.) flying field, who on his
second solo flight got lost. 1t is an in
teresting "short" and should be of in
terest here as the pilot is question is
Flying Cadet Jack O'Donnell, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. R. O'Donnell.
To those readers at Accident and
other points in the county who read
this column and are kind enough to
tell US so and also tell US what they
like. We give AN item which has been
requested by these readers. 1t is the
date and time scheduled for Miss
Frances Ruth Ream, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Ream, for her monthly
radio broadcast over WRVA Rich
mond, Saturday, January 25. The pro-
gram opens at 1910. Miss Ream will
be heard following the musical pro-
gram. This is the Home and Farm
Hour, for which she is Home Demon
strator for the two counties of King
William and King and Queen. The time
is not always the same.
Better keep your pet cats inside.
According to the law cats are a men
ace to birds and squirrels and as such
are open hunting.
Everyone is interested in the new
road. So far there has been real prog
ress made. We hope that the rumors
floating around that it may not be
finished are not true. Regardless of
weather conditions work has kept
steadily on. Of course there are some
who are natural born kickers.
Personals
Friends here will learn with regret
of the serious illness of Mrs. J. L.
Echard, well known resident. Mrs.
Echard has been in Kingwood visiting
her son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Harmon and
family were Sunday guests of Mr..
Fred and Miss Rose Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilmer Margroff
have moved to Baltimore, where Mr..
Margroff has been employed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Schmidt, of
Oakland, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Smith one dav last week.
Rev. Arthur Scrogum and dargh-
ter, Ruth, Marie Alexander, of Acct
dent; Rev. John Grim, of Frostburg;
and Ted Metcalfs, of Westernport,
spent Saturday at the regional B. Y
P. D. meeting of cabinets at Freder-
lex.
Mr. A. J. Alexander, who is still
patient at Memorial hospital, Cum
berland, has slightly improved.
Mr.. Orus King spent several days
last week at Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dewitt and
family, of Oakland, were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Spoer-
lein.
Mr. Fred Miller was honored at his
home on Friday evening with sur
prise birthday party. Among the
guests present were Mr.. and Mrs.
William Miller, George and Lena Mil
Ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. o. Aiken, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bushman, Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Snyder, Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Spoerlein,
August Neil, Selma Miller and Hazel
Brenneman. The evening was spent in
playing cards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Alexander and
sons visited Mr.. A. J. Alexander at
Cumberland on Friday evening.
Miss Grace Deal, who has been Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Albert Smith,
for the past week, has returned to
Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
PAGE THREE

wood, spent the weekend with his
parents at Aurora.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darrell Roth, of Nor
gantown, spent last weekend with
their parents in Eglon.
Miss Eleanor Alternately, of Fair
mont, was visiting her mother, Mrs.
Molly Alternately, last week.
Mrs. Taylor Johnson, who has been
receiving treatment at the Elkins City
hospital, has returned to her home at
Brookside. Her condition is much i'm
proved.
Mrs. Eldon Fike, of Oakland, has
been spending several days with her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Washington Fike,
who is seriously i'll.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
Health Conditions
Favorable In 1910
Figures For Sickness From "Re-
portable" Diseases Are Given
For State of Maryland

Health conditions in Maryland in
1910 were generally favorable, as in
Dictated by a recent report of DR.. R.
H. Riley, director of the State De-
partment of Health, giving provi-
sional figures for sickness from the
'reportable" diseases-the major in
fectious or contagious diseases-dur-
ing the year.
There were nearly $4,000 cases of
the catching" diseases reported in
the State in 1910 in comparison with
1895 cases in 1889. The high total in
1889 was due largely to the measles
outbreak of that year in connection
with which there were 1922 cases
reported. The disease was at low
ebb in 1910; only 246 cases were re-
ported.
The total sickness from the report
able diseases in 1910 was divided be-
tween Baltimore city and the counties
as follows; Baltimore city, 23,128
cases; the counties 1892. There were
significant decreases in three diseases
that are always matters of special
concern: Typhoid fever, diphtheria
and tuberculosis. Typhoid dropped
from 1872 in 1889 to 1876 last year;
diphtheria from 245 in 1889 to 1853 in
1910 and tuberculosis from 2,721
cases in 1889 to 1852 in 1910.
Other diseases in which favorable
decreases occurred in 1910 included:
Rocky Mountain spotted fever, of
which SIS cases were reported; undu-
liant fever, % cases; tularemia (rabbit
fever), %; dysentery, 147; diarrhea
and cholera infantum, 1879; erysipelas,
So; poliomyelitis, II; meningitis, 81;
and pellagra, cases; in comparison
with the following in 1899: Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, 70; undulant
fever SO; tularemia, 40; dysentery,
286; diarrhea and cholera infantum,
Ali; erysipelas, 1874; poliomyelitis, 27;
meningitis, CT; and pellagra, 27.
There were marked flare-ups in
whooping cough, which increased
from zoos cases in 1889 to over 5000
cases in 1910, and in the pneumonias
of which nearly a thousand more
cases were reported than in 1889
1896 cases in 1910 and 1889 in 1889.
The increase in the cases of pneumo-
MIA was offset by very marked de-
crease in the number of deaths from
the disease, due to the fact that sulfa-
pyridine or the appropriate serum
was made available, through the
pneumonia control services Of the
State and County Health Depart
ments, to physicians for patients I'M
able to secure these newer methods of
treatment otherwise.
The list of "reportable" diseases in
cludes about 40 that are communica-
bic in some way Physicians in at
tendance are requested to report the
occurrence of such diseases among
their patients to the nearest health
officer, in order that measures to
prevent their spread may be insti-
tuted without delay. When there is no
physician in attendance the response
bility for reporting certain diseases
shifts to the householder or to others
with knowledge of the facts.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
GORTNER

Mrs. Anna Bittinger attended the
Inauguration in Washington on Mon
day and will visit her aunt in Pitts
burgh several days before returning.
Mrs. Jacob Swartzentruber and
Mrs. Walter Schlossnagle visited Mrs.
Harry Nicholson on Thursday after
noon.
Billy and George Fulk spent the
weekend with their grandfather, who
has been i'll.
Earl Spoerlein and Roy Harvey
have secured employment in Wash
ington.
Miss Eleanor Friend is spending
some time at Mr. Paul Friends while
Mr.. and Mrs. Friend are visiting in
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elwood Schlossnagle
and children spent Thursday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Max Orendorf at
Weber.
Miss Leota Arnold, of Eglon, is
spending this week with friends.
Miss Anna Mae Johnson spent the
weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Delmer
Kitzmiller at Loeb Lynn.
Mrs. Ernest Gortner returned home
from Memorial hospital. Her sister,
Miss Violet Right, is with her at this
writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gnegy and son
Troy, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mustard
and Richard Mustard were dinner
guests at the home of S. w. Slabach
on Sunday.
Mary and Ross Lichty and Darrell
Gnegy were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Artie Dodge on Sunday.
Mrs Paul WEIGH visited her father,
A. j. Alexander, in Memorial hos
pital, Cumberland, on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zenas Mellott, of
Swallow Falls, were visiting Mrs.
Mellott's mother, Mrs. Jane Beegh-
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Swartzentruber
and daughter Harriet and Ross Lichty
spent Wednesday with Betty Swartz-
entruber in Johnstown.
Roy and Irwin Yoder recently went
to Grantsville to buy up rabbits and
guinea pigs to fill out their orders.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

A steady increase in the number of
Maryland influenza cases was report
ed by health officials but no epidemic.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

Wendell Willkie, prior to leaving
for England, received a cable welcome
from Churchill
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

The U. S. Government lifted it's
embargo on sending planes.to Russia.