davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-10-02
Bank C|earings Show
Smaller Increase
Over Year Ago
TotoI for % Cities
1879 Per Cent Above
Same 1910 Week
BY the Associated Press.

bS the hSSOCloIeN freSS.
NEW YORK, Oct. Bank clear
ings in major cities in the week
ended Wednesday kept ahead of
both the preceding week and last
year but the large gains of recent
weeks were narrowed considerably
in both instances.
The total for % leading centers, as
reported to Dun e. BradStreet was
S6963, 1886 900 compared with S6,115,
447 900 last year, a gain of 1873 per
cent. The total was s466, 1888 900, or
To per cent above clearings in the
week preceding
Better than average increases over
last year at outside centers included
Portland, Greg, 489 per cent; New
Orleans, 469; Cleveland, 40.7; Seat
tie, 1877; Louisville, 36.9; Kansas
City. $50; Atlanta, 35.7, and Dallas,
$50.
Construction Declines.
Heavy engineering construction
awards this week totaled Sill .706,-
900, a drop of 80 per cent from the
previous week, but l9 per cent
greater than the same week a year
ago, Engineering News-Record re-
ported today.
Private construction was 26 per
cent smaller than the previous week
and As per cent less than year ago.
Public work was 33 per cent under
the week before, but 40 per cent
greater than the same week of 1910.
Comparisons follow:
Private,
Latest week, Prev. week; Year; ago.
State and Municipal.
23.169,0O0 1s,595,000 24,s24 900
Federal
720l9,0O0 l2349OO00 39e36 900
Total
111,7o6.OoO 164.444 900 q4,1S1, 900
Newspaper Advertising Lags.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2 (SpeciaD -Ad-
vertising Age reported retail adver-
tising lineage in newspapers Of "a
major cities was nine-tenths of per
cent behind a year ago in the week
ended September 20.
For the 38-week period since the
start of the year, lineage was As per
cent ahead of the same 1910 period.
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Newspaper Advertising Lays.
Washington Exchange

SALES.
Potomac Electric Power 81 pre-
ferred-5 at 116.
Security Storage Co.-l0 at 70.
Garf1nckel preferred-50 at 90.
Washington Railway & Electric pre-
ferred-35 at 1861.
Garflnckel common-50 at liz.
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r In bankruptcy or receivershp, or being
reorganiZed under the Bankruptcy Act, or
securities assumed by such companies.
Rates of dividends in the foregoing table
are annual disbursements based on the
last quarterly or semi-annual declaration.
Unless otherwise noted. special or extra
dividends are not included Also extra or
extras: Cash or stock. e Paid last year.
I Payable in stock. Declared or paid so
far this year. h Payable in Canadian funds.
k Accumulated dividends paid or declared
this year. WV With warrants. XIV With
out warrants. war Warrants s Unit of
trading less than 100 shares; sales are
given in fun.
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closed 1916 lower.
Cotton seed Oil.

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
I higher to. . lower, Sales. lo5 contracts.
October. IA Dob; December, 1890; jan
uary, l390b; March, l395b; May, 1899.
l400
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Metal Market

NEW YORK. Oct. 9 P.-Copper
steady: electrolytic, spot. 1900: export,
steady; spot and nearby arb nahe snd forward Iln
$500. Lead steady: spot, New York,
5.S590; East ST Louis, $40. Zinc steady
East St. Louis, spot and forward. 725. Pig
iron, aluminium. antimony. quicksilver
Platinum, Chinese wolframite and do
platinum, Chinese woframite and do
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NEW YORK. Oct The AsSociated
commodities today advanced to 92.73
Previous day, 92.72; week ago, 9259;
month ago, 9312; year ago. 1854
High e4.27 1925 1873 esi4
low. 77.03 $3.50 s3.7s 41.44
tt926 average equals 1909
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Rail Loadings Hold
11.8 Per Cent Ahead
Of Year Ago
9l9,5l0-Cor Volume
1.3 Per Cent Above
Previous Week
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Association of American
Railroads reported today that 919,-
$40 cars of revenue freight were
loaded during the week ending last
Saturday.
This was an increase of II ,541 cars,
or 1.3 per cent, compared with the
preceding week: an increase of 97,-
076 cars, or 1l.8 per cent, compared
with year ago, and an increase of
1894 cars, or 1913 per cent, COM
pared with 1899.
The report classified the loadings,
compared with last week and the
! corresponding week year ago, as
follows:
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New York Suqur

NEW YORK, Oct. LP.-World sugar
futures trading. auieted today with price
fhanses irregular. pending new activity
IN raws. Prices were "a lower to 9 high
err, December. 2.45la: March. 2.4O.
Domestic futures were inactive
Raws and refined remained UNCHANGED
Futures No. 3 closed 10 higher to /
uicb Jon,
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New York Cotton
By the Associated Press.

NstUNIdVrU Ieess
NEW YORK, Oct Cotton was
pushed into the lowest levels of the
day in final minutes of trading un-
der increased hedge selling and ac-
tive profit taking.
Futures closed 12-l6 lower
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New Orleans Prices.

NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 2 LP,-After early
advances cotton futures ran into heavy
long realizing and hedge selling Closing
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Chicago Cash Market.

.oush; s.; NS. @ ? hard is..; No: so ! mlssd
No, i yellow, 73s4-74; No. ?, 73'4-74; No
3, 10: No. 4 12-7212: No. 4 yellow, new
65,,4-69.,.; No. ; yellow, 20; sample grade
J. 7as4; No. 3 white new rs. Oats. No. i
white 4a; No. >. 4si2; No. 4. 43Ia. Bar,
ley. mailing, 7O-S4. nominal; feed and
screenings, 4l-5S, nominal: No. 4 barley,
rs; No. mailing barley. "a; No 3, 80.
Soybeans, No. l yellow, 50. Field seed
per hundredweight nominal: timothy
top, 1908 90.
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New York Bank Stocks

NEW YORK Oct. 2 P.-Natsonal AS
ISOLATION Securities Dealers Inc:
CLOSING Quotations.
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in the handling of grain and grain
products.
The Associated Press seasonally
adjusted index of loadings, based on
1929-30 as 100, declined to $40 COM
pared with 843 the previous week,
and ISL a year ago.
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Wool Futures

NEW YORK Oct 2 P.-Trsde de-
msnd for srease wool futures accounted
spot house interests on scale up.
Tired liquidation in wool tops centered
in the December delivery
Grease wool futures closed unchanged
10 3 Of a cent higher
High. Low. Last
October - 94S 947 "a 6b
December - p3q Q37 93sb
March $40 $50 % 20
Certifcated grease wool spot, "a SD.
higher.
High. Low. Last
December 1888 1858 2S5b
Certifcsted spot wool tops, 13O5n.
BID. Nominal.
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U. S. Treasury Notes

NEW YORK, Oct . tP.-Prices quoted
in dollars and thirty-seconds:
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Commodity Prices

'subject TO Federal taxes but not to
State income taxes.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, Oct 2-Dividends de-
clared. Prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.
Reduced.
Pc Stk of Pay
Rate. riod. record. able.
Corn EXCHANGE Bank
Trust Co N Y 6Oc 1917 Ill
Jantzen Knit Mills - 15c 1918 Ill
Arrears.
Asso Dry Gds I'd Of S575 lila 12-1
Accumulated.
Fenton United Clean
G Dyeing 10 pf- S1.75 - 1914 1915
Extra.
Prentice (GE) Mfs -S1.50 - 1O-1 1918
Regular.
Dempster Mil Mfg s1.25 @ 9-22 10-1
Fall River Elec Light 81 9-27 1o-I
Millers Falls BIC 9-15 $50
Prentice (GE) Mfg soc @ 1O-l 1915
ed-Prentice Corp SOC 1927 11-3
Risdon Manufacturing 81 9-22 1Q-l
Utica Knitting 81 - 10-l5 10-22
Calf Eiec Pow Pow S. pf &c = 1915 iii,
Incorp Investors 17c 1913 1871
Internal 1 1 g,il pr pf -s73sc g 1890 1890 III
TungSol Lamp Works 10c - 1917 ILL
Mexico Is fighting locust plaques
IN various parts Of the country.
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New York Bur Silver
NEW YORK. Oct 2 (R.-Bar sill
YER, BAN, unclaimed.
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Stocks 5a,nd 5Tss Pf Rat. zais' Hds 90 H,sh1or Clos.
Stocks

(By Private Wire Direct to The starJ
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Mexico Is fighting locust plaques
IN various parts Of the country.
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Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90. HiehLow Close.
Ala Grt Son (3p) los Q0a. QOa, Q0a.
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Carloadlngs advanced less than
seasonally as result of the decline
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Government Bonds
Over the Counter

NEW YORK, Oct 1P-Over-the-
sounter United States Government bonds
Pet. Mat. Bid Asked. Yld.
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Baltimore Stocks

Special Dispatch to The Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
Australia Labor Bans
SOviet-Aid Units Link

Sydney, Australia. a.-The federal ex-
ecutive of the Labor party, while ex-
pressing admiration for the Soviet
Union, recognizing that Russian re-
sistance has been of tremendous as
sistance in the fight against the Axis
and urging closer coordination in the
Allied effort through exchange of dip
lomatic and trade representative with
the Soviet, has banned Laborites from
membership in Soviet-aid organiza-
tions, including the Australian Soviet
Friendship League, the Friends of the
Soviet Union and the Australian Rus
sian Association.
The ban involves expulsion of those
members associating with such groups
The executive asserted that Australian
Communists were attempting to cap
italize upon the Soviet's struggle for
their own purposes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
CANADIAN LABOR TN
ANNUAL CONVENTION

Calgary, Canada.-Tom Moore, pres
ident of the Trades and Labor Con-
gress of Canada, opened the fifty-sev-
enth annual convention, declaring that
"the strike is no substitute for the
ballot even in war time"
The Ottawa labor leader said the
Congress has never sought to super
sede the function of government, add
ing that the government must and
will govern and if challenged will use
it's power to see that it's edicts are
carried out
Labor Minister Norman McClarty
in message to the Congress urged
employers and employees to maintain
harmonious relations toward assisting
Canada's war effort
Mr.. Moore said Canadian labor real
lied the war must be won, adding eve
do not believe that it is necessary, in
Canada, to surrender all that we have
achieved through fifty-seven years"
As to matters of legislation, Mr..
Moore said the Congress thinks it
should be consulted and recognized.
Canada was not up to date in the
health insurance and social security
that he said was necessary for the
welfare of Canadian workers.
Of strikes in Canada, he said there
was no strike in any industry where
collective agreements had been reached
and he advised employers that "co-
operation is not a one-way street."
Workers had gone more than half
way, he added
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
Bill Aimed AT "Subversive"
Operators in Marine Radio
Service Denounced by Knox
Termed another Legislative Effort Along Lines of Many
Made in Recent Months to Punish LabOr'-Charge is
Made of Attempt to Railroad Bill Through Congress.

Washington, d. c.. (ILNS). = The
Bland bill aimed at "subversive" ma
rine radio operators represents "an-
other legislative effort along the lines
of many made in recent months to
punish labor under the guise of ferret
ing out subversive activities" Rev
erend Owen A. Knox, chairman of the
National Federation for Constitutional
Liberties told subcommittee of the
Senate Commerce Committee in hear
ings on the bill.
The bill, H. R. sofa, gives the
Federal Communications Commission
power to withhold or suspend marine
radio operator licenses if it finds that
there is a reasonable probability"
that the applicant or holder is Sub
versive individual" By its language,
Rev. Knox charged, the measure gives
the F. C. C. unprecedented authority,
going much farther than any other
piece of federal legislation to punish
persons for their beliefs, both past and
present, as we'll as for their past or
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03

to address the convention are Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins and
Assistant Secretary Dan w. Tracy;
Chairman Arthur ]. Altmeyer, of the
Social Security Board; Governor Har-
old E. Stassen, of Minnesota; Acting
Director Edward j. Phelan, of the In
ternational L bor Office; Walter
Schevenels, secretary of the Interna-
tional Federation Of Trade Unions
Commander Lynn U. Stambaugh, of
the American Legion; Administrator
Philip B. Fleming, of the Wage Hour
Administration; Jan Stanczyk, Polish
Minister of Labor and the two British
fraternal delegates, George Thomson
and Edward Hough.
AS usual, three of the A. F. of L.
departments will hold their annual
meetings the week before the main
convention opens. The Metal Trades
Department convention started here
September %, and the Building and
Construction Trades Department con-
vention followed on October /. The
Union Label Trades Department meet
ing opened October 3.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
PENNSYLVANIA JOBS AT PEAK

Philadelphia (ILNS) Factory en-
ployment in Pennsylvania increased
about one per cent and wage disburse-
ments per cent from July to August,
the Federal Reserve Bank of Phila-
delphia reports. The number employed
reached a new peak estimated at
1,145,000, or % per cent above the level
of 1910. Wage payments rose to
high of approximately $34,900,000 a
week, exceeding the volume of year
ago by 48 per cent and the pre-war
level by rs per cent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
WAGE ORDER FOR
CANNING PLANTS

St John, N. B. (ILNS). An inves-
tigation by the New Brunswick Fair
Wage Board has revealed appalling
conditions for employees of fish, vege-
table, meat and fruit canning and
processing plants in the province.
1t has been disclosed that for many
years, women and girls have been paid
as low as 7 and cents an hour for
a nine-hour working day, and straight
time for overtime, and that men and
youths have been paid as low as 10
cents an hour, with no regular pay
day in many cases, and the employees
walking four and five miles to work.
In numerous instances, the men get
ting 10 cents an hour have families
depending on their earnings. Even the
war with the big boost in the cost of
living has not caused the owners of
the food plants to revise their wages
upward
Therefore, the board has ordered
minimdm wage of rs cents per hour
for men and Is cents an hour for
women and girls and boys under IS.
However, the order has been restricted
to four counties on the north and east
ern shore of New Brunswick, where
fish processing and canning plants,
particIlarlv are plentifIl
In order to keep body and soul to-
gether it has been necessary for whole
families to work together in such
plants, and the gross wages for fam
lily of both parents and four children
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03

present activities.
Declaring the federation which he
represents to be opposed to "all forms
of truly subversive activities" Knox
urged defeat of the bill 'to prevent
the American people from being dis
united"
The legislation is SO framed, he said,
that it would be unnecessary to prove
that particular individual had sub
versive ideas; the F. G. C. would
merely have to have Conformation
which would in the opinion of the COM
mission justify finding by it that
there is responsible probability that
such operator is a subversive indi-
vidual."
Knox charged proponents of the bill
with attempting to railroad it through
Congress. 1t was first introduced by
Congressman Bland on June 27. On
June 20 it was reported to the House
without hearing, and July % passed
the House without record vote, and
after only a few minutes of discussion.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
COnclave Will Review LabOr's Problems and Also Chart
Future Program-Foresee Intensive Organizing Drive
for Union Afiation in All Branches of Industry

Seattle, Wash. = One of the most
historic conventions in the annals of
the American Federation of Labor will
open here October at a time of ma
tional crisis.
Labor leaders predicted the conven-
tion will go on record unanimously for
all-out aid to the national defense pro-
gram and for all-out support of Pres
ident Roosevelt's defense policies.
The sixty-first annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor will
review the course of the defense pro-
gram to date and chart policies for
the future. These policies will seek
to obtain greater cooperation between
labor and the government and better
teamwork with industry to the end
that defense production can proceed
without interruption to ever higher
levels.
In addition to the problems of ma
tional defense and foreign policy, the
convention will consider and act upon
labor's own problems.
1t is expected that the convention
will direct the initiation of an inten-
sified organizing drive in all branches
of industry so that millions Of unor-
ganized workers can secure the bene-
fits of trade union affiliation.
Plans also will be drafted for an
unremitting fight against anti-labor
legislation sponsored by selfish inter
ests who are trying to take advantage
of the defense emergency to under
mine the gains of American workers
and their standards Of living.
Steps to prevent defense unemploy-
ment resulting from the application
of priorities to essential materials
will be earnestly recommended by the
convention.
Another progressive move slated to
be taken by the convention will be the
eXertion of pressure for greatly eX-
panded defense housing program to
alleviate shocking conditions under
which many defense workers are now
forced to live and to provide jobs for
thousands of building trades workers.
Immediate adoption of a postwar
program of peace production, to pre-
vent another depression after the
present emergency is over, will be con-
sidered by the delegates.
Another postwar problem of great
Importance to labor will be discussed
by representatives Of foreign labor
organizations from Europe and the
Americas.
President William Green disclosed
he has invited large number of exiled
and visiting labor leaders from other
countries to come to the convention
and help the convention formulate a
labor plank for the eventual peace
treaty.
Among the distinguished speakers
who already have accepted invitations
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
ONTARIO PREMIER
Is CRITICIZED FOR
ATTACK ON LABOR

New York City (ILNS) Charging
that Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn Of
Ontario was attempting ito under
mine the authority and prestige of
Prime Minister Mackenzie King" the
Union for Democratic Action urged
American labor to ignore the attacks
on Canadian and American labor con-
tanned in Hepburn's continent-wide
broadcast September %.
Speaking through its executive sec
retary, DR.. James Loeb, the Union for
Democratic Action, liberal interven-
zionist organization, commended the
constructive spirit" of American la
Dor at this time of crisis and insisted
that Hepburn's attack could only do
harm to the democratic cause.
Reference was also made in DR..
Loeb's statement to the past anti
labor and appeasement history of Hep
burn who was closely associated po-
litcially with former Premier Du-
plessis of Quebec who SO strongly op-
posed the Canadian conscription law.
DR.. Loebs statement said in part:
premier Mitchell F. Hepburn of On
tario has not helped the fight against
Hitler by his rash and unjustified at
took against labor in his continent
81 IN h6, atsu
made it all the more difficult to con-
vince the rank and file of organized
labor in this country that their demo-
cratic rights will be maintained dur
ing and after a period of war emer-
gency. Coming at time when, with
few exceptions, the labor organiza-
tions of this country are bending every
effort to produce for the arsenal of
democracy Premier Hepburn's labor
batting can have no healthy result.
at i'll behooves an official of Ca
madam province to tell American labor
what it can and cannot do. The Union
for Democratic Action is proud of the
constructive spirit of organized Amer
lean labor in this time of crisis. Loyal
democrats should be working to ce-
ment cordial relations between Amer
ican and Canadian labor instead of
stirring up conflict at this time"
The Union for Democratic Action
was organized last May to fight for
democracy both at home and abroad
DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr of the Union
Theological Seminary is chairman. It's
sponsoring list contains A. F. of L.
union executives, including George
Counts, president of the American
Federation of Teachers; Mark Starr
and Nathaniel Minkoff of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union; and A. Philip Randolph, presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
WHAT Is A
NATION?
(From the Journal of Electrical
Workers.

Workers.
What is it that makes a nation? 1t
is not mere racial inheritance. SwitZ-
erland is a great nation but it has a
mixture of French, German and Italian
peoples within its boundaries. A strong
government does not make a nation.
The mere ability to hold a population
between designed boundaries is not
enough.
A nation in the last analysis is a
spirit, the holding of common ideals,
allegiance to collective memories, the
determination to preserve these ideals
against all attack and invasion. In this
sense the United States with its score
of different nationalities, its wide
flung boundaries and it's centralized
government is certainly a nation.
From the very beginning, persons
from all nations who believed in free
dom, opportunity, enterprise and de-
cency have fiocked to the North Amer
lean continent to live together and to
forge their destiny Nothing can
break this circle of fellowship except
those people within the circle them
selves.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
ELECTRICAL UNION PACT
PROVIDES FREE LUNCHES

New York, N. Y. - An agreement
between Local No. 3, of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, A. F. Of L. affiliate, and the
Mona Electric Company, manufacture
ers of Christmas tree lights, carries
a provision for free lunches for the
400 employees. A committee of the en-
ployes, most of whom are girls, will
plan the lunch menus.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-10-03
All-Out Defense Aid Predicted As
Chief Action of AFL Convention;
Meeting Set for Oct. 6 in Seattle

would not exceed $243O, if full week
prevailed. The work is seasonal and
with Interruptions.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

the hope Of meeting him there.
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