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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
American Federationst, Official Organ of A. F. of l..
Warns Nation of Postwar Collapse Emphasizes the
Stern Necessity Of Acting at Once Against Problem.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Mass
unemployment and economic collapse
face the United States at the end of
the defense emergency and upon the
establishment Of world peace unless
steps are taken now to avert the
danger, the American Federation of
Labor warns the nation in the current
American Federationist, official fed
Grafton organ.
"a future date has already been
earmarked by the finger of history, a
date as yet unknown to us but one we
are approaching with deadly cer-
tainty-the day that will mark the end
of the warfare now convulsing the
world and signalize the beginning OF
lasting peace" the federation declared
"Will the great armory for defense
of the democracies," it asked, 'be con-
verted into great tool-shed for build
ing upon the foundations of world
peace, or will it stand an abandoned
and ghostly reminder of valiant de-
fense effort which only served as a
prelude to peace struggle against
unmanageable economic forces, against
unemployment and against despair p
Immediate Action Vital
The federation goes on to empha-
size the stern necessity of acting at
once to cope with danger of postwar
collapse.
"Today," it says, "this problem OF
the aftermath is second only to the
problem of national defense in its
share of Importance in our nationa,
policy. Our concern for defense is
pressing and immediate. But while
in the decisions underlying each stef
of our policy today the demands Of
defense must be given foremost con.
sideration, provision for the post
emergency readjustment must be
made with equal care.
VI lbiACSO Jul ~ vs. diilo VI Cct<N-
alton, public works, housing, factory
ALLEGATION, employment and training
are tested in terms of our post-emer-
gency requirements and unless every
single defense action is tested in those
terms, we shall face peace in utter
helplessness, unable to shift our en-
tire economy to a sound peacetime
basis, unable to meet the peacetime
needs for full protection, trade and
employment"
Proposed Steps Outlined
Discussing some of the steps that
can be taken to cope with the situa-
tion resulting from the end of defense
production, the federation says:
Incentive for stabilizing full EN-.
ployment at the end of the emergency
can be developed by means of taxation
The shift from war production to peace
production will be fundamentally 8
shift from heavy industries such as
iron and steel and munitions to con.
sumers-goods industries.
"Tax readjustments developed now
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14

in such a way as to make possible a
reduction Of the tax burden on con-
sumption of goods and services could
go long way toward expanding the
market for consumers goods and stim-
ulating their production.
Public Works Planning
planning of desirable peace time
public works should be done now so
that work could be begun and employ
ment assured on a peacetime public
works program without delay.
''The Defense Housing Administra-
tion can render an outstanding serv-
ice to the nation if it makes sure that
most of this defense housing becomes
available for post-emergency use to
low-income wage-earners and their
families.
''The present program of factory
ALLEGATION is guided almost exclusively
by the immediate strategic, economic
and sometimes even political consid-
erations. Yet the ALLEGATION of new
machinery and equipment for defense
production should also be tested for
the availability of the plant and equip
ment with a view to its maximum
peacetime utilization in the post
emergency period. Unless this is done
we shall be faced with the prospect
of building a network of industrial
communities which are certain to be-
come ghost towns.
Social Security Revision
'Our great social security program
should also undergo a careful revi
sion so that through adequate tax
contributions during the emergency
period of intensive business activity
sufficient reserves could be accumu-
lated.
''This would make possible increased
unemployment benefits over longer
benefit periods in order to sustain the
purchasing power at the beginning of
the post-emergency period and to
cushion the shock of sudden demobili-
zation of the defense industries and
the mass unemployment among de-
fense workers."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14

trial process, vast expansion of en-
ployment, together with an increase
in the stresses and strains which al
ways go with adjustments to new con-
ditions and new personnel = from
straw boss to president, from learner
to full-fedged craftsman.
American industrial history
over the past 100 years shows that
any such period is generally
marked by an increase rather
than a decrease in the number of
strikes"
The report, in a discussion of ma
tional morale, said that the "self-dis-
cipline of a free and independent
people will always enable them to out
think, out-produce, and out-live any
system of totalitarian slavery"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
THEATRE PICKETED a YEARS

Providence, R. Local 223, Inter-
national Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees and Moving Picture Ma
chine Operators, sticks to anything it
has once started and it has begun the
fifth year of its picketing of the Hope
Theatre. Herbert F. Slater, union
business agent, announced there would
be fight to the finish, even if it took
years.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
ACTION ON GEYER BILL SOUGHT

Washington, D. c. (ILNS). - The
Geyer anti-poll tax bill, FL. R. 1884, is
bottled up in committee and the spon-
sors are asking the voters back home
to write to their Representatives and
urge them to sign a petition to dis
charge the bill from committee. A to-
tai of 218 signatures is required in the
House. The bill has the support of or
ganized labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
NAVY YARD ON 6-DAY WEEK

Portsmouth, Va. (ILNS). - A six
day, 4S-hour week for the 10000 en-
ployees of the Navy Yard became ef-
fective on February s under an order
posted by Rear Admiral Manley H
Simons, commandant. The order af-
fects workers in both shops and Of
fees.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
Action Must Be Taken Now to Avert
Panic and Mass Unemployment as
Defense Program Ends, AFL Says

by the Wilmington Building Trades
Council. Announcement of the end of
the strike was made by Frank Shee-
han, of the Cancellation Service, U. S.
Department of Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
WORK AT CAMP RESUMED

Wilmington, N. C. (ILNS). - A
strike of workers engaged in construc-
tion of Camp Davis, big anti-aircraft
firing center at Holly Ridge, 80 miles
from Wilmington, was settled on
March 4, day after it had been called
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
Work Loss One-Fourth Of | Per Cent,
NDAC Labor Division Says in Report
Praising Workers Cooperation
Strikes Found Minor Defense Danger in Labor Speeds
Defense" RepOrt-Labor is United in Devotion to the
Common Cause Strikes Actually Very Few.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Labor
in this country is united in it's devotion
to the common cause" and has made
remarkable record" since the defense
program was begun, the Labor Divi-
sion of the National Defense Advisory
Commission declared in a report of
progress.
The report. entitled Labor Speeds
Defense" details the progress made
by the Labor Division since it's estab-
lishment last June, in helping to mo-
bilize Americas manpower for de-
fense production, to launch the most
wide-scale training program ever at
tempted in this country, to settle la
Dor disputes in defense industries, to
stabilize labor conditions in the ship
building industry, to employ the un-
employed and in helping to farm out
defense work among the nations
smaller shops.
Strikes Actually Few
Sixteen Representatives of the
American Federation of Labor, Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations and
Railway Brotherhoods make up the
Labor Division.
Although strike news is prominent
in the news columns, the Labor Di-
vision said that actually the number
of men involved in strikes in the first
six months of the defense program
was only about half as great as the
number involved when the United
States was at war "a years ago.
Other points made in the report
were:
"Work stoppages due to strikes in
American industry during the year
1910 accounted for an average loss
of less than two hours per year per
worker.
Work StOppages Decrease
'This figure is put in perspective
when compared with the time lost
through industrial accidents. On-the-
job accidents accounted for an aver
age idleness of more than one day
per worker, or upward of four times
that due to strikes. And the figure
for accidents does not include the tre-
mendous loss resulting from more
than 1900 deaths.
"There has been a AZ per cent de-
cline in the number of man-days idle
due to strikes during the first six
months of the defense program over
the corr esponding period of 1889"
The report said that detailed study
of industrial relations, made by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics in II indus
tries crucial to national defense, dis
closed that the number of man-days
idle, due to strikes, accounted for less
than one-fourth of one per cent OF the
total number of man-days worked.
Record Held Remarkable
The report continued:
"For example: In industries max
ing the engines and machine tools so
vital to our national security, there
was only one day of idleness, result
ing from strikes, for each 1900 man
days of production. In other words,
this means that in such industries
strikes in 1910 were responsible for
one day of idleness for every six years
of work
"This is remarkable record. 1t is
all the more remarkable in view of the
fact that the period it covers has wit
messed great rise in business activ-
ity, quickening of the entire indus
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14

1t is not news when guests absent
mindedly take home nearly full pack
ages of their hosts cigarettes, but it's
news when any guest absent-mindedly
leaves a half-empty package behind
him.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1941-03-14
EMPLOYMENT WILL
SOLVE PROBLEMS,
SAYS W.P. A. HEAD

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-In a
sharp answer to a recent attack on the
w. P. A. by the National Economy
League, Howard O. Hunter, Acting
Commissioner of Work Projects, de-
clared that the league is merely "try-
ing to solve unemployment by chart
with a line that goes off the page"
Predictions by the League that w.
P. A. employment will conflict with the
defense programs demands by early
next year, Hunter declared, are base
less suppositions that cannot be rec
onciled with industrial and employ
ment surveys.
eve are interested in giving people
jobs, not pamphlets" Hunter said.
"The pamphlet of the Economy
League is such tissue of misstate-
ments and prejudices that it is almost
impossible to consider the charges Sc
riously.
League is Challenged
every time the Economy League
calls for action I know what that
means-another kick in the pants for
the unemployed"
Hunter challenged the League to:
1. Name one place where w. P. A.
worker refuses to accept private job.
2. Name one place where industry
cannot get sand, gravel, cement or
other materials because of W. P. A.
orders.
AS to the rate of pay on w. P. A.,
Hunter asserted that, eff any indus
try is paying less, somebody should
investigate that industry.
w. P. A. Earnings Low
"Wages of w. P. A. workers have
been averaging $56.50 a month
equivalent to $678 year. This is far
below the average annual earnings in
private industry. For example, the
annual earnings as reported in the
latest census of manufactures was
$1,152. The minimum paid by w. P. A.
for unskilled workers in areas having
the lowest living costs, is $312O a
month-eq equivalent to only $374.40 q
year"
Concerning predictions by the Econ
omy League that w. P. A. would in
terfere with the labor supply for de-
fense industry, Hunter directed atten-
tion to the concentration of this work
in few areas and asserted that there
was no indicated labor shortage any
where, except in few highly skilled
classiications rarely found on reliet
rolls.
Replying to assertions that w. P. A
has only "slight" relation to the de-
fense program, Hunter said approx
mately half a million of it's workers
are now employed on projects of direct
value to defense.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Y. M. B. T.. STAG
Party Oct. z

The Tacoma Young Mems Bust
ness club VII lstsge is annual fall
jamboree. a "Bsrbary Coast" stag
party Thursday night AZ the
Crescent ballroom as a benefit for
the club civie-seryice fund.
Two commute floor shows Of
20 vaudeville acts. one AZ $50
and the other I1.3o. have been
scheduled BY the club. All men
in the community have been in
vited 10 attend the show and the
games which will start at : o'clock
at the ballroom. 1902 Fawcett ave.
An advance ticket sale is in pro-
gress at the Y. NJ. p. c. office.
ITO Commerce st. and at num-
Der OF cigar stores.
Money raised by the club at its
stag show will 90 into the fund
to help publeize Tacoma. In the
past II has been used TO aid or
completely finance such projects
as the Stadium bowl lighting,
three air shows, restoration of old
Fort Nisquslly, two dog shows,
farewells to Paul Satko and his
Ark and to the fishing boat West
ern Explorer, sending high school
music organizations on tour and
the last street car ride party.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Fall and Winter Program
OF Activities Planned

alternate Wednesdays and Thurs
days soldier defense dances either
in Tacoma or on the army reser-
walton: Ruston Community hall on
the second and fourth Thursday
nights and on Friday nights in CO.
operation with the recreation
council OF the Tacoma PIT. A. an
All-City high school dance is held
at the Fellowship hall from $50
TO 1870 p. m.
Tap dancing classes are being
conducted as follows: Mondays, b
to 8 p. m, Midland Community
hall; Tuesdays. 3 to 6 p m, Du-
pont school; Wednesdays. 2 to 6
p. m, Jefferson plsyfield and
Thursdays also from to p. m.
at the Ruston Community hall.
Drama clubs are meeting at the
following times and places: Mon
days, Oakland Pre-school Moth
ers club; Tuesdays, Harmony
club. 3 to 5 o'clock; and in the
evening the Women's Guild at
Central Lutheran church; Wednes-
day afternoons, Pine Street Chris
tian Church club; Thursdays,
Harmony club. 3 to in the after
noon and in the evening, Women's
club, Pilgrim Congregational
church.
Basketball leagues for men In
the Bellarmine gym; will be or
ganized about the second week In
October. For additional informa-
/ ton phone Main 41s7.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Here Are Taxes
Effective Oct. |

Here is list of the new federal
taxes which 20 into effect We'd
nesday:
Admissions-on cent for each
10 cents or fraction thereof, ex-
cept children under II who pay
less than 10 cents.
Retail taxes-jewelry, furs and
toilet preparations: 10 per cent.
Rates on existing excise taxes
paid by manufacturers. producers
and importers have been increased
as follows;
Tires-2ia to cents a pound;
tubes--from to cents a pound:
auto trucks and bodies-from Pa
to D cents; all other autos and
bodies-from SO to 7 per cent;
auto. parts-from "a to 5 per
cent.
Playing cards-from 10 to Is
cents per deck; safe deposit boxes
from 10 TO 20 per cent: distilled
spirits and wines-up to 81 per
gallon according to alcoholic con-
tent.
Floor stocks tax is imposed on
liquors, wines, tires and tubes held
for sale or use on Oct. /.
Motor vehicles tax-S5 per year.
beginning next February.
Transportation taxi per cent
Of amount paid for passenger
transportation in excess OF 80
cents.
Telephone tax-6 per cent of the
service charges, tolls in excess of
"a cents are taxable at 8 cents for
each 90 cents or fraction OF the
charges; telegraph charges - 1C
per cent.
A tax OF 10 per cent will be
levied against manufacturers OF
the following articles: radios. mt
steal instruments, photograph
records. refrigerators. air condi-
toners. sporting goods. luggage,
electric. gas and oil appliances and
Photographic apparatus. electric
signs, neon-tube signs, electric ad-
vertising devices, business and
store machines, commercial wash
ing machines, optical equipment
articles of which rubber is the
component material or chic,
weight.
Manufacturers OF electric light
bulbs and tubes will be taxed
per cent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Mass Innoculation
For Navy, Marines

SAN DIEGO. Cal.-compulsory
mass innoculation of u. S. navy
and marine corps personnel in the
18th naval district against yellow
fever was reported under way here
in an official navy announcement.
The navy announcement said
yellow fever vaccine sufficient for
all the personnel Of the district has
been received from the Rockefeller
Foundation OF New York and il
being stored in refrigerator units
at the naval training station here
while the innoculations are being
administered.
A navy spokesman said the in
incubation against the tropical
fever for all naval and marine
personnel was compulsory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

The Metropolitan Park district
has opened it's fall and winter
program of activities and through
the cooperation of the works
Progress Administration depart
ments Of education and recrea-
ton will conduct the following
activities.
Pre-school play groups for
children four to six years inclu-
sive for the following IL pre-
school organizations: jefferson,
South Tacoma, Horace Mann, Nc
Carver, Bryant, Oakland. Willard,
Falkland. spanaway, Milton. Uni
versity Place. and Mary Lyons.
All these are sanctioned by the
Pre-school council.
Social dancing classes are con-
Quoted at jefferson Playfield
junior club on Monday nights z
TO $50 o'clock: Adult club on
Tuesday nights 7 to IL at Fellow
ship hall; Dupont club for high
youth and adults on the first and
third Wednesdays of the month
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

We must decide today that we
win keep for ourselves the right
20 decide what In the truth" said
Mr.. Albertson. Everywhere we
sre being told what to think and
how to act. We are threatened II
we do not conform and accept
what We are told. At the same
time there have been few situa-
tons Of crisis when Americans
have been more determined to do
their own thinking. Statements
are not accepted N true, Just be-
cause they bear the names Of
prominent men or women.
Truth Hard
TT Ii known to all Of US that
truth 10 often hard to discover.
Sometimes 1t Is deliberately kept
from us. II we knew the truth
about much that "a happening at
the present time, our people would
refuse courses Of action that are
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Home Defense
Needs Women

Women are proving their value
as home defense workers every
time England In bombed, accord
ing to Mrs. Alta Freiheit. In charge
of the women's Motor corps Of the
Tacoma Home Defense.
I'VE feel that the women OF Ia
coma can do just as good job II
they viii avail themselves Of the
training now being given to women
IN the Tacoma Home Defense
corps" she said.
"There u q definite need for
more women IN all parts Of Ia
coma. Any one who can, should
Join Immediately. The Tacoma
Home Defense office will be open
for enlistments next Tuesday eve-
ming at O'Clock In the Armory.
Information may be had by call
ing Main o223."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
Pastor Asserts Americans
Determined to Run Lives
SoYs If Truth Were Known People
Would Refuse Outlined Course
A TACOMA SUNDAY SERMON:

Speaking to the Sunday morning congregation at the
First Methodist Church. Rev. Cyrus E. Abertson named
three things that he said should not be surrendered under
any possible stress and strain
Using the story of three young men from the third
chapter of Daniel Mr. Abertson told of the problem they
faced under the rule of King Nebuchadneza The king had
built golden image and had it up with the command
that everybody to worship it. There three young
men who discovered that they faced with problem,
much like that which faces today If they worshipped
the image they would lose three rights they believed should
not be surrendered These three rights danger today
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

some PEOPLE consider loan only in emergencies but
my cehsD have found why to take advantage Of
oppostmy. convenience available responsible pso-
pla The ANCHOR PLAN has been developed to aid n
tmss q smsysnees and when opportunities present them
selves Loans nay Be arranged n day your zig
naaws. hossshold furniture Application for . loan
msat Privacy respected md NO credit inquiries made
It nd relatives employer Charges made only for
die exact number Of days you the money For example,
$50 loan for thirty days may be obtained At cost Of only
$3.50 You obann full information and make your spp
cation By phone % dat the ansact;on may be completed
WHEN you ean & the oGcs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

Your postmaster can tell you
how TO invest in Y. s. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30
STRIKE POSTPONED

EUGENE, Ore.-A strike of
5000 AFL lumber and sawmill
workers in the Willamette valley,
scheduled for Tuesday, has been
postponed until Wednesday to give
a federal conciliator time to in
vestigste. President Homer Haney
'of the Northwest council of the
union. said today. The workers are
asking a 75 cent base pay rate in
crease.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-30

being taken for us. II we are not
sure what Is right, let us suspend
our decisions and seek the truth.
II can be found! We must main
tain our right to decide what il
the truth.
The second thing these youths
of long ago refused 10 surrender
WAS their right 10 obey their
own conscience. We must rec-
'ognize that here We will find
differences. One mans con-
science will deny. The danger
In times like these In that this
freedom will he taken from us.
we are faced with increasing
violence within our nation. In
tolerance has shown itself 30 that
some are already afraid to express
their conscience In matters of
vital concern. II we lose the right
Of conscience we have lost the
right TO be men and women.
Beasts act without conscience.
Folk who know inner freedom are
those who do not surrender con-
science.
Must he Loyal
"The last thing we must not
surrender" according TO Mr.. AL
bertson. lis our supreme loyalty
to God" THAT which is first and
above all IN life, for the Chris
tian. must be the Christlike God.
Jesus demanded supreme loyalty.
It in this loyalty alone that Of
fers any hope In our hopeless
world. Loyalty supreme to any,
thing less than God will perpe-
tuate the wars, the differences,
the explorations, the inJustices
and the cnmities that are destroy
ing the nations. Loyalty to God
above all other Royalties has In 1t
the only hope of uniting man
Kind.
I'VE are going to be challenged
In our Royalties. Already the hate
breeders are crying for the blood
Of those who are not willing TO
surrender their loyalty TO God for
. lesser loyalty of some kind or
another. The three young men in
the Bible story had to decide
whether they would place their
loyalty to God second to that OF
The king. They put God first and
accepted the penalty.
God First
"Out of this old story Of nom
surrender comes most interest
ing but often proved fact. Coo
did not desert those who refused
to surrender their right to decide
what was true. their right to fol
low their conscience and their
supreme loyalty to Him. The foli
in our time who win find TIT
Eternal Spirit OF God with them
will be those who alsa refuse tc
surrender these God given rights
and duties. Let US put God first
This is the only way to live In q
world like ours"