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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
War Labor Board Rejects
Pay Boost to Hold Men

Washington, D. C. ILNS) The
National War Labor Board, acting un-
der its new policy not to grant wage
increase 'for the purpose of influenc-
ing or directing the flow of man
power" has disapproved an agree
ment made between the Staley Manu-
featuring Co., Painesville, Ohio and
the Chemical Workers Union, AFL,
calling for a general wage increase of
cents an hour.
Pointing out that the company
joined in the request after 18 of the
So workers employed in the plant,
which processes soy beans, had left
to accept employment with Paines-
vile magnesium plant paying a
higher starting rate, the board, in its
first opinion since the new policy was
established, said:
1T is obvious that if the board
should attempt on its own initiative
to remedy manpower shortages by
granting wage increases whenever an
employer alleges that his workmen
are leaving his plant for higher-pay-
ing jobs, the effect would be to ac-
celerate a spiral movement of infa-
tionary wage increases"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
DEAD AND MISSING
TOTAL 2,484 In
MERCHANT MARINE

Washington, D. c. ILNS).-Casu
alties of the United States merchant
marine, dead and missing, resulting
from war action and reported to next
of kin during the period from Aug.
2, 1912, to Oct. 21, 1912, inclusive,
totaled 283, it is announced by the
Navy Department.
The list covers 81 states, the Dis
trict of Columbia, the Territory of
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. The Il states not represent
ed include the following: Arizona,
Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Nevada,
New Hampshire, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Oregon, South Dakota, Yer
mont, West Virginia, and Wyoming
Merchant marine casualty list num-
Der brings the total of United
States merchant marine casualties re-
ported to next of kin during the pc
riod from Sept. 27, 1941, to Oct. 21,
1912, to total of 1854. This figure
is subdivided as follows: Dead, 442;
missing, 2,142; total, 1854.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
N. Y. LABOR FORMS
COMMUNITY WAR
CHEST FOR RELIEF

New York City (ILNS) Organ
lied labor of all groups here has
formed the Labor Community War
Chest of New York to raise $4,000,000
annually for war home services and
war relief in many nations, it was
announced by Matthew Woll, AFL
president and president of the
Labor League for Human Rights and
United Nations Relief, and Thomas
j. Lyons, president of the New York
State Federation of Labor
Lyons is chairman Of the war chest
and the secretary is James C. Quinn,
secretary of the Central Trades and
Labor Council The war chest will
operate in collaboration with COM
munity welfare and relief agencies
Plans are under way, Woll said, to
make the war chest a joint enterprise
Of the American Federation of Labor
the Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions and the railroad brotherhoods
Regular weekly, monthly or quarterly
contributions will be solicited from
the 100000 organized workers in the
New York area.
Most of the funds to be raised will
be devoted to relief in Great Britain,
Russia, China, to members of the
Fighting French and to relief societies
organized to care for the victims of
Nazi invasion in Poland, Yugoslavia,
Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands,
Luxembourg and Norway. Funds
will be allocated also for aiding, en-
couraging and supplying the needs of
our own fighting men through the
United Services Organizations and
through special projects approved by
organized labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
MASSACHUSETTS PLANTS
ELECT AFL AFFILIATES

Boston, Mass.-John J. Murphy,
AFL New England regional director,
reported two outstanding victories for
AFL unions in elections to choose col
lective bargaining representatives.
Employees of the Excel Foundry &
Machine Company, Fall River, cast
300 ballots for the AFL, 136 for an
independent union, and 27 for neither
union. At the Baltic Mills, Baltic,
Conn, the AFL received 254 votes,
the CIO 228, with IA ballots cast for
neither union,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
MORE WOMEN TO BE HIRED
BY G.. NJ. C.

Provision for the employment of
additional women, in Hamilton plants
Of the General Machinery Corpora
ton, Hamilton's largest industry, was
disclosed Monday in letter from the
company to R. P. Price, City Man
ager.
The letter requested permission of
council to make change in a railroad
track on Third Street, so as TO provide
room for building to contain waiting
rooms, locker, and shower rooms, a
physicians office and other facilities
for the employment of women.
The General Machinery Corpora
tion, which recently received the
Army-Navy E award, is producing
vital war materials.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
THE GAS RATION A-B-C

Things to remember about gas ra-
tioning:
ONE: Applicants MUST dispose of
all tires in excess of five for any one
car before applying for basic "a" ra-
tion book. Call Railway Express
Agency, Main 1910, to dispose of
extra tires.)
TWO: Get application blank at any
service station, garage or tire shop
and fill out in advance in ink. type
writer or indelible pencil.
THREE: Application must be
signed by OWNER of car but anyone
may present it for him.
FOUR: Application MUST be ac-
companied by license certificate (the
official form received at time of pur-
chasing license tags).
FIVE: If you need more gas for oc-
cupational driving than a. card al
lows, obtain application for supple
mental ration book when registering
for "A" card. (Registrar will issue
supplemental application blanks only
when specifically requested. Regis
tration for supplemental rations to be-
gin at ration boards next Monday0
SIX: Motorists MUST register at
elementary school in their home COM
munity. Hours will be 3 to 9 p. m.
Wednesday and Thursday, Friday un-
til p. M, Nov. 18, 19 and 20.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
TRADES COUNCIL

The Hamilton Cooperative Trades
and Labor Council met in regular ses-
sion and Ralph Morningstar presided
Twenty-four delegates answered the
roll call
Regular business was transacted
and the current bills were paid as
read.
A communication was read from
|. N. Ornburn, secretary of
the Union Label Trades Department
Of the A. F. of L. He said that
the best way to save small union
manufacturers and business from
being wiped out during the war pc
riod, is to demand the union label.
Brother Louis Golden recently ap-
pointed State Minimum Wage Inspec-
tor was present. In few words he
stated he came to the meeting to tell
council how much he appreciated the
delegates going to the front for him.
He spoke of several cases in particu-
lad where he received back pay for
women.
Joe Spaulding reported on progress
being made so far with the housing
project on the west side. He also re-
ported on the progress being made
in conjunction with the committee to
redecorate the interior of the temple.
Stanley Ogg and Joe Spaulding re-
ported on the meeting in the Anthony
Wayne Hotel with the Hamilton We'll
fare Federation and War Chest COM
mittee who are trying to combine both
in one drive for funds. They are of
the opinion that labor should sub
scribe in a body and receive the credit.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
Cease Discrimination
Against Negroes, Union
And Shipbuilder Told

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-A
shipbuilder and union have been or
dered by the Presidents Committee
on Fair Employment Practice to stop
alleged discrimination against en-
ployment of skilled Negro workers.
The committee directed the Delta
Shipbuilding Corporation, New Or
leans to "cease discrimination
against skilled Negro labor in it's hir-
ing practice. The committee likewise
directed that Local 81, international
Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders and
Helpers of America cease discrimina-
ton" against Negro workers quail
fled for skilled work in the Delta
yards.
A complaint filed by the committee
against the shipbuilding corporation
charged that out Of total employment
of 1000 at the plant, only few hun
dred were Negroes and that all Neg
roes were employed as common
laborers or in menial capacities; that
the corporation had preferential
hiring agreement with the New Or
leans Metal Trades Council through
which it recruited most of its workers,
and that the efforts of Negro organi-
cations and a representative of Local
27 of the auxiliary boilermakers
union to assure the employment of
Negroes in skilled and semi-skilled
positions had met with failure.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
BELGIAN WORKERS RESISTS
NAZIS

London. Radio broadcasts from
Moscow say: German occupation au-
thorities in Belgium have started the
compulsory mobilization of Belgian
workers for German industry and
have been met with stubborn resist
ance from the workers Miners and
metallurgical workers of the Liege
district staged protest strike. De-
spite all threats, the workers, up to
now, have not begun to work They
have catergorically refused to go to
work in Fascist-Germany"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE NEWS

WAR INFORMATION. Com
panies are requested by the War de-
partment to refrain from publishing
detailed operating statements that in
dicate production rates or total pro-
duction of war goods, to avoid mad
vertent disclosure of military infor-
nation.
HAMILTON'S "V". Community
thanks should go to William G. Bau-
mann, Morris Hoehn and Robert
Shepherd for the beautiful and Won
derfully symbolic "V" erected last
week on the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument. The "V', built by the
men in their spare time over seven
weeks, commands the attention of all
persons who visit downtown Hamil-
ton
CIVILIAN DEFENSE. Hamil-
toms test blackout was an unqualified
success, particularly in the simultan-
eous darkening of all plants for five
minute period in the alert time.
Civilian Defense officials were graft
fed with the cooperation of industries
and are urging all plants to keep their
defense personnel and systems at the
same high peak of efficiency shown
during the test. Further, unan-
nounced blackouts may be expected,
plants are being warned.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
SAN MATEO AFL PLEDGES
GIFT BOXES FOR SOLDIERS

San Mateo, Calf. Christmas boxes
for all soldiers stationed in San Mateo
County will be prepared by members
of the Building Trades Council and
the Central Labor Council under
plan worked out with the American
Red Cross. In addition to the gift
boxes, council members plan to have
as many soldiers as possible invited
to their homes for Christmas dinners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
PAPER BEER CAPS?

New York-Papst is said to have
acquired the privilege of perfecting a
paper beer cap, according to an item
in Printers Ink. Pabst will do the
preliminary work for the entire brew
ing industry The caps, when ap-
proved, will be available to ALL Dur
yeau Bensel, Los Angeles, is the in
ventor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
MIDDLETOWN OFFICERS
SUE AGAINST CUSTER

Appeals to common pleas court
were filed by Bryan Dineen and
Charles Armbruster, Middletown,
from the custer decisions Of the Mid
dletown civil service commission dated
November a. They were discharged
as police officers on alleged failure to
report burglary September % in the
Middletown Eagles lodge hall.
The appeals are on questions of
law and facts"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
NEW. ALL-TIME JOB PEAK

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) ~ A
gain Of sol 900 between mid-August
and mid-September brought the total
number Of employees in civil non
agricultural establishments to 38,303,-
600, Secretary of Labor Perkins re
ports. "This is new, all-time peak, .
she said, "and exceeds the September,
1941, figure by 2,247, 900"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
VOTE RECOUNT FAILS

A recount of the vote cast in Is
Middletown precincts on the proposed
Middletown Hospital levy, conducted
this afternoon by the Board of Elec-
tlions, failed to lift the levy from
defeat
The levy was designed to raise
$4,000 annually for three years for
INDECENT hospital cases.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
POSTAL WORKERS
ASK BONUS

Washington, D. C. ILNS)-The
Conference of Postal Employees of
Greater New York, AFL, declared
here that Senate bill to pay over
time to government workers was in
adequate. Delegates called on Sena-
tors and said that to meet higher liv-
ing costs the bill should be revised to
give postal employees a 10 percent
bonus in addition to the overtime.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
HAMILTON NEW BUSINESS

Earl Rathring, 329 Linden street,
mixed paints.
Geo and J. Marvin Hawthorn, 1870
N. Monument, printing.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

during the next Congress, but there
is no sound reason for becoming dis
as to the outcome because
Of the election results.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

The integrity of loyal workmanship
is behind the union label.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
BEER, LIQUOR PERMIT

Application, George P. Stillwaugh,
Merchants Barr, POT Court street,
Hamilton, DIS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

Union label buying pays the highest
interest on your union-earned money.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
EH1L0ha1NE+sG

Acid Indigestion, Gas on Stom-
ach, Heartburn, are usually caus-
ed by injudicious eating or drink
ing. Try Alka-Seltzer for relief.
Alka-Seltzer also relieves the
distress of Headache, Colds, Neu-
ralgia, and Muscular Aches and
Pains, because it contains an an
algesic, (sodium acetyl salicylate).
Your druggist sells Alka-Seltzer in
handy packages and by the glass at
his soda fountain Try IL
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20

Excess tires turned in here have
passed the 500 mark A few new
tires are included in the lot.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-11-20
OXFORD NOTES

Mrs. Erma Rogers, Oxford, the
third full-time clerk of the Oxford
Rationing Board, began her duties to-
day.
Evening star., 1942-04-09
This Changing World
Gen. MorshoII's Arrival in London Roises
Question Of Allied Summer Offensive

all available merchantmen and
transports must be used TO ship
supplies and war material. Only
after Q beachhead is established
on the continent could we con-
centrate on rushing men to
Europe.
In some British quarters the
prospects for an offensive. or an
attempt at invasion, are con-
sidered fair. While the Nazis
are devoting their major atten-
ton to Russia this summer, a
bold and determined attack by
British American forces might be
successful. The Germans are
considered IN no better position
to fight on two fronts than We
are.
All this Is predicated, however,
on two basic conditions: the
Axis failure to break British
power In the Eastern Mediter-
ranean and Near East, and the
ability Of the United States to
rush sufficient planes and tanks
to Russia In the next few months
to enable the Soviet armies to
Withstand German attacks.
Macarthur Would Suffer.
Should these conditions not OBJ
tain, many competent observers
believe any attempt to tackle the
Nazis this year will be doomed.
In these quarters 1t Is feared that
q hasty and emotional effort
to establish . European front"
ut this time-especially If the
German raiders are successful In
the Atlantic and the British po-
sition in the Mediterranean is
jeopardized-would have serious
consequences for the United
Nations.
Regardless OF how much our
ship production may be stepped
up we will not be able to bring
1t to q point this year where we
can replace losses at their pres
ent rate and send reinforcement
to the Pacific. too. An adventure
IN Europe will mean further dis
persion Of our forces at the ex-
pense Of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur's forces In Australia.
The Japanese appear to have
decided to move against India
and the Indian Ocean in the next
few weeks in the belief that we
will slow down reinforcement
to Australia in order to launch
an offensive against Hitler. They
know As well as We do that we
cannot fight on two fronts this
Evening star., 1942-04-09

William Green, have pledged
they will work together and
have no further "jurisdictional"
strikes in defense plants.
Labor Has Faith in Roosevelt.
There has been a wide extern
sion of the withdrawal of de-
mand for double-time pay for
work on Sundays and holidays.
An offer has been made from
c. I. o. quarters to have labor
accept defense bonds in lieu of
half-time extra pay for time
worked over 40 hours-with an
understanding that incomes shall
be limited in the upper brackets
to SIS, 900 during the war emer-
gency. President Roosevelt has
declared himself in favor of a
40-hour work week, but not 50
far in favor of doing away with
the time-and-a half pay over 40
hours.
Labor has great confidence in
the friendliness of the President.
The leaders are going along with
him, and presumably he is going
along with them. Whether they
will ever get around to the elimi-
nation of overtime pay for more
than 40 hours a week remains to
be seen. A great deal will de-
pend on public pressure. To
date. it is public pressure which
has brought about the promise
of no strikes during the war, of
no jurisdictional strikes, and OF
the elimination of double time
for Sunday and holiday work. If
an agreement could be worked
out for a 48-hour work week in
defense plants. with no over
time pay until after 48 hours
work mad been completed, 1t
would 60 a long way to end the
present demand for labor legis-
lation.
There is an inclination on the
part of members of the House
to wait and let the Senate tackle
the 40-hour work week issue, II
it will. The House has passed a
number of labor bills which the
Senate has allowed to slumber
on in committee. just before the
present recess" began, however.
there was an evident change of
feeling on the part of a number
Of administration supporters in
the Senate.
The Senate will have an op-
portunity TO tackle the labor is
sue April 20. A special order Of
business for that day is the con-
Evening star., 1942-04-09

propaganda Of its own, along
with personal appeals to indi-
vidual members of the House
and Senate to let the labor laws
alone.
Senator La Toilette, Progress
sive, of Wisconsin has intro
duced bill which would impose
heavy penalties on employers for
using strikebreakers, armed
guards or doing anything to in
terfere with labor unions. The
bill has been referred to the
Committee on Labor, and it Is
expected that committee will re-
port the measure to the Senate,
which in the last Congress passed
a similar bill. but which failed
of action by the House.
More and more there have
been demonstrations from labor
showing that it is patriotically
behind the war effort and will
cooperate in the tremendous
drive for production. All these
things are having their effect.
And all will undoubtedly have
their effect on shaping public
opinion and on Congress.
Evening star., 1942-04-09
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

For the last 10 days most MEM
bers of the House and many I
Senators have been home" lis
tening to what the home folks
are thinking and saying. Some
of them have returned to WASH
ington. The reports they bring
are of considerable unrest.
The people are Fundamentally
back of the war effort. They
are willing to go the limit. The
apathy which has been played
up in some places does not ex-
iSt, these returning members Of
Congress say. The people are
getting fighting mad. Which is
bound to hasten the war effort.
The demand that Congress do
something" continues. Notwith-
standing the fight which the C.
I. o., the A. F. L. and the ad-
ministration are making against
enactment of any restrictive la
Dor legislation at this time-par-
ticularly the suspension of the
40 hour work week with its time
and-a-half pay for all hours
worked over 40-has by no means
put an end to agitation for &C
ton on that issue.
The present recess of Congress
"a gentlemen's agreement not
to transact any important busi-
ness for a couple of weeks-is
due to be over next week, so far
as the House is concerned. The
opponents Of any change in the
labor laws have not been idle.
The heads of the c. I. o. and
the A. F. L., Phillip Murray and
Evening star., 1942-04-09
Silver Proposal Criticized
Nelson's Suggestion to Release u S. Stocks Held
Growing Irony Of Currency Manipulation

icy. 1t ceased buying foreign silver
and pegged its price for American
mined silver at 64.64 cents an ounce.
When the world price dropped below
so cents the Treasury resumed q
limited buying of foreign silver, its
policy apparently being 70 gradually
ease downward the world price. As
stated above, the Governments offer
for foreign silver now is 3Sh cents
an ounce.
In the summer Of 1899 the admin
istration ran into q political jam.
Republicans. seeking to repeal the
Governments authority to buy both
silver and gold, entered into an
alliance with Democratic Senators
from silver-producing States. In re-
turn for Republican support OF IN
amendment boosting the Govern
ment price for domestically mined
silver to 78 cents an ounce, the silver
Senators supplied the votes neces-
sary to repeal all of the Presidents
other powers Of currency manipu-
lation.
But after House opposition had
thrown the whole bin into confer
ence, the silver Senators turned tail
and made q counter deal with the
administration by which all Of the
Presidents currency manipulation
powers were retained at the expense
of the 7111-cent price for domesti-
cally mined silver, which still pre-
walls.
The Treasury currently is buying
domestic silver at q rate Of approx
imately 100000 ounces . month,
representing . bounty to American
producers OF about 81, ,oo0, 900 an
nually. This gratufty, however, is
relatively inconsequential in COM
parison with the hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars OF American tax
payers money that silver buying has
placed in the pockets Of foreign
producers and spectators.
Two Arguments Offered.
Two arguments initially were Of
fered in favor of silver buying. One
was the old William Jennings Bryan
theory that cheapening Of the dollar
by bimetalism would increase COM
modify prices and, by reducing debts,
soak the rich and help the poor.
The other was that increase in value
of silver would prove q great boon to
China, Mexico, Peru and other silver
currency countries and stimulate
trade between these countries and
the United States.
Silver buying obviously has not
Influenced American price levels in
the slightest. for the reason that
the Government never acquired
enough of this metal to remotely
compete with gold rs q monetary
stabilizer. Not even gold devalua-
tion appreciably affected buying
power of the dollar.
AS for foreign countries, China
yelled whenever the silver price rose.
Because 1t produces no silver. the
effect Of the American policy on
China has been to increase value
of its currency and thereby depress
commodity prices. Mexico and Peru
like American silver buying only to
the extent they have profited from
higher prices than they otherwise
would have received for their silver
production.