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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
Morgenthau COmmends
A. F. of l.. Patriotism

Washington, ID. c. ULNS).-
Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau has commended the
American Federation of Labor
for setting patriotic example
to the nation in pledging pur-
chases of $1,000, 100000 in de-
fense bonds by its 100000
members during the coming
year"
The A. F. of l.. pledge, Secre-
tary Morgenthau said, consti-
tutes ''the largest goal ever set
by a single organization for a
single purpose"
'Just as hundreds of members
of the A. f. of L. building trades
unions gallantly fought with the
Marines in GUAM" the secretary
said, $50 are millions of union
members now joining with other
American citizens and investing
in Defense Bonds to the limit of
their financial ability"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
Mrs. Wetzel Named
To Her Fourth Term
AS COP. Club Head

The Hamilton Republican Women's
Club elected officers for 1912 and heard
a talk by DR.. Harry M. Lowell, chair
man of the Medical Division of the
Hamilton Civilian Defense Council,
Monday night, at meeting in the
Anthony Wayne Hotel.
Mrs. Kathryn E. Wetzel was re-
elected president for a fourth term
Other officers named were Mrs. Flor
ence Suma and Mrs. Mary Crews, vice
presidents; Mrs. Ada Dallas, secre-
tary; Mrs. Ruth Metcalf, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Margaret Petty,
treasurer.
Mrs. Wetzel announced the Lincoln
Day dinner would be February IL in
the Manchester Hotel, Middletown.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
AFL Sets Quota of Billion Dollars
For Buying Of Defense Bonds by
Members and Unions During 1912
Big Drive to Open WashngtOn's Birthday, February
22nd, and Will Feature Radio Broadcast by President
Green and Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau.

be assured of a regular and continu-
Gus flow of funds with which to pay
for the giant victory production pro-
gram which President Roosevelt has
blueprinted for the winning of the war.
"In this way, the members of the
American Federation of Labor can
place their savings in the safest in
vestment in the world-the United
States of America-and assure them
selves of reserve funds after the war
is over when employment opportuni-
ties may be scarce.
"In this way, our loyal army of
workers can back up the armed forces
of our nation in a tangible way by
helping to provide the equipment our
soldiers and sailors and marines sorely
need. By way of illustration, the one
billion dollars which we are calling
upon the members of the American
Federation of Labor to invest in de-
fense bonds during the coming year
will buy 1000 heavy bombers or $4,000
tanks.
Program Purely Voluntary
"This is purely voluntary program.
The government does not want to COM
pei any citizen to buy defense bonds.
The American Federation of Labor is
not attempting to compel any of it's
members to buy these bonds.
eve don't think compulsion is nec-
essary in such case. We believe that
the members if the American Fedora
tion of Labor will regard this program
as an opportunity to buy stake in
Americas future. We are confident
they will respond in wholehearted
way and make our program a 100 per
cent success
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
PRESIDENT ASKS
HUGE sum TO AID
IDLE WORKMEN
Plant Conversions Throw Many Into
Ranks of Unemployed.

Washington, d. C. (ILNS).-In a
letter to Speaker Rayburn of the
House of Representatives, President
Roosevelt asked appropriation of
$300,000,000 to help workers made
temporarily jobless by conversion OF
industrial plants to war production.
The President proposed that the bene-
fits be conditioned upon the workers
willingness to take vocational training
to equip himself for war work.
The letter suggested that displaced
workers receive weekly compensation
of 60 per cent of regular earnings, but
in no case above $24 week. The bene-
fits would be for 26 weeks, with the
federal grant paying the difference be-
tween state unemployment compensa-
ton and 60 per cent of the workers
average earnings.
Speedy Action Urged
Necessity for speed was urged by
the President, who said that thousands
of wage earners have already been
thrown out of work by curtailment of
civilian production.
Speaking of the plight of workers
forced into idleness by changes to war
production, the President pointed out
that unemployment compensation laws
now furnish some protection to these
displaced workers and added "but the
benefits provided by these laws are
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-A bill
lion dollars for defense bonds!
That's the quota set by the Ameri
can Federation of Labor for purchase
by it's members and unions during the
coming year.
President William Green of the fed
Grafton announced that an integrated
drive to get every federation worker
to invest in defense bonds will be in
augurated February %, Washington's
birthday, with joint radio appeal in
which he will speak with Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. This
broadcast will be carried from coast
to coast by the Blue Network from s to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
Waymen's Union Lists
Over $4,000 Members

President E. E. Milliman of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employees announced that the Broth
erhood's membership has passed the
10000 mark, the highest point in
nearly 25 years. SAT the rate we are
gaining it will be no surprise if we hit
the 10000 figure before this year is
up" he said.
The recent 10-cent-an-hour wage in
crease, amounting to an average raise
of 2O.5 per cent for employees in the
Brotherhood's jurisdiction, gained for
waymen and other railroad employees,
has been an important factor in the
larger membership, he pointed out.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30

One hundred thousand workers are
covered by the Pacific agreement,
which calls for basic 40-hour week
with overtime pay for time worked in
excess of that figure. The individual
workers will be on a six-day week
basis with their days off staggered so
that full working crew will be on
hand three shifts day, seven days
week.
Overtime Rule Urged
The executive council went on to
ask mandatory pay for all government
employees, saying:
Government employees deserve the
same consideration as do workers in
private industry. 1t would be grossly
unfair for the government to set
standards for hours of work in indus
try and then violate these standards
with respect to employees in the federal
service Yet this is happening today.
Nevertheless, while legislation ex-
lists permitting department heads to
pay overtime to government employees,
this is not being done in many cases.
The executive council believes this sit
uation should be remedied at once and
rule established for the payment of
overtime to government employees in
all cases"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30
ENGINEERS HEAR
AFTER-WAR TALK

New York City (ILNS) Prepared
ness for after-war conditions, through
advance planning of a great public
works program to be held in readiness
for use when needed, was discussed at
the opening session of the annual
meeting of the American Society of
Civil Engineers here.
A. D. Morrell, national director of
the Public Work Reserve, established
last year within the Federal Works
Agency, outlined the aims of that body
in preparing now long-range public
works program. Such program, he
said, will serve to reduce the lag in
the transition from a wartime to a
peacetime economy.
planning for the postwar period
and continuous planning thereafter"
Morrell said, "must be as much part
Of the war effort as the production of
planes and tanks and guns if the peace
that is to follow is to be worth any
thing.
"The changes that are now taking
place in our body polite, in industry,
in our economic system, could be dis
counted if they were of transitory
character and merely affected our i'm
mediate future. But experience has
taught, and sometimes painfully, that
changes once made have lasting i'm
pact upon our way of life"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-01-30

$50 p. M, Eastern Standard Time.
The following week, beginning Feb
ruary %, will be designated as Labor
Invests in Victory Week" and mass
meetings will be held by central labor
unions of the A. F. of l.. in S02 cities
throughout the nation to rally the
support of A. r. Of L. workers behind
the drive.
"The American Federation of Labor
is glad to enlist its entire organiza-
tion in this patriotic cause" Green
said. eve urge every worker who can
do so to agree to set aside part of his
weekly earnings for the purchase of
defense bonds.
Benefit of Plan
"In this way our government will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
LIEUT.. LAWRENCE
TO LEAVE CITY
Aide to Major Wiberg OF
Salvation Army Trans
ferred to Stamford

Lieutenant Thomas A. Lawrence,
Hugo Wiberg of the local Corps of
The Salvation Army, since gradual
ing from the Army's Training Col
lege in New York City last June, Is
being transferred to Stamford to act
in the same capacity there, accord
ing to instructions received from
Colonel Edmund G. Hoffman, Pro-
vincial Commander in Boston.
This change has become necessary
because Major Giles Barrett, who
has been stationed in Stamford the
last two years, is going into U. s. O..
work, and will become director Of
one of the u. S. o. recreational CEN
tiers under the direction of The Sal
walton Army. Major Barrett, who
was recently promoted to that rank,
went into Salvation Army work
from Waterbury Conn.,, about SIX
teen years ago..
Lieutenant Lawrence has had
charge Of the Young Peoples work
while here, and has also been re-
sponsible for the Social Case Work
of the local corps. Soon after COM
ing to Waterbury, he became a
member of the Lions Club.
Public farewell services for Lieu
tenant Lawrence will be held Sum-
day evening in the upstairs audi
forum at Headquarters on Cherry
street. In the eight o'clock service,
the Lieutenant will preach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23

Washington, D. c., Jan. % =
Uncle Sam and his nieceS and
nephews are all set for an effort
to abolish work-stoppages due to
strikes and lockouts for the dura-
ton of the lar effort.
The new War Labor Board will
be the instrument for assuring 9s
nearly 100 percent abolition of labor
disturbances as it is possible to
achieve. The industry Labor confer
ence which recommended creation
of the board pledged that no strikes
or lockouts would be called during
the war and that all disputes would
be peaceably adjusted. That is the
ideal toward which the new board
will work. 1t is hardly to be cx-
pected that it will achieve a total
abolition of strikes. Even in Eng
land, in the midst of about war
and are occurring.
Industrial disputes in the United
States 90 back to the very beginning
of our national history. A strike
or lockout Is an evidence of dis
content and an expression of pro-
test. While some strikes arise over
minor internal shop matters, most
of them have broader application
and are directed toward a change in
basic working conditions or en-
ployer-employe relationship. The
number of strikes and their mag
nitude, is, therefore, one indication
of the degree of industrial unrest
existing at any particular time or
in any particular situation.
World War Guide
Our experience during World War
I is expected to act as a guide to
the new War Labor Board. In 1915
American business generally began
to feel the effects of the war in
Europe With rising prices and in-
creasing demand for labor, indus
trial disputes more than doubled in
1916 and reached their all-time
high of ALSO in 1917. A large pro.
portion of the wartime strikes oc-
CURED in the building and meta
trades, in shipyards, and in tht
lumber, coal, copper and transporta.
ton industries. Textile and cloth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
STATE HIGHWAY
COM. COX SPEAKS
Charges of Corruption in
His Dept. Date Back
Many Years

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 23-(UP)-
State Highway Commissioner Will
liam j. Cox said today charges of
corruption leveled at his department
by States Attorney Thomas G. Flood
Of Middlesex county date back
many years to previous admins
tration."
In a letter to Governor Hurley,
Flood said there was "laxity, dishon-
esty, disloyalty, negligence and i'm
proper supervision" in the highway
division which resulted in loss to
the state of thousands of dollars
over period of years.
Cox said discovery of alleged IT.
regularities by Alton E. Collier, East
Haddam, former superintendent of
/ bridges for the department, ire
suited from the execution of instruc-
tons given by me-"
Floods letter and supplemental
report came following an investiga-
ton into Golfers alleged irregular
tiles. Because of the statute of linn
itations, Flood recommended that
no criminal action be taken against
| Collier, who has offered restitution
/ to the state, according to Governor
Hurley.
Despite Cox's statement, 1t was
regarded as certain that Governor
Hurley soon would begin an admin
istrative investigation into the high.
/ way department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
PAYROLL TAXES
TOTAL GREAT sum
Com. Danaher on Unem=
ployment Compensation
Says Over Billion

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 23-(UP)-
Payrolls, on which unemployment
compensation taxes were imposed
last year, exceeded one billion dol
lars, it was announced today by
Labor Commissioner Cornelius j.
Danaher.
These payrolls represented about
IS per cent of all payrolls in the
state, ard the total amount was an
increase of about $250,000,0O0 as
compared with 1941.,
Taxes paid into the unemploy-
ment compensation fund last year
amounted to about $23,000,00O
Danaher said, an increase of $4,-
100000 over 1941. At the same time
the state paid out only $2,601, 162
for benefits during the past year
The surplus now on hand at Wash
ington, Danaher said, amounted to
nearly $64,OOO.0O0.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
NO SUBMARINES
IN LAST Sc HOURS
Widespread Hunt Off At
lantic Coast for "Rattle=
snakes" Successful

Washington, Jan. 23-(UP)-The
navy's failure to report any sub
marine activity off the Atlantic
coast in more than SO hours may
mean that the widespread air and
sea hunt for enemy "rattlesnakes"
has met with some success, OBJ
servers believed today.
The last torpedoings the navy re-
ported were those of the American
steamer City of Atlanta and the
Latvian freighter Ciltvaira Wednes-
day.
At least rs seamen lost their lives
In attacks on six ships during the
week ended Wednesday. The navy
said that strong retaliatory meas
ures were being taken.
Since the intensified submarine
attack song the middle Atlantic
coast began a week ago Wednesday,
the navy has reported no details OF
the battle it is presumed to pe
waging to clear the coastal waters
of the submarine menace. That Is
in conformance with the policy III
the navy which prefers to let Ger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
Labor Peace
By LEO GUBISCH, Staff Writer
Waterbury Democrat Washington Service Bureau.

ing strikes, so far as the conduct
of World War was concerned,
were those which took place at
Bridgeport, Conn, and in the north
west lumber industry. The latter,
which tied up the entire northwest
lumber industry dur g the greater
part of 1917, were primarily for the
8-hour day, although wages and
working conditions were important
factors. The machinists' strikes in
the munition factories at Bridge
port, were for wage increases and
against union discrimination. As
numerous as the wartime strikes
were, they were of comparatively
short duration and did not involve,
on the average, a large number OF
workers. The largest number of
persons-over million-were in
volved in the strikes of 1919. IN
1914 there were 1904 strikes. In
1916, the year before the United
States entered the first World War,
there were 3,789 strikes involving
more than one and a half million
people. In 1917 the number of
strikes rose to ALSO. There is no
accurate information on the number
of man-days lost by employees in
volved in strikes and lockouts dur
ing World War I, but it is certain
that the War Labor Board of that
time was largely successful in pre-
venting and adjusting labor troubles
that might otherwise have seriously
crippled our first World War effort.
The outbreak of the Second
| World War in Europe in 1889,
found the U. s. struggling to re-
cover from the great industrial de-
preston. War orders from the
European belligerent. were followed
by Anne ica's first defense pro-
gram, and the rapid change il,
the national economy which ensuec
resulted in a wave of industrial
disputes.
1899 Starts Strike Era
In 1899 there were 2,613 strikes
involving 1,170,962 workers ant
causing the lost of 17,8l2,219 man.
days of labor. In 1910 a large pro.
portion of the shrot strikes were
successful, whereas those which
continued for some time were likely
to be compromised or lost. More
than 46 percent of the land 2-weel
strikes were successful, and onl.
about Is percent OF the strike!
lasting over 2 months resulted II
the workers gaining substantial.
all of their demands. Only Is per
cent of the strikes lasting less thar
l week were lost in contrast to 81
percent Of those lasting 3 month.
or more.
Beginning in January, 1911, Their
were 213 strikes in force and thi
increased to 322 during the month
involving 107,812 and causing $50,
1921 man-days idle. During the frs
months of 1941 the number G
strikes was more than three-fourth
, as great as in the entire year G
1910. The number of strikes dur
ing this period Of 1941 was 1885,
inolving 1,O89,4 All workers and caus
ing the loss Of 14,042,312 man-day
, Of labor.
In the first II months of the de
, Tense program-June, 1910 to Octo
Der, 1941-there were 5,307 strike.
involving 2,527,942 workers, an
causing the loss of 25,748,627 man
days of labor. According to fins
figures compiled by the U. S. Burea
of Labor Statistics, 2,508 strikes be
gan in 1910 in which 576,988 work
ers were involved. The number c
man-days of idleness caused b
, strikes in 1910 was 6,7O0,872.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
AIRCRAFT CORP.
HlTSAT CHARGES

Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 23-(UP)-
President Eugene E. Wilson of
United Aircraft Corp. today struck
back at Vinson committee charges
of enormous profits, asserting the
net profit in 1912 on shipments of
$500, 100000 will be about 3 per cent.
In 1910, Wilson told the Connect
cut Bankers association meeting, net
earnings on U. S. government bus
mess, after taxes, was less than Z
per cent. The 1941 profit was about
5 per cent, he added.
Vinson committee reports, Wilson
said, were on a gross earnings basis
before taxes were deducted.
80 far as United Aircraft IS con-
cerned," he said, I'VE honestly be-
lieve that we have measured up to
our task.
1.-THE gist Of the record is that
since we inaugurated our emergency
production program three years ago
we have multiplied our plant ac-
count fourfold, our employment six
fold, and our shipments eightfold
and the curve is still going up"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
LIQUOR CONTROL
TURNED IN NAMES
Five Enemy Aliens, Of Re-
cent Origin, Are Referred
to the FIJI

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 23-(UP)-
The State Liquor Control commits
sion today turned over to the FBI
the names of five enemy aliens
of recent origin" who are employed
in the states liquor industry.
Chairman John j. Fitzpatrick
said info: nation contained in their
applications for certificates included
some material that the FBI would
wish to investigate"
Fitzpatrick said that eight other
applicants were denied certificates
pending further hearings before the
full commission. The commission is
now fingerprinting all employees in
the states liquor dispensing estap-
lishments.
More than 1900 employees and
their employers already have been
approved in the Greater Hartford
area. Six cases were reeerred to
the State Health department for In
vestigation, Fitzpatrick said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
HERMAN ADVANCED
ON MYSTIC SHRINE

Edward d. Holman of Waterbury
was elevated from Oriental guide to
high priest and prophet when more
than 20 members OF the local menu
bers of Sphinx temple, Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine, attended the an
nual meeting held Wednesday IN
Hotel Bond, Hartford. Wilson A,
Fem of West Hartford was elected
imperial potentate, while John A.
Peterson of Hartford is the retir-
ing potentate.
The membership in the past year
has increased and the contributions
received was $500 toward the
Shriners hospital for Crippled Chill
dren, in Springfield. Mass. accord-
ing to q report read ut the meet
ing. Included in the elected Officers
was Robert Finlay of this city who
! was appointed outer guard.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
TRUST FUNDS in
CONN. INDUSTRY
Will Help Cushion Blow at
End OF War, When Boom
Dies Out

Middletown, Conn, Jan. 23-(UF)
Creation Of trust funds and ade-
quate reserves now by Connecticut
industry will help to cushion the
blow when the war boom is over,
according to Alfred G. Fuller, pres
ident of the Connecticut Manufac-
turers' association.
"Such problems" Fuller told Mid
dlesex county manufacturers last
night, "are second in Importance
only to the immediate production
problems of winning the war itself"
Industry must see to it that we
win the peace" Fuller said. "All We
industrialists need to do to lose it
is to remain quiet and do no indi-
vidual or collective planning now for
the future of American enterprise
after hostilities have ceased"
Fuller said several industrial con-
Germs in the state already have
planned reserve and trust funds to
maintain wage and employment
levels after the war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
Protestant Pastors
To Exchange Pulpits
Snavely, Franzen and Higgins to Assist Each Other
in Lenten Programs at Various Churches

pastor OF st. Pauls Episcopal
church, in the Learning for Life"
program and in turn will assist the
pair in similar programs in their
churches during the Lenten period.
The calendar Of events at the First
Methodist church next week follows:
Monday, January Goth. 800 The
Circle OF Cheer will meet in the
church parlorS with Miss Edith Tyr
rell and Mrs. Howard May as host
esses. 7:30 Waterbury School Of Re-
ligion under the auspices Of Water
bury Council of Churches will be
held in the Second Congregational
church.
Wednesday, January 18th. TOO
Executive board meeting of the
Woman's society. Important that all
! officers be present. 800 Regular
meeting of the Woman's Society Of
Christian Service with Mrs. Robert
Spiers presiding. Mrs. John w. Pot
i ter will lead the devotions. Mrs.
Amelia Alexander Of Pearl st. Com
munity House will speak. There will
be songs by a group Of women from
the Adult Education Group held in
Crosby, under the leadership Of Mrs.
Healey.
Thursday, January 10Th. 1-4:30
Sewing by the ladies for the Red
Cross. 400 The pastors Church
Membership class will meet. 500
The Junior choir will rehearse. 7:30
The Church Bible class led by the
pastor. Subject will be Secret Place
of the Most High" based on Psalm
81.
Friday, January 30th. TOO Senior
choir rehearsal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23
CACAIN ELECTED
BY CREDIT UNIT

a. dividend of per cent was de-
ciAred by the members of the Wa
:ernury Manufacturing Company's
Federal Credit Union at the annu-
al melting Wednesday evening at
the Chase Foremen's Club. A slate
Of officers presented was endorsed
as follows: Directors. Bernard j.
Gag1in, president; George Butler
vice-president; Francis Payne, treas
urer; Charles JOY, Robert Humphrey
John Galway, Robert Mclaughlin
Robest White, Maurice Orsini.
Supervisory Committee, Harold
Rogers, chairman; Malcolm Palmer
Frederick Scott.
Credit Committee, Charles Joy
chairman; Ernest Stance, Wilfred
Carrier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-23

Referee in bankruptcy for the
Waterbury district, Walter r. Tor
rance, yesterday finished his term
In the post he has held for the
past two years. Under new
state arrangement, Referee Saul
Berman of Hartford will add Wat
erbury to his other bankruptcy
duties.
Atty. Torrance yesterday an
nounced that he would dispose Of
about 30 cases now pending, and
that MIR. Berman will handle mat
tiers filed since January l. At pres
ent there are two full-time ref
ereeS in the state.