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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-06-07
Postwar Wage Drop Exposed
In AFL's Report to Senators
Wednesday Holiday Slated
For MiddletOwn Bankers

Middletown, Ohio.-The traditional
bankers hours" will be shortened
still further here June II when both
of Middletown's banks, First-Ameri-
can and Oglesby- -Barnitz, will close
at noon ON Wednesdays, according to
an announcement.
Besides the two banks, three build
ing and loan companies also will fol-
low suit on Wednesday noon closing,
the announcement said.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-06-07
Safety Awards Slated
For Hamilton Council

Members of the Police Department
Traffic Bureau will be guests at a
dinner Monday night in the YWCA,
when the city officially receives two
traffic awards for it's 1945 safety
record.
Harry Porter Jr., Chicago, chief
traffic engineer for the National Safe
ty Council, will present the honorable
mention award Hamilton received in
the National Safety Contest, and the
second place award in the state con-
test.
Members of the Police Traffic Bu-
reau who will be awarded member
ships in the National Safety Council,
Chicago, include Traffic Sgt. James
p O'Connor, head of the bureau; Dill
lard Jones, Howard j. Addison, Clark
Castator, Carl w. Vogel and Edward
Petrak.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-06-07

countries into zones is mistake. Thus,
instead of concentrating on the re-
education Of the German people and
the reorganization of their country on
a democratic basis, the Big Four have
made the fatal error of dividing it up
into four zones without regard for the
economic needs and welfare of Europe.
Instead of reorganizing Germany's in
dustry and utilizing the skill of it's
workers for the purposes Of peace and
the economic reconstruction of the
continent, destructive de-industriali-
zation schemes have been launched in
the very industrial heart of Europe In
stead of fostering and aiding the res
toration and growth of such primary
organs of the democratic way of life
as free trade unions, half-hearted de-
notification schemes, forced merging
of political organizations, the restric-
tion Of the right of free association
in unions and political parties have
become the established practices in
the various zones of occupied Ger
many. Similar policies have been fol-
lowed in Austria.
Instead of treating democratic CO.
belligerent Italy as liberated coun-
try, the Big Three have approached
the problem of an Italian peace set
tlement as if it were a treaty to be
signed with vanquished hostile coun-
try, despite the solemn pledges and
promises made to the Italian people
who were the first ones to overthrow
a Fascist dictatorship.
Only in Japan has the cause of
democratic regeneration made any
headway at all. But even here it is
questionable how long it will be be-
fore General MacArthur's able and
far-sighted leadership is interfered
with and paralyzed by the introduc-
tion of power politics. The plight of
Korea should put our government on
guard against making concessions to
weaken General FacArthur's powers
and policies. The tense situation in
China is another demonstration of
aggression.
To overcome this distressing inter-
national situation and to promote
feeling of trust, friendship, and CO.
operation particularly among all ma
tions, the American Federation of
Labor proposes the following meas
ure be taken:
G) A return to the Atlantic Char
ter and aloyal adherence to its prin-
ciples as the guide for all peace treat
les.
(2) Transformation of the United
Nations Organization into an effec-
tive agency of nations responsible for
preserving world peace, strengthening
the bonds of world security, and pro-
noting human freedom and welfare.
(3) We urge that democratic ma
tions governing liberated countries
seek out former union leaders, put
upon them the responsibility and op-
portunity of reviving free trade union
ism and supply them with the neces-
sary office equipment and means of
communication and travel. We urge
similar policies to restore cooperative
undertakings.
(4) A world peace conference should
be called at an early date. We COM
(Continaed on Page p
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-06-07
j. S. Must Shoulder Responsibility
To Chart Peace Path, Council Warns
Rebuilding War-Ravaged World on Just and Lasting
Peace and Abundance is First Concern Today

Washington, D. C.-An emphatic
reminder that the United States must
fulfill its responsibility of interna-
tional leadership to guide troubled
world to lasting peace was issued at
the closing session of the AFL Execu-
tive Council.
At the same time the Council warn
ed the Government that it must ex-
ercise the greatest care in safeguard
ing the policies laid down in the Far
East by Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
In a sweeping discussion of this
Nations foreign policy, the delay in
achieving peace and effective relief
for starving millions, the Council said:
The first concern of mankind today
is the rebuilding of the war-ravaged
world on basis of just and lasting
peace and on a foundation of abund-
ance.
Our country has responsibility to
exercise international leadership
with consistency and vigor-for the
achievement of this paramount goal.
More than one year after We Day,
there is still no world peace. Not a
single peace treaty has been signed.
Famine and pestilence are threaten
ing Europe and large sections of Asia.
Nazi-Fascist totalitarianism has been
beaten on the field of battle. Democ-
racy has scored colossal military
triumph, but the menace of political
despotism and one-party dictatorship
continues acute. Formerly indepen-
dent countries have lost self-deter-
mination and are controlled by secret
police. Advocates of democratic in
stitutions are imprisoned or liquidat-
ed. The U. S. S. R. is arming dissident
groups in neighboring countries.
Armies of occupation continue to DOM
mate large areas and live off the soil.
The progress of reconstruction has
the occupier as well as the occupied.
What has happened to the ideals
which inspired the democratic forces
to outproduce and Outright the regi-
mented ranks of Nazi-Nipponese ty-
ranny? The big powers have discard
ed the Atlantic Charter. It's principles
which rallied nations to war are
neglected in building of peace and
rebuilding the war-wrecked world.
Power politics is the order of the day.
international conferences called to
consider steps toward peace and world
cooperation only aggravate the differ
ences and widen the gaps between the
victorious powers of yesterday.
The world situation has deteriorated
acutely. The causes Of deterioration
began at Yalta where the basis was
laid for strangling the emerging dem
ocratic forces in eastern Europe and
the Balkans. Without minimizing the
great contributions of the Soviet peo-
pie to the victory over the common
enemy, it must be said that the Rus
sian government has utilized these
heroic sacrifices of the u. S. S. R. as
an excuse for pursuing policy Of mil
liant nationalist expansion and ag-
grandizement. The United Nations has
gotten off to poor art-dominated
by the Big Powers, hobbled by it's own
rules and tragically weakened by uni
lateral action.
1t is obvious that the Big Four oc-
cupation policy of dividing conquered
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-06-07
New Bus Line Starts

Franklin, Ohio.-Franklin' newest
enterprise, the Franklin Lebanon
Chautauqua Carlisle Springboro bus
line, made its initial run Saturday and
is now offering regular service be-
tween these points. The new line is
operated by j. M. Rowe, Franklin, with
Don J. Hawthorne, Franklin, as busi-
ness manager.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20
Nearly 100000 Hold
Farm Credit Adm.
Coop Stock

Washington, D. C.-Nearly 100000
farmers and ranchmen of the country
owned an average of 500 apiece in
stock in the cooperative production
credit associations on October 81, c.
r. Arnold, Production Credit Commits
sioner of the Farm Credit Administra-
ton, told members of the district
Farm Credit Boards at recent con-
ference here.
Member-owned capital in the pro-
duction credit associations plus ac-
cumulated reserves now amounts to
SIS million, Commissioner Arnold re-
ported. This combined figure, he said
has increased at the rate of Sc u mil
lion a year for the past three years.
Capital for the production credit as
sociations was originally provided by
the government through the produc-
ton credit corporations when the as
sociations were organized in 1884. AS
member-owned stock increases, the
production credit corporations are
enabled to withdraw government CAPT
tai
Member-owned capital now exceeds
CONTINUED on Page FOur)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

"The strongest bond of hui
man sympathy, outside of
the family relation, should
be one uniting all working
people, of all Nations, and
tongues, and kindreds."
Abraham Lincoln
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

property, as other property, but on the
net proceeds.
This special advantage afforded the
mining industry, created much criti-
cism. In 1899, Governor Robert B.
Smith made sweeping indictment.
Under the present system" he said,
''the only person who bears his full
share and proportion of the taxes is
the farmer with few acres of land or
the citizen who owns a humble home
in town or city,"
Governor J. K Toole said in 1908
that millions of dollars of property
escape taxation in the state. In 1912,
Senator J. M. Dixon said that the min
ing industry was paying on the basis
of about 1/1S of their real value. He
maintained that the industry should
be paying about one-half of all taxes
of the state on the then present total
assessment. "Then," he said, "your
taxes would be reduced to just one
third of what they are now"
Became Tax Conscious
During the perlOu OIL the great III
flux of farmer homesteader popula-
ton, 1910 to 1918, the newcomers were
treated to a barrage of Montana poll
tics. The farmers became the spark
plug in placing the tax question in the
forefront. The tax question became of
particular seriousness during the 1916
campaign. Both the Equity Society
and the Non-Partisan League were &C
tive for tax reform. At the Equity's
annual convention in Great Falls in
1918, an entire day was devoted to
taxes. The best that can be said, how
ever, is that the public became tax
conscious and public spirited in poll
teal affairs. The approach, however,
was not always scientific No funda
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stitute. in years to come the predomin-
ate occupation that it is today. 1t is
very likely that much greater diversifi-
cation will occur both in industry and
agriculture. 1t is not likely now nor is
it ever likely to become the aim of
the South to develop into one-sided,
highly mechanical, over-industrialized
section. suppose that what the South
seeks and needs is to acquire econ
nomic balance and proportion. In this
respect, the decentralization of indus
try, which began during the war, is
especially important. The war plants
built in this great Southern region
can and should be a direct boon to
southern industries, and these plants
must not become additions to the con-
troll of existing monopolies.
"There would be no point in describ
ing these dangers, realistic as they
are, if they could not be avoided. The
proof that they can be overcome is
contained in the magnificent perform
ance of American industry during the
war and in the contribution which the
South made to that achievement.
Given the start that it now has. there
is no visible limit to the economic de-
velopment of the South any more than
there is a fixed boundary to the
growth of the American economy
IVA Speeded Victory
"The scope of our tasks is equalled
only by the extent of the cooperation
which they require among industry,
labor and government In this respect |
the South already knows what such |
cooperation can do. The Tennessee |
Valley Authority, perhaps the most |
successful experiment in economic |
cooperation in American history, has
demonstrated what happens when
latent resources are brought to light.
The returns are immediate and ap-
parent. New enterprise, better health.
better education, higher incomes and
a constantly increasing range of op-
portunities and occupations flow from
the dams and rivers which have been
narnessed by the IVA The Tennessee
Valley Authority has proven its worth
both in war and peace. Leland Stowe,
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20
Jobs Not Available
At Hungry Horse
Dam Project

The Montana District Council Of
Lumber and Sawmill Workers reports
increasing unemployment in much OF
the Montana lumber industry, partic-
ularly in the Flathead valley where
much work has been shutdown be-
cause of continued snow fall. Heavy
lay-offs are also reported in the vari-
Gus construction crafts and this is re-
sulting in a general business drop in
business institutions, which is lead
ing to the reduction of employees in
restaurants, etc. The difficulty is due
in part to an influx of people from
outside the area expecting to obtain
Dam. There is very little activity at
the dam site at this time. In fact, a
number of workers have been laid off
there and the Montana District Coun-
Gil adds its warning to that of other
labor organizations, for unemployed
workers to remain away from the Flat
head area, at least until spring. The
housing shortage at Kalispell and all
points remains very criti-
cal and a number of people are being
forced to leave for lack of shelter.
Woods and lumber workers are partic-
ularly urged to stay away from the
Flathead area at this time, as it is
to find jobs for all the
regularly employed in that
area and now out of work because of
winter shutdowns and other related
causes.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

ever, like 1916 profits, after
taxes, in the majority of indus
tries will exceed even the ex-
cessive wartime profits.
A few industries, because of short
ages of materials, may not have so
favorable a profit picture. However,
if these industries had concentrated
more on cleaning up production
ttlenecks-through an about effort
to get basic materials-instead of I'M
justly accusing labor for not produc-
ing, their 1916 profits would have
shown a better response.
In the auto and electrical industries,
labor is ready and willing to produce
but material shortages and the lack
of free flow of vital parts prevent
the operations of a steady production
line.
Reconversion problems relating to
materials are now beginning to clear
up. Had industry not pressured the
government to remove material con-
trolls Immediately after VI day, ma
terial and production bottlenecks
could have been eliminated well before
this time But because controls were
hastily removed, bottlenecks became
difficult to solve.
Those industries which had few or
no reconversion problems are expert
encing terrifically high profit returns
in 1916.
There are several reasons why 1916
profits will be exorbitantly high. First
Of all, excess profits taxes were eli
on Jan. /, 1916. Instead of cor
Dorations having to pay maximum
Of So per cent on all income in excess
If exemptions, this rate was reduced |
o 80 per cent by elimination of the
excess profits tax and 5 percent re-
luction in normal corporate taxes.
Second, near-capacity operations re-
luce unit production costs and in
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

aside from Viereck," Royce re-
ports, "the defendant in the sedition
case who had the most connections
with the nazis was Lawrence Dennis"
An avowed Hitler admirer as early
as 1888, Dennis visited Germany in
1886 where he conferred with top nazi
leaders.
Back in the United States, Dennis
contacted nazi agents here and be-
came the foremost intellectual expon-
ent of fascism in this country, writing
magazine articles, publishing a news
letter and serving as an editor of the
American Mercury. Although Rogge
has not obtained conclusive evidence
that Dennis received money directly
from the nazis, Dennis spent $4,000
from the fall of 1910 to the spring of
1912 for which he cannot satisfactorily
account.
Worked With Nazis
Others of the sedition trial defend
ants were named by Johannes Klap-
proth, head of the American section of
World Service, in report prepared
for Hitler on 1.-THE National men of
America" who would be counted on to
collaborate with the nazis. Klapproth's
report discussed in favorable detail
the activities of William Dudley Pei
ley, Deatherage, Robert E. Edmond
son, James True NOW deceased), Eli
zabeth Dilling, Sanctuary and two of
Deatherage's organizations, the Ameri-
can Nationalist Confederation and the
knights of the White CamelIia.
Deatherage, Smythe and McWil-
mans also worked closely with the
German-American Bund Smythe re-
garded as his great achievement the
of joint meeting of the
Bund and the Ku Klux Khan held in
New Jersey on Aug. IS, 1910.
indicating that the defendants were
set to plunge back into fascist activity
as soon as their indictments were
quashed was the recent announce
ment by Smythe that he would set nm
southern headquarters in Atlanta for
MS hhhfront organization the Pro-
testant War Veterans of the II. 8
as soon as Gov Arnall gets the he'll
out of office. New World. Seattle
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20
M0NTANA'S INCOME CONTINUES HIGH
REPORTS UNIVERSITY ECONOMIST
Income Almost Six Times Much AS In Bottom Year
Depression; Industry Finance and Commerce Incomes
Are Also Near All Time High Set In 1914

Missoula. = Montana's production
and its income from industry, finance
and commerce, while generally slight
ly under the 1912 production peak and
the 1914 income peak, has continued
at near record level, far in excess of
the 1930's, the tenth annual edition of
"Montana's Production" discloses.
Prepared at Montana State Univer-
sity by DR.. Roy J. w. Ely of the de-
partment of economics, the report re-
veals that income payments, despite a
slight drop from the 1914 total of
$549, 900, 0G9, ~aettfally were greater for
all groups in 1916 except in the
bracket of proprietors' income. The
1915 total for all groups was $3.50, O00,-
900.
Net salaries and wages and other
labor income increased from 100000
900 in 1914 to 1919, 100000 in 1915, and
dividends and interest increased from
$4O,0O0,OOO to s43,000,0O0. Proprietors'
incomes, however, dropped from $685.
100000 in 1914 to $177,00,O00 in 1915,
the report shows.
Total income payments to all groups
in 1880 was only $271, 100000 and
dropped further to $162,0OO,0OO in
1882, less than one-third of the 1915
figure.
An index of physical production,
covering mining, numbering and agri-
culture and based on the 1858 peri
cd as "100," shows low of Is in 1881,
a climb to 146 in 1912, a decline to
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

crease profit margins. Capacity opera
ton means more efficient production
and increased productivity. Product
witty increases in certain industries
have contributed greatly to higher
profit margins. Third, laxity in price
control, and certain amendments to
the OPA bill, have permitted industry
to pass on price increases to the pub
lie and thus greatly increase profits.
In 1947, the above factors will still
operate to pyramid profits above even
their 1916 level. In addition, material
shortages and reconversion problems
which have tended to prevent certain
corporations from profiting in 1916
will be, in the main, eliminated by
early 1947.
Review of Wartime Profits
Step by step, let us go back over the
profit picture of American industry.
In 1910, Congress decided that all
profits over the 1868 level were to
be subject to an excess profits tax.
In 1869 all American corporations
earned an average profit, before
taxes, of $5.3 million. In 1910, profits
of all corporations, before taxes were
$9.2 billion. By 1943 corporate profits,
before taxes, sky-rocketed to their all
time high of s24.9 billion. The aver
age profits, before taxes. for the war
years 1942-45 were s22.7 billion. This
is more than four times the 1868
average
After taxes, the average rate of pro-
lit of American corporations in the
base years 1868 were s3.9 billion.
Profits, after taxes, hit their all-time
,eak of 500 billion in 1913. The aver
lge for 1925 was s9.5 billion. This
S two and one-half times the 1868
average.
Business profits. after taxes, are
Continued ON Page Four)
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Gen. 0. John Rogge, who went
to Germany in the spring of
1886 to seek additional evil
dence for their mass trial. The
trail of their activities led Royce
directly to the core of the nazi web in
the Berlin foreign office and propa-
ganda ministry.
Fanatical in their admiration for
nazis, these hate masters are now
| free after two years of wasted court
and other legal action to carry on
| Hitler's work m o d. Those
against whom indictments were drop
ped are Geo. Sylvester Viereck, Law
renee Dennis, Joe McWilliams, Ed
ward J. Smythe, George E. Deather-
age, Charles B. Hudson, Eugene N.
Sanctuary, Gerald B. Winrod, Lois de
Lafayette Washburn and II others.
Rogge's Gallery
From Rogge's gallery of these fas-
cists can be CLEANED evidence of their
war activities for which they will now
go unpublished. A partial roll call fol-
lows:
When Viereck finishes his brief
Jail term, imposed on him for failing
to register as foreign agent, he will
again be allowed to roam the U. S. at
will although, as Rogge points out,
through two world wars he has had
knife in the back of this country"
Viereck was a paid German agent
in World War l. He continued his
propaganda activities between the
wars and from September, 1899 until
the late summer of 1871 received from
the nazis more than 100000. The
files of the German foreign office
describe him as their confidential
agent and the most valuable liaison
agent" in the U. S.
Besides making regular reports to
the nazis, Viereck successfully manip-
ulated members of congress, steered
nazi propaganda into the Congression-
al Record, sent out reprints of this
material by the hundreds of thou
sands of copies at the expense of the
U. S. taxpayers under congressional
franks, set up the Make Europe Pay
War Debts Committee, and acquired
and operated a publishing house,
Flanders Hall.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

So influential were the min
ing interests that even during
the territorial days Governor
Leslie found it necessary to
call for the creation of boards of
equalization with power to revise,
harmonic and equalize the values of
property for assessable purposes all
over the territory"
During the making of the constitu-
ton, the mining industry got another
break. Article XII, Section III provides
that "all mines and mining claims,
both placer and rock in place, con-
tanning or bearing gold, silver, copper,
lead, coal, or other valuable mineral
deposits, after purchase thereof from
the United States, shall be taxed on
the price paid the United States
therefor unless the surface ground
or some part thereof . is used for
other than mining purposes in
which case such surface ground :.
shall be taxed at its value for such
other purposes as provided by law;
and the annual net proceeds of all
mines and mining claims shall be
taxed as provided by law.
Pays Only a Nominal Tax
The result is obvious. Aside from
the payment of taxes on improve
ments and machinery, which the con-
stitution provides for, on the surface
ground the mine owner paws only a
nominal tax based on the valuation
paid therefor to the United States
from $3.50 to $40 per acre. Regardless
of the fabulous wealth within that
ground, the taxable valuation remains
the cost, from $3.50 to $40 per acre.
The constitution thus provides that
for the mining industry, the chief tax
is not on the value of the land as
by the productivity of the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-12-20

Democracy in order to
live must make men and
women, whose devotion it
seeks, feel that it really cares
for the security of every in
dividual :"
Franklin o. Roosevelt