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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
the increase in the cost of living"

the increase in the cost of living"
The inequity standard, said the
board, permits and requires a consid-
GRAFTON of cross-industry inequities.
This comparison will be made both in
terms of wage 'rate" levels and wage
increases"
At least two types of inter-indus-
try relationships are recognized. The
first includes those relationships
sometimes, although not always, re-
Elected in such factors as the SINH
larity or interdependence Of products,
or management or union identity" A
second type "would be reflected in
similarity of wage-rate structures on
parallelism of job classifications
even as between two industries which
might seek their products in entire
ly different markets"
In considering a claim of gross in
equities as between rates between re-
lated industries, the board said, sit
would be relevant that the effects of
reconversion developments upon wage
or salary conditions have been the
same or different in the two indus
tries +"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
Trainmen Ignore
Teamster Pickets

Oakland, Calf. (ILNS).-Edward
R. Alberson, chairman of Local $50,
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
instructed members of the local March
8 to move freight cars into canneries
despite the picket lines set up by the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters in jurisdictional dispute with
the CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricul-
tural Workers Union.
The local has jurisdiction over
switching in Oakland and the East
Bay area, but spokesman for the
Southern Pacific Railroad said that
freight cars failed to move at some
other points, such as canneries in
Sunnyvale, on the San Francisco pen
insula. There, the spokesman added,
canneries were mot requesting US to
move the cars in"
Alverson, after investigation, told
members of his local that there was
mo strike of the workers employed
in the canneries," and that the broth
erhood was not supporting the team
sters' union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22

Washington, D. C-An immediate
increase of the minimum wage to 65
cents an hour and extension of mini
mum wage and overtime coverages to
employees of "any employer whose bus
mess affects commerce" were recon-
mended as amendments to the Fair
Labor Standards Law of 1888 by the
Senate's Committee on Education and
Labor
Senators Tunnel of Delaware and
Pepper Of Florida, reporting for the
majority, insisted that an immediate
advance to at least IS cents was inn
perative.
with national income of $780,
100000, ,O0O," they contended, "a Csc
cent minimum wage yields the work
er at substandard wages smaller
proportion Of the nations increased
wealth than a Accent minimum yield
ed him with the $64,O00,000, 900 ma
tional income of 1888, While national
iLCOIItS pei "a pICd IdS IlScH OVER lUU
percent in years (at least rs per-
cent when adjusted for price changes)
the income of the underpaid has not
risen in anything like the same pro-
portion"
The proposed bill broadens the COW
erage of the act to include seamen SO
far as minimum wages are concerned
but not as to overtime.
Describing the purpose of the bill
Senators Tunnell and Pepper said:
ut is but preliminary step to-
ward our eventual goal of full en-
ployment at high wages for all; but
it is as great a step as our economy
can afford to take at one time. 1t
must be taken at once if we are not
to be faced with an ever-increasine
multitude Of underfed, underhoused
underprivileged workers.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
Higher Minimum Wage Reported Out
By Senate Group After Hot Debate
Step Must Be Taken At Once To Avoid Multitude OF
Underfed Underrhoused, Underprivileged Workers

"On behalf of the other members Of
the Senate Committee on Education
and Labor who have approved the
legislation described in this report,
urge immediate action by the Con-
gress to the end that substandards Of
wages in interstate commerce shall be
once and for all abolished from the
national scene"
The bill provides that in 2 years
after enactment the statutory mimi
mum wage shall be raised to 70 cents
an hour and in years to rs cents.
AS in the present law, industry
committees, composed of employer,
labor and public members, will be
permitted to adjust minimum wages
upward more rapidly than provided
in the bill---but no higher than the
ceiling of rs cents.
A minority report suggesting an
immediate rise to 55 cents and an ulti-
mate level of 60 cents was brought in
by members who called the majority
proposals inflationary.
Two Democratic Senators, Ellen
der of Louisiana and Fulbright of
Arkansas, joined with Senators Taft
Of Ohio, Ball of Minnesota, Donnell
of Missouri and Smith of New Jersey
in condemning the wage scale pro-
posed by the majority and the clauses
expanding coverage of the current
act.
The bill, likely to come up for con-
sideration in 10 days, seems destined
to bring on a long wrangle in the
Senate. 1t had stormy time in COM
mittee, where differences reached such
a point that the members were hur-
riedly called together by it's support
ers in futile effort to reach COM
promise.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22

Destructive floods and tornadoes be-
ginning in early January were grim
reminders that more Americans died
in home-front accidents and. disasters
during World War II than, as war
casualties
By mid-month the siege, brought on
unseasonably early by warm weather
and heavy rains, had claimed 81 dead
and upwards Of $50 hospitalized,
records indicate. Thousands Of fami-
lies in rural areas Of II midwestern
and southern states were affected.
Red Cross chapter workers who
last year helped their communities
through 26O disasters have again
worked round the clock. Assisting
them have been doctors, nurses, and
others rushed by the Red Cross "a
stricken areas. Surveys for the re-
furnishing, rebuilding, and repairing
Of damaged or destroyed homes,
barns, and other buildings began i'm
mediately. Rehabilitation will be COM
pleted in March. Undoubtedly new
disasters will strike during the spring
months and will keep the organization
working at top speed in this humani-
tartan parade which never ends.
In providing food, clothing, shelter
medical and nursing care. varying
problems confront the Red Gross, par.
ticularly in rural sections.
In flooded Mississippi valley areas
Red Cross has obtained priority re.
lease Of house trailers to supplement
tents used in sheltering farmers res.
cued from flooded areas. When evacu.
alton Of farm families and livestock
has been necessary, coast guard and
navy boats have assisted. Recent Goa
shortagess in disaster areas were re.
ieved when Red Cross action resulted
in diversion Of fuel to critical. sections
An hour after surveys have beer
completed, the Red Cross has obtained
priority release Of lumber and Other
building materials. Included has beer
screen wire to help prevent the spread
Of disease in malaria affected areas.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22

coast-to-coast network of the Ameri-
can Broadcasting Co., Thursday,
March 21, from 9:45 to 10 p. m. (Cen-
trail Time). The broadcast will origi-
nate from Station WENR, Chicago.
All members of labor unions, wo-
mems auxiliaries, union label leagues,
their families and friends are urged
to tune in on the broadcast.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
AFL Charges Favoritism
In Sterilization Policy

extent they are found necessary to
remove gross inequalities as between
related industries, plants or classifi-
cations, to correct substandard wage
conditions or to eliminate disparities
between wage or salary increases and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22

washington, ~. ne american
Federation of Labor publicly charged
that the governments new stabiliza-
ton policy fails to assure equality of
treatment for all workers" and con
stitutes an invitation to strike.
Sharply dissenting from new regu-
lations announced by the National
Wage Sterilization Board, Robert j.
Watt, AFL member, bluntly declared
that the boards conception of the
governments so-called wage policy"
closes the door on millions of work
ers who prefer the orderly procedure
OF collective bargaining to going on
strike.
"It is an invitation to these work
sers to resort to other means to gain
their just and equal rights" Mr.. Watt
warned.
"The statement of policy adopted
by the boards majority is full of un-
certainties and can only contribute
more confusion to an already serious
situation with the inevitable result of
further industrial unrest"
Mr.. Watt asserted that the Execu-
tive Order issued by President Tru-
man after settlement of the steel
strike established as general wage
standard an increase of 1872 cents an
hour above the wage rate in effect
Aug. 18, 1945.
He charged that Sterilization Di-
rector Bowles on Feb. 21 issued a
general order giving government ap-
proval to such increases in basic steel,
iron mining, steel processing and
steel fabricating where such in
creases were put into effect in settle
ment of strikes existing Feb. IA. But
the same benefits were denied to work
ers in similar plants not on strike at
that date
I Thus, Mr.. Watt pointed out, priv
lileged class was created for strikers
and other workers frozen out
The. new regulations issued by the
National Wage. Sterilization Board
bore out, Mr.. Watts charges. The
board announced it would not be
guided by any single wage pattern
for the nation but would establish or
recognize industry-wide or area-wide
wage patterns. When these patterns
become sufficiently well-defined," !"
wage increases, coming within their
scope can be put into effect without
prior board approval.
The question Of what constitutes a
general pattern" said the board,
will depend. upon the circumstances
and the historical relationships and
practices presented in given case.
Settlements which have been made
only as interim settlements, with
Observation-Disclosures clearly being con-
templated by the parties, cannot, Of
course, be considered as setting pat
terns,"'' the board stated.
The board pointed out that where
no pattern has BEEN established wage
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
TO Broadcast From
Chicago March 21

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-"U "Union
Label--A Peacetime Plan" will be the
subject of a radio address, delivered
by |. M. Ornburn, secretary-treasurer,
Union Label Trades Department, AM
erican Federation of Labor, over the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22
Watt Warns Agencies Give Invitation To Strike
To Workers

and salary increases are approvable
for price-relief purposes "only to the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-03-22

promise.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

League of Women Voters, the Nation
al Board of the Y.WC.A., the Ma
tional Consumers League, the Con
gress of Women's Auxiliaries, CLIO.
and others.
The amendment, if pass d and
made a part of the Federal Consti-
tuition, will provide:
Equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any state on
account of SEX"
Those fighting for the amendment
point out that inequality of women
before the law is an appalling fact.
In South Carolina woman's clothes
belong to her husband. In Michigan
a Judge ruled that womans hair is
the property of her husband. In most
states women can't make contracts
even if the property in question was
earned by the combined labors OF
both husband and wife. In other
states, women are not considered the
legal guardians of their children
and in fact the children belong to
their husbands In Connecticut
women are not allowed to play in an
orchestra after 10 p. m, not even on
a harp.
In North Carolina and Texas, a
woman can't work unless her hus-
band gets court permission for her.
In New York, if a woman has job
outside the home, what she earns be-
longs to her, but if she does sewing
or keeps boarderS or engages in other
business within the home her hus-
band. even a drunken one, may take
what she earns.
In Ohio no woman may drive
taxicab, though many of them drove
trucks during the war. In Georgia,
the father can, at will, appoint a
guardian for his minor child, born
or likely to be born, and his appoint
ment may exclude the mother. Most
Judges award the children to the
mothers in case of separation, but
in Florida and North Carolina the
father has the prior right to the Gus
tody of the child. In most states
an unmarried woman may handle her
own affairs, but once she says Il do
an U~.aarv m. uAAR
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

who pays alimony to whom. And,
in the case of equality, who would be
responsible for the support of the
children? Is there TO be no recog
milton of the basic biological differ
ences between the sexes? And 20 IL
lustrate their point the ICONS" quote
an old fable of the stork who dined
with a fox. The fox served dinner
in a flat dish. The stork had perfect
equality with the fox TO eat out of the
same dish, but he got very little to eat.
Another argument the ICONS" ad-
vance. is THAT since the women have
the vote, they have equality, for they
the Equal Rights Amendment has not
been passed by this. time, they con-
tend, it's a sign that the women are
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

not i'm favor of il.
What do the men folks think about
all this? A good many OF them are
in favor of the amendment and have
publicly said so. That made the
pros" very proud.
But the ICONS" had an answer.
why shouldn't the men be for itpl
1t relieves them of certain responsA
bilties for their families. 1t might
even provide alimony for them in
many cases"
And so it has gone and still goes.
Can it be that there are two types of
women within our borders, some of
whom feel that they have more free
dom under "chattel' laws than they
would have under the propose
amendment?
THE ANEERUcAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

Federation of
l. a b or, [ h e
American As
s ocia ton of
Wonen's Uni
versity Clubs,
I n q In I e r.
n a [ i o n a /
Ladies Gar
m e mt Work
ers Union, the
n a I i o n a |
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

and again competent.
1--WE are persons
everywhere when ii
comes to paying
taxes" said Mrs. En-
ma Gulley Miller,
member of the advisory board
of the National Woman's
Party at a recent convention
of the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs, but we are
not persons in many states
when II comes to controlling our own
income, property, earnings"
Those against the amendment feel
that instead of accomplishing any
good, il forfeits those gains already
made in legislative protection for
wives and working mothers. A blank
ct law, say they in a pamphlet put
out by the National League of Women
Voters, will not help a situation that
is rooted in tradition.
Just as an example they cite the
War Manpower Commissioner direc
tives urging women TO replace men.
In spite of the urging, very few
women advanced to important posi-
tions. The prejudice is there, and it
much be broken down, but it can't
be done by passing a law.
Furthermore, why -abolish 18th
one stroke the present laws that rep
resent hard-won family or social
rights? If changes are needed. let
the several states make their own
laws and enforce them.
Imagine, they point out, the thou
sands of divorce cases in which a de-
cision will have to be made as to
Illustrated by OZNI BROWN
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13
Poor Ladies!- Cant Fin
BY URSULA TROW

A RE women mice or mems equals?
~ Chattels or people? And does the
y wife's hair belong to her husband?
These questions are all part of the Equal
Rights Amendment issue, which TO- these
many years has caused much heated debate
in Congress- Right now, encouraged by the
National Association of Manufacturers the
debate is being carried over into the womens
clubs of America to crystalline public opinion.
But it's not essentially a battle of the
sexes. On the contrary, in this fight America S
women are aligned against one an
other
At present the "pros" are gaining
ground They have on their side
some D organizations, including the
] 81 !: s. s q: !. E !.
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs the Ma
tional Woman's Party, the American
Medical Womens Association, Moth q
ers and Women of America.
Against them stand the American
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

she becomes incompe-
tent in some way in
every state. Suddenly
she becomes a widow
and again competent.
1--WE are person S
everywhere when IL
com e s to payin 6
taxes" said Mrs. En-
mo CuIIaU Miller
Smyrna times., 1946-08-29
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME and CLUB PARTIES

Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Griffin and
daughter, Betty Jane spent last
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred v.
Tarburton of Seaford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hazel of
Mount Vernon Street have return
ed home after six weeks tour
through the West, stopping in
Arizona to visit Mr.. Hazel's sister,
Mrs. Otto Lange of Prescott.
Rev. Robert e. Green, pastor of
the Asbury Methodist Church has
been attending a school of religi-
GUS education at Cedar Crest Col
lege near Allentown, Penna. The
school was promoted by the Gener-
al Board of Education of the Meth
odist Church in Nashville, Tenn.
for ministers and laity of the vari-
Gus Conference Boards of Educa-
ton of the Northeastern Juris-
diction serving churches from
Maine to Virginia.
Mrs. r. H. Denney and Mrs. o.
Frischkorn of Dover spent several
days last week in Rehoboth.
Mr.. Roland Hazel and son of
Johnstown, Penna. are spending
this week with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Hazel.
Miss Ruth Jones has returned
from weeks visit in New York.
Mrs. Lillian Archer and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Bertha King of Philadel-
phia have returned home after
spending several days with Mrs.
Archer's aunt, Mrs. John Murray
of Delaware Street.
DR.. and Mrs. G. H. Denney of
Cynwyd, Penna., Mr.. and Mrs.
T.B. Rogers III and sons of Devon,
Penna. were guests on Sunday of
DR.. and Mrs. r. e. Denney and
relatives in Smyrna.
Miss Carolyn Ann Lassell of
Belfonte, Wilmington, is spending
some time with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jay Lassell.
Diana Davis, young daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Davis, Della
ware Street, is recovering from
minor injuries to the face and head
suffered recently when she fell
from her bicycle after striking a
parked car on Frazier Street. She
was treated by Dr. w. c. Deakyne.
Mrs. Douglas D. Horton of New
York City and her son, Mr.. Don
aid Horton of Wilmington, were
recent guests of Mrs. Olive H.
Shallcross.
Mr. Eugene Streeter of Fond du-
Lac, Wis, was the guest last week
of Mr.. Stimson Carrow.
Announcement is made of the
birth of daughter to DR.. and Mrs.
Thomas Hays, at Kent General
Hospital, Dover, last Thursday
Mrs. Hays is the former Miss
Frances Shapley.
Mrs. William Taylor was the
hostess at a breakfast-bridge at
the Wayside Inn on Tuesday.
Mrs. Cummins Speakman has ar
rived safely in Paris after fight
from LaGuardia Field, New York
last week.
Smyrna times., 1946-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Garis
have taken an apartment in Phila-
delphia, where Mr.. Garis will at
tend Pierce Business College. They
have had as their guests, Miss
Donna Jane Downing and Frank
Downing of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mrs. L. M. Niles spent Friday
with Mrs. Dudley Wood and Mrs.
j. D. Niles, Jr., in Wilmington.
Miss Ruth Jones spent last week
as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. JAM
es Patterson in Yonkers, N. Y.
Miss Eleanor Reiman of near
town and Mr.. Gilbert M. johnson
of Baltimore were weekend guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis C. Fritz at
"F'ritz's Hideaway," Locust Point,
Maryland.
DIR. and Mrs. George H. Denney
of Cynwyd, Penna., were Sunday
visitors to their relatives.
Smyrna times., 1946-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Enlow have
returned to their New Jersey home
after spending a two weeks vaca-
tion with Mrs. E. G. Enlow and
Mrs. e. E. Foraker,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard D. Mailer
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Albert David
son at Harbeson, Del, recently.
Mrs. George D. Maloney of Sea-
ford, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard B. Mailer and Mr.. and Mrs.
John S. Griffin, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard B. Mailer
and George D. Maloney visited Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Rash at st. Georg-
es recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore B. Rog-
ers and sons, Theodore and David,
of Devon, Penna., spent Sunday
with Mrs. Rogers parents, DR.. and
Mrs. R. E. Denney. Recent guests
of DR.. and Mrs. Denney were Lit.
Commander Eugene Denney and
Mr.. Denney and Mrs. Norman
Bankart of Chicago.
Smyrna times., 1946-08-29

LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
Also included are 5 goats, $40;
4 hogs, $50; and one mare, SIS.
For further information write or
apply to
ERNEST DALIS
RID No. Smyrna, Del.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-21
Paralyzing Steel Strike Or
100000 Out
In Greatest
U. S. Dispute

Pittsburgh. id. 2l.-CAP)-The
STRIKE ol 10000 Go United Stcei
Workers fer higher Day the
greatest strike in American MS
tory 3,artcd today IN grim
ojietncSs.
The stlika bl5nl Ted .le "a
ton. About loo plants, ranging
from the mills which make ehe
steel to the shops which turn II
into useful things like railroad
rails or can opcncrs-snut down
in 30 states.
In Pc!, svlvania, which pro
duccs onc-third of the nations
steel. the strikers in snowy dark
ness and freezing cold set in motion
around the shutdown plants the
slow slow march Of their picket
lines. Ii, es were also set uD else
where a>ross the country.
No one here ,oula guess how
long the march OF the piekcts-to
keep out of the plants anyone who
might seek to take their jobs
would continue.
1t was a showdown fight between
steel workers and steel makers.
This countrv's hopes for 4
prOSpcrOuS rccLnrcrsiOn were
Involved critically because Sc
many American manufacture
ers use steel and steel pro-
ducts.
A long drawn out strike could
break the back CT reconNCrsion.
The steel industrv-aceordlng to a
steel industry authoritv-WiIl loe
through the strike about $4,000, 900
a day in gross revenue it would haNe
received on its steel sales II there
had ber no strike.
S6.5l7.000 Lost Daily.
The industries average daily wage
has been estimated at $3.50. At that
rate, 800 workers will lose Sc
5l7,50O each day they remain idle.
The pickctine tarted quietly. The
trikcr had had plenty Of time to
get ready for this day. Their wage
negotiations with the steel industry
had gone "a for months and finally
had broken down Friday. despite the
intCryu ton of the President, VINO
suggested a compromise. Inc union
accepted Mr.. Truman's proposal lor
a WAGE increase of 1873 cents an hour
The L, s. Steel Corp, the giant
which is the guiding star for most
of the industry. rejected this figure
and said it could net grant an M
crease of more than IS costs an noun
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-21
Offers New
Plan Which Night
Speed Discharges

Washington, Jan. 2l.-(AP)-A
proposal that Congress use It's mon
ENGRAVING power to speed army
'cmobiljzation bobbcd up TODAY.
Ii came from Rep. Drrkscn Or
ID who said in an interview that
{ the army did not have enough
0onev l. feed and house troops. l.
would have no alien atiVc but to
ring them home and discharge
Nem."
Accordingly. DirkSen wants to
ole out army funds between now
nd June 80 ON a month by month
oasis begged on the lumber CI mer
scheduled to be released each month.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-01-21
Commission Won't
Have ANY Power
But To Recommend

London, Jan. 2l.-(AP)-Crcation
Of / special commission to devise
control for atomic energy vas ap-
proved by the political ana security
committee of the United Nations AS
scmoly today after only 80 minutes
discussion.
The action was taken after
Senator Tom fOnnally (D-IeN.) },
of the American delegation said
the commission will not have
power to maze any country give
up any atomic secrets or take
any other action. The commits
sion will be able only to make
recommendations, he explained.
Forty-siX votes We're cast for the
resolution approving creation of tie
commission. Chairman Dmj,rI Ma