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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

Pessimists have long said that es-
tablishment of worldwide standards
of pay and hours for any class of
workers was impossible. But the Sim
possible" was done recently, when for
the first time in the history Of in
ternational social and economic collab-
oration, an international multilateral
treaty fixing minimum wages and
maximum hours of work was success
fully negotiated.
The treaty, or convention, as it is
called in International Labor Office
terminiology, establishes minimum
monthly wage of $64 in United States
currency or Liz sterling or the equiva-
lent in other currency for able sea-
men employed in the worlds merchant
marines, and fixes maximum hours
for seamen in the deck, engine-room,
room and catering departments of
sea-going ships.
The treaty was one of interna-
tional conventions adopted at the mari
time conference of the international
Labor Organization held at Seattle,
Wash, June 6 to June 20. The other
8 conventions dealt with such aspects
of the living and working conditions of
seamen as food on board ship, crew
quarters, vacations with pay, and So
cial security.
The convention on wages, officially
entitled the Wages, Hours of Work
and Manning (Sea) Convention, 1916,
is unprecedented in another respect,
the LILO says. For the first time in an
ILO convention, it provides that the
standards it establishes may be ap-
piled by the terms of collective agree
ments between the seamen's and ship
owners organizations. The conven-
tons provisions may also be imple-
mented as in the case of previous LILO
conventions, by national laws or regu-
lations, or they may be applied by a
combination of both laws and collec-
tive agreements.
One of the other conventions adopt
ed by the conference provides also
that it may be implemented in whole
er in part by collective agreements.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
PARTNERSHIP FOR LABOR

"The time is ripe for making labor
a partner in the management of bust
ness. If this is communistic, let me
quote you statement of those we'll
known Communists, the hierarchy OF
the Catholic Church in America
America has nothing to fear from
Communism if we have social order
that regards man as the beginning
and the end of life in human society
People who are well fed, well clothed
and we'll housed are not interested in
Communism Bishop Bernard She'll
Chicago.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
TAKE 1T EASY!

Take 1t Easy" was the universal
parting salutation of men and women
OF the armed forces during the recent
war. 1t is now being used as a slogan
by the American Automobile Associa-
tlon in an effort to cut down the ap-
palling increase in traffic accidents
that has come about since wars end.
With most cars an average of 8
years old, and great many in bad con-
dition, "Take 1t Easy" should be our
salutation to everyone who drives or
walks in traffic.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1946
COULD 1T BE TRUE?

Interesting, isn't it, that Earl Brow
der, convicted and sentenced to the
federal penitentiary for passport
fraud, has no difficulty getting pass
ports in and out of Russia? Could i
be true that Communists have friend:
in high places in spite of Congress
efforts to clean them out? Or that oul
own State Department, which issues
the passports, is playing a game Of
diplomatic intrigue too deep deep fol-
ordinary persons to be told about?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
GOOD USE FOR WAR EQUIPMENT

Sale of 1,200 surplus Army alumni
mum and steel pontoons to the Siamese
government as emergency food car
riers has been announced by the u. S
Maritime Commission.
These open flat-bottom, boat-type
pontoons, which have a reported cost
to the U. S. government of over 2
million dollars, were sold for approx
mately S450,000, which indicates that
Siam is getting a bargain.
Depending largely on river trans
portation, the Siamese government is
in great need of water carriers to re-
place teak wood barges destroyed by
the enemy during the war Siam is
also expected in the coming season
to be large exporter of rice and
will use these pontoons to transport
the crop to all available rail heads and
seaports for shipment to famine areas
throughout the Orient.
These pontoons, originally built for
use Of the Armed Services will now
serve in a peace mission to feed the
starving peoples of the Orient. This
is putting to the use of life equipment
originally made to serve the ends of
death and destruction.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Memorial Bond Issue
Petitions Circulated

Petitions were being circulated
Monday to obtain the signatures OF
2 per cent of Hamilton voters for
placing bond issue for $435,OOO on
the ballot in the November general
election to provide funds for construc-
ton of coliseum as memorial TO
Hamiltonians who served in all wars.
Circulation of the petition is one
of the initial steps in building me-
mortal to those who served in all wars
from Hamilton, according to I. Ed
ward Knapp, chairman of the execu-
tive committee. Selection of the type
of memorial was done after careful
study by the executive committee
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Speak For Yourselves
By Ruth Tyalor

There is no getting away from the
fact that Organized Labor is being
criticized in many quarters these
days, not only in the places from
which one would expect to find such
criticism, but among many of those
who have been Labor's friends. Be-
cause they were not shown how to
differentiate, they have been swayed
by the misrepresentation of Labor's
enemies
In the last analysis you members
of Organized Labor have only your
selves to blame. You are public opin-
ion and what you think can determine
what the country as a whole thinks.
Are you, because of negligence or in
difference, going to allow all for which
you struggled and fought to be torn
down by small minority whose prin-
cipal advantage is that it is articu-
late? You are the largest single body
in this country, but unless you fight
adverse propaganda, you will lose
groups which normally would be on
your side.
There are two kinds of propaganda
you should use-the counter-active
and the constructive. First-the coun-
teractive Every single article or men
tion of Organized Labor appearing in
any paper or in any speech in your
community should be answered. Don't
let any remark go unchallenged. You
must take issue with every false ac-
cusation. But remember, in writing
to paper or a group, don't accuse
or abuse them. Take the stand that
you know that if they had been in
full possession of the facts they would
not have printed or made the state
ment objected to. Don't make extrav-
agant statements. Don't make hot,
blanket denials and wild charges.
Remember if you keep your tenn
per, you have the advantage. You can't
win anything in a democracy without
the support of public opinion, but
since you are public opinion, you are
in a position to counteract all the
steps being taken against you.
Second, constructive propaganda.
The truth must be administered, it
must be positive, and it must be con-
tinuous. But first of all, be sure you
have an absolutely clean house. Look
at your own group carefully and criti-
cally before someone else does. Get
your union in perfect shape, so that
you know that not only is everyone
working for it., but working in the
right place. Then start out to sell
it to the community. Find out what
specific cases of prejudice there are
against you. If you're right, fight this
adverse propaganda. If you you're
wrong, make the necessary changes
and explain publicly that you have
done SO.
Join in every civic affair you can.
Be ready to serve on committees; at
tend all meetings; have something to
say on all important subjects, even
if it's only brief word from one Of
you to agree with a previous speaker,
SO that all will know where you stand.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
REPORT ON GERMANY
By JOSEPH KEENAN,
Labor Advisor to Gen. Clay in
American Occupied Zone

have just come back to this coun-
try after serving five months with the
American military government in Ger
many. am happy to report that we
are making definite progress in re-
storing a working economy in the oc-
cupied territory on democratic
basis.
The task faced by the American
Military Government at the close of
the war was staggering one. In our
zone we found ruin everywhere-ruin
SO complete and so extensive that only
an eyewitness could believe it, More
than 70 percent of all homes and in
dustrial plants had been blasted into
wreckage.
Nor was the destruction merely ply
sical. The people we had to deal with
appeared mentally at loss. fought
to believe in the invincibility of Naz-
ism, they couldn't understand what
had happened to them. They saw no
hope, no future. They wouldn't trust
US or believe we were sincerely trying
to help them 1t is difficult to talk
peace to human beings who are starv-
ing on diet of 100 calaries day,
or to get cooperation from the sick
and dying.
But we set to work. Business had to
get started again. Factories still stand
ing had to be reopened and jobs had
to be found for the unemployed. My
assignment was to revive the pre-
Hitler, free and democratic trade
union movement and to restore har-
monious relations between manage
ment and labor. Our military leaders,
from General Eisenhower down, con-
sidered this of the first Importance.
Naturally, | found no unions func-
tioning. Hitler had wiped them all
out as his first step after seizing
power We searched in hiding places
and in concentration camps until we
found some of the surviving trade
union officials, most of them in their
sixties. Gradually we won their con-
fidence and now they are cooperating
with us 100 percent. On April IL we
held historic trade union conference
with leaders who hadn't seen each
other for thirteen years and worked
out plans for amalgamation Of sec
tional unions into national organiza-
tions.
| Today industry is functioning to a
limited extent in the American zone
and the unions are getting back on
! their feet. We are encouraging small
business and carefully keeping the lid
down on heavy industry which has
military potentialities, so as to pre-
vent future aggression.
Our great handicap right now is
the artificial barriers which prevent
trade and materials flowing between
our zone and those occupied by the
French, British and Russians. 1t is Of
the utmost Importance that the Big
Four reach an agreement soon to
treat Germany as an economic whole.
The common people in Germany, to
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Diving Exhibition Slated

Oxford, Ohio.-A free diving exhibl-
tion by the Airy Hill Clowns from
Cincinnati will be presented by the
Municipal Swimming Pool Friday
night at $3.50, E. j. Colville, Manager,
announced. The show will terminate
the swimming instruction program for
local Cub Scouts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
WHAT NEXT?

Experimental models of smokeless
household stoves for burning wide
range of bituminous Goals are now un-
der test, Business Week says. Air is
admitted at the top, and forced
through unburned coal to the combus-
tion zone above the CRATE. This is said
to cause combustion of the smoke.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Health Grading Continues
For Hamilton Restaurants

w. L. Duff, sanitary inspector of
the Butler County Board of Health,
said today that restaurants here would
be continued to be graded "A", "B''
and &C" under the rules Of the Health
Department.
Duff explained that the GA" classi-
fication is given restaurants found
to be abiding by all sanitary regula-
tions throughout the year. The "B''
grade indicates minor violations and
the "C' designation is used for res
taurants guilty Of major violations.
The inspector requested that pat
rons aid in the enforcement Of sani-
tary rules by reporting any violations
that may come to their notice.
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

whom ! have talked are fed up with
war. They are equally fed up with
totalitarianism in any and all forms.
They realize that military occupation
of their land may have to be contin-
ued for perhaps fifteen years. They
look to America for help and guidance
and tolerance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Wait For Coach Application

Oxford. d.-Middletown-O Oxford coach
line officials are awaiting word from
the Ohio Public Utilities Commission
on their recent application for an ex-
tension from here to Dayton. The
application was given final hearing
last week in the State Office Building
in Columbus.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
AFL Union Wins Case

Fresno, Calif-A case by the Sun
nyside Winery to enjoin the Wine
Workers Union (AFL) from enforcing
hot cargo and secondary boycott as
means of organizing the plant was
ruled unconstitutional by Judge Ernest
Klette, who held that "it might pre-
vent a labor organization, by lawful
and peaceful means, from enforcing an
objective reasonably related to the
labor dispute involved"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

"Take 1t Easy" when driving or
walking in traffic. Haste makes waste
and in traffic accidents the waste is
all too often in lives.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
WISDOM

We cannot make a heaven in our
own country and leave a hell out
side.-Prime Minister Clement R.
Attlee.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
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Issued Weekly At s2s Market Street
Telephone 1886 Hamilton. Ohio
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

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please notify this Office, giving old and new
address to insure regular delivery Of paper.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

We do not hold ourselves responsible for any
views or opinions expressed in the articles or
communications of correspondents.
Communications solicited from secretaries
of al societies and organisations. and should
~ addressed to The Butler County Press, S26
Market Street. Hamilton. Ohio.
The publishers reserve the right to reject
any advertisements at any time.
Advertising rates made known on application.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
Mrs. w. L. Coulter
Celebrates BirthdoY
OF Her Daughter

The third birthday of Barbara
Anne Coulter was celebrated with
a party at which her mother,
Mrs. w. l.. Coulter and Mrs. S. E.
Krebs were hostesses at the home
of Mrs. Coulter on Lake avenue,
Saturday.
Games we're played by the small
guests with prizes being captured
bv Virginia Green and Theodore
Gados.
During the blowing out of the
candles on the ornate cake the
guests sang the traditional birth
dav song.
A ref eshment course was then
served.
Those attending were Dianne
Krebs. Billy, Isabel, and Mary
Alice Gardner. Judy Kroeger.
Linda and Virginia Green, Joy
and Joan Gentle, Mickey Krebs
Rose Marie Braneski, Eleanor
Trehern. Richard Olsen, Monty
Moncrief, Betty 10, Joan, Victor
and Jerry Folsom, Ronny Neal
Krebs, Rec Loris and Amy Lee.
Tony, Jr., and Theodore Gados
of New York City.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
Becky Bacot
Hos Birthday
Party Monday

A lo~eiv event of Monday, Nov.
25, to about fifty of the small
friends Of Becky Bacot as well
as to about twenty Of her adult
friends. was q parry az which
he sixth birthday was celebrated
b. her mother, Mrs. f. H. Bacot
at the home on Beach Boule-
ward.
TIE children spent the after
noon enjoying new playground
equipment that Mr.. and Mrs. Ba-
cot have installed in their yard for
The pleasure of Becky and her
friends. Their pay was directed
BY Miss Gladys Thompson, teach
e. Of the first grade at Beach
school IN which Becky is a pupil.
pill.
Later the children were invited
indoors where three tables were
beautifully arranged, the central
one of which held n large white
birthday cake embossed with pink
rose buds in celors matching
the asters that were used on all
three tables.
Places were marked by favors
of doll hot water bottles and bal
looms for the girls and windmills
and balloons for the boys and can
dy for 10th.
Ice cream and cake were served.
Becky was dressed in yellow
jersey with which she wore a
miniature corsage of shattered
pink carnations the gift from a
small gallant attending the par
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
Workers AT Wooden
Mill Present Scroll
To Plunt Owners

Employees of the Jackson
| County Mills presented to Paul
reterzell, representing the own
ers of the Jackson County Mills,
! d scroll of appreciation for re-
/; Gently instituted and company
! paid insurance plan for all work
ers at a surprise program Mon
| day afternoon.
The scroll read: I'm grateful
| acknowledgement of one of the
finest expressions of sincere in
terest in the welfare of their en-
| ployees, we deliver this scroll
with our signatures affixed as a
! permanent memorial of our graft
tude to and confidence in the
firm of Peterzell and Gelles.'
Mrs. Pearl Hudgins presented
| the scroll to Mr.. Peterzell and
! Charles Briggs, personnel direc-
tor, acted as master of ceremon-
les.
The insurance plan provides
compensation for employees in
the event of injury or illness and
in case of death. All expense is
borne by the company.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
Judy Jenkins Has
PurtY For Fourth
Birthday Saturday

Mrs. +. T. Renfroe and Mrs. w.
w. Jenkins entertained in their
home on Saturday afternoon with
a birthday party in honor of their
granddaughter and daughter,
Judy Jenkins, who celebrated her
fourth birthday.
Games were enjoyed during
the afternoon. Forrest Crabtree
was given a prize in the game
pinning the horns on the rein
,teer and Elizabeth Mixson a
prize for pinning the toys in San
ia Claus sack.
The konoree received many
lovely gifts.
Guests were invited into the
beautifully decorated dining room
where the table was overlaid with
"a dainty lace cloth and centered
with the pretty embossed birth
day cake with four lighted can
dies. White candles in crystal
holders shed a soft glow over the
setting. White and yellow chry-
santhenaums were used to decor
ate the rooms of the home.
Ice cream and cake were serv-
ed to the following who enjoyed
this pleasant afternoon with Judy:
Forrest and Ann Crabtree, Sheran
Ellis, Olivia Jane, Diana and Clio
ria Bilbo, Pat Mays, Gail Parham,
Elizabeth Bishop. Lanny Brentz,
Norma Grierson, Linda Jean and
Nancy Renfroe, Linda Harold;
Mesdames T. L. DeLashmet, Jr.,
R. C. Elev, Aven Bilbo, Frank
Mixson, Forest Crabtree, Hous-
ton Howell, Robert Renfroe, Quin-
ton Blentz, J. T. Bishop, c. E.
Clark, ano Edwin Mays.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29

with Mrs. Allen Jones presiding.
Mrs. j. I. Renfroe led the pro-
gram. Mrs. K. w. BWnham gave
a report. A Thanksgiving col
lection for the orphansge was
taken. The hostess served re-
freshroents to the fourteen men,
bers present.
Methodist
The W. S. C. S. met in the
church Monday afternoon and
Mrs John Cirlot led the Thanks
giving program. Mrs. T. X.
Swavze and Ms. Ear Amonett
taking parts. The meeting was
closed with a PRAYER.
Monday afternoon the meeting
viii be held in the home of Mrs.
Earl Amonett. All members are
urged to attend.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
Engagement OF Miss
Edre Moys To PVT.
John L. Rouse Told

Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Douglas
MAYS Of Moss Point announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Edre, to Private John L. Rouse,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Rouse
ef Peseagoula.
Miss MAYS is IN her senior year
wear the Ga.Bb
at the Mess Point High school OF
which Private Rouse is also a
graduate as well as of Perkinston
Junior college.
He is en- a DELAYED en- route
furlough before going to Pitts
burg. Calf, to embark for some
point in the Pacific lone of oc-
cupation where he will probably
remain for the next sixteen
months.
The wedding date will be set
on the return of Private Rouse
to the States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
BIRTHS GAIN 1900 IN MONTH

~Tokyo-AP-Living is precari-
Gus in Japan and yet the popula-
ton grows. There wee 1873 SIG
births ind 1883 weaths in Sep
TENDER.
Noting that Septcmber's births
we're 10000 more than Augpe's,
the newspaper Jipi Shimpo ob-
served: This is an ironical pre-
nomenon in these days, wien
birth control is supposed to be
popular"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
MOSS POINT
Baptist

Baptist
Circle Number Three met in
the home of Mrs. R. c. Eley on
Monday afternoon. The regular
business meeting was held and
Thanksgiving box for the or
phanagp was packed. A Thanks
giving collection was taken.
The Margaret I.ackey Circle
met in the home of Mrs. Lula d.
Breelaad on Monday afternoon
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29

ty. Among the many gifts show
cred upon the little girl vas an
old-fashioned bouquet of shat
tered carnations. She also reeeiv-
ed a number of phone calls and
messages from her grown-up
friends.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
bYt

Circle Number One will meet
with Miss F'orrie McInnis on
Monday afternoon. All members
are urged to attend.
Circle number two will meet
on Monday afternoon. Place of
meeting to be announced later,
Circle number three will meet
on Monday evening Place of
meeting to be announces later.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 90, 1896

Robert Porterfield's Barter The
alter 10 Virginia viii take a ham
or a dozen eggs for the price Of
admission.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29

The first Pilgrim Thanksgiving
at Plymouth in 1921 was given
ovcr to a whole week of feasting
and sorts.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29

There are 1000 Smith Rivers.
5000 Elm Creeks and 10000 Mud
Lake. in the United States.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-11-29

To light the average home for
a year, 600 pounds of coal must
be burned in a p~owerhouse
boiler.