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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
PAYROLLS FALL Is
BILLIONS SINCE WAR
WALLACE REPORTS

Washington, D. C.-Federal Gov
ernment payrolls, both military and
civilian, have fallen off by 13 billion
dollars year since VI Day, Secre-
tary of Commerce Wallace revealed in
a formal report.
The individual jobholder earned
just about the same average weekly
wage during the second quarter of
1916 as he did during the same period
year ago, he added, since the reduc-
tion in hours and in overtime premium
pay and shifts to lower-paying jobs
have been almost offset by increased
wage rates.
There were 100000 fewer people
with jobs in the second quarter of 1916
than in the same period last year, Mr..
Wallace said. This does not mean,
however, that there are 100000 un-
employed since many former war
workers as we'll as veterans have
withdrawn from the labor force and
are not seeking jobs.
During the second quarter of 1916
wages and salaries were at an annual
rate of $1O2,O 100000, 900 compared
with $115, 100000 for the second
quarter of 1945 Since VI Day g.
100000 members of the armed forces
have been demobilized, reducing mill
tary pay rolls $I1 ,OOO,O 100000. Federal
civilian employment has been cut by
more than 100000, reducing the pay
roll ,0OO,OOO,00O.
From August to October, 1915,
wages and salaries paid by manufac-
turing industries declined more than
25 percent. Since October these pay
rolls have risen slowly, but during the
second quarter of 1916 they were still
one-fifth lower than they were during
the same period year ago.
All of the reduction in manufactur-
ing employment and payrolls was in
the durable goods industries, Mr.. Wal
lace said. During the second quarter
Of 1916 wages and salaries in these
industries were one third lower than
during the second quarter of 1945.
On the other hand employment in
the nondurable goods manufacturing
industries, which declined for three
months following VI Day, again turn
ed upward and is now above the VI
Day level. In the second quarter of
1916 payrolls of nondurable goods
manufacturing industries were at an
annual rate $2,OOO,O00, higher than
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

Hamilton, Ohio, Aug. 2.-Many
baseball l-minded youths have a secret
ambition to become professional base
ball players, but don't know how to
go about it. The first thing, of course,
is that they have the qualifications of
a professional. If they feel that they
have such qualifications the first thing
to do is attend a baseball try-out camp
where boys have the opportunity to
demonstrate their ability before ex-
perienced baseball scouts. Such a
camp will be held here August Ia and
Is at North End Athletic Field under
the sponsorship of the ST. Louis Card
inals, one of the largest baseball or
CARNATIONS in the country.
This is one of more than forty such
camps scheduled by the Cardinals this
summer for the purpose of finding new
players for their widespread system
of minor league clubs. The try-outs
will begin at 10 o'clock in the morning,
and will be open free to all boys 16
years of age or over except members
of Junior American Legion teams.
Boys are required to furnish their own
baseball shoes and gloves, and those
who have uniforms should bring them
along as the Cardinals do not supply
such equipment for try-outs. Out-of
town aspirants are also welcome to
try-out at their own expense, and the
Cardinals will refund such expenses to
those who are signed to play ball with
any of their minor league clubs.
Walter Shannon and Freddie Hawn,
two of the Cardinals ace scouts, will
be on hand to lead the boys in run
ming, fielding, hitting and pitching
practice, infield workouts and regu-
lar games.
This camp was made possible
through the cooperation of H. S.
Stephens of the Chamber of Com
merce, with the helpful assistance of
Ed Braun, Hilbert Iske and L. ].
Smith
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
MOVE TO FORCE VOTE
FOR MINIMUM I'M PAY
TAKES ON new SPURT

Washington, D. C.-The determined
drive of pro-labor members of the
House to pry from the Rules Com
mittee the bill to increase minimum
wages throughout the Nation from
40 to IS cents an hour took new
squirt with announcement by Rep.
Outland of California that the petit
tion to force a showdown on the
House floor has been signed by 107
members.
Following conference with repre-
sentatives of the AFL and other ma
tional organizations, Mr.. Outland,
chairman of an informal House COM
mittee to compel action on the wage
issue, told newsmen:
'This petition to bring the minimum
wage bill to the House floor for ac-
tion was placed on the Speakers desk
only week ago by Rep. Biemiller Of
Wisconsin, secretary of our commit
tee. The response of members of both
parties has been most gratifying.
eve took this action because we
felt that the present legal minimum
wage of 40 cents an hour, or $1,000
per week for full time work, is not
only obsolete, but an actual crime
against millions of our citizens who
certainly cannot eat properly, raise
healthy children or contribute their
full share to this country either as ac-
tive citizens or as purchasers of the
nations output, on such substandard
wages. This is even more tragically
true now when we are faced with to-
days drastically rising prices.
Therefore, we who are seeking pas
sage of this bill felt that legislation
designed to raise the minimum wage
at least deserved a fair hearing in
the House before the Congress ad-
journs, and we want to do everything
we can to insure such action"
With reelection-minded Congress
rushing toward adjournment to cam
paign back home, it was problementi-
cal whether it would pause to consider
the minimum wage issue. Though
some members appeared anxious to
get their names on the record as sup
porters of the bill, others seemed apa-
thetic and inclined to postpone action
at this time.
The increase wage matter has been
urged consistently by President Tru-
man, who has contended there is no
more important issue before Con-
gress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

expressed in this column, which also
stressed the need of reorganization
and development Of the German trade
union movement along truly demo-
cratic lines and in accordance with
the wishes of the workers themselves.
This, it goes without saying, is con-
trary to the Russian concept which
prefers trade union organization along
the lines of strictly disciplined mo-
nastic or military order. Opposition
can be easier liquidated that way.
Whether the time has already come
to join the widely divergent elements
of German organized labor together is
debatable. Equally debatable is the
admittance of the slowly reviving
German trade union movement into
the international labor family, from
which it had been barred since Hitler's
rise to power and the subsequent de-
struction Of the democratic labor
unions. Be that as it may, the crisis
within German labor and the lack of
orientation on the part of it's compon-
ents have reached point that de-
monds universal attention. :.
1t would be most desirable if the
American Federation of Labor and it's
miners, metal trades groups, trans
port workers, building trades, printers
were to interest themselves early
and constructively in the matter of
the future affiliatiOn of the German
labor movement. The political and eco
nOmic orientation of Germany is ba-
sically labor problem. The issue will
be decided by no one but the German
workers themselves. The sooner the
German working people can be made
to understand, by word and deed, that
American democratic labor stands
ready to support them in the great
struggle for their own freedom and
rights, the better for all labor con-
cerned. If the German workers are not
given that help and encouragement
which they so urgently need, there is
a great danger that they may sue
cumb to Soviet governmental pres
sure and the antics of the Russian
CIO dominated World Federation of
Trade Unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
FUTURE PLANNING

An elderly couple had been sitting
in front of the evening fire a long
time without speaking. At last the
husband inquired, "What are you
you thinking about?"
To which the wife replied: 81 was
just thinking how long we have lived
together and that it couldn't go on
forever like this and that the time
will soon come when one of us will
have to 60"
"Yes," assented the old man, 'but it
is no use to worry about that now,
Mother"
NO." was the calm reply, "but l
was just thinking that when it does
happen, would like to go to Cali
fornia to live
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

they were during the same period a
year ago.
In nonmanufacturing industries
employment increased 100000 from
the second quarter Of 1945 to the Sec
ond quarter of this year, and wages
and salaries increased by Is percent,
from $44,OOO,OO0,OOO to $4,000, ,OOO,-
600.
Gross average hourly wages in pri-
vate industry increased percent from
April, 1945, to April 1916, Mr.. Wal
lace said. The sharpest increases
came in communicating industries
as whole, amounting to about 13
percent.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Distribute New Phone
Books

Distribution of Fl 900 new telephone
directories to users of the Cincinnati
and Suburban Bell Telephone COM
pany was started Monday on house
toulouse delivery in Hamilton and But
Ter county.
A crew, representing a distributing
agency, is expected to be busy three
days delivering the summer edition
of the directory to subscribers in this
area. Previously, the copies have been
mailed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Building Pay Rises

Detroit.-The following wage in
creases were reported by the Detroit
Building Trades Council for the last
week:
For 1000 construction laborers in
the Detroit area, 12R-cen hourly
raise to $1.27kcents; mortar mixers
getting a 10-cent boost to $1.35 and
air and electrical tool operators a
10-cent boost to $1.40.
For carpenters 71a cent raise to
$1,82s; painters, 21s-cent jump to
SITS.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

received basic wage increase Of 1874
cents an hour. This new contract
covers about 900 employees at the Dia-
mond match plant here and in the
neighborhood of 1,50O workers at the
Ohio Match Co. in Wadsworth, Ohio.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
THE BOSS

What is your name, please" ask
ed the precinct worker.
Maggie Dugan."
"And your husbands name?"
"Dugan, like my own"
"But what is his full name?"
"Well, when he's full he thinks he is
Jack Dempsey; but when l take him in
hand he's still Dugan."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Eagles Convention Class

Members of Butler Aerie, No. 407,
Fraternal Order of Eagles, are doing
their best to make the Convention
Glass" one of the largest ever taken
in by that organization, Sunday, Aug
ust 25th. All the brothers are urged
to bring in that new member.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY ALEXANDER s. LIPSETT
(An ILNS Feature)

Whatever ones views on Russian
manipulations in Eastern Europe,
Germany, Japan, Latin America, or
elsewhere, there can be no doubt that
Soviet foreign policy is shaped by
Communist thought and action. 1t is
a pity that this stark truth is kept
from the American public by states
men who obviously know better.
The recent statements of Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov on the fu-
ture status Of Germany are case in
point. The Russian-sponored idea of
a highly centralized German State
as opposed to the British
proposal of federalized Germany in
which the member states would exer-
else administrative and political pow
er-corresponds closely to the Com
munist concept of power from above.
1t has it's trade union counterpart in
the Zone Big Union" movement, a
mechanism as anti-democratic and
totalitarian as it is abhorrent to trade
unionists attached to age-old Anglo
saxon traditions of human freedom and
the rights of the union membership to
speak their mind freely and act ac-
cordingly.
These remarks are prompted by
observations of a commission of the
World Federation of Trade Unions on
the subject of reconstruction of the
German labor movement. According
to Lord Citrine, interim president of
the federation until his successor is
chosen they embody thorough study
Of German labor and trade union con-
ditions as the commission found them
in the course of recent survey.
These findings run counter to the
views of the Russians who, it should
be remembered, constitute the largest
and most powerful part of the WITH.
The Russians dominate the proceed
ings of the federation to a degree
hardly matched by their CIO part
ners. And that the WFTU should have
ventured into the highly controversial
field of German trade union organiza-
tion without running right smack into
a Russian veto is surprising, to say the
least.
"We found in some sections in the
Reich that the unions had founded a
single union and were paying funds
into one central fund.-" Lord Citrine ex-
planned. In some cases this had adj
vanced to the point where there was a
constitution for single union with a
number of different branches" Voic-
ing the commissions opposition to the
setting up of single central fund
for all unions, "even as temporary
Device" from which money would be
allotted to carry on local union activi-
ties Citrine added: "We did not say
that these union funds should be split
up. But we did tell the Allied authori-
ties that industrial central unions,
consisting of from Is to 18 craft
unions, should be established in each
zone, with absolute control of their
funds"
The WITH commission, in another
moment of candor, also suggested that
local unions should be joined together
within their respective zones or in
zonal federations, and that later on
these zonal groupings could be linked
into a nationwide movement, provid-
ed, of course, the Russians allowed
such bold democratic move.
4
Similar views have been repeatedly
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Final Period For "Y" Camp

The sixth and final period at the
Hamilton Y. M. c. A. Camp Campbell
Gard opened with Flagraising cere-
monies Monday afternoon. Gordon
Pickens, camp director, and Maurice
Ittel, assistant director, were in
charge.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Named Red Cross Head

Middletown, Ohio.-Mrs. Dorothy
Spears, 1O07h S. Main ST., has been
appointed Executive Secretary of the
Middletown Chapter American Red
Cross, succeeding Irene Dineen, who
resigned to enteradvanced secretarial
training at Milwaukee. Mrs. Spears
assumed her duties Thursday.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
George w. Mi!lner Dies;
Officer of LOngshOremen

New York City.-George William
Millner, 68, of Norfolk, Va, the first
Negro to be named vice president
for life Of the Atlantic Coast district,
International Longshoremen's Asso-
citation (AFL), died in New York
Hospital of a heart ailment.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
TrOneymen Get Raise

San Francisco, Calf. Members Of
the Amalgamated Association Of
Street, Electric Railway and Motor
Coach Employees (AFL) here, have
been granted raises from 81 cents to
$1.10 an hour while other workers
will receive 1888 percent increase.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Match Makers Get Raise

Barberton, Ohio.-President F. B.
Gerhart of the National Matchwork-
ers Council (AFL) has announced
that all members of the union have
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02
Plant Expansion Planned

Middletown, Ohio.-The L. c. N.
Corp, Enoch Dr., plans expansion of
it's plant facilities within the next 80
days to increase the output of L. c. N.
aircraft landing gear, it was announc-
ed by Lucien R. Gruss, President and
Treasurer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1946-08-02

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The Nome nugget., 1946-03-15

have dubbed this experiment, a barge will drift into the lagoon to explode another atomic bomb among warships at surface level.
 Exactly 25 years before this lat ter test, in July, 1921. Brig Gen. William Mitchell and handful of his flying Jennies proved to the world that a battleship could be sunk by bombs from the air.
 It will be we'll for the people of this country to evaluate the Bikini atomic bomb tests in the light of those conducted a quarter of a century ago, when a 42-year-old flying fool" tried to make the world understand that the warfare of tomorrow would be something
The Nome nugget., 1946-03-15
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MITCHELL AND BIKINI

WASHINGTON - In May, on the lonely little atoll of Bikini, halfway between the Philippines and Hawaii, an atomic bomb will be exploded over 92 ships of war.
 Two months later, according to present plans of Operation Cross roads, as the joint chiefs of staff
The Nome nugget., 1946-03-15
"YOU'D BE SURPRISED"
(By George Simpson,

(By George Stimpson)
 In 1853, when Ivan the Terrible Czar of Russia and the young and sickly Edward VI was King of Eng land, Richard Chancellor, sailing in the Admiral made the first trip by an Englishman to Russia.
 Richard Hakuyt in 1889 about the time Shakespeare was beginning to write plays, published account of Chancelors Russian expedition under the title "The Discovery of Muscovy."
 In Hakluyts work have the earliest account of the Kremlin at Moscow written by Englishman. The chronicler of the expedition wrote:
 There is hard by the city (Moscow) very fair cas-
 e strong and furnished with artillery whereunto the city is joined directly toward the north with brick wal the walls also of the castle built with brick and in breadth thickness eighteen feet This tie hath on the side dry ditch, and the other side the river Volga, whereby it is made almost preg nable.
 "The same Voga tending towards the east doth ad- init into it the company of the River Occa.
 Tn the castle aforesaid three are in number nine churches chapes, not altogether unhandsome which used and kept by certain religious men, over whom there is, after sort patriarch governor and with him other reverend fathers all which for the greater part dwell within the castle
 As for the kings court and palace it is of the neatest only in form 1t is foursquare and of low build ing, much surpassed and excelled by the beauty and elegancy of the houses of the kings of England The windows are very narrowly built, and of them by glass; other by lattices admit the light and where the palaces of princes decked and adorned with hangngs of cloth of gold there such there"
The Nome nugget., 1946-03-15
ADHEsIvES ON A GRAND SCALE
Scientific American)

Scientific American)
 Those who still look askance upon synthetic resins reliable bonding agent for wood will find many of their questions answered by work going forward the 200-ton flying boat nearly completed by the Hughes Aircraft Company Here, group of adhesives-quid and f-are being used to make the millions of glued joints required in the mammoth aircraft Tests extend ing three-year period have proved the efficacy of the bonding materials And the lessons learned will flow readily into other industries from the production of boats and furniture pre-fabricated houses and juniors toys.
 MAXIM REVISED-All work and play,
 Makes "Jack" and that ain't hay.
The Nome nugget., 1946-03-15
OPA ENFORCEMENT AGENTS

(By Bruce A. Gustin, in The Denver Post)
 The OPA is having tough sleddng in its fight for ad- dtona funds to hire enforcement agents It wants $1 954 900. Wednesday, the Senate voted to allow 1t only one-haf that amount The slash in the proposed appropriation made after Senator Wherry ot Nebraska had charged that the OPA is trying to build up nationwide "Gestapo' and Senator Hlck- enooper of Iowa had declared that mo sprawng, no stupid agency of governments exists than the OPA.
 The Senate slash in the OPA appropriation reflects growing public resentment against the way Washing ton bureaucrats have been kicking American business around and hamperng production. More and more the people of this country blaming OPA policies for the shortages with which they afflicted. One thing tin, under the existing system of OPA regimentaton production increases, which the only real cure for imitation, have NOT materialized
 Wednesday, The Civilian Production Administration reported that American industrial output has dropped to the lowest levels since the spring of 1941 But the production capacity of American industry is the great in history The demand for goods great than ever before More people have more money than they had in their lives to pay for the things they want.
 Undoubtedly, as the OPA says strikes are responsi- be for many shortages But large part of this strike paralysis of production due to asinne pricewage pol cies Industrial employees have been encouraged to de- mand wage increases. When employers could get they would be allowed to make price increases to wage advances, strikes resulted and produc ton stopped The Truman administration has shut its eyes the economic fact that do enter into prices and refuses that increased production the only effective regulator of prices in a free economy.
 A Senate subcommittee told Wednesday by large chain store official how OPA stupidity and competence" have caused clothing shortages. He hibted two mems knitted cotton undershrts. On one Mexican-made he said the OPA ceiling price $2 The other Aerican-made and superior garment, could be produced profitably, he declared, at $4.5O a dozen which would allow retail price of 50 cents, but the OPA has ordered ceiling price of $3.75 dozen with the result that this shirt is not being made Holding down prices doesn't benefit the American people when that prevents them from having anything to buy.