The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 10, 1934, Page 2

MAMMA OD . THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1934 2 ; Blue Eagle Struts _ Proudly on Streets — Of New York City ‘Work of NRA in World’s Largest City Is Declared ‘Smash- ing Success’ WHELAN FIGURES PROVE IT i Factories Have Hired 20 Per Cent More Workers; Pay- rolls Advancing This is the eighth of 11 articles merica Under the Blue By PAUL HARRISON New York, Jan. 10—The Blue Eagle 4s strutting pretty proudly on the side- | walks of New’ York. He has heard Grover A. Whalen declare in ringing tones that “the work of the NRA here has been a smashing success.” Of course Mr. Whalen is the local NRA administrator, and may be prej- udiced. But Mr. Whalen also has ” figures. The figures show that more than 500,000 persons have been put back in- to business and industry, a number representing about half the city’s un- employed only a few months ago. Wholesale trade is approximately 18 Per cent above the volume of last year, and retail trade has improved nearly 25 per cent. Factories have hired 20 per cent more morkers, and manufacturing Payrolls have increased 13 per cent. Thousands Back at Work In the retail field more than 90 Per cent of the businessess have signed the president's re-employment agreement, 33,100 new jobs have been created, and retail store payrolls have dumped $43,470,000 a year. Thirty thousand New Yorkers are working in reforestation camps, and about 150,000 are on the payrolls of the Civil Works Administration. New York likes the NRA very much indeed. Consequently, per- haps, it also has demonstrated considerable idolatry for Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, who has not spoken quite so bluntly hereabout | as he has in some other sections of the country. Besides, New York is very remote from the centers of some of the more critical problems. All’s Quiet in N. Y. Wheat is just something that one buys -in one form or another at the bakers’ at about the same old price. Meat is a commodity which appears with dependable regularity in refrig- erator cars. Steel is something one bets on in the stock barket. And so on. Here's an example which probably | ds true of hundreds of New York con- cerns: “In the states where our raw ma- terials come from, and where our fac- tories are located,” said a manufac- turer, “we fought the NRA tooth and nail. We've been scrapping in Wash- ington, too. But all's quiet in our New York business office, where we had to put on a lot more employes.” ‘While many NRA groups are being @issolved into regional authorities, officials here believe that this one Must continue essentially as before. “It’s too big a job for regional sup- ervision,” says Thomas J. Donovan, vice chairman of the Department of Law and Complaints. “For instance, the New York state organization at present has a staff of only 12 people, while the one for the city is keeping 20 busy. And at the peak of our ac- tivity we had more than 500 employes.” Throngs Seek Advice From the first week in August, when the Blue Eagle went into action here, the bureau of interpretation function- ed more as an educational and diplo- matic service than as a legal office. Employers demanded rulings on scores of special applications’of the PRA. And thousands of unemployed men and women, with even hazier Rotions of what it was all about, romp- ed in with the idea that the NRA was created especially to restore their old Jobs. Not just any jobs, but the places which they last held. Nobody knows how this thought be- ame 80 prevalent, but disillusionment brought grumbling. The division of law has received and responded to 32,000 inquiries. The complaint division, which opened its doors on the first day to 150 clamoring clients, has received several thousand charges of evasion every month, and had eight clerks in its file room who did nothing but move the incoming and outgoing reports. jlished for unskilled as well as skilled business and is perfectly capable of enforcing its decisions.” As for unfair business practices, the retail codesters have been so thorough in their investigations of complaints that they have sent shop- pers about the city pricing all kinds of goods. Fake bankruptcy and going- out-of-business sales, misbrand- ing of goods, and other common dodges of unscrupulous merchants have been halted in every case in which a complaint has been lodg- ed against them. Mr. Whalen himself is proudest of his organization's accomplishments in the labor field. Settled Garment Strikes “Our outstanding achievement,” he Says, “was the early settling of the garment strikes, in which 94,000 needle trades workers walked out. Mediation of those strikes was the supreme test, locally, of the proposition that labor could, and would, co-operate.” New York's garment industry never had been more than scatteringly un- ionized. Hideaway sweatshops, child labor, clashing union factions and the schemes of sub-contractors to dodge labor laws kept the situation pretty well out of hand. When the Blue Eagle first swooped on the teeming midtown garment} section, the International Lady Gar-| ment Workers’ Union ranked twenty- sixth in membership among the city’s labor organizations. The strikes began early in August, and the NRA faced its most formid- able problem right at the start of its own activity. Dress factory workers walked out, 60,000 strong. Embroidery and underwear workers, about 34,000, struck next. Grover Whalen and his men pre- sided at hearings night and day, for weeks. One by one the different branches of the industry resumed operation, and in every case labor was benefited. Wages Are Boosted ‘The work week, which had been virtually unlimited, was reduced to 48! and 52 hours. Pitifully low wages of | many employes were increased as) much as 100 per cent in reaching the! $15 minimum. A minimum wage also was estab- labor. Sweatshops and home work Practically were abolished. So was child labor, with the working age limit raised to 18 years. From a membership of 60,000, with a ranking of twenty-sixth, the gar- ment union membership rose to 175,000 and third place in strength. Up to Nov. 1, when the Regional| Labor Board took over the work of the city committee, settlement had been made of 55 strikes involving 250,- 000 employes, a total weekly payroll of $6,000,000, and affecting the livelihood of some 700,000 persons. Since Nov. 1, the Regional Labor Board has settled 148 strikes, averted 22, and thus has kept approximately 21,000 workers at their jobs. Rackets Still Alive Labor’s opposition to the NRA in; New York has been negligible, with few such examples as the food work- ers and waiters’ unions’ threat to; cause a New Year's Eve strike of 150,- 000 persons as a@ protest against the restaurant code when it was awaiting the signature of the president. } In spite of Mr. Whalen’s statement } that there have been only a few cases} in which there was even a suspicion. of racketeering, there is considerable ; newspaper evidence that some labor unions still are victimized by racke- ‘runways for all directions. Twins with two fathers—that recognized in court in the case Peddie, when Judge R. B. Tri ing him custody of Leonard and to the mother, wpheld possibility of the sp! BISMARCK AIRPORT FACILITIES LAUDED, Lieut. C. N. S. Ballou Discusses Possibilities Before Ro- | tary Club Bismarck has facilities for one of the finest airports possible, Lieut. C, N. S. Ballou of Fort Lincoin said in an address on aeronautics and flying fields before the Rotary club at the organization’s luncheon meeting Wed- hesday noon. Brittin Flying Field, city-operated airport near Fort Lincoln, he said, has sufficient area and proper ter- rain to afford take@ff and landing The one principal obstacle to land- ing from all directions is the power line along one side of the field, through use of an underground con- duit. He painted a glowing picture of how Brittin Field could be improved, and Erich, 6, shown with their mother, Lena S. D., granted a divorce to Ewald Peddie, giv- Peddie testified that his wife had confessed infidelity and medical testimony which he suggested can be eliminated | possibility was of Leonard, left, Twins Have Two Fathers, ipp, in Yankton, awarding Erich lit paternity. greater demand for establishment. of | safe landing and takeoff ports. Now, | he pointed. out, the civil works ad- | ministration has come to the aid of | communities desiring to improve fly- ing facilities and ports. Tourtilott Will Leave Captain R. R. Tourtilott of Fort | Lincoln, former member of the Ro- tary club who sodn will leave for the Philippine Islands, gave a short talk in farewell to the club. Dr. George M. Constans, president, responded, Attention of the club members was called to the address on cancer which will be given by Dr. L. W. Larson at an open forum meeting 5; by the American Association of Univer-| jeity women in the dining room of the World War Memorial building next | Monday night at 8 o'clock. | A letter from the Winnipeg Rotary | club announced that the 10th atmual| goodwill meeting will be conducted in that city Feb. 17. George Humphreys acted as. song| leader in the absence of H. J. Duere-| land and Al Lowrey played accom-/| paniments. T. R. Atkinson was pro-| gram chairman. | Guests included F. R. Clapp of En- | derlin, W. F. Buscher and C. R. Bard-| well of Minneapolis, C. C. Turner, |R. Moore of Bismarck, F..Urban Pow- |ers of Fargo and H. L. Finke of Minot. including leveling and surfacing of runways, which already is under way, and setting up of signal lights of all kinds, including a series of lights which would indicate to a night flier above that this is Bismarck. Port of Great Value The city should not under-valuate the advantage which a good airport will give it, Lieut. Ballou said, point- teers. Sathre Investigates Murder at Bordulac Fargo, Jan. 10.—(?)—The attorney f general's office of North Dakota Wed- nesday entered the investigation of the death of John Hoffman, promin- ent Bordulac farmer slain last Thurs- day. Attorney General P. O. Sathre and his assistant, J. H. Heder, formerly of Wahpeton, left here Wednesday afternoon for Carrington. Sathre said he would confer with Foster county officials who have been working on the case and later would make a decision as to whether his department would assist in the in- quiry or assume entire control. Sathre and Heder were in Fargo Wednesday appearing in federal court on the grain embargo test suit insti- tuted by North Dakota elevators. Meanwhile at Carrington, C. W. Burnham, Foster county states attor- ney, said progress was being made Complaints Settled Of the complaints considered valid, 11,917 have been acted upon, being referred variously to the investign- tion department, the bureau of inter- The city’s retail code authority is the largest local code body in the country, irrespective of indus- has nearly 60,000 busi- October 30, we have had 225 complaints, about 190 of which in the Hoffman death inquiry. Vogel Warns Against State Road Expansion Fargo, Jan. 10.—(#)—Warning that North Dakota is getting more high- way in its state system than it can Properly maintain and that recon- struction of some of the present mile- age should be done before adding new miles to maintain, was given by Frank Vogel, state highway commis- sioner before the second day's ses- sion of the county commissioners as- sociation of North Dakota. The forenoon program was given over to addresses by Vogel, W. J. Flannigan, maintenance chief{ and H. C. Frahm, highway engineer. H. J. Taylor of the federal bureau of pub- ec roads could not be present and Frahm talked in his place. ‘A. D, McKinnon, in charge of the CCC work in North Dakota, gave a report on these projects Wednesday afternoon. WHEAT STOCKS DROP Washington, Jan. 10.—(?)—Stocks of wheat on farms Jan. 1 were re- ported Wednesday by the department of agriculture to aggregate 194,136,000 bushels,- compared with — 273,622,000 bushels on Jan. 1 last year. ? ing out that the Northwest Airways already has selected Bismarck as one point on the principal northern air reute from Chicago to the Pacific coast. Bismarck could be a strategic point in a national defense system, he said, with the transcontinental air route and transcontinental railroad, together with the Missouri river, in- tersecting here. Lieut. Ballou said that when he sonably level field served as a flying field. Development of flying , fields did not begin until a few years ago, he said, when phenomenal develop- first started flying in 1916, any rea-! ment in speed of planes brought a| ‘Output of Electric | | Power Shows Gain Court Told LUND CHARGED WITH ‘FRIENDLY’ AUDITS Industrial Commission Secre- tary to Carry Fight Be- fore State Board (By The Associated Press) James Mulloy, secretary of the stave industrial commission, Wednesday charged thas Ole B. Lund, accountant for the state board of auditors, made “too many friendly audits” of state departments and that “at the proper time and place I will produce the evi- dence which I have, in my possession to substantiate the charges made by snyself against. Mr. Lund.” He said he will appear before a : meeting .of the board of auditors, which probably will be held jointly with the industrial commission, and |; voice ‘his charges. A meeting of the board of auditors, |; composed of Secretary of State Rob- |former member of the club; Gordon ert Byrne, Attorney General P. O. Sathre and State Auditor Berta E. Baker, is expected to be held as soon | as Sathre returns from Fargo. In politicai circles reports have cir- culated for some time that Gov. Wil- liam Langer would seek the dismissal of Lund because of the accountant’s New York, Jan. 10.—(@)—An in-}.alleged unfriendliness to the admine crease of 9.7 per cent in electric pow- er oytput last week over the same | \Period last year established the sharp- | est gain since the week of Sept: 30. | Both periods included the New Year holiday. ‘The figures have shown in-| creasing gains over the previous year since the week of Dec. 16, when out-/ put was only 5.2 per cent ahead. There also was a moderate upturn ;95 compared with the previous week, ag included the Christmas holi-! lay. Forty per cent of the corn crop of © |the United States is fed to swine, 20 | Per cent to farm horses, 20 per cent | to cattle and other livestock, while jcnly 15 to 20 per cent is used f human consumption. istration. Mulloy indicated he will make no recommendations as to Lund’s dismissal, bit that he will de- -tail the charges against the account- ant. Austrian Fascists Will Battle Nazis Vienna, Jan. 10.—(?)—Upwards of 20,000 Fascist Heimwehrmen arms in Austria were ready Wednes- day to back Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a “once and for all” drive inst the Nazis. There was however one condition— that Heimwehr leaders are assured by HOTEL MEN TO MERT IN CITY JAN. 26-27 ‘Will Consider Code for Hotel Operators Adopted by Re- covery Administration Dakota will assemble in Bismarck Jan. 26 and 27 to consider the code for | hotel operators adopted by the nation- ‘al recovery administration, according to Frederick Peterson of the Capital City, chairman of the state hotel code ‘authority. Decision to hold the state-wide meeting was reached here Tuesday at Hotel men from throughout North : conference of the five members of ity, appointed by the national hotel oe *Fauthority, Ed P. Ehr of Urban Powers of ie ward additions, omissions or changes to make for greater effectiveness in North Dakota. Local conditions might affect success of the code appreciably, ® spokesman of the authority said. Harry Peyton of Williston is presi- dent of the state hotel association. NYSTUL 10 SET U LOAN ASSOCIATIONS Fargoan to Have Charge of Or- ganizing Federal Work in Two States Fargo, Jan. 10:—(#)—John Nystul, Fargo, has been named to take charge of organization work in North and South Dakota for federal savings and joan associations, he announced Wed- mands for the new setup supplemen- tary to the federal home loan project, but in itself planned by the national administration as a permanent rather City Life Insurance company. Are Called for Quiz Washington, Jan. 10.—(#)—Senate heard Wednesday that night flying and conceded Ged independent companies from idding. Sheaffer told senate 25,000 shares of the company ‘Were given to Colonel Charles A. Lind- Dollfuss he will establish a purely | bergh. Fescist regime, T hree New Senators Get Garner's Greetings There were smiles all around as Vice President Garner welcomed to ‘Washington three new United States + Senators on the eve of the first regular session of Congress under the Roosevelt Ateiniericn. Te left to right are Senators Ernest Gibson of Hatch of New Mexico, Vermont, Joseph C. O’Mah: joney of Phillips 66 Gasoline Demonstration In Bismarck at the Capitol Chevrolet Com : On FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12 at ‘ Demonstration Given by Phillips Petroleum Company B traffic and the gine discouragement Proves the abilit nation to ‘chink’ nally to contradict themselves in the end! Why not be consistent in ° thought as well as in action? aucune ’ tailm ® subsequent dec People’s Forum _{|{eliment and, subseaus desired a Editor's Note)—' ‘Trib 1. | |an effective cure for agriculture, why phony ietters on ubiects ‘of tnter- ||should not this same line of reason- est, Letters dealing with contro- ||ing apply to industry also? Yergigl religious subjects, which || Ins sense, however, the industrial- individuals uatatety, at ist constantly increases his particular type of mass-| tion through uw» tra-efficient machinery with the si of political genius while the agricul- turist and the laborer are asked—even demanded—to decrease their natural cutput. This is not sound mechanics! If the condition were at once reversed, we should see an economic resurrec- tlon that would amaze the rank and file of our people. Consider well the natural course of reconstruction that would take place if mechanized industry were to institute measures whereby their own production would be limited by vir- tue of the machine displacement. Thousands of men, now dependent upon charity and who during the | subsequent months are sure to be em- Ployed by the taxpayer through gov- ernmental facilities would avail themselves of permanent employment and secure for themselves independ- ence. By means of securing this in- dividual independence, these men would not merely become self-sup- y | Porting taxpayers of our country, but would eventually become potential consumers which, due to extremely but Lead circumstances, they are not to- = iS Hy In the meantime, while urban con- sumption should continue to be @reater, the problem of stagnated agriculture would right itself. Agri- culture doesn’t need a price! All that agriculture needs to satisfy it's de- Plorable state is to obtain enough of co-operation from industry so that a stable, permanent market could be effected by the rightful return of the boring classes to their indomitable position in society. The old economic law would then govern the price, of man’s most inherent nat- ural rights 1s to be able to work and first and ur If you wish to use sign the pseudonym own name bene: et such re the right to letters as may conform to tl it. We will re- Jan. 8, 1934. Editor, Tribune: Tt was with much interest we re-! cently read an article on the present ui ‘ prezee ig $8 i FI E aietl 2 & y i E g to maintain a home as a result of his endeavor. The rapid advance of the machine age has deprived man of this right and has despoiled the in- tegrity of honest toil. As a result the fundamental unit of society is siowly but surely crumbling into ruin! ‘That result is inevitable, for society cannot subsist upon charity alone. It must have a natural access to stab- ility through independence! Incidentally, can pretty well! ‘will agriculture get the co-opera- understand why the lir tion from industry that is treceesary are so low. For this case is being /to distribute wealth equally and, Of | consequently, to restore prosperity? Respectfully, A. LEO SEVERN. Wild Rose E g 3 eee ness men farming as a sideline alto- gether, and as long as it refuses to do By MISS JENNIE WAISTE this we will have a suffering agricul- tural population, unable to help it-| Mrs. Joe Braun, accompanied by her self because of the unfair competition | 40n Wendelin and daughter Mary mo- it meets from the business man. tored to Bismarck Wednesday after- } One reason for the low prices of noon. They returned home Thursday. poultry and other products is the fact; Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Materie that hundreds of hatcheries have Pray callers in Hapoleon ‘Tuesday and sprung up all over ‘the country and rf. huge batteries have been installed by Mr. and Mrs. Keller and Wendelin which chicks can be produced and/Schlosser were Braddock callers raised in enormous quantities. It is| Thursday. easy to see why the farm wife is no longer able to ‘supply her table with! “Ten Nights in a Bar Room” was ‘egg money.’ There is no such animal | Written by Timothy Shay Arthur. any more. cannot rake} A good corn husker can husk as suerte anor it eepeteargregees) high as 100 bushels of corn in one day, ng to permit produce, the food hae going to consumed by our people and we must | § do it at once. No longer can the pres- | ent situation continue. If we decide; on the farmer, then farming as a sideline must be abolished in each and every form. There should also be a stop put to the various state instit tions selling their products in com- petition with the North Dakota farm- er. j A Farmer. i “RAPS PRODUCTION CONTROL scioa sca N. D. rs January 7, 1934, Editor, Tribune Milo Reno, president of a militant farm organization, recently described the administration's wpe ria Program as being basically false in- sofar as agriculture itself is directly concerned because it attempts to ve Hay Your Old Hat nin fon f fe make your old hat lock like new in style and finish. en See Bismarck Shine and Hat Nash-Finch Company Distributors Bismarck, N. D. Phone 4? Come - Bring Your Friends Sée This Wonderful Demonstration BISMARCK OIL ‘COMPANY FRITS LUNDE ALERT LUNDE