Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1930, Page 6

A—6 LABOR CONVENTION T0 REGARD SLUMP Prohibition Unemployment, and Five-Day Week to Be Considered. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. American organized labor, having at- tained the dignity of a 50-year-old movement, will hold its golden jubllee annual convention in Boston this week amid conditions largely unprecedented in its half century of history. How to come to grips with the grave industrial plight, now drifting Into its second year, naturally will be in the forefront of the meeting. President Willlam Green on or executives of the American Fe ion of Labor will present a concrete gram for grappling with the basic sues confronting organized workers at tids time. It will be submitted and bacome the order of business immedi- ately following the address which President Hoover will deliver before the convention tomorrow afternoon. Problems Are Outlined. More or less in the order of their im- ce, these are the questions which will rivet the Federation of Labor's at- tention at Boston: { 1. Ways and means for coping with everproduction. 3 VIntroduction of five-hour shifts and five-day wecks in American in- dustry. 3. Legalization by Congress of per cent beer. 4. Methods for protecting organized labor against “government by injunc- oy 5. Reaffirmation of labor's “political licy,” i.e., rewarding friends and pun- ing_enemmies. j 6. Extension of federation's activities 0 include wider organization of workers continued restric- . with special re- strictions while unemployment remains vated. 8. Necessity of remaining vigilant re- Communistic endeavors in ited States. Unemployment Considered. How labor can co-operate with capi- tal in coping with unemployment is likely to dominate p: at Bos- ten. The federation has not formally taken issue with the census rcport that only 2,500,000 wage earners are out of work in the country. Many organized labor leaders have challen these res and contend that the actual mtfl total is materially higher— some say as high as 4,000,000 or more. The federation has definite ideas how an unemployment crisis, at least of present dimensions, can be avoided or minimized in future. It purposes asking employers to embark systematically upon a program of “spreading” work over the year so that seasonal slack iods will not, as they habitually Pave in the past, result in lay-offs of thousands of workers. Labor believes h planning by industry nish the evil of unemployment, ways and means ean be evolved for considerably its hardshi ‘To curb ioblm:l. the federation ‘will also have before it the project just approved by the metal trades depart- ment of the organization. This de- clares that the five-hour day and five- day week constitute a prompt method of providing work and restoring na- tional purchasing power. The report declares that so great is the potential ctive capacity of the United tes, owing to mew machinery, that if manufacturing establishments were to operate at full capacity four hours day, the ‘would be greater than ever. “It would fitable to investors,” the les spokesmen declare, “more beneficial to wage earners and of be more greater advantage to the public if | many of our industrial plants operated | two five-hour shifts per day. There ‘would be little, if any, confusion or lost effort by having one shift of workmen employed five hours in the forenoon and another shift of five hours in the afternoon. method is coming as certainly as the three eight-hour shifts displaced the old two 12-hour shifts jn production.” In calling for 2.75 per cent beer, under amendment of the Volstead Ac the Federation of sffirm oft-expressed allegiance to what 1t considers the most practical solution of the now bitterly contested prohibi- tion issue. Beer is described by labor leaders as the American workers’ bev- erage. It is held to be non-intoxicatin; because of the extreme improbability that any working man or woman woul ever drink enough to get drunk on it. “It's the ‘hard stuff’ the laborer used to lap up in the old-fashioned saloon that sent him home ‘full’ and kept him away from work Monday mornings.” say the labor beer advocates. ‘We don't want the saloon back and don't sk the legalization of ‘hard stuff.’ but the American worker can be given 2.75 beer without any peril to him, to in- dustry or to the prohibition cause. That, in a nutshell, is the argument that will be put forth at the Boston convention. ‘The rejection of Judge Parker of North Carolina for s United States Bupreme Court justiceship gives special | point to organized labor's hostility to “government by injunction.” The Bos- ton conclave will go strongly on record in favor of the Norris-Blaine-Walsh bill now pending in the Senate, where- by “yellow dog” decisions, discrimina- tory azainst organized labor—the thing that undid Judge Parker—will be defi- nitely abolished by law. The Federa- tion says it will never rest until every form of restriction against unionism is stified. It plumes itself on having not only brought about Judge Parker's mon-confirmation in the Senate, but also on having materially helped to defeat ‘“pro-Parker” Senators seeking renomination in the 1930 primaries. Among these were Senators Simmons of North Carolina, Blease of South Carolina, and Ransdcll of Louisiana. Plan War on Communism. In the congressional campaign now raging, organized labor this week will rededicate itself to its familiar prac- tice of “rewarding friends and punish- ing enemies.” The program is held to be strictly non-partisan and bi-par. tisan. In any congressional district or State, a candidate for Congress is op- posed or supported, whether he be Re- publican or Democrat, wholly and ex- clusively on his record with respect to *“labor legislation.” If he has been eonsistent supporter of immigration re- striction, for example, or anti-injunc tion bills, in the House or Senate, he ro- is- | volume <f production | bor will only re- | PREVIERST0 PLAN FGHTON PROBLENS Second Phase of Imperial Conference to Follow Mon- day Meeting in London. By the Associated Press {of the British Imperial Conference pro- |gram will be completed Monday morn- |ing, when the chief delegates, in ses- sion at 10 Downing street, will finish | their review of the operation of empire | constitutional machinery established by | the 1926 conference | Next week will see the dominion rime ministers closing up on the ma- | jor purpose of their meeting—the great |economic problems ~which face the { empire. | In view of the great importance of this topic, the Government of the United Kingdom and that of each do- minion will authorize their spokesmen to make a full and frank statement, a | program that probably will require two days, beginning Wednesday. The statements will correspond to the general announcements of aims made by the chief delegates at the outset of the Five-Power Naval Conference in London early this year. The first speaker ‘ will be J. H. Thomas, rep- resenting the home government, and | the session will be private | The social side of the imperial gath- |ering is well under way, with the offi- clal week end established from Friday to_Monday. | To Prime Minister and Mrs. R. B. Bennett of Canada go the honor of be- ing the first entertained at the coun- try estate of the British prime minis- ter, Chequers. All the Canadian dele- gates and their wives will join the Ben- netts at a luncheon given by Rarasay MacDonald, the host, tomorrow. BRITON TO ADDRESS JEVISH CONGRESS Harry Snell, Labor Party Chair-| man in Commons, on Program Beginning October 19. An address by Harry Snell, chair- man of the Labor party in the House of Commons, London, will mark a con- vention of the American Jewish Con- gress to_begin here October 19. The Willard Hotel will be the headquarters for the conclave. The women's reception committee will be composed of Mrs. John M. Safer, chairman; Mrs, Maurice Bisgyer, Mrs, Edward Cafritz, Mrs. Edward Cooper, Mrs. David Davis, Mrs. A. M. Fox, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Mrs. Charles Gordon, Mrs. Adolph Kahn, Mrs. Isa- dore Kahn, Mrs. Joseph Kaminsky, Mrs. Jack Kott, Mrs. Willlam Krait, Mrs. Harry Levinson, Mrs. Harry Lewis, Mrs. Maurice Milstone, Mrs. Maurice Narcisenfeld, Mrs. William Ogus, Mrs. Edward_Ostrow, Mrs. Henry Oxenberg, Mrs. Charles ' Pllzer, Mrs. William Rosendorf, Mrs. Cl ’ Rosenthal, Mrs. Hyman D. Shapiro, Mrs. Harry Sherby, Mrs. A. J. Steinberg, Mrs. Mil- ton Strasburger, Mrs. Joseph Tepper, Mrs. Jack Veax, Mrs. Harry Viner and Mrs. Julius Wolpe. D. C. SUPREME COURT FORCES ARE SHIFTED | M. Lee Ashford to Be in Criminal | Division 1, With Justice Gordon, for Fall Term. Coincident with the new assignment of justices of the District Supreme Court for the Fall term, Frank E. Cun- ningham, clerk of the court, has made 2 change in the assistant clerks, who in the various branches of the M. Lee Ashford will be in Criminal Division No. 1, with Justice Gordon; |John W. Gardiner, jr., in Criminal Division No. 2, with Justice Adkins; {William §. Adkins in Criminal Division No. 3, with Justice Luhring: William Stickney in Circuit Division No. 1, | with Justice Stafford, and Fred O’Connell in Circuit Division No. 2, with Justice Siddons; Russell P. Belew will be in Equity Division No. 1, with Jus- tice Balley and Willlams P. Lemon in Equity Division No. 2, with Justice Hitz. Harry B. Dertzbaugh will be in i District _Division No. 1, with Chief | | LONDON, October 4.—The first phase | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHL\'GTO‘\'. D. C.. OCTOBER 5, 'HARRY ENGLISH g | | Veteran Paid High Tribute on Ending Career of 43 Years’ Service. Strokes of Paralysis f Since Last Year. ‘ | Harry English, chief examiner of the public school system since 1924 and a | veteran of 43 years' service in the pub- | lic school system, is being retired by the Board of Education following a serlous fliness begun by a stroke of paralysis| during the last school year. | Mr. English leaves the service accom- | panicd by one of the most glowing statements of tribute ever given any re- | school ~ system employe. The | statement, submitted by Dr. Frank W.| Ballou, superintendent, and made a part of the official school record at the Franklin Administration Building, traces etiring educator's career and pays tribute to his success in office and to the confidence and respect which both officers and teachers hold for him. Dr. Ballow’s Statement “Thousands of men ard women in this community will long remember Mr. | English for his sterling character and | for the inspirations they have received | from him as an instructor,” Dr. Ballo statement declares, “The school sys ppreciates the splendid results of initiative and constructive scholarship. | Mr. glish retires from active service | enjoying the highest respect and appre- | ciation of his associates and the Board | of Education for his fine career devoted to the interest of the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia.” Entering the school service in 1887 as a young man Tecently graduated fr—m colleXz, Ms. English first was a teacher | of mathematics in the Central High Schooi. When the position of head of the department of mathematics was created in the school act of 1906 Mr. English was made its first incumbent. In the same year he assumed also duty of secretary to the board of examiners in the white schools. The development of the examination and teacher ac- crediting system is due largely to Mr. Eclish's work in this field. He was made chief examiner in 1924. Held Other Posts. He also is a past president of the High School Teachers' Association and for many years has been State director of the National Education Association and the District of Columbia’s delegate to the association's national meetings. He has received national recognition as a mathematician and as a_member of the National Council of Mathematics. Stricken with paralysis in his home near McLean, Va., last Winter, Mr. Eng- lish was nearing recovery when a second stroke overtook him during the intense warm weather of the past Summer. He will continue his residence with his family at his Virginia home. MEXICO BOOSTS TARIFF Government Meets Request of Fruit Growers With Increase. MEXICO CITY, October 4 (#).—In response to requests of Mexican frui’ growers the government has increased the tariff on fresh and dried fruits by 200 per cent. Mexican growers asserted that imported fruits constituted un- justified competition and prevented de- velopment of the Mexican fruit-growing industry. Grapes, apples, pears and peaches are among the principal fruit ! imports from the United States, these coming mainly from California, Texas and other Southern States. This American Radiator Co. 3338383833838 338 3338 21 | Justice Wheat. | No clerk has been selected to serve | ¥ith Justice Cox in District Division 0. 2. 'AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS’ | | SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED ‘AIL C. Edwards and Lieut. Comdr. Rounds, U.'S. N. R., Feature Fall Dinner-Meeting Program. H. C. Edwards, aeronautical cnief engineer for the Packard Motor Co., | and Lieut. Comdr. E. W. Rounds, U. §. N. R, will be the featured speakers at | the first Fall dinner-meeting of the Washington Society Automotive | Engineers at the Washington Hotel | Tuesday evening at 6:30, Mr. Edwards will explain the new | Packard - Diesel airplane engine, of which he is one of the designers. Comdr. Rounds, who is in charge of flight testing at the Burcau of Aero- nautics, Navy Department, will follow with an address on the sclentific and flight angles of the Chicago air races, where he was a timer. Sensational moments during the races will be shown in motion pictures, which | will be followed by vaudeville acts and music. C. 5. Bruce, chairman; C. S. | Fliedner, E. M. Cornell and J. C. | McCalmont, compose the Committee on Arrangements. !the American Federation of Labor | should serve as the trumpeter on the | wall, to watch and warn. That is ex |actly what we are doing. and what we shail continue to do, to the best of our ability.” $33833833838338833388 Installed As Low as 3333888 *0 Lo d $8383383883888 920 TO BE RETIRED AS SCHOOL'S CHIEF EXAMINER EDMORSTON __ MARRY ENGLISH. MOSELEY WILL FILED Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., October 4 —The late Edward G. Moseley, prominent tobac- conist and churchman, who died re- cently, left an estate valued at $400,000, | according to his will admitted to pro- bate in court here. He left the bulk of the estate to his widow and made ap- preciable bequests to relatives and local institutions. [MILK PRODUCERS SEEK l MARKET FACILITIES | Better Conditions for Trade Is Aim | of Association Formed by Virginia Farmers.” i Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, October 4.—The | Milk Producers’ Association of Augusta County, in meeting here with 150 repre- | sentative farmers in attendance, re- | ported fine progress made by the re- cently formed organization. The course | of action decided upon inciudes an | effort, to secure froni local creameries a contract designed to bring about better | marketing conditions. The meeting was presided over by County Agent J. C. Coner, who sounded the keynote of the gathering as he out- | lined a plan for unified action on the | part of milk producers, so that they | might operate with efficency. Other | talks were made by G. H. Ward of Vir- | ginia Polytechnic Institute: W. D, Hiser of Middlebrook and B. D. Shanks of the Rockingham County Association. FIVE CONSTABLES HURT Police Fire Into Rioters in Indfan Village Disturbance. | TALMUN, BENGAL, India, October 4 ().—Five constables were injured to- day in rioting in the village of Choul- khola. A mob stoned the police, who finding their staves ineffective, charged, | firing three rounds of buckshot into the | crowd. | A cow was let loose in the street in an effort to prevent the constables from | | firing. So_far _as known no rioters | were injured. The trouble grew out of |an attempt to prevent the police from | arresting some men charged with arson ‘Ten persons were killed every day on | Prench roads last year. | and surrounded by her classmates. 1930—PART ONE. PAULINA IS A BIG GIRL Tuesday, September 30, marked an important event in the life of little Paulina Longworth, whose daddy is Nichclas Longworth, Speaker of the House | | of Representatives, | late President, for on that day her parents entered her in the Lotspeich Pri- and whose mother is Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the vate School in Cincinnati. Here is Paulina seated at her desk in the first grade —P. & A. Photos. a HUMPHREY Radiant too. fir IT’S cold in the morn- ing now, and chilly in the evening, It’s no-fun to sit and shiver. It's no fun —and it’s unneces- sary, when a Humphrey Radiant- fire will warm the room in a few minutes. Just strike a match, light the Radiantfire, and feel the cheerful warmth that almost instantly per- vades the room. 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