anaheim-gazette 1938-11-03

Anaheim, Calif., Nov. 3, 1938 The MARCH OF TIME BY THE EDITORS OF TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine WAGE AND HOUR LAW— HYDE PARK, New York—In a formal statement issued at Hyde Pork last week, President Roosevelt expressed hope that the new wages-and-hours law—which went into effect on October 24—would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. But industry's reaction to the new law—the New Deal's second attempt to build "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours"—was not encouraging. The Western Union Telegraph Co. promptly announced that it might have to fire 3,125 messenger boys; Luther Wallin of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss.; and in low-wage Puerto Rico employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, thus raising the number of Puerto Rican unemployed to 350,000. The new wage-and-hour law makes it illegal to pay some 11,-000,000 workers employed in interstate commerce less than 25 cents an hour, sets the statutory work week at 44 hours. It is not illegal to work a longer week, but simply more expensive for employers who must pay one and one-half times the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line with the law by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE By TOPPS INDUSTRY IS THE FARMER'S BIGGEST CUSTOMER—ONE CHEMICAL COMPANY ALONE USES THE PRODUCTS OF FOUR MILLION ACRES OF WASHINGTON—AN AREA THE SIZE OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. ONE BREED OF CHICKENS, IN PERL LAYS PALE GREEN EGGS! SINCE 1900, THE AUTOMOBILE AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR 82 BILLION DOLLARS IN PAYROLLS ALONE! FLOWERS ARE GROWN IN "BEES" BUILT (OUT OF REACH) ON THE LAMP POSTS, IN LIEGE, BELGIUM underdog. He is frankly, definitely, enthusiastically pro-labor, believes that relations between capital and labor constitute the nation's most difficult problem." COMPRESSED AIR— WASHINGTON — With election delphia that nothing could comfort republicans as to win bad Pennsylvania, which they lost for years ago. Result in funds raise $334,700. To New Jersey went Secreta work week at 44 hours. It is not illegal to work a longer week, but simply more expensive for employers who must pay one and one-half times the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line with the law by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have to pay his workers the difference between their sub-standard wages and the legal minima, plus an equal amount in damages. And he may have to pay a fine up to $10,000, spend up to six months in jail. Most U. S. employers were in no danger. Of the 11,000,000 employed in industries under the act, U. S. statisticians last week figured that only 750,000 (a large proportion in southern, lumber, garment, fertilizer industries) receive less than 25c an hour; and twice as many, or about 1,500,000 employees, work more than 44 hours. In future years the standards will grow stricter: Beginning October 24, 1939, 30c and 42 hours; October 1940, 30c and 40 hours; October 1945, 40c and 40 hours. Meantime, committees representing management, labor and the public may fix the wage minima actually applying to any industry anywhere between 30 and 40c (so long as the standards do not cause unemployment). Along with wages and hours goes federal prohibition of child labor (under 16) in interstate commerce industries effective immediately and applying to 50,000 children. SPECIALIST— NEW YORK—Of the 57 WPA workers wielding picks and shovels on a ditch-digging project in New York City, 38 walked off the job one day last week and refused to labor more. Their reason: Working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably—without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool was "inhuman." Result: One man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking and shoveling resumed. HANDSOME TRIBUTE— WASHINGTON — High in the underdog. He is frankly, definitely enthusiastically pro-labor, believes that relations between capital and labor constitute the nation's most difficult problem." COMPRESSED AIR— WASHINGTON — With election day but a fortnight off, political loud-speakers blared at the nation's eardrums last week from every stump and hilltop, filling the air with civic sense and nonsense, but most of all with partisan fury. As the party in power, democrats debouched upon the nation from Washington. To crucial Pennsylvania — for which Harry Hopkins last fortnight authorized 10,000 new WPA jobs — went Postmaster General Farley to warn a $100-a-plate dinner in Philadelphia that nothing could comfort republicans as to win back Pennsylvania, which they lost for years ago. Result in funds raised $334,700. To New Jersey went Secreta W. M. LUKASKY MASSAGE PARLOR Protect your Health — Save TIME — Save EXPENSE — See LUKASKY — My work is known country over — Ask your friends about it — An ounce of preventive, is always worth a pound of cure — I say, Good Circulation of Blood is one of the first steps to Good Health. If you are not satisfied with your first Massage, Don't Pay for it. STRICTLY MASSAGE — Will see you by Appointment only — A Lady Attendant. Phone Anaheim 4002 707 N. Los Angeles St. Anaheim, California HANDSOME TRIBUTE— WASHINGTON — High in the esteem of President Roosevelt's Adviser Thomas Corcoran as a candidate for the vacancy on the U. S. supreme court is Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who is having a tough battle for re-election. Observers were therefore not surprised to read last week in "Washington Daily Merry-Go-Round," the political column by Pearson & Allen which is one of Corcoran's favorite wind tunnels for testing political balloons, a handsome tribute to Murphy and a serious discussion of his qualifications to succeed the late Justice Cardozo. Excerpts: "When Murphy was judge of the recorder's court he kept a little cardboard placard behind his desk where only he could see it. It read: If you must err, err on the side of leniency. Murphy also called every convict into chambers and privately told him in advance what his sentence would be and why. He hated to see a man stand in open court and get the sudden shock of a sentence without advance preparation. Governor Murphy is a devout Catholic, attends mass regularly. Even his critics give him credit for broad tolerance. He abhors bloodshed. Another characteristic is his fighting sympathy for the labor more. Their reason: Working with either pick or shovel was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably—without a chance to rest while another worker plied the other tool was "inhuman." Result: One man discharged, one suspended, interchangeable picking and shoveling resumed. Sent to Preston Reform School Such is the undeniable and undesirable record of Orange county. During a five-year period this county has sent 127 boys to Preston reform school. During the same period Riverside county sent but 62; Kern county 73; Humboldt county 11; Merced county 7; San Joaquin county 61; Santa Barbara county 31; Ventura county 36. Superior courts dealing with helpless minor children are responsible for Orange county's appalling record. State laws say juvenile courts should CORRECT DELINQUENCY—not just PUNISH CHILDREN. 26 More Sent to Whittier Reform School Yes, during the past three years Orange county sent 26 more boys to Whittier reform school. During the same period Riverside county sent but 11. SOMETHING IS WRONG! Our children are not worse than those of other counties. We need juvenile court judges who know children and who know how to help them. James L. Davis has had 20 years of experience in raising a boy and a girl. He has a background of 30 years experience in the practice of law. He is eminently qualified for the position he seeks. We ask you to elect him. We MUST Have a Change! ELECT JAMES L. DAVIS SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE (Department One) (This ad paid for by Davis-for-Judge Club) ANAHEIM GAZETTE of War Woodring. To Council Bluffs, Iowa, having already visited Kansas, Texas, and Illinois, went Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to make another of a series of heart-felt speeches in defense of AAA. To Kansas went Senate Majority Leader Barkley. To Pennsylvania after Farley went House Majority Leader Rayburn. But of all the stump-speaking democrats, loudest and longest was Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who crossed the country to whoop for the congressional elections and attend a few ceremonies at which his presence was appropriate. In his informal talks, short speeches, and eight full-length addresses, the editing of Presidential Advisers Corcoran and Cohen was unmistakable. They stamped Ickes as Possibility No. 1 for a 1940 presidential candidate acceptable to Roosevelt, a candidate to build up before Democratic National Chairman Jim Farley and his alliance of local bosses can converge on someone else, such as Missouri's Senator Bennett Clark. "I think President Roosevelt would carry the United States if he ran again, and he might have to run," declared Ickes. "But for his sake I hope he doesn't." While the veterans of the New Deal went forth again to fight, Republican National Committee Chairman John Hamilton called his reservists again to the colors and assigned them to battle stations. Their assignments and the refurbished weapons with which they went into action: Alfred Landon: "The president preaches social justice and purity in administration of relief from the White House steps, while his ward healers grease the machine with the help of spending agencies." Publisher Frank Knox: "Instead of a government whose total cost—paid in taxes—in Coolidge days was $3,300,000,000, we now have a government which costs—exclusive of all relief expenditures—more than $7,000,000,000 a year." Michigan's peripatetic Senator Vandenberg: "The foulestish on free American citizens in the last century and a half been the effort to trade bread ballots. The man who asks isican citizens to give up their dom in exchange for something eat doesn’t belong in public he belongs in jail." Hamilton himself: "The you have paid into the treasury for your old-age pension there. It has been spent heaven knows what, and the place is only an I. O. U. the law is changed, when the comes to start paying you sion the treasury will be re either to default or to t and the remainder of the to get the money ... of weakening social security publicans will strengthen put a firm foundation under column of the temple of society, now falling down." Said thoughtful Democrat King of Utah, not up ther for re-election: "Candidate promise most for their con..." Says MRS. L. W. CROSBY OF SAN "The speed and economical operation of my elec been a revelation. 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The man who asks Americans to give up their freedom in exchange for something to doesn’t belong in public office; belongs in jail." Hamilton himself: "The money you have paid into the treasury is your old-age pension is not there. It has been spent, for haven knows what, and in its place is only an I. O. U. Unless the law is changed, when the time comes to start paying you a pension the treasury will be required either to default or to tax you and the remainder of the country get the money . . . Instead weakening social security relics will strengthen it . . . At a firm foundation under thatumn of the temple of social justice, now falling down." Said thoughtful Democratic Senator King of Utah, not up this year to re-election: "Candidate who promise most for their communities out of the federal treasury will fare the best." BEDS AND BUNKS— ALBANY, New York—Between a teacher and a politician, declared Oklahoma’s Senator Josh Lee in addressing a teachers’ conference at Albany last week, there is this difference: A teacher makes his bed and lies in it; a politician makes his bunk and lies out of it. "WAR IS OVER!"—BERLIN — Germany’s large-scale mobilization, which began on August 15 and was called "maneuvers" by the German general staff, was officially called off last week. At least 450,000 youthful reservists, happy that their Fuhrer Adolf Hitler had got all he wanted of Czechoslovakia without losing a man, were in high spirits as they made ready to return to civilian life on November 1. Many requisitioned busses bringing flower-bedecked soldiers back to Berlin from Sudetenland were inscribed: "The War is Over!" Also released to civilian life were the labor service youths, detained an extra month to work on Germany's counter-Maginot line facing France. But there was little rejoicing by German Jews who were being examined last week preparatory to the name-changing on January 1. All Jews born after that date must be labeled with an unmistakably Jewish first name, specified in a published Nazi list. Jewish men whose present names differ from those on the list must now add Israel, Jewish women must tag on Sarah. Reported by many correspondents also planned for the New Year by Germany’s rampant anti-Semitic rulers was a more drastic than ever decree forbidding Jews to work for Aryans, to own or work in factories, banks, wholesale houses. For the third Reich’s 500,000 Jews, half on relief, the new decree will mean certain pauperdom. (Continued on Page 7) and economical" ROSBY OF SAN GABRIEL operation of my electric range have end an electric range to any woman ing easily and economically." 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