All Recognized and Endors- Union Press, Established May, 1935. VOL. 45. NO. 50. FIRE DESTROYS onrcouc or me, ASHVILLE HOTEL | GamEmNG rumspay The next regular meeting of OLD LAN DMARK | United Retail and Wholesale Employ- A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bodies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. ey} 0 CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939 i coum rion oo « Cambrian W ees Joint Council of Central and West- | ern Pennsylvania will be held in Six Volunteer Fire Companies | from Three Counties Respond | 7:30 p. m. International Secre to Sunday Blaze. | Treasurer John V. Cooney will at | Also there will be nomination an i | ection of officers for the ensuing Fire on Sunday afternoon gutted| ay locals are requested to attenc the Gauntner Hotel in Ashville, long (Signed) Meade Retallack, a landmark in Northern Cambria dent Joint Council. County. { Six volunteer fire companies from | three counties responded to the alarm SUPPLEMENTARY and fought the stubborn blaze for sev- | eral hours before bringing it under | conirol. AIDCHECKSTOB The fire broke out in the third floor | Labor Temple at Colver, Pa., on Tues- | day night, September 26th, 1839, at| Presi- tary- PATTON. PA. Charles M. Schwab, Local |™a cures wi, NEXT MONDAY NIGHT ho Became A |... .- | cal Union No. 115, 1 1eeting of Lo- Inited Retail and 3 . ] ] ~~ Wholesale Employees of America, of | the | Stee 11 eader, Passes Away Pernnont D be ey Moose Temple at 7:30 o'clock, Monday night, September 25th, 1939. There | : . s . M 4 will be a nomination and election of tend. | Well Known Part-Time Loretto Resident Lived Spectacular Career vi : Ds officers. All members are expected to d el- Which Began as Stage Coach Driver Betwen Loretto and Cress- | attend. International Secretary-Treas- year. Charles M. Schwab, 77 year old | chairman of the board of the Bethle- Steel Corporation, who rose from a stage coach driver to become one of America’s foremost industrial leaders, | used at his apartment in New York F | City Monday night. The veteran steel magnate suffered a heart attack in | | | of the 15 room frame hotel at 12:30 p. | T PP { Lndon on August 11th and was brought mw. Patton Volunteer fire company was | | back to New York just as the war | summoned first and upon arriving at the scene immediately dispatched calls to Gallitzin, Cresson, Coalport, County | Will Receive Help. John Rosenhamer, proprietor, told firemen the blaze started in the third Issuance floor of the building near the back. | Assistance The flames had gained considerable | to pe headway before the firemen arrived. | dustry upplementary Aid ch employed in private hotel. Officials removed valuables | rector Edward R. Galob. from the building, but firemen by con- | In announcing the proposed ac tinually spraying water on the st | Director Golob said the measure i ture were able to save it although it | emergency one and is believed to be was badly charred | put into effect in erder to avoid possi- Rosenhamer told firemen he estima- | Ple overpayment. A lag in payroll ted the loss at $5,000 partly covered by | Verifications made necessary the move, insurance. A barber shop on the first | he added. d St College, w 1 As explained by the county DPA | € = eo floor of the hotel s completely de- Rest. 5 bial b r of Eine ‘ho are | 48YS amounted to abou stroyed firemen said. [€ ief, a number a persons who are colirse. but he managed £ - employed in private enterprise recei- thoi : — : ND a mall BLUE KNOB GETS ve supple y funds from the DPA te fc Lo ) 3 3 Wu u aud o 3 >» z on > in order to up a budgetary de- idl A NEW CCC CAMI fic > of the local upturn ON PARK PROJECT Establishment of a new CCC camp | bab in the Beaverdale area for the Blue Knob Recreational Demonstration area was announced in Washington last | extra grant Director Golob said. receiving higher r Persons in Private Industry or | Clearfield county, and Newberg, Blair Not in Actual Need No Longer Department of Public | | halted, at least temporarily | For a time the fire threatened the | from Tuesday morning of this week on, Ashville Post Office which adjoins the | it is announced by DPA executive di- s of industry, notably > steel mills it is pro- of the supplementa- e in need of the DPA | and related problems of the in clouds began to burst over Europe. He was taken off a trans-Atlantic on a stretcher on August 31st and had been confined to his bed since. Mr. Schwab ied peacefully in his sleep. The passing of Mr. Schwab marked | the end of a spectacular career. Born ecks | 44 Williamsburg, Pa.,, in the midst of M- | the Civil War, February Schwab worked as a boy as coach driver on the road between Lo- retto and Cr n. When a small boy ly moved to Loretto. In 1879 he started at the bottom of the ladder in the steel busin laborer in the engineering cory Edgar Thompson Steel Work ision of the Carnegie Con driving ti stagecoach he S an Jays ? . f +h when Schwab was or In 1881, week by Robert Fechner, director of Because of this upturn in employ- —the chief engineer the CCC. . ment, the usual verification of pay- | erred 10 a job in another city. | The new camp will be established | rolls, has been slowed up and DPA | Schwab was placed “temporarily in next month and the government has | workers are not able to determine allocated $15,000 monthly to be spent mediately which cases are still elig by enrollees, supervisory officers and to receive supplementary aid afficials. Announcement alse was made which are not. Consequently, i that the purchasing agents will buy it was decided to stop issuace of supplies for the camp in communities | such checks in order to avoid ov in the Beaverdale district. payment. The new camp will operate under the | national park service .Workers will Persons still able to receive suppleme aid are requested tc mproving the demon- | to the DPA office in Joh Knob 1 dern and n West- vith th take the Dis st pay check check v ition 1. Dur elabor ern Pe me ands of c Iacilities offered at Mr. Fechner al camps in Penns ued a tober assurance t CCC camps being operated at Park and and Trent National Park in Somerset County will be continued for another six months Pers ylvania : ther six months, effe and cases of overpayment will DPA county assist bointed eight persons provisionally FIRST LADY SEES A — JUSTER PEACE DUE | MINERS ASSURED OF it is said, | Dinkey of Homestead, Pa. town a € to suppl f the I 5 W 1» no lor i must repay the rmined by the payroll verification which will follow in short order. The ance board has ap- | assist in the present rush of business im- | charge and did so well he ible | Permanently. Two years and | Secure enough to marry got the job r, he felt Emma eet his all | increased household expenses he gave rer- | Piano and organ lessons at night. But even this did not completely ab- sorb the ene the buddi 1 laboratory the i( better will e- PA his huge be 7 “pv ad he was told “Char- | lie’s your man! himself the head of one of the biggest | steel plants in the Uniled States. From that time on his horizon broadened ra- | pidly. He began to dream of a steel | empire, the like of which had been {the Cambria County Council, Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary, will stage a unknown even to his most ambitious |* | Schwab was own to many "| palatial summer home. His charities to 40 per cent, and whereas, the Ameri- your I1tee to, benwab found | EGION AUXILIARY on, and Ended As One of Nation's Greatest Industrialists, aver John V. Cooney will also be in| attendance. (Signed) R. G. Davis, Pres ident, Local 115 U. R. W. of. E A. In 1917, President Wilson summoned on Schwab to Washington and informed him that he had been selected to head FEDERAL WORKS the U. S. Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation. i He received one dollar a year salary. | ROG RAM CUTS After the war Schwab quickly re- turned to his first love—steel. In 1926 he was honored for his longservice to | EF IN STATE the industry by being elected President | _ of the American Iron and Steel Insti . tute, which post he retained until 1932 | Private Employment Also Con- when he became chairman. Schwab, | tributes to Lowering of Num- | always expressed the sunny side of life | an : and was give nthe reputation of being ber of Per sons on Dole. a “chronic optimist.” He was y devoted to Mrs. Schwab who | January. | Here ir oyment did se toward cut- relief ioad by 7,- week ended on L. Russell, the ance announ- ia county Ct | ly, and was rated as a resident. E ch | summer he and his wife spent at his sylvanians e dole dropped to 826- { a great extent were centered about | county. His funeral services will be dependen ; St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City | 734. on Thursday of this week and inter- | S de- ment will be made in New York. clin d dur- SE — ing 00 per- Were orted. UNITED MINE WORKERS 3 OF NANTY-GLO DEMAND | “Produc for CURB ON PROFITEERING irst t , Works — major 1386, United Mine Workers of America, has called on the highest officials of the state and na-| WI tion “to curb profiteering in these Un- ited States.” Representing a memberst ) a resolution committee consisting of | Teduction : Thomas Price, William Cook, John Mo- | (3.343 persons.) f 1,700, | (17.93 : § oe, sotod ih XAT rarity, and William Swansboro, draft-| Russell footnoted the report ed a resolution which was sent to | the comment. . 2 President Roosevelt, U. S. Senators| “The sharp increase in case closings Joseph F. Guffey and James J. Davis, | Would indicate that the ad nistrative Congressman Harve Tibbott and Gov- | 128 in replacing workers released un- ernor James, Text of the resolution | 9¢T the 18 month rule has been over- follows: come and that the normally large “Whereas, the conflict now raging in adv ances ot ast few mon- urope is not the fault of the Ameri-| ts the proces of leve can people, and whereas the necessi- ties of life have within the last two ES 3 weeks advanced in price from 30 to AGREEMENT IS REACHED 7 FE QTVRIKE N my not be burdened IN MINE TRIKE, NAN 4 Y in which they GLO, TO START EARLIER can people should with the cc f lved, that we, bers of Local 1386, here you to use all powers of tive offices to curb the pro- | é place in these 8 at 1s tc ed States.” officials the Nanty-Glo BOARD'S DINNER | '* As a result of the compromise in | differences between the men and the Members of > executive boar . i i p lembers of the executive board of | company officials a strike called last | Thursday by more than 800 miners was AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. Our Shop Is Equipped to Do Job Printing of All Kinds. Nothing Too Large or Too Small We Cater Especially to Local Union, Printing. Patton Courier, Established Oct., 1893. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR MORE JOBS DUE TREASURY DEPT HEAD BELIEVES National Officialdom Is Optimis. tic on Business Prospects and Considerable Recovery. Washington.—Unger Secretary of | the Treasury John W. Hanes is optim | istic that the current economic recov- | ery wiil provide for most of the na- | tion’s unemployed. “Not only am I extremely hopeful | that this will take place, but I am op- | timistic,” said Mr. Hanes, who is re- | | | garded as ene of the administration's | top ranking liason men between gov- ernment and business. He made the statement in an inter- view after his attention had been call- | ed to indications in treasury statistics of accelerated business improvement. “The Eurepean war,” he said, “has thrown out of gear a large percentage of competing productive capacity. This leaves the United States in an advanta- | geous recovery position.” The New England and the South, which President Roosevelt once called the “Nation No. 1 economic problem,” are showing marked business improve- ment, particularly in the textile im- dustries. Durable goods industries are showing steady re-employment. He advised business and industry ag- ainst the “mistakes of the World War, notably price increases. “Industry will be smart if it spreads this thing out; that is, step up production, cut unit costs, and avaoid price increases,” Mr. Hanes said. “This would prevent a condition which would tend to narrow purchasing power.” LINDBERGH ASKS COUN- TRYMEN NOT TO JOIN IN ANY EUROPEAN FIGHT Washington.—Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh, America’s peace time air hero, broke his habitual silence the other ‘night to ask his countrymen not to join in an European war. Spea g into a battery of micri- phones in his hotel room, Lindbergh declared that ““we must keep foreign propaganda from pushing our country blindly another war.” “We not permit our sentiment, our pity, or ou rpersonal feelings of sympathy to obscure the i > to affect our children 1is listen- ers. We n ndbergh ight more of close * nation on ad rested in his war. Time fc he oroadcas~ of the War Department, Lindberghhas just com- of active duty, as a re- serve officer, said they knew nothing of his intention to make the speech, until it was announced by the broad- casting companies. Only a few friends were present while he spoke, Soc Srcnilin Be Roavevets arsed] COMPENSATION AS THE | superiors. dinner meeting at 6:30 o'clock Thurs. | Sfleqoean ne ite is aga oper- Leaning on a speaker’s stand with women the other day to lead in ane.| NEW LAW IS ACCEPTED! on 1007 be became Presilent of {hp Jday evening of 1bis Week in the Por. [200 8 uius] The loeal sion mem. | both elbows, the lanky sober food dvs viating suffering of civilian popula- tions in warring countries and to seek | a “juster peace” when the war is end- | | i f said. “The problems are merely de. | Years. Employers of thousands mo | hard and soft coal miners were assuerd | last week of workmen’s compensation | “No ome wins a war any more, she | Protection for the first time in two| | | Carnegie Steel Company and then his| tage American Legion Home. { Harrisburg —Approximately 30,000) dream began to materialize. The first | American to envision a million dollar| will be in char | € ang. corporation, Schwab interested J. P.| dinner will be attended by committee | The men had protested the inability | Morgan in the soundness of a gigantic | chairmen and presidents-elect re | combine of steel companies. { each unit in the county. z indicated ri a a : 156. mat a | ferred and must be met time. To- | Pave indicated they will accept the| The result was the formation of the | : l ea ang a Tie! sometime. To United States Steel Corporation of] Western Vice President, and Mrs. Har- | Under the agreement made Monday day they must be met by the world as| 2€W 1939 law in the near future. a whole and not just by the people | oo who fight the war.” : Mrs. Roosevelt said she believed the | ®™Ploying nearly 10,000 persons, war would create a larger body of peo- the first large company formally to no- | ple who know the suffering caused by | LY the Sie Yorumens compensation | directors and finally, in 1903, he de-| war and who will approach peace-ma- | Bureau of its intention to come under | cided to retire from the company- but | king without bitterness. Thus, she said, | the Sptional laws Roovisions. : the result may be a “juster peace.” The Glen Alden Coa ompan | bers held a meeting last Saturday and Mrs. Helen Kline, Portage, president | 267€ed to return to work Monday pen- ge of the meeting. The | ding the conference Monday evening. | from | of the company to furnish them with | @a sufficient number of coal cars to Mrs. T. Leroy Biedeiman, Johnstown | 102d each day. lator asserted that America must ei- ther stay out of the war or remain permanently in European affairs, * Let us not delude ourselves, If we enter the quarrels of Europe in time of war, we must stay in them in time of peace aswell. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the The Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal | which Schwab became the first pres-| ry Piper, Altoona, western director, | evening, the outside men will start to| last war if we turn the course 5 Company, bituminous producing firm ident in 1901. During the next few | will be honor guests. | work at 6:30 a. m. instead of 7:30 o’- peace over to the greed, the fear and & ! clock. The outside men will thus be | the intrigue of European nations, “We must either keep out of Euro- in| years, however, Schwab found himself | wo———— | in constant turmoil with the board of LABOR PEACE able to dump coal and to place the _ ; APPEAL LOOMS | émpties back on the track and have | Pean wars entirely or stay in Euro- I gn! OED | {hem Teturned to the mine for reload-| Pean affairs permanently. | not from the ‘steel business, Washington, Sept. 19 — President| 178: In this manner it is believed a ¥:| He had quietly acqutred an interest| Roosevelt The man who first won fame for a indicated today that he| Sufficient number of cars can be kept | Solo flight across the Atlantic scouted i+, ee rile . : : 2 ms. | iN circulati 0 as : - og | ANY Mea that this nation’s frontiers “Nobody knows whetehr this coun- | ‘argest anthracite company in Pennsyl- | in the then almost bankrupt Bethlehem | plans another appeal for peace within | ulation to assure all employees one - , ” o> it rae o anti try can keep out of the far’ she said, | vania, announced it was accepting the St eel Corporation, and in 1904 he re-| the ranks of organized labor. an adequate supply of cars during the 1 “but we all hope with all our hearts,” | compromise” law of 1939, which set| organized this company and started in| Mr. Roosevelt said at his press con- | day. Is 2. — | Up rates between those of 1915 and | on the road to its meteoric success. | ference that he intends to send a mes-| Edward Sweeney of Lilly, vice pres-| v | 1397 laws. | friends c: »d him about the! sage t a : rican Federa-| ident of District No. 2 was at the mee. | VDUSTRIAL STORES : | When friends cautioned him about the | sage to the annual American Fe era- | 1C No. 2 was at the mee IN DISTRICT MAN AGERS Neither of the major companies ap-| dangers of ever-expansion, he retorted: | tion of Labor convention opening at| !ing Mr. Sweeney told the miners that » 4 IANA GER | proving the James administration com-| “If we go bust, we will go bust big.” | Cincinatti, O., October 2. TO ATTEND SESSIONS | pensation act has accepted the aceom- | | panying law governing payments for ta According to advance reservaticns, | cccupational disease. several hundred industrial store repre- | Miners’ asthma, principal ailment sentatives of Cambria County and of| attributed to long service in black Central Pennsylvania will attend the | mine pits, would be more compensible 1939 convention of the National Indus-| under the act effective on October 1st. | trial Stores Association which opens on | The new act fixes the maximum | Monday morning, September 25th at weekly benefit for partial disability a Industrial store operators of this| the compensation period of 300 week territory are affiliated with the Cen-! is 100 weeks less than the Earle admin tral Pennsylvania Regional Association | istration’s law allowed. From 1905 to 1932 he built up the to- | | came one of the most powerful inde- | Steel Mills were among the mainstays the end of the war, Britain's wr tlime | th 1 investments in the company from| to r | forty millions to $681,000,000. It be- | bably would mention peace. union committee, pendent companies in the steel busi- | hopes to weld the Nation’s organized | was attended by practically ail of the ie in Europe. “An ocean is a formidable barrier, ven for modern aircraft,” he said. “Our safety does not lie in fighting European wars. It lies in our own in- yous . ternal strength, in the character he if they had any further grievance they 8 wong, In the character of the ! : : : American people : £ an insti It would be a safe guess, he added | Would be given a fair hearing before ple and American institu- + t say that the message would pro-| Officials of the Heisley firm and the Observers beleived the President The conference Monday evening | 4 | 0 | ness with more than 70,000 persons on| workers into a compact group that | employees of the company with the its payrolls. | will contribute to the national unity | exception of men on the night shift. — During i 2ars afte e | whic > has said is nc ary re- | At pre: islay mine is oper X uring the first four years after the | which he has said is r ary to pre- | present the Heisl~y mine is opera- STATE TO ! ] 2 | : t| outbreak of the World War, Schwab's | serve United States neutrality, | ting almost at capacity. the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore. $15 or $3 below the 1937 figure, and Mr. Roosevelt conferred today with S| of the Allies’ sources of munitions. At | Daniel J. Tobin, president of the Bro- | STRUCK BY CAR. PORTAGE | prime minister, Lloyd George, said: | ex of the national organization. Charles — | “The first American to aid us was I, Swab of Central Trading Corpc ration | CARD OF THANKS. Charles M. Sehwab—he the : at St. Benedict, is president of the re-! We wish in this manner to thank essary equipment to con the cional association and will head the! our many friends for their sympathy | war up to a stul ending for the targe central Pennsylvania delegation. | and assistance during our recent he- Allies-~the wal Thomas H. Sheehe of Indiana, gen-| reavement, the death of our wife and three-fold 4 in cral manager of the Clearfield Supply | daughter-—for the floral offeri Company, and M. F. Hasinger, Mahon- | for use of cars at the fune — Don- ing Supply Co. Indiana county, are| ald Gill and Family; Mr. and Mrs national directors | Thomas Crooks. 1gs and him if he would throw up « 1 1 tracts, but Schwab refused and by so Ti! doing played a big part in the victors ot of the Allies.” ecutive’s spokesman in the A. F. of| ¢ rhood of Teamsters and the chief! MAN 78 FATALLY HURT! 0 { 2 / / I y or labor harmony. Charles Boland, 70, of Portage, R. D, - PUBLIC AUCTION (he Klondyke School in Cle: p, near Patton will be o tal id to have been driy- € i or of South Fork | w of the road|w warded that of t Cl fween Patton and . 1, died enroute ‘0 the Memorial hospi-! as Route 145, i i suffered when hit by and > e the man was| of E lons.. As long as we maintain an ar my, a navy and an air force worthy of the name, as long as America does not ecay within, we need fear no invasion f this country.” RESURFACE CARROLLTOWN ROAD The state highw ¥ deparirnent eek numbered amo ta ls ere is $60,583. It is u
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