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PATTON
Pe SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
RIGHT OF AUTONOMY IS GAINED BY MINE WORKERS OF DISTRICT NO. 2
ABUNDANCE OF
SMALL GAME IS
| SONMAN PITS AT POR-
| TAGE RESUME WORKING
AFTER ONE-DAY STRIKE
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T housands of Union Men Wil
LEGION COMMITTEE TO
MEET NEXT MONDAY AT | NO JUSTIFICATION
cumoLirons" wt FOR BARRING MEN
The strike of 1,250 miners of Kop:
SEEN IN AREA pers Coal Company at the shaft and
slope operation at Sonman near Por-
Go to Polls Early in December
County Committee of the American |
| United Mine Workers of District No. made during October and November | Legion will be held next Monday ev- |
The October meeting of the Cambria |
Rabbits, Squirrels and Birds on
Increase According to Game
Protector Thompson.
The coming small game season to
open November 1st and close Novem-
ber 30th, should be the best in Cam-
bria county in the last ten years, it
was predicted last week by County
Game Protector Elmer B. Thompson.
He indicated that the small game,
especially rabbits and birds, weather-
ed the winter in excellent condition
and multiplied rapidly during the ma- |
ting season last spring.
Reduction of the vast deer herd onl
Cambria county also was a handieap |
to farmers, Thompson said. Prior to
the special season dozens of reports of
deer damage were reported to the
Pennsylvania Game Commission and |
hundreds of dollars of damage claims |
were paid.
So far this year few complaints have |
been received from farmers, Thompson
said. Only scattered complaints have
been received relative to the damage
to truck patches.
Although the deer herd was reduc-
ed considerably in this section the
hunting should not be materially af-|
fected for the coming season, which |
opens December 1st and continues un- |
til December 15th. Indications are that |
there will be less deer hunters in the |
mountains this season than last sea- |
son, as many of the hunters who sou-
ght antlerless deer were “meat” hun-
ters, who will not hunt for sportsman- |
shut down of a day and a half.
Differences over the discharge of a
of Jamestown Local, United Mine Wor-
kers, and the night shift entered the
Both shifts were idle on Monday, as
was the day shift Tuesday.
TREASURER ROSS
TO GIVE ADDRESS
| State Official Will Be Here In-
stead of Chief Justice Kephart
at Brandon Gathering.
F. Clair Ross, Pennsylvania State
Treasurer, will be the principal speak-
er at the opening dinner meeting of
Admiral Robert E. Peary Scout Coun-
cil’s annual sustaining membership
| campaign it has been announced by
| Attorney Randolph Myers of Ebens-
burg, chairman.
Ross will speak in place of Chief
| address. Judge Kephart informed local
scout officials that he found it impos-
| sible to come on the date set for the
| dinner event.
mule driver were settled at a meeting |
mines Tuesday afternoon, with the day |
shift going back Wednesday morning. |
SCOUTERS MEET
Justice John W. Kephart of the State
| Supreme Court who had previously |
been scheduled to deliver the main
| it was announced in letters sent from |
es Mark at Clearfield to secretaries of
locals throughout Central Pennsylvan-
ia. Partial autonomy has been restored
in District No. 2 in accordance with
action taken at the last international
| convention of the U. M. W. of A. at
Washington, at which time the interna-
| tional executive board recommended
| restoration of autonomy rights with
the exception of the selection of dis-
| trict president and district secretary-
treasurer.
Restoration of voting rights to the
rank and file of more than 50,000 un-
ion miners in the district comes at a
time when the mining industry is
booming and many new men are ob-
| taining employment in union mines of
the district.
Accompanying the announcement of
the district election to be held on the
first Tuesday of December was word
of the appointment of Edward J. Swee-
rey, of Lilly, as district secretary-
treasurer to succeed the late Richard
Gilbert, which was contained in a story
in the Press-Courier two weeks ago.
Restoration of partial autonomy is
expected to end a long fight waged in
| various local unions to obtain voting
rights. Miners in good standing as of
December 1 will be entitled to vote.
Offices to be filled by popular ballot
of more than 50,000 miners are those
of district vice president (now vacant
by resignation of the new secretary-
treasurer), international board mem-
district headquarters of President Jam- |
| ber ballot and then only after his
qualifications have been scrutinized at |
district headquarters. Candidates for |
least three local unions in order to
have his name appear on the Decem- |
office must have worked in the mining
industry for five years and must have
been in good standing three years.
The last district election was held in |
1926 when James Mark, former vice
president was named district president
and Dick Gilbert was continued as the
secretary treasurer, and also, at which
time John Ghizzoni was elected as in-
ternational board member. The follow-
ing year was marked by a bitter strike
and in 1928, District No. 2, similar to
other districts collapsed under “pres- |
sure” by the operators, with the abro-
gation of the Jacksonville agreement.
It was then that President John Lewis |
and his international board stepped in.
to the breach and attempted to salvage
enough of the wreckage to start the
“long grind” of rebuilding the once
powerful union. Lack of revenue from |
dues paying members and the whole-
sale collapse of unionizing efforts,
made a big job for the men provision-
ally named, and with the advent of the
Roosevelt administration and the NRA
the miners came back stronger in the
District than ever before, with the
result now that they are organized vir-
tually 100 per cent.
The eight member territorial board
| will be chosen with union miners se-
lecting one member from each of the
eight territories comprising District 2.
Before the upswing of the coal bus-
tage ended Tuesday afternoon after a|2 Will elect their own district officers | by locals. Under rules of the UMWA | ening in the Carrolltown American |
in December—{irst time in 13 years— | a candidate must be nominated by at
| Legion Home instead of Tuesday ev- |
ening as previously scheduled. The |
meeting was moved ahead one night
State Treasurer F. Clair Ross will be
the principal speaker at the meeting. |
STATE'S RELIEF
ROLLS CONTINUE
'One-Fifth of Load Has Been!
Lopped Off Since Peak of
Last Winter.
tate Relief Rolls re-
sumed their downward trend this
week with the help of private employ-
ment and a check-up showed one-fif-
th of the total WPA relief load has
been lopped off since last winter's
peak.
After a week's Interruption a slow
rate of decrease in relief was noted ag-
ain in the week ended September 30,
covered in a report on Monday by
Howard L. Russell, secretary of pub-
lic assistance.
Russell attributed
cases during the week to industrial em-
so as not to conflict with a dinner |
meeting of the Admiral Robert Peary |
Council, Boy Scouts of America, to
be held in the Brandon hotel, Spangler. |
TO DROP LOWER
a drop of 823!
ship. | Ross wes elected state treasurer in
Cambria county nimrods should | 1936 after a legal career which carried |
have a better bird season this fall than | him to the position of deputy attorney
in many previous years, Thompson em-{ general in the administration of Gov.
phasized. The game commission during | George H. Earle. Born in Mercer
the summer stocked approximately 2,- | county, Jan. 3, 1895, he began the
000 ringnecks in the districts. practice of law in Butler county in|
Sportsmen’s association throughout | 1924 and was elected deputy attorney |
the county have co-operated with the | general in 1935.
ber, a position now held by John Ghiz- |
bi. loyment and said it would have been
| zoni, of Homer City; and eight terri-|iness a few weeks ago Dp oyment and said 1 wou ve De
the district | ore than twices that number had it
| torial members of the district board. | membership stood at approximately | not been for “the adverse effect of
| Each local was directed to select a. pol-|-45,000, with indications that if the in- | {WPA activity.”
| ling place and fix the hours of voting | dustry continues to expand the former) "y qustrial pick-up also was credited |
| in a manner to give every member op- membership of 65000 will have been| ;1" "wpa finding that thousands of |
| portusity to vote. Nominations will be | attained by December 1. | relief recipients are failing to show |
up when called for jobs. The percent-
age of refusals has been mounting
commission in raising young ringnecks
and releasing them prior to the open-
ing of the small game season. The
stocking is under the supervision of
the game protector.
Several associations in the county
have been and are releasing ringnecks.
The beautifully colored birds were
plentiful in the district prior to the
severe winter of 1936 when much of
the winter feed was destroyed and
many of the birds killed. Through the
extensive restocking program of the
game commission with the cooperation
of sportsmen’s associations the sup-
ply has been increased considerably |
during the last three years.
Supply of rabbits also should be
above average this year, Thompson in-
dicated. He said that hunters training
dogs have reported an excellent sup-
ply of cotton tails in practically all
sections of the county.
Thompson has issued many warn- |
ings to motorists to refrain from run- |
ing over rabbits on the highways. He |
said that already this summer hun- |
dreds of rabbits have been killed by |
automobiles on the highways in this |
county.
A large number of grey squirrels]
are reported to have migrated into
the townships in Northern Cambria
county, according to Thompson, who
said the squirrels are moving, but said |
they will remain in the county al
cause of the fine fall crop of nuts, es- |
pecially acorns and beechnuts.
At the outbreak of the world war |
he enlisted in the army and served |
with the flying division signal corps
i He is a member of the American Le-
| gion, the Masonic Order and the
| dependent Order of Odd a.”
! Following the Spangler dinner, the |
workers enlisted in the campaign or-
ganization will begin their drive to
secure sustaining members for local
scout work. Members of the Iinitial
Gifts Division of the campaign organ-
ization began their phase of the drive |
| last month and will deliver reports at
| the dinner October 17th. Prior to the
dinner the executive board of Admiral
| Peary Council will hold its regular
meeting in the Brandon hotel at 8:00
o'clock.
Nine scouts from troops in the local |
council are down at the New York
World's Fair this week at the Scout
Service camp.
ROUND AND SQUARE
DANCE AT NICKTOWN |
A round and square dance will be
held in St. Nicholas’ Hall at Nicktown
on Saturday evening of this week, |
October 14th, from 9 to 12 o’clock. |
Music will be furnished by Guy and |
Jambols. Everybody is welcome.
in the past three or four years.
General increase in business and
economic conditions throughout the |
= IN STATE MINES
OUTPUT OF COAL C10 OFFICIALS
DOUBT SUCCESS
AT BIG INCREASE OF PEACE PLEA
Tonnage So Far in 1939 Very Likely Will Renew With Vigor
Far in Advance of Correspon- ~~ Aim of “Organizing Unergan-
ding Period Last Year. ized” at Convention.
Harrisburg. —OQutput of Pennsylva- San Francisco.—Leaders of the CIO,
nia’s vast coal mining properties the | assembled for their national conver
first eight months of this year was] tion here starting on Tuesday this
nearly 7,500,000 tons greater than the | week held little hope that any new ap-
S Br
n-
| combined anthracite-bituminous pro- peal from President Roosevelt for a]
duction during the corresponding per- | peace between the two great ions
iod of 1938, State Mines Department | of labor would bear fruit in > near
records show. future. Some of them expressed the
Soft coal production to September 1 | belief that their organization would |
| totalled 49981,001 tons, topping the press with renewed vigor its aim to |
| output for the first eight months of “organize the unorganized,” taking ad. |
1938 by 4.149.062 despite a virtual | vantage of any increase in employ-
| shutdown of the industry during the | ment that might result from a war-|
April squabble over a new wage ag-| born demand for American goods and |
| reement. Production reported last Ap- | services.
{ ril was only 137,082 tons, compared How to preserve Democratic rights
| to 8580979 the previous month and and labor's gains in the United States |
| 3,684,223 tons in May. { and Canada during the next critical |
Anthracite collieries turned out 3,-| Years will likely be the key discuss- |
| 100; 973 tons more this year to Sep-| ion.
| tember 1 than the aggregate reported Questions dealing with representa-
| for the first eight months of 1938, re- | OR on war emergency boards, curbing
| flecting an increase in production of profiteers and extension of union |
from 29.160,690 to 32,341,663 tons. organizing campaigns to bring bene-
fits to exploited workers will occupy
The crop of nuts in northern Cam-| state was given as the reason for the |
bria county was exceptionally
The department was unable to say |
fine | probable reduction in the number of | what increase in mine employment re-
|
this fall, Thompson indicated. He ex- | | hunters. During the past few years | sulted from the “war boom” produc-
pressed the opinion that squirrel hun- | when business conditions were below | | tion boost since operators do not sub- | Delegates number more than five hun-
ters should enjoy a fine season.
Present indications are that wild| were unemployed, the army of hun- |
turkeys should be fairly plentiful in| ters was the largest in the history of |
the northern part of the county. Sev- | the state.
eral large flocks have been seen in
workers on their payrolls.
Mines Secretary John Ira Thomas
was confident, however, that increased |
However, since business conditions | demands for both soft and hard coal | SANTO RODGERS, 70,
townships in the northwestern section
of the county it is reported. Thomp-
have shown a decided upward swing,
hundreds of men have been employed |
this year had provided thousands of |
| important places on the convention ag-
| enda, it is expected.
| average and large numbers of men | mit monthly reports of the number of | | dred. This is the first visit in recent
| years of President John L. Lewis to
| the west coast.
OF PATTON > EXPIRES
since August ,the state WPA head-
quarters reported explaining the ma-
jority had found jobs elsewhere.
Russell said, “There are very few
able-bodied men on relief who turn
down a WPA job without some good
reasons,” but suggested transportation
problems might be responsible for ab-
out ninety per cent of the “did not
report” cases in counties where they
are acute.
Russell pointed out that the total
PAST 40 FROM JOBS
[It Is A Mistaken Employment
Problem Which Can Be Cor-
rected, Says Pamphlet.
Men and women past 40 face a real
and increasingly severe handicap in
seeking jobs, due to mistaken employ-
ment policies which can be corrected.
Such are the main conclusions of a
10-cent pamphlet titled, “Jobs After
| Forty,” just published by the Public
Affairs Committee, 30 Rockefeller Pla-
| za, New York. The material was sum-
marized by Beulah Amidon from ma-
terial collected by the United States
Department of_ Labor.
“For men, the downhill of employ-
| ment ability,” the study finds, “seems
to begin at 45; for women five or ten
years earlier. What was once the prime
| of life has become a period of increas-
ing employment handicaps for workers
in both factory and white collar jobs.”
While few employers have a rigid
“firing age,” discharging all workers
who have reached a given age, the hir-
| ing age policy of large companies make
it far more difficult for an older than
a younger worker to get into employ-
ment if a merger, a slack season, a re-
organization, or some other situation
beyond his centrol causes him to lose
his job.
Five reasons are usually advanced in
explanation of this discrimination ag-
| ainst older workers: (1) that, as com-
| pared with younger men and women,
older workers produce less; (2) that
| they are moré prone to accidents; (3)
| that they add to the costs of group in-
| surance; (4) they weaken private pen-
sion plans; and (5) they are less ad-
| aptable personally, and on the job.
None of these five explanations is
| found to hold up under scientific seru-
ting.
“The facts,” the study declares, “are
on the side of the older as compared
with the younger worker, at least un-
til after the age of fifty, as to pro-
| ductivity.”
The presence of a large group of
older workers is found not to add to
accident costs or to compensation in-
surance premiums. The cost of group
insurance is shown to be increased by
cnly an almost negligible amount,
while the cost of private pension plans
increase’ only when the plans are not
drawn up in line with best insurance
| number of unemployed getting aid | practice. On the adaptability of older
through relief or WPA jobs had drop- | Workers the evidence is described as
ped from 1,637,000, at the winter peak “meager and fragmentary.”
last Februray, to 1,273,000 at the be-, Having shown that-there is little or
ginning of Octoher. no justification for émployment prac-
He said that the decline was about | tices which bar older workers, the
20 per cent, but noted “a large net| study asserts that “the employer must
shift in relief cases from WPA to the
Department of Public Assistance,
which in turn has tended to obscure
the solid improvement in the total sit-
uation.”
The state now carries 65 per cent of |
fie unemployment relief load, instead |
of 42 per cent, as previously, he said.
The number on direct relief rolls on |
September 30th, was 272,000 cases, re-
presenting 827,408 persons who receiv-
| ed $1,989,303 in that week.
Most of the favorable effect of pri- |
| vate employment was noted in the 16 |
| bituminous and steel producing coun-
Le Russell sell reported, [,
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the problem of the older worker is to
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Employers are asked to restudy their
hiring policies with regard to older
workers in the belief that “an honest
survey of the facts available today will
dispel the idea—often unthinkingly ac-
cepted—that there is any significant
| relationship between age and costs.”
REPUBLICANS APPOINT
YOST AS MANAGER
Russell R. Yost, Johns-
Attorney
| town, was elected manager of the came
| paign of the Republican party in Cam-
| bria county for the November election
| at a meeting of the party's executive
| committee, city and county candidates
| which was called on Wednes-
| day evening of last week at the Fort
Stanwix hotel in Johnstown.
Named deputy for the southern end
of the county was Attorney Harry E.
| Simmons of Southmont ,with Richard
| Steele, Barnesboro, named to assist the
and it doesn’t cost a penny. The Wolf campaign manager in the northern
son stated that farmers have reported | and therefore will be unable to spend
the presence of several large flocks. | time afield, it was said.
The game protector predicted that a It is believed that the heaviest hun-
record kill of the royal birds will be | ting will take place on Saturday when
made during the thirty day season. | many workmen have a day off.
A large number of turkeys were bag-| In discussing the hunting season,
new jobs in both regions. A recent un- | a
official survey indicated thousands of | Santo Rodgers, aged 70 years, well
new jobs in both regions. A recent un- | known Patton resident, died at 6:15 o’-
official survey indicated anthracite | clock on Tuesday morning at the Min.
employment increased from the sum- | ers’ hospital, Spangler, where he had
mer level of 80,000 to 110,000 last mon- [been a medical patient since October
th. It was accompanied by a flood of | 6th. Born in Italy January 16, 1869, he
application for membership in the U.|was a son of Vincent and Joan (Paul-
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learn about the magic new method of | 38€T Was made at the instance of At-
ged last year but present indications| Thompson said that trappers also will
are that an even larger number will
be shot this year.
Ruffed grouse are also staging a
remarkable comeback in the county,
the game protector reported. He said
he has received reports that many
grouse have been flushed by hunters
training dogs, and by woodcock hun-
ters.
enjoy a good year. He indicated that
the supply of muskrats, fox and rac-
coon is above average this year.
The season on hunting raccoon with
dogs opens November 1 and continues
until December 31st. Coon trapping in
Cambria county is prohibited this year
he said Hunting of Hungarian part-
ridges also is prohibited in the county
M. W. of A. and wholesale abandon-
ment of bootleg coal holes.
Last year the bituminous industry
employed 117,000 miners. Thomas said
continuance of the production increase
undoubtedly would provide employ-
ment for at least 12,000 additional mi-
ners on waiting lists. He gave the
state mine inspectors emergency au-
odino) Rodgers. He came to this coun-
try many years ago.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs, Marie
Rodgers, and these children: Anna,
Pauline and John, at home; Charles,
Nicholas, Patsy and James Rodgers, all
of Pittsburgh; Samuel, Frank, Louis
and Rose, wife of Andrew Garbish, of
Patton, and Mary, wife of Michael Ca-
A “better than average” supply of| this season.
wild grapes this year will offer an ex- | Thompson also issued a plea to all
cellent supply of food for the birds| hunters to exercise every possible pre-
which were nearly wiped out during | caution while hunting. He said that
the severe winter of 1936. accidents during the last year have
Despite the indications of a banner | been reduced, but the game commiss-
small game hunting season it is be-|ion has launched a drive to further
lieved that the army of hunters this| lower the number of accidents this
year will be considerably smaller than 'year.
thorization to grant miners’ certifi- | calino, of Butler, Pa. He also leaves
cates to qualify them for the newly | two stepdaughters, Antionette, wife of |
available jobs at the mines. The last | Anthony Talerico, and Frances, wife
legislature allowed Thomas to disband | of Raymond DiBello, of Patton.
the soft coal miners’ examining | The funeral services will be con-
boards. Anthracite miners are certified | | ducted at nine o’clock on Friday morn-
by court appointed boards. | ing in St. Mary’s Catholic church and
: ‘interment will be in the church cem- |
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Nation’s Wealth
The national wealth of the United
States in 1937 was estimated at 322 bil.
lions of dollars this week by the Na-
tional Industrial Conference Board,
(lomey Harry A. Englehart, county
| chairman, who asked to be relieved of
| his duties for the reason that he is a
candidate for judge.
REPUBLICANS PLAN A
RALLY AT BARNESBORO
A joint Republican rally held by the
Barnesboro Women’s Republican Club
and the Northern Cambria Republican
| Club will be held in the Miners’ hall
| at Barnesboro on Monday, October 16
at eight o'clock P. M. Principal speak-
er will be Attorney Harry A. Englehart
Republican nominee for Judge, and the
| other Republican nominees also will
address the meeting, Everybody wel-
come,
Nicholas Galuschick, aged 69 years
died on Tuesday afternoon at his home
in West Carroll township after a brief
illness. His widow and several child.
ren survive,