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Patton Courier, Established Oct. 1893
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Autonomy has long been a bone of
contention with a number of union
miners in District No. 2, and on the
first Tuesday in December, they will
again poll votes for all offices in the
district with the exception of Pres-
ident and Secretary-Treasurer. The
question arises as to why the Dis-
trict lost its autonomy, and the ans-
er is an easy one. The miners un-
ion some years ago had gone in-
to complete collapse. Pressure from
operators and coal and iron police,
which have since been outlawed by
legislation; internal strife in unions,
tors, present leaders admit, brought
about by admittedly irresponsible
local union officials—all these fac-
tor, present leadersadmit, brought
about the collapse of the union. For
a time there was not a single dues-
paying member in an area covering
six counties. Today there are some
50,000. It is well within memory of
most miners and others in the dis-
trict that the union built barracks
and put up tents for hundreds of |
men who were evicted from com-
pany houses, and paid relief te un-
employed miners’ families. Barracks
were built in Somerset, Ehrenfeld, |
Cresson, Beaverdale, and other pla-
ces. Under edict of the then Sheriff,
Carl Steuer, two or more miners
weren’t permitted to congregate in |
public. Things were black, indeed. It |
was not until 1933 that the union, re-
vived by the NRA, was reborn and
reorganized. But autonomy was lost.
Just as self-government was about
to be restored, “wild-cat strikes” ag- |
ain started.
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The international union has assum-
erage that blankets Patton and the {|
| George H. Earle will have headaches,
| just the same as have the Democratic
! employees who are still on the pay-
| roll. Governor Arthur H. James has
| sent out the word for a “general house-
cleaning.” Out go the old, and in are
| to come the new employees—as fast as
| it can be accomplished. The James ad-
ministration has no love for hold over
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| There are now about 10,000 employ-
ees under the Governor, excluding
| the Liquor Control Board, the Un-
| employment Compensation Division
an dthe Department of Public As-
| sistance, which operate under civil
| service, and the Public Utility Com-
| mission, the Auditor General's De-
[ partment, and the State Treasury.
| James has made 4,487 appointments.
| That leaves 5,000 theoretically sus-
| ceptible to dismissal slips. Disclos-
| ure of the administration’s patron-
| age plans coincides with a persist-
ent but uneonfirmed report heard
frequently in the capitol in recent
| weeks that all employes would be re-
| quired to reapply for their jobs and
would need the indorsement of their
county chairman.
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| est to the James Republicans, is an ar-
ticle appearing under the titled of
| “Cambricania,” on the editorial page of
| last Saturday's Johnstown Democrat, |
| in which it surveys the promises of
| jobs that were made to Cambria Coun- |
| tians last year, at the election, and |
they tells what has happened to date. |
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| The record reveals that the big jobs
| James’ administration has given our
good, old county a “run-around” and
even on the smaller jobs county Re-
| publicans haven’ rated any too well.
| Now the story goes out to the some-!
| what disgruntled job seekers that af- |
| ter the election there'll be something
| done. But it can't be done in any “big” |
way because the plums have already |
been awarded. Instead of more jobs, |
| there are fewer jobs, instead of high- |
| er salaries there are lower salaries.
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Starting with Eddie McCloskey, |
who was a boxing commissioner and |
was let out, and no Cambria County
Republican named to succeed him,
the Republicans took a $5,000 a year
job from us; Eddie Knuff had a $7,-
500 salaried job, was given the gate,
and no Cambria county Republican |
was given the job; Michael J. Boyle
Unemployment Compensation refer-
ee, received $5,000, and no one from
Cambria county got his job. George
Prindible had what amounted to a
cabinet position, at $8,500 a year, and
his job went to another county A
rumor circulates that Leuie Luxen-
| the Republicans, wanted this job,
| and when he couldn’t get it, left it
go elsewhere. Dr. L. A. Wesner, as
ed $500,000 in deficits incurred by the, head of the Cresson Sanatorium, was
district, and declined to restore auto-
nomy to local unions which had a
propinquity for “running up bills and
further straining labor-operator rela-
tions. A few years ago President Jam-
es Mark said the international would
abide by the decision of the majority
of members in the district. When, two
years ago a committee recommended
restoration of voting rights, a poll ov
members followed. In the poll, a ma-
jority was determined to regain auto-
nomy and Mark kept his word. Auto=
nomy now comes to local unions when
members are enjoying full time work
in one of the greatest coal production
upswings in years.
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Local labor leaders believe that
the days of “wild-cat’ strikes are
over and that the years of govern-
ment by appointive officers have
schooled the miners to advantages
of compromise and restraint in con-
ducting their union affairs. Besides
many members have attended class- i
es in parliamentary law and “sat in” |
on numerous conventiemns. In fact, |
many other bodies could well take |
a lesson in the conduct of a meet-
ing, if they were privileged to sit
in on most any miners local union
meeting in the district. The chair-
man most always “knows his stuff.” |
Union officers should now be armed
with sufficient knowledge to pre-
vent minority groups of radicals and
let out early inthe shuffie and his
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Of interest—or it should be of inter- |
held by Cambria county Democrats |
have gone to Republicans, but not by |
any means to Republicans who reside |
| in Cambria county. On the bigger jobs |
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berg, patronage dispenser No. 1 of
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Dr. Stites, by no means a Cambria
Countian went back. A Cambria
countian had a job as construction
superintendent at Cresson at $3,500,
and a resident of another county got
his job. A resident of Johnstown
held the job of district forester at
$3,000 a year, and, of course, they
brought in a man from out of the
county, to take his place.
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However, the writer in the Johns- |
town Democrat says, on the other side
of the ledger he must give credit where
credit is due. Ernie Walker got a job.
Emil Schwing did get Lloyd Hibbs’
workmen’s compensation referee job.
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Schwing is Patronage Dispenser No. 2 |
Republicans
Surely he has something big in mind.
| The patronage board will take care of
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Who spent the most money in the
the primary campaign. Dan Shields,
Johnstown’s bombastic mayor, of
course. It cost him 58 cents each for
every vote he received. Next heav-
iest spender was John Lloyd Jones,
one of the Republican nominees for
| in the county. Andy Anderson of Eb-|
| ensburg is Patronage Dispenser No. 3,
| and it is said that after the election he
| will get a $3,500 a year job in the milk |
| side of the state’s business. Which, so |
| far, leaves
| what Luxenberg will be able to cop.
wondering |
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policy. $1,019.87, or 23 cents per vote. All the
° i rest of the expenditures on both par- |} zmem———
Even Republican hold-overs in the| ties were within reason for the job | amen pr een ee - ces
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Governor: SOUg: . | Law designates what the duties of the | Prohibition; Harry A. Englehart, Be-| ‘Fok Haluska, Socialist and Thomas | ious Choirs who so generously gave
SE S——— [- Only ‘about five hundred votes of | officials are, and exactly what they | publican. | L. Kennedy, Prohibition, withdrew. | their services. They wish to asure all
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Bs a difference is found between the |shall do. A competent official in any District Attorney. | County Controller | of a generous share in their prayers
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administration of former
Republican and Democratic registra- ) : W. Lloyd Hibbs, Democrat and Pro-| Dennis L. Westrick, Democrat, Mal-| and good works.
tion in this county, numbering all | some extent candidates are working hibition; Harry A. Englehart, Republi- | colm MacDougall, Republican and Pro- | : -.: =
| with other candidates of their partic- | hibition, Stephens Mayer, Republi-| hibition. | DO YOU KNOW?
| those who will be qualified to vote ale ; Ee !
I | at the election next month. The Re- | ular party, the chief thought likely is can, | Walter A. Stutzman, Socialist, with-| The British Medical Journal an-
- | publicans lead by that scant margin | tc get votes for one’s self—and that) wi. A Malloy, Socialist with. drew. I nounces that, owing to the war, there
with each party having more than | will grow with the individual candi: | 4... ? Clerk of Courts | will be no annual meeting of the Brit-
43,000 registered. That means only | date more and more as the days short- | Prothonotary. Joseph C. Wess Democrat: William | ish Medical Association in’ 1940, which
one thing, as we see it. The election | en before November 7th. ! Michael C. Chervenak, Jr. Demo- H. Heslop, Republican and Prohibition. { was to have been held in Birminghom.
will be close. There is small likli- The child of today HE es an in-
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Barnesboro’s Low Price
Leaders
: — ; | erat; John L. Hite, Republican and | John Yuchart, Socialist. |
| hood that any complete party slate | FOURTEEN CANDIDATES | Prohibiton. Coroner. | creasingly smaller part off the popula-
| has any chance of getting by. Al- x z 3 | George B. Simler, Socialist, with- | Thomas E. West, Republican and| tion. There was a redugtion of 1,300,-
| though both parties are publishing ON MINOR PARTY LIST | drew : :
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drew. Prohibition; Joseph Graff, Socialist. | 000 in the number of School children
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Hunting Coots ......... $1.98 dase adie, fe Bepcliin | WITHDRAW FROM RACE] Register of Wills, Frank Dorr, Democrat withdrew. | Bis ouy in 1938 as compared
: a party ha e same old knack of | | Michael J. Hartnett, Democrat: metres | With 1930. {
Hunting Caps arasrmreansaen -.. 390 nominating all their candidates from Withdrawal of fourteen candidates | Clem L. Varner, Republican. | MONTHLY NOVENA AT /
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Johnstown and its vicinity, with the | who received Prohibition or socialist
Richard Steele, Prohibition, and CARMEL OF LORETTO
Hunting Boots ........... $1.98
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exception of one lone candidate from | nominations for county wide offices James Deconna, Socialist, withdrew. /
Ebensburg. Geographically speak- has cleared the political atmosphere in Recorder of Deeds. On Sunday October 22, the usual | NEW LO PRICES
ing, however, the Democrals have | Cambria county. The majority of the Clark Powell, Democrat; R. M. Milt monthly Novena in honor of St. Ther- | .
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Hunting Vests ........._ ... 69¢c
i 4 | nominated candidates from all por- | withdrawals were filed in the office of| Good, Republican, ven :
Hunting Pants ....... $1.49 | tions of the county—and they are |the county commissioners last Friday| Clayton Law, Prohibition, and J. | S¢ Will begin in the Carmelite Chapel Joe's Cut te Store :
High Top Shoes $2.93 | leaving nothing undone to acgmaint | which was the deadline for taking that| Lawrence Luther, Socialist, withdrew, of Loretto, Pa., closing on October 30. , Bar
ag PIR de the voters with that fact. action. In addition to the withdrawals, County Commissioner. Many favors have been reported since nesboro, annpunces the Low-
Hunting Shirts ............ 98c] S Judge Ivan J. McKenrick entered his| Frank P. Hollern and Eddie McClos. | the Solemn Novena and devout Clients] est Prices inf Y oh ALL
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But with a registration as nearly rejection of the Socialist nomination | key, Democrat; John Thomas, Jr., Re-| are making inquiries about the coming
| equal as are the Cambria county fig- | for Judge with the State Secretary of) publican and Prohibition, and John | Novena, in order to render their tri-
HUNTING /and WORK CLO-
J | ures, there can be no question but that | the Commonwealth in Harrisburg. { Lloyd Jones, Republican. bute of thanks to the “Little Queen” || THING. me in, look over
- | the men themselves, and not the party As a result of the withdrawals, the] James M. (Jimmy) Jones, Prohibi-| for many gracious answers to prayer. our ous i al is
| will claim the attention of the voters. | following remain as candidates to be| tion, and George C. Hoppel, Socialist,| The Carmelite Nuns wish to thank all : Ing values. Fine
| And more especially will this be the | voted on at the election of Tuesday,| withdrew. who are interested in these novenas || Quality erchandise at the
Lowest Prices Ever Offered.
BARNESBORD : &.® PENNA. | case when there are no issues or poli- | November 7th. | County Treasurer. end in particular the many friends who
cies, in general, at stake. Many of the | Judge: John J. Haluska, Democrat; Emyln' co-operated with them during the Sol-
offices are merely clerical in nature Ivan J. McKenrick ,Democrat andTones, Republican. emn Novena, not forgetting the var-