[1 naan ET i ate 0s= esl esf 50,. re- Sy A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS : OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. UNION Union Press, Established May, 1935, Recognized and Endors- ed by More Than Fifty Local Unions and Cen- tral Bedies Over Cam- bria County and Ad- jacent Mining Areas. Patton Courier, Established AN ATTAINMEN1 OF THE LARGEST GENERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. to Do Job Printing of All Kinds. Nothing Too Large or Too Small We Cater Especially to Local Our Shop Is Equipped Union Printing. Oct., 1893. VOL. 46, OFFICIAL COUNT | IS COMPLETED NO. 7. Vote Shows Hartnett Led With | Largest Single Vote of Any of | the 25 Candidates | tical division. Michael J. Hartnett, reelected as re- | gister of wills of Cambria County, led the Democratic ticket and polled the largest single vote of any of the 25 candidates county offices at the Gen- eral Election on November 7, accord- ing to the official tabulation which | has been completed by the Cambria | County Return Board. Polling a total of 36,995 Hartnett | easily led the field of candidates at the general election with the excep- | tion of Thomas E. West, who had no Democratic oppossition for the minor | office of county surveyor. Hartnett defeated his Republican op- ponent, Clem L. Varner, by nearly 14,000 votes. The official count for countywide | and state offices is as follows:: SUPREME COURT Marion D. Patterson, R ........... Herbert F. Goodrich, D... SUPERIOR COURT (Three Elected) William H. Keller— 30,316 27,384 | D. a 20,897 R. . PA 23,857 Non. Par. ri 3 — 50,757 Thomas J. Baldridge, R. .. 28,334 J. Harold Flannery, D. 217,649 Edward J. Thompson, D, . 26,922 William E. Hirt, R. .... 26,836 COMMON PLEAS COURT | Ivan J. McKenrick— | competitors, but added in reply to a | | question at his press conference “I | 2 on... 30,491 Pro. .... rie 7 30 Non. Par, ... a 3 — 31,144 Harry A. Englehart, R. ......... 30,278 McKenrick’s majority — 866. DISTRICT ATTORNEY | Stephens Mayer— Bi -.. 30,721 Pro. 1,429 | Non. Par. 1 | W. Lloyd Hibbs, D, ........ Mayer’s majority — 3,571. PROTHONOTARY Jehn L. Hite— Rov ree 30,858 PrO. ii 952 | Non, Par. ..... Ha 1 | Michael C. Chervenak, Jr., D. 28,022 | Hite’s majority — 3,789. REGISTER OF WILLS | Michael J. Hartnett, D. ........ 36,945 | Clem L. Varner, R. . 23,000 | Hartnett's majority — 13,945. RECORDER OF DEEDS Clark-Powell, D. ........ 32,174 | R. M. (Milt) Good, R. ....oc..... 27,100 | Powell's majortiy — 5,065. COUNTY COMMISSIONER { (Three Elected) Frank P. Hollern, D. .... Eddie McCloskey, D. ..... John Thomas Jr.— rare 25,189 renner 329322 29,635 | 0e 1 | nied. It was declared that the data is | pers concern with offices in Pittsburgh | proceedings. COAL PRICE IS | announced January 1, unless “obsturc- It's a pretty weak case where an op- | 32,151 ments by the committee for amendment | casters to predict a Christmas tra Tr rn == re > 26,580 | of the Coal Act that the statute was|boom that will rival pre-depression | if miners become aware of its danger. unworkable. | being considered in the same manner : : | as oil conservation he said, “There | they cited that both shoppers and mer. | has been a good deal of waste of coal | chants will have a but we're not in the same situation i mien) | there as in the oil industry. [VAN ZANDT SEEK E van Zandt of Altoona, called last | : . : Thursday on his 18 fellow Pennsyly- | would start the Christmas buying in a | | ania members of the House to join | Pig way on November 25th, exactly a { him in petitioning President Roose- velt to increase WPA wages in his state. days ago in behalf of the WPA em- | tion of a big Christmas trade ployes in his own district, declaring that a proposal of State Administrator | Col. Philip Mathews for adjusting wa- | commerce has increased by 1,250,000 | | ges in several Pennsylvania areas hass | over the corresponding period of last 547 | been rejected by WPA headquarters | year. he CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939 U. S. OPPOSES PLEA | - BY CARTER COAL CO. r f | Washington — More than a year | b q n 3 1 Vv 1 n would be required to tabulate the data a demanded of the Interior Department's coal division,, by the Carter Coal Com- | pany according to an affadavit filed last Thursday by the divisions statis- It accompanied a motion by Abe | Fortas, general counsel of the coal di- | vision, that the Carter demand be de- i confidential; that to comply would be an “unreasonable burden”; that no necessity has been shown; and that the “motives are improper.” ! Coal companies, including the Kop- have protested that compliance would “involve unwarranted delay in the con- clusion of these already protracted Since the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock set apart a day after their first harvest, Thanksgiving has been an Ameri- can institution. As a day of family feasting and pleasure, it has no equal on our calendar. But Thanksgiving has a deeper meaning to us, too. It is the day which we have specifically set aside to give thanks to the Almighty for the benefits re- ceived during the past year, and on which we express the hopefulness that the next year will bring us our needs and that “peace will reign on earth.” SEEN FOR 1940 Secretary Ickes Predicts That Minimum Prices Will Be An- nounced by January 1st Washington — Secretary Ickes pre- dicted last Thursday minimum prices for sale of bituminous coal would be tive tactics” of opponents were suc- | cessful. le ie m0 geet rience 0 + TRADE BOOM FOR CONSUMPTION ve mae waiaie be neers CHRISTMAS WILL + PERIL WARNING BE BOON TO ALL BY MINE BUREAU won’t deny” referring to that company. | The Carter Company has contended | the information requested would be y ais 43 : rks cine x, : re necessary to full and fair presentation | Government Optimistic In Pre- Dread Disease Can Be W iped diction that Yuletide Will Be| Out If Miners Become Awar: Best for Years. of Its Dangers. of its opposition to minimum prices. Referring to «current hearings on he soft coal prices, Ickes declared, | ive | Washington. — Improved economic Washington.——“Miners’ consumption” onent has to resort to obstructive ashingion. , 2 PA i [conditions throughout the country has| cause of hundreds of deaths annually ‘ i _ | prompted government business fore-| in the coal fields of the nation, can be 65 Josenibeg ay Dropaganda sale [2 > trade | wiped out, says the Bureau of Mines, | years. | Caused by tiny, jagged particles of | Indications of the trend already are | dust floating in the air of underground 5 t to the experts. In addition, | workings, the disease causes a break- apparen ing down of lung tissues similar to that of tuberculosis. It resembles in all respects the widely known “silicosis” caused by the breathing of air laden with silica dust and responsible for thousands of deaths. “Unquestionably,” said the Bureau of Mines, “dust disease is the great- est health menace to miners, whether engaged in coal extraction or in min- eral mining, and many of our miners are obliged to breathe too much fine Asked if conservation of coal was | four-week pre- Christmas shopping period instead of the usual three weeks. — The longer shoping period was } brought about by President Roosevelt advancing Thanksgiving from the usu al last Thursday in November to No- vember 23rd. Government economists said this WPA WAGE INCREASE Washington - Representative James month before Christmas, and would act increase the volume of trade by hun- Da : | dreds of millions of dollars. “The outstanding remedy for _ the ) tients | Factors that prompted the predic-| bad situation In mines is education- Van Zandt wrote the President a few | £ p boom | education of mine workers in the ne- were cited as follows: Y ] tig | 1. Empleo ment in industry and in| aF€ available and of mine officials to JT mDioy recognize the seriousness of the sit- uation and to provide equipment and methods to reduce or prevent the dis- ease. | in Washington. | 2—Payrolls are fatter than they | wr : 28,7317 | Van Zandt said wage schedules were | have been in many years. : | The bureau sand the “miners Son” Jehn Lloyd Jones, R. ....... 25387 fixed befort the European war boosted | 3.—Corporations are splitting more | sumption” properly should be called Hollern’s plurality over Jones = 7, 035. 4,248. Thomas’ 3,360. plurality over Jones — | COUNTY TREASURER Emyln Jones, R. ....... 0. .. 31.224 | '2 MINERS INJURED living costs and contended the WPA | melons than in years, in the form of | “anthracosis” in the coal fields and | used “a false and arbitrary standard” | dividends. McCloskey’s plurality over Jones — | in basing wages on the population of | | the largest city in each district. | was one of the group of dust caused 4—Federal receipts from excise le- | lung diseases known as “pneumonoco- | vies are far ahead of last year, indica- | Dosis.” The breathing of dust from | ting liberal buying of luxuries and | iron ore causes another of this group | non-essentials. { known specifically as“siderosis.” 5—Steel plants are operating near| “With our decidedly limited know- UNDER ROCK FALLS | capacity. | ledge of the actual underlying facts | | cessity of taking such precautions as | - _— | —C0a ines are working nearly | concerning the causation of dust dis- S98 1 Hla D. 2.607. 23817 Spangler — Two mine workers in | at So ines 8 yl ease,” the bureau continued, “the only COUNTY CONTROLLER | Northern Cambria County were In-! v_ Railroads are enjoying the big- | safe method of handling the problem Denis L. Westrick, D. o.. 30 216 | ured In accidents last week. Both | gest traffic since the depression ex- | at present is to accept the ideas that Midooir MacDougall I hsisess, Oly | were removed to Spangler Hospital. | cept for short periods. | the long continued breathing of air R 28.370 { Joseph Dorak, 28, of Bakerton suffered Department store sales throughout | containing large quantities of very Fro - 654 | Injuries to the back when he Was | the country now are running from 10 | finely divided dust will almost certain- Non. Per 1 | caught under a fall of rock in the | to 20 per cent above the volume of a |ly have harmful physical effect sooner 29,025 | Westrick’s majority, — 1,191, CLERK OF COURTS Joseph Wess, D ..... 29,383 William H. Heslop— B. . 28,660 Pro. ...... che. = 429 — 29,089 Jobn Yuchart, Soc. vo... 423 Wess’ majority over Heslop — 294. CORONER Patrick Mc Dermott, D. . 32, 101 William J. Killius, R. .... . 27,426 McDermott’s majority — 4,675. COUNTY SURVEYOR Thomas E. West— R._. Pro. Joseph Graff, Soe. ....... West's majority — 35,058. DANCE AT NICKTOWN A Round and Square dance will be held at St. Nicholas’ Church Hall at Nicktown on Saturday, November 25. Music by Gus and His Gambols. Dan- cing from 9 to 12. The public is cor- dially invited to attend. No. 1 mine of the Sterling Coal Com- pany at Bakerton. His condition is reported as fairly good. + Frang Rematt, 32, of Spangler suf- fered a fracture of the right ankle when he was struck by a rock fall in the No. 10 mine of the Peale, Peacock & Kerr Coal Company mine at St. Benedict. A MILLION FREE MILES TRAVELED BY JEFF DAVIS Pittsburgh — King of the Hoboes, Jeff Davis wore out half a dozen pen- cils, litered the floor with paper and came up with inforrmation uast week that he had traveled 1,000,000 miles in 47 years “on the road’—without pay- ing a dime, The 56-year-old hobo monarch reach- the million mark by “riding the rods” from his home in Cincinatti to Pitts- burgh. Davis said hé was here to study Pittsburgh's accomodations for trans- ients, and added: “For years we have made America | year ago. Buying in wholesale mar- | or later and that the only known cure | kets for the Christmas trade is re- | is the prevention or limitation of the | ported heavy in virtually all lines, in- | occurrence of dust in mines.” { cluding luxuries. — FARRELL IS CLEARED | CEREMONIES HELD | ] .| FOR FRANCISCANS | IN ALLEGED ATTACK | BOUND FOR INDIA | | Mayor Daniel J. Shield of Johns- ; town has dismissed a disorderly con- | The chapel of St. Francis’ College, | duct charge against Patrick H. Farrell, | Loretto, as erowded on Sunday mor- { Democratic campaign manager. | ning for the ceremony of departure for The charge against Farrell was | ©ight members of the Franciscan Or- | brought by James L. Gatins, unsuccess- der who will leave in the near future ful candidate for city controller, who for missionary work in India. claimed that Farrell struck him during Most Rev. Bishop Richard T. Guil- a dispute in Democratic headquarters | foyle of Altoona presided at the cere- November 1. monies and bestowed his blessing up- Farrell voluntarily appeared at po- | OR the missionary friars who will join lice headquarters the following day | another band of Francicans who went and posted bond for a hearing. At the | to India two years ago. hearing the folloinz day the mayor re- | In addition to the entire Francis- served his decision until after the el- | can community at Loretto, those in ection. attendance at the ceremony of depart- Prior to signing the city information, | Ure included a delegation from the Gatins also filed a commonwealth Franciscan House of Studies, Washing- charge of aggravated assault and bat- | ton, D. C. tery with Alderman James T. Malloy eee ‘safe for democracy’. Now it's time we made America ‘safe for occupancy.” 723 South Fifth Ave, PATTON. PA, SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR BANQUET PLANNED | BY CLERK'S UNION | | Prominent speakers from the ranks | of labor as well as business leaders | | are expected to attend the Second An- | niversary Banquet of the Retail and | Wholesale Joint Council of the United | Wholesale and Retail Employes of America. The banquet, to be held in the main | | dining room of the Brandon Hotel, on Wednesday, November 29th, will high- light the developement and organiza- tion efforts of the Clerk's Union since | its inception in this area in the past two years. Plans for the affair have been in formulation for the past two | | months and a large number of guests | are expected to attend. | The committee on arrrangements is | made up of Meade Retallick, Kenneth | Grazer and Elmer Barger, all affiliated | | with the Clerk’s Union. COUNTY TOHOLD PROPERTY SALE More Than 2,000 Properties | Which Were Sold To Commiss. ioners to Be Put On Block More than 2,000 properties in Cam- | bria County which were sold to the county commissioners at county treas- urer’s sale for taxes in 1930 will be offered for sale at 10 a. m., Wednes- ay, December 20, County Commiss- ioners John Thomas Jr., and Frank Hollern announced Saturday. The sale will be held in the commission- er's office. The properties were sold to the county in 1930 for the taxes of 1929 and prior years. 2 Under an Act of Assembly approved on June 20, 1939, the commissioners of each county were given six months from the date of approval of the law, tc fhold fhe sale. Properties which were sold to the county commissioners at the treasurer's sale held last year for taxes of 1930 to 1935 inclusive, of course, will not be included in the De. cember sale, These latter properties cannot be offered at a commissioners sale until 1944. fered at the sale next month will, ac- | | cording to legal experts, be divested | of county, school and township taxes | but not of city or borough taxes. Nei- ther will certain mortgages be dives- | ted by the sale, experts assert. The following section of the state law is cited by these authorities as uphold- | ing their contentions: “ xX xX Except no such sale (commiss- ioners’ sale) shall discharge the lien of any ground rent, municipal claim or |tax remaining unpaid or mortgage | which shall have been recorded before | such taxes became leins by return and | docketing as herin provided and which is or shall be prior to all other liens, | except other mortgages, ground rents, | municipal claims and (or) other taxes.” These legal authorities assert that | under court rulings a city or borough | is a municipality, while a school dis- | trict, township or county is not. How- | ever, there has been no ruling on the | question by the State Supreme Court, | | BITUMINOUS COAL INDUS- | TRY SEEK TAX REFORMS Washington — The bituminous coal | dustry urged today a pay-as-you-go plan for social security and repeal of | the special one-cent tonnage tax ime- | posed by the Guffey Coal Act to finan- [ce minimum price fixing activities. Executive secretary John D. Battle of the National Coal Association sub- | mitted his industry’s tax suggestions | to Under-Secretary of the Treasury John W. Hanes, Other suggestions included: Federal legislation to permit reduc- | tions in payroll taxes levied by the | states for unemployment insurance, Under state law, properties to be of- | MINE OFFICIALS TO INSPECT FIRE Conference Listed To Discuss Means of ‘Combatting Under- ground Mine Fire at Patton State and federal mine authorities will inspect the disastrous underground mine fire at Patton, today (Tuesday). Two efficials from the United Sta- tess Bureau of Mines and engineers from the Pennsylvania Department of Mines, Harrisburg; and Denis Keenan, Barnesboro, state inspector, ad State inspector Steinhauser of Indiana will | confer with Patton Borough officials in the Patton Borough Municipal Buil- ding. State Senator John J. Haluska, who also is burgess of Patton, has returned from Harrisburg,” where he conferred | with John Ira Thomas, secretary of the State Department of Mines. Arrangements for the conference were completed during sessions with the secretary of the mining department and other state officials, Senator Ha- luska said. Patton Borough Council, headed by George E. Prindible, president, and | Senator Haluska, will take the author- ities from the federal and state gov- ernments on an inspection tour of the burned area. The state and federal mining offi- cials will view the two caveins on the Patton-Flannigan Road. The 'S the caveins occurred last May and the second a week ago. The fire is burning in an aband ned mine of the Patton Clay Maufacturing Company and is threatening serious damage to the town. Senator Haluska assured council that the state and federal authorities will find some feasible way to combat the spreading underground fire. Nati nal Youth Administration auth ies also are expected to meet with ning of- ficials and council members. It is entirely possible that an eme- ergency NYA project may be inaugur- ated to combat the fire, which from all present indications is burning to- ward the borough. The fire is raging in an abandoned mine, from which the coal was recov- ered may years ago. | IC. I. 0. IS VICTOR IN NLRB RULING Washington — The C. I. O's United Automobile Workers Union was certi- fied by the National Labor Relations Board last week as a single and ex- clusive bargaining agent for employes of 12 of the Chrysler Motor Corpora- tion’s 15 scattered plants. | Certification of the mult-plant unit Was a reversal of a previous decision |by the board in which it had ruled that bargaining must be carried on | separately in each plant. The order covered all production and maintenance workers excent those at Evansville, Ind, Kokomo, Ind and the die sinkers at Newcastle, Ind. The C. IL O. faction of the U. A. W. was | defeated at Evansville by the A F. of | L. faction and both were turned down lat Kokomo. | Die sinkers at Newcastle will be | represented by the International Asso- | ciation of Machinists (A. F. L.), the | board ruled, while other production and maintenance workers there will be | represented by the C. I. O.s U. A. Ww. | faction |C. I. 0. UNION IN | FAVOR OF PEACE | | Philadelphia — A C. I. O. union that draws its membership from Penn- | sylvania’s public employes on Sunday put its strength behind President Roo- | sevelt’s efforts to bring about labor | peace between the C. I. O. and A. F. I. | ‘In a resolution at the close of a | three-day state convention, the State, A requirement that employes as well | Coun and Municipal Workers of Am. | as employes contribute to unemploy- | ment insurance costs. Exemption for the coal industry | from the so-called “unjust enrichment | tax.” ses | Abolition of the capital stock tax. | Restoration of the consolidated in- | come return privelege. | WAGNER URGES LABOR PEACE New York — Asserting “The ene- mies of labor ever grow bolder,” Sen- ator Robert F, Wagner (D.-N.Y.) last week appealed to labor to “try once again to settle the diferences in its own, family.” The author of the National Labor Relations Act voiced his appeal before the second annual convention of the New York State Industrial Union Council ( C. I. O.) after outlining plansfor pressing new social legisla- tion, embracing a national health pro- of the Tenth Ward. Farrell posted $500 It pays to advertise in the Union- bond for court on this latter charge, | Press-Courier. gram, at the next session of Congress. |erica voted that the union “shall at | all times act in a method conductive to bringing about labor amity.” In other resolutions, the convention: 1—Called upon Governor James and the Legislature to meet in special ses- sion to appropriate additional relief funds “so that no needy person x x x may be permitted to suffer” and asked for an increase in the size of relief grants, 2—Authorized its emecutive com. mittee to support the Reading local “in its efforts to combat any tentative lay- offs by the incoming administration of that city. 3—Proposed unionization of hospital workers in the state “to press for sa- laries more commensurate with their living expenses.” | { The, union elected David Kanes, Harrisburg, president and Robert Weinstein, Philadelphia, secretary. tre- asurer, Those elected to executive board posts included Reade Johnston, Winston McConkey, and Foss Baker, Pittsburgh; Francis Bauer, Reading, and Howard Weiss, Harrisburg, tid
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