Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1939 — Page 7
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THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1939 Heat Blamed for Collapse of Store Ceiling
WPA WORKERS WHO QUIT JOBS GIVEN WARNING
Thousands May Be Ordered Dropped From Rolls Unless They Return. WASHINGTON, July 6 (U. P)—
WPA officials indicated today that thousands of skilled workers who
halted work on WPA projects in|§
protest against new hourly wage
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within five days.
A spokesman for the WPA said| recognize | He added that the “normal!
the “WPA does strikes.” policy” of the WPA has been to drop workers from relief rolls five davs after they refuse to continue their assigned work.
Consider Unified Action
WPA Administrator F. C. Harrington had no immediate comment on a spreading series of work stovpages throughout the country, called
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in protest against the new relief law | ii
which terminates the policy of paying relief workers “prevailing” wages. The new law compels WPA clients to work 130 hours a month for the same pay that some of them formerly received for 50 hours or less of work monthly. Mr. Harrington was to hold a press conference later today, and may comment at that time. From New York to Ft. Dodge, Towa, skilled workers on many relief projects had halted work. WPA, operating upon the policy of not recognizing such incidents, claimed to have nc complete reports on the numbers of workers invelved.
Thousands Involved
But reverts from project sites indicated thousands of workers were involved. Thomas A. Murray, president of the New York Building and Construction Trades Council, claimed that 90 per cent of the 32,C000 skilled WPA construction workers in that area had halted work. His estimate, however, was disputed by Col. Brechon B. Somervell, New York City WPA administrator, who said only a few projects in his jurisdiction had been forced to suspend operations. Work stoppages also at Minneapolis and several other Minnesota projects; at Milwaukee; Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Rochester, N. Y.; Cleveland and other cities. Workers Alliance Meets The Workers Alliance, an organization of WPA workers, convened its administrative committee here to consider problems created by the $1,755,600,000 relief appropriation which carried the new regulations. The termination of prevailing wage scales will be a major problem considered, a spokesman said. At New York, leaders of the A. F. of L. building trades unions met to consider unified action in all cities,
Skilled Workers in State Stay on Jobs
The increase in the working hours of skilled workers under the new WPA regulations has not resulted in any walkouts in Indiana similar to those in other states, according to Stanton C. Bryan, WPA deputy State administrator. Mr. Bryan said he had received no reports of disturbances throughout the state. The new ruling, which eliminated the prevailing wage rate, went into effect yesterday. Local building trades council officials said yesterday the change probably would work to the advantage of union craftsmen by giving skilled workers on WPA less time to compete in private industry.
RADIO CITY PROJECT IN ITS FINAL PHASE
NEW YORK, July 8 (U. P.) —The construction program for Radio City has entered its final chapter with the tearing down of eight tenement houses which will be replaced with the 14th and final building of the project. The new building will be 20 stories high and is scheduled to be finished by March, 1940. When construction on Radio City—or Rockefeller Center—began eight years ago, the site from 48th
were reported
to 51st Sts. between Fifth and Sixth!
Aves. was covered by approximately 240 old buildings housing about 4000 persons. Today more than 25 - 000 persons work daily in the 12 completed buildings of the project. completion of the 13th building will add another 5000 to the number, Plans have not been completed for the number of persons to occupy the last building.
SLUMS IN ST. LOUIS EXPENSIVE BURDEN
ST. LOUIS, July 6 (U. P)— Blighted slum areas in St. Louis cost the city $5,500,000 annually, according to Harland Bartholomew, consulting engineer of the City Plan Commission. Mr. Bartholomew pointed out that approximately half the city is in a blighted condition and predicted that expenditures for these areas will double within a short period of time unless steps are taken to correct conditions causing the decay.
LAWN MOWER CAUSES DEATH
ASHTABULA, O, July 6 (U. P) — Ray R. Saunders, 63, cutting the lawn of his home, was dragged over
floor. windows.
Move Into Wisconsin in
‘Townsend Congress’ Drive for 1940.
CHICAGO, July 6 (U. P).—Aiming at a “Townsend Congress in 1940,” the first of 10 flying squads of organizers for the Townsend OldAge Pension Plan went into key districts of Wisconsin today to urge the defeat of Congressmen who voted against the plan bill June 1. The squads, known as the “Trailblazers League,” are a body “separate and apart from the Townsend organization,” Townsend national headquarters said. F. Manley Goldsberry, personal representative of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, said “test squads” in Illinois and Indiana recently obtained ‘‘excellent resuits.” Other squads, beginning July 10, will enter eastern districts, in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts.
EMPLOYER PRAISES WORKERS OVER 40
NEW YORK, July 8 (U. P)—A business in which the majority of workmen is past 40 and in which an 82-year-old man still holds his job was revealed by a survey of working personnel in the Jacob Ruppert brewery. The survey disclosed that of the 1313 men employees, 746, or 56.8 per cent were past 40. And about 29 per cent of the total number are past 50; 112 employees have passed their 60th birthdays, and 21 have exceeded the traditional three score years and 10. The reasons for the seeming reversal of modern business personnel trends is explained by George E. Ruppert, president, in the word, “experience.”
strength, vigor and enthusiasm, nothig can replace the experience and the sound judgment of the older man who has learned his job thoroughly and views it from the calm perspective of hard earned wisdom,” Ruppert said. With so many employees of advanced age, the Ruppert personi.-\ turnover is small. At the brewery, 160 employees have been with the company more than 20 years. “The mature man is the econom{ic and social backbone of the coun[try and of the nation’s business,” pm Ruppert commented.
INVENTORIES PLACE YEGGS’ LOOT AT $900
Company inventories today showed that more than $900 was taken from two safes which had been burglarized earlier in the week, police reported. Jewelry, watches and rings valued at $260 and $575 cash was taken July 2 from a William Leonard {Cleaners safe at 2119 W. Washington St, an inventory revealed. On July 3, three wrenches worth $3 and $75 cash was taken from a safe of the Consumers Oil Co., 601 Kentucky Ave, the company reported.
At 7:15 a. m. today, the 45 by 25-foot ceiling of the Meridian Mart, Inc., at 422-428 N. Meridian St. second-floor showroom let go and crashed to the The impact droke three large plate glass show It startled persons asleep in the SpinkArms Hotel, next door south, who called police with
PENSION FLYING | Notables Who Never Quit SQUADS ACTIVE Being Circus Fans Meet
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QUINS’ NEW HOME SHELVED IN DISPUTE
NORTH BAY, Ontario, July 6 (U. P.) .—Plans for a new home to house the Dionne quintuplets, their parents and their numerous brothers and sisters, have been shelved, it was learned today, pending solution of the legal difficulties between Oliva Dionne and Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, their physician. Dr. Dafoe, at Mr. Dionne’s demand, must submit for examination in Nipissing district court tomorrow records of all his contracts with firms using the quintuplets’ names in advertising or manufacturing. The father charged that Dr. Dafoe took advantage of his connection with the babies to profit
personally through contracts with
has pending a suit in which he claims damages from Dr. Dafoe because the doctor joined the Saints and Sinners Club of New York as a “Doctor of Litters.” At their meeting yesterday the quintuplets’ guardians, with Dr. Dafoe and Mr, Dionne present, re= frained for the first time in months from discussing plans for the new home. The plans have been placed in the unfinished business files until the litigation is settled.
BERGDOLL MANSION OFFERED FOR SALE
PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (U. P). =The mansion where Grover Cleveland Bergdoll escaped from army guards holding him for evads ing military service in the World War was placed on sale today. Mrs. Berta Bergdoll, the draft dodger’s wife, personally placed a daubed sign—="Sale=Inquire Inside” —on the lawn of the Bergdoll
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ANN ARBOR, Mich, July 6 (U.P) —Notables the country over whose secret ambition for years has been a desire to don grease paint and perform in a sawdust circle under the big top gathered here today for the annual convention of the Circus Fans’ Association.
The 14th meeting of the association, which includes business and professional men, actors and authors, artists and others interested in the preservation of the eircus as an institution, will devote the first two days to sightseeing and business sessions. The third will be given over to what most of the delegates came for—a chance to hobnob with performers of a real circus—brought here for the occasion. Members of the association will ride in the circus parade through downtown streets, feed the horses, water the elephants, and watch clowns make up and scuffle through the sawdust. Pink lemonade will be the chief beyerage. A steam calliope will furnish the musical entertainment. The convention this year celebrates the success of the association’s “save the circus’ movement of last year when it appeared labor difficulties would close all circuses.
STATE ACTS TO END WALKOUT AT BRAZIL
The State Labor Department today sought to conciliate a strike of 117 workmen at the Hydratlic Press Co., at Brazil, Ind. The men struck last week because the company allegedly refused to rehire a man who had been ill three months.
EX-OFFICIAL DIES AT 64 WAUWATOSA, Wis, July 6 (U. P)—Leon D. Case, 64 former Michigan official, died today.
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