Fifteen Labor Laws Passed By Last Congress 3 LABOR BILLS WERE VETOED BY PRES. HOOVER Heavy Gains, However, Were Made By Organiz ed Labor During The Last Session. Organized Labor prevailed upon the members of the United States Congress to pass 15 measures of in terest to the workers during the short session which began on December 2, 1930, and ended March 4, 1931, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor reported to the 1931 convention of the Federation at Vancouver. The laws provide for: Prevailing rates of wages on public buildings in the United States and the District of Columbia. Saturday half-holidays for nearly 600,000 government employes with out reduction of wages and salaries. Advance planning for public works to be constructed during depressions. Creation of a Department of Labor in Porto Rico. Extension of provisions of the Vocational and Rehabilitation Acts to Porto Rico. Retirement Act for Panama Canal Railroad emploves. Adjustment of wages of certain employes in the Customs Service. Appropriation of $500,000 (addi tional to increase the border immigra tion patrol. Appropriation of $178,000 to col lect compfpte statistics bf changes in employment, total wages paid and total hours of employment in the service of the Federal Government, the States and political subdivision thereof. Modernization of three battleships in the government navy yards and arsenals at a cost of $30,000,000. Requiring all work on 11 new de stroyers at a cost of $51,700,000 to be performed in the navy yards and ; arsenals when it does not cost appre- : ciably more than by contract. Ten ] million dollars appropriated to be gin construction. Extra compensation for overtime i service performed by immigration inspectors and other employes of the immigration service. . Books for the adult mind. Appronriating an additional $500, 000 for improving the United States Employment Service. Increase of $200 in wages for rail road locomotive, Bureau of Safety and hours of service nispectors. Organized Labor also prevailed upon the members of Congress to de feat the following four bills which were hostile to the interests of the workers: Unification of the border patrols. Permitting waiving of jury trials. "Equal rights” amendment to United States Constitution. Amendment of Volstead Act to permit raiding of homes without a warrant. President Hoover vetoed three Labor bills. One provided for a national employment system to be set up in the Department of Labor, an other provided a prac tidal way of solving the Muscle Shoals problems, and the third increased the wages of 826 village letter carriers. They’ll Sit In Court As "Moral Influence” New Orleans,—Woman’s Christian Temperance Union committees to sit in the local courts "to help raise the standards of law enforcement in prohibition cases” will be appointed here, Mrs. Annie Swann, newly elect ed president of the local unit, has announced. "We can do nothing toward further ing the cause of prohibition until we see it enforced,” she said. "We can do nothing with the police, so we must deal with the courts. We must not let our enemies think we are asleep. We must form these committees and at tend the court sessions whenever we can.” PRISONER KILLED Raleigh—George Cashwell was shot :o death when he, with five other prisoners, made a break for freedom it Caledonia prison camp. Cashwell, ent to prison from Alamance, had >reviously excaped twice. When they first attend school chil Iren are under severe nervous strain. ROWAN REALTY TRANSFERS The following conveyances have been filed with Register of Deeds Kiz ziah during the past several days: Daniel E. Eagle to Callie J. Eagle, 18 acres in Litaker township, eight miles from Salisbury, near Salisbury Mt. Pleasant public road, $1 and oth er considerations. Callie J. Eagle to Daniel E. Eagle, about one-third of an acre, two miles southwest of Faith, $100 and other considerations. J. W. Frick to L. M. Peeler, about four acres on Mt. Pleasant road, ad joining Peeler and Earnhardt lands, $45.00. Mrs. E. A. Nail to FI. R. Peeler, lot on Lincolnton avenue, $100 and other considerations. Mrs. Lelia C. Sechler to Merchants and Farmers Bank of Landis, lot, store house and dwelling on east side of South Railroad street, Landis, adjoin ing Linn’s corner, $2,047. D. C. and J. W. Bringle to Cora B. Rogers, undivided two-thirds interest in 20 acres in Salisbury township, ad joining Moyle, Canup and Bringle lines, $1 and other considerations. Ross M. Sigmon, trustee, to Nell McLean McKenzie, house and lot at northeast corner of intersection of Mitchell avenue and Fries street, $4, 000. Barbry Ellen Beaver to C. P. Cor riher, 32 acres adjoining Daniel Cor riher line, also about eight acres of same plantation, $1 and other consid erations. J. R. Hargett to A. G. Sides, house and lot on Long street, East Spencer, in Verble tract, opposite railroad shops, $10 and other considerations. A. L. Starr, commissioner, to Mrs. Emily Teeter, 20 acres in Atwell township, known as C. L. Walter home place, near Prospect Presbyter ian church, $1,15 5. * Citizens BuiWing and Loan asso ciation to C. V. Roberts, house and lot at 707 Maupin avenue, $100 and nther considerations. F. H. Bostian, executor of J. L. Bostian, deceased, house and lot on northwest side of Main street, in bus iness section of China Grove, $491. 59. P. J. Kirk to the town of China Grove, lot in China Grove, on street leading from P. J. Kirk’s home, $100. James S. Graham to George C. Moore, two acres adjoining Harris corner, in Sowers line, $10 and other considerations. DEMOCRATIC DEBT 768,150 DOLLARS OCTOBER FIRST The Democratic party had an in debtedness of $768,150 on October 1. A report filed with the house clerk by the party’s national committee showed $422,700 of the total was owed the County ,Trust Company of New York and $245,250 to Chair man John J. Raskob. Receipts from September 1 to Oc tober 21 totaled $33,723 and expendi tures $28,958. Of the receipts, Raskob loaned $20,000. Among the contributions was one from Pierre S. Dupont, of Wilming ton, Del., for $12,500. Willi im P. Eno, of Saugatuck, Conn., donated $1,000. Enlargement of the kidneys is due to obstruction and retention of fluids. Subscribe to The Watchman. Shoes rebuilt the better way. All kinds of harness, trunk and suitcase repairing. Fayssoux’s Place Phone 433 113 E. 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