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VOL. XVIII, No. 52.
St. Paul, Minn.,—The State senate
has defeated the bill to create a state
controlled workmen's compensation
fund
St. Paul, Minn.,—Because the Min
nesota state federation of labor urged
the passage of a workmen's compen
sation law managed by the state, pri
vate insurance companies claimed that
this is the first step to "put the state
into business" and lhat the state will
eventually destroy "private initia
tive."
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This claim was answered by Hon.
Asher Howard in a speech before the
house of representatives, in which
he said:
"This bill simply permits the state
of Minnesota to spread this tax over
the industries of the state in a fair
and equitable manner in order that
sufficient funds (and no more) may be
collected to pay the benefits the in
jured Minnesota workmen are entitl
ed to, and if it cannot be justified
wholly on the theory of taxation it
cannot be justified at all.
"There are some activities Which
properly belong to the state and this
is one of them. The state of Minne
sota went much farther in interfering
with private business when it estab
lished the binder twine and farm
machinery plant in the state peniten
tiary and when it took over the weigh
ing and inspection of grain than it
goes here. When the federal govern
ment established 0 farm loan bank
system it took one-third of the reven
ue away from many country banks.
State Workmen's Compensation Differs From
Usual Business."
Profit 5haring
A Myth To Mislead Un
wary, Says Labor Editor.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—The editor
of a local newspaper is ecstatic over
the inauguration of a profit-sharing
scheme by a local business man, "who"
the editor declares, "belongs to the
new order—the order that must make
the world safe for democracy if dem
ocracy is to be safe for the world."
These lofty sentiments have as
much effect on Editor Wilson of the
Oklahoma Federationist as the pro
verbial water un the duck's back.
"It may as well be explained right
now, that labar wants none of your
profit-sharing or welfare schemes,
says the labor editor. He declares
that labor wants the right to organ
ize, to bargain collectively and to be
paid living wages, "without any of
the frills or bonuses that are used to
mislead the unwary into the belief
that they are receiving something un
der the head of benevolence or that
the boss is a wonderful philanthropic
person.
"The nomenclature of profit-sharing
is singularly rich in equivocal terms.
"Loyalty.—Is the employe to be
wholly loyal to his employer and not
first loyal to himself? How loyal is
an employer to his furnishers of raw
We are
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Union Suits
$2.00 Union Made
Union Suits
$1.50 Black and White Stripe
Work Shirts .........
$1.00 Balbriggan
Shirts or Drav/ers
When it established the parcel post
system it interfered with private
bus ness as conducted by the express
companies.
"And when you ask me why the
state of Minnesota, if it is to render
the people of the state the services
required under this act, is not equally
justified in taking over the grain and
milling business, I reply:
That when your state enters the
grain and milling business it is deal
ing with wheat and flour. Here you
are dealing with human flesh and
blood—with the tears of little children
ant' the sobs of the widow at the
gra\e of the husband and father
whore life was crushed out in order
that civilization might enjoy the ne
cessaries and comforts and luxuries
of l?fe.
"In the one ca«*e you are dealing
wi*h a business problem. Here you
are aealing with a humanitarian prob
ler- that touches every heart that
bents in sympathy v^ith suffering,
grref-stricken humanity.
"And it is just as ris*ht and proper
that companies organized for profit
should be permitted to collect $100,
000,000 for Red Cross purposes, and
turn $60,000,000 over to those the
fund was intended to benefit, as it
is that insurance companies organ
ized for profit should do that thing
in this field.
"Every dollar collected from em
ployers (less the actual cost of ad
ministering the fund) should be pass
ed on to the injured workmen or those
dependent on the killed.'
material? He is loyal to them only
so long as they sell him what he
wants at the towest market rate?
"Efficiency.— Never to be missed in
any lecture of discourse on profit
sharing. This term points to push,
grind, and hurry to the exhaustion of
the employe, despite its admitted
legitimacy up to the point of physical
abilities.
"Profits.—Is the Withholding of 5 or
10 per cent from the employe's pay
envelope during the year and return
ing it to him et an appointed annual
date, a sharing of profits or a mere
restitution of withheld earnings?"
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Fordson Heights
Attracting: Much Attention,
Many Lots Being Sold.
If every person who visited Fordson
Heights on last Sunday was to buy a
lot, Butler County sliced up wouldn't
furnish them. While no sales were
made Sunday, the number of lots
sold Monday was evidence that the
Sunday crowd was out for business.
The attractive feature of the Ford
son Heights site is that the promotors
have limited the sale of these lots to
one to Ian individual thereby preclud
ing speculators who might later cause
an inflow ^f undesirables.
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
Written Especially for the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy
THE, WOR.KINGMAN'S STORE
RED TRUNK Z46 HIGH STRfc£J
Article 4.
The case of Holland gives us a good
sobering lesson in what the United
States can no and ought to do to save
civilization.
For fifteen months before the ar
mistice there had been practically no
meat to be had in Holland except
horse meat and very small quantities
of that. There was not a scrap of
bacon, pork or mutton.
Of bread there was an allowance of
200 grammes for each person a day.
That means a peace of bread not
much larger than an ordinary roll.
Of fats of all kinds, including but
ter ,no person could have more than
one-half pound in ten days.
Of milk, the allowance was one
tenth of a litre a day, or about a
small glassful. But even this was very
uncertain.
Slow Starvation of a Notfett
Under these conditions Holland
slowly starved. The entire popula
tion became noticeably gaunt and hol
low-eyed.
Disease, especially consumption,
began to fill the churchyards with
new graves. Consumption amounted
almost to an epidemic.
There was little coal. No house
hold was al'owed to have a fire in
more than one room. Most of the
factories ceased to operate, or ran on
part time.
Trailers. We have come out ON THE FRONT AND STABBED HIGH PRICES. SO
THEY ARE IN REACH OF EVERY WORKING MAN'S POCKET BOOK. Larger assortment and better
values are not to be found anywhere. During this sale you will discover that only the prices have changed
and the QUALITY REMAINS THE SAME. THE VERY BEST.
$1.57
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97c
The government was able to keep
the railroads in operation on greatly
reduced schedules by commandeering
the coal that came from Holland's
one deposit. But this was poor ill
quality and small in quantity.
Rather than see great populations
in acute distress some of the factories
that closed, cmtinued so long as they
could pay .their employees. Never
theless, the suffering was great and
Widespread.
Among thrse unfortunate {people
the Bolshevik propaganda began and
was carried to astonishing lengths
The world never knew at the time
how close Holland was coming to a
terrible conflagration.
A Bolshevik uprising was planned
exactly like the Spartacus revolt in
Berlin and to be timed by it. Thous
ands upon thousands of distressed
workir.gmen were armed and sup
plie'l with ammunition. At a given
signal they wire to arise, seize the
government and put to death every
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k THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS:
BOLSHEVISM BEATEN HOLLAND
America Must Hake Further Sacri
fice If It Would Prevent
World Disaster
DISASTER TO NATION AVERTED DY TIMELY SHIPLOADS
OF FOOD FROM UNITED STATES
Same-Danger Faces Five Other
Nations, Says Russell In Fourth
Article On European
Conditions.
conspicuous employer and business
man.
The lists of the doomed were pre
pared They were to be shot with
out delay or formalities.
Then the Soviet Republic of Hol
land was to be proclaimed.
The arming of the proletariat
forca was easy. Military service is
universal and each soldier wl»en he
leaves the army is allowed to carry
his rifle home with him. But ordi
narily he has no ammunition, and on
this occasion the revolutionists were
found to hnve full supplies of am
munition—made in Germany.
All Eyes on Germany
The signal that was awaited was
the triumph of the Spartacans in
Berlin.
When news of this program leaked
into the hands of the government it
started in to disarm the workingmen
and to investigate the army. It came
upon the astounding fact that about
one-half the urmy was already Bol
shevist. Therefore, it demobilized
and disarmed 230,000 men.
In spite of all these precautions
there would have been a Bolshevist
revolution in Holland and civil war if
it had not been for two things.
First, the Spartacus movement in
Berlin, for which the leaders in Hol
land were waiting, did not prove a
success.
Second, and, what was equally as
important, th«»re arrived from the
United States just at that critical
time a supply of food that enabled
the government to increase the food
allowance.
With increased food allowances the
danger was deemed to have passed.
To anyone that knows the people
of Holland it would be impossible to
exaggerate the warning of this in
cident.
Ordinarily among the most quite,
orderly and reasonable of people,
when they were beset with hunger
and could see nothing of hope before
them, they preparel a bloody revo
lution and made up a list of their fel
low citizens that they purposed to
slaughter.
Attitude of Socialists
We ought albo to note that while
organized labor and the moderate
Socialist had nc part in the plan,
men in Holland generally believe that
if it had succeded organized labor and
the aioderate Socialists whould have
been compelled to join it.
SALE
Overalls or Jacket
If these things can happen in Hol­
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land they can happen in any other
country in Europe. Literally any
other country. They most assuredly
will happen unless something is done
to eliminate the conditions that cause
them.
Practically the whole proletarian
Holland stands for the League of
Nations. No one knows what might
happen if that hope should be dis
appointed.
Hope and food. The United States
can supply both and save the world
from the imminent threat of chaos.
Because what almost happened in
Holland is the thing that may actual
ly happen in at leas *ve other coun
tries.
And what ought most to compel
us to stop and think is the fact that
the actual living conditions in Hol
land that brought about this crisis
were not so bad as they are today in
nearly all these five.
Also, I would like to suggest one
other thought:
What Bolshevism is and what it
means we can see from its work in
Russia.
But Russia, we say, will eventually
pull itself together, escape from the
madness that now threatens it and
win back to sufficiency and order.
No doubt, but it will win back" only
through the help of other nations.
Suppose all ether nations were in
the state that Russia is in!
ASPIRATION OF THE LABEL
The aspiration of the union label
knows no bounds. Its ambition is to
redeem a world. Nothing in the whole
realm of unionized labor is capable
of such effective and continuous util
ity. Other agencies have varying de
grees potentiality, and are intermit
tent in effectiveness. Unhappily, they
sometimes fail to win public sym
pathy, translate indifference into an
tagonism, intensify the suspicion of
employers, and energize auction pens
into a malevolent assault upon the
labor movement.
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Your patronage is solicited.
Bell 447
After ten weeks wait, the machin
ists employed at the Hooven, Owens,
Rentschler company, received the
word that the National War Labor
Board had sustained them in their
contention for the eight hour day and
increase in hourly wage. The board
however, didn't gn.nt the full amount
asked for, which was ten cents an
hour, but did grant a flat increase
of five cents an hour. The decision,
the men say, is very satisfactory to
them at this time. Very little labor
trouble has been experienced at this
plant, the firm always seeming to be
fair with its employes and the work
ers are confident that the company
will shortly recognize the justice of
their request and will grant them
the additional five cents per hour in
crease asked for.
The first news of the award came
to the machinists business agent Ted
Crowded Off
First Page.
Are Organized Employes Of
Postal Department.
New York.—Organized employes of
the post office department are crowd
ed off the first page of newspapers
with their quarrel with Postmaster
General Burleson because of the Pos
tal Telegraph company's »uarrel with
the postal chief.
Mr. Burleson recently deposed
Clarence H. Mackay, president of the
Postal, and several other officials be
cause, he said, they "refused to obey
orders." Then Mr. Burleson said wage
increases compelled him to raise tele
graph rates 20 per cent. Now the or
ganized commercial telegraphers say,
"search us for wage increases." Then
Mr. Mackay took the center of the
stage and averred that Mr. Burleson
is in cahoots with the Western Union
Letter Number One
Have you ever investigated the interior of an Automobile repair
shop? If not—then you don't know the detail work in an up-to-date shop
where a wrecked machine is brought in on crutches, torn down and rebuilt
all in one operation.
That is what is called SYSTEM.
All Automobiles get out of order SOMETIME. It may only need slight
adjusting, or it may call for some difficult work, but the gist of this let
ter is to tell you that when you feel that your Automobile needs attention,
then a visit to the Brayman Auto Repair Shop will be a pleasant surprise
to you. Here everything is done on a SYSTEM basis. Our charges are
based only on actual results, you don't pay high prices for experimenting
by inexperienced mechanics.
Our shop is equipped with the latest labor-saving devices, to insure
high-grade work at a minimum of expense. Our shop is in charge of Claude
Jones who knows Automobiles from the radiator to the taillight and every
member on the Service Squad is a thorough Mechanic.
Bring in your car and if it needs a little adjusting, we will adjust it
and if it needs anything else, we will tell you exactly what should be done.
We have a USED CAR Department in Charge of John Shaffer and if
you are looking for a USED CAR, it will be to your advantage to come in
and look over our list and see what we have.
We also have the Agency for the GRANT SIX which is sold for $1120
F.O.B. Cleveland with War Tax and freight added. You will experience a
new delight in riding sensations when you take a spin in this car. A light,
high-powered Six that rides as easy at Fifty as it does at Five miles an
hour. Beautiful to look at and as Sturdy and Durable as Steel.
"WE NEVER CLOSE"
Brayman Motor Car Co
SECOND AND MARKET STREETS
Hamilton, Ohio
Subscribe for Victory Liberty Loan
Hooven flachinists
WIN IN FINDING OF THE WAR
LABOR BOARD.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY IS ESTABLISHED AND FIVE
CENTS HOUR INCREASE GRANTED.
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Smith, Friday night in a telegram
from Fred Hewitt, a member of the
war labor board, in which he said
that the award was one of the best
made by the board
A specal meeting of the machinists
has been called for Saturday when a
detailed report of the War Labor
Board will be read. The reason for
the meeting being called at this time
is to give those who work at night
also an opportunity to attend and
hear the report read. The report in
full will be published in next week's
issue of The Press.
One thing that stood out plainly
in the little controversy between the
Hooven company and the machinists
it employes, was the friendly feeling
existing between the two parties,
While there was a difference of
opinion as to hours and wages yet at
no time was there any display of bit
terness or antagonism.
and he flings a mass of figures at the
postal chief to prove his point. Mr.
Mackay says "it is absolutely unnec
essary" to raise telegraph rates ex
cept that "Mr. Burleson has agreed to
pay the Western Union more than he
should have agreed to and in order to
realize that amount he has to raise
the rates."
"If Mr. Burleson will return our
lines to us at once," continues the
Postal man, "we will carry on the tele
graph business at the old rates." Mr.
Mackay also says that the Western
Union is not administered carefully
and economically.
Bat Western Union is saying noth
ing. It is too busy raking in the shek
els and victimizing members of the
Commercial Telegraphers' union,
to to to
SIGN TWO-PLATOON BILL.
Nashvilr Tenn.—The governui has
signed the two-platoon bill, recently
passed bv the state gislatu-x, at
the request of city firemen. I'he
trade union movement supoorte the
measure.
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