The. Co-Operative Trades and La
bor Council met in regular session.
President Albert Brown presided over
the meeting and 35 delegates were
present.
The credentials of Jack Scheaf to
represent Theatrical Stage Employees
for 18 months, Mary Finfrock and
Ella Buchanan to represent Woman's
Union Label League were read re
ceived and delegates seated.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved!
Communication from Department of
Labor of Washington D. C. asking
theCouncil to take up Lhe matter of
naturalization of foreigners was read
Received and complied with.
Communication from the Appeal to
Reason in which they state that they
have taken over the magazine pub
lished by Upton St. Clair and ask
that all take that publication. Receiv
ed and complied with.
Communication from the National
Committee for the organizing Iron
and Steel Workers, asking our co-op
eration to organize this craft. Re
ceived.
Semi-monthly report of Secretary
Donnelly on Labor Bills that are be*
fore the General Assembly at the
present time. He urges that we get
in touch with Representatives and
Senators on these bills before the
Legislature and Senate adjourns.
Received and complied with.
Under the head of reports on con
ditions of the different locals all re
potted conditions good except a few.
Hardware store committee reported
the Cole Hardware Co.. Fischer and
Farney-Martindale company are the
only stores handling the Mephisto
bits. The committee was discharged.
Committee on Electric Light report
ed that it appears that the city ad
ministration will add an addition to
the Elfcetric LightPlant. and that cur
rent will be purchased from other
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Trades Council
SPRING
SUITS
of the latest style?. All materials,
$25 and $30 values
$14.98
AND
$18.98
DRESSES
$15 taffeta divsses $9.98
$25 Georgette Dresses 98c
$12.50 Silk poplin $7.98
Children's Gingham Dresses 98c
Children's Capes $5.98
Children's Coats $2.98
Hie
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sources until the plant could be en
larged. Report**received.
The delegates of the Brewers Union
requested that a committee be appoint
ed to wait on Congressman Gard be
fore Tfte returns to Washington and
request that he work for their inter
ests. E^glenton, Holt, Ted Smith
were appointed on the committee.
Delegates of the holders' Urtion
reported that a^rcstauant has been
started in the At'as Hotel Building
and that they are of tho opinion that
it is operated by the Niles Company.
The minutes of the soecial meeting
held Saturday night by the Executive
Board* by the call of the Musicians
were read and received.
A committee from the Musicians'
Union asked permission to address
the Council regarding the Jefferson
Theatre installing- the new Organ
and displacing the musicians. The
discussion which followed took about
one hours time. The musicians were
finally instructed to get in touch with
their international Body and ^et their
advice on the matter.
ir-
First Picnic.
Of Season To Be Given By
Crescent Aid Society
May 11.
A sure sign that summer is near
is the announcement by the manage
ment of White City Park that that
popular resort will throw open its
gates for the firpt picnic of the sea
son on Sunday May 11th. On that
day the Crescent Aid Society will
hold its annual basket picnic. Many
amusements for the entertainment of
those who attend are being prepared
by the committee in charge. A splend
id orchestra has been engaged and
dancing will be indulged in all day.
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LLINERY
Just received a delayed shipment of
hats made for dur Easter trade. $K
and $10 values
$3.98
AN,
$4.98
Children's Hats--While or Black
98c, $125, $1.48
SHIRTS
$t5 Silk popl.'n $3.98
$8 Serge plaids, stripes....$5.98
$10 Taffeta ond Silk $6.98
ORY BOND1*
1 he Home Is I he (grandest
of All Institutions
To get a "Little Plot of Your Own/' Be a live one—buy a lot and
Build a Home
Your earnings put into a home, bring a reward that
cannot be measured in dollars and cents. All other
investments may fail—but if vou own your own home
you are secure.
WHEN YOU BUILD
Let Us Furnish The
LUMBER AND MILL WORK
Our extensive plant, splendid organization and mod
ern equippient assures satisfactory service at mod
erate prices.
1
All friends of the society are invited
to come and spend the day with them.
The committee ask that all fill a
basket and have dinner and supper on
the grounds.
The park grounds have been put in
splendid shape for the season and no
more beautiful spot is to be found
in Butler County. White City Park
is situated on the Springdale Pike
along the Mill Creek Valley Traction
line stop 7.
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River Excursions.
When you study that calendar thar.
Bill's best girl's Aunt's niece gave
him for Christmas you rt bound to
notice that those wonderful Sunday
boat rides on the be-yootiful Ohio are
nearing the end of their season. Jt
isn't long now, until Sunday, May 18,
when the final Sunday voyages are
sailed. After that—presto, the Coney
Island pennant waves from the lofty
mastheads of the great steamers Is
land Queen and Morning Star. For,
on Sunday, May 25, Coney Island
flings open its gates to the thousands
of pleasure seekers and summer then,
Meanwhile, thousands are enjoying
and only then, has really begun,
the Sunday boat trips of those pala
tial ships of the Inland waters. The
Queen is sailing each Sunday, from
Broadway, for NeW Richmond, O.,
her departing time from the Broad
way wharf being 10 a. and 2:30
p. m.
The Star sails from Broadway each
Sunday for Iawrenceburg and Aurora
at 9:30 a. m. and 1 p. m.
ps paa
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Butler County Lumber Co.
Both Phones C. K. SANDERS, Mgr.
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I ENSORSHIP BILL VETOED.
Columbus, Ohio,—Governor Cox
has vetoed a bill which would have
given trustees of memorial buildings
power to censor utterarfres made with
in the institutions by speakers. The
governor said he based his veto on
the right of freedom of speech and
of peaceable assembly.
ter bales
COATS, CAPES & DOLMANS.
'$15 values, all colors $9.98
$25.00 values many
Styles $17.98
SPECIALS
Bungalow Aprons 89c and 98c
Ladies' Voile Waists $1.50 value 75c
Colored Silk Hose, slightly
imperfect 25c
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
GOMPERS WARNS
OF BOLSHEVISM
Movement Enemy of Trades
Unions as Well as of Govern
ments, He Says.
riAS CONFIDENCE IN LABOR
Good Sense of the Working People
Will Prevent Spread of Anarchy
Employers Warned of Inju
dicious Action.
On the eve of his departure for the
International labor congress to be held
at Paris during the sessions of the al
lied peace conference, Samuel (iom
pers. president of the American Fed
eration of Labor, gave out a serious
warning against bolshevism. It is a
movement, lie said, which is as great
annttempt to disrupt the trade unions
as it is to overturn the government of
the United States.
Mr. Gompers declared that the Amer
ican Federation of Labor would fight
the menace and expressed confidence
of victory because of the safe and
sane Americanism of the American
Federation of Labor.
The American labor movement,"
Mr. Gompers said, •'stands for the
maintenance and improvement of the
condition of the workers, naturally and
rationally. The whole scheme of bol
shevism is to bring about a cataclysm,
and its supporters think that by such
a situation all the ills of the human
family can be abolished at once.
"Such employers of labor who an
tagonize the efforts of our movement,
who seek to depress the standards, are
playing into the hands of the bolshe
vikl."
GENERAL LABOR NEWS
The total membership of over 1.200
unions in England is put at nearly
4.300.000.
A Shefliek' (England) Arm which has
been making shells for the army will
make files and springs.
Newark (N. J.) carpenters have been
granted an increase of ten per cent
an hour, which brings their daily wage
up to $6.40.
Up to October 1 aid had been in
voked from the war labor board in
521 controversies, involving more than
2,000.000 workers.
During October alone, over 56,000
women were placed in Jobs by "the
woman's bureau of the United States
employment service.
An eight-hour day and 44-hour week
with no night work for women Is be
ing demanded by the National Wom
an's Trade Union league.
The United States industries use
practically 6.000.000 pounds of bronze
powder annually, and ilf» per cent of
/he total consumption was formerly im
ported from Germany, but is now made
In America.
The Anaconda Copper Mining com
pany announced that during the pres
ent period of curtailment when many
mines are closed, it will give prefer
ence to men with families and to re
turned soldiers.
The Italian labor commission which
Is touring America for the purpose of
making stronger the ties between
American and Italian labor, left San
Francisco for Kansas Clty.^Mo., after
a week's visit.
The Japanese government has decid
ed to place the development of the
Chinllngchen iron mines in the hands
of the mining department of the Shan
tung railway instead of concluding a
eont.met for this purpose with a pri
vate concern.
A woman testifying before the Unit
ed States war labor board claimed
thnt shn had been employed in a V
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The
Piamsta
Player Piano with the wonderful
UKULELE ATTACHMENT is
the Player Piano you should hear
before purchasing.
The PI AN
1ST A is the Ideal
Player Piano for the Home.
The Ukulele Attachment brings
a tone of Beauty to Hawaiian
Melodies and makes Dance Music
tingle in your ears.
If you have not heard The
Pianista Player Piano, you have
missed a treat.
You are cordially invited to call
at the Salesrooms and hear one
play it yourself and you will be a
PIANISTA enthusiast.
Pianos taken in Exchange.
Convenient Terms.
fxohomy Shoe-Store \«S!d? SHOES,-215 Court St
Steistway & Sons
104 North Second St.
Opp. Y. C. A. Bell 2139-X
Subscribe for Victory Liberty Loan
SPECIAL PRICES IN
All DEPARTMENTS
SUITS
Thn.t soid up to $.'J0— All in
lot one—Great values—all
sizes. All styles.
S19.98
glrii~a factory "aF wages" of 11^ "cents
an hour at the beginning1 and later
received $10 per week for work Simi
lar to that for which men were paid
$15 per week.
More ttfan 2,000 women took the
places of men on six steam railways
In and about New York city: 'J.fMMi
went to work in ten munition factor
ies. while nearly 5,000 were employed
In similar factories in the Eastern
states, all betweef the spring of 1917
and that of 1918.
As a result of the bi-monthly set
tlement between the Bar Iron asso
ciation and the Amalgamated Associ
ation of Iron and Steel and Tin Work
ers. sheet-mill operatives will receive
a wage advance of 7% per cent for
January and February over the last
two months of 1918. The wages of tin
mill hands will remain as before.
While the Amalgamated Society of
Kngineers of Great Britain does not
admit women to its membership, it has
since the early days of the war had
an informal alliance with the National
Federation of Woman Workers, in
whose ranks it helped to organize the
women who poured into the various
brunches-of the engineering trade.
Lumber workers jn Bend. Ore., re
ceive better wages and have better
conditions to work under than in any
other of the yellow-pine districts. This
result has been brought about \ty the
stroug organization among the men.
Four thousand men will be idle in
the Youngstown (O.) district as a re
sult of suspension by the Republic
Iron and Steel company of all its finish
ing mills. Its Atlantic blast furnace
at Newcastle, Pa., has been closed for
an indefinite period. Lack of orders is
assigned as a reason for the suspen
sion. Other steel plants are slowing
TO FURNISH NEEDED DATA
Division in Department of Labor That
Will Encourage Development of
Building Announced.
Creation of a new division in the
department of labor, to interest the
nation in public works and private
construction, was announced by Sec
retary of Labor William B. Wilson.
It will gather and distribute informa
tion to enable private industries to
make the transition from a war to a
peace basis without serious interrup
tion, "obviating uncertainty or hesi
tation for want of the practical data
upon which business judgment must
depend." the official announcement
says.
Louis F. Post of Chicago, assistant
secretary of labor, in a statement as
serting that the government does not
look forward to any unemployment
crisis and that there is no reason for
alarm over the future, urged a revival
of building to tide over the period of
Industrial reconstruction.
"Many municipalities throughout the
country," Mr. Post added, "and many
states as well have during the war
either abandoned or suspended large
public improvements. The federal gov
ernment itself has practically aban
doned its building program for the
last two years.
"This accumulation of work should
be undertaken at once as a means of
providing buffer employment to carry
us beyond the transition period and
take up such unemployment siju-k a«
may result."
ORGANIZED LABOR S^EN
AS FOE OF BOLSHEVISM.
"Organized American labor Is
the one and only great protec
tion against bolshevism in the
United States." said Attorney
Francis J. Hene.v in his argu
ments for an increase in wages
and betterment of working con
ditions "of stockyards employees
before Federal Judge Alschuler
at Chicago, who as federal ar
biter has been asked to Increase
the wages he fixed at a hearing
early last year.
"Organized labor stands for
securing improved conditions of
working and living for the
masse-s through lawful and
peaceful means. Millions are
driven by despair to seek these
conditions by force and violence
in Russia and elsewhere."
Want Children Back in School.
"(Jo back to school," was the New
Year's message sent by the children's
bureau to the boys and girls of Amer
ica who entered shops and factories to
do their bit during the war.
"The future national army of peace
is the school,' says Uncle Sam," reads
the message. "Every boy and girl
should stay in school and train their
minds and their hands In order that
they may carry on well the work of
the future. In school you will not only
prepare yourselves for better jobs and
higher wages later, but you will con
tribute to the future strength of the
nation."
Money Saving Values
NEW SPRING GOODS AT VERY SHARP
REDUCTION IN
E A Y O
SELECTIONS
PRICE. COME
E E S
100 WAISTS
In clients,
Chiffons or wash Satin. 20
different styles. All the
wanted colors. All sizes.
$7.50 values.
$4.98
THE FASHION
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WORKERS UNION
UNION/HSTAMP
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The Cleveland & Buffalo
Tran»it Company
The Great Ship
5 E E A N E E
—the largr»t anil
200
TRIMMED
HATS
All the newest models. All
the newest colors. Your un
restricted choice of $5.00 to
$7.50 Hats. Special at
$2.98
THE STORE THAT SELLS BETTER GOODS FOR LESS
iODEfii FLUiBlNS CO
139 MARKET STREET
Plumbing, Sfdam, Hot Water, Gas Fitting
PROMPT SERVICE. GIVE US A TRIAL
JOHN P. HEM—Props.—JOHN
Hell Phone 50 Home Phone 1*74
I am now showing the advanced styles in
VlToolens
for Spring
meat-
R. G. N&IN
Funeral Director and Licensed Embaimer
Formerly with Hunter-Nein-Schreiner Co.
Office and Residence N. W. Cor Front and Davton, Hamilton, Ohio
M.J .VrA SIAKD Timi.
Connections at Buffalo for Niagara Falls
between Cleveland a
nil
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costly
paiBCOger Me«mer uuin land
water* of the world. Slrej
rapacity, 1SOO pM«npi n.
Does the teamster who delivers your
coal, ice, groceries and other supplies
carry a un.:on card Ask to see it.
A union card in the pocket of a
scab-made garment wc-:d make an
awful roar if it could only speak:
Let us each and all resolve to give
greater sn /port to patronizing of un
ion-made .vcods and suci. places as
display 'shop and store cards. If we
but realize the necessity of doing our
full duty in this direction there is no
question but that splendid results will
128 HIGH ST.
OPP. COURT HOUSE
A.
Bell 428-L PHONES—Home 751-M
H0LZBER6ER
Named shoes aie frequently made in
Non-Union factories.
Do NO? BUY ANY SHOE
No matter what its name, unless it bears u plain
and readable impression of
This UNION STAMP
All shoes without the AMP always Ncn 1 u ui
Do not accept any exeme for Absence of the UNION STAMP
Boot and 5Hoe Workers' Union
246 Summer Street, Boston, Mass.
John F. Tobin, Pres. Charles Halne, Sec.-Treap
Square is the name. Square is our aim
A Suits &itd Pants made to yti
individual order in a
Union Shop
The SquareTaiIor5
106 HIGH STREET
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SEE ME FOR YOUR
NEXT SUIT
Strictly Union Made
ALBERT LEVY,
:5 MAGNIFICENT STEAJiF.RS 3
The G-.at 21.ip "5EEANDHEE" —"CITY OF ERIE" "CITY OF BUFFALO"
CLEVELAND-- Daily, May 1st
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tK-k. byvnt or A.-i.r-i.-un Kxpress A,-ent for ti.-keta via C. & B. 1. N,-w Tourist Automobile
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Brpi'/u.o 9:00
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Amvr i i.IVRUND 7:30 A. M.
Eastern and Canadian points. Railroad tickets
HuffaJo are vrooci for transportation on our steamers.
for cars
ment.
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Ask
not
your
exc.tding 1-7 m.
Beautifully colored sectional puzzle cnart of The Great Ship ••SKKANUKKE" sent cu receipt of
live oentri. Also ask for pietorial and descriptive booklet free.
wheeitiaae.
Do you realize that every time you
buy non-union made goods you be
come an employer of "scab" labor and
therefore a labor oppression. Buy
only union-iabeled goods.
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The union label facilitates organiza
tion by increasing the demands for tne
products o.c organized workers.
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—Buy War Savings Stamps—