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HAMILTON COUNCIL
Boy Scouts of America
FOR
Continued on Mondays, November 17 and 24 December
ROOM 112 HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL
FATHER BUTLER COUNCIL No. 968
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
E S E N
By George M. Cohan
HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUxM
Sunday and Monday Nights, Nov. 16-17
Same Cast of Local Favorites as Was Given Oct. 30.
\DMISSION 50c Reserved Seats 25c extra War Tax Included
Watch daily papers for time and place of reserved seat sale.
SUITS—That are positive values at $57.50
During this sale
'42.50
MORE FOOD COMING
Judge Connaughton Says
His Committee Will Pur
chase All That Can
Be Found
Judge Connaughton, chairman of
Mayor Smith's food committee, an
nounces that his committee will keep
up the fight all winter on the high
iving costs if necessary, or until the
local dealers can see their way clear
to lower me costs themselves. Judge
Connaughton will send scout Miller
ut with instructions to purchase all
he government supplies possible tj
obtain.
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Sold B\ Murphy To Keep
Down H. C. of L.
Captain James Murphy is still on
the job in his fight to keep down the
high living costs. Wednesday he had
on sale another car load of potatoes
at Fifth and Vine streets on tlu
Pennsylvania tracks, which he sold
to the people at $1.80 a bushel. Cap
tain Murphy purchased a farm which
he proposes to puc into potatoes next
year and which he will sell to the
public at just about what they cost
him. Captain Murphy's efforts are to
be commended and are very much ap
preciated by the public. He certainly
has kept down the cost of potatoes
this fall, many places they are being
sold at $3.00 and $3.50 a bushel.
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Socialist Vote Shows Big
Decrease in That of Two
Years Ago
Well, it is all over and the demo
crats, like Jack Spratt and his wife,
licked the platter clean, or nearly so,
as they wrm every office with the ex
ception of the councilman and assessor
in the Fifth ward. There certainly
is a buncn of socialists in that ward
who stick tight and refuse to let go.
It is the only ward that failed to give
Mayor Smith a majority, he carrying
all the others. However, the socialists
on the face of the returns, are strong
in two other wards, the Third and
Sixth wards, which only gave the
democrats 46 and 27 majorities re
spectively. The big disappointment
to the socialists was the Second ward,
where they hoped to make big gains
among the workingmen. This ward
however, gave Mayor Smith a ma
jority of 484.
The majority given Mayor Smitn
Tuesday is the largest given any can
didate for the same office in many
years and it simply means that the
voters do not want a change at this
time. It was the cleanest campaign
ever conducted in the city. Both the
democrats and socialists adopted a
quiet system of campaigning. The
usual mud slinging method was laid
aside by both parties.
The total vote cast was about 1450
short of that cast two years ago. Of
these Mayor Smith was 400 short of
his previous vote, and this is account
ed for in the 600 votes that Joseph
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
Myers, the republican candidate re
ceived. But on the face of the re
turns the socialists fell behind more
than a thousand votes. This is sur
prising, as it was thought with the
soldier boys returned and the increas
ed population of Hamilton in the past
two year% together with the unrest
prevailing everywhere and which usu
ally goes to make socialist votes, that
the socialist party would make heavy
gains. But there is always funny
things and many surprises in elec
tions. Just when you think she will,
she won't. Take for instance the
school board fight. Here is one that
knocked the props from under all the
political dopesters. Many predicted
that "Deacon" Atkins would win.
"Deacon" is well and favorably
known, liked by everybody and was
considered one of the strongest men
on the ticket. Even members of the
democratic organization thought that
he might win or at least cut in on the
democratic candidates deep enough to
allow one of the socialist candidates
to win, yet "Deacon" was low man on
the school board ticket. Here is some
thing to ponder over. Perhaps many
figured that "Deacon" would get more
than a plenty and threw their whole
support to some other good fellow.
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Washington.—The international la
bor conference convened in this city
as the result of a call by President
Wilson, acting under authority con
ferred upon him by the labor provis
ions of the peace treaty. Each coun
try is entitled to four delegates—two
representing the government, one the
workers and one the employers. The
conference has no legislative power.
Its conclusions are referred to gov
ernments, employers and the trade
union movements of the various coun
tries.
The labor provisions of the peace
treaty also provide for an internation
al labor office of 24 members at the
headquarters of the league of nations.
The present conference will select six
representatives each of the workers
and employers, the governments to ap
point the remaining 12. This labor
office will collect and distribute in
formation relative to industrial rela
tions and carry out instructions re
ceived from the international labor
conference. The program of the con
ference comprises these subjects: Ap
plication of the principle of the eight
hour day or 48-hour week, preventing
or providing against unemployment,
women's employment, employment of
children, prohibition of night work for
women in industry and the use of
white phosphorus in the manufacture
of matches.
Neither the government of the
United States nor the workers or em
ployers of this country will be rep
resented until the senate ratifies th
peace treaty. It is expected the con
ference will remain in session a num
ber of weeks.
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at the Nonpareil.
GROUP 2—Are Suits of Velour, Serges, Pop
lins, etc., $35.00 Suits now
6.95
MINERS vs.
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Under Name of Law and
Order
Pittsburg, Pa.—"The striking steel
workers during the past four weeks,
by their forbearance and patience,
prove themselves to be men of the
highest intelligence," says the Amal
gamated Journal, official magazine of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, which declares
that the strikers have had to endure
all manner of persecutions
"It is true that all the outrages we re
done under the name of law and order,
or with those who were clothed with
some kind of autocratic authority.
The corporation bull, the county dep
uty, and the state constabulary are
clothed with police power. The mayor
the sheriff and the governor are vest
ed with executive authority. The po
lice magistrates and court judges ex
amine and pass sentences. All these
functionaries, with a few rare excep
tions, are doing everything in their
power to co-operate with the corpor
ate forces that are arrayed against
the strikers, and most of them are
doing it so openly that the most dis
interested citizen cannot fail to per
ceive it."
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LABOR
CONFERENCE
IN U. S. CAPITAL
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Parallel Drawn By Workers
Representatives
Washington.—Edgar Wallace and
Walter James, representatives of the
United Mine Workers of America,
have issued a statement in which they
compare the government's opposition
to the proposed miners' strike with the
steel strike, which was caused by
Judge Gary's autocratic attitude.
"It seems remarkable to the min
ers," the statement says, that the
government should feel called upon to
use such extraordinary powers when
dealing with workers while the same
government finds itself powerless in
any way to coerce such great aggre
gations of capital as are represented
by Mr. Gary.
"Instead of publicly rebuking Mr.
Gary for refusing to confer with the
men in his employ, the government
honored him by placing him on the
public committee in the industrial con
ference.
"If the war is still on, as the oper
ators and the government claim, the
contract which the miners are accus
ed of violating was first violated by
the operators, an"! the government
not only sanctioned this violation by
the operators but made provision for
it when the fuel administration re
moved the price restriction on coal.
"The contract was predicated on the
selling price of coal. Being made in
war time, when coal was so urgent a
necessity, the selling price was placed
at a figure on which the high-cost
mine could opex'ate. The low-cost
mine that could produce at low figures
limit by the government the operators
was able to make enormous profits.
Since the withdrawal of the price
limit the operators have been able to
procure much higher prices than under
government regulation. The operat
ors who are accusing us of violating
the contract today are refusing to ful
fill contracts made at lower figures.
"Recognizing that they can sell
their coal at the mines at any price,
the reason that many public utilities
are suffering from lack of coal is that
the operators are selling it at auction
prices—the highest bidder getting it.
"We, the miners, see in the opera
tors' position the position taken by
all employers of labor, the intent to
welsh on promises made during the
war, the intent to use the advantages
that we, in our desire to help the gov
ernment, furnish them to crush the
hope and aspiration of all men who
work.'"
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AM) STOPPED TALKING?
"Well," said the Far West mayor
to the English tourist, "I dunno how
you manage these affairs in your coun
try, but over here, when some of OUT
boys get tied up in that thar bank
rupt telephone company I was tellin'
yuh about, they became mighty crus
ty."
"Oh:"
"Yes, they didn't like the way the
receiver was handlin' the business no
how."
"Indeed!" commented the earnes
listener. "Then may 1 ask what the.,
did?"
"Sartinly. They just hun~ up th
receiver."-—Dallas News.
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RECORD PROFITS AMAZE
New York.—Amazing profits are
shown in the report of the Corn Pro
ducts Refining Company for the first
nine months of this year.
The surplus is $8,686,710 after all
charges, maintenance, federal taxes
and preferred dividends have been
paid. This is equivalent to $17.45 a
share on the common stock, against
$11.82 a share for the same period
last year. The surplus for the com
mon stock, says the report, is the
highest that has ever been recorded
ir. any corresponding nine-months'
period.
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JAILS A DISGRACE
Philadelphia.—County jails are
disgrace to this state declared David
F. Magee, of Lancaster county, at a
meetings of county commissioners,
held in this city.
The speaker urged that workhouses
and farms be utilized, as the law per
mits, to give employment to prisoners
instead of having them "brood in idle
ness in the jails.'
"Sixty to 70 per cent of the men sen
tenced to jail," he said, "are not cruel
at heart, but the way the county jails
are conducted we make criminals of
them and make poor citizens of them.
Many of them are made confirmed
convicts. We should take them in
hand, and while some of them are
beyond reformation, we should help
the 60 or 70 per cent. The only way
to do it is by industry."
STREET CAR MEN GAIN.
Winnipeg, Manitoba.—The Street
Railway Men's union has raised wages
to 46 cents an hour, for the first six
months 49 cents the second 52 cents
the second year and 55 cents for the
third and thereafter.
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NEITHER ARE WE
B'g Bill Bates (at a Spring Day
dance)—May I cut in, please?
Mary Smith (from Yapp's Crossing,
facetiously)—I am awfully particular
with whom I dance.
B. B. B—Well, you can see I'm
not troubled much that way, myself.
—Cornell Widow.
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CURES FOR LABOR UNREST
Committee Composed of British Em
ployers and Employees Make
Strong Recommendations.
Recommendations that a legal max
imum working week of forty-eight
hours, subject to variation in proper
cases with adequate safeguard, be es
tablished that systematic overtime be
discouraged and that legal time wage
rates of universal applicability be fixed
are made in the report of a commit
tee appointed by the Industrial con
ference which met in London in Feb
ruary at the request of Premier Lloyd
George.
The committee was charged with
the duty of considering the causes of
labor unrest and inquiring into the
question of hours and wages, and was
made up of 60 members, evenly di
vided between the employers and rep
resentatives of trade unions.
It is suggested that agreements for
minimum time rates should be reached
between employers and trades unions
to be applicable to all employees in
the same trade that the basis for ne
gotiations between employers and
workmen should be a full and frank
acceptance of employees' organizations
as recognized organizations to speak
and act in behalf of their members,
and that all workmen should accept
the jurisdiction of their respceiivi or
ganizations.
Among the suggestions made by the
committee to meet the problem of un
employment and the maintenance of
the unemployed are plans for state
development of new industries, the
raising of the age at which children
should be allowed to enter employ
ment, more generous sick benefits and
old-age pensions.
It. is proposed that a national in
dustrial council'be formed to consist
of -100 members, each side being equal
ly represented. A standing commit
tee of 50. al•-» evenly divided, is sug
gested in th.- report.
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take your choice
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RADICAL TALK IS GHOST
Washington.—Talk of "reds" and
"revolution" is the ghost conjured up
by opponents of the steel strike, de
clared W. A. Rattenburg, of Gary,
Ind., a striker, before the senate com
mittee on education and labor.
The witness declared that the only
knowledge he had of "revolution" in
Gary he secured from the newspapers.
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Thrift Certificate. That is a man's
size War Saving Stamp. If you can
not do that, provide for the future
with as many War Savings Stamps
as you can buy. INQUIRE AT THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
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