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VOL. XX. No. 13.
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NON-PARTISAN
POLITICAL CAM
PAIGN_COMMITTEE
Met Last Friday Night—
Records of Candidates
Were Read
The local non-partisan political
campaign committee met in Trades
Council hall last Friday night. Stan
ley Ogg presided over the meeting,
which was largely attended.
The records of congressman War
ren Card, ex-Congressman Ralph
D. Co s and Senator Warren G.
Harding as to their attitude towards
labor were read. The record oi War
ren Card being the best of the three
records. His vote on bills favorable
to labor are as follows: Voting fav
orable, 38 unfavorable, 4. Answered
present, 1. Not voting, 9. Total, 47.
Ralph D. Cole's attitude towards
labor is as follows: Voting fa- orable
on labor bills, v. Unfavorable, 4 not
voting, 5. Total, 9.
Warren G. Harding's record towards
labor is as follows: Favorable, 7
unfavorable, 10 paired unfavorable,
1, N Jt voting, 9. Total, 27.
In a comunication submitted by
the American Federation of Labor
and read at the meeting states that
from every section of the country
they are receiving accounts of splen
did results from the non-partisan
campaign. The attention of our read
ers is called to the above records of
Ralph D. Cole, candidate for governor
of Ohio, and Warren G. Harding, can
didate for president of the United
States on the republican ticket. Cole's
record shows that he is not the man
for labor to elect as their governor,
and Harding's record is very little
better than Cole's.
A cnmmit.tpp of tin inn mpp frnm
Middletown and Albert Fenzel, candi
date fc i congressman of this district,
asked admission to the meeting and
were admitted. Fenzel told the con.
mittee that if he was successful in his
campaign for congress, that he would
be with labor on every issue. His rec
ord in Middletown towards labor, the
committee with him said, was good,
and that the trades unionists of this
district would be making no mistake
by supporting him. The Middletown
labor organizations have indorsed
him and they are assisting him in
having the unions in Dayton and
Hamilton do likewise.
A committee was appointed to draft!
the questionnaires to be submitted to
the candidates for office. They will
be mailed out in a few days by the
secretary of the non-partisan political
campaign committee.
CENTRAL BODIES
CONFERENCE
To Meet in Columbus, Sun
day, July 25
The executive board of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor at a meet
ing held in Columbus, Sunday, July
11, decided to call another meeting of
the conference of central bodies and
officers of the subdistricts of the
Uniltcd Mine Workers for Sunday,
July 25, at 10 a.m., at the Carpent
ers' hall, 121% East Town street,
Columbus.
The call has been sent out by Thos.
J. Donnelly, secreatary-treasurer of
the State Federation, and he is urging
that every central body send its full
representation. Matters of the ut
most importance pertaining to the
coming political campaign will be
brought before the conference.
BUY A BUILDING BOND
Hoover Electric Cleaners
Thor and Eden Electric Washers
Ouplex Fireless Cookers
Couch Hammocks
Coolmor Porch Shades
McDougall Kitchen Cabinets
Large Size Rugs
Gulbransen Player Pianos
Victrolas, Edisons, Sonoras
Turns Houses Into Homes
By Charles M. Kelley.
An earnest of the determination of
the forces of labor to defend their po
litical as well as economic interests is
action taken by the executives of the
sixteen recognized railroad brother
hoods looking to the conduct of a vig
orous campaign throughout the coun
try during the present year. This
committee is entrusted with the polit
ical activities of these organizations,
with memberships approximating
2,000,000, and it will work in close
harmony with the political committee
of the American Federation of Labor.
Pointing out the necessity for polit
ical action, the brotherhood chiefs de
clare: "We are on the threshhold of
a momentous national campaign in
which questions of vital interest to the
people—if, indeed, they do not involve
the very life of the republic itself—
will be decided. The campaign is fill
ed with splendid opportunities for
those o* us who believe in government
of the people, for the people and by
the people, instead of government by
the wealthy for the few. It is filled
with the gravest peril for us and for
our children if we fail to give the
earnest thought to the issues and can
didates involved."
Battering Away at the Citadel of
Privilege
Th«j scope of the committee's work
will be non-partisan, and it will seek
an amalgamation of forces with the
various liberal and progressive ele
ments which are battering away at the
oitadel of privilege. Every effort will
)e put forth to stem the growing tides
jf reaction that are rapidly sweeping
the nation from its moorings.
"At such a time as this no man who
cherishes American institutions," the
statement continues, "can afford to be
nfluenced in his political activities by
oetty, selfish motives. He must act
for the common weal and for that
xlono."
An analysis of legislation enacted
by the recent congress is made, show
ing that in practically every instance
where affirmative action was taken it
was at the behest of the money class.
The rights of the people were con
temptuously disregarded. The treat
ment of pressing problems of recon
struction were treated with a cynicism
that bodes ill for the republic unless
STRIKEBREAKERS
AND GUNMEN
Imported By Worthing
Pump and Machine Cor
poration, Elmwood,
!£V- Ohio
This is the eleventh week of the
machinists' strike in Cincinnati, Ohio,
and vicinity. From reports of that
city the machinists are making a clean
fight and very little trouble has been
connected with the big stril:e.
The Worthing Pump and Machine
Corporation, formerly known as the
Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Pump Com
pany, of Elmwood, Ohio, imported
strike breakers and gunmen to assist
them in breaking the strike. On last
Friday morning seventeen strike
breakers entered the factory and on
Friday afternoon thirty more entered
the place. These strike breakers
came Irom Chicago and Buffalo, and it
is said that they are a wicked-looking
bunch of humanity. As soon as the
strike breakers entered the shop the
strikers say that three of the foremen
who have been with the firm for years
quit their jobs and went home.
The strike breakers admit that they
know very little about the machine
business, and agree that they are only
there to assist in breaking the strike.
On Sunday the switching crew about
the plant also went on strike after the
strike breakers entered the pl«ce.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
WORKINGMEN LINING UP SOLIDLY
FOUR RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS ENTER NONPARTISAN
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN TO REGENERATE CONGRESS
Political Program Of Labor Proving
Practical, Educational And highly
Efficient Many Reactionary
Congressmen Defeated.
Join With A. F. Of L. In
Movement To Save Country From
Control Of Special Privilege
the electorate can be awakened to the
real import of the situation and influ
enced to act decisively in their own
behalf.
Tories Control Congress
"The forces of reaction," the state
ment continues, "are now in control
of both houses of congress and many
of the other departments of govern
ment. With amazing boldness they
have granted special privileges to pri
vate interests and at the same time
they have deprived citizens of rights
and privileges guaranteed by the con
stitution."
The plan of campaign mapped out
by the committee is very simple. It
contemplates the creation of active
committees in states where senators
are to be elected, while congressional
committees will be forced in every
state, and in every congressional dis- «&•
trict as well.
The American Federation of Labor
has had satisfactory response to its
appeal for non-partisan political ef
forts. Committees are being formed
at the rate of a hundred a day, and
already more than 2,000 men have
pledged their earnest effort in cam
paigns being conducted in every state.
The records of congressmen and sen
ators are being read at meetings of
every lodge in the country, number
ing 45,000. A million and a half
pieces of literature have been distrib
uted, and records of lawmakers are
being sent broadcast, where they are
needed to inform the voters of the con
duct of their representatives at Wash
ington.
Reactionaries Eliminated
Scores of reactionary congressmen
have been eliminated in primary cam
paigns. Other scores have been nomi
nated, but by such unstable majorities
as to make their defeat at the election
measurably certain. Labor intends
during the summer and early fall to
strengthen its lines, to conduct an in
tensive educational campaign and to
supplement these efforts with personal
solicitation and investigation by thou
sands of trained labor workers.
There are hundreds of speakers in
the labor movement who are available
for platform work. They will be sent
where labor has a fighting chance. No
congressman who has been recreant
can hope to escape attack, and if he
It is said that one of the foremen
asked one of the strike breakers to
throw on the feed on the machine he
was trying to run, and he politely in
formed the foreman that he was doing
enough work for the money he was
getting for being a strike breaker.
They say that these men get $10 per
day and expenses for their work. They
are herded together each night and
taken to a place on Post Square,
where they are fed, housed and enter
tained.
The Snow-Holly plant in Buffalo, a
part of the Worthing Corporation,
has signed an agreement with the
Machinists' Union after the men have
been on strike for several weeks.
About fifty machine shops in the Cin
cinnati district have signed up with
the machinists and are working full
capacity. About two-thirds of the
strikers have left the city or arc
working at some other business.
HAVE BUILDING PRO
GRAM
Brussels, Belgium.—The failure of
private industry to meet the shortage
of housing in this country can be met
by the creation of a national building
material administration, declared thr
first annual convention of the amalga
mated building trades. The unionists
suggeste that the commission be com
posed of three technical experts,
three labor representatives, three con
sumers' representatives and three rep
resentatives of the interested indus
tries*
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HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 16,1920 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
be broken. It must defend Uself by
wins he will at least know that he' mg that when an employe in his de
has been in a fight. partment reaches the age provided in
i i- ii i. the retirement law he shall be auto-
Labor realizes finally that it can ..
matically dropped.
not depend upon promises made to i
placing in the halls of legislation men an employe who has reached the age
who think with labor and feel with it
and sympathize with its many and
multiplying grievances. Bankers and ledge and mental alertness makes
speculators have a strangle-hold on
the government, but it can be broken
if the workers will unite for a common
end. That they are uniting is
den-.r j:'. by many activities that are i of the law, has protested to the pres
converging in the direction of a na- ident against the postmaster general's
tion-wide, non-partisan political cam-•. order. The lawmaker says the will
Pa*£n- of congress is ignored by setting
Opposite
Court
House
WASH DRESSES
S8.50 Wash Dresses
Clearance Price
$10.00 Wash Dresses
$5.95
$6.98
$8.95
Clearance Price
$12.50 Wash Dresses
Clearance Price
Combinations and
Flesh Color Camisoles
Neatly made, of excellent
ity. Worth (M AC
$2.98 «p
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SATURDAY ONLY
Formerly Sold
Up to $6.50
TRUE TO FORM
Postmaster General Burle
son Keeps Right On
Running
Washington.—Postmaster General
Burleson runs true to form in his urg-
The law permits heads of depart-
raent5 t0 pass the competen
,y
o(
limit. Other department heads are
retaining employes whose wide know-
them valuable. But the postmaster
general orders these emp'oyes to get
out.
evi- Congressman Lehlbach, joint author
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"THE STORE OF UNEQUALLED VALUES"
Semi-Annual Clearance Sale
Our policy to never carry over stock compels us to offer balance of all
Spring and Summer Merchandise at Tremendous Reductions. This is the golden
opportunity for you women of Hamilton to see what havoc the Mark Downs
have wrought to former prices!
Dresses—Coats
Scores of Stunning Styles Included!
At Prices Positively Magnetic
SILK DRESSES of
Taffeta and Messaline
at a price we openly
challenge you to dupli
cate. At this price you
could barely pay the
original cost of the
material. These are
charming dresses and
actually sold up to
$35.00. Saturday only
$14.75
SUITS
$35.00 Suits 7C
Clearance Price., v I
$40.00 Suits
rn
Clearance Price.,
$45.00 Suits A
Clearance Price..
SKIRTS
Of Paulette, Tricolette and Bar
onett S.tiin specially priced—
$7.95
to
COATS—Sport and
Polo, Belted or plain
effects, in the newest
fashions, in a variety
of all wanted materials
and colors. An oppor
tunity of the season
that the wise will pro
fit by. Formerly sold
up to $17.50 Saturday
only:
$9.95
$22.50
About ISO Ready-to- Wear Hats
$1.95
Here indeed is some variety, and the way we've slashed prices makes us think the
valties are the biggest bargains ever offered.
The most complete assortment and the most for the money that you've seen for
mimy a day in this lot at $1.95 actual values up to $6.50.
See Our Advance Showing of Fall Styles
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aside the provision which permits ef
ficient employes being continued in
the service the efficiency of the pos
tal service is weakened by removing
at one time hundreds of men who
must be replaced by green and inex
perienced men, and the postmaster
general "has increased the cost to the
government because pensions must be
paid to those dismissed while salaries
must also be paid to the green men
who are brought into the service to
replace them."
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MILITARISM IN SADDLE
Galveston, Texas.—Military troops
in control of this city stopped a meet
ing of the Galveston labor council.
The meeting was discussing the elec
tion of officers at the time.
The troops have been in this city
for several weeks because of a water
front strike. Protests have been
made by citizens generally against
the presence of the troops as there
has hyen no violence. The governor is
charged with aiding cheap labor em
ployers.
Opposii
Court
House
WASH SKIRTS
$3.98 Wash Skirts
Clearance Price
$7.50 Wash Skirts
Clearance Price
$12.50 Wash Skirts
Clearance Price
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M&piPllMt
$2.49 I
$4.98
$7.95
BLOUSES
Georgette and Crepe de Chine
Beautiful designs, in a wonder
ful assortment of colors. Val
ues-up to QC
$10.00
SATURDAY ONLY
Formerly Sold
Up to $6.50