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WOULD USE U. 8.
LOANS
Washington. Congressman Clyde
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, favors enlarg
ing the functions of the United Stater,
postal savings bank so that loans can
be made to home builders.
Lower
Browns
and Blacks
in Kid
or Calf Skiti
$4.99
242 HIGH STREET
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The congressman said $175,000,000
Is on deposit in postal savings banks,
bearing interest at 2 per cent. This
money is loaned by the post office de
partment obanks at 2\4 per cent and
the banks in turn loan it back to the
^(.vonini* nt at i" |ht cent.
NEW FALL SHOES
Our great buying power make* possible startling reductions
in every description of footwear
SMART SHOES FOR FALL
Ladies! This is what Big Buying for Cash enables us to offer
Values up to $10.00
$4.99
$5.99
Complete Selection
Desirable Footwear of Smart Appearance at
MEN'S HIGH SHOES
87.00 to $10.00 values
and
$5.99
Tan and brown calf, gun metal
and kid English and round toe
styles. Every pair Goodyear
welts.
The Dan Cohen Co. :i
'FIRST STEP OVER THE BRIDGE'
A TALE
NTEREI
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way your clothes are cleaned and pressed is of considerable
importance in making your appearance what it should be,
so see to it that the work is done by expert, first class tail
ors who will do the work carefully—which means having
US do your cleaning, repairing and pressing.
We call for and deliver the garments.
Tlie HiJz Bros. Co.
Dry Cleaner^, I ers, Carpet Cleaners
Main and A Street Phone No. 4
We insure your garments i'gainst fire without extra cost to you.
Our store is open every evening till 9 P. M. and Saturday afternoon.
BACK UP YOUR UNION CARD WITH
"Dunlap Tailored Clothes'*
-t25
to $45
—The jni'-n man who doesn't wear clothes with
the lat«ei rem mas as of the old-fashioned fellow
who usee to sa 'Don't do as I do, but do as
I say. Dunlap Clothes are no more in price,
than tne besf ot hand-me-downs but they're
better mnde to your measure—and
they have ine label.
New All Wool Fabrics are
Edgar K. Wagner
Former Instructor at The Cincinnati College
of Embalming
Funeral Director
liell Phone 22« Heat on St.
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The HolbrocK
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Dressy Loula
or
Neat Walking
Military Heels
a Record tow Price!
BOYS* SCHOOL SHOES—Dur
able and good-looking made of
fine gun metal lace or blucher
styles good-wearing fro QQ
soles
$4.00
values $L*JV
MEN'S SCOUT SHOES—Made
of tough tan calf skin solid
$2.99
leather soles and
heels
$4.00
values
bell 704-x
waiting for
your order
Suits, Top Coats, Overcoats, Trousers
—bench tailored Dunlap style!
THE DUNLAP TAILORS
"The Shop with new ideas"
18 South 3rd St. HAMILTON
Bros.
Reliable l« al rs in
DRY GOODS. CARPETS, CLOAKS
MILLINERY, QUEENSWARE
O U S E U N I S I N S
Voss-Holbrock Stamps With All Cash Purchases
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EFFICIENCY
Ignores the Many Wastes In
•Oil, Lumber, Disease*
Labor Turnover, Etc
Washington.—The federal bureau of
mines says that more than 600,000,000
gallons of gasoline is lost by evapora
tion and that this loss could keep
1,200,000 automobiles in commission
for a year if each car used 250 gal
lons of gasoline. The annual money
loss is estimated at $150,000,000.
The worst feature of this loss, says
the lureau is that the wasted gasoline
is the most volatile and consequently
the best quality of gasoline obtain
able, and that the prevention of this
less, which is economically possible,
would not only increase the gasoline
supply materially but would also in
urease the general standard of the
i gasoline.
Experiments In the principal fields
ihow that a great quantity of the
gasoline now escapes into the air.
This can be conservatively estimated
11 about 20 per cent of the gasoline
in the crude oil. Probably half of
this, can be economically recovered,
qnd this quantity will not only in
oease the supply but improve its
quality.
The above statements are in line
with similar declarations by other
governments bureaus regarding the
conomic loss, through a wasting of
the country's resources.
The United States health service
e"ently showed the appalling losses,
to this country because of disease*
fi
at can be prevented.
The forestry service has stated thaf
for every four forest trees cut dowr
by lumber men, but one is planted.
Secretary of Labor Wilson has
stated that the loss through labor
turnover is greater than all strikes
and lockouts combined. Other losses
it elude 200,000 babies under one year
of age who die annually, 110,000
mothers who lose their lives because
of improper attention at child birth
thousands of lives lost in industry
and hundreds of thousands injured
and staggering losses because of
faulty marketing systems, lack of
proper storage, etc., etc.
The list could be continued indefi
nitely, and in every case exceed the
Uss through strikes, which statesmen
would stop, not by removing the
cause, but by taking the workers
rights from them.
WANT"WOOL
LABELED
That Buyers Might Be Pro
tected Against Shoddy
Chicago.—The national sheep and
wool bureau of America charges the
National Association of Wool Manu
facturers with opposing a law that
would compel the labeling of cloth
because the manufacturers can make
more money by selling shoddy goods
for "all wool."
The sheep and wool bureau does
not object to the sale of shoddy cloth
hut insists that the public should not
be deceived.
The people want shoddy marked and
virgin wool cloth marked, says the
bureau, so that they can take which
they prefer and have a range of prices
due to competition between shoddy
and virgin wool cloth.
"We insist," continues the bureau
"that the reason that certain textile
manufacturers wish to continue manu
facturing 'all wool' cloth out of uni
dentified shoddy is that they can make
more money through the use of shoddy
than through the use of virgin wool.
"With no labeling law to stop them
they can sell shoddy cloth for the
same price that they can sell virgin
ool cloth. If there was a compulsory
labeling law, they'd have to ask the
people a lower price for shoddy cloth
because the people would not pay vir
in wool cloth prices for cloth that
they actually knew was shoddy
STATE UNIONS CONFER
Pendleton, Ore.—The annual con
vention of the Oregon State Federa
tior. of Labor proved to be the most
harmonious and enthusiastic held by
{that
c®.
body in years. The resolutions
more generally discussed called for a
shorter workday and a reorganization
of unions along industrial lines. The
convention declared in favor of
shorter workday as production pro
ceeds to the extent of creating unem
ployment. The delegates believe that
the adjustment of trade unions to new
conditions is a development that must
be worked through the present organ
izations, and rejected the reorganiza
tion proposal by a three to one vote.
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WANT NON-UNION
SHOP
Chicago.—A non-union shop cam
paign has been launched by the Illin
ois Manufacturers' Association. Or,
more strictly speaking, low-wage
methods of these employers will be
intensified. John M. Glenn is spokes
an for the manufacturers. As sec
retary of their association he is tlw*
hired man behind whom child labor
eyploiters and low-wage advocates
hide,
Glenn says the non-union shop "is
the most vital question
HOW
American industry."
THE BUTLER COUNTY
before
UNION HATER
Repeats Old Libel With
Slang and Vulgarity
Newark, N. J.—With slang and vul
garity, E. J. McCone, manager of the
non-union Buffalo Commercial, tola.
800 employes in this city that there
were but four newspapers in the
United States that dared oppose the
censorship of the International Typo
graphical Union.
McCone made a similar'statement
last spring before a committee of the
United States senate and received
momentary notice at the time. His
latest outburst has been ignored by
the press associations but he was
hallenged at the conclusion of his
talk. L. T. Russell, managing editor
of the Newark Ledger, jumped to his
feet and declared that never before
had he heard a word about "this stuff."
"I believe these statements to be
absolutely rot and deliberately insult
ing to the relationship of tl^e printers
and the publishers," said the news
paper man.
PRESS
In a first page editorial, the next
day, Editor Russell referred to the
Buffalo anti-unionist as a "peranoiac"
and "an emotional freak," who "does
not possess the slightest primary in
formation on human or industrial re
lations."
In behalf of the employers' asso
ciation it must be sail1 that they had
bought a 'pig in a poke' and didn't
know that the thing was mangy and
sick mentally and morally, until it
had been let out of the bag and turn
ed loose on the helpless audience,
said Editor Russell.
"The man who goes out in public
places and appears before audiences
of representative business men,
whether as a prostitute for a price or
gratis as a hopeless fanatic, and who
makes assaults on everybody and
everything in general and antagonizes
without rhyme or reason, without
knowledge of a fact or regard for a
fact, is a greater menace a thousand
times over to the business institutions
and the industries of this country than
the disciples of Lenine and Trotzky
who infest our cities and industrial
centers."
STONEWALL
Confronts Railroads in Per
son of W. W. Warwick
Washington. Railroad managers
have struck a stone wall in the person
of Walter W. Warwick, comptroller
of the treasury, who is the court of
last resort on all government expendi
tures.
Under the Cummins-Esch bill rail
roads are guaranteed all expenses for
six months from March 1 last, when
«e properties were returned to
their owners. Several managers have
called on the treasury official to ad
vance sums of money "on account,"
and the comptroller rules that when
\he railroads present their statement
covering the entire period he will pay
hem.
It is now nearly two months since
the six-months' period expired, but
he railroads have again failed to
'•how the boasted efficiency of these
properties. They seem to be in no
shape to present their statement, and
they want money, but there stands
the comptroller of the treasury, who
cannot be removed, who is above court
orders on this question and can only
bo reached by congress changing the
law.
And congress will not meet for
several weeks.
Officers of the chamber of com
.nerce of the United States are aid
ing the managers who are nettled at
the obstinacy of Warwick.
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COAL OWNERS
Ignore Government and Are
Given Troops
Birmingham, Ala.—The coal section
of this state has witnessed no disor
der, but coal owners are furnished
state militia to break a strike caused
by the owners' refusal to accept ai
award by the bituminous coal com
mission. All meetings of miners have
been prohibited.
When the public was worked into
a frenzy, last fall, because of the na
tion-wide bituminous strike, a com
mission, appointed by the government,
made an award after the strike was
called off. The award was accepted 1
the miners.
The commission recommended that
coal owners in Aalabama and other
fields must meet with representatives
of their employes and negotiate
agreement. The commission also
creed that the provisions of the award
shall be written into the agreement,
that the provisions shall not be sub
ject to change or amendment and that
they shall be adopted as written by
the commission.
The Alabama coal owners refuse to
obey this order and decline to deal
with representatives of their em
ployes.
The coal owners' attitude is a blew
to the policy of settling industrial dis.
putes by negotiation. Feeling has
been intensified by the presence of
state troops and the refusal of the
commandant to permit the holding of
public meetings in the strike zone,
fc
Instead of finding fault with the
pessimistic attitude of the people with
whom you associate, see what you can
do to make them optimistic by showing
your own optimism.
Sytlir.i-i
William G. Pickrel, who is the well
known candidate for congress, on the
democratic ticket, and who has met a
great many of Butler county folks in
the last few weeks, was interviewed
recently as to his attitude toward
those questions which affect labor.
Inasmuch as Mr. Pickrel has and
does represent several different trade
unions of Dayton, Ohio, and is person
al counnsel and attorney for O. B.
Chapman, Harry Hannan, Grant Finke
and other labor leaders of Dayton, his
position, of course, is most favorable
to organized labor. Mr. Pickrel is op
posed to the establishment of a state
constabulary, also is opposed to the
Kansas industrial court, and the incor
poration of the labor union. Mr. Pick
rel is an ardent advocate in the ex
tension of the workingmen's compen
sation law so as to include compensa
tion for occupational diseases, and is
also in favor of the old age pension.
Mr. Pickrel expressed opposition to all
involuntary labor, except as punish
ment for crime. He said that he was
ir» favor of trial before jury where vio
lation of injunction out of the pres
ence of the court is the charge, and
also was in favor of universal eight
hour day, especially on all federal
state and municipal work at prevail
ing per diem wage. Mr. Pickrel also
expressed himself in favor of the
abolition of sweat shop work in all
of its forms, also for the rigid sani
tary inspection of factory work shops
nd other places of employment, and
also in favor of the passage and strict
enforcement of a law both federal and
state against child labor. Inasmuch
as Mr. Pickrel's work has been with
labor unions, in times of their trou
ble, he can appreciate the ups and
downs of leaders and members of or
ganized labor. He is in favor of the
employment of union labor on all fed­
PICKREL FOR CONGRESS
Makes Plain Statement of Where Be WIM Stand If
Elected
Position on Questions of Vital Importance to Labor Is
Favorably Stated
S1LKSHIRT
Story Denied By Packing
House Arbitrator
Chicago.—Judge Alschuler, arbitra
tor in a wage movement instituted by
packing house employes, says the
story of these employes buying $25
silk shirts and earning $100 a week,
i? "false and misleading."
'*lt is on a par with a good many
ofh^Sr things that get into the news
papers," said the arbitrator. "I saw
in the headlines in the papers here the
othei day about some men earning $100
or so a week. Whether it was intend
ed or not, it creates the impression
that that is the scale cf wages for the
yards. It is not fair."
The story was written, it is stated,
bv a packer's publicity agent and it
was later "carried" by the press asso
ciations and given wide circulation.
The packers' employes do not ob
ject to wearing silk shirts, but they
oo object to the claim that they wear
ihis apparel when the purpose of the
story is to create a high-wage im
pression.
Unless you do harder and more dif
ficult things as you find them to do,
you will not gain in ability. Tackle
the hard jobs.
DOWNWARD.
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eral, state and municipal work, and is
opposed to prison labor coming into
competition with free labor. Mr.
Pickrel believes in the regulation of
the employment of women in industry,
so that the vitality and vigor of the
womanhood of this country may not be
all spent in the work shop, but may
be so conserved that the future moth
ers of the country can meet their re
sponsibilities. Mr. Pickrel also ex
pressed the conviction that legislation
snould be enacted to curb profiteering
and speculating on food stuffs and
the necessities of life, also the aboli
tion of war taxes, especially the petty
taxes that are charged the great
masses of people on the every-day
things of life.
Mr. Pickrel has been advocating
these measures from the stump all
over this district. He believes that
when the great majority of citizens of
this community appreciate the value
of these measures to the welfare of
all the community, that there will be
no question about the result.
Mr. Pickrel is a firm believer in
co-operative bargaining, both for em
ployees in private industry as well as
those in government service, and is ab
solutely opposed to any legislation
that would handicap or hinder collect
ive bargaining through representa
tives chosen by the respective sides.
Mr. Pickrel is a member of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, Knights
of Pythias and Masonic bodies, and
takes an active interest in the work
of his fraternal connections.
Mr. John Moore,
President Ohio Federation of Labor,
Columbus, Ohio.
PAS -STOOD £Y THE P£OPLE FOR 65 YEABS
TRADING BAN IS
LIFTED
Washington.—The state department
announces that "on and after Octo
ber 2 all persons in the United States
are authorized to trade and commun
icate" with "all persons with whom
trade and communciation was prohi
bited" by the trading-with-the-enemy
act.
Although the United States is still
technically at war with Germany,
practically all restrictions upon trade
with that country are removed. It
is provided however, that "the above
mentioned general license does not
authorize any trade with respect to
any property that has been reported
to the alien property custodian."
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Sec. 12943. Whoever, being a member of a firm, or agent, officer or
e*nploye of a company, corporation or person, prevents employes from
forming, joining or belonging to a lawful labor organization, or coerces or
attempts to coerce employes by discharging or threatening to discharge them
from their employ, or the employ of a firm, company or corporation because
of their connection with such labor organization, shall be fined not more than
one hundre I dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
If a worker can be discharged for joining or refusing to leave the union,
you cannot have collective bargaining. Inasmuch as the court records are
full of injunctions against labor, and hundreds of union men are now serving
:ail sentences for alleged contempt, you can understand my deep interest in
tneBe
matters.
The RexaII Store
Cor. High and Second Sts.
LET US DEVELOP
YOUR PICTURES
Zanesville, Ohio, October 18, 1920.
Dear Sir: Something is being put over on organized labor. The editors
of the Ohio Labor Press, at the Dayton meeting last week, unanimously
decided thai, while the action of the non-partisan committee was favorable,
justice had not been done C. T. Marshall, candidate for Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, and the facts about his opponent's record were not given.
Organized labor has contended for the right to form unions, collective
bargaining and the initiative and referendum. Chief Justice Nichols has
declared against all these propositions, and the decisions of the Supreme
Court will be found in 92 O. S., pages 130 and 376. The decision on the initia
tive and referendum made the emergency supreme and required three elections
in Zanesville to beat the Supreme Court decision. The law of Ohio for
twenty-three years made it a misdemeanor to discharge employees for
belonging or refusing to leave their union until Judge Nichols decided it
unconstitutional. The "uncQnstitutional" law read:
The Dayton convention recommended that union men study the records
of Candida-es to carry out our slogan of "reward your friends and punish
your enemies." Now, can any union man support a judge for re-election
Y.'ho has decided against labor on these fundamental propositions?
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Yours sincerely, CHAS.U. SHRYOCK,
Member of Z. T. U. 199 since 1385.
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