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HARRY HETTERiCH
Is Candidate For Secretary
Of Eagle's Lodge.
Through an error on the part of one
of the force of the Press, the name of
Harry W. Hetterich was omitted from
the lut of candidates aspiring for
office in the Eagles lodge, published
last week. Mr. Hetterich is a can
didate for the office of secretary of
the lodge. Mr. Hetterich is the pres
ent efficient secretary and has been
for several years. The Press gladly
makes this correction.
The election is to be held Monday
and the polls will be open from 2 p.m.
till 8 p. m. Much keen interest is be
ing displayed in the election and it
loo|gi to joe a battle royal.
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HUGE OIL PROFITS
New York.—The Atlantic Refining
Company reports last year's profits
were $10,513,694. This means a divi
dend of $182 for each share of com
mon stock. Profits in 1919 equalled
$177 a share.
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DARING ENGINEERS
Pittsburgh, Pa.—A daring engin
eering feat was performed in this
city when a nine-story modern build
ing, filled with hardware, was moved
a distance of 75 feet by 12 laborers.
Ninety-pound rails, 120 of them,
made the tracks on which the struct
ure was moved. The sidewalks and
basement of the building, including
a big engine and boiler that contin
ued to function, went along with the
building. Customers passed to and
from the building as though nothing
was happening.
FAST RAILROAD TRAV
ELING
Philadelphia.—All railroad speed
records between this city and New
York were broken when a special
train on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad made the 90-mile run in 80
minutes, an average of one and one
eighth miles a minute. On certain
stretches along the route the train
traveled nearly two miles a minute.
CLOAK MAKERS WIN
Cincinnati.—After a three-months
strike cloak makers employed by
Bishop, Sterne & Stein, the leading
shop in the city, have returned to
work. All major demands have been
granted. The contract calls for week
work and a minimum scale, with other
lt tails to be arbitrated.
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g?adp Oxfords and High Shoes, English
models in and Black
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ADJUST WAGE RATES
Oglesby, 111.—Contractors have ac
cepted a rate of 67 V2 cents an hour
for hod carrieis and laborers,
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Reduced from $50
$ O T.5C)
at
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HIGH STKEKT
if I 1111IMIM
New York.—Louis J. Horowitz,
president of the Thompson-Starrett
Company regarded as the world's
largest builders, said that he does
not look for building costs to decline
to any great extent.
'At its peak, which was around the
last half of 1920," said Mr. Horowitz,
'the cost of building was about 220
per cent of pre-war normal. Today
the average show about 165 per cent
cf pre-war normal. I believe, in view
of the existing conditions, that this
represents a fair cost, and that costs
are apt to go higher before going
lower.
"Building throughout the country,
although not quite as brisk as could
be expected, has been going on steadi
ly and satisfactorily for some tirm\
and is increasing favorably.
MOTHER RAID
ONCONGRESS
Seing Planned by Railroads,
yeclares La Follette
BRISKER BUILDING PREDICTED
Washington.—"The reason for the
resent plight of the railroads is their
legal and dishonest expenditure of
oney for maintenance and their pro
ibitive rates which have stalled traf
c," said Senator La Follette, in an
idress before the people's recon
duction league.
The lawmaker assailed the Cum
ins-Eseh act and declared that the
lilroads were the authors of this
•gisiation.
"Having dictated the terms of the
iw," he said, "and having failed
ompletely to put the transportation
/stem on a sound basis under its
aeration, the railroads are again
ere in Washington preparing to
lake another raid on congress.
"Any difficulties that the carriers
re now in is due to misfeasance be
re government control and to arti
cial and malicious obstructions by
ten in high railroad places to make
le system fail.
"The time will come when the truth
ill be known about the sabotage they
raciticed in order to discredit the op
ration of the administration."
The senator declared that misman
gement and not high wages is re
ponsible for the present condition of
lie railroads. "J have read hundreds
affidavits of men who stated under
ath," he said, "that they were order
i and required to execute orders
•hioh blockaded transportation, ord
rs which undermined and retarded
le work, orders which destroyed ma
erial."
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MOONEY WITNESS
Wants To Tell More
Frame-up
Head of World's Largest Builders Optimistic—Says Nei
ther Prices Nor Wages Are Now Too High—
Better Times Coming
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has been a large improvement of late
in building activity in New York, due
largely to the recently-inauguratd tax
exemption ordinance.
New Building Badly Needed.
"This country is urgently in need
of some $5,000,000,000 worth of new
buildings of all kinds to make up for
the temporary cessation of home and
office construction during the war.
With this fact in mind, I can hardly
feel anything but optimistic regard
ing the future of our business.
'I do not think labor costs are toe
high, excepting where the wage-earn
er fails to render a full day's service
•ir a day's pay, or where, owing to
me regulations, two or more men
re being employed to do one man's
b.
"Labor, in my opinion, should be a
Of
San Francisco. John McDonald,
star witness for the Mooney proseeu
tion, wants to return to this city and
tell mere of what he knows about the
.Mooney frame-up. In a letter to the
Han Francisco Call, McDonald says
when he came here from the east sev
eral weeks ago, he was assured im
munity from perjury prosecution. He
was told that no action would be taken
against him if he confessed that ht
committed perjury at the Mooney
trial. Later this pledge was with
drawn, and he left San Francisco and
returned to the east. Now he wants
to come back, if the grand jury will
hear his story.
In his letter he says: "I don't see
how Captain of Police GofF cannot
help but come out in the open and
make a statement, as he was Fi^k
ort's inside man on the fi^me-up."
Fickcrt was prosecuting attorney at
the tim§ P* trials.
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FREIGHT RATES
A
MENACE
Washington. Railroad freight
rates are so high that they tend to
remake the geographical and indus
trial map of the United States, do
clared Secretary of Commerce Hoov
er. The federal official said it costs
30 cents to ship a bushel of wheat
from Missouri to New York by rail
and the same wheat can be shipped
by water from New York to Argen
tine, South America, for 10 cents a
bushel. The speaker declared that if
railroad rates are not lowered quickly
there will be a shifting of agricultural
.industry..
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
reasonable proportion of the value its
output helps to create.
Labor Should Save Money
"The majority of the people of this
country, being in the working class,
would therefore be able more properly
to care for themselves, get more re
i*eation, and better education. Labor
should be taught to save money and to
invest it prudently, and to take part
in providing urgently-needed capital
for our country's expanding industrial
enterprises.
The success of these enterprises,
therefore, would be the workers' suc
cess. and, I believe, would be the best
antidote for all unrest, Bolshevism
and the like. The worker should be
able to feel that his efforts are be
ing recognized in the general success
of the business of the nation.
Freight Coats Not Too High
"No, 1 don't think that labor, ex
cept where it is soldiering, has been
getting its share of the country's
prosperity. With proper wages and
proper teaching as to how to invest
its savings, I firmly believe labor
would prove its worth by becoming
the greatest factor in the salvation
of the country's industry and general
welfare.
Regarding freight costs, I don't
think they, either are any too high
The railroads are struggling hard for
existence, let alone profit, and I don't
see how they can reduce freight rates
and still do business.
"In my opinion, the worst part of the
depression has been passed, and I
look for more normal conditions to be
well under way before the end of the
present year."
WANT JUDGE APPOINT
ED
Charleston, W, Va.—The house of
leleg&tes has passed a law empower
ing the governor to create a criminal
court in Mingo county and to appoint
a judge, who shall hold office until
1924.
This plan is the most brazen yet
devised by coal owners and other spe
cial interests to strengthen their hold
on the people of this state. Under
this act the voters of Mingo county
will have no voice in the selection of
criminal judges and the trial of Sid
Hatfield and others charged with the
murder of Baldwin-Feltz detectives
will be before a judge who has been
appointed by the governor.
The defenders of this law plead
that "it is not safe" to hold an elec
tion in Mingo county at this time.
Opponents of the plan ask: "It is
not safe for whom?"
P-.
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RENT LAW
UPHELD
Washington Landlords Must
Refund Excess Collected
Washington.—By a 5 to 4 vote the
United States supreme court has up
held the Ball rent law, intended as a
war emergency measure to protect
tenants in the District of Columbia.
The law has been treated as a scrap
of paper by landlords, who must now
efund rents in excess of rates order
ed by the rent commission. The land
lords are waiting for the law to ex
pire next October. Friends of the
law will urge it&i extension.
The majority of the supreme court
judges declared that the laws of emi
nent domain and those conferring po
lice powers justified the restriction of
property rights without compensation
in cases of public emergency.
The minority—Justices White, Mc
Kenna, Van Devanter and Mc-Rey
nolds—insisted that the law "is con
trary to the meaning of contracts
and leases as accepted all over the
world."
The main feature of the act pro
vides for a rent commission with rent
fixing powers and some of the powers
of a court tc decide questions of rent
and ouster proceedings.
"MEDDLESOME OLD
FOGIES"
Detroit, Mich.—"Meddlesome old
fogies who cannot tell the fore from
the aft of a ship" was the term ap
plied to the Detroit chamber of com
merce by Secretary Hunter, of the
Marine Firemen, Oilers and Water
tenders' Union.
The business men recently denounc
ed the seamen's law, while refusing to
permit members of the Seamen's
Union to present their side of the
case. Secretary Hunter said that
J. Maclean, chairman of the business
men's conference, admitted that he
had been on board a ship but once
in his life, and that he never read the
seamen's law. Maclean promised the
unionists that he would arrange for
them on ths program—and then for
got his promise.
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EXTEND WOMEN'S LAW
Boston.—Governor Cox has signed
a bill which extends the women's 48
hour law tc motion picture houses
laundries, hotels, hair-dressing estab
lishments, manicuring parlors, tele
phone operators in private exchange?
and women elevator .operators.
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"CANT-STRIKE" BILL
roviding Imprisonment and
Fine for Workers Again
Before U. S. Senate
Washington. Senator Poindexter
has reintroduced his bill to make in
terstate commerce strikes illegal.
This bill slipped through the senate
at the last session, when half a dozen
members were present, but was hel.l
in the senate by a parliamentary
move of its opponents, and congress
adjourned without taking action.
The bill provides for a fine of
$10,000 or 10 years' imprisonment,
or both, for any one who "shall by
word of mouth, or by the presenta
tion, exhibition or circulation of writ
ten or printed words, or otherwise,
solicit, advise, induce or persuade, or
attempt to induce or persuade any
person or persons, employed by any
common carrier subject to the act to
regulate commerce" to quit their em
ployment.
In another section of the law a
imprisonment is provided where man
agers or employes combine with the
intent to "substantially" interfere
vith commerce.
Where the managers are involved
ess punishment Is provided and the
nter.t to interfere must be "substan
tially." In the section that makes it
llegar~for one worker to even "at
tempt to induce" another worker to
quit his employment there is no refer
ence to "substantially," and the fine
not $500 and six months' imprison
ment. It is $10,000 and 10 years.
In other words it is twenty times
as serious for one railroad employe
to ask another to quit his employment
as it is for railroad managers to com
punishment ol $500 or six months'
bine to "substantially" hinder trans
portation. The managers have an ad
Jitional loophole to escape by being
permitted to prove that their hin
drance to commerce was not "sub
stantial." In the worker's case he
iolates the law before commerce is
hindered. If he even suggests to a
fellow worker that he should quit,
he is guilty under the law and can be
jailed for 10 years.
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REJECT WAGE (UTS
New York.—Marine engineers em
ployed on trans-Atlantic, trans-Pa
cific and coastwise boats flying the
American flag have rejected an agree
ment proposed by the boat owners
which would materially cut wages,
lengthen hours, and establish the non
union shop.
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PLUMBERS HOLD PRICES
Clarksburg, W. Va.—A short plumb
ers' strike in this city convinced em
ployers that these workers meant
what they said when they refused to
reduce wages 15 cents an hour. The
old rate has been restored.
Going Out
of Business
SALE STARTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 291
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II Is Our Pleaturi To SatUtr
ELECTRIC TRACTION
NEXT
Baltimore.—"The steam locomotive
has outlived its usefulness. Electric
raction can do the same work better
with a saving of two-thirds of the
coal required by steam locomotives,"
declared Dr. Hugo Steinmetz, elec
trical scientist, in an address in this
city.
The speaker said every engineer
knows the value and saving of elec
tric traction, but the change has been
delayed because railroads cannot se
cure sufficient capital to buy the
equipment.
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THUGS' STORY DENIED
W itliamson, W. Va.—Thomas
Chapman, foreman of the jury that
acquitted Sid Hatfield and 16 others
charged with the death of Albert C.
Feltz, denies the claim of Tom Feltz,
head of the Baldwin-Feltz thugs, that
the jury returned their verdict through
ear,_ caused by the waving of red
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NOTICE
TO
EAGLES
On MONDAY,
MAY 2nd
is the election of officers. Vot
ing can be done from
2 P. M. to 8 P. M.
Have your official receipt
with you and your dues paid in
advance.
GEORGE J. TROY,
Worthy President.
HARRY W. HETTERICH
Secretary.
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