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THEIR DUTY IS PLAIN
About four hundred citizens from
Middletown and farmers of Butler
county appeared before the county
commissioners on last Friday and pro
tested against the construction of the
bridge at Coke Otto. We say four
hundred, but what's the difference if
there were four thousand—there were
13,000 people who voted against the
proposition last November a year ago
but at the same time it must be re
rnembered that 14,692 voted for it.
Doesn't the majority rule?
So then, will the county commit,
sioners regard the protest of four
hundred a greater mandate than that
of the nearly fifteen thousand citizens
of the county who voted for the im
provement
There seems to be many peculiar
angles in the deal. Can it be that
there is another "steel," not s-t-e-a-1
but s-t-e-e-1, hitched up with it? Who
paid the expense of flooding the whole
county, including Hamilton, with
copies of the Middletown News-Signal
which contained nothing except
knocks against the bridge on Thurs
day of last week, the day prior to
the protest meeting before the county
commissioners? And who paid for
the flowery speeches delivered by the
attorneys, especially the one from
Hamilton and the only person from
Hamilton to speak against the propos
tion?
There has been much said of a steal
in connection with the Coke Otto
bridge proposition, and it is rumored
that there is a whole lot of steel
not steal, mixed up with it too, and
that it isn't the much talked of Coke
Otto steel either. Can this be true
The people of the county voted for
this improvement, and by a substan
tial majority too. The duty of the
county commissioners is plain (that is
if they want to be fair with ALL the
people), and they ought to perform
it.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1922
Entered at the Pos toff ice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mftil Matter
laaued Weekly at 326 Marke* Street,
Hamilton, Ohio.
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Endorsed by the Tratfe* and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
ALL
The East High street and North
Third street riding public need no
Girls' brown calf
Lace Boots all sizes
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longer worry about the street car ser
vice on these lines when the new
cars get to running. They are to
have just as good service a&' the rid
ters on the other lines in the city, or
as near so as is possible to give.
This assurance is given the Press by
Mr. George P. Sohngen, receiver for
the traction company, in an interview
on Wednesday of this week. At the
Chamber of Commerce forum dinner
at the "Y" last week it was given
out that with the new cars running
there was to be a general rerouting,
that the street cars would alternate
over North Third and East High
streets, which would mean that the
present 15-minute service would con
tinue over these lines.
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There was an immediate rumble of
dissatisfaction and disapproval heard
emanating from the riders on these
two lines. They deemed it unfair and
not right, having been promised and
assured, as they claim, that when
the new cars were adopted they would
also have a quicker service as was
promised the riders on the other
routes in the city. However, when the
Press representative called Mr. Sohn
gen's attention to the seeming unfair
ness to the Third and High street
riders he immediately stated that the
whole thing was a mistake and that
the Third and High street riders could
rest assured that they were to have
right from the start a 10-minute or
better service. He stated starting
with a 10-minute service he hoped that
just as soon as the riding public
learned to get on and off the cars
quickly and the operator got the hang
of things so that it would be possible
to do so, to give the people on tjiese
two lines an 8-minute service.
Mr. Sohngen further said that with
the co-operation and support of the
Hamilton people generally, which he
hoped to receive, he expected shortly
to give the riding public even a quick
er service.
The efforts of Mr. Sohngen to give
the people of Hamilton an up-to-date
street car service should be appreciat
ed and the people ought to co-operate
with him and lend him every support
possible.
A TORTURE INSTRUMENT
Injunctions are used in the United
States while they have been discarded
by the rest of the world. They are
in reality, a relic of the European
imperialistic, autocratic world of a
bye-gone age, as Mr. Baer, the famous
cartoonist, so well shows. American
jurisprudence has gone, scavenger
like, through the archaic junk heap of
European imperialism, picking up
here a shackle, there a club, to weave
into the fabric of the American writ
of injunction.
The injunction is, in principle, the
same as the ancient army of the ba
ron. It is a revival of the "go thou'
and "do thou" and of the "thou shalt
not" and the "verboten" of ignomin
ious recent memory.
How many Americans know that in
the recent British coal strike, lasting
three months, there was not an in
junction and not even an arrest? It
is a fact.
The injunction as used in our indus
trial disputes is autocratic, despotic
ancient and out of harmony with mod
ern thought and most, modern prac
tices.
Such a thing may persist for a time
in free America, but its doom is cer
tain. No judge whose mind lives the
life of today will issue an injunction
in a labor dispute where no such in
junction would lie where such labor
dispute did not exist. No judge who is
capable of understanding the theory
of modern society and modern democ
racy will issue such an injunction.
The day is coming when no judge, un
less he is a crooked judge, will issue
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such an injunction. The time is com
ing when judicial usurpation and tyr
anny will be no more.—rfrom the
"American Federationist."
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ONLY UNLAWFUL ACTS FOR.
BIDDEN
Unless the decision of the United
States circuit court of appeals shall
be set aside by a higher authority
the United Mine Workers of America
have achieved a signal victory at law
By the decision handed down last
week in Chicago, the injunction issued
against the union by Judge Anderson
at Indianapolis will be so modified that
it becomes of no practical effect in
important particulars. For example
while cognizance is taken "of a gi
gantic conspiracy to eliminate com
petition" by organizing the West Vir
ginia miners, the appeal judges hold
that the injunction should lie only
against unlawful methods of carry
ing it out. In this connection pro
hibition of the check-off system by
Judge Anderson is annulled, apparent
ly because this method of collecting
union members' dues is not in itself
unlawful, and because existent con
tracts between operators and unions
which cover it are legitimate. The
principle applied is that a legal con
tract shall not be interfered with
though improper acts which may de
pend in a measure for their carrying
out on enforcement of the contract
should be enjoined. Thus the Ander
son injunction should run only against
the union's sending of money into
West Virginia in furtherance of a?ts
of violence it should not prohibit
unionization efforts that do not ex
tend to interference with operation of
mines.
The right of organization is dis
tinctly upheld by the decision, but it
is cleanly stated that unionization can
be sought by peaceful means only. The
methods which have obtained in West
Virginia are condemned and the in
junction, so far as it applies to them
remains in force. This should not be
unsatisfactory to the unions, the re
sponsible officers of which have de
clared their devotion to legal re
sources and their abhorrence of vio
lence. The issue here should
strengthen their resolve, for it is de
monstrated that definition and protec
tion of their rights may be safely left
to the courts. It should exert an in
fluence for good on the miners of
Kansas who have resorted to the strike
and violence in resistance of the law
of the state. The international offic
ers of the mine workers have asserted
their preference for legal action to
test the validity of the Kansa indus
trial court law. Their victory in the
West Virginia injunction case shows
they have the right idea.—National
Labor Journal.
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WHY UNIONISM THRIVES
As an individual the working man
is just as helpless as a sapling in a
tempest. Me may say that he intends
to work for whom he pleases and for
as many hours as he pleases, and he
may feel that he has the moral right
to do so, but he has not.
And then, again, he should know
as he will, sooner or later, perhaps
when it is too late, that he must ask
his employer for leave to work for
what he chooses to pay, and for as
many hours as he desires.
Organized labor has been able
through united action and collective
bargaining, to shorten the work day,
raise wages, and in many ways im
prove the conditions of the worker
it has prevented reduction in their
pay it has made homes better it has
secured better clothes, better food,
more comforts, and has made the shop,
factory and mine a better place in
which to work.
Organized labor has been the fight-
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YHE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
ing force in state legislatures and in
congress not only for labor, but for
all men it has compelled the passage
of laws to protect the health of the
workers to take children f^om the
mill and factory, and place them in
school to limit the hours of labor for
women and fix the wages above a liv
ing wage to prevent the loss of lives
and limbs and to compel payment
for injuries.
THE UNION LABEL
The union label symbolizing as it
does the conditions which the union
itself is established to# secure and
maintain is proof that these condi
tions obtain in the making of the ar
ticle upon which it appears. Firm
names, brands, trade-marks, and other
devices by which products are adver
tised may lose their original signifi
cance through changes in the fortunes
of those who own them. The union
label, being owned by the union and
subject exclusively to its control, rep
resents the same thing always, name
ly, fair wages and hours, clean work
shops and good workmanship.
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MORE POWER TO THEM
The League of Women Voters is
being attacked by the politicians and
the wives of the politicians.
The leaders of the league have
shown a disposition to place princi
pie above party—a dastardly crime in
the opinion of those who spend their
years pursuing patronage. The
league does not advocate anything so
silly as a woman's party. On the con
trary, it urges its members to affiliate
with the existing parties, but it gives
them sound advice as to what to do
after they get in.
They are urged to fight for a real
primary system, for such legislation
as the maternity bill, and for control
of the packing trust and other vicious
combines, and to oppose militarism
And they have been doing it. That's
what alarms the politicians.
If the women had been content to
talk about these things there woult
have been no criticism. But they have
organized lobbies and have invaded
state legislatures and the national
capitol. They have deluged the law
makers with letters and telegrams
urging them to.support this bill and
to defeat that. And always they have
clung to principle and permitted party
considerations to go hang.
By these tactics they passed the
maternity bill and emphasized the de
mand for limitation of armaments.
No wonder the politicians and the
politicians' wives do not like them
But those of us who are neither poli
ticians nor the wives of politicians
can well afford to wish them godspeed,
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"FAIR PROFITS ARE MADE'
Washington.—In a wrangle in the
house over the American valuation
plan that some tariff advocates favor.
Congressman Fordney, who is sup
porting the plan, scored importers for
profiteering. He said one Chicago de
aprtment store charged $5 for a knife
which can be bought in Germany for
9.6 cents.
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STILL OPPOSE THEM
Although the workers won a big
victory two weeks ago in a suit to
enjoin the members of the Cloak, Suit
and Skirt Manufacturers' Protect
ive Association, they still are opposed
to the system of injunctions. Re
garding this, Labor says:
"A New York judge has issued an
injunction restraining the members of
the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufact
urers' Protective Association from
"combining or conspiring in any way
to violate the contract which they
entered into with the members of the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union and which will not expire
until June 1, 1922.
"This is the first time in history of
American industry that an injunction
has been issued to protect labor.
"The fact should not—and of course
will not—change the workers' atti
tude toward this peculiarly un-Ameri
can symbol of judicial usurpation.
"So long as courts are permitted to
issue injunctions in industrial dis
putes labor may'be forgiven for turn
ing the weapon against those who
originated it.
"It is like using poison gas in war
If the other side uses the damnable
stuff, then we must use it in self
defense.
"But labor would forbid the use of
the injunction by either side in an in
dustrial controversy, just as it would
outlaw the use of poison gas by either
side in military operations."
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END GRAPE CROSSINGS
Washington.—The grade crossing
is doomed, according to the depart
ment of agriculture, which declares
that this menace to life "must go and
will be eliminated wherever possible
on the roads of the federal aid high
way act."
During the three years ending 1920,
according to the best records available
to the department, 3,636 lives were
lost at grade crossings and 10,644
persons were injured.
FEDERAL PERSONNEL
BOARD
Washington. President Hhrding
has created a semi-official commission
to be known as the federal personnel
board, which is intended to improw
the service and economy of employing
methods in government departments
The members of the board will be of
ficials of the various bureaus and
heads of independent establishments
and will function under direction of
the civil seVvice commission.
The board, the executive order said,
will be expected to formulate policies
and plans for interchanging employe
between one bureau and another whei
emergency work requires enlarged
forces, for maintaining a special fore
of employes on part-time assignment
in different departments, for training
individuals to special fitness for cer
tain service and for facilitating pre
motions to higher grades for projferl
qualified persons.
It will also be expected to develoi
systems of personnel records and
consider all questions relating
hours of service, retirements, leave
of absence and similar detail.
EDITOR BACKS
TRADE UNIONS
New Haven, Conn.—The trad
union movement "is a great combine
tion of races, creeds and color," say
the Journal-Courier.
"If it be argued that there is a lack
of discipline and control in the avei
age labor gathering—apfirt from
some groups whose daily tasks an
training equip them for judicial di
liberation with the best in any cal!
ing—it may be retorted that at lean
the subtlety and indirection of tl"
able and cunning are absent.
"There is a great deal of ignoj
ance among the schooled and protec
ed classes as to the nature Of a labc
union.
"The confusion and grim realitit
that attend situations where greja
numbers of men are excited wlu
work with their han^s and ha\
their daily bread to consider are such
that intelligent and fair-minded lead
ership is the concern of all. Ameri
cans have not yet got to the bottom
of tfie so-called labor question, though
now and then there is a gleam in the
east."
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URGE OLD AGE PENSIONS
Columbus, Ohio.—On January 10
and 11 a state-wide conference will be
held in this city under the auspices
of the State Federation of Labor to
discuss old-age pensions and take
suitable action thereon. Fraternal
organizations are invited. Several of
these bodies have declared for old-age
pensions.
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ALERT UNIONISTS WIN
Raleigh, N. C.—Alert trade union
ists in this state checked the passage
of several anti-social proposals by the
state legislature.
One of these laws would permit eas
ier ejection of employes from houses
owned by employers.
The bill was introduced by an at
torney for a cotton mill company
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"BACK TO NORMALCY"
Washington.—In his report to A.
of L. headquarters, Henry F. Hilfers
general organizer of the A. F. of L.
cites this condition in one New Jer
sey town:
"A shirt factory wag opened in
Bloomfield by a firm that mdved here
from Long Island. The price that is
paid for one dozen shirts is 58 cents
The highest that an experienced oper
ator can get is 12 cents an hour.
"One girl, who is an experienced
operator, took a job and worked foi
12% hours and earned $1.42 another
82 cents and another, an inexperienced
operator, earned 38 cents for 12 hours
work."
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EMPLOYERS OPPOSE
MINIMUM WAGE LAW
San Francisco.—Sixteen dollars
week is the minimum wage establish
ed by law for women workers of Cali
fornia. Some employers of the statt
are now carrying on a strenuous cam
paign to reduce the minimum, despite
the fact that public hearings under
the auspices of the industrial welfan
commission show that the present
wage is barely sufficient to maintain
a standard of proper living. All the
labor organizations of the state op
pose any reduction of the present min
imum standard of women's wages.
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CO-OPS HAVE GOOD YE4.R.
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St. Paul, Minn.,—Savingi or pro
fits made by co-operative farm asso
ciations in 43 counties of this state
during the year amount to $2,045,745.
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