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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1922
Catered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
baaed Weekly at 826 Mark of street,
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1296
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middle:own Trades
snd Labor Council of Middlftnivn, O
TO THE ADVERTISERS
The Press again desires to call the
attention of the local advertisers to
the large number of advertising solici
tors with which the town seems to be
overrun these days. The Press espe
cially refers to the many who are
soliciting in the cause of organized
labor. If the advertisers are being
imposed upon in this matter it is their
own fault, as the Press on numerous
occasions through its columns has is
sued a warning to the local advertis
ers against the impostors.
The solicitors referred to represent
publications and advertising schemes
printed and published outside Hamil
ton and which are not worth five cents
to the local advertisers so far as ad
vertising goes. The solicitors, while
they don't say so in so many words,
intimate that local organized labor is
to be benefitted by the transaction
and they convey the impression that
thousands of copies of the publication
or advertising scheme which they rep
resent are to be distributed through
out the city, and even go so far as
to say that every union man in the
city is to receive a copy.
This is false. The fact of the mat
ter is that in most instances the only
ones to receive copies are those who
have contributed for space. And this
for the purpose of collecting the
amount due for the advertisement
subscribed.
The Press recognizes the spirit im
pelling the advertisers' contributions.
The Press knows it is done from a
kindly feeling and a desire to express
that feeling for the cause of local
organized labor, and the Press de
sires right here and now on behalf
of local organized labor to express its
sincere thanks to the advertisers of
the city for that kindly feeling which
they thus express in their generous
contributions to the cause of labor
whenever called upon.
Trades Council at its meeting held
last week condemned the action of
those who use the good name of the
organization to further their selfish
purposes. Trades Council, through
the Press, desires to express its re
gret that the advertisers of the city
are imposed upon in this manner. It
was further decided at the meeting
that a letter should be sent to all
local advertisers instructing them that
unless the men soliciting advertising
in the name of organized labor dis
plays credentials from Trades Coun
cil or the Butler County Press, that
local organized labor has no interest
or concern, whatever, in the project
which they may represent.
The Press hopes that the local ad
vertisers will be benefitted
in
ture by this article.
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AND STILL WE KICK
An upward sliding scale of rates
for natural gas, beginning at $1.00
per thousand feet, is now in effect in
Lima.
The rates, which were fixed by the
state public utilities commission on
an appeal of the Lima Natural Gas
Co. from a city ordinance, are as fol
lows: $1 per thousand for the first
5,000 cubic feet $1.05 per thousand
for the next 5,000 feet $1.10 per thou
sand for the next 5,000 feet $1:15
per thousand for all over 15,000 feet,
with a minimum charge of $1.25 per
month.
The rate, which is net, there being
no discount allowed if bills are paid
within a specified time, is for three
years from September 1, 1921.
The city ordinance, which the utili
ties commission held "unjust, unrea
sonable and unlawful," had provided
for the following rates: 55 cents per
thousand for the first 5,000 feet 60
cents per thousand for the next 5,000
65 cents per thousand for all oven
15,000 feet, with a minimum monthl
charge of 75 cents.
It will be noted that in Lima unde
the new rates the people will pay $1
per thousand for the first 5,000 cubic
feet of gas used with an increase of
5 cents per thousand up to 15,000 feet,
with a minimum charge of $1.25 per
month or in other words, if one uses
but 50 cents worth of gas in any one
month they must still pay $1.25.
Here in Hamilton we pay 60 cents
per thousand feet up to 10,000 feet
and 62 cents for the next 40,000 feet,
with no minimum charge whatever, or
in other words, if you use but 30 cents
worth of gas in any one month that
is all you pay. Yet some of us are
prone to kick about the high price of
gas when we are paying only a little
more than half what Lima pays, and
Lima thinks she has a cheap rate.
And the beauty of the thing is that we
are assured of the present rate for at
least another year from next July,
with a possibility of two years. And
this because our city officials were
on the job. They slipped away to Co
lumbus the other day, refusing to tell
anyone the purpose of their journey,
but they brought back the coonskins
in the way of assurance of the ex
tension of the present gas rate agree
ment with the Ohio Fuel Supply Com
pany. The officials were right on the
job in this instance and much credit
is due them.
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TREASON?
Six leaders of the Miners' Union
in West Virginia have been arrested
on charges of treason.
More than 100 have been aiTested
on charges of riot.
Those arrested on charges of trea
son were among those most effective
in bringing about dispersal of the
marching miners last fall.
The arrested men are taken to
Logan county—the stronghold of
Sheriff Chafin and of the anti-union
mine owners.
A newspaper correspondent who re
ported the march said in his stories
that when Chafin made a public state
ment he always had a mine owner on
either side of him.
Treason is a most uncommon charge.
There has been no peace-time treason
charge since the Aaron Burr case.
The mine owners are determined
that there shall be no organization of
the miners in West Virginia. To or
ganize is, to them, a crime.
Therefore, some of the miners and
their wives and children, must be
starved and others thrown in jail for
treason to Don Chafin's oligarchy.
A fair trial for a union man in
Logan county is as impossible as sun
stroke at the north pole.
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THE REAL CARD MAN
The union man who attends his
local regularly and handles the busi
ness of the organization is apt to say
with a degree of pride that he is a
union man, but not a card man.
The hustling unionist has little re
gard for the card man, because he
believes that the latter carries a card
only for the sake of the high wages
which it brings.
He is right.
If a workingman joins a union mere
ly to get a bigger pay envelope, he
is in the wrong pew. There never
was a time when a professional
strikebreaker couldn't obtain higher
pay than the best unionist.
Unionism means more than big
wages.
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Working for a living never was a
cinch. But conditions are better for
both organized $nd unorganized work
ers today than ever before. This is
no accident.
Fifty years ago in tree America the
average workday was twelve hours
long. Seventy-five years ago work
men toiled fourteen to sixteen hours
every day.
The courage and the sacrifices of the
early trade unionists made the ten
hour day possible. The untiring labor
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which helps the Bizzy Editor collect
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of the last twenty years has brought
the eight and nine hour day into gen
eral use.
In those days strikes generally were
lost. Yet the wooers plodded stead
ily on with their organizations, and
the great unions of the present are
the result.
Both here and abroad, the unions
alone stand between the common
people and practical slavery.
If all the working people were
organized, the unions could wipe out
the open-shop systems tomorrow. If
all the workers were organized, they
could crush the profiteers tomorrow.
There is not a problem that faces the
common folk that labor's strength
could not conquer.
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THE COAL SITUATION
The latest report of the bureau of
labor statistics of the United States
department of labor reports that in
five cities in which a survey was
made, it was found that the price of
coal today is higher than at the peak
of war-time profiteering. There has
been a steady increase in the cost
to the consumer since last May. At
the same time, the production has
dropped to the lowest point in the
history of the industry. Thousands
of miners and their families are act
ually starving. Many of them have
not been permitted to do a day's work
for nearly a year. West of the Missis
sippi, farmers are burning coal as fuel,
because they are unable to meet the
high price demanded for coal. This,
baldly, is an outline of the coal sit
uation. Miners starve because they
are not producing farmers burning
food because it is cheaper than coal,
and the operator, 'starving the worker
and freezing the farmer, is taking his
profits in diminished production. The
country is about to be deluged with
propaganda favoring a wag# cut for
workers, the argument being that
this is necessary to increase produc
tion and lower costs. The public will
fall for this stuff, no doubt, but if
the facts were known, the coal barons
would not get for with this cam
paign. Mine labor costs are not high
er than they were three years ago.
And three years ago the coal industry
was provei* to be enormously profit
able. Some operators, according to
official statistics, made more than
6,000 per cent on their investment.
Profits running from 100 to 1,000. per
cent were oomparatively common.
Railroads today are paying for coal
just about half the price charged con
sumers. It would be fatuous to as
sume that the operators are handling
this business at a loss. What the
coal barons desire is still higher pro
fits, and to that end they intend, if
they can, to further impoverish their
workers. Even should wages be re
duced, there is no assurance that the
public will get the benefit. The oper
ators will see to that, for their past
record proves that there is no limit
to their rapacity.
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"BEST MINDS" ON THE JOB!
The supreme court decides against
picketing in Arizona and denies the
right of Arizona to enact such laws
as it sees fit to protect workers from
greed.
The supreme court decides that one
mild-mannered, soft-spoken picket
MAY perhaps be allowed at a struck
factory gate to whisper, hat in hand,
to a thousand strikebreakers that a
strike is on.
Twenty-seven workers are sentenc
ed to prison in Denver for violation
of the state "can't-strike" laws.
Five Miners' Union officials and a
Made
labor editor are arrested on a charge
of treason in West Virginia.
A trust official, sent to jail in N#W
York, is released after a month by
presidential pardon on the ground that
the man was too ill to be in jail. His
wife said he might be back at his
office in a couple of weeks.
One of the first proppsals before
the national agricultureal conference
was from an implement manufacturer
who pleaded for a reduction of wages.
Compulsory incorporation of trade
unions is put forward as a legislative
proposal in New York. Congressmen
propose- legislation patterned after
Kansas Allen's industrial court idea.
Isn't there somebody, somewhere in
the machinery of government that can
think of something helpful and con
st ructive to do? Is it mental bank
ruptcy, or blind ignorance—or what?
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RENT LAW JUGGLED
Rates Fixed on Sale Price
of Realty Which Owners
Sell to Themselves
New York.—Rents in this city have
been increased greatly in the last two
years. A legislative investigating
committee lias brought out the fact
that landlords have discovered a
means for taking advantage of the
rent laws, which were enacted for the
protection of tenants from tenement
gougers. The magistrates by whom
rent and eviction cases are heard have
made as a basis for measuring rent
the price paid for the property. A
rent gouger who wants to increase
the tenants' rent organizes a holding
company, giving it an important title,
such as the national construction, de
velopment and contracting corporation
which never constructs or develops
anything but shoddy schemes to rob
the poor by legal means. He then
sells the property to himself at a
higher price than he paid for it, gives
the tenant his legal notice to pay more
rent or get out, goes to the municipal
court with the facts regarding his
"investment," usually is given author
ity to advance the rates and then pro
ceeds to collect. Meanwhile the poor
tenant, believing that a law has been
passed to "protect" him, knows that
he has been hit, but he doesn't under
stand who wields the bludgeon.
league'ofnations
Labor Office Flans Safety In
Industry
Geneve, Switzerland.—Study of the
problems of industrial safety in their
national and international aspects
forms a special section of the inter
national labor office of the league of
nations.
Much work has already been done in
various countries to diminish the se
verity of industrial accidents by
safety codes, prescribing mechanical
safeguards for machines and danger
ous places, safety training, shop safe
ty committees, etc. It has been repre
sented to the labor office that a com
parative study of the existing sys
tems, practices and devices for elim
inating human wastage in industry
might be helpful in discovering any
remediable deficiencies in those sys
tems. At the, same time it is proposed
that the experience of countries which
have made progress in the prevention
of accidents, in workshops, mines ami
other places might be put at the dis
posal of countries which have not
given aEtention to the problem.
The labor office is inviting the sup
port of governments, employers' assu
ciationsvand workers' associations in
studying the problems of accident pi
vention and the allied problems of tin
ea re and rehabilitation of injured
workers.
Expenses of the labor office an'
estimated at $1,649,000 for 1922.
1921 $1,402,000 was required to ke.-p
the labor office going.
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"SCRAPSJ)F PAPER"
So Are Contracts Regarded
By Some Printing
Employers
Cleveland, Ohio. The employing
commercial printers of this city have
broken another wage contract. This
time the victims are the short-sight
ed compositors who took the place
of the locked-out printers on May l,
when the employers broke theii
agreement to put into effect the 44
hour week. The bait which caught
the strike-breakers ^at that time was
an individual wag* contratt calling
for wages about $10 above the regu
lar scale. Now the employers have
informed them that their work does
not justify the continued payment of
these wages and they have lopped off
the extra $10. Contracts of some
employers seem to be worth less than
the paper upon which they are print
ed. But the strike-breakers have
learned what is meant by the expres
sion ^'between the devil and the deep
blue sea."
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MENTIONED
Ill Record List of Home
owning Cities
Colurn&us, Ohio.—Ohioans step up
and thake hands with New Philadel
phia, the champion homeowning city
in the Buckeye state. According to
figures just announced by the Ohio
Building Association League 69 per
cent of the homes in New Philadelphia
are owned by the occupants, the high
est percentage of any city in the state.
Findlay also steps into the limelight
with fewer mortgaged homes than any
other Ohio city. Despite the fact that
New Philadelphia has the most owned
homes, it stands second to Findlay in
having the greatest number of homes
owned free of debt. "This makes New
Philadelphia one of the greatest
homeowning cities in the middle west,"
according to James A. Devirfe, secre
tary of the Ohio Building Association
League. He said New Philadelphia
earned this record because its citizens
long ago learned to place their savings
in institutions which aided them in
building their home..
Cuyahoga Falls ^s second among
Ohio cities in number of homes owned
with 64 per cent. Marysville is third
Norwalk, fourth and Wooster, fifth.
In Findlay, 79 per cent of. the homes
are free from mortgages in New
Philadelphia, 77 per cent Fostoria,
76 per cent Norwalk, 75 per cent and
Wapakoneta, 75 "per cent.
Excellent homeowning records also
are held by Defiance, Galion, Salem.
Sandusky, Van Wert, Ashtabula,
Bellefontaine, Bowling Green and
Cambridge. Zanesville, Xenia, Steu
benville, "Sidney, Martin's Ferry,
Coshocton and Massillon, have 60 per
cent or more of their owned homes
unmortgaged.
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HOUSING SHORTAGE
To Be Relieved in New York
if State Amends Insur
ence Laws
New York.—In co-operation with
building trades unions, material men
and architects, an insurance company
of this city with assets of $1,500,000,
000 will loan money to construct 1,500
five-story model tenements, to accom
modate about 45,000 families in four
room apartments. In order to loan
the money for this purpose the state
insurance laws must be amended. The
houses must yield 6 per cent, and to
cover this requirement the rent of
each four-room apartment will be fix
ed at $.'{2 and $36 a month. Ten per
cent of. the company's admitted assets
will go into the project. The site of
the "tenement town" will be about a
half hour's ride from Grand Central
station.
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TRST MINIMUM WAGE
Boston.—Three women social work
ers broke down when they attempted
to test the state minimum wage com
mission's rule that a working girl can
live on 78 cents a day.
Not oiie of them was able to carry
the test as they originally intended.
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can
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exist, but you cannot
live," they declared.
the 78 cents a day for meals is
part of the $12 a week minimum
which the commission declares is suf
ficient for
a
working girl.
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