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VOL. XXI. No. 45
Topeka, Kan.—The Allen "can't
strike" law is a violent statute. It
rejects moderate methods. It makes
no attempt at mediation. Even its
friends do not think the law can be
fully enforced. To create crimes
which no one expects to punish is
simply not honest. It is sheer bluff.
The above were a few of the blows
delivered by C. J. Evans, attorney for
the Bell Telephone Company, in his
discussion with Judge Huggins, of the
industrial court, before a church fo
rum in this city.
Mr. Evans said the fallacy which
underlies the industrial court law is
demonstrated in its very name. It
is called a court, but Justice Burch
of the state supreme court, says it is
simply an administrative board, and
that it was called a court "as a mat
ter of legislative strategy."
"That is to say," said Mr. Evans,
"the authors of the law were guilty
of false pretense in the very act of
bringing it to life."
"It is the business of a court to
settle controversies over legal rights.
In so doing it makes findings as to
the facts and then applies predeter
mined rules to these facts.
"A so-called labor dispute is some
thing Altogether different. Neither
party contends that the other de
prives him of legal right which can
be settled by applying some rule of
law to the facts. Neither employer
or employe claims that there is any
existing rule of law which, when ap
plied to the facts, will determine just
what wages must be paid or what
working conditions must be. Each
party simply claims the right to bar
gain and the right to contract if the
parties can agree. If the parties can
not agree the workmen claim the eco
nomic privilege of withholding their
labor. A strike in itself is not an act
of violence. It is simply the with
MINERS ATTACK GREED
Hazleton, Pa.-—Officers of the three
anthracite miners' districts have
OFFERING
VIOLENCE AND BLUFF
IF REMOVED WOULD LET BOTTOM DROP FROM
KANSAS ANTI-STRIKE LAW, DECLARES
CORPORATION ATTORNEY REFORE
CHURCH FORUM
Says 'Authors of the Law Were Guilty of False Pretense
In the Very Act of Bringing It to Life"
is­
sued a point reply to the coal own
ers' public statement that increased
wages means higher prices for coal. i ment and raised prices.
PUBLIC BENEFIT QALE
1 JLf kJ
Trousers
a i n a
Reductions
holding of labor, due to the failure to
come to an agreement.
"The judgments of courts do not
furnish the basis of future business
dealings between parties. A law suit
generally contemplates a termination
of business relations. When a busi
ness partnership is ready for the
court it is ready to dissolve and goes
to court for a final judgment.
"The court of industrial relations
law is a violent statute. It breathes
anathemas all the way through. It
rejects moderate methods. Its chief
dependence is the criminal law. Even
its friends do not think the law can
be enforced fully. If ten thousand
workmen strike the law makes of
their action ten thousand misdemean
ors, subject to ten thousand fines and
jail sentences. Nobody expects that
such a law will be fully enforced. To
create crimes which no one expects to
punish is simply not honest. It is
sheer bluff.
"There have been only two severe
labor controversies in Kansas since
the law was enacted, that in the coal
fields, and the case of the packers'
industry. In the case of the packing
employers' strike.the failure was hu
miliating.
"In that case the court made a
temporary order as a basis for tem
porary conduct of the industry while
the court should be engaged in inves
tigations to determine what perma
nent order fixing wages and conditions
it should make. Well, it failed to en
force its temporary order.
"Then, after making some investi
gations, the court utterly abandoned
its proceedings, and made no perma
nent order whatever.
"It had to face the probability of
having to put some of the managers
of the packing companies in jail and
it straightway lost its nerve and ran
away."
te Ra
The unionists 'call attention- to Lho
I award of the United States anthra
cite coal commission of 1920 which
stated that increased wages at that
uime "offered no justification for in
advance in the retail price of coal."
The «©al owners ignored
Trousers of all kinds for work, play
and dress in stripes, checks, mixtures and
solid colors—at Final Reduced Prices. Hundreds
of pairs to choose from in sizes to fit men of all
proportions. Your sense of economy should de
mand immediate action on your part.
$2.50 Trousers $1.75 $ 6.50 Trousers ....$4.98
$3.00 Trousers $2.23 $ 7.50 Trousers ....$5,48
$3.50 Trousers $2.48 $ 8.00 Trousers ....$5.98
$4.00 Trousers $2.98 $ 8.50 Trousers ....$6.48
$4.50 Trousers $3.48 $ 9.00 Trousers ....$6.98
$5.00 Trousers $3.48 $10.00 Trousers ....$7,48
$5.50 Trousers $3.98 $12.00 Trousers ....$8.48
$6.00 Trousers $4.48 $13.50 Trousers ....$8.98
Suits and Overcoats Now Selling at the Low Public
Benefit Sale Prices of $18,150, $23.50, $29.50, $34.50—
with a Very Special Lot of Good Overcoats at $14.85
Some children will be made happy by getting
the Electric Auto, the Slide and the Chummy
Car we will give away. Ask about it.
((Oopyrlgtit)
TO GUARD LIFE
Painters Need Short Work
Day, is Declaration of
Medical Expert
\ew
York.-
this state
The
an extra
loo,"
/T^w:
painters' trade is
hazardous
one: and a short
work day is a necessary health meas
ure, said Dr. Louis I. Harris, director
of the bureau of preventable diseases
of the city health department, writing
to Samuel Untermyer, counsel
Lockwood building probe
In an
painters,
as have many other students of this
question, that a relatively small pro
portion of painters could retain their
place in the industry after the age of
50—so deleterious wove lead and the
other poisons to
said Dr.
tlie
possible
for men
to
ly
mark that was their badge
to have all their progress e
above--from a kind and grat
Ler or a benevolent ruler.
This is
thi
be
whieli they were (-(in­
stantly subjected.
"I found
Harris,
work
long periods
day.
in varying degi^ees by
hazardous is the painters' en­
vironment that I would deem it ex
tremely dangerous for any person
over 40 years of age, whose kidneys
and circulatory system were not in
normal condition, to merely expose
himself to the dust and fumes gen
erated in the course of painting, even
though such person should not do a
stroke of physical labor that would
aggravate the effects of such poison
ous chemicals. Added then to the
dangerous environment and the diffi
culty of preventing the swallowing
and absorption of lead, even though
the painter may seek to exercise the
utmost caution, we have physical
strain, both of which combine to make
the painters' trade, as I have already
stated, a very dangerous one."
N l»
SAYS MINERS ARE
STARVING
Grafton, W. Va.—Organized mine
workers have appealed to Pres
ident Harding for federal aid for 1,000
starving miners and their families of
this district.
"While committees are parading
around making investigations, little
children are suffering from cold and
starvation," the president is informed.
"Never in the history of the state
of West Virginia has suffering been
so prevalent as it is now. Therefore,
we earnestly appeal to you to use
your influence to secure for starving
men, women and children of West
Virginia the same consideration that
was given to starving men, women
and children in Russia."
discontented,
praiseworthy tm
The solidarity
mare of labor
"that
various volatile poisons
painters
ate
for relative­
of time
Many of
during the
the men
were affected
the
volatile poisons used
of paints.
"In
s
fies them
to
to
which
subjected, make it
than beg. K\-i
secures is of |.-.
than the mam:
ecul'"d.
im­
Jf labor we
fumes of
in
grateful for gai
there would
the donors.
the mixing
a previous study which I made
of the ell'ects of volatile poisons, es
pecially wood alcohol, I found, as had
others before me, that men who were
obliged to work with paint were not
safe from attacks of blindness or even
more disastrous results. If they were
exposed for a number of hours in suc
cession.
"So
Now
labor
BUTLER CO UNI'
Y PRESS.
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922
The End of a Perfect Day
/M
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v
mSuE
V
Jf Jtrhll'
TO BREAK LABOR'S SPIRIT
IS REAL PURPOSE OF "CAN'T-STRIKE" LAWS, BEHIND WHICH
ARE PRINCIPLES AS OLD AS HUMAN HISTORY
Labor However, Continues Uniting and Striking
ing Slave-Laws and Injunction Edicts of 1\ I
Ilehind e'ery "can't-st rik
is
the purpose Lu recreate
ent
spirit in labor to hir i
look
to their employers ?»nd
rather
worker:
ian to
again
i iepenu
orker
a- state,
f«) havt
inferior
hem.
icr-ep
laborer that
aristocrats
and
for the
o u y
committee.
investigation i uverinu 400
3r. Harris
said he
a o n i
e n o o y
found,
I i n .- n i n o
a n o u s e e
1 e e
est
Htustriai
have in
ntented
these
their lackey
mind when they talk of a
worker." The democracy
Car vi.-1
s for election dav and Fourth
Other
ig po
in."- hey a- lime a
and talk of "my
riendship for labor''
io«i who feed, clothe
unites,
educates,
bor
it
it
feudalists
and
its. defiance
the
o.ile, patient and
landed from above,
s objection from
But labor is no longer docile and
patient. And theiein lies it- great
est offense. 1-or ages, it stood, hat
in hand. Now, labor realizes that its
pleas for justice are futile unless
backed by intelli.u-e.ice and power.
one
agitates, it
strikes
when
It laughs
at
necessary.
the pretense of modern
throws in their faces
of slnve
Labor in this country has done
something unknown in any other land
—unified nearly 5,000,000 workers
from every section of the known world
and who speak two-score languages
and tongues.
It has disciplined
count at this
time.
w
i n i s o y a n
,-re
ss,
they
.-•?!!
viaryi.-m, the ur^ai
can commit is to
hough this a
in all other classes,
labor is the night
a ponents. It terri
labor take, rather
i gains that labor
importance to them
in which ihev are
crime a wot
has robbi h!
n a: *ira 1
thine
it
from
li
1
UNCLE
i -j
When Necessary, Defy,
odern Feudalists
of strength, when developed men
t'iy
and phy?i"nlly, this growing
i 't'
labor
terrifies
v
They e. the foundation of
:r ft
udalisi'n undermined,
they are
i.iMid at labor- independence
and
u me~ by law in the wild hope
1 hat the old serf status may he
that distinguishes
bond uicii. It must re-estab-
in labor'.-
mind its complete faith
in co\ ernment
and "superior" persons,
rat in than its n ed'orts.
The principle behind "can't-.-trike"
laws is a- oid a.- human
history. Its
iciou-tie-- can 11o: be concealed by
poetic pnrases or smug appeals for
justice by those who lack the courage
•o reveal their true purpose.
dtil Pfe Ml
SAM
NEEDS
HELP
Will Appoint Hundreds of
Income Tax Auditors
Washington, I). —The
of United
lows and injunc­
tion edicts.
Labor's dc\ulopi.ie: in the past -10
years has been phenomenal. It has
outstripped the wildest dream of the
most ardent advocate of unity between
the wage workers. Nothing can com
pare with this mass action in all tIn
combined ages that have passed.
States
ure includes more
and educated this
force, despite every power arrayed
against it. Its gains on the indus
trial field are
too
numerous to re­
It operates 300
labor magazines and papers. It owns
hundreds of buildings, many of them
magnificent structures, for business
and social uses. It's co-operative
movement is expanding, as is its labor
colleges, technical courses, night
schools, homes for aged members,
banks and benefit systems.
Labor is active in every field of
social betterment, and on every hand
it challenges those who talk democ
racy but who live as autocrats.
"When will labor stop?" asks Clary
ism, as its psychologists and its stu
dents of the labor movement secretly
report that the workers will not—can
not—stop that the divine spark of
industrial equality is within them
that they will extend their democratiz
ing influences just as fast as they de
velop intellectual power and capacity.
It is this confidence in itself, this
increasing capacity, this conscious-
than r.,000
Notwithstanding
the
Chicago.—In resolutions that are
declared to mark the end of distinct
political party action in this state,
as far as organized workers are con
cerned, trade union representatives, at
a conference in this city, emphasized
the workers' need for non-partisan
political action.
At the conference were the execu
tive board of the Illinois State Federa
tion of Labor and the executive board
of the Chicago Federation of Labor,
the Women's Trade Union League
and the joint legislative committee of
the Illinois State Federation of Labor
and the railroad brotherhoods.
After recalling conditions that now
confront the wage earners—the stim
ulated panic, the exploiters' control
of the judiciary and the haste to es
tablish the cossack system in this
state—the ronferenre unanimously
declared:
•'We believe iu this matter the ne
cessities of the situation require that
no candidates should be put in the
iield by the workers themselves ex
cept when they have a reasonable
assurance
of
The
would outlaw strikes and
a o v e
'be
re-
lablished.
To secure "can't ^uike" law* life
political
and editorial parrots of priv
iii e talk of the public's welfare. This,
"f'-ea'-e, |s incorrect. Privilege, true
•o :ts hitory. is only interested in its
own welfare.
it exploits
lation e n
the
public
people of every
resource.
i'o |i\e, privilege must break the
»pu
a ot
labor. It
must
NON-PARTISAN THEORY
GROWING STRONG RAPIDLY IN WEST AND
NORTHWESTERN STATES AS THE OLD
PARI Y LINES BECOME WEAK
League's Head Rcjccts Farmer-Labor Party Idea—Favors
"Balance of Power" Idea and Agitation To
Develop Public Opinion
electing such candidates
or where there are no candidates on
other tickets that can be depended
upon to support labor's program but
in no event should such candidates be
placed in the field by the workers
where there is no possible chance for
their election and where putting such
candidates in the field would so di
vide the
votes of
practicaliy
the workers as to
a.-ure
enemy
labor's oppo-
the election
of
of labor, ami
an
where, if such
eaiciHat. w«-iv not in he field, there
would b' a reasonable assurance of
electing a nan who could be depend
upon :o upport labor's program."
resolution is in line with
a report made to the last convention
of
Illinoi-
State
Federation of
HOW ABOUT LABOR?
Xe\v York. "There ha- been a lot
of i lit taik about class ieinf­
behalf of tile fal'lilel."
culiure,
lake from It.
ia a -p.-ecr:
said
Henry '. Wallace, secret a of a-jTi-
in
hi- city.
lie iact is," he -aid, "that a 1 i the
-o• i ailed farm ieai-iat ion of the
past
.Ve int.- I.e. of :i!-t a- much benefit
to :di la -es of as it I- to the
farmer. Any legislation which will
help put fani'hitr back on a fairly
prosperou- ba.-is
will
everybody. I is not
ritijjts
collection
internal evenu
taxes is a big job. The
civil
servic
commission said in a statement issue
today that more than 20,000 govern
ment employees are engaged in thi
work, 7,800 of whom are attached
the income tax unit.
This
latter
fig
auditor
and inspectors of income tax return
who are employed in Washington an
in the field.
this la rue fore*
civil service commission state
that the bureau of internal revenu
needs several hundred more auditor
and
inspectors for the income ta
unit, and that an examination to fi
these positions will be held through
out the country on March 8. The en
trance salaries offered range froi
$1,800 to $3,000 a year. Advancemer
will
depend upon demonstrated efti
ciency.
New appointees are given a sb
weeks' course of training in the tech
nicalities of the income tax law an
are paid full salary during such ir
struction.
Full information and applicatio:
blanks may be obtained from fl
unked States civil service commission
Washington, D. C., or from the civ
service board at the post office i
customhouse in any city.
A ID
NORMALCY" HAS ARRIVED
Newport News, Va.—In the "wai
ad." section of the Times-Herald
found the following:
"Wanted—Ten colored laborers, S
per 10-hour day. Four teams ar
drivers, $2 per day. Apply 9000 Wav
wick road."
he helpful to
i
question of
irivintr the farmer any -pecial favors,
lb (joes not a-k hem. It is simply
a
11uestio11
„f puttimr about "10 per
cent of our people in a po-ition to
help themselves."
OF THE SEASON
you the most
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WS.S.
«uufwoara«r
iitvnvr tm
vwmo mm
OOVUKMXMT
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR I
Labor—that the most prominent thing
that separate party action by the
workers accomplished in this state
was to defeat two pronounced cham
pions of labor in the state legislature
and make the election of reactionaries
possible.
Minneapolis.—A rejection of the
farmer-labor party idea by A. C.
Towrdey, president of the National
Non-Partisan League, has dumb
founded advocates of the third party
who see one of their shining lights
accept the A. F. of L. non-partisan
plan.
In a speech in this city Mr. Townley
said he has changed his mind on this
question, and that while the third
party idea looks good from a the
oretical standpoint, experience proves
its ineffectiveness. He favors the
"balance of power" idea and agitation
to develop public opinion.
In support of this speech, trade
unionists show that the tendency of
the times is against party lines and
party discipline, and in favor of non
partisan action on the political field.
Under these conditions non-partisan
ship will prove more effective than to
attempt to hold voters within the lines
of
a
political party.
vm n
SLUGGER IS JAILED
St. Paul, Minn.—The citizens' alli
ance has lost one of its sluggers—
Fred A. Hurst, head of the so-called
detective bureau of the anti-unionists.
Hurst arranged to have John
Klaus, organizer of the local Typo
graphical Union, beaten up. The slug
gers picked the wrong party and as
saulted John M. Guise, a high school
principal. One of the sluggers con
fessed and Hurst was sentenced to a
term not exceeding three years in the
state penitentiary.
WAGE MUST BE $17.25
Toledo, Ohio.—The lowest possible
weekly wage upon which a wage
earning girl in Toledo and the state
of Ohio can live in health and frugal
decency is $17.25, said Miss Amy Ma
ker, chairman of the Ohio council of
women and children in industry, in
an address to the central labor union.
From reports of the industrial com
mission it was found that 68 per cent
of the saleswomen of this county in
1919 received less than $15 per week,
and 30 per cent of the bookkeepers,
stenographers and office clerks re
ceived less than $15.
In laundries and dry cleaning es
tablishments, 81 per cent received less
than $15 in telegraph and telephone
services.
7:» per
than $ 1
per cent.
'J
cent received less
a. and in
automobile parts, 28
sensational bargains ottered in many
years
FORCED TO UNLOAD
PRICES CUT DEEP NOT A PAIR RESERVED
Ladies' High Grade Boots
and Low Shoes
$2.95
—High and low shoes, in a great variety of styles.
Goodyear welts and flexible sewed soles. High, medium
or low heels.
BOYS' AND GIRLS'
DRESS SHOES
$1.99
—Serviceable shoes in tan or
black, with solid leather soles
Men's Fine Dress Shoes
CHILDREN'S
S O E S
$2.99
99c
—All the newest models in b'aek or brown Goodyear
welt, sewed soles and rubber heels.
T.A*in
—Made of soft black kid,
wedge heels. Sizes 3 to 8.
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