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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1922
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio. Second Class Mail Matter
Iasoed Weekly at 828 Marke* Street,
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1296
Endorsed by the Trade? a,id Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O
CITY EMPLOYES' WAGES
In a letter to the city councilmen
last week, Mayor Harry J. Koehler,
Jr., asked that an investigation be
made to determine whether the mu
nicipal expenditures can be further
curtailed. Mayor Koehler, in his
letter, called the councilmen's atten
tion to the fact that the city's finan
cial condition is such that it is neces
sary for every department of the city
government to practice the strictest
economy. He also asked that the
number of employes and their com
pensation be investigated to ascertain
what, if any. economies might be prac
ticed here.
It is certainly to be hoped that if
there are any economies practiced in
our municipal departments it will not
include reducing the wages of the em
ployes in these departments. Good
ness knows our city employes are
not overburdened with wages. It
isn't noticed that any of them are
getting rich. If they can lay aside a
few dollars for the inevitable rainy day
they are lucky. Surely there must be
some other way that we can cut down
expenses than by reducing the work
ers' wages, and the Press is of the
firm opinion that reducing wages o
By the
way, if you
buy your
suit
with extra
trousers to match
it
means
extra wear.
Because trousers
wear out
faster than
coats and vests.
The cost isn't
much
but the saving
is about
one-half
for you practically
buy two suits
for the
price of one.
You'll get a
big variety
to choose from
in our
Men's 2-pants
suits at
$27.50
WORTHMORE
136 High St.
Opposite Court House
HAMILTON, O.
Then another thing, is the city go
ing to establish a precedent in wage
cutting for some of the hungry wage
cutting employers to base an argu
ment on for doing likewise in their
own enterprises?
Find some other way for economiz
ing, Mr. Councilman!
ADDING TO MANS LIFE
When the Cigarmakers' Interna
tional Union was younger than it is
now and before the eight-hour day
was established the union branch
of the cigar industry, the average
life of a cigarmaker was somewhere
around 32 years. That is to say that
most cigarmakers died between 24 and
40 years of age.
Those were the days of sweat
shops and tenement houses, which
have been banished so far as the
union is concerned. The big trust
factories still farm out their work to
cigarmakers living in tenement houses.
Union men work in clean, well-venti
lated shops. They are piece-workers
and stop work when they have com
pleted an eight-hour day.
What has this revolution in the
union branch of the cigar industry
done Let us see. The January jour
nal of the Cigarmakers' International
Union publishes a list of 51 deaths
among its membership for November.
The average age at the time of death
was 55 years, or 23 years more than
in other days. The average length
of membership in the union of the 51
persons who died was 26 years.
Is not that a fine tribute to union
labor and the shorter workday Does
it not show that the reasoning, if
such it may be called, of the anti
unionists is shallow and superficial?
If the shorter workday adds to the
length of human life is it not a pretty
good national gain? The extension of
the lives of 51 persons for 23 years
gave in but one month's experience
1,173 years, or 351,900 one-man more
workdays to industry.
If unions, through the shortening of
the workday and the improvement of
working conditions, did nothing more
than promote the health and lengthen
the lives of the workers their ex
istence would be fully justified and
the union shop, such as is enjoyed by
the cigarmakers, would be completely
vindicated.
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"WHY DON'T THEY GO TO
WORK?"
How often have you heard someone
say, in discussing the unemployment
problem: "Why don't they go to
work?" Usually there is in the speak
er's voice an acridity that indicates
impatience with the subject. Suppose
that all of those now out of employ
ment in the United States—anywhere
from four to five millions—were to
take such advice seriously. What
would happen? Going to work,
whether some employer first hires the
applicant, may turn out to be rather
serious business. For instance, that
is just what the Italian factory work
ers did a year ago. They forcibly
took possession of factories from
which they had been locked out, and
proceeded with the process of pro
duction. The whole capitalist world
stood aghast at the literal taking of
the advice of those who impatiently
cry: "Why don't they go to work?"
We were gravely told that this action
was revolutionary. It was. But it
was, nevertheless, an answer to the
"statesmen" who are constantly cry
ing about "no one needs to be out of
work." Something besides such in
sane advice must be supplied if the
present unemployment question is an
swered. For our part, we are not
overly optimistic about the efficacy
of any of the schemes so far offered.
They are palliatives. We have not
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HAMILTON'S NEW STREET CARS
The above is an exact likeness of the new cars for Hamilton. Six
teen have been contracted for. They are all practically completed, and it
is expected they will arrive for use on or about March 5th.
the city employes wouldn't meet with
the popular approval of the taxpay
ers, outside, of course, the hungry
ones who never have any considera
tion for the other fellow.
any idea that anything really funda
mental will be attempted. It is rea
sonably certain that any course of ac
tion that would strike at the root of
the unemployment question would at
once be denounced as "revolutionary."
So long as production is predicated at
a profit, just so long will there be
recurring periods of unemployment.
That is all there is to the question.
Until it is tackled from that angle,
nothing like a REAL cure will be
effected.
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A CRUEL JOKE
"We are prepared," says a resolu
tion adopted by the stockholders, "to
accept, regardless of the sacrifices
necessary thereto, whatever losses
may be sustained in maintaining the
right of every American citizen to
enter into his individual contract,
should such be his desire, without hin
drance from, any other human being."
What a joke! Here are 50,000 or
ganized stockholders of the steel trust
each snugly protected in his bargain
ing power with the laboring man by
the greatest combination of capital
on earth. This combination of capi
tal owns the mills, owns the towns
where the mills are run, owns the
houses in the town wherein the single
unorganized worker lives, owns the
stores as well as the houses, owns
the banks and the sources of credit
where* this "individual American citi
zen" lives, owns the politics of the
town and the state where this inde
pendent American citizen lives. And
then, they say, stand up in your pride,
you independent American citizen—
one man at a time and bargain with
us organized as employers, as land
lords, as grocers, as bankers, as gov
ernment. You shall be protected in
your royal American right to make
the best individual bargain you can
with us.
Is it ignorance or class malice that
makes such a sentiment as that go
with the middle-class Americans? If
ever there was a conspiracy to put
American laboring men into serfdom
it is the so-called open shop. Yet peo
ple who look and sometimes talk like
sensible people gabble about the open
shop as if it were not the cowardly
subterfuge to oppress labor that it
really is.—William Allen White in the
Emporia (Kan.) Daily Gazette.
to to to to to
UNION LABORS ANSWER
"Unorganized labor has been the
chief sufferer in the wage cutting."
That statement appears in a survey
of the living cost situation, dealing
with wages and prices.
The open shop movement—falsely
styled the "American plan," is a blow
at the very heart of labor organiza
tions. It seeks to render the worker
helpless to resist the heavy burden
that unfair employers would put upon
him.
In a time of unemployment and
industrial depression the open shop
advocates put forth their hardest ef
forts. They call to their assistance
hunger, privation, the horrible an
guish that accompanies the inability
to secure a job.
The plan is first to dilate organi
zation and then to make it powerless.
It behooves organized labor, there
fore, to be more on guard than ever,
careful and sane of policy and firm in
sticking together. Otherwise, gains
made through years of bitter uphill
struggle will be lost.
If there were no injustices crying
aloud for redressing, if there were
not greedy and grasping employers,
if the employers were fair dealing,
well meaning humane men, there
would be no reason for labor organi
zations.
They came into existence as a pro
test against intolerable conditions that
workers, single-handed, could not re
dress.
Today, when the world is overflow
ing with wrong, when the worker
is driven and goaded, when an effort
YHE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
is being made to force him to take
the brunt of the war's backwash, the
workers must stand together as never
before. He must not for one moment
forget that the instrument that has
been helpful to him in the past will
continue to serve him if he remains
steadfastly loyal to it.
The open shop seeks to disrupt labor
organizations.
The worker would be very foolish
and shortsighted if he gave any as
sistance to this scheme.
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The union label makes the strike
unnecessary by making compliance
with union conditions an advantage
in business.
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OHIO MINERS STARVE
Athens. Ohio.-—Nurses and other re
lief workers who have penetrated into
the coal mining' camps of the hills in
the Hocking Valley report literally
hundreds of cases of destitution
among the families of the coal dig
gers. Families have been found
SUNDAY and MONDAY
William Desmond
"WOMEN
MEN LOVE"
It will teach you who the men
really love "for keeps."
ADDED:
Fox Sunshine Comedy
"DEVILISH ROMEO"
Prizm Pictures
TITER, WED., THURS.
WILLIAM
FARNUM
IN
PERJURY"
Story of how scandal wrecked
the life of an innocent man. A
Big FOX Super Feature.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
A Burning Bridge!
ATrairi in Fliqhfc!
The Inevitable Result!
~A Crash to the
Raging Torrent Below!
ADDED:
BUSTER KEATON
IN
"THE PLAYHOUSE"
HIS BEST COMEDY
If you're thin—you'll laff and
grow fat.
Economy Shoe Store SHOES, 215 Court St. slorY
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scores of them, with no food in the
cupboard barefooted children in rags,
huddling around wood fires, as they
even have no fuel coal.
All the mines are practically idle
because of no orders, and the saving!
of the miners have long since been
exhausted.
AT THE'RIALTO
At the Rialto, Sunday and Monday,
the featui-e attraction will be Wil
liam Desmond in "Women Men Love."
It's the story of the petted wife of
an indulgent husband, of the hypoc
risy of the man that come like the
wolf in the night to destroy her hap
piness. It shows that the women that
men really love "for keeps" are those
of the mothering hearts, self-sacrific
ing and unselfish. The added attrac
tions include a prizma natural color
picture and a Sunshine comedy, "A
Devilish Romeo."
William Fa mum in a Fox Super
Special, at the Rialto, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday
Unreasoning rage plunged Robert
Moore into a situation which result
ed in his being unjustly accused of
murder, bringing misery upon his
family through a long period. The
-•uory, from the pen of Ruth Comfort
Uitchell, is picturized in the William
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ox special super-picture, "Perjury,"
which is coming to the Rialto theati'e
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uesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Harry Millarde, director of "Over the
II ill," directed this production.
William Farnum appears in an in
tensely emotional role in "Perjury,"
the William Fox super-special.
Conway Tearle in "The Fighter," and
fluster Keaton in "The Play
house," Constitute a Double
Bill at the Rialto, Friday
and Saturday
Buster Keaton in "The Playhouse,"
thinks he's the whole show. He's the
stage manager, stage-hand, the lead,
the minstrels, the "cuties" in the cho
rus, the orchestra, the monkey and the
whole audience to boot. Then he
wakes up and the big boss tells him
to get busy hustling props.
In come a pair of twin tricks that
look so much .alike he swears off home
brew for all trme. He falls in love
with one of the "cuties" but doesn't
know which. One of them loves him
and the other one hates him, so poor
Buster has a sad time.
Everything goes wrong with the
show. Thpvn's n bnttlf of
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$40, $45
and $47.50
Values
ments and Buster supplants most of
the actors with ditch diggers and
takes the part of the trained monkey
himself.'
Buster's lady love, or the other
twin, is the diving Venus. She gets
caught in the glass tank and Buster
heroically rescues her from drown
ing by busting the tank with an axe,
incidentally flooding the whole the
atre and winding up the show.
Buster drags a twin to the altar,
but alas it's the wrong one. But he
finally hits on a device so that he
won't kiss the wrong Baby Doll good
night. You'll have to see the show to
find out how it's done.
LEHMKUHL* BROS.
Purchase Building: Wherein
Store is Located
Lehmkuhl Bros., gents' furnishers
and hatters, 6 South Third street, on
lapt Saturday morning realized an
ambition of many months' standing—
that of owning their own home. This
was done by the purchase of the south
thirty-nine feet of the Hotel Stroble
property wherein the Lehmkuhls'
store is and always has been located
The business career of these two boys
is watched with much interest by or
ganized labor of Hamilton, as both
of them are old union men. Both
are members of the local Musicians'
Union, Ed Lehmkuhl having served
as secretary of that organization many
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Haktltom Hotel
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Former Instructor at The Cincinnati College
of Embalming
Our Old lime Special Purchase Sale
Positively Ends Saturday!
Have you taken advantage of this sale If you haven't, do so this week or
regret it later because these suits are desirable garments for year 'round
wear and these prices are much lower than the same qualities for spring
can he purchased.
SUITS and OVERCOATS
$25, $27.50 and $30 J10 $50, $55 and $60
Values now «J10 Values now
Not a garment reserved all our tine Fashion Park and Kuppenheimer
Suits and Overcoats included in this selling.
years. Ed also, before becoming a
"boss" himself, was for long a mem
ber of the local Retail Clerks' Union.
They are real union men and a union
man can always find goods bearing
the union label in any line that they
carry, and they carry anything a man
wears excepting shoes and suits.
The union men of the city are glad
to know of the progress of two of
their fellow tradesmen, and wish for
them continued success.
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