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VOL. XXII. No. 8
Washington.—"A most unjust and
inequitable proceeding," declared
President Gompers, in a caustic com
ment on wage reductions announced
by the railroad labor board.
"The minority decision which says
that the new wage will not allow
the father of a family to purchase as
much food as is allowed an inmate
of the Cook county (Chicago) jail
leaves little to be said in characteriza
tion of the action of the majority,"
said Mr. Gompers.
"The railroad workers waited until
July 20, 1920, for an increase ih
wages. During the four years preced
ing the cost of living had been lining
steadily. The railroad workers had
been compelled to bear this increased
cost without any compensating wage
increase. It is proposed now to put
wages back where they were before
the increase of 1920.
"No one will contend that it costs
less to live now than in 1920. The
fact is there has been almost no ap
preciable change in the cost of liv
ing, so far as the average family is
concerned. Prices of day-to-day re
quirements are about as high as ever.
LOST EIGHT-HOUR
DAY
Seamen Remind President
Harding How It Hap
pened
Washington. President Harding
is reminded by President Furuseth,
of the International Seamen's Union,
that the United States shipping board
smashed the seamen's eight-hour day,
last year, and established the 12-hour
day and 84-hoUr week.
In a letter to the chief executive,
the trade union official says:
"Mr. President—The seamen have
read with great joy that part of your
address to the steel manufacturers in
which you strongly urge the abolition
of the 12-hour day.
The seamen know what a seven-day
week, a 12-hour day, an 84-hour week,
and generally something added to
that, means. They understand it all
the better because for two years, up
to May 1, 1921, the seamen had an
UNJUST AND UNFAIR
SAYS PRESIDENT GOMPERS OF ACTION OF THE
RAILROAD LABOR BOARD IN REDUCING
WAGES OF RAIL EMPLOYES
Lowest Paid Are Deepest Cut, Down to 23 Cents an Hour,
Another Illustration of the Unfitness of
The Ra I Board
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Some prices are higher than ever.
Rent, the largest single item for every
family, remains as high as ever and
in most cases is higher.
"It is announced that the reduc
tion just ordered amountfs to 1S.2
per cent. My calculation shows that
the wage of the lowest paid, those
getting 28 cents an hour, are to be
reduced 17.8 per cent, down to 23
cents an hour. Those least able to
stand the loss are hit hardest.
"The decision penalizes the work
ers and helps the railroads. It is
another illustration of the unfitness
of the railroad labor board.
"Railroads are not noted for easy
acceptance of reductions in their in
come. When the interstate commerce
commission last week ordered the re
duction of freight rates the railroads
were almost cheerful about the mat
ter.
"Last Thursday they called at the
white house and remarked upon leav­
ing they had had a pleasant time.
Now comes the wage reduction, with
the indication of more wage reduc
tions to follow."
eight-hour day at sea, and a nine
hour day in port, with extra pay for
overtime, not with any desire, Mr.
President, to work overtime, but for
the purpose of so penalizing over
time that it would be abolished ex
cept in cases of necessity, when sea
men work without extra pay until
they drop.
"The American steamship owners'
association and the shipping board
took away from the seamen the eight
hour day at sea and the nine-hour
day in harbor, fn doing so they drove
from the sea nearly all worth-while
native Americans that had come to
sea. The 84-hour week might be
stopped by you, speaking in the same
way to the shipping board and the
American steamship owners' associa
tion that you spoke to the steel manu
facturers.
"France has a 48-hour week by stat
ute law Italy by agreement Aus
tralia and New Zealand by decisions
of arbitration courts.
"Mr. President, the seamen have
gathered new hope from your adc res
to the steel manufacturers."
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fifes
The contracting of repair work by
railroads is a gigantic lockout of their
shop employes.
These workers are notified (hat all
connection between them and the rail
road is at an end, and if they desire
to remain employed they must apply
to the private company that has con
tracted t» do tlie railroad's repair
work.
Then the shop employes find the
purpose of the lockout—they are of
fered lower wages, longer hours and
harder working conditions.
The railroads defend this contract
ing by the claim that it is no differ
ent from other contracts they enter
into.
This claim is most superficial. It
will not stand analysis.
By locking out these employes the
roads have broken contracts which call
for specified notice before termina
tion they have violated seniority
rights which workers secured after
long service, and they have ended
privileges that have always been as
sociated with railroad work.
To say that the railroads discharged
these workers is to play with words.
The railroads do not want these work
ers to quit. If they did quit the rail
roads would turn on their tap of pub
lic virtue ami hysteria that served
them in their campnijm for the Cum-
A QUESTION
Is Mexican I prisin.1 A«ain
To Ik- Stani'l
Washington. "Trade unionists
should 'read between the lines' when
they read newspaper dispatches from
San Antonio, Tex., that Mexico is
again on the verge of a revolution,"
said Canuto Vargas, Spanish secre
tary of the Pan-American Federation
of Labor, of which Samuel Gompers
is president.
"The latest comic opera revolution
that is to be staged," said Vargas,
"is to be headed by General Felix
Diaz, whose only claim for recogni
tion as a leader in Mexico is that he
bears the name of the late dictator of
Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.
"It is highly significant that a few
days before the publication of these
dispatches, a Washington newspaper,
generally considered a spokesman for
the Harding administration, carried
a vitriolic editorial against the Ob
regon government and stated that
another revolution in Mexico was
more than probable.
A writer in another Washington
newspaper, from whose remarks it
can be easily concluded that he has
been in very close touch with the state
department, says American officials
are surprised at the attitude of the
Mexican government because it re
fuses to accede to the demands of
the American government in exchange
for recognition.
"These incidents, coming so close
together and beginning with the vitri
olic editorial of scarcely a week ago
in the Washington Post, have the ear
marks of another drive by the admin
istration to bring Mexico to the point
of accepting in toto the American
conditions for recognition or to stir
up discontent in Mexico and discredit
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS.
The Old, Old Story
LOCKOUT OLD EMPLOYES
SMOOTH SCHEME OF RAIL BARONS IN CONTRACTING WITH
"PRIVATE" COMPANIES FOR REPAIR WORK MEANS
"SQUEEZE" OF SHOP MEN ON GIGANTIC SCALE
Pernicious System Means Long Service Workers Lose
Rights, Must Accept Lower Wages, Longer Hours And
Harder Working Conditions.
mins-Esch bill and on every other oc
casion when their hand is open rather
than fist shape.
The Cummins-Esch law provides
that wages shall be "just and reason
able," and the railroad labor board
is to decide. The scheme of private
contracting takes wages of these em
ployes outside the board's jurisdic
tion and nullifies the intent of con
gress.
The law also empowers the board
to act in any dispute that "is likely
to substantially interrupt commerce."
It must be borne in mind that the
railroads demanded this law and their
newspapers insisted on its passage.
The latter called upon every citizen
to join the chorus for justice to the
public, the railroads and the employes.
This charming picture, however, has
been disarranged, since the financiers
have squeezed the Cummins-Esch act
for about the last penny and now con
sider it a liability, rather than an us
set in their labor crushing policy.
Its labor provisions are flouted by
the men who made tin- law passible
and their newspapers are mute. The
contracting with private companies
has been most brazen. No one de
nies that these companies are dum
mies without capitalization or finan
cial standing and use the shops of the
railroads they have contracted with.
the Obregon government before the
American people."
"At the present time Adolfo de la
Huerta, secretary of the treasury of
the Mexican government, is in New
York city conferring with interna
tional bankers on Mexico's foreign
debt. It might be asked if it is the
purpose of these attacks from Wash
ington, and stories of the so-called
revolution, to handicap Huerta in his
negotiations with the bankers and
possibly coerce him into conditions
that would not be possible if the gov
ernment of Mexico was recognized by
the United States government."
EIGHT-HOUR DAY
In P. (). Department Order
ed Enforced Hy Pres
ident
Washington. President Harding
has sustained the National Federation
of Post Office Clerks, an A. F. of L.
affiliate, that flagrant violations of
the letter and spirit of the postal
eight-hour law should be stopped.
Following the president's conference
with steel manufacturers, when the
advantages of the shorter work day
were discussed, his attention was call
ed to the conditions existing in the
postal service under which thousands
of clerks and other employes were
working on a 10-hour daily schedule,
although they were supposed to have
the protection of the eight-hour law
"If the government is to come to
the rescue of the exploited steel work
ers," the president was told by the
postal unionists, "it should first clean
its own household and give the post
office clerks the benefits of the eight
hour law."
In its defense of the practice oi
making clerks work 10-hour schedules
daily the post office department tried
'•f,!'
HAMILTON, OHIO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9,1922 ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
:m.,
A fc&V
All
Seniority
The board has recently ruled in the
use
uf an
obscure railroad, that its
contracting is a violation of the Cum
mins-Esch law and that while the de
cision applies only to that road, the
principle will be applied to all others
when their cases are reviewed.
And the other roads quickly noti
fy the board through the public press,
that the board's policy will be resisted.
The purpose of this lockout is clear.
The railroads want cheaper produc
tion, regardless of justice, law, con
tracts, custom and understandings
between men.
It now remains for some federal
judge to exonerate the railroads and
envelope with his clammy legalisms
tnd cob-webby lore the attempt of the
oads to violate law and degrade
working conditions at the same time.
This lockout will be remembered by
workers the next time they are assur
'd that their dependence upon econom
ic power would not be necessary if
they "trust a government board to as
certain the facts and then depend
upon public opinion to enforce a just
award."
This is the favorite sing song to
labor of those editors who are now
silent while the railroads wreck the
law they jammed through congress
with the aid of the most extensive
lobby ever assembled.
to put the blame on congress. The
president was told that congress had
not provided the funds necessary to
make the postal eight-hour effective
by confining overtime to emergency
cases. The president punctured this
sophistry of bureaucrats by saying,
"Failure of the congress to provide
reasonable funds for the performance
of this work scarcely creates an em
ergency."
In other words, postal officials can
not ignore the eight-hour law and
then blame congress for failing to
provide the funds. The president or
dered the postmaster general to put
on additional clerks and thus elimi
nate overtime and he would aid in get
ting what money might be needed
from congress.
CAN'T VIOLATE
CONTRACT
New York.—The supreme court has
sustained an injunction against the
Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers'
Association which was restrained
from breaking a contract with the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union.
Last fall the employers' association
broke a contract with the union and
attempted to enforce the long work
day and piece work. The workers
solidarity resulted in a crushing de
feat of the bosses, who are now hold
ing conference with the union's repre
sentatives to renew the contract which
has just expired.
While the lockout was on, the gar
ment workers secured an injunction
against the employers, who were re
strained from conspiring to violate
the contract. Final decision, in favor
of the workers, has just been an
nounced.
Where do you get auto road map*
free? The Auto Club office, 205 S
Third street.
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Washington.—Congress has amend
ed the federal reserve act by this
change in reference to appointments
on the federal reserve board:
"The president shall have due re
gard to a fair representation of the
financial, agricultural, industrial and
commercial interests."
Congressman McFadden, chairman
of the house banking and currency
ommittee, stated that the amendment
had no value, but its passage would
lo no harm, as he "understood" the
president intended to appoint a fanner
on the board.
Congressman Stevenson, another
lumber of the banking committee,
tated that the amendment "i.- not
worth a cent," and that the pn-mdent
can appoint a farmer without the
intendment.
RAT-KILLING "MILK"
Food That Would Kill In
few Weeks is Outlawed
By House
Washington.- IJy a
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o
OVERLOOK PET BUGABOO
Before this amendment, tihe law
ead:
"That he (the president)
due regard to the
ANTI-UNION LAW MAKERS IN HUNT FOR VOTES
SIIOOT THROUGH AMENDMENT THAT FAR
MER MAY HE NAMED ON FEDERAL
RESERVE BOARD
Amendment By London Meyer to Include Representative
of Labor, However, is Defeated By
Two-to-One Vote
a
have
industrial
and com­
mercial interests."
While the amendment uas before
the house it was repeatedly stated
that the change could have no ertVct
on the president.
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per cent of cocoanu: or
table oil substituted.
Prof. MeCollum, of John H.pku.
Universitv, Baltimore, lui
committee
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id
the house declared in favor
of
de­
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and foreign commerce. 1* a -how n
that this tit ilk Is e a n a d, S a- had
the cream removed, and uiin :.•
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cure, cow's milk with buttei tat- V
:racted and refined cocoanu" fits a.
-d." It has a rich, cream
app-e:
miff, ami tastes as ufood as the
milk, but has no the slighte
.- nu
tritive value and ha.- no life sid. .m
whatever.
Congressmen ueclai 'd teat Un
filled" milk busine i- ore of ih*
greatest frauds now beu.v i• i p-•: ate.
upon the public ifi the mi!',el d' food
products. As- ai! tile cream a ex
tracted there is not hi m-' left hut the
poorest skim milk that it possible
to produce.
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nts cheaper than Lite uuai «..-omitlin
ed milk and finds a ready market
mug the poorer cla who are led
believe that
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AWFULLY NICE
Wages Lowered and Road
"Gladly" Accept Rate
Cut
Washington.—Almost simult&neou
ly with a ten per cent freight reduc
White
Low Shoes
OXFORDS, STRAPS AND SPORT MODELS
In all the wanted styles --Special as long as they last:
and
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STAMPS
WiTEX) STATES
GOVERNMENT
The bill was approved, however, by
men who crack their throats in pro
test against "un-American class legis
lation" when labor asks for remedial
laws or representation on governmen
tal boards. These lawmakers now not
only is'nore former claims but vote
for an act that they acknowledge is
of no value, and whose only purpose
is vote hunting among farmers.
Congressman Meyer London taunt
i the lawmakers who profess fear of
•lass legislation," when labor is in
hed, and who. hy their votes, offi
11! lecognize financial, agricultur
indu: trial and commercial inter
est?"
Without it ever having been in
tended," said the New York congress
man. "this bill will help to do away
witn the fiction that there are no
group or class interests in society."
He offered an amendment to include
a representative of labor as a mem
i o o e
federal
tioii
mis
higi
lab
i e e i-
board, and
a unanimous
amendment
U pot 1
defeat
or-- than a two-
y the interstate commerce com
comes a wage reduction a
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