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FRIDAY, JULY 27,1923
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1296
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
THOMAS BECKETT
It was with deep sorrow and re
gret that the people of Hamilton, on
Sunday evening and Monday, learned
of the passing away of Thomas Beck
ett, president
o£
the Beckett Paper
Co., and president of the Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce. No man in
Hamilton was more loved, respected,
held in higher esteem than was
Thomas Beckett. And this would in
clude all classes—rich and poor, man
ufacturer, business and professional
man, workingman.
It is in th,e mill of which Mr
Beckett was head for many years
and which employs many men and
women, where he will be most missed
Many of these employes have been
with this old firm for many, many
years, and it has often been said that
many of them would rather work for
less wages in Mr. Beckett's mill than
work in some other place. This was
because of the pleasant conditions in
the mill, due to the interest of Mr
Beckett in his employes' welfare and
his kindly nature. Nothing was too
good for his workmen. He knew
many of them by their first names
and seemed to find pleasure in ad
dressing them thus. None ever felt
any qualms in going to him with their
problems or grievances, knowing they
would be met in a kindly and fatherly
manner, and that they would find a
ready ear to listen to them.
He was the soul of the great busi
ness corporation which he succeeded
in building up, and which now stands
as a monument to his energy and his
sterling honesty. His relation with
its employes was akin to brotherhood.
He created a fraternity among them
that was exemplary. No grievance
was too trifling to escape his atten
tion, and it was his chief aim to see
that every employe was given a square
deal. Again, here it is, that he will
be missed most.
In general public matters Mr.
Beckett was always first to respond
to the call for assistance. During
the war he gave all that was in him
in support of every movement at
home. His wonderful capacity was
Baerfacts
Magnus means great if
we remember our Latin. And
it is great! Magnus Johnson,
the Farmer-Labor candidate
for United States Senator
was elected over a reaction
ary in Minnesota.
It was a great victory be
cause the Minnesota election
was the turning point be
tween progress and reaction.
The people chose progress.
Magnus Johnson is an ac
tual farmer—a producer—a
worker. He has worked in
the field and factory and
knows the problems of all
toilers.
Some newspapers are mis
quoting him and trying to
to be marveled at. While paying close
attention to every detail of his busi
ness he found ample time to devote
to public matters without stint and
without hope of reward.
Mr. Beckett was a student of labor
and its problems. He was indeed the
friend of the workingman. "I be
lieve that labor organizations are a
good thing," he one said in the pres
ence of the writer. "They have done
much for the workingman, but I want
to make conditions such in our mill
that it will not be necessary for our
employes to organize." And he did.
For three years Mr. Beckett was
president of the Hamilton Chamber
of Commerce, and it was during this
time and much to his efforts as
its head that the ideal conditions ex
isting between that organization and
local organized labor were brought
about. It was these conditions that
caused President John Moore, at the
opening session of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor at the high school
auditorium in October, 1921, and at
which time Mr. Beckett was sitting on
the stage, to remark, "Where, as a
rule, do you find labor and the Cham
ber of Commerce understanding one
another, and both working *\o the
same end? Very rarely, and only in
Hamilton do you find it so." These
same conditions exist today and, as
stated before, it is due very much to
Mr. Beckett's efforts that it is so.
No man ever met or passed Mr.
Beckett but what felt better for hav
ing done so. Kind, loving and cour
teous, he always had a friendly greet
ing for all and he never failed to give
it.
So, we repeat, his death is a com
munity loss. In his death Hamilton
loses a noble citizen, the Chamber of
Commerce an able and worthy leader
and labor a kind and loving friend
We mourn with his family as if he
were our kith and kin, for to us he
was a friend in need and in deed
Our sympathy goes out to them as it
does to his immediate business asso
ciates to whom he was affectionately
attached.
Thomas Beckett will be missed, but
he will be long remembered.
"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might
stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was
a man.'"
A V* V* J*
INJUNCTION DANGER GROW
ING
Since the Daugherty injunction
against the railroad shopmen was
made permanent, the crop of arbi
trary injunctions aimed at organized
labor has been rapidly growing.
With the Daugherty injunction as a
model, courts in various parts of the
country have been striving to enjoin
union workmen from doing anything
except merely existing.
Chicago, Georgia and other sections
tell the same story—that of injunc
tions recently issued which forbid
trade unionists from even to try to
persuade non-unionists to join the
ranks of organized labor.
Court after court seems to be fall
ing into line and attempting to pre
vent workmen from pointing out the
benefits and advantages of 'trade
unionism. In most cases, the injunc
tions are so drastic and impossible of
enforcement that they defeat their
own purpose, as was the case with the
Daugherty injunction. But the intent
is still there and organized labor
must be constantly on its guard
against this judicial usurpation.
The American Federation of Labor
has repeatedly warned of the injunc
tion danger, but with this new "in
junction drive" on foot, it is even
more true than in the past that con
stant vigilance is the price of liberty.
If the courts persist in issuing ar
bitrary and unjust injunctions, they
By J. IV!. BAER, The Congressman-Cartoonist
International Labor News Service
Magnus—IIt's Great!
belittle him, but Senator
elect Johnson is far more
capable and intelligent than
many members of Congress
who have only known enough
to vote as Wall Street dic
tated. But because they did
not vote for the special in
terests the same papers never
mentioned their ignorance
and illiteracy.
The people are awake.
They have repudiated the
Sfinnesota.
resent administration in
They would like
to do it elsewhere just as
they repudiated Taft in
1912. They want a change.
Just give them a chance!
will have only themselves to blame
if distrust of the judiciary continues
to gain. John P. Frey, editor of the
International Molders' Journal, points
this out in a recent editorial, in which
he said:
"Decisions Which are obeyed, but
for which there cannot be respect,
are judicial acts which weaken inste&d
of strengthen the courts' influence."
IT DIDN'T TAKE
Yes, dear reader, the big noise on
the electric plant is all over. The
Monroe "doctoring," unlike the Mon
roe Doctrine, didn't prove popular.
It didn't take, and like the good lit
tle doggie—laid down, rolled over, and
—died. After the lengthy address of
Mayor Harry Koehler, in which the
real truth of the situation was un
folded, was gotten to the people and
thoroughly digested the opposition
to constructing a larger electric power
and light plant rapidly dwindled until
now it is a mere nothing. The peo
ple as a whole now plainly see the
point and realize the dangerous pit
fall they might have been led into by
some who had no other reason for
doing so than personal motive, and
who are attacking Mayor Koehler's
stand in the matter for political gain.
The attack of the Hamilton Daily
News on Mayor Koehler for his stand
has fallen flat, and none realize it
more than does the News. The News
was getting in a hole in the brawl
and its situation was much like that
of the man who had hold of the lion's
tail he wanted to get away but didn't
dare let go he was safe so long as he
could hold onto the blunt edge of the
blamed thing. And so it was with
the News. It had a strangle hold of
a bad thing it wanted to let go but
didn't know how—safely.
But some people seem to have all
the luck. Just when the News didn't
know which way to turn in the
wrangle, lo and behold, along comes
the Cincinnati Enquirer on last Sun
day morn%g with a first page article
to the effect that Mayor Koehler was
warned by the state prohibition com
missioner that he must clean up the
city by Thursday or face removal
charges. Ah, here was the chance to
let loose the tail of the beast and
get away safely. And this the News
did—that is, it tried to. Beginning
Monday night it scareheaded its front
page, lambasting Mayor Koehler and
Sheriff Rudy Laubach for their neg
ligence in enforcing prohibition and
cleaning up gambling in Hamilton
and Butler county. Never a chirp on
the electric proposition. That's dead,
glad to be rid of it.
But it seems that when it let go of
the electric lion it grabbed hold the
tail of a prohibition-gambling tiger,
which it seems is proving more fierce
than was the lion. The News in big
type told how Mayor Koehler must
clean up by Thursday or get out, and
what happened Instead of fire
works in the mayor's office on Thurs
day morning, along comes the self
same Cincinnati Enquirer with cuts
of Sheriff Laubach, Mayor Koehler
and State Prohibition Commissioner
McDonald (and say, weren't they
dandy likenesses?), and an article
saying that everything was lovely
again between the Hamilton and But
ler county authorities and the state
prohibition department, that much of
the stuff charged against the local
officials as coming from the state
authorities was misquoted, and ack
nowledging that Hamilton and Butler
county are no worse for gambling
and liquor violations than are other
communities and not as bad as some
And now the News is looking for
something new to happen so it can
again let go and get out from under
There is no question but that there
are many violations of liquor laws in
the community, but how are they to be
stamped out when about 85 per cent
o^the people are opposed to the law
and insist on having their beer and
booze? The Press is opposed to law.
violation. It is opposed to prohibi
tion, but since it is the law it be
lieves it should be enforced believ
ing the closer its enforcement the
sooner the people will turn on it and
wipe it out. But at the same time
the Press believes that, with the de
sire for drink and so many booze
and home-brew outfits in operation,
it would take ten times as many
soldiers as were in Hamilton during
the time of the flood to wipe out all
violations of liquor laws in Butler
county and Hamilton. It can't be
did.
But anyway, in the excitement the
News got away from the electric light
proposition, which was getting awful
ly bulky and heavy. It's a relief.
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IT'S A PRETTY GOOD LAW
The following editorial under the
above caption taken from the Cincin
nati Times-Star, speaks for itself:
me 3 per cent immigration law is
THE BUTTER COUNTY PHESS
more popular than it used to be. We
don't hear so many carefully worked
up propaganda stories against it—
stories of unfortunate aliens who,
knowingly or unknowingly, tried to
beat the law and failed to get away
with it.
"Even Judge Gary is less strident
in his demand "for a softening of the
law than he was. Perhaps public
opinion was too strong for him at
any rate he now discusses the subject
of immigration indirectly, when he
discusses it at all.
"Congress had two objects in pass
ing the immigration law. One was
to keep the volume of immigration
within reasonable bounds, the other
to favor the 'old' immigration, from
Northern* and Western Europe, as dis
tinguished from the 'new' immigra
tion, from Southern and Eastern
Europe. It was the old immigration,
from dolonial times to the beginning
of the present century, which devel
oped American institutions and built
up the country. But the 'new' immi
gration, between 1900 and the be
ginning of the World war, was far
more numerous than the 'old' immi
gration ever had been. The average
number of immigrants between 1870
and 1890 was about 400,000 a year.
The average between 1900 and 1914
was approximately a million a year,
with the top figures at 1,285,349 in
1907 and 1,218,480 in 1914.
"The 3 per cent law allows the ad
mittance of about 355,828 aliens each
year. This is about one-tenth the
number that would come in if our
ports were wide open—but it is surely
enough to meet all of America's re
quirements. And we have actually
gone back to the 'old' immigration.
In the fiscal year just ended prac
tically all the countries of Northern
and Western Europe filled up their
quotas. Commissioner General Hus
band says that there is 'a revival of
the old-time immigration,' and adds:
'We haven't had an assortment of
this kind of arrivals in thirty years.'
"In addition to other advantages,
the 'old' immigration provides a
larger proportion of workers and ag
riculturists than the 'new.'
"They say the present law is not
perfect that we should have selection
rather than restriction of immigra
tion. Maybe so, and maybe not. The
present law is the first measure for
the restriction of immigration we have
ever had that has produced important
results. And it is doing a pretty good
job of selectior^ on its own account.
Undoubtedly the immigration into the
United States during the past twelve
months has been of a better quality
than the immigration for any other
year in a quarter of a century. For
this the 3 per cent law deserves the
credit.
"The country had better know exact
ly what it is going to get before it
abandones a law whieh is functioning
so well in favor of a scheme for the
control of immigration which may
work and may not work at all!"
Nope, hope has not yet been aban
doned. So long as you see running
the big ads, with their needless and
useless message, just so long you may
know that the fight to junk our elec
tric light plant is not yet over and
that there are those who still are
"figurin'."
Read the Press.
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