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COUNTRY STORE
BOOMING
Labor Day's country store is grow
ing by leaps and bounds these days.
Chairman Ray Wunderlich |pas his as
sistants making the rounds of mer
chants and others getting prizes, and
they already have gathered a fair-siz
ed truck load of articles. The prizes
include most everything imaginable,
tinware, graniteware, glassware, sil
verwai*e, fancy articles, canned goods,
furniture, a goat, poultry and many
other articles too numerous to men
tion. Five tons of coal have been
RIALTO
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After Three Triumphant
Years in Vaudeville
An event the movie world has
been anticipating eagerly for many
months—the return to the screen
of the reigning favorites of but a
few short years ago. We are priv
ileged to present
Franc's X.
BUS U MAN
ary Beverly
BAYNE
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UJodern
Ularriage
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Dorothy Farnutu
From the sensational novel, "Lady
Varley," by Derek Vane. Direct-el
by Lawrence Windom.
ADDED:
BRUNSWICK TRIO
In Classic and Comedy Singing.
SNUB POLLARD COMEDY
RIALTO NEWS
TUES., WED., THURS.
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George Beban
THE SIGN OF
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Only once in a decade may we hope
to offer you a picture we are so
cocksure you will truly love.
ADDED:
BRUNSWICK TRIO
In an Entire Change of Songs and
Comedy
Also OUR GANG COMEDY and
MOVIE CHATS
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
ELINOR FAIR
And All-Star Cast in
"The Mysterious
Witness"
ADDED:
BRUNSWICK TRIO
In an Entire Change of Program
Also SUNSHINE COMEDY and
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SUNDAY and MONDAY
We Have Them Again
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donated by as many coal dealers.
Still, Ray says there is room for many
more prizes, and all that is necessary
for one who wants to give is just to
call Ray or labor temple and someone
will call for it.
LABOR'S BIG DAY
Being Planned For on Elab
orate Scale
Labor temple is a busy place these
days with the numerous sub-commit
tees in charge of arrangements for
the big Labor Day celebi'ation hold
ing nightly sessions, discussing plans
to make it the biggest ever. All com
mittees report great progress.
Those in charge of the country
store, headed by Ray Wunderlich, re
port that they are meeting with fine
success in their canvass for prizes
for the big store, and that without
any doubt whatever the store this
year will easily outshine any previous
attempt. They say thei-e is plenty of
room, however, for more prizes, and
no one need hesitate sending in their
contribution, no matter how small or
how large, it will be appreciated.
Many attractions are being booked
so that there will be no dearth of
amusement for those attending. Many
of the concessions are to be sold out
right, and for these privileges many
applications are coming in.
By reason of the splendid fireworks
display shown last year the commit
tee again contracted with the Tipp
Fireworks Company for the display
this year. The company has assured
the committee a complete change of
program for this year. All the old
time features will be there, a big
orchestra has been engaged to furnish
music for the dancing, which will
take place on ah immense outdoor
platform.
From the manner in which the tick
ets are going much interest is be
ing displayed in the automobile which
will be given away as the closing
feature of the big day.
All in all, with good weather and
lots of sunshine, Hamilton's thirty
first annual Labor Day celebration
promises to be the best and biggest
ever staged by local organized labor.
RESTAURANT OPEN,
A new restaurant opens its doors
to the pjblic this Saturday noon. It
will 1-• jndueted by Mrs. Cha.:. Wil
ci .h well known local carpenter
cculractor. The restaurant will be
ii the second floor, 16 South Third
street, over Wilmer & Yaekle's hat
.tore. Home cooking, service and at
mosphere will be the outstanding feat
ures of the new eating place. Mrs.
Wilkins herself supervising all the
work of the kitchen. Special atten
tion and service will be provided shop
men at the noon hour. Special Sun
day dinners will also be a feature.
The best wishes of many friends for
success go out to Mrs. Wilkins in her
venture.
PERPSNCON AND
THOMPSON
To Attend Building Trades
Council Convention
Herman Perpingon, business agent
of the local Carpenters' Union, and
Glenn Thompson will attend the con
vention of the Building Trades Coun
cil, to be held at Mansfield, Ohio, Sep
tember 17-18, as delegate. Mr. Per
pingon will also represent the local
at the Ohio State Council of Carpen
ters, which meets at Mansfield during
the balance of the week. The follow
ing week he will attend the conven
tion of the Ohio State Federation of
Labor, which also meets in Mans
field, beginning Monday, September
24.th.
Have you given to the Country
Store? Do it now.
Some small (or large) donation to
the Country Store will be much appre
ciated.
Good
Fitting
Glasses
A good fitting pair of
glasses is as essential to
the service the glasses will
give as the lenses them
selves.
We fit our glasses per
fectly fit them so the
lenses are in correct posi
tion with eyes—then you
are bound to get the eye
comfort and vision for
which the glasses are in
tended.
SCHIPPER
JEWELRY AND OPTICAL CO.
156 High
St.
THOMAS BECKETT
MEMORIAL
Adopted By Trades Council
Tuesday Night
THOMAS BECKETT
A Memorial Adopted by the Hamilton
Co-Operative Trades and Labor
Council in Regular Meeting Assem
bled on Tuesday, August 21, 1923.
In the death of Thomas Beckett,
Hamilton has not only lost a great
citizen, but organized labor has lost
a true friend. His frankness and sin
cerity, in dealing with his employes
and with all others in the more lowly
walks of life, won for him a respect,
an admiration and a love that are
enjoyed by few employers.
At the 38th annual convention of
the Ohio State Federation of Labor,
held in Hamilton in October, 1921, it
was said of Mr. Beckett that he was
the president of one of the oldest
industries in the city and that he had
never had a strike."
Mr. Beckett sat upon the stage at
that convention and welcomed the
delegates to Hamilton, as the presi
dent of the Hamilton Chamber of
Commerce. His delightful and sincere
words at that time will never be for
gotten by those that heard him.
The president of the Ohio State
Federation of Labor, in his response
spoke as follows: "Where as a rule
do you find labor and the Chamber of
Commerce understanding one another
and working together for the same
end Vary rarely, and you find it
only in Hamilton. This is the only
place we have found it. We desire
to thank the Chamber of Commerce
for the friendly attitude and only hope
and pray that their good work and at
titude, their position, may be that of
Chambers of Commerce throughout
the state of Ohio and of the United
States."
It was through Thomas Beckett's
leadership and influence that it was
possible for such words to be spoken.
He went far in advance of the times
to bring about better understanding
and elimination of conflict between
employer and employe. Our greatest
hope is that his worthy example may
be followed by other employers whom
he left behind in Hamilton. That
they may recognize their workers as
fellows and brothers as did Thomas
Beckett.
The members of Hamilton Trades
and Labor Council join the hosts of
sorrowing Hamilton citizens in
mourning Mr. Beckett's departure.
To Mrs. Beckett and the sons and
daughters, of whom Mr. Beckett was
so proud, we extend our heartfelt
sympathy. We know, though, that
they may find comfort in the happy
recollections which such an ideal hus
band and father would leave behind
in the good that lives after him.
It is regularly moved and adopted
that this memorial be spread on the
minutes of the Hamilton Co-Operative
Trades and Labor Council and that a
copy be sent to the sorrowing widow.
HAMILTON CO-OPERATIVE
TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL.
August 21, 1923.
Committee: Stanley Ogg, Peter
Schmitt.
GRANDPA'S DRY
CLEANING CO.
Adjusts Differences With
Carpenters' Union
All differences between the Grand
pa's Dry Cleaning Co. and the local
Carpenters' Union have been amicably
adjusted. In remodeling the branch
store at Pleasant and Williams ave
nues non-union carpenters were em
ployed to do the work. The carpen
ters called the attention of Mr. Wil
liam Hilz, proprietor of the company,
to the fact that he was employing
non-union carpenters, but Mr. Hilz
said that it was too late to change the
situation, that the men had been em
ployed to finish the work. The car
penters in an advertisement in an eve
ning paper called attention of the
union men and friends in the city to
the matter. Mr. Hilz said that em
ploying the non-union carpenters was
thoughtlessly done on his part, and
that in the future all work done for
the company would specify only union
labor. This is satisfactory to the Car
penters' Union, and they make it
known that the Grandpa's dry clean
ing establishment is fair to organized
labor, and as such is entitled to the
patronage of organized labor and
friends.
RIGGERS WANT INCREASE
New York.—Derrick men and rig
gers, affiliated with the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, are demanding a wage
increase of $1 a day. These workers
are now conferring with employers
Their four-days' strike interfered with
large building operations throughout
the city.
TO VOTE ON CONVENTION
Chattanooga, Tenn. Conventions
of stove mounters will hew after be
held every three years, provided the
membership approves same. This de
cision was made at the convention of
the Stove Mounters' International
Union in this city.
How about it, brother, have you
thought of something to send in to the
Country Steve?
T^E BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
NICHOLSON AND
DAVIDSON
Of International Visit Local
Machinists' Union
Two distinguished labor visitors
were in the city last Saturday after
noon conferring with local labor lead-
They were Chas. T. Nicholson,
executive board member of the Inter
national Association of Machinists,
and E. C. Davidson, secretary-treas
urer of the same organization. They
were here in the interest of the organ
izing campaign being conducted by
the machinists throughout the coun
try. They met with members of the
executive board and officers of the
local Machinists' Union. While here
they canvassed the situation pretty
thoroughly. The visitors reported
that things were brightening up for
machinists all over the country, but
that the conditions were just what
the members of each locality made
them. Meaning by this, that where
machinists recognzied the good of or
anization and joined their local
union they were being greatly bene
fitted. They couldn't help but recog
nize that there are lax conditions in
Haniliton, that many men who really
ought to be in the local organization
fail to join and thereby stand in their
own light for bettering their condi
tions.
WAR WAGES UNPAID
Machinists Keep Up Fight
For Their Due From
Uncle Sam
Allentown, Pa.—Organized machin
ists employed by the Bethlehem Steel
Company announce that with the open
ing of the new congress they will re
new their fight for wages awarded
them by the national war labor board.
The case originally involved 21,000
employes, of which approximately
7,000 were machinists. With the end
ing of war worfy these employes
were laid off by the thousands and
the addresses of many of them are
unknown. Many of the machinists
have also dropped out of the Machin
ists' Union, but these unionists will
carry on the fight not only for the
wages involved, but to establish the
principle that the government recog
nize the same rates of pay on gov
ernment work in contract shops as
paid by the government.
In 1918 the .machinists reopened
their old eight-hour fight against the
Bethlehem Steel Company. The na
tional war labor board held hearings,
and sustained the machinists in an
award based upon rates paid in gov
ernment plants. The war department
provided $1,500,000 for these addi
tional wages, and representatives of
the national war labor board classi
fied each employe for a certain rate
so that his back wages could be quick
ly adjusted.
Checkes for the money were being
written in 1921, but everything was
overturned by the judge advocate g'i
eral of the army, ruling that congress
must approve the claim.
The case was then carried to
o n
gress, where it will be reopened
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the next session. No one has denu'
the justness of the machinists' clai.i.
and over on government contra
as they were forced to work 10 hour
while the law calls for eight hour
While the workers are making tin
fight, congress has voted millions u\
on millions of dollars to war contra,
tors who present bills for claims,
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which are rushed through most
peditiously.
SWEATSHOPS
ABOUND IN
EASTERN CITIES
New York.—Court trials of sw^a
shop and child labor employers
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New Jersey have revealed that hui:
dreds of such shops, located as
rule in bedrooms and kitchens,
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operated in various sections of th
city, said Morris Sigman, president
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union.
In these bedroom shops, the unin
i s s a i y o u n o y s a n i s a i
women are making hand embroiderw
neckwear and men's clothing for lav
firms. He said at least 45,000 sw ii
workers are in the hand embroidi rv
trade alone in New York City a.nl
New Jersey.
The International Union of Gai
ment Workers, Mr. Sigman said, ha.-?
employed special organizers to v
these home shops and to interest
workers in the union and what it
e a n s o e i n e s e u i n o s n n
itai-y conditions. The union is i:'\
organizing several thousand work
in embroidery shops in Hoboken am
other sections of Hudson county.
The product of these insanitary
shops find sale along fashionabl
drives of New York City, where the
elite are wholly unconscious of the
conditions under which their exqui
ite scarfs and Swiss embroidery have
been fabricated.
BOILERMAKERS STRIKE
San Francisco.—Several hundred
boilermakers in the bay district sus
pended work to enforce a wage in
crease. Included in the walkout are
caulkers, chippers, drillers and help
ers.
NICE POLITE FOLK
With Bows and Scrapes
Can't End War, Says
Britisher
Williamstown, Mass.—The problem
of world peace is not just a question
of getting a number of sweet tem
pered and reasonably minded people
around a table, said Philip Henry
Kerr, of London, former secretary of
Lloyd George, in speaking before the
institute of politics at this place. The
speaker declared that sentiment is not
the road that will lead to world peace.
"The international problems would
be comparatively simple," he said, "if
all the 1,650 millions of people in the
world were exactly alike in race, lan
guage, religion and color, but they are
not.
'The white population of the world
is about 560,000,000, distributed most
ly through Europe and America the
brown and yellow peoples number
cibout 850,000,000, distributed almost
entirely through Asia, and the blacks,
who inhabit Africa, are about 100,00
000. In race, the Mongolian is the
largest with about 655,000,000 people.
Next comes the Caucasians with 645,
000,000 ami then the negro with 100,
000,000."
Mr. Kerr estimated the present
number of independent states at
about 60. After listing the religions,
the languages and dialects, he said
these figures "bring out the extra
rdniary complexity of the world in
'hich we live," and that the figures
dispel the idea that sentiment and
sweet tempered people sitting around
i conference board will make peace
possible.
He said peace will only be reached
"by finding the means and still more
the spirit through which the continu
ous problems which these differences
involve, can be adjusted according to
reason, justice and fair play."
"LABOR SHORTAGE"
Cry Used to Secure Labor
Surplus
Rockport, Mass.—Paving contrac
tors cry for more men, while they
lay off men because of lack of ma
terial, says Editor Bergstrom, of the
Paving Cutters' Journal. The labor
editor says that scarcely a day passes
without a call for paving cutters,
w i e n i a n y o s e e s a e
forced into idleness because contra,
tors have not provided stock.
"Is it possible that some en:plov
ers prefer to have more men on their
jobs than can be steadily employed?
asks Editor Bergstrom. "At our last
conference we heard much talk on
the need for an increased production,
but if any of our employers have
since aided production by giving bet
ter stock, steadier employment and
improved working conditions, we have
yet to hear about it."
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VICIOUS INJUNCTION
AROUSES TRADE
UNIONS
Chicago.—Federal Judge Carpen
ter's injunction against Organized la
dies' garment workers has aroused
trade unionists of this city, and the
local Federation of Labor has ordered
a conference of organized workers to
consider this latest coui't order. In
issuing the call, John Fitzpatrick,
president of the federation, said:
"A most alarming situation con­
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SHELF EMPTING SALE
Announced in yesterday's Journal and News is proving a bitr success, and
we hope the readers of this paper will avail themselves of the opportunity to
save some money by taking advantage of this great sale. Watch the daily
papers for the real bargains we have in store for you from day to day.
"Quality Merchandise at Underselling Prices" is our motto—but we are
underselling our usual underselling prices in this Great Shelf Emptying Event,
which we celebrate twice a year for the purpose of clearing our shelves of all
surplus merchandise to make room for goods for the new season.
Important Announcement
We are receiving daily by Express dozens and dozens of Dresses and Coats
—Fashion's latest Creations for Fall wear, from New York's foremost mak
ers. Now ready for your inspection in our Ready-to-Wear Department on
the 2nd Floor. The prices are far below what you would expect to pay for
garments of such fine materials and High-class Workmanship.—Dresses that
you'll enjoy wearing at prices within reach of all.
fronts organized labor as the result
of an injunction issued by Judge Car
penter in the federal district court.
This is not the ordinary injunction
issued in the federal and stat courts
in labro disputes. There is no strike
or lockout involved here.
"This injunction has for its chief
purpose the stoppage of the organiz
ing campaign engaged in by the
ladies' garment workers, assisted by
the Chicago Federation of Labor. It
prevents us from even asking workers
to join the union."
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Show and display
of the world's fin-
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Shoppers always find a hearty welcome here, whether ready to buv or not.
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Hundreds of interest
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hibits, including an Elec
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souvenirs.
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Frolic Avenue, and many
other wonderful attractions.
Ample parking space for
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