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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1S23
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
leaned Weekly at 826 Marks* Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 129C
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O
THE NEW MAYOR
At the polls Tuesday, the people
of Hamilton said they want a change
of city officials, and they said it in
such manner as to leave no doubt as
to their meaning. But what happened
in Hamilton seems to be no different
from what took place everywhere
throughout the state of Ohio and in
other states where elections were held
—where' republicans were in they
were kicked out and democrats put in
their places, and vice versa. The peo
pie seem dissatisfied, and when given
the chance seek a change. In Hamil
ton the people have selected Howard
E. Kelly for mayor and, for the first
time in the city's history, a complete
set of officials of the republican party
Mr. Kelly has a big job before him
for he and those speaking for him
have promised much. After pointing
out that the city has been running
"wild and wide open" and that there
has been much undue extravagance
all of which Mr. Kelly has promised
will be cleaned up and changed, it is
only natural that his every action will
be keenly watched and criticized.
The Press, speaking for organized
labor of Hamilton, only wishes Mr
Kelly every success and pledges itself
to support him in every effort toward
the city's betterment and the citizens
best interests. To the working people
of Hamilton it isn't near so much who
the man might be at the head of the
official family as to what the man is
and does. The workers are more in
terested in the rates of water, gas and
electric light, fine parks, clean envi
ronments and law observance than
they are in putting a man in office
of any political faith. So that, so
long as Mr. Kelly conducts the affairs
of the city to the best interests of
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ALL the citizens of Hamilton just so
long can he depend upon the support
of organized labor of Hamilton.
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That was a nasty last-minute fling,
a kicking a man when he is down, so
to say, which appeared in one of the
daily papers Wednesday night, and for
which not a single word of praise or
approval has been heard to date. It
would seem that "we" just can't get
over "our" disappointment on the elec
tric light deal.
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For once, and the only time in the
city's long history, the two Hamilton
daily newspapers agreed politically.
For the best interests of all the peo
ple? Oh, you electric light plant!
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LET PEOPLE ELECT JUDGES
United States Senator Dill, of
Washington, favors the popular elec
tion of federal judges.
The judges are now appointed for
life by the president of the United
States, and are generally corporation
lawyer politicians whose major busi
ness has been to twist the statute law
in favor of employers and against the
workers.
Representative-elect Hill, of Wash
ington, recently chosen in a special
election, made popular election of fed
eral judges one of the fighting planks
in his platform.
An amendment of the federal con
stitution will be required to place the
election of federal judges in the hands
of the people the same as an amend
ment was necessary a few years ago
to place the election of United States
senators in the people's hands.
The amendment requires a two
thirds vote of both house and senate
for its submission to the state legis
latures.
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MR. HINKEL S VOTE
Wasn't that a splendid vote that
Fred A. Hinkel received for mayor
When a man can go out independently
and alone, except for those volunteer
ing to help, and get more than 3,000
votes, he can certainly feel proud and
gratified. Such vote for a man shows
the respect and esteem held for him
by his friends, neighbors and fellow
citizens. The Press congratulates Mr
Hinkel upon the splendid showing he
made.
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FEDERAL NO-STRIKE LAW
The open shoppers of the country
backed by the American Bar Associa
tion, are planning a federal no-strike
industrial court more effective than
the infamous Kansas court.
Frank E. Curley, inventor of the
law of "necessity" in the Bisbee de
portation trial, law partner of Sam
Pattee, who presided at the Bisbee
trial, attorney for the Phelps Dodge
corporation and other anti-labor cor
porations, was chosen by Minneapolis
convention, American Bar Association,
together with ex-Senator Chester I
Long, Wichita, Kans., and William
Crook, Beaumont, Tex., to draft a law
governing industrial relations. This
measure may become an amendment
to the United States constitution.
"Since the supreme court of the
United States declared the industrial
relations court of Kansas unconstitu
tional, the bar association has been de
vising means of solving difficulties
between labor and capital," Curley ex
plains here upon his return from the
convention.
"We hope to formulate a law that
will not conflict with the constitution
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MONDAY EVE 7:30 O'CLOCK LABOR TEMPLE
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case it is found that no law can be
drafted without conflicting with the
constiuttion it will be offered in the
form of an amendment to the consti
tution."
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COAL SCALPING
"Scalping," or the speculative sale
of coal among wholesale dealers
boosts the price of coal to the con
sumer, the federal trade commission
in a report on the handling of an
thracite coal by wholesalers for the
week ending September 22.
"In times of shortage," says the
commission, "there is a marked ten
dency for wholesalers to buy and sell
speculatively among themselves, each
taking a margin which is added to
the price finally paid by the retailer
and the consumer."
"Sixty per cent of the total number
of cars of domestic sizes of coal re
ported for the week ending Septem
ber 22 were purchased by the report
ing wholesaler from a producer and
sold to a retailer or consumer, thus
passing through the hands of but one
wholesaler. Thirty-two per cent were
purchased by the reporting whole
saler from a wholesaler and sold to a
retailer, thus interposing at least two
und possibly more wholesalers be
tween the mine and the consumer. Six
per cent were bought by the reporting
wholesaler from a producer and sold
to wholesaler, thus interposing at
least two wholesalers, and two per
cent were bought by the reporting
wholesaler from a wholesaler and sold
to a wholesaler, thus interposing at
least three wholesalers between the
mine and the consumer. Thus 40 per
cent of the carloads of domestic sizes
reported were handled by two or more
wholesalers."
And thus it can be seen why the
high prices of coal, where goes the big
difference between what the producer
gets and that paid by the consumer
and that it isn't the local retailer who
gets it, but that it is the many
"scalping" wholesalers between the
producer and the retailer who get the
big bulk of the high prices paid for
coal by the consumer.
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ANOTHER BRISBANALITY
Arthur Brisbane, chief editorial
writer for the Hearst papers, com
mends to employers a paraphrasing of
the slogan, "Milk from contented
cows." It is "Work from contented
workmen ought to be the employer's
motto. Contented cows don't kick or
buck." Mr. Brisbane professes to be
lieve that the content which he com
mends can be induced by so-called
welfare work.
"Work from contented workmen
ought to be the employr's motto" is
another Brisbanality of the kind that
Hearst's writer produces so prolific
ally. It means nothing unless the
workmen's content springs from a con
sciousness that he, as a free man, is
receiving a square deal from his em
ployer. When the contentment is a
temporary feeling induced by "wel
fare" work it seldom results in the
quality of work which follows the giv
ing of fair wages and good working
conditions.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, recently analyz
ed the workmen-made-contented-by
welfare-work theory in an editorial on
"Milk Fflom Conftentjed Cows.." It
constituted a perfect reply to Bris
bane's Brisbanality. Mr. Gompers
said in part:
"Because men are not constituted
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like cows, much of the welfare en
deavor of employers is doomed to fail
ure. Up to a certain point workmen
of the self-respecting kind will accept
the same kind of treatment a farmer
gives his cow. Farmers provide nice
stalls, regulate the food, supply fresh
air, procure good drinking water and
keep a veterinary handy so that his
animals may give good milk or do
good work. On the theory that simi
lar treatment will increase efficiency
if applied to workmen, it has become
popular for employers to make much
of housing programs, dietetic super
vision, sanitation, hospitalization, vis
iting nursing, and recreation of em
ployes. But it is absurd to imagine
that there are panaceas or solvents
of the labor problem. After a cer
tain point is reached it constitutes
a boomerang. It does not matter then
if the employer cries about the in
gratitude of workmen. The milk is
sour—the cows are no longer con
tented.
"In final analysis the American
Federation of Labor stands for a pol
icy and system that will develop real
men men of intelligence men of
courage independence, good work
manship and responsibility, who pul
sate with the discontent that makes
man divine. The contented cow idea
has not made the American Federa
tion of Labor what it is on Labor
Day, 1923. Some of that soul that
was breathed into man has been
working 24 hours a day to produce
a union of men working for what is
right and good. That soul lives on!"
GROPING FOR A NEW FREEDOM
If Prof. Browser spends the whole
day on the bank of a rippling stream
doing nothing at all but thinking, it
will be generally believed that he is
not crazy or lazy he is thinking, and
that's his trade, so it's all right.
If James Workaday goes out and
sprawls on his back on the river bank,
he's neglecting to earn money for hitf
family and he's a loafer and he's
pretty sure to get a black mark in
the community. Nobody suspects him
of purposely going out there to think.
That's not his trade, so he's not sup
posed to be doing it.
But that's what's happening and the
world will get used to it. The hunger
for enough of the material things to
sustain life and to provide a fair
amount of comfort has actually won
its battle, so far as the great bulk
of the labor movement is concerned.
The fight is no longer for enough to
eat. It is no longer for enough to
wear, nor for good enough houses.
The story about bath tubs used as
coal bins doesn't get a laugh any
more. The house without a bath gets
the go-by. Likewise the fight for time
to think has been won—to a sufficient
degree at least to have started the
thinking machinery to work.
The great urge in the labor move
ment today is for something not yet
defined, except vaguely. The chick
knows nothing of what is beyond the
shell, but it fights to break through,
nonetheless. Labor is forcing against
a shell almost with a mental torture.
It wants a freedom undefined, a larger
life, more of life—the freedom of the
brain and soul. It is the day of days,
a gr.eat venture impends. Beyond the
shell, what?—Chester M. Wright.
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VARIOUS VOICES
Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant
United States attorney, a few days
ago at Philadelphia said that prohi
bition cannot stop bootlegging. Illi
cit traffic and consumption of liquors
will be banished by the individual or
not at all. It is to be assumed that
this is what the assistant attorney
meant. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst,
whose long battle against organized
vice and intemperence should entitle
him to a respectable hearing, even in
the most radical of Volstead forum.s,
declares: "The recent attempt of the
government to make people good by
statute has resulted in so much re
sistance, not only of the lawless, but
also of the law-abiding, as condemns
the attempt as being fraught not
only with difficulty, but also with ap
parent impossibility. The resistance
of this attempt, which at this writing
is a growing one, suggests that while
the government has its business to
mind, the individual has his own busi
ness to mind, and is the only one who
can be wisely allowed to mind it
There is that within us that cannot
be made common property and is be
yond the reach of all human intru
sion." At least two great religious
organizations, combined, constituting
the most powerful organized moral
influence "in Christendom, have chal
lenged the validity of prohibition as
a political policy. In Portland, Ore
gon, a few days ago the American
Federation of Labor put itself on rec
ord as demanding a "sane" amend­
ment of the Volstead law, only twelve
out of three hundred and fifty dele
gates*" in the convention hall dissenting.
These various voices indicate very
clearly that the so-called prohibition
question is far from being settled. It
never will be settled by any attempt
to make people good by statute. All
that is necessary to clear the entire
unwholesome situation is the adop
tion of and sensible modification of
the liquor enforcement statutes,
which all men agree are, in some re
spects, as outrageously despotic and
tyrannous as any enactments yet ren
dered into law by the Soviet govern
ment.—The Cincinnati Enquirer,
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PROGRESS IS SLOW
Defeat in Maine of an amendment
providing for a 48-hour law for
women and children shows how diffi
cult and how slow it is to make pro
gress toward better conditions.
Here was a proposal that by every
rule of humanitarianism and enlight
ened self-interest should have been
approved by a big majority. Yet th
proposal was decisively defeated, only
two counties voting in its favor.
The enlarged committee of Ass-
dated Industries, representing
employers, bitterly attacked the 4v
hour proposal, making various u:
supported statements about it, i
eluding the assertion that the passa,v
of the law would put Maine at an N
per cent disadvantage with evei
Maine's action demonstrates that
progress is slow. But that should
not discourage friends of progress in
industry. They have only to redouble
their efforts and work with pattern.',
intelligence and sound methods anl
they will bring about changes based
on the solidest of foundations—a con
viction on the part of society that
proposed changes are necessary to the
advancement of humanity.
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VIOLENCE TO UNION
ISTS INCITED
BY EMPLOYERS
Indianapolis Ind, The Indiana
State Federation of Labor notifies the
unions of the state that the Holland
Furnace Company foundry, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, has been struck by the
International Molders' Union because
of refusal to recognize the 8-hour
day and other union shop conditions.
It is claimed that anti-union em
ployes of the Holland concern's es
tablishment at Holland, Mich., in an
attempt to terrorize the union mold
ers and drive them from the city
seized the 17-year-old son of a mem
ber of the Holland Molders' Union,
rushed him in an automobile a num
ber of miles from town, maltreated
him, and threatened to kill him if he
ever returned to Holland.
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goods and shoes, except one."
Organized labor and other progre
sive forces put up a strong fight
the law but their educational can
pagin had been of long enough dux
tion to show the people the real bene
fits of the proposal. As a result, the
people, especially the farmers, "swal
lowed" the arguments of the reaction
aries and voted down the bill.
Someone has said that there can
be no lasting revolution unless there
has first been a revolution in the
hearts of the people. It is equally
true that there is small chance of
making progress on society until the
people who compose society have
changed their minds. Only when peo
ple have been educated to see clearly
the benefits of a change will they
consent to progress.
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