The Butler County press. [volume], November 23, 1923, Image 3

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A world of Thanks
giving Clothes that
would give Atlas
an armful.
This store prepares
for Thanksgiving like
New Orleans prepares
for a Mardi Gras.
We figure that if we
are going to have
a
~--ijne big Thanksgiving
business to be thank
ful
for you have got
to have a fine large
stock to choose from.
Here it is.
New suits
that were
ago in the
zling hot
modeling
that will
own backs
see them.
and coats
four weeks
bolt. Siz
ideas in
patterns
pat their
when you
Come—Thanksgiving
is as important as
Eastel*.
This new show is
open now—to you and
to any comparison
you wish to give it.
Suits Overcoats
Two Prices Only
$21.50 and $29.58
WClothes
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ShopLi
136 High Opp. Court House
HAMILTON, OHIO
A POOR PROPHET
Steel Trust Head Gary'
Predictions Way Off
New fork.—Judge Gary, of the
steel u s a s o v e n a i v v e
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predicting the terrible things tint
would happen under the eight-he
day.
The judge's predictions are w( i!
known. They were both extensive ami
a a i o u s S i n e e n e n i
While this dividend calls for or
$1,270,000 of the trust's cash and
In Toronto, Canada, the union pull
-ed a strike against some 25 "inch
pendent" shops and tied the boss
up so completely that they cair
across with recognition of the uni i
44-hour week, time and a half- i
overtime, eight legal holidays, and a
minimum wage scale.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the fur work
ers' strike pulled the 50 and 54 ho n
week down to 44 hours, with six i
gftl holidays, time and a half i i
overtime, and mrairihim wage scale 1 i
all branches.
N In Montreal, Canada, wage increase
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at the eight-hour theory, to the v
tent of 30 per cent, and he has ni-.v
declared a 25 cent dividend on t1
common stock of his corporation.
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is large enough to ca41 attention !,
the judge's fire-alarm views when li
was opposing the eight-hour day.
The Wall Street Journal, whi
also affected to be frightened at tii
eight-hour day, turns this flip-flo
"Either the switch to the eight-hom
day was not as expensive as gene
ully supposed, or deliveries of st
to customers was made at high,
average prices than estimated."
FUR WORKERS
SECURE UNION
SHOP CONTRACTS
The International Fur Worker'
Union of the United States and Can
ada announce important union sh
victories.
s
running from 10 to 20 per cent ha
been secured and the membership
boosted 35 per centf
LESS WHITE PLAGUE
•j New York.—The death rate from
tuberculosis in this city has been cut
4 per cent this year, according to the
vNew York tuberculosis association.
The number of deaths in the first nine
months of 1923 was 4,376, or 139 less
than for the corresponding period in.
1922. The decrease in this city has
been almost constant, for 25 years.
Ift 1898 the number of deaths per
100,000 was 283, and U#t year it was
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PLENTY HARD COAL
Says Woman Deputy Com
missioner After Inves
tigation
New York.—There is more anthra
cite coal than the people know of, and
this commodity is being sold at too
high a price, reports Mrs. Louise Reed
Welzmiller, deputy commissioner of
public markets, who has toured the
Pennsylvania anthracite fields to
trace the coal from mine to consumer.
She drew these conclusions:
"That new coal deposits will be
found available and will be brought
into use to replace the mines that are
now being worked out.
"That there is considei'ably more
anthracite than the public knows
about. This is also the opinion of the
miners, whose experience should make
ihem the best judges.
"That anthracite is being sold to the
public at entirely too high a price.
"That freight rates on ant'nracice
need readjustment and should be c.i
the same basis as bituminous.
"That the miners are not receiving
too much for the kind of service they
render the consuming public."
The report further states that
'"culm banks, considered waste in
years gone by, are still being loaded
at an approximate cost of 15 to 25
cents a ton, mixed with freshly mined
oal and sold to the consumer at cur
rent prices."
Miners were quoted as declaring
that the only solution of the present
coal shortage is to have the camp3
operated for six months under direo
tion of representatives of the govern
ment, owners and miners.
Summing up the situation, Mrs.
Welzmiller believes that the public is
in the grip of a coal trust, which,
despite all efforts, appears unbreak
able.
FORD'S PROFITS
New York.—The Detroit plant of
the Ford Motor Company made a pro
lit the last fiscal year of $67.71 on
each of the 1,834,000 cars manufact
ured. The Canadian Company pro
luced 73,273 vehicles at a profit of
$69.29 a unit.
The Canadian Company charges
higher prices, yet the Detroit plant
makes practically the same profit
hough the Detroit list price for a
touring car is $140 less. To cut Can
idian costs, complete plants will be
erected in Canada and the importa
on of steel, iron and parts will be
abandoned.
CLERKS ARE WORKLESS
Washington.—Hundreds of clerical
employes will be idle this winter as
a result of dismissals of war work
ers from government service, ac
cording to a survey made by the fed
eral employment service. The large
number of employes recently dis
charged has aggravated the already
serious situation for clerical workers,
accord
hp
to the survey.
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EMPLOYES HAVE
VOICE JN RAILROAD
•r* DIRECTORATE
Under recent legislation the Aus
trian government railways have pass
ed under the control of an autono
mous corporation to administer the
roads as trustee for the government,
which furnishes the capital and cov
ers deficits.
Removal of the railroads from poli
tical influence and centralization in
administration are claimed to be the
objects of the new law.
The roads are administered by an
executive committee of five members
responsible to a commission of 14
directors,, 11 of whom are required
to be business men or experts in
handling transportation problems and
are appointed by the government.
Three members are chosen by the
railway employes.
COAL OWNERS STAND
I'AT WILL NOT
"CLEAN HOUSE"
Harrisburg, Pa.—Governor Pinchot
announces that the policy committee
of anthracite coal owners have refused
to accept his plans for "cleaning their
own house of abuse." The governor
made his statement after a final con
ference with the group.
The governor said he had conferred
repeatedly with the coal owners and
urged that the industry owes it to the
public and itself to clear itself of
"extortion and other evils, and so re
gain the public confidence which its
course has forfeited."
The governor also stated that he
had been informed that 20 per cent
of the coal shipped from the mines
contains an unfair proportion of rock
and slate, and that its sale to the pub
lic is an imposition.
ENGINE MEN STRIKE
Roanoke, Va.—Enginners and fire
men employed on the Virginian rail
road ignored orders of the United
States railroad labor board and sus
pended work after they failed to ad
just several grievances. The road is
largely a coal-carrying road and runs
from the West Virginia fields to
Hampton Roads.
Between 400 and 500 employes are
involved in the strike, which was
caused, the workers declare, because
of "the drastic discipline and intoler
able conditions forced on them by
Vice President Hix." One of the ma
jor grievances, the workers say, is
they are forced to use two and three
huge Mallet engines on slow tonnage
trains through numerous tunnels,
which subjects them to hardships and
jeopardizes their lives.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS STRIKE
Portland, Ore.—Electrical workers
employed by the Northwestern Elec
tric Company suspended work follow
ing the company's refusal to restore
the wag'e scale paid prior to early last
year.
Start Now to Own an Automo
bile of Fine Quality
We'll help you get your Chevrolet and you can start now,
today. Simply step into The Central Motor Co., Chevrolet
dealer, select the model you want and pay any amount you
wish down. Then pay additional amounts of any size you
wish at any time you wish, and w hen these amounts have
reached a small down payment, the car will be delivered to
you and you can pay the balance as you ride. In the
meantime we will allow you 4(/c interest on the
amount you deposit. Start to own a good auto
mobile today. You will be surprised how easy
it is to get it.
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UNION LAUNDRY
Of Terre Haute Co-ops In
Creasing Buisness
Terre Haute, Ind.—The Co-Opera
tive Union Laundry of Terre Haute is
a pronounced succes sand has enjoy
ed a prosperous year according to
the report to the annual meeting of
the stockholders, who are the Terre
Haute labor unions and individual
trade unionists.
The auditor's report disclosed the
fact that the year just ended was the
most successful one in the laundry's
history. There was a 20 per cent in
crease in business over the preceding
year. New machinery costing $5,000
has been added.
"The organized labor movement of
the state of Indiana spent approxi
mately $12,000 in their endeavor to
bring about better wages and better
working conditions for those of our
mothers, sisters, and daughters who
were compelled to seek employment
in the laundries of Terre Haute,'" de
clares the Terre Haute Advocate, the
official organ of the Terre Haute trade
union movement. "The conditions
prior to the strike of 1919 were in
tolerant and unbearable. The better
conditions now prevailing in both
union and non-union laundries can be
attributed solely to the activities of
the labor movement.
"The union laundry was the first
of three big ventures of the labor
movement of Terre Haute. Following
its most successful and progressive
year, it now stands out pr-eminently
as one of our greatest achievements."
EQUAL PAY
For Men and Women Work
ers
Melbourne, Australia.—The organ
ized labor movement of the state of
Victoria now. demands that women
workers shall be paid the same wages
as men.
The wage schedule adopted by the
state wage board fix minimum wages
for both men and women workers, but
the rate for the women Is always
less than the rate for men.
Even the state-fixed minimum wage
for men is not enough adequately to
support the workers' family, this de
linquency having produced the move
ment for motherhood and child en
dowment.
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Eight hundred and three workers
were killed in Ohio last year hy in
dustrial accidents. The chief of the
division of workshops and factories
states that he is formulating plans to
reduce the number of accidents by
educating both employers and em
ployes.
A United States senator once said
that the surest way to prevent rail
road accidents would be to put a
member of the railroad's board of
directors on the cow-catcher of every
locomotive.
Industrial accidents, fatal and non
fatal, are largely if not wholly due
to the refusal of employers either to
provide safety equipment or to ade
quately administer it after its pro
vision \s made compulsory by legis
lation.
If employers or,their immediate rel
atives were compelled to work at dan
gerous machines and in dangerous
places in our industries, there would
be a surprising diminution in both
non-fatal and fatal accidents.
CH1CAG0PLUMBERS
Winning: Fight For Union
Shop
Chicago, III —"The Chicago citi
zens' committee is again scouring the
country to bring more non-union
plumbers here," writes Organizer
Richard P. Welsh in the Plumbers,
Gas and Steamfitters' Journal. "They
have started in the east, commencing
at Buffalo, and visiting all the towns
and cities in New York state.
"Several of the men whom they in
duced to come here visited me shortly
after their arrival and informed me
that facts were misrepresented to
them and- that they had no idea they
were to be used to assist in destroy
ing the unions, and expressed their
desire to co-operate with us in every
way.
"The citizens' committee is finding
it very difficult to man their jobs
with sufficient help. The actual em
ployer, who is weary of it all, is ask
ing himself when it is going to end
In reality, he is the biggest sufferer.
But the big financial interests and
union haters want to continue the
battle and they are encouraged by
the high-salaried officials whom they
engage to make the fight for them."
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DRY CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING
Work that satisfies in every way
We call for and deliver
635 Svcamore Street
Phone 3013-X
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GRAND LEADER'S THANKSGIV
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TIFUL THAN USUAL
The Grand Leader is a HUMAN institution—it
doesn't lay claim to being so far above the average
as to give something for nothing. But the Grand
Leader has said, and repeats emphatically, that it
can and does give more and better quality merchant
dise for the money than can be obtained elsewhere.
EVERY DOLLAR GOES FARTHER HERE
We are in business to SERVE the public, not to
PLUNDER it. Parasites destroy society, whether
they exist as stores or merely as individuals. That
is why we war against parasites in the form of indi
viduals who make huge profits off an unsuspecting
public. That is why we maintain our reputation as
AN UNDERSELLING STORE
Now, at this season of the year, many things are
needed. First, to make Thanksgiving Day all that
it should be in the home. Then before we know it
CHRISTMAS is upon us wTith a multitude of de
mands. Whatever you may need for the holidays,
you'll
SAVE MONEY BY SHOPPING HERE
Grand Leader Refunds Money Cheerfully—Grand
Leader makes Good Every Unsatisfactory Purchase
DRIVE
New Reduced Prices
Superior Roadster S
Superior Touring $495.00,
Utility Coupe $640.00
Superior Sedan $795.00
Superior Light Delivery $490.00
Utility One-Ton Chassis .» ....$550.00
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