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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1924
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
laaoad Weekly at S26 Marlut Stapat.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 12M
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
THE GAS AND WATER RATES
just as the Press in its editorials
in the issue of December 14th pre­
dicted it would happen and warned
the workers to look forward to it, it
has come. The rates for gas and
water are to be increased. It is only
natural that it should be so. No
sane thinking person would expect it
otherwise. Anyone who has given
this matter a little thought knows
that the increase in water and gas
rates as made by former mayor
Harry J. Koehler, Ji., were not un
justified, that it was through no fault
of-his that he had to make the in
creases and no one knows this fact
better than those who made it the
big issue in the last election. Any
one with a grain of sense knows that
if the pre-war rates were just enough
to' sustain the plants that they can't
be conducted under those rates today
without great loss any more than a
workingman could live today on pre
war wages (though some have to
come mighty near doing it). Wages
have doubled and materials and sup
plies have more than doubled pre-war
prices, so why shouldn't the users
expect to pay more for their gas and
water, just as they pay more .for
every other commodity?
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The point is, no matter whether our
city affairs are conducted under re
publican, democdat or socialist ad
ministrations, it takes money and lots
of it to keep things going. Mayor
Kelly, in a statement giving reasons
for again raising the rates of water
and gas, says that the former admin
istration, the democrats, left a lot
of unpaid bills. Sure they did. When
the late Abe Rothwell, republican,
took hold as mayor of the city, he
said the same thing. When the dem
ocrats again took hold they said the
same of the republicans. When the
socialists succeeded the democrats
they made the same claim, and when
the democrats returned they said the
same of the socialists. And so it is
and always will be. As the late
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James Faulkner, well known political
writer, used to say, speaking of state
administration, "the expenses of the
present administration are a little
higher than those of the previous ad
ministration, and the expenses of the
previous administration were a little
higher than those of the one preceding
it, and it will ever be ^jius despite
all the pre-election campaign noise
and promises of economy." The Press
predicts right now that when the pres
ent administration retires from office
its successors will make the same
claim as all former administrations
have made upon assuming office.
Mayor Kelly will find out, however,
just as all his predecessors have
found, that there are a lot of unrea
sonable people. Many Voted for him
in November because they believed in
his election they would get cheaper
gas and water. All the explaining in
the world will cut no figure with
these people. They don't bother about
expenses for conducting city affairs
what they want is cheaper gas and
water, and—"that's what we elected
Mayor Kelly for," is the stand they
seem to take and that is all there is
to it—with them.
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RADICALISM SHAMED
The radical elements that preach
the spirit of discontent and revolu
tion among American workingmen
are unthinking fools or diabolical
mischief-makers. It is apparent that
they do not take the time and trouble
to make a comparative study of con
ditions in their country and other
countries, at least one of which has
been held up as the workers' Utopia
These men do not realize how well
they are off in this country. Day by
day we get word from Russia where
people are starving. From Germany
comes word that people are found
starved to death in their homes, and
here in this country these same radi
cals have not the sense to realize
how well off they are compared to
the status of some of their henchmen
If they will just remind themselves
that they cannot have everything to
their own liking, and that leaving
well enough alone for the present
would help matters along, more prog
ress would be made. If some of these
radicals should" be deported to some
of the foreign countries, perhaps the
same country from which they come
they would soon be tickled to death
to get back and let well enough alone
People who never knew the word
want, but people who did not bring
these curses upon themselves, but
were pulled into them through chan
nels of radical movements, will do
well to listen to this counsel.
We, every one of us, that are fair
in our hearts, must admire our dear
Uncle Sam. We can't help, although
everything is not to our own liking in
our own country, but give to Uncle
Sam credit that he knows what to
do, when to do it, and how to do it
It surely behooves every loyal citizen
of the United States to do his or
her duty towards educating and help
ing your brethren up in this world
It is only a" matter of broadminded
ness, a matter of common sense and
judgment. Sure it means some sacri
fice, but every good thing involves
that.
Sacrifice, giving and taking, live
and let live, these are the real cures
for our present ills. Get away from
radicalism, get away from secret or
ganizations that aim at classes. Use
your brains, for by using your brains
you enable some one else to do the
same thing. Yet get along in this
world, and the next fellow wonders
why you are prospering. He catches
the same disease. It is a progressive
disease. It lacks selfishness. It is
for everybody's help and interest, so
let's get away from radicalism
Let's supplant it with sacrifice, with
give and take, live and let live prin
ciples. These are the preventatives
of more trouble, and anything that
prevent# needs no cure.
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PROTECTION IN ORGANIZATION
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., recently
told employes of the Standard Oil
Company that long hours are bad
business. Mr. Rockefeller also de
clared that the worker is a human
being, not a machine.
What Mr. Rockefeller said wfes all
right, as far as it went. But he did
n't for far enough. He should have
added that the best assurance against
long hours and treatment of workers
as machines is the trade union.
Instead Mr. Rockefeller gave his
audience to understand that the posi
tion taken by the Standard Oil Com
pany in labor matters assured reason
able hours of work and fair treat
ment of its employes.
Even granting that the labor policy
of. the Standard Oil Company is all
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that Mr. Rockefeller asserted, its pol
icy is no guarantee of just treatment
of its employes. An employer may
have the best intentions in the world,
but unless his employes are organized,
there is no assurance they will be
fairly treated. The heads of a busi
ness may give strict orders as to the
treatment of employes, but there are
all sorts of ways for executives in
subordinate positions to practice pet
ty tyranny and various abuses in the
handling of the workers. But if the
workers are strongly organized, they
can protect their rights from the at
tacks of big. and little bosses. And,
in addition, the workers have a right
and a duty to organize for the pro
tection and advancement Ot their
rights and interest?.
Furthermore, it seems as if Mr.
Rockefelly was making "tall" claims
for a company with the notorious anti
union recorcf of the Standard Oil
Company. As long as the Standard
oil workers are not permitted to or
ganize, they are dependent upon their
employers for fair play. But if they
organize they can protect their rights.
This is a fact that apparently Mr.
Rockefeller does not recognize.
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Grave doubts as to whether the
United States is as civilized as we
have''been led to believe are aroused
in the mind of every thinking person
who consideres the treatment of con
victs in the West Virginia penitent
tiary at Moundsville.
Despite the long agitation for
humane and fair treatment of con
victs, which has accomplished much
in some states, West Virginia still
maintains a prison system which has
drawn strong condemnation from
prison experts. Apparently not con
tent with its bad record on the in
dustrial field, with its army of gun
men and thugs maintained by the
non-union operators, West Virginia
is adding to the blackness of its rec
ord- by the way in which it treats its
convicts.
A fetf facts on the Moundsville
penitentiary, as revealed by J. How
ard Holt, chairman of the committee
on crime the State Bar Association
tells the story of West Virginia's pri
son cruelty. Mr. Holt says that most
of the 1,585 men in Moundsville are
exploited by contractors, who secure
this labor for 70 cents a day.
"Under this contract," says Mr
Holt, "each prisoner must average
from 12 to 18 workmen's shirts a day
This means that one of these shirts
costs from 4 to 6 cents. The material
costs 36 cents, and the shirt sells.for
$1. It is understood that there are
now more than 500 convicts working
under this contract and the contractor
and associates make a profit of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars yearly
Directing attention to the fact that
cells in this prison are five feet wide,
eight feet long and seven feet high,
Mr, Holt says:
"Into many of these cells the sun
has never shone. And it is needless
to say that in such limited space
there is no room for exercise. In
nearly every case there is two men
confined in each cell. With the utmost
care that can be exercised by any ad
ministration these conditions breed
immorality and degradation. There
are only about five acres of yard
space for these 1,585 men to occupy
They are crowded in the shops, in the
yard, and at night confined in these
unsanitary cells. Men are infected
with tuberculosis. Some of them die
within the walls and some of them
go forth to spread the disease in the
outside world.
Surely an appalling state of affairs
and one that West Virginia and the
United States should Be heartily
ashamed of! As Mr. Holt remarked,
"Who are we, that we should treat
any fellow man in this manner?"
to to to to to
GIVE THEM A CHANCE
Pessimists who are always railing
at the well known human race for its
alleged lack of humor should study
Sing Sing prison's parole record for
1923.
Sing Sing officials report that a
large majority of the men released
last year made good on parole, only
16 per cent being returned to prison.
In one year 477 were paroled,
against only 77 returned. Prison offt
cials point out that not all those re
turned committed new crimes, but
that some were sent back for failing
to observe strictly terms of their
probation, as, for instance, failing to
repoVt to the parole agent regularly
A mighty good record for men sup
posed to have sunk about as low as
humans get. After all, the pessimists
to the contrary, men and women will
dojherigjdt if -^jpxven e
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THE BUTLER COUNTi PRESS
THE CAUSE OF NEAR BEER
(Editorial in Cincinnati Times-Star)
The campaign of the American Fed
eration of Labor for the legalizing of
the manufacture and sale of beer con
taining 2.75 per cent alcoholic con
tent is proceeding apace, with much
support outside the federation. The
voice of labor is asking for a mild
beer as a solace of. recreative hours,
instead of the alternative of total
abstinence or the awful stuff that is
available in every city. It speaks for
temperance as against the prohibi
tion that does not prohibit "moon,
but effectually prohibits the milder,
and bulkier, cereal beverages.
The cause of the brewing and sale
of beer has disengaged itself defi
nitely from the distillation and sale
of whiskey and other ardent spirits
The issue is now as it should be. For
beer never should have been classified
with whiskey. Its effect is entirely
different. The most deleterious re
Suits of too great indulgence in pre
war beer were song and sleep, and
the morning brought another day,
which is not true of the excessive
drinking of whiskey/ With whiskey
the cold-gray dawn is but a melan
choly continuation of the-day before.
And in beer containing from one to
two per cent less alcohol than pre
war beer, there will be few songs
It will be merely near-beer with more
of a sense of distance than has the
present beverage, which is so faintly
reminiscent of the glory that was
Hauck's and the grandeur that was
Lackman's.
But the campaign of the American
Federation of Labor will meet stren
uous opposition from unaffiliated
unions. There are the Moonshiners
Union, the Bootleggers' Union, the
Prohibition Enforcement Officers
Union (very strong), and the Anti
Saloon League Lobbyists' Union, all
workers in the grapeless vineyard of
prohibition. The moral power of il
licit profits and fat salaries will be
arrayed against the efforts of v^ge
earners.
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AS THE WORKER
SEES HK WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad
Senator Hiram Johnson bitterly at
tacks administration policies in open
ing campaign for presidential nomi
nation.
More than 40 workers killed and
many injured in dust explosion at
starch works in Pekin, 111.
New X-ray machine cuts time and
cost of cancer treatments.
International Union Bank, con
trolled by International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers' Union, opens in New
York City.
Warrant charging embezzlement is
sued for A. C. Townley, former head
of National Non-Partisan League.
Senate formally votes inquiry into
election of Senator Mayfield, of
Texas, alleged to have been backed
by Ku Klux Klan.
Nine baymen drowned when motor
boat loses rudder near Fire Island,
New York.
Federal Judge upholds sale of
seized German dye patents to pri
vate corporation.
France withdraws seven regiments
from. Ruhr region.
Great strike of metal workers in
Berlin and other parts of Germany
in protest against wage cut.
Senator La Follette returns to sen
ate after illness and takes command
of progressive forces.
Edsel B. Ford, head of Ford Mo
tor Company, expresses confidence in
1924 business outlook. 1-
NATIONAL CATHEDRAL "UNION MADE"
The great National Cathedral at John Donljn, president of the Build
Washington, D. C., technically the ing Trades Department, A. J?, of L.,
Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, is in making a subscription to the build
union made. The cathedral will Ije ing fund, said that he desired to be
larger than Westminster Abbey and associated with the enterprise if only
one of the finest in the world. in a small way, so that Washington
In the picture the Bishop of Wash- might have such a beautiful symbol
ington, the Rt. Rev, James E. Free- of the nation's religious convictions,
man, is addressing workers engaged It is expected that the cathedral
on the building, telling them that he will be completed within five years.
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Drastic action to stop iltegal drink
ing by high government officials de
manded by Representative Upshnw.
Huge gun barrels made into oil
stills at Texas oil refinery.
Figures show# New York city en
ipyed better health in 1923 than ever
jefore.
Growth of co-operative banking
and A. F. of'L.'s declaration for in
dustrial democracy most important
1923 events in ranks of labor, Na
tional Catholic Welfare Council says.
Thousands of workers in plants
along Ohio, Allegheny and Mononga
hela rivers temporarily thrown out
of employment as result of floods.
United States government sells
aeroplanes, rifles and ammunition to
Mexico to be used in quieting revolt.
President Coolidge said to be
strongly opposed to any changes in
tax rates of proposed Mellon bill.
British locomotive engineers and
firemen vote for strike but negotia
tions are resumed with railroads.
Thomas Kearney, well-known Chi
cago labor leader, dies suddenly at
age of 51.
Severe cold spell causes death and
suffering in middle west and east.
Carl Magee, New Mexico editor,
acquitted of libelling judge.-
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Democrats offer substitute-p^an fot
revisfbn of tax law.
Increased efficiency h$s resulted
from 8-hour day in Steel plants, the
Iron Age reports.
Compromise ends strike" of Cuban
railroad workers.
Forty-one thousand gain in immi
grants shown for last six months by
Ellis Island figures.
Administration's policy toward
Soviet Russia defended and attacked
in vigorous debate in senate.
General O'Ryan, in report to sen
ate on veteran's bureau, charges
Charles R. Forbes was leader in con
spiracy to defraud government.
President Coolidge orders embargo
on shipments of arms to Mexican
rebels.
French government considered to
have virtually abandoned efforts to
dissolve French Federation of Labor
Harry M. Winitsky, last of prison
ers convicted in New York four years
ago on charges of criminal.anarchy
pardoned by Governor Smith.
Statute of instruction issued by
Vassar College authorities guarantees
teachers complete freedom of utter
ance.
Natidnal guardsmen Called out at
Marion, 111., as result of "bootleggers
war."
World settlement first objective of
British labor party, says J. Ramsay
MacDonald at great celebration of
labor party's victories.
Fight opens in senate against
United States sale of arms to Mex
ico.
Little unemployment in nation, sur
vey of United States employment ser
vice indicates.
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7 to 14 $4.95, $6.95, $8.95
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Silk Dresses $3.95 to $19.95
New Wool Veiour Checks, all
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HOSIERY
Wool^ar Silk Hose, colors,
pair 49c
Sport Wool Hose, colors,
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Fashioned Silk Hose, ,,
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Mohawk Glove Silk Hose,
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