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FRIDAY, MAY 23,1924
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 326 Mark* Street
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 12f
Endorsed by the Traded and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middlelown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
CUTTING THE POLICE FORCE
Mayor Howard Kelly and Safety
Director Joseph B. Meyers sure have
been swinging the axe in the local
police department during the past
week, and from all reports they are
going to swing it some more. What
the Press can't understand is, if some
had to go, why is it necessary that
so many of the old men in the service
had to be the first to be laid off—
men who by reason of the long time
they have put in on the police force
practically unfit themselves for any
thing else? Why couldn't some of
the newer men, the younger fellows,
tjeen laid off first? What is behind
this seeming discrimination? There
seems to be a gentleman of dark hue
in the woodjule somewhere in the pro
ceedings. Is it possible that some of
these old members of the police are
never again to see the department in
the nature of employes?
Why is it necessary that any mem
bers of the force be laid off at all?
Why couldn't there be an advance
drawing on the June taxeft as has been
done in the past for many years? It
would seem that it is up to the city
officials to keep the city departments
running without laying off any of the
employes.
Some time ago Mayor Kelly said
that if the police and firemen were
to be kept on the job the citizens
would have to make up a fund for
expenses. Mayor Kelly seems to
have a wrong conception of the duties
of his job. The citizens don't elect
a mayor to have him make sugges
tions. They put him in office and
expect him to do things. If the citi
zens have to make up a fund it is up
to the mayor to make the collection.
Wbuld Mayor Kelly expect that the
citizens raise a fund, place it in his
hands and say, "Here is money, now
go ahead and do something."
Surely not. Any $9 a week man
could run things if you put the tools
and money in his hands and told him
what to do with them. It is up to
Mayor Kelly and his assistants to
solve the city's financial problems.
Former mayor, Harry J. Koehler, Jr.,
when placed in the same-hole, slapped
on the occupational tax. True, there
was some growling on the part of
some of the payers, but it went
through all right and the various city
departments functioned. And so it is
right now. It is ap to Mayor Kelly
to scheme some way to get funds. If
his honor will go at it and pre
sent some plan for raising money he,
no doubt, will find the citizens ready
to meet him more than half way in
paying it. But he will also find that
the citizens will not act as collectors.
No one is blaming Mayor Kelly for
the shortage of funds in the city
treasury, as the same situation exists
in
every city in the state. However,
the
citizens do look to the mayor to
solve the financial problems of the
city, but by other
meant than laying
off the employes.
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It isn't
a question these-
days
how serious the crime or the
of
justness
or fairness of the fine, so much as
it is Jfche city needs the money,
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A little less attention on the part
of city authorities to sleuthing around
and catching some poor devil with a
mouthful of "moon" and mjre to a
better collection of garbage, cleaning
fnd filling holes in streets, forcing
the railroad companies to drop a few
wagon loads of dirt into the holes at
the various crossings so that one
wouldn't have to take their lives
their own hands every time they
crossed the tracks in an automobile,
and a few other things, would be ap
preciated by many of our citizens.
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CONTROL OF THE PRESS
Among other valuable and impor
tant information which the American
citizens are getting as a result of the
United States investigation of the
Teapot Dome oil scandal, is that re
lating to the controlled press of this
country.
In the hurry of modern life most
people allow the newspapers to do
their thinking for them. We have to
rely largely on the newspapers for
the facts and events happening every
day. Our decisions and our actions,
politically, economically and in every
other way, rest on the "facts" the
press# gives us. If the press, there
fore, is unrelitble or biased—if the
press is controlled and deliberately
misleads the people—we can see what
grave results follow. Evidence is at
hand recently that the press of this
country deliberately suppresses facts
and has played up other facts, and in
this way misleads the people. Let us
give some evidence of this for your
thought. On the second day of March,
1921, just two days before the pres
ent administration took charge of the
United States government, "The New
Republic" printed a leading editorial
which proved prophetic and began as
follows:
"Apparently Mr. Harding's cabinet
is a mixture of oil and water. One
man, Mr. Hughes, and perhaps two
•others, represent his conscience a
sense of what is expected of the man
who is president. The others repre
sent his cronies, or what he would
call his involvements. But for Mr
Hughes, Mr. Hoover if he joins, and
perhaps one wther, the Harding cabinet
is the perfect product of exactly those
men who drove Roosevelt to rebellion
in 1912. Men like Mr. H. M. Daugh
erty and Senator A. B. Fall are un
speakably bad appointments. They are
full blown specimens of the manipu
lating politician who serves private
and predatory interests. And accord
ing to the information at present
available they are to operate in the
two departments of the government—
justice and the interior—that are most
rich in spoils. To the tender mercies
of Mr. Fall, Mr. Harding proposes to
entrust the national domain to
Daugherty he proposes to hand over
the enormous and intricate powers, the
immense influence and the huge pat
ronage, of the Attorney General's
office. If he adheres to that inten
tion he will have made a mockery of
the republican promises about the
appointment of able men."
It is interesting to read this edi
torial, in the light of recent disclos
ures. Now the fact is that "The New
Republic" was not shrewder or more
knowing than any other .good news
paper, but do you recall reading in
any daily paper at that time any
criticism of either Fall or Daugherty?
On the contrary, you read as a rule
laudatory statements hailing the great
cabinet of the "best minds," which
was to bring the country back to a
safe and sane administration.
We were to have a government now,
the press told us, which was safe and
sane that is, labor was to be put in
its place, although they did not say
this also we were to have "more
business in government, and less gov
ernment in business."
The American people should not be
surprised at the disclosures which are
now taking place. Big business, of
the most corrupt kind, has had its
full swing and very little interfer
ence with it on the part of the gov
ernment ,and especially from the at
torney general. The attorney gen
eral was far too busy getting out in
junctions against labor organizations.
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WORKERS STRIKE ONLY AS
LAST RESORT
"Iii point of fact, the laboring man
is interested in preserving industrial
peace than either the employers .or the
public. Always the laboring man is
interested in preventing strikes.
Always the strike costs the laboring
man more than it does anyone else.
True, the public has an indirect inter
est and the employer also has an in­
terest, but the laboring man has more
at stake than all the rest'. When he
goes on a strike, whatever the final
result may be, he makes a sacrifice
of a part of his life. His commod
ity, the only thing he has to s§ll, is
labor and that part of his irreplen
ishable stoc,k in trade, measured by
the period of the strike, spoils upon
his hands and is lost to him beyond
recall. The necessaries of life for
himself and his family, his hope of
making himself independent for his
old age—all these things go out when
the strike comes. Let me, as one who
knows the intelligent workingman,
say to you that every such man en
ters upon a strike even as you would
go to the surgeon's table for a major
operation—only as a last resort. The
laboring man strikes because he feels
that his loyalty—not to his immedi
ate, selfish interest, but to his class,
to his calling, to his wife and chil
dren, and to other workingmen who
shall come after him—demands that
he make the sacrifice."—Representa
tive George Huddleston, of Alabama,
in speaking in favor of the Howell
Barkley railroad labor bill.
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WHAT TO DO WITH LAWS
An inhabitant of Mars who visited
the United States for the firts time
might well believe that our principal
occupation was the passing of laws.
Dr. John F. Coar, executive secretary
of the Liberal League, estimates there
are 2,000 laws on the statute books
of the national and state governments
As a remedy for this situation, Dr.
Coar advocated the repeal of two laws
for every new one passed.
The average citizen, as he views
the attempted regulation of virtually
everything from the wagging of a
dog's tail to the movements of the
heavenly bodies, might be disposed to
go further than Dr. Coar and advo
cate the repeal of at least half a
dozen existing laws for every new one
inflicted upon the nation. Then there
might be some hope of the people dig
ging themselves from out of the ever
growing avalanche of legislation.
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"BLAME IT ON HARDING"
Former Attorney General Daugh
erty has furnished the Coolidge cam
paign managers with a campaign slo
gan: "Blame it on Harding."
Whatever qualities the former at
torney-general may lack as a man or
public official, he does not lack intes
tinal stamina, and he will find many
men and women in his own party,
as well as in the party of the opposi
tion, who will sympathize with his
denunciation of the leaders of his
party who are seeking to hide behind
a tombstone.
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BURNS—HE'S OUT!
William J. Burns is no longer head
of the bureau of investigation of the
department of justice.
The line grows longer.
Fall went out. 9
Denby went out.
Daugherty went out.
Burns now goes out.
Burns has been famous for years
as a sleuth who hated labor. He now
hates something else—he hates sena
torial investigating-committees.
But Burns is out now. He has re
signed. His day as boss of the secret
service is over.
Who will be next to depart from a
nice, comfortable desk in high gov
ernmental circles?
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SENSIBLE ADVICE FROM
HOOVER
Herbert Hoover, secretary of com
merce, gave the coal consumers of the
nation a piece of good advice when he
urged them to lay in coal supplies
during the summer.
One of the great evils of the coal
mining industry has been the flucttia
tion in demand for coal. Long pe
riods of idleness at the mines have
been followed by periods of high pro
duction, when the best efforts of the
miners have been unable to keep up
with the demand.
By spreading the demand for coal
more evenly over the months of the
year, more regular work for the min
ers is assured. Regular work for the
men who dig coal would mean the
solving of a big problem in the coal
industry and would be of tremendous
benefit to the nation and industry as
a whole. As Mr. Hoover says:
"We have a national problem in
Securing cheaper coal by maintaining
more regularity in the production of
our coal mines by planning out its
seasonal fluctuations. This can only
be brought about if the coal consum
ers are willing to afcer*1 coal during
the low production season."
Aside from the question of keep
ing coal labor regularly employed, Mr.
Hoover pointed out that buying of
coal in the summer would prevent the
car shortage which occurs in the fall.
"The fall car shortage," he said,
"always has the effect of increasing
the price of coal and seriously dis
turbing the whole economic machine.
Security lies in repeating the storage
performance of last year by the man
ufacturers of the country taking re
serves of coal during the months of
May, June and July, thus foregoing
the necessity of coal shipments during
the peak period in competition with
the household movement. Outside of
strike years, these summer months
are universally the period of lowest
bituminous coal prices."
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SIX-DAY WEEK FOR FIVE-DA*
WAGES
A correspondent writes the Journal
that we have a five-day week but in
a sense that the average wage-earner
or even citizen does not fully realize.
This correspondent says that he has
five days in which to labor for the
support of himself and his family.
He says he labors the sixth day to
support the government. In other
words, in the five days he must pro
duce enough to earn maintenance for
the seven days of each week.
This is readily apparent from the
$8,000,000,000 of taxes which are
paid for federal, state and municipal
purposes, equal to about one-sixth of
the total increment of wealth in a
year. From another point of view,
one-sixth is probably less than the
amount of the labor he gives to the
government. Prices are raised indi
rectly far more than the share which
goes to the government, by the inter
est and expenses collected on that
sum every time the impost is passed
from one to another until it reaches
the ultimate consumer. The only way
to give the worker the product of
more than five days of his labor per
week is to reduce taxes. Tax reduc
tion is the purpose of budget reform,
so much talked and written about
these days, but along which ineS too
little is done.—Bricklayer.
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There is only one way to be assured
of the patronage of your own union
label, and that is to demand the union
label of any other trade on goods
which you may purchase.
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LESS
PRODUCTION
Results From Workers' 111
Health, Experts Decide
New York.—Physicians and indus
trial hygiene authorities, in associa
tion with the state labor department,
are arranging to study hygienic con
ditions in industry. Dr. W. Gilman
Thompson is chairman of an organ
ization formed for that purpose.
"Everywhere we see indications
that both employers and workers are
becoming keenly alive to the reaction
of conditions of environment upon
production.
"There is an increasing variety of
chemical substances used in the arts
and manufactures which possess
more or less toxic hazard for those
who come in close contact with them
Moreover, recent scientific studies of
general working conditions, sucha as
fatigue, ventilation, and a local tem
perature, have emphasized the impor
tant economic relationship which
these conditions bear to output in
manufacture.
"Quite recently the state, through
legislation, has indorsed the principle
that the worker who is seriously in
capacitated through the handling of
poisonous substances, such as lead, for
example, is just as worthy of compen
sation by his employer who has failed
to protect him adequately, as if he
had received some surgical accident
through similar neglect to provide
proper precautions against it.
"This principle has long been rec
ognized in England and in other for
eign countries, and its recent adop
tion by the state of New York has
led to legislation declaring that 10 oc
cupational diseases are compensable.
There is a probability that others" will
be added to this list in the near fu
ture, as experience may justify."
MANAGERS ARE SPLIT
UNION ACTORS SCORE
New York.—The Actors' Equity
Association split the theatrical man
agers and hos reached an agreement
with managers controlling 75 per cent
of the local play houses. Lee Schu
bert and William A. Brady are the
leading peace managers.
The "die-hards," led by Sam Harris,
organized a nejv association and are
issuing the press agent hokum about
"art for ajt's sake." As the actors
are thoroughly organized, and include
practically every star in America,
theatrical folk ask how long will the
Harris group maintain their position.
New York.—The Anaconda Copper
Company reports a net profit last
year of $8,767,814, after interest,
taxes, depreciation, and other charges
were paid. These profits compare
with $3,530,877 the previous year.
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RALSTON HONORED
Washington.—Prior to his depart
ure for -California, Jackson H. Ral
ston,, for years counsel for the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, was ten
dered a dinner by more than 300
friends. President Gompers spoke for
labor. Those present included repre
sentatives of every walk of life, many
of whom have opposed Mr. Ralston's
economic and political views, but who
now testified to his unselfishness and
his ability.
He is considered an authority on
questions involving human liberty,
taxation and international law. He
established his name in the latter field
in the pious fund cases before The
Hague tribunal and in the Venezuela
claims.
His first case before the United
States supreme court, as a youth, was
for the right of jury trial in a police
court." Last week he probably made
his last appearance before that court
in pleading for a jury trial in con
tempt cases.
These two cases, involving the right
of trial by jury, is indicative of his
life's work.
TAX AND INTEREST
EAT FARMPRODUCTS
Washington. Four-sevenths, or
nearly one-half, of -the total farm
income of this country is taken to pay
taxes and interest on mortgages and
debts, according to a report made by
the house committee on agriculture.
The committee favors the McNary
Haugen fdrm relief bill, designed to
create a $200,000,000 government cor
poration that will buy and sell ex
portable farm products whenever a
special emergency is declared.
The committee drew a gloomy pic
ture of the agricultural situation. It
was stated that one-half as many
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as during the whole period from 1902
to 1923.
One-quarter of the farm owners in
the corn and wheat belts are bank
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and hired men deserted the farm in
1922 to seek industrial employment.
Above all, tne report states, the
purchasing value of farm products is
less than' half what it was before the
war.
Martin Arnold
Geo. O. Betscher
Jack Dedrick
Economy Plumbing Co.
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PULLMAN-WORKERS STRIKE
Chicago.—Profits of the Pullman
Company are breaking all records, but
this corporation insists on its low*
wage system. It attempted to makfe
three *vage cuts in one month in orte
shop, and these employes suspended
work. More than 250 joined, the
Brotherhood Railway Carmen,.
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Louis B. Schaub
Seevers & Ballett
Albert Shuler & Son
Harry J. Thompson
The John L. Walker Co,
Ray Martz
Plumbers Local Union
No. 108
JAMES W. GRAFF", Business Agent.
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hornier instructo• at The Cincinnati College
of Embalming
Funeral Director
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