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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
laauad Weekly at S26 Mark* Street.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Telephone 1291
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio.
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
SENATOR MAGNUS JOHNSON
Senator Magnus Johnson states
that congress must do something for
the farmer* before congress adjourns.
Yes, sir "must do something."
Senator Magnus Johnson, we are
with you tooth and toenail, providing
you include the workers. Otherwise,
we'll be forced to take issue with your
program.
While the war was on between the
allied powers and the central powers
the farmers were receiving a price
which he thought warranted him to
increase the value of his land from
one hundred to two hundred dollars
per acre. In some sections the price
was raised from two hundred to four
hundred dollars per acre, and money
was borrowed at a valuation of three
hundred dollars per acre. The war
so far as real fighting was concerned
ended. Farm values dropped. The
banks held notes, farm and food
stuffs so far as the farmer was con
cemed, slumped. He could not meet
his obligations, and now he is be
tween the devil and the deep sea.
The men who work in shop and
mill and manufacture the things that
the farmer buys, were confronted with
a condition that only an expert at
juggling figures may give the answer
He got high wages while the war was
on, and his rents more than doubled
His wages mounted, but not in pro^
portion to the cost of living. There
was a nigger in the woodpile, and he
still continues to stay there. The
worker finds that he gets so many
dollars per day, when he works, but
the purchasing power of his dollars
are less than half what they formerly
were.
If Senator Magnus Johnson will in
elude the workers, and direct that
"big business" be limited to six per
cent on actual dollars invested in that
business, not what the traffic will
bear, we are for relief of the farmers
and that will include the toilers.
Senator Magnus Johnson should
know that six or eight per cent was
good interest a few years ago, but it
is a poor investment today that will
not return all the way from eight
to five hundred per cent, and in some
cases three or four thousand per
A Leader for
oAsIi Your
cent. Someone must pay that per
cent, and quite naturally, there be
ing so many workers
and
farmers,
they are the goats.
Reduction of taxes, reduction of
rents, reduction of freight rates, re
duction of the standing army of men
and women who live and garner
wealth without producing anything,
will help.
When it is necessary to have an
officer for every other worker, be he
farmer or millwright, the overhead
falls upon the shoulder of he who
produces.
Magnus Johnson might inquire how
a few years since, when potatoes
were scarce in Missouri, they could
be shipped from New York, with
freight cars heated by stoves, and
still be sold for $1.05 per bushel
after the long haulage.
Mr. Senator Johnson might inquire
how it is that the wheat which goes
to make a barrel of flour costs the
worker in the cities $18 in the form
of bread, while the farmer gets $2.50
for the wheat.
Yes, we are in favor of doing some
thing for the farmer, but for the
sake of your ancestors, Magnus, don'
forget that the men who build your
clothes, the clothes of your children
and the clothes of your good wife
that they are taking fifty cent dollars
and paying one hundred and two hun
dred per cent increase on the wool
and cotton that they buy from the
farm and plantation.—W. J. R.
Pa
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
Railroad executives like to pose as
being interested only in transporta
tion, but every now and then they are
revealed as taking more than a pass
ing interest in propaganda.
Just the other day Glenn Griss
wold, writing from Chicago in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, let the
cat out of the bag when he said:
"The general feeling is that little
can happen to the roads this year.
Congress has too short a time for
action to accomplish anything of con
sequence, and even if it did the legis
lation would not go into effect until
late in the year. Nevertheless, the
railroad executives are keeping go
ing a backfire of publicity to acquaint
the public with the true facts in an
endeavor to mold opinion in the direc
tion, to prevent any radical action
against the transportation systems
in the next session of congress."
That the railroads are busy fanning
the "backfire of publicity" of which
the Ledger speaks is apparent on
every hand. First it was the Mellon
tax plan that engaged the attention
of the railroad propagandists. Now
they are attacking the Howell-Bark
ley railroad labor bill and endeavoring
"to mold opinion in the right direc
tion," to quote the Ledger.
These propaganda activities are not
inclined to strengthen public regard
for the railroads. The people have
suspicion that the first business of
the carriers is to furnish efficient
transportation, and that if they will
stick to their business and leave
propaganda alone, they will be better
off, which seems to be a reasonable
way of looking at the matter.
IB IS I*
TYRANNY OF PROHIBITION
BREEDS LAWLESSNESS
Laws should be instituted not to
keep men from choosing between
good and evil, but to punish them if
they choose wrongly. In this way
self-reliance and self-control, essen
tial qualities in character building,
are developed in man.
The "prohibition" amendment and
the Volstead law, enacted under its
provisions, are a departure from this
principle, and as a consequence the
nation is suffering the penalty for its
folly and disregard of human prompt
ings.
Only a few years ago it was fully
within Christian morals and the laws
HOME BAKING WHEN TELEPHONE FLOUR IS
USED GIVES TO THE HOUSEWIFE THAT DE
LIGHTFUL SENSATION OF SATISFACTION OF
A THING WELL DONE
of our land for the people of America
to choose that form of drink desired.
The forces for temperate drinking
and the elimination of the "saloon"
evils were making rapid strides.
Christian intolerance and inordinate
desire of rich manufacturers to im
prove the productive capacity of the
human slave of toil, however, spurn
ed the idea of freedom of choice and
by subtle propaganda and devious
channels of political cajolery, suc
ceeded in converting the appeal to the
conscience of man to the power of
state and the policeman's bludgeon.
As if overnight the conduct of the
American people, deemed perfectly
lawful a few years ago, was made
immoral and a crime, and as a result
disorder rages the nation over.
It is this same class of our citizenry,
who are so largely responsible for
this unnatural law, are loudest in their
declamations that the nation is head
ed to ruin and that immorality and
a constantly increasing disregard for
law is damning our present day civil
ization. So intollerant has this band
of white ribboners become that even
those who would point out the folly
of the course pursued and who would
recommend a moderate procedure out
of the present day dilemma, are de
nounced in the most vituperous terms
and threatened with expulsion from
their various activities of mankind.
All fair-minded and competent ob
servers will agree that the attempt
to obtain abstinence by force of law
is a total failure. To maintain the
present stringent prohibition laws is
but to invite a growing disrespect
for law and to defeat the effort to
promote temperance by the cultiva
tion of self-respect and of strength of
character through education and re
ligion, which had been slowly but
surely making our nation sober and
temperate.
Prohibition in its present form
goes on breeding disorder and con
tempt for law. We are not astonished
that official Washington should be
contemptuous of the laws which it
enacted in compliance with a fantastic
demand which congress did not have
the moral courage to resist, laws
which the officials find more profitable
in their disregard than in their en
forcement and obeyance. The Vol
stead law, instead of ushering in a
heaven of peace and delight, is
building a habit of lawlessness that
is spreading like a forest fire.
Matthew Woll, president, Interna
tional Photo-Engravers' Union.
«n to Pa
What you do today will have an
effect tomorrow. Remember this
when you spend your union-earned
money for non-union goods.
to pn to
WHY UNIONISM THRIVES
As an individual the workingman is
just as helpless as a sapling in a
tempest. He may say that he intends
to work for whom he pleases and for
as many hours as he pleases, and he
may feel that he has the moral right
to do so, but he has not.
And then, again, he should know
as he will, sooner or later, perhaps
when it is too late, that he must ask
his employer for leave to work for
what he chooses to pay and for as
many hours as he desires.
Organized labor has been able,
through united action and collective
bargaining, to shorten the workday,
raise wages, and in many ways im
prove the conditions of the worker
it has prevented reductions in the
pay it has made homes better it
has secured better wages, better
clothes, better food, more comforts
and has made the shop, factory and
mine a better place to work.
Organized labor has been the fight
ing force in state legislatures and in
congress, not only for labor, but for
all men it has compelled the passage
of laws to protect the health of the
workers to take the children from the
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THE SUTLER COUNT* PRESS
mill and factory, and place them in
school to limit the hours of labor for
women and fix their wages above a
living wage to prevent the loss of
lives and limbs, and to compel the
payment for injuries to the body or
health. It has done this and more—
more than we can enumerate here.
Pa ta to to
SENSE FROM CONGRESS
"I believe that it is our duty to act
now to relieve the postal worker from
the ever-increasing cost of living."—
Representative Adolph J. Sabath, of
Illinois, in speaking in support of bill
to increase postal workers' pay^
"The laboring man goes out upon
a strike even as a soldier goes into
the front-line trench to fight for his
country, fighting not for himself but
for all common men, that their labor
may be made to yield a just return
and their future be assured. Of course
the strike costs him more than any
body else."—Representative George
Huddleston, of Alabama, in speaking
on Howell-Barkley railroad labor bill.
"What have the American people a
right to demand of their transporta
tion system? The public of the
United States have a right to two
things—efficient service and reason
able charges."—Representative C. F.
Lea, of California, speaking on trans
portation act.
Nothing can check our progress, if
the members of organized labor will
always demand the union label.
THE KALEIDOSCOPE
By I. C. McCUMBER
The industrial commission of Ohio
has refused to recognize the claims
of two "card men" in the state pro
hibition department who were injured
while conducting raids, on resulting in
death. The disallowance order was
based upon the ruling of Attorney
General Crabbe that the men were
illegally employed and for the further
reason that they were not paid by the
state or a subdivision thereof. They
received part of the fines assessed
violators as their remuneration, for
which the commission received no
premiums. Wake up, Westerville!
Why not ask the penny contributors
to raise a fund and thereby erect gal
lows upon which to hang the dry at
torney general? Where's James
White and the rest of the silk-finger
ed boys?
o
According to the daily press, the
Spanish inquisition has arrived in a
new form. Roy Haynes, who at one
time impressed the bucolic people of
Hillsboro, O., with his wonderful
statesmanship, erstwhile national pro
hibition commissioner, is given the
credit for the addition. When the
good wife goes to the grocery and
buys a cake of yeast, she must swear
before a notary public that the yeast
is to be used in the baking of bread.
If she purchases sugar, she must
swear on a stack of Bibles a mile high
that she will not use any of the sugar
in making root beer. If she buys
cheese cloth she must take an oath
before a duly sworn notary public that
it will not be used to make a sack
in which to boil hops. If she pur
chases a can of malt she must take
two swears that she will not lend any
of it to her neighbors. And thus,
Mr. Haynes proves conclusively that
he is a great bucolic, and that he
would have his nose in the private
home of every American-born citizen,
in spite of what has been prated
about the constitution. Roy must
have forgotten to sandpaper his feet
this spring!
o
If all the investigations never pro
duced another thing, the fact that
they have forced the retirement of
Harry Daugherty would compensat.e
A smudge of "bolshevists" as a smoke
screen drew attention away from the
real and genuine functions of that
office, and sufficed to rrfake him solid
with those who were in the plum
and apple knocking business. Attor
ney General Stone, according to re
ports, is not afraid, excepting possi
bly from those who pose as "100 per
cent" Americans.
——o
With vetoing the Bursum bill,
President Coolidge forgot one thing
He forgot that the few remaining men
who fought the battles in the Mexi
can and Civil, also the Spanish
American wars, are entitled to more
than a crumb in their last days on
earth. He forgets that the preserva
tion of one country and flag is worth
more than the plaudits from the sut
lers and robbers who waxed wealthy
during those wars in the unholy gains
made in robbing the people. It is to
be hoped that congress will revive
the bill and give the men who made
this country possible for the president
to live in, their just dues.
1,000 CHARTERS
Washington.—The National Feder
ation of Post Office Clerks, affiliated
with the A. F. of L., has issued its
one-thousandth charter to Wellsville,
N. Y. The first charter was issued to
Chicago post office clerks on August
27,1906.
PITTSBURGH "PLUS"1
AIDS STEEL TRUST
Washington,—The steel trust's spe
cial privilege, known as "Pittsburgh
plus," was attacked in the senate by
Mr. Gooding of Idaho, who declared
that the country's natural resources
are not being developed under this
system.
Periodically "Pittsburgh plus*' is
denounced by lawmakers, state offic
ials, government agencies and private
citizens, but the trust continues to
levy tribute on every person by enforc
ing this extra charge on steel.
Under "Pittsburgh plus" every steel
buyer as far west as Pueblo must pay
the freight rate on steel from Pitts
burgh to the place where he uses it.
This places the trust's mills in the
vicinity of Pittsburgh on the same
competitive basis as mills near the
raw material,* which the steel trust
controls.
The purchaser may go to the steel
mills at Pueblo, Col., and buy 1,000
pounds of steel of. any kind, but he
pays the freight on it from Pitts
burgh.
"It is said that the farmers of the
country are paying $50,000,000 a year
of an increase in freight rates on man
ufactures of iron and steel brought
about by the 'Pittsburgh plus' policy,"
said Mr. Gooding.
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organized labor:
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(Jeo. O. Betscher Seevers & Ballett
Jack Dedrick Albert Shuler & Son
Economy Plumbing Co. Harry J. Thompson
Fred J. Farr The John L. Walker Co.
Ray Martz
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