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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31,1924
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 826 Market Street
Telephone 1296 Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
VOTE THE SCHOOL LEVY
Hamilton is not alone in asking
for an extra levy for schools. Most
all cities in Ohio are asking for ad
ditional aid for maintaining schools
The local board of education has made
it plain that the schools cannot con
tinue under the present income. The
authorities are asking for an extra
levy of 2.18 mills for just one year
when it is hoped a reappraisement of
property will relieve the situation
No schools are more economically ad
ministered than is Hamilton's. If we
are to continue on in the good work
of the past in our schools, the authori
ties must have the money to do so
Let us give our boys and girls every
advantage that school can give them
—let's vote the school levy.
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VOTE THE SEWER BONDS
Another proposition that is deserv
ing of the support of the Hamilton
voters is the $250,000 bond issue to
build the Crawford Run sewers. It
is to furnish a storm sewer system
for that territory lying east of the
canal. The people in that vicinity
have petitioned for sewers and want
them bad. It means getting them out
of the mud and water in wet weather.
Most of the residents have helped pay
for storm sewers in other parts of
the city and they feel, and justly so,
that they are entitled to the same
consideration the same improve
ments—that residents in other parts
of the city enjoy. The Press advises
voting for the sewer bonds.
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CONSTITUTION BREAKERS?
The following article "is taken from
the "Here and There" column of the
Hamilton Evening Journal on Satur
day night of last week.
"La Follette, the third parly can
didate for president, is not without
what some practical politicians call
"high brow" support in Butler county.
In a public statement several of the
professors at Miami University say
that both Coolidge and Davis are con
ervatives and that La Follette rep
resents their idea of a progressive.
So they have announced their inten
tion -to vote for him."
And then the article goes on to
give the names of nineteen members
of the Miami University faculty staff
who declare they are going to vote
for La Follette.
Are these wise men to be declared
radicals and constitution breakers be
cause of their stand as the daily press
has said of all those who declare for
La Follette? It will be found when
the votes are counted on next Tues
day night that there are many big
brainy men to whom La Follette look
ed like the real man to elect president
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NEW PARK BOARD MEMBER
No appointment at any time by the
mayor of our city ever met with more
popular approval than the one this
week by Mayor Kelly of Ben Strauss
as member of the board of park com
missioners, to fill the unepired term
of the late Abram Ballinger. Mr
Ballinger was a brother-in-law of Mr
Strauss, so that no one knows bet
ter than he, the wonderful dream of
Mr. Ballinger for large and beauti
ful parks for Hamilton. And anyone
knowing the Strauss family, the close
ties of love and devotion to each other
in it, knows that the appointment of
Ben Strauss on the park board means
the carrying out of Mr. Ballinger's
dream so far as it will be in Ben
Strauss' power to do so. Ben Strauss
has a big job before him—the job of
carrying out the expectations of the
Hamilton public—because Ben Strauss
has been such a big success in every
thing he has ever undertaken—in his
business, as head of the Hamilton
Chapter of the Red Cross, etc., much
is expected of him as a member of
the park board. But knowing him as
we do, the Press predicts that Ben
Strauss will fill the job in every par
ticular and meet every expectation.
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CAST YOUR VOTE
Tuesday is election day. It is the
solemn duty of every working man
and woman to cast his vote on that
day. Think it over carefully. Study
the candidates, tax levies, bond pro
posals, etc. Do as you please, but
be sure to vote.
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REACTION FURIOUS AT
LABOR'S SOLIDARITY
"The supreme court must not be
criticised and A. F. of L. officials
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cannot deliver the labor vote," is re
action's warning to labor in the clos
ing days of the campaign.
Reaction is well aware that the
only attempt to deliver the labor vote
is by those who would dull the work
ers' conscience and confuse their
judgment.
The offense of the A.rF. of L. offi
cials is that they have presented the
records of all candidates and have
drawn the deadly parallel on the three
political platforms.
Comparisons of the old-party can
didates with La Follette and Wheeler
is to the disadvantage of the former.
Therein is the reason for reaction's
ragings.
If A. F. of L. officials failed to be
true to their trust, and if they ignor
ed history in their discussions of the
supreme court, they would be prais
ed without stint.
In its defense of the supreme court,
privilege has reached the zero point.
Reaction would have the public be
lieve that present-day criticism of the
court are original that in no other
period have the American people
challenged court usurpation.
The contrary is true. Compared
with other days, the court critics of
today are mild.
Thomas Jefferson said that the ju
diciary are the sappers and miners
of the constitution.
Most vigorous attacks on the su
preme court followed its Dred Scott
decision, wherein it held that a slave
is property.
On March 3, 1858, Senator Sumner
of Massachusetts, declared on the
floor of the senate that the people
"never will accept principles so un
constitutional and abhorrent," and
that "the supreme court can reverse
its judgment more easily than we can
reconcile the people to its usurpa
tion."
For this speech Senator Sumner
was assailed as venomously by the
slave holders and their northern de
fenders as are the progressives of
1924.
History is replete with instances
where members of congress and pri
vate citizens have criticised the su
preme court far more vigorously than
today.
In his debates with Senator Doug
lass, Abraham Lincoln frequently
charged that the Dred Scott decision
was the result of an understanding
with Chief Justice Taney, Douglass
and Buchanan before the latter was
elected president. Documentary
evidence supports this charge.
No worker need be alarmed at the
outbursts of reaction when the su
preme court is criticised because of
its anti-child labor decisions.
The reactionary of 1924 is using the
same methods as the reactionary of
other days.
When A. F. of L. officials are
charged with "attempting to deliver
the labor vote," it is a sure sign
that privilege is alarmed.
By Favored Business For
Campaign "Educational
Purposes"
Washington.—Testimony before the
senate committee that is investigat
ing campaign contributions reveal in
side methods by big business to raise
millions of dollars for "educational
purposes."
Reaction has insisted that the La
Follette forces have large sums of
money at their command, but the sen
ate committee finds that this national
commit!l.r.3 bvt ''190,000. The re
publicans acknowledged that they re
ceived $1,700,000, Chairman But
ler of that national committee saiu
1 ha amount will b- $3,000,000 boi'cre
election. Thie does not include mon
eys contributed to biate committees.
fCcw York i:- expected to rake $1,000,
000. Pennsylvania's quota is $600,
000, and $300,000 for Illinois. The
Pennsylvania fund is in charge of
Joseph R. Grundy, president of the
Manufacturers' Association of that
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state and leading opponent of social
legislation of every character. In one
of his appeals, Mr. Grundy makes
this significant* statement: "Surely
we should be moved to adopt meas
ures, immediate and strong, which an
enlightened self-interest suggests."
In another plea for funds, issued
on the stationery of the Mechanics
and Metals National Bank of New
York, business men are called upon
to shake down "your junior officers
or department heads." It is suggest
ed that these be held up for from
$10 to $25. "As a business proposi
tion your assistants should contribute
liberally," business men are reminded.
The Manufacturers' Club of Phila
delphia warns that present tariff laws
are in danger, and that "the primary
purpose in the formation of this club
was to help maintain a protective
tariff." Lest this plea be considered
too business like, the letter closes as
follows: "We appeal for your mate
rial support of our existing form of
government and American principles."
Carl W. Riddick, former congress
man from Montana, who was defeated
by Senator Wheeler, wastes no time
in waving the flag. As chief shaker
down for the National Republican
League, he says:
"To be a triflle blunt, let me say I
hope you will sign the enclosed slip
and enclose it with your check at the
earliest possible moment."
The democrats have raised approxi
mately $550,000. They expect to se
cure $750,000, it is stated.
MINERHJNES
Hold Firm Against Wage
Cutting Plot of Opera
tors
Indianapolis.—The greatest finan
cial and industrial interests in Amer
ica are making a desperate attempt
to destroy the United Mine Woi'kers
of America, declares the United Mine
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Workers' Journal. Never before have
the miners faced such "a bitter, vi
cious attack as is being made at this
time."
"Every possible force and influence
that can be marshaled is utilized to
break down the union and throw the
coal industry back to the days of in
dustrial servitude.
"There are injunctions and more in
junctions lawsuits and more law
suits contract violations and more
contract violations attempted starva
tion and more attempted starvation
evictions and more evictions gunmen
and more gunmen oppression and
more oppression treachery and more
treachery.
"The whole thing revolves ardund
an attempt to reduce the wages of
mine workers- so the coal owners may
make greater profits. Nothing else
is involved. In non-union and unor
ganized coal fields, where armed gun
men are employed by coal companies
to intimidate and beat up offensive
workers, wages have been cut, even
below the starvation line.
"Some of these non-union coal com*
panies are reaping enormous profits
by reason of the wage reductions
which they have forced upon helpless
employes.
"But there is one great outstanding
fact that shines forth through all of
this struggle. The lines of the union
have held and are holding. The
desperate tactics of these union bust
ers have failed to break the morale
of men who are fighting to earn a de
cent living.
"It is one of the greatest lights in
industrial history.
"But the United Mine Workers of
America will not fail. This is not the
first time these forces have attacked
the union. Time and again they have
tried the same thing, and in each case
have failed."
Read the Press.
Edgar K. Wagner i!
ormer Instructor at The Cincinnati Co'le^re
of Embalming
Funeral Director
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John P. Rogers
Of
Hamilton, Ohio
For
Congress
John P. Rogers is a lawyer engaged in the
practice of law in Hamilton and since his
admission to the bar he has been a member
of the law firm of Andrews, Andrews and
Rogers.
iiui ing the iate war he was an officer in the
United States Army. He is a resident of
this county and solicits the vote and support
of the people of Butler county at the polls
Tuesday, November 4th.
Elect A
Butler County Man
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