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Scored by Trades Council
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WHEREAS, It is proper for the
members of organized labor in their
^assemblages to express their views on
the conduct of those in public office,
whether elective or appointive, and to
saward their approval or disapproval
of their actions and
WHEREAS, Three members of the
Hamilton board of health, namely,
A. L. Smedley, L. Hemler and G.
Morey, on October 11, 1924, in re
cessed session removed the efficient
clerk and registrar of the above men
tioned board and elected a relative of
a member as clerk therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the Co-Operative
Trades and Labor Council of Hamil
ton, Ohio, give their decided con-
Anyone who has witnessed the
parades of boys and girls held in
Hamilton within the past year has
seen the major part of the 6500 rea
sons why the extra levy of 2.18" mills
which the board of education is ask
ing for ONE YEAR should carry.
We are prone to think that it is up
to the school authorities to decide
just how good a school system any
district shall have. As a matter of
fact, the people themselves are the
ones in whose hands is the power of
determining how good a school sys­
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Miss Emma Shuler
Why the Extra Levy
For Schools Should Carry
demnation and disapproval' of lt»cK
selfish action, and that we censure
Howard Kelly as mayor and elective
head of the board of health for his
absence from this meeting, as it wsa
well known what was to transpire
and be it further
RESOLVED, That we spare no
honorable effort to prevent their fu
ture acquisition of office.
G. BRANDEL,
FRED WOODREY,
ISRAEL E. BUELL,
Committtee.
The above resolutions were ordered
by the Co-Operative Trades and La
bor Council in regular session on
October 14, 1924.
tem they will havek
Support and appreciation are nec
essary to a good school system.
School authorities are always desir
ous of building a school system that
will compare favorably with the best
in standards, in instruction, in physi
cal equipment and especially in char
acter development. This means, of
course, a constant effort to make the
school system of as great service to
the pupils as possible. When school
systems fail in service the pupils are
the ones who feel the failui'e most.
FOR JUDGE OF
THECOURT OF
APPEALS
$5 CLASS NOW OPEN $5
First District of Ohio
Become a member of the
Butler, Hamilton, Clinton,
Warren and Clermont
Counties
A VOTE FOR
FRANK WEAVER
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
FOR
COUNTY
SURVEYOR
IS A VOTE FOR
Service and
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Efficiency
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For Judge,
Court of Appeals,
Wade Cushing
VOTE FOR HIM
ON NON-PARTISAN
JUDICIAL BALLOT
Election Tuesday, Nov. 4„ 1924
-Issued by Wade Cu&hing, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fraternal Order Of Eagles
and cUjU} the unlimited amount ol privileges tiuu art available
in this great fraternity
AGES FROM 18 TO 50
COME! JOIN OUR RANKS
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It is not likely that a public that
understands this, will fail to vote
favorably for the school levy on No*
vember 4.
The extra tevy asked (S.18 mills)
is not an additional levy. It replaces
taxes lost to the schools in various
ways.
First there are 1:50 mills—an extra
levy voted three years ago which ex
pired in August, 1924.- Then there
is .58 mill levied outside of all limi
tations last year which by a ruling
of the state authorities must come
inside the 10 mill limit this year. The
revenue- from it is used to retire de
ficiency bonds and is that much taken
from the operating revenues .24
mill from local taxation is not avail
able this year for schools. The levy
for bonds (in the 5 mill limit) is
reduced this year from 1.20 mills to
1.09 mills—a reduction of .11 mill.
An extra levy of 1:50 mills voted
three years ago expired in August,
1924.
The sum of these items is 2.43
mills. To replace this an extra levy
of 2.18 mills for ONE YEAR is ask
ed. This reduces the rate for schools
by .25 mill. Most cities in Ohio vot
ing on this issue are asked for an
extra levy of 3 mills for a period of
five years.
Another thing worthy of considera
tion with respect to tHte costs of the
schools of Hamilton is that the aver
age cost (including bond, interest and
sinking charges) per pupil is about
$80.00 per year. In the elementary
schools this cost is about $70.00 per
pupil per year, and in the high school
about $120.00 per pupil per year.
Deducting bond, interest and sinking
fund charges the operating costs are
about $53.00 and $103.00 respectively
per pupil per year. Schools are in
session about 950 hours per year, and
the cost per hour per pupil in the
elementary school is about 7.4 cents
per hour counting all costs, and about
5.6 cents per hour counting operating
costs only. In the high school the
figures are about 12.6 per hour count
ing all costs, and about 10.8 cents
per hour counting only operating
costs.
Arithmetic, grammar history, etc.
cost 5.6 cents per hour, and geometry
physics, chemistry, etc., cost 10.8
cents per hour.
These costs are very low when. con
sidered in comparison with most
types of instruction, and they are ex
ceedingly low when the high stand
ard of the instruction given is taken
into consideration.
The question for every voter to de
cide in regard to the extr\ levy for
schools November 4 is whether he will
support the boys and girb to the ex
tent shown in the figures given.
We think they are worth all of
that and MORE.
RETAIL CLERKS
MEET
Retail Clerks' Union No. 119 held
an interesting meeting Monday night
and which was well attended. Much
routine business was transacted and
three new members were enrolled.
Scarcely a meeting goes by these days
that the clerks don't add to the mem
bership roll. Several applications
were read and referred.
Ray Cooper was the lucky one in
the monthly drawing. Each meeting
a name is drawn from a box con
taining the names of all members. If
the member whose name is drawn is
present he is given one dollar for at
tending. If the member whose name
is drawn is absent the dollar goes
into the next meeting's pot. Ray
happened to hit a two-dollar pot.
That's not bad for attending a meet
ing. This little innovation adds
much to the pleasure of the meeting
and is profitable to the winner.
The clerks decided to advertise all
the stores having signed agreements
with their local and who display the
union card.
cm VAUCLAIN
Bitter Anti-Unionist Agaii
in Limelight
Philadelphia.—Thu :ioiiate commit
tee that ir. iiivestipp.tiT'.g eampaij?!
collections has ciW Samuel Vauclain
president of the Baldwin locomotiv
works.
Mr. Vauclain is an ardent advocate
of the Coolidge candidacy, and is just
as ardent in his hatred of trade union
ism. In a speech at New Orleans he
f'eclared that the way to stop strike
is to discharge workers and jail
trade union officials. The Baldwi
locomotive works is.one of the most
notorious sweat shops in the countr
The contract system is general, and
multiplicity of contractors employ
their own labor and arbitrarily s
wapres, with workers havein» no voicp
in the transaction.
Two years ago the interstate com
merce commission made a report on
the manner in which the company and
the Pennsylvania railroad, another
bitter anti-union corporation, gouged
the public in repairing 200 Jocomo
tives. The total gouge was approxi
mately $3,000,000, and the excess
ranged from $11,000 to $16,000 for
each locomotive. The commission
•eache 1 this conclusion by usiiig rl.r
cost figures of the shops of the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The railroad claimed it could not do
the work in its own shops, but this
the commission denied. The contract
was signed 10 days after federal con
trol of railroads
was
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THE bOTLER COUNTY PRESS
The commission found that some of
the Baldwin work was defective, and
when it was properly repaired, the
railroad paid for it the second time.
Mr. Vauclain is now preaching the
doctrine of "Why change?"
FICTITIODS VALUES
CAUSE HIGH RENTS
Washington.—An organization of
renters in this city has asked Presi
dent Coolidge for authority to use one
of the parks, with army tents and
campaign equipment for the relief of
2,000 tenants who are threatened with
eviction by profiteering landlords.
A federal law is supposed to check
these gougings, but through court
procedure they have made the act in
effective. An investigation conduct
ed by a senate committee last sum
mer showed that properties in the
nation's capital are mortgaged in ex
cess of their values and the owners
demand rentals on-these fictitious fig
ures.
Thirty-three apartments are mort
gaged for an aggregate of $9,000,000,
more than their sales prices. Figures
in other cases encumbered properties
from 13 to as high as 307 per cent
above their sales prices.
Interests on these debts, based on
false values ax*e paid by tenants in
high rents, while the owners and the
public press blame "high wages" for
exorbitant rentals.
BACK LA FOLLETTE
Longshoremen Will Not Be
Intimidated
Seattle, Wash. The executive
council of the Longshoremen's Inter
national Association "will not be bull
dozed into going along with the fake
indorsement of Coolidge," said An
thony J. Chlopek, president of that in
ternational, in a letter to George
Soule, secretary of the Pacific coast
district of longshoremen.
The letter was in answer to a tele
gram to Soule from New York city
longshorement that they would with
draw from the international if the
executive council of the longshoremen
concurred in the political policy of
the A. F. of L. Soule forwarded the:
telegram to President Chlopek, who
replies that "the telegram is all bunk"
and that it is part of a mob scene
staged by "the chairman of the
United States shipping board," who
at one time was president of the long
shoremen.
"The telegram is the work of a cer
tain mob in the district council of
New York who do not believe or
practice fair play, but on the other
hand are attempting to bulldoze the
international executive council in go
ing along with the fake indorsement
of Coolidge," said President Chlopek.
"All of this is the work of the chair
man of the United States shipping
board, and the mob in New York who
is doing his bidding.
"I am indeed gratified tc be able to
advise you that the majority of our
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international executive council has
voted to fully concur in the policy of
the American Federation of Labor,
and this is the set policy of our inter
national. You are at liberty to so ad
vise all our locals, on
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Of Coal Owners Scored By
U. S. Judge
Huntington, W. Va.—Don Clhafin,
sheriff of Logan county and chief gun
man for the coal owners, was de
nounced by Federal Judge McClintic,
who sentenced the thug to two years
in the Atlanta penitentiary for boot
legging.
The court warned other thugs in
Logan county that witnesses against
Chafin would be -protected.
Judge McClintic showed he is ac
quainted with industrial conditions in
Logan county and with the efforts of
coal barons to further degrade their
non-union employes.
The bootlegging that Chafin, sheriff
of Logan county, was engaged in,
said Judge McClintic, "had its incep
tion largely in the desire of people
to control the human beings who live
in that county, and to use certain peo
ple of certain classes and make them
do what they want them to do and if
they did not do it, then they would be
driven out."
Judge McClintic said he did not
care "what the suppliant judge of
Logan county or the prosecuting at
torney of Logan county" do, but the
fact remains, said the judge, that
these public officials protected the
sheriff and his pals in their bootleg
ging.
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GUNMAN
On the Extra Levy for Schools for
ONE YEAR ONLY
This is NOT AN ADDITIONAL LEVY
School Rate Last Year 8.37 mills
Next Year With Extra Levy 8.12 mills
REDUCTION Next Year .25 mill
Most Ohio cities are asking an extra levy for schools of 3
mills for 5 years. Hamilton asks for 2.18 mills for one year only.
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NEW LASS EXECUTIVE
Philadelphia.—James Maloney is
the new' president of the Glass Bottle
Blowers' Association of the United
States and Canada. He succeeds the
late John A. Voll.
To The Voters Of Butler County:-
J.
VOTE "YES" NOV. 4
ADDITIONAL TAX LEVY
Hamilton City School District
For an additional levy of taxes for
the purpose of supporting the schools
in said district not exceeding two and
eighteen-hundredths (2.18) mills for
notio exceed one (1) year. YES.
For an additional levy of taxes for
the purpose of supporting the schools
in said District not exceeding two and
eighteen-hundredths (2.18) mills for
nDt to exceed one (1) year. NO.
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Mr. Conklin's short administration of fourteen
months has been very bitter to the PROFES-'
SIONAL POLITICIANS of Butler County, while
on the other hand they (Politicians) are strong
supporters of the Democratic candidate who has
been in public office within the domain of these
politicians for TWENTY-NINE YEARS. Mr.
Taxpayer—why the difference
Keep Politics out of Public Works
by Supporting Conklin
If elected I will enforce the laws of the State of Ohio
without distinction or favor to any group or class of
citizens.
I believe the powers of this office are such that men
may be deterred from commercial law breaking by warn
ing of'the consequences of their actions.
When warnings fail, I will use all the powers of the
office to secure the conviction and punishment of those
responsible for violations of the law.
'Ay,
.Republican.^.
Candidate
f°r
Surveyor
{Second Term)
PROFITS IN SULPHUR
New York.—Profits of the Texas
Gulf Sulphur Company are at the
rate of $4,500,000 annually. Net
earnings for the last quarter were
$1,140,219.
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Democratic Candidate for Prosecuting Attorney
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