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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1925
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.
HE'S RIGHT
The union man who attends his
local regularly and handles the busi
ness of the organization is apt to
say, with a degree of pride, that he
is a union man but not a card man
The hustling unionist has little regard
for the card man, because he believes
that the latter carries a card only
for the sake of the high wages which
it brings him. He's right. If
workingman joins a union merely to
get a bigger pay envelope he is in
the wrong pew. There never was
time when a professional strike
breaker conuldn't obtain higher wages
than the best unionist. Unionism
means more than wages. Working
for a living never was a cinch, but
conditions are better for both organ
ized and unorganized workers today
than ever before. This is no accident
Fifty years ago in free America the
average workday was twelve hours
long. Seventy-five years ago work
men toiled fourteen to sixteen hours
The courage and the sacrifice of the
eai-ly trade unionist made the ten
hour day possible. The uniting labor
of the last twenty years has brought
the eight and nine-hour day into gen
eral use. In those days strikes plod
ded steadily on with their organiza
tions, and the great unions of the
present are the result.
Wtal Men Me
NOTHING
HARMONY?
Previous to the election last No
vember the republican organ urged
the re-election of the county surveyor
and at the same time asked the vot
ers to support the republican candi
dates for county commissioner that
there might be harmony and team
work between these two offices in the
accomplishment of proposed road
work in the county. We were just
wondering if the harmony and team
work referred to is of the kind ex
isting between the mayor's office and
that of city council in the present
day.
That lone democrat in city council
seems sitting pretty these days.
With the republican members evenly
split, his is the controlling vote he
holds the balance of power.
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PARTY REGULARITY
Party regularity is hot stuff.
Brother Coolidge is determined to
have it if it busts the bank.
Wheeler, for following his own con
science in public affairs, gets indicted.
That for him.
Couzens, for standing out and fight
ing big business, gets an old ten
million-dollar income tax slapped on
him. That for him.
The four progressives, for serving
the people, get read out of their com
mittee positions. That for them.
These men were elected by the peo
ple as good party members. They
have been doing what their constitu
ents expected them to do and elected
them to do. This is rare in public
life—and the party machines don't
want too much of it.
But finally, when Coolidge, as
last test of party regularity, tried to
force Warren through as attorney
general, the senators turned around
and stepped all over the appointment
Too much is enough, they said, and
Mr. Warren was counted out twice
for good measure.
Every person who cast a vote last
November can draw his own lesson
from this fight about party regularity
HATCH UNION BUSTERS
AND PUT THE "SCREWS"
The Operative Builders' Associa
tion, formed a few weeks ago
Washirngton, D. C., to combat efforts
of building trades union to increase
wages, comes forward with a plan to
establish trade schools to train work
ers, who are expected to take the
places of union men in emergencies
The association declares it already
has the names of 150 young men who
want to enter such schools.
The Operative Builders' Associa
tion claims to have contractors, build
ers and financiers tied up with agree
ments not to recognize employers
who grant wage increases, which
means that contractors and builders
will not be able to borrow capital on
which to do business.
The association also claims to have
the support of the Washington real
estate board, and the Washington As
ciation of Building Owners and Man
agers, representing most of the large
satisfies as much as a
new pair of Oxfords. Men have
long passed from the "anything will
do class. They are precise in their
demands. They want good style,
good value and good service. They
surely expect it in Oxfords for
Easter, and we are prepared to fulfill
every one of their expectations.
New Shades of Tan
Are Very Striking
$4.99 and $5.99
The Dan Cohen Co.
246 High Street
property owners there.
This is a plain, ordinary, every-day
boycott, proposing the withholding of
business from all who oppose the pro
gram of the association. The asso
ciation is composed of business men
and is backed by business men. Sup
pose, now—of course, just suppose—
when this plan goes into effect, the
labor unions of Washington should de
clare a boycott of all business houses
in the business section of the city,
and that labor and its friends would
confine their patronage to business
houses outside this section. You
would hear a howl all over the na
tion, but it would effective tumble
down the house of cards these "build
ers" have erected for themselves.
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FIGHT WILL GO ON
The child labor amendment to the
federal constitution is not dead.
The enemies of the children have
won a large majority of the skir
mishes before the state legislatures,
and they are endeavoring to create
the impression that "it is all over but
the shouting."
The constitution says that a pro
posed amendment may be ratified by
three-fourths of the states. It says
nothing about defeating an amend
ment.
The legislatures can refuse to ratify
but they can not kill.
It is well to get that fact clearly
in mind. It will inspire the friends
of the children to gird their loins for
the long battle which is before them
They are at least assured sufficient
time to make the fight. There will
be no snap judgment.
The verdict rendered by many of
the legislatures is, of course, keenly
disappointing.
But, on second thought, why should
anyone be surprised?
The reactionaries had things pretty
much their own way in the state
elections last November.
They filled the legislatures with
the kind of men who would listen to
the lobbyists of the cotton mills and
the National Association of Manu
facturers.
On top of that, thousands of good
men and women have been deceived
by the lying propaganda of the ene
mies of the children.
When the light of truth finally pen
etrates to all the dark places there
will be a splendid reaction. We will
have a new kind of legislator to deal
with next time.
Lincoln knew the American people
"You can fool some of them all the
time," he said, "and all of them some
of the time, but you can't fool all of
them all of the time."—Labor.
RIDICULOUS CLAIM
Chicago.—Organized labor ridicules
the claim that state police can patrol
and guard the highways of Illinois
The unionists show that this state has
100,000 miles of highways, and that
the 455 men the cossack bill calls for
would have to cover at least 1,000
miles every 12-hour shift}, if they
traveled in pairs. This estimate
makes allowance for a maximum
force of 400 privates on active duty
while the others would do barrack
duty, be on sick leave, or engaged
in the duties of officers.
The workers insist that the purpose
of the cossack system is to overthrow
the local police power of communities
and substitute the old European the
ory of policing.
CAN'T RECEIVE VISIT
ORS
Mammoth, W. Va.—Strikebreaking
miners who rent company houses
here are not allowed to have a friend
spend the night with them. The
coal barons have this clause in the
contract to defeat any "agitator
talking trade unionism to their free
and independent employes.
Strikers were evicted from the?
company houses and have lived
tents all winter. Out of 298 mem
bers in Local Union No. 404 there
have been but five desertions.
AUTO DEATHS IN
CREASE
Washington.—Deaths from auto
mobile accidents increased in 1924, the
rate being 16 per 100,000 as com
pared with 15.4 in 1923, according to
the United States public health serv
ice.
Automobile fatalities still head the
list of accidental deaths, causing four
times as many deaths as railroad acci
dents, and more than twice as many
as result from accidental falls or
accidental drownings.
CIVIL SERVICE
SHOWS WOMEN
IN NEW JOBS
Washington.—Entry of women into
new fields of work in recent years is
reflected in the records of civil service
employment, where they now hold
many situations for which they were
barely considered in the past, said a
statement by the civil service com
mission.
Wiule until recent year* "j£ was
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
Climbing up isn't always
easy, but the view from the
top is great.
If you save money this
month, next month and
every
month for a few years, you'll
know later that the effort was
worth all it cost you.
That's the beauty of a
share account in our associa
tion. We urge REGULAR
saving—every month saving.
It's the steady continuous
pull
that counts.
The basic plan of the build
ing association is continuous
thrift. You invest your sav
ings without ceasing, if possi
ble, and without ceasing
we
add earnings.
Sure atld safe and profit
able.
Our shares earn 5%.
The Peoples Deposit
Improvement and Loan Co.
Rentschler Bldg.
E. F. WARNDORF, Secretary
difficult to visualize a woman em
playe of the government in other
than a clerical or stenographic posi
tion, an increasing number are now
being employed in the fields of chem
istry and other scientific work, in ad
dition to teaching, nursing and social
work," the statement said.
ORGANIZATION FIRST
Superior, Wis.—"Collective bar
gaining must eventually be recogniz
ed on a larger scale if we wish
have the greatest degree of indus
trial peace," said Henry Ohl, Jr
president of the Wisconsin State Fed
eration of Labor, in an address
local trade unionists.
"Collective bargaining involves
willingness of employes to deal with
representatives of the workers, but
this is impossible without organiza
tion. It is organized labor's mission
to oppose arbitrary power. America
and the world will only be as free a
the workers make i*.."
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LABOR SURPLUS IN
WEST
Seattle. West coast cities are
warning workers to stay away from
this section because of unemploy
ment. Central bodies in many cities
have issued statements on the labor
surplus in their respective communi
ties. The labor excess is especially
true in the large industrial centers of
Washington and includes Seattle, Ta
coma, Spokane, Bellingham, Everett
Grays Harbor, Olympia, Kelso and
smaller cities and towns of the mid
state section.
RETIREMENT BILL
FAILS
Washington.—The retirement bill
that would increase annuities of fed
eral employes, was caught in the
house legislative jam in the closing
hours of the last congress and failed
to pass. The bill passed the senate
and its failure in the house was
disappointment to federal employes
who were confident of its passage
Congressman Longworth, speaker
of the new house, has declared in
public statement that this legislation
will be favored by the majority party
when congress convenes next Decern
ber.
BANK RECORD
BARRED IN TEA
POT DOME CASE
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Federal Judge
Kennedy has ruled in the Teapot
Dome trial that Albert B. Fall can
not be compelled to show his bank
record. This is a severe blow to the
government, as it expected to show
by Fall's bank book that the former
secretary of the interior received
bribe in the shape of $233,000 in Lib
erty bonds, passed to Fall, with Mil
ton T. Everhart, his son-in-law and
ranch partner, as the messenger.
WAITRESSES TO UNITE
Montreal, Quebec.—Organized labor
is assisting waitresses in forming a
trade union. These workers are paid
$7 a week.
The law provides for one day rest
fn seven, but because the girls are
unorganized, restaurant managers
pay no attention to this humane leg
islation.
STATE UNIONS TO MEET
Jackson, Tenn.—Officers of the
Tennessee State Federation of Labor
have issued the call for the annual
convention, which will convene in this
«ity Monday, May 4.
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NIGHT
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