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FRIDAY, MAY 15,1925
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street
Telephone 129 Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O
APPRECIATE IT?
During the past week, after several
days' negotiation, during which time
the workers abstained from working
the union members of a certain craft
were granted an increase in wages of
12% cents an hour, or nearly $25
per month. The members of the
craft now draw $9 per day. Not so
bad, and how come? Organization
that's how! But the Press wonders
just how much, or how many of those
affected, really appreciate the fact
that it is due to organization that
they have steadily advanced in the
march of increased wages up to the
mark they now receive. By their at
tendance at meetings of their union
it isn't to be judged that they realize
where it all really comes from. And
judging from the attendance of their
representatives at Trades Council
meetings, it wouldn't seem that they
know there are any other unions ex
isting in the city outside their own
Yet it is because of the known
strength of the unions combined
the city, and which they really fear
that their employers acceded to their
demands for an increase in wages and
not because of any fear they had
the harm to their business that the
union might do by itself. A union
by itself, without the approval and
support of all the unions is a weak
power when it comes to fighting
battle with big business, but with the
approval and support of its central
body backing its movement, it is
power that seldom fails to accomplish
that which it attempts.
The Press is hoping that the mem
bers of the particular union referred
to will not consider this article as i
the nature of a "bawling out," as
is not intended that way. It isn
meant for any union particulrly, but
all of them generally. It seems as
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get their union. For $25 a month,
it would seem to the Press, that every
member would be only too glad to
attend the regular monthly meeting
of the union, and particularly see to it
that their lepresentatives attend
every meeting of Trades Council.
A NON-UNIONIST PRINTER
When a man takes forty-six years
in which to make up his mind, one
may not be greatly impressed with
the efficiency of his cerebration
equipment, but it must be admitted
that he should have all available facts
in hand by the time the decision
comes forth.
The following is the life story of
a Louisville printer, whose name will
be supplied on request by James
Lynch, president of the International
Typographical Union, Indianapolis
as related to a member of Louisville
Typographical Union No. 10 by the
man himself:
"I have worked for one firm in this
city for forty-six years, and it is the
only place I have ever worked. Have
been foreman for thirty years, and
when I quit last January, the firm
presented me with a watch, but no
pension to comfort me in the latter
part of my life. I never joined Typo
graphical Union No. 10, although I
was frequently asked to do so. I
realize I could have done the union
some good. I am satisfied of that.
I never received wages that the union
scale called for in all those years. If
I had joined No. 10, I would now be
drawing the old age pension, and
would have been protected by the
mortuary benefit, and a resident of
the Union Printers' Home if my
health failed me, and the difference
I would have received in wages would
Worthmore
Says
SELECT FROM THIS ASSORTMENT
OF 2,000 STRAWS
A I S S E A S O N S A S
NO LEFT OVERS
SPECIALLY PRICED
$1*95 and $2.9$
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this season's latest showing
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double the amount I would have to
pay for any assessments. The union
is the best way for anyone who has
a trade or calling, both in sentiment
and as a business proposition. The
watch I received is very nice in its
way—if it gets broke I can have it
repaired at 7, 12 and 6 o'clock I can
see it Is breakfast, dinner or supper
time on opening the case I can read
the engraving, 'For long and efficient
service, etc./ which places me in an
embarrassing position if I should be
so unfortunate as to want to pawn
it or sell it."
soon as the members get what they
tart after, increased wages and
shorter hours, they are inclined to for-\low-printers worthily, if he had only
Altogether, all unions—LET'S GO!
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ARE YOU IN?
Haven't you chipped in on the Com
munity Chest? If not, get busy. Re
member, it is never too late to do
good, especially so when it comes to
helping some of the less fortunate.
Don't think because you didn't get in
sooner that the committee won't be
just too glad to see you. Why, man,
they'll be "gladder" because they are
anxious to reach the goal and the
pickin's are getting hard. Do it and
do it quick.
That is one non-unionist's story,
word for word. Perhaps he has been
more fortunate than some others
But he is still a heavy loser as a re
sult of denying the dictates of com
mon sense and craft altruism during
his active life. This man would now
be drawing a pension of $8 weekly
from the International Typographical
Union, he would be protected by a
$500 mortuary benefit, he would be
entitled to a comfortable old age
among congenial surroundings at the
Union Printers' Home at Colorado
Springs, and he would be enjoying the
satisfaction of having served his fel-
started upon life's journey with the
right philosophy.
to
WASTE IN INDUSTRY
In New York city, under the direc
tion of the National Civic Federation,
a notable meeting was recently held
Employers and representatives of
wage earners gathered around the
table to discuss the question of elim
inating industrial friction and indus
trial waste.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, sat
with cabinet officials and represen
tatives of great employing interests
There was a general desire ex
pressed for helpful, constructive oper
ation between all parties for the elim
ination of wasteful methods and
practices.
The question of waste in industry is
one that is important in every under
taking. Those to whom the question
is not one of almost constant study
have no id&a of the amount of labor
and material that is wasted each
working day.
Standardization has done much
within the past two years to reduce
waste. Better industrial relations
have helped.
But there is tremendous room for
improvement. There is waste on
every hand. Poorly built gasoline
motors waste enormous quantities of
gasoline each day. So it is in every
industry. It is like pouring money
down a sewer.
By all means, let the scientists tell
us how waste may be checked. Hu
man effort and good material are too
precious to wsate when waste can be
stopped.
to to to to to
OUR RIGHTS GUARDED?
"The federal courts of the United
States have always been the fortress
of refuge to which the citizen has
fled when about to be deprived of
rights and liberties guaranteed by
the constitution," Senator James A
Reed, of Missouri, declared in
speech before the Kansas City Bar
Association.
The senator failed to add that so
far as labor citizens are concerned
the federal courts have almost univer
sally deprived them of their funda
mental constitutional rights and lib
erties, and made freedom of speech
and press mere paper rights when
their unrestricted exercise becomes
imperative for the protection of the
workers' interests.
Senator Reed has evidently never
heard of the injunction in labor dis
putes. The most drastic ones have
come from federal judges.
to to to to to
ALL SERENE ALONG
THE POTOMAC
Contemplate, in these days of gen
tle spring breezes and budding flow
ers, the political situation as it pre
sents itself. For nine months
President Coolidge has been sitting
on the report of the tariff commission
calling for a reduction in the import
on sugar. Something in the way of
relief ought to have hatched in that
period, but the people have paid some
$53,000,000 at the rate of $200,000
a day in higher prices for that com
modity.
Two of the three members of the
majority which submitted that report
have gone their way, to be replaced
by men who, it is confidently expected,
will not push the matter of reducing
the tariff.
So, while the president continues
to tell the newspapermen that he re
quires more time to consider the mat
ter, the beet sugar barons whose lob
byists are so plentiful in Washington
and whose delegates were so plentiful
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
and influential in the convention
which nominated Mr. Coolidge in
Cleveland, continue to reap the bene
fit.
Meanwhile the department of jus
tice, falling heir to the personal
Daugherty squabbles and vendettas,
prosecutes Senator Wheeler, only to
have a jury turn him free after ten
minutes of deliberation.
Meanwhile, also, the Teapot Dome
trial being concluded, those witnesses
who were so badly wanted by the
government and who so conveniently
went away to Europe and South
America, are drifting homeward to
resume their occupations and pleas
ures. For them the big wind is over.
All is serene on the Potomac, it
will be observed. We have a presi
dent who will not be rushed off his
feet and one who, it also seems,
knows how to stick by his friends.
What interests the people is the
character of his friends and the
things about which he will not be
rushed. In view of this it is noted
that the department of justice pur
poses to try Senator Wheeler again,
that the people continue paying the
sugar barons $200,000 a day, and that
the economy program is therefore
working well.
A cynic might write coldly and bit
terly about these things, but it is
spring and the flowers are blooming
and so many things are so rosy.
to n to to to
WORKERS PROGRESSING
The union of the workers is not
standing still. It is consolidating the
gains of the past and pressing cour
ageously along the highway of prog
ress. The union itself is an elemen
tal response to the human instinct
for group action in dealing with group
problems. Daily work in industry is
now a collective undertaking. The
union expresses the workmen's un
satisfied desire for self-betterment ir
all of the phases that desire may find
expression. No substitute can hope
to replace the union, for it has the
intrinsic right to existence which
comes from service rendered to fit
changing stages of development
Many wage earners have had dreams
of ownership in industry, but even so
we all know that whatever owner
ship, private, governmental or em
ploye, the vital problem for us is
the terms and relations we have with
management. To deal with this prob
lem labor must always have its volun
tary organizations directed and man
aged by itself.
Working men and women are nc
longer mere fixtures in industry, but
instead are intelligent, understanding
human beings with a concept of life
which emphasizes the cultural and
spiritual rather than the material
We want to make it possible for the
workers to acquire and enjoy more
of culture, refinement and education
Through this process they will better
understand industry, their work, and
thus raise the standard of efficiency
and service.—William Green, presi
dent, American Federation of Labor
to to to to to
WAGES BETTER THAN BONUS
William H. Luden, wealthy candy
manufacturer of Reading, Pa., an
nounces that he will pay a bonus to
heads of families employed in his
factory for keeping children over 14
years of age in school instead of put
ting them to work. The bonus is to
be $250 for each child.
It was explained, the newspapers
say, that Mr. Luden believes m6st
children stop school and go to work
because their parents need their earn
ings and cannot afford to keep them
at their books.
Only one conclusion can be drawn
from Mr. Luden's bonus offer. That
conclusion, of course, is that he is not
paying his workers sufficient to en
able them to educate their children.
Then why, the average person will
ask, doesn't Luden pay his workers
more instead of offering them a bo
nus The answer to this is presum
ably that Luden thinks it will cost him
less to pay an "education bonus" than
it would to raise wages so as to as
sure the children of his employes an
education after they reach the age
of 14.
From the conclusion that Mr. Luden
doesn't pay his workers enough for
them to support and at the same time
educate their children another con
clusion can be drawn, namely, that
there is something wrong in this coun
try when parents can not educate
their children without the help of a
"bonus" from their employers. This
is a conclusion that those who insist
that everything is perfect in the
United States will have a hard job to
refute.
Hi to I* to. to
WISDOM
"If there is anything that cannot
bear free thought, let it crack."—
Wendell Phillips,
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NIGHT WORK
Opposed By Bakers in Cam
paign Throughout Europe
Bosses Urge 3-Shift
System
Geneva, Switzerland.—Journeymen
bakers and master bakers are lining
up in Europe for a straight-out fight
on the question of abolishing night
work in bakeries, according to in
formation made public by the inter
national labor office.
The sixth session of the Interna
tional Labor Conference held at Ge
neva in 1924 approved a draft treaty
for the abolition of night work in bak
eries, to be submitted to the govern
ments affiliated with the office, for
amendment. The amendments will be
considered by the 1925 session of the
conference.
In the me'antime bakery employes
and master bakers have been taking
definite action for and against the
treaty.
The bureau of the International
Federation of Trade Unions declares
that "it considers it necessary for the
workers' movement in general to urge
workers' co-operative societies to ap
ply, in all cases where they do not
already apply it, a system of work,
the result of which will be to abolish
night work in bakeries and urges the
trade union movement to conduct an
energetic campaign in favor of the
adoption of the draft convention soon
to be considered by the International
Labor Conference.
The recent third international con
gress of the Journeymen Bakers, held
in Stuttgart, and attended by repre
sentatives from all the important
journeymen bakers' unions of the
world, was a unit in favor of the abol
ition of the three-shift system.
The employers, however, oppose
abolition of night work. The intei
national conference of employing
bakers' organizations held at Brus
sols, approved the three-shift system
and demanded the right to apply it
in the baking industry.
The French master bakers oppose
the abolition of night work on the
ground that it would increase operat
ing expenses.
The paragraph in the treaty to be
considered by the International Labor
Conference abolishing night work de
clares that "the making of bread
pastry or other flour confectionery
during night is forbidden" with cer
tain inconsequential exceptions.
AMERICANS OPPOSE
JAP EXCLUSION
Washington.— The committee
American-Japanese relations,
which former Attorney General Wick
ersham is chairman, and Rev. Sidney
L. Gulick is secretary, has renewed
its opposition to Japanese exclusion
In an effort to include Japanese with
in the quota law of the immigration
act, the committee has issued a cir
cular praising Japanese laws relating
to foreigners and attacking congress
and California.
The committee's action indicate
that the Japanese issue may be re
opened in the next congress. Oppo
nents of Asiatic immigration point
out that all Asiatics are debarred un
der the present law. Friends of the
Japanese appear to be only interested
in that nation, and they would ere
ate a popular opinion that the Japan
ese are discriminated against.
MAY BAN ASIATICS
Ottawa, Ontario.—W. G. McQua
rie, conservative, gave notice in the
dominion house of parliament that he
would propose a bill for the exclusion
of Asiatic immigration. He favors
the restriction of all Orientals
Canada by legislation.
The proposal is along lines adopt
ed by the congress of the United
States.
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NATION S WAR LOSS
EXCEEDED BY AUTO
New York.—At a meeting of the
national safety council in this city it
was shown that the automobile's dead
rfnd wounded throughout the country
exceeded the total dead and wounded
in the American army overseas dur
ing the World War. The army losses
last year were 275,948, while the
auto's toll was 19,000 dead and 450,
000 injujred. Of the dead, 6,700 were
children.
The daily average was 52 killed and
1,180 injjured. These figures include
automobile accidents at grade cross
ings, in which 1,683 persons died and
5,650 wer*e injjured.
The dead and injured equal thf pop
ulation of Washington, D. C., or New
ark, N.
J.,
or Cincinnati, or the com­
bined populations of Albany, N. Y.
Norfolk, Va., and San Antonio, Texas.
DIVIDENDS RAISED
Though 167,570 Railroad
Workers Lose Jobs to
Do It
New York.—The industrial insecur
ity of railroad workers is apparent
in figures relative to the decrease in
railroad employes in 1923 compared
with 1920, made public by the com
mittee on public relations of the east
ern railroads.
Basing its figures on the annual re
port of the interstate commerce com
mission, the committee states that in
1920 the average number of employee
on Class 1 steam railroads decreased
from 2,022,832 in 1920 to 1,855,260
in 1923, a reduction of 167,570 in the
working force.
At five to the fanrily, these lay-offs
mean tha 837,850 persons were
thrown into economic insecurity and
in many instances their lives wreck
ed by the firing process. The dis
charges were one of the inevitable by
products of increased efficiency due
to the substitution of larger cars and
locomotives for those of smaller capa
city.
There is another reason. The divy
to railroad stockholders was small in
1920, amounting to only $271,731,669
while in 1923 it was raised $297,513,
229, an increase of $25,782,560.
considerable portion of the dividend
boost may be attributed to economies
resulting from discharging 167,570
men and coercing those who remain
into doing extra work.
But what is a little matter like
167,570 workers thrown into the army
of the unemployed, with the conse
quent suffering for themselves and
their families, when it is a question of
padding the already stuffed pockets
of the railroad magnates with $25,
000,000 more?
Head the Press.
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A lot of people ask us why
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