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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF ORGANIZED LABOR
OF HAMILTON AND VICINITY
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18,1925
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street
Telephone 129C Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O.
McGONIGLE'S CROSSING
While the Press believes that the
county commissioners are doing all
within their power to further an un
derground crossing at McGonigle's
Station to avoid further danger to life
and limb at this murderous railroad
crossing, yet the Press believes that
the commissioners could, if they want
to, compel the company to put the
crossing in passable shape temporar
ily so that motorists could go over
it without having to hold onto their
machine to keep from being thrown
out of it and without taking chances
of losing every bolt and breaking the
springs in their car. As it is, the
condition of the crossing makes it as
dangerous to cross as to be hit by one
of the trains on the road. How about
it, Mr. Commissioners—go out and
take a look at it and then prod up
the railroad company to/make re
pairs.
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JOURNAL AND AUTO CLUB
That little controversy between the
Hamilton Journal and the Butler
County Auto Club on the question of
parking time limit and no-left-turns
on High street is quite interesting.
The odds are $2 to the hole in a
doughnut that "Bill" Howe wins, be
cause "Bill" usually gets what he goes
after, for "Bill" isn't often wrong,
is a stickler for everybody's rights.
He and Ed Ralston make a pretty
strong team to buck again?!. Sic 'em!
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WHAT MR. FORBES SAID:
Our Rockefellers, Carnegies, Fricks,
Vanderbilts, Goulds, Hills, Harri
mans, Astors, Eastmans, Stillmans,
Pullmans, Fields, can bequeath enor
mous fortunes, but they cannot be
queath brains. Not one Napoleonic
son has sprung from these Titans, not
one son who is doing gigantic things
in the world of finance, railroading or
business. And news comes frpm
Germany that the many-columned
monument spectacularly erected by
Hugo Stinnes, the German colossus,
is tottering with no son fit to hold
it together.
Today 90 per cent of the biggest
jobs in America are filled by first
generation leaders. Such are Ford,
Gary, Thayer, Schwab, Grace, Edi
son, White, WUson, SEloan, Willys,
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BILL BOOSTER SAYS
'TWERE A*E A PEW
PEOPLE GO IMG OUT OF
TOWki TO "TRADC, BUY VUUAT
OF \T^ SAM TME UEVJ
WORK. TAILORS VUOQR-M BE
CAUSE SO MAWV VJEMTW
WEVJ NORK.ERS BUM TWE\R
CLONES ikl UOMOOW\ NET
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Durant, Nash, Young, Swope, Far
rell, Tripp, Crowley, Willard, 0. P.
Van Swearingen, Baker, Dillon,
Mitchell, Sabin, Wiggin, Lamont,
Carry, Doherty, to name only a few
Is there not encouragement in this
for the millions of earnest, diligent,
ambitious American workers who are
studying, striving, sweating to reach
the top Does it not mean that
brains, not birth, not money, win?
May it not be, after all, that Prov
idence is no fool?
JUST AN EXCUSE
The strike of the miners in the
anthracite fields is no reason for coal
prices advancing, but it is an excuse
—much ,used. As Arthur Brisbane,
well known editorial writer, says:
The coal strike started peaceably.
Coal dealers "just for luck" put up
the price of coal fifty cents a ton.
That's a cheerful start. Coal doesn't
cost them any more, but YOU KNOW
HOW TERRIBLE STRIKES ARE.
Edgar K. Wagner!
Former Instructor at The Cincinnati College
of Embalming
Funeral Director
DISTINCTIVE SERVICE 228 Heaton St. MODERN EQUIPMENT
And so it is. Just because
STRIKES ARE TERRIBLE the oper
ators boost the price of coal! On the
very first day of the strike Poca
hontas jumped $1.50 a ton in price.
The local dealers don't know why this
should be other than that because of
most all Pocahontas being shipped
east, where mostly smokeless coal is
burned. Now that the strike is on
in the anthracite fields the Pocahontas
operators are taking advantage of the
opportunity, BECAUSE OF THE
AWFUL STRIKE, to boost the price
And goodness only knows where the
price is going to before the winter
is over.
The fellow who hasn't his winter's
supply laid in and doesn't get it
shortly is going to be out of luck
This holds good witji all grades of
coal. The local dealers say that even
with the advanced price very littje
Pocahontas is to be had. The squeeze
is coming just as planned by the
operators. The local dealers are not
getting the difference. The strike is
no reason for advanced coal prices
it is just an excuse, to be well used
so long as it exists.
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WISDOM
Everywhere we are taught that
"life is sacred," that "liberty is
sacred," that- "property is sacred"
but where are we taught that happi
ness is sacred? And yet it is only
because of their relation to happiness
that these other things have a trace
of sacredness.—James Mackaye.
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It is desirable for a ruler that no
man should suffer from cold and hun
ger under his rule. Man can not main
tain his standard of morals when he
has no ordinary means of living.
Kenko Hoshi (Japanese Buddhist
priest of the 14th Century),
is Ha to ta
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PAN-AMERICAN UNITY A FACT
When Mexican and American labor
representatives sat down in Washing
ton and agreed upon a principle to
guide immigration and emigration
legislation they demonstrated the dif
ference between peoples and govern
ments in a most important particular.
These representatives tried to find
a solution that would protect peoples
and their progress. They thought of
helpfulness, not of penalties. They
thought in terms of co-operation—
not in terms of opposition. Each had
a thought for the other. Both looked
for that which would best safeguard
the freedom of the peoples. Neither
was trying to get anything or to im
pose anything. They quickly settled
upon a sound principle.
If this principle had been] adopted
by the United States in dealing with
Japanese immigration the Japanese
furore would never have arisen, and
there would have been justice all
around.
Governments could learn something
from labor if they would have a look
now and then.
And governments, being for the
purpose of serving the people, should
feel free to have a look now and then
and find out what some people really
want.
Some day* governments may learn
that a government can do something
besides act high and mighty—and get
better results.
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EMPLOYE STOCK OWNERSHIP
The latest achievement of the fed
eral trade commission is to order the
International Shoe Company to divest
itself of its McElwain properties.
The McElwain Company was on the
verge of bankruptcy. It owed fifteen
millions and could get neither new
loans nor more capital. Enforced
liquidation would have shaken the
whole shoe industry.
The International Shoe Company
could have purchased the assets of
the company. But as the Wall Street
Journal announces, the employes of
the company were substantial owners
of the preferred and common stock.
The employes would have lost their
savings. Realizing what the conse
quences would have been on the mor
ale of the working force, the Inter
national at first refused to buy them.
Later it sold its own stock to Canad
ian financial interests and bought the
securities of the company. The em
ploye shareholders were given an op
tion on international stocks or cash
The experience of these employe
owners is our chief concern. The
problem of investments is a serious
one for wage earners. A worker who
puts his savings in stocks of the firm
that employes him is taking a long
chance. It makes a problem for the
owners also.
Would a labor investment or hold
ing company be a desirable solution?
—From the American Federationist
for September.
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PRODUCTION
How often do workers hear:
"A labor scarcity checks business."
"Labor is inefficient."
"Labor favors immigration restric
tion that it may monopolize the labor
market!"
"Labor fails to give a fair day's
work."
"Production demands could not be
met under an eight-hour day."
And so forth, and so forth.
The next time these sentiments are
expressed, let workers recall t^is
statement by the Wall Street Journal,
issue of September 1:
"The main cure for overproduction
is regulation. IF PRODUCTION IS
KEPT WITHIN BOUNDS of con
sumption there will be no dividend
cuts and wage cuts. The country
today can turn out more steel, more
coal, more copper, more oil, more
automobiles, etc., than the demand
calls for.
"IF ALL OF THESE INDUS
TRIES PERMITTED CAPACITY
OPERATION PROSPERITY WOULD
BE SHORT LIVED."
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NOT MACHINE COGS
Working men and women can not
be regarded as a mere part of the
industrial machine. They are not in
animate cogs or fixtures welded into
our industrial life, to be moved and
directed as a trained operator would
move and direct a machine.
Instead, they are divinely created,
with a soul, a mind, senses of sight
and feeling, and possessed of longings
and yearnings for the enjoyment of
a richer, broader and better life. This
fact must be recognized by both em
ployers and management,
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mission of organized labor
TiiE BUTLER
Money picks
money, just like
is the
to
bring
this about.—William Green, President
American
Federation of
L^bor..
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COUNTY PRESS
If you are interested in fig
ures on the earning power of
money, we will be glad to cal
culate the matter exactly for
you. Tell us what you can
save and we will tell you the
approximate result in ten,
twenty or forty years from
now.
The Peoples Deposit
Improvement and Loan Co.
Rentschler Bldg.
E. F. WARNDORF, Secretary
CHURCHMEN
To Stand For Freedom
Press
Other proposals are:
"In industry and economic relations
recognition that the unlimited right
of private ownership is un-Christian.
"A frank abandonment of all efforts
to secure unearned income that is,
reward which does not come from a
real service.
"In education there should be the
building of a social order in which
every child has the best opportunity
for development and the conservation
of health."
MOVIE OPERATORS GAIN
Baltimore. The Moving Picture
Operators' Union has secured a new
agreement with exhibitors in this city
Gains include the 48-hour week ant
wage increases that range from 10 to
35 per cent.
Patrons and
Public in
General
Do you realize this when
sending your
DRY CLEANING
OK DYEING
To
The Hilz Bros. Co.
You Get Direct Service
PHONE 4 OR 157
We have no branch stores
WHEN YOU NEED
THE SERVICES OF
A RELIABLE DRUG
STORE
CAL& ON
RADCLIFFE
The Rex a Store
Cor. High and Second Sts.
LET US DEVELOP
YOUR PICTURES
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up more
a snowball
And saving money is like a
snowball in thu also—the
more you push yourself to
save, the bigger the results.
Money, safely invested,
grows and grows and grows.
tf a person can accumulate
$1,000 by the time he is thir
ty. that sum, IF LEFT IN
VESTED, will grow to con
siderably more than $5,000
by the time he is sixty-five.
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Of
Washington. In the new social
creed to be proposed at the regular
meeting of the National Council of
Congregational Churches, to be held
in this city in October, one plank de
clares: "The churches must stand
for the enforcement of constitutional
rights and duties, including freedom
of the press, of free speech and of
peaceful assemblage."
WILL ARBITRATE DISPUTE
Portland, Ore.—After a three-days'
strike for jvage increases, hod (far
riers have agreed to refer the issue
to the state conciliation board.
Public boycott of Paris bus and
tramway service, in protest against
increased Sunday fares, is successful.
GLOSS OFF
Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies' and Gents' garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done atKappel's,
162 N. street. Phone 2617-L.
WANTED
ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Anklets,
Knee Caps, Leggings, full length
elastic stockings fitted properly
Dargue's Cut Rate Store, 242 High
street. tf
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E Clean Suits and Overcoats,
E Press Suits and Overcoats.
E Repair Suits and Overcoats.
E Alter Suits and Overcoats.
E Re-line Suits and Overcoats.
E Put on Velvet Collars.
E Put on Silk Facings. Y
E Make Suits to Order.
E Do all kinds of work that you
would expect from.
First Class Tailors and Cleaners
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TAILORS AND ORY CLEANERS
Second and High Phone 2222
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
Great Furniture Buying at Reutti's Most Successful
Red Ticket Sale
Everyone Should Inspect Our Furniture and Prices Before Buying. Com
pare Prices, Qualities and Values, for This Means You Will
Buy at This Sale
EXTRA SPECIAL
OFF on ALL
Junior and Bridge Lamps
$44.00 Lamps now ... $33.00
$36.00 Lamps now $27.00
$30.00 Lamps now $22.50
$26.00 Lamps now
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They are all Complete with Silk Shades—
A Large Selection
$175.00 Comb. Am. Walnut*
4 Piece Bed Room Suite
With bow foot bed and full size vanity
dresser. Red Ticket Sale Price
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT!
GOODS BOUGHT DURING THIS SALE WILL BE STQRED FOR FU
TURE DELIVERY, IF SO DESIRED
'KXOWX FOR GOOti runxiTun?
'Established 1890
Corner Second and Court Streets
PAY BILLS
The CAPITOL LOAN PLAN enables
you to borrow on your own security.
NO INDORSERS REQUIRED
Loans on Furniture, Pianos, Vies & Autos
MONTHLY PAYMENTS THAT WILL SUIT YOU
THE CAPITOL LOAN CO.
Fone 108(» I S a i s N. \V. Cor. 3rd and High Sts.
C. W. GATH CO. I
Funeral Directors
"Chairs and Tables Rented
17 So. Street
$19.50
$188.00 Overstuffed
Living Room Suite
3 pieces, covered in good grade velour
loose spring cushions. Red Ticket ,6ale price
$13S.OO
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