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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at S26 Market Street
IMcphone 12M Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O.
THE GAS ORDINANCE
We have been looking ove* tile
ordinance for leasing our gas distrib
uting system to the Columbia Gas
Supply Co., the ordinance which the
five majority members of council are
hungrily endeavoring to railroad
through council so as to turn over
the gas system owned by our people
to a private corporation for a period
of ten years. In fact, when this is
read by some it may have been ac
complished, for, while at the time the
article is being written the question
of whether the injunction is to stand
or not is in the hands of the circuit
court judges, yet the five members of
council are up on their toes, ready to
go at the sound of the gong, to be
rung by Mayor Kelly, if the court
should dissolve the injunction.
One sentence of the leasing ordi
nance is as follows:
"Provided further, that the rate or
price herein before fixed shall include
the use of meters to be furnished by
said company, and the meters fur
nished by said company shall be kept
in repair by iaid company, and no
charges shall be made either directly
or indirectly for the use or repair of
them."
The above conditions of the ordi
nance merits a lot of thought. In the
first place every gas consumer in
Hamilton now has a meter which is
the property of the city of Hamilton,
bought and paid for with the citizens
money. Why should the gas corpora
tion install a complete outfit of new
meters all over the city if they put
over this ordinance? Why?
Is it possible they do not dare trust
the measuring of their gas to the
meters owned and used by the city?
Can it be that all the gas leaks are
not in the much discussed Joints of
the gas mains?
We understand the city-owned me
ters are of the standard used in other
communities. What is wrpng with
them Why should we be particu
larly concerned in this question, one
might ask, if the large, rich gas and
electric magnates are willing to fur
nish us with a nice new set of meters?
Why?—listen!
We will now turn to another clause
provided, less an annual
of labor. We assume from our
W. F. CAHILL & SONS
Funeral Directors
Established in 1875
The Last Word in INVALID CAR
Equipped with all first aid for Doctor and Nurse. Long
wheel base and balloon tires assures easy riding.
A«U Comfwrts lor Long Distance Trios
Phone 200 PARLORS 229 Daytoa St.
ing of the ordinance that at the
Supply Co. for these meters,
cide that the citizens are
get the bunch together and cook
of the leasing ordinance, 4R4 th$rel 22 candidates there is but one mem
we find the following:
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The city of Hamilton shall,
upon
the expiration of the term of this I many years and at present president
contract or any extension thereof, I of the Carpenters' Union. Lou Nau
purchase all of the extensions and I is deserving of the support of every
additions made to said system of gas I union man and woman in the city
distribution, by Columbia Gas Supply I No one knows the needs of city gov
Company at its own cost and ex-lernment better than he. If he should
pense, paying therefor the actual cost I be elected he will be the lone trade
thereof as shown by the reports filed I unionist member of the commission
with the city auditor as
hereinbefore
depreciation
charge of three per cent from the date I cared for in the drafting of a city
of the filing of the statement of cost I charter if Lou Nau is on the com
with the city auditor." I mission. Support him and VOTE
Now what are we coming to? Wei FOR'LOUIS F. NAU.
understand there are at present in the I
$96,099,
read-!that
ex-1then
piration of ten years the city would I pie would wake up to find their
be obligated to pay the Columbia
Gas!
$96,099,1
less depreciation but with a heavy la-1 ing up to where we can pretty safely
bor charge added
if
intelligent
time between recesses and sharpen I enough. That is, they simply are not
that pencil of his and show us where I adequate enough to care for the de
the city is going to dig up this money mands for hotel rooms. The Cham
ten years from now. If we are cor-1 her of Commerce, in this instance, is
rect in this maybe Cartier and his I doing a fine job, and let us hope that
cohorts would tell us what else the I nothing interferes with the success of
city would have to buy from the Co-1 the undertaking of the chamber and
lumbia Company if they, the city, I that
would again want to go into business I surely come true this time,
for themselves.
However, maybe Cartier and his co-1 SHOP EARLY
horts think the city would not then I Do your Xmas shopping early, and
be worried and concerned about oper-1 d° 'n Hamilton. Whatever you do
ating their own property. Why not!01'
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private corporation and save our good I y°u
but helpless citizens the bother and Iwith
THE PARK LEVY I
Hamilton hasn't a whole lot in the I
VOTE FOR LOU NAU
At the coming election the voters
are to decide whether or not a com- lp05sibleto
mission is to be chosen to frame alg„
charter for a commission form of gov-l
ernmen for the city. At the same
time, if the proposal is adopted, there
a commission elected of fifteen
IS
members. There are 22 candidates
from which to choose the fifteen
members of the commission. Of the
for charter commission on the ticket! *.• -i 1.1.
I Cincinnati council that it is absolutely
impossible to obtain sufficient natural
gas from any source at prices that
would be acceptable to the public.
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Iber of organized labor. He is Louis
I Nau, the well known anion man, for
I but at that, organized labor will be
I well represented and its interests
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city of Hamilton about 10,300 gasl WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE
consumers, every one of these having! For many, a great many years
a city-owned meter. Our information! Hamilton has needed greater hotel
is that these meters and necessary! facilities, and it has long been the
connections cost the city $9.33 each.! dream of the citizens that we have
That means that the cost of replacing! new, modern, hotel—a fine, big build
or duplicating the city-owned meters! ing with that purpose in view. Several
would be
not including cost! times movements have been started
Hi W1"
would lead to deep dreams and
something would happen, peo
dreams of a fine, big hotel all shat
tered. Now, however, things are look
they should de-1 vision the realization of our dreams
I of a new hotel. This is a fine piece
enough to again operate their own I of news for all Hamilton because the
gas system as they now have been Inew hotel is going to fill a long felt
doing for years. I want. Not that there can be any
If our conclusions ate correct We I kick against our present hotels, as
wish Councilman Cartier would spare|far
as
they go, but they don't go far
our
dreams for a new hotel
for
goodness sake give the
plHamilton merchants a chance—first
some scheme to turn the waterworks, I Look around in the Hamilton stores
and water mains and house connec-1 before buying elsewhere for you are
tions and water meters over to some Imore
than
likely
to
wan^
can
find just what
right here at home. Stay
the oltl town on
worry of seeing that they get a good, PiuS
pure and ample water suppl? Boy, I Pi Pi f*S Pi
why not write the White Rock Mineral! UNFAIR (GROCERIES
Water Co. on this, or better yet, get! Remember, the Kroger and A. &
in direct touch with them for time is I stores are on the unfair list of the
getting short, as you know, Cartier,! Retail Grocery Clerks' Union. Most
the people repudiated you and yourlall other stores in Hamilton are union
fellow recessers at the recent primar-1 stores displaying the union card—
ies, and you will not have any more I patronize them only. No sense in
chances to recess it through after! buying from non-union concerns when
January first. y0U
y°ur
Xmas
jusj.
as
Be
shoP
easily buy at a union
store. Don't buy from the enemy
a union man, not merely a mem
a
union.
way of parks, but what there is we I Wa
can well be proud of. And that is I PLENTY OF NATURAL GAS?
because we have a real efficient park! On Monday, October 5th, Mr. W. W
board. One of the best in the country! Freeman, representing the Columbia
and none better. Before the time of Gas Supply Company, and Mr. Joseph
the present board our parks were! Savage, representing the Hamilton
more like garbage dumps and there! Furnace Company, addressed the
was no thought of beauty spots such! Woman's City Club on the gas ques
as we have now at the foot of High tion. After Mr. Freeman had stated
street, end of Heaton street, end of I that his concern had lots of natural
Millville avenue, etc., and of which! gas, and that it was much better
every citizen is proud. But we should I than artificial gas, Mr. Savage arose
have more of them, and it takes I and read from a letter Mr. Freemn
money to get them and money is lack-1 wrote to the Cincinnati city council
ing. For that reason vote "yes" onl0n May 5, 1924, part of which follows
the park levy so that we can continue! "These conditions produce a very
our pretty parks and beauty spots I definite and serious problem in con
and have more of them
nection with the future of the Cincin
nati gas situation. After a thorough
and serious research, the officers are
convinced that it ig absolutely im
obtain 3uf#cient
The company
„atural
from any soufce at prices which
JuW u accepta)le the public tQ
etlaWe the company jn the (uture
render ade(Juate and sati8factory
servjce throughout the winter
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That's just it. Mr. Freeman, told
This has been the argument all along
by those who claim to know something
of the situation, that the supply of
natural gas is petering out. If this
is true, and we but take the word of
Mr. Freeman for it, that the supply
is running out, how then does the
Columbia Gas Supply Co., of which
Mr. Freeman is a high official, pro
pose to furnish Hamilton consumers
with natural gas for the next ten
years to come?
Vould assure
Hamil­
ton that there is plenty of natural gas
and that there is nothing to worry
about from this source. But, however,
when committees in past years beg
ged for an extension
of
the gas con­
tract they were told that the supply
is petering out and the company no
longer cared to take on the Hamilton
contract. Only after much begging
and dickering did the company agree
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TmS BUTLER COUNITT PRESS
to extend the contract for a very
short time, and this only at an in
creased rate BECAUSE THE SUP
PLY WAS RUNNING LOW*
If the supply was low then how is
it that there is a plentiful supply now
that a competing concern is making
a bid for the contract? Or did the
company only ma*ke the claim in the
past that the supply is running out in
order that it might gouge Hamilton
for an increased price? Much food
for thought, isn't there?
to l« to to
LEAVE IT TO THE' PEOPLE
In the gas question the members
of city council had the greatest
chance in the world to show the peo
pie of Hamilton that they represented
ALL the people by letting them say
just what kind of gas they wanted
by first giving them a chance ,to vote
on the one proposition in November.
With the propositions of both com
panies before them it should have been
left to the gas consumers to make
their choice. They are going to do
it anyway, why not first as last? If
council puts through the Columbia
proposal and it holds precedence over
the Hamilton Furnace Company pro
posal, if the people vote it at the
election, it is almost an assured fact
that there will be a referendum ini
tiated and then the people will have
their final say. But, DO IT NOW.
Leave it to the people.
CARTIER'S FIGURES
Councilman Cartier presented a
voluminous report on the gas ques
tion to council at their recessed meet
ing held Tuesday morning. The re
port was published in both daily
papers Tuesday evening. The Press
hasn't had hardly time to comment on
Cartier's statements. The Press
sees, however, a number of things
wrong with Cartier's statements and
conclusions, and a number of things
he left unsaid. The Press will show
next week how easily figures can be
juggled aqd a wrong impression cre
ated when only part of the story is
told.
to to to to
WORKERS REAFFIRM FAITH
IN TRADE UNIONISM
Organization, economic power and
education, the foundation of American
trade unionism, were emphasized by
the Atlantic City convention of the
A- F. of L.
New problems
were discttssed,
but
behind every valuation loomed the
time-tested principles of organized
labor. 1
At no other A. F. of L. convention
were delegates more conscious of the
worth of economic power and the folly
of low wages and long hours in an
age of mass production and labor
saving machinery.
The convention was not sensational.
It was devoid of sound and fury
against social wrongs. It was mark
ed by quiet determination of workers
who are in agreement on methods to
remove these wrongs.
The convention will disappoint
apostles of "new trade unionism," who
would have workers abandon their
strategic position on wages, hours
and working condition and become in
volved in issues of no meaning or
import to exploiters.
President Green voiced labor's faith
in itself when he said:
We believe more strongly than
ever in the economic power of the
workers. It is this great principle
that we are endeavoring to develop
and strengthen and build up among
the workers of America."
There is no well-beaten path to a
fuller life. Emotion and hysteria is
no solution for injustice buttressed
by economic power that is entwined"
in every social and political activity
of theyiation.
To say that this power can be dis
solved by frenzied appeals to unor
ganized workers who cannot protect
their lives, is both tragic and ludi
crous.
To tell these workers, too\helpless
to raise their living standards or to
demand a voice in shop conditions,
that they can establish a new order
of society is worse than criminal
it reflects on the intelligence of $he
propagandist's dupes.
Trade unionists tell these workers
they must organize they must raise
their living standards they most
control their lives.
The revolutionist is not interested
in improving working conditions. To
him a strike is a revolutionary skir
mish. Strikers are awkward squads,
to be drilled for the army of revolu
tion. Strikes permit hate propaganda
to those who would be used as pawns.
The revolutionist wants mass move
ments, directed by the few. The trade
unionist insists that gains only come
as the collective intelligence and ca
pacity of wage earners is raised.
When the revolutionist talks about
"a united front of the workers," that
is another way of saying: "Admit
me to your union that I may divert
it from its purpose."
There is no common ground for the
trade unionist and the revolutionist
Their theories are as far apart as
the poles.
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FIGfIT FOR CftlLD GOES ON
An entire session of the A. F. of
Convention was devoted to discussion
the federal child labor amendment
President Green voiced the judgment
of the delegates when he declared
that the campaign ior this amend
ment "will go on as long as we live
and into succeeding generations until
the children of America are saved."
He said vicious propaganda chang
ed an almost universal opinion in
favor of the amendment. Manufac
turers' associations, textile employers
and others who profit from exploita
tion of child labor were listed as lead
ing opponents' of the amendment.
The principal opposition of farmers
President Green said, was because
they were told their children under 18
would not be ^.permitted to work
around the farm or house until they
reached that age. He called this "ma
licious misrepresentation.** The pro
posed amendment did not prescribe
the age at which a child could work
he explained. It was an enabling act
to permit congress to pass legisla
tion that would compare favorably
with present laws in progressive
states. If the amendment were rati
fied, he pointed out, congress would
have to pass legislation before actual
regulation of child labor would begin
President Green assailed the argu
ment that the amendment would tres
pass upon state rights and local home
rule, and would permit congress ."to
enter and regulate the home."
(MAUMMEltr
By FRED S. WALKER
Navy yard machinists are trying to
bring their wages up to the scale paid
in outside plants. During the war
the government raised wages here, but
when the war ended wages were re
duced and hundreds of men fired. You
might say they were fired with en
thusiasm when they were urged to
produce more guns, and they were
certainly enthusiastically fired when
no more guns were needed.
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The resolutions at the A. 1^.' of
convention demanded the scalp from
the head of the government printing
office. Which recalls that there was
a time not long ago when this plant
was unable to get enough good print
ers because of low wages. Ex-Presi
dent Howard, of the I. T. U, nego
tiated a scale with the public printer
about a year ago, and now the civil
service has a waiting list
Building trades men afe trying to
unionize Washington. They have
whipped one big builder into line, and
are now after the second on the list
They are putting up a big fight and
have organized the Building Trades
Defense Association, which is sending
out literature and picketing non-union
houses,
Every ticket for the world series
carried the label of the printers
union.
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Washington now has a public school
devoted to vocational training. Joint
advisory committees composed of em
ployers and workers have pledged
their co-operation in making a success
of the school and will keep themselves
informed and advised on matters re
lating to instruction and equipment
For admission to this school a boy
must be 14 years of age and must
have completed the seventh grade
After selecting the trade he desires to
learn he will get a two-year course
and will then be placed on a job as
an advanced apprentice.
C. HELENA SPEARS
(Mrs. W. Harry Spears)
is competent for the office of
CITY TREASURER
Vote for her on November 3, 1925
WHEN YOU NEED
THE SERVICES OF
A RELIABLE DRUG
STORE 1
GALL ON'*"'
RADCL1FFE
The Rexall Store
Coir. High and Second Sts.
LET US DEVELOP
YOUR PICTURES
MILL WORKERS STRIKE
Aberdeen, Wash. Several hun
dred unorganized mill workers in this
city are on strike for higher wages.
The management of the Donovan
Lumber Company, where the strike
started, admits that rates are but
$3.25 a day.
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Vote the Straight
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
With
C. HELENA SPEARS
(Mrs." W. Harry Spears) for
,v'L City Treasurer
—Make Pater Your Buy Word—
Saturday
SPECIALS
Men's Tan Oxfords
New Styles in Popular Patterns
embodying Style, Snap and High
Class Workmanship, warranted to
Kive Satisfaction and Service.
an Calf Oxford—"Fenway" Last,
Tan Calf Oxford —"Fenwa
Fk
Heel
Tan Calf Blucher Oxford
Eyelets—Very
Stylish
Brown Oxford—Semi -Wide Toe
Last—Specially
Priced
:r: $4.65
a Brass
Soft Black Kid Blucher "Comfort"
a?8!: ....$4.85
Brown Rid Blucher tfcC QC
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Brown Calf Blucher, Panco Sole
and Heels, nr
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Men's Elk Scout Work Shoes—
Priced d»i qq
at (lo2fO
Double Surety Stamps
CLEM PATER
421 S. Second St.
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$5.50
fide Toe
$3.65
Men's Dress Shoes
Something
Extra
Some business firms pay
their people a bonus some
thing extra, over and above
the regular salaries—a part
share in the profits.
It is a, co-operative prop
osition. That is why your
savings earn more when you
invest them with us.
The Peoples Deposit
Improvement and Loan £o.
Rentschler Bldg.
E. F. WARNDORF, Secretary
WANTED
ELASTIC STOCKINGS# Anklets,
Knee Caps, Leggings, full length
elastic stockings fitted properly.
Dargue's Cut Bate Store, 242 High
street.
POPULAR EXCURSION
SUNDAY, OCT. 25th
ROUND-TRIP FARES
Smartly Styled
Fine Tailored
Suits
ANB
IUNION MADE
These are famous values and men and young men are
coming from miles around, to choose from our big
stock of new fall styles. Here are the newest fabrics—
new shapes, checks, overtones, etc. New English mod
els for the young fellows, plainer styles for the men
who prefer them. They're worth coming a hundred
miles to get! ••""T.' /'Vv,
To
$2.75 Lima
$2.20 Wapakoneta
$1.75 Sidney
$1.50 Piqua
$1.30 Troy
$ .80 Dayton
Children 5 years of age and
under 12, half fare
Leave 7:45 A.M., Central Time
Leave Lima 6:15 P.M.
Central Time
Consult Local Ticket Agent
for further particulars
BALTIMORE & OHIO
Is a Mighty Low Price
for Such Quality as You
Get in Worthmore's
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136 High St.
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Will remove the wearshine from
Ladies* and Gents' garments. Get
the better kind of Cleaning, Repair
ing and Remodeling done at Kappel's,
162 N. street. Phone 2617-L.
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