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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1926
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at 826 Market Street
Telephone 12N Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown. O.
A NEW CITY HALL
We are constantly hearing of need
ed improvements for the city. If
there is one improvement that the
city needs abovve most all others it is
a new city hall. The one we have
now is a' positive disgrace to the city
It has been' condemned time and
again, and repairs and alterations and
extensions have been built to it until
now all the repairs and alterations
that can possibly be made wouldn't
make a city headquarters of it that
the city and its officials would ba
proud of. As it is, our officials really
feel ashamed when strangers visit the
building. And when the new hotel
is built, won't the old shack be a
lovely thing to point out to traveling
men and strangers as our city hall
Mayor Koehler seems to have some
plan in mind for a new building ana
has made several suggestions. Let us
hope that the matter will not be drop
ped there and that something comes
of the mayor's plan. And when we
do go in for a new one let's go into
it right and put up something worth
while something whole Hamilton
may be proud of for many years to
come. Don't let there be a stinting
of a few dollars on a site. The build
ing will cost the same no matter
where put up. The best site in the
city will prove the cheapest in the
long run.
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POTTER PARK DRIVE
Several different drives are being
organized for raising funds in the
city in the near future for various
purposes. All are worthy and should
be met with hearty support every
where. But ^here is one drive for
which the Press presages unbounded
success—that is the Potter Park dollar
drive. And that is as it should be.
And not only should it be a success
so far as reaching the goal set is
concerned, but it should be a great
success for going "over the top"
way "over the top.."
Potter Park is a tract of 100 acres
of farm land given to the city for a
recreation park, playgrounds and golf
links. Money is now needed to make
the transformation farm to play
ground and golf links. Fifteen thou
sand dollars has been fixed as the
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amount required to do it. It is pro
posed, if possible, to get fifteen thou
sand subscribers of $1 each. This
should be easy, and the Press pre
dicts it is going to prove easy
at
accomplishment.
Here is a movement to benefit
every man, woman and child in the
city, and everyone should get back of
it and boost. And the Press be
lieves they will. Surely there are
more than 15,000 people in Hamilton
who will willingly and gladly give a
dollar for this fine purpose. One dol
lar is what you are going to be ask
ed to contribute. Of course if you see
fit to give more the committee will
not refuse to accept it, but one dol
lar is* all that is asked. Fifteen thou
sand dollars is not much for the pur
pose when one considers the whole
city giving it Thirty thousand would
be more like it. This drive should be
easy, and with Frank Vaughn, chair
man, to lead the way, and Herbert
Twitchell, vice-chairman, to keep
prodding and urging the committee
men to further efforts, with rest for
no one, she's bound to go over big.
Let's go, altogether for Potter Park
and another playground for the kid
dies, a swell loafing place for the older
folks and golf links for the fellow
who thinks he is playing—yet work
ing, but getting'lots of fun out of it.
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TRADE UNIONISM'S PROGRESS
One can discuss the trade union
movement with anyone, even though
they be of that group that would de
stroy it, they will agree that the
movement has accomplished a great
deal of good. The real big men and
women of North America, who have
studied our movement and who under
stand it, endorse it, and do not hesi
tate to advocate it. They realize that
it is a movement with principles and
ideals, and as accomplished they bene
fit all the people.
Those who oppose it do so for self
ish reasons. They are of the same
type that have opposed all progress
ive measures, and if they and their
kind had been successful, we would all
be chattel slaves.
In face of whatever opposition
progress has had to encounter, it has
overcome, the obstacle and gone for
ward. Progress can be delayed, but
it can not be stopped.
No great forward-looking move
ment has ever carried on its work
without opposition. So it is with the
trade union movement it opposed by
the enemies of progress, but it is
steadily going onward, each day doing
some real good in the interests of hu
manity, and it will continue doing
good just as long as there is work
to do.
Every man or woman eligible to
membership should consider it a great
privilege to serv£ in a cause as just
and righteous as the trade union
movement.
OHIO COMPENSATION FUND
The New York State Federation of
Labor Bulletin of recent date says,
under the heading, "How an Exclusive
State Insurance Fund Grows":
"During the past fiscal year the
$45,000,000 reserve fund of the Ohio
exclusive state insurance fund for
workmen's compensation earned $2,
000,000 from interest, and a large
part of this earning is being devoted
to decreasing the amount of premiums
to be paid by Ohio employers. Eleven
millions of dollars were paid in com
pensation awards in Ohio during the
year without contest or litigation, and
it cost employers less than that total
for the year because of the interest
earnings credited. Commenting on
these facts, the Cleveland Press says:
"No wonder Ohio workmen like the
compensation law. They don't have
to sue their employers for damages.
No wonder Ohio employers like the
law. They don't have to fight damage
suits. No wonder insurance companies
fought the law—and still fight it.
It hurts their profits."
Yes, the insurance companies are
still fighting the law. It keeps organ
ized labor and employers constantly
on their guard lest the liabilities com
panies get their hands into the pot.
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BEWARE THE FAKE UNION
PAPERHANGER
This is tihe season of the year when
the housewife begins to think of new
paper on the walls of the home, and
the securing of the services of a
paperhanger. In this connection it is
the duty of the man of the house, es
pecially if he is a union man, to see
to it that no paperhanger be permit
ted to enter his home to hang paper
unless he is a member of the local
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang
ers' Union. And don't simply take
his word for it, but make him show
his card. If he i3 a good union man
he will not resent this, but will be
glad of the interest and earnestness
THE UNION LABEL
The battles of the union label are
won without bloodshed. It is more
powerful than strikes and picketing
and is a potent warning to tyrannical
employers. It is as powerful in the
hands of women or children as the
menacing declaration of a labor con
vention. It is the boycott without
publication. No injunction can reach
it, no militia or Piukerton dare touch
it, no pen will revile it, no pulpit
assail it.
n to to to to
SECOND THE MOTION
Speaking of railroad profits, Arthur
Brisbane, the well-known editorial
writer, says:
"Profits on the Pennsylvania
rail
road for one year reach a "peak," for
all time, more than $100,000,000.
"This, and increasing railroad prof
its everywhere, should gain a friendly
hearing and better pay for railroad
workers.
"To raise the pay of millions of
men would cost hundreds of millions
a year. But that is the scale we are
now geared up to, nationally, and the
hundreds of millions would be poured
back into general prosperity, the rail
roads getting their share."
Needless to say, the workers agree
with Mr. Brisbane. But how about
the railroads?
to to to to to
UNFAIR "EATS"
At the last meeting of Trades Coun
cil the retail clerks' delegates report-'
ed the Kroger and A. & P. stores still
unfair to their organization. The
bakers reported Holland, Krug and
Certified bread and the Natior^l Bis
cuit Company products still unfair to
their union. Is it necessary, the Press
wonders, to comment further on this,
to ask the union men and their fami
lies to refrain from buying these un
fair goods when there are so many of
the kind to be had, bearing the label
We hope not. Be a real union man.
THE NEW POLICE CHIEF
Chief of Police Otto E. Kolodzik
seems headed in the right direction.
His ambition is to give Hamilton an
A-l police department—second to
none in the state. That is a fine in
dication. He is asking his men and
all citizens to support him to attain
a fine record in the police department.
He is giving his men to understand
that there is to be no "monkey busi
ness." That what he says goes and
there must be no misunderstanding
Money For the Miners
The striking anthracite mineis are sadly in need of
financial help.
They are fighting a hard battle. For months they haye
been without work.
President William Green has appealed twice fflr money
for their assistance.
This newspaper joins in the appeal, and the Editor will
forward to the American Federation of Labor all money
contributed for that purpose.
Fill in and sign the enclosed blank and forward your
contribution immediately. The need is pressing. Every
day men, women and children are going without enough
food and clothing. Act today.
EDITOR THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS:
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Street
City
you display in trade unionism.
The reason for suggesting that you
insist on your paperhanger showing
his card is that there are several fel
lows around town who would leave
the impression, when asked, that they
are members of the union, when they
are not. One fellow in particular,
the Press knows of, wjjl go so far as
to say that he is a member of the
union and squirm out of it when de
manded of him that he show his card.
Then he will go on to say that "he
hasn't anything against the union,"
etc. Very nice and considerate of
him. He carefully watches the union
scale and charges the same price. He
gets union wages without doing his
bit to maintain the union. That is
the kind of cheap guy he is, and that
is the kind of a guy you want to
keep out of your home. The Press
warns again, beware the fake union
paperhanger.
to to to
I herewith contribute $ «... to be forwarded by
you at once to the American Federation of Labor for the
relief of the striking anthracite miners.
This contribution is a sign of my sympathy With the
cause of the miners and of my active support of their strike
for justice.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
as to his orders. -And the same thing
is. to hold good with offenders of the
law—no partiality to be shown and
the police to be backed in all their
actions where arrests are made. Any
police department can "make or
break" its head, and from all indi
cations Chief Kolodzik don't propose
to let. the Hamilton department
"break" him. Go to it, chief—more
power to you. Keep up the good work
and you will find the "good" people
are with you and as for the rest,
you should worry.
UNFAIR FURNACES
Molders' Union No. 68 wants all
union men and friends to know that
the Holland and Williamson furnaces
continue unfair to their organization.
With all the splendid makes of fur
naces on the fair list, surely it ought
not be thought of by any union man
to put an unfair furnace in his home.
"Another thing, the best furnaces to
be obtained in the world are being
made right here at home, all strictly
union made. Then why buy a furnace
made outside of Hamilton and unfair
at that? Boost Hamilton—buy a
home-made furnace and a union-made
one, at that.
to to to to to
GETTING EVEN
The fellow who knocked the caboose
of the freight train off the track last
Saturday night sort of evened things
up for the motorists. This^s the first
record we have of the railroad being
made to step aside. However, the
Press doesn't advise any further at
tempts along this line in the future—
it is hard on the auto.
STRIKING MINERS LOYAL
TO TRADE UNION IDEAL
To understand the spirit of the
anthracite strike one must go into the
homes of the strikers and mingle with
the communities that are paralyzed
by the stoppage ot this basic indus
try. There are homes* without fuel
and without sufficient food or cloth
ing. The bread winner of the family
for more than five months has been
standing by a decision of principle
which daily compels him to see the
privations and needs of his family.
School records show undernourish
ment in loss of weight and under
weight of children.
The strike means hunger, indescrib
able suffering and sacrifice. Yet the
miners, loyal to the cause involved as
symbolized by the union, have re
mained faithful to their trust.
No more complete answer to the
charge that the labor movement is
chiefly materialistic could be given
than the striking anthracite miners.
Far removed from collective bargain
ing and with no opportunity to know
how the issues were faring, these
men have borne the dead weight of
the struggle. The cause tp them is
an ethical ideal which requires their
loyalty. The response they give is a
religious act of high order.
Loyalty to the union is to the min
ers a religion. Transcendent in the
ethical code by which they direct their
daily lives stands the great fact of
individual and community life—the
union that has given them freedom
from feudal conditions that formerly
prevailed and made life a safe and an
orderly procedure.
The whole community owes its
progress to the union which took
from the coal companies control OV«T
community businessv and finance and
made independent enterprise possible.
The business men of the anthracite
districts have also been loyal to the
union.
This manly straggle again makes
us mindful of the idealism of the hu
man kind. In defense of ideals, pos
sessions and life itself is sacrificed.
It is a manifestation of the spiritual
law—losing his life to find it. We
honor the crusading spirit of the an
thracite miners and pledge them un
swerving support.—Editorial from
The American Federationist for Feb
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we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
Probably not many persons out
side of his home town ever heard of
Denny Keen. But there are chaps
like him in every town, so the story
of Denny will fit almost every town
in America—where ^there is a union
movement worth the name.
Denny Keen lived up in Edmonton,
Canad. He belonged to the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks, Lodge 648.
For over nine years Denny was night
rate clerk in that town, as P. W. Blen
karn tells the story in the Railway
Clerk.
There was a Mrs. Denny and there
were three children. And there was a
home where the five of them lived and
whei'e they made plans and wondered
what it would be like to have more
money than a night rate clerk ever
saw and some day go and see Cali
fornia and let the world know that
the Keen family found it good to look
upon.
A rate clerk's job is a tough enough
job at any stage of the game. He has
many things to trouble his mind and
tax his skill and patience—and his
eyes. There are tariffs that would
drive a lawyer to desperation, bad
writing to make out, shipments to
hurry along, stuff to get billed and
out one time^-many thirds to worry
a rate clerk.
And the bills for what goes into the
home, and ever so many things. And
always wondering what the future is
going to either bring to them or drop
onto them.
Denny Kean wondered particularly
much, because his eyes got to going
bad. That night eye strain began to
tell. p. The doctor warned him—but a
night rate clerk with a wife and three
children is no millionaire, and he
doesn't hop a train and go somewhere
just because a doctor says it would be
a good thing.
That's what they began telling
Denny long ago. Get away from that
job, they said. Yes, but get where?
Denny thought a lot of his family
and his home and he couldn't just
light out and beat it. No more than
thousands of others can light out
when a pinch comes or a doctor says,
"yd travel if I were you."
Finally the eyes got to a crucial
point. The medico man said there
was no more fooling. It was vamoose
or lose the eyes for keeps.
Denny talked it all over at home,
but they couldn't see any safe way
out. Things didn't look so good.
But Denny Keen belonged to a union
and the union got wind of what was
wrong and there were high councils
and much deep talk where Denny
couldn't hear.
And then a great, smashing big
benefit was staged by this local union
to which Denny Keen belonged. And
when it was all over and the litter
had been cleaned up next day the
committee took a roll containing $528
and turned it over to Denny Keen and
told him in plain language to get out
of town and stay gone for a good long
time.
Denny Keen and his family are in
California now—jufet because Denny
Keen was a union man, and because
he played the game straight and fair.
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Capital Comment
^Washington, D. C.
Congress is going to reprint the
Biographical Directory of the Amer
ican Congress, containing a brief bio
graphy of every member who hai
served since 1774. It was last printed
in 1911, but contained many errors,
which have been corrected after ex
tensive research. The new book will
have about 15,000 biographies and is
considered one of the most valuable
historical works printed by the gov
ernment. Libraries all over the coun
try say it is the most used book they
have, being constantly consulted.
The howl we have been hearing
about the British rubber monopoly ex
torting unreasonable prices brings be
fore us the large number of American
millionaires who became' wealthy by
holding up the government in time of
need.
It is proposed to build" a dirigible
twice as lrage as the Los Angeles.
The Undertakers' Union stipulates
that it bust in this country, fore
seeing, no doubt, the sale of
two
and1
a half times as many coffins.
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Congress has a new telephone ex
change which cost $10,000. ^The mem
bership of the house has increased
He's in the golden sunshine now and
all good Californians say that an
orange a day is just as good as an
apple a day any time.
GRAND JURY SYSTEM
DECLARED "USELESS"
New York.—The grand jury system
was declared a "useless body" by
William D. Cunningham, district at
torney of Ulster county, in an address
to the New York Bar Association.
"Grand juries," he said, "are domi
nated by district attorneys, anyway,
and their elimination would leave the
responsibility directly upon the shoul
ders of the prosecutors, where it be
longs. In my long experience as dis
trict attorney I never knew a grand
jury to perform a useful function."
MINE CONVICT SLAIN
POISON HIDES CRIME
Birmingham, Ala.-1—An investiga
tion is being made into the death of
James Knox, at the Flat Top mines,
while serving a two-year prison sen
tence. The mine is operated as a
state convict lease camp.
Mine officials insist that Knox com
mitted suicide by taking poison. The
investigation was started when other
convicts declared he was beaten and
tortured to death by convict guards
when he refused to work in' the mines.
It is alleged that the guards pumped
the poison into Knox's body after his
death.
TEXTILE WAGE CUTS
MAY BRING STORM
Fall River, Mass.—A storm may
break in the eastern textile industry
if employers persist in their wage
reducing program, is organized tex
tile workers' warning to the Cotton
Manufacturers' Association.
In a letter to the manufacturers,
John L. Campos, a trade union official,
makes this reference to one 10 per
cent reduction:
"Are Fall -River manufacturers
again going to be placed in the posi-
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since the old one was installed, be
sides which conversations are more
frequent and less concise than former
ly. This should not be taken, how
ever, to mean there is more talk and
less action.
We have been reading in a weekly
magazine about Stanley Ketchell and
Jack Johnson. Thern was the days
before the present title holder t$Ok
the fight out of prize fighting.
Former Mayor Hylan, of New York'
city, has been retired on a pension of
$4,200 a year. The mayor of Warren,
Pa., has asked that his salary be re
duced from $300 to $150 a year. The
mayor of Washington, D. C.—just ask
any high school student who is mayor
of Washington, and why.
Another motion picture star whose
home life, so we read a month or two
ago, was happy, has asked for a di
vorce. Movie minds, it appears, all
run in the same channel.
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Another billion-dollar food trust has
just been formed. Keeps the attor
ney general so busy counting them
that he just can't get around to in
vestigating them.
tion of being the leaders in reducing
wages
"Surely, the JO per cent reduction
of January 12, 1925, along with the
lower cost of raw cotton, should be
sufficient to enable them to meet com
petition.
"Must the workers, because of ex
isting conditions, be again exploited
by reducing their already low wages?"
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