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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1926
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
Issued Weekly at 326 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.
TRADE UNIONIST IN JAIL
Founders of the Republic who really
had faith in liberty (some of them
didn't believe in liberty except for the
select few) must have turned over in
their graves when they heard that
38 women and 8 men had been sent
to jail in Chicago for alleged vio
lations of orders issued by a notorious
injunction judge during a strike of
garment workers.
It is hard to realize tnat men and
women still go to prison in this sup
posedly free country for not obeying
orders of a judge. The nation has
traveled far from the path marked
out for it by Thomas Jefferson and
other great champions of democracy
to permit such judicial tyranny. The
news from Chicago is fact, not fic
tion, despite its almost unbelievable
nature. Forty-six union members
went to jail and will serve their sen
tences unless pardoned by the gov
ernor of Illinois.
Evidently labor still ha§ a long
hard fight ahead of it if tyrannical
judges are to be curbed.
DIVIDENDS AND DEATH
Drawing dividends is not a danger
ous occupation, but doing the work
that produces the dividends is often
dangerous in the extreme.
The workers who died in the terri
ble explosion in a Gary steel plant
on June 14 gave up their lives in a
hell of molten metal and burning
acids that Judge Gary and other steel
Stockholders, big and little, might re
ceive their regular dividends. The
stockholders are safe and sound, while
many of the workers are dead and
others are horribly injured.
Death waits at every turn in the
steel mills, ready to kill or maim
Ambulance Service
Phone 35
BILL BOOSTER SAYS
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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
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Phone 200 PARLORS 229 Dayton St.
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The same is true of many other indus
tries. Yet there are men in this
country who see no reason why large
sums of money should be spent on
safety work!
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OUR BAD ROADS
The Press believes there isn't a
county in the whole state of Ohio
where worse roads to be driven over
are to be found than right here in
our own Butler county. Outside the
main arteries the roads, in many
places, are in a horrible condition. It
is all one's life is worth to drive over
many of them and in many instances
auto springs and other parts are
wrecked in an attempt to navigate
the bumps. And even on the main
roads many bad holes have been al
lowed to grow so that these "roads
have to be traveled with care if one
wants to get back home whole.
Princeton pike which was condition
ed just last year is fast getting into
bad shape, and the infirmary hill is
in an awful shape to drive over. If
it gets much worse, driving over the
hill will have to be discontinued as a
safeguard to life, limb and machine
What is the matter with the com
missioner who lives on Princeton pike
getting busy and getting some actitin
on this road to get it back where one
can drive over it with safety?
Before the election two years ago
we were promised much if we would
only place in control the present ad
mini tration. When those now in
charge took hold the people and auto
ists in general looked for much im
provement in our country roads, but
alas! things aren't a bit better than
they were before—if as good.
Come on, Mr. Commissioners, get
busy, show some speed, start some
thing and better our roads.
C. W. GATH CO.
Funeral Directors
Ra E) in
UNIONISM A NECESSITY
Too much emphasis can not be
placed upon the importance of trade
unions to the welfare of the workers
and society in general. No wrong can
be righted or ideal realized without
the driving power which comes from
unity through organization.
Men have wasted their lives in fu
tile petitions for improved conditions
without achieving any success. Not
until men organized and generated
the pbwer to compel redress were
their hopes realized. Again and
again men must be shown that there
is no royal road to a better day and
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Chairs and Tables Rented
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that progress can only come as the
result of the application of consider
able energy to tin task of organiza
tion.
Those who control the lives of the
wage earners will not surrender that
control voluntarily. They will only
yield when they are compelled to yield
by a power intelligently directed.
Thejndustrial autocrat may conceal
his power and exercise caution when
the workers are aroused, but behind
the velvet glove of his "benevolence"
is the iron fist. He fills his plant
with spies while he assumes a pater
nalistic attitude with his company
union, stock ownership and bonus
schemes.
Back of all of his behavior, how
ever, is the determination to control.
He objects to the workers having a
voice in determining the conditions
of labor, the one thing which dis
tinguishes a free man. No man can
be free who exercises no control over
the means whereby he lives. Organ
ization brings in some measure such
control.
LONG FIGHT ENDED
From Indianapolis comes the good
news that a dispute of many years
standing between the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners and
the Sheet Metal Workers' Interna
tional Association has been settled by
mutual agreement. The agreement is
tentative but it is expected it will
be approved by the governing boards
of both unions.
When labor falls out and wastes
time and energy fighting within itself,
the enemy makes hay. Labor shouW
never forget this.
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BROOK HART'S VICTORY
SHOCKS EASTERN "BIG BIZ
Profound astonishment and chagrin
is manifest in the circles of "big
business" throughout eastern cities
over the sweeping victory of Smith
W. Brookhart for the senatorial nom
ination in the Iowa primary.
Leaders in finance and business had
confidently believed that the United
States senate had seen the last of
Colonel Bi'ookhart, and that the vot
ers of Iowa would ratify the action
of the senate two months ago in
sweeping him out of his seat. They
are uncommonly dejected over the
Brookhart triumph.
Defeat of four administration
stalwarts, classed among the majoi
reactionaries of the senate, in the las
two months has shaken the confidence
of corporate and major business in
teres'ts in the reputed grip of the
Coolidge administration on the fancy
of the nation. The Mid-West is as
serting itself, although one of the fal
len four, Senator Peppier, is from
the state of Pennsylvania.
Political wiseacres who have stud
ied the returns from the primary in
the "tall corn" belt see more than
mere popularity of Colonel Brook
hart in the outcome. They see a
wave of resentmtent on the part of
the republicans of Iowa over the
action of a republican senate in un
seating a republican senator, nnd
putting a democrat, class as "sane
and conservative," in his place.
Brookhart's ouster is now recog
nized in big business circles in th
East as a major tactical mistake on
the part of the senate stalwarts. Cer
tain it is that Brookhart, One-time
champion rifle shot of the world, ha
scored a bull's-eye against his East
ern critics.
Reactionary business and financial
loaders who have been opposed to
farm relief legislation in any form
just as in the past they have opposed
the eight-hour day and higher wages
have believed that Iowa would rally
to a vindication of the action of the
senate reactionaries. That they have
misread the signs of the times, and
undestimatetd the wrath of the
farming interests, is thoroughly dis
tdrbing to them.
RAIL MEDIATION
BOARD APPOINT
ED BY COOLIDGE
Washington. President Coolidge
has appointed four out of five mem
bers of the board of mediation ere
ated by the Watson-Parker act to ad
just railroad labor disputes.
Those selected were former Repre
sentative Samuel £. Winslow,
Massachusetts, for a term of five
years former Gov. Edwin P. Morrow
of Kentucky, for four years G. Wal
lace Hanger, of the District of Co
lumbia, for two yaers, and Hywt
Davies, of California, for one year.
Winslow is a former chairman of
the house interstate commerce com
mittee. Morrow and Hanger were
both members of the "public group*
of the defunct railroad labor board
Davies was formerly president of the
Kentucky Coal Operators' Associa
tion and is now a conciliator in tho
United States department ©f labor
The salary of the board members
is $10,000 a year. The appointments
are before the senate for confirma
tion.
ACCIDENT PREVENTION
CONFERENCE
CALLED
Washington.—An industrial acci
dent prevention conference to con
sider the value of statistics for acci
dent prevention has been convened by
the United State bureau of labor
statistics to meet in Washington July
14-16, 1926.
ANTI-UNION WORK DAY
DEMANDED BY BALDWIN
London.—Prime Mimster Baldwin
insist in his determination to force
a longer work day on the coal min
ers. But he leaves untouched the
millions of pounds of unearned roy
alties taken by the industrial lords
who own the coal deposits
Oils Used in Flavoring
For many years the United States
has been the greatest producer of pep
permint and spearmint oils, and from
present indications bids fair to main
tain the lead. Japan, Russia, Ger
many and England are also consider
able producers, the last two countries
turning out oils of the highest com
mercial quality. No accurate statis
tics of the world's output of these
commodities appear to be available,
but it is the impression among those
best informed that the annual produc
tion of oil exceeds 600,000 pounds, of
wlfieh the United States contributes
about 250,000 pounds.
South American Art
Quito, ilie capital of Ecuador, the
second highest townsite in the world
(9.000 feet above sea level) Is regarded
as the cradle of South American art.
Franciscan monks took workmen
thither, nnd one of the most beautiful
of buildings Is the San Francis church
at Quito. It look 100 years to erect,
after its construction had begun in
1535. Much of its internal work is
designed in the Moorish style, while
parts of the building favor Indo-Chi
nese, mingled with Roman and Gothic
examples of decorative taste.
Why He Did It
Player—Did you see my ball
hit
that
tree, caddie?
Middle-Aged Caddie—No, sir, I hain't
got but one ey£ and that ain't prime.
"Well, did you hear it strike the
tr^e?"
"No, sir. I be a bit 'ard of 'earin'."
"Then what the deuce are you doing
carrying clubs?"
"Well. sir. they (old me as 'ow it
would lie good for my lits."
BROOM MANUFAC
TURERS' PfelSON*
V*: LABOR POLICY
CMca&o, HI —The Western Broom
Manufacturers' Association at its re
cent session protested against prison
made goods and urged every manu
facturer, dealer and grower to urge
members of congress to enact the bill
allowing the states to control ship
ment of prison-made goods coming
into each state.
The association then declined' to ac
cept the plan submitted by Will R.
Boyer, secretary-treasurer, Broom and
Wliisk Makers' International Union,
idt the organization of the broom
making industry, employers and work
ers, to carry on a joint campaign to
eliminate prison labor competition,
"While the association did not take
on our proposition," states Secretary
Boyer, "we set them thinking and
results are sure to follow."
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But living-room, dining-room,
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must also be durable and sani
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clean and economical. So many
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itrebs-Laid floors in their offices
ask us to lay linoleum floors in
their homes.
Come in and see the delight
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40 Inch Georgette Crepes
in very good colors
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Yard
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Polka Dot Voiles
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Mercerized Broadcloths
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&
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You Will Find It Very Easy
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YOUR BATHING SUIT
From our large stock of fine wool suits
CHILDREN'S BATHING SUITS
At-
$1.49
Up
MISSES' BATHING SUITS
Sizes 30 to 34
At-
$2.49
lp
BATHIN4
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WOMEN'S BATHING SUITS
At— 0O AO Up
Children's Voile
Dresses
Children's Garden
Shocks
Children's Play Suits
$1 to $1.50 values.
Close Out Price
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You can buy Dresses of Striped Tub Silks, Two Piece Dotted Silk Crepe
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UNION INSURANCE
St. Louis, Mo.—The International
Association of Bridge, Structural and
Ornamental Iron Workers paid out
7,000 in old age and disability pen
sions and $3,900 in death claims dur
ing the last month.
Lafayette, Ind.—Thfe firot^eVTiodd
of Painters, Decorators and Paper
hangers of America paid out $61,206
death and disabilitty benefits during
the last month.
Chicago, HI.—The Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
of North America paid out $5,700 in
death and disability benefits during
months.
WOMEN'S
TWEED
COATS
$29.50 Values
At
$16.98
THIS SALE
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5%
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Compounded Semi-Annually
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Our June Clearance of Women's
SUITS and COATS
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You will find many very desirable garments in our
stock greatly reduced in price.
WOMEN'S TWEED SUITS BOYISH STYLES
Early Price, $.'{5 and $M9.oO
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WOMEN'S
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$29.50 Values
At
$16.98
COATS OF TWEEDS, FLANNEL
and OTHER WOOL CLOTH
at- $3 $5 $7.98
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WINDOW CURTAINS
A new assortment to be sold at very moderate prices Saturday
BARRED MARQUISETTE RUFFLED CURTAINS—
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BARRED MARQUISETTE COLORED RUFFLED CURTAINS— 1 AO
DOTTED BARRED MARQUISETTE COLORED RUFFLED ""1 np
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