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FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1927
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter
lasard Weekly at 32C 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 Middle town, O
LET NO GUILTY ONE ESCAPE
"In the trade union war to elimi
nate communism, let not the little
brothers of the workers' party and
the so-called Trade Union Educational
League be forgotten.
Scheming for what it piously calls
the "united front," the Reds build up
many organizations that look inno
cent, with a few good names on their
letter heads, but with the works con
trolled by party Reds.
Among these are the Anti-Imperial
ist League and the Association for
the' Protection of the Foregin Born
There are a dozen others.
Be not fooled by these tricks of the
Communist game.
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A NEW PROSECUTOR ON JOB
Disclosures of the official investi
gating committee, headed by Mat
thew Woll, in connection with the con
duct of the Reds in the recent fur
workers' strike in New York presage
something new in trade union affairs
In the New York case the commit
tee reported graft, corruption, slug
ging and almost every abuse on the
calendar.
That there has been crookedness
and corruption in the labor movement
has been what might be called an
open secret. Labor has had perhaps
far less than its share of such con
duct, but even a little is too much,
Labor unions have got to be clean and
of high ideals, or they must perish
What the American Federation of
£abor has done in this case sets
precedent. It means, if it means any
thing, that the American Federation
of Labor declares itself from now on
to be the guaidian ot tne moral clean:
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Hness of affiliated organizations.
This sets a precedent—and, it will
be generally agreed, a fine one.
Hitherto it has been in bad taste
to talk about graft in the labor move
ment. That day is, seemingly, gone.
If graft exist, the best thing to do is
to drag it forth and root it out. The
classic example set in the days of
Abe Reuf and Schxnitz is no longer
tolerable.
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The new doctrine Is that no evil
can be palliated or excused by cover
ing it up. It poisons by its presence
and it must be cleaned out.
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"MAKE A NOTE OF FT*
Make a note of the fact that "Young
Bob" La Follette went right straight
to bat on the Mexican issue and minc
ed no words. He was sure-enough
"chip off the old block."
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MR. MELLON'S GULF
Perhaps most persons, thinking of
Mexico and Mr. Kellogg's fulmina
tions, are not aware that his fellow
cabinet member, Mr. Andrew Mellon,
of Pittsburgh, is one of the largest
holders of Mexican oil property. Gulf
Oil, Mellon controlled, operates
Mexico through a subsidiary. It is a
very interesting situation, indeed, and
worth watching.
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TWO NEW GOVERNORS
In the change of office last week,
pursuant to the last elections, two
governors passed out of office to give
place to less picturesque performers
These two governors had been per
haps more talked about than any other
governors, except, perhaps, Governor
A1 Smith.
One of those who now write "ex
before their names is Governor Mir
iam Ferguson, of Texas the other is
Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania.
Governor Ferguson came into office
through a combination of circum
stances. She made many promises
and had a magnificent opportunity.
She missed it by a mile.
Governor Pinchot was for Pennsyl
vania such a governor as G. W. P.
Hunt was for Arizona—a governor
who, for his courage and good works
will not be soon forgotten. He went
down in the evil and filthy tide that
swept over the state under the guid
ance of powerful machines. It brought
Vare to Washington—where he may
not be able to remain—and it swept
Pinchot out.
But Pennsylvania will not soon
forget the service of Pinchot, ana
some day it will return for more,
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UNWRITTEN LAW
An English judge rips the camou
flage of sentimentality off the "un
written law" and shows it in its
proper person. It is, he says, "merely
a name for no law at all, reverting us
to the state of barbarism."
England, we have been led to be
lieve, has been plagued by this so
called "unwritten law" than America.
Emotion is less in evidence, and yet
the "law" is apparently not a stranger
to the island where juries are depend
ed upon to do their duty out of devo
tion to the written law which is in
clined to be severe upon him who
undertakes by violence to avenge an
injury done himself. Its shadowy
and rather uncertain existence was
recognized at a recent trial to the
extent that the prosecutor was moved
to argue that there is no "unwritten
law" in England and the judge to cau-
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tion the jury of its real effect: as de
structive of all law.
The words of the English judge
are of course equally applicable to
America. If the "unwritten law" is
merely a name for no law at all in
England it is also the name for no
law at all in America. It is likely,
however, to take a long, long expe
rience with the consequence of ignore
ing the law before American juries
can be brought to the point of deal
ing with triangle murders from a
standpoint of cold-blooded justice in
stead of under the influence of pas
9ion and sentiment.
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THE FIVE-DAY WEEK
The president of the Builders'
Association of Chicago opposes the
five-day week. In an address to New
York builders he said this movement
is not attempted in anti-union com
munities—a statement that organized
labor accepts.
"Labor must find the way in which
production will be so increased that
work now performed in 44 hours will
be easily accomplished in 40," the
speaker said.
Note that "labor must find the
way." Nothing is said of wastes by
employers which industrial engineers
have repeatedly referred to.
Labor will gladly "find the way,
but this is impossible when workers
are denied joint action, and are treat
ed as units.
When the way is found—and labor
insists that it can—then, and not till
then, will organized workers demand
the five-day week.
There is a wide field for employers
with vision.
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REED AND FREE PRESS
In a vigorous plea for liberty of the
press, Senator James Reed, of Mis
souri, told the American Society of
Newspaper Editors that "the liberty
of the press is chiefly valuable when
it is used to break down the more
fixed opinions of mankind."
"It is monstrous that a citizen can
not speak for or against the prose
cution of war," the senator said. "The
liberty of the press must be main
tained in peace and war alike, trust
ing confidently in the patriotism and
common sense of our people*"
Senator Reed traced the fight for
free speech from the days of Socrates
and Milton to Jefferson and Lincoln
whom he quoted as defenders of the
doctrine that democracy can exist only
so long as free speech is assured every
person. Free press, he added, was
only a modern expression of free
speech.
"Jefferson declared that he would
rather live in a country with news
papers and no government than in a
country with government and no
newspapers," the senator said.
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HIGH WAGE THEORY GROWS
The San Diego, California, Evening
Tribune is the latest to reject the
cheap-labor theory and accept organ
ized labor's position that high wages
create a home market and make pros
perity continuous. The editor says:
"That American employers pay
high wages that enable workers to
own automobiles and live on a scale
comparable with the moderately weal
thy in Europe, and that the employ
ers have not all gone into bankruptcy,
has been an economic riddle abroad
That, though paying such unhear-of
wages or because they do pay them
these employers undersell the foreign
manufacturer in his home market is
more than a riddle. It is an economic
paradox. Because, hurt by the com
petition of the paradox, foreign manu
facturers are themselves likely to go
broke, they have been asking heaven
and would move the earth to find the
secret.
"Two Englishmen have been over
here to discover the answer. Bertram
Austin and W. Francis Lloyd were
shrewd investigators, and on their re
turn made a report privately which
produced such a stir in England that
they have embodied their conclusions
in a volume that is being read in
England as a formula to riches.
"Briefly, our visitors have found
the secret in mass production which
creates a wide home market for its
massed product by paying high
wages. It's a circle. High wages
mean a standard of living that means
buying power, and if the workers did
not have this buying power there
would not be massed production, and
it is massed production that makes
high wages possible.
::That's something for the British
to think about, with their millions of
unemployed and with low wages for
those who are employed."
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8TEREOTYPERS GAIN
Stockton, CaL—Stereotypes* em
ployed on local newspapers raised
wages $1 a week.
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THE BUTLER COUNTS' PRESS
ROADY KENEHEN
IS DEAD
Was Best Known of All
Horse Shoers' Unions
Denver.—Roady Kenehen, one of
the organizers of the International
Union of Journeymen Horse Shoers
and its first international secretary,
died in this city. He was a high type
of the old-time trade unionist, and
was well known among North Ameri
can organized workers because of his
30-year record of fearlessness and
rugged honesty.
He was state auditor when gun men
were garbed in the uniform of the
state militia to break the strike of
coal miners against the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company in 1913. This
scandalous policy culminated in the
Ludlow horror, in which men, women
and children lost their lives when the
thugs set fire to the miners' tent
colony.
As state auditor Kenehen refused
to sign pay checks for the alleged
militia and for months held up these
payments. The union smashers ad
vanced their own money to keep the
gun men in the field.
In resolutions on the passing of
this loyal trade unionist the Denver
Trades and Labor Assembly said:
"The name of Roady Kenehen will
never dfe—his loyalty to the labor
movement and his interest in the cause
of the common people is a monument
that few leave. His life should prove
an inspiration to the members of our
movement in their struggle for higher
and better things."
STOP
From Company Houses,
Says Governor Gore
Charleston, W. Va.—Governor Gore
would end unlawful evictions of min
ers from company houses every time
a strike starts in this state.
In a recommendation for legislation
that will specify the rights of owners
and occupants of these houses, the
governor said that this lack of clar
ity is a handicap, and that "blood
shed and riot and the necessity for
martial law were narrowly averted on
quite a number of occasions."
In reviewing difficulties that have
arisen through different interpreta
tions of the rights of the two parties
in disputes over possession of these
company houses, the governor said
that "the circumstances surrounding
occasions of this kind fail to take into
consideration the social and humani
tarian principles involved. The basic
constitutional rights of women and
children, who are helpless victims of
the controversy, should be as secure
to them as the basic rights of the
?mployer and employe."
The governor said that the doctrine
of master and servant or landlord and
tenant "does not equitably meet the
requirements of such situations in
either a practicable or equitable way."
MUST TOE MARK
When Congress Commands,
Says High Court to
Witnesses
Washington. The United States
supreme court has unanimously ruled
that committees of congress have the
right to summon witnesses.
The verdict was handed down in the
case of Mai S. Daugherty, brother of
the former attorney general, who re
fused to obey a state committee
summons to appear and produce the
books of an Ohio bank of which he
is president. The committee then
cited the banker to answer contempt
charges, but he secured a writ of
habeas corpus from a Cincinnati fed
eral court. The case has been pend
ing for more than two years.
In upholding committees of con
o:ress to cite witnesses, the supreme
court said:
"In actual legislative practice the
power to secure needed information
has long been treated as an attribute
of the power to legislate.
"A legislative body can not legislate
wisely or effectively in the absence of
information respecting the conditions
which the legislation is intended to
effect or change.
"Experience has taught that mere
requests for such information often
are unavailing, and also that infor
mation which is volunteered is not
always accurate or complete so some
means of compulsion are essential to
obtain what is needed."
The decision is far-reaching in its
effect, and involves the oil cases and
the senatorial election contests in Illi
nois and Pennsylvania.
MUST_BEPEACE
Says A. F. of L. to Promot
ers For War on Mexico
By International Labor News Service.
St. Petersburg, Fla. Differences
between the United States and Mex
ico must be settled peacefully and
there must be no war. So declares
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor, just adjourned
here after what President Green de
scribed as a most successful session.
Representations? will be made to
President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg
and Senator Borah, chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee.
'The council," said President Green,
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is for the preservation of peace be
tween the two nations by bringing
about the settlement of all questions
by peaceful means and without un
friendly acts or any acts of war."
Among the acts classed as unfriend
ly the council included such acts as
the lifting of the arms embargo or
winking at recruiting of revolutionary
bands or movements on American
soil.
The fcowncil was unanimous in re
senting efforts to induce it to be
drawn into the dispute over church
issues in Mexico. "The American
Federation of Labor," said President
Green, "is committed to a policy of
non-interference in religious matters
because we hold that all who may be
affiliated with the American Federa
tion of Labor shall be protected in
their right to worship in accordance
with the dictates of conscience. The
executive council believes this right
should be accorded to all peoples."
The council directed appointment of
two commissioners to meet two Mexi
can labor commissioners to draft an
immigration and emigration treaty.
The basis for such a treaty was reach
ed in joint conferences about a year
ago.
MORE PAY
For Railroad Shop and Way
Men
Maintenance of way men of the
Canadian railways have been given
wage increases of 2 to 3 cents an
hour. They asked for an increase of
10 cents. The Canadian National has
decided to abandon the bonus system
in its shops and the sum devoted to
bonus payments—about $800,000 an
nually—will be divided equally among
the shop craftsmen. The Federation
of Shop Crafts is still pursuing nego
tiations for wage increases. Mean
while, it is reported that the Canadian
Pacific railway earned last year
enough to pay 15 per cent on its com
mon stock, while the Canadian Na
tional had net earnings of about
$45,000,000, enough to hand the gov
arnment $4,000,000 after paying inter
est on securities in the hands of in
vestors.
JUDGE LANDIS'
AWARD HANDED
ANOTHER JOLT
Chicago. The Decorating and
Painting Contractors' Association
signed a union shop agreement with
the Painters' District Council. The
present rate of $1.50 an hour will be
advanced 2% cents on June 1st next
The contract is another blow at the
anti-union shop award of Judge Lan
dis which a so-called citizens' com
mittee has endeavored to enforce on
building craftsmen. These workers
refused to desert their organizations
and the Landis scheme, though back
ed by powerful interests, is being bat
tered to pieces.
WILL ASK FIVE-DAY WEEK
Philadelphia. The Waist and
Dressmakers' Union will demand
five-day week when their contract ex
pires next month. One-half of the
200 shops in this city maintain rela
tions with the union, and these work
ers will insist that collective bar
gaining be general.
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Total sales of societies reporting
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$2.00 box for $1.00
5-lb. box of Chocolates $1.00
TOILET GOODS
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Saturday 2 cakes for 15c
3 cakes of Woodbury's Soap 63c
1 tube of Facial Cream free
$1.00 value for 63c.
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4-lb. bar of Sapo de Castillio 69c
Hobson's Corn Husker Lotion,
best ever for chapped face
or hands 35c
SICK ROOM SUPPLIES
Absorbent Cotton.
Z. O. Adhesive Tape.
Sterile Gauze Bandage.
Absorbent Cotton, l-lb 49c
White enamel Irrigators, Bed
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Fountain Syringe, 2-qt.
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Hot Water Bottle, 2-qt..... 79c
Combinations, 2-qt $1.25
Infant Syringe „.„...19c
Ear and Ulcer Syringe 19c
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