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FRIDAY, JUNE 24,1927
Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton,
Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter.
Issued Weekly at S2C Market Street
Telephone 1291 Hamilton, Ohio
Endorsed by the Trades and Labor
Council of Hamilton. Ohio
Endorsed by the Middletown Trades
and Labor Council of Middletown, O
THE HOPE OF PEACE
Organized labor stands for social
justice, for fair wages, reasonable
hours of labor and decent working
conditions it hopes to see the dawn
ing of the day when those who do the
world's drudgery will get something
more for it than a miserable exist
ence and the assurance that all labor
is honorable and that it is a great
privilege to toil it indulges the hope
that it will not always be necessary
for human beings, willing to earn
their bread through honest toil, to
trudge in idleness through the streets
of our great cities, cold, hungry and
miserable, like vagabond dogs it be
lieves that things should be altered
as to make it possible for those wno
bring into being the world's necessi
ties, comforts and luxuries, to live, in
a world of abundance, in frugal com
fort. And in striving to bring about
these things it invites the active co
operation of every justice-loving man
and woman. But it indulges in no ir
ridescent dreams as to the nation or
the state or the municipality or benev
olently-inclined individuals or groups
of individuals bringing such changes
to the workers gratis.
The labor movement fully realizes
that the lot of the workers, both pres
ent and future, rests in its own -.nds,
and that he must work out his des
tiny himself, and very iargely with
out outside aid. It also appreciates
that the task before him is a colossal
one and the obstacles to be encoun
tered are numerous and trying but
the organized labor movement has
not, because of these facts, been so dis
heartened as to desire to surrender
to governmental authority the right
to fix the conditions under which men
will labor, or to exercise stringent
regulations over their manner of life
The worker knows that when he sur
renders one right to the state he will
be called upon thereafter to give up
others, and it is his love of liberty
independence and justice that leads
the intelligent worker to insist that
he be given the very largest degree
of independence of action consistent
with the welfare of society as a whole.
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SOME MONEY
"I am twenty-five cents.
I am not on speaking terms with
the butcher
I am too small to buy a quart of ice
cream.
I am not large enough to buy a box
of candy.
I am too small to buy a ticket to
the movies.
I am hardly big enough fbr a tip—
but believe me—
When I go to church on Sunday
I'm considered Some Money
CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR
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RICHES HAVE WINGS:—Labour
not to be rich: cease from thine own
wisdom. For riches certainly make
themselves wings they fly away
Proverbs 23: 4-5.
PRAYER:—We thank Thee, 0 God,
that we are fellow-workers with Thee
in labor that builds not for time only
but for Eternity.
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THE UNORGANIZED
No new dress for more than a year,
and the last made of three and one
half yards of material at 60 cents a
yard no hat in two years $20 to
$24 a week grocery bill for a family
of seven, leaving about $7 a week for
all other expenses out of a husband's
pay check which ranges from $27 to
$31 a section house of three rooms
furnished by the railroad no milk
for the children nothing saved for
the proverbial rainy day—this was the
testimony given by Mrs. Minnie
Ham, wife of Harvey C. Hamm, a sec
tion laborer employed at Cynthiana,
Ky., before the arbitration board which
heard the testimony offered by th&
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes in their plea for a 5-cent
an hour increase in pay from the
Louisville& Nashville railroad. Other
testimony supported the "low wage"
and "poor conditions" story offered by
Mrs. Hamm.
The witnesses called by the company
revealed to the arbitration board that
they represented corporations which
paid as low as 20 cents an hour for
common labor that they were non
union and that an arbitrary wage was
fixed by the corporations without con
sideration as to its being a living
wage.
Testimony such as this proves, the
National Catholic Welfare Conference
points out, the utter helplessness of
the working people who are unorgan
ized, who have to live under condi
tions forced upon them, who must
accept a wage arbitrarily fixed for
them by the type of employer whose
main interest is in making profit for
himself.
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W AGE CUTS NO SOLUTION
Wage reductions and increased
hours that were forced on British coal
miners, following their disastrous
strike of last year, have failed and
that country is facing another coal
crisis.
When the miners were defeated,
jubilant coal owners prepared to chal
lenge cpmpetitors in European mar
kets, but other countries met the lower
labor costs and England finds herself
in a worse condition because of de
based living standards of more than
a million workers.
To add to Britain's troubles, an em
bargo has been placed on that coal by
the French government. The French
coal owners refuse to engage in the
cut-throat competition.
The British situation i.s of interest
to America because it sustains the
United Mine Workers in their oppo
sition to low wages.
These trade unionists have repeat
edly pointed out that low wages is no
solution for the ills of the coal in
dustry.
The union coal owner does not bene
fit, as the non-union coal owner will
keep below the union standard.
Not one additional pound of coal
is sold and the worker is driven to
starvation standards.
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LIVING IN OX-CART TIMES
New and social industrial view
points mean nothing to John E. Edger
ton, president of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers.
"The man who operates a machine
in a factory and gets paid for it," he
says, "has no more right by that fact
to participate in the actual manage
ment of the property than has the ice
man who cools the water."
The ice man is at least privileged
to refuse to sell his ice for any reason
or no reason. If workers withhold
their labor power they are enjoined
(United States supreme court in some
cutters' case.)
What is meant by "actual" man
agement of property?
Shall workers be denied a voice in
conditions tinder which they labor?
And does it mean that workers can
make no suggestion regarding waste
in industry or faulty production meth
ods
Mr. Edgerton may claim this is a
prerogative of management, but when
the directing force is incompetent,
workers are directly interested.
Mismanagement affects profits, and
the debit side of a ledger is alwayp
"Exhibit A" to support opposition
wage increases.
Far-sighted employers are capital
izing the knowledge and experience of
workers.
The other kind live in ox-cart stage
of production.
They still continue to thump the
table, road against "dictation" and
patronizingly talk of "my men."
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INDUSTRY OVER THE PE^K
There are many signs that the great
boom has gone over the top and is
gently slipping down hill, though with
no real disaster yet in sight.
With this fact borne in upon all
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thinking persons by all the statistics
available, it is pertinent to remark
that no modern nation which can not
so order its affairs as to come meas
urably near consuming its own output
can hope for continued prosperity.
The day of wide margins between
producing cost and consuming price
has gone, if we are to have perma
nent national well-being. Exploitation
must give way to the art of balancing
our producing and consuming powers
—else we stagger toward confusion,
poverty and unused surpluses. We
live in that queer kind of a world to
day, we do!
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AMTOKG, THE MYSTERIOUS
Amtorf, which sounds as if it just
might be Scandinavian, but which is
bolshevik, is the name of the soviet
trading organization in New York
city, which spends millions of dollars
of Red money for American products
and which arranges for the sale of
such commodities as are imported to
this country.
Amtorg men, sent here by the sov
iets, are in this country on suffrance.
They do not have passports. The
American government lets them in so
thate^ American business men can do
business with the soviets, the theory
being that if business can be conduct
ed in this manner the business men
will not clamor for recognition of the
soviets.
This is just as if the American
government were to say right out in
public that the patriotism of a good
many business men is regulated by
their business, and there is something
in it, too, though it is by no means
applicable to all.
But Amtorg, being soviet, and the
soviets beljeving that propaganda is
the breath of life, can no more stop
conducting propaganda than could Ar
cos, Amtorg's twin, which was kicked
out of England.
What we learn from all this is that
recognition would mean propaganda,
as it did in the Arcos case, just as
admission without recognition means
propaganda, as it does in New York
in the Amtorg case.
However vainglorious may be its
dreams, the soviet system is at war
with democracy and there is no armis
tice and no peace—not until one side
or the other is too weak to fight. Let
us remember that, tucking it away in
one of those little corners where we
put those facts that are worth keeping
for future use.
EVERYIABOR BILL
By California Lawmakers
Approved By Governor
Sacramento, Cal.—Governor Young
made a record for this state by sign
ing the 25 labor bills passed by the
California legislature.
The governor rejected an amend
ment to the women's eight-hour law
permitting women in the egg-process
ing industry to work without limit
seven days a week. The chief lobby
ist for the farmers joined with privi
lege in this attack.
Paul Scharrenberg, secretary-treas
urer of the California State Federa
tion of Labor, says that the approval
of labor's 25 bills is a new mark for
State Federations of Labor.
One of the bills annuls a devision by
the state supreme court that a presi
dential elector is not a public official
This ruling kept electors of the late
Senator La Follette off the state bal
lot when he was an independent candi
date for president.
The law regulating advertisements
for strikebreakers is strengthened, as
is the law regulating hours of labor
on public works.
Pensions for state employes will be
investigated by a commission, sanitary
facilities for motion picture operators
is provided, the absent voters' law is
enlarged and it will hereafter be
misdemeanor to employ women and
minors contrary to rules of the state
industrial commission.
The state department of public
welfare is authorized to investigate
old age pensions, and farm labor is
placed under the state workmen']
compensation law. Barbers are licen
sed, the state board of education will
investigate text books used in the
elementary schools, credit unions are
legalized and the manufacture and
sale of upholstered furniture will be
regulated.
PAY TO INJURED
LABOR URGED
Grand Junction, Colo.—The Colo
rado State Federation of Labor con'
vention ordered officials to initiate a
referendum for a workable compensa
tion law.
The present act was foisted on the
state by business interests. It is of
no value to injured workers or depend
ents of those who are killed.
President Hoage declared, in his an
nual address, that the company
"union" has fooled 'workers. The
"union" is an age-old plan of employ
ers, dressed in a new garb and given
the high-sounding title "employes' rep
resentation," the union official said.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
TheCherry
Where with oui
Little Hatchet
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we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantH
sometimes recklessly
President Coolidge, having welcom
ed Lindbergh home, goes to the Black
Hills for the summer, getting away to
an early start because the weather
(or "climate," as the Californians say)
of Washington doesn't agree with
him.
It's cool in the Black Hills in the
summer. It is much cooler than it is
in Washington, where the democrats
strive to make it as hot as possible for
Coolidge. It is suspected that there
are not as many democrats in the
Black Hills as there are in Washing
ton. Furthermore, it may be that
there are not so many deserving re
publicans.
Those who want what this ad
ministration doesn't want to give them
can, as a rule, be depended upon to be
too poor to have train fare enough to
get to the Black Hills. Those to whom
a little more train fare means nothing
will doubtless find the some old wel
come on the mat.
There is a practical aspect to this
Black Hills business, and "we are
practical men" in the White House
these days and don't forget that.
A big corps (not pronounced as
spelled) of newspaper correspondents
will go along with the president and
will be delightfully quartered in a fine
hotel right on the very edge of a
charming lake. If the lake were to be
moved any nearer the shore the cor
respondents would all fall in and get
all wet.
In the Black Hills there will be no
news for these energetic' men, except
the news made by the president.
These men are not going to be sta
tioned there for nothing. They MUST
send out at least one story per day.
The bane of their lives will be to dig
up that story each day. They MUST.
There is for them no alibi.
The news, if you must know it, will
be all about Coolidge—and it will also
be all FOR Coolidge, because the
president is an adept at letting no
other kind of news happen in his vi
cinity.
It's really interesting the way black
seems to run through the affairs of
this and the preceding administration
We have today the Black Hills. In
the period of Mr. Coolidge's appren
ticeship as a vice president, there was
the little black bag. It's true that the
little house on K street was green, but
they later put mourning on the door
knob, which was black. There have
been a good many black marks chalk
ed up, for one miscrepancy or another,
for one misadventure or another. And
it has been very black for the farmers
of the Middle West. The gentlemen
of Wall street have been in the black,
too. That is, they have been "out of
the red," these gentlemen being wise
in their day and generation, with a
very good hunch as to when to play
their money.
But be all these incidental things
as they may, the president goes to the
Black Hills to fish and forget, if pos
sible, about the flood down South and
about the demands for a special ses
sion of congress so that this great
devastated region may be given some
assurance of future protection. The
president, having hustled Lindy home
so that the medals could be pinned on,
goes to his Black Hills retreat, hoping
that retreat may be changed into ad
vance before the deep green of early
summer has been turned by the ele
ments into the sere brown of advanc
ing autumn.
Grandfathers of those now living
tell of days when an expedition to the
Black Hills country was a brave under
taking. Only those of stout heart went
into that then desperate section of
our great republic. It was in those
days no summer resort, nor was it ad
jacent to any highly developed farm
ing community. Some men, it is true
went there, as they also went to
Texas and to California, to evade a
pursuing Nemesis, in the person of a
remorseless sheriff. They went to get
away from what they hoped to keep
behind them—and it was impolite, if
not risky, to ask any man his busi
ness.
If the present traveler goes "for his
health," as the saying then was and
still is, the case is not personally so
serious, though it may be politically
an excellent parallel.
Anyway, the president and as brave
a bunch of newspaper correspondents
as ever fed a fictitious horse in a pad
ded expense account, go to the Black
Hills to recuperate from the rigors of
winter politics and to harvest as fair
a crop as may be possible of news for
the rest of the country to feed upon.
And will the people be fooled by
this entourage and the grist which
comes from its ponderous mill? It 's
a 10-to-l shot they will be.
PLUMBERS RAISE PAY
Boston.—The Plumbers' Union has
signed a two-year agreement with
employers. Beginning October 1st
wages will be advanced from $11
$12 a day.
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SQUIBB IS RE-ELECTEP
Quincy, Mass.—Samuel Squibb,
president of the Granite Cutters'
International Association, has bt^ji re
1 elected by a referendum vote.
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3he Hotel 5te*apher
JfcwFulkerjorv
Hsked the House Detective.
"That's Marie Piatt's husband," an
swered the Hotel Stenographer. "He
worried her all one winter^to marry
him and she did It to get rid of him,
and It worked perfectly. She rarely
ever sees him now. He only comes
home to change his clothes and kick
about the way the laundry manglefe
his shirts.
"He Is
a ham actor who cannot
get
an engagement on the road and so he
goes out as an entertainer at club
smokers and things and makes almost
twenty bucks
a
week. With what Ma­
rie makes as a manicure they get
along right nice from his point of view
and punk from hers.
"When a man wants anything he Is
never happ.v till he gets It and then
when he has It he doesn't care any
thing about It. His whole life Is an
affirmative argument that there Is
more pleasure In the pursuit of hap
piness than in the possession of it.
This goes for a polo coat, a wife, a
knowledge of the King Tut step lu the
fox trot or little sid^ whiskers.
"That guy would rather be
a
ham
actor and sing au old song, dance a
few steps and get some applause from
his friends than have a steady Job as
a plasterer and make 60 bucks a week.
'Marie has a nice solitaire he
bought her «n Installments, most of
which she had to pay, and she Is
mighty Impressive when she tells her
customers that her husband Is an ac
tor and away most of the time, so she
works just to fill In the time. But I
never saw her lonely.
"Kelly, the boy I marry has to be
such a snuggle pup that he can barely
leave me long enough to get to work.
All the dancing he does he's got to do
with me, and all the applauding must
come from my lily-white hands. I
want a husband of my own, not one
who belongs to the public."
(Copyright
by the McNaught
Syndicate,
Inc.)
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Play, but No School
The little boy was playing around
the schoolyard during school hours.
"What's the matter? Why don't you
go to school?" asked a passer by.
"Why, you see," and the boy coughed
violently, "you see I have the whoop
ing cough and they don't want me in
school for fear I'll give It
to
some
other children
"Well, what are you waiting here
for?" persisted the passer by.
"I'm Just waiting for 'em to come
out at recess time so I can play with
'em a little while," replied the boy,
wondering why the passer by ex
claimed: "Well, of
all
things
METAL WORKERS GAIN
Aurora, 111.—A two-year contract
and a wage rate of $1.50 an hour has
been secured by the Sheet Metal
Workers' Union.
Try a Standard 5c cigar.
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