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FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1928
HAVE MUCH TO LEARN
The Chamber of Commerce of tin
United States is opposed to labor in
junction relief. At its recent con
vention in Washington it was resolv
ed:
"Any effort of the legislative branch
to usurp or limit the functions of the
judiciary must result in disaster."
These business men should read the
constitution.
They will find that only the supreme
court is created by the constitution
All other federal courts are created
by congress, and the lawmaking
branch is empowered to define the
jurisdiction of such inferior courts.
Congress is within its rights when
it defines the jurisdiction of these in
ferior courts, as proposed in the
Shipstead anti-injunction bill.
This is not usurpation. It is the
injunction judges who usurp.
Misrepresentation will not deter
organized labor from protesting
against the labor injunction.
Defenders of this iniquity® should
remember this statement by Wilber
force when he was arousing England
in the eighteenth century against the
slave traffic:
"Say what you will about the needs
of the navy or of British commerce,
this is wrong."
Wilberforce won. The men who op
posed him are forgotten.
It is gratifying to know that the
local Chamber of Commerce doesn't
agree with the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States in many things.
The officials who guide the destinies
of the local chamber are too broad
minded to always follow in the nar
row path of the national body, and
thank goodness for that, for therein
lies the secret of the why and where
for of the amicable relations and con
ditions existing in Hamilton today
between employer and employe.
-:o:-
WHAT CAN A PRESIDENT DO?
What authority has the president
of the United States to supervise
elections in Nicaragua? How far
may a president go in using armed
forces in Nicaragua? And what
about extending this practice to other
countries? Those things Senator
N orris asks. The foreign relations
committee has just got through de
ciding unanimously that congress can
not consider asking the president to
withdraw the marines. That, too, is
right. We are in deep, we have made
a mess and should not make a worse
onf. But the foreign relations com
mittee ought not to leave the case
at that. Its act should not bear the
interpretation of saying that what
has been done was right as concerns
Nicaragua or right as concerns the
use of a president's power.
CHRIST FOR ALL-ALL FOR CHRIST
SAFETY OF THE RIGHTEOUS:
—The righteous shall inherit the land,
and dwell therein forever.
The law of his God is in his heart
none of his steps shall slide.—Psalm
37:29,31.
PRAYER:—Great and Almighty
God, we trust in Thee and rejoice
because in Thee wp are kept secure
forever.
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BEN STRAUSS
The news of the sudden passing away of Mr. Hen Strauss shortly
after noon on last Monday came as a great shock to the whole com
munity. The word,, "Ben Strauss is dead," spread throughout the
city like wildfire, for no man in Hamilton was better known or held
in higher regard or greater esteem than Ben Strauss. His friends, his
business associates, his employes and those who came in daily contact
with him, all knew him for that extreme fairness and honesty, sterling
integrity and broad kindliness so rarely and so seldom found in any
one being to the extent that it existed in Ben Strauss, and they all
loved him for it.
Mr. Strauss, with the exception of the first two years, lived all
his life in Hamilton. He saw Hamilton grow from a mere country
town to a near metropolitan city, and he loved Hamilton and all per
taining to its welfare and that of its people. He never shirked and
was always ready to shoulder his share—in fact, more than his share—
of the responsibilities for furthering any cause or movement for the
betterment of the community's conditions, and especially did he always
show a ready willingness to help in anything that would go to the aid
of the unfortunate, many of whom can attest to the generous help
given them secretly by Mr. Strauss.
Ben Strauss seemed to love all mankind, and nothing gave him
so much pleasure and joy as when he was doing the other fellow a
"good turn." And how many, many of them he did! No one will
ever know because Ben Strauss never kept count of them himself,
nor would he have wanted anyone else to do so. He seemed to have
an especially warm feeling and the kindest and highest regard for
the working people of Hamilton. He seemed always to feel that it
was the kindness and friendship of Hamilton's workers that made
possible the success of the great business establishment he created,
and he never failed to show his gratitude when the occasion presented
itself. And the working people of Hamilton always appreciated that
in Ben Strauss they had a warm and true friend whom they never
need hesitate to approach when wanting advice or in need of assist
ance. And they did call on him by the hundreds and none ever were
turned down.
Those who knew Ben Strauss best, and because of the good and
kindly acts he performed, know that the world is better today for
him having lived in it.
In his passing away the whole community loses a good and loyal
citizen and suffers an irreparable loss, and the working people mourn
the loss of a good, true and kind friend, and they will long revere
the memory of Ben Strauss.
The resolution offered by Senator
Norris draws a comparison that is
invidious but pertinent. It points to
evidence that the senate has heard of
fraud in certain state elections and
asks whether the president would be
justified in using armed forces to su
pervise our own elections. We hear
frequently of federal interference in
what once were mere state matters
But at least it seems that the elec
lions and the coal mining practices of
states are better guarded against
federal interference than the domes
tic concerns of foreign nations
when those nations are small.—Ex.
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WAGES MEAN LIFE
Wages mean more than the price
of a certain number of hours of work
They mean life and a chance to enjoy
and advance the civilzation of the
day.
If you think that it is alright to
pay a woman $9 a week, simply be
cause you can get her to work for
$9 a week, then you think that it is
alright for. you to take from that
woman not only the hours of work
you have bargained for, but also her
health, her comfort, her chances for
pleasure and education, and provision
for her old age or sickness. You
will take all these things, because a
$9 a week wage can supply none of
them.
You will also be taking from the
community a healthy, happy, inter
ested citizen and leaving in her place
a woman who will have neither time
nor energy to make a contribution
to any social progress, a woman
whose standard of living must be too
low for safety in fact, a woman who
is a liability instead of an asset in
the community life. This is too large
a contribution for any one person to
take from another, yet those who pay
less than a living wage are taking
such a toll from every person they
employ, and from every community
in which these persons live.
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PLAYING WITH FIRE
President Green, of the American
Federation of Labor, told the recent
[convention of the International La
dies' Garment Workers' Union in
Boston that national and international
unions that permit communists to get
the upper hand will have their char
ters revoked by the federation.
This is the plainest kind of warn
ing to every union not to temporize
with communist wreckers but to oust
them before they secure even a sem
blance of power. Unions that sit idly
by and make no move when commun
ists are busy within the organization
are playing with fire. The best thing
they can do is to put out the blaze
while it is small.
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THE RIGHT TO JOIN A UNION
No great commonwealth can safely
deny its citizens the right of deci
sion in matters that concern their
personal living. Servile groups of
citizens are a menace to free institu
tions. It is therefore contrary to pub
lic policy to permit the management
of a great public utility to deny its
employes the right to belong to
trade organization of their own
choosing. The Interborough Rapid
Transit Company of New York city
has carried its warfare against the
union to the extent of discharging
eight-five employes—not for ineffi
ciency, refusal to carry out instruc
tions, carelessness, or any other rea
son connected with the performance
of work, but because they exercised
their constitutional right to join
labor union of their own choice. These
men, many of whom had served the
company for years, were summarily
discharged in a period of great un
employment with serious consequences
to themselves and their dependents
Loss of employment is a serious
thing at any time. Because wage
earners do not have ready agencies
to get their stories to the public
there is not always full appreciation
of what it means to live without
enough food, without money for doc
tor's services and under the fear of
complete destitution.
To discharge men for exercising the
right to decide personal matters,
strikes at the very basis of human
freedom. To deny workers construc
tive and constitutional avenues, tend:
to develop class war and revolution
ary methods and bolshevism.
A corporation which pursues such
an indefensible policy of persecution
of tried and efficient employes, has
no standing before the bar of public
opinion and has no right to exist. It
should be required to forfeit its con
trol and management of a public util
ity.
:o:
DODGING RESPONSIBILITIES
Certain American newspapers, the
Cuban ambassador and seemingly thi
United States department express the
opinion that unless American lives
are involved in Cuba there is no jus
tification for investigating, as pro
vided for by the Shipstead resolu
tion. The Piatt amendment, these
persons and interests conveniently
forget, makes the American govern
ment the guarantor of CUBAN live:
and liberties, and anything that
dodges that responsibility is repre
hensible.
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REAL UNIONISM WINNING
Thirty thousand textile workers
come back into the bona fide union
the United Textile Workers of Amer
ica, at New Bedford. They find the
real union is the only union.
Critics of the progressive)* fighting
^-and gaining—Amalgamated
AKSO-
ciation of Street and Electric Rai
way Employes of America, hurling
puny arrows in the Pennsylvania
State Federation of Labor convention,
were routed by real trade unionists.
So also were the so-called "Save-the
union' advocates, whose game really
is to wreck the union.
Nowhere in the world is there a
more constructive, effective trade
union movement than in the United
States, composed of the unions group
ed in the American Federation of
Labor.
Pecking away by crooks and pany
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the wage earnei-s—and it can not
succeed. Support the real unions
they are labor's fighting machine and
labor's great constructive agency.
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HATS OFF TO SENATE
Right-thinking citizens should de
fend the senate against attacks by
those who seek special privilege and
who oppose any interference with
their plans.
Every senate probe has uncovered
wrong.
This was true in the oil probe, the
Daugherty frame-up against Senator
Wheeler, coal strike hearings and the
Pennsylvania-Illinois senatorial elec
tions.
Men who now denounce corruption
in high places were the same men
who sneer at the senate. They were
silent until the publicity aroused the
nation.
These evils would be unknown but
for fearless men in the senate who
refused to quit because of the whirl
wind of abuse and misrepresentation.
Men only win in their fight for
right when they have courage to
stick.
MUSICIANS URGE
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meet any contingency that may de
velop."
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is taking place in the theatrical field.
Corporations control at least 80 per
cent, and the movement is growing,
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