The Butler County press. [volume], May 25, 1928, Image 3

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about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
Oil seems to force itself continu
ously into the news. However much
one may be inclined to think of trees
and flowers and babbling brooks, or
to philosophize with the sages and
ruminate with the idlers along the by
ways, such things cannot be. Oil
forces other things off the track, much
as the dry law enforcers in their
thuggery force all innocent citizens
to walk in awe and circumspection,
lest they be used as targets*for care
less pistols.
Comes now, in the month of May,
in the year 1928, John D. Rockefeller,
telling Col. Stewart to get off the
board of Standard Oil of Indiana.
Col. Stewart was one of the parties
to the Continental Trading Company
deal. This has been in the news for
many, many months. The oil scandal
as* a whole has been in the news for
some four years.
It took young John D. Rockefeller
a long, long time to make up his mind
about Col. Stewart.
Such deliberate procedure does not
prove the importiality and wisdom of
Rockefeller. It does prove that pub
lie opinion, if it hammers long enough
can move even the mountains of great
wealth.
PHONE 48
Oil and power have been showing
the country what could be done by
gentlemen who had appetite enough
and cunning enough and force enough.
Oil, through "Doheny and Sinclair, ran
away with a loot that would have
staggered the old time pirate princes.
They are still getting away with the
long end of things in their contests
with the courts.
Power has been showing how it
could wield and mould and twist pub
lic opinion by feeding the sources of
news. That it has been able to put
its propaganda into the public schools
in text book form is surely nothing
less than amazing. It is astounding
for its boldness and brazenness.
America has got to do something
about its great corporate powers.
There can be no question about that.
The more quick-shooting among us
will revert to the battle cry of the
nineties and howl for a trust-bust
ing, corporation-smashing, competi
tion restoring program.
SAND-GRAVEL-CEMENT
Tht Hamilton Gravel Co.
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O K E N
The Labor Temple Auditorium. For dances, bazaars, parties, »tf,
Inquire of the Trustees, or phone 1296 for dates.
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The most modern Limousine
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219 MAIN ST.
Corporate power, left to its own sweet|tion to devise a right method of deal
devices, soon turns to the use of pow
er for the sake of extending domain
just like any power, be it corporate,|
military or what-not.
But that is the bunk. It is foolish
to go out and smash a serviceable
machine pust for the sake of restoring
pre-machine conditions. It's like go
ing back to the sickle and flail, ifIHis
there be any who remember whatl
those primitive implements were like.
Corporations are useful. That has
been proved. Modern industry and
commerce cannot function without or-|
ganization. Corporations are organ
izations?.
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For Your Summer On The
Porch or the Lawn
'"PIMELY values that will help you make the porch lawn more cozy and
EE convenient for the warm months furniture that will add comfort
EE and good looks—all specially priced.
High-Grade 3 Piece $QA
FIBER SUITES OV
No matter where you put this 3-piece Fibre Suite—on the porch or in the
house—it will add color and coolness. The spring cushions are covered
with beautiful cretonne. The fibre is tightly woven but still light enough
to move wherever you want to place it. A remarkable value at $39.75.
Without some form of safeguard I
they are autocratic engines for the
destruction of civic decency, for the
ruthless domination of men and wom
en. Properly safeguarded they are|
agencies for economy and service.
The Dohenys, the Sinclairs, thel
Stewarts, linked with the Doughertys
and Falls, they can raise hob—and I
they do.
It should be the mission of America,
the home of corporate elephantitis,
to control these giants, to evolve the
democratic method of governing cor
porate organization.
Politicians, running amuck, will not
do it. Anti-trust laws will not do it.
Mere fulmination will get nowhere.
Mere investigation will get nowhere,
except as it stimulates our imagina-
ing with a situation that is new to
hUToatoot
out the malefactors help,!
a great deal. It implants the idea of|
DAVIS DEFENDS
Estimates of Unemploy-
ment
Washington, D. C. (I.» L. N. S.)—
Answering criticism of recent esti
mates of unemployment compiled by
the department of labor, Secretary of
Labor Davis, in a radio address broad
cast from Washington, May 8, de
clared that his estimate will stand
the test of time.
In all fairness to the people of the
country who want to see business
prosper and in all fairness to the
workers who are temporarily unem
ployed, Seci-etary Davis said, it seem
ed to him that the tactics of those
who exaggerate a present conditionI
that is serious enough only tend to
increase the general uneasiness and
slow up the return to better times|
with employment for all.
Secretary Davis said that the un-|
employment situation, in the natural!
I course of events, is improving every I
day, and predicted that May would
show a substantial improvement in|
virtually all lines of industry.
CAN COLLECT DAM
AGES
Grand Rapids, Mich.—Circuit Judge|
M. L. Dunham rejected a $20,000 dam
age claim by a non-union restaurant!
owner against the Painters' Union|
and the local Federation of Labor.
The defendants distributed cards inl
which the plaintiff concern was class-|
ed as unfriendly to organized labor.
"This is not an unlawful interfer-|
ence with business," said Judge Dun-|
ham.
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
RUBBER WORKERS'
Strike Foils Slash in Wages
Montreal. (I. L. N. S.)—Celebrat
ing a much advertised year of "prog
•and prosperity," the Dominion
Rubber Company attempted to slash
wages in its factory here. The first
slash caused 100 girls to strike in two
days they were joined by another 1,000
factory workers.
The upshot was that the company
took back its employes at the old
rates, the workers agreeing to wait on
the decision of a government arbitra
tion board.
Minimum wages for girls in the
rubber factory are $1.3 per week
those on piece work are able some
times to make $18 or $20.
PRESIDENT NAMES
public responsibility. But for a real
remedy America must go a great deall Washington. Acting ynder the
beyond that first step. We are yet a| railway labor law, the president has
long, long way from solving the prob-1 created a board to investigate and re
lem of what to do with our giant cor-J
porations.
RAIL DISPUTE BOARD
port to him within 30 days regarding
Ithe labor dispute on the Kansas City,
iMexico and Orient railroad.
This is the first time since the law
Iwent into effect, more than a year ago
that it was necessary to invoke the
provision for the creation of an
emei-gency board, which acts when
dispute cannot be settled by media
tion or arbitration.
EXTEND COMPENSA
TION
Washington.—
eluded District
-The senate has in
of Columbia civilian
I
Positively
The
CLIMAX
of
Value
Giving
Windsor Chairs
They match our spinet
desks perfectly—they are
the correct chair for so
many odd and empty spots
and corners in the home.
They are $6.50 values, only
employes in the longshoremen's and
harbor workers* compensation act.
Employes engaged in agriculture, do
mestic employment and casual work
are exempt.
The amendment, proposed by Sen
ator Blaine, is a compromise in a
long fight for the Fitzgerald bill,
urged by organized labor, which pro
vided for state compensation, and the
Underwood bill, which favored private
compensation.
CITY INSPECTORS
ORGANIZE UNION
New York City. (I. L. N, S.)—City
inspectors have organized a union, the
Allie^ Department Inspectors of New
York, affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. William C.
O'Donnell, president of the organiza
tion, has issued a statement telling
the public of the financial "predica
ment" of the inspectors. The aver
age salary, he said, is $1,998 a year
compared with $2,7G0 in Chicago and
$2,700 in Newark.
WILL URGE LABOR LAWS
Portland, Ore.—Labor injunction
relief, free text-books and reintroduc
tion of the federal child labor consti
tutional amendment will be urged by
unionists when the state assembly
convenes. Candidates are being ques
tioned on their attitude toward these
issues.
BARBERS WANT MORE
Hamilton, Ontario.—Organized bar
bers in this city demand wage in
creases. The present scale is nine
years old.
$q.95
Fiber Fernery
Very strongly constructed of steel wire
wrapped fibre atid finished in mango and
baronial brown enamels. Complete with
galvanized pan.
SPECIAL
$2.75
Third and Ludlow
NEW METHODS AND
UNEMPLOYMENT
Washington—"New methods enable
many industries to turn out a greater
production than ever," said Secretary
of Labor Davis in a radio address
from this city.
The cabinet member cited the case
of railroads that are handling a rec
ord tonnage of freight with "vastly
fewer men."
"The same process is going on in
every industry, and the jobs thus
wiped out are gone forever," he said.
"Forward-looking business men are
beginning to tackle their unemploy
ment problem from their own practi
cal angle. They know that people out
of work can buy no products. They
know that to be prosperous the coun
try must keep at work every person
in need of a job, all earning wages
and provided with purchasing power."
UNIONISTS WARNED THEY
CAN SPLIT INTERESTS
Boston.—Trade unionists who flir
with Communists will find themselve
outside organized labor, said Williart
Green, president A. F. of L., in at
address to the convention of the In
ternatioal Ladies' Garment" "Workers
Union. The speaker was cheered
unionists who recently ousted thes'
"reds."
"If in the struggle between trad
reaches the point where the latte
unionists and this destructive force i
gains control, then the last step wi
be taken. The charter of the unio
will be revoked," said President Greei
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AS MAN TO MAN!
The greatest crowds that ever attended a sale in Hamilton swarmed the streets in front of the store
Wednesday before opening hour. They began to congregate early in the morning, and at 9 o'clock the
streets were dense with eager bargain seekers,, and when the doors were thrown open there was a vio
lent rush into the store for the astonishing bargains that awaited the throngs. Every inch of space
from basement to roof was jammed and crammed with anxious and enthusiastic buyers. Join the crowds
tomorrow and bm* the bargains von over boueht!
Shop Early Tomorrow and Get Home Before the Rush!
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Dining Room Suite
This eight-piece walnut veneer dining
room suite consists of a 54-inch buffet
with a velvet lined silver drawer, ex
tension table and six chairs with tap
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BUILDING COST SOUGHT
/Washington.—An investigation to
determine how much labor and ma
terial enters into buildirgs of all
classes is sought by the United Statet
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The in
quiry has .started in Washington and
will be extended to other cities. Cin
cinnati and Decatur have already been
selected.
LOW WAGES IN SOUTH
Washington.—An average wage of
$18.94 for a work week of 64% hours
in the seasonal cotton-ginning indus
try is reported by the United States
bureau of labor statistics.
Cotton gins separate cotton seed
from the lint.
WOMEN'S LAW VIOLATED
Globe, Ariz.—The manager of the
Woolworth 5 and 10 cent store was
fined $25 for working girls overtime,
in violation of the state women's
eight-law law.
WE
PAY
5-
ON ALL SAVINGS
Compounded Semi-Annually
The West Side Building
and Loan Association
Main and Streets
COUNTLESS
THOUSANDS
WENT BARGAIN
MAD YESTERDAY
STORE WIDE
In mahoyanj and walnut,
also lacquer finishes.
Some in this assortment
have wrought iron base*
md t'( orate to|».
All.
Previous
Records
Broken
EXTRA SPECIAL
END TABLES
SPKCIAI
$1.69
Bridge Lamps
Regular $8.00 Values
Polychrome finished base of metal, wood
and onyx—equipped with a fancy silk geor
gette shade. Every conceivable color com
bination is here for your selection. Better
HURRY for vours.
Hamilton, Ohio