The Butler County press. [volume], December 07, 1928, Image 3

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FOUR-HOUR WORK
DAY WOULD
SUPPLY NATION
New Orleans.—While organized la
bor is urging the natioji to abandon
the eight-hour day, Governor John
Hammill, of Iowa, told the conference
of statk governors in this city that
a four-hour day wonld supply th*1
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nation's neetls. The statement was
made in connection with providing
work for convicts without competing
with free labor.
"It is recognized
that the men
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hundreds of others who have made a purchase,
that our stock is the largest—quality the best— *5
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One or Two* Lamps Will Make Jj
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3 You cannot have too many lamps, and they make
wonderful and lasting Christmas presents.
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side of institutions can, in a four
hour day, produce everything that the
nation can consume," said, the gov
ernor. "How to employ men in the
institutions for state use and not in
competition with free labor is a mat
ter requirim* much «twly
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W here with our
Little Hatchet
we
tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
When the American Federation of
Labor went for its convention into
the South, it went where employers
the North have gone, seeking eas
ier fields for the exploitation o£ hu
man toil.
British capitalists find they can al
low their plants in England to remain
idle, pay their share of unemploy
ment dole and pile up a fat profit,
!y operating-their plants in India and
other low wage spots of the earth
under the British flag. It is cheaper,
they find, to let home plants lie idle,
if only they can continue operating
where labor is cheap and unresisting.
Textile companies at least think
they can fare better by closing their
plants in the North, if only they can
ko South and find cheap and unre
isting workers.
But, fat gentlemen, the worm al
ways turns The turning may come
late, but incomes.
In New Orleans, where the conven
tton has been meeting-, there is much
exploitation, which the glamor and
lomance of Creole history does not
altogether conceal.
Women are the worst victimized, of
course. Waitresses in one chain of
restaurants are paid $2.50 a week,
depending for the rest upon tips,
furiously enough, the head of this
rhain of restaurants is -also the Jjead
the humane society. The situa
tion is not without its irony.
The work day of most women
workers is at least ten hours long and
for many it is more than that. Chiv
alry seems to stop at the door of the
work place, or else the meaning of
the word has become clouded with
the change of times-
But the worm Is turning. In the
last Louisiana legislature a bill was
passed by overwhelming majority
providing an eight-hour day for wom
en.
The senate ignored the bill, which
o enraged members of the house
that they plan a new and more vig
nrous battle in the next session.
The temper of these house mem
bers is a new thing for the South.
at least for the South that is typ
ified by Louisiana. There is a fine
pirit in the South that may, once
the ball is really started, send
through all the states a wave of re
form in regard to the protection of
women against the greed of employ
ers, by no means all of whom are
oroducts of the South.
It may well be that the South willl
learn in a burst of awakening how to
translate its fine traditions into
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THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
measures that will meet the changed
needs of a changed order of things.
Contract prison labor still blights
many of the work places of the South.
The chain gang has not disappeared.
The brutal overseer has not passed
out, despite exposures and condemna
tions. But he is on his way.
Capitalists, invading the South with
industries, oppose the organization of
workers, and on the whole unions are
not strong. But Piedmont has shown
what can be done, and more sections
will do what has been proven possi
ble and good.
The convention of. the American
Federation of Labor was a timely
event. It must have been stimulating
and it must have been enlightening.
It must have brought hope and in
spiration to thousands who will look
to it as the precursor of a better day
for the men and women of toil, and
for the children of those who toil
and are poorly requited for their
toil.
MUSICAL NOTE
"The 'orn of the 'unter is 'eard on
the 'ill," sang the little boy at the
Ragged School treat. But somehow
his- version of that line in "Kathleen
Mavourneen" jarred on the nerves of
the teacher.
"My little man," she said kindly,
'why don't you put a few more
aitches in your songs?"
"Garn," advised the little man, po
litely. "Don't you know there ain't no
h' in moosii- V It only goes up to 0."
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PALACE
uEAD
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Flower Name«
The names of many flowers find
their origin In proper nouns. Back of
them there are often biographies. The
beautiful Japanese flower, wistaria,
discovered by Nuttall, was not named
after him, but In honor of one of his
scientific friends, Casper Wistar, a
professor of anatomy at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. The gentian
get^ Its name from the Illyrlan king
Gentlus, who was the first to discover
Its properties. Quassia was named
after Quassi, a negro slave in Surl
name, Dutch Guiana, who used its
bark as a remedy for f^ver.—Mentor
Magazine.
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and imitations detected has been dis
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of the police laboratory at Lyons, in
collaboration with Professor Locard.
The stones are photographed under
the light of ultra-violet rays filtered
through a screen, sunlight being too
diffused for the purpose.
Diamonds of the first water make
a brilliant Image, while Inferior stones
are merely shadows.
Not What He Meant
"Perkins," thundered the farmer to
his new assistant, **i toid yoa to get
an answer to that letter I instructed
you to driver!"
••Well, sir, they Just wouldn't
give
me one. I did the best could."
"Did the best you could, eh? Well,
that was a pretty Idiotic effort. If
had known a fool was going I'd have
gone myself I"
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Guiding. Your
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or if business fails, or if sickness or trouble comes.
The truth is, we would have a mighty sorry time of it.
But the man with money put by KNQWS he's "all set" to meet the worst that can come.
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The shares of this association are an excellent investment for any man's savings.
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