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Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton Ohio, as Second Class Mail Matter Issued Weekly at 326 Market Street Telephone 1296 Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Trades and Labor Council of Hamilton, Ohio Endorsed by the Middletown Tradee and Labor Council of Middletown, O FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1929 ASK FIVE-DAY WEEK Plasterers in Indianapolis and vicin ity have made a demand for the five day week contract with the employers Association. Stipulated in the con tract is a clause which provides for the weekly pay on Friday nights. The Plasterers' Union with four other un ions of the city have been operating since May 1 on a five-day schedule but no permanent contract has been en tered into. Plumbers, steamfitters electricians, cement finishers and pain ters are working five days a week with Friday as pay day. President Pearce of the plasters said if no agreement is reached with the employers the workers possibly migh^ strike, although just what definite ac tion would be taken has not yet been determined. It is believed, however that the employers will continue the five-day plan as is now operating and write it into the contract. Union leaders say the shorter work week is at hand and that it will not be long until it will be as universal as the eight-hour day. :o: MACDONALD TO VISIT U. S. Organized labor looks with friend ly eye on the proposed visit to the United States of J. Ramsay MacDon aid, labor premier of Great Britain who plant to come here to discuss re duction of naval armaments with President Hoover and other high gov ernment officials. It is reported from England that MacDonald will mak his visit at the end of July, as soon as Parliament adjourns. Secretary Frank Morrison, of th American Federation of Labor, ex pressed the opinion that the proposed visit of Premier MacDonald would be an excellent move in the direction of a better understanding between the United States and Great Britain. added that a getting together of men BILL BOOSTER SAYS OEIMS A 0OOSTER-, AfA MATURALIY AN ADVERTISER* I WEVEFL LEY "THE PAPER- GO TO PRESS WITHOUT MY AD* (F DIPWT BELIEVE IW AAV BUS I WE SS EWOUCRH TO 0OOST rr THROUGH WEWSOXPER APS I'D APVeR,T\3E IT FOP- SALE THIS MEAUS vou for friendly discussion of any prob lem leads to a clarification of points at issue and is therefore to be wel corned. He recalled that Mr. MacDonald was the guest of the Executive Coun cil of the American Federation of La bor at a dinner in April, 1927, when the English labor leader last visited this country. The dinner was held at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington and was attended by about 50 per sons including the British Ambassa dor, Secretary of Labor Davis and many international trade union exec utives. NEW PROBLEM FOR LABOR Only a complacent, non-thinking cit izen will overlook the revolution now on in industry. Attention is again called to thi silent upheaval by a new progress which will turn out as much iron in 30 minutes as 350 puddlers can tur out in an entire day. The ancient skill of these refiner of iron is destroyed and they ar thrown on the streets. The self-satisfying claim that work ers can enter other industries will not suffice. The "other" industries are also victims of the same revolution. Even such unskilled callings as road making and sewer digging is being done by the machine. Many of these workers, it is pointei out, are operating gas service stations and hot dog stands, but this not ere ative labor. It is no solution to turn the nation's wage workers into serv itors. We are yet at the threshold of the automatic-machine age. Inventors and scientists are ceaseless in their efforts to develop machinery and processes that will dispense with human labor power. If they fail, grim necessity will force them to act that unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and shorter work week may be assured. WHAT IS A SUBSIDY? Suppose a member of Congress arose in his seat and said: "Mr. Chairman, home ownership is a national asset therefore, I move that the sum of $50,000,000 be appro priated by Congress to start a na tional campaign of home building The money may be loaned up to three quarters of the construction cost of each house at the government's low Boss this your baking had to satisfy hundreds of critical eye* and "tastes, you'd be mighty careful to see that everything was exactly right, wouldn't you? You wouldn't take any chancw with cheap flour you wouldn't skimp on the more expensive ingredients. Our bakers have exactly that task every day hundreds of loaves to bake, and each one must please the hou*ewi£i who buys it. And housewives are pleased when they buy Want-Mor Bread You, too, will be pleased with the clean, wholdtoHM smell and delicious taste of this bread. The finest of In gredients and the advantages of modern science in mixing and baking under the strictest control as to temperatures, humidity and Intervals, make it a most wonderful food, easy to digest and beneficial to health. Give our bakers a chance to please you. Bay a loaf of our bread today, WEIK'S BAKERY 1376-1381 Slttiler Ave. Phone 3883 Bread Is Your Best Food—Eat More Of It rate of interest provided for by the Jones-White act. In support of my resolution I refer you to the recently enacted Jones-White Merchant Ma rine Act, which permits the govern ment to advance to vessel owners an amount of money equal to three fourths of the cost of any ship they propose to build. The Dollar Steam ship Company is asking the govern ment for a loan of $50,000,000, under the act, to build six new passenger vessels. Other ship owners contem plate similar action. The United States Shipping Board has already voted to loan the Dollar company $1, 125,000 to recondition four now service. Would the nation rock with protests over the evils of "a subsidy that re places private initiative"? :o: TO COUNT UNEMPLOYED Congress ordered that the next cen sus include a list of unemployed in this country. The plan originated in the Senate, but met strong opposi tion in the House, where the proposal was stricken from the census appro priation bill. It was reinstated by a majority of one vote after represent atives of the A. F. of L., urged its im portance. It will be the first time such a com pilation will be made. The A. F. L., and other advocates of the plan have repeatedly shown that former unemployment estimates have been guesses. The unemployment census will provide a working basis for any necessary legislation. YOU CAN WRITE YOUR OWN Here are subjects, any of which would do for editorial writing, all of which are important in ways that can not presently be seen: Henry Ford is now making all his Fordson tractors in Ireland and none in Detroit, import ing those sold in the United States. *s A girl organist in New York, thrown out of her job by the sound pictures, kills herself as a sacrifice to mechanization. Chevrolet is to spend three millions for plant addi tions in Tarrytown, N. Y., once noted mainly as the home of John D. Rock efeller, who was himself known in those days as a malefactor of great wealth. Fifty-two oil compan ies are convicted of violating the anti trust law and the New York Times puts it back on page 3. Woozy students capture the University of Mexico, oldest on the continent, and fling the red flag over its walls in token of their imbecility. And so on. The industrial world is in a headlong rush, unsure of where it is going. The political world pret ty much follows the industrial flag. :o: TEN MILLION WILL BUY A LOT A. R. Graustein, president of the In ternational Paper & Power Co., has told the Federal Trade Commission his company put more than ten million dollars into newspapers. As anybody knows, you can get a lot for ten mil lion dollars and such companies as In ternational are not planting rolls of bills around the country just for the love of seeing who can find it. :o: 'HE WHO HAS GITS" The Federal Radio Commission de nies WCFL, labor's station, its entire bill or requests. It denies Interna tional Labor News Service its request for short wave allocation for news transmission. It gives the Radio Cor poration of America ten more wave lengths, it gives the daily newspaper brotherhood of a dozen big papers and press associations a whole group of waves. As has been said, "He who has gits." -:o:- SELF PRESERVATION Everything that lives and breathes, including mankind, is naturally self ish man wants more money, mor3 and better clothing, better homes and better living conditions for himself and his family. But he doesn't seem to know just how to get these things and he just won't do the easy, simple, right thing to satisfy his selfishness He has tried wishing, hoping and day dreaming to satisfy his natural desire for more and (with the exception of those who have joined the union) he finds himself still holding the empty bag. It is right and proper that he should have better wages. The low wage non-unionist is committing u crime against himself and family by not doing the only thing that will get better conditions. Economists, trade unionists, some manufacturers say the consuming power of the masses must be increased, which in plain language THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS means more and better wages, and labor says the only way to get better wages is by organization and collec tive bargaining through the union. Industries can not continue to prosper unless the consuming power of the masses is increased and the only way this cart be done is for the wage earn ers to organize in our union, establish universal, fair bills or wage scales. Nobody knows this better than the i vessels If a member of Congress presented such a resolution and urged its adop tion for reasons stated above, what would happen? employers of average intelligence.— Editorial from the Cigar Makers' Of ficial Journal. The Cherry Where with our K Little Hatchet we tell the truth about many things, sometimes pro foundly, sometimes flippantly, sometimes recklessly Consider for the moment the grave question of government by private as sociation. Hark to a bit of the story of the American Bar Association, which has nothing to do with the ancient and honorable occupation of tending bar, and of the American Medical Associ ation. Under rules laid down by the American Bar Association, or its Connecticut representative, the state of Connecticut declares its purpose not to admit graduates of certain schools to practice in that honorable commonwealth. The schools hit by the rule are mostly night schools and it does not appear that their students are in any way inferior. The main count against them appears to be their inabililty to attend some great big school that operates in the day time —and costs more money. The American Bar Association can and does make the rules under which it becomes possible or im possible for a young man to be come admitted to the bar. The American Medical Association no 'ess tightly knit and no less ef- fective. It is no less hard boiled in applying discipline, either. In Chicago there is a medico who has given a lot of time to a clinic for poor persons. He advertises this clinic and it cuts rates to those of small means. What the Medical Association has done to him is enough, for the time being. He has been read out of the organization and any medico who is thrown out like that is nothing less than in a sweet kettle of eels. Presumably we have state boards to regulate the practice of law and the practice of medicine, just as we have laws governing the practice of plumb ing and electric wiring. But actually the state doesn't gov ern law and medicine. The two big associations do it all and he who bucks them bucks worse than a buzz saw. The people are slow to tumble to the power of these two colossal mo nopolies, though they rant like every thing when a union gets any real strength, misunderstanding the dif ference between the two. The American Bar Association, not content with laying the lash on recal citrant lawyers, is jockeying for position as boss of the whole business of law making. Some of its moves have been only thinly veiled. It would like to become the Great Umpire of all things having to do with law and it would like to bring within the realm of law a great many thing§ that others have since time out of mind fought to keep outside that sticky realm. Both organizations bear much watching. Dr. Harris Fishbein, presi dent of the Medicos, berates a fellow doctor for advertising his clinic's wares—and prices—but he himself writes daily for the papers, which is advertising par excellence, if any such there be. If by some subtle or other process both of these arrogant and power greedy outfits could be given a totally unprofessional kick in that place than which no other is so tempting to the bestower of kicks, it would be well for the peace and dignity of the United States and the plain people who are the inhabitants thereof. SUFFER LITTLE CHIL DREN Calhoun City, Miss., (ILNS).—They do make things easier for the children in Mississippi. Early but shorter hours for Calhoun county school chil dren next session is the edict of the county school board. In order that schools may be dismissed at 1 P. M., so the children may help on the farms, the board ordered class work to be gin at 7 A. M. The session opens September 2. CARPENTERS UNIONIZE LARGE MICHIGAN PLANT Grand Rapids, Mich.—The Grand Rapids Store Equipment Company signed a union agreement with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. More than 1,000 local workers are af fected. The contract includes plants on the east and west coasts. PUSSY-FOOT Tactics Now Used By 'Reds' Against A. F. of L. "New York.—The recent meeting of so-called "progressives" in this city who plan to meet "the crisis in the labor movement" is the old game un der a new name. Joseph Schlossberg frankly states in a feature article in Advance, a revolutionary sheet pub lished by an organization dual to the legitimate United Garment Worker* of America. The writer says this revolt (mean ing the so-called "progressive movement) is "almost as old as the A. F. of L. itself." "At the beginning," he says, "their name was 'socialists' or 'revolution ists,' and the purpose, the dislodging of the A. F. of L. The Socialist Trades and Labor Alliance and the I. W. W. were spectacular move ments, especially the latter. The term 'revolutionary' is not used now. The name revolutionist has for the time being lost its true meaning to the labor movement." NAVY COST Is Burden to Peoples World How does it get that way? Be-1$1,170,800,000, in addition to operat cause it is a very tight, well organized ing costs, in event President Hoover'.-: syndicate, having a monopoly on the bar business. Washington.—The cost of navies is a heavy burden on nations that is increasing with every new discovery in warfare, said Secretary of State Stimson in a public statement Even a modern 10,000-ton cruiser cost more than double the original cost of the library of congress, he said. The library ranks first in the Western hemisphere and third in the world in the number of volumes. Th building, located in this city, is one of the most beautiful in the world. A modern capital ship, continue, the secretary, costs between $35,000, 000 and $40,000,000. He said that the program of the department of navy for new ships alone will be naval reduction policy fails. PEACE OUTLOOK IS DARK New York.—The outlook for world peace is not very hopeful, Dr. Fred Smith, of the World Alliance for In ternational Friendship, told educator sociologists and clergymen in an ad dress in this city. "Never since the Armistice ha peace been so near, so tangible, easily to be had for the taking," Dt Smith said. "Yet blunders and mis understandings, doubts and suspicion? partial revelations and misplaced sc crecy have befogged the outlook." TENTS FOR WORKERS WHO FACE EVICTION Boston.—More than 1,000 strikin textile workers at Newmarket, N. 1 face eviction, and the United Textil Workers ask local unionists to aid i providing tents to shelter these woi ers. They have been on stok against wage reductions for th) months. STATE PENSION BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR Sacramento, Cal.—Governor Younn signed th£ state pension bill whk provides that indigent aged persoi may receive a pension not to exc $1 a day. One-half of the pension v. i be payable by the state and the oth half by the county in which the ben eficiary resides. The beneficiary mus be at least 70 years of age, have been a resident of the state 15 years and the county one year and without chil dren or other persons to support him His property may not exceed $3,000 in value and any outside income must be counted as a part of the total in come of $1 a day. While the act is not wholly satis factory to old-age pension advocates they point out that details can perfected, since the principle is ac cepted. WIN FIVE-DAY WEEK Portsmouth, N. H.—Organized car penters won their strike for a five-day week. A 5 per cent wage increase was also secured. STUDIO WORKERS GAIN Los Angeles. Electricians, car penters, stage mechanics and other workers employed by the Motion Pic ture Producers' Association secure wage increases. Rates are advanced 25 cents a day, and on May 1 next another 25 cents is added, and so on until the agreement ends. FIREMEN JOIN UNION Omaha, Neb.—The Internatioru Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilc issued charters to locals in Akron and Ashtabula, Ohio Erie, Pa Sterlington, La. Raceland, Ky. Ch cago and Hornepayne, Havelock,, Fo yet and Capreol, Ontario, Canada. Hoover's administration will not kill the farmer's hopes evidently. can still go on bo»m toztam relUd. CARNIVAL COMPANIES MAY CARRY DISEASE Harrisburg, Pa.—Citizens of this state are warned against the average type of carnival amusement com panies by Dr. Edgar S. Everhart, of the state health department. These alleged amusement organ isations which usually work co-oper tively with some local association in many instances carry personal suffer ing from venereal disease,' said Dr. Everhart. "Progressive and right thinking communities will eliminate the demoralizing influences of this type of so-called commercial amuse ment by prohibiting them to operate." 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