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Bankruptcy laws are designed to
legally discharge insolvent debtors
from paying their debts. They are
used by all classes of business men
who are unable to meet their obliga
tions.
But the very business men who re
ly 6n the institution of bankruptcy
to settle claims against them for a
few cents on the dollar oppose finan
cially distressed working people us
ing the same mechanism to wipe out
legal responsibility for their debts.
The attempt to convey the idea that
there is something disgraceful about
a worker making use of the bank
ruptcy laws is frequently used by
those who wish to limit the advan
tages of them to business.
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Wage Earners and Bankruptcy
This idea of disgrace was recently
developed by Mr. Lloyd K. Garrison,
dean of the law school of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, at the meeting
of the National Credit Association in
Detroit. To enable workers who can
not pay their debts to avoid the
alleged disgrace attached to bank
ruptcy proceedings Mr. Garrison
evolved the scheme of permitting
them a special extension of time in
which to do it.
Mr. Garrison explained that this
"suspended discharge feature" gives
the workers two years "to make good
their obligations and in the end re
ceive final discharge without having
been in the meantime stigmatized
with the odious term bankrupt."
Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union
Local No. 81
Respectfully and Most Earnestly Appeal to Every Member of Organized Labor, Their
Friends and Sympathizers to Purchase None But Union-Labeled Bread
Look For This Label On All Bread
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Be True to Your Obligation
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to know about—
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Workers who are unable to pay
their dobts should not be influenced
by this sort of propaganda against
their making use of the bankruptcy
laws. There is no odium attached to
these laws. They are specifically de
signed to enable business men and all
other citizens to receive legal dis
charge from obligation to pay debts
in excess of their financial ability and
begin their life over again.
In the severe strain of distress
caused by prolonged unemployment
millions of workers find themselves
unable to meet their obligations.
Often they have been the victims
of unscrupulous promoters of vari
ous sorts. Frequently they have fal
len into the claws of loan sharks.
They should make use of bank
ruptcy laws to free themselves from
the consequences of these mistakes
or misfortunes, and be legally dis
charged from all obligation to pay
and which stand in the way of their
Quality Plumbing Fixtures
Priced Down To Meet Every Pocketbook
The Walker Co
231 COURT STREET
•THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
providing decent living standards for
themselves and their families, both
now and in the future.
CHARITY UNDER COM
PULSION
The policy that employers should
force their employes to contribute to
charity funds is finding advocates in
employer periodicals.
In the "American Machinist/' an
employer periodical devoted to the
widest possible extension of labor
displacing machinery, H. L. Lackman
says:
"An employer, having first satisfied
himself that the funds are properly
handled, should proceed to sell the
scheme to his employes. If adequate
contributions are not forthcoming, a
definite percentage of earnings should
be fixed as a maximum and insisted
upon."
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This means that employers, not
content with the billions of profits
they make every year out of the labor
of their employes, propose to compel
those employes to spend a portion of
their wages in the support of certain
institutions approved by the em
ployers.
Such |olicy does violence to
American institutions. It is not a
credit to employers. It is opposed
by labor. All workers should be free
to spend their income as they see fit
without any compelling foroe from
employers.—Labor Clarion.
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If a man's fortune does not fit him,
it is like the shoe in the story if
too large it trips him up, if too small
it pinches him.—Horace.
HAIRSPUTT1NG
On Workers' Compensation
By Bosses and Insurance
Companies
Recent decisions by state JtuHeial
bodies affirming the rights of injur
ed workers and their dependents to
compensation for certain types of in
dustrial accidents show with what
persistency employers and insurance
companies continue their attempts to
victimize the workers by fighting
their claims for just awards.
In Ohio an employe was struck by
any automobile and killed while
walking to his work inside the em
ployer's plant. His dependent filed a
claim for damages under the work
men's compensation act. The claim
was fought on the technical ground
that when he was killed the employe
was not at the specific location re
quired by his work.
The Ohio supreme court swept
aside this subterfuge. It decided that
an employe entering the premises of
his employer to begin the duties of
his employment but who has not yet
leached the place where the service is
to be rendered is discharging a duty
to his employer which is a necessary
incident to his day's work.
In Washington a timber worker
died from cerebral hemorrhage sus
tained while under unusual exertion
in sawing a log^ The claim of his de
pendents for compensation was con
tested. It was contended that the kill
ed man had hardening of the arteries
and that therefore his death resulted
from physical imperfectoon and was
not attributable to the work he was
doing.
Medical testimony admitted the
diseased condition of the man's arter
itis, but declared his death would not
have occurred at the time except for
the physical exertion.
The Washington supreme court
sustained the claim for compensation
on the ground that "it was not the
legislature's purpose to limit the pro
visions of the workmen's compensa
tion act to only such persons as ap
proximate physical perfection."
In the District of Columbia a
worker died from sunstroke while
working in the open air loading a
truck when the temperature was 92
degrees. The application of his wife
for compensation was contested on
the ground that the man was killed by
abnormal heat to which the general
public was subjected, and that the fa
tality was not due to any special haz
ard due to increased heat resulting
from his occupation. The district
court of appeals decided that the
man's death by sunstroke was an ac
cidental injury which arose out of
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his employment, and directed the
United States employes' commission
to award compensation.
Workmen's compensation laws
were enacted by our states largely
through the influence of organized
labor.
The laws were not passed for. the
benefit of self-insuring employers or
companies which write compensation
insurance for private profit. They
were passed to protect the workers
and their families.
State compensation boards, self
insuring employers and insurance
companies should recognize the broad
principles of protection underlying the
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Fred M. Hammerle
Democratic Candidate for
County Surveyor
At the present time serving as resident Engineer
of the State Highway Department
A New Deal for Everybody
(Political Advertisement)
RE-ELECT
GIDEON PALMER
PROBATE JUDGE
Juvenile Judge of County -Now President Of- Ohio
Association- Of Probate Judges
Separate Ballot—Non-Partisan
(Political Advertisement)
A Good Time
To Buy
IS
When Prices
Are Low
-CONSIDERING QUALITY—
Our prices are always much lower. We are
always glad to welcome you to our store,
where we are in a position to save you many
dollars on any Furniture, Rugs, Stoves,
Lamps that you may need for your home.
Harry Strauss
Furniture Company
A Visit to Our Store will be Well Worth While
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compensation laws. They should stop
compelling the injured workers and
their dependents to resort to the
courts to protect themselves from the
injustice sought to be imposed upon
then by technical and hairsplitting
interpretation of compensation laws.
—A. F. of L. News Letter. v-.
Therte is nothing just *s good as
safety.
Carpenters' and Joiners' Label
3rd and Ludlow
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