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THE PRESS WnClAL OBGAN OP OKCAWMI IJUMMi OF HAMILTON AND TBOOOTr PWISi *tnj 10 LAKOR M»b«ri OH* Labor Frees AMMtetiM THE NONPARB1L PRINTING CO. PUBLISHBRS AND PROPRIETORS Subscript!** Priee 91.H »«r Piytblt ii Adrmae# TMI W« do not InM wmlfw n§|wmM« for tiewa or opinions «pwii to tk« article* ir communication* of wimptBtafeL Communioutiom m1I«IM (RA Mcrrtuta* •f all lodttlM and ornnluttaw, u4 afcould fee addraaaad to Th« Butler Conaty Praae, tM Market Street, Hamilton, Ohio. The pnbllaher* reaerve the right te f«lMt •njr ad*«rti»ementa at any time. Adverttaing rmtw made knaw* Iktioi. WhaUm to tn tended far ln»«rti»a a t« authenticated by tk« nam* and addraoa of the writer, not ntecaaarily for publleotie*, a guarantee of good faith. Subecribera ekangini their iMrai wtli jiInh notify thia »Mn, itfiai aid sad saw •ddreaa te intura rwolu Uinrr HI*- Entered at the Postoffice at Hamilton Ohio, as Second Class 11*11 Matter laaaed Weakly at Ul MuM Itn* Telephoaa ISM InlltH. Mfe IUwm4 bf th* Trad** ul L*b*r Coaaeil *f lueOtM, Ml* Rnd*r**d by th* Middl*t*WB Tvadei and L*b*r Cmndl *f Mlddl*t*w«, O FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933 THE SWEATSHOP MENACE The sweatshop is not a new rackel —it is an old racket revived. But ir these days it is even more of a vicious anomaly than it was 25 or 30 years ago. Standards have been much higher in recent years than in the period when the sweatshop was in its heyday, and there is not the slight est shadow of excuse for its exist ence now., Unemployment is responsible for the revival of the sweatshop. Un scrupulous employers, taking advan tage of the plight of the unemployed have cut the wages of unorganized workers to a starvation level. Women arc lucky if at the end of a long, exhausting week they earn $3. Work ers are being degraded and submerged to a degree hard to believe. Sweatshops, if permitted to thrive, will inevitably reduce all wages Legitimate manufacturers will be ruined by unfair competition. Pur chasing power will be destroyed and business recovery prevented. Revival of the sweatshop is a chal lenge to every patriotic citizen There must be concerted action to drive out sweatshops, by passage of adequate hours and wage laws and their strict enforcement. There is no time to be lost and action is the de mand of the hour. Otherwise labor, industry and the nation as a whole will suffer grievously. ..o: BAD NEWS FROM GERMANY Startling reports of the reign of terror instituted by Hitler's dictator ship are coming out of Germany. Ref ugees escaping to neighboring coun tries are telling almost incredible stories of Nazi brutality. Yet there is no doubt that many of the reports of outrage and cruelty are true. Germany at present is one more object lesson in the danger of die tatorial power. It is a sorry spectacle —a bitter disappointment to believ ers in democracy all over the world who had hoped for much from the German republic. The only hope for democracy in Germany seems to be in the middle classes and the power ful trade union movement, now ap parently helpless but perhaps biding their time for the opportunity to oust the gang that is disgracing their counrty. :o: ... ...... WHAT NEXT? A new automatic machine weighs the desired quantity of any free flow ing material, pours it in a bag and seals the bag. The machine weighs out the material on an automatic scale, delivers it to a hopper mounted on a revolving turret, whence it is poured into a bag resting on a con veyor which joggles the bag during filling to settle the contents. After being filled, the machine sews the bag shut and seals it with a pasted seal. •REGIMENTATION* NOT WANTED Labor looks with suspicion on any plan for the "regimentation" of un employed men in camps for refores tration and other conservation work, •s is now proposed. That word "reg- They have installed MACHINERY AND UNEMPLOYMENT Dr. Dexter S. Kimball, dean of the college of engineering of Cornell University, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City that labor-displacing machinery has not impaired the secur ity of the workers and has not been the primary cause of unemployment. Of course Dr. Kimball meant labor-displacing machinery under the present economic system. Machinery of itself does nothing. It is inanimate. It neither breathes nor thinks. But machinery controlled by those who own industry is invented, installed and used for the sole purpose of displacing working men and women made of flesh and blood with machines made of iron and steel which enable a few workers to produce as large an output of commodities as many workers were able to produce either by hand methods or older machinery. It is axiomatically plain that machines thus owned and used to impair the security of the workers and do cause large amounts of unemployment. When one man operating a modern brick-making machine does the work formerly done by 710 brick makers, when one man operating a glass-tube making machine does the work formerly requiring 600 skilled hand workmen, when one man operating a new electric light bulb-making machine takes the place of 10,000 human electric light bulb makers, when machinery in tens of thousands of other instances make it possible for a few workers with the machines to produce as large an output as many workers could produce by hand methods—when these facts are well known and authenticated it is idle for Dr. Kimball or any other engineer consecrated to the principle of indus try operated solely for private profit of those who own it to declare that machinery is not used both to impair the security of the workers and create millions of jobless. imentation" has an unpleasant con notation for free men, no matter in how attractice a guise it may be pre sented. The word smacks of ai*my camps and automatic military disci pline, which have their proper place, but which are not intended for free American workers in civil pursuits. The proposal that wages of $1 a day be paid in the camps does not appeal, either, despite the assurance that the men will not compete with free labor. While men employed at reforesta tion and similar work might not in a sense compete with free labor, the pay they receive would inevitably have its effect on wage scales gen erally. If the pay was only $1 a day, further "deflation" of labor in private industry would be greatly encouraged. The 1932 convention of the American Federation of Labor covered this question with precision when it declared: "The machine is good when it is made to serve man. It becomes a menace, a veritable Frankenstein, when it is used to displace him. ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS RIGHTS Mortgage-ridden farmers are giv ing the nation a striking example of the value of organization. Confronted with the loss of their homes through foreclosure, they are standing solidly together and defending themselves as they never could as individuals. How effective their resistance is is pointed out by the American Federationist, which says: The true purpose of the machine is to lighten the burden of labor by enabling greater production for human needs to be accomplished in a shorter time." Those who own and control our industries have not used the machinery to benefit the workers. They have not used it to serve mankind. They have used it for their own selfish interests, for the paramount purpose of maxi mum profit for themselves regardless of the interests of the workers and the people generally. labor-displacing "Threatened with foreclosures that put them at an enormous disadvan tage, farmers have organized in self defense. They have prevented fore closure sales or bought in the farms, cattle, tools and household goods for a nominal sum. The result is to save the farmers their land and to assure our nation food producers of expe rience with substantial interest in the national welfare. "There is a lesson being taught the nation in this farmer revolt. It is that organization maintains rights when intelligently and purposely di rected." :o: have refused to decrease the length of the work day and work week in pro portion to the increased productivity of machine labor. Without the quivei of an eyelash they have tossed millions of discarded workers into the bread lines of unemployment, reducing them and their families to poverty and the garbage can living provided by private and public charity. FREEDOM MUST BE EXERCISED The federal constitution was not the act that made the people of this na tion free. It was the determination of our forefathers to exercise their freedom, which made them free men It was their successful resistence against the tyranny of Great Britain which established their freedom, for the Declaration of Independence and the federal constitution are evidence in themselves that they were docu ments prepared by men who had al ready established their freedom, who realized what their rights were as free men, and who were determined to protect these rights with their lives if necessary. Human liberty is something which must be continually exercised if it is to live. Liberty, human liberty, is They have indeed turned the machine, which should be used to lighten the labor of all, into a Frankenstein used exclusively for the benefit of the profiteers who control industry, with the jobless millions and their families living in poverty and destitution. With the six-hour day and the five-day week, which is demanded by the American Federation of Labor as a measure to provide work for the unem ployed, machinery could be made a blessing for all. Until then it will remain an unmitigated social curse. It is regrettable that our present pagan industry, based on the relentless use of labor-displacing machinery against the workers, should find a defender in the dean of the college of engineering of Cornell University. machinery in every industry. They similar to our muscular systems. If we fail to take physical exercise our muscles not only grow weak and flabby, but may in time became atro phied. DOESN'T FIT Somehow or other, the threatened cut in pay for government employes doesn't seem to fit into the financial and economic picture now being painted before the eyes of America Currency expansion, there has been. Whether it's inflation depends In any event, the trend of commodity prices should be upward. Then ,why a lowering of the buy ing power of such a large classifica tion of workers? It is to be recalled, too, that only per cent of the federal tax dollar goes for the payment of wages of employes. Saving to be effected by a 15 per cent cut in pay, as proposed, will pro duce no real effect on taxation, as can easily be determined by mathe matics. Daytonians can just as easily figure that the proposed economy is going to affect a real hardship on their city far outweighing any possible benefits that might be obtained loclaly. There are in this district upward of 3000 government employes, includ ing those in the postal service, at the air fields and at the military home The combined reduction in the buy ing power of this large group will be considerable and will place still another handicap on an already strained economic structure. Other cities will experience similar reactions, doubtless, causing even the calloused of wage cutters to wonder if, after all, it pays to consistently undermine the purchasing power of the masses. The trend in wages should be up instead of down at this time.—The Labor Union, Dayton, Ohio. —to: SUCH A HEADACHE Old Boy Depression has been on spree for well nigh four years, and has left nearly everybody up in the air with a bad headache. All people are doing some thinking, Some are doing hard thinking. What will be the harvest of much thought We are going somewhere. Nobody with common sense pretends to know just where or whe nwe shall arrive But everyone knows that we are on our way. We cannot stand still. We shall go forward or backward. Organized labor is the only organ ized force that has so far pointed the sure way to a substantial, pro gressive future for all concerned. The bankers are wholly responsi ble for the over-extension of credit THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS and the creation of debts here and abroad that have resulted in many failures, and the sure repudiation of many of the foolish loans made to foreign government* and foreign manufacturers. Thousands are on the verge of a hunger where reason steps out and the law of self-satisfaction and self-pre servation takes full swing. The employers who have reduced wages ,thus reducing purchasing power of those who are employed in addition to the almost total lack of purchasing power of the more than twelve million unemployed, cannot es cape their share of the cause and continuance of the depression, with its want an dunprecedented suffering. The hours to toil, as the first real move for better conditions, must be imited to thirty a week. When this s in operation wages must be raised to a point that will enable the pro ducing masses to buy what they pro duce. MUTUAL EMPLOYMENT From the standpoint of common sense the breakdown or curtailment of business is about the silliest exhi bition this silly world has ever given The world is full as never before of insistent economic demand and of the means of supplying it. People want more and can have more than ever, and they are receiving less and giv ing less. The world abounds in the substance of wealth and seeths with need of it. Owners would give their souls to sell their goods for other goods and services, and the highest ambition of workless millionaires is to buy. We have practically excluded 12,000,000 people and their dependents from the national economic circle, and yet growing population has always been esteemed the very cornerstone of abounding prosperity. Now this ostracized segment of our population is giving us a sardonic demonstration of our asininity Through direct barter and scrip, they who were denied work in the normal way and were deprived of purchas ing power are to an important extent employing each other and buying from themselves. Being denied access to regular money as their medium of exchange, they have created their Yet they had far greater buying power and social efficiency before they were cast out because society couldn't keep its economic machine going full time, although they were competent to pay their own way and more. If a foreign power should under take to annex a territory inhabited by one-fifth of our people and cut us off from all commercial relations with it, we would fight as we never fought before. But for the time be ing we face substantially the same condition—except that we are spend ing hundreds of millions of dollars to support the economic expatriots It doesn't make sense.—Wall Street Magazine. WISDOM Many a man thinks that it is his goodness that keeps him from crime when it is only his full stomach. On half allowance he would be as ugly and knavish as anybody. Do not mis take potatoes for principles.—Thomas Carlyle. BREWERS TO MEET DEMAND FOR BEER Chicago (ILNS)—Millions of bar rels of beer, properly aged and hav ing an alcoholic content in conform ity with the new beer law, wuold be available at retail within 24 hour after legilization, Joseph Dubin, edi tor of the Brewery Age, said. "There are 146 licensed near-beer breweries," Dubin said. "These brew eries have in storage from 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 barrels of brew. To place this on sale would merely involve slight change in the de-alcoholizing process used now to produce near beer. The de-alcoloholizing process follows the aging period." Dispatches from New York, Cin cinnati and other centers told of the preparations of brewers to make quick distribution of their product as soon as the law permits." Parade and Meeting Urge New Trial of Tom Mooney San Francisco (ILNS)—A "free Tom Moor.ey" parade and mass meet ing were held here March 19, with Lincoln Steffens, noted writer, speak ing at the meeting, held in the civic auditorium. Resolutions were adopt ed urging the trial of Mooney on murder indictment still pending against him in superior court. Mooney his supporters contend, was convicted on perjured evidence of complicity in the bombing of the San Francisco Preparedness Day parade of 1914* He is serving a life sentence. International Complications 4 K Jit H. IRVING KING ©. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Sarvlca Wents, ITH the approbation of her par Barbara Holden had become engaged to Benjamin Llttlefleld. That ought to have settled it there should have been nothing further except the wedding bells, the old shoes and the rice. But then, on the other hand, had there not been there would have been no story. Barbara and Ben were just two wholesome, rather common place, young people well established in their own social world. Then Canfleld Rogers cast his eye upon Barbara and saw that she was fair. Then he Investigated her father's financial standing and saw that it was fairer still Then he began to hunt for points against Ben and stumbled across something which afforded him ghoulish glee. Rogers and Bed had been in the same class at college and among their classmates had been a certain Harry Butterworth who had been appointed since his graduation United Stater consul at Porto Gulfo, a little banana port on the Central American coast. Ben and Harry had been not only classmates but friends, belonged to the same fraternity, etc. The little republic in which Porto Gulfo was situated was lively all out of proportion to its size, and Harry wrote Ben such graphic accounts of the tropical scenery and of his own weird experiences that Ben, having nothing to do, took ship and went down to visit his old college chum. Having spent some time there, he came back and, a year later, fell In love with Barbara Holden. It was after Rogers had gazed upon Barbara and upon her father's finan cial record and had become filled with a longing to possess them both that he met the former consul at Porto Gulfo, returned home and awaiting appoint ment to a more Important post. "Hullo, Butterworth," said Rogers. "Well, how is the rising young diplo mat? Got an embassy yet?" "Why, It's Rogers, isn't it?" replied Harry. "Ever see any of the old boys now? Good old Ben Littlefleld comes from your part of the country. Do you see much of him? I haven't seen him since he paid me a visit at Porto Gulfo. For the last year he has writ ten only at rare intervals. When you see him ask him about his wife. Ask him if he has ever heard of her since they parted at Gulfo? Ha! ha! That's a good story. I'll tell you how it was. You see—" Just then a telegram was handed to Butterworth. "Great Scott!" he cried as he read it, "I must try and catch the next train for Washington. Ask Ben to tell you the story of his dusky bride—Inez Castellon. Ta, ta!" Within a few days Rogers rang Bar bara's front door bell at an hour when he was certain he would find the loy. ers together. They received him politely, though not enthusiastically, He was beaming, jolly, full of Joke*. "Oh, by the way," said he at length, "I have Just got back from New York. Met Harry Butterworth at the club. He talked a lot about you, Ben. Told me to be sure and ask you If you had heard from your wife. Inez Castellon that was, since you parted from her at Porto Gulfo. Seemed quite anxious about It." Barbara sat pale, rigid—her eyes wide and anguished. Ben looked con fused at first and then said with a laugh "Oh, that? It's quite a story. "Never mind nowt old top," replied Rogers. "Some other time. I've dellv •red my message and must toddle." As the door closed behind him, Ben turned and looked at Barbara. For the first time he realized the serious ness of the situation. "Barbara," said he, "what is the matter? You surely don't believe—" "I don't know what to believe—what to think," she faltered. And then with "Oh. Ben! Oh, Ben J" she burst into tears and rushed from the room. Ben tried to tell himself that Bar bara was unreasonable. But then was she—very? He must furnish an ex planatlon. that was clear. He went and worked the long-distance tele phone, at last getting what he wanted r,,hen he wrote a note to Barbara say Ing that be would not see her again until he had a full and satisfactory explanation to offer which would be within two or three days. On the evening of the day specified Ben called at Barbara's home. With his card was sent up that of Harrv Butterworth, late consul at Porto Gulfo. Barbara appeared, still pale. Butterworth told his story. When Ben was at Porto Gulfo there was revolution on—as usual. Inez, Presl dent Castellon's daughter, was In Gulfo about to emburk for Panama and safety. The rebel general tried to catch her and hold her as a hostage. She took refuge In the American con culate. The revolutionary general de manded her—she as a native, not en titled to sanctuary. "Oh, you can't have her," said Butterworth, Inspired by a happy thought. "She has Just been married to this gentleman here an American citizen. And the wife takes the nationality of the husband." "It was a lie out of whole cloth— but It went. Inez was smuggled on board the Panama steamer that night and the next morning Ben took a fruit steamer for New Orleans. The fair Inez subsequently returned." concluded Harry, "and Is now—what do you think? The wife of the revolutionary general who tried to kidnap her—and the general is president of the stormy ronnhUM" A Leader for oAsl{ Your The Cherry »H Where with our i e a e we te ]j truth about many things, sometimes pro foundly, sometimes flippantly, s o e i e s e k e s s y So they pinched Charley Mitchell and dragged him forth and made him post bond and all those things that go with crime and alleged crime. They say they're going to give Mitchell "the works," charging him with ducking a lot of income tax while head of the National City Bank, which is John D. Rockefeller's other name. Well, as to the outcome, we wait to observe. Meanwhile, there's something else in the air. The National City, now headed by James H. Perkins, and Chase Na tional, now headed by Winthrop W. Aldrich, are in battle array. Back of them are two colossal fig ures, Rockefeller and Morgan. The juicy low dow non the whole mess is that Morgan has gone to War with Rockefeller. Chase National pours forth stories of repentance and plans for divorcing its securities affiliate. Thus it spouts high ethics to show how National City is persisting in being bad. Why did Morgan go to war with Rockefeller? Or why did Rockefeller go to war with Morgan Gentlemen, here, is news in the raw so it seems. Morgan got himself into Continen tal Oil. Rockefeller regarded oil as the Rockefeller preserve, industry as the Morgan field. So, by words, gestures, long noses or what have you, Mr. Rockefeller let it be known to Mr. Morgan that the House of Rockefeller was dis pleased—and how! It is whispered that the Rockefeller forces conveyed to the Morgan forces that it would be much nicer if Mor gan forces got himself out of oil. whereat, the Morgan forces laughed long and deep and said, "Try and get us out." National City and Chase National are the front doors of the two houses They are fighting, not a battle over ethics, to see which can be best and most patriotic. They are fighting a battle over oil—oil in America and oil throughout the world. MICKIE SAYS- -TH' BIXUESS MAW WHO'LL, STILL BE DOIU' SIZ^ESS AT TH' OLD STAWC? WUEKJ TWlkKr-S" CLEAR UP IS TH1 6UV WHO IS TEMPTiklGf- UtS Customers wrm sa«£aiws •ki LOvv-PRieeo goods AUC "TELUNGf 'em A0OUT ft Winu MBVS PAPER APS 7^ mm Knowing these things it is possi ble to see a lot of things in the news that are told only between the lines. Chances are that Morgan grins At National City's discomfiture, while Rockefeller grins at any Chase NA tional discomfiture. The Peruvian bond story must have been great meat. And there _is.. a lot more good meat coming. We shall see what we shall see and perhaps because of the senatorial plague on both their houses, the pub lic may gain some in the end. Meanwhile it is well to have thl hokum labelled, so that we may know the trend and the meaning as events unfold. Indiana Legislature Bans "Jim Crow" in Employment Indianapolis, Ind. (ILNS)—Indiana now has a state law providing that contractors doing work for the state must not discriminate against work ers of any race or color who apply for jobs. Gov. Paul V. McNutt sign ed the bill March 11. Representative Henry 3. Richard son drew the bill on the model of one sent him in January by the national office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The N. A. A. C. P. has been carrying on a nation-wide campaign to banish discrimination against Negro work men, especially on federal, state and municipal projects, and threw the weight of its Indiana branches and the national office behind the Indiana bill. Albany, N. Y. (ILNS)—A bill pro hibiting discrimination in giving em ployment on state construction be cause of race or color has been intro duced in the New York assembly by Assemblyman James H. Stephens, of New York city. Stephens' bill is identical with the bill passed by the Indiana legislature. Nevada Labor Supports Anti-Injunction Bill Carson City, Nev.—President B. B, Wartman and Vice President Gene Keefe, of the Reno Central Trades and Labor Council, and Harry Hey wood, delegate to the council from the Reno Painters' Union, spent sev exal days here in the interest of the anti-injunction bill introduced in the state legislature at the request of the Nevada State Federation of Labor. Edgar K. Wagner FUNERAL DIRECTOR Wake Up Your Liver Bile —Without Calomel And Youll Jump Out of Bed In the Morning Rarin' to Go If you feel sour and sunk and the world looks punk, don't swallow a lot of salts, mineral water, oil, laxative candy or chewing gum and expect them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they can't do it. They only move the bowels and a mere move ment doesn't get at the cause. The reason for your down-and-out feeling is your liver. It should pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. Mr. Keefe explained the bill in de tail to the senate committee in charge of the measure. He reported that the prospects for the enactment of the bill were bright. The Nevada anti-injunction bill is patterned after the Norris-LaGuardia bill which was enacted into federal law last year by the United States congress. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.—Emerson. START AN ACCOUNT WITH The Home Loan and Building A'ssi Third and Court Sts. WE PAY STATE TAXES C. J. PARRISH, Secy. If thia bile U not flowing treaty, your food doean't digaat. Ik juat decaya ia the bovala. Gaa bloat* up your atomaeh. You have thick, bad tasta and your breath ia foul, aUQ ofUn braaka out in blemiabea. Your haa4 acbea and you fael down and out. Your whole ayatem ia polaonad. It Ukca thoM good old CARTER'S LITTI J| LIVER PILIiJ to get theae two pounda of bll# flowing freely and make you faai "up and up." They contain wonderful, tin ml Ma. ganUo •agetable extracta, amasing whan it comae t« making the bile flow fraely. But don't aak for liTar pilla. Aak for Cartar'a Little Liver Pilla. Look for the name Carter'# Little Lifer Pilla on tha red label. Raaant anbatituU. 2#c at all atorea. 01931.C. M.Co, Jlcur Forty-Five Years Grocer :i S-- %r- -rt-i