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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

told the House Committee on Com
merce that forty per cent. of the
railroads are permitting trainmen to
take orders by telephone when they
should not do so. He said that ne
knew of stretches of railroad 200
miles long where trainmen had dis
placed operators fer transmission
of orders and that on some interur-
ban railroads trainmen copied or
ders from train dispatches on their
cuffs. Perham said his organiza-
ton was not opposing the telephone
but insisted on restrictions and
safeguards in its use. The other
railroad brotherhoodss are repre-.
sented at these hearings.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

mass meetings of Garment Work
ers the sentiment against going
back to a pine hour day, advocated
by certain employers, was cheered
The eight hour day was secured
after, strike, last year, and these
workers intend Standing pat" on
this question. Members of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen are ure-
ing the passage of a law providing
for one day off in seven. The
Freight Handlers are presenting
their 1914 wage schedules to rail
roads around Boston. A demand
for betterments is made. The gro
Gerry and Provisions Clerks union
reports that large rumbers of sub
urban stores are agreeing to their
shorter hour plan. The Station
ary Firemen's union reports that
their establishment of the eight
hour day is meeting with success.
Steam Engineers unions state that
every firm but one called upon has
granted the standard wage and
working conditions asked by the
unions.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Fail To Eject Miners.

Wheeling, Feb. 27 The West
Virginia and Pittsburg Coal Com
pany has failed in its efforts to
eject striking employees frem houses
they are occupying and compel
them to pay damages and rent for
the last several months. The work
ers claim this is part of a campaign
TO break their strike and drive them
back TO work. The cases were
tried by juries. In three instances
the Jury returned verdict for the
miners, in three others the jury
disagreed, and in one il was decid-
ed that the striker was unlawfully
occupying company house, but
the company was not entitled to
any damages or back rent. The
strikers believe that the pending
cases will also be decided in their
favor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
: GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
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Canadian labor unions are endeavor-
Ing to have the government establish
an old age pension system.
A cooperative bakery, operated by
the labor unions of Minneapolis, has
had three years of success and is rap
idly expanding.
The organized bricklayers in Boston
are now receiving $3.50 week, which
Is an increase of more than So over the
scale paid in 1898.
The sum of 100000 was distributed
recently by the Hershey Chocolate
company among the employees of the
plant at Hershey, Pa.
One thousand coal miners recently
went on strike la Arkansas because the
mine owners refused to abide by the
decision of the district arbitrator
"A Saturday half holiday and even
tually Wednesday half holiday are
economic and industrial demands of
eur modern life was the assertion OF
Sue directors of the Lords Day league
OF New England.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
MONEY TO LOAN
ON FARMS
At 5h and g per cent
Hiram 8. Mathers
Lyric Theater Building
CINCINNATI

OF escape. The moment ne wlJnurew
his eyes from those of the snake, it
lowered its head and moved toward
him
But he had already determined on
his course. The great safe stood open
He sprang into it a..d closed the door
behind him, although he did not shut
1t completely. That would have meant
slow but certain suffocation. He
slipped small cashbook into the aper-
ture and held the ponderous door open
about half an inch.
Meanwhile the python-for such 1t
was-in a paroxysm of fury, had flung
its coils twice round the safe, which
stood some distance out from the wall
The creature drew it's coils to the ut
most tension in an angry effort to
crush the iron safe.
BY an effort the desperate prisoner
collected his wits. He remembered
that a case, slightly damaged and
marked. Ito be kept in a moderately
warm place. had been put in the ad
joining room, and doubtless accounted
planation, although simple, offered no
consolation. Something must be done
The captive racked his bIain sorely
until an idea struck him. Ea lier in the
evening he had put one of the ledgers
In the safe with long. black eraser
inside TO mark a special entry.
Cramped and almost doubled as he
was, he found it no easy matter to
reach the slender weapon. the blade of
which was as sharp as a razor. TAX
ing his courage in both hands he
plunged the knife again and again into
the folds of the snake, where they
crossed the small aperture. There fol-
lowed a horrible. tearing sound, and
the massive safe rocked ominously for
some moments Then suddenly the
folds seemed to relax and go writhing
to the floor.
Owing to the extreme tension of the
coils the keen blade had almost sew
cred the body In half. From head to
tail 1t measured nearly forty feet.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

Topeka, Kansas Feb. 27-The
Supreme Court of this state has
ruled that dying statement may
be taken as evidence in civil as
we'll as in criminal court proceed
ings. The statement of a dying
man was necessary to sustain the
claim of a defendent that he had
paid So 900 for a farm. The lower
court refused to admit the evidence
bit the Supreme Court reversed
this view, and said: "The rule
that dying declarations are admis-
sable only in criminal cases and
those involving homicide) is with
cut reasonable basis, and should
no longer be followed"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
News From Boston.

Boston, Feb. II. .-Teamsters and
Helpers union Whose members are
employed in the municipal saaitary
and street cleaning department are
protesting against the policy Of
hiring men for city yards through
contractors, which practice the
workers insist, defeats the civil
service laws and defrauds the city
to enrich individuals. The ma
chinists in this vicinity are meet
ing with success in their organiz-
ing campaign. which is being con-
Quoted on an extensive scale. AL
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
SHARE FOR WORKERS.
Alpaca Company to Pay Dividends to
It's EMPLOYEES.

Alpaca Company to Pay Dividends to
its Employees.
Profit sharing on a dividend basis
among its 5000 employees Is to be
adopted by the Farr Alpaca company,
which also voted TO increase It's capital
from 100000 to $7200,000
Heretofore the company has paid a
per cent dividends For the present
the rate on the new capital will be
per cent. Dividends will be paid at
the close Of the year to every employee
of a years service. On each 500 earn
ed in the year an employee will receive
the dividend paid on a share of stock
The company's operatives earn as
much as $1,000 a year. which means a
dividend OF $50 The office boy earn
ing So a week will receive $40.
Men who leave In the year forfeit
their dividends. which will be turned
into fund for disabled and aged en-
ployees. The company says that moth
Ing in the profit sharing plan is to be
deemed as barrier to normal in
creases in wages.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
AN UGLY VISITOR.
His Unwelcome Call Brought About a
Dramatic Situation.

His Unwelcome Call Brought About
Dramatic Situation.
The London representative of an
East Indian firm was working late at
the warehouse A large consignment
Of goods, newly arrived, lay in the
room that adjoinAd his office. The
room was a simpan affair Of four chart
covered walls. There was desk in
the middle, few chairs. and a large
freproof safe. 1t was nearly midnight.
when q sound from the next room in
duced the man to go to the door to in
yestigate Nothing seemed wrong and
he returned to his work, but left the
door ajar.
Presently faint, harsh sound came
from the next room. He sprang up to
behold the head of a snake protruding
through the doorway.
When the reptile saw him 1t stopped
for second, reared its head until 1t
was almost on a level with the mans
and began to dart it's tongue angrily
In and out OF it's mouth.
No novelist ever imagined more
desperate situation. The man was un-
armed and apparently without means
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Eased His Mind.

Having suffered mental anguish, to
say nothing Of damage to my reputa-
ton as poet from typographical dis
arrangements, transpositions and other
accidents incidental to the careless
handling of verse, / submit herewith a
form of stanZa which / believe to be
proof against such vicissitudes. It
reads the same backward and forward,
up and down and standing on your
head:
WE SHOULD WORRY.
Should we all worry?
We should worry, ALL
All worry, should we?
Worry all we should.
Copyright applied for-Henry Tyr
rell in New York World.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Explain Unionism.

Steubenville, Feb. 27. Trade
unionism, its purposes and its aims
was the subject of talks at a ban
quet given by the local Trades and
Labor Council TO the Board of Ed
ucation and the Chamber of Com
merce. The meeting resulted in a
better understanding on the part Of
many business men who have de-
clared their intention of aiding the
trade union movement in the flu
ture. The members of the Board
of Education announced that labor
only will be employed by them in
the future.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
The Carl e. Person Defense
League of Chicago
TO ORGANIZED LABOR:


The object and is to raise suen of
thereby nsuring fair trial. solicit aid in
forming Person Defense League in city.
in County Jail Clinton Illinois He
charged of The penalty Illinois
death The cooner Jury has recommended that he be held with
bail.
is innocent requires his defense and
Local No. 641, International Association of Machnists
years ago September shop employees
Central aud Hartman Lines compelled choose between their
and their rights free The chose face the
of the envelope rather than the mans
organize Carl became Strike Secretary
Bulletin He fought the fight of the firing
He fought fight fought
the Illinois Central and Hartman Lines with publicity is the
thing the Illinois Central has most feared.
afternoon December 3oth 1913 desk
headquarters Thomas Building, Clinton
Telephone bell He asked
Railway Station person other the
phone who his Kirk In good faith Person left his of
fee to keep the appointment.
Tony Musser exChe of Clinton Illinois,
employed by the neis Central decoyed Person
Tony telephoned
asked him Interruban Station ephoping
Tony Musser used the Kirk.
concealed himself cigar
the cigar pont out Person when Person passed Person
the trap for him past cigar
Tony Muer Person The exChef Police strike
breaker Person from the He battered him the ground
big weighing pounds standing
tall Person beaten battered and kicked
covered with blood he used his revolver in defense his
life.
for sale but justice be paid The shooting
place public people
The running down of the and
delce will be Person without money
editor the Strike Bulletin he slept the Office
Clinton capitol Dewitt County people very
hostile organized The influence
great Its attorneys Lemon Lemon have been politics
in Clinton The Mayor of of the
The the County
of the Illinois Central The patronage
no1se Central the advertising The
Person fair deal They moulding
against him.
stands alone except organized
him The
of the labor The Brother Carl E.
is in the He is the the He
in Jail he help himself
the JOB and help See friends and them subscribe
thing for the defense fund Do
Defense fund Box D, Clinton, Illinois,
Chicago Federation of Labor l66 W. Washington Chicago
Illinois
Fraternaly
Carl E Person Defense League
of Chicago, Illinois.
Room sos, 66 w Washington St.
Indorsed by the Chicago Federation of Labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Car Men Gain More Pay.

indianapolis. February 27.-The
Public Utilities Commission has
granted an increase of ages to
street car men of this city. Other
provisions provide that no worker
shall be Disseminated against be-
cause of his union afhllation; that
all runs must be completed within
ten hours, and that each man in
the car service shall have at least
one Sunday in each month of duty.
Wages per hour range from Il
cents for the first year to II cents
after FIVE years service. The old
rates were 90 cents and % cents.
All employees who are not engaged
in the car service are granted B
per cent increase. Future gr1ev-
auces are to be referred to board
of arbitration. The decision is
binding for three years from Nov
ember s, 1918, when the men re-
turned to work. The strike sesult-
ed in calling odt the State militia
and the killing of several men.
after much feeling was developed,
an agreement was reached Novem-
Der last whereby the men return
ed to word and the matter was re-
ferred to the Public utilities Com
mission.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
WORLD OF LABOR

Common Please Judge Lawr. nee
of Cleveland has issued an iniunc-
tion against striking walters at the
Startler Hotel from picketing with
more than four men. The order
provides that not more than two
strikers can picket on each side of
the two streets entrances to the
hotel; that they can distribute no
cards referring to the hotel service,
and they cannot accost guests other
than to inform them quietly that a
strike is in progress.
The special committee appointed
by the san Francisco Labor Coun
Gil to formulate a plan for the or
ganization of unskilIed, migratory
workers, has submitted a plan to
the council suggesting measures
for such organizations. Camps and
headquarters for the migratory
workers are to be established in
San Francisco and other centers,
at which such labor may register,
and where employers can secure
wage workers at the prevailing rate
paid to organized labor in the same
locality, so as not to lower the es-
tablished rates.
In the United States District
Court at New York, Judge Ward
has issued permanent injunction
against the Brother hood of
Carpenters from interfering with
Irving and Casson, manufacturers
of woodwork, who allege that the
union interferred with them in full
filing two large contracts. In
granting the restraining order, the
court held: 1T is true that work
men have right not to work for
any reason they choose, good or
bad, but it does not follow that
they have right to combine 200,
000 strong over the country, be-
cause such com binat1on results
indirectly in restraining competl
tion between manufacturers.
In his report to the Executive
Council, Secretary Frank Morrison
shows that for the three months of
October, November, and December
1913, the national and internation-
al unions affiliated to the American
Federation of Labor made an ay.
erage gain in membership of ia
139 over the corresponding three
months of 1912, and an average
gain in membership December 1913
over December 1912, of 184, 400.
In December of last year the per
capita tax receipts were on mem
bership of 2,ll4,291. In Decem-
Der, 1912 per capita tax member
ship was paid on membership of
$50, ,231. During the last three
months of the year just ended for
ty-eight charters were issued, as
follows; City central bodies, 8; To-
cal trade unions 80, and federal
labor unions, g.
Urging the adoption of bills that
will limit trainmen to sixteen con-
tinuous hours day and telegraph |
and telephone operators to eight |
hours a day, President Perham Of |
the Order of Railway Telegraphers |
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
USE DOGS AS BLANKETS.
How French Knife Grinders Keep
Warm While at Work

Every visitor to one of the great
Paris stores will have noticed counters
covered with table cutlery of the char
ed blades and horn or black bone ham
dies, excellent steel and very cheap.
Almost all this Is made at Theirs and
by hand. But there is no external
sign Of manufacture, and traveller
might pass through the town without
suspecting great industry
The swift flowing Durolle supplies
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Senator Bacon Is Dead.

Washington, Feb. 27.-Because
of kidney trouble and complications
that developed from a broken rib,
Senator Augustus o. Bacon, oi
Georgia, aged rs years, died
here after long and useful life in
the public service. He was one oil
the most powerful figures in the
United States Senate, and was
chairman of the important Foreign
Relations Committee. He intro
duced the pending bill in the Sen
TO exempt trade unions and far.
mers organizations from the Sher-
man anti trust law and to regulate
injunctions. This bill was also In.
troduced in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Congressman Bartlett,
and they are now known as the
Bartlett Bacon bill On June 9
1910, Senator Bacon electrified
thinking nen and women of thi:
nation by his impassioned appea,
for human rights while pleading
with his colleagues not to sustain
the report of the Appropriation
Committee, which rejected the
Huges amendment to the anti. trus
section of the sundry civil appro
bill and which had been adopted
by the House by an overwhelming
vote. Senator Bacon lost that bat
tie, but he lived to see his views
on this question accepted, wher
President Wilson, on June %, 1915
signed similar amendment
which provided that no moneys ap
priated by the sundry civil appro.
priation bill should be used to pro.
secute trade unions or farmers or
ganizations under the Sherman
anti trust law.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27
Music and Medicine.

A reporter asked an opera manager
one day Ii he believed In the new Their
apeutic idea that music was a medi-
cine. Believe in 1t: OF course do"
the impresario rel lied. Il know at
least three operas that are drug on
the market. while as for popular songs
there isn't one Of them that doesn't
make me ILL.,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

Don't you know that your husband
Is walking the floor because of his
gebtsy'
isn't ii fortnnate:" replied young
Mrs. Torkins sweetIy. You know the
doctor said that Charlie Simpi, mus,
take more exercise Washington Sta.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

Entered at The Posto6fee AT Ha~tsifon, Ohio, as
Second CYaJs Mail Matter.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-02-27

OF escape. The moment ne wltnurew
his eyes from those of the snake, it
lowered its head and moved toward
La croÌnica. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-23

I'll ST.. Aldano Gutierrez, ha soil
citado al abogado de distrito de
la ciudad y condado de San Fran
cisco, por medic de sus abogados
Sres. James w. Cochrane V Sa-
muel NJ. Valenzuela, para justif-
car y arrestar a r. L. Pierson.
quien fue patron suyo, con la a.
cusacion de crfmen y felonia. Ell
Sr. Gutierrez alega de que ell dfa
30 de Agosto de 1913, entreg6 q
Plerson, que e~ntonces era ell Su-
perintendente de la casa Witutts
y Burr. la suma de Glen dollars
($lO0.O0 para que los entregara
al Sr. Candelario Gutierrez. her
mano del demandante en- los tri-
bunales de Arizona. FL Sr. Cutie
rreZ ha recibido noticias de su
hermano participandole que la
suma en- question no Sc ha reci-
bldo, a pesar de haber transcu-
rrldo nueve meses desde la fe-
cha en- que Pierson recibi6 ell di-
nero.
La croÌnica. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-23

Los jurados van volviendo en-
ST, recobrando aplomo y tratan-
do de hacer justicia. Ultimamen-
tie habian condenado a todo hijo
de vecino a qufen Sc acusaba de
ocuparse de la ''trata de blancas''
9 sea la famosa y productive in
dustria del Mife s/nDerz Te-
merosos de ser censurados, pre-
ferian sacrifcar la libertad de los
acusados antes de ser "c6mpli-
ces" absolvieniolos de delitos
i%maginarios. Esta muy fresco
en- la mente ell case Diggs-Cami
netti, en- ell que tanto escandalo
hubo, por l~levarse esos senores a
dos lindas pollas, y encerrarse en-
dulce nido a saborear las mieles
del amor. A cuanto individuo
tiene amorillos ~secretos, Sc lie ia
cha de Tratista de blancas. dan
do una est1pida Interpretation
a la saba ley de Mann, por la
cual Sc persigue al desvergonza-
do que we de la prostitution de
infeIices mujeres. Pues ell refe-
rido Mr.. Diggs tuvo la mala suer-
tie Gle volver a tener enredos a.
moroSoS con otra senorita
desgraciada. Parece que en- ell CT
tiado case, ell Abogado defensor
de Diggs logro probar que la acu-
sacion era sin Fundamental. Dor
que no cabia 10 de corruption de
memories, siendo la chica MAYOR
de dieciocho amos de edad, Y ha-
berse entregado a Diggs con SUI
consentimiento. Y parece tam
bien que en- juzgado alberto. Sc
trato de probar que todo aquel
Ito era armada por la mucha ha
asistida por u padres, para sa-
car dinero a Mr.. Diggs. Y ante
evldencias tales, ell Jurado Sc VIC
en- la necesidad de decIarar que
no habfa culpabilidad de parte
del acusado.
La croÌnica. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-23
De TODD I'm POGO; solo de
pan no Sc viVe.
(Palabras del glorioso Canalejas)

Sabueso a la caza de algo
que interese a mi %colonia, no va
ellie en- resolverme a adquirir da-
tos que pudieran redundar en-
utilidad de los mics, va que por
razones diversas me ha tocado en-
muchas wees, eXaminar de cerca
las v~icisitudes que en- San Fran
cisco atraviesa la Colonia, que
antes me apropio y cue ahora
determine, llamandola "Emigra-
toria de Espana."
FL que este escribe confiesa
solemnemente que ignora ell lido
ma ingles y precisamente por
l%gnorarlo, es por 10 que mas de
cerca ha tocado los inconyenien-
ties Y las dihcultades que Sc pre-
sentan, cuando careciendose del
medic de expression, hay que lu-
char por ell pedazo de pan que
integra la vida, va que solo de
el, sin estar de acuerdo con Ca
nalejas, ell cuerpo Sc sostiene
terso. He dicho que este va
dedicado, solo a los espanoles
peninsulares, por que mi larga
Residential aqui me ha demostra-
do que ell espanol de America
Sc adapta mas facilmente que
nosotros a la lengua del pals.
?Porque causa? 10 ignore. Solo
10 achaco a que el amor al terru-
cho es mas intense en- n~osotros
que en- ellos, siendo tan cierto
que en- multitud de ocasiones que
he hablado con gallegos, vascos,
y catalanes a pesar que no ignora-
ban mi analfabetismo total en-
en- dichas jergas, que 81 no son
tales, para mi 10 son, respetando
10 castillo de la Academia Ca
talana, no Sc han dado cuenta
hasta despues de suplicarles que
me hablasen en- lengua viva,
puesto que nuestras son aquellas
que solo Sc hablan, por un Sc
paratismo tan rOmantico como
irrealizable.
En- los Estados Unidos, en-
California mas que en- ninguno
de la Union, Sc aperciven cada
dia de la importancia del Es-
panol como lengua %necesaria para
la expansion de su comercio, de
su industrial Y de sus manufactu-
ras. Pero ocurre que ell america
no del norte al conocer esta ne
cesidad, no vacila y de lleno a
comete la ardua y difcil tarea
de aprender ell espanol, como "a
prenderia ell chino 8 ell japones
81 su lontananza 10 vieran en-
Asia. Tai es la enregica virtud
de su constancia, la cual noso-
tros, y 20 especialmente, debiera-
mos copiar un POGO.
No sal nosotros. Llegamos
a California, necesitamos COM
prar algo, no nos entienden Y
los enfadamos y llamamos igno-
rantes a los hijos del pals, que
harto sufridos son con que les
molestemos ell dido, pues toda