The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-04-28
WORLD or LABOR

In an address TO the Kentucky
Federation of Labor on the value
of education, Dean Mackenzie of
the Kentucky University said:
MAN means thing that thinks;
man from his neck down ism worth
10 cents day"
The Pennsylvania State insurance
fund is growing to such an extent
that larger quarters must be secured
Already more than 10, 600 policies
have been written by the fund.
These cover compensation liability
of employers in every county.
In talk on Chronic Indiges-
ton" before the Harvard medical
school, DR.. F. w. White said that
worry, fatigue, overwork, and do
ing things too fast, causes one form
of in igestion. Many times, if
we take person who has what he
calls chronic indigestion, we find
no real evidence of serious disease;
the whole thing is caused by this
habit of rushing about and over
working" he said.
Several hundred employees of the
Pullman Car Company at Pullman,
H., struck to raise wages. They
are demanding rs cents an hour.
They have been receiving 20 and p
cents These workers are unor-
ganized, but are being aided by
trade unionists.
Miners are not impressed with
pleas of business men in the anthra-
cite region that coal operators and
their employees sign long time con
tracts. Reports from New York
indicate that delegations of business
men will urge the miners scale
committee to favor long contracts
Reports from New York indicate
that delegations of business men
will urge the miners scale commit
tee TO favor long contracts on he
ground that scale renewals dis
turb business. To this claim the
miners reply: If those merchants
will agree to 60 back to the 1912
prices for their goods and also agree
not TO increase the price for 10
years, we will drop our demand for
advanced wages and make a 10
year agreement !"
Returns from 81 New York la
Dor izations, with $4,000
members engaged in transportation
trades, revealed smaller February
percentage of idleness this year
than in any of the last four years
except 1912. AS compared with
January, there was no change, but
in comparison with one year ago,
the idleness percentage was la as
against 1873 each industry in the
group sharing in the Improvement.
Union machinists employed in a
score of Denver, Col, contract
shops are on strike TO enforce wage
demands. The State Industrial
Commission has announced that the
machinlsts are within their rights
in striking" Under the law, the
machinists were compelled to pre-
sent their grievances to the Com
mission 30 days prior to striking.
The machinists did so last Decem-
Der. A few weeks ago the Com
mission announced that the work
ers' demands were just, but these
workers have been forced to sus
pend work to convice their employ
ers, who nave been given over
three months time to quietly ar
range to combat the strike
Strike-breaking freight handlers
at Fall River. Mass, are being ar
rested on complaint of the New
Haven Railroad Company, which
charges its free and independent
citizens" with stealing everything
they can lay their hands on. At
the trial Judge Hanify of the Dis
trict Court indicated that he is not
acquainted with the ethics of strike
breaking. He rebuked the railroad
for its present policy, and declared
that, When men are imported
here as strike breakers, the com
pany should see that they come
with clean hands " Later the
strikers returned to work on a pro-
mise by the railroad company to
State arbitration officials that the
complaints of the men would be
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